Re: centering text on a measure

2011-08-31 Thread David Nalesnik
> I've been experimenting with a way to center text on measures. (I create a > lot of exercises with blanks or roman numerals between the staff, and it's > nice not to need to position each > Oops, that would be "beneath." ___ lilypond-user mailing list

centering text on a measure

2011-08-31 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi all, I've been experimenting with a way to center text on measures. (I create a lot of exercises with blanks or roman numerals between the staff, and it's nice not to need to position each one individually by trial and error.) I've come up with the following function which works, but I wonder

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:30 PM, harm6 wrote: > > > Mike Solomon-2 wrote: >> >> Hmm...I thought that after-line-breaking would be called after the bounds >> were set, but I was wrong. >> >> Try: >> >> #(define (has-interface? grob interface) >> (member interface >> (assoc-get 'interfaces

Re: Adding dynamics to lyrics

2011-08-31 Thread harm6
Peter Chubb-4 wrote: > > Hi, > I've been trying to work out how to add dynamics to lyrics, to > give singers guidance. > > I tried the obvious: > > foo = \lyricmode { start\p quiet -- ly \cresc and get loud -- er \f } > > but the dynamics appear to be interpreted

Re: shorten a broken hairpin at a linebreak?

2011-08-31 Thread harm6
Mike Solomon-2 wrote: > > Hmm...I thought that after-line-breaking would be called after the bounds > were set, but I was wrong. > > Try: > > #(define (has-interface? grob interface) > (member interface > (assoc-get 'interfaces > (ly:grob-property grob 'meta >

Re: lyx usage [WAS: Re: lilypond-book download]

2011-08-31 Thread Julien Rioux
On 31/08/2011 3:00 AM, Pablo Zumarán wrote: Thank you very much for the tip! Now I can see the music on LyX and view the pdf file. This is exactly the sort of program I was looking for, and now I can get down to work on my book. Who must I thank? Federico Bruni-5 wrote: Il 30/08/2011 23:42,

Re: Change font of titles, composer etc

2011-08-31 Thread Nick Payne
On 31/08/11 08:53, Brett McCoy wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:45 PM, wrote: Hello Everyone, This seems like it should be obvious, but I haven't been able to figure it out. How does one change the font of the title, composer, copyright notice etc? Can anyone point me in the right direction?