Re: Change Chordname Font Size

2009-01-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
This process is described in much more detail with lots of examples in the Learning Manual. Reading through chapters 3 and 4 will help a lot - the purpose of those two chapters is to teach you how to change LilyPond properties. Trevor - Original Message - From: Carl D. Sorensen

Re: straight-flag and no-flag

2009-01-23 Thread ljc
Quoting Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Please notice that I'm using the 'flag property for no-flag, too! Also notice that there is no ' in front of no-flag (as opposed to 'no-flag when you use 'flag-style). that was it! i hadn't realized there was no ' before of no-flag,

Problems with figured bass and alignment

2009-01-23 Thread Raphaël ARNAULT
Hello, I work on lilypond to create a score of a baroque opera and I have some problems with alignment in the figured bass. First, when I've a chord figured # and after another figured 7 #, and when I want tu use the bass figured extender, I don't managed to have the figured in the right

Re: Lilypond mini-IDE

2009-01-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: There is a %gconf.xml into the zip file. Yes, my mistake. the gconf-editor tool shows a desktop/gnome/url-handlers entry on the tree, but there is not a texedit entry in it, how do I create one? Probably it is easiest to do this with gconftool-2,

Re: Lilypond mini-IDE

2009-01-23 Thread Francisco Vila
Johan, I have successfully run the miniIDE. 2009/1/23 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl: Probably it is easiest to do this with gconftool-2, from the command line: $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/textedit/command -t string XXX where XXX is the location of your texedit

Re: transparent dotted notes

2009-01-23 Thread northofscotland
Sorry for the spelling mistake, dots 'disappear' ... northofscotland wrote: Just a quick pointer from someone who knows, please ! I am trying to make dotted notes transparent (to aid combining voices). I can make the stems disapper, I can make the note heads disapper, but I cannot

Whole measure rest after changing staff

2009-01-23 Thread Stefan Waler
Hi, I would like to write a whole measure rest into a staff which I left just before - is this possible somehow? I tried using two voices with the result that the rest is is not centered vertically anymore (which is, BTW, always very annoying anyway). Thanks for your help! Stefan c1 |

Re: Lilypond mini-IDE

2009-01-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/1/23 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl: Probably it is easiest to do this with gconftool-2, from the command line: $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/textedit/command -t string XXX where XXX is the location of your texedit handler. ended by %s, I suppose. Maybe a script

Re: transparent dotted notes

2009-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you look in the index of the Notation Reference (the index is called Lilypond index for silly technical reasons), and search for hide or hidden, then you will end up at a section on Hidden notes, which provides a very convenient solution to your problem. /Mats northofscotland wrote:

Re: Whole measure rest after changing staff

2009-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's much easier to answer your question if you provide a complete (but small) example of what you have tried. However, if you read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Fixing-overlapping-notation#index-MultiMeasureRest_002c-example-of-overriding you will learn

Re: Lilypond mini-IDE

2009-01-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: This works, but then what about the supplied file? I cannot understand what is the relation between the file and the gconf-editor status, because the file seems to change in an asynchronous way with the contents of the GUI. If I copy the file, the

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
How do you do that in Sibelius? Perhaps mirroring the same approach would be the best. 3. Engrave a line when needed using draw-line as part of a markup command. This seems to be the most flexible, but suffers from the following problems: a) the line will automatically offset to avoid

Re: automatic setting of `currentBarNumber'

2009-01-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: The following problem: \score { \relative { c1 | c1 | c1 | c1 |% Bars 1-4 } \score { \relative { c1 | c1 | c1 | c1 |% Bars 5-8 } I know how to manually set `currentBarNumber' in

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool lilypondtool at organum.hu writes: How do you do that in Sibelius? Perhaps mirroring the same approach would be the best. With Sibelius, one can easily start and stop a staff mid-system (or measure) by changing that staff to an invisible one. Thus, the passage

end measure with incomplete note vale

2009-01-23 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
hello im transcribing a hym and i see that the first measure is \partial 4 but the last one is a 2. how can i close the measure at the end of the hym it stays open. Eze ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eric Flesher wrote: With Sibelius, one can easily start and stop a staff mid-system (or measure) by changing that staff to an invisible one. Thus, the passage was engraved with two staves: a normal one for pitched notes, and a second, single line staff above for non-pitched notes. Instead of

Re: end measure with incomplete note vale

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Thornock
Perhaps: \bar |. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ezequiel Sierra esie...@gmail.com wrote: hello im transcribing a hym and i see that the first measure is \partial 4 but the last one is a 2. how can i close the measure at the end of the hym it stays open. Eze

Re: end measure with incomplete note vale

2009-01-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 schrieb Ezequiel Sierra: hello im transcribing a hym and i see that the first measure is \partial 4 but the last one is a 2. how can i close the measure at the end of the hym it stays open. You can manually insert the

Re: end measure with incomplete note vale

2009-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just insert a \bar |. or \bar | or whatever bar type you want, after the last note. /Mats Ezequiel Sierra wrote: hello im transcribing a hym and i see that the first measure is \partial 4 but the last one is a 2. how can i close the measure at the end of the hym it stays open. Eze

maj13 chord

2009-01-23 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
ok so i have this chordset = \chordmode { \override ChordName #'font-size = #-1.0 r4 c4. r8 r8 r8 c8:maj13 r8 r4. d8:m7 } and inside my choir staff i have \new ChordNames \chordsett how can i display the maj13 beside the chord C note: this is for Chords Name only not for Chord notes Eze

Re: Lilypond mini-IDE

2009-01-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: Maybe a script that launches the three necessary commands like this, would simplify things. Yes, I will change this for the next release. Thanks for your feedback. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Whole measure rest after changing staff

2009-01-23 Thread Stefan Waler
Mats Bengtsson wrote: It's much easier to answer your question if you provide a complete (but small) example of what you have tried. However, if you read at

Re: automatic setting of `currentBarNumber'

2009-01-23 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:03 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: The following problem: \score { \relative { c1 | c1 | c1 | c1 |% Bars 1-4 } \score { \relative { c1 | c1 | c1 | c1 |% Bars 5-8 } I know how to manually set `currentBarNumber' in the

Re: automatic setting of `currentBarNumber'

2009-01-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
What happens if you use \applyContext for the 2nd value too? It gets ignored. See attached file. A bug? Werner #(define lastBarNumber 10) \score { \relative { c1 | \break d1 | \break e1 | \break f1 | \applyContext #(lambda (x) (set! lastBarNumber

Staff.instrumentName

2009-01-23 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Just wondering. What's the difference between \set Staff.instrumentName = #Violin I and \set Staff.instrumentName = Violin I since both seem to work in my little experiments. -- Martin Tarenskeen ___ lilypond-user

Re: Staff.instrumentName

2009-01-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 21:29:40 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: Hi, Just wondering. What's the difference between \set Staff.instrumentName = #Violin I and \set Staff.instrumentName = Violin I since both seem to work in my

Stopwatch time in markup

2009-01-23 Thread Tom Hall
Hello List I want to print stopwatch timings in a score, surrounded by a little box. I've been through the help files and the archives of this list, but since quotation marks are special characters, it's not straight-forward and I've not managed to get this right. I'm aiming for somthing like:

Re: Stopwatch time in markup

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Thornock
See the change below: \version 2.12.1 { \mark \markup \rounded-box { \small { 4'33\ } } c'2 } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/21/09 3:27 PM, Eric Flesher e...@ericflesher.com wrote: I'm having serious problems figuring out a workable solution to the problem below: Per Kurt Stone, breath tones (on woodwinds or brass) with no pitch content should preferably be written on a separate tablature line above the

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I'm currently working on a music function which could do all of the tweaking internally. Me too! I'm close, but I got stuck on notehead X-extents... - Mark attachment: breath-tones_1.png\version 2.12.1 \include english.ly #(define (stencil-width stil) (let

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/23/09 2:23 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I'm currently working on a music function which could do all of the tweaking internally. Me too! I'm close, but I got stuck on notehead X-extents... Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit

Re: maj13 chord

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
maj13 is *not* a chord name, even though it seems like it is. It is a description of which pitches to place in a chord. What you will need to do is to add a chord name execption, as described in the selected snippets of Notation Reference 2.7.2 Displaying chords. You'll first need to know what

Re: Stopwatch time in markup

2009-01-23 Thread Tom Hall
Hello Neil Neil Thornock neilthornock at gmail.com writes: See the change below: thanks for that, but it's the same difference here using your suggestion (Mac PPC X.4.11). Is it working for you? Regards Tom \version 2.12.1 {  \mark \markup \rounded-box { 

Re: Stopwatch time in markup

2009-01-23 Thread James E. Bailey
Wow, that took me a minute to figure out. The quotes around 33 are the problem. That makes it separate text. Putting the quotes around the entire time fixes it. { \mark \markup \rounded-box { \small { 4'33\ } } c'2 } Am 23.01.2009 um 22:39 schrieb Tom Hall: Hello

Lilypond Documentation

2009-01-23 Thread David Baxendale
This is to say how very pleased I am with the latest Lilypond 2.12 Documentation and Tutorial pages. They are so clearly laid out and it is easy to find just what you want. I have used Lilypond a number of times to set short choral pieces for a small amateur choir (in which I sing) and must say

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit working on this. Carl, didn't mean to steal your thunder... And your coding was looking leaner than mine (I always end up doing things the long way). Eric, I've gotten as far as I care to for now. Undoubtedly you'll want to

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/23/09 3:48 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit working on this. Carl, didn't mean to steal your thunder... And your coding was looking leaner than mine (I always end up doing things the long way). No

Re: Stopwatch time in markup

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: Wow, that took me a minute to figure out. The quotes around 33 are the problem. That makes it separate text. Putting the quotes around the entire time fixes it. { \mark \markup \rounded-box { \small { 4'33\ } } c'2 } Might as

Chord Naming

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
We currently have issues with the chord naming functions of LilyPond. If we pass a \chordmode chord to the the ChordNames construct, we very seldom get out what we put in (i.e. c:maj13 will give Cmaj7/9/add13). This is because we currently try to do the chord naming algorithmically. I'd like to

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Mark Polesky markpolesky at yahoo.com writes: Eric, I've gotten as far as I care to for now. Undoubtedly you'll want to tweak things anyway, so I'm sending off what I have as it is. You could re-code the stencil using Carl's (more efficient) way, but the code here should work fine. Let

Re: Chord Naming

2009-01-23 Thread David Stocker
Carl, I think this would greatly improve the chords feature of LilyPond. I don't think I've ever seen a Cmaj7/9/add13 chord in actual printed music, but I know how to play a Cmaj13, Cm13b5, or a Cm9#11. I'd be happy to help with this in any way I can, even if it's only testing. I can commit

the greatness of LilyPond

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Did you know that LilyPond can draw cross-staff kneed beams from one staff to another, even if there's another staff in the way? Did you know that if you blank out the staff that's in the way, the beam centers itself perfectly where the other staff would've been? Do you know how happy I was when