Re: choir music, easy piano reduction and dynamics

2008-04-03 Thread Paul Scott
Arjan Bos wrote: On 1 apr 2008, at 16:12, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Arjan Bos wrote: Ah, I remember that thread. It is what gave me this idea in the first place. The problem of centered dynamics crossing bar lines does not apply to most of my music, which is polyphonic classical guitar

Re: moving accidental of note in a chord

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ahh - sorry. I didn't realise you wanted to move the accidental on a note inside a chord. This is a lot trickier, as \tweak can't be used to move accidentals, and \override moves all accidentals, as you say. Have a look at left-padding and right-padding in Section 4.5.2 Fixing overlapping

Re: Em2 chord

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Watts
We also use add9, add11, and occasionally add#4 and others. Are add chords supported in Lilypond? Sure. \version 2.10.33 test = \chordmode { c1:3.5.9 c:3.5.11 c:7.11+ } % to use your example \score { \new ChordNames \test \new Staff \test \layout { ragged-right = ##t } }

Re: choir music, easy piano reduction and dynamics

2008-04-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Scott wrote: Arjan Bos wrote: Ah, that makes more sense! However, to me the dynamics are part of the whole piece of music and should be attached at Staff level, not at Voice level. So that's why I put them in a separate Voice. Musically, you are of course completely right in most

Re: Em2 chord

2008-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/3, Michael Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We also use add9, add11, and occasionally add#4 and others. Are add chords supported in Lilypond? Sure. \version 2.10.33 test = \chordmode { c1:3.5.9 c:3.5.11 c:7.11+ } % to use your example \score { \new ChordNames \test \new

Re: StaffSymbol: line-positions

2008-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/1, Till Rettig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The bar line should go from the uppermost staff line to the downmost staff line, but now it gets centered on the middle position, so if the upper or lower half of the staff extends more than the other (from the middle counted) the bar line is

GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
LilyPond-ers Grand Documentation Project Graham and his helpers have now completed a large part of the GDP revision of the first chapter of the Notation Reference (NR), most of the Learning Manual (LM) is finished, and the Music Glossary (MG) has been greatly extended. Pulling snippets from

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/3, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The next step is to revise the second chapter in the Notation Reference - NR 2 Specialist notation. To kick off this process the new suggested section headings can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/NR2-draft.txt , and we now need your

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Perhaps Accordion (and not Accordian) should go into Wind instruments? No, because an accordion is not a wind instrument (see the definition of a wind instrumen in wikipedia), but rather a keyboard instrument (sub-category aerophones)...

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: If we decide to add bowing indications in Strings, we should consider adding Breathing indications to Wind instruments, shouldn't we? I've often seen breathing indications both in string music as well as vocal music. /Mats

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread René Brandenburger
Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Trevor Daniels: The next step is to revise the second chapter in the Notation Reference - NR 2 Specialist notation. To kick off this process the new suggested section headings can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/NR2-draft.txt ,

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin wrote: Perhaps Accordion (and not Accordian) should go into Wind instruments? Thanks - corrected. and If we decide to add bowing indications in Strings, we should consider adding Breathing indications to Wind instruments, shouldn't we? Mats wrote: I've often seen breathing

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
René Brandenburger wrote: a topic which I think could be interisting is 2.7 Lyrics and repeats Good idea. Added. I might come back to you for some ideas for the text later :) Trevor D ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Rotating/grouping grobs for microtonal accidentals

2008-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:08:06 +0100 Torsten Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you for your kind reply and sorry for my late response. The example you provided does indeed work nicely for monotonic voices. However, it appears it does not work for chords Please see LM 4.1.4 Tweaking

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:09:01 +0200 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valentin Villenave wrote: If we decide to add bowing indications in Strings, we should consider adding Breathing indications to Wind instruments, shouldn't we? I've often seen breathing indications both in

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:54:19 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/3, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you all know, I'm not at all fond of duplication in the docs, but I'm having difficulty arguing that String music would be easier to understand if we omitted

Re: time notation

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Mar 2008, at 16:47, Graham Percival wrote: Oh, I see. Well, you could create an invisible time signature of 1 / 14353, then create a note with r1*0.568292 -- I haven't checked the math here, though. Yeah,

Re: time notation

2008-04-03 Thread Andrea Valle
Ciao Trevor, I was in fact waiting for your reply...:) I have suspended the experimentation for the moment, but as soon as I can I'll test it. Yes, I have floats. Thanks Best -a- Hi Andrea, Warning: completely untested idea: but could you simply use proportional notation with 4/4

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist

2008-04-03 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Grand Documentation Project The next step is to revise the second chapter in the Notation Reference - NR 2 Specialist notation. To kick off this process the new suggested section headings can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/NR2-draft.txt , and we now need your comments on these

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/3, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And bowing, for string players? Bowing may be added to scores like other articulations; for more information, see @ref{articulations and ornamentations}. The exact names of bowings are described in @ref{List of articulations}. ? Once a

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:40:34 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/3, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: c2\upbow c2\downbow Seems consistent to me... Do you mean you don't like this sentence? \upbow is listed in Appendix B.something. How to use articulations is

Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 Specialist Notation

2008-04-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: And bowing, for string players? Bowing may be added to scores like other articulations; for more information, see @ref{articulations and ornamentations}. The exact names of bowings are

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings everybody, A new issue of the LilyPond Report is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/spip.php?article61 This week, we are going to come back on a few points that were raised on the last issue, to

Re: GDP: Opinions sought on markup command snippets

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm just about to start work on creating snippets for each of the \markup commands listed in appendix B.6. Excellent! Embedded examples will be *extremely* useful ... Before I begin, I'd like to

Re: time notation

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
Ah! Then I'm sorry it took me so long to reply to the thread. I've been travelling (of course ...) and so not very disciplined about keeping up with the list. When you have time to go back to the piece, reply back with whatever results you're getting to the thread. I'm curious to see what you

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings everybody, A new issue of the LilyPond Report is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/spip.php?article61 This week, we are

Re: GDP: Opinions sought on markup command snippets

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi David, On 02/04/2008, David Fedoruk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: In general I prefer the first option. However, may I propose a compromise? I always find examples *in context* the most valuable. That said, it is sometimes difficult to tell where the example command illustrated

Re: GDP: Opinions sought on markup command snippets

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Trevor, On 03/04/2008, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first thought was stuff is, in general, almost always better with an actual score example. But, clicking back through B.6 and rereading, I think exactly the opposite conclusion is warranted here. I think the

Problem with acciaccatura and articulation

2008-04-03 Thread Papa Eric
Hi, In the following code I cannot solve two problems: - \version 2.11.42 { \voiceTwo d'8 \acciaccatura {\once \override Stem #'direction = #up c'8} d'8 \acciaccatura {\once \override Stem #'direction = #up c'8} d'8-. } \layout { ragged-last = ##t } - 1) the first

horizontal bracket over a single note

2008-04-03 Thread Matthew
Is it possible to produce a horizontal bracket over a single note? (currently on v. 2.10.33) I've tried playing with OttavaBracket and TextSpanner. TextSpanner doesn't work for a single note: { c4\startTextSpan\stopTextSpan } I can't get the left edge for the ottava bracket to work. I want

small addition to NR1, Arpeggios

2008-04-03 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
In NR 1.3.3.2, could we change the second snippet to read \arpeggioBracket c e g c\arpeggio \arpeggioNeutral c e g c\arpeggio to clarify the method of canceling the arpeggioBracket? (I had to dig through property-init.ly to convince myself that this was the correct way of doing it.) Also,

Re: horizontal bracket over a single note

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Watts
Try putting the textspanners into a separate voice with spacer notes. IIRC a textspanner needs to start on a 'real' note, so your textspanner voice would need transparent noteheads and stems. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to produce a horizontal

Re: small addition to NR1, Arpeggios

2008-04-03 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Andrew, On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andrew Hawryluk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In NR 1.3.3.2, could we change the second snippet to read \arpeggioBracket c e g c\arpeggio \arpeggioNeutral c e g c\arpeggio to clarify the method of canceling the arpeggioBracket? (I had to dig