Re: How does \RemoveEmptyStaffContext work in ly 2.14.1?

2011-06-19 Thread James Harkins
At Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:56:44 +0800, James Harkins wrote: What's the best way to do it? This instrument[1] is most commonly notated with one staff, but when the writing gets more complicated, it can expand to two. It's not like a piano where both staves should be visible all the time, even

Re: install latest stable lilypond 2.14.1 on Fedora

2011-06-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno dom, 19/06/2011 alle 08.51 +1200, Steve Taylor ha scritto: I'd like to install lilypond 2.14.1 on Fedora 14 (using Gnome). Following the method on the lilypond website (downloading and running the sh script as su) gives the following message when I run the installed lilypond

Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Sabey
I notice that, if a note is not a whole number of semitones from c (so a MIDI pitch bend message must be sent), then the release phase of the sound is not pitch bent. Is this unavoidable behaviour of MIDI or a deficiency in Lilypond? See the example below. The first note and rest show the

Re: Dilemma with spacer rest and cross-staff polyphony.

2011-06-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 19 June 2011 07:01, Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings: As you will see from the attached pdf file, the center two measures differ from the intention of the code shown below. The upper voice is treated as if it is in bass clef. I would be grateful for any advice. Has

Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, Given: melody = \relative c' { ... several measures of notes ... } It is possible to extract a section from this melody, e.g. measure 4 or measures 3..15 or something? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Johan, Given: melody = \relative c' { ... several measures of notes ... } It is possible to extract a section from this melody, e.g. measure 4 or measures 3..15 or something? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=extract Cheers, Kieren.

Re: trying to add a new \language

2011-06-19 Thread -Eluze
R. Mattes wrote: \version 2.15 Most likely: the language needs to be put in quotes: \language myLanguage no, with or without quotes works with all languages! Better to put the langauge definition into a separate .ly-file and include it. Production code should also check whether

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag 19 Juni 2011, 12:03:14 schrieb Johan Vromans: melody = \relative c' { ... several measures of notes ... } It is possible to extract a section from this melody, e.g. measure 4 or measures 3..15 or something? The solution really depends on what you want to do with it. -) If you

Re: problem with converting a file to 2.14.1

2011-06-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Neil, dear david, thanks very much for Your help. It works perfectly now! 2011/6/19 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com On 18 June 2011 22:12, Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com wrote: Unfortunately I couldn't convert this file with convert.ly and I don't know, why it

Custom dynamic text spanner without dashed line

2011-06-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, Again, many thanks to Reinhold for implementing the possibility to use custom dynamic text spanners with a POSTFIX syntax. I'm trying to adapt snippets Dynamics custom text spanner postfix and Dynamics text spanner postfix http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/snippets/expressive-marks

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: The solution really depends on what you want to do with it. For a piece of music, I want to generate score and midi. Score is no problem. The midi needs to be fold out w.r.t. repeats (unfoldRepeats can do that) but there are also Segno / D.S.

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011, 16:17:26 schrieb Johan Vromans: Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: The solution really depends on what you want to do with it. For a piece of music, I want to generate score and midi. The midi needs to be fold out w.r.t. repeats (unfoldRepeats can

RE: Adding line breaks within lyrics

2011-06-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org [lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] on behalf of Andrew C. Smith [andrewchristophersm...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 June 2011 20:01 To: LilyPond User Group Subject: Adding

RE: Adding line breaks within lyrics

2011-06-19 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org [lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] on behalf of Kieren MacMillan [kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: 18 June 2011 23:08 To: Andrew C.Smith Cc: LilyPond User Group

Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew C. Smith
Thanks Kieren James, This helped a lot. I actually found a lesser workaround later last night, but your solutions were way better. Continuing this conversation: I'm trying to now make a markup function, and running into trouble. Here's the function: --- #(define-markup-command (wrap-lyrics

Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew C. Smith
Sorry, made more progress than I thought I would. My full explanation is below. Any simplifications (particularly ways to do away with the \markup \column redundancy) would be welcome. Wrapping lyrics in LilyPond Markup command: #(define-markup-list-command (wrap-lyrics layout props line)

Re: Custom dynamic text spanner without dashed line

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Again, many thanks to Reinhold for implementing the possibility to use custom dynamic text spanners with a POSTFIX syntax. I'm trying to adapt snippets Dynamics custom text spanner postfix and Dynamics text

Re: Pitch-bent note's release-phase

2011-06-19 Thread Graham Breed
Richard Sabey richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: But you don't need this problem when a note allocated to a channel is followed by a rest in that channel. Is Lilypond writing a MIDI pitch wheel change message to take effect at the same instant as the MIDI note off message? If I'm right (I

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Gilles
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=extract To get the last version and get documentations about the function extractMusic, please follow this link : http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=764 [This snippet is still not approved] Gilles ___

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Gilles gilles.thiba...@free.fr To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:14 PM Subject: Re: Sub-music http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=extract To get the last version and get documentations about the function extractMusic, please

Re: Custom dynamic text spanner without dashed line

2011-06-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 19 June 2011 21:47, Jay Anderson horndud...@gmail.com wrote: I use this: justDim = #(make-music 'DecrescendoEvent 'span-direction START 'span-type 'text 'span-text dim. 'tweaks '((dash-period . -1))) justCresc = #(make-music 'CrescendoEvent 'span-direction START 'span-type 'text

Dynamic + text aligned: BEST solution?

2011-06-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, There are currently different tricks in order to align text and a dynamic (with the dynamic correctly aligned centered below the attached note). The following snippets are providing different solutions (some with important drawbacks) to this issue/request (useful in many cases!):

Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Dykes
I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. -- In Christ, Michael D \version 2.12.3 \include english.ly \include gregorian.ly \header { title = Anaphora poet = Znamenny Chant composer =

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Gilles
To get the last version and get documentations about the function extractMusic, please follow this link : http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=764 [This snippet is still not approved] Gilles Could you summarise the difference from the previous version for me, please? If you just

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 06:18:04PM -0400, Michael Dykes wrote: I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. Use bar checks | and you'll find the problem. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Collett
On 20/06/2011, at 10:18 am, Michael Dykes wrote: I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. You need to give it more opportunity to find breaks. A quick fix, since you are not actually using

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 6/19/11 4:18 PM, Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com wrote: I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. I haven't read your .ly file, but whenever measures run off a page, it generally