Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Marc Weber
Thanks for your fast help. I don't quite understand why its important to disambuigate. One of the following would have helped me: - nicer error message - hint in documentation such as ties only connect notes of same pitch Marc Weber ___ lilypond-user

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Mark, 2014-06-20 8:27 GMT+02:00 Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de: Thanks for your fast help. I don't quite understand why its important to disambuigate. One of the following would have helped me: - nicer error message - hint in documentation such as ties only connect notes of same pitch

Re: How to indicate a set of measures should not be played?

2014-06-20 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Pierre, Thanks, I had overlooked the Measure in the name! JM Le 20 juin 2014 à 07:07:07, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi Jacques, 2014-06-19 21:48 GMT+02:00 Jacques Menu imj-muz...@bluewin.ch: I didn’t find an equivalent of a MultiRest.color

Re: [Frescobaldi] Mac testers needed for Frescobaldi! (again)

2014-06-20 Thread donabbondio
Hi, I'm on mac and I'm a frescobaldi user. I installed the brew port. If it helps I'm here. I can try to use the app from dmg but I don't know if something conflicts with the previous brew version. Enrico Il giorno mercoledì 18 giugno 2014 05:23:04 UTC+2, Paul Morris ha scritto: Dear

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-06-20 8:27 GMT+02:00 Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de: Thanks for your fast help. I don't quite understand why its important to disambuigate. As a musician I know different curves with different meanings. LilyPond mirrors this with the possibility to write Ties, Slurs and PhrasingSlurs. The

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de writes: Thanks for your fast help. I don't quite understand why its important to disambuigate. A tie is basic notation, meaning that there is only a single note and a single attack. A slur is not a notational element but rather an instruction for execution. As

Re: Mac testers needed for Frescobaldi! (again)

2014-06-20 Thread Davide Liessi
on machines with 32 bit CPU (I'll try to solve this in the next iteration). You can find a 32 bit Frescobaldi.app, based on 2.0.16, at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ymhwrgdzv9jbsp/Frescobaldi-2.0.16-devapp-20140620-i386.dmg If you have a 32 bit machine [1], I would be grateful if you could test

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Pierre Perol-Schneider's message of Fri Jun 20 07:01:58 + 2014: [..] carefully read and understand [..] manual Eventually the error message could still be changed from: unterminated tie to unterminated tie, note/chord of same pitch expected I agree I had a RTFM problem. Thanks

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.06.2014 11:04, schrieb Marc Weber: Excerpts from Pierre Perol-Schneider's message of Fri Jun 20 07:01:58 + 2014: [..] carefully read and understand [..] manual Eventually the error message could still be changed from: unterminated tie to unterminated tie, note/chord of same pitch

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.06.2014 10:00, schrieb David Kastrup: it does not make sense to write it for connecting different pitches (the special case of a single note ending at a different pitch than it started from is called glissando and notated differently). There is another special case which isn't handled

figured bass: how to use scheme-function in event-chord?

2014-06-20 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, for the first time since I use LilyPond I have to deal with figured bass notation and noticed some problems. Here the first: The following works as expected: \figures { 6 42 } \figures { a b2 } \figures { \markup \with-color #red a \markup \with-color #green b } even this works: one =

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from David Kastrup's message of Fri Jun 20 08:00:47 + 2014: So how do you suggest improving this, and where? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/ties-and-slurs I'd add this information here, too: A tie connects two notes (or chords) having the same pitch. It's

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.06.2014 11:19, schrieb Marc Weber: I still don't understand how a violin or brass player would play c~c any different from c(c). (glossary says same stroke/breath). c4~ c is _exactly the same as c2, the tie is usually used to clarify something (meter, voicing ...). c4( c) will

Re: unterminated tie?

2014-06-20 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de writes: Excerpts from David Kastrup's message of Fri Jun 20 08:00:47 + 2014: So how do you suggest improving this, and where? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/ties-and-slurs I'd add this information here, too: A tie connects two notes

changing global staff size on the fly

2014-06-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, on Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:19:15 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote No easy way. See also http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=862 (just in case...) Thanks, I was aware of that and had tried something like this: \version 2.19.5 staffSize = #(define-music-function (parser location new-size)

Determine event at the same time in other voice

2014-06-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, how could I determine if at any given point in time there is another event in another voice or not. Concretely: If I have a certain rest, can I know if another rest of the same length is in another voice? I would like to explore the idea of having a command like

Re: Determine event at the same time in other voice

2014-06-20 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: how could I determine if at any given point in time there is another event in another voice or not. Concretely: If I have a certain rest, can I know if another rest of the same length is in another voice? Put an engraver in the enclosing Staff context

Re: Determine event at the same time in other voice

2014-06-20 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:12 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: how could I determine if at any given point in time there is another event in another voice or not. Concretely: If I have a certain rest, can I know if another rest of the same length

Re: Determine event at the same time in other voice

2014-06-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, as David mentioned, there are solutions on the list. And in LSR you find: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=336 And some time ago somebody posted the solution for multi-measure-rests ... I am ashamed, that I forgot to note the name - I use it quite often. You can either use \layout {

Re: Determine event at the same time in other voice

2014-06-20 Thread Knute Snortum
I have the merge-rests-engraver from the above referenced message ready to submit to the snippets GitHub. There is also a merge-mmrests-engraver that merges whole and multi-measure rests. Is it good practice to post an example to the LSR too? Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at