Re: glissando without starting note

2011-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
James Bailey derhindemith at googlemail.com writes: { g''1\breathe \hideNotes a'8*1/2 \noBeam \glissando \unHideNotes a'' a''4 a''8 a''4 \bar |. } I found this example searching on the net -- it almost does what I want -- I am  having trouble adapting it to 2/4.  I can't

Changelog

2011-02-15 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm wondering whether there's a complete changelog for every devel version. The reason is, when I compile my score with the very recent two versions (I have not compiled it for a little long time), I found there are two instrument names in GrandStaff. At that time, engraver-init.ly

Re: Changelog

2011-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com writes: Hello,   I'm wondering whether there's a complete changelog for every devel version. The reason is, when I compile my score with the very recent two versions (I have not compiled it for a little long time), I found there are two instrument names in

Re: can't compile

2011-02-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net Cc: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:56 AM Subject: Re: can't compile On 2/15/11, Nick Payne

lilypond speed

2011-02-15 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Some day soon my still reliable but not very fast 10 year old laptop will have to be replaced by a more modern machine. Will Lilypond benifit much if my next computer will have one of those modern multi-core processors like the Intel i3/5/7 ? I'm just curious. -- Martin

Re: lilypond speed

2011-02-15 Thread flup2
On a Mac, speed increase from a Core2Duo to a Corei5 is really noticeable, about 40% faster. I guess this is about the same on Windows or Linux. I think you'll see a huge difference. :) Philippe -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/lilypond-speed-tp30929720p30929766.html Sent

Re: lilypond speed

2011-02-15 Thread Bernardo Barros
I was thinkig about that too. Parallelization in Lilypond can be possible. Imagine rendering one page in each core in parallel, or one system for each core. Also other kinds of optimizations for 'preview' modes, where you need more speed then optimal quality? Maybe improved performance can be a

Re: lilypond speed

2011-02-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl To: lilypond-user mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:42 AM Subject: lilypond speed Some day soon my still reliable but not very fast 10 year old laptop will have to be replaced by

Re: strange output

2011-02-15 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Same thing hit the French list a couple days ago. Oddly, my heavily-krunked-out version of the source doesn't reproduce this result, but I would recommend (by way of Xavier Scheuer) adding \grace { s8 } to the beginning of all your parts. Cheers, MS On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Mario Moles

Re: strange output

2011-02-15 Thread Phil Holmes
See Known issues and warnings in the Notation Reference, section 1.2.6, Grace notes. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Mario Moles To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:14 PM Subject: strange output Double time and time indications:

Re: Get the pitch as number

2011-02-15 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I see now what the problem was. however, I'm not quite sure yet how to avoid doing similar mistakes in the future, but maybe I'll get used to it (For example, how do I know that I should start looking for EventChord rather than NoteEvents?) You can start looking for NoteEvent but remenber you

page xy coordinates for musical events

2011-02-15 Thread Nicola Montecchio
Hello I'd like to know if there is a way to get the resulting coordinates (i.e. x/y position in cm on the page) of a musical event in the compiled ps/pdf file; what I want to do is to typeset a lilypond source, and LATER post-process the resulting image. The typical case would be for example

scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i am trying to get scheme to automate artificial harmonics so i dont need to specify the pitch of the note written up the perfect fourth i am running in to the problem of scheme not evaluating the variable once put inside the chord (i get errors regarding /lilyvartmpc /) where lies the

page xy coordinates for musical events

2011-02-15 Thread Nicola Montecchio
Hello I'd like to know if there is a way to get the resulting coordinates (i.e. x/y position in cm on the page) of a musical event in the compiled ps/pdf file; what I want to do is to typeset a lilypond source, and LATER post-process the resulting image. The typical case would be for example

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
http://codereview.appspot.com/4186049/ HTH patrick Am 15.02.2011 um 15:25 schrieb Rob Canning: hello, i am trying to get scheme to automate artificial harmonics so i dont need to specify the pitch of the note written up the perfect fourth i am running in to the problem of scheme not

Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-15 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Hi everyone, I'm new to Lilypond and impressed with the ease of writing music and the quality of the output. For writing lead sheets, I changed Lilypond's standard font for printing chord names to a custom font. While this works perfectly, the style difference between the chord symbols and

RE: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-15 Thread James Lowe
Matthias, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Matthias Hüsken )Sent: 15 February 2011 15:53 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp

Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-15 Thread Matthias Hüsken
Thx for the answer! )For writing lead sheets, I changed Lilypond's standard font for printing )chord names to a custom font. While this works perfectly, the style )difference between the chord symbols and Lilypond's flat and sharp )symbols is very obvious. Is there a way to make Lilypond use

RE: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp (#) symbols for chords

2011-02-15 Thread James Lowe
Hello )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Matthias Hüsken )Sent: 15 February 2011 17:25 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: Use custom font's flat (b) and sharp

Re: Changelog

2011-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:55:59AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com writes:   I'm wondering whether there's a complete changelog for every devel version. ... I don't like to download the complete git site, since it's too big ! The whole history of

Re: glissando without starting note

2011-02-15 Thread Phil Brooks
Reinhold Kainhofer reinhold at kainhofer.com writes: You would use the exact same code as above. the 1/2 does not come from the time sig. Rather, it allows you to use half of the time of that not for another, hidden note before it. The 1/2 for this and the hidden note simply ensures that

Re: glissando without starting note

2011-02-15 Thread Phil Brooks
Oops, never mind the above -- I see now that what is missing is the scaling of the landing note of the glissando so that the total ends up being 4 beats all together: { %\set Score.skipBars = ##t \override Glissando #'style = #'zigzag \relative c' { \clef bass

Re: can't compile

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Puttock
On 15 February 2011 01:56, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: That sounds like a lot.  After 2.13.50, we added some optimizations. I don't think they have much influence on memory usage (only compilation speed, due to caching property lookups). If anybody sees the same behaviour

Re: LilyPond

2011-02-15 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi Tim, I'm redirecting your help request to lilypond user list, as I know nothing of the pango thing. You should provide a example of your use of make-pango-font-tree so that we could see what's wrong. Cheers Nicolas Le 15 févr. 2011 à 14:38, Tim Sheasby a écrit : Hello I am using

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 14 lutego 2011 21:17:57 UTC+1 użytkownik Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net napisał: Hi Janek, I looked through some scores and it does not seem to be out of place as is, which was also my initial reaction. Really? Well, for me it looks odd. I did notice a few instance were the slur

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Puttock
On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning r...@goto10.org wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering here. The only way around them is

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning r...@goto10.org wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2011/2/15 Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com: Do you mean simply using \slurDown? I'd say that the result (attached) is indeed a little better, but flipping bes quarter note makes it yet more good-looking. You might try adding the Melody_engraver for this: it changes the

Re: engraving question - changing stem direction to avoid levitating slur

2011-02-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/2/15 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: 2011/2/15 Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com: Do you mean simply using \slurDown? I'd say that the result (attached) is indeed a little better, but flipping bes quarter note makes it yet more good-looking. You might try adding the

args in Scheme

2011-02-15 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, Three years ago, when I defined a function, someone told me that in Lily Scheme can only take up to 3 arguments. I don't know whether this limitation is eliminated now, so could you tell me whether the following prints correctly? Haipeng \version 2.13.50 triTempo =

Re: args in Scheme

2011-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:49:03AM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: I don't know whether this limitation is eliminated now, so could you tell me whether the following prints correctly? I believe it is correct. With 2.13.47, I see: Allegro ( [half note symbol] = [quarter note symbol] =

Re: Page breaks and bookpart

2011-02-15 Thread Nick Payne
Well, to answer my own query, what I have below gives what I want - back of the title page is blank, and I get a blank page between the two scores without the title page being repeated. I had to turn off page numbering initially to prevent a page number of 0 showing up on the back of the title