Re: Help with lyric line extenders

2011-05-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno sab, 14/05/2011 alle 16.45 +1000, Adrian Oehm ha scritto: > Thanks for that - it works fine! (Although I still haven't found > "associatedVoice" in the docs...but I'll keep looking Look in the last appendix of Notation Reference: "LilyPond index". Click on A and you find the link to the

Re: Help with lyric line extenders

2011-05-13 Thread Adrian Oehm
Hi Kieren Thanks for that - it works fine! (Although I still haven't found "associatedVoice" in the docs...but I'll keep looking Thanks again Adrian On 14/05/2011, at 1:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Adrian, > >> I've not been able to find anywhere in the manuals to explain how to adj

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Keith OHara
David Kastrup gnu.org> writes: > > Richard Sabey hotmail.co.uk> writes: > > > in what circumstances can a > > pitch-name and a variable-name both be legal? > > > > Inside a music expression, if it comes immediately after a backslash, > > it can't be a pitch-name, and if it doesn't come immediat

Re: Help with lyric line extenders

2011-05-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Adrian, > I've not been able to find anywhere in the manuals to explain how to adjust > what I need to. > Is there a way to extend the extender to cover the three beats? Look for "associatedVoice" in the manuals -- the fix you want is: Alto words \set associatedVoice = "Sopranos" now lig

Re: How to put a horizontal space with no time value?

2011-05-13 Thread -Eluze
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > I have been reading the fine manual, and see lots of things I could try. > It's likely some of them would work, but it's also likely someone has > already tried even more things than I see right now, and come to some > conclusions about what works best. > > I'm transc

Re: voice context on the fly and lyrics

2011-05-13 Thread -Eluze
Orm Finnendahl-3 wrote: > > Hi, > > in the example below, I'm trying to create a Voice context on the fly > and add lyrics to it. It doesn't seem to do what I would expect. > > The attached png shows my output (lilypond 2.13.43 on Linux). > > My questions: > > 1. Why are the b and a eigth n

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Sabey writes: > Carl Sorensen wrote: >>The core problem is -- how do you distinguish between a2 c (two > notes) and >>a2c (you want it to be a variable) - currently it will be two notes. > > I might have missed something here, but: in what circumstances can a > pitch-name and a variable-n

voice context on the fly and lyrics

2011-05-13 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in the example below, I'm trying to create a Voice context on the fly and add lyrics to it. It doesn't seem to do what I would expect. The attached png shows my output (lilypond 2.13.43 on Linux). My questions: 1. Why are the b and a eigth notes rendered simultaneously with the c on the

RE: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Richard Sabey
Carl Sorensen wrote: >The core problem is -- how do you distinguish between a2 c (two notes) and >a2c (you want it to be a variable) - currently it will be two notes. I might have missed something here, but: in what circumstances can a pitch-name and a variable-name both be legal? Inside a musi

How to put a horizontal space with no time value?

2011-05-13 Thread Laura Conrad
I have been reading the fine manual, and see lots of things I could try. It's likely some of them would work, but it's also likely someone has already tried even more things than I see right now, and come to some conclusions about what works best. I'm transcribing some 16th century diminutions (D

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 May 2011, at 16:05, Carl Sorensen wrote: I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with numbers and possibly with underscores - is it somehow possible? >>> >>> Unfortunately, no. >

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/13/11 7:08 AM, "Janek Warchoł" wrote: > 2011/5/13 Carl Sorensen >> >> On 5/13/11 4:32 AM, "Jakub Pavlík" wrote: >> >>> I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond >>> variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with >>> numbers and pos

Re: How to set a constant vertical distance?

2011-05-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/13/11 6:22 AM, "Herre" wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > >> Don't work too hard, because the spacing commands will change again in >> version >> 2.14. > > Do you have a suggestion for solving this in 2.14? Set staff-staff-spacing 'stretchability = #0. (And probably system-staff-spacin

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/13/11 7:08 AM, "Janek Warchoł" wrote: > 2011/5/13 Carl Sorensen >> >> On 5/13/11 4:32 AM, "Jakub Pavlík" wrote: >> >>> I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond >>> variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with >>> numbers and pos

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/5/13 Carl Sorensen > > On 5/13/11 4:32 AM, "Jakub Pavlík" wrote: > > > I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond > > variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with > > numbers and possibly with underscores - is it somehow possible? > > Un

RE: How to set a constant vertical distance?

2011-05-13 Thread James Lowe
Herre, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Herre )Sent: 13 May 2011 13:23 )To: lilypond-user@gnu.org )Subject: Re: How to set a constant vertical distance? ) )Thanks f

Re: How to set a constant vertical distance?

2011-05-13 Thread Herre
Thanks for your answer. Don't work too hard, because the spacing commands will change again in version 2.14. Do you have a suggestion for solving this in 2.14? Best regards, Herre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/13/11 4:32 AM, "Jakub Pavlík" wrote: > I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond > variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with > numbers and possibly with underscores - is it somehow possible? Unfortunately, no. Learning Manual 2.

Re:MIDI notes in wrong instrument if Staff_performer is in Voice context

2011-05-13 Thread Richard Sabey
Keith O'Hara wrote: > This looks like the strange bug reported at > > > The released 2.13.61 build produces a midi file with notes in the first beat > sent to channel0, which was set to sound as violin, but later notes sent to > channel

RE: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Ed Ardzinski
I have found that using upper case Roman numerals is helpful, as in gtrI = {e,4 e8 [d] e,4 e8 [d]} gtrII = {g,4 b,8 [d] f [a] g4} and the is usually create a master part of the numbered fragments grt = { \time 4/4 \clef treble \gtrI \gtrII } The structured approach keeps my code clea

Re: Any way to turn of "strange time signature found" warnings?

2011-05-13 Thread M Watts
On 05/13/2011 04:42 AM, Trevor Bača wrote: Is there any way to turn these warnings off? (Something like override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t would be ideal.) On Linux, just redirect stderr, lilypond file.ly 2> /dev/null ___ lilypond-user m

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/5/13 Phil Holmes : > See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/file-structure Yes but names with accented and other special characters are valid. música = { c' } España = \lyricmode { España } cigüeña = \lyricmode { cigüeña } { \música } \addlyrics { \España } \addlyrics { \c

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Phil Holmes
See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/file-structure Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: "Jakub Pavlík" To: Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:32 AM Subject: Variable names I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond variables and haven

Re: Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread -Eluze
Jakub Pavlík jn. wrote: > > I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond > variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with > numbers and possibly with underscores - is it somehow possible? > > NR 3.1.5 File structure: The name of a variable sh

Variable names

2011-05-13 Thread Jakub Pavlík
I have tried to find some description of the valid syntax of LilyPond variables and haven't found any. I would like to use variable names with numbers and possibly with underscores - is it somehow possible? a2c = { a a a } % doesn't work a_c = { a a a } % also doesn't work Thanks, Jakub Pavlík