Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem

2015-10-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 01:03:55 (+0100), Noeck wrote: > Dear Michael, all, > > > Maybe I just don't understand the usecase. You might want to explain > > what you are trying to achieve. Possibly then we can find a better > > solution. > > thanks for your help. I am trying to copy this chant: > htt

Re: smaller grace notes

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > As a (not tested) workaround you may try: > > \layout { > \context { > \Score > $(add-grace-property 'Score 'NoteHead 'font-size -5) > $(add-grace-property 'Score 'Slur 'height-limit 0.9) > $(add-grace-property 'Score 'Flag 'font-size -5) > $(a

Re: smaller grace notes

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-10-31 0:14 GMT+01:00 Gilberto Agostinho : > Hi all, > > Can someone please explain to me why these changes to the grace note sizes > are not applied when a second voice is used? > > \version "2.19.28" > \layout { > \context { > \Score > \with{ > $(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Not

smaller grace notes

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi all, Can someone please explain to me why these changes to the grace note sizes are not applied when a second voice is used? \version "2.19.28" \layout { \context { \Score \with{ $(add-grace-property 'Voice 'NoteHead 'font-size '-5) $(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Slur 'heig

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 23:29, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Simon Albrecht-2 wrote Try: \layout { \context { \Staff \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 } } and adjust minimum-length to taste. For som

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
> All approved now - future posts should be forwarded immediately. > > Trevor Thanks a lot, Simon and Trevor ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
Noeck wrote Friday, October 30, 2015 9:31 PM > just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to > happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he > allows my comment? All approved now - future posts should be forwarded immediately. Trevor _

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Simon Albrecht-2 wrote > Try: > \layout { >\context { > \Staff > \override OttavaBracket.springs-and-rods = > #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods > %\override OttavaBracket.minimum-length = 0.3 >} > } > and adjust minimum-length to taste. For some reason this has no effect for me

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Second thing, try this code: \relative c'' { R1*7 \ottavation #1 c8 \ottavation #0 d, d d d d d d } It will output only "8va" without the vertical line. I believe that, according to Gould, we always need to have the vertical "hook" in the end

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:31, Noeck wrote: Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Done already :-) I suppose Phil or Trevor could well give you a status where this wouldn’t

RE: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Thomas Wilmot wrote: Have a look at Frescobaldi - it can convert relative <-> absolute mode. Yours, Simon Yes, thanks for that tip! I just started using Frescobaldi last month and it's great but I didn't know about that feature! For commandli

Re: LilyPond initiative in french conservatoires in Paris

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Mathieu, thanks for sharing your experience and the video. I watched it completely and I think this was a nice introduction. It is particularly good that it is a gentle introduction and you are aware that newcomers need their time to understand it (also details like what is a back-slash). What

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, just to make sure: "Post awaiting moderation." is the usual thing to happen on sourceforge and someone will have a look at some point if he allows my comment? Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gn

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 22:01, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. I’ve had that too, but it gets better :-) Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do if

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Simon, thanks for the improvements, I knew my function was utterly inefficient but I have a hard time with Scheme. Just two things about this all: Which modifications to your function should I do if I want to have only a "8" text, without the "va"? Maybe we could create a \ottavation-no-text fo

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, > And regarding your other comments: please comment in the tracker yourself. Thanks for pushing me to sign up. Finally I have an account and I will comment myself. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://li

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 21:29, Noeck wrote: At first, the endings (22da, 29na) looked convincing, but I wondered why I have seen 22ma before (e.g. in Bravura [1]). When looking at this and searching online, I tend to think ma is correct as the Italian word seems to be 'ventiduesimo/-a' and the same for 29m

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Gilberto and Simon, I have my own ottava function as a replacement of \ottava, more about it below. @Gilberto: Very nice, I tried to move the lines up/down once but without success. You solve all my issues [3], [4] :) I will gladly use your solution! @Simon: Even better. Thanks. At first, the

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Gilberto, On 30.10.2015 18:49, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. Thank you for this wor

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk
On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 14:03:30 (+), MING TSANG wrote: > Thank you David,simon, Jacques & Thomas: > > Turn out it was the file name that cause the problem. > As suggest by David, > 1.. I rename the .ly file not using any utf-8 code and it complies fine. > 2.. I change the first utf-8 charact

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread Michael Gerdau
> Turn out it was the file name that cause the problem.As suggest by > David, 1.. I rename the .ly file not using any utf-8 code and it > complies fine.2.. I change the first utf-8 character "禱" to another "主" > and the file complies fine as well3.. the file name with utf-8 "禱" when > comply gen

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread Michael Gerdau
> Turn out it was the file name that cause the problem.As suggest by > David, 1.. I rename the .ly file not using any utf-8 code and it > complies fine.2.. I change the first utf-8 character "禱" to another "主" > and the file complies fine as well3.. the file name with utf-8 "禱" when > comply gen

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
H. S. Teoh wrote > Very nice! But shouldn't this be fixed in Lilypond itself, not just as > an external function? Thanks! And sure, if people want to implement this idea in LilyPond itself that would be ideal. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ottavation-f

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.10.2015 um 18:34 schrieb H. S. Teoh: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: >> Hello LilyPonders, >> >> I would like to share a little function I created for myself. >> According to Elaine Gould's /Behind Bars/, the ottava dashed line >> should attach itself t

Re: ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > Hello LilyPonders, > > I would like to share a little function I created for myself. > According to Elaine Gould's /Behind Bars/, the ottava dashed line > should attach itself to the top of the 8va (or 15ma) and to the bottom >

ottavation function

2015-10-30 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello LilyPonders, I would like to share a little function I created for myself. According to Elaine Gould's /Behind Bars/, the ottava dashed line should attach itself to the top of the 8va (or 15ma) and to the bottom of the 8vb (or 15mb), instead of attaching itself to the centre of the numbers.

RE: Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
> -Original Message- > From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] > Sent: Friday October 30, 2015 11:30 a.m. > To: Thomas WillNot > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Transposition Confusion > > > Thomas WillNot <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: > > > Here is an small example from the t

Re: Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas WillNot <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: > Here is an small example from the trumpet part of my score: > \version "2.18.2" > > \relative c''' { > > \transposition bes >\key bes \major > \time 2/2 > r4\f g-. d8-. c8-. g4-. > c4-. d4-. r2 > r4 g-. d8-. c8-.

RE: Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
Yes, the site does seem to be down. I'm thankful I downloaded the PDF versions locally now! That's good to know; I assumed \transposition affected all output. So I entered the music as it appeared, pre-transposed, in the original score. This is why the manual let me to believe \transposition was

Re: LilyPond initiative in french conservatoires in Paris

2015-10-30 Thread Mathieu Demange
Hi all, Thanks a lot for your time and your positive feedback! It's very encouraging! While this first event happened in one of the 17 district music conservatories of Paris, we are now working on a bigger scale to provide such a living presentation of LilyPond to the whole group of conserv

Re: Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Thomas, Right now, the lilypond site seems to be down, so can't give you any link, but just to clarify: The transposition command affects only midi output. From what I gather, you expect the Bb instruments to show up with no flats (as Bb instruments play C major if Bb major is the concert pi

RE: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
> -Original Message- > From: David Kastrup > Sent: Friday October 30, 2015 9:10 a.m. > To: Thomas Wilmot > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Markup on different lines > > > "Thomas Wilmot" <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: David Kastrup >

RE: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
> -Original Message- > From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] > Sent: Friday October 30, 2015 8:36 a.m. > To: Thomas Willnot > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Markup on different lines > > > Thomas Willnot <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: > > > I am trying to write three markup

RE: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:simon.albre...@mail.de] > Sent: Wednesday October 28, 2015 6:08 p.m. > To: Thomas WillNot; lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion! > > > Hello Thomas, > > On 28.10.2015 21:24, Thomas WillNot wrote: > >

RE: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Wilmot
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Albrecht > Sent: Friday October 30, 2015 6:50 a.m. > To: Thomas Wilmot; lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion! > > > Hello Thomas, > > On 30.10.2015 05:09, Thomas Wilmot wrote: > > minimal example which fails: > > > > {

Re: Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas WillNot
Just to clarify, every instrument's line is showing up with two flats (the piece is in B flat major) so the non-transposing instruments are fine, but the others are not of course. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.or

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread MING TSANG
Thank you David,simon, Jacques & Thomas: Turn out it was the file name that cause the problem.As suggest by David, 1..   I rename the .ly file not using any utf-8 code and it complies fine.2..  I change the first utf-8 character  "禱" to another "主" and the file complies fine as well3.. the file n

Transposition Confusion

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas WillNot
Hi, I am having issues with transposition in my score for brass band. LilyPond is likely working just how it should, but I have been reading about it here , and I just can't figure out what I should

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 00:01:44 (+), MING TSANG wrote: > Hi lilyponders: Hi, please post text, not HTML, and if you can't avoid that, please post source code etc as attachments rather than inline. > Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange > error message: >

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas WillNot
Simon Albrecht mail.de> writes: > > On 30.10.2015 13:48, David Kastrup wrote: > > Simon Albrecht mail.de> writes: > > > >> On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: > >>> I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be > >>> all on their own lines. I can't seem to fi

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 13:48, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Quite bad style to post the same q

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: >> I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be >> all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. > > Quite bad style to post the same question twice. Not sure he did. >

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 11:58, Thomas Willnot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Quite bad style to post the same question twice. I could’ve saved the time writing a reply if I had k

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 30.10.2015 11:00, Thomas Wilmot wrote: I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that. I can’t quite figure out what you mean… You might look in

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 18:32 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 29.10.2015 10:28, Richard Shann wrote: > > The third one replaces rests that fill a whole measure with a > > whole measure rest - again this may just be a characteristic error made > > by Sibelius users. > > And not only by them, it can

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread David Kastrup
"Thomas Wilmot" <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup >> Sent: Friday October 30, 2015 8:36 a.m. >> To: Thomas Willnot >> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Markup on different lines >> >> >> Thomas Willnot <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: >> >> >

Re: Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Willnot <1137...@acadiau.ca> writes: > I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they > should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about > that anywhere. Where did you look? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-

Markup on different lines

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Willnot
I am trying to write three markup comments in the music and they should be all on their own lines. I can't seem to find anything about that anywhere. Thanks, Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Ming, On 30.10.2015 01:01, MING TSANG wrote: Hi lilyponders: Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange error message: I can’t confirm that either: I get two failed barchecks, but else it compiles fine. It would seem odd that Lily didn’t recognise the ver

Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

2015-10-30 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Thomas, On 30.10.2015 05:09, Thomas Wilmot wrote: minimal example which fails: { c-\-. } If I change it back to { c-\staccato }, then it works again { c-\staccato } would translate into the shorthand notation as: { c-. } HTH, Simon ___ lily

Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem

2015-10-30 Thread Noeck
Hi Phil, > You can write \augmentum b4*2/3 which shows the dot but scales the > duration back to a crochet. Clever :) I should have thought about that. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Ming, Your example runs fine with 2.19.30. JM > Le 30 oct. 2015 à 10:07, Thomas Scharkowski a > écrit : > > Original-Nachricht >> \version "2.19.29" >> \language "italiano" >> \header { title = "禱願" subtitle = "Prayer Willing" poet = "雨打芭蕉" % >> Remove default Lil

Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem

2015-10-30 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Noeck" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Gregorian notation - augmentum problem Hi Phil, I think there are two issues here: one is LilyPond's handling of bar lines in what is intended to be unmete

Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

2015-10-30 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Original-Nachricht \version "2.19.29" \language "italiano" \header { title = "禱願" subtitle = "Prayer Willing" poet = "雨打芭蕉" % Remove default LilyPond tagline tagline = ##f} \paper { #(set-paper-size "letter")} \layout { \context {\Voice\consists "Melody_engraver"

Re: how to override dot-placement-list (fret diagrams)

2015-10-30 Thread pls
Thomas Morley writes: > 2015-10-29 23:53 GMT+01:00 pls : > >> >> My use case: I have created a huge library of predefined fret >> diagrams (https://github.com/Philomelos/lilypond-predefined-fretboards) >> and I would love to be able to e.g. display those diagrams with >> chord steps, note names o

Re: Using fonts installed on the system

2015-10-30 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi Simon, thanks for your link. Indeed, as soon as I change \markup {"Arr.: " \override #'(font-name . "Times New Roman") "{ Font Test" } to \markup {"Arr.: " \override #'(font-name . "Times New Roman,") "{ Font Test" } the Times New Roman font works as expected. However, the issue with Wingdi