Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:22:57PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: Perhaps it was a coincidence that both Kieren and Maestraccio requested slur-hiding solutions recently: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-03/msg00106.html

Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-10 Thread M Watts
Questions and comments are welcome. If anyone wants to add it to the LSR, that's fine by me. Change the function name too, if you want, I couldn't think of anything better. Very awesome! It's definitely LSR worthy. +1 ___

Re: move lyrics closer

2009-04-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Eluze There's a paragraph in section 5.5.1 which may (nor may not!) help. It says: All graphical objects have a reference point, a horizontal extent and a vertical extent. The horizontal extent is a pair of numbers giving the displacements from the reference point of the left and right

RE: General settings in ext file

2009-04-10 Thread Piero Faustini
As an example - the preferences file here colors noteheads red. The \layout blocks cascade, so even though the \layout block in the preferences file is outside of the \score blocks, it still works as if it were inside of them. Exactly what I need to know, in your example, Mark. Very

Re: How to chop a slur over a rest in a 1. volta repeat

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: Here's another solution. The only issue is that I don't know how to configure it so that you can modify extra-x-padding and extra-y-padding on-the-fly. Anyone? moved to new thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00383.html

Re: TimeSignature with white border?

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: Regarding snippet candidacy, I was thinking it would be better to allow the padding to be modified on-the-fly, but it's not a big priority. moved to new thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00383.html

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: the laissezVibrer tie specified in the bass voice also appears on the two simultaneous notes in the treble voice. This is because of the names you gave your voices. They happen to be the same as those automatically chosen by the { } \\ { } construct. So at this point

Re: guitar tab feature request

2009-04-10 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Marc Hohl wrote: Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 3/23/09 5:02 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: I assume that this will happen when tablature is updated. As far as I know, nobody is yet planning to do the work on tablature. They are only planning to put in the requests. I'd

Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello, I wonder why I (and, as I can imagine, 99% of users out there) have always to put \unfoldRepeats in a different \score block just for correct MIDI output, thus having to put in a variable all the \score content and use it in both \score blocks. It's not -till now - a problem for me, but I

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:57:12AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: I wonder why I (and, as I can imagine, 99% of users out there) have always to put \unfoldRepeats in a different \score block just for correct MIDI output, thus having to put in a variable all the \score content and use it in both

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:25:01PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: Fortunately, there's a simple way for both of us to be happy: the status pro. *facepalms* I cannot believe I just wrote that. In dubio prosecco. Werner ___ lilypond-user

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:25:01PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: Fortunately, there's a simple way for both of us to be happy: the status pro. *facepalms* I cannot believe I just wrote that. Cheers, - Graham I'm a writer! Percival ___

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Graham Percival-3 wrote: I *never* put \unfoldRepeats. If you want real music, listen to musicians. Uhm... so, why don't we abolish \midi output? I undestand what you said. It's because you mostly use \repeat for just \repeats volta, which I can understand is THE most used \repeat

\autochange for more than 1 voice?

2009-04-10 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello, I tried without success writing piano music in which 2 different voices (e.g. simply left and right hand) change staff automatically. I don't know if \autochange is the right tool. If there's no manner to achieve this, can I manually change staff in a voice? In other words: how can I

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:08:32AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: I *never* put \unfoldRepeats. If you want real music, listen to musicians. Uhm... so, why don't we abolish \midi output? Because you cut out the relevant part of the quote. \midi is useful

Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-10 Thread Jonathan Kulp
M Watts wrote: Questions and comments are welcome. If anyone wants to add it to the LSR, that's fine by me. Change the function name too, if you want, I couldn't think of anything better. Very awesome! It's definitely LSR worthy. +1 Wow! Nice, Mark!! Jon -- Jonathan Kulp

Re: \autochange for more than 1 voice?

2009-04-10 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 10.04.2009 um 12:44 schrieb MonAmiPierrot: Hello, I tried without success writing piano music in which 2 different voices (e.g. simply left and right hand) change staff automatically. I don't know if \autochange is the right tool. If there's no manner to achieve this, can I manually

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

2009-04-10 Thread Henning Plumeyer
Am 09.04.2009, 23:18 Uhr, schrieb M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com: I think I've seen music where the breve (2 whole notes) was printed with two bars on each side. Indeed, in most hymn books I've seen, the breves have 2 lines each side, As you can see here

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

2009-04-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Henning (et al.), Indeed, in most hymn books I've seen, the breves have 2 lines each side, As you can see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Double_whole_note), too. Ah... I wasn't aware that the two-sideline breve and one-sideline breve were the same duration. so huzzah for

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-10 Thread Christ van Willegen
Graham, list, On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:56:16AM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: Are there any people out there that would be willing to help make this possible? Are you?  The best way to get this started is to

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Jay Anderson
MonAmiPierrot pierofaustini at hotmail.com writes: P.S. Perhaps, the \unfoldRepeats behaviour should be the default behaviour in case of \repeat percent/tremolo, and not for \repeat volta (or additionally in voltas also in case of different alternative endings). I would like to know your (and

I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Chip
I have two trombone parts written in concert key - F Maj - and just realized that the notes are one step too high. I don't recall how to transpose a part without changing the key signature. If I recall correctly it involved two /transposes, is that right? Can someone help me? Here's how I lay

Analysis brackets?

2009-04-10 Thread Claudia
Hi, I need to draw several superimposed -- although not nested -- brackets in order to evidence two melodic overlapping structures for teaching purposes. Does anyone knows how to do it? I've tried Analysis brackets but the groupings are presumed nested and so, the group openings and closings

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Jay Anderson wrote: It wouldn't be hard to have this also unfold percent repeats. Of course, tremolos were the most important. I'm with Hu: double tremolo notes are a must. They take the 90% of tremolos I find in my work. But if your \tremolos code works you'll save a huge amount

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. [...] realized that the notes are one step too high. [...] If I understood correctly, you just need to use \transpose: % -- Trombone 1-- tbonea = { all the notes of the piece } trombonea = \relative c { \global \key f \major \set Staff.instrumentName = #Trombone 1

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/10/09 9:28 AM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: I have two trombone parts written in concert key - F Maj - and just realized that the notes are one step too high. I don't recall how to transpose a part without changing the key signature. If I recall correctly it involved two /transposes,

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: On unfoldTremolo, I'll give a try, but if you confirm it works, I don't see a reason not to implement it in next Lilypond version. What I suggest is to having it work BY DEFAULT, cause 99,9% of tremolo users would switch it on if they use MIDI output. I don't typeset

Re: hiding portions of slurs/ties around specific objects

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Polesky
One refinement I'd like to make to the macro is in this block: #(if (or ;; append to this list if you get the warning: ;; Ignoring grob for slur: grob. avoid-slur not set? (equal? $top-grob Fingering) (equal? $top-grob Accidental) )

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Chip
Thanks Carl, That's what I needed. Has this been simplified in the last year or two? Seems I recall there was a need to use two /transposes in the past. -- chip Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/10/09 9:28 AM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: I have two trombone parts written in concert key - F

Re: move lyrics closer

2009-04-10 Thread -Eluze
Trevor Daniels wrote: Eluze There's a paragraph in section 5.5.1 which may (nor may not!) help. Trevor thanks, yes it does - in a way… one part of the confusion raised with the not very specific mention of something like generally negative numbers for the 1st number, whereas in fact

Lilypondtool mirror

2009-04-10 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I tried to download http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/fileadmin/lilypondtool/LiliPondTool.zip but got HTTP response 404: not found. Is there any mirror of this tool? Regards, Helge ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Kees van den Doel
I wonder why I (and, as I can imagine, 99% of users out there) have always to put \unfoldRepeats in a different \score block just for correct MIDI output, thus having to put in a variable all the \score content and use it in both \score blocks. I would also prefer \unfoldRepeats to

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Kees == Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes: Kees I would also prefer \unfoldRepeats to be the default. I Kees frequently use the midi as practice material for the Kees musicians. It's also good to have the repeats in the midi Kees for listening checks to make sure you

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message c604d912.882c%c_soren...@byu.edu, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes On 4/10/09 10:54 AM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: Thanks Carl, You're welcome. That's what I needed. Has this been simplified in the last year or two? Seems I recall there was a need to use two

Re: Analysis brackets?

2009-04-10 Thread M Watts
Claudia wrote: Hi, I need to draw several superimposed -- although not nested -- brackets in order to evidence two melodic overlapping structures for teaching purposes. Does anyone knows how to do it? I've tried Analysis brackets but the groupings are presumed nested and so, the group openings

Lilypond crash

2009-04-10 Thread Nick Payne
I was attempting to shorten the entry required for indicating strokefingering: \version 2.12.2 i = #(define-music-function (parser location) () #{ \rightHandFinger #2 #}) \relative c' { a-1-\i } This causes Lilypond to crash (2.12.2, Windows). The entry in the application event log

Re: I don't remember how to do this ...

2009-04-10 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:28:47AM -0700, Chip wrote: I have two trombone parts written in concert key - F Maj - and just realized that the notes are one step too high. I don't recall how to transpose a part without changing the key signature. If I recall correctly it involved two

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/10 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:08:32AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: For me, I only use \repeat percent and most of all \repeat tremolo. In both cases, audio output is important.  At least for tremolos, you'll perfectly agree that there's no point

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: Is this possible without faking the chord by creating two voices? Is this more what you are looking for? It is not all that easy to use: - you have to work out the position, e.g. -9, by yourself - and it won't move when you transpose. See IR 3.2.84.

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 09:25:57 Frédéric Bron wrote: I am in charge of the question of (de)crescendo syntax issue in 2.12.2. Okay, sorry if I'm working on the same issue as you now, but I simply got too frustrated with hundreds of pages of old scores suddenly changing cresc/hairpin

RE: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Nick Payne
Thanks. What I did in the end was to create a third voice with \hideNotes turned on and attach the laissezVibrer tie to a note in that voice. I also used the hidden voice for some ties and slurs across the visible voices. Nick -Original Message- From: Robin Bannister

please help

2009-04-10 Thread Sky B .
could u plz send me ur email address (send to: dooksucks4e...@gmail.com) i gotta question. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/10/09 5:54 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 09:25:57 Frédéric Bron wrote: I am in charge of the question of (de)crescendo syntax issue in 2.12.2. Okay, sorry if I'm working on the same issue as you now, but I simply got too frustrated

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:54:22AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I know that it is not possible to implement this only with scheme and lily code but I am sure it is possible in C++. Yes, some simple lines of C++ were required. Attached is a sample file to show how the definition of