Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

2013-10-14 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Paul, Le 13 oct. 2013 à 18:49:01, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com a écrit : Jacques Menu-2 wrote Also, entering the spec data could be done in a GUI window as an extension. I could see this being integrated into Frescobaldi, perhaps? I'll contribute it with pleasure! JM Nice

Re: Lyric-Staff-spacing fails with smaller lyrics

2013-10-14 Thread Eluze
Paul Morris wrote Eluze wrote I don't think LP fails, it's just that the vertical spacing isn't corrected with the \staffSize macro (which btw can be simplified to staffSize = #(define-music-function (parser location new-size) (number?) #{ \set fontSize = #new-size \override

Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Emil Salim
Hi All, Is there a database of .ly files for hymnals somewhere? I'm looking for For All the Saints (Sine Nomine). Thank you for your help. best, Emil ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Emil, see : http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:Sacred_hymnstransclude=Template:Catintro Cheers, Pierre 2013/10/14 Emil Salim pil...@gmail.com Hi All, Is there a database of .ly files for hymnals somewhere? I'm looking for For All the Saints (Sine Nomine). Thank you for your help.

Re: Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Przemyslaw Pawelczyk
Hi. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Emil Salim pil...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a database of .ly files for hymnals somewhere? I'm looking for For All the Saints (Sine Nomine). Thank you for your help. English Hymnal entry in Wikipedia links to: - eHymnal: A project to digitize the English

Re: Colored note heads with black outline

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thanks for having put my name on it Paul, Cheers, Pierre 2013/10/14 Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com Paul Morris wrote I realized it needs to be improved so that it will also handle \breve and \longa note durations correctly. I'll include some examples of using the (x11-color 'orange)

Re: Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Przemyslaw Pawelczyk
Side note: The English hymnal (January 1, 1906) is archived and is available at: http://archive.org/details/theenglishhymnal00milfuoft in PDF, djvu and text, but 641th hymn is not present there, as it lacks pages: 826-829. Regards. -- Przemyslaw Pawelczyk Cross-site thinker, rookie composer,

Converting MIDI to .ly?

2013-10-14 Thread neoking
Hi all, I just started using lilypond and I tried looking around for this on the internet, but I couldnt find an answer to this anywhere. I want to convert a simple midifile to a .ly-file in 4/4 tempo in 2 voices. The only thing I came across is that I have to use midi2ly, but when I try to

Frescobaldi and pdf

2013-10-14 Thread Mario Moles
Hi! I have a strange message on the log: *_/lilypond 2.17.25 [Inno ComoeniusOrch.ly] in avvio.../_* *_/attenzione: opzione interna sconosciuta: debug-control-points/_* *_/attenzione: opzione interna sconosciuta: debug-voices/_* *_/Elaborazione di/_* and I also have a strange pdf output as in the

Re: Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Przemyslaw Pawelczyk
Just in case, but Emil, have you visited following Wikipedia entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_the_Saints I'm almost sure you did, but if you haven't seen it, then there is a link to: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/f/a/l/fallthes.htm where you can find following files: MIDI:

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Kevin Tough ke...@toughlife.org writes: Perhaps I had should describe what I am looking for more as a neck diagram for guitar because I want to do more than just a chord shape. I have cut the attached *.jpg from an E-book I use. I would like to be able to make these myself. Color, changing

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Kevin Tough
Thanks everyone for the information and tips on Stand alone guitar chord diagrams! I will however be reverting to manually doing them in GIMP because that will give me the flexibility to do exactly what I want. I may also check out an Inkscape script but when it comes to music with chords,

Re: Hymn Repository

2013-10-14 Thread Emil Salim
Oh my sincere apologies that I just sent a PDF file to the list. I just realized that I might have violated the list protocol. Mea culpa. best, Emil ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
kevin, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Kevin Tough ke...@toughlife.org wrote: Thanks everyone for the information and tips on Stand alone guitar chord diagrams! I will however be reverting to manually doing them in GIMP because that will give me the flexibility to do exactly what I want. I

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/13 9:41 PM, Kevin Tough ke...@toughlife.org wrote: Perhaps I had should describe what I am looking for more as a neck diagram for guitar because I want to do more than just a chord shape. I have cut the attached *.jpg from an E-book I use. I would like to be able to make these myself.

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: All of the dots can be put on the fretboard using the fret-diagram-verbose syntax. The R codes can be put inside the circles. i was working with fret-diagrams a while back and would have loved to be able to put

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/10/14 Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at What does the R indicate? the R probably indicates the root note of the scale – at least i've seen it written that way before in guitar literature (not a player, my girlfriend is a guitar teacher though...). yes, I've also seen this and I _think_

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: yes, I've also seen this and I _think_ that it's called E shape because the shape starts from the 6th string that makes more sense now: Red + (R) = Root; red circle = IIIrd (B) and Vth (D) steps of the scale (probably

Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey all, Is it possible to do something like this: snip bc = { | } { a a a a a \bc } /snip And have the bar check kick in? Cheers, MS ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Hey all, Is it possible to do something like this: snip bc = { | } untested, but may work: bc = #(make-music 'BarCheck) but why would you want to do such a thing? replacing a single character with three seems a

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread David Kastrup
Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: Hey all, Is it possible to do something like this: snip bc = { | } { a a a a a \bc } /snip And have the bar check kick in? Well, it is actually rather curious that it doesn't, but that's not related to the variable but rather the enclosing

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/14/13 8:07 AM, Simon Bailey si...@bailey.at wrote: hi, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: All of the dots can be put on the fretboard using the fret-diagram-verbose syntax. The R codes can be put inside the circles. i was working with

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread Mike Solomon
On Oct 14, 2013, at 5:32 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: Hey all, Is it possible to do something like this: snip bc = { | } { a a a a a \bc } /snip And have the bar check kick in? Well, it is actually rather curious that it

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu ...SNIP... be able to put something else other than fingering in the dots. how would i put R in the circle? \version 2.16.1 % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions. \markup { % standard size

Re: Converting MIDI to .ly?

2013-10-14 Thread neoking
Hi Ben, First of all thanks for your reaction! I already read the link you sended and I had some difficulties with it. First of all, I use Windows 7 (which if from what I understood I have to use the CMD function to open the program to fill in the code to make lillypond convert midi to ly). Also,

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread David Kastrup
Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: hmm…for a slightly less minimal example, I'm trying to do: bc = | foo = { \bc \bar | } { a a a a a \foo } Any ideas on how to accomplish that? Simple. First fix URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2392 then revert commit

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-14 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: hmm…for a slightly less minimal example, I'm trying to do: bc = | foo = { \bc \bar | } { a a a a a \foo } Any ideas on how to accomplish that? Simple. First fix

Re: Converting MIDI to .ly?

2013-10-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: neoking v.ouwend...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Converting MIDI to .ly? Hi Ben, First of all thanks for your reaction! I already read the link you sended and I had some difficulties with it. First

Re: Converting MIDI to .ly?

2013-10-14 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Neoking, If you are using Windows, don't forget to follow the steps described on this link below in order to be able to invoke LilyPond from the Command Prompt (please read the text under Running on the command-line): http://www.lilypond.org/windows.html Now you should be able to invoke

Survey for users of Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-10-14 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear users of Frescobaldi on Mac, if you installed Frescobaldi through MacPorts using the Portfiles provided at https://github.com/dliessi/ports, I would be grateful if you could answer some questions. 1. Did you install frescobaldi or frescobaldi-devel? 2. If you installed frescobaldi-devel:

Re: How to get Staff context-id from a grob?

2013-10-14 Thread Jan Rosseel
David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: Jan Rosseel jan at rosseel.com writes: Hello, I have a problem that I've been trying to crack, but I'm failing. In my backend, I am processing grobs, and I would need to get the context-id of the StaffSymbol that a certain grob

Re: How to get Staff context-id from a grob?

2013-10-14 Thread Jan Rosseel
Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.10.2013 10:22, schrieb Jan Rosseel: I don't know, but how do you want your solution to behave when you use some music in more than one staff? Urs Quite simply: I didn't care about that situation because I never

Re: ChordNames in Staff context

2013-10-14 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Keith, thanks for your reply! May I ask what the reasons were for removing that technique? Probably, no-one watching the changes knew that this was a technique. that would be a pity! From the email you linked, I can see the potential for a problem. The Axis_group_engraver in

Event-Listener [was Re: repeat partcombine texts]

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Bailey
On 11 Oct 2013, at 16:17, Simon Bailey wrote: i was typesetting a score last week, and there are some a2 sections in the horns that go over multiple systems and pages. is there any way to repeat the current partcombine text in brackets at the beginning of a system? \version 2.17.28

Stem transparency - possible bug.

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Dear LilyList, I'm trying to produce a code where I need stems to be transparent. Problem is : \override Stem.transparent = ##t makes flags and beams disapeared. Is it a bug ? If no, how do I get stems to be transparent and let beams and flags visible ? ex : \version 2.17.28 \relative c' {

Re: Stem transparency - possible bug.

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Sorry folks, it's OK. I'm just a little bit tired tonight. Sorry for disturbing 2013/10/14 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com Dear LilyList, I'm trying to produce a code where I need stems to be transparent. Problem is : \override Stem.transparent = ##t makes flags and

Re: Stem transparency - possible bug.

2013-10-14 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
So did you solve your problem? If not, have a look on the following code below: \version 2.17.28 \relative c' { \override Stem.transparent = ##t \override Flag.transparent = ##f \override Beam.transparent = ##f f16 f f f \autoBeamOff f16 f f f } By what I understand, making the Stem

Re: Stem transparency - possible bug.

2013-10-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Yep, exactly what I did. Thanks though, Gilberto. 2013/10/14 Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com So did you solve your problem? If not, have a look on the following code below: \version 2.17.28 \relative c' { \override Stem.transparent = ##t \override Flag.transparent = ##f