Help with autochange

2012-01-08 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, corresponding to the NR 2.2.1, page 285 Changing staff automatically I have to add the \autochange before the \relative. I wrote four measures of the pieces and add the \autochange. But this breaks it completely. What am I doing wrong here? The complete example below has one line

Re: Help with autochange

2012-01-08 Thread -Eluze
hi iirc the \autochange is not perfect… but in your example i would suggest to pack the notes of the upper staff in a \new Voice so that they are treated independent of the switching notes. you will also have to introduce some voice directives (\voiceTwo) to prevent them to behave like

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-08 Thread James
Xavier, On 14 December 2011 08:37, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2011 05:31, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: How can I reduce the width of a single measure? i.e. in the final bar below containing the chord of whole notes, I want the width of the measure

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Collett
On 9/01/2012, at 8:22 am, James wrote: I tried to use this myself on the first bar of a piece to get a 'squashed' hairpin linger by extending the measure but I cannot seem to *only* make it affect the first measure. The rest of the measures are also affected. I wonder if you or anyone else

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-08 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 8 January 2012 20:22, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Xavier, […] I tried to use this myself on the first bar of a piece to get a 'squashed' hairpin linger by extending the measure but I cannot seem to *only* make it affect the first measure. version 2.14.1 \relative c' { \time 3/4

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-08 Thread James
Matthew/Xavier On 8 January 2012 20:11, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 January 2012 20:22, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Xavier, […] I tried to use this myself on the first bar of a piece to get a 'squashed' hairpin linger by extending the measure but I cannot seem to

Fastest way of generating a preview

2012-01-08 Thread Nils
Hello list, what is the fastest way to create a lilypond preview of your file? I expect to trade quality and correctnes for speed. One example, which is even in the manual I think, is to deactivate the links in a pdf #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) What about the non-pdf backends? Is it