\midi syntax question

2012-01-13 Thread Albert Frantz
Hello, Can anyone help me out with a very basic question? I'm trying to generate MIDI output, and only MIDI, from this file: \version 2.15.23 \header { tagline = ##f } mus = { e g c'1 } score { \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver } \clef bass \transpose c' a \mus } I tried the

Re: \midi syntax question

2012-01-13 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Albert Frantz wrote: Hello, Can anyone help me out with a very basic question? I'm trying to generate MIDI output, and only MIDI, from this file: \version 2.15.23 \header { tagline = ##f } mus = { e g c'1 } score { \new Staff \with { \remove

Re: \midi syntax question

2012-01-13 Thread Albert Frantz
Mike, Thanks very much for your reply. I just updated the score as follows: \version 2.15.23 \header { tagline = ##f } mus = { e g c'1 } \score { \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver } \clef bass \transpose c' a \mus \midi { } } Now it returns the following error: error: syntax

Re: \midi syntax question

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Albert, there's no \score{ .. } in your version at all (it's missing the backslash). Also, I don't think that the Staff works the way you had it (missing curly brackets around the musical statement, which after all consists of more than one commmand). Actually, you might as well loose the

Re: \midi syntax question

2012-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
Albert Frantz alb...@key-notes.com writes: Mike, Thanks very much for your reply. I just updated the score as follows: \version 2.15.23 \header { tagline = ##f } mus = { e g c'1 } \score { \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver } \clef bass \transpose c' a \mus \midi { } }

Re: Change color for some symbols in a sylable

2012-01-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Carl, 2012/1/11 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu * * Guile has utf-8 string handlers: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/glib/html/Unicode-Manipulation.html I've tried a number of these functions and all appear to be unavailable within my .ly files. I find gLib 2.0

Re: Change color for some symbols in a sylable

2012-01-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Svetlana, 2012/1/12 Светлана eurid...@yandex.ru This works perfectly! I've included all the symbols, that can be used by znamya font and also found some more symbols that should be colored (those that are not available directly from keyboard), so now we have an universal coloring script

Breathing sign at a specified staff position

2012-01-13 Thread Paolo Prete
Hi all, is it possible to place a breathing sign at a specified position? I can do that for a rest, in this way: \override Rest #'staff-position = #-12 thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Breathing sign at a specified staff position

2012-01-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Paolo Prete wrote: is it possible to place a breathing sign at a specified position? I can do that for a rest, in this way: \override Rest #'staff-position = #-12 In your example - replace Rest #'staff-position with BreathingSign #'Y-offset - use only half the value Cheers, Robin

RemoveEmptyStaffContext und Bar_number_engraver

2012-01-13 Thread ornello
I am using RemoveEmptyStaffContext to hide empty staves. Now I want to show bar numbers for each bar above the first visible staff of each system. My first attempt was to set BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-visible for the entire score: \version 2.12.2 \layout { \context { \Score

Re: Change color for some symbols in a sylable

2012-01-13 Thread Светлана
Hi. David,13.01.2012, 21:47, "David Nalesnik" david.nales...@gmail.com:Hi Svetlana,I'm so glad to hear that this works!I happened to notice that several characters are duplicated in the all-characters list, among these the space :)  I took out a few obvious ones.  (I realize that some characters

Cross staff beams

2012-01-13 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello, I managed to get a cross-staff beam, kneed beam, I think, with this code, and with the appearence in attach: d8[ cis a \change Staff = lower \stemUp g] | fis4 \change Staff = upper To reduce stem collision I forced the stemUp there, and the voice in the lower beam has a stemDown.

caesura but not as a breath mark

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Reeves
Hi, How can I put in railroad tracks / caesura in the middle of the staff? The only example I can find in the documentation has it as a breath mark, so it's at the top of the staff. I want it vertically centered on the staff. Thanks, Tim ___

Re: Cross staff beams

2012-01-13 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello, I managed to get a cross-staff beam, kneed beam, I think, with this code, and with the appearence in attach: d8[ cis a \change Staff = lower \stemUp g] | fis4 \change Staff = upper To reduce stem collision I forced the

Re: Cross staff beams

2012-01-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:11:40 + Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt wrote: Hello, I managed to get a cross-staff beam, kneed beam, I think, with this code, and with the appearence in attach: d8[ cis a \change Staff = lower \stemUp g] | fis4 \change Staff = upper You may

Re: caesura but not as a breath mark

2012-01-13 Thread Hans Aikema
On 13-1-2012 21:39, Tim Reeves wrote: Hi, How can I put in railroad tracks / caesura in the middle of the staff? The only example I can find in the documentation has it as a breath mark, so it's at the top of the staff. I want it vertically centered on the staff. Tim, To align the caesura in

Working example of clef change in the beginning on piece

2012-01-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I asked recently how to change clef in the beginning of the piece. I got some replies privately. I also found several different suggestions online. I spent quite a lot of time testing all suggestions and came to an approach that produces beautiful PDF output and has almost no

Re: caesura but not as a breath mark

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Reeves
Hi, Message: 5 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:05:21 +0100 From: Hans Aikema hans.aik...@aikebah.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: caesura but not as a breath mark Message-ID: 4f10aaa1.2090...@aikebah.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 13-1-2012

Re: caesura but not as a breath mark

2012-01-13 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-1-2012 0:54, Tim Reeves wrote: ... So, just like the answer to the almost identical question about breath marks asked by someone else just a few hours ago, then? :-) Thanks, Hans. To be honest, I think it should be possible without using a breath mark, since a railroad tracks is not

Re: caesura but not as a breath mark

2012-01-13 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-1-2012 0:54, Tim Reeves wrote: To be honest, I think it should be possible without using a breath mark, since a railroad tracks is not really a breath. Tim . Just made me wonder, given the 'centred on staff' nature: are you sure you want the caesura and not the simile mark? For a

Orphaned bars

2012-01-13 Thread Vaughan McAlley
I work with renaissance choral music separated into sections with double barlines. There’s not really any need to put a line-break at these double bars, but it looks bad if the last bar of a section begins a line or the first bar of a section ends a line: