Re: title spacing

2011-04-18 Thread Laurens van der Wee
I agree with everything Xavier has said, except the paper variable used to control the spacing between a system and the title of the next score is score-markup-spacing. HTH, Carl already figured that out :-). works like a charm, thanks to all! laurens. t: (+31) 6 120 59 134

Re: Multiple Stanzas in the middle of a piece

2011-04-18 Thread Marek Klein
Hi Michael, 2011/4/18 Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com I now know how to do multiple stanzas with a single common section, but I need the reverse essentially--Single common sections for most of the music, but 3 stanzas near the middle of the piece. Attached is the source code as it is

Re: Multiple Stanzas in the middle of a piece

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Dykes
OK, Marek. Thanks a lot. However, I need the lyrics to be between the 2 staves, and not under the bass stave -- and also, ever since I started messing around with my original file (which did not have the split lyrics), the barlines have been off. If you do not mind, please see the original file:

Re: Multiple Stanzas in the middle of a piece

2011-04-18 Thread Marek Klein
Is this what you need? Marek 2011/4/18 Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com OK, Marek. Thanks a lot. However, I need the lyrics to be between the 2 staves, and not under the bass stave -- and also, ever since I started messing around with my original file (which did not have the split

Re: Multiple Stanzas in the middle of a piece

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo Marek. Almost perfect. However, I just now realized that for the 3rd stanza the word Theo -- to -- kos, __ needs to be scored differently (i.e. with different music). Bascially the music is exactly the same, except for those words, the kos of Theotokos needs to fall on the f2 - the same f2

Re: Difficulty in jedit with LilyPondTools

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Dykes
Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net writes: In the options for Lilypondtool in jEdit (Plugins / Plugin Options /LilypondTool / Commands), do you have the correct path to the Lilypond binary. You should also have the jEdit SideKick plugin installed and the option Parse on keystroke

Re: Multiple Stanzas in the middle of a piece

2011-04-18 Thread Marek Klein
Hi Michael, 2011/4/18 Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com Hullo Marek. Almost perfect. However, I just now realized that for the 3rd stanza the word Theo -- to -- kos, __ needs to be scored differently (i.e. with different music). Bascially the music is exactly the same, except for those

\key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Hello, I have difficulty understanding this tiny example, which is a breakdown of my general problem: { %\key a \major \chords { a1 c } \relative c'' { a1 c } } Without the \key command, the chords are shown

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 10:30, Christian Eitner 7enderh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have difficulty understanding this tiny example, which is a breakdown of my general problem: { %\key a \major \chords { a1 c } \relative c'' {

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear Xavier, On 18 April 2011 10:40, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: It is due to implicit context creation. If you explicit your contexts (Staff, ChordNames) then such problem would not appear. As explained in the doc,  \chords { ... }  is a shortcut notation for  \new ChordNames

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread David Bobroff
On 4/18/2011 9:03 AM, Christian Eitner wrote: Dear Xavier, On 18 April 2011 10:40, Xavier Scheuerx.sche...@gmail.com wrote: It is due to implicit context creation. If you explicit your contexts (Staff, ChordNames) then such problem would not appear. As explained in the doc, \chords { ... }

Re: Difficulty in jedit with LilyPondTools

2011-04-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/04/11 17:47, Michael Dykes wrote: Nick Paynenick.payneat internode.on.net writes: In the options for Lilypondtool in jEdit (Plugins / Plugin Options /LilypondTool / Commands), do you have the correct path to the Lilypond binary. You should also have the jEdit SideKick plugin installed

Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, Maybe this question has already been answered but I did not find a solution while searching through the mailing lists. \override NoteHead #'color = #red changes the color of the note heads but not the color of the ledger lines. I tried \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red

RE: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 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 Xavier Scheuer )Sent: 18 April 2011 10:33 )To: lilypond-user )Subject: Change the color of ledger lines ) )Hi, ) )Maybe this

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 11:43, James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com wrote: \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'color = #red Apparently that does not work in the middle of the score (melody) and AFAIK that would change the color of the whole staff, not only the ledger lines, as I want. Cheers, Xavier --

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/04/11 19:33, Xavier Scheuer wrote: Hi, Maybe this question has already been answered but I did not find a solution while searching through the mailing lists. \override NoteHead #'color = #red changes the color of the note heads but not the color of the ledger lines. I tried

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 11:53, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Using \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red works for me in making the ledger lines and not the staff red. \version 2.13.59 \score { \new Staff { \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread M Watts
On 04/18/2011 08:06 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: I know see the real problem: it is not possible to change the color of ledger lines _in the middle of the score_. Yes, you can start with an override, but can't revert it. \score { \new Staff { c c' c'' c''' } \new Staff {

Re: Tuplet bracket length

2011-04-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Dear Bruce, 2011/4/16 bruys . noten...@gmail.com: I've read this thread. It seems to be mainly concerned with making the brackets extend to the full duration of the notes, like it is shown in the snippets, but that is not what I want to do here. I've added a couple of '\overrides'

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: I know see the real problem: it is not possible to change the color of ledger lines _in the middle of the score_. Is this a known issue? Does it exist a workaround? How about restarting the staff, as in

Re: Change the color of ledger lines

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 13:31, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: How about restarting the staff, as in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700 ? Indeed, it works. Thanks! Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com ___

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear David, I would simply use skips: \version 2.12.3 {     \chords     {       s1*2       a1 c     }     \relative c''     {       a1 c a c     }   } Isn't this what you mean? Yes, but there is really a lot of stuff going on before the couple of bars with chords, and I would

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 15:58, Christian Eitner 7enderh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but there is really a lot of stuff going on before the couple of bars with chords, and I would have to adjust the number of skipped bars each time something changed. Is there perhaps a way to tell the new chords

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Eitner
Dear Xavier, Is there perhaps a way to tell the new chords context to be placed above alread existent ones? There is the  alignAboveContext  property. Cf. NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves \version 2.13.60 \score {     \new Staff = main {     \relative c'' {       \key a \major      

Re: Difficulty in jedit with LilyPondTools

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Dykes
Thanks, Nick. That solved one prob, but brought up another. Not I get the errorjava.io IOException:error=20 when I try to compile. Any thoughts? Thanks again. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Error #20

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Dykes
Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net writes: Hullo Nick. Now, I get the following error: java.io IOException:error=20, not a directory. Any ideas? Thanks for your time and patience, since I am new to this program. I really appreciated it.

Re: length of stems of sextuplets is too short

2011-04-18 Thread Marc M
Marc M wrote: As you can see on this snippet the length of stems of sextuplets is too short. The length of the stems extend for 32th but not for the 8th notes. Is there anything i should do or is there something wrong is the default values? %% the sextuplets look compressed. The

Re: length of stems of sextuplets is too short

2011-04-18 Thread Toine Schreurs
As you can see on this snippet the length of stems of sextuplets is too short. The length of the stems extend for 32th but not for the 8th notes. Is there anything i should do or is there something wrong is the default values? %% the sextuplets look compressed. The stems are too

Force end measure with compound time signature

2011-04-18 Thread alb84
Here is my problem http://old.nabble.com/file/p31425579/Gloria_Pagina_4.png I'm reporting the code of the bass part \bar || %\key g \major #(set-time-signature 13 4 '(3 4 3 3)) \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(custom-time-signature 3 4 3 3

Re: Force end measure with compound time signature

2011-04-18 Thread alb84
Solved like this #(set-time-signature 3 4) \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f and then #(set-time-signature 4 4) \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f Here the result http://old.nabble.com/file/p31426772/Gloria_Pagina_4.png -- View this

Re: Override Stem #'length-fraction does not shorten stem of ledger notes

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Puttock
On 17 April 2011 22:46, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Basically if a user could give me a clue how to disable the fact that when a note is far from the staff, its stem goes to the middle line of the staff, I would be grateful.  :) \override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t Cheers,

Bad slur default (when rests are within)

2011-04-18 Thread MusFelix
When a slur connects two notes that have a rest in between, the slur is placed up, even if it would otherwise be down. Needless to say, this looks bad, and one has to manually adjust it every time it occurs. Thus: \version 2.13.51 \include english.ly \relative c { \clef bass c8( r c) r

Re: Error #20

2011-04-18 Thread Brett Duncan
On 19/04/11 2:08 AM, Michael Dykes wrote: Hullo Nick. Now, I get the following error: java.io IOException:error=20, not a directory. Any ideas? Thanks for your time and patience, since I am new to this program. I really appreciated it. The error suggests that there is still something wrong

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

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Chubb
There's no easy way the way I wrote the code to change the amount of separation for the default non-legato case. I suggest adding something like this: nonLegato = #(define-music-function (parser location factor music) (pair? ly:music?) Adjust times of note to add