Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-12 Thread David Kastrup
Antonio Gervasoni writes: > Hey guys! > > Sorry for not participating in the discussion about the copyrighted material > in Urs tutorial. I'm finishing the music for a film and I have little time > to read posts and make comments. ;-) > > I agree with Joseph's idea: > >> Well, here's what _I_ wou

Re: accidental too far away from notehead

2013-01-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Actually, after some thinking, I believe that the accidental of the > lowest note should be actually nearer to the note head even if it is > part of a chord. > > \relative c' { > <\tweak Accidental.X-offset #2.5 eis gis' cis eis gis>2 > } Now a technical question regarding the X-offset:

Re: accidental too far away from notehead

2013-01-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I think this is a formatting bug of lilypond: The e sharp in the > second voice should be directly placed in front of the notehead > since it is not part of the chord. Actually, after some thinking, I believe that the accidental of the lowest note should be actually nearer to the note head even

accidental too far away from notehead

2013-01-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Please consider this code: \version "2.17.10" \relative c''' { << { 2 } \\ { eis,2 } >> } Attached you can find an image. I think this is a formatting bug of lilypond: The e sharp in the second voice should be directly placed in front of the notehead since it is n

Re: enlarging the comma

2013-01-12 Thread Nathan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:20 PM, wrote: > Hello- > > i just tried to do the > > \override BreathingSign#text = \markup { \fontsize #8 { \musicglyph > #"comma" } } > > [...] > and it would compile [...] The line doesn't compile, and spits out an error. It looks like you meant to write \override

Re: enlarging the comma

2013-01-12 Thread Shane Brandes
No you have in your example a malformed syntax. You are overriding a widget and defining a variable on the widget to alter it so the markup bit in your example just goes plunk or nowhere. Try this. \override BreathingSign #'font-size = #'22 See the pattern \override WidgetType #'alterable-variabl

enlarging the comma

2013-01-12 Thread info
Hello- i just tried to do the override BreathingSign#text = markup { fontsize #8 { musicglyph #"comma" } } in a version "2.16.1" and it would compile but the breathe didn't get bigger. Will or can this work in 2.16.1? Or is there a different thing that will? I was excited that

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-12 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Hey guys! Sorry for not participating in the discussion about the copyrighted material in Urs tutorial. I'm finishing the music for a film and I have little time to read posts and make comments. ;-) I agree with Joseph's idea: > Well, here's what _I_ would do in your shoes: license freely all th

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-01-12 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Jim Tisdall wrote: > In trying to compile frescobaldi on my mac pro osx10.7.5, I have the > program running but I've run into the following problem with trying > to get the python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 extension to work: Hi Jim, I got as far as trying to installing the

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-01-12 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Ben wrote > I wish I knew as much about the "includes" and whatnot > that you do; I only use one file per one score at the moment. > > I can't seem to figure out how to open say, just one instrument part, of > your score. > It just renders a blank page. Surely I am missing some connection to

Re: Expanding bowed arpeggios

2013-01-12 Thread shutterfreak
shutterfreak wrote > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Olivier Biot < > olivier.biot@ > >wrote: > > Dear all, > > Following up on my own request, I stumbled upon an insightful article > featuring Bach's prelude for piano (BWV 846): > http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-23#feature_story_

Re: Cross staff beams with subdivision

2013-01-12 Thread Keith OHara
Noeck gmx.de> writes: > > \once\override Rest #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 9) > > r8 gis!32\([ b dis gis! > > \change Staff=upper \times 4/6 { b dis gis! b dis gis!\)] } > > Is there a preferred way using some staff spacing instead of using space > around a rest, that happens to be c

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-01-12 Thread Olivier Biot
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Jim Tisdall wrote: > In trying to compile frescobaldi on my mac pro osx10.7.5, I have the > program running but I've run into the following problem with trying > to get the python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 extension to work: > > $ python setup.py build > [...] > In file

frescobaldi on mac

2013-01-12 Thread Jim Tisdall
In trying to compile frescobaldi on my mac pro osx10.7.5, I have the program running but I've run into the following problem with trying to get the python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 extension to work: $ python setup.py build running build running build_ext building 'popplerqt4' extension llvm-gcc-4.2 -fn

Re: Cross staff beams with subdivision

2013-01-12 Thread Noeck
Am 12.01.2013 20:08, schrieb Keith OHara: >> How can I extend the distance between the staffs to make place for >> this beams construct? > > When I want extra space between staves for a few isolated cases, I find > some object on the staff and ask LilyPond go make more space for it. > Here, th

Re: Cross staff beams with subdivision

2013-01-12 Thread Keith OHara
Helge Kruse gmx.net> writes: > How can I connect the low and upper staffs beams? Moving the manual beam indication ] to the end of the tuplet. > How can I extend the distance between the staffs to make place for > this beams construct? When I want extra space between staves for a few isolated

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2013-01-12 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jeff, On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jeffrey Trevino < jeffrey.trevi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I just saw this fix. Thanks for spending so much time tweaking this. Maybe > there's a way it can be integrated into the Lilypond code, since you've > spent so much time developing it.

Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

2013-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Trevino
Hi David, I just saw this fix. Thanks for spending so much time tweaking this. Maybe there's a way it can be integrated into the Lilypond code, since you've spent so much time developing it. I'll be using it in a score soon. cheers, Jeff On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:04 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: >

Re: Getting the name of the context a scheme function was called from

2013-01-12 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Would the use of tags be helpful here? > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/different-editions-from-one-source#using-tags Thanks Marc! Tags are just the tool for the job, and I wasn't aware of them before. I can tag the ove

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-12 Thread SoundsFromSound
Disregard: apologies. For some reason Ubuntu was not accepting my "OK" click on the button after selecting Cinnamon. Not sure what happened, but after a reboot - it's working great now - thank you again! Ben SoundsFromSound wrote > Hmm, I can't get this to work. It's installed OK and I choose

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-12 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hmm, I can't get this to work. It's installed OK and I choose it from the pull down login menu, signed in, but Unity is still there, nothing looks any different and the bug is still present. How do you "load" Cinnamon once it's installed, because selecting it from the login screen (for me) does n

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-12 Thread SoundsFromSound
Yea, I do have a Linux Mint laptop and I believe I have not seen this bug on that machine, though I haven't touched it in a while. I didn't know you could use Cinnamon on Ubuntu though, that's awesome. Trying it out now, thank you for the tip! MATE is ok, to each their own...I noticed it runs bet

Cross staff beams with subdivision

2013-01-12 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I want to typeset a score similar as the original. On the harp notes I find sometimes Z-beams that have subdivsions. I managed to mimic this for the first measure but failed for the second. How can I connect the low and upper staffs beams? How can I extend the distance between the staffs t

Re: many short music patterns in a Latex doc

2013-01-12 Thread Olivier Biot
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2013/1/11 Lilly : > > I want to realize a document with some text and many musical patterns > along > > it. > > I experienced how to insert one pattern in a place of a Latex document > and > > it works. > > But i would not to repeat to paste

Re: Getting the name of the context a scheme function was called from

2013-01-12 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 12.01.2013 16:28, schrieb Paul Morris: On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:47 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Uh, if you have a _custom_ staff context for which you want particular overrides, you just do \layout { \context { \Staff \name "MyStaff" \alias "Staff" \override ... \override ..

Re: Getting the name of the context a scheme function was called from

2013-01-12 Thread Paul Morris
On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:47 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Uh, if you have a _custom_ staff context for which you want particular > overrides, you just do > > \layout { > \context { >\Staff >\name "MyStaff" >\alias "Staff" >\override ... >\override ... > } > } > > at the bottom,

Re: grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

2013-01-12 Thread Adam Spiers
Sorry, I should have moved this thread to lilypond-devel; I'll repost there ... On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:08:21PM +, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Adam Spiers > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Eluze wrote: > >> I've added an issue to the tracker: > >> https

Re: grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

2013-01-12 Thread Adam Spiers
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Eluze wrote: >> I've added an issue to the tracker: >> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3091&thanks=3091&ts=1357666391 > > Thanks! > >> I'm not aware of a workaround - I could imagine using 2 v

stretching ragged last bar in the Voice context

2013-01-12 Thread Federico Bruni
I'm trying to stretch a ragged last bar in a score. I know I can use the following override (NR 4.5.1, Known issues): \paper { ragged-last = ##t } \relative c'' { \repeat unfold 4 { R1*4 \break } \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.padding = #20 R1 R1 } However, I need to apply this k

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

2013-01-12 Thread David Kastrup
"Christopher R. Maden" writes: > On 01/11/2013 03:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> File names are hierarchical. If you don't specify a filename inside >> of a bookpart, do you think that the bookpart should not be written >> out? > > I’m afraid I don’t follow... what do filenames have to do with t

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

2013-01-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 janv. 2013 à 11:10, Christopher R. Maden a écrit : > I expect \bookpart{} to start a new page; and > if the bookpart has a title or any other header info, I expect that to > be printed at the top of that new page. Christopher, Indeed, \bookpart starts a new page. In your example, the \boo

Re: Slurs cut into reminder accidentals

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/1/11 Noeck : > Am 11.01.2013 18:38, schrieb Phil Holmes: > >> { \clef bass fis8( d'!8 b4) } > > This is hard do decide for me. Others might have more experience in > engraving decisions/practice. > > My suggestion would be to change the slur only a little bit: > \version "2.16.0" > { >\cle

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 01/11/2013 03:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > File names are hierarchical. If you don't specify a filename inside > of a bookpart, do you think that the bookpart should not be written > out? I’m afraid I don’t follow... what do filenames have to do with this? If you just meant title... I expect

Re: RUMOR Midi utility & Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-12 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 12/01/2013 07:28, Martin Tarenskeen ha scritto: I have not yet seen a single person who really likes Unity, Gnome3, or Windows 8. To name just a few "innovative" products for a "better desktop experience (blablabla)" I really like Gnome3 :-) Never tried the others -- Federico _