Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Austin
I'm trying to engrave a set of tunes. It uses the Piano format with centred dynamics, so I used the template in the Learning manual, editing out the stuff used in the manual. However, I can't change the tempo or key. I've edited the global variable as shown, but it still comes out in C and common

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
I think you have to declare two variables: #(define-music-function (parser location trans notes) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{  \transpose c $trans { $notes } #}) The problem appears to be that \transpose is expecting a notename, not a variable, so this has the same problem, and doubled. Thank

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread James E. Bailey
You've omitted the \global from your score block. It should happen simultaneously with the music, so \global \lower Am 01.06.2009 um 09:38 schrieb Mark Austin: I'm trying to engrave a set of tunes. It uses the Piano format with centred dynamics, so I used the template in the Learning manual,

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Marc Hohl
Josiah Boothby schrieb: I think you have to declare two variables: #(define-music-function (parser location trans notes) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{ \transpose c $trans { $notes } #}) Sorry, I forgot to answer to the list, but as my proposal doesn't work anyway, it doesn't matter. The

Re: emacs lilypond-mode

2009-06-01 Thread Helge Kruse
Moin Thomas, Error codes are created by the operating system and reported by the application. The error code may be dependent on the context. The context that you reported looks like a CreateFile http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858(VS.85).aspx context. In this case it means

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it.  It is not my interest. I think it shows the impossibility of what you are trying to achieve, at least in the completely general case, although pushing the boundaries closer to that

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
\transpose c $trans { \firstNotes } string:2:17: error: syntax error, unexpected MUSIC_IDENTIFIER, expecting NOTENAME_PITCH or TONICNAME_PITCH The only solution i know is to use the scheme equivalent of \transpose : ly:music-transpose But it is a bit harder...

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com writes: [...] p.s. Despite [As a result of?] banging my head against this particular wall, I think I learned a little about Scheme + Lilypond... that's some consolation! =) If it's any additional consolation, your approach would have been perfectly ok were

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Austin
Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score block should be: \score { \new PianoStaff = PianoStaff_pf \new Staff = Staff_pfUpper \global \upper \new

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mark Austin wrote: Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score block should be: \score { \new PianoStaff = PianoStaff_pf \new Staff = Staff_pfUpper

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mark Austin wrote: Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score block should be: \score { \new PianoStaff = PianoStaff_pf \new

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:51:59AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm having trouble getting the LSR database to come up, and when I opened the template in my source code it said at the top not to edit this file. Yes; it should only be changed in LSR. Also I still can't pull from git:

partcombine/instrumentName problem

2009-06-01 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I have the following code in my ConductorScore.ly. The first one, with the combined parts, doesn't print the instumentName: the second one, with just one part, does. Anybody know offhand how to fix this? Thanks. (Files are available at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1643,

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. It is not my interest. I think it shows the impossibility of what you are trying to achieve, at least in the completely general case,

Re: partcombine/instrumentName problem

2009-06-01 Thread James E. Bailey
I don't know enough about \partcombine to tell you why, but if you use the \new Staff \with { instrumentName = Bassoon }, you should get what you want. At least, I got it, but I curiously got two scores with the following code: \score { \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts =

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

2009-06-01 Thread Arno Rog
Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com writes: Ik kan me niet registreren... krijg geen email... Check even je 'spam-box', bij mij verdween hij linea-recta in de spam. AWRog ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Compiling files with lots of data

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey lilypond users, I am compiling a file w/ many notes (on the order of 5*(3^7) 32nd notes including spaces) that, @ the interpreting music stage, counted up to 2184. I started it last night and it has been running for upwards of 9h using version 2.13.0 on a 1.5 GHz PowerPC running OS X

Re: partcombine/instrumentName problem

2009-06-01 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
\score { \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f midiInstrument = bassoon instrumentName = Bassoon shortInstrumentName = Bass. } \partcombine \bassoonOne \bassoonTwo } This solution seems to work great. I think that the

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Thomas
I was just brainstorming, I don`t expect anybody to implement that :-) ... I just thought, if music (as long as it's not abstract) follows some basic principles, why this is not reflected in the chord naming sometimes. Slash Chords are a good example ... they are a good, easily readable

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
The only solution i know is to use the scheme equivalent of \transpose :    ly:music-transpose But it is a bit harder... firstNotes = \relative c' { c4 d e f } first = #(define-music-function (parser location trans)(ly:music?) (let* (   (trans-note (car

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Marc Hohl
Thomas schrieb: I was just brainstorming, I don`t expect anybody to implement that :-) ... I just thought, if music (as long as it's not abstract) follows some basic principles, why this is not reflected in the chord naming sometimes. Slash Chords are a good example ... they are a good,

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Marc Hohl wrote: Thomas schrieb: I was just brainstorming, I don`t expect anybody to implement that :-) ... I just thought, if music (as long as it's not abstract) follows some basic principles, why this is not reflected in the chord naming sometimes. Slash Chords are a good example ...

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. It is not my interest. I think it shows the impossibility of what you are trying to achieve, at least in the

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 12:50 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it. It is not my interest. I think it

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mark Austin wrote: Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score block should be: \score { \new PianoStaff = PianoStaff_pf \new

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:38 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mark Austin wrote: Thanks James. Works a treat now. However, this means the error is in the template in the Learning Manual, since I copied it straight over. The first few lines of the first \score

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread lasconic
Hi, Just in case it can be helpful, someone (Karl) post a pdf he wrote on MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org) mailing list about chord name display. Musescore is a free GPL WYSIWYG scorewriter (with lilypond export capabilities) Maybe it can be helpful to your current and future work on chord

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Is the above code something flexible enough that it could work with the first of those being something other than c? (e.g., \transpose f g \notes) Just change (ly:make-pitch -1 0 0) (pitch c) by (ly:make-pitch -1 3 0) (pitch f) ( 0 = c, 1 = d, etc ...) If you do want 2

adding to LSR the thumbnail image is not correct

2009-06-01 Thread chip
I have added my template to the LSR but the thumbnail image that appears is not correct. I have tried as both Standalone Snippet and as Large Snippet. Is there something I can do to fix this so the thumbnail appears as it should? Regards, chip ___

Better MIDI

2009-06-01 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I've put up a page on how to get more realistic sounding MIDI output from current LilyPond, along with the scripts and scheme code used, at http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate It has before-and-after MIDI samples to listen to, and a full description of what the script

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: A chordnamemode *input* mode has been proposed a couple of times. This mode would take only a root (and optionally, a slash or alternate bass note), and everything else about the chord would be in the form of a markup. For american jazz

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 8:56 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: A chordnamemode *input* mode has been proposed a couple of times. This mode would take only a root (and optionally, a slash or alternate bass note), and everything else

Re: Better MIDI

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 5:29 PM, Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Hi, I've put up a page on how to get more realistic sounding MIDI output from current LilyPond, along with the scripts and scheme code used, at http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate Peter, I haven't

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/1/09 1:45 PM, lasconic lasco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just in case it can be helpful, someone (Karl) post a pdf he wrote on MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org) mailing list about chord name display. Musescore is a free GPL WYSIWYG scorewriter (with lilypond export capabilities)

Re: Compiling files with lots of data

2009-06-01 Thread -Eluze
is this from midi input? if so you should be sure to apply appropriate --allow-tuplet= options. also, funny durations like s32*231 could indicate some kind of grace notes in the original music see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Invoking-midi2ly

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-01 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: As far as I can see, there is very little hope for LilyPond making the right decision about this chord entered in note mode. The first note is not the root of the chord, so it would require substantial computation time to try to identify the chord properly (and there's