stacked tempo indications in one line

2013-04-22 Thread Stefan Vollmar
Hallo, I have attached two screenshots to document the kind of layout problem I have with this snippet: [...] \time 3/4 \mark \default % here: L \tempo 4 = 155 \mm Allegro a2 f4 d2 bes'4 a2.\( [...] where mm = #(define-music-function (parser location tempotext) (string?) #{

Re: stacked tempo indications in one line

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Vollmar voll...@nf.mpg.de writes: Hallo, I have attached two screenshots to document the kind of layout problem I have with this snippet: [...] \time 3/4 \mark \default % here: L \tempo 4 = 155 \mm Allegro a2 f4 d2 bes'4 a2.\( [...] where mm = #(define-music-function

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, thank you very much for your feedback. It is very valuable to me and gave me a lot of ideas to think about - although I'd claim that the majority of comments mainly push in the same direction I'd have taken on my own ;-) I don't have the time to answer individually right now because I'm

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/4/22 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: I'm in a hurry to prepare the material for the oral presentation. Good luck! If a recording will be available, i'd gladly watch it. I will leave out as much of the technical details as possible and focus on an endorsement of what can be done (and

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 10:28 +0200 schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, 2013/4/22 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: I'm in a hurry to prepare the material for the oral presentation. Good luck! If a recording will be available, i'd gladly watch it. No, surely not in that context. I will leave

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: [...] MusicXML [...] indeed. ;) I'd actually say it is crucial to have that in order to get LilyPond a foot in the publishing world. We can't expect publishing houses to easily switch their well-tested workflows. And it's hard to convince editors or

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 11:41 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: [...] MusicXML [...] indeed. ;) I'd actually say it is crucial to have that in order to get LilyPond a foot in the publishing world. We can't expect publishing houses to easily

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 11:41 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: [...] MusicXML [...] indeed. ;) I'd actually say it is crucial to have that in order to get LilyPond a foot in the publishing world. We can't

Feta or Emmentaler

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew Bernard
When one is writing about Lilypond, is the name of the standard font Feta or Emmentaler? I am confused because (at v. 2.17.14) Appendix A.8 is titled The Feta Font and then proceeds to enumerate the symbols available in the Emmentaler font. I note the otf fonts on disk are called emmentaler.

some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Dear all, Earlier this month I was at Musikmesse. As I had some time to spare (a music sheet house was absent) I attended a scorio-sponsored/organised workshop on MusicXML. I declared myself as an [evening] choir conductor and LP user. After a few introductions Michael Good was collecting

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Urs Liska tippte: I think the quality of output is less a selling point compared to the 'big players' than the organizational potential inherent in the text format. As I learned the other week (maybe more in Musikmesse thread), publishing houses have invested quite some effort in music looking

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Carl Peterson
Urs, I've read through most of the document. It looks well-written, technically speaking. I have a few suggestions to offer: * Begin with the current reality for most people. You mentioned in this thread your frustration with Finale. I had the same frustrations when I was using it at university

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Urs Liska edited: My target audience are people who are involved in writing scores and text about music (maybe with a slight personal bias on people who prepare editions), but who still use word processors and wysiwyg notation programs. So you mostly cannot count on familiarity with TeX or

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' paper, I shall turn my ballpen-on-paper notes from Frankfurt into Bytes... ... my comments, clarifications {} ... organised by scorio { it took some locals to get that done } workshop (open to the public) entitled Beyond PDF -

How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff?

2013-04-22 Thread Peter Toye
Newbie alert I'm trying to engrave some piano music where the dynamics don't belong to either of the staffs, but refer to both staffs. If I put them in on the RH staff, they're a bit high. Also, I have to use the || construction a lot because there's a mix of homophonic and polyphonic

Re: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff?

2013-04-22 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Peter, you can use a Dynamics context in the middle of the PianoStaff: \new PianoStaff \new Staff = RH \relative c' { c8 d e f g a bes b | c1 } \new Dynamics = dyn { s1\p\ s1\f } \new Staff = LH \relative c { \clef bass c8 d e f g a bes b | c1 } HTH, Jan-Peter Am 22.04.2013 17:54,

Re: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff?

2013-04-22 Thread Carl Peterson
* For the dynamics issues, see here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/expressive-marks-attached-to-notes#dynamics * For the honophonic/polyphonic writing, my usual approach to these kinds of issues (in my case, Lyrics), is to keep as much writing (polyphonic or homophonic) in a

OFF TOPIC: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 125, Issue 96

2013-04-22 Thread David R. Linn
As a bit of administrivia: did anyone who reads the -user digest receive lilypond-user Digest, Vol 125, Issue 96? Please reply directly to d...@gnu.org and *not* to the list. -- David R. Linn - david.r.l...@vanderbilt.edu - d...@gnu.org ___

Conditionally color all tweaked objects

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, is it possible somehow to hook into the engraving process and color all grobs that have been manually tweaked? In my library I have a 'draft mode'. All my functions or shorthands that tweak the positioning have a counterpart in draft mode. The draft mode functions basically call the normal

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Help with Lilypond

2013-04-22 Thread steve
Howdy! There are lots of different ways to do this. Lilypond and the *NIX systems it runs on are very flexible... You may learn something by wading through the files in my source directory tree for my arrangement of Goldberg Variations

Re: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff?

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.04.2013 17:54, schrieb Peter Toye: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff? Newbie alert I'm trying to engrave some piano music where the dynamics don't belong to either of the staffs, but refer to both staffs. If I put them in on the RH staff, they're a bit high. Also, I have to

Re: Conditionally color all tweaked objects

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Hi, is it possible somehow to hook into the engraving process and color all grobs that have been manually tweaked? In my library I have a 'draft mode'. All my functions or shorthands that tweak the positioning have a counterpart in draft mode. The

Re: OFF TOPIC: Summary - lilypond-user Digest, Vol 125, Issue 96

2013-04-22 Thread David R. Linn
On 04/22/13 11:40, David R. Linn wrote: As a bit of administrivia: did anyone who reads the -user digest receive lilypond-user Digest, Vol 125, Issue 96? For those interested, at least two people (the original reporter and I) did not receive this digest; at least a few other people *did*

Re: Feta or Emmentaler

2013-04-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/4/22 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: When one is writing about Lilypond, is the name of the standard font Feta or Emmentaler? I am confused because (at v. 2.17.14) Appendix A.8 is titled The Feta Font and then proceeds to enumerate the symbols available in the Emmentaler font. I

publish music book

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Tisdall
I'm preparing a book for publication. My book incorporates many short examples and a fair amount of text. I am developing a web site so that readers can be presented with customized exercises and hear midi playback. The complete exercises will be only available on the web. I've got a couple

\set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Kale Good
\set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings. On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through lilypondtool. \new TabStaff \relative c { \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5 c16 d e f g4 } Thanks, Kale test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Kale Good k...@kalegood.com writes: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings. On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through lilypondtool. \new TabStaff \relative c { \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5 c16 d e f g4 }

Create Shortcut for minimumFret

2013-04-22 Thread Kale Good
Hi All, I'm using lilypond to create a guitar method book; I'm using a lot of tab. I was wondering if there was a way to create a shortcut for \set Tabstaff.minimumFret = I started using this the other day for right hand fingerings #(define RH rightHandFinger) and was hoping something like this

Re: Create Shortcut for minimumFret

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Kale Good k...@kalegood.com writes: Hi All, I'm using lilypond to create a guitar method book; I'm using a lot of tab. I was wondering if there was a way to create a shortcut for \set Tabstaff.minimumFret = I started using this the other day for right hand fingerings #(define RH

RE: publish music book

2013-04-22 Thread Christopher Brooks
I used lilypond for my book, just published (https://www.createspace.com/4101334). I did find it difficult to use, but flexible, with beautiful results. The main problem that I had was getting the results into pdf through Word with the resolution reasonably intact. This is the procedure that

Re: publish music book

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Brooks cbro...@orpheus-acoustics.com writes: I used lilypond for my book, just published (https://www.createspace.com/4101334). I did find it difficult to use, but flexible, with beautiful results. The main problem that I had was getting the results into pdf through Word with

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/22 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Kale Good k...@kalegood.com writes: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings. On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through lilypondtool. \new TabStaff \relative c { \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5 c16 d e f g4 } URL:

nudging hairpins

2013-04-22 Thread Ursus
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n144868/Afbeelding_001.jpg how can I nudge the start of the hairpins (decresc) in voices 3 and 4 to the right a little. So that all hairpins start at the same vertical level Thanks in advance. Lilypond 2.16.2 on windows 7 using frescobaldi -- View

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Peter Crighton
2013/4/22 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2013/4/22 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Kale Good k...@kalegood.com writes: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings. On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through lilypondtool. \new TabStaff \relative c { \set

Re: publish music book

2013-04-22 Thread Karl Hammar
Jim Tisdall: ... Lilypond has several methods to combine text and examples. One is lilypond-book, but due to the many examples in my chapters, I find that is too slow, so I'm deciding on other ways to include the graphics. No problem since everything is made possible, especially for a

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Crighton petecrigh...@googlemail.com writes: This question may confirm my idea that people don't expect to have open strings by default when setting minimumFret: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2013-01/msg00033.html I was also very surprised to see that option being the

Re: nudging hairpins

2013-04-22 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Ursus ursus.k...@gmail.com wrote: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n144868/Afbeelding_001.jpg how can I nudge the start of the hairpins (decresc) in voices 3 and 4 to the right a little. So that all hairpins start at the same vertical level Thanks

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Tim McNamara
I almost never use open strings even with first position chords when playing jazz. There are a few Jim Hall-ish situations that are exceptions to this. On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@googlemail.com wrote: 2013/4/22 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2013/4/22 David

Re: nudging hairpins

2013-04-22 Thread Ursus
here is the score. It is quite a bit of text. Added as a link, hope that is OK https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30381737/TheLongDay.ly https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30381737/TheLongDay.ly -- View this message in context:

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/23 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net I almost never use open strings even with first position chords when playing jazz. There are a few Jim Hall-ish situations that are exceptions to this. that's the point: open strings are the exception, so being enabled by default will sound weird

Re: Create Shortcut for minimumFret

2013-04-22 Thread Nick Payne
On 23/04/13 05:33, Kale Good wrote: Hi All, I'm using lilypond to create a guitar method book; I'm using a lot of tab. I was wondering if there was a way to create a shortcut for \set Tabstaff.minimumFret = I started using this the other day for right hand fingerings #(define RH

Re: nudging hairpins

2013-04-22 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ursus ursus.k...@gmail.com wrote: here is the score. It is quite a bit of text. Added as a link, hope that is OK https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30381737/TheLongDay.ly https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30381737/TheLongDay.ly Use spacer rests, e.g. in

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/4/23 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2013/4/23 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net I almost never use open strings even with first position chords when playing jazz. There are a few Jim Hall-ish situations that are exceptions to this. that's the point: open strings are the

Finale and Sibelius files

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, could somebody be so kind and send me Finale and/or Sibelius files with the equivalent of this LilyPond file: { c' } ? Thank you Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user