Beam exceptions

2015-08-15 Thread Andrew Bernard
In the following MWE, I would like to have the second bar have a primary beam across all the notes, as per the first bar. I imagine it may require more than what I have here, possibly something to do with setting up beamExceptions? How does one do this? As others have noted in the past, the doc

Guitar Fret Diagram - scale degree below string

2015-08-15 Thread tone
I would like to include the scale degree below each string in a fret diagram. For example, below the strings on the fret diagram for B13sus4 (at the 7th fret) I would like to print "1 b7 4 13" (without the quotes). (Would also be nice to use the custom symbol for "flat", rather than lowercase "b"

Re: Text spanner text in the middle

2015-08-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-15 4:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard : > > If we can have left text set, and right text set, having centred text set > does not seem unreasonable. I’m not sure the generalised possible extensions > are that useful. But having a bracket with some text in the middle is so > commonly done by co

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/08/2015 02:58, Sam Frybyte wrote: Hello- There used to be simple way to notate p,i,m,a for guitar music by adding -p or _p. This no longer works in 2.18.2 and searching snippets and online manuals it seems this is no longer possible I've tried editing the and can only get it to wor

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Patrick L. Schmidt
On 15.08.2015, at 21:22, Sam Frybyte wrote: > > Thanks again- however I still couldn't find this in the docs.where is it > now because it didn't seem to be in the guitar fingering section. It's not in the guitar fingering section because syntax like -“a” has nothing to do with right han

Re: error code question

2015-08-15 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Thanks for your help. The problem was not including spacer rests for the opening grace notes in the measure counter. All the best, Craig On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 at 20:46 Thomas Morley wrote: > 2015-08-15 12:17 GMT+02:00 Craig Dabelstein : > > > > Hi Lilyponders, > > > > When compiling quite a lar

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread David Kastrup
Sam Frybyte writes: > Thank you both- turns out that for a (annular or ring finger) the only > thing that works is c-"a" the other two don't work. And it never would have worked previously either since a on its own is a note name. > As for the 'incomprehensible' thank you Patrick for pointing o

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
Simply send a short example code. Am 15.08.2015 21:22, schrieb Sam Frybyte: Thank you both- turns out that for a (annular or ring finger) the only thing that works is c-"a" the other two don't work. As for the 'incomprehensible' thank you Patrick for pointing out the missing backslash still woul

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Sam Frybyte
Thank you both- turns out that for a (annular or ring finger) the only thing that works is c-"a" the other two don't work. As for the 'incomprehensible' thank you Patrick for pointing out the missing backslash still wouldn't have worked but somehow in the copy/paste into the email it 'got lost'. T

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Patrick L. Schmidt
On 15.08.2015, at 19:07, David Kastrup wrote: > Sam Frybyte writes: > > >> I've tried editing the and can only get it to work for >> #1 > > This sentence is utterly incomprehensible, and it is not clear what the > code fragment is supposed to be about or for or what it is supposed to > dem

Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread David Kastrup
Sam Frybyte writes: > Hello- > There used to be simple way to notate p,i,m,a for guitar music by adding -p > or _p. This no longer works in 2.18.2 and searching snippets and online > manuals it seems this is no longer possible Of course it is still possible. Put a space in there to keep Li

Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

2015-08-15 Thread Sam Frybyte
Hello- There used to be simple way to notate p,i,m,a for guitar music by adding -p or _p. This no longer works in 2.18.2 and searching snippets and online manuals it seems this is no longer possible I've tried editing the and can only get it to work for #1 is there a place to look in the manu

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Thanks, Kieren and Paul. Pre-transposing works. Best, Simon Am 15.08.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Simon, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. I ran into this, too. Don’t know if it’s the best way, but I used \addQuote “melody_8vb” \tran

Re: problem to code page-numbers

2015-08-15 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Finally I want to be able to set every bookparts first-page-numbers > indepent and solve the request here: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00237.html > > As far as I know, we have no mechnism for it implemented. Looking around for information,

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Simon, > I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. I ran into this, too. Don’t know if it’s the best way, but I used \addQuote “melody_8vb” \transpose c c, { \melody } and then directly quoted the [pre-transposed] quote. Of course, it would be much better

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/08/15 15:55, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. > > My thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, > > so I can wrap it into

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 04:55:19PM +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hello, > > I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. My > thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, so I > can wrap it into \transpose c c, {} and all’s fine.’ However, \tra

Re: \transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/08/15 15:55, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hello, > > I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. > My thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, > so I can wrap it into \transpose c c, {} and all’s fine.’ However, > \transpose has no effect.

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Malte, I just realized from David's answer that your code somehow escaped my mailbox. Your solutions are exactly, what I was looking for, so please ignore my last post in that matter and thanks a lot: Your code is really helpful and very much appreciated! -- Orm _

\transpose and quoting

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello, I’m looking for a way to quote another voice, but in a different octave. My thinking was: ‘\quoteDuring is a music function, so it returns music, so I can wrap it into \transpose c c, {} and all’s fine.’ However, \transpose has no effect. Using \transposition doesn’t seem quite the rig

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-15 Thread David Kastrup
Malte Meyn writes: > Am 14.08.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Malte Meyn: >> >> This is not a very clean solution but you might find something helpful >> in it ;) >> > > For example, I haven’t understood completely yet when to use #arg and > when $arg in a music. duration apparently needs a $ but the other

Re: Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Samstag, den 15. August 2015 um 16:04:02 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Malte Meyn: > > If PianoStaff accepts StaffGroup the alignment works, so here is a solution: great, thanks! -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.o

Re: Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.08.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Orm Finnendahl: I tried all sorts of combinations of removing and consisting the keep-alive-together engraver, tried to create an explicit staffgroup for the main piano staves within the PianoStaff (this results in loosing the centered instrument name and the curly

Remove 3rd Staff in PianoStaff if empty

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in a piano score I'm writing sometimes a third staff on top of the other two standard staffs (with a "G^15" clef) is used. I would like to remove this staff if empty, but *always* have the other two staffs active. If I remove the "Keep_alive_together_engraver" from the PianoStaff, every staf

Re: string harmonics with cue notes

2015-08-15 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Stephen, thanks for the help! Using your idea I ended up with this: Cue = #(define-music-function (parser location note shift) (ly:music? number?) #{ \override Stem.transparent = ##t \override ParenthesesItem.padding = #0.2 \override ParenthesesItem.font-size =

Re: error code question

2015-08-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-08-15 12:17 GMT+02:00 Craig Dabelstein : > > Hi Lilyponders, > > When compiling quite a large score I'm getting this error. Could anyone tell > me where to even start looking for the problem? > > Many thanks, > > Craig > > > Drawing > systems.../Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/s

error code question

2015-08-15 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi Lilyponders, When compiling quite a large score I'm getting this error. Could anyone tell me where to even start looking for the problem? Many thanks, Craig Drawing systems... /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/output-lib.scm:1391:18 <0>: In procedure l

Re: Parenthesised articulation issue

2015-08-15 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 15.08.2015 um 05:41 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Apologies for the somewhat lengthy MWE, but I only get this problem in this context, and have not found a shorter way to generate the issue. Just try to leave out things. Try less notes (and less voices), less different pitches, less staff switc