Highlight or Cross out measures

2015-03-15 Thread Jay Anderson
I want to be able to highlight sections (just a few measures). Some past work: - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=699 - manual markup - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00083.html - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=726 - colors whole staff Has there been any

Pedals as Dynamics

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings folks, I’m using a Dynamics context for pedals. I would like to be able to replace the vertical up bracket at the end of certain sustainOff events with an arrowhead or other glyph or indeed some postscript. How could this be done? What are pedal line markings exactly? Are they TextSpa

Re:Quoted music and midi (Cynthia Karl)

2015-03-15 Thread Cynthia Karl
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:00:10 -0600 > From: Cynthia Karl > Subject: Re: Quoted music and midi >> I wouldn?t consider that a problem... if I quote the violin part in a >> trumpet part, I wouldn?t expect to hear the brass honking away in the >> MIDI rendition. Quoting, IMO, is best for cues,

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Jan Kohnert
Am , schrieb Thomas Morley: 2015-03-15 14:19 GMT+01:00 Amelie Zapf : Though, I can easily imagine situations where is dominant or subdominant or tonic, depends on the surrounding circumstances. True. But the reverse doesn't hold. So far, I'd agree Again, I disagree here. Correct ChordNa

Re: getting a markup command to generate a curve from a pair of points

2015-03-15 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi Thomas, Thank you the solution, and for explaining how. I learned a lot from this! Kevin On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > > 2015-03-15 22:07 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > >> >> >> 2015-03-15 21:48 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry : >> >>> Hi LilyPond experts, >>> >>> I'm trying

Re: getting a markup command to generate a curve from a pair of points

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-03-15 22:07 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > > > 2015-03-15 21:48 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry : > >> Hi LilyPond experts, >> >> I'm trying to make a function that will draw a curved line given only a >> destination point (with some math I'll add later), but I've hit an early >> stumbling block: I can't

Re: getting a markup command to generate a curve from a pair of points

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-03-15 21:48 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry : > Hi LilyPond experts, > > I'm trying to make a function that will draw a curved line given only a > destination point (with some math I'll add later), but I've hit an early > stumbling block: I can't seem to substitute variables for values in the > path/cu

getting a markup command to generate a curve from a pair of points

2015-03-15 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi LilyPond experts, I'm trying to make a function that will draw a curved line given only a destination point (with some math I'll add later), but I've hit an early stumbling block: I can't seem to substitute variables for values in the path/curveto command list. The following code produces a `wr

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.03.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Francesco Petrogalli: Hi, I have attached a set of .ly file that illustrate what I am doing. I would like to have multiple exercise under the same "section", which I am now rendering as \bookpart. Which logically makes sense. As I said, I'd like to avoid the pa

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Petrogalli
Thanks everybody for the kind help. I opted for Samuel's solution. Now I have only 1 book part, with many scores inside of it. Placing the header command inside the first score of a group of scores plus some scoreTitleMarkup customization give me the result I want. Bart, you might have missed the

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread bart deruyter
Francesco, when I started with lilypond it was confusing for me too. You can however have multiple score blocks in one file. Then they don't end up on one system. My workflow on large amounts of exercises is as such: - create a file for each exercise - create a new file, in which you include the

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread tyronicus
Francesco Petrogalli wrote > Well, the problem with such modification is that I don't know how to > place multiple exercises in the same score. > If I place multiple staves in a score, they get rendered together in > the same system. You could put the title on just the first score of each section

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Petrogalli
> Have you considered modifying the \header format for scores? If I were in > your situation, I might try modifying scoreTitleMarkup to look the way I > wanted. There are some examples at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/custom-titles-headers-and-footers#custom-layout-for-titl

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread tyronicus
Francesco Petrogalli wrote > As I said, I'd like to avoid the page break between 'sections'. Francesco, Have you considered modifying the \header format for scores? If I were in your situation, I might try modifying scoreTitleMarkup to look the way I wanted. There are some examples at http://lil

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:39:23 +0100 Thomas Morley wrote: > And that's the reason why 'additionalPitchPrefix' was changed. Sounds fair. But the bottom line is that two different ordinary chords and are both named "C9" and hence loose the distinction. c:7.9 and c:5.9 are much more common than c

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Petrogalli
Hi, I have attached a set of .ly file that illustrate what I am doing. I would like to have multiple exercise under the same "section", which I am now rendering as \bookpart. As I said, I'd like to avoid the page break between 'sections'. I tried to use the \header command inside the \score comman

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Jan Kohnert
Hello, Am , schrieb Amelie Zapf: problem solved: \set Score.additionalPitchPrefix = "add" does the trick. However, this should be default behavior, because C9 and Cadd9 are just not the same thing, but describe chords with vastly different harmonic function. seems we all stumble about that on

Re: book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.03.2015 um 14:23 schrieb Francesco Petrogalli: Hi, is there a way to avoid page breaks when creating a new \bookpart? No, there isn’t. Actually, having a page break inbetween is most of the point of having multiple bookparts. What’s more, each bookpart may have its own \paper block, whos

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi again, please always reply to all ;) 2015-03-15 14:19 GMT+01:00 Amelie Zapf : > Hi Thomas, > > > Though, I can easily imagine situations where is dominant or > > subdominant or tonic, depends on the surrounding circumstances. > > True. But the reverse doesn't hold. > So far, I'd agree > >

book parts and page breaks

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Petrogalli
Hi, is there a way to avoid page breaks when creating a new \bookpart? I am writing a book of exercises, and each book part consists of multiple exercises, each exercise is rendered within a \score. I am not sure this is the optimal subdivision for a book of exercises, does anybody have experienc

Re: Non-printing score-wide dynamics

2015-03-15 Thread David Sumbler
On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 12:53 +, Kevin Barry wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Sumbler > wrote: > What I want is for the individual instruments' dynamics to > remain with > and apply to them, but simultaneously to allow any dynamics in > the >

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Amelie, 2015-03-15 10:57 GMT+01:00 Amelie Zapf : > Dear lilypond-user team, > > starting with LilyPond 2.16, and on into 2.18, the chord naming > algorithm does not distinguish between a chord and d'> in relative notation. Both are named "C9". Yep. The 'additionalPitchPrefix' was changed to

Re: draw-line

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Stephen, Hi Kevin, Kevin's right, it's an easy way to get a curved line: \version "2.18.2" \markup { %% your example: \draw-line #'(1 . 1) %% your example in path mode: \path #0.1 #'((moveto 0 0)(curveto 0 0 0 0 1 1)) %% concave example: \path #0.1 #'((moveto 0 0)(curveto 0 0 1 0

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Amelie Zapf
Dear lilypond-user team, problem solved: \set Score.additionalPitchPrefix = "add" does the trick. However, this should be default behavior, because C9 and Cadd9 are just not the same thing, but describe chords with vastly different harmonic function. Regards, Amy -- Dr. Amelie Zapf (a...@ame

Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-15 Thread Amelie Zapf
Dear lilypond-user team, starting with LilyPond 2.16, and on into 2.18, the chord naming algorithm does not distinguish between a chord and in relative notation. Both are named "C9". This is wrong, since functionally, the former is a dominant, the latter a tonic, so there must be a distinction b

Re: Merging a markup-command with an event-function

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Nick, 2015-03-15 2:55 GMT+01:00 Nick Payne : > Not to answer your question, but why not do it like this, which seems a > lot simpler. If you want to preface the Roman numeral fret number with "C", > just add "C" as the first thing after the opening brace for the markup. > You're absulutely r