Re: midi panorama

2012-06-03 Thread Stefan Thomas
It's a pitty. I thinks it would be useful to have a feature allowing to type in directly midi-commands in Lilypond source-code. I thinks, this wouldn't be too complicated to implement. 2012/6/2 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Stefan Thomas

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-03 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support for things we desperately need: reflection, automatic memory management and callbacks. How about D? http://dlang.org/ This seems to me to be a great choice for much of LP's needs.

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: Hi, can you tell me what's the meaning of a stem which connects a note in a voice to a rest (?) in another voice? See image attached. There is no rest to be seen. There are just two voices which share some noteheads. Also there is one glissando

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 03/06/2012 15:20, David Kastrup ha scritto: Federico Brunifedel...@gmail.com writes: Hi, can you tell me what's the meaning of a stem which connects a note in a voice to a rest (?) in another voice? See image attached. There is no rest to be seen. There are just two voices which share

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Federico, On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: Il 03/06/2012 15:20, David Kastrup ha scritto: Federico Brunifedel...@gmail.com writes: Hi, can you tell me what's the meaning of a stem which connects a note in a voice to a rest (?) in another

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 03/06/2012 16:04, David Nalesnik ha scritto: This sort of notation is very common. Rather than notating only what is physically possible for the player, the notator tries to show the musical sense of the passage. So, here, we have two voices, and the notator is trying to show each voice

\voiceOne and placement of slur (close to noteheads)

2012-06-03 Thread Federico Bruni
This question is related to a bug report I sent some hours ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-06/msg00022.html Try to compile the attached file with 2.14.2 and 2.15.39 or git version. You'll see that in latest version the slurs connect noteheads, even if \voiceOne is

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com writes: This sort of notation is very common.  Rather than notating only what is physically possible for the player, the notator tries to show the musical sense of the passage. It's not actually even physically impossible: most instruments allow you

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: Il 03/06/2012 16:04, David Nalesnik ha scritto: This sort of notation is very common.  Rather than notating only what is physically possible for the player, the notator tries to show the musical sense of the passage. If you'd try to notate exactly

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: voicing is an important and advanced skill for most instruments: guitar, violin, pianoforte (much more so than with plucked keyboards like harpsichord and spinett), accordion: the important thing is to lend each _voice_ a consistent character (loudness,

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/6/3 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: This is a correct engraving. Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8 { e,8 [f] } \\ { e4} } on a common six-string guitar.

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/6/3 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: This is a correct engraving. Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8 { e,8

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Eluze
Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8{ e,8 [f] } \\ { e4} } on a common six-string guitar. (first beat of the bar) -Harm it took me approx. 3 seconds to change the tuning of the 6-th string down to d - then

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Eluze elu...@gmail.com: Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8{ e,8 [f] } \\ { e4}  } on a common six-string guitar. (first beat of the bar) -Harm it took me approx. 3 seconds to change the tuning

Invalid URLs in the lilypond-user Digests

2012-06-03 Thread Patrick Karl
on it will always result in: Not Found The requested URL /archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20120603/66923ef3/attachment.jpg was not found on this server. How do people deal with this? Is there something I can do to get Digests with valid URLs? (Reply not sent to Federico Bruni as it is not really

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-03 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 03/06/12 14:17, David Kastrup wrote: How about first getting C++/Scheme right? As I already explained, cleaning up the mess of layers and control flow will a) give a better basis for judging that approach b) make it easier to migrate individual layers to something else if desired

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Eluze
Am 03.06.2012 17:18, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2012/6/3 Eluzeelu...@gmail.com: Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8{ e,8 [f] } \\ { e4} } on a common six-string guitar. (first beat of the bar) -Harm it took

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 03/06/12 14:17, David Kastrup wrote: How about first getting C++/Scheme right? As I already explained, cleaning up the mess of layers and control flow will a) give a better basis for judging that approach b) make it easier to

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, As a composer, I can say that I often use incorrect notation in order to highlight voice-leading and intentions regarding articulation/stress/etc. In particular, my Chaconne for unaccompanied violin has many unplayable passages, which sound quite lovely when played correctly. =)

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 03/06/2012 18:37, Eluze ha scritto: Am 03.06.2012 17:18, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2012/6/3 Eluzeelu...@gmail.com: Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: Not really. It is physically _impossible_ to play \relative c { \clef G_8{ e,8 [f] } \\ { e4} } on a common six-string guitar.

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/3 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: (...) Am 03.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: But you can't hold the e on the 6th string as a crotchet. you mean it should be e4. instead of e8~ e4? this is just a notational issue, it is playable I guess I'm missing what you mean (...)

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-03 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 03/06/12 17:44, David Kastrup wrote: I don't want to remove as much C++ as possible. That's about as useful as to remove as much C as possible from Emacs. The point is to consider C++ as the building language for primitives, and tie together the primitives in Scheme. OK, I misinterpreted

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 03/06/12 17:44, David Kastrup wrote: I don't want to remove as much C++ as possible. That's about as useful as to remove as much C as possible from Emacs. The point is to consider C++ as the building language for primitives,

Re: \voiceOne and placement of slur (close to noteheads)

2012-06-03 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 03.06.2012 16:42, schrieb Federico Bruni: This question is related to a bug report I sent some hours ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-06/msg00022.html Try to compile the attached file with 2.14.2 and 2.15.39 or git version. You'll see that in latest version the slurs

Re: midi panorama

2012-06-03 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com wrote: It's a pitty. I thinks it would be useful to have a feature allowing to type in directly midi-commands in Lilypond source-code. It would be better to have Lily commands for things like panorama, i think. I

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread -Eluze
My point was that it is impossible to play e f8 only on the 6th string of a guitar. But that should sound at the second quaver of the example following _exactly_ the notation of your example. just another thought - if these notes have originally been written for another instrument -

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-03 Thread diekunstderfuge
Thank you so much! This code worked perfectly. You were of course absolutely right about the context for \numericTimeSignature...I can't believe I didn't spot that myself! I have not worked with Scheme before and I would like to start learning how to write advanced tweaks for Lilypond as well as

Music function for manual vertical placement of systems and staves

2012-06-03 Thread Philip Thomas
Dear fellow users, I have managed to design some simple music functions, but I haven't succeeded with this one. The score (SATB choral) is short but has a certain complexity (a number of repeated passages, pronunciation notes under lyrics, large markup text appearing mid-score, etc.). After

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-06-03 04:29 PM, diekunstderfuge wrote: Thank you so much! This code worked perfectly. You were of course absolutely right about the context for \numericTimeSignature...I can't believe I didn't spot that myself! I have not worked with Scheme before and I would like to start learning how to

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 15:15 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, can you tell me what's the meaning of a stem which connects a note in a voice to a rest (?) in another voice? See image attached. Is it good output? (I think it's been engraved in Finale) If so, how can I get it in LilyPond?

Re: Music function for manual vertical placement of systems and staves

2012-06-03 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Philip, I tried to write a function along the following lines, but it didn't work: SATBVert = #(define-music-function (parser location sysvert StoA AtoT TtoB) (number? number? number? number?) #{ \overrideProperty #Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn