musicxml2ly

2008-11-24 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Reading about improved MusicXML support for Lilypond 2.11.64 I decided to play around with the musicxml2ly tool a bit. I downloaded the collection of 18 MusicXML examples from http://www.recordare.com/xml/samples.html and processed them with musicxml2ly. Then I processed the resul

same heigth of markups

2008-11-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, I would like to have, in the below quoted example, the "Dsechsvier" on the same heigth as the "T". How can I get this? Thanks for Your help, Stefan \version "2.11.60" Dsechsvier = \markup { D \super { \combine \raise #1.1 6 4 } } T = \markup {T} \new Staff \relative c

Re: [Choral] Voices/staves - moving from tenor/bass to T1/T2/B1/B2 andback

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
I would define the voices individually and the use the \change Staff = "blah" trick to move them from two staves to four and back. You might need to do some funny stuff when you add the lyrics, but this is the cleanest way to get the note placements you want. If you search LSR you can find an examp

Re: Using the 'avoid-slur property

2008-11-24 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Neil, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/11/24 Patrick McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> According to the Internals Reference, DynamicText and TextScript >> support 'avoid-slur. Is there anything I'm doing wrong in the >> following example? > >

Re: page-turn-breaking horizontal spacing

2008-11-24 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 00:12 +, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2008/11/24 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It's a little hard to tell without an example, but it sounds like > > lilypond is refusing to give things more space because that would make > > for a bad page turn. The page-turn-breaking fun

Re: page-turn-breaking horizontal spacing

2008-11-24 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/11/24 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's a little hard to tell without an example, but it sounds like > lilypond is refusing to give things more space because that would make > for a bad page turn. The page-turn-breaking function treats the > page-turns with higher priority than anything

Re: page turns and page count

2008-11-24 Thread Joe Neeman
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:31 -0700, Neil Thornock wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using the page-turn-engraver for the first time. Is there a way I > can specify a page-count - and have it be recognized - in addition to > using the page turns? I specify 10 pages, the program finds 73 > page-break candida

Re: page-turn-breaking horizontal spacing

2008-11-24 Thread Joe Neeman
(moved to lilypond-user) On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 16:09 -0500, Dan Eble wrote: > Does anyone know why the variables that control horizontal spacing > (base-shortest-duration, shortest-duration-space, extra-spacing-width) > would have no effect when the page-breaking function is set to ly:page- >

page turns and page count

2008-11-24 Thread Neil Thornock
Hello! I'm using the page-turn-engraver for the first time. Is there a way I can specify a page-count - and have it be recognized - in addition to using the page turns? I specify 10 pages, the program finds 73 page-break candidates, and then it smooshes everything onto 5 pages. I'm not sure how

Re: Re: Centered Textspan for Piano music

2008-11-24 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Stefan, 2008/11/24 stefankaegi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok... I discovered a little problem with this method. I think you can > best see it in the attachement in the bars 12 - 14. I'd like to have the > spanner something like this: > > 12 13 14 15 > acc. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _rit. Have y

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Slattery
Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, you did indeed miss the ignoreMelismata setting, which is described in >the documentation: >PS: Note that the comment in the documentation about the setting applying only >to the second next syllable ("fas" in this case), is actually no longe

Re: Using the 'avoid-slur property

2008-11-24 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Patrick, 2008/11/24 Patrick McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I am trying to modify the 'avoid-slur property for various grobs, but > Fingering is one of the few grobs that I've had success with. > > According to the Internals Reference, DynamicText and TextScript > support 'avoid-slur.

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/11/24 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote Monday, November 24, 2008 6:14 PM >> >> PS: Note that the comment in the documentation about the setting applying >> only >> to the second next syllable ("fas" in this case), is actually no longer >> true >> in LilyPond 2.1

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote Monday, November 24, 2008 6:14 PM PS: Note that the comment in the documentation about the setting applying only to the second next syllable ("fas" in this case), is actually no longer true in LilyPond 2.11.x. The setting now applies to the very next lyrics syllable

Re: [Choral] Voices/staves - moving from tenor/bass to T1/T2/B1/B2 andback

2008-11-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Below is a possible approach. This is far from a finished piece, but it may give you some ideas. It uses four staves throughout, two for tenor, two for bass. The Ten1 and Bas1 staves are used for the sections which are undivided. The music is split into sections corresponding to divided

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-11-24 um 16:18 schrieb Tim Slattery: Last weekend I was entering a song into Lilypond. It's four parts, SATB, and has two verses. The verses scan very slightly differently. There is a measure in the music where there are two slurred halfnotes. In one verse, one syllable is stretched ove

Re: percent repeat glyph

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:17:27AM +, Neil Puttock wrote: > I think the best option is to make the kerning settings tweakable. > In fact, there's a TODO in the source suggesting this. > > I've just submitted a patch for review; attached is some sample output. I updated my source and had a pla

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 24. November 2008 schrieb Tim Slattery: > Lilypond's ability to match lyrics with music is absolutely fantastic, > but it apparently doesn't handle this scenario. I wound up having one > verse matched automatically, and assigning a duration

Re: Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim See if "Stanzas with different rhythms" in section 2.1.5 Stanzas in the 2.11 Notation Reference helps. Trevor "Tim Slattery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Last weekend I was entering a song into Lilypond. It's four parts, SATB, and has two verses. The verses

quick data input for lilypond using a spreadsheet

2008-11-24 Thread eluze
i set up a spreadsheet to enter lilypond notes with one hand - maybe others are interested !? download Eluze ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: Page numbering position

2008-11-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Siddharth, How do I change the position of page numbers so that they are on one side, instead of the default alternating page numbering? Didn't see anyone respond, so I thought I'd give you a quick answer. Look at the latest (2.11.64) docs under "Titles and Headers:

Lyrics

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Slattery
Last weekend I was entering a song into Lilypond. It's four parts, SATB, and has two verses. The verses scan very slightly differently. There is a measure in the music where there are two slurred halfnotes. In one verse, one syllable is stretched over both half-notes. The other verse has an extra s

Re: Newly defined Voice context and RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-11-24 Thread Roman Stawski
At 13:59 22/11/2008, Mats Bengtsson wrote: See the "Known issues and warnings" of section 5.1.4 "Changing default context settings" in the Notation Reference. If you really want to understand what happens, it may also help to look at the definition of \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in the file ly/engr

[Choral] Voices/staves - moving from tenor/bass to T1/T2/B1/B2 and back

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Wright
Hi all, I have a sneaky suspicion I'm approaching this problem in completely the wrong way, and I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to do it in a way that works. I'm trying to typeset a choral piece which starts out with just a tenor line and a bass line. No problem. Then the tenor line and ba

Re: LilyPond

2008-11-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 21-11-2008 om 16:27 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef JAJ Versteegen: Beste Joop, > Verschillende keren LilyPond gedownload. Kan het niet openen. Krijg > o.a. steeds de volgende melding: . linux- x86.sh is geen geldige Win > 32-toepassing. > Ik heb Windows Vista. De Linux versie (zie htt

Re: Create PNG Files at a custom size.

2008-11-24 Thread Till
Brad Landis wrote: > > I would like to create PNG files for use in presentations. I can't seem to > change the output size to custom dimensions. What would be the easiest way > to > get a 4:3 or 16:9 dimension png file? > You could define your own paper sizes, I think the defined papers are i