Re: Glissando tweaking - help !!

2010-02-22 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello David, David Stocker schrieb: [...] To the list, is LilyPond's not respecting dots and accidentals in the \glissando command a bug? Yes, it is already in the tracker (#40) - I was working on it for some time, but a proper solution requires more C++ knowledge than I have today. Marc

Re: Problem getting started on Mac

2010-02-22 Thread Steven White
I no longer have any 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard) machines, but the 10.5 build works fine on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I'm a avid user of textmate and there is a pretty good bundle for integrating LilyPond with textmate. http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Bundles/LilyPond.tmbundle/ Steven On 2/21/10 3

Re: Partials and upbeats

2010-02-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 22 February 2010 22:05, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Correct! You can find some discussions on this phenomenon in the mailing > list archives. Do you really want the rest symbol produced by  R8? I thought > that and ordinary eight note rest (r8) was the standard notation practice > for upbeats. Ye

Re: Partials and upbeats

2010-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Phil Holmes : I have a piece of music which has 3 vocal parts and 2 piano lines (3 voices). It's in 2/4 and starts with an eighth note (a quaver) in the piano left hand, and 2 16th notes in the piano right hand. I want to use whole measure rests for the vocal parts, so that they are

Re: Glissando tweaking - help !!

2010-02-22 Thread Nick Payne
On 23/02/10 07:12, Eby Mani wrote: \version "2.12.3" vOne = \relative c' { c4 e g a c d \once \override Glissando #'style = #' trill e,4.\glissando dis'8 } \score { << \new Voice = "Glissando" \vOne>> \layout { \context { \Voice \override Glissando #'minimum-le

Re: Glissando tweaking - help !!

2010-02-22 Thread David Stocker
Hi Eby, You'll need to \override Score.Glissando #'(bound-details left padding) and adjust the values until they suit you. As far as I can tell, the bound-details padding adjustments are sensitive down to increments of 0.25, but not smaller than that. Try running the code below, which compile

Glissando tweaking - help !!

2010-02-22 Thread Eby Mani
Is there a way to print aesthetically pleasing Glissandos, that doesn't print over "Dots" and "accidentals" ?. It prints over the "dot" of the starting note and over the "sharp" of the ending note. Also any simple way to print text such as "gliss" or "slide" over the glissando, without using m

Re: percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Mika Kuuskankare wrote: > > BTW, I tried to use fonts inside the embedded PS code but it failed. Does > anybody know how to do it? > "/Helvetica findfont 22 scalefont setfont (a) show"    did not work... This was a problem in 2.13.13 that should be fixed when 2.1

Re: Problem getting started on Mac

2010-02-22 Thread James Bailey
Ah. I see the problem. That's a link that's really no longer needed. it's a carry-over from the days when lilypond didn't work on 10.5. That should probably be removed and the normal PPC/Intel links will work just fine. So, James, (I love meeting people who share my name), you can downloa

Re: percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
Mark, On 22.2.2010, at 18:20, Mark Polesky wrote: > Mika Kuuskankare wrote: >> BTW, I'm working with a set of percussion symbols for my >> own software and as I need them in Lilypond myself I >> export them as a collection of postscript markups. I'm not >> sure if this would be of interest to the

percussion pictograms (was: Re: recovering LilyPond user....)

2010-02-22 Thread Mark Polesky
Mika Kuuskankare wrote: > BTW, I'm working with a set of percussion symbols for my > own software and as I need them in Lilypond myself I > export them as a collection of postscript markups. I'm not > sure if this would be of interest to the Lilypond > community. There are, of course, no standards

Partials and upbeats

2010-02-22 Thread Phil Holmes
I have a piece of music which has 3 vocal parts and 2 piano lines (3 voices). It's in 2/4 and starts with an eighth note (a quaver) in the piano left hand, and 2 16th notes in the piano right hand. I want to use whole measure rests for the vocal parts, so that they are removed from the start,

Re: Problem getting started on Mac

2010-02-22 Thread James Lowe
Hmmm, http://ivo.bouwmans.name/ works so maybe there is a missing file? I don't know if there is any place else the OSX 10.5 binary is held (although seems I cannot hit http://download.linuxaudio.org/ either). James Huub van Niekerk wrote: > I don't mind using a devel version, but I can't g

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
David Stocker wrote: Odds are this was much easier to do in LilyPond than it was in SCORE (or Sibelius, for that matter). I think it looks better than either of the example on Grossman's page. There are some issues with the LilyPond output: - the most severe is 16th beam-accidental collision

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-22 Thread David Stocker
Odds are this was much easier to do in LilyPond than it was in SCORE (or Sibelius, for that matter). I think it looks better than either of the example on Grossman's page. Nice job. On 02/22/2010 08:02 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I found a page about Score at http://www.jeffreygr

Re: Problem getting started on Mac

2010-02-22 Thread James Lowe
Hello, If you don't mind using a development version 2.13, then the documentation (which now includes how to use Lilypond with screenshots) and the lilypad application works just fine. There were issues with Lilypad/Lilypond with the menus not doing anything which I never bothered to find out

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I found a page about Score at http://www.jeffreygrossman.com/engraving.html showing the problems with Sibelius and showing Score's superiority. I created the same example using LilyPond 2.12.3 (attached) - definitely not perfect, but almost is - using only the default settings and the easiest w

Re: ly to musicXML converter

2010-02-22 Thread Thomas Bonte
Hi Ami, You may be interested to follow this topic: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=665 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/ly-to-musicXML-converter-tp27677006p27685765.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

"Strange" spacing: systems, pages and ragged-last-bottom

2010-02-22 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hi! Sorry, rather "strange question". I have one particular score (68 measures, with lyrics, no manual breaks, one \noBreak), lilypond lays it out in four pages (4+5+4+2 = 15 systems). When i put "page-count = #3" in \paper block, lilypond lays it out in three pages (4+5+6 = 15 systems), but las

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-22 Thread Mika Kuuskankare
On 22.2.2010, at 10:26, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Mika Kuuskankare wrote: >> (2) Can I change the number of staff-lines in the middle of a measure (or by >> measure at least), say when switching between different percussion >> instruments? >> > This is described in one of the examples of > htt

Re: full repeat bracket for 2nd ending

2010-02-22 Thread Robin Bannister
You're welcome. Richard Wattenbarger wrote: If I could [ ... ] , I would! I would prefer your response to It would help in this regard if you could explain why you need the bracket to be closed like this, e.g. does it involve a coda? Cheers, Robin _

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-22 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Wolf Alight wrote: > What a way to start the monday morning! > Thank you Neil! > I will put this in the Snippet Repository. I just thought of one enhancement > I want to make and one "feature" that came up: > * Enhancement: Multiple alignments of notes for one lyri

Re: recovering LilyPond user....

2010-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mika Kuuskankare wrote: (2) Can I change the number of staff-lines in the middle of a measure (or by measure at least), say when switching between different percussion instruments? This is described in one of the examples of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-22 Thread Wolf Alight
What a way to start the monday morning! Thank you Neil! I will put this in the Snippet Repository. I just thought of one enhancement I want to make and one "feature" that came up: * Enhancement: Multiple alignments of notes for one lyric word. For example the swedish word "begynnelsen" has 4 vowe