Re: Setting chordName font size

2014-01-07 Thread Noeck
Am 07.01.2014 07:08, schrieb Ed Faulk: I'm trying to make the font size for the chord names smaller. Hi Ed, you need to override the ChordName font-size in some layout block: \override ChordName #'font-size = #-1 Or if you use 2.18: \override ChordName.font-size = -1 You can adjust the

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 06.01.2014 23:41, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: I'd like to make a survey on how you are working with Git. Do you use the command line exclusively, or a GUI (which one(s))? Or a GUI for certain tasks and the command line for others? I use git on the command line only. However, I use the

renumber idea (Re: ANN: python-ly 0.1 (the ly tool))

2014-01-07 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
op 07-01-14 08:40, Johan Vromans schreef: Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: a first release of the command-line ly tool with the Python ly library is out: Yay! Given a (section of) .ly with barchecks and line number comments, e.g. d16 c8.~ c4 r2 | % 9 \bar || R1 |

Re: Lyric word pushes note to right

2014-01-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
David O'Donnell wrote Tuesday, January 07, 2014 1:27 AM I frequently work with scores with lyrics and continually encounter this problem, especially when engraving a transcription of plainchant. A lyric syllable of a longer length will push the other notes in the melisma to the right,

Re: Century Schoolbook not italic

2014-01-07 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Joram, I'm not an expert in the topic, but I hope I can still shed some light on the issue. AFAIU this depends on how the font is shipped, and I am not aware of a proper fallback solution that will work in all cases. If the designer ships all fonts of a family (probably in a single .otf or

Re: Century Schoolbook not italic

2014-01-07 Thread Noeck
Hi Alexander, thanks for your explanations! This sounds very reasonable to me. So it seems that this is a bit uncomfortable for the user but the right thing to do, given the fonts on my machine. Thanks! Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: new and context

2014-01-07 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when looking at this snippet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=292 I have the following question: Why is \context Staff allowed here? How can I fill bass figures in a Staff? I thought I need a \new

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Joshua Nichols To: Mailinglist lilypond-user Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 4:29 AM Subject: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music So I check the documentation for the dev version, and I notice that there are a few ideas for

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: From: Joshua Nichols To: Mailinglist lilypond-user So I check the documentation for the dev version, and I notice that there are a few ideas for the next release. Any ideas not mentioned via documentation? I don't know of any planning that is done

Re: ANN: python-ly 0.1 (the ly tool)

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: Given a (section of) .ly with barchecks and line number comments, e.g. d16 c8.~ c4 r2 | % 9 \bar || R1 | % 10 R1 | % 10 R1 | % 12 e4 e8

chordnames midi instrument

2014-01-07 Thread rosea grammostola
Hi, Can I change the midi instrument for the Chordnames, guitar instead of piano? Now i've chordsPart = \new ChordNames \chordNames Regards, \r ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Josh, I was wondering if any examples of contemporary notation were ever going to be put in the documentation. I know there is a spot for that, and when I've checked back several stable versions, and alas... nothing. As others have pointed out, we [the community] need to step up and fill

Re: chordnames midi instrument

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
rosea grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Can I change the midi instrument for the Chordnames, guitar instead of piano? Now i've chordsPart = \new ChordNames \chordNames chordsPart = \new ChordNames \with { midiInstrument = guitar } \chordNames -- David Kastrup

tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread rosea grammostola
Is it possible to change tempo for a certain part of the score and make that also audible in the midi file? In the template there is: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 4) } } ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
rosea grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Is it possible to change tempo for a certain part of the score and make that also audible in the midi file? In the template there is: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 4) } } I'd rather

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread Phil Holmes
Have you tried \tempo? \score { { \tempo 4 = 120 c''4 c'' c'' c'' \tempo 4 = 40 c''4 c'' c'' c'' } \layout {} \midi {} } -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: rosea grammostola To: lilypond-user Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:44 AM Subject: tempo changes (midi) Is it

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread rosea grammostola
Ok thx. You just have to put it in the score of one instrument, or do you need to put it in all the parts of the instruments playing at the same time? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: Have you tried \tempo? \score { { \tempo 4 = 120 c''4 c'' c'' c''

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread Phil Holmes
Why not try it and find out? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: rosea grammostola To: Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:15 PM Subject: Re: tempo changes (midi) Ok thx. You just have to put it in the score of one instrument, or do

Version control tools (was: Survey: Git (G)UIs)

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.01.2014 13:53, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi all Git users, I'd like to make a survey on how you are working with Git. Thank you all for your feedback! It was very interesting and inspiring for me. Due to its sheer number I can't reply to all opinions individually. Maybe I'll come back to

adding extra spacing ABOVE a context

2014-01-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I’ve got a text-only context (TextLine) which contains script information (dialogue, stage directions, etc.) in my music dramas. This context is the uppermost context in most of my scores. I would like to add a little padding ABOVE this context in all systems — but NOT add padding

Re: Version control tools (was: Survey: Git (G)UIs)

2014-01-07 Thread Simon Bailey
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: As a follow-up question I'd be interested in whether people use other version control systems beside Git. If you use more than one, a short comparison would be of general interest I think. i use svn, that's what i know

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2014 14:38, schrieb Simon Bailey: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: As a follow-up question I'd be interested in whether people use other version control systems beside Git. If you use more than one, a short

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-07 Thread Noeck
so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? I always use git, event git-svn for svn repos. Comparing to CVS and SVN, I see these advantages: - easy branching - I am a heavy user of git rebase - being able to commit, branch, diff etc. without internet connection that way I can

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-07 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, I just recognized that this snippet does not work as-is in 2.18.0 (and 2.17.x for x large enough), but gives -inf.0 as X-offsets if no punctuation prefixes a syllable. IIUC empty text-markups now return empty instead of point stencils these days, and the width computation for the

Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Mike Solomon
Begin forwarded message: From: Finale makemu...@email.makemusic.com Subject: Start creating with Finale 2014 today Date: January 7, 2014 at 5:14:27 PM GMT+2 To: mike...@stanfordalumni.org Reply-To: Finale support-b6k8aa6a2hmr65au18v5mb91thh...@email.makemusic.com Finale 2014 includes

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2014 16:48, schrieb Mike Solomon: Begin forwarded message: *From: *Finale makemu...@email.makemusic.com mailto:makemu...@email.makemusic.com *Subject: **Start creating with Finale 2014 today* *Date: *January 7, 2014 at 5:14:27 PM GMT+2 *To: *mike...@stanfordalumni.org

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Francois Planiol
Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? :-o Francois 2014/1/7, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Am 07.01.2014 16:48, schrieb Mike Solomon: Begin forwarded message: *From: *Finale makemu...@email.makemusic.com mailto:makemu...@email.makemusic.com *Subject: **Start

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com wrote: Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? :-o Lots of people. It’s not a conscious belief, more of an unconscious one. That’s the goal of marketing. It’s too bad that Finale output tends to look

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com wrote: Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? :-o Lots of people. It’s not a conscious belief, more of an unconscious one. That’s the goal of marketing.

Engraving challenges

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that of competing programs (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/msg00323.html), and I've finally managed to set something up. It's a Github repository along with a kind of Contributor's Guide:

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Francois Planiol
I just meant, if you want to own the future (its written own) dont try at all with engraving music. Be the boss of the FMI, of Monsanto, of Oil-illimited maybe. I dont know musicians that are so fool that they want to own the future. We just want to do what we love, the best we can and buy some

Re: new and context

2014-01-07 Thread Noeck
Figured bass can be displayed using the FiguredBass context, or in most staff contexts. Hi Simon, thanks for the explanation! This means bass figures should be associated to the staff this way to enhance the flexibility? I take this as such. Cheers, Joram

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com writes: Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? I don't see that it's inaccurate even though somewhat self-evident. At least for me, the universe refuses write access to anything but the future. -- David Kastrup

Re: Automatic Fretboards for chords only?

2014-01-07 Thread vigrond
Most guitar books contain fretboards for chords only. Isn't that a broad application? Not trying to push anyone to add this in, I'm a developer myself and may uptake the task - but I am just wondering if it technically should be a feature or not. -- View this message in context:

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Shane Brandes
The universe refuses write access to anything but the future. Excellent observation. Had me laughing. Advertising is really an unpleasant science or dark art if you prefer. The really clever outfits get that stuff right. And the rest at best they are amusing. My all time favorite is the Akron

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-07 Thread Shane Brandes
I would like to participate, but know nothing much about git and that part does not particularly interest me as at the moment it does not seem apparent git would be to learn other than for this particular effort. Shane On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi

Re: Fwd: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
I am throwing together a response to the article someone linked to in this thread, would anyone like to fact-check it when I am through? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: The universe refuses write access to anything but the future. Excellent

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
dak wrote Tim McNamara lt; timmcn@ gt; writes: On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francois Planiol lt; alicuota618@ gt; wrote: Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? :-o Lots of people. It’s not a conscious belief, more of an unconscious one. That’s the goal of

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2014 19:51, schrieb SoundsFromSound: David, that was a great little story that I hadn't heard before.:) Perhaps I'll steal it for later... Although it already _was_ a stolen story. He tried to camouflage that by modifying it: In reality it had been three hairdressers.

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 07.01.2014 19:51, schrieb SoundsFromSound: David, that was a great little story that I hadn't heard before.:) Perhaps I'll steal it for later... Although it already _was_ a stolen story. He tried to camouflage that by modifying it: In reality it

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread Joshua Nichols
Thanks to Kieren, David, and Phil for your responses. Kieren, that was a fantastic snippet. I guess I would be willing to help, but I have no where to begin to start that process. I would love to come up with some documentation on contemporary music, but it seems that LilyPond does convential

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Il 07/01/2014 20:23, David Kastrup ha scritto: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Although it already _was_ a stolen story. He tried to camouflage that by modifying it: In reality it had been three hairdressers. When I stole it, it was most definitely tailors. I knew this as a story

Re: snippet: standard staff sizes

2014-01-07 Thread Noeck
Hi all, I try to answer my own mail after having searched the internet for answers: 1. Is there a world wide standard for staff sizes? No. 2. Are Rastral Staff Sizes always the same? I once found a different list of rastral sizes. The differences are on the level of 2%, but I wonder if

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Joshua Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.com schrieb: Thanks to Kieren, David, and Phil for your responses. Kieren, that was a fantastic snippet. I guess I would be willing to help, but I have no where to begin to start that process. I would love to come up with some documentation on contemporary

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Urs Liska wrote: c) Who is registered in forums or mailing lists of other programs and could pass the link to the repo there in order to attract participants from there? As also discussed we don't organize this as a contest but as an opportunity for mutual analysis. I

Re: Automatic Fretboards for chords only?

2014-01-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/7/14 10:53 AM, vigrond devitt...@gmail.com wrote: Most guitar books contain fretboards for chords only. Isn't that a broad application? most guitar books that I see have a melody line and a fretboard context. There is no connection between the notes and the fretboards. That's the way

Tablature question

2014-01-07 Thread Fulvio Turra
Hi all, is there a way to add the string name at the beginning of a guitar tablature from the first string to the sixth? Quite useful with open tunings. Many thanks Fulvio ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: tempo changes (midi)

2014-01-07 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2014-01-07 11:44, rosea grammostola wrote: Is it possible to change tempo for a certain part of the score and make that also audible in the midi file? In the template there is: \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 4) } } I find it easier

Re: Tablature question

2014-01-07 Thread Phil Burfitt
Hi all, is there a way to add the string name at the beginning of a guitar tablature from the first string to the sixth? Quite useful with open tunings. Many thanks Fulvio Does this help? \set TabStaff.instrumentName = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \column \fontsize

Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

2014-01-07 Thread Joshua Nichols
Maybe something like a Wiki where you can also upload scanned images? I like that idea! I see stuff all the time, I'll start collecting image files. Who should be in charge of setting up the wiki? (I wouldn't mind) IC, Josh On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org

Re: Setting chordName font size

2014-01-07 Thread Jim Long
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:06:58AM +0100, Noeck wrote: Am 07.01.2014 07:08, schrieb Ed Faulk: I'm trying to make the font size for the chord names smaller. you need to override the ChordName font-size in some layout block It can also be done in the \with clause of the ChordNames context,

Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread muggle
I want to postion To Coda and the coda symbol on a single line above a note like this http://tomrudolph.berkleemusicblogs.com/files/2012/12/Wayfaringall1.png a4.^To Coda\coda prints the text and symbol on separate lines. Is there a quick and easy way to modify this? (I'm currently using

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
a4.^\markup{To Coda\musicglyph #scripts.coda} On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:34 PM, muggle rauy...@aucklanduni.ac.nz wrote: I want to postion To Coda and the coda symbol on a single line above a note like this http://tomrudolph.berkleemusicblogs.com/files/2012/12/Wayfaringall1.png a4.^To

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm interested and have access to both LillyPond (of course) and Sibelius. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi all, recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that of competing programs

Re: adding extra spacing ABOVE a context

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
Could you give an example? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, I’ve got a text-only context (TextLine) which contains script information (dialogue, stage directions, etc.) in my music dramas. This context is the uppermost

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread muggle
This works, but is there a way to vertically align the coda symbol so that it looks nicer? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Position-of-text-and-symbol-above-note-tp157390p157394.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
This should do the trick. a4.^\markup{\vcenter To Coda\musicglyph #scripts.coda} On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:59 PM, muggle rauy...@aucklanduni.ac.nz wrote: This works, but is there a way to vertically align the coda symbol so that it looks nicer? -- View this message in context:

Re: snippet: standard staff sizes

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
Or from the computer-based point of view: Is anything wrong with choosing a staff size of 19.1? From the computer-based view, no. From the typography-based view, yes. Something as small as that won't likely make a difference, but the further from its intended size you force a glyph the worse it

Re: Position of text and symbol above note

2014-01-07 Thread muggle
Genius. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Position-of-text-and-symbol-above-note-tp157390p157397.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
Shouldn't this be the default output? Looking at hand-engraved examples, such as this liedhttp://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/1/18/IMSLP16170-SchubertD489_Der_Wanderer_1st_version_called_Der_Ungluckliche.pdf, words tend to be centered ignoring punctuation (measures 8 and 14), or

Re: new and context

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
It depends. It can be easier to read when they are all below the staff. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: Figured bass can be displayed using the FiguredBass context, or in most staff contexts. Hi Simon, thanks for the explanation! This means bass

Re: TextLine help needed

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
How likely is the content to change? You could make that in LaTeX and include it in LaTeX from an eps file, but even as I'm typing it that seems like a very clunky way of doing things to me... I'll sleep on it and see if I can come up with anything. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Kieren

Professional Engraving

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
This isn't directly related to LilyPond, but I have a question for people on the mailing list. it seems like several people on this mailing list get payed to engrave music. How did you get started with those jobs? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
The Frescobaldi website says to post feature requests here. https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Fulvio Turra fulvio.tu...@gmail.com wrote: Federico hit the point. I forgot to mention in my first message that Frescobaldi is the editor I use and a custom

Re: Is it possible to invert the two-sided option?

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Loomis
In books, recto (odd) pages have larger left margin and versos have larger right margins. Does anyone know why LilyPond reverses it? On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Speldosa l4rs...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to

Re: Is it possible to invert the two-sided option?

2014-01-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alex, In books, recto (odd) pages have larger left margin and versos have larger right margins. There really isn’t a standard. In Robert Bringhurst’s [amazing] typography book, there are lots of examples where left-hand (even) pages have larger left margins and right-hand (odd) pages

Re: [abcusers] Engraving challenges (fwd)

2014-01-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:45:12 - From: David Webber d...@musical.demon.co.uk Reply-To: abcus...@yahoogroups.com To: abcus...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [abcusers] Engraving challenges (fwd) From: Martin Tarenskeen I've prepared a first

Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Frescobaldi's musicxml export is still in an early stage of development so I will not try to mail a list with all things that fail or don't work yet. But I do want to report two little things. 1. It does not seem to know that Lilypond uses a default of 4/4 when no timesignature is given.