Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again-- On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:22 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Harm! > > I'm sure this could be modified to target the note that governs stem > direction. > > I'm not sure if my reasoning is correct (or if this all is particularly useful), but the function in the attached file attempts to

Re: Collision between tie and pitched trill

2012-01-19 Thread Caio Barros
In this example is not so visible. But is there. In smaller staff sizes it gets worse because the tie is thicker. I actually saw this error in an orchestral score with very small staffs. \version "2.14.2" #(set-global-staff-size 8) \relative g'' { \pitchedTrill g1 ~ \startTrillSpan a g2 } I

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm! On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Morley < thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > 2012/1/19 David Nalesnik : > > Hi Frank, > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Morley > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Frank, > >> > >> 2012/1/17 Frank Steinmetzger : > >> > >> > Is t

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 20 January 2012 10:29, Benedict Singer wrote: > On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set >>> my pieces, and composition has take

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/1/19 David Nalesnik : > Hi Frank, > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> >> Hi Frank, >> >> 2012/1/17 Frank Steinmetzger : >> >> > Is there an automatic way to resolve this, i.e. that all "ness" >> > syllables are >> > properly aligned again? > > > It appear

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Benedict Singer
On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: Hi all, I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want to say that looking at the

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Frank, On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Morley < thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > 2012/1/17 Frank Steinmetzger : > > > Is there an automatic way to resolve this, i.e. that all "ness" > syllables are > > properly aligned again? > It appears the text will be aligned

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Jan 2012, at 21:58, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote: >>> Open software people tend to consider artists as being >>> equivalent to programmers, so they think artists >>> should starve. I have no sympathy with that view. >>> Obviously. Kno

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Frank, 2012/1/17 Frank Steinmetzger : > Hello gurus > > I already wrote a whole paragraph to describe my problem, but an image is far > simpler.  Please see the attached screenshot to get an idea of my problem.   > The > "ness" syllables are not aligned to one another, because alto and bass are

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread James
Hello, On 19 January 2012 21:32, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my >> pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want >>

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my > pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want > to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12 before tha

Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12 before that), it's incredible what everyone has done, so much thanks! A

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread David Kastrup
David Raleigh Arnold writes: > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote: >> > Open software people tend to consider artists as being >> > equivalent to programmers, so they think artists >> > should starve. I have no sympathy with that view. >> > Obviously. Knowledge should be fre

Re: pdf to .ly?

2012-01-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:06 +0100 Rutger Hofman wrote: > SharpEye also has a freeware version with some restrictions. One of > them is that it does not generate MusicXML. It can create NIFF > though, and I wrote a converter from NIFF to Lilypond: niff2ly. Actually, there are two versions availa

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread PMA
Oh, this is interesting -- I'll pursue re Mondrup and Youtube. But I should add -- figuring your "Yale" references must be inspired by my email address -- that I am not Yale faculty, but an alumn (School of Music, DMA '80). As such, I am granted an eternal "aya.yale.edu" pointer to my whatever c

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote: > > Open software people tend to consider artists as being > > equivalent to programmers, so they think artists > > should starve. I have no sympathy with that view. > > Obviously. Knowledge should be free, Yale to the > > contrary. Art shou

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread PMA
Hayden Muhl wrote: PMA-2 wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status. I would like, of course, to find a (major, well run) public archive without such constraints. Have you actually spoken to anyone over at IMS

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread Hayden Muhl
PMA-2 wrote: > > David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ > WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status. > > I would like, of course, to find a (major, well run) public archive > without such constraints. > Have you actually spoken to anyone over at IMSLP abo

Re: pdf to .ly?

2012-01-19 Thread Frédéric Bron
> Does anybody here know of software that could convert a .pdf into .ly? > Mayber .pdf to .xml first, then to .ly? > Or  .pdf into .svg, or some sort of image file?  I got some music from the > IMSLP site, it needs to be rotated and cleaned up a bit. free command line software: - pdftk: http://www

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread Bernardo Barros
> Open software people tend to consider artists as being > equivalent to programmers, so they think artists > should starve. I have no sympathy with that view. > Obviously. Knowledge should be free, Yale to the > contrary. Art shouldn't be free until the artist gets his. The source code of the lil

Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

2012-01-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 15:02 -0500, PMA wrote: > David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > Your last sentence here hits on *the* issue in my original post. > Why indeed would I...? But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ > WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status. > > I would like, of course, to fi

Re: Collision between tie and pitched trill

2012-01-19 Thread Patrick Karl
> Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:34:09 -0200 > From: Caio Barros > To: Keith OHara > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Collision between tie and pitched trill > > Yes, but it's still a collision. It looks ok at 2.14.2. I don't see a collision. > 2012/1/19 Keith OHara > >> Ca

distance between sustain pedal and staff

2012-01-19 Thread Paolo Prete
Hello, 1) how can I set the distance between sustain pedal and staff on lily 2.15.22 ? I tried (see the attached example): \override Score.SustainPedalLineSpanner #'padding = #'20 (as well as Y-offset and some other options) but it doesn't seem to work... 2) is it possible to change th

Re: Change color for some symbols in a sylable

2012-01-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again Svetlana, I’ve revisited the functions for coloring symbols, and I've eliminated the need to provide a list of every character your text might include. This was liable to cause problems (omissions not showing up in the score, the problem with the non-breaking space you found, etc.) and s

Re: pdf to .ly?

2012-01-19 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 01/18/2012 06:09 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Colin Campbell" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:58 PM Subject: Re: pdf to .ly? On 12-01-18 05:12 AM, Gerard McConnell wrote: Hello, Does anybody here know of software that could convert a .pdf into .ly? M

Re: MetronomeMarks and MultiMeasureRest spacing

2012-01-19 Thread James
Hello, On 19 January 2012 10:10, Shevek wrote: > > > > Keith OHara wrote: >> >> For a better solution, I suggest you search the mailing list archives >> for "MarkLine" >>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00159.html >> The details of this solution seem to need updating t

Re: MetronomeMarks and MultiMeasureRest spacing

2012-01-19 Thread Shevek
Keith OHara wrote: > > For a better solution, I suggest you search the mailing list archives > for "MarkLine" > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00159.html > The details of this solution seem to need updating to work with the > current > version of LilyPond, but the