Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Good morning Nils, last evening with half closed eyes I missed the "reply-all/list" button ... As you can see, there has been discussion on the list last night. If you typeset on behalf of your publisher, you might try to fulfil his wishes. But there has been some arguments against this style. I

Re: my own file

2012-01-23 Thread mike
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:03:57 + (UTC), Julia wrote: I am having a devil of a time! I confirmed that lilypond is working. The log says my compilation is successful. But neither the ps or pdf file were created. I downloaded the 2.14 version for windows xp. I don't know how to fix that. Pleas

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Please consider this example too (see attachment) - it's taken from > Haendel's "Messiah". I find placing the semicolon before extender > very awkward here - notice the line break. It seems much more "in > place" when punctuation is after the extender. I disagree. For me, the only right place

my own file

2012-01-23 Thread Julia
I am having a devil of a time! I confirmed that lilypond is working. The log says my compilation is successful. But neither the ps or pdf file were created. I downloaded the 2.14 version for windows xp. I don't know how to fix that. Please help!!! Thank you... ___

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 24 January 2012 15:06, Shane Brandes wrote: > My reasoned opinion, which Hayden reiterated, on Gould's pronouncement > about the matter. Anyway, certainly some ammunition to dissuade the > editor. > > Shane > I’ve just looked at the sample pages of Behind Bars and would say that all the exampl

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Shane Brandes
My reasoned opinion, which Hayden reiterated, on Gould's pronouncement about the matter. Anyway, certainly some ammunition to dissuade the editor. Shane On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Hayden Muhl wrote: > I am a singer, and would like to weigh in. > > In my opinion, it is preferable to put the

Re: Top Margin Adjustment

2012-01-23 Thread David Kastrup
-Eluze writes: > Thomas-292 wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> In any LilyPond score, I always find the top margins to look abnormally >> small. >> I have tried to set top-margin, but for some reason, it is ignored. >> >> >> \paper { >> top-margin = 5\cm >> annotate-spacing = ##t >> #

Re: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)

2012-01-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
Dear Xavier, hereby i'd like to thank you for your time spent on helping LilyPond! It's true that user's work often is not appreciated enough. 2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer : > Dear Graham, dear Developers, > why I never *demand* > developers to fix an issue, even if it is one that is really annoying

Re: Top Margin Adjustment

2012-01-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 24 January 2012 00:25, -Eluze wrote: > > it's not ignored - but after having defined top-margin = 5\cm you override > this with #(set-paper-size "letter") > > changing this order will do what you expect! I missed that point. IMHO it is worth mentioning this as a warning in NR 4.1.3 and 4.1.5 (

Re: Top Margin Adjustment

2012-01-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 24 January 2012 00:13, Thomas Wilmot wrote: > Hello, > > In any LilyPond score, I always find the top margins to look abnormally small. > I have tried to set top-margin, but for some reason, it is ignored. If you replace "top-margin" by "top-margin-default" it works. But of course this issue (

Re: Top Margin Adjustment

2012-01-23 Thread -Eluze
Thomas-292 wrote: > > Hello, > > In any LilyPond score, I always find the top margins to look abnormally > small. > I have tried to set top-margin, but for some reason, it is ignored. > > > \paper { > top-margin = 5\cm > annotate-spacing = ##t > #(set-paper-size "letter")

Top Margin Adjustment

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Wilmot
Hello, In any LilyPond score, I always find the top margins to look abnormally small. I have tried to set top-margin, but for some reason, it is ignored. Here is the file: \version "2.14.2" \header { title = "Why must my top margin be so small?" } melody = \relative c' { c d e f g a b

Re: synchronizing other parts w/cadenza

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Giles, 2012/1/23 Gilles : > >>> It is possible with ly:music-compress , to make a function that fit all >>> kind of music >>> cadenzaToMusic = [...] > > > Oops ! Rethinking of the function cadenzaToMusic, I realized that i forgot > the case of the user entering a 0 length music ( s1*0 for examp

Re: "counting-numbers" above bars called with \repeat unfold

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Xavier, 2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer : > On 22 January 2012 14:54, David Nalesnik wrote: >> >> If this is the problem you're seeing, you could use the snippet "Centering >> markup on note heads automatically": http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=637 >> >> I've attached a file which incorporates th

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Hayden Muhl
I am a singer, and would like to weigh in. In my opinion, it is preferable to put the punctuation with the syllable. The punctuation may have an impact on how the singer wants to interpret a phrase. If you put the punctuation after the extension line, the singer will not see the punctuation until

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread David Kastrup
Shane Brandes writes: >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Marc Hohl writes: >>> Am 23.01.2012 20:36, schrieb Nils: > [...] > > > Any known solutions? And if not: I find it strange to make it like > this. Do you know reasons that speaks against _

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Shane Brandes
It would seem more useful. To have such punctuation against the word for the reason that for example with an exclamation point it alters the expression of the word. if you have to arrive at the end of the extender lines to find out about such a change it impedes a quick and accurate reading of the

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 23.01.2012 20:36, schrieb Nils: >> [...] >> >> >> Any known solutions? And if not: I find it strange to make it like >> this. Do you know reasons that speaks against __ _ _! which I can >> tell my publisher? > Well, at least in "Behind bars" from Elaine Gould it is explaine

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 23.01.2012 20:36, schrieb Nils: [...] Any known solutions? And if not: I find it strange to make it like this. Do you know reasons that speaks against __ _ _! which I can tell my publisher? Well, at least in "Behind bars" from Elaine Gould it is explained that the punctuations come *before

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Nils, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Nils wrote: > Hello, > > my publisher wants me to place interpunctation at the end of melisma > underlines: > > A -- le -- lu -- ja __ _ _ _ _! > instead of > A -- le -- lu -- ja! __ _ _ _ _ > > Any known solutions? You can put punctuation at the end o

Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Nils
Hello, my publisher wants me to place interpunctation at the end of melisma underlines: A -- le -- lu -- ja __ _ _ _ _! instead of A -- le -- lu -- ja! __ _ _ _ _ The problem is that _! is not allowed by lilypond and __ ! takes an extra syllabe for the !. Any known solutions? And if not: I f

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 110, Issue 82

2012-01-23 Thread James
Mats, > On 23 January 2012 09:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You replied to the 'digest' not the thread, so now this is probably lost or difficult to search for for other users if they needed to reference it. It's better not to reply directly to the digest as the thread subject gets lost. :)

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 110, Issue 82

2012-01-23 Thread Nils
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:32:39 +0100 Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > Can I somehow insert an invisible figure? In this case the second # ? > > Or is there another way? > > > > Nils > > My first attempt (and surely yours also) was to try just a spacing > figure, i.e. an underscore in the input, but it di

Re: How to place figures (from figured bass) in the second row without a first one?

2012-01-23 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 23 January 2012 01:56, Nils wrote: > Is there no way to make a bass-figure transparent oder set the color > to white for one figure in a "chord" only? You can use a non-printed bass extender. Snippet \version "2.15.26" \score { << \new Staff \relative c, { \clef bass

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 110, Issue 82

2012-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On 01/21/2012 09:53 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Hello lilyresponders, How do I place figures (from figured bass) in the second row without a first one? instead of # # (Third is in the soprano voice) 8 7 I want: # 8 7 notice the blank spot above the 7. Can I somehow