Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: > Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a caesura, > I > tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've tried > so far: > > caesura = { > \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \mus

Custom caesura command

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew
Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a caesura, I tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've tried so far: caesura = { \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.straight" } \breathe \override BreathingS

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith OHara
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:05:28 -0800, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Lilypond does use the text baseline as reference point for text. Really? Then why do these texts not align along their baselines: The default settings have the same minimum gap between staff and text, including descenders, as the

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Keith, > Lilypond does use the text baseline as reference point for text. Really? Then why do these texts not align along their baselines: \version "2.19" music = { \textLengthOn c''^\markup { NO DESCENDERS!! } c''^\markup { jjjyyyjjjggg } } \score { \music } Thanks, Kieren. ___

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith OHara
At 15:24 on 05 Feb 2014, Urs Liska wrote: >>>- the vertical position of the dashes (i.e. raise >>> it a little bit relatively to the text) >> >> TextSpanner.bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER > >unfortunately doesn't help. I'd need something like raise the dashes >by 0.2 ...

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Thomas Morley wrote: 2014-02-05 PMA: Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can "\override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...)" or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say, DynamicText) to shift them? I cou

Re: Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-02-05 PMA : > Hi List. > > Most of my current score's page numbers need > shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. > > Can "\override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...)" > or something similar be aimed at PageNumber > (instead of, say, DynamicText) to shift them? > > I could, I

Re: RE[2]: Harp-Symbols in LilyPond

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 10:08 PM Subject: RE[2]: Harp-Symbols in LilyPond \set melismaBusyProperties = #'() this moves the symbol from the middle to the beginning of the slur example c4( d4) I like to have a symbol above both - c and d It sho

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > Surprisingly it looks different with different texts. Another side-effect of the [irritating] fact that Lilypond doesn’t use the text baseline as the reference point!?!? =\ Cheers (?), Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Move Page Numbers?

2014-02-05 Thread PMA
Hi List. Most of my current score's page numbers need shifting a little, both vertically and horizontally. Can "\override ... #'extra-offset = #'( ... . ...)" or something similar be aimed at PageNumber (instead of, say, DynamicText) to shift them? I could, I know, force the issue, page-numbe

Re: PianoStaff context not staying alive

2014-02-05 Thread Shane Brandes
Well that was quick, I figured out that if you keep all the contexts in the Pianostaff filled to the end it works. In this case I had a dynamics context that I need to add 8 skipped bars and then it worked as expected. Shane On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Shane Brandes wrote: > Greetings all, >

PianoStaff context not staying alive

2014-02-05 Thread Shane Brandes
Greetings all, This week I resumed a massive project that was on hold due to hardware constraints. I am typesetting a concerto and I have placed the piano part in a PianoStaff so that using \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } in the layout block does not remove the piano part throughout the scor

Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs Ok, that makes sense. However I neither like the behaviour when putting it in the Voice context of the left hand. Then the pedal marks are _so_ incon

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "SoundsFromSound" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins Well when you said rasterized, it took me a second because I thought I was dealing with vector...sorry. So this is what I have explained a few times now. If you

Re: \parenthesize for dotted notehead

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 16:35, schrieb MING TSANG: Hi lilyponders, how can I parenthesize df8. ? the dot is outside the parenthesis. \version "2.18.0" \language "english" { \key af\major 1 |%m26 q2. \parenthesize ef'4 \parenthesize df'8 df'4 \parenthesize df'8. \parenthsize ef'16 |%m27 } Emmanuel, Ming.

\parenthesize for dotted notehead

2014-02-05 Thread MING TSANG
Hi lilyponders,  how can I parenthesize df8. ? the dot is outside the parenthesis.   \version "2.18.0" \language "english" { \key af\major 1 |%m26 q2. \parenthesize ef'4 \parenthesize df'8 df'4 \parenthesize df'8. \parenthsize ef'16 |%m27 } Emmanuel, Ming.__

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 16:11, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 05.02.2014 16:05, schrieb Mark Knoop: Try a number like #-0.5 instead of #CENTER Thanks! Using -0.75 gave me what I want. Well, not really. Surprisingly it looks different with different texts. If I don't override stencil-align-dir-y both dashes h

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 16:05, schrieb Mark Knoop: Try a number like #-0.5 instead of #CENTER Thanks! Using -0.75 gave me what I want. Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Knoop
At 15:24 on 05 Feb 2014, Urs Liska wrote: >>>- the vertical position of the dashes (i.e. raise >>> it a little bit relatively to the text) >> >> TextSpanner.bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER > >unfortunately doesn't help. I'd need something like raise the dashes >by 0.2 ...

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 15:52, schrieb Phil Burfitt: - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 1:59 PM Subject: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes Hi, in the attached image you see a TextSpanner, and I'm having some issues with it: - why is th

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 1:59 PM Subject: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes Hi, in the attached image you see a TextSpanner, and I'm having some issues with it: - why is the first dash longer than the other(s), is

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 05.02.2014 15:20, schrieb David Nalesnik: > >> >> > >> In fact, there's a markup command \draw-dashed-line which guards against >> these clipped edges. >> >> > You mean I should replace the TextSpanner by a custom \markup command? >

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 15:20, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, >- is it possible to make a TextSpanner always to align > to the right edge of the score (i.e. the barline) > and let the dash structure adapt to that? > (I see the 'right-bound-info' property but didn't >fi

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Mark, thanks for the ideas, but ... Am 05.02.2014 15:09, schrieb Mark Knoop: ... Not sure about those above, but: - is it possible to tweak - the attachment of the first dash to the text and TextSpanner.bound-details.left.padding = #-0.5 This shifts the whole "left" part slightly t

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Mark Knoop wrote: > At 14:59 on 05 Feb 2014, Urs Liska wrote: > >in the attached image you see a TextSpanner, and I'm having some > >issues with it: > > > >- why is the first dash longer than the other(s), > > is this a design decision (if yes, why)? >

Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 12:45, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs Phil Holmes schrieb: - Original Message - From: "Urs Lis

Re: Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Knoop
At 14:59 on 05 Feb 2014, Urs Liska wrote: >in the attached image you see a TextSpanner, and I'm having some >issues with it: > >- why is the first dash longer than the other(s), > is this a design decision (if yes, why)? > can it be modified? >- is it possible to make a TextSpanner always to al

Behaviour of TextSpanner dashes

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, in the attached image you see a TextSpanner, and I'm having some issues with it: - why is the first dash longer than the other(s), is this a design decision (if yes, why)? can it be modified? - is it possible to make a TextSpanner always to align to the right edge of the score (i.e.

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread SoundsFromSound
Phil Holmes-2 wrote > - Original Message - > From: "SoundsFromSound" < > soundsfromsound@ > > > To: < > lilypond-user@ > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 12:07 PM > Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins > > >> Phil Holmes-2 wrote >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "SoundsFromSo

Re: [Frescobaldi] ANN: python-ly 0.3

2014-02-05 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-02-05 Wilbert Berendsen : > Main changes in 0.3: > - new command 'highlight' to create syntax-highlighted HTML files of > LilyPond source files > Wonderful! I'd really like to see it implemented in lilypond-book, so we can use it in our documentation. I've added a comment to the tracker: h

Re: rolled (arpeggiated) chord

2014-02-05 Thread Noeck
Am 05.02.2014 12:04, schrieb Bric: > there is a recent thread with the subject "rolled chords" but I couldn't > see the answer to my quest(ion) there. > > What is the lilypond code for expressing a rolled chord? A vertical > squiggly line to the left of a chord? > > I tried \arpeggio, but it

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2014-02-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "SoundsFromSound" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins Phil Holmes-2 wrote - Original Message - From: "SoundsFromSound" < soundsfromsound@ > To: < lilypond-user@ > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread SoundsFromSound
Phil Holmes-2 wrote > - Original Message - > From: "SoundsFromSound" < > soundsfromsound@ > > > To: < > lilypond-user@ > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:49 PM > Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins > > >> Sorry David, I don't understand. When I output a PDF of my LilyPond score >> via

Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Vertical alignment of Pedal signs Phil Holmes schrieb: - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Repeat bars function

2014-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Knoop writes: > I'm making a music function below to automatically create a repeat > structure. It's useable at the moment, but there are a couple of > improvements that could be made - any suggestions for these would be > very helpful. > > 1. The main problem is where to revert the bar numb

Re: rolled (arpeggiated) chord

2014-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
Bric writes: > there is a recent thread with the subject "rolled chords" but I > couldn't see the answer to my quest(ion) there. > > What is the lilypond code for expressing a rolled chord? A vertical > squiggly line to the left of a chord? > > I tried \arpeggio, but it doesn't seem to work. >

Re: rolled (arpeggiated) chord

2014-02-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 05.02.2014 12:08, schrieb Bric: On 02/05/2014 06:04 AM, Bric wrote: there is a recent thread with the subject "rolled chords" but I couldn't see the answer to my quest(ion) there. What is the lilypond code for expressing a rolled chord? A vertical squiggly line to the left of a chord? I t

Re: rolled (arpeggiated) chord

2014-02-05 Thread Bric
On 02/05/2014 06:04 AM, Bric wrote: there is a recent thread with the subject "rolled chords" but I couldn't see the answer to my quest(ion) there. What is the lilypond code for expressing a rolled chord? A vertical squiggly line to the left of a chord? I tried \arpeggio, but it doesn't se

rolled (arpeggiated) chord

2014-02-05 Thread Bric
there is a recent thread with the subject "rolled chords" but I couldn't see the answer to my quest(ion) there. What is the lilypond code for expressing a rolled chord? A vertical squiggly line to the left of a chord? I tried \arpeggio, but it doesn't seem to work. do I have the right code

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread Noeck
> I'm guessing it might be anti-aliased, which I don't believe can be used > in the way the feta font is created. However, have you actually tried > the method I suggested to improve the output? That might be a more > useful way forward. Hi Phil, that is indeed a way that works quite well. Than

Re: Repeat bars function

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Knoop
At 09:57 on 05 Feb 2014, Mark Knoop wrote: >I'm making a music function below to automatically create a repeat >structure. It's useable at the moment, but there are a couple of >improvements that could be made - any suggestions for these would be >very helpful. > >1. The main problem is where to re

Repeat bars function

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Knoop
I'm making a music function below to automatically create a repeat structure. It's useable at the moment, but there are a couple of improvements that could be made - any suggestions for these would be very helpful. 1. The main problem is where to revert the bar number visibility override. This nee

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "SoundsFromSound" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:49 PM Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins Sorry David, I don't understand. When I output a PDF of my LilyPond score via Frescobaldi, I don't have any other options to set. I just pick PDF, then I print it. T

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Noeck" To: "David Kastrup" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 10:06 PM Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins So again the question: What does this font do that Feta doesn’t? Joram I'm guessing it might be anti-aliased, which I don't believe can

ANN: python-ly 0.3

2014-02-05 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, python-ly 0.3 has been released. The python-ly is in development and provides the 'ly' module for python programs and the 'ly' commandline tool that can parse and manipulate LilyPond source files. Url: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ly/ Main changes in 0.3: - new command 'highlight

Re: Jagged hairpins

2014-02-05 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2014-02-05 00:07, SoundsFromSound wrote: and...@andis59.se wrote Also I think that Frescobaldi is printing as a raster 300 dpi (default) so also when I print using Frescobaldi I get jagged hairpins. If I print using Adobe Reader it looks perfect. I've viewed the PDF in Sumatra, Acrobat, and