Simple Question

2007-04-12 Thread Ron
I have not got a clue whether this is where I should be asking this question. But here goes. Please let me know if this should posted elsewhere. I have a very simple question: I am trying to add a second line to the song I am writing. I can get the second line to appear, but the first line pl

Re: Noteheads

2007-04-12 Thread Maximilian Albert
Sorry! I just realized that for whatever reason I didn't send this email. Here it is, finally. Kevin Dalley schrieb: > You also need to describe where to attach the stems. A few sentences > on this would be nice for the documentation. Sure. There are two special variables called 'charwx' and 'c

Re: music scores search engine

2007-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/4/12, Mike Blackstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've installed the Nutch search engine software (http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/) on my site and use it to crawl and index websites that have good repositories of scores; finding a particular score is faster than searching via the major search engi

Crescendo past the barline

2007-04-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond 2.10.16 under WinXP SP2. The default for a hairpin set to end at the first note after a bar line is to end the hairpin at the barline. I'd like the hairpin to extend past the barline, to the note where the "\!" is. I've been able to change this by using a skip not

Re: chord fingerings and octavation

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel Leidisch
Ed Ardzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:41:52PM +: > As primarily a bass player I realize that bass parts are > written an octave higher than they actually are to avoid > too many ledger lines below the staff. Having never really > had to read guitar music in standar

RE: chord fingerings and octavation

2007-04-12 Thread Ed Ardzinski
When I've been scoring things out for bass and guitar I've found that I often have to alter the octave that one part is in. As primarily a bass player I realize that bass parts are written an octave higher than they actually are to avoid too many ledger lines below the staff. Having never real

Re: chord fingerings and octavation

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel Leidisch
Sorry, I forgot to expand the tabs: \version "2.10.0" << \chords { g2:7 c g:7 c g:7 c:maj7 g:7.9.13 c:6.9 } \relative c'' { #(set-octavation 1) 2^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;x;5;7;6;7;" ^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;x;5-(;5;5-);8;" ^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;10;

music scores search engine

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Blackstock
I use lilypond to adapt music for small guitar ensembles and finding scores to adapt online saves me a trip to the library. I've installed the Nutch search engine software (http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/) on my site and use it to crawl and index websites that have good repositories of scores

chord fingerings and octavation

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel Leidisch
Hello, this is my first post at lilypond-user. I am using lilypond since a few days and there are some minor problems I could not solve yet: I am trying to print four V-I progressions for an article on my homepage: \version "2.10.0" << \chords { g2:7 c g:7 c g:7 c:maj7 g:7.9.13 c:6.9 }

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/4/12, Stuart Pullinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In conclusion: SVG provide an alternative to PDF which may be more future-proof provided that you are prepared for patchy support in current browsers. ...and provided that multi-pages SVG support is not yet really available, which makes it rathe

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-12 Thread Stuart Pullinger
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:40:01 -0400 "Jason Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far, the best option was suggested by Tom: a tool called PDFtoMusic > Pro that converts PDF scores into MusicXML. The pros are that it is > available right now, and that it presumably works. Downsides are that > it

Re: Script and staff-pading question

2007-04-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > As you can notice at the chart of all available scripts in the section > on "Articulation", > some articulations stay close to the note head, whereas others always > are typeset > above/below the stave. The staff-padding property i

Re: Strange TextScript behaviour?

2007-04-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:59:48PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: > >To be short: > >measures 2 and 4 should be identical, shouldn't they? > >(i mean "11" in 2nd should be positioned like "1" in 4th, > >with the same staff-padding) > > > >But they are not. >

Re: Strange TextScript behaviour?

2007-04-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: To be short: measures 2 and 4 should be identical, shouldn't they? (i mean "11" in 2nd should be positioned like "1" in 4th, with the same staff-padding) But they are not. Probably, it should be so -- but I don't know why, that's why i'm asking

Re: Script and staff-pading question

2007-04-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As you can notice at the chart of all available scripts in the section on "Articulation", some articulations stay close to the note head, whereas others always are typeset above/below the stave. The staff-padding property is only in effect for the articulations that always are typeset outside th

Script and staff-pading question

2007-04-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hello, manual says that articultaions' position can be controlled by Script's parameters, but i can not manage to do so. Please, take a look: % - \version "2.10.20" \relative c' { \stemDown % % This "\override