Re: new and context

2012-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: > I do not know the parser, but wouldn't it be possible to recognize > whether a named context already exists and use that one and if not > create a new one. That those lines could shrink to: > Staff "var" { a4 } > Staff "var" …or even (?) \var … Staff and "var" are valid lyr

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-12-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I put a bit more work on it. [...] Very nice! I haven't followed the thread intensively, but looking at the image, I would like to have one minor improvement (probably as an option in case other users don't like this): Similar to a tie, there should be a small horizontal line before a note at

RE: Marks above and below simultaneously

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Rosen
Thanks a lot for this--if someone does know how to modify this to accept metronome marks as well, that'd be great. DR -Original Message- From: Xavier Scheuer [mailto:x.sche...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:49 AM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: M

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/26 Nick Payne : > On 24/11/12 13:34, Keith OHara wrote: >> >> barre = #(define-music-function (parser location >> strg music) (number? ly:music?) >> #{ >> \set TabStaff.minimumFret = $strg >> \set TabStaff.restrainOpenStrings = ##t >> \once\override TextSpanner #'(

RE: TupletNumber direction

2012-12-06 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Morley Thank you for your reply and the references. They should provide hours of learning. Mark -Original Message- From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 2:42 PM To: Mark Stephen Mrotek Cc: Daniel Rosen; David Kastrup; lilypond-u

Re: new and context

2012-12-06 Thread Noeck
Am 07.12.2012 00:24, schrieb Trevor Daniels: > > Joram Berger wrote Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:56 PM > >> Am 06.12.2012 23:51, schrieb Trevor Daniels: >>> >>> Noeck wrote >>> It still seems to me like there might be a possiblity to simplify the ly-syntax. Let me make a little compar

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/29 Jeffrey Trevino : > Thanks, Harm! That does just what we were trying to get at, I think. Hi Jeff, I put a bit more work on it. - Changing the used property from 'after-line-breaking to 'stencil, freeing 'after-line-breaking for other use. - Fiddling the appearence depending on the oc

Re: new and context

2012-12-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joram Berger wrote Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:56 PM > Am 06.12.2012 23:51, schrieb Trevor Daniels: >> >> Noeck wrote >> >>> It still seems to me like there might be a possiblity to simplify the >>> ly-syntax. Let me make a little comparison: >>> >>> I do not know the parser, but wouldn't it

Unexpected side-effect of articulate.ly on aftergrace

2012-12-06 Thread Olivier Biot
Dear LilyPond users, I just came across a weird interaction between articulate.ly and aftergrace. If I include "articulate.ly" then beamed aftergrace notes have a tenuto articulation and are not rendered smaller, even though I never called the \articulate macro. Here's the LilyPond 1.16.1 code f

Re: new and context

2012-12-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Noeck wrote > It still seems to me like there might be a possiblity to simplify the > ly-syntax. Let me make a little comparison: > > I do not know the parser, but wouldn't it be possible to recognize > whether a named context already exists and use that one and if not > create a new one. Have

Re: preview (-d flag) padding

2012-12-06 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
There is also an annoying bug that cuts off the bottom of a system start bracket when there is nothing below the bottom staff. My workaround is to add white text under one of the notes (\tweak #'color #white _"a"), which forces LilyPond to enlarge the image a little bit and include the bits it cut

Re: TupletNumber direction

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/12/6 Mark Stephen Mrotek : > Hello: > > The e-mails with suggestions often contain snippets. Some of them I > understand (with the help of Frescobaldi), some are a bit beyond my current > practice, and all of them could be helpful in the future. > > If a "library" of snippets exists, where is

Re: new and context

2012-12-06 Thread Noeck
Am 05.12.2012 09:39, schrieb Trevor Daniels: > > Noeck, you wrote Tuesday, December 04, 2012 8:43 PM > >> what is the difference between \new and \context? > > Very little. In most situations they can be used interchangeably. > > One difference is that \context Staff = "A" will search for a pr

Re: Tuplet bracket collides with fingering when slurred

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/12/6 Thomas Morley : [...] > %% Using a value > 250 will place the DynamicText outside the > %% TupletBracket, depends on what you want. Sorry. Should read: %% Using a value > 250 will place the DynamicText *inside* the %% TupletBracket, depends on what you want. -Harm _

RE: TupletNumber direction

2012-12-06 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello: The e-mails with suggestions often contain snippets. Some of them I understand (with the help of Frescobaldi), some are a bit beyond my current practice, and all of them could be helpful in the future. If a "library" of snippets exists, where is it located? Thank you for your kind attent

Re: bold-tenuto - new LSR-snippet

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Thomas Morley : > To the author of > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=858 > > I want to approve your new snippet, but discuss the possibilities to > make it more concise. > > If you're on the list, please contact me. > > > Best, > Harm Found him at the german forum. Snippet is

Re: Tuplet bracket collides with fingering when slurred

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/12/4 Olivier Biot : > Dear all, > > As a follow-up, here's another snippet featuring the same or similar > behavior. I haven't found the way to solve this problem yet. > > % BEGIN snippet 2 > \version "2.16.1" > > theMusic = \new Staff { > \relative d' { > \clef "bass" > > \key g \ma

Re: TupletNumber direction

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/11 Daniel Rosen : > I can't speak to whether the code is sound, but if it is, this should be > added to the LSR. Quite frankly, I'm surprised something similar isn't there > already. > > DR I added a snippet to the LSR. Preview at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=860 Cheers, Ha

Re: Slurs, phrasing slurs and fingering

2012-12-06 Thread Noeck
Am 03.12.2012 07:06, schrieb David Kastrup: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Noeck writes: >> >>> Why has that been inverted? To me, \shape PhrasingSlur #… is easier to >>> read than \shape #… PhrasingSlur. Could someone briefly explain the >>> reason for that? >> >> The old syntax was >> >> \

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2012-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi all, Could someone please take a look at the latest scheme code in this thread and figure out how we can use this frame engraver construct on multiple staffs in the same score simultaneously? It's pretty important for preceding in my work, and I can't figure out how to get it working. thank yo

Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

2012-12-06 Thread vector457
Thanks Marek, I had been doing as you indicate. And, after thinking it thru, "duplicating" like this is far more flexible than my thoughts of a "switch" on off like command, especially when the score gets more complicated. cheers On 12/06/2012 10:42 PM, Marek Klein wrote: 2012/12/6 vector4

Re: preview (-d flag) padding

2012-12-06 Thread Eluze
Curt Siffert wrote > Is it at all possible to manually add a few pixels of padding to -dpreview > ? > > I am regularly running into problems with a few pixels of an image being > cut off. I've reported a bug > (https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2968) but since it > appears thi

Re: Custom key signature stencils, differentiating major and minor keys

2012-12-06 Thread Paul Morris
On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Sorry to send this again, forgot to cc the list. > > 2012/12/5 Thomas Morley : >> 2012/12/5 Paul Morris : >>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Thomas Morley >>> wrote: >> [...] May I ask, if you could add a commented 2.16-version of it? A

Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

2012-12-06 Thread Marek Klein
2012/12/6 vector457 > That would mean Id have to write out the pitch notes (ie new staff) > twice? > once for the layout and then again with the drums for the midi. > Of course not: melody = \relative c' { c4 d e f } \score { << \new Staff { \melody } >> \layout { } } \score { << \ne

Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

2012-12-06 Thread vector457
That would mean Id have to write out the pitch notes (ie new staff) twice? once for the layout and then again with the drums for the midi. On 12/06/2012 08:48 PM, Marek Klein wrote: Hello, 2012/12/6 vector457 mailto:vector...@gmail.com>> yeah I want to keep the drums in the midi output bu

Re: Text on slurs (faking bends etc)

2012-12-06 Thread Pete Farmer
Meanwhile... here's a code snippet which offers a double-stop bend solution by using multiple (two) voices. It may be of some use to others, who find this thread with the search engine: I'm using separate sets of 'music data' for the tab and the conventional notes, which I'm pretty sure is not a '

Re: Marks above and below simultaneously

2012-12-06 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 3 December 2012 00:31, Daniel Rosen wrote: > OK, I think I've mostly figured this out: > > \version "2.16.1" > > marks = { > \tempo "Tempo" > s1 \mark \default > } > > \new Score << > \new Staff << > \new Voice { c''1 c'' } > \new Voice { \marks } > >> > \new Dynamics \with {

Re: midi ok in windows but only drums in linux

2012-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
vector457 writes: > ahh thanks David.. seems it works fine under timidity but not under > movie player.. strange as I just went thru a stack of mid files on my > pc(source unknown) and sure enough some dont work in movie player but > are fine under timidity..go figure Huh. I would have thought

Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

2012-12-06 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/12/6 vector457 > yeah I want to keep the drums in the midi output but not display it in the > pdf You can have separate \score blocks for layout and for midi - this way you can get what you want. Like this: \score { \new Staff... \layout {} } \score { \new Staff... \

Codemirror editor for Lilypond tweak

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Blackstock
Just for reference: If the 'Codemirror' online editor is being used for lilypond files, it needs to have this line added to the sTeX mode file: plugins["concat"] = addPluginPattern("concat", "tag", "[", ["atom"]); after the "var plugins = new Array();" line and the same applies for any lilypo

Re: produce midi drums but hide staff

2012-12-06 Thread vector457
yeah I want to keep the drums in the midi output but not display it in the pdf On 12/06/2012 04:32 PM, Nathan wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, vector wrote: Hi there, Im getting the hang of this even tho it might not look it ;) thanks for all your inputs. I wanted to add a simple drumb

Re: midi ok in windows but only drums in linux

2012-12-06 Thread vector457
ahh thanks David.. seems it works fine under timidity but not under movie player.. strange as I just went thru a stack of mid files on my pc(source unknown) and sure enough some dont work in movie player but are fine under timidity..go figure On 12/06/2012 08:02 PM, David Kastrup wrote: vect

Re: midi ok in windows but only drums in linux

2012-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
vector457 writes: > I have the same script extracted from the manuals which was written > and working on a windows box. > I got it home and put it on the ubuntu machine and only the drums > sound. I have lost the "flute" notes? (when played with movie player) > Have I not assigned the midi proper

midi ok in windows but only drums in linux

2012-12-06 Thread vector457
I have the same script extracted from the manuals which was written and working on a windows box. I got it home and put it on the ubuntu machine and only the drums sound. I have lost the "flute" notes? (when played with movie player) Have I not assigned the midi properly? or is it something weird