Aligning symbols with text

2009-05-27 Thread nick . payne
markup { da capo al musicglyph #scripts.coda } defaults to vertically aligning the centre of the coda symbol with the bottom of the text. I can change this by using raise and fiddling with the value for raise until it looks correct: markup { da capo al raise #0.8 musicglyph #scripts.coda }

Re: Aligning symbols with text

2009-05-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Unfortunately, there is no predefined markup command for bottom alignment, but you can get it using the \general_align markup command: \markup { da capo al \general-align #Y #DOWN \musicglyph #scripts.coda } However, as you can see, this makes the bottom of the coda sign aligned with the

Re: Secondary beaming with a tuplet

2009-05-27 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 4a1c580a.3020...@webdrake.net, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes Hello all, I have a 7:8 tuplet rhythm which repeats quite regularly in a piece, \times 8/7 { gs8\pp gs16 gs8 gs } ... but displays with one problem: the secondary beam for the 16th note points to

going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Hulme
Last night I was copying out a part I have to play which is squashed onto a page too small to be clear. This part needed two functions I've previously put off writing because I thought they would be really hard. I tried them last night, sitting down with the NR, and I managed to churn out two of

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Julian schrieb: I think you can make this work with parallel music, instead of chords. c, \deadNotes{ c ] HTH, Carl I was looking about this. at first it seems to be a good solution but then i could see that it give some problems managing voices. it also displays some warning

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Great, Daniel! Glad to hear of your breakthrough. Most of us have had similar moments I'm sure. Jon On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: Last night I was copying out a part I have to play which is squashed onto a page too small to be clear. This part needed

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org: Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Community, in the below quoted snippet, there are tow collisions between slurs and accidentals. Is there any way, to solve this problem, either automatically or by hand? Have you tried the suggestions in the Learning Manual section Tweaking Output? Take a look here

Info about TabStaff

2009-05-27 Thread Arthur Lenoir
Hi! I'm working since a few months on a program which converts MIDI files into LilyPond code. It already works fine (If you are intesresting, I can show you) but I came up against a little problem. I don't know if this problem is a bug or if I don't do the right thing. My problem is about

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Jonathan, thanks for Your tip. I've read the recommanded pages, and in one case it worked better, but in the other, it didn't. Isn't there another possibilitie? \version 2.13.0 { % \override Staff.Accidental #'avoid-slur = #'around \time 7/8 \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(5 .

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-27 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 25 mei 2009, schreef Michael Lauer: I think the difference is that LyricTexts have NoteHeads as grob-parents, while TextScripts have PaperColumns. (...) Many thanks, I'll try to dig this further out! best regards, Wilbert Berendsen -- Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE:

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:15:35PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org: Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more confident about it: it was more a

Re: Secondary beaming with a tuplet

2009-05-27 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 4a1c580a.3020...@webdrake.net, Joseph Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes I can get what I want by using, \times 8/7 { gs8\pp \set \stemLeftBeamCount = #2 \set \stemRightBeamCount = #1 gs16 gs8 gs } Does \times 8/7 { gs8[\pp gs16] gs8[

Re: Tweaking end-of-line time signature?

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/26/09 4:03 PM, Trevor Bača trevorb...@gmail.com wrote: Snip some good comments about this code %%% BEGIN #3 PROPORTIONAL SPACING WITHOUT STRICT NOTE SPACING AND WITH  EOL ADJUSTMENT %%% adjustEOLMeterBarlineExtraOffset = #(define-music-function (parser location) ()    #{  

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread -Eluze
kontrapunktstefan wrote: Isn't there another possibilitie? you might also try options like \slurUp, \slurDown, \voiceOne, \stemUp or similar -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/collision-between-slurs-and-and-accidentals-tp23737616p23743569.html Sent from the Gnu -

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
-Eluze wrote: kontrapunktstefan wrote: Isn't there another possibilitie? you might also try options like \slurUp, \slurDown, \voiceOne, \stemUp or similar Stefan, If you like the results of this code, you have Mark Polesky to thank. This is something from the mailing list just a little

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: If you like the results of this code, you have Mark Polesky to thank. This is something from the mailing list just a little while back. It produces some warnings in the terminal, but the output might be satisfactory. I think it looks pretty cool anyway. :) Actually,

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mark Polesky wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: If you like the results of this code, you have Mark Polesky to thank. This is something from the mailing list just a little while back. It produces some warnings in the terminal, but the output might be satisfactory. I think it looks pretty cool

Re: debian and lilypond 2.12

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:44 AM, rosea grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone fix Lilypond in Debian. There are also some people busy with packaging Frescobaldi for Debian, but it isn't possible to upload it without having Lilypond fixed and updated to the recent stable

Re: debian and lilypond 2.12

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
hi, we really need to get 2.12 into debian asap it seems that the maintainer is too busy with other stuff at the moment as it seems that all threads re this on debian maintainer page have gone dead. perhaps someone else can do a non-maintainer upload? i'm not

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Boersma
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: ... The other answer is: yes, I will send in my useful functions. One is for adding flams to drum notes, and the other is for using a spanner to give a Fill indication. I'm transcribing a lot of drum kit music and would find

Re: debian and lilypond 2.12

2009-05-27 Thread rosea grammostola
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Johannes Schöpfer j...@schoepfer.infowrote: hi, we really need to get 2.12 into debian asap it seems that the maintainer is too busy with other stuff at the moment as it seems that all threads re this on debian maintainer page have

good free midi player?

2009-05-27 Thread Frédéric Bron
Does anybody know any good free midi player for windows? I mean so that intrument sounds are like the real instruments, not an awful output. Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: trailing spaces

2009-05-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/26 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Expected time: 10 minutes (60 for a complete python newbie) for the initial python script, 10 minutes for running it, verifying the diffs look right, etc.  30 minutes for adding it to git, modifying makelsr.py, etc.  Total 50 (or 100)

Re: [frogs] trailing spaces

2009-05-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/26 Gilles Sadowski gil...@harfang.homelinux.org: Hi. python script that removes tailing spaces from lines. [if: s/Python/Perl/] perl -i -pe 's/\s+$/\n/' some_file I use sed -i -e 's/[ \t]*$//' filename -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org

Re: Info about TabStaff

2009-05-27 Thread Toine Schreurs
See (the first part) of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00797.html This was an answer for RemoveEmptyDrumStaffContext, but you will be able to adapt it to RemoveEmptyTabStaffContext. Toine Schreurs My problem is about the TabStaff. In my scores, I always use the

Re: good free midi player?

2009-05-27 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.05.2009 um 19:09 schrieb Frédéric Bron: Does anybody know any good free midi player for windows? I mean so that intrument sounds are like the real instruments, not an awful output. Frédéric The sounds are probably controlled by a soundfont, not the midi player. There may be midi

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-27 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 26 mei 2009, schreef Stephen Corey: One request, should you have the opportunity, is for an easier way to switch between open files. I often keep 2-3 files open at once and the current method for switching between them is awkward. Something like the function of the BufferTabs

[ANN] Nederlandstalig LilyPond forum / Dutch LilyPond user forum

2009-05-27 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hallo, alle Nederlands sprekende LilyPond gebruikers: Op www.lilypondforum.nl is nu een forum voor Nederlandstalige LilyPondgebruikers. Het is bedoeld om nieuwkomers ondersteuning te bieden dus ook de meer gevorderde LilyPond-gebruiker is er van harte welkom! At www.lilypondforum.nl a new

Re: good free midi player?

2009-05-27 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2009-05-27 um 19:09 schrieb Frédéric Bron: Does anybody know any good free midi player for windows? I mean so that intrument sounds are like the real instruments, not an awful output. If you mean only free as in beer, try QuickTime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ (No soundfonts

Re: good free midi player?

2009-05-27 Thread Tim Reeves
Does anybody know any good free midi player for windows? I mean so that intrument sounds are like the real instruments, not an awful output. Frédéric I recommend Timidity, which is available for Windows as well as Linux. You can choose the sound font which supplies the different

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Julian
Here, it would be possible to define versions for deadNotes and palmMute that works inside ... constructs, i.e. Yes they works fine, i think it is the best way to use now.. Thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-27 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/24 Jay Anderson horndud...@gmail.com: What are the issues with Neil's patch? I've been playing around with it and it seems to do what I want. Well, it's a similar patch really (see attached). With your amended patch, it's no longer possible to align tempo marks to note columns; they

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Julian schrieb: Here, it would be possible to define versions for deadNotes and palmMute that works inside ... constructs, i.e. Yes they works fine, i think it is the best way to use now.. But still not within the tablature staff :-( At the moment, I don't know how to manage this.

Re: Info about TabStaff

2009-05-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Arthur Lenoir schrieb: Hi! I'm working since a few months on a program which converts MIDI files into LilyPond code. It already works fine (If you are intesresting, I can show you) but I came up against a little problem. I don't know if this problem is a bug or if I don't do the right thing.

Re: tenuto/tie collision

2009-05-27 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 27 januari 2009, schreef Eric Flesher: This is why I'm wondering if there isn't a way to globally ensure the positioning of ties between (as opposed to above) noteheads; there would likely then be the problem of the left ends of ties colliding (or at least interfering) with

Make a \draw-line a dotted-line?

2009-05-27 Thread Henrik Frisk
Hi, Is it possible to make something like relative c' { c4 ^\markup { \draw-line #'(0 . 3) } } and have the resulting line be dotted or dashed? I can read here http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Graphic that the \draw-line has a #'thickness property but I'm not

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/23 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Neil Puttock schrieb: Since none of this works properly (I suspect it will require more than Scheme hacking to get everything working), I don't think it's suitable for inclusion. Hm, I guess you're right - but as a compromise, how about letting the

Re: tablature.ly - please test and comment

2009-05-27 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/27/09 2:50 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/23 Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Neil Puttock schrieb: Since none of this works properly (I suspect it will require more than Scheme hacking to get everything working), I don't think it's suitable for inclusion. Hm,

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23:13AM -0600, Matt Boersma wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: ... The other answer is: yes, I will send in my useful functions. One is for adding flams to drum notes, and the other is for using a spanner to give a Fill

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Stefan Thomas
I agree, this is ingenious! 2009/5/27 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Mark Polesky wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: If you like the results of this code, you have Mark Polesky to thank. This is something from the mailing list just a little while back. It produces some warnings in the

Re: [ANN] Nederlandstalig LilyPond forum / Dutch LilyPond user forum

2009-05-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:18:49PM +0200, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Hallo, alle Nederlands sprekende LilyPond gebruikers: Op www.lilypondforum.nl is nu een forum voor Nederlandstalige LilyPondgebruikers. Het is bedoeld om nieuwkomers ondersteuning te bieden dus ook de meer gevorderde

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Matt Boersma
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23:13AM -0600, Matt Boersma wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote: ... I've uploaded my flam functions to LSR as snippet 566, and it's awaiting approval. My

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Stefan Thomas wrote: I agree, this is ingenious! Glad you've got a satisfactory solution now. You should go back to the mailing list and see the example Mark put together to illustrate this function. It's a marvel. Jon 2009/5/27 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Mark Polesky

The fastest way to typeset orchestral scores, especially when splitting the work to many workers

2009-05-27 Thread Daryna Baikadamova
I plan to typeset some orchestral works. Within a movement, is it faster to typeset a instrument at time, or an orchestral page (i.e. open edit display for all instruments, so I need to 13 tabs in my editor) at a time? Also if I am able to split the work to a group of workers, is it a good idea

Re: going to the next level

2009-05-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org: I've uploaded my flam functions to LSR as snippet 566, and it's awaiting approval. My functions include \flam, \drag, and \ruff and can be attached to any drum note. Unfortunately, the LSR is in the process of being upgraded to Lily 2.12, so I can't

Re: The fastest way to typeset orchestral scores, especially when splitting the work to many workers

2009-05-27 Thread David Stocker
It'd be best to split the work amongst many workers who each typeset individual instruments. Then, all the parts can be collected in the conductor's score using \include. See here http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Including-LilyPond-files#index-_005cinclude-1 and here

Re: The fastest way to typeset orchestral scores, especially when splitting the work to many workers

2009-05-27 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:56:29AM +1200, Daryna Baikadamova wrote: I plan to typeset some orchestral works. Within a movement, is it faster to typeset a instrument at time, or an orchestral page (i.e. open edit display for all instruments, so I need to 13 tabs in my editor) at a time? I

Chords and relative notes

2009-05-27 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm confused about something. If you have a chord, followed by either another note or chord that uses ' or , to change the octave, is it relative to the last note of the chord, or to the first? For instance, if I have e c followed by g', would it go two

Re: Chords and relative notes

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Chubb
Brandon == Brandon Olivares olivare1...@duq.edu writes: Brandon Hi, Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm confused about Brandon something. Brandon If you have a chord, followed by either another note or chord Brandon that uses ' or , to change the octave, is it relative to the Brandon last

rest at beginning of music breaks vocalName

2009-05-27 Thread Tom Dickson
In the attached example, the music begins with a rest (r8) - and vocalName and shortVocalName don't print on the first line, but do on subsequent lines. If I change the rest to a note, it prints correctly (but has an extra note). Trying a skip and/or a g8\rest both don't work, either.

Re: The fastest way to typeset orchestral scores, especially when splitting the work to many workers

2009-05-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 27, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:56:29AM +1200, Daryna Baikadamova wrote: I plan to typeset some orchestral works. Within a movement, is it faster to typeset a instrument at time, or an orchestral page (i.e. open edit display for all

Re: collision between slurs and and accidentals

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Actually, just a couple of days ago, Neil Puttock helped me implement some changes that will allow this to produce no warnings. I'll send an updated macro when I get a chance. - Mark Cool! Looking forward to it. Well, the warnings will be gone in 2.13.1, but users