sh install (continue Friedrich Fischer's ost by march-april 2011)

2011-06-28 Thread BARÉ Willy SPRL
Hi, I got the same results as Friedrich Fischer using a fresh install of Puppy Linux (i.e. DPup Squeezed 4.99 which is one of the last release of Puppy Linux ; and also tried on Puppy 4.20 which has been released about 2009 - kernel is k.2.6.25.16). results:

reverting the beam-exceptions immediately

2011-06-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, in the below quoted example I can reset the beam-exceptions only after a time-signature-change. How could it be possible restting the beam-exceptions without a time-signature change? \version 2.14.1 \new Staff { \time 3/8 \unset Timing.beamExceptions \set Voice.baseMoment

Re: how to create baroque ornaments

2011-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:14:06PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 6/27/11 3:26 PM, Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr wrote: For instance: \include side-ornementations.ily { \parc bes'4. \parb c''!8 \para d''4. \pralla c'' \pralla e''8 \bar } This is beautiful code,

Complex cross-rhythms

2011-06-28 Thread Brian Lenth
Hello everybody, I'm attempting to create a score that uses simultaneous multiple tempi, at a ratio of 5:7. As a test, I made thishttp://www.foursquarenightmare.com/scores/polytempo-example.pdf (see code below). Basically it uses the ridiculous time signature of 42/4, with barlines inserted to

Re: Complex cross-rhythms

2011-06-28 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Brian Lenth wrote: Hello everybody, I'm attempting to create a score that uses simultaneous multiple tempi, at a ratio of 5:7. As a test, I made this (see code below). Basically it uses the ridiculous time signature of 42/4, with barlines inserted to create

Re: reverting the beam-exceptions immediately

2011-06-28 Thread Phil Holmes
If you want to do this within a bar, wouldn't it just be easier to manual beam? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Stefan Thomas To: lilypond-user Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:58 AM Subject: reverting the beam-exceptions immediately Dear community, in the

Re: Position of slur between two notes in different chords

2011-06-28 Thread Markus Pfaff
In the meantime I'd propose this workaround to produce at least a slightly more readable score: \version 2.14.1 \relative c' { \key f \major a e' a des e8(~ \tweak #'transparent ##t \tweak #'no-ledgers ##t a \tweak #'transparent ##t \tweak #'no-ledgers ##t e' bes'

Re: system-system-spacing in lilypond-book-file

2011-06-28 Thread flup2
Hello, Here is a little explanation about the problem : in fact, when including a lilypond snippet with breaks in a LaTeX document, lilypond-book makes a separate .ly file for each system. In that way, the become 2 images included in a LaTeX file. That's why the \paper {system-system-spacing}

[Best Practices] instrument changes

2011-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I write a lot of music for doublers, i.e., instrumentalists who play more than one instrument. Often (e.g., clarinet), these instruments have different transpositions. Furthermore, I usually need to print parts (in performance pitch) and scores (both transposed and c scores). I

Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings All, I have just downloaded and installed the x86 distribution of LilyPond-2.14.1. I may be missing something fantastically obvious, but I am unable to locate a manual which I can read through Emacs' texinfo facility. Any help is appreciated! Hwaen Ch'uqi

RE: [Best Practices] instrument changes

2011-06-28 Thread James Lowe
Kieren, 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: 28 June 2011 15:15 To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject:

Re: [Best Practices] instrument changes

2011-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Thanks for chiming in! Very helpful. 1. Always use music variables and THEN transpose them in the \score, rather than transpose them in the variable (if that makes sense?) Definitely. This, I think, is Best Practice #1. In fact, put the notes in variables and [try to] do

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread David Kastrup
Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com writes: Greetings All, I have just downloaded and installed the x86 distribution of LilyPond-2.14.1. I may be missing something fantastically obvious, but I am unable to locate a manual which I can read through Emacs' texinfo facility. Any help is

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Michel Villeneuve
2011/6/28 Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com: Greetings All,          I have just downloaded and installed the x86 distribution of LilyPond-2.14.1. I may be missing something fantastically obvious, but I am unable to locate a manual which I can read through Emacs' texinfo facility. Any help is

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote: Did you try install lilypond with the --doc option ? sh lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-x86.sh --doc woah, I had no idea that existed! James: please add a Help In the shell, type: sh lilypond-51234.sh --help to the Unix

Staff spacing

2011-06-28 Thread Richard Opheim
In the example below, \version 2.14.0 \layout {\context {\Score }} \new Staff = main \with {\override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing = #'(basic-distance . 3) } {\time 6/8 %{1 %} r8 g8 [ b8 ~ ] b8 [ d8 f8 ~ ] %{2 %}{ f8 [ f8 f8 ~ ] f8 d8 r8 %{3 %} r8 g8 [ g8 ~ ] g8 [ e8 c8 ] ~ }

Re: Staff spacing

2011-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Richard, It was my understanding that changing the value in parentheses in \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing = #'(basic-distance . 3) would alter the distance between staves, but though I attempted to do so, the staves remained at the default spacing. You're basically

Grouping instruments for MIDI output

2011-06-28 Thread Brett McCoy
I am creating an orchestral template. Since I have more instruments than MIDI channels, I am creating a separate score context for MIDI output and want to group the brass instruments so they all use the 'brass ensemble' instrument on a single channel and group all of the string instruments to they

Re: Grouping instruments for MIDI output

2011-06-28 Thread Brett McCoy
I think I figured this out, by putting four voices per staff for brass and strings, I reduced the number of channels to 13 On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Brett McCoy idragos...@gmail.com wrote: I am creating an orchestral template. Since I have more instruments than MIDI channels, I am

RE: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread James Lowe
Hello, From: Graham Percival [gra...@percival-music.ca] Sent: 28 June 2011 19:42 To: Michel Villeneuve; James Lowe Cc: Hwaen Ch'uqi; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Texinfo manual. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote: Did

Re: Percussion Notation

2011-06-28 Thread cdg
Thank you all. I was able to adjust my tempo markup with: \tempo \markup { \medium \bold Adagio ma con spirito \fontsize #-3 \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #8 #1 = \general-align #Y #DOWN 132 } This gets me much closer to the look I'm trying to recreate. As far as the

RE: [Best Practices] instrument changes

2011-06-28 Thread James Lowe
Kieren, From: Kieren MacMillan [kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: 28 June 2011 16:39 To: James Lowe Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: [Best Practices] instrument changes Q1: When you have a doubler-switch in the middle of a passage, do you use

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 29/06/11 04:42, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote: Did you try install lilypond with the --doc option ? sh lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-x86.sh --doc woah, I had no idea that existed! James: please add a Help In the shell, type: sh

Re: Staff spacing

2011-06-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 29/06/11 05:22, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Richard, It was my understanding that changing the value in parentheses in \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing = #'(basic-distance . 3) would alter the distance between staves, but though I attempted to do so, the staves remained at

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mer, 29/06/2011 alle 07.50 +1000, Nick Payne ha scritto: Also, even if the manuals are installed locally, using the search facility still goes to the web and uses Google to search the online documentation. That's not avoidable, since the search engine is Google :-) The nicest

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday, June 26, 2011 07:11:37 PM Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: That's the way I use it as well. But I'm totally familiar with this being C/E. That's the only layout I've ever seen for this kind of notation. Before 1960 or so C/E was

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
But this path wasn't valid. The index.html file was actually installed to file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/index.html Ouch. Why not the canonical location file:///usr/local/share/doc/lilypond/... ? This looks completely broken. Werner

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:59 PM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sunday, June 26, 2011 07:11:37 PM Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: That's the way I use it as well. But I'm totally familiar with this being C/E. That's the only layout I've ever seen