GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
Well, that was humbling. I honestly thought that NR 1.1 Pitches was almost perfect, but the comments (thank you!) from last time clearly indicated otherwise. When I tried to read the material with a fresh mind (aided by the comments), I found many, many things to fix. As always, GDP here:

Re: Different tempos

2008-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition to removing the forbid_line_engraver, you may want to use \set Score.allowBeamBreak = ##t (if you use version 2.10) or \override Beam #'breakable = ##t (if you use version 2.11.10 or later) to allow for line breaks when there is a beam in some part. See section Line breaking in the

Re: midi2ly

2008-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition: - For some people who have asked similar questions earlier, the real question has rather been how do I start a command prompt and change directory to the folder where my MIDI file is. For MS Windows, you can find such instructions at

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Some sections have been completely rewritten (particularly Octave check). Please read the new Pitches section and send comments. - The text in Octave corrections and checks is contradictory. First it says that an octave check does not change the pitch, then it says

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:24:22 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Some sections have been completely rewritten (particularly Octave check). Please read the new Pitches section and send comments. - The text in Octave corrections and checks is

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:24:22 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Some sections have been completely rewritten (particularly Octave check). Please read the new Pitches section and send comments. - The text in Octave

Re: Fonts used for tablature

2008-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The layout object used to typeset these letters is TabNoteHead, so you can change any of the font related properties on that object, in the same way as is done for the TimeSignature object in example in section Font selection. The detailed documentation of all these properties can be found at

Re: Different tempos

2008-01-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
James, the more I actually *read* the lilypond manuals, the more I believe that everything is possible in the program. No question! =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: timidity plays back music an octave higher than scored

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Patton
Daniel Tonda wrote: Maybe when writing guitar parts, adding a \clef G_8 would be an option? Daniel Tonda C. Daniel, Could you elaborate on the function of this command? I'm not familiar with it. ~ Eric. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread NJW
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I'm always curious why people spend a lot of time to create something for an editor that has been supported out of the box in jEdit for more than 3 years now. Well, it's bad enough trying to learn LilyPond, without struggling against jEdit, too.

Altering font

2008-01-21 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi everybody! Currently I'm dealing with extending/altering lily's music font according to my needs. Now I'm stuck with the following: I want to alter a symbol, e.g. the notehead noteheads.s2. To do so I open feta20.pfa from /usr/share/lilypond/2.10.5/fonts/type1 in FontForge (v20061220),

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
But there is no LilyPondTool in NotePad++, so it is not fair to say hey, LilyPondTool is buggy, so I use notepad++ . My question was regarding this. JEdit supports LilyPond syntax highlight out of the box since the end of 2004. Also, even if you have problems with LilyPondTool, ie. you can't use

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/21, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I didn't use Java it would not exist at all, and certainly I would not have users from Linux, Mac and Windows world. So we must accept this trade-off: I don't like Java, but it is the platform which provides the most features in

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread NJW
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: And don't get this as an offense. My question was really curiosity. ... So I want to make it a product that everyone uses for LilyPond. No offence taken. It has been a very frustrating time, just to get a half working LilyPondTool and jEdit. I know

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread NJW
Valentin Villenave wrote: Another cool thing could be to develop a bundled Lily+jEdit+LPT pre-configured easy installer :) Fully cross-platform? :^) Anyway, who would have the time to do that. ;-) (Rhetorical: I know you did, but only for Windows ...) -- Nick. -- View this message in

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jan 21, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/21, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I didn't use Java it would not exist at all, and certainly I would not have users from Linux, Mac and Windows world. So we must accept this trade-off: I don't like Java, but

Re: Altering font

2008-01-21 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 21 januari 2008, schreef Thies Albrecht: Hi everybody! Currently I'm dealing with extending/altering lily's music font according to my needs. Now I'm stuck with the following: I want to alter a symbol, e.g. the notehead noteheads.s2. To do so I open feta20.pfa from

Re: timidity plays back music an octave higher than scored

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:41:20 -0400 Eric Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Tonda wrote: Maybe when writing guitar parts, adding a \clef G_8 would be an option? Could you elaborate on the function of this command? I'm not familiar with it. You can find information about \clef by look

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches transposed instruments

2008-01-21 Thread Jay Hamilton
Graham- I think on this side of the pond that key is as close as you'll come I just read the section through and it makes perfect sense to me and I use transpose etc frequently Yours- Jay Jay Hamilton www.soundand.com 206-328-7694 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread David Fedoruk
I have never been able to get all the features of LilyPondTool to work in jEdit. The advanced render and open as PDF has rarely if ever worked for me. I render from a bash or zsh shell and open it manually from the Finder. It may be a bit awkward and not how it was designed to work, but even so,

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
David Fedoruk írta: I have never been able to get all the features of LilyPondTool to work in jEdit. The advanced render and open as PDF has rarely if ever worked for me. So this is what disappoints me most :-) I would be happier and see more use of my work if you didn't have problems. Could

How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I'm working on a piece for a friend of mine, and he has put a couple of chords in it that don't reproduce in a nice fashion. I've looked through the help resources, and wasn't able to find how to make these chords appear as I wish. Can anybody suggest some code that will make the

Re: How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Father Gordon, Can anybody suggest some code that will make the following chords appear as they are here? G6(add9) -- where the 6 is a super-script, of course Fmaj9 -- I don't want the triangle, but the maj Noticed that you haven't gotten a response from anyone with more ChordName(s)

Re: How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Father Gordon, Sorry... should have done this first... =\ I decided to teach myself chord-name-exception coding -- attached is your particular example, solved (I believe). Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ \version 2.11.37 \include english.ly chExcMajNine = { c e g b

Re: How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Father Gordon (et al.): Even better!! You can put them all in one list of exceptions -- see attached. [Sorry... I'm just now climbing this particular learning curve.] Kudos to the Lilypond team... AGAIN!!! =) Cheers, Kieren. _ \version 2.11.37 \include english.ly

Re: How do I do these chord symbols?

2008-01-21 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Gee thanks, Kieren! I compiled the two snippets you gave me and they worked just fine. I presume I can incorporate that code into the top of my \chordmode section -- I'll let you know how that works presently. Thanks again! Fr. Gordon+ On 21/01/2008, Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:36:32 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Not true; with = the d's octave is changed; with \octave the d's octave is not changed. No! The difference is that = modifies the pitch on the current note, whereas the \octave changes

Re: timidity plays back music an octave higher than scored

2008-01-21 Thread Daniel Tonda
Whenever I code a guitar or bass piece, since they are written an octave above their actual sound, I use the sub_8va clefs for the G and F clef. However, in pieces I bought the clef that appears for the guitar is the standard G clef without the 8va symbol, but I don't mind if it appears. Daniel

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On Jan 21, 2008 3:15 AM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that was humbling. I honestly thought that NR 1.1 Pitches was almost perfect, but the comments (thank you!) from last time clearly indicated otherwise. When I tried to read the material with a fresh mind (aided by the

Re: timidity plays back music an octave higher than scored

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:43:31 -0600 Daniel Tonda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I code a guitar or bass piece, since they are written an octave above their actual sound, I use the sub_8va clefs for the G and F clef. However, in pieces I bought the clef that appears for the guitar is the

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:16:51 -0600 Trevor Ba__a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm, can we check something here? Please, that's the whole point of this. Half-flats and half-sharps are formed by adding eh and ih; ... ... which sounds absoutely crazy to me and should instead read ...

VoltaBracket end line missing - Was: invisible barlines

2008-01-21 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, On Jan 17, 2008 3:30 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Below, you can find a complicated alternative solution that adds a new bar type with this behaviour, so you could say \bar e|:. Thanks for the tip, Mats. I was experimenting with custom bar lines based on Mats' example. The piece I'm working