horizontal shift of note column - hardly works!

2013-10-26 Thread Tom Cloyd
I need help with this construction: \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #{doesn't matter what you put here 'cause it rarely works anyway} My ly code problem demo snippet is here: http://pastie.org/8433947 After two hours of futility tonight, and a review of my previous go around with

Re: id's for svg elements

2013-10-26 Thread Bric
On 10/26/2013 04:15 AM, Mike Solomon wrote: On Oct 26, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Bric wrote: can someone help scope out the task of adding semantically sound unique identifiers to the svg elements? Such that the id bears info on, at least, the staff, (maybe bar), and note/chord index (consecutive

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Colin Campbell writes: > I D/L the patch and applied it, ran make with no errors. I then > re-compiled my sample file, but saw no difference in behaviour. I > gather your patch should have prevented the melisma created in a > cadenza by manual beaming, but they still seem to happen. Do you make

Re: Feedback for Frescobaldi's Preview Mode

2013-10-26 Thread SoundsFromSound
I absolutely love this new feature. I haven't experienced any terrible bugs or glitches with it yet, but I don't use it all the time with every project. But when I do use it, it's awesome. :) Ben - composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond

Re: voice two but yet stems up towards end of piece with addlyrics

2013-10-26 Thread Annette Kusma
Hi and thanks for the quick reply! Sorry, I really totally missed the errors. That is, I initially scanned the log for relevant errors but did (with the original file) not get or not see the one error you mention; I did get and see "warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns" instead, which

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, > > > You're right, there's no way to set the page number, AFAIK :( > Well, no simple way. It is possible to write a markup function to increment the page numbers at a certain point. I retooled a function which does Roman numeral page numbers here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-10-26 02:39 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Colin Campbell writes: After wrestling with a transcription of an unmetered piece by Mark Sirett (Thou Shalt Know Him), my wife and I were going bonkers trying to get lyrics aligned to the notes. The piece has no time signature and bars of uneven leng

RE: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2013-10-26 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Jelle, I have encountered this a few times and with the help of others have used this: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/internals/breakalignment Mark -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr

RE: Extra Bar

2013-10-26 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. Morley, Thank you for your reply and the instructions. They work. And I know what they do. Yet I do not know why they would be necessary since both of the alternative endings are "complete," i.e., have the correct mensuration to match either the measure repeated to and the measure that follows

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Ed, I realize this is quite the crude solution, and perhaps you have already considered it, but could you not simply include unneeded measures at that particular area, inserting a \pageBreak between each? At the page with the correct page number, you could then resume your actua

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2013-10-26 Thread Jelle
umpquanet.com> writes: > > Most times, placing a clef change before a bar line is > appropriate. When combined with repeated sections though, > sometimes it is clearer to place a clef change after the bar > line. I've read a couple of ways to get a clef after instead of before a bar line. I

Re: lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX

2013-10-26 Thread Marcos Press
Absolutly right. You really have some perception powers :) I was not telling lilypond-book to use xelatex. Now it detects the marging and the result is much much better than before :) Thanks. 2013/10/25 Marc Hohl > Am 25.10.2013 15:45, schrieb Marcos Press: > >> Hi all! >> >> >> Every time I r

Re: lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX

2013-10-26 Thread Marcos Press
You hit one spot :) I'm trying to put examples in multicolumn. Which I resolve in doing two thing. Ono is to put the example in the three columns. The other is to end the table, put the example centered and then start the table again. A time ago I been trying the \multicolumn command but I couldn'

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ed, you wrote Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:15 AM > Hi Trevor, sorry all I can see in those pages is how to change the bar > number? I'm after a way to change the page number, much like the \set > Score.currentBarNumber but for pages. I'm assuming that because LP paginates > things near the end o

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > - Original Message - > From: "David Kastrup" > To: > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas > > >> Matthew Collett writes: >> >>> On 26/10/2013, at 4:10 pm, Colin Campbell wrote: >>> We tried using \cad

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" To: Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas Matthew Collett writes: On 26/10/2013, at 4:10 pm, Colin Campbell wrote: We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered aspect, but the funda

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Collett" To: "Colin Campbell" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:28 AM Subject: Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas On 26/10/2013, at 4:10 pm, Colin Campbell wrote: We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered asp

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Mike Solomon writes: > On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> Mike Solomon writes: >>> hmm…for a slightly less minimal example, I'm trying to do: bc = | foo = { \bc \bar "|" } { a a a a a \foo }

Re: voice two but yet stems up towards end of piece with addlyrics

2013-10-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Annette Kusma wrote: Is this a bug or am I missing something? The example you supplied did not run without errors. You didn't mention these errors, so my impression is that you are missing the error reports contained in the log file. Lilypond specifically mentions having trouble with

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread EdBeesley
Trevor Daniels wrote > EdBeesley wrote Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:25 AM > >> I was just wondering is there an easier way to get around this, for >> example >> a bit of code that will 'reset' the page count to the number I want, e.g: >> "set current page number to 7" > > There is. See > > htt

Re: Change page number during score

2013-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
EdBeesley wrote Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:25 AM > I was just wondering is there an easier way to get around this, for example > a bit of code that will 'reset' the page count to the number I want, e.g: > "set current page number to 7" There is. See http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documen

Re: Defining bar checks in a variable

2013-10-26 Thread Mike Solomon
On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Mike Solomon 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 tha

Feedback for Frescobaldi's Preview Mode

2013-10-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, now the new Preview Modes in Frescobaldi have been available for a while I would like to have some feedback. I know they aren't 'production quality' yet and I want to improve them. So please report any inconveniences, bugs or additional wishes. For example I know that 'Display grob anchor

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Colin Campbell writes: > After wrestling with a transcription of an unmetered piece by Mark > Sirett (Thou Shalt Know Him), my wife and I were going bonkers trying > to get lyrics aligned to the notes. The piece has no time signature > and bars of uneven length. We tried using \cadenzaOn to get t

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Collett
On 26/10/2013, at 6:58 pm, Colin Campbell wrote: We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered aspect, but the fundamental problem is that \cadenzaOn turns off autoBeam, which in turn means that manual beaming in a cadenza creates unwanted melismata. > > The aim was to get v

Re: id's for svg elements

2013-10-26 Thread Mike Solomon
On Oct 26, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Bric wrote: > can someone help scope out the task of adding semantically sound unique > identifiers to the svg elements? > > Such that the id bears info on, at least, the staff, (maybe bar), and > note/chord index (consecutive integer index, for instance) > > the

id's for svg elements

2013-10-26 Thread Bric
can someone help scope out the task of adding semantically sound unique identifiers to the svg elements? Such that the id bears info on, at least, the staff, (maybe bar), and note/chord index (consecutive integer index, for instance) the "output-svg.scm" script has various routines to build t