Re: Usability Question

2007-01-19 Thread Brett Duncan
Bertalan Fodor wrote: A visual slur tweaking tool exists (see in the archives.) Have you tried that? I have now - and it's great! Bertalan, have you considered including this in/with LilyPondTool? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anybody who wants to play tricks with ps files (and I am occasionally one of them) is free to invoke lilypond --ps, so this is a red herring. I agree with Laura: we should treat the .ps files are temporar

Re: Hiding empty staves

2007-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Rutger wrote: Dear all, I don't know whether this will be helpful at all, or whether it will just be some silly remark from an inexperienced user, but at least it may prevent future inexperienced users from making the same mistake: I have been struggling with the same problem as Bob, and at f

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Yes, I'm working on it. Bert Brett Duncan írta: Bertalan Fodor wrote: A visual slur tweaking tool exists (see in the archives.) Have you tried that? I have now - and it's great! Bertalan, have you considered including this in/with LilyPondTool? ___

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And IME (and I stress IME) pdf doesn't do what it says on the tin, anyway! In other words, it does NOT print accurately. I would LIKE to be able to print an A4 pdf on a sheet of A4 paper. It seems to me, however, that whatever I do, Acrobat always sticks the top lef

bars at the end of a piece

2007-01-19 Thread j�rn bellersen
Hallo, my question: What to do, to get the right form of a bar line at the end of a piece of music? I start with lilypond and don't find the answer in the tutorial. Thanks, jörn _ www.bycall24.de - kostenlose EMail Adresse mit Gratis-SMS und

Re: LyricExtender again!

2007-01-19 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Mats et al, Sorry, but this doesn't work on my Lilypond (2.10.0) The LyricExtender is still missing when the lyrics are printed above the staff, and is present when I print them below. I suggest this is a bug, but would like to make sure before forwarding it to bug-lilypond. Best, Vivian. -

Re: bars at the end of a piece

2007-01-19 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> Hallo, > my question: > > What to do, to get the right form of a bar line at the end of a piece > of music? I start with lilypond and don't find the answer in the > tutorial. > > Thanks, jörn > Hi Jörn, If you search the doc for "bar lines" you will find chapter 6.4.5.. Thomas __

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And IME (and I stress IME) pdf doesn't do what it says on the tin, anyway! In other words, it does NOT print accurately. I would LIKE to be able to print an A4 pdf on a sheet of A4 paper. It s

Re: LyricExtender again!

2007-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I recommend you to upgrade to the latest stable version, 2.10.12, which includes lots of bug fixes compared to 2.10.0. Among others, I seem to recall some bugs related to extender lines. /Mats Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: Mats et al, Sorry, but this doesn't work on my Lilypond (2.10.0) The Lyri

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bertalan Fodor escreveu: > Yes, I'm working on it. > > Bert > > Brett Duncan írta: >> Bertalan Fodor wrote: >>> A visual slur tweaking tool exists (see in the archives.) Have you >>> tried that? >> I have now - and it's great! Bertalan, have you considered including >> this in/with LilyPondTool?

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is simple - if I select "scale to fit" then I'm not > getting an exact image, and if I select "don't scale", the image is > offset down and right by the non-printable margin. If the A4 document that you want to print includes (= leav

Lilypondtool conf

2007-01-19 Thread yota moteuchi
Dear mailing list, I have some difficulties in using lilypondtools under Ubuntu The filename of the piece containing some whitespaces I'm getting the following error %lilypond %args /home/yoochan/classeur/lilypond/danse macabre - St Saens/alto.ly warning: cannot find file: `/home/yoochan/classe

Re: Lilypondtool conf

2007-01-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor
It's a bug in LilyPondTool. Don't use whitespaces in filenames. I don't recommend evince. The embedded JPedal has support for ruler, point-and-click, edit-in-place etc. Bert yota moteuchi írta: Dear mailing list, I have some difficulties in using lilypondtools under Ubuntu The filename of

Recall: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Palmer, Ralph would like to recall the message, "Voice / slur problem". ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypondtool conf

2007-01-19 Thread Chris Capoccia
> How could I avoid this ? you need to use backslashes before each of the spaces like this: %lilypond %args /home/yoochan/classeur/lilypond/danse\ macabre\ -\ St\ Saens/alto.ly > Moreover, I would like to use "evince" instead of JPedal as pdf > reader, does someone have some tips on how to do thi

Re: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The easiest solution is to exploit the clever trick provided in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00359.html Then, there is no need to keep both ends of a tie in the same Voice context. You should also read the section on "Explicitly instantiating voices" to understand wh

Re: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Palmer, Ralph wrote: I'm trying (right now) to reproduce only the piano part (i.e., the bottom two staves) in the measure in the attached .jpg. Because the two arpeggia overlap you actually have two voices, and therefore need to typeset them in two voices. In the following i use the treble-voi

Re: Voice / slur problem

2007-01-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The easiest solution is to exploit the clever trick provided in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-01/msg00359.html Really no need to use any tricks. The composer clearly sees the two arpeggii as separate voices and you therefore should represent them a

Easier override access to shape note styles?

2007-01-19 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, It's easy to override a notehead to a harmonic diamond with the usual override syntax: \once \override NoteHead #'style = #'harmonic On the other hand, the only way I can figure out to override a notehead to a filled diamond is with the shapeNoteStyles setting ... \once \set shapeNoteSt

Re: Easier override access to shape note styles?

2007-01-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > It's easy to override a notehead to a harmonic diamond with the usual > override syntax: > > \once \override NoteHead #'style = #'harmonic > > On the other hand, the only way I can figure out to override a > notehead to a filled diamond is with the shapeNoteStyl

Re: Easier override access to shape note styles?

2007-01-19 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/19/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: > Hi, > > It's easy to override a notehead to a harmonic diamond with the usual > override syntax: > > \once \override NoteHead #'style = #'harmonic > > On the other hand, the only way I can figure out to override a >

White diamond, black diamond, and possible small sponsorship?

2007-01-19 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, The black diamond shape notehead carries a different shape than the white diamond harmonic notehead. %%% BEGIN %%% \version "2.11.7" \layout { ragged-right = ##t } \new Staff { \override NoteHead #'font-size = #3 \once \override NoteHead #'style = #'harmonic c'4 \once \set shapeNo

Tremolo repeat with Staff change

2007-01-19 Thread René Brandenburger
Hi, is there a simple way to typeset a tremolo repeat with a staff change like the one attached? i tried the following, but got some strange results: if i run lilypond on the following snippet, the tremolo looks like expected, but activating either octavation or staff change, the barcheck fails a

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 50, Issue 56

2007-01-19 Thread Tim Reeves
> 2. In lilypond version 2.8 and earlier it was possible to notate as I'm >wanting, so the newest lilypond version is a regress compared with >earlier versions, and I'm insisting, that this is a bug. I don't think that lily 2.8 was supposed to do this; it was a fortunate bug. Why should

Fermata on final double bar

2007-01-19 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
I am trying to typeset a piece of music that has a fermata above and below the final double barline. I have come across the \mark command in the manual, but am having difficulty getting it to work when there are no notes after it. Does anyone have any hints on how to typeset this? Does anyone

Re: Fermata on final double bar

2007-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
Jonathan Henkelman wrote: I am trying to typeset a piece of music that has a fermata above and below the final double barline. I have come across the \mark command in the manual, but am having difficulty getting it to work when there are no notes after it. Does anyone have any hints on how to

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 50, Issue 56

2007-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
Tim Reeves wrote: I don't think that lily 2.8 was supposed to do this; it was a fortunate bug. Why should *being able* to do something that ones wants to do (as long as it isn't harmful in some way) be considered a bug? He wasn't _telling_ lilypond to do it, and lilypond wasn't _deciding_ to

20th century music

2007-01-19 Thread Ole Schmidt
Hi, I' am a Lilypond-Beginner start working seriously now... Although I've studied all the documentation files I can't find a solution for the shown notation. Thank you for a hint ole <> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://

Re: 20th century music

2007-01-19 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > > I' am a Lilypond-Beginner start working seriously now... > Although I've studied all the documentation files http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/TrillSpanner.html#TrillSpanner > I can't find a > solution for the shown notation. %---BEGIN--- \versio

making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Ted Walther
When you see fermata in hymns, it almost always means "hold the note longer, robbing the next note of some duration". If you do the durations explicitly, it messes up the meter and the printed sheet music. What would it take to get the fermata to show up in printed music, but have it do the time

Re: making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0800, Ted Walther wrote: > When you see fermata in hymns, it almost always means "hold the note > longer, robbing the next note of some duration". If you do the > durations explicitly, it messes up the meter and the printed sheet > music. What would it take to

Re: making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Ted Walther
I am using the description of the fermata in the "Sacred Harp" hymnal, first published in 1844, now in the 1991 Denson edition. In the preface it clearly describes the meaning of the fermata mark, the dot with a semicircle around it. Also in all the hymnals I've seen, the fermata marks means to

Re: making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
Ted Walther reactor-core.org> writes: > > I am using the description of the fermata in the "Sacred Harp" hymnal, > first published in 1844, now in the 1991 Denson edition. In the preface > it clearly describes the meaning of the fermata mark, the dot with a > semicircle around it. Also in all

Re: Fermata on final double bar

2007-01-19 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > Please read section 8.1.3 Text marks. > > Cheers, > - Graham Thanks Graham - sorry to have missed that. The section does not deal with the issue of getting the second fermata under the last double bar though. Jonathan ___

Re: making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:27:54PM -0800, Ted Walther wrote: > I am using the description of the fermata in the "Sacred Harp" hymnal, > first published in 1844, now in the 1991 Denson edition. In the preface > it clearly describes the meaning of the fermata mark, the dot with a > semicircle around

Re: making fermata effect the MIDI output? tempo along bezier curves?

2007-01-19 Thread Ted Walther
I just looked through the prefatory material in the Sacred Harp and couldn't find the reference to "robbing" the next note of some time in a fermata. I must have read it somewhere else. I remembered it clearly because it did use the word "robbing". That said, is there a way for the fermata to h