Re: Figured bass: "blank" extender

2015-04-13 Thread Philippe Massart
Oops, I forgot to add a Staff. before the figuredBassAlterationDirection property change in the staff context... Philippe > Le 12 avr. 2015 à 19:57, Philippe Massart a écrit : > > Something I noticed: commands like figuredBassAlterationDirection do not work > when placed in the staff context

Dynamics between piano staves

2015-04-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
For a score where dynamics occur between the piano staves only occasionally, is there another way to do this apart form creating a Dynamics context and putting in large numbers of rests and tracking the values to get to the correct location? Andrew ___

PDF portfolio of 2.19.18 docs

2015-04-13 Thread Nick Payne
I've created a fully indexed portfolio of the 2.19.18 PDF docs. You can get it from https://www.dropbox.com/s/flzvywhsf4v7m8i/lilydoc-2.19.18.pdf?dl=0 (53Mb). Needs Adobe Reader - I haven't found a 3rd party PDF viewer that can cope with PDF portfolios. Nick

Defining new articulation symbols

2015-04-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
To make new articulations such as ‘staccato forzato’ - an accent over a dot, and ‘marcato e legato’ - an accent over a legato, how would you go about it? The point being that they should be a single unity so that they can be parenthesised. Andrew __

Re: Susato Music Font

2015-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.04.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Abraham Lee: Greetings, Ponders! Recently, I began collaborating with the designer of the Susato music font. Before I get too deep in it, though, I was wondering if you could humor me a little and let me know if you have any interest in *purchasing* the font i

Re: scm: (apply and …) and alist problem

2015-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.04.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Simon Albrecht: 1) Why can’t ‘apply’ be used with ‘and’ (defined-all.ly example file)? 2) Why does assoc-get return #f instead of a list in the second example file? Help is much appreciated. Yours, Simon I think 'and' is not a 'proc' in the sense of what 'ap

Re: Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:26 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Simon Albrecht > wrote: > >> Am 13.04.2015 um 01:55 schrieb David B. Stocker: >> >>> David, >>> >>> Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. >>> >>> It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is ther

Re: Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 13.04.2015 um 01:55 schrieb David B. Stocker: > >> David, >> >> Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. >> >> It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is there a learning resource you would >> recommend to a very green beginner? >>

scm: (apply and …) and alist problem

2015-04-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, once more I have to come up with two scheme problems. I attached small examples. 1) Why can’t ‘apply’ be used with ‘and’ (defined-all.ly example file)? 2) Why does assoc-get return #f instead of a list in the second example file? Help is much appreciated. Yours, Simon \version "2.19

Re: Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-13 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/15 22:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 13.04.2015 um 01:55 schrieb David B. Stocker: >> David, >> >> Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. >> >> It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is there a learning resource >> you would recomme

Re: Hymns and justified lyrics

2015-04-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 13.04.2015 um 01:55 schrieb David B. Stocker: David, Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is there a learning resource you would recommend to a very green beginner? I don’t know any basic tutorials for Scheme itself, but concerning Lily the

Re: Susato Music Font

2015-04-13 Thread tisimst
Thanks, Johan, for your feedback and to everyone else who's responded to the survey so far! I'll go ahead and leave it up for another day or so, then I'll make my decision to pursue it further or not. I realize that I've kind-of saturated the music font market for the moment (boy, it's been fun!),

Re: Susato Music Font

2015-04-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:40:25 -0600 Abraham Lee wrote: > Anyone interested? I will withdraw my efforts if there isn't. I hope to > hear from everyone either way! It surely looks very nice but I'd like to see the examples side to side with the fonts currently available to LilyPond. And even then,

Re: content versus presentation in music and Lilypond (was Re: forcing TimeSignature visibility)

2015-04-13 Thread Mark Knoop
At 19:58 on 13 Apr 2015, Mark Knoop wrote: >At 13:59 on 13 Apr 2015, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >>The “presentation layer” comprises, in part, choices that must be made >>to physically represent the content on the page, given the page >>geometry, clarity considerations, etc. In this Piano/Conductor >>

Re: content versus presentation in music and Lilypond (was Re: forcing TimeSignature visibility)

2015-04-13 Thread Mark Knoop
At 13:59 on 13 Apr 2015, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >The “presentation layer” comprises, in part, choices that must be made >to physically represent the content on the page, given the page >geometry, clarity considerations, etc. In this Piano/Conductor >engraving/presentation, m. 4 immediately follows

content versus presentation in music and Lilypond (was Re: forcing TimeSignature visibility)

2015-04-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[n.b. None of the referenced images are attached to this post, since the moderator has told me that 186KB is “huge”. Anyone interested in seeing the images can contact me directly, or perhaps recommend a website which will allow me to upload such images for public viewing/linking.] Hi Andrew,

Susato Music Font

2015-04-13 Thread Abraham Lee
Greetings, Ponders! Recently, I began collaborating with the designer of the Susato music font. Before I get too deep in it, though, I was wondering if you could humor me a little and let me know if you have any interest in *purchasing* the font if it were made LilyPond-compatible. The current ask

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

2015-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.04.2015 um 16:37 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Urs Liska > wrote: Hi David, thank you for your head start. See my attached results. I'd be grateful for any comments to improve the coding. I'd like to lo

Re: Custom noteheads stem alignment

2015-04-13 Thread Paul Morris
Schneidy wrote > Thanks for the reminder! Makes me think that I could simplified lots of my > path's codes ;). Sure thing! When make-path-stencil arrives in the stable version things will be much simpler, as I can't think of a reason to use any of the other methods instead of it. It doesn't requ

Re: Staff Spacing

2015-04-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chris, > I did get the edition-engraver to work but it seems to have a problem with > \removeemptystaves. It's not putting the breaks where I've specified. > Have you experienced this? No: unless instructed otherwise, Lily might put in *additional* breaks (i.e., where you *haven’t* specified

Re: Superimposing notes

2015-04-13 Thread Paul Morris
Andrew Bernard wrote > Thanks so much. This is most helpful. > > But in fact, the issue was far more subtle, and three days of debugging > sorted it out. For future searchers of the mail archive, the following may > be useful information. The snippet I posted worked fine in isolation and > allows

Re: Staff Spacing

2015-04-13 Thread Chris Trahan
Hi Kieren, I did get the edition-engraver to work but it seems to have a problem with \removeemptystaves. It's not putting the breaks where I've specified. Have you experienced this? Thanks, Chris On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Ch

Re: Custom noteheads stem alignment

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Paul, Thanks for the reminder! Makes me think that I could simplified lots of my path's codes ;). Anyway... I suppose that for 'make-path-stencil', 'Z' stays for 'closepath', doesn't it? So what's 'z' for ? Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-13 15:40 GMT+02:00 Paul Morris : > Schneidy wrote > > Now I u

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

2015-04-13 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi David, > > thank you for your head start. > See my attached results. I'd be grateful for any comments to improve the > coding. > I'd like to look through this, but unfortunately I won't be able to give good feedback for the time b

Re: Function to add a drone staff?

2015-04-13 Thread Gilles
Hi. On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:07:43 -0700 (MST), Paul Morris wrote: 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 v

Re: Programming error

2015-04-13 Thread Peter Toye
David, Oh well, as I've got round the problem without quite knowing how, we'd better leave it there. It was more a question of whether I should report it formally as a bug. Thanks for the input. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, Apr

Re: Relation of ly:grob-suicide and setting the stencil to #f

2015-04-13 Thread Paul Morris
Urs Liska wrote > could someone please explain the difference between setting a grob's > stencil to #f (or ##f) Just the visible stencil part of the grob goes away. You can still access other properties of the grob, etc. Urs Liska wrote > and applying ly:grob-suicide on it? > I'm currently lo

Re: Custom noteheads stem alignment

2015-04-13 Thread Paul Morris
Schneidy wrote > Now I understand - font size changes won’t affect this code as it is not >> drawing from the font. But I am not sure what code will scale the >> noteheads. Do I need a separate stencil for different sizes? That’s not >> so >> bad, as I only want to differentiate normal notes and gr

Relation of ly:grob-suicide and setting the stencil to #f

2015-04-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, could someone please explain the difference between setting a grob's stencil to #f (or ##f) and applying ly:grob-suicide on it? I'm currently looking at some functions doing things like that and would like to know when to use which. TIA Urs ___

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

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Edit: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=993 Tagged as 'docs' Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-13 10:13 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com>: > Hi Klaus, > > Added to the LSR: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=993 > > Cheers, > Pierre > > 2015-04-12 0:00 GMT+02:00 Klaus Blu

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

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Klaus, Added to the LSR: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=993 Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-12 0:00 GMT+02:00 Klaus Blum : > Hi Kieren, > > a few weeks ago, I had exactly the same question while fiddling around with > this: > Chord_sheet.ly >

Re: Custom noteheads stem alignment

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrew, 2015-04-13 2:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > Dear Pierre, > > Thank you so very very much for this. You have solved two problems in one > - the stem attachment and the elliptical counter, and it looks excellent. > > I can’t find words to express my appreciation for your help to me and

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

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Yep... Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-13 1:45 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > Hi Pierre, > > sorry to come back to you that late :( > > 2015-04-11 13:50 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > Hi List, Hi Harm, > > > > Harm, do you remember this disussion? > > > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-

Re: How to define a non existing grob

2015-04-13 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Harm, Hi Urs, 2015-04-13 1:42 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : We have no glyph for it. > Have a look at: > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs > If you want to create one you need to use metafont, iirc. > Yes I know that, this is actually DA problem...