Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting David Kastrup : What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper block? I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it with no pr

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, David Kastrup wrote: What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper block? More often than not, the global staff size and manual tweaks are set to achieve a certain page layout. If LilyPond changed its behavior on different computers, stuff would sto

Changing quarter tone notation

2012-08-29 Thread Arle Lommel
As a separate question from the last, does anyone know of a simple way to override the quarter-tone notation in Lilypond? In particular, I want to replace half sharps with an upward arrow over the note, which is the de facto standard in the particular ethnomusicological area I work in. While the ha

Lyrics help

2012-08-29 Thread Arle Lommel
Hello all, I've got a pretty basic question, but looking through the manuals and trying things out hasn't seemed to help me get closer to a solution. I'm transcribing some songs I collected in the field and I need to have a volta repeat in the music where the lyrics for two verses are listed un

Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 30/08/2012 03:58, Michael Rivers ha scritto: I'm a relatively new LilyPond user, so I apologize if this is something I should have found in the manual. I'm trying to use LilyPond to make worksheets and theory tests, so I need to hide elements for students to fill in themselves. I also need to

Re: Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni writes: > Il 30/08/2012 07:44, Ben Eichler ha scritto: >> Hi there, >> >> >> I transcribe music for guitar using a normal staff and tabstaff. About >> 99% of the time, when I specify a string a note must be played on, I >> don't want it to create a string notation on the normal sta

Re: Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-29 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 30/08/2012 07:44, Ben Eichler ha scritto: Hi there, I transcribe music for guitar using a normal staff and tabstaff. About 99% of the time, when I specify a string a note must be played on, I don't want it to create a string notation on the normal staff, I only want it to change the string u

Hiding expressive notation

2012-08-29 Thread Ben Eichler
Hi there, I transcribe music for guitar using a normal staff and tabstaff. About 99% of the time, when I specify a string a note must be played on, I don't want it to create a string notation on the normal staff, I only want it to change the string used (and show the correct fret) on the TabStaff

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting David Kastrup : What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper block? I want to make the scores available to everybody. I want users across the world to be able to find the music, create the PDF and print it with no problems on the paper they have. Specifyin

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello David, By "hairpin parenthesis I mean "parenthesized hairpin" like the one shown on the snippet I provided. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
"Daniel E. Moctezuma" writes: > Using a snippet from LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=771) I've > found that I get an "Unbound variable" error on $leftText. > The way I've solved is to remove the $ sign from it as well as from > $rightText. Did you run convert-ly -ed on the file? That

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin writes: > Quoting David Kastrup : > >> Pavel Roskin writes: > >>> Doesn't TeX respect LC_PAPER? >> >> No. TeX/LaTeX is letterpaper by default. You have to ask for a4paper >> in the LaTeX source (or, in plain TeX, meddle with \hsize, \vsize and >> stuff) explicitly to change the la

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting David Kastrup : Pavel Roskin writes: Doesn't TeX respect LC_PAPER? No. TeX/LaTeX is letterpaper by default. You have to ask for a4paper in the LaTeX source (or, in plain TeX, meddle with \hsize, \vsize and stuff) explicitly to change the layout. While dvips has a default paper s

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Thanks a lot for the information. Doing some research, I've seen both uses (bar number reset and number continuation) as well as not using bar numbers at all (just using rehearsal marks) and that's why I was confused. -- Daniel E. Moctezuma ___ lilypond

Parenthesized Hairpin

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello, Using a snippet from LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=771) I've found that I get an "*Unbound variable*" error on *$leftText*. The way I've solved is to remove the *$* sign from it as well as from * $rightText*. So far so good, but I've noticed that if you do a *\break* before endi

Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

2012-08-29 Thread Michael Rivers
I'm a relatively new LilyPond user, so I apologize if this is something I should have found in the manual. I'm trying to use LilyPond to make worksheets and theory tests, so I need to hide elements for students to fill in themselves. I also need to notate rhythms without a staff. I know that rhythm

running lilypond-book in frescobaldi?

2012-08-29 Thread MING TSANG
Lilypond users: 1. I am running lilypond in frescobaldi.  Can I run lilypond-book in frecobaldi as well. 2. How can pass parameter to lilypond and or lilypond-book from frescobaldi?   Blessing in+, Ming. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/29/2012 05:54 PM, David Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:50:12 -0700 "Daniel E. Moctezuma" wrote: Also, after an "attaca" indication should the bar numbers reset or continue counting? I take "attacca" to mean "Go straight on, even though it's a new piece". Or new movement which is

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:50:12 -0700 "Daniel E. Moctezuma" wrote: > > Also, after an "attaca" indication should the bar numbers reset or > continue counting? I take "attacca" to mean "Go straight on, even though it's a new piece". Having the bar numbers continue would mean to me "This is not a n

Re: lilypond-book and title page

2012-08-29 Thread Jakub Pavlík
2012/8/29 Daniel E. Moctezuma > Hello LilyPonders, > > I am trying to do a title page / cover page using LaTex without too much > success. > The result I get is a Y-centered text (on LaTex) but with a noticeable > space on X-axis (space at the right), in addition, the next pages (of > music) have

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Well... future patterns later in the piece are larger than hand size, and, it plays fast and soft enough that I find it unreasonable to play with one hand. Audio of the complete improvisation is at my site: http://curtsiffert.com/anelusivesweetness . On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Shane Brande

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Shane Brandes
Looks to me that the cross tie stuff lies easily under the left hand alone. Shane On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Curt wrote: > > Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across > clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but I can always also > just play with

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/29 Gilles : > I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it [snippet 390]? >>> >>> Yes, please. >> >> Done. >> > > Thanks Phil. > Just a last thing that i cannot do myself :-( > As the snippet 654 refers to snippet 390, is it possible to r

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Like with the previous example, I am somewhat skeptic that this will > work under all important circumstances, but it looks like a somewhat > feasible hack, and at least seems to do a bit more than my first > proposal. > > -- > David Kastrup

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Curt writes: > >>> On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> >>>Try >>> >>>\include "english.ly" >>> >>>\drums \with { \accepts "Voice" } >>>{ >>>ss hh >>>\new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } }

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Pavel Roskin writes: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:19:48 +0200 > David Kastrup wrote: > >> 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-siz

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Curt writes: >> On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Try >> >> \include "english.ly" >> >> \drums \with { \accepts "Voice" } >> { >> ss hh >> \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } >> } > > ah-ha! Thank you David!! I'll read deepe

Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

2012-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:19:48 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > 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

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Gilles
I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it [snippet 390]? Yes, please. Done. Thanks Phil. Just a last thing that i cannot do myself :-( As the snippet 654 refers to snippet 390, is it possible to replace, in 654, the sentence : "This snip

lilypond-book and title page

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello LilyPonders, I am trying to do a title page / cover page using LaTex without too much success. The result I get is a Y-centered text (on LaTex) but with a noticeable space on X-axis (space at the right), in addition, the next pages (of music) have indentation on the left and at the top, resu

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
ah-ha! Thank you David!! I'll read deeper on \with and \accepts. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Try > > \include "english.ly" > > \drums \with { \accepts "Voice" } > { > ss hh > \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } > }

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Curt writes: > I have an orchestral film cue where a percussionist waits a few bars, > plays a few glockenspiel notes, waits several bars, and switches to > suspended cymbal for a roll. It seems a waste of score space to make > it two separate staves. But I am having trouble figuring out how to >

drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
I have an orchestral film cue where a percussionist waits a few bars, plays a few glockenspiel notes, waits several bars, and switches to suspended cymbal for a roll.  It seems a waste of score space to make it two separate staves.  But I am having trouble figuring out how to switch from \drummode

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but I can always also just play with the staff spacing a bit. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:06 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Curt, > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Fra

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > - Original Message - > From: "Francisco Vila" > To: "Phil Holmes" > Cc: "David Kastrup" ; > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:56 PM > Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver name? > > >> 2012/8/29 Phil Holmes : Ah right. We must improve this documen

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Phil Holmes : >> We say just "using the Span_stem_engraver" but the user can be >> confused when adding/removing other engravers because it is sometimes >> #Name_engraver and sometimes "Name_engraver". > > > > I don't believe that would be the right place to change anything. Everything >

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Francisco Vila" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "David Kastrup" ; Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver name? 2012/8/29 Phil Holmes : Ah right. We must improve this documentation bit. Are there more cases like this?

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Phil Holmes : >> Ah right. We must improve this documentation bit. Are there more cases >> like this? > > > > Which bit of the documentation? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards#cross_002dstaff-stems We say just "using the Span_stem_engrave

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Francisco Vila" To: "David Kastrup" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Right way of specifying engraver name? 2012/8/29 David Kastrup : Span_stem_engraver is written in Scheme and not registered as a C++ engraver. As one consequen

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 David Kastrup : > Span_stem_engraver is written in Scheme and not registered as > a C++ engraver. As one consequence, it is not appearing in the > internals documentation along with other engravers. There currently is > no way to register an engraver from Scheme. Ah right. We must impr

Re: Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > Hello, > > in the following score for 2.16 > > \score { > \new PianoStaff << > \new Staff > \crossStaff { q } > \new Staff > \crossStaff { \clef bass q } > >> > } > > \layout { > \context { > \PianoStaff > \consists #Span_stem_engraver >

Right way of specifying engraver name?

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello, in the following score for 2.16 \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff \crossStaff { q } \new Staff \crossStaff { \clef bass q } >> } \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists #Span_stem_engraver } \context { \Staff \remove "Bar_engraver" } }

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Curt, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2012/8/29 Curt >> The actual question is wondering if anyone thinks there is a >> better/clearer way to notate the following figure. Hands alternating, with >> melody in the pinky. The pattern continues throughout the piece (wit

Re: Attaca markup

2012-08-29 Thread Toine Schreurs
> This is how I've defined it in the past: > > attacca = > { > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = > #begin-of-line-invisible > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'direction = #DOWN > \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'font-size = 1 > \once \override Score.Rehears

Re: updating tremolo snippet for 2.16

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Shevek writes: > 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

Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet

2012-08-29 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Gilles" To: ; "David Kastrup" ; "Phil Holmes" Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:49 PM Subject: Re: how to update the makerhythm-snippet I think only an LSR editor (like me) can do this. You want me to go ahead and delete it? Yes, please. Gilles

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 Curt > The actual question is wondering if anyone thinks there is a > better/clearer way to notate the following figure. Hands alternating, with > melody in the pinky. The pattern continues throughout the piece (with > different notes). Right hand stays in the same general location, r

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/8/29 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. lilypond-user is the perfect list for lilypond-rela