Re: ask for help

2007-12-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:09 PM, hhpmusic wrote: Hi, I'm a Chinese blind musician, Hu Haipeng. I just began to learn Lilypond the day before yesterday. I found a problem about chord and tie. The syntax is notevalue-tie. But in a lot of romantic piano music, some chords have only one or two not

ask for help

2007-12-28 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I'm a Chinese blind musician, Hu Haipeng. I just began to learn Lilypond the day before yesterday. I found a problem about chord and tie. The syntax is notevalue-tie. But in a lot of romantic piano music, some chords have only one or two notes to be tied and others not. It's not good to spli

Re: Unicode characters

2007-12-28 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Luc Saffre napsal(a): I'd guess that you saved your file in ANSI encoding (Notepad's default). Chose File / Save As, then in the "Encoding" combobox select "UTF-8". o.k. - great - it works! In this case is small bug in "built-in" editor "LilyPad", which can't save files in UTF-8 format. Zbynek

Re: macro for instrument changes

2007-12-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/27, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Some time ago, I sponsored an improvement to InstrumentName (etc.); > Han-Wen was going to have just such a macro pre-defined; > I never confirmed what the outcome was -- HW? Hi Kieren, Nicolas and everybody; I understand Han-Wen is quite busy

Re: alto stems up, tenor stems down

2007-12-28 Thread Jay Ricketts
Hi Luc, I don't understand why you can't just call the alto "tenor" and call the tenor "alto". Then just assign tenor to the upper staff and alto to the lower. Then you can just rename your sections and reassign them to the proper staff later if you need to change it. Or are you trying to get s

Re: stem extend doe not work

2007-12-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Kieren, unfortunately, it didn't work. >Hi Stefan, > >> But how can I switch off the "noFlag" ? >> I tried >> FlagOn = \override Stem #'flag-style = #'flag >> and >> FlagOn = \revert Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag > >I think > > FlagOn = \revert Stem #'flag-style > >will work. > >Hope t

Re: stem extend doe not work

2007-12-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, But how can I switch off the "noFlag" ? I tried FlagOn = \override Stem #'flag-style = #'flag and FlagOn = \revert Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag I think FlagOn = \revert Stem #'flag-style will work. Hope this helps! Kieren. ___

Re: Organ pedal marks and substitution

2007-12-28 Thread Reilly
Stig, On Dec 26, 2007, at 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion as how to show substitution of feet in an organ pedal voice? It could be when shifting from right toe to right heel on the same note, or it could be substituting the left toe with the right toe, still

Re: stem extend doe not work

2007-12-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Wilbert, thanks for Your help. But how can I switch off the "noFlag" ? I tried FlagOn = \override Stem #'flag-style = #'flag and FlagOn = \revert Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag but both didn't work. What can I do? Wilbert Berendsen schrieb am 26.12.2007: >Op woensdag 26 december 2007, schr

Re: Instrumental Group Names in Score

2007-12-28 Thread Reilly
Kieren, Thank you TWICE over for your help. Your code worked perfectly. I compared it to my trial code and this is what you added: On Dec 27, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: \context { \InnerStaffGroup

Re: problem with polyphony

2007-12-28 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I think you have a wrong "}" placement in the "links" fragment. It compiles when you change { .. \voiceOne << {cis4~ cis2.} } %%% error here \context Voice ="zwo" {\voiceTwo \repeat "unfold" 3 { 8-. r } } >> by { .. \voiceOne << {cis4~ cis2.} %%% delete a

Re: building, where to get libfontconfig-dev and libfreetype6-dev

2007-12-28 Thread Bob
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:12:56 + (UTC) > Bob gmail.com> wrote: > > > Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > Am trying to build lilypond 2.11.36 on mac osx > > > > 10.4.11 (on an intel mac). I only want to use midi2ly (and > > > > intended to

RE: Problems with automatic beaming when autoBeamOff in 3/8 time

2007-12-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote on 28 December 2007 08:45 > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 schrieb Trevor Daniels: > > Hi Reinhold > > > > As the two types of bar have different > sub-beats there is > > no way to do this automatically with just a > single setting, > > AFAIK - every time the sub-be

Re: Problem starting multiple voices

2007-12-28 Thread Joseph Haig
As has already been mentioned, it is not possible to see what your problem is without the actual code. The following section of the documentation, however, should show you what you need to do: On 27/12/2007, Ed Keith <

RE: Problem starting multiple voices

2007-12-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ed Keith wrote on 27 December 2007 22:23 > > I'm new to lilypond. I'm trying to engrave a > simple song with four voices on > two staffs (saprano and alto on the treble staff > and tenor and bass on the > bass staff). > > The problem is the the two voices on a staff do > not come in on the

RE: Two midi questions

2007-12-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Alasdair McAndrew wrote on 27 December 2007 22:59 > I have used > > \set Staff.midiInstrument = "viola" > > but the midi output still seems to contain a > piano sound in it. It's as though I can add > an instrument sound to the midi file, but not > turn off the default piano sound. What's >

Re: Problems with automatic beaming when autoBeamOff in 3/8 time

2007-12-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 schrieb Trevor Daniels: > Hi Reinhold > > As the two types of bar have different sub-beats there is > no way to do this automatically with just a single setting, > AFAIK - every time the sub-beating changes the new > beatLength will have to be indicated - just as if