Re: fingering (/w staff-padding) + textscript and script-priority

2008-10-16 Thread Eluze
thank you for your explanations Neil Puttock wrote: > > > Instead of hard-coding the start value, it should be read from the > Fingering grob (so in your example, it would result in a new priority > of 14). > so in a soonish release we can expect this to change? or do we need a list of these

Re: Lyrics of a Voice above the Staff of the Voice

2008-10-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: The contexts are normally printed in the order in which they are defined, so simply moving the \new Lyrics command for the sopranos so it comes before the \new Staff command for the joint soprano/alto staff should do it. See the SATB vocal score template in the Notation

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Pro: - LilyPond supports collaboration very well, as these are only text files (think of mediawiki and other wikis which can support LilyPond). - LilyPond is free, while Sibelius and Finale's even non-profit licenses are expensive. Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi folks, Next weekend I'll be att

Re: Lyrics of a Voice above the Staff of the Voice

2008-10-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks for pointing that out, Mats. Valentin has editing rights on vocals at the moment. I'm sure he'll pick this up. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Robert Waniek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Valentin V

Re: Lyrics of a Voice above the Staff of the Voice

2008-10-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/16 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for pointing that out, Mats. Valentin > has editing rights on vocals at the moment. > I'm sure he'll pick this up. Thanks for the ping :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/10/16 Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) What does LilyPond do well? > > (I already have that the default output is far better than the > equivalent in most software I've seen, and it is very quick once the > basics are mastered. I'll also mention the integration with > OpenOffice, HT

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Tim Slattery
Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd also appreciate it if anyone had files I could use that show off >some of the more interesting features of LilyPond. I'll produce some >printed examples, and if people start scratching their heads trying to >work out how I did something, I'll have

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Well, musipedia.org could show an other interesting example. LilyPond's format allows search for music phrases. Tim Slattery wrote: Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd also appreciate it if anyone had files I could use that show off some of the more interesting features of Lil

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For the examples, you may want to use some of the "Inspirational headwords" from the latest version of the manual, i.e. the examples at the top of each (well, at least most) section of chapters 1 and 2 in http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/ /Mats Cameron Horsburgh wr

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Cameron, 1) What does LilyPond do well? (I already have that the default output is far better than the equivalent in most software I've seen, and it is very quick once the basics are mastered. I'll also mention the integration with OpenOffice, HTML and LaTeX.) Difficult modern concepts are

LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, Next weekend I'll be attending a composing workshop organised by my church. One of the sessions will cover the relevant software. It seems the facilitator is going to be showing off Finale and Sibelius, but he seems willing for me to do a very brief presentation on LilyPond. I'm not fami

multi-voice spacing

2008-10-16 Thread Neil Thornock
Hi group, I'm stumped. I'm using code similar to the following: % music = {r2 r4 << { f'8 } \\ { f'32 g' a' b' } >> r8 c''1 c''1} %music = {r2 r4 f'32 g' a' b' r8 c''1 c''1} \score { \new Staff {\music} \layout { ragged-right = ##f } } \version "2.11.57" %%%

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Polesky
Check out the "LilyPond Reports" by Valentin Villenave: http://valentin.villenave.info/-English- Reports relevant to your question are #5-8 and #10. Hope this helps. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: multi-voice spacing

2008-10-16 Thread Neil Thornock
Actually disregard this message. I see the problem now with a grace note in another voice, so I've got more homework to do first :) Neil On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Neil Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi group, > I'm stumped. I'm using code similar to the following: > > %%%

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/16 Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Reports relevant to your question are #5-8 and #10. Thanks for the mention; I strongly hope more are to come as soon as I have some time :-) Some of the composers I mention in the LilyReport #10 have their own website, with some very nice examples to

Re: GDP NR 1.6 Staff notation ready for public review

2008-10-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks Seb. I've been side-tracked, but finally got round to dealing with these comments. I've removed the misleading statement. It should appear in the online docs in a day or two. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Sebastian Menge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAI

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/16 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And of course, Trevor B's unique blog: ...oops; the right url being: http://thereddoor.typepad.com/ (thanks Mats :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

Re: GDP NR 1.6 Staff notation ready for public review

2008-10-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
James E. Bailey wrote Monday, October 13, 2008 2:57 PM On 13.10.2008, at 12:33, Trevor Daniels wrote: Please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems NR 1.6 Staff notation has never been announced as ready for public review, although it seems to be in good shape (thanks to Till) and has been

Re: GDP NR 1.6 Staff notation ready for public review

2008-10-16 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James E. Bailey wrote Monday, October 13, 2008 2:57 PM >> 3) 1.6.2.1 Everything before \startStaff & \stopStaff seems like stuff >> from 5.3 (modifying properties). And it seems like the whole section is >> there to in

Clarifying octave check in Section 6.1.7

2008-10-16 Thread Sawada , Yoshiki
I am translating User Manual (for LilyPond 2.10) to Japanese. And I found the points which look like having errors. In the example below, the first check passes without incident, since the e (in relative mode) is within a fifth of a'. However, the second check produces a warning, since the e is no

chord name position

2008-10-16 Thread plutek-infinity
greetings! i don't understand why the chord names end up below the staff when i do this: - \version "2.11.61" changes = \chords { c1 c1 } slashes = { \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash b'1 b'1 } \score { \new Staff << \changes \slashes

Re: Moving guitar fingering orientations

2008-10-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jon I just got around to doing this, but when I look at LM 4.4.2 it already says, immediately above the examples, "To control the placement of the fingering of a single note using this command it is necessary to write it as a single note chord by placing angle brackets round it." Seems cle

Re: chord name position

2008-10-16 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > changes = \chords { > c1 c1 > } > > slashes = { > \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash > b'1 b'1 > } > > \score { > \new Staff << > \changes > \slashes > >> > } > > --- > > would someone be kind enough to explain? \new Staff

Re: LilyPond examples

2008-10-16 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Next weekend I'll be attending a composing workshop organised by my > church. One of the sessions will cover the relevant software. It seems > the facilitator is going to be showing off Finale and Sibelius