Re: Technique for aligning lyrics with voices in different staves --HOWTO

2007-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
Eduardo Vieira wrote: This solution looks simpler, but in version 2.10.2, the lyrics for the tenor become leftaligned (a bug?): Please check in the latest version of lilypond before wondering if something is a bug. IIRC, this was fixed around 2.10.9. Cheers, - Graham _

Harmonic notations

2007-01-31 Thread Christopher Culver
I would like to typeset a harmonic on the alto clef, standard diamond notehead, where the actual sound is indicated by a treble clef followed by a stemless black notehead in parentheses. Is there a right way to do this? Would MIDI output be faithful to the score? _

Re: lilypond version

2007-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
Aaron Dalton wrote: I'm running FreeBSD5 and I downloaded and installed the FreeBSD installer for v2.10.13-1. After installing misc/compat4x it appears to be running fine. Thanks for the nice new installers! When I run it, though, it is reporting the version ans 2.8.7. Could someone explain

How do I fit lyrics?

2007-01-31 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi list! Can someone tell me where in the manual I can find how to fit lyrics to other voices? What I'm doing is arranging a hymn for Barbershop chorus, and in the last stanza, I want to do a call-and-response thing, changing the rhythm from 3 to 4 (I've managed that part) and using the extra be

Why is the text shifted, when using \hspace ?

2007-01-31 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi list, using crescendoText with a dashed line I wanted to put a bit more space between the text and the dashed line with \hspace #1. But then I found that the dashed line was shifted to the right as wanted, but the text from the crescendoText was shifted also, upwards, ca. .5 staff spaces, and

Re: markup too long?

2007-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
philippe hezaine wrote: For the second problem, I can't send my mail to the bug-lilypond mailing list. It seems that I am top-posting. (?) Please read http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/bugs In addition, your example is not short enough; please follow the tips on that webpage. Ch

Re: markup too long?

2007-01-31 Thread philippe hezaine
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The second problem you mention seems like a bug, so I recommend you to send an short and concise example (well, as short as it can be) to the bug-lilypond mailing list. /Mats Quoting philippe hezaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mats, For the second problem, I can't send

How to change spacing between accidentals?

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas v. Heydwolff
Oops, sorry, forgot to tell: dev. version 2.11.14-2 and Thunderbird crashed while sending the mail, so here it is once more: Hello all, Han-Wen is doing a great job of helping a few interested people including me to get Lilypond do Turkish Makam music with its 9/9 microtone steps between full n

Mails to this list - greylisted because allegedly Windows

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas v. Heydwolff
Hi again. How come that I get a message like the one below in the queue upon posting to this honorable list, although the sending machines are definitely *not Windows*? Just curious. Andreas -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 00A82C0BF 8137 Wed Jan 31 20:50

How to change spacing between accidentals?

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas v. Heydwolff
Hello all, Han-Wen is doing a great job of helping a few interested people including me to get Lilypond do Turkish Makam music with its 9/9 microtone steps between full notes. For those interested, "Makam" has several etymologies, a common shared definition is that the term Makam comprises th

Re: markup too long?

2007-01-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I understand, a \markup is treated as a single unit when it comes to line and page breaking, so it is up to you as a user to recognize this problem and manually split the \markup into several \markup blocks (or reducing the font size or whatever is the best solution). The second proble

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-01-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One method is to typeset the text as a text script instead of using \mark: | c'4^\markup { \huge \line{ \box "C" \bold "(first time only)" }} Then it will be connected to the stave and therefore the chords will move out of the way automatically. You already know how to move these things hori

markup too long?

2007-01-31 Thread philippe hezaine
Hi list, version 2.10.14 With the example below, you can see the markup overlap the copyright and doesn't match the second page because it is too long. Somebody knows a solution? Or perhaps I want a markup too long. In an another case, if the markup fill up only the first page, the first syste

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Kennedy
> In my experience, having played a number of pieces with glissandi, "rips" > to us horn players, the straight line notation is quite common. I've seen > both. Thanks for your input on this. I have seen the straight-line option in horn charts, but only in handwritten ones. Most horn charts (even

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Tim Reeves
In my experience, having played a number of pieces with glissandi, "rips" to us horn players, the straight line notation is quite common. I've seen both. I input some pieces with glissandi and tried the zigzag option but it didn't look right to me, as I'm not used to to seeing it done that way,

Re: automatic bar marks possible for ie, 28/4 ?

2007-01-31 Thread Hans Aberg
On 30 Jan 2007, at 15:29, Adam Good wrote: Well honestly I'm confused by what you mean, I've not heard the term "subaccenting" before. For example, take a simple 2/4-time, the first 1/4 note should have a primary accent, and the second 1/4 note, a secondary accent. In general, a measure b

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Kennedy
> In the latest development version, this problem doesn't exist anymore > since the collision handling has been improved. Actually, the result you > get there is similar to what you get if you add > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #6 > before the corresponding \mark command, i.e

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/31/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: > 1. The heavy lifting of the program implemented in (compiled) C++ code > with tweaks being made in (interpreted, dynamic) Scheme code. > Capitalized names in lily input generally refer to the C++ guts while > other pr

Re: Documentation: Software architecture overview and details?

2007-01-31 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Robert > I think most of my struggle is because I haven't found a document that > explains the flow of information through Lilypond. > There is lots of reference material on the individual interfaces and > objects, but I haven't found any explanation of what those things > actually are. If su

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > 1. The heavy lifting of the program implemented in (compiled) C++ code > with tweaks being made in (interpreted, dynamic) Scheme code. > Capitalized names in lily input generally refer to the C++ guts while > other properties in overrides talk directly to the Scheme code. Be

Re: Documentation: Software architecture overview and details?

2007-01-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Robert Kennedy escreveu: > There is lots of reference material on the individual interfaces and > objects, but I haven't found any explanation of what those things > actually are. Are they basic constructs that any scheme programmer > would instantly recognize? I am an experienced LISP programmer

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/30/07, Robert Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems in Lilypond (v2.10.14) the default notation for glissandos is a straight line. I've never seen that notation used for glissando before so I have no idea why it's the default, but that's OK because everything can be changed, right? So

Cannot generate pdf. Error "file failed (8704)"

2007-01-31 Thread Rodrigo Nogueira
Hello all, First I would like to thank the Lilypond development/support community for this great tool. I installed lilypond from the cygwin packet. The lilypond version I'm using is 2.10.7 I have the following problem. When I run the lilypond comand (no options, just "lilypond ") I can't get to en

Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

2007-01-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the latest development version, this problem doesn't exist anymore since the collision handling has been improved. Actually, the result you get there is similar to what you get if you add \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #6 before the corresponding \mark command, i.e it appear

Re: TupletBracket behaviour

2007-01-31 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Dear Mats and other, As we would say in Dutch, "dat valt mee" - roughly translated as "that could be worse"! I can always change the X-extent of the TupletNumber at different points in the score, and it's going to be a lot less work than making minute changes in spacing every time it occurs. All

Re: TupletBracket behaviour

2007-01-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Looking at the implementation, it turns out that the check to see if the bracket should be printed compares the width of the bracket with the width of the number. So, one ugly workaround to get the bracket printed is to do \override TupletNumber #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) but the disadvantage is tha

Re: Glissando notation?

2007-01-31 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Dear Robert, I've seen a number of glissando notations, generally depending on period and style of composition. I know the notation you want, though, and would suggest experimenting with the #'thickness property of the Glissando object (listed under line-interface) with #'style set to #'zigzag .

Re: Controlling vertical spacing exactly - mini HOWTO

2007-01-31 Thread Joe Neeman
Hi Graham & Max (and everyone), I've been reading through chapter 11 on vertical spacing and getting some vertical spacing examples ready for the manual. And on reflection I think I've now figured out why it's been tricky for me to get a good conceptual handle on vertical spacing. So I'd like to

Re: TupletBracket behaviour

2007-01-31 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Dear Mats, I'm using 2.10.12 for Mac OSX. Please find attached .ly file and PDF (in case your Lilypond does something different.) The "problem" only occurs in tuplets where the first note is shorter than the second and with values of #'shortest-duration-space less than 1.1 (the TupletBracket doe