Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/6, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually this is pretty clever. And will certainly do for the snippets that I've got in front of me right now, so thanks very much! I agree. LSR, anyone? :) Regards, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: using \transpose with variables

2007-09-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Roland Goretzki wrote: Hello list, hello Tomas, You wrote: Hi, I try to use \transpose with a variable as parameter like mykey = {d'} melody = \transpose c' \mykey \relative c' {... } what??s wrong? I get the message: syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting

Re: using

2007-09-06 Thread tomasherrmann
Mats Bengtsson mats.bengtsson at ee.kth.se writes: You wrote: I try to use \transpose with a variable as parameter like mykey = {d'} melody = \transpose c' \mykey \relative c' {... } Tomas probably wants to do the same transposition on a number of different scores and be

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Tao Cumplido
hi, doesn't this snippet already cover the topic? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 regards, Tao Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 08:03:37 +0200 Von: Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lilypond-user

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Neil Puttock
On 9/6/07, Tao Cumplido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, doesn't this snippet already cover the topic? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 It does, but if you were searching for a metric modulation solution, you probably wouldn't find that snippet. In any case, I quite like my version;

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/6, Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It might be useful have a reference to nested scores in section 8.2.2 for cases more complicated than note = note, together with a minimal example demonstrating tuplet markup. ...Which is why your trick should be added to the LSR; then I could simply

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carte r?

2007-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/9/6, Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It might be useful have a reference to nested scores in section 8.2.2 for cases more complicated than note = note, together with a minimal example demonstrating tuplet markup. ...Which is why your trick should be

Re: using

2007-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
Just a detail: whenever you answer to an email (or start a new discussion) Thomas, be careful with the Object or Subject field: this discussion has now a Re: using object (the transposition thing is gone), which is absolutely not helpful for anyone who would browse the list archive in the future,

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/5/07, Adam James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a StaffGroup that contains four staves. Most of the time, I want a SpanBar to pass through all four staves. However, there are some points at which I'd like the SpanBar to connect only the bottom three staves, or the middle two

Re: Metric modulation markup ... à la Carter?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/6/07, Tao Cumplido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, doesn't this snippet already cover the topic? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 That's right ... good additional examples. Who authored that particular LSR page? (Maybe we should give author credits in LSR?) Trevor. regards,

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Anyone else have a clue?? Well, the obvious (but extremely inconvenient) hack would be a whiteout box, manually sized and centered on the barline. I took a couple of stabs at using InnerStaffGroups with transparent SpanBars, but nothing I found really worked... Sorry, Kieren.

Suppress InstrumentName for a only a single system?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Is there any way to suppress an InstrumentName for just a single system? There is in fact an InstrumentName grob that can be turned red, made transparent, etc ... but apparently only at the beginning of a score? No on the fly overrides? This is what I've got so far. %%% BEGIN TRANSPARENT

repeats, nested repeats and alternatives

2007-09-06 Thread yota moteuchi
Dear Mailing list I have a bunch of questions about the repeat syntax I'll like to submit to you. \version 2.11.28 1) About numbering here is a ordinar situation of repeat volta with an alternative : \repeat volta 2 { a b c b } \alternative { { e f e f } { e f e b} } c a e f \break

test to list

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I've tried sending my question 2 times already and I didn't ever get it back. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Suppress InstrumentName for a only a single system?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/6/07, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trevor, Is there any way to suppress an InstrumentName for just a single system? Oh, you're going to kick yourself for this one... ;-) Instead of \override Staff.InstrumentName #'transparent = ##t just use \set

sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have a bunch on sunday school songs like this that I need to put into lilypond so we can make clean nice prints. I have been playing with it for a week now and going thru the manual and tutorial, downloading samples and layout tools like Jedit and the pspad plug ins and canorus. I haven't

Re: Suppress InstrumentName for a only a single system?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/6/07, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/07, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trevor, Is there any way to suppress an InstrumentName for just a single system? Oh, you're going to kick yourself for this one... ;-) Instead of \override

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It uses chords instead of \partcombine which would make note entry a lot easier. If someone knows how to tweak the operation of \partcombine so that some

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have my .ly file at home. I'll have to wait till I get there this evening to send you an example. Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It uses chords instead of

Re: Suppress InstrumentName for a only a single system?

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Actually, does this look like a bug to anyone else? I presume you don't mean the missing last :D Yes - I get the same, the short name turns into the long name on the middle part. Strange indeed. Regards, Ralph ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: pdf-export not working

2007-09-06 Thread fiëé visuëlle
(Please answer to the list, not to me personally, thanks. - Stupid list preference, by the way.) Am 2007-09-06 um 12:03 schrieb Watzka-Storm, Patrick: I started testing Lilypond by creating some input files directly on the desktop and used Lilypond by dragging these files to the Lilypond

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Tim Litwiller wrote: I can do it this way - but it sure would be simpler to input if we are able to have each voice separated. Hi Tim, I looked at the partcombiner code which is written in scheme and I have to say it is pretty impenetrable :( I was trying to think of a way to fool the

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I updated the link to contain the whole scan. this song only has 4 or 5 but I need something flexible enough for 60 - 100 songs. untested code alert... \partcombine {f4 f f g a8 a4 } {c4 c c c f8 f4} gs8 \\ f8 \partcombine {a2} {f2}... I'm not sure that that is much better, though - it

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Tim Litwiller wrote: I can do it this way - but it sure would be simpler to input if we are able to have each voice separated. Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
Ralph Little wrote: Hi Tim, OK, it is a bit of a frig if you fancy giving it a try, but I think I can make it happen and it depends on what version of Lilypond you are using. Find the file part-combiner.scm - it should be in the scm directory of your Lilpond installation. Search for the

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Adam James Wilson
Thanks Trevor and Kieren, I had thought about InnerStaffGroups as well, but for maximum flexibility of turning on or off parts of the SpanBar, each inner staff would have to belong to more than one InnerStaffGroup, and I'm guessing that that is not possible. I'll try the whitebox trick! Thanks

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
Tim Litwiller tim at litwiller.net writes: so far I've been able to either have lyrics or combine notes - but not both. then where notes collide I need to have a flag go each direction. I've circled examples in the attachment. Do I assume correctly that the half-note C on men is done

Re: Suppress InstrumentName for a only a single system?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/6/07, Ralph Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, does this look like a bug to anyone else? I presume you don't mean the missing last :D Yes - I get the same, the short name turns into the long name on the middle part. Strange indeed. Thanks, all. Entered as

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Trevor Bača
Perhaps there's a sponsorship opportunity to be able to draw a spanbar between any two (adjacent) staves at any musical moment? If Han-Wen or one of the senior devs can think of an idiomatic way to implement such a feature, I'd be happy to sponsor ... would probably make Adam's rather complicated

guitar polyphony

2007-09-06 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I want to write my first guitar notes with tabs after finishing some harp scores. While I found most guitar specific points, I have problem with polyphony. The normal polyphony gives a problem with tabs. The notes are written to the staff instead of tab. (see meaure 4). What's wrong?

fingering for harp

2007-09-06 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Is there any way to indicate in fingering that a finger is supposed to slide from one string to the next? In playing harp, often one plays a string with the thumb (indicated by the number 1) and then slides the thumb down to the next lower note and then plays that. So both notes are

Re: repeats, nested repeats and alternatives

2007-09-06 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Yota, On 9/6/07, yota moteuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, magically, the second alternative bar vanished... why ?! You can't put overrides (or anything else) between the bracketed sections of \alternative; just put the bar number override inside the second alternative. The problem

partcombine

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal-ensembles#Vocal-ensembles on this page section D.4.2 SATB vocal score and automatic piano reduction if you look at the piano reduction part it gets it right. or at least in this sample. so if I could just make it do

Re: Sunday School songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I'm playing with it. The notes are slightly different from my copy I changed to the head style we use - I haven't got the part combine working yet. and the tenor and bass repeating words I haven't figured out yet. Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi Tim, Attached is a copy of a hymn I have