collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[originally sent to lilypond-devel, resent to this list after recommendation, with slight modifications] Folks, consider this real-life example (omitting the unimportant voices). \new Staff = R \relative c' { \voiceTwo d16[ b \change Staff = L \stemUp g

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.02.2013 03:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Music Engraving on Metal Plates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345o3Wu95Qo That's awesome! However, despite the fact that this man

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Seeing him cutting stems and beams etc. freehand was incredible. And seeing him 'draw' a slur made me think of how many iterations with adjusted offsets *I* need to bring a slur to a form I'm happy with ... Well, he has drawn stems, beams, slurs, etc. beforehand with a pencil. Werner

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.02.2013 10:17, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Seeing him cutting stems and beams etc. freehand was incredible. And seeing him 'draw' a slur made me think of how many iterations with adjusted offsets *I* need to bring a slur to a form I'm happy with ... Well, he has drawn stems, beams, slurs,

accidentalstyle in the layout-block?

2013-02-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I would like to define the accidentalstyle for a piece with four mouvements in the layoutblock. Is it possible to do that in version 2.16.2? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Truly inspiring to watch a master craftsman engraving. I too was astonished at the cutting of beams and stems without a rule, and the virtuoso slur engraving. When you consider slurs are thinner at the ends, there must a lessening of the graver pressure at the ends of the slur which is

Re: collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
What can I do to improve the formatting? Note that globally increasing the distance between the staves is not a possible solution since this would ruin the layout of the whole piece. After some thinking, I would like to change the `padding' for beams so that the skyline's distance from the

Re: accidentalstyle in the layout-block?

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com writes: Dear community, I would like to define the accidentalstyle for a piece with four mouvements in the layoutblock. Is it possible to do that in version 2.16.2? Sure, go ahead.

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/2/12 Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com: Mr. Morley: Thank you again for the instructions: mor = #(define-event-function (parser location)() #{\tweak #'text \markup { \fontsize #5 \musicglyph #''scripts.mordent'' } -1 #}). When compiling this error

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: 2013/2/12 Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com: Mr. Morley: Thank you again for the instructions: mor = #(define-event-function (parser location)() #{\tweak #'text \markup { \fontsize #5 \musicglyph

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not need to say I don't make mistakes. The hand engraver puts down the staff lines, and short of throwing the plate(s) away and starting over, the layout has to fit those lines, and

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not need to say I don't make mistakes. The hand engraver puts down the staff lines, and short of throwing the plate(s)

lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi all, As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop together with a friend at this year's Linux Audio Conference. For the workshop slides, I already have a working setup using lilypond-book --pdf in combination with pdflatex and LaTeX Beamer. However, I am not entirely

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, The other thing people do is make a separate context, analogous to Dynamics, usually called MarkLine. Yes, I do this (ScoreMarks). As written it ignores time-signatures but you could probably figure out how to have it acknowledge time signatures and align the first tempo

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Florian Hollerweger f...@mur.at To: Lilypond User List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:55 AM Subject: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice? Hi all, As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop

lilypond-book: clean up w/o --output?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi all, Trying to establish a workflow for lilypond-book and LaTeX, I am caught up in a conflict between wanting to clean up the small files that lilypond-book creates, but not wanting to use its --output flag. I usually encapsulate my LaTeX-only projects in a single directory containing: -

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi Phil, I'll go and do as you say, but wouldn't I be facing the problem that pdflatex has its own ideas at which resolution to actually render PNGs? That's precisely why I have ended up using graphics in PDF format whenever I can with pdflatex, but maybe I should investigate LaTeX rendering

Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Florian Hollerweger f...@mur.at writes: Hi Phil, I'll go and do as you say, but wouldn't I be facing the problem that pdflatex has its own ideas at which resolution to actually render PNGs? It just packages them. It is up to you with what resolution you prepare them before inclusion into

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 12:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Looks we are missing the proper command for this. With \pitchedTrill, transposition works. Yes, absolutely. A proper command would also help with the appearance -- as it stands getting the accidental placed just right over the trill sign is a bit

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 01:24 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: we have a snippet Documentation/snippets/transposing-pitches-with-minimum-accidentals-smart-transpose.ly The problem with this snippet is that it's conceived as a function that wraps a given piece of music. But as I recall, if you put a

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 02/12/2013 01:24 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: we have a snippet Documentation/snippets/transposing-pitches-with-minimum-accidentals-smart-transpose.ly The problem with this snippet is that it's conceived as a function that wraps a

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: you need to have a variety of rule sets (at least 2: chromatic and tonal), you need to be able to switch arbitrarily between the two (e.g. some music may have tonal parts and atonal parts). +1 I had

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/12/2013 02:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: What you actually want to see in a given passage is something like, { \set Staff.transposition = #'chromatic c'4 bf' gs' e'% any transposition applied to this passage

RE: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Kastrup: Thank you for your reply and instructions. Changing the two apostrophes to one quote allowed the file to compile. As a beginning student of Lilypond (about six months) my inquiries are at a basic level. I appreciate your patience and that of others in the user's group. Although the

Re: Orientation of Ornaments

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com writes: Mr. Kastrup: Thank you for your reply and instructions. Changing the two apostrophes to one quote allowed the file to compile. As a beginning student of Lilypond (about six months) my inquiries are at a basic level. I appreciate your patience

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Keith OHara
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:31:12 -0800, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: The other thing people do is make a separate context, analogous to Dynamics, usually called MarkLine. Yes, I do this (ScoreMarks). You reported a problem with ScoreMarks

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, Others solved that problem with MarkLine https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00169.html Unfortunately, that fix doesn't solve the problem I posted about (and still have). Thanks anyway, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user

Re: collision beam with staff-crossing beam

2013-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Werner, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: consider this real-life example (omitting the unimportant voices). [..] There is an ugly clash between the two beams. Due to the cross-staff beam, this is sort-of expected. What can I do to improve the

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: On 02/12/2013 02:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: What you actually want to see in a given passage is something like, { \set Staff.transposition = #'chromatic c'4 bf'

Re: bounty hack for some (non-Mike) Schemer out there

2013-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mike, You won't be able to do this with a metronome mark because that Grob is an item whereas the text spanner is a spanner, meaning it can take up multiple columns witthout stretching the music too much. So I'd use a customized text spanner in a separate context (like Dynamics...or you

Re: Fingering with guide indications difference 2.16.2 - 2.17.11

2013-02-12 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.netwrote: The code below (I think it might have come from David Nalesnik) builds without any error on both 2.16.2 and 2.17.11, but the output is correct on 2.16.2 and incorrect on 2.17.11. On 2.17.11, the fingerings with guide

Partcombine, lyrics and colliding dots

2013-02-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi! I'm trying to use partcombine and lyrics by using a hidden voice for the melody, as suggested by Daniel E. Moctezuma at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/73934 The only problem is that the dots are pushed from their normal positions, apparently by the dots in the

Reimplement figuremode with links to notes for correct transposition?

2013-02-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 12 February 2013 12:40, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 02/12/2013 03:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: The advantage LilyPond has over the hand engraver is that it does not need to say I don't make mistakes. The hand engraver puts down the staff lines, and short

Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 4 February 2013 16:01, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! A few weeks ago, in response to Mike Solomon's call for features and bugs, I posted a request: 2. Allowing a text markup (especially a MetronomeMark) to have a minimum measure length. This would

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Colin Hall
Xavier Scheuer writes: On 4 February 2013 16:01, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! A few weeks ago, in response to Mike Solomon's call for features and bugs, I posted a request: 2. Allowing a text markup (especially a MetronomeMark) to have a minimum

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Jay Anderson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Colin Hall colingh...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great to have a TempoTextSpanner, for example in order to handle common notation such as rit. - - - - a tempo or rall - - - - I do not see this request tracked yet. Thanks for the report, Xavier, but

Re: Add tempo spanners

2013-02-12 Thread Colin Hall
Jay Anderson writes: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Colin Hall colingh...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great to have a TempoTextSpanner, for example in order to handle common notation such as rit. - - - - a tempo or rall - - - - I do not see this request tracked yet. Thanks for

Re: giving MetronomeMarks the space they need

2013-02-12 Thread Keith OHara
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:23:08 -0800, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: By default, MetronomeMarks have settings requesting specifically that LilyPond ignore them when spacing notes and rests, analogous to \textLengthOff I use the two overrides below. There are still