Re: lilypond: merging rests in polyphonic staff

2015-09-02 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
I am a newbie as well. It compiles without error message. May be you meant r1*4 instead of R1*4 ? Am 01.09.2015 22:59, schrieb Martin Lejeune: Hi Everybody, here's a newbie question. I tried to configure "merging automatically" of rests in polyphonic staffs (piano) with a snipped, which I

Re: lilypond: merging rests in polyphonic staff

2015-09-02 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
I do not understand R1*4? May be you wanted something like that, does not make sense for me and may be there are better versions possible, anyway ... %~~~ \version "2.18.2" \header { title = "merging rests" } global = { \time 4/4 } Key =

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm not sure you're getting this right. Singers sing words to the notes they have. When there are notes with no words, what is the singer supposed to do? i.e. when you have given the singer a skip, what do they sing? I'm supposing that you are not properly separating the notes for the

Re: lilypond: merging rests in polyphonic staff

2015-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: >> >> I do not understand R1*4? > > R is a full bar rest of the specified duration. Thus, R1 is a full bar > rest that only makes sense in a 4/4 context. Duration-wise it spans > the same time as r1, but is placed in the middle of the bar instead on

RE: Issue 4236

2015-09-02 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4236 This also produces the unwanted "warning: omitting tuplet bracket with neither left nor right bound": \version "2.18.2" \relative c''{ \tupletSpan 4 \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c c c c c2.:8 } } Workaround: \version "2.18.2" \relative c''{

Re: lilypond: merging rests in polyphonic staff

2015-09-02 Thread Robert Schmaus
> > I do not understand R1*4? R is a full bar rest of the specified duration. Thus, R1 is a full bar rest that only makes sense in a 4/4 context. Duration-wise it spans the same time as r1, but is placed in the middle of the bar instead on the starting beat (or moment). Likewise R2 is a full

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread tisimst
On 9/2/2015 7:46 AM, Marcos Press [via Lilypond] wrote: > 2015-09-02 9:33 GMT+02:00 Phil Holmes <[hidden email] > >: > > I'm not sure you're getting this right. Singers sing words to the > notes they have. When there are notes with no words, what is the > singer supposed to do?

Re: stacking whole notes of different size

2015-09-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Hi Harm, hi Stephen, Am 02.09.2015 um 00:16 schrieb Thomas Morley: [...] Hi Marc, I wrote some test [...] I hope it helps a bit, although I've found no convincing general value. png with your example is attached as well. thanks a lot for your investigations! Now I have something to work with

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.09.2015 um 18:59 schrieb tisimst: 1. Create two music expressions, one for the intro and one for the vocal part, and insert them in serial fashion in the same Staff context. 2. Put the Lyrics context in parallel with the staff, but assigned specifically to the vocal part

Re: stacking whole notes of different size

2015-09-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Hi again, Am 02.09.2015 um 00:16 schrieb Thomas Morley: Hi Marc, I wrote some test m = \relative c' { c1~ 1~ 2 s2 \bar "||" c1~ 1~ 1 \bar "||" c2~ 2~ 2~ 2~ 2~ 2 \bar "||" } \transpose c c \m \transpose c d \m \transpose c e \m \transpose c f \m \transpose c g \m

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Am 02.09.2015 um 16:07 schrieb David Kastrup: >> >> Well, you can just jump in with the lyrics: the Lyrics context does not >> need to start with \lyricsto (though synchronization is a bit queer if >> it doesn't, but still easier than counting

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.09.2015 um 16:07 schrieb David Kastrup: Well, you can just jump in with the lyrics: the Lyrics context does not need to start with \lyricsto (though synchronization is a bit queer if it doesn't, but still easier than counting syllables). Brilliant, David! It’s good to have you for such

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 21:04 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > I've been trying to use the music function \beamExceptions > > "scheme function" Is that to say that this should be called a scheme function not a music function? I found it

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:13 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > And there is a comment somewhere about using | to separate > something, > > I guess bars with the same \time signature (or, indeed different > > ones). > > No, it's always for exactly one time signature, but at the time it is >

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.09.2015 um 21:35 schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:13 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: And there is a comment somewhere about using | to separate something, I guess bars with the same \time signature (or, indeed different ones). No, it's always for exactly one time signature,

Re: getting ties to NOT avoid accidentals

2015-09-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Robert, Well I am cringing. But does this come closer to what you are after? \version "2.19.26" { \clef bass \once \override Tie.staff-position = #-2 cis1~ cis!1~ cis!1 } You don’t really want the tie to cross the accidental, do you? Andrew On 3/09/2015

Re: getting ties to NOT avoid accidentals

2015-09-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Any better? \version "2.19.26" { \clef bass \override Tie.details = #'((note-head-gap . 0)) cis1~ cis!1~ cis!1 dis! ~ dis! fis! ~ fis! bes! ~ bes! } Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

getting ties to NOT avoid accidentals

2015-09-02 Thread robert edge
Let's say I have something like: { \clef bass cis1~ cis!1~ cis!1 } I want all the accidentals to appear and I do not want the tie to be moved really far away like it is now. I preferred a few versions ago when it would go right through the accidental. I realize this is arguably crude and will

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann writes: > On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 21:04 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Richard Shann writes: >> >> > I've been trying to use the music function \beamExceptions >> >> "scheme function" > > Is that to say that this should be called a

Re: Profondo: note symbols in TupletBracket

2015-09-02 Thread tisimst
David, On 8/31/2015 5:55 AM, David Stephen Grant [via Lilypond] wrote: > Hi all, > I'm using Abraham's Profondo font, but having some trouble with > TupletBrackets. > > I would like to indicate the duration of some feathered beamed groups > with a TupletBracket showing the total duration. The

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 22:06 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hello Richard, > > if you want to use \beamExceptions, it seems like the only way to do this is > %% > \version "2.19.25" > > { >\time 4/4 >\set Timing.beamExceptions = \beamExceptions { 8[] 8[ 8] 8[] 8[] 8[ > 8 8] } >

Re: Help for \beamExceptions

2015-09-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 02.09.2015 um 21:35 schrieb Richard Shann: I guess I would know the answer to this if I could find out what the alist holds initially, but my feeble attempt to elicit this via \void \displayScheme #beamExceptions gave me #> You can display the list of beam exceptions currently in effect by

Re: Issue 4236

2015-09-02 Thread BB
I tried both versions (2.19) and do not see any difference? On 02.09.2015 10:18, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4236 This also produces the unwanted "warning: omitting tuplet bracket with neither left nor right bound": \version "2.18.2" \relative

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

2015-09-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Caio, Welcome to the list. I am not sure how long you may have been following things, but this topic came up for me recently, and there is various discussion in the archives. In a nutshell, the answer is not really. It’s possible of course, but can it be done simply and easily, that’s the

Text centralized above a TextSpan

2015-09-02 Thread Caio Giovaneti de Barros
Hi, Is it possible to have text centralized above a TextSpan? I've already saw in the documentation text added in the middle of hairpins and of course there is a tuplet number or fraction in the middle of the tuplet bracket. But it seems that in Text Span this is not so easy to do. Thanks!

Re: Issue 4236

2015-09-02 Thread BB
Sorry, the point was the warning message, not the view. I missed that. On 02.09.2015 13:37, BB wrote: I tried both versions (2.19) and do not see any difference? On 02.09.2015 10:18, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4236 This also produces the

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

2015-09-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Caio, On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: there is various discussion in the archives. Try this out: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00405.html Best, David ___

Re: Lyric in popular score

2015-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Marcos Press writes: > 2015-09-02 9:33 GMT+02:00 Phil Holmes : > >> I'm not sure you're getting this right. Singers sing words to the notes >> they have. When there are notes with no words, what is the singer supposed >> to do? i.e. when you have given