Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi All, Please find enclosed v2.19.14, 2.19.13, 2.18.2, 2.16.2, 2.14.2 outputs of the following code : \version 2.19.14 %\version 2.19.13 %\version 2.18.2 %\version 2.16.2 %\version 2.14.2 \markup\fontsize #2 \column { normal font series \medium medium font series \bold bold font series }

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Malte Meyn
Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Am 19.09.2014 um 08:59 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: Hi All, Please find enclosed v2.19.14, 2.19.13, 2.18.2, 2.16.2, 2.14.2 outputs of the following code : \version 2.19.14 %\version 2.19.13 %\version 2.18.2 %\version

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 142, Issue 80

2014-09-19 Thread Jay Vara
I am not top-posting Bill, Here is part of the code that shows how I am trying to use compound meter. Like you, I also had to get the in-between bar lines artificially using the silent voice fooBar. Only thing that is not working for me is the Completion_heads_engraver across the in-between

Re: Programming Question

2014-09-19 Thread Jay Vara
David, Right. Thanks. I know my mistake now - from reading the guile page, I thought eqv? should work for characters. However I should have used string=? since the variable is a string. The display function is a real life saver. Not only is it easy to spot mistakes, it also makes it a good

Re: Programming Question

2014-09-19 Thread Jay Vara
Paul, can read up on them in the Guile manual). Here's the section on equality (eq? eqv? and equal?): https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Equality I've found the guile manual to be a helpful resource for learning to use Scheme. Yes, I

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Karol Majewski
Once you have medium fonr installed on your system, \medium command should work, but it doesn't, and that's the point. In my example I use Ubuntu typeface, because this tyoeface has medium weight. Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Of course medium should

Re: Horizontal bar below staff

2014-09-19 Thread Jakob Schöttl
Ok, I see. But it's no real solution. In this cases, TextSpanner.to-barline is not good: * Line should span from first note in a measure to the first note in the next measure (inlusive). * Line should span only the first note in a measure of four notes. ... and it doesn't look nice at

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Malte, 2014-09-19 10:35 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de: Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Yes and no: Yes because I've never used \medium before so I was expecting a font look between Normal and Bold And no because as I wrote this morning :

Same distance staff in a book.

2014-09-19 Thread Peter Terpstra
Dear People, I'm very happy with lilypond! Have a question about the staff distance in a \book In pieces of music where there are less staffs, lilypond fills up the complete page withe more white space between the staffs, this has not my preference and would lke to see the same distance

Re: Programming Question

2014-09-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jay, On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Jay Vara j...@diljun.com wrote: Paul, can read up on them in the Guile manual). Here's the section on equality (eq? eqv? and equal?): https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Equality I've found the guile

Re: Same distance staff in a book.

2014-09-19 Thread TaoCG
I believe the ragged-bottom property is what you're looking for. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Same-distance-staff-in-a-book-tp166589p166591.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 142, Issue 83

2014-09-19 Thread b...@wolfcomposer.com
Hi, Jay-- Will this get you closer to what you want? \version 2.18.2 fooBar = { s1 s4 \bar | s2 \bar || } music = \relative c' { \compoundMeter #'((5 4) (2 4)) \set completionUnit = #(ly:make-moment 5 4) c4 d e f g2 \set completionUnit = #(ly:make-moment 2 4)

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread tisimst
Schneidy wrote Hi Malte, 2014-09-19 10:35 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn lt; lilypond@ gt;: Did you and Karol expect “medium” to be something other than “normal”? Yes and no: Yes because I've never used \medium before so I was expecting a font look between Normal and Bold And no because

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread TaoCG
tisimst wrote 2. As shown on the Ubuntu font website http://font.ubuntu.com/ , there is NO PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE between the upright (non-italic) shaped series of Regular and Medium variants (not sure why that is since there is definitely a difference between the corresponding italic-shaped

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Karol Majewski
OK, so having read what Abraham wrote, I'll put my question in other way: Is there any typeface that works in LilyPond with \medium command? I haven't found any... -- Karol ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Same distance staff in a book.

2014-09-19 Thread Peter Terpstra
TaoCG wrote: I believe the ragged-bottom property is what you're looking for. Thank you for your answer sir. The ragged-bottom option gives a lot of space within a piece at the bottom which is not what i want, wanna have the space outside the pieces at the bottom and also not extra space

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: OK, so having read what Abraham wrote, I'll put my question in other way: Is there any typeface that works in LilyPond with \medium command? I haven't found any... -- Karol Karol, Do you mean that you want a slightly

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Neil Puttock
On 19 September 2014 18:18, TaoCG tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: tisimst wrote 2. As shown on the Ubuntu font website http://font.ubuntu.com/ , there is NO PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE between the upright (non-italic) shaped series of Regular and Medium variants (not sure why that is since there is

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Karol Majewski
Exactly! This is what \medium should work like, isn't it? -- Karol Karol, Do you mean that you want a slightly heavier look than "Regular" or "Book" but not "Bold", more like a semi-bold? -Abraham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Neil Puttock
On 19 September 2014 18:58, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2014 18:40, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: Exactly! This is what \medium should work like, isn't it? Like the attached? \version 2.19.15 \markup { \box \abs-fontsize #48 \override #'(font-name .

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2014 18:18, TaoCG tao_lilypondu...@gmx.net wrote: There must be something wrong on your side. I can see a clear difference between Regular and Medium in both normal and italic shape. Same here.

how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, how can I force an extra accidental in the upper voice in the below quoted context? I would like to do it in the defintion of the variable called accidentals. \version 2.18.2 Uppernotes = { \repeat unfold 8 { cis'8 } } accidentals = { s2 s!4 s } % doesn't work LowerMusic = {

Re: Programming Question

2014-09-19 Thread Jay Vara
David Definitely consider trying out the Scheme sandbox.  It's much more convenient for learning Scheme than embedding Scheme in ly files. I will try out the sandbox. Yes, it's a lifesaver.  I use format more often, because it makes constructing meaningful

Re: \override #'(font-series . medium) doesn't work anymore?

2014-09-19 Thread Karol Majewski
Just like that! I do know that font-name works, but having \medium command working would be nice. Like the attached? \version 2.19.15 \markup { \box \abs-fontsize #48 \override #'(font-name . Ubuntu) bar } \markup { \box \abs-fontsize #48 \override #'(font-name . Ubuntu Medium)

Re: how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-09-19 20:03 GMT+02:00 Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@gmail.com: Dear community, how can I force an extra accidental in the upper voice in the below quoted context? I would like to do it in the defintion of the variable called accidentals. \version 2.18.2 Uppernotes = { \repeat

Re: how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread TaoCG
You could do it by changing the accidental style in your spacer voice. \version 2.18.2 Uppernotes = { \repeat unfold 8 { cis'8 } } accidentals = { s2 \accidentalStyle Staff.dodecaphonic s8 \accidentalStyle Staff.default s4. } % doesn't work LowerMusic = { r2 c'!8 r r4 }

Problem with \showStaffSwitch

2014-09-19 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, I’d like to obtain the following, in which the piano right hand has two notes written on the left hand staff. It’s my understanding that the fis2 and fis4 belong to the voice containing the gis4 in the previous bar and fis4 in the next one (key is B major): I’ve tried the

Re: how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread TaoCG
By the way, the braces in your definition of UpperMusic are not necessary. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/how-to-force-extra-accidental-in-this-case-tp166605p166613.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

RE: how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Stefan, From your snippet I assume you want a cautionary accidental on the fifth quaver in the upper voice. In an “unfold” all of the notes are the same. Therefore just one of them (other than the first) cannot have an accidental. See if the attached accomplishes what you want. Mark

Re: how to force extra accidental in this case

2014-09-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I've found a solution how to do it: \version 2.18.2 Uppernotes = { \repeat unfold 8 { cis'8 } } accidentals = { s2 #(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic) s8 #(set-accidental-style 'default) s } % doesn't work LowerMusic = { r2 c'!8 r r4 } UpperMusic = { \context Voice {

Re: Problem with \showStaffSwitch

2014-09-19 Thread Noeck
Am 19.09.2014 um 21:45 schrieb TaoCG: Now I have to guess your problem and my guess is that you didn't connect the notes with \glissando. The line won't print automatically after a staff change. What he is looking for is not a glissando but a visible staff switch which is printed

Printed manuals, why not?

2014-09-19 Thread Son_V
Hi, I would be glad to have the option to buy printed manuals for LilyPond; I thought of making it from some printing service, but for a 834 page book I should pay 40 Euro, something like 55USD. It could (maybe) be something to have a contribution. Has no one thought about this? Thanks. --

Re: Printed manuals, why not?

2014-09-19 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-09-19 22:44 GMT+02:00 Son_V vincenzo.a...@gmail.com: Hi, I would be glad to have the option to buy printed manuals for LilyPond; I thought of making it from some printing service, but for a 834 page book I should pay 40 Euro, something like 55USD. It could (maybe) be something to have

Ly file (Re: Same distance staff in a book.)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter Terpstra
Menuetto and Trio are the problem makers here. \version 2.18.2 \header { title = \markup \fontsize #7.0 { \override #'(font-name . Respective) { Trois Sonatines }} composer = \markup \fontsize #4.0 { \override #'(font-name . Respective) { Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829) }} opus = \markup

Re: Printed manuals, why not?

2014-09-19 Thread Larry Kent
I agree completely with the sentiment. However, because LilyPond changes so frequently, it would have to be almost like a subscription with loose-leaf pages in a binder, so that when something changes, we could print out replacement pages. I haven't thought through this, but maybe something

Re: Problem with \showStaffSwitch

2014-09-19 Thread TaoCG
Noeck wrote Am 19.09.2014 um 21:45 schrieb TaoCG: Now I have to guess your problem and my guess is that you didn't connect the notes with \glissando. The line won't print automatically after a staff change. What he is looking for is not a glissando but a visible staff switch which is

Re: Printed manuals, why not?

2014-09-19 Thread Owain Sutton
1980s manuals tended to be in a lie-flat ring-bound format, as far as I remember? They had cross-references which were just begging for someone to invent HTML! On 17:09, Fri 19 Sep 2014, Larry Kent wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:09:37 -0400 From: Larry Kent kentla...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: Printed manuals, why not?

2014-09-19 Thread Graeme St.Clair
/lurk I don't know where you are (I'm in the USA), but what I used to do with computer technical stuff I wanted (I'm older than dirt and like a printed page!) for work was to print it (2-sided!), then take it to Staples and have it comb-bound http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_binding. I'd

Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Miller
I currently use something like this to help space out staves evenly on a page: \paper { system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 1.0) (padding . 8)) } Example without: http://lilybin.com/n8jjn6/1 And with system-system-spacing stuff (how I want it to appear): http://lilybin.com/n8jjn6/2

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Scott, Is there a better or automatic way to just have LilyPond automatically use all available space on a page and space staves evenly instead of having to specify the system-system-spacing? \paper { ragged-bottom = ##f } Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ Kieren

Re: moving tweaks into markup-definition

2014-09-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Orm, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Orm Finnendahl orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 17. September 2014 um 07:53:48 Uhr (+0100) schrieb James: Do you have any other suggestions we could improve the documentation with perhaps? The main problem in this

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Miller
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote \paper { ragged-bottom = ##f } Thanks! Yeah I have tried various ragged-xxx options, but it doesn't seem to space evenly over the whole page. Ex: http://lilybin.com/n8jjn6/3 What am I doing wrong? :/

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Scott Miller scottli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote \paper { ragged-bottom = ##f } Thanks! Yeah I have tried various ragged-xxx options, but it doesn't seem to space evenly over the whole page. Ex:

Re: Automatic fit-to page staff spacing help

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Miller
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: Scott, The option you want is actually ragged-last-bottom. The ragged-bottom option applies to pages prior to the last one. Since the score is only a single page, it IS the last one :) Yeah! Ah that's it! Thanks,

HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Hi all! I'm trying to help one of my students who is blind. He will be soon taking courses where he's going to be asked to produce arrangements in the form of printed scores. My problem is that I can't find the right editor for him. I need help to choose the most appropriate one. Here's what I

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Antonio Gervasoni wrote: Emacs and Vim are possible candidates but there's little information about them. there's little information ? You can't be serious. Google emacs editor - 86 results Google vim editor - 565000 results I am sure there are some LilyPond users

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Antonio, Every necessity which you presented is easily answered with emacspeak, the aural interface to emacs. There is plenty of online documentation for using emacs/emacspeak, but it is true that setting up emacspeak can be tricky. If you are using ubuntu or, I believe, some other

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Well, first, 86 results in Google or any other browser doesn't mean 86 meaningful results. I would be surprised if real helpful information could be found in more than just the first 3 or 4 pages. On the other hand, I was referring to emacs and vim in relation to Lilypond. Of course

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Hi Hwaen! Actually, it depends on what OS my student uses, and I'm sure it's not Linux. He had a Windows computer a few years ago but I believe he has switched to Mac. In any case, he already has a program that reads everything on the screen for him (Mac comes with one built-in). What I'm

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Jaime
Hola Antonio, You should be able to compile and read in latex, in Mac I think it's called texshop. J Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Antonio Gervasoni agervas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to help one of my students who is blind. He will be soon taking courses

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Thank you Jaime!!! I'll look into that! :-) Antonio -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/HELP-Editor-for-Blind-People-tp166632p166640.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Spanner.center.text property?

2014-09-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David et al., What’s the current status on “measure-attached spanners”? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg01032.html I’m trying to get my musicals/* code base ready to donate to openlilylib, and would love to have this in there (and available for me, too!). Thanks,

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Well, I tried TexShop. I already had it installed so it was just a matter of downloading and installing the Lilypond engines created by Nicola Vitacolonna. It was very easy and the engines work perfectly. Unfortunately, I have the same trouble as with Frescobaldi: the log is unreadable. In other

2.19.14: lost ability to add note name in fret board ?

2014-09-19 Thread MarcM
in 2.19.13, i was able to use this notation to show the note g in the dot of a fretboard. (place-fret 4 0 g ) 2.19.14 added the ability to add color but it seems i lost the ability to add notes name. (place-fret 4 4 e blue) see attached sample. chord_pattern_sample.ly

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread James
Antonio, On 20/09/14 00:29, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Subject: HELP: Editor for Blind People From: Antonio Gervasoni agervas...@gmail.com Date: 19/09/14 22:58 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hi all! I'm trying to help one of my students who is blind. He will be soon taking

Re: HELP: Editor for Blind People

2014-09-19 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
What I would also encourage you to do is to send an email to Wilbert or add your suggestions to Frescobaldi's own tracker to maybe say why it isn't a good choice. Great idea! I will do that! I do use Frescobaldi and I agree, it's really nice! The problem with it is that the log cannot be