placement of figured bass

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Jones
I've been trying to use a combination of figured bass and lyrics to provide romain numeral annotation to music. In the following example, the figured bass is placed far below and to the right of the corresponding lyric: \version "2.10.17" \relative c' { c d e f } \addlyrics { I V IV ii } \new

Re: Two questions about note heads

2007-05-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Thanks to Mats for this tip, which also helps me with a similar project (I'm trying to set some old mensural notation just as given by the 15th century copyist, who has somewhat different conventions from those in LilyPond). So, I managed to set some triangular heads, which I cooked up by rota

midi2ly bad argument to internal function

2007-05-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
I'm trying to convert a rather substantial midi file (Jelly Roll Morton's Honey Babe) to ly using the midi2ly.py utility in release 2.10.20. I get a terminal error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\midi2ly.py", line 996, in ? main() File "C:\Prog

Typesetting vibrato

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Kohnert
Hallo all, one question is still open for me: is there a way to typeset vibrato (it should look like arpeggio, but horizontal, not vertical)? I'm sure I've seen that on mutopia some years ago, but soehow I cannot find it anymore. -- MfG Jan pgpWu5t8BHYkT.pgp Description: signature

Re: Specifying meter in the header of the printed sheet

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Kohnert
Toby Chappell wrote: > Click on the image; it leads to the Lilypond source code for the > snippet of music. Thanks a lot. I did not get this idea. ;) The quality also looks much better than my previous plan. I will take that snippet. > -Toby -- MfG Jan pgpQP5PgEi6Kt.pgp Description: signat

Autobeaming in 3/8 time

2007-05-15 Thread Laura Conrad
Lily (version 2.10.20 on Ubuntu Linux) seems to have an odd default for the autobeaming in 3/8 time. When there's a dotted 8th note followed by three 16th notes, it seems to me that the default behavior should be to beam the three 16ths together with a double beam. In other words, what I want is