Re: mea máxima culpa

2013-09-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:14 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Patrick or Cynthia Karl writes: > >>> From: Thomas Morley >>> To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl >> >>> [deleting billions of lines] >> >>> From: James Harkins < jamshar...@gmail.com> >>> Patrick or Cynthia Karl mac.com> writes: >> >>> Well, I

Re: mea máxima culpa

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Patrick or Cynthia Karl writes: >> From: Thomas Morley >> To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl > >> [deleting billions of lines] > >> From: James Harkins < jamshar...@gmail.com> >> Patrick or Cynthia Karl mac.com> writes: > >> Well, I don't have an answer to the question, but... a reminder... it is >>

mea máxima culpa

2013-09-10 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
> From: Thomas Morley > To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl > [deleting billions of lines] > From: James Harkins < jamshar...@gmail.com> > Patrick or Cynthia Karl mac.com> writes: > Well, I don't have an answer to the question, but... a reminder... it is VERY > uncool to quote an *entire digest* wh

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread James Harkins
Kieren MacMillan sympatico.ca> writes: > > can I ask what the \global tag is doing in your snippet? It seems > > to me like it's laying out a map of the time signature change in a piece. Is > > this the recommended way to go about this? Up till now I've just written all > > the time changes int

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ed, > I can't see why you'd add the \global section after the \codaMusic ? \pushToTag takes two parameters: the music you're trying to push (in this case, the notes that appear in the second staff right at the coda), and the "music" which contains the target tag (in this case, the \global v

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread James Harkins
Patrick or Cynthia Karl mac.com> writes: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:56:09 +0200 > > From: Eluze gmail.com> > > To: lilypond-user gnu.org > > Subject: Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties > > Message-ID: <522F4F29.9010607 gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks yes it does help, although I can't see why you'd add the \global section after the \codaMusic ? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Skip-to-Specific-Bar-tp150577p150614.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ed, > can I ask what the \global tag is doing in your snippet? It seems > to me like it's laying out a map of the time signature change in a piece. Is > this the recommended way to go about this? Up till now I've just written all > the time changes into the first staff as I put the notes in.

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick or Cynthia Karl wrote Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:11 PM > Does anyone not agree with me that layout-set-staff-size is nonsensical and > nonworking? And that the documentation should document exactly what it does? > and how the "staff size" can be changed without changing the distan

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/11 Patrick or Cynthia Karl : >> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:56:09 +0200 >> From: Eluze >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties >> well - I think it's described somewhere inta manual. here's a little >> function to facilitate the change of those 3

Re: LSR - Adding extra fingering with scheme - Needs update.

2013-09-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/10 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> #(define (make-text-script x) >>(make-music 'TextScriptEvent >>'direction DOWN >>'text x)) >> >> #(define (add-text-script m x) >>(cond ((music-is-of-type? m 'event-chord) >> (set! (ly:music-pr

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Joshua Nichols
I am getting no response with this method. Things are still odd... HOWEVER! When I changed to the default Text Font (eliminating the modified font tree), I got a normal response... So perhaps it is a bug? Or am I missing something? IC, Josh On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Carl Peterson wrote:

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Ed, You would *once* type out the full time signature sequence in a variable. You could use then the $(mmrest-of-length variable)-construct in as many voices You need. What Kieren mentioned is new to me too and I would be curious see, how one can use these commands in a context You've mention

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Graham King writes: > On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 04:39 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Inside of markups, you can't use functions defined with >> define-scheme-function (their argument parsing is just not compatible >> with markup mode). Check out define-markup-command instead. >> >> As a note asid

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
I've tried it and not succeeded with it so far, but before I copy and paste code here, can I ask what the \global tag is doing in your snippet? It seems to me like it's laying out a map of the time signature change in a piece. Is this the recommended way to go about this? Up till now I've just writ

Re: midi doesn't work with custom Voice contexts

2013-09-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/9/10 Paul Morris : > Hi David, > > > David Nalesnik-2 wrote >> I've never been able to edit my snippets after they have been approved. >> What you can do is post a new snippet: copy the old one, change it, and >> give it a title like "Defining a Custom Staff Context [corrected]." The >> perso

Re: switching between halved and full note values

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 20:43 +0100, Graham King wrote: > The original mensural clefs, Uh, I did of course mean, "The original mensuration signs..." ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Thanks! That does the trick. Below is the snippet as I was envisioning it. I believe it satisfies the OP request: > I'm writing a frenched score which has large gaps between the reappearance > of some staves. The piece is stuffed full of time signature changes, so I'm > hoping to find

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
-size 15) >>> }I have tried to use this to scale back several more involved scores >>> (SATB+Organ accompaniment), but if I go any less that '16' for the staff >>> size, my notes, time signatures, words, and clefs stop shrinking. >>> >>> >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-09-10 Thread Stan Sanderson
Installation was very easy and almost everything is working. However, in order to use MIDI, I still have to manually start Qsynth to provide Frescobaldi with a fluidsynth output port. Is there a simple way to bypass this step or automate it from within Frescobaldi? Stan On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:0

Re: switching between halved and full note values

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
Many thanks to David for his help, here and in another thread. This all started with the differing preferences of singers of polyphony, some preferring scores in original note values, and some wanting reduced values. Personally, I'll sing from anything, but I like to enter music into lilypond usi

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > What Kieren mentioned is new to me too and I would be curious see, how one > can use these commands in a context You've mentioned. The idea is as seen in the snippet, below, where certain music is added "at the coda", using tags. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. David K: What d

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
Thanks for your answers thus far. Kieren I think I understand the concept but I can't see a way of making that work for what I'm doing. Stefan likewise I think I understand but does that mean that I would need to type out the full time signature sequence which I could then reuse for other parts?

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
Many thanks David, On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 20:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > mensuration = #(define-music-function (P L mensuralTimesig .) > > (string? .) > > #{ \mark \markup { > > \concat { > > \mensSign mensuralTimesig > > You p

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Carl Peterson
Replying to group since I forgot to the first time... On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > I use #(set-global-staff-size __) at the top oc the document and > myStaffSize = #__ in the paper block. Usually I have to play with the two > to find the right combination of staff size

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Carl Peterson
See David Kastrup's answer. You have to change the one in the font tree as well. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > I am getting no response with this method. Things are still odd... > HOWEVER! When I changed to the default Text Font (eliminating the modified > font tree),

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Kieren MacMillan writes: > >> Hi all, >> >>> What Kieren mentioned is new to me too and I would be curious see, >> how one can use these commands in a context You've mentioned. >> >> The idea is as seen in the snippet, below, where certain music is >> added "at the coda",

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >> What Kieren mentioned is new to me too and I would be curious see, how one >> can use these commands in a context You've mentioned. > > The idea is as seen in the snippet, below, where certain music is added "at > the coda", using tags. > Unfortunately, i

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-09-10 Thread Derek
That is freaking awesome and a breeze to install. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-New-Portfile-for-Frescobaldi-on-Mac-tp150564p150596.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Extended mensuration signs in markup via Scheme

2013-09-10 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 04:39 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Inside of markups, you can't use functions defined with > define-scheme-function (their argument parsing is just not compatible > with markup mode). Check out define-markup-command instead. > > As a note aside: case can't be used with str

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Ed, I have often similar problems like You. My solution is not ideal, but I hope, it helps You a bit: \version "2.16.2" globalA = { \time 4/4 s1 } globalB = { \time 3/4 s2. \time 4/4 s1 \time 5/4 s4*5 } globalC = { \time 4/4 s1 } global = { \globalA \globalB \globalC } firstStaf

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Joshua Nichols
Unfortunately, I've tried to find where it stops doing this, but I cannot provide a small snippet. I'm not sure where it happens... I am happy to forward the attached .ly file for you to fiddle with. I'm sorry I can't specify a tiny example. I've tried and am getting a little frustrated (maybe fre

Re: Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ed, > I'm writing a frenched score which has large gaps between the reappearance > of some staves. The piece is stuffed full of time signature changes, so I'm > hoping to find a way to skip input by a specified number of bars, or to a > specific bar. The only method I know is by inserting space

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Joshua Nichols writes: > Unfortunately, I've tried to find where it stops doing this, but I cannot > provide a small snippet. I'm not sure where it happens... I am happy to > forward the attached .ly file for you to fiddle with. > > I'm sorry I can't specify a tiny example. I've tried and am gett

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Joshua Nichols
Thanks Carl! Should the myStaffSize be inside a #() or unspecified? IC, Josh On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Carl Peterson wrote: > Replying to group since I forgot to the first time... > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Carl Peterson > wrote: > >> I use #(set-global-staff-size __) at the

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Eluze
well - I think it's described somewhere inta manual. here's a little function to facilitate the change of those 3 values: staffSize = #(define-music-function (parser location new-size) (number?) #{ \set fontSize = #new-size \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep new-size) \overrid

Re:Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
> > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:41:49 +0100 > From: "Phil Holmes" > To: "Joshua Nichols" , "Mailinglist > lilypond-user" > Subject: Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties > Message-ID: <5BFCF5FF54814E1EA940594E7D0D45D1@Advent> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Carl Peterson
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > Thanks Carl! Should the myStaffSize be inside a #() or unspecified? > It is outside a Scheme context, so: \paper { myStaffSize = #22 } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org ht

Skip to Specific Bar

2013-09-10 Thread EdBeesley
\version 2.16.2 I'm writing a frenched score which has large gaps between the reappearance of some staves. The piece is stuffed full of time signature changes, so I'm hoping to find a way to skip input by a specified number of bars, or to a specific bar. The only method I know is by inserting space

Re: Overall (global) resizing difficulties

2013-09-10 Thread Phil Holmes
Could you attach the problematic code, please? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Joshua Nichols To: Mailinglist lilypond-user Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:49 AM Subject: Overall (global) resizing difficulties Has anyone encountered overall resizing issues

Re: Question about autocompile bash script

2013-09-10 Thread Carl Peterson
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:22 AM, immanuel litzroth wrote: > If there were some kind of make-dep for lilypond it could even generate > these dependencies > automaticaly, like it happens for C (the compiler generates dependencies > when passed the > correct flags). This should not be too hard to bre

[ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-09-10 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear Mac OS X Frescobaldi users, [from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-09/msg00030.html] > I am currently fine tuning a new version of the Portfile that > automatically creates also the application bundle. > I just need to test it on 10.7 and 10.8 machines (I run 10.6 and have

Re: Midi equalisation

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Hilary Snaden writes: > This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it > should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the > voices. Changing the volume values makes no difference at all. \dyns > contains dynamics for the organ, each voice part has its o

Midi equalisation

2013-09-10 Thread Hilary Snaden
This (trimmed) example doesn't work as the documentation suggests it should, in this case to reduce the volume of the organ relative to the voices. Changing the volume values makes no difference at all. \dyns contains dynamics for the organ, each voice part has its own dynamics. Am I missing someth

Re: Question about autocompile bash script

2013-09-10 Thread Yann
Hello all :) Just my 2cts contribution : I also had the same kind of requirement (for an hymnbook project), only difference is I use a mercurial repository instead of dropbox. When pushing changes to the repository, it launches a command in bash (with a hook) running make in every directory where

whole notes are differently aligned with different styles

2013-09-10 Thread Eluze
while discussing http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Notehead-of-harmonic-whole-note-too-narrow-td150520.html Noeck detected that the alignment of normal, harmonic and harmonic-mixed notes in a chord is different test5.ly

Re: Question about autocompile bash script

2013-09-10 Thread immanuel litzroth
If there were some kind of make-dep for lilypond it could even generate these dependencies automaticaly, like it happens for C (the compiler generates dependencies when passed the correct flags). This should not be too hard to brew up? Immanuel On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jacques Menu wrote

Re: Question about autocompile bash script

2013-09-10 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Carl, An approach could be to create a makefile containing: - the rules to compile LP files to PDF (fixed part); - the dependencies among LP files reflecting the presence of \include in them (variable part). Producing the makefile could be done by a script when your dropbox

Re: Question about autocompile bash script

2013-09-10 Thread ArnoldTheresius
Carl Peterson-2 wrote > Question for those who are familiar with linux bash shell scripting... > > ... > > The question I have is whether it is possible to set up a similar script > to > "trace" a file's inclusion in other lilypond files and then compile > whenever an upstream file is loaded. My

Re: midi doesn't work with custom Voice contexts

2013-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > I had a look at your code and did some experiments. > > I was very surprised that the following seems to work (outputting pdf and > midi) > > myL = > \layout { > \context { > \Staff > \name MyCustomStaff > \alias Staff > \consists "Pitch_squash_engraver"

Re: LSR - Adding extra fingering with scheme - Needs update.

2013-09-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Dear David, Dear Harm, Thanks much for your fast answers ! 2013/9/9 Thomas Morley > >> >> See also: >> >> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Problem-with-snippet-654-after-2-15-28-td131207.html >> >> Nice link ! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo