cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-28 Thread Curt
Hi, a question and a meta-question.  The meta-question is, is there a more appropriate list to ask for suggestions on the best way to notate something?  I occasionally have questions just about the clearest notation choice.The actual question is wondering if anyone thinks there is a better/clearer

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-28 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Thanks a lot David and Jay! That was exactly what I was looking for. Also, it seems quite convenient to use RehearsalMark to use "attacca" indications. Thanks. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.g

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-28 Thread Jay Anderson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Daniel E. Moctezuma wrote: > Perhaps these are more music theory questions than a LilyPond related. > I was wondering which would be the correct way to place an "attaca" markup > text? > For example one could put: > c1_"attaca" \bar "|." Gould says to put it at

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Keith OHara
James Harkins gmail.com> writes: > it's impossible to calculate without both the starting and ending dynamic. > > Or has the logic been improved so that ending a decrescendo with \! now > guesses an ending dynamic that is somewhat softer by some invisibly > determined amount? > Heikki posted s

Re:decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread James Harkins
> > As Phil pointed out already, inserting a \p or \mf or any other dynamic > > sign > > should do the trick: > > > > c\mf c\> c c c\! That takes care of the starting dynamic, but if we assume that a decrescendo in MIDI should be a linear decrease in velocity values, it's impossible to calculate w

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Daniel E. Moctezuma wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps these are more music theory questions than a LilyPond related. > I was wondering which would be the correct way to place an "attaca" markup > text? > For example one could put: > c1_"attaca" \bar "|." >

Attaca markup

2012-08-28 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello, Perhaps these are more music theory questions than a LilyPond related. I was wondering which would be the correct way to place an "attaca" markup text? For example one could put: c1_"attaca" \bar "|." That would force to have markup to a specific note (or chord). Is there any equivalent

Re: convert-ly anomaly

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
David Bobroff writes: > I just upgraded to 2.16 (not sure that's actually relevant). I went to > work on some files that I hadn't touched since v2.5.x. Before doing > anything else I decided to run convert-ly on them. When I work in > Windows I prefer to do my LilyPond stuff in cygwin. When I

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin writes: > Hello! > > I have noticed that Lilypond 2.16.0 uses A4 paper size even if the > locale is set to en_US.utf8. I can force the letter output by using > > -dpaper-size=\"letter\" > > but that seems inelegant. Is there any way to make Lilypond default to > letter pages withou

convert-ly anomaly

2012-08-28 Thread David Bobroff
I just upgraded to 2.16 (not sure that's actually relevant). I went to work on some files that I hadn't touched since v2.5.x. Before doing anything else I decided to run convert-ly on them. When I work in Windows I prefer to do my LilyPond stuff in cygwin. When I tried to run convert-ly the res

updating tremolo snippet for 2.16

2012-08-28 Thread Shevek
First off, thanks to all the people who worked on 2.16! I'm super excited about it, and I'm already noticing drastically reduced compile times for my large projects, compared to 2.14. I'm looking at updating my snippet library, and the first issue I've run into is that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/

LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I have noticed that Lilypond 2.16.0 uses A4 paper size even if the locale is set to en_US.utf8. I can force the letter output by using -dpaper-size=\"letter\" but that seems inelegant. Is there any way to make Lilypond default to letter pages without adding anything to the command line?

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-28 Thread Gilles
I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it? Yes, please. Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypondfile (fwd)

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:26:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Tarenskeen To: pabuhr Subject: Re: lilypondfile On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, pabuhr wrote: lilypond -dbackend=eps -daux-files=#f file.ly should be what you are after... Perfect, except it still

Re: Roman page numbers.

2012-08-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, > > Greetings David, > I have only now had a chance to try your code: This is wonderful. > Thank you very much. > Hwaen Ch'uqi I'm glad you find it useful! I've looked at this some more, and I've figured out how to get the Roman numerals into the table-of-contents. (It involves ada

Re: Programming errors if closing beaming brace omitted

2012-08-28 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 22.08.2012 00:59, schrieb Nick Payne: Not sure if this indicates an error in Lilypond, but if I forget the terminating brace when using manual beaming, then the log contains several "programming error" lines and the output contains noteheads without stems. Here I've commented out the closing

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 28.08.2012 20:23, schrieb Federico Bruni: Il 28/08/2012 20:09, Federico Bruni ha scritto: Il 28/08/2012 20:06, Federico Bruni ha scritto: I can't make it work using my previous minimal example. Also, I can't compile a snippet in NR 1.3.1 (attached) nevermind, it's a bug in recent master:

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 28/08/2012 20:09, Federico Bruni ha scritto: Il 28/08/2012 20:06, Federico Bruni ha scritto: I can't make it work using my previous minimal example. Also, I can't compile a snippet in NR 1.3.1 (attached) nevermind, it's a bug in recent master: GNU LilyPond 2.16.0 /home/fede/lilypond-git/ou

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 28/08/2012 20:06, Federico Bruni ha scritto: I can't make it work using my previous minimal example. Also, I can't compile a snippet in NR 1.3.1 (attached) nevermind, it's a bug in recent master: GNU LilyPond 2.16.0 /home/fede/lilypond-git/out/share/lilypond/current/scm/define-grobs.scm:28:

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 28/08/2012 19:42, Marc Hohl ha scritto: In this respact, Lilypond is as clever as any musician - if there is no dynamic sign, from which loudness should one start the decrescendo? ok As Phil pointed out already, inserting a \p or \mf or any other dynamic sign should do the trick: c\mf c\

Re: decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 28.08.2012 18:47, schrieb Federico Bruni: Il 28/08/2012 17:03, fabio gabbianelli ha scritto: i have this problem (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 g4. \>_\markup {\line i think it's refer to " \> " how i can speci

Re: header font size

2012-08-28 Thread pabuhr
> As I crank up the global-staff-size, the heading text gets LARGE. I'd like > to uniformly reduce the size of the heading text like this: > > \override Score.HeaderText #'font-size = #-1 I set the font size explicitly: subtitle = \markup {\fontsize #5 "No. 12. Quintet & Finale

decrescendo and unspecified starting volume [WAS: dynamic in midi]

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 28/08/2012 17:03, fabio gabbianelli ha scritto: i have this problem (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 g4. \>_\markup {\line i think it's refer to " \> " how i can specified the starting volume in midi? i try to fi

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-28 Thread pabuhr
I've not tried this to confirm it's correct, but my expectation is that the syntax is lilypond options filename So you should write lilypond -o fred mary.ly Works! I'm just an old C programmer and always put the '-o' at the end of the command. 8-( Thanks. ___

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "pabuhr" To: "Reinhold Kainhofer" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:59 PM Subject: Re: lilypondfile Finally, what does the "-o" option do? -o,--output=FILE or FOLDER Set the default output file to FILE or, if a folder with that name exists, dir

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-28 Thread pabuhr
> Perfect, except it still generates a PDF file, which I don't need and I could > not find an command-line option to prevent the PDF from being created. > But that's what a Makefile is for: I just delete the PDF. Lilypond also has a --ps option So what you want is: lilypond

Re: dynamic in midi

2012-08-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "fabio gabbianelli" To: "lilypond Aiuto" Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:03 PM Subject: dynamic in midi i have this problem (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 g4. \>_\markup {\line i

dynamic in midi

2012-08-28 Thread fabio gabbianelli
i have this problem (De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI. r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 r1 s8 g4. \>_\markup {\line i think it's refer to " \> " how i can specified the starting volume in midi? i try to find in the documentation but i don't.! sorry i'm a

Re: problem with midi

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Please reply to the list (or to all recipients): you'll probably have a good answer from someone else (than me) in this mailing list. Your example is messed up and can't compile. Save it in a .ly file and attach it to the email. Anyway, I think you are using the wrong command. Dynamic is a ki

Re: problem with midi

2012-08-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 28/08/2012 16:15, fabio gabbianelli ha scritto: hi everybody i don't understand how to fix the error : "(De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI" someone can help me? Not me, I never use (de)crescendo. I can just say, as a translator, that this message has been added rec

problem with midi

2012-08-28 Thread fabio gabbianelli
hi everybody i don't understand how to fix the error : "(De)crescendo with unspecified starting volume in MIDI" someone can help me? thanx fabio ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: wrong placement of timesignature (since 2.16)

2012-08-28 Thread Colin Hall
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:03:08AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: Gagi Petrovic > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:58 AM > Subject: wrong placement of timesignature (since 2.16) > > > Dear ponder, first of all: thank you for the newest v

Re: wrong placement of timesignature (since 2.16)

2012-08-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Gagi Petrovic To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:58 AM Subject: wrong placement of timesignature (since 2.16) Dear ponder, first of all: thank you for the newest version! I noticed though, that since 2.16, the placement of TimeSignatu

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-08-28 07:09, pabuhr wrote: > Is there a way to generate an eps file directly as for a ps file? I need the > bounding box to include the exact output into latex (I'm not using pdflatex). > I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates a file that is > unusab

wrong placement of timesignature (since 2.16)

2012-08-28 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Dear ponder, first of all: thank you for the newest version! I noticed though, that since 2.16, the placement of TimeSignature is off in custom line-positions. I added an example to clarify this. Is this is bug or due to some new underlying mechanic? Thank you! Kind regards, Gagi \version "2.16.

Re: header font size

2012-08-28 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "pabuhr" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:13 AM Subject: header font size As I crank up the global-staff-size, the heading text gets LARGE. I'd like to uniformly reduce the size of the heading text like this: \override Score.HeaderText #'font-size = #

Re: parenthesize compound time sig

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/28 David Bobroff : > I thought I had the solution already in a file but I can't find it. I > have a compound time signature defined and I would like to enclose the > whole thing in (). I found the snippet for enclosing a standard time > signature but I couldn't work out how to adapt it.

parenthesize compound time sig

2012-08-28 Thread David Bobroff
I thought I had the solution already in a file but I can't find it. I have a compound time signature defined and I would like to enclose the whole thing in (). I found the snippet for enclosing a standard time signature but I couldn't work out how to adapt it. #(define ((compound-time one two