Durations occuring on their own within a music sequence

2015-02-23 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
%{ Hello, all. I found an unexpected behavior when using the new feature: "Durations occuring on their own within a music sequence will take their pitches from the preceding note or chord." At least, it was unexpected by me. Is this repetition of the cautionary accidental by design? It seems to

Re: Bug in articulate.ly + TrillSpan + full-measure rests

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Davide" == Davide Liessi writes: Davide> Dear Peter, Il 04/02/15 09.46, Peter Chubb ha scritto: >> Looks like the code that was added to do agogic accents (aka swing) >> expands MultiMeasureRestMusic and throws away any articulation >> events (like the end of the trill spanner) on the way.

Re: Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread flup2
Anyway, it would be more confortable to have a "TempoTextSpanner", as proposed in this issue: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3176 Philippe -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Te

Re: Bug in articulate.ly + TrillSpan + full-measure rests

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Davide" == Davide Liessi writes: Davide> Dear Peter, Il 04/02/15 09.46, Peter Chubb ha scritto: >> Looks like the code that was added to do agogic accents (aka swing) >> expands MultiMeasureRestMusic and throws away any articulation >> events (like the end of the trill spanner) on the way.

Re: Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dominic, > Thanks, Kevin - that appears to work perfectly! Hmmm… When I try it, in the second score, the baselines of the tempo mark and the “rall” are not consistent. Is that actually what you want? Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dominic, > How can I get both the metronome mark and the tempo spanner to be > interpreted on a single line in the Score context AND still have full > independence of text spanners within individual staffs? Does this help? \version "2.19" \layout { \context { \type "Engraver_group"

Re: Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread Dominic
Thanks, Kevin - that appears to work perfectly! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Tempo-spanners-tp172220p17.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread Kevin Barry
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Dominic wrote: > How can I get both the metronome mark and the tempo spanner to be > interpreted on a single line in the Score context AND still have full > independence of text spanners within individual staffs? > I think your problem probably is in your newly-d

Tempo spanners

2015-02-23 Thread Dominic
(Lilypond 2.19.15) Dear all, As you can see from the image and the attached file, I have achieved an independent text/tempo spanner by creating a special context containing only the spanner and letting the Score context 'accept' it. I only understand this technique about 70%, as I hacked it toget

RE:Right brace problem

2015-02-23 Thread Stephen MacNeil
like this? \version "2.18.2" \header { title = "Whiskey in the Jar" subtitle = "" composer = "" instrument = "" % arranger = "" opus = "" style = "Folk" copyright = "©Stephen MacNeil 2014" source = "" piece = "" tagline = "" } global = { \key c \major \time 4/4 } \paper { % p

Re: Defining new contexts

2015-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jim, > Thank you. But if I have to do all the \Score \accepts stuff, > then I guess I don't understand what '\alias ChordNames’ does If I understand correctly, it allows your new context to accept any commands that a \ChordNames context does. > Is there a way I can define a context based on

Re: Defining new contexts

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Long
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:28:37AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Try the following, comments inline: > > \score { > << > \new XChords \chordmode { c1 } > \new Staff \chordmode { c1 } > >> > \layout { > \context { > %% copies settings from ChordNames > %% No need

Re: Right brace problem

2015-02-23 Thread William Marchant
Thank you both. It worked! I used the following variable. mybrace = \set stanza = \markup { \right-brace #45 } Then inserted \mybrace in the lyrics. Bill On 15-02-23 11:36 AM, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: Someone provided me with the following trick for inserting a asterisk that doesn't o

Re: Ambitus placement

2015-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Well, applying this on a multi-line score showed some defects still (resulting in a giant heap of programming errors), so I updated the information from the IR directly and now it should work for all conceivable cases without errors. Learning by doing ;-) Yours, Simon Am 23.02.2015 16:20, sch

Re: Right brace problem

2015-02-23 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
Someone provided me with the following trick for inserting a asterisk that doesn't occupy a note in lyrics: aster = \set stanza = \markup{"*"} Then I just place \aster between the words where I want the asterisk to appear. Perhaps that can be adapted to your case (without compilable code I

Right brace problem

2015-02-23 Thread William Marchant
Hi, I want to bracket the three verses of a song, and follow with a single line of words that make up a chorus. The following code puts the bracket in, but the bracket takes up a beat in the music as shown below; thus the chorus words are all out by one beat. Is there a solution to this? Bil

Re: Ambitus placement

2015-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Thanks a lot, Kevin. That did it. I further modified it to avoid the programming error: No spacing entry from Item to `time-signature' and included the other entries present in the default, so it now reads as in the attachment. Best regards, Simon Am 23.02.2015 15:49, schrieb Kevin Barry: O

Re: Hungarian Gregorian

2015-02-23 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Dear Sister Judit, Dear All, Please find herewith where I am so far : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=973 I'm still not convinced by the ledger lines (see ask for help here: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Fixed-ledger-line-width-with-no-dimension-tc172180.html) and other few things. Any

Re: Ambitus placement

2015-02-23 Thread Kevin Barry
OK so the space-alist property is what needed changing. This should do what you want \version "2.18.2" \score { \relative { \override Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders = #(make-vector 3 '(left-edge breathing-sign clef key-cancellation key-signature ambitus time-signature staff-b

Re: Defining new contexts

2015-02-23 Thread Paul Morris
Jim Long wrote > I'm experimenting with defining and using custom contexts. Hi Jim, Looks like Harm has you covered. See also this snippet that shows how to define a custom staff context: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=882 If you are generating midi files you will also need to define your co

Re: Ambitus placement

2015-02-23 Thread Kevin Barry
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Thus I’d like to place the ambitus just before the time signature, after > clef and key signature. How can I do that? > Hi Simon, This should get your part of the way towards what you want. It puts the ambitus after the key signature, bu

Ambitus placement

2015-02-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello together, I like to use the Ambitus_engraver in choral scores, but I often find it confusing to read, since the ambitus is printed before everything else, although its meaning depends on both clef and key signature. From the manuals or some snippet I took the idea to \set Staff.key-signa

Re: Defining new contexts

2015-02-23 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-02-23 9:56 GMT+01:00 Jim Long : > I'm experimenting with defining and using custom contexts. > > I have not succeeded in applying the example at: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/defining-new-contexts > > to my tiny example below attempting the creation of a custom > Ch

Re: Spacing Cheat Sheet

2015-02-23 Thread Noeck
Hi Trevor, thanks I missed that paragraph. > See > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Defining new contexts

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Long
I'm experimenting with defining and using custom contexts. I have not succeeded in applying the example at: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/defining-new-contexts to my tiny example below attempting the creation of a custom ChordNames context. The '\new XChords' line throws