Automatic fingering alignment for chords with seconds

2011-06-06 Thread Karim Barkati
Hello, When a chord contains an interval of second, note heads are shifted and fingerings follow but this is not pretty for strings instruments where fingerings are usually (horizontally) aligned (and placed on top of the notes). I know I could tweak each fingering for second chords as: http://

Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Christopher Culver
I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] } What is the Lilypond expression of the entir

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 06/06/2011 05:14 PM, Christopher Culver wrote: I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 g

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/6/6 Christopher Culver : > I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the > melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for > a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following > tuplet: > > \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] } > >

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Brent Annable
Do you need to specify the duration? If the notes are all tied together, won't the lyrics engraver align the syllable automatically? Brent. On 6 June 2011 17:14, Christopher Culver wrote: > I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the > melody. While this is generally

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Éditions IN NOMINE
Hi ! You can put the length of the melism after the word : 1 + 2/3 = 5/3 so : bla8*5/3 (haven't tried !) Another issue would be to use, INSIDE THE NOTES, \melisma and \mlelismaEnd (cf http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music.html#multiple-notes-to-o

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Christopher Culver wrote Monday, June 06, 2011 4:14 PM I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 {

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Christopher Culver
The responses here were very useful and presented more than one way to fix the problem. Thanks to all. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Falls and doits for a chord

2011-06-06 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven, 03/06/2011 alle 20.53 +, Massimo ha scritto: > Good evening. > I want to know if it's possible to add falls and doits to a chord. I tried in > several ways, but no one worked. > > Thank you > Massimo > Ciao Massimo, search "bendAfter chord" in the lilypond-user archives and y

2.14 linux download page error

2011-06-06 Thread Nick Payne
The "compiling a file" example on the right-hand side of the download page (http://lilypond.org/unix.html) has a version number in the sample ly file of 2.15.0. Should be 2.14.0. Nick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists

2.14 docs PDF portfolio

2011-06-06 Thread Nick Payne
I have created a searchable indexed PDF portfolio from the 2.14 English PDF docs (Extending, Internals, Learning, Notation, Snippets, Usage, and Web) and uploaded it to http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/music/lilydoc.pdf. You need Adobe Reader 9.x or later. 3rd party PDF readers can't cope with