Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement

2011-11-07 Thread Peekay Ex
Hello, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:24 AM, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: Wow, what great software.  I've been looking for something like this, and am very glad to have found it. I use lilypond to write lead sheets.  I have a chart with a coda jump that occurs right after a second ending.  The

Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement

2011-11-07 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 07/11/2011 05:24, lilyp...@umpquanet.com ha scritto: Is there a way I can tweak the placement of the Coda symbol to bring it a little (or a lot) lower, and hopefully cause the software to spread the horizontal spacing a little to prevent crowding? In order to spread the horizontal space a

Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
I have been using the excellent jazzcombo template by Amelie Zapf, I am now doing my third fake sheet. So far just a bass staff chords annotations above it. The first two, all the examples in the manuals, put the chords above the staff, where I want them. My third, which I am working on now,

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:04:04AM +, Steve Downes wrote: I have been using the excellent jazzcombo template by Amelie Zapf, I am now doing my third fake sheet. So far just a bass staff chords annotations above it. The first two, all the examples in the manuals, put the chords above

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread eluze
have a look at 'Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics' in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves Eluze ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

How does lilypond choose fonts?

2011-11-07 Thread Frederick Bartlett
Hi! I'm using lilypond 2.14.1 under CygWin 2.7, and have a large number of fonts I've accumulated over the decades. I have set up my lilypond files to use fonts I like in \paper: #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Centaur MT ITC Eras

Re: How to change the stem-length?

2011-11-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:56 AM, harm6 thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: But when using it in a cross-staff example with kneed-beams, I've noticed a problem: Some stems are affected some not. Oddly enough, when changing the global-staff-size, I retrieve different results. I don't

Re: How does lilypond choose fonts?

2011-11-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I have set up my lilypond files to use fonts I like in \paper: #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Centaur MT ITC Eras Prestige Elite (/ myStaffSize 20))) And this works exactly as expected, so long as

official way to have a MultiMeasureRest force appearance of a french-ed Staff

2011-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Situation: Lilypond 2.15.x Staff has been french-ed by \RemoveEmptyStaves one particular MultiMeasureRest needs to be visible What's the current best practice for doing this? (At one point it was to mess with keep-alive-interfaces, but I know a lot of changes have been

Re: Chord symbols above staff

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Downes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:17:12PM +0100, eluze wrote: have a look at 'Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics' in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves Eluze Sorted now, thanks very much for your help Steve

Re: How to change the stem-length?

2011-11-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Nov 6, 2011, at 4:56 AM, harm6 wrote: Hi, using a beam-stencil-override, I'd wish to adjust the stem-length within the beam-stencil-override. The following (boiled down) function works fine in most cases, even with kneed-beams. But when using it in a cross-staff example with