centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, In the snippet included below, I’d like to have the two time signatures center-aligned, but haven’t found the correct incantation. (Gould has nothing specific to say about this situation, but her polymetric time signatures *appear* to be centre-aligned, and not left-aligned like Lily’s

[feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, How can I get \repeat percent {} to print a percent sign in ChordNames? Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: [feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Klaus Blum
benbigno...@gmx.dehi Kieren, you could also try: % --- \version 2.18.2 \chords { \repeat percent 4 { a2:m f } \repeat percent 4 { g1 c } } \layout { \context { \ChordNames \consists Percent_repeat_engraver \consists

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 11.04.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Gilles: Hello. On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:19:31 -0700 (MST), Paul Morris wrote: Gilles Sadowski wrote It works but the sound is still cut after every bar: It looks like no tie was added to the last note of a bar. What is the advantage of using \makeOctaves wrt

Re: [feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Klaus, you could also try Yes! Perfect. Embarassed that I didn’t think of it myself. Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user

Re: centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Kieren, I'm not sure you'll like it since it is no incantation but a workaround. Though it's well centered, so here it goes: shortTSmusic = { \tweak layer #-1 \tweak stencil #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup

Re: [feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=908 2015-04-11 22:16 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi all, How can I get \repeat percent {} to print a percent sign in ChordNames? Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Morris
Gilles Sadowski wrote It works but the sound is still cut after every bar: It looks like no tie was added to the last note of a bar. What is the advantage of using \makeOctaves wrt having two \dronify? Hi Gilles, You're welcome. There's no real advantage to using \makeOctaves, just a

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-11 Thread Gilles
Hello. On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:19:31 -0700 (MST), Paul Morris wrote: Gilles Sadowski wrote It works but the sound is still cut after every bar: It looks like no tie was added to the last note of a bar. What is the advantage of using \makeOctaves wrt having two \dronify? Hi Gilles, You're

Re: centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Pierre, I'm not sure you'll like it since it is no incantation but a workaround. I appreciate the work… but I have multiple instances of this issue, with different combinations of time signatures, so this isn’t sufficient to save much manual work. I’ll just use the \editionEngraver to

Re: [feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Pierre, http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=908 Thanks! That’ll do for now. Best, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: [feature request] getting \repeat percent to work in ChordNames

2015-04-11 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Kieren, a few weeks ago, I had exactly the same question while fiddling around with this: Chord_sheet.ly http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n174400/Chord_sheet.ly I'm not sure if I was inspired by http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=460 or if I found the solution somewhere else.

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Philippe, How about: \version 2.18.2 bassfigures = \figuremode { %% option 1: \override BassFigureAlignment.stacking-dir = #1 4 54 3 \revert BassFigureAlignment.stacking-dir } \new FiguredBass %% option 2: %\with { \override BassFigureAlignment.stacking-dir = #1 }

Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread flup2
Hello, I'm trying to achieve this result: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n174360/figured_543.png The problem is to have the 3 at the same height of the 4, but blank space above it. I tried to include an empty markup above the 3, but it didn't work. Another idea would be to blank

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Richard, Your option is more elegant than mine! In short, yours goes: \version 2.18.2 bassFig = \figuremode { 5 44 3 } \new Staff \bassFig \new Voice \relative c' { f2 } I'll keep it in mind. Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-11 9:40 GMT+02:00 flup2 phili...@philmassart.net: Thanks for

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 23:59 -0700, flup2 wrote: Hello, I'm trying to achieve this result: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n174360/figured_543.png The problem is to have the 3 at the same height of the 4, but blank space above it. Hmm, curiously Denemo gives this as the

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Richard Shann
Sorry - I attached the wrong file :( Also, I should mention that LilyPond does not always achieve such nice alignment with this syntax and the commands to raise and lower individual figures are sometimes needed anyway. Richard On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 08:26 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Fri,

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread flup2
Thanks for these informations, I'll look into it this week-end :-) Philippe -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Figured-bass-blank-extender-tp174360p174365.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

(Urgent:) Getting start and end translation-timestep of a (hairpin) grob

2015-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, this is related to my previous thread and particularly to the file attached to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00263.html If I have a Scheme engraver listening to TextScript-s I can get a list of entries at the same timestep and then compare them for equality.

forcing TimeSignature visibility

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, From time to time in the score I’m currently engraving, I want to force the time signature to “reappear” in a particular measure even though the time signature is not changing at that moment. I don’t want to add a new \time command in the note code (which, I believe, might solve the

Re: can line-break-system-details be given a relative offset (for Y-offset)?

2015-04-11 Thread tisimst
+1!! As I had to use this override the other day, I crossed my fingers and hoped that extra-offset was a supported property and sadly learned that it isn't. Seems like just the thing to be able to give a system a little nudge in either direction when you need to. After all, that's what pretty

can line-break-system-details be given a relative offset (for Y-offset)?

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I sometimes use Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details to explicitly set the Y-offset of a system. But Lily does such a good job by default, that I usually need only “nudge” the system by 1 or 2 staff spaces up or down. So rather than using trial-and-error to find the

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Morris
Simon Albrecht-2 wrote It happens when you use bar checks! This is astounding, since bar checks should have no influence on output at all. If you can confirm this with a minimal example, it should be worth a bug report IMO. Actually, no need for a bug report, as everything here is done in a

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Morris
Gilles Sadowski wrote It happens when you use bar checks! The sound is continuous without them but it would be quite annoying to encode without their help for spotting mistakes... [I use version 2.18.2.] In addition, the midi volume and instrument used for the drone must be different from

Re: (Urgent:) Getting start and end translation-timestep of a (hairpin) grob

2015-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi, this is related to my previous thread and particularly to the file attached to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-04/msg00263.html If I have a Scheme engraver listening to TextScript-s I

[WAS] How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2015-04-11 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi List, Hi Harm, Harm, do you remember this disussion? http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-catch-the-current-height-of-a-StaffGroup-td46889.html#a46893 Did you finally find something? I'd like to use the figure to automate this snippet : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=991 Cheers,

Re: (Urgent:) Getting start and end translation-timestep of a (hairpin) grob

2015-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thanks a lot, looks promising. I'll have a look later when I'm home. Urs Am 11. April 2015 16:07:24 MESZ, schrieb David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:01 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Urs, On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Urs

Re: (Urgent:) Getting start and end translation-timestep of a (hairpin) grob

2015-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:01 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Urs, On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi, this is related to my previous thread and particularly to the file attached to

Re: Repeating a section with different transpose

2015-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Klaus Blum benbigno...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Eljakim, all I can offer you is a function to simplify things a little bit. However, it is necessary to pass two parameters: - a destination pitch for transposition and key signature - a markup for use in the title %

Re: Repeating the same part many times with different transpose

2015-04-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2015-04-10 14:45 GMT+02:00 Eljakim Schrijvers eschrijv...@eljakim.nl: Hi there, I have an exercise defined as follows (most of the actual notes taken out). What I would like to do is transpose that exercise to g, d, a, e, b, fis, ..., f and have it repeated in each key. I want each

Re: centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, No promises, just something hacked together. This only moves time signatures belonging to the same paper column as a criteron of vertical relatedness. Can't say if that's a valid assumption. Outstanding! Works great on all the examples I can see in this score. Thanks! Kieren.

Re: centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Pierre, I'm not sure you'll like it since it is no incantation but a workaround. I appreciate the work… but I have multiple instances of this issue, with different combinations of time

Re: centering different time signatures

2015-04-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, No promises, just something hacked together. This only moves time signatures belonging to the same paper column as a criteron of vertical relatedness. Can't say if that's a valid assumption.