Re: set-global-staff-size increments

2010-10-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 06 Oct 2010, 17:29 Christopher Meredith wrote: > I noticed that the values for set-global-staff-size are usually given > in non-whole increments. If I were to use one in between these > suggested increments, will it cause scaling irregularities? In other > words, if 14.14 is too small and 15

Re: more space between systems?

2010-10-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 06 Oct 2010, 21:38 Stefan Vollmar wrote: > Dear all, [...] > I have tried > > \paper{ > between-system-space = 30\mm > between-system-padding = 10\mm > } > > for different sizes but this does not seem to make a difference in my case > (lilypond 2.13.35). Please take a look at NR, "Pag

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Marc, > i'm not sure to understand. The bottom notes are already quarters and the top > note already a half-note. > Would you mind elaborating? Consider the three different versions here: \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" \score { \new Staff { \clef treble \key c \minor \time

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
On 10/6/2010 6:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Marc, 3) why a skip is needed whereas the top note is a half note (otherwise the measure is not complete)? If you make the note a half note, but tweak the other notes' durations (to become quarters), you won't have this problem. Hope this he

Re: anybody understand the instrumentCueName docs?

2010-10-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith E OHara wrote Wednesday, October 06, 2010 9:40 AM I no longer see any reason to use instrumentCueName for the labels that identify the instrument playing cue notes. Doing so makes it easy to make subtle errors, and offers no advantage over \tag '#part s4*0^\markup\tiny"oboe" The ins

Re: bug? fermata collides with tweaked top note of chord

2010-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Marc, > where the fermata collides with tweaked top note of chord. > Should i also use a tweak to change the position of the fermata or is it a > bug? (i'd think the later) In v2.13, it seems to work fine -- may have been a bug with 2.12. Regardless, you should probably attach the fermata to

set-global-staff-size increments

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Meredith
I noticed that the values for set-global-staff-size are usually given in non-whole increments. If I were to use one in between these suggested increments, will it cause scaling irregularities? In other words, if 14.14 is too small and 15.87 is too large, can I use something like 15, or do I have to

bug? fermata collides with tweaked top note of chord

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
Using a tweak i was able to typeset the following chord from the Beethoven 5th symphony where the top note has a longer duration. However using this music _expression_ in lilypond: \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" % chord from 5th symphony \

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Marc, > 3) why a skip is needed whereas the top note is a half note (otherwise the > measure is not complete)? If you make the note a half note, but tweak the other notes' durations (to become quarters), you won't have this problem. Hope this helps! Kieren. _

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
On 10/6/2010 3:44 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: Learning Manual section 4.1.4. thanks for pointing me in the right direction. However the page you pointed me to was not helpful as it dealt only with color tweaks but then i googled "tweak duration" and then found the page: http://www.kainhofer.com/

Re: strange collision of note and clef

2010-10-06 Thread hans
> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:16:25 +0200 > From: "Robert Urmann" <16...@golden-ears.de> > Subject: Re: strange collision of note and clef > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Cc: bug-lilyp...@gnu.org > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > \version "2.1

Re: lyrics first word starts on second note of piece

2010-10-06 Thread Chip Wiegand
Thanks Vicente, that was indeed the problem. Seems that I may have encountered that in the past and didn't notice it in this piece, thanks for pointing it out. I gotta remember to take that out of the template. Regards, chip On 10/6/2010 1:20 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:0

Re: lyrics first word starts on second note of piece

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Chip Wiegand wrote: >  I am having an issue with getting a lyric to align the first word to the > first note of the piece. I have even commented out all the lyrics except the > first two words of the two stanzas, but only the first word of each stanza > appears and

Re: lyrics first word starts on second note of piece

2010-10-06 Thread Vicente Solsona
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:06:39 +0200, Chip Wiegand wrote: I am having an issue with getting a lyric to align the first word to the first note of the piece. I have even commented out all the lyrics except the first two words of the two stanzas, but only the first word of each stanza appears

Re: chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/6/10 1:22 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: > > for practice purpose i am copying some excerpt from the Beethoven 5th > symphony. > It contains a chord where the duration of the top notes is longer than the > others. (see attached) > According to the documentation, that does not seem pos

more space between systems?

2010-10-06 Thread Stefan Vollmar
Dear all, I am currently arranging a vocal piece for two voices, both voices should be in one system, lyrics of voice "first" should go above, of voice "second" below the staff: \score { \new Staff = "main" << \new Voice = "first" { \voiceOne \bassOne } \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveCo

chord with notes of different duration

2010-10-06 Thread Marc Mouries
for practice purpose i am copying some excerpt from the Beethoven 5th symphony. It contains a chord where the duration of the top notes is longer than the others. (see attached) According to the documentation, that does not seem possible since it says: ... [duration] must go /outside/ the ang

lyrics first word starts on second note of piece

2010-10-06 Thread Chip Wiegand
I am having an issue with getting a lyric to align the first word to the first note of the piece. I have even commented out all the lyrics except the first two words of the two stanzas, but only the first word of each stanza appears and it is under the second note of the piece. I have included

Re: OT Tzur Ma'oz

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM, dadadharma @dslextreme.com wrote: > This is Off Topic, but I don't know where else to turn... > > I'm looking for a basic, out-of-copyright four-part harmony version of > Tzur Ma'oz that I can transcript in Lilypond for my singing group > (Shape Note). > > I could n

Re: Problems with text placement

2010-10-06 Thread David Rogers
* Michael Dykes [2010-10-06 13:11]: Here is a prob that I have been sturggling with in many pieces. Adding text above a line, as I did below in the Great Eketenia. I also need to do that elsewhere (say the Trisagion (Holy God)-also see below), but have texts longer than the lenght of the measur

Problems with text placement

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Dykes
Here is a prob that I have been sturggling with in many pieces. Adding text above a line, as I did below in the Great Eketenia. I also need to do that elsewhere (say the Trisagion (Holy God)-also see below), but have texts longer than the lenght of the measure. Is there a way to extend measures? Fo

Re: Problems with segnos and codas

2010-10-06 Thread Tim Rowe
On 6 October 2010 16:08, David Kastrup wrote: > An \unfoldRepeats in a Midi block should unfold repeats.  Including Coda > and stuff.  If it doesn't, that's wrong.  If it is inconceivable that it > does, it's a design error. I agree, and suspect it's a fundamental problem with the way Lilypond s

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Jiri Zurek wrote: > I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the > separation) between the header of the page and anything > else on the page, which can be either lines of markup or > music. The head-separation settings in the paper block > does not seem to work: regardless of any value which

Re: Problems with segnos and codas

2010-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Rowe writes: > On 6 October 2010 00:50, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> LilyPond midi was not created as a performance midi, but as a proofhearing >> midi. > > I appreciate that. It's just that the proofreading is harder if, for > example, it plays straight off the end of the piece and into the co

Re: Problems with segnos and codas

2010-10-06 Thread Tim Rowe
On 6 October 2010 00:50, Carl Sorensen wrote: > LilyPond midi was not created as a performance midi, but as a proofhearing > midi. I appreciate that. It's just that the proofreading is harder if, for example, it plays straight off the end of the piece and into the coda (which can be really jarri

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Robert Urmann
Federico Bruni-5 wrote: Which version of LilyPond are you using? I am using the version 2.13.* (currently the 2.13.18) Federico Bruni-5 wrote: Which settings have you used in \paper? This is my paper settings. \paper { top-margin = 10\mm bottom-margin = 14\mm line-width = 14

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Federico Bruni
2010/10/6 Jiri Zurek (Prague) > > > Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > > > Which version of LilyPond are you using? > > > I am using the version 2.13.* (currently the 2.13.18) > > > Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > > > Which settings have you used in \paper? > > > This is my paper settings. > \paper { >t

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > Which version of LilyPond are you using? > I am using the version 2.13.* (currently the 2.13.18) Federico Bruni-5 wrote: > > Which settings have you used in \paper? > This is my paper settings. \paper { top-margin = 10\mm bottom-margin = 14\mm line-

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Ole Schmidt
did you try: \paper {before-title-spacing = #'((space . 30)) } hth ole Am 06.10.2010 um 14:31 schrieb Jiri Zurek (Prague): > > I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the separation) between the > header of the page and anything else on the page, which can be either lines > of mar

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Federico Bruni
Which version of LilyPond are you using? Which settings have you used in \paper? Look at Notation Reference 4.1.2 Cheers, Federico 2010/10/6 Jiri Zurek (Prague) > > I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the separation) between the > header of the page and anything else on the page, wh

Re: Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Marek Klein
Hi Jiří, 2010/10/6 Jiri Zurek (Prague) > I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the separation) between the > header of the page and anything else on the page, which can be either lines > of markup or music. The head-separation settings in the paper block does > not > seem to work: rega

Re: What's with WebLily?

2010-10-06 Thread weblily
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Re: My kingdom for a lilypond server

2010-10-06 Thread weblily
Hello Helge, there seem to be others having the same problem, even though the weblily.net is up and running. Could you please supply me with more details such as * JavaScript enabled? * What web browser are you using? * Whet e-mail address did you use to create your account at weblily.net? Pleas

Re: Lilypond-book margins

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Susan Dittmar wrote: > > Quoting Christopher Meredith (chmered...@gmail.com): >> Does anyone know what to put in the lytex file to produce a PDF that is >> 8.5x5.5 ( half US letter)? > > How about > > \paper { >        paper-height = 21.59\cm >        paper-width  =

Header separation from markup or music

2010-10-06 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
I cannot figure out how to increase the space (the separation) between the header of the page and anything else on the page, which can be either lines of markup or music. The head-separation settings in the paper block does not seem to work: regardless of any value which I put there (even very lar

Re: strange collision of note and clef

2010-10-06 Thread Robert Urmann
Am 06.10.2010, 12:13 Uhr, schrieb Valentin Villenave : On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, hans wrote: In a piano-piece: 4/4 time right-hand plays truplet over half-note, in problem case quarter-note half-note. left-hand plays eights, changing clef every quarter-note. In the problem-case the clef

Re: custom staff and barlines

2010-10-06 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 06 Oct 2010, 11:34 Gerard McConnell wrote: > Hello, Hi! > How do I get barlines to appear in the following? It seems that \new RhythmicStaff can fit your needs, can't it? See NR 1.6.1, "Displaying staves". If it can fit .) > \version "2.12.0" > \layout { > \context { > \Score

Re: custom staff and barlines

2010-10-06 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Gerard [this time I got your name right! ;-)] try it with \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4 HTH patrick Am 06.10.2010 um 12:34 schrieb Gerard McConnell: Hello, How do I get barlines to appear in the following? \version "2.12.0" \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_num

Re: guitar chord: add9 - how?

2010-10-06 Thread Gerard McConnell
er, I hope it's not bad etiquette to mention that it's caret. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Jan Kohnert < nospam001-li...@jankoh.dyndns.org> wrote: > Chip Wiegand schrieb: > > On 10/4/2010 6:48 PM, Jan Kohnert wrote: > > > Chip Wiegand schrieb: > > >> Got it - I noticed you put a carot betwee

custom staff and barlines

2010-10-06 Thread Gerard McConnell
Hello, How do I get barlines to appear in the following? \version "2.12.0" \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } \context { \Staff \remove "Clef_engraver" \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 } } \score { \new Staff \

Re: strange collision of note and clef

2010-10-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, hans wrote: > In a piano-piece: > 4/4 time > right-hand plays truplet over half-note, in problem case quarter-note > half-note. > left-hand plays eights, changing clef every quarter-note. > In the problem-case the clef is written over the preceding eight. Wow, ind

strange collision of note and clef

2010-10-06 Thread hans
In a piano-piece: 4/4 time right-hand plays truplet over half-note, in problem case quarter-note half-note. left-hand plays eights, changing clef every quarter-note. In the problem-case the clef is written over the preceding eight. How to solve this problem. code: --- upper = \relative c

Re: anybody understand the instrumentCueName docs?

2010-10-06 Thread Keith E OHara
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:05:00 -0700, Trevor Daniels wrote: Moving the \set instrumentCueName into the Voice context, as you suggest, will change the time when the CueVoice context is created and this may be why it then works. But that is not the root cause of the problem, so I would not want

Completion_heads_engraver and \noBreak

2010-10-06 Thread ornello
The \noBreak command seems not to work with automatically tied notes when using the Completion_heads_engraver. In the example below, two line breaks are produced although I added \noBreak after each note. When removing the Completion_heads_engraver or the first quarter note, everything works as d

Re: Lilypond-book margins

2010-10-06 Thread Susan Dittmar
Oops, I should read more clearly before answering!!! OK, retry. I think easiest would be to use the geometry package: \usepackage[paperwidth=5.5in,paperheight=8.5in,pdftex]{geometry} The 'pdftex' option makes sure the paper dimensions are not only used for typesetting, but are also explicitly

Re: Lilypond-book margins

2010-10-06 Thread Susan Dittmar
Quoting Christopher Meredith (chmered...@gmail.com): > Does anyone know what to put in the lytex file to produce a PDF that is > 8.5x5.5 ( half US letter)? How about \paper { paper-height = 21.59\cm paper-width = 13.97\cm } It's untested, though I successfully use something lik