proposed addition to Notation Reference 3.5.4

This deals with the problem of getting correct midi output when playing of repeats is desired AND the score has multiple voices. I suggest insertion of the following sentence (as its own paragraph) immediately before the sentence "When creating a score file using \unfoldRepeats..." In s

Re: Self-Publishing

Hi. I'd like to give you my testymony as a publisher : if you want to publish and sell as a professional, I have to say that printing is a REAL job. I mean it takes time, and you won't have a proper score at the end without professional printers (machine AND guys). I made this choice a year a

Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

On 04/14/2011 04:57 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/4/14 Tom Cloyd: Thank you for volunteering! I'd love to do it, but frankly am very hard pressed to accomplish what's already on my schedule. Ha! Once again this file forum comes to my rescue. I'm so pleased to be here, and of all to be able to

Re: Self-Publishing

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Laura Conrad wrote: >> "Pete" == PMA   writes: > >    Pete> The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, >    Pete> it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000.  Am sniffing out >    Pete> reputable vendors. > > I would recommend against this.  I

Re: suggestion for articulate

> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> A fixed ratio seems a mistake to me: like optical scaling of David> fonts, the ratio should depend on the length of the note as David> well as the speed of the piece. And one does not want to have David> chords end early in one voice merely because

Re: suggestion for articulate

Peter Chubb writes: >> "胡海鹏" == 胡海鹏 <- Hu Haipeng > writes: > > 胡海鹏> Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug > 胡海鹏> on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an > 胡海鹏> improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following line, > 胡海鹏> and the non-slur

Re: suggestion for articulate

> "胡海鹏" == 胡海鹏 <- Hu Haipeng > writes: 胡海鹏> Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug 胡海鹏> on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an 胡海鹏> improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following line, 胡海鹏> and the non-slurred music sounds more natural, w

suggestion for articulate

Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following line, and the non-slurred music sounds more natural, while the slurred music still gets more smooth: #(define ac:n

Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011/4/14 Tom Cloyd : > Thank you for volunteering! I'd love to do it, but frankly am very hard > pressed to accomplish what's already on my schedule. Ha! Once again this > file forum comes to my rescue. I'm so pleased to be here, and of all to be > able to use and continue learning about Lilypond.

Re: Stacked markup problem

Jesse Engle-3 wrote: > > I took the time to check out a copy of the development source from the > repository and everything compiled and installed fine. The stickings > were displayed in the correct order as you said, but now there's an > entirely separate problem: the accents are now much lo

nice praise via twitter

On twitter, http://josiahboothby.org/?page_id=5 writes I love @GNU_LilyPond. Reduced a sloppy, nearly illegible Sibelius-engraved, 5-page part into a neat, legible 2-page part. #fb ref: http://twitter.com/dzdz/status/58437233811783680 Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://li

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: I use a Regex to translate the quote mark that Notewort

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

Hi Phil, >>> Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric >>> lines: " is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until >>> I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \" and /" >>> and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR. I use

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

Thank you very much. I'll get to this this evening. t. On 04/14/2011 11:13 AM, James Lowe wrote: Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Tom Cloyd )Sent: 14 Apr

Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

Thank you for volunteering! I'd love to do it, but frankly am very hard pressed to accomplish what's already on my schedule. Ha! Once again this file forum comes to my rescue. I'm so pleased to be here, and of all to be able to use and continue learning about Lilypond. What a gift this this is.

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > I use a Regex to translate the quote mark that Noteworthy creates > (\") into the LilyPond quote mark. Would anyone like to guess how > many consecutive backslashes I have to use in c# to find the 2 > characters \" ? Hmm. I'd guess

RE: getting repeats to play in midi

Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Tom Cloyd )Sent: 14 April 2011 17:07 )To: Lilypond )Subject: Re: getting repeats to play in midi ) ) )On the other hand, don

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation mar

Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011/4/14 Graham Percival : > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:53:36AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: >>    I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either >>    Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate >>    script at its homepage. > ... >>    However, this can

Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:53:36AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: >I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either >Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate >script at its homepage. ... >However, this can be fixed easily. With my method, I a

Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate script at its homepage . First, for those who don't know, use of this script produces "a more realistic MI

Re: Stacked markup problem

I took the time to check out a copy of the development source from the repository and everything compiled and installed fine. The stickings were displayed in the correct order as you said, but now there's an entirely separate problem: the accents are now much lower than they should be. The exam

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

On 04/14/2011 03:01 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, please use "reply to all" button (i.e. send a reply not only to the person who answered, but also to the whole list). This way we can help you better and the conversation would be archived and available for others. Now back to the problem :) 201

Re: getting a TextSpanner 'text

On 4/14/11 1:47 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > How do you get values from a context property? I'm trying to access > the left-bound text. I know I can do it like this: > (cdr (car (cdr (car (cdr (car (car (ly:context-property context > 'TextSpanner))) > but that's kind-of ugly. Ye

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

Phil Holmes wrote: > > Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: " > is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it > in > italics and it looks bad. I've tried \" and /" and neither work and I > can't > find an example in the NR, LM o

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation mar

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric > lines: " is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until > I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \" and /" > and neither work and I can't f

Quotation mark in lyrics

Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: " is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \" and /" and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR. Can anyone show me how to ge

Re: first time

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > *I just asked a question about syntax error NOTENAME_PITCH. I removed > the melody = and it works now* > > Greetings, Andrew Wood - I would strongly recommend that you read the Learning Manual, which can be found at : http://www.lilypond

Re: more ossia

- Original Message - From: "David Bobroff" To: Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:18 AM Subject: more ossia Thanks, Trevor for tweaking my code so the lyrics line up. I'm still at a loss to understand why that is, but that can wait. In looking at the result of my struggles with oss

more ossia

Thanks, Trevor for tweaking my code so the lyrics line up. I'm still at a loss to understand why that is, but that can wait. In looking at the result of my struggles with ossias I have concluded that I want something a bit different from what I'm getting now. The ossia sections in this score

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

Well (sigh), it didn't change a thing. At the first repeat I still get aural chaos. I have posted my entire code at http://pastie.org/1794353, if you have a moment to look at it. I really cannot seem to get my head around this midi repeat thing, and my searches for anything helpful have not led

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

Hi, please use "reply to all" button (i.e. send a reply not only to the person who answered, but also to the whole list). This way we can help you better and the conversation would be archived and available for others. Now back to the problem :) 2011/4/14 Tom Cloyd > > Well (sigh), it didn't chan

getting a TextSpanner 'text

How do you get values from a context property? I'm trying to access the left-bound text. I know I can do it like this: (cdr (car (cdr (car (cdr (car (car (ly:context-property context 'TextSpanner))) but that's kind-of ugly. This code: #(define (format-textspan engraver event) (let*