Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54:53PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > 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 i

Spacing figured bass and lyrics

2011-04-15 Thread Michael Käppler
> I'm not top posting Hi all, I've encountered a problem when trying to modify the distance between a FiguredBass line and a Staff which is placed above. If there are Lyrics attached to the Voice placed in the upper staff, setting a padding to the FiguredBass line has no effect. Maybe I don't unt

Re: Add text to rehearsal mark

2011-04-15 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi, I more or less finished my music function. The result is added. I didn't really solved the issues I addressed to the list but avoided them. Now I store the default format for the rehearsal mark in my own function "format-mark-default" so that I can use it in my music function RehearsalMark

Re: getting a TextSpanner 'text

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:25:32AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 4/14/11 1:47 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > > > produces the following (with linebreaks and indents added). I'm > > really confused about the multiple "bound-details", the multiple > > "left/right" inside each bound-details,

Re: Stacked markup problem

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "-Eluze" To: Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:10 PM Subject: 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 wer

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

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:18:58AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: >OK - I visited the Lilypond website and tried to figure out how to post to >some documentation discussion list I thought existed. That left me >confused and without options, so I'm back here. The best I can do is offer >a f

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

2011-04-15 Thread Federico Bruni
2011/4/15 Tom Cloyd > OK - I visited the Lilypond website and tried to figure out how to post to > some documentation discussion list I thought existed. That left me confused > and without options, so I'm back here. > > Community > Help us > Documentation suggestions if you follow the link you

Re: Help with Section Sequence

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Holmes
That's how I would perform it. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Javier Ruiz-Alma To: LilyPond User Group Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 9:50 AM Subject: Help with Section Sequence Hi All, Please check the attached sample PDF and reply if I need to change way the

Problems with articulate.ly, seems to affect the pdf even with two score blocks

2011-04-15 Thread Helge Hafting
I tried articulate.ly, and the midi output got better. I also used two score block, one for midi and one for layout. I do that anyway, so the repeats will be right. I use the \articulate command only in the midi score block, so staccato etc. still print as it should. But the pdf output is still

Re: Problems with articulate.ly, seems to affect the pdf even with twoscore blocks

2011-04-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Helge Do you still get problems if the \include is moved to lie within the midi \score block? The file redefines some predefined commands, eg \afterGrace and \appoggiatura. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Helge Hafting" To: "Lilypond" Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:51 AM Subjec

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

2011-04-15 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 Graham Percival )Sent: 15 April 2011 10:18 )To: Tom Cloyd )Cc: Lilypond )Subject: Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND g

RE: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread James Lowe
Tom, )-Original Message- )From: Tom Cloyd [mailto:t...@tomcloyd.com] )Sent: 15 April 2011 07:31 )To: James Lowe )Subject: Re: getting repeats to play in midi ) .. ) )I write hoping the feedback might be helpful in some way. I STILL have no )idea where to send documentation suggests other t

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

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "James Lowe" Unfortunately (or not depending on if you think it's because our Doc is so good already) we don't get that many 'formal' requests for documentation changes so I often have to 'extract' meaning out of people's problems if the doc could have prev

RE: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-lookingengraved output - how to

2011-04-15 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] )Sent: 15 April 2011 11:47 )To: James Lowe; Graham Percival; Tom Cloyd )Cc: Lilypond )Subject: Re: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice- )lookingengraved output - how to ) )James - do you have a Gmail a

Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Graham" == Graham Percival writes: Graham> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54:53PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: 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 doe

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

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Tom" == Tom Cloyd writes: Thanks Tom Tom> While the slight separation of notes in the midi output often Tom> seems to improve the sound of music for instruments which don't Tom> normally sound legato, such as classic guitar, it can also make Tom> other instruments, such as organ, sound un

Spacing lyrics and markup

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Holmes
Can anyone give me pointers as to how to put markup text outside Lyric text? I've tried overriding the Staff.TextScript outside-staff-priority, and that shifts markup outside tempo marks, for instance, but does nothing wrt Lyrics. TIA. -- Phil Holmes ___

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

2011-04-15 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Chubb writes: >> "Tom" == Tom Cloyd writes: > > Thanks Tom > > Tom> While the slight separation of notes in the midi output often > Tom> seems to improve the sound of music for instruments which don't > Tom> normally sound legato, such as classic guitar, it can also make > Tom> other i

Re: Spacing figured bass and lyrics

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Michael Käppler" To: Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Spacing figured bass and lyrics I'm not top posting Hi all, I've encountered a problem when trying to modify the distance between a FiguredBass line and a Staff which is placed above. If

Re: proposed addition to Notation Reference 3.5.4

2011-04-15 Thread Francisco Vila
Attached is a patch that includes this. 2011/4/15 Tom Cloyd : > 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 sente

Re: Spacing lyrics and markup

2011-04-15 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Phil, I think you can't move TextScript elements beyond lyrics with outside-staff-priority - the lyrics don't belong to a staff but are probably associated to a voice within. So you probably have to move the markup with \translate or the TextScript with extra-offset. If it is possible to

Re: proposed addition to Notation Reference 3.5.4

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: > Attached is a patch that includes this. Thanks, pushed. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Problems with articulate.ly, seems to affect the pdf even with twoscore blocks

2011-04-15 Thread Helge Hafting
On 15. april 2011 12:18, Trevor Daniels wrote: Helge Do you still get problems if the \include is moved to lie within the midi \score block? The file redefines some predefined commands, eg \afterGrace and \appoggiatura. I can't have it inside the midi score block - that gives a syntax error i

Re: Spacing lyrics and markup

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/11 5:29 AM, "Phil Holmes" wrote: > Can anyone give me pointers as to how to put markup text outside Lyric text? > I've tried overriding the Staff.TextScript outside-staff-priority, and that > shifts markup outside tempo marks, for instance, but does nothing wrt > Lyrics. As far as I know

markup and note spacing

2011-04-15 Thread Christian McConnell
Hello everyone, I've been running into a problem, and I can't seem to figure it out. When I add a text markup to one note, the next note is automatically spaced to the right, to the end of the markup. It's like \textLengthOn is on by default, and inserting \textLengthOff doesn't seem to help.

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

2011-04-15 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 04/15/2011 04:22 AM, James Lowe wrote: [,,,] Unfortunately (or not depending on if you think it's because our Doc is so good already) we don't get that many 'formal' requests for documentation changes .. How sad. Could not we just start over, so we could have a proper documentation developm

markup problem solved

2011-04-15 Thread Christian McConnell
I figured out my problem: I was including gregorian.ly. It's not a chant piece, but I wanted to include gregorian.ly so I could use the \divisioMinima for tick marks. As soon as I took that out, it worked right. Chris___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: Multiple Stanzas

2011-04-15 Thread Michael Dykes
I am sorry Trevor, but I am not quite sure how to integrate this into my already made structure. My 'structure' is different from what you indicate below. ??? On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > Michael > > You should be able to adapt the following to do what you want. > > Tr

Phrasing Slurs only from another slur start?

2011-04-15 Thread Nils
Hello list, Is it intended or a bug that you have to start a phrasing slur and a normal slur only at the same time? This means you can only have one normal slur in a phrasing slur (from the beginning?) The example http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Ties-and-slur

Re: Phrasing Slurs only from another slur start?

2011-04-15 Thread Nils
Correction: You can have other normal slurs after the first one. But you still can't start a phrasing slur without a normal slur. On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:02:11 +0200 Nils wrote: > Hello list, > > Is it intended or a bug that you have to start a phrasing slur and a normal > slur only at the sam

Re: Phrasing Slurs only from another slur start?

2011-04-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/04/11 07:04, Nils wrote: Correction: You can have other normal slurs after the first one. But you still can't start a phrasing slur without a normal slur. \version "2.13.59" \relative c' { c\( d e( f g) a b c\) } Works for me without any problem. Nick

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread Tom Cloyd
But here's the problem which I keep running into. I'm reluctantly willing to join the documentation list, but while there's plenty of references to it, I have yet to see any link which takes me to a subscription process. Why not make this easy to locate? It makes NO sense to me to advise me (a

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:26:06PM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: > But here's the problem which I keep running into. I'm reluctantly > willing to join the documentation list, but while there's plenty of > references to it, I have yet to see any link which takes me to a > subscription process. Why not mak

Re: Phrasing Slurs only from another slur start?

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/11 3:02 PM, "Nils" wrote: > > However my Lilypond install 2.13.58 complains if I start the phrasing slur (\ > anywhere else except right before the normal slur, as seen in the example. > Phrasing slur is \(, not (\. You had the problem because (\ is invalid LilyPond syntax. By doing (

Re: Spacing lyrics and markup

2011-04-15 Thread bruys .
Dear Jan-Peter, Which version are you using? This doesn't work with 2.12.3, an '(n)' appears above the extender line in the second bar. Regards, Bruys On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello Phil, > > I think you can't move TextScript elements beyond lyrics with > outside

slur collides with ledger line & grace note size

2011-04-15 Thread Marc Mouries
I tested with both 2.12 and 2.13 and in both versions the slur collides with the ledger line In the picture of the old score i have the slur is moved below the ledger line. How can we do the same with lilypond? I also noticed that lilypond prints grac

Odd Stem Lengths

2011-04-15 Thread Ed Ardzinski
I have a sections with quints in my piece, and in 2 different blocks of the piece the PDF output varies. I've attached pictures of the output - the same exact code produces each part...same variable and transpositions. I am in an old version (2.6.5) but I'm never run into this without having

Re: slur collides with ledger line & grace note size

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/11 3:22 PM, "Marc Mouries" wrote: >I tested with both 2.12 and 2.13 and in both versions the slur collides > with the ledger line > This would be a collision bug. Please report on the bug-lilypond list. However, Stone says the following: "It used to be customary to slur grace

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 101, Issue 71

2011-04-15 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
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3 Lyric lines

2011-04-15 Thread Michael Dykes
I am attempting to have a section of my piece have 3 lyric lines, but only in the middle of the piece. Here is my best attempt thus far, which as you can see, results in errors that I am not sure how to fix. Thanks for all your help, as usual. -- In Christ, Michael D \version "2.13.58" \include "

Fwd: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread James Lowe
to keep message in user Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Cloyd mailto:t...@tomcloyd.com>> Date: 15 April 2011 22:25:27 GMT+01:00 To: James Lowe mailto:james.l...@datacore.com>> Subject: Re: getting repeats to play in midi Reply-To: mailto:t...@tomcloyd.com>> But here's the problem which I keep

Re: slur collides with ledger line & grace note size

2011-04-15 Thread James Lowe
Hello, . On 15 Apr 2011, at 23:52, "Carl Sorensen" mailto:c_soren...@byu.edu>> wrote: . I have been unable to determine how to change the size of grace notes. >From another thread >> : see the grace >> settings in *.../ly/engraver-init.ly*, line 638. >> All the preset properties for grace

Re: Problems with articulate.ly, seems to affect the pdf even with twoscore blocks

2011-04-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/04/11 23:18, Helge Hafting wrote: On 15. april 2011 12:18, Trevor Daniels wrote: Helge Do you still get problems if the \include is moved to lie within the midi \score block? The file redefines some predefined commands, eg \afterGrace and \appoggiatura. I can't have it inside the midi

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread Tom Cloyd
Well, yes, we (or *I*) do seem to be running in circles in a sand storm. So... 1. /Notation Reference/ section on articulate.ly - in the page footer, in rather small font (which I have missed until just now) is a lin

Re: bug ? effet du \chordGlissando sur la commande \markup

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/15/11 12:00 PM, "Pierre Perol-Schneider" wrote: > Dear Carl, > > I forward you my first message because as I think you've initiated  > \chordGlissando and also because I got no answer to the "bug" (is it really a > bug ?). > So I'm not sure you've had the feedback. > Though I do like youre

Re: 3 Lyric lines

2011-04-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/4/16 Michael Dykes > I am attempting to have a section of my piece have 3 lyric lines, but only in > the middle of the piece. Here is my best attempt thus far, which as you can > see, results in errors that I am not sure how to fix. Thanks for all your > help, as usual. I see three openin

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 101, Issue 71

2011-04-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, your e-mail is completely unreadable. Please: - always edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of lilypond-user digest..." - do not quote entire digest text, only the message you are referring to, - Write your message clearly separated from the quoted text. cheers, Ja

Tuplet bracket length

2011-04-15 Thread bruys .
Greetings, I would like the alter the length of the tuplet bracket so it extends from the left-hand edge of the first notehead, to the right-hand edge of the last notehead. Lilypond seems to default to making the bracket go from the left-most stem to the right-most stem. See the attached example.

Re: Tuplet bracket length

2011-04-15 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/4/16 bruys . : > Greetings, > > I would like the alter the length of the tuplet bracket so it extends from > the left-hand edge of the first notehead, to the right-hand edge of the last > notehead. Search mailing list for First page completed; tweaking questions and see if that thread will he

How to prevent page number appearing on back of title page?

2011-04-15 Thread Nick Payne
It's happening because I'm using Header and Footer markups (cribbed from the Notation Reference examples) in order to have page numbers centred at the foot of the page. If I add a blank page on the back of the ToC, so that the first piece starts on a right-hand page, I'm getting a page number o