music function

2010-11-17 Thread jakob lund
Hi I have two questions that I hope someone here can answer. I have something like this \repeat volta 4 { ... music ... } There are no alternative endings, so the number 4 doesn't show up in the output. I would like the text "×4" to appear below the closing repeat mark (dotted bar line). Is the

Re: How to optimize line?/page breaking when making parts?

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/11/17 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng : > > Hello, > After many modification, my overture is about to come out as a final sets > (score and parts). A friend of my teacher can manage to let it played. Congratulations! > But when making parts, I still have problem with the latest version. > No matter what

Re: General newbie questions

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 15 November 2010 10:04, Marc Hohl wrote: > > Xavier, I am impressed by the amount of time you invest in > giving such detailed answers on the list, not only to this specific > mail, but in general. > > You do a great job, kudos! Thanks ! Actually I'm not a programmer, so I cannot fix myself t

Bent ottava line

2010-11-17 Thread Stephan Elliot Perez
Is there a way to make an ottava line that starts low but goes up at an angle and then straightens itself again to accomadate a much higher pitch? I don't see anything for control points in the Internal References... Kind regards, Stephan ___ lilypond-us

runtime termiate

2010-11-17 Thread MING TSANG
I try \transpose f bf and i got the following error, Please help This is a console shell for running LilyPond and related commands. Enter %help to see the available special commands. > %lilypond %args "C:\Documents and >Settings\Administrator\Desktop\LILY_POND\Mary-did-you-know_b-minor.ly" 正

Annotative braces extending across two staves

2010-11-17 Thread Li Jie Wong
Hi, Organ scores occasionally indicate that both manual staves are to be played on a particular manual using a brace that spans the 2 staves; something like the ascii art below: --- ---{--- ---{--- ---{--- ---{

Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Thompson
I have not found a command to insert a comment placed in the .ly file into the .log file.  This is a useful tool for debugging.  I am trying to find which of my \break commands is not acceptable, and cannot get lilypond to print line number about that.  So, using a comment in the log is usually

transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread Alex Jones
I am using lilypond for a transposition solution. Unfortunately, when doing the transposition, the shift is to keys where it would make sense to write the notation in the enharmonic key. E.g. the new key is c-sharp major and it would be nicer to actually write it in d-flat major, is there a wa

Hairpins in parentheses

2010-11-17 Thread Stephan Elliot Perez
Greetings, I wish to have a parenthesis to the left of a crescendo hairpin and then its counterpart to the right of a decrescendo hairpin. Is thIs there an easier way to have this than to insert markups containing the parentheses and disable padding?

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alex Jones wrote: > I am using lilypond for a transposition solution. Unfortunately, when > doing the transposition, the shift is to keys where it would make sense to > write the notation in the enharmonic key. > > E.g. the new key is c-sharp major and it would b

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread jakob lund
why not just "\transpose es des" instead of "es cis"? (say if you're transposing from e-flat?) Jakob. 2010/11/17 Christopher Meredith : > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alex Jones wrote: >> >> I am using lilypond for a transposition solution.  Unfortunately, when >> doing the transposition,

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread jakob lund
Hi Paul Not sure about the log file, but you can print to the standard output like this: #(display "...some text...") (space after "display" is mandatory) Jakob. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listin

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread James Bailey
Perhaps you will find some tips in section 5 of the learning manual. On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: > > I have not found a command to insert a comment placed in the .ly file into > the .log file. This is a useful tool for debugging. I am trying to find > which of my \break

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread James Bailey
Perhaps you will find some tips in section 5 of the learning manual. Oh, I've just started reading the 2.13 documentation, and this section has been moved to the usage manual. On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: > > I have not found a command to insert a comment placed in the .ly

Re: Inserting comments into the log file

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Thompson
Helpful, but not in the way that I need. Essentially, I am trying to pinpoint the location of bad code. So, when I put the #(display "Test") construction, I get that to my window, but not to the same one as the errors and warnings. I had been issuing \break commands in the wrong place, and

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 17 November 2010 22:15, Christopher Meredith wrote: > > Sure, just transpose it to des instead of cis and set the key accordingly. Agree. There is also a snippet in the doc, which can be useful: "Transposing pitches with minimum accidentals ("Smart" transpose)" http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Do

lilypond in a webapp, version 2

2010-11-17 Thread Carel Jonkhout
He everybody, I have finished work lilydocs.com. It is lilypond in a webapp. You can save your work online like google docs. Check it out if you like. http://lilydocs.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/ma

paper block for little snippets for webpublishing

2010-11-17 Thread Music Teacher
Hello dear helpers and experts, I did found in the doc or in snippets how to make snippets (png or gif) for webpublishing, like in the manual. I mean, something like: music-to-top-edge = 3 \mm music-to-left-edge = 4 \mm etc or something like that. And I dont understand in a snippet like the firs