Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
That's a clever idea James, thank you. Although I have to say for such a simple thing I find it a waste of the extra time I will have in creating the notes for the one percussion player. For example: if I want him to make a tremolo movement from the *center* of a gong towards the *edge, *I'd have

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gagi, > my conclusion is that what I'm aiming for isn't yet implemented in LilyPond I'm confused… Does this not do what you want? \version "2.15.32" \score { \relative g' { g4 b d2 } } \layout { \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #3 instrumentName = \mark

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/4/16 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Gagi, > >> my conclusion is that what I'm aiming for isn't yet implemented in LilyPond > > I'm confused… Does this not do what you want? > > \version "2.15.32" > > \score { >  \relative g' { g4 b d2 } > } > > \layout { >  \context { >    \Staff >    \override Staff

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread James
Hello, On 16 April 2012 09:13, Gagi Petrovic wrote: > That's a clever idea James, thank you. > > Although I have to say for such a simple thing I find it a waste of the > extra time I will have in creating the notes for the one percussion player. > For example: if I want him to make a tremolo mov

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Hi Kieren, unfortunately it's not what I'm looking for because I also want the instrument name there as in: *\version "2.14.2" * * * *gong = \new Voice {* * * * \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup\right-column{* * \small\bold\italic"e."* * \line{\center-column{\raise #1.5 "Wind " \raise #1.5 "G

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
PS. James wrote:* (...) *but if you were doing ANY composition with multiple 'voices' (which is what you seem to be doing here) you'd have to do that anyway right? So far using one voice for the percussion player is enough for my musical ideas. On 16 April 2012 11:49, James wrote: > Hello, > >

Re: hideNotes in tablature

2012-04-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 15.04.2012 12:06, schrieb Federico Bruni: Il 15/04/2012 11:00, James ha scritto: Federico, it seems you have the ability (and knowledge) to create a tracker yourself so I suggest that if issue 1459 is fixed you change the label to fixed - someone else will verify - and then create a new trac

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/4/16 Gagi Petrovic : > I hope it's more clear now what I'm aiming for. Still I honestly think there > should be an easier way than spending hours of tweaking markup: just to add > some simple text in front of a staff. And still the result is not that > satisfactory. But you did not follow Kie

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
* \override InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT* * \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \concat{* * \raise#-1 \center-column{ "Wind " "Gong " }* * \hspace#2 \bold\italic\small\center-column { e. m. c. }* * }* Actually I did try it: it's getting close but it's still not the way

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Gagi Petrovic wrote: >    \override InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT >    \set  Staff.instrumentName = \markup \concat{ >      \raise#-1 \center-column{ "Wind " "Gong " } >      \hspace#2 \bold\italic\small\center-column { e. m. c. } >    } > > Actually I

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Yes, that looks very good. But when I add it to my score it looks like the attached example. I think it has something to do with the grouping brackets of the windinstruments and the pianostaff under it.. somehow the *\hspace*command gets ignored then. Cheers, Gagi 2012/4/16 Janek Warchoł > On M

Single notes among chord names

2012-04-16 Thread Morten Lemvigh
I'm writing a lead sheet with melody and chord names above. In one measure I want to have single notes in the base instead of chords, but I cannot figure out how to display this among the chord names. What I would like is something like: | G | g f# e | B | I have only been able to display bas

Adding Bar Line types

2012-04-16 Thread ctesta
Hello Everyone, I would like to add a custom grob to my list of available bar lines. I am currently doing the following to create custom bar lines. %Define the new stencil repeatLeftStencil = #(ly:make-stencil `(path 0.5 `(rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 0 4 rlineto 1

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread David Kastrup
Gagi Petrovic writes: > That's a clever idea James, thank you.  > > > Although I have to say for such a simple thing I find it a waste of > the extra time I will have in creating the notes for the one > percussion player. For example: if I want him to make a tremolo > movement from the center of

Re: hideNotes in tablature

2012-04-16 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 16/04/2012 12:24, Marc Hohl ha scritto: if you create a patch, I think you can remove the Stem #'transparent = ##t in the definition of TabVoice in ly/engraver-init.ly, because the stems have now length zero, so this is superfluous (and will be reverted by the first call of \unHideNotes anyw

Re: Adding Bar Line types

2012-04-16 Thread James
Hello, On 16 April 2012 15:58, wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I would like to add a custom grob to my list of available bar lines. I am > currently doing the following to create custom bar lines. > > %Define the new stencil > repeatLeftStencil = >  #(ly:make-stencil >    `(path 0.5 >          `(rm

Re: Adding Bar Line types

2012-04-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 17/04/12 00:58, cte...@wesleyan.edu wrote: Hello Everyone, I would like to add a custom grob to my list of available bar lines. I am currently doing the following to create custom bar lines. %Define the new stencil repeatLeftStencil = #(ly:make-stencil `(path 0.5 `(rmoveto

Re: Single notes among chord names

2012-04-16 Thread James
Hello, On 15 April 2012 13:52, Morten Lemvigh wrote: > I'm writing a lead sheet with melody and chord names above. In one measure I > want to have single notes in the base instead of chords, but I cannot figure > out how to display this among the chord names. What I would like is > something like

Re: hideNotes in tablature

2012-04-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 16.04.2012 23:25, schrieb Federico Bruni: Il 16/04/2012 12:24, Marc Hohl ha scritto: if you create a patch, I think you can remove the Stem #'transparent = ##t in the definition of TabVoice in ly/engraver-init.ly, because the stems have now length zero, so this is superfluous (and will be r

Re: advanced (?) instrumentname setting

2012-04-16 Thread Gagi Petrovic
I didn't know that trick, thank you David! Op 16 apr. 2012 22:52 schreef "David Kastrup" het volgende: > Gagi Petrovic writes: > > > That's a clever idea James, thank you. > > > > > > Although I have to say for such a simple thing I find it a waste of > > the extra time I will have in creating t

Re: Proper Understanding of Y-extent sought

2012-04-16 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> after the cue notes end, the font-size is wrong (it's too small). > > Hm?  The Solo part is supposed to be small.  This score contains only the > tenor staff of the choir