Guitar stroke fingering and multiple voices

2010-02-09 Thread Nick Payne
Don't know if this has been thought of before (I couldn't find it in the lilypond-user archives), but while having to do some tweaking to get stroke fingering in one voice to avoid notes in another voice, I realised that multiple stroke fingering indications can be attached to a single note. So

Re: Zig Zag (?)

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 9 February 2010 13:09, Éric Bouvéron wrote: > Hi, > Just found something, and I do not see a code for it. (file included) > Is there a way to reproduce this? Hi, As I have just said on the French Users mailing list: \hideNotes \override Glissando #'style = #'zigzag b'4\glissando % si

Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
In musicological literature, it is common to create comparative systems (staffgroups) where each staff holds the reading of one given version of the chant. The music is aligned so that melodic patterns common to all the versions are visually boosted by aligning them under each other. (Please, see

Re: Guitar stroke fingering and multiple voices

2010-02-09 Thread David Stocker
Very nice! Nick Payne wrote: Don't know if this has been thought of before (I couldn't find it in the lilypond-user archives), but while having to do some tweaking to get stroke fingering in one voice to avoid notes in another voice, I realised that multiple stroke fingering indications can be

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Karl Hammar
Jiri Zurek: ... > http://old.nabble.com/file/p27515617/comparison.jpg ... > The problem is how to vertically align the notes in the desired way, i.e. > how to match vertically the common melodic patterns? Are there tools in > lilypond to achieve the result in a way which is humanly manageable? Ca

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jiri, > Are there other simpler ways to achieve the vertical > alignment of bits of music regardless of the beats? The attached snippet may give you some hints. Hope this helps! Kieren. \version "2.13.11" \paper { ragged-right = ##f } \layout { \context { \Staff \remove "Time_s

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Alexander Kobel
Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: In musicological literature, it is common to create comparative systems (staffgroups) where each staff holds the reading of one given version of the chant. [...] (Please, see the attachment not prepared in lilypond). http://old.nabble.com/file/p27515617/comparison.jp

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Karl Hammar wrote: > > Can't you use scaled durations [1], something like: > Yes, the scaled durations are elegant and offer marvellous result (as Kieren showed). Thank you, I did not notice this functionality. However, it presumes, that I make the collation first outside lilypond, count the d

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Alexander Kobel wrote: > > What's that thingy next to the very > last note of this excerpt (the d' on "pro-mlu-VIL")? Is this just a > random blast of ink, or some cool typographic detail missed so far? > It is a "nota caudata", common in chant (plainchant) notation, meaning various things,

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote The scaled durations do not offer a solution, just a workaround. Lilypond still attempts to "count" the beats, aligning vertically beat after beat. What I would like to achieve is to force Lilypond not to count beats at all. Rather, to align vertically certain "bits of

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 09 februari 2010 schreef Jiri: > What I would like to achieve is to force Lilypond not to count beats at > all. Rather, to align vertically certain "bits of music" which I mark > clearly somehow, You could create the Staff (and Voice) contexts, keeping them alive with some long enou

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread Alexander Kobel
Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: Alexander Kobel wrote: What's that thingy next to the very last note of this excerpt (the d' on "pro-mlu-VIL")? Is this just a random blast of ink, or some cool typographic detail missed so far? It is a "nota caudata", common in chant (plainchant) notation, mean

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 09 février 2010 à 07:07 -0800, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : > The scaled durations do not offer a solution, just a workaround. Lilypond > still attempts to "count" the beats, aligning vertically beat after beat. > What I would like to achieve is to force Lilypond not to count beats at al

Re: horizontal space after rehearsal mark (or bar line)

2010-02-09 Thread James Lowe
So what is wrong with \score { \relative c' { \clef G \time 4/4 c'1 d \bar "||" \mark \markup { \box "M2" } e( \f ^\markup {\halign #-1.5 {Tutti}} f) } } Seems to me that '\halign #-1.5' is far less complicated than any of those? Alternatively how about shrinking down the size o

Slur as TupletBracket

2010-02-09 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I'm trying to replace the tuplet bracket with a slur by doing: \layout { \context { \Score \override TupletBracket #'stencil = #ly:slur::print } } Unfortunately, I get a fucked up slur, starting and ending vertically on the first note of the triplet (version 2.12.3):

fretted string chord notation

2010-02-09 Thread Gerry Prosser
How can I enter text such as 'Capo 1' to the beginning of a line of chord names , please ? Gerry Prosser ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lyrics to single stave polyphony

2010-02-09 Thread eagle136
That is very helpful, thank you. When you know where to look in the manual :-) I even found the bit about setting it back to one voice again ("\oneVoice" if anyone else reads this post for help) - really helpful - saved me so much time. Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > This i

File include structure complication

2010-02-09 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
This is both a warning and a fishing expedition for ideas that I might have missed. I am trying to use a style in which I define lots of individual numbers as bookparts, sometimes produce them separately, sometimes combine them (often with a choice of several variants for each number) into one boo