Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 76, Issue 98

2009-03-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 25.03.2009 um 02:26 schrieb Frederick Dennis: Dear All, In the following extract from The Preces and Responses by John Reading (d. 1692), the tenorTwoSnippet lyric to has an over-long extender. Adding skips after it makes the extender even longer. Is there any way of shortening it? Can

Re: mixing notehead styles in chords

2009-03-25 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, just a minor suggestion. 'h' is already a taken name in deutsch.ly, so everyone who uses German note names couldn't use your function. I also learned this just recently. Regards, Tao Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:40:55 -0700 Von: Kees van den Doel

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Domain Admin m...@mjs-svc.com writes: If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to export Lilypond data. I'm one of the people that have to convert Sibelius scores to Lilypond on a regular basis. I use MIDI export from Sibelius, and the MIDI import / Lilypond export

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Johan Vromans wrote: Domain Admin m...@mjs-svc.com writes: If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to export Lilypond data. I'm one of the people that have to convert Sibelius scores to Lilypond on a regular basis. I use MIDI export from Sibelius, and the

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread John Mandereau
James E. Bailey a écrit : I'm having a configure error, and I don't know how to solve it. I get this: ERROR: Please install required programs: /Users/lilydev/bin/fontforge = 20050624 (installed: .fontforge 20080927) What does 'which fontforge' and '`which fontforge` --version' say? Could

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 25.03.2009 um 12:50 schrieb John Mandereau: James E. Bailey a écrit : I'm having a configure error, and I don't know how to solve it. I get this: ERROR: Please install required programs: /Users/lilydev/bin/ fontforge = 20050624 (installed: .fontforge 20080927) What does 'which

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:37:10PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Although apropos of nothing, what's the difference between the instructions in the AU (and on the web-site) on getting the source code, and the instructions in the CG? Nothing; they come from exactly the same source. The version

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 25.03.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:37:10PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Although apropos of nothing, what's the difference between the instructions in the AU (and on the web-site) on getting the source code, and the instructions in the CG? Nothing;

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread John Mandereau
James E. Bailey a écrit : Am 25.03.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Graham Percival: Nothing; they come from exactly the same source. The version in the AU is going to die soon, where soon means within 4 months. So then why the difference? I should think a one line command to get the source is easier

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/25/09 12:12 AM, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 25.03.2009 um 02:26 schrieb Frederick Dennis: Dear All, In the following extract from The Preces and Responses by John Reading (d. 1692), the tenorTwoSnippet lyric to has an over-long extender. Adding skips

fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, is there a way to position the fermata below the barline? I only found : \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.ufermata } And Such objects are only typeset above the top staff of the score; Hajo --- ... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn attachment:

Re: feathered midbeam direction change

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Thornock
Oops, to the whole list now... In response to my own question, one can just set the positions of the main beam as well, so actually, I think this works rather well. It's certainly cleaner than Finale... Thanks Trevor for putting me on it again! \version 2.12.1 \new Staff { { \oneVoice

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hajo Dezelski wrote: Hello, is there a way to position the fermata below the barline? I only found : \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.ufermata } And Such objects are only typeset above the top staff of the score; Hajo You can set the direction of the RehearsalMark object: \override

Re: feathered midbeam direction change

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Neil Thornock wrote: Oops, to the whole list now... In response to my own question, one can just set the positions of the main beam as well, so actually, I think this works rather well. It's certainly cleaner than Finale... Thanks Trevor for putting me on it again! \version 2.12.1 \new

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, This is the snippet that gave me the clues: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 Even more useful is http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=10 If you search the LSR for fermata, it's on the first page of hits. =) Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, the first solution produced an error: Warnung: Zwei gleichzeitige mark-Ereignisse, dieses wird verworfen The second of the snippet database seems to work. Sorry that I didnt find the solution. I searched through all manuals and snippets list and overlook the repository. Next time I know

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Did you try to import midi in NtEd? and export it to lily. I thought the midi import is pretty good of nted, don't know how well the lilypond export functions works.. NtEd has problems importing the MIDI. It seems to insist on putting the

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Snyder
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Can you give a bit more context? After paring down to just this, I'm having a little difficulty understand how this problem arises in the actual music. The extender is so long because there's no text after it, simply adding another syllable solves that problem. So, I

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 25.03.2009 um 14:54 schrieb John Mandereau: James E. Bailey a écrit : Am 25.03.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Graham Percival: Nothing; they come from exactly the same source. The version in the AU is going to die soon, where soon means within 4 months. So then why the difference? I should

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/25/09 12:07 PM, Chris Snyder csny...@adoromusicpub.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Can you give a bit more context? After paring down to just this, I'm having a little difficulty understand how this problem arises in the actual music. The extender is so long because there's no

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-25 Thread Kees Serier
Robin Bannister schreef: Kees Serier wrote: I want to have the percent sign for a duplicate chord in the next measure (in \chordmode). I don't know how particular you are. Would this be good enough? percentCN = \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil =

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Hi all, This is the snippet that gave me the clues: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 Even more useful is http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=10 It's not a troll, but i don't think it is very useable in a real music because the snippet add the Mark_engraver to the second

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles (et al.), It's not a troll, but i don't think it is very useable in a real music because the snippet add the Mark_engraver to the second Staff, so you have to do the choice to get also all \mark in both Staff, like in the example below. Good point... although that's easy to get

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/23 Kees Serier a.ser...@hccnet.nl: I changed the two e:m chords for the following: \repeat percent 2 {e:m} What happens is that in the second measure, instead of the percent sign, there is nothing (in the MIDI file no chord is played on that measure) There's no engraver in the

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: but it is the normal percent sign with open zeros, where the repeat sign has filled zeros Yes, well, those repeat signs are site-mixed as it were, and I have no idea how to persuade the contractor to do an unscheduled job in unfamiliar surroundings. But I did find

Re: fermata below the barline

2009-03-25 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Hi Gilles (et al.), It's not a troll, but i don't think it is very useable in a real music because the snippet add the Mark_engraver to the second Staff, so you have to do the choice to get also all \mark in both Staff, like in the example below. Good point... although that's easy to

(simulating) a spanner with multiple stops

2009-03-25 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, I try to write something like: poco . . . . . a . . . . . . poco . . . . . . descresc. ideally it would be one spanner with on two places some text displaying (and hiding the dashes). What would be a strategy? Currently I use two spanners, one for 'poco' til the 'other' (but ending in