boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. I don't mean the feathered beams (I know how this can be done) but the boxed bars, followed by the dotted lines. I have no idea how to do this in Lilypond. A hint would be great! Thanks Stefan attachment:

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the SmallStaff just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include small_staff.lyi \score { \new SmallStaff {...} } How would one make

excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread Daryna Baikadamova
Whenever I have CJK characters in the title or composer fields in the header, the generated PDF file is always at least 2MB, even if there is only one page, but when I remove the CJK characters, it shrunk back to about 300kB. How can I control the PDF file size? Thanks! Daryna

Re: excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread Michel Villeneuve
2009/8/23 Daryna Baikadamova daryna.baikadam...@gmail.com: Whenever I have CJK characters in the title or composer fields in the header, the generated PDF file is always at least 2MB, even if there is only one page, but when I remove the CJK characters, it shrunk back to about 300kB.  How can

RE: Vertifal alignment of fingering and accent

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Payne
-Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Polesky Sent: Sunday, 23 August 2009 11:29 AM To: Nick Payne; lilypond Subject: Re: Vertifal alignment of fingering

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: I would like to do something like You can see in the attached image. I suspect this might be achieveable by using the Horizontal_bracket_engraver (see NR1.7.2.3). It would require to override the HorizontalBracket #'stencil property and

Re: Naturals Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Simon, if you send me your file V-CHW066.ly I'll have a look at it. Cheers, patrick Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:21:19 +0700 Von: Simon Mackenzie smac...@me.com An: James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Betreff: Re:

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Valentin, that sounds a bit too difficult for me. I think I will try it with the help of scribus, in the meantime. 2009/8/23 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com 2009/8/23 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com: I would like to do something like You can see in the attached

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Valentin Villenave wrote: I suspect this might be achieveable by using the Horizontal_bracket_engraver (see NR1.7.2.3). It would require to override the HorizontalBracket #'stencil property and replace it with a Scheme callback but I don't know exactly how to do it. It would certainly be a

[m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: translation error]

2009-08-23 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
I bumped into a really ugly dutch translation error message: geforceerde breuk werd opgeheft door andere gebeurtenis, zou je maatcontrole moeten gebruiken? (The dutch people on this list will know what the error is - I hope ;-) What's the right place to report such translation errors ? --

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: A while back, I did exactly that. I'll look for it and get back to you... Ugh. Kludge-o-rama. Ghost voices, hidden notes, clashing note-columns, spacing nightmares... I'll see if someone has a better idea on -devel, but in the meantime, this is an option. Let me know if

Re: [m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: translation error]

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I bumped into a really ugly dutch translation error message: geforceerde breuk werd opgeheft door andere gebeurtenis, zou je maatcontrole moeten gebruiken? (The dutch people on this list will know what the error is - I hope ;-) What's the right place to report

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Trevor Daniels schrieb: Marc Hohl wrote Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30 PM Jay Anderson schrieb: [...] So what do you think? Should the SmallStaff just be left as a snippet? If it is a snippet ideally I'd want to do something like: \include small_staff.lyi \score { \new SmallStaff {...}

Re: Accidental_engraver Naturals

2009-08-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:03:13PM +0700, Simon Mackenzie wrote: I haven't been able to figure out how to replicate the three naturals on this music sheet using Lilypond script? Any ideas? Yes. My idea is that you should read:

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Matthieu Jacquot
Maybe we could try in this way : \version 2.13.3 notes = \relative c' { %\override RehearsalMark #'Y-offset = #5.5 c''-\markup { \box { \score { \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver \remove

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/23 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: Ugh. Kludge-o-rama. Ghost voices, hidden notes, clashing note-columns, spacing nightmares... I'll see if someone has a better idea on -devel, but in the meantime, this is an option. A quite ugly one then -- no offence :-) Let's make this

Re: copying error messages in Frescobaldi

2009-08-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009, schreef Federico Bruni: How can I copy the error message in Frescobaldi? ctrl+C or ctrl+shift+C don't work.. Where can I find the log file? Thanks in advance, Just select the LilyPond messages with the mouse and paste them where you want them with the middle

RE: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Payne
The box could be drawn with Postscript. Here's an example of drawing large square brackets with Postscript. Easily modifiable to draw a box: \version 2.12.1 #(define lbracket 0.25 setlinewidth 0 setlinejoin 0 setlinecap 0.5 -2 moveto

Fw: Text Spanner with more than two words

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Oops, I posted this to the devlist by mistake: --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Subject: Text Spanner with more than two words To: lilypond-de...@gnu.org Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 8:03 PM Hello,      What's the

horizontal synchronisation of notation in drum mode

2009-08-23 Thread Brian Lloyd
Dear Colleagues, A relative newcomer to Lilypond, I am v. pleased to be able to notate drums in drum mode, and / but— Need your guidance on getting notation on beat in upper and lower voice to same horizontal location. I am typesetting swing-feel cymr in the upper voice and writing figures

Re: boxed measures

2009-08-23 Thread Matthieu Jacquot
It's maybe better like that : \version 2.13.3 notes = \relative c' { \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 10) c''-\markup { \box \pad-markup #5 {} } a f d c a f d } \score { \notes \layout { } } Regards, Matthieu

Re: Naturals Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
Hi All, Yes by now you would have figured out I am musically challenged, seriously musically challenged. 1) My initial task was to generate a result which would demonstrate to my clients the viability of my proposal for standardized music sheets across multiple language groups in our

re: excessively large PDF files produced when lilypond script contains CJK characters

2009-08-23 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm a Chinese musician, and I know how to produce smaller pdf files. I wrote a song accompanied by orchestra last year. The full score has 13 pages, but the size of the pdf is only 1.30M. If you're running Windows, please use your system's built-in fonts (please use a tool to view the

Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
This is my first attempt at a scheme function, just to make a shortcut so that I don't have to type out all the overrides when making an ossia staff. But I get an unexpected string error when I try to compile it. Any advice on why this doesn't work? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: Naturals Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Simon Mackenzie
For basic music theory this site seems helpful... http://www.8notes.com/ Simon On 24/08/2009, at 09:28, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi All, Yes by now you would have figured out I am musically challenged, seriously musically challenged. 1) My initial task was to generate a result which would

Re: Naturals Accidental_engraver

2009-08-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Simon Mackenzie wrote: I will be looking myself, but if anyone can suggest a good web site which would aid me in grasping music theory this would also be much appreciated. http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm - Mark ___

Re: Scheme function for ossia

2009-08-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Would probably help if I showed the file :). I'm guessing the problem is it's not allowed to use a variable inside of the braces after the \with command, but I don't understand why. -Jonathan \version 2.12.2 ossia = #(define-music-function (parser location staffName) (string?) #{