Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Teeson
Thank you very much for your advice…. I did attach my .ly file and as you can see I had already made use of variables. But I didn't think of two separate scores - thanks for that idea. You help is truly appreciated but before posting I had already gone through all the MIDI Notation, Learning

drawing curves in markup (was: draw-line)

2015-03-17 Thread Kevin Barry
Just as a follow up to Stephen's question: for analytic examples I have to draw curved lines all the time, usually with arrow-heads attached at the end, so I made a function to do it given just the coordinates of the desired destination. Using curveto is very slow because of all the trial and

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Teeson
Thank you very much for your examples. I looked at them and a lot of it is beyond my present knowledge. But the link to the Internals documentation for MIDI has been bookmarked. http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/midi_005fcontrol_005ffunction_005fperformer respect….

cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Hi list, hi Abraham, I asked about this subject before, but now I think I did everything right, but still ... I use the self-compiled lilypond and install it after complilation: sudo make install After that, there is /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.19.18/ on my system (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, by

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-17 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:33:52 +0100 Jan Kohnert j...@jankoh.mooo.com wrote: Version 2 whould probably be read more quickly and correct by Jazz musicians, version 1 is more correct for a non-expert, I doubt this. Even a non-expert needs to know a few basic things. E.g., C is a major triad. Cm

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-17 Thread Amelie Zapf
Dear Elaine, In terms of the latter musical context, the add9 is ambiguous, since it leaves open the question of whether the chord functions as a dominant or not. Yes, we all understand that when you write add9 you don't want to hear a 7th. But that does not mean that in the tonal musical

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Marc Hohl: Hi list, hi Abraham, I asked about this subject before, but now I think I did everything right, but still ... I use the self-compiled lilypond and install it after complilation: sudo make install After

[LSR] Colored notes with black outlines (enhancement).

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi List, Hi Paul, Paul, do you remember this snippet we committed something like 2 years ago: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=890 ? Well, a recent discussion regarding the '\path' command made me think about the following changes. Major advantages : - one can modify the outline thickness. -

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Marc Hohl: Hi list, hi Abraham, I asked about this subject before, but now I think I did everything right, but still ... I use the self-compiled lilypond and install it after complilation: sudo make install After that, there is

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:02 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory (there were 2.19.16 and 2.19.17) in

Re: [LSR] Colored notes with black outlines (enhancement).

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Morris
Schneidy wrote Hi List, Hi Paul, Paul, do you remember this snippet we committed something like 2 years ago: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=890 ? Well, a recent discussion regarding the '\path' command made me think about the following changes. Major advantages : - one can modify

drawing curves in markup (was: draw-line)

2015-03-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
2015-03-17 15:52 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry address@hidden: If I knew more about mathematics I might know how to calculate the tangent to a bezier curve at the end point (to know how much to rotate the arrowhead) and the function wouldn't be such a hack. The tangent to a bezier curve at the

Creating Rest of length of music variable

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'm looking for a way to create a MultiMeasureRest of exactly the same length as a music variable. I think having read about exactly this but I don't seem to be able to find anything, so I hacked a solution that actually seems to work. But somehow I feel there should really be a better

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, you might be true in this special case, but I (in my personal view) consider this to be inconsistent. And that is why: Csus2 = c d g Cadd9 = c e g d Csus4 = c f g Cadd11 = c e g f I think you misread Kieren's comment. He was suggesting add2 as a clearer alternative to add9. Not

Re: drawing curves in markup (was: draw-line)

2015-03-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-03-17 15:52 GMT+01:00 Kevin Barry barr...@gmail.com: Just as a follow up to Stephen's question: for analytic examples I have to draw curved lines all the time, usually with arrow-heads attached at the end, so I made a function to do it given just the coordinates of the desired

Re: Chord names broken since 2.16

2015-03-17 Thread Jan Kohnert
Hi, Am , schrieb Johan Vromans: On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:33:52 +0100 Jan Kohnert j...@jankoh.mooo.com wrote: Version 2 whould probably be read more quickly and correct by Jazz musicians, version 1 is more correct for a non-expert, I doubt this. Even a non-expert needs to know a few basic

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:57 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:53 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Urs Liska: [...] does not help here, lilypond-book has ceased to work, obviously. I checked the contents of lilypond-book in a

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory (there were 2.19.16 and 2.19.17) in /usr/local/share/lilypond/ Did you also remove the entries in /usr/local/bin? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Marc Hohl: Hi list, hi Abraham, I asked about this subject before, but now I think I did everything right, but still ... I use the self-compiled lilypond and install it

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 10:57 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:53 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Urs Liska: [...] does not help here, lilypond-book has ceased to work, obviously. I checked the contents of lilypond-book in a number of installations and have the

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 10:53 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Urs Liska: [...] does not help here, lilypond-book has ceased to work, obviously. I checked the contents of lilypond-book in a number of installations and have the impression there's a quite serious bug (if I'm not

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Urs Liska: [...] does not help here, lilypond-book has ceased to work, obviously. I checked the contents of lilypond-book in a number of installations and have the impression there's a quite serious bug (if I'm not completely mistaken) as all paths seem to be

Dynamics context vs. dynamics in staff

2015-03-17 Thread Noeck
Hi, I am coming back to this often discussed problem in order to decide on a working solution for my use case: I want to have dynamics properly printed between the two staffs of a piano staff. My *experience* is (I hope this table is legible) methodPro Con

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory (there were 2.19.16 and 2.19.17) in /usr/local/share/lilypond/ Did you also remove the entries in /usr/local/bin? Yes, but there's only *one* entry for lilypond and

Re: Dynamics context vs. dynamics in staff

2015-03-17 Thread Noeck
Hi Kieren, thanks for your reply. I know this issue you linked and for sure a real solution would be best. I have a few follow-up questions: - Can you point me to the edition engraver? - How do you move dynamics? extra-offset or X/Y-offset? I ask because the effect is not clear to me because I

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory (there were 2.19.16 and 2.19.17) in /usr/local/share/lilypond/ Did you also remove the entries in /usr/local/bin? Yes, but

getting parts of the system start barline invisible

2015-03-17 Thread Zoran Kesic
Hi, Although relatively new to Lilypond, I was able to find solutions to my needs so far, thanks to this forum and fantastic supporting documentation for Lilypond. However, there is one thing that is driving me mad and I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this code: \score {

Re: Creating Rest of length of music variable

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Long
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:21:55AM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#aligning-to-c adenzas Wow, those functions are almost buried in the docs. I don't see either of them in the index, and I would never have guessed

Re: getting parts of the system start barline invisible

2015-03-17 Thread Zoran Kesic
Zoran Kesic zzkesic at gmail.com writes: Hi, Although relatively new to Lilypond, I was able to find solutions to my needs so far, thanks to this forum and fantastic supporting documentation for Lilypond. However, there is one thing that is driving me mad and I was hoping someone

Changing Spacing Between PianoStaff

2015-03-17 Thread Nolan Winter
Is it possible to change the vertical space between the two staves of a PianoStaff on a single line? I get how to do it for the entire context, you simply put \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing.minimum-distance = #number in \with of the pianostaff, but I would just like to do it on a

Re: Creating Rest of length of music variable

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Long
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:06:58PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to create a MultiMeasureRest of exactly the same length as a music variable. I've mentioned before that extractMusic is in my standard bag of tricks. If it were me, I'd use that. It's easier than writing

Re: [LSR] Colored notes with black outlines (enhancement).

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Brilliant, thanks much Paul ! 2015-03-17 21:58 GMT+01:00 Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com: ... How did you get those path coordinates? Maybe from SVG output? No, purely manual: I've tried to get those from svg but the result is long, complicate and far from being perfect. Actually I have

Re: Creating Rest of length of music variable

2015-03-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:06:58PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to create a MultiMeasureRest of exactly the same length as a music variable. I think having read about exactly this but I don't seem to be able to find anything, so I hacked a solution that actually seems

Re: Dynamics context vs. dynamics in staff

2015-03-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 17.03.2015 um 20:13 schrieb Noeck: Hi Kieren, thanks for your reply. I know this issue you linked and for sure a real solution would be best. I have a few follow-up questions: - Can you point me to the edition engraver? - How do you move dynamics? extra-offset or X/Y-offset? I ask

Re: Dynamics context vs. dynamics in staff

2015-03-17 Thread Noeck
Hi Kieren, I have two more questions: Is there a way to force the centering of the dynamics context (sometimes it is shifted to the upper staff by notes in the lower staff, even if there is enough space to have it centered between the staves)? How can I move a whole line consistently up or

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.03.2015 um 20:49 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:02 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory

Re: cadence font and lilypond-book

2015-03-17 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 17.03.2015 um 20:02 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 20:00 schrieb Marc Hohl: Am 17.03.2015 um 11:56 schrieb Urs Liska: Am 17.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Marc Hohl: Now I deleted every version directory (there were 2.19.16 and 2.19.17) in /usr/local/share/lilypond/ Did you also remove

Re: Dynamics context vs. dynamics in staff

2015-03-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joram, What do you do for piano music? I use a Dynamics context exclusively. Actually, I use up to three: (*always*) the standard one between the piano staves, and (*as needed*) one above the top piano staff and/or below the bottom piano staff for dynamics which are exclusive to music in

Re: Some MIDI questions

2015-03-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:04:52AM -0400, Peter Teeson wrote: [...] But I didn't see anything about being able to choose the MIDI channel for a specific instrument. All that it says is: The MIDI output allocates a channel for each staff, and reserves channel 10 for drums. There are only 16