Re: grace notes in TimeSig

2008-05-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan The mechanism used for timing means you have to include matching dummy grace notes in all parallel contexts. If you make the following change I think it will work as you want: dreiviertel = { \time 3/4 \grace {s32 s s} % matching grace timing #(override-auto-beam-setting '(e

Whole bar rests - in the wrong place

2008-05-22 Thread George_
Hi all I was typesetting some stuff and I put in a whole bar rest: %% R2.^\fermataMarkup | %% Instead of hanging from the second line as the full-bar rest should, it hangs from the top line of the staff. So, what's going on? Thanks George -- View this message in context: http://www.nabb

"header", "layout" and "paper" blocks as variables...

2008-05-22 Thread padovani
hi. is there a way to put the header, layout and block values as variables? I woul like to use something like myheader = \header { . } mylayout = \layout { } mypaper = \paper { } and then call these variables to construct my score... I tried but I get errors like: ./instr/comhead

Re: Accessing header properties from ordinary markup

2008-05-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieben Sie: > Le 21 mai 08 à 18:21, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > > [...] how can I access the header fields from a top-level markup? > > Book and score title are dealt with in a special way: when they > are interpreted, the header variables are added to the properties

Re: location of rests and bar alignment between staffs

2008-05-22 Thread Damian leGassick
for synchronized staves you need to do something like this: \version "2.11.43" \header { tagline = "" } #(define mydrums '( (bassdrum default #f -1) (acousticbassdrum default #f 1) (hihat cross #f -1) (closedhihatcross #f

Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

2008-05-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb Nicolas Sceaux: > Le 22 mai 08 à 12:44, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > > Actually, these two are not the same, in particular the spacing is > > very different. I ran into this problem just a few days ago: With {...},

location of rests and bar alignment between staffs

2008-05-22 Thread Brian Kidd
Hello, I'm new to lilypond and would like to create notation for an ensemble of hand drums. Currently, I'm having trouble with two specific layout issues and I wasn't able to find exactly what I needed in searching the archives. The first is how to position a rest relative to a single lin

Re: Lilypond version compile times

2008-05-22 Thread Jack Cooper
My bad- I should have read the fixes for 2.11.43.. Cheers, Jack - Original Message From: Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List lilypond-user ; List lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:26:01 PM Subject: Lilypond version compile times A silly question- a while back, peop

Lilypond version compile times

2008-05-22 Thread Jack Cooper
A silly question- a while back, people were reporting drastically slower compile times for the newest release of lilypond from that for previous versions. For that reason, I haven't version 11 since something like 2.11.32 (or maybe earlier..). Has the speed issue been resolved? If I recall, the

Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 22 mai 08 à 12:44, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Actually, these two are not the same, in particular the spacing is very different. I ran into this problem just a few days ago: With {...}, when lilypond decides on the space between the words, the spaces between the words was a too tight,

Re: Redefining \smallCaps, Sceaux method - compile error

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 22 mai 08 à 12:13, Nicholas Wastell a écrit : Hello list, A couple of months ago, Nicolas Sceaux showed some code to redefine the \smallCaps function to extend support to non-ascii characters (ref: ). I have just tried inserting his code in a .ly file, but

Re: Figured Bass commands in property-init.ly

2008-05-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Reinhold Kainhofer kainhofer.com> writes: > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: > > By way of standard practice, is it better to define > > figuredBassStackingDirUpOff as an \override (which makes it absolute, but > > keeps adding to the props list), or as a \revert, which undo

grace notes in TimeSig

2008-05-22 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypondusers, I have a problem with TimeSig in connection with grace-notes. I don't understand why the grace notes why the grace-notes in the below quoted example appear before the time signature. It must have to do with the TimeSig function. How can I fix the problem? Here is the example: %%

Re: How to show a small glissando?

2008-05-22 Thread Arjan Bos
Thanks Mats, I looked at the Internal Reference Manual, but I would never have guessed the solution. But it worked like a charm. Arjan On 22 mei 2008, at 13:04, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you add the following two lines before the first note, the note spacing will be adjusted, when necessar

Re: rhythm template function

2008-05-22 Thread Alard de Boer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jay Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Easy Rhythm Template Creation" added to the lsr. Thanks. > > -Jay Hi Jay, I had some trouble getting tuplets to work with your snippet. Here's a modified version that checks whether a tuplet (TimeScaledMusic) is used

Re: How to show a small glissando?

2008-05-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you add the following two lines before the first note, the note spacing will be adjusted, when necessary, to give each glissando a minimum length (which is long enough that it's also printed). \override Glissando #'springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods \override Glissando #'minimu

Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

2008-05-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > "Markup expressions may also be enclosed in double quotes "...". Such > expressions are treated as text strings and may not contain nested > expressions or commands. Therefore, braces are generally prefered to > double quotes." Actually, th

Redefining \smallCaps, Sceaux method - compile error

2008-05-22 Thread Nicholas Wastell
Hello list, A couple of months ago, Nicolas Sceaux showed some code to redefine the \smallCaps function to extend support to non-ascii characters (ref: ). I have just tried inserting his code in a .ly file, but I see errors on compiling: In procedure make-small-caps

How to show a small glissando?

2008-05-22 Thread Arjan Bos
Dear list, Could someone please show me how to make a \glissando appear when the notes are very close to each other? See this small example: \version "2.11.45" \paper { ragged-right = ##t } %% makes the first \glissando disappear \score { \relative c'' { es8\glissando d4.~ d2 \glissan