Problem with articulate.ly

2012-04-26 Thread Nick Payne
The example below builds without error and gives the output I want. However, if I include articulate.ly, then the output is garbaged even though I haven't used \unfoldRepeats \articulate, and I get the following warnings in the log: /home/nick/lilypond/examples/test.ly:8:59: warning: already h

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Thomas, > i.e., my main concern here is the situation where you may have more than two > staves, which is a much more common situation. The case I wanted to make in > the first place is to drop empty staves beyond the second staff, and in the > piano scores I have (e.g. Debussy or Messiaen),

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi Kieren, On 27/4/12 3:00 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I doubt that this new default behavior reflects common practice, though As a pianist, I can tell you it absolutely does reflect common engraving practice for piano staves: It is a very rare piano score (perhaps 1/10 of 1%) that contains only

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Thomas, > I doubt that this new default behavior reflects common practice, though As a pianist, I can tell you it absolutely does reflect common engraving practice for piano staves: It is a very rare piano score (perhaps 1/10 of 1%) that contains only a single staff. That is precisely the re

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi Choan and Harm, thanks for the prompt reply. On 27/4/12 2:28 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: this is a new feature with 2.14. The "Keep_alive_together_engraver": Per default a PianoStaff is removed only when all staves are empty. A single staff isn't deleted any more. If you want this behaviour, remo

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Morley
Am 27. April 2012 01:51 schrieb Thomas Ruedas : > Hi again, > I have a piano score in which there are sometimes two, sometimes three > staves, and I want the empty third staff to disappear during long stretches > in which it is empty. This used to work in an earlier version (2.10) but > after havin

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 4/27/12 01:51 , Thomas Ruedas wrote: Hi again, I have a piano score in which there are sometimes two, sometimes three staves, and I want the empty third staff to disappear during long stretches in which it is empty. This used to work in an earlier version (2.10) but after having converted to 2

Re: switch in/out of mensurstriche layout?

2012-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
diekunstderfuge wrote: this has only worked for the final bar line at the end of the second system. You have modifed the mensurstrich global to do "dashed", and it has done its final barline at the end of bar 3 and bar7. Is this something you want? The spacers in the mensurstrich global sh

\RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi again, I have a piano score in which there are sometimes two, sometimes three staves, and I want the empty third staff to disappear during long stretches in which it is empty. This used to work in an earlier version (2.10) but after having converted to 2.14.2, it doesn't anymore. Below foll

Re: non standard key signature question

2012-04-26 Thread Keith OHara
corallina gmail.com> writes: > I am working through a guitar book based on middle eastern forms > the author uses a key signature for the example modes which is > a combination of two flats (key b flat) and one sharp (key g) You can build key signatures by hand as David suggested, but it might

Re: Troubles posting to lilypond-users list

2012-04-26 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/04/12 04:48, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 04/26/2012 02:29 PM, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote: I can see 5 messages from you :-). Maybe you don't see your own messages? It seems to be a common phenomenon on this list: Someone posts complaining that their posts don’t come through, immediately

Re: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:49 PM, flup2 wrote: > > One of the best way to use lilypond-book with TeXShop is to use a dedicated > "engine". Nicola Vitacolonna, a lilypond and LaTeX user, made a very > interesting one. You can find it here : > > http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/conten

Re: Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-26 Thread James
Hello, On 26 April 2012 21:11, Urs Liska wrote: > Hello Jan-Peter, > > thank you for this information. > This is exactly what I needed! > > Can I find this in the docs? To get a better understanding ... It's mentioned here at least http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/changes/index.html

Re: Access font-name in markup functions

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hello Jan-Peter, thank you for this information. This is exactly what I needed! Can I find this in the docs? To get a better understanding ... Best Urs Am 25.04.2012 10:37, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Urs, if you are using the current devel version, you can wrap any markup with #{ #} --

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks to all. Janek's (simplest) solution just did it. When I noticed that hitting " doesn't work because it's a special char, I didn't think of the (obvious) fact that the other quotation marks aren't special but ordinary Unicode characters ... So copy and paste worked smoothly :-[ Best Urs

Re: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread flup2
Hello, One of the best way to use lilypond-book with TeXShop is to use a dedicated "engine". Nicola Vitacolonna, a lilypond and LaTeX user, made a very interesting one. You can find it here : http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-engines-texshop http://users.dimi.u

Re: Troubles posting to lilypond-users list

2012-04-26 Thread Christopher R. Maden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/26/2012 02:29 PM, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote: > I can see 5 messages from you :-). Maybe you don't see your own > messages? It seems to be a common phenomenon on this list: Someone posts complaining that their posts don’t come through, immediately

Re: Troubles posting to lilypond-users list

2012-04-26 Thread Rembrandt Wolpert
I can see 5 messages from you :-). Maybe you don't see your own messages? To your question -- also on a Mac 10.7.3 -- I am using a different approach, so won't be able to help you. (I use a makefile, which automatically executs only those commands that are needed because of some changes, but my se

Re: non standard key signature question

2012-04-26 Thread David Kastrup
corallina writes: > I am working through a guitar book based on middle eastern forms > the author uses a key signature for the example modes which is > a combination of two flats (key b flat) and one sharp (key g) > > Is it possible to set up a key signature as above? > I do realize that I could

Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread Dona Mommsen
Hi, I'm an occasional user of Lilypond and so far, I've created only smaller examples. I'm neither an experienced user with Latex, so bare with me. I'm trying to use Lilypond-book (v.2.14.2) with TeXShop (v2.43) on Mac OS X (v10.7.3). The installation worked and I can run a small test-file: 1. I

non standard key signature question

2012-04-26 Thread corallina
I am working through a guitar book based on middle eastern forms the author uses a key signature for the example modes which is a combination of two flats (key b flat) and one sharp (key g) Is it possible to set up a key signature as above? I do realize that I could simply set up a key signature

Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread Dona Mommsen
Hi, I'm an occasional user of Lilypond and so far, I've created only smaller examples. I'm neither an experienced user with Latex, so bare with me. I'm trying to use Lilypond-book (v.2.14.2) with TeXShop (v2.43) on Mac OS X (v10.7.3). The installation worked and I can run a small test-file: 1.

Fwd: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread Dona Mommsen
Hi, it seems that my message didn't make it to the list. Cheers, Dona Begin forwarded message: > From: Dona Mommsen > Subject: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions > Date: April 26, 2012 10:13:17 AM GMT+02:00 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > > Hi, > > I'm an occasional user of Li

Questions about mailing list and message format

2012-04-26 Thread Dona Mommsen
Hi, this morning, I tried to send a message from my mail client (Mail on Mac OS X), but it didn't work. Then I tried to post it by the gmane interface (copy-paste of the text), but I get an error > The following errors were found. Fix them, and submit again: > You have lines longer than 8

Troubles posting to lilypond-users list

2012-04-26 Thread Dona Mommsen
Hi, I'm subscribed to this list for years, as I'm an occasional user of lilypond. I'm trying to post to this list, but so far, my messages didn't get through. I've tried sending e-mails directly and I tried the web-interface. >From the gmane list, I got through the confirmation process. The e-mail

switch in/out of mensurstriche layout?

2012-04-26 Thread diekunstderfuge
Hello, I am trying to achieve a solid bar line across all the staves at the end of the first system, to resemble the final bar line at the end of the second system, which the \global setting provided in the Mensurstriche Layout snippet takes care of with the \revert command. In my code (attached)

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
This is almost, what I just was about to write ... just another hint: you can also enter any character in a markup with the \char command. The codes are 8222 and 8220. If you want to circumvent \markup \concat { \char #8222 Ich }, you might use a music-function, to wrap syllables in quotes. I h

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska wrote: >> Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably >> the language specific (German) versions. > > "ordinary" quotation marks should be preceded with backslashes and > included inside external

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably > the language specific (German) versions. "ordinary" quotation marks should be preceded with backslashes and included inside external quotation marks: { b } \addlyric

quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably the language specific (German) versions. Thank you for any help Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: Bug concerning acciaccatura and \time?

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.04.2012 00:26, schrieb Thomas Ruedas: On 25/4/12 9:39 PM, Urs Liska wrote: This is a known issue and explained in the Notation Reference (see "Known issues and warnings" under "grace notes" on http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns.html) Basic