Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 14, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Davide Liessi wrote: > Dear Tim, > > 2014-02-14 23:35 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara : >> Unfortunately now I no longer have the side-by-side view of the .ly file and >> the .pdf file. I can’t for the life of me figure out how that happened or >> how to get it back. > >

Re: Overriding staff-padding for MeasureCounter fails

2014-02-14 Thread Keith OHara
David Nalesnik gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Ed Gordijn gmail.com> wrote:Hi, >     % \override MeasureCounter.staff-padding = #4  % doesn't work either > Huh--that's strange.  This will involve some investigation to get at the cause, determine if there's a bug. The c

Re: warning: no heads for arpeggio found?

2014-02-14 Thread Shane Brandes
The arpeggio has to arpeggiate to something else Kieren's suggestion will only help if there are multiple voice that get arpeggiated together. I hope that makes sense to you. In any event it is not possible to arpeggiate just a single tone. Shane On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:56 PM, MING TSANG wrote

Re: combine codes

2014-02-14 Thread MING TSANG
David, Wonderfull! Thank you very much. Emmanuel, Ming On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:44:31 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Ming, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:09 PM, MING TSANG wrote: As the sample from David Nalesnik that combine three set of variables into one, I try to do the same to comb

Re: warning: no heads for arpeggio found?

2014-02-14 Thread MING TSANG
rpeggio.ly:4:46: warning: no heads for arpeggio found? left= \relative c''{ \clef treble < a >2. \arpeggio } I got the same warning message and no arprggio on pdf. Emmanuel, Ming On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:26:06 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Ming, Arpeggios require chords. It is s

Re: combine codes

2014-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ming, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:09 PM, MING TSANG wrote: > As the sample from David Nalesnik that combine three set of variables into > one, I try to do the same to combine two sets into one. I have problem to > let the combine code to recognize a list that is to be passed to the > variable

Re: warning: no heads for arpeggio found?

2014-02-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ming, Arpeggios require chords. It is sufficient to make it a one-note chord: 2.\arpeggio Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

warning: no heads for arpeggio found?

2014-02-14 Thread MING TSANG
I compile the following lily code: \version "2.19.2" left= \relative c''{ \clef treble a2.\arpeggio } << \new Staff = "left" \with { } { \clef bass \left } >> And I got warning message and no arpeggio shown on pdf. Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.2 [test_no-head-arpeggio.ly]... Processing

Re: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

2014-02-14 Thread Eluze
steve-166 wrote > Howdy! > > It is well known that Ties and Slurs are problematic in LilyPond > 2.18.0. As can be seen by > a simple example from my project "Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble" > variation 22 hi steve! can you please point to the problematic tie or slur directly in th

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-14 Thread Davide Liessi
Dear Tim, 2014-02-14 23:35 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara : > Unfortunately now I no longer have the side-by-side view of the .ly file and > the .pdf file. I can’t for the life of me figure out how that happened or > how to get it back. Maybe you just need to enable "Music View" in the "Tools" menu. H

Re: Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble

2014-02-14 Thread Noeck
Am 14.02.2014 20:52, schrieb st...@linuxsuite.org: > Howdy! > > As per Janek's suggestion, I would like to announce my LilyPond > project, the transcription and engraving of J. S. Bach's "Goldberg > Variations" BWV 988 for > Guitar Ensemble. > > http://www.gooeytar.com/projects/BWV-98

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
Updating proceeded normally and double-clicking a .ly file in the Finder launches Frescobaldi and loads the file, so that bug seems squashed. Unfortunately now I no longer have the side-by-side view of the .ly file and the .pdf file. I can’t for the life of me figure out how that happened or h

Re: Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble

2014-02-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Steve this absolutely wonderfull news ! What a great job !! Many thanks for posting, Pierre 2014-02-14 20:52 GMT+01:00 : > Howdy! > > As per Janek's suggestion, I would like to announce my LilyPond > project, the transcription and engraving of J. S. Bach's "Goldberg > Variations" BWV

Re: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

2014-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2014 22:01, schrieb st...@linuxsuite.org: Howdy! It is well known that Ties and Slurs are problematic in LilyPond 2.18.0. As can be seen by a simple example from my project "Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble" variation 22 http://www.gooeytar.com/projects/BWV-9

Re: Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords

2014-02-14 Thread Yann
> Why are there chord names above the vocal score? As a singer, I would find > that very unhelpful. Why not just lose them for the vocal part? > > -- > Phil Holmes This is for a hymn book project; the hymns are harmonised 4 voices, but a requirement is that chords should appear as well, so guita

Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble

2014-02-14 Thread steve
Howdy! As per Janek's suggestion, I would like to announce my LilyPond project, the transcription and engraving of J. S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations" BWV 988 for Guitar Ensemble. http://www.gooeytar.com/projects/BWV-988/ The basics are mostly finished, and what remains is the fi

Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

2014-02-14 Thread steve
Howdy! It is well known that Ties and Slurs are problematic in LilyPond 2.18.0. As can be seen by a simple example from my project "Goldberg Variations for Guitar Ensemble" variation 22 http://www.gooeytar.com/projects/BWV-988/test/test.orig.pdf Notice that Ties in bar

Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-14 Thread Noeck
What's wrong with lilypond --png here? >>> >>> I can't get good looking images from --png. I may not have found the >>> right combination of parameters yet. >> >> I suggest to try strokeadjust option if you haven't already. > > Could someone suggest a good set of options for generating .png f

Re: Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords

2014-02-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Yann" To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 6:16 PM Subject: Re: Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords My usual layout when typesetting hymns is a ChoirStaff, with SA-TB voices, main lyrics printed between

Re: Best practice for dynamics position on SATB hymn with chords

2014-02-14 Thread Yann
>>My usual layout when typesetting hymns is a ChoirStaff, with SA-TB >>voices, main lyrics printed between staves, ... >>I was wondering, what is the best practice for positioning the >>dynamics ? Above or below the staves ? Should them be printed only >>once for all the ChoirStaff, or for each sta

RE: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Crossen
> From: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:47 > To: Chris Crossen > Cc: David Kastrup; Chris Crossen; LilyPond Users > Subject: Re: Horizontalized scores > > 2014-02-14 1:43 GMT+01:00 Chris Crossen : > > > >> What's wrong with lilypond --png here? >

Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-02-14 1:43 GMT+01:00 Chris Crossen : > >> What's wrong with lilypond --png here? > > I can't get good looking images from --png. I may not have found the right > combination of parameters yet. I suggest to try strokeadjust option if you haven't already. __

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 135, Issue 60

2014-02-14 Thread Erik Linde
Hey David, -danti-alias-factor looks great - thanks for the suggestion - but I believe it won't work for (extremely) large, transparent images... Unless Ghostscript is called with the option -dMaxBitmap=2147483647 (or similar) from within LilyPond. The reason is that without that option set, Ghos

Re: \context \voice override previous \context voice

2014-02-14 Thread MING TSANG
MING TSANG wrote >I try to combine two includes into one and I encounter the last \context >>\voice  override previous \context \voice.   >>that's expected behavior. >I >am expecting soprano voice has EzNum encoded and alto voice has EzSol >>encoded.   Is is feasible to do this in lilypond? >>yo

Re: \context \voice override previous \context voice

2014-02-14 Thread Eluze
MING TSANG wrote > I try to combine two includes into one and I encounter the last \context > \voice  override previous \context \voice.   that's expected behavior. > I am expecting soprano voice has EzNum encoded and alto voice has EzSol > encoded.   Is is feasible to do this in lilypond? you c

Re: Overriding staff-padding for MeasureCounter fails

2014-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ed, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Ed Gordijn wrote: > Hi David, > > > Huh--that's strange. This will involve some investigation to get at the >> cause, determine if there's a bug. >> >> Anyway, overriding outside-staff-padding instead should give you what you >> want: >> >> \override St

Re: Overriding staff-padding for MeasureCounter fails

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi David, Huh--that's strange. This will involve some investigation to get at the cause, determine if there's a bug. Anyway, overriding outside-staff-padding instead should give you what you want: \override Staff.MeasureCounter.outside-staff-padding = #4 This has effect but the numbers d

Re: Ottava

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi Joram, Text positioning: - \super does not look good, therefore \raise - the raise value of 0.7 depends on the font, is there a way to align the top boundaries of the 8 and the va? If you want it completely independent of the font I think you could use this: \version "2.18.0" #(defi

Re: Overriding staff-padding for MeasureCounter fails

2014-02-14 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Ed Gordijn wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to align the numbers of the MeasureCounter engraver but the > override doesn't have effect. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong > here? > > Greetings, Ed > > > \version "2.18.0" > > { > \override Staff.MeasureCou

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Claudio Garanzini" To: "lilypond" Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Lilypond for blind musicians Hi all! Just to let you know that midi2ly seems not to work for mee. When I try to invoche it I have a message saying midi2ly is not a vali

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread Claudio Garanzini
Hi all! Just to let you know that midi2ly seems not to work for mee. When I try to invoche it I have a message saying midi2ly is not a valid command or an executable a batch file. If someone uses windows7 and would like to help mee Thanks a lot. Bye for now! -Messaggio originale- F

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Martin Tarenskeen" To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Lilypond for blind musicians On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, claudio garanzini wrote: Hi all! Thanks for your suggestions! Could you please give mee an examp

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, claudio garanzini wrote: Hi all! Thanks for your suggestions! Could you please give mee an example of how to create a lilypond file from a midi file? I've read the page Federico suggested but it's a bit complicated for mee. So, if I'm right, I would write, for example:

Overriding staff-padding for MeasureCounter fails

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi, I tried to align the numbers of the MeasureCounter engraver but the override doesn't have effect. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong here? Greetings, Ed \version "2.18.0" { \override Staff.MeasureCounter.staff-padding = #4 \startMeasureCount \repeat percent 4 { g''4 g''

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread claudio garanzini
Hi all! Thanks for your suggestions! Could you please give mee an example of how to create a lilypond file from a midi file? I've read the page Federico suggested but it's a bit complicated for mee. So, if I'm right, I would write, for example: midi2ly thenb the name of my midi file. But I don't un

Re:Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-14 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Marc Sabatella wrote: ABC worked pretty well for us. LilyPond would have worked just as well I'm sure; I just thought ABC would be easier for my student to learn. If you've already invested some effort in learning LilyPond and feel comfortable with it, that's great - i