Re: looking for examples

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Lewis Overton wrote: I'm working on pieces for 5 trombones and rhythm in a jazz idiom. Writing individual bits and pieces is ok, but putting things together is causing me grief. In particular, problems include combining chords for piano with occasional non-chor

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <1243107160.13852.64.ca...@mung-papu>, Ari Torhamo writes The first option is achieved by handling everything a non-programmer can do: managing bugs, helping new users, writing the newsletter, etc. The second option is ach

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Ari Torhamo
la, 2009-05-23 kello 23:05 +0100, Anthony W. Youngman kirjoitti: > In message <1243107160.13852.64.ca...@mung-papu>, Ari Torhamo > >You don't quite seem to get Tim's point: everybody can't and doesn't > >need to participate every project they find useful - especially when > >they don't consume th

Re: looking for examples

2009-05-23 Thread chip
Lewis Overton wrote: ... It's more the assembly that has me stumbling around looking for light. Lewy Lewy, Below I've pasted in my template I use for a horn section that includes 2 trumpets, 3 saxes and 2 'bones. It creates a full score and the individual parts. Another user, Bill, says thi

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > Actually, this bug is not that easy. I was also quite annoyed by this a while > ago, and started looking at it, but I ran into dead ends. This is one of the > things that makes my orchestral scores not look quite as professional as the

looking for examples

2009-05-23 Thread Lewis Overton
I'm working on pieces for 5 trombones and rhythm in a jazz idiom. Writing individual bits and pieces is ok, but putting things together is causing me grief. In particular, problems include combining chords for piano with occasional non-chorded notes, writing down solo sections as chords with slashe

RE: between-staff spacing

2009-05-23 Thread Nick Payne
You can also override the minimum size of a staff vertically, by adding the following to your score block: \context { \Staff \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-6 . 6) } The default for a Staff is, I think, (-4 . 4), so test with different values. Nick

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <1243107160.13852.64.ca...@mung-papu>, Ari Torhamo writes The first option is achieved by handling everything a non-programmer can do: managing bugs, helping new users, writing the newsletter, etc. The second option is achieved in two ways: helping expand our community (and hoping thi

Re: Shrinking score size

2009-05-23 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Hello, I have a choir score that originally fit on one page. After writing it with Lilypond the last measure is on an additional page. How do I shrink the size? I think there should be room for shrink at the lower part. The faster way is to change the global size : #(set-global-staff-size 18

Re: Stroked quarter note

2009-05-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Alberto Simões schrieb: Hello I am transcribing a music that uses a lot of quarter notes that have their beam stroked. Acccordingly with my few music knowledge, this means that the note can be splited in two notes. Please have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lily

Re: Stroked quarter note

2009-05-23 Thread Alberto Simões
David Bobroff wrote: > Alberto Simões wrote: >> Hello >> >> I am transcribing a music that uses a lot of quarter notes that have >> their beam stroked. Acccordingly with my few music knowledge, this means >> that the note can be splited in two notes. >> >> Any body knows how to mimic this in Lyli

Re: Stroked quarter note

2009-05-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 23 mei 2009, schreef Alberto Simões: > note can be splited in two notes. Do you mean: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Short-repeats#Tremolo-repeats ? best regards, Wilbert Berendsen -- Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE: http://www.frescobaldi.org/ _

Re: Stroked quarter note

2009-05-23 Thread David Bobroff
Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I am transcribing a music that uses a lot of quarter notes that have their beam stroked. Acccordingly with my few music knowledge, this means that the note can be splited in two notes. Any body knows how to mimic this in Lylipond? I just found it for grace notes. Th

Re: between-staff spacing

2009-05-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 23 mei 2009, schreef Tom Cloyd: > But I cannot figure out how to get more space > between staves on page two. That it's the final page seems to foul > things up. Try setting \paper { ragged-last-bottom = ##f } See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-for

Stroked quarter note

2009-05-23 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello I am transcribing a music that uses a lot of quarter notes that have their beam stroked. Acccordingly with my few music knowledge, this means that the note can be splited in two notes. Any body knows how to mimic this in Lylipond? I just found it for grace notes. Thank you Alberto -- Albe

How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, There must be a way to really center a simple text above a note. But these two lines center the text above the *left* side of the note: { c'4-\markup\center-align text } { \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER c'4-"text" } How can I center a text or markup above the

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl D. Sorensen schrieb: On 5/23/09 1:09 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/5/22 Marc Hohl : % for ties in tablature, fret numbers that are tied to should be invisible % or -after a line break - put in parentheses. Since this is not (easily?) % possible in lil

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Ari Torhamo
la, 2009-05-23 kello 19:57 +0200, Valentin Villenave kirjoitti: > 2009/5/23 Tim McNamara : > > "Helping" takes many forms. > > > > Like many LilyPond users, I know nothing useful about computer programming > > and so cannot help with correcting problems in the code. I have a full > > time-plus hig

Re: beatboxing

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/22 Francisco Vila : > Hello, first I saw these videos > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg We certainly can write this: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=518 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAioUkd1aSI OK, this one is gonna be more challenging :-) Regards, Valentin ___

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/23 Tim McNamara : > "Helping" takes many forms. > > Like many LilyPond users, I know nothing useful about computer programming > and so cannot help with correcting problems in the code.  I have a full > time-plus highly demanding job, a marriage, a house, ailing parents, I play > music and h

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/23 Xavier Scheuer : > I totally agree, there is a problem with textual Tempo marks alignment. Hi Xavier, we do know about that. Since Graham has already gone all Graham-ish, here's just an additional, more "pedagogical" answer. > I wanted to report this too, then I saw issues 684, 700 and

Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 23, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Graham Percival wrote: My goal is not to insult you into feeling bad; my goal is to insult you into HELPING US FIX THINGS. Learn scheme. Join the Frogs. Contribute to lilypond. If everybody sits around saying "why doesn't somebody fix this", then it WILL NEVER B

RE: disappearing slur

2009-05-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tom, > In the following snippet, > \slurDotted \slurDown a [(gis) b-4 e-0 fis-1 gis-3] | > inclusion of the predefined commands make the a-g# slur simply > disappear. I don't know what to do about this, as I appear to be > following the Notation Manual exactly. 1. I assume these are supposed

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/23/09 1:09 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Neil Puttock schrieb: >> 2009/5/22 Marc Hohl : >>> % for ties in tablature, fret numbers that are tied to should be invisible >>> % or -after a line break - put in parentheses. Since this is not (easily?) >>> % possible in lilypond, we offer three comma

disappearing slur

2009-05-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
In the following snippet, \slurDotted \slurDown a [(gis) b-4 e-0 fis-1 gis-3] | inclusion of the predefined commands make the a-g# slur simply disappear. I don't know what to do about this, as I appear to be following the Notation Manual exactly. (LilyPond 2.12.2) Any ideas what's wrong? T

Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?

2009-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 04:39:45PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > Nearly all the examples are in relative mode, meaning they have a > \relative c' {} > > (or some other octave) > > around them. It was a conscious choice to do so. This convention is > explained in Learning Manual 2.1.4 How

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:37:19AM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > I wanted to report this too, then I saw issues 684, 700 and now 712 > reporting this, so I didn't. But since there are 3 unfixed issues > reporting the same thing and since the first one is open for 8 months > now, I allowed my

Re: between-staff spacing

2009-05-23 Thread Kai Sattler
Hi Tom, maybe one of the following helps (play around with the numbers): \paper { between-system-space = 50\mm between-system-padding = 24.5\mm } -- Kai * Tom Cloyd [2009-05-23 09:55]: > I've been pouring over the documentation and cannot solve this problem. I > probably don't know the

between-staff spacing

2009-05-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
I've been pouring over the documentation and cannot solve this problem. I probably don't know the right term to look up. On the second page of my score I have four staves. As I'm a guitarist, there's a lot of above/below staff junk, so it won't do to have the staves too close together. On pag

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
I totally agree, there is a problem with textual Tempo marks alignment. I wanted to report this too, then I saw issues 684, 700 and now 712 reporting this, so I didn't. But since there are 3 unfixed issues reporting the same thing and since the first one is open for 8 months now, I allowed mys

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Neil Puttock schrieb: 2009/5/22 Marc Hohl : Please have a look at it and reply any corrections/improvements/changes /etc. before I will send patches to Carl. Well done Marc, this is very promising. Thank you! I still have a few reservations concerning some details (mostly minor)