Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread Nick Payne
I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in most cases where there are chords, I don't want it between all the notes in successive chords. Can this be done without creating a separate hidden voice with the single notes having the glissando between them. e.g. in the

Re: glissando and how to create concise code

2012-10-06 Thread Janek WarchoĊ‚
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Brad Smith rainwarr...@gmail.com wrote: When should you use ly:pitch and when should you use ly:music? (Is there a place in the documentation that is good for learning these things?) I'm no expert on music functions, but i'd say that ly:music? is used when the

Re: Tuplets in Orthodox Liturgical Music

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 01:17 AM, The Doctor (Michael D) wrote: I am using the gregorian to arrange Eastern Orthodox chant music. I am working on music from the eight tones (which has a lot of 'recitatives') and *would like* to be able to use tuplets to 'group' and indicate notes and thus syllables that

Re: Tuplets in Orthodox Liturgical Music

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Janek Warchol janek.lilyp...@gmail.com To: The Doctor (Michael D) thedoctor81...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Tuplets in Orthodox Liturgical Music On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:17 AM, The Doctor

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in most cases where there are chords, I don't want it between all the notes in successive chords. Can this be done without creating a separate hidden voice with the single notes

Scheme function help - modifying note durations

2012-10-06 Thread Shashank Raja
I want to write a scheme function that doubles a note such that the pitch (let's call it 'x') is retained, but the respective durations are such that {x8.. x32} is displayed. Since \displayMusic{ c'8.. c'32 } outputs this:

Re: Scheme function help - modifying note durations

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Shashank Raja luoli...@gmail.com writes: I want to write a scheme function that doubles a note such that the pitch (let's call it 'x') is retained, but the respective durations are such that {x8.. x32} is displayed. Since \displayMusic{ c'8.. c'32 } outputs this:

Re: How to reserve more space for fermata mark (to prevent large vertical shifts)

2012-10-06 Thread Keith OHara
Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org writes: Rehearsal marks are one of the things that has extra-spacing-width set to (inf . -inf) so that it reserves no space during note-spacing Something learned again Could this please be added to the `Rehearsal marks' section in the documentation? Better

Re: How to reserve more space for fermata mark (to prevent large vertical shifts)

2012-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Rehearsal marks are one of the things that has extra-spacing-width set to (inf . -inf) so that it reserves no space during note-spacing Something learned again Could this please be added to the `Rehearsal marks' section in the documentation? Better to describe how

instrumentName in style sheet

2012-10-06 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
I'm trying to centralize all layout instructions in a style sheet, but I'm struggling with the instrumentName property for GrandStaff. The code below works for staves in regular systems, but the font property isn't applied to piano staves. Any ideas? \context { \Staff \override

Re: instrumentName in style sheet

2012-10-06 Thread Urs Liska
No opportunity to test right now, but why not \context { \PianoStaff ... and \context { \GrandStaff ... ? HTH Urs Am 06.10.2012 21:55, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: I'm trying to centralize all layout instructions in a style sheet, but I'm struggling with the instrumentName

Re: Orchestral score, can't find error

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 i...@soundand.com: Hello- I 'think' I copied the info out of the 2.16 manual for the score below but both my editor and Frescobaldi won't compile it and both say they can't find errors. It looks weird to me but that's because I am not used to the 'new' format for this but

Re: instrumentName in style sheet

2012-10-06 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
Hi Urs, I tried before with GrandStaff and that didn't change a thing. PianoStaff does! I didn't know PianoStaff was a context too. Thanks! Jethro On 10/06/2012 09:58 PM, Urs Liska wrote: No opportunity to test right now, but why not \context { \PianoStaff ... and \context {

Blank staff music

2012-10-06 Thread The Doctor (Michael D)
Hi. This may seem simple to some, but I am having some difficulty with this. I would like to have Lilypond produce blank sheet music with a grand staff. I found the attached code, but cannot figure out how to add the bass clef. Any help is appreciated. Also I am getting an error message as

Re: Blank staff music

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 The Doctor (Michael D) thedoctor81...@gmail.com: Hi. This may seem simple to some, but I am having some difficulty with this. I would like to have Lilypond produce blank sheet music with a grand staff. I found the attached code, but cannot figure out how to add the bass clef. Any

Re: Blank staff music

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: \new GrandStaff { $(make-simultaneous-music (map (lambda (x) #{ \new Staff { \repeat unfold 2 { s1 \pageBreak } } #}) (iota 6))) } \new GrandStaff $@(make-list 6

Re: Blank staff music

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: [...] \new GrandStaff $@(make-list 6 #{\new Staff { \repeat unfold 2 { s1 \pageBreak } } #}) is a bit more concise. :D ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread pabuhr
I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in ... Hey Nick, we certainly struggle with indicating a guide finger. 8-) First, an observation, which I know you are already aware of, but I'll make it anyway. It is important to differentiate between the glissando, which

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi pabuhr, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, pabuhr pab...@fastmail.fm wrote: [...] Below is my attempt at a guide finger (which I'm sure you saw a few months ago). http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg73509.html [...] The problem with my version is that the combined

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] two month ago I created the code below (the same is attached, too). It is not exactly what you want, but it should give you some ideas. Just tried this out. Very cool! -David

Re: Orchestral score, can't find error

2012-10-06 Thread Jay Hamilton
Mr. Morley- Thank you for the response. I can see where some brackets are missing but it seems now that you point them out that the log/error file and Frescobaldi should have been able to point them out too. And neither did. So I will put in the ones I can find and try to compile,thanks jay