Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > The situation is a little more problematic, though. > \chordmode { c_\markup { test } } > works, yes, but both of the following two return an error: > \chordmode { c-\markup { test } } > \chordmode { c^\markup { test } } Yes, I was already brainstorming about that. I rea

Re: lilyjazz fonts on Mac / Win

2016-04-06 Thread Abraham Lee
Christoph, I don't own a Mac, nor do I have access to one, so I'm not the most qualified to answer this question. What you've described is exactly how you should do it. However, I have noticed that users of Finale have had similar issues on a Mac, so I think it's not specific to LilyPond. The issu

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Karen S. Billings
In my experience, at least, hemiolas are the exception, rather than the norm. From the standpoint of a trained musician, I would think that the hemiola should be the exception rather than the norm... or at least that's what they taught me in theory, harmony, and composition. From the standpoint

RE: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Martin, Hemiola? Cf. WTC I 3 Prelude, measures 97 – 104. Mark From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Martin Neubauer Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 6:59 PM To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subjec

Re: How to create complex chord

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.04.2016 02:41, Larry wrote: I have read the Learning Manual and did all the exercises. The problem is that my retention is not as good as it once was (I'm 70 years old). However I still enjoy learning. It does take some time till one gets to grips with Lily. I wish you all the best and

Re: How to create complex chord

2016-04-06 Thread Larry
Hello, Thanks for your response, just what I needed. Sorry for being on wrong list, it's my first post, and I wasn't as observant as I should have been. I have read the Learning Manual and did all the exercises. The problem is that my retention is not as good as it once was (I'm 70 years ol

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-07 0:55 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > On 07.04.2016 00:49, Thomas Morley wrote: 3 Would it be possible to write in the compiler error a hint for the user? Something like: Error: markup outside of text script or \lyricmode \chordmode {c} _\markup

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 07.04.2016 00:49, Thomas Morley wrote: 3 Would it be possible to write in the compiler error a hint for the user? Something like: Error: markup outside of text script or \lyricmode \chordmode {c} _\markup {test} Maybe you want to do \chordmode{c _\markup {test}}

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Jay Vara
Works perfectly. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Left-Hand-Fingerings-on-Guitar-Tab-tp189370p189391.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-07 0:26 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > On 06.04.2016 23:33, Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> >> >> Why this is not correct: >> >>\chordmode {c} \markup {test} >> >> [Carl] >> >When you do \chordmode{c}, you have ended the music expression containing >> >the c, so you can no longer attach a markup to

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-06 18:57 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : > Gianmaria Lari writes: > >> Sorry to ask something probably trivial but reading manual and making tests >> didn't help me. >> >> This works perfectly: >> \version "2.19.39" >> { >> a4 _\markup {test} >> } >> >> but this doesn't: >> >> \version "2.19.3

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 23:33, Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> Why this is not correct: >>\chordmode {c} \markup {test} [Carl] >When you do \chordmode{c}, you have ended the music expression containing >the c, so you can no longer attach a markup to the c chord. So you just >move the markup inside the \chormode

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Gianmaria Lari
>> Why this is not correct: >>\chordmode {c} \markup {test} [Carl] >When you do \chordmode{c}, you have ended the music expression containing >the c, so you can no longer attach a markup to the c chord. So you just >move the markup inside the \chormode music expression, where it is >attached to t

Re: How to create complex chord

2016-04-06 Thread Noeck
Hi Larry, some comments first: a) This is a mailing list for Lilypond development (changing the program itself), please use the lilypond-user list for user questions. b) If you reduce your code to the absolute minimum, you may find the issue yourself and you are more likely to find someone looki

Re: How to create complex chord

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Larry, how come you asked on the devel list? As the name says, this list is about developing LilyPond, not about using it – for that, there’s the user list. On 06.04.2016 21:57, Larry wrote: Hello, I need to create a chord of which part is a tuplet and don't know how. A chord can only

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Noeck
Hi Jay, Malte and Simon, > Hm. I didn’t know the New_fingering_engraver. Now I tried to remove > Fingering_engraver, New_fingering_engraver, and > Fingering_column_engraver but the numbers don’t disappear … It is even more interesting: 1) You have to remove *both* the Fingering_engraver and the N

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-06 21:43 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht : > On 06.04.2016 19:45, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> \version "2.19.39" >> { >>\chordmode{c_\markup {test}} >> } > > > This is difficult to read, and there are much worse cases. Just put spaces > around the braces, in general. It’s a useful convention. >

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Noeck
Hi Kieren, my naive thinking for a 3/4 measure (or all n/4 measures) was 3 (or n) groups of length 1/4. So I am a bit reassured by your mail that this is not completely ignorant. But of course the beamHalfMeasure is there for a reason and some say, almost every beaming in a 3/4 measure is allowed

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 06.04.2016 um 21:45 schrieb Simon Albrecht: On 06.04.2016 21:32, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show up

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 21:32, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show up only in the Tablature? Instead of markups y

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 19:45, Carl Sorensen wrote: \version "2.19.39" { \chordmode{c_\markup {test}} } This is difficult to read, and there are much worse cases. Just put spaces around the braces, in general. It’s a useful convention. Yours, Simon ___ l

Re: Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 06.04.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Jay Vara: I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. […] Is there a way to suppress the fingerings on the staff and have it show up only in the Tablature? Instead of markups you should use fingerings like in c-1 c d-

Left Hand Fingerings on Guitar Tab

2016-04-06 Thread Jay Vara
I am trying to add left hand fingerings to the Tablature without affecting the staff. Here is a sample code: \version "2.19.15" one = \markup { \finger 1 } two = \markup { \finger 2 } three = \markup { \finger 3 } four = \markup { \finger 4 } myMusic = \relati

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/6/16 9:12 AM, "Gianmaria Lari" wrote: >Sorry to ask something probably trivial but reading manual and making >tests didn't help me. > >This works perfectly: >\version "2.19.39" >{ > a4 _\markup {test} >} > >but this doesn't: > >\version "2.19.39" >{ > \chordmode {c} \markup {test} >} > >Wh

Re: chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Gianmaria Lari writes: > Sorry to ask something probably trivial but reading manual and making tests > didn't help me. > > This works perfectly: > \version "2.19.39" > { > a4 _\markup {test} > } > > but this doesn't: > > \version "2.19.39" > { > \chordmode {c} \markup {test} > } > > Why? How

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 22:16:40 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote: > > I was wondering how often the odd half measure beam really leads to > > ambiguity between 3/4 and 6/8 time in properly typeset music. Apart from the example po

chordmode and markup

2016-04-06 Thread Gianmaria Lari
Sorry to ask something probably trivial but reading manual and making tests didn't help me. This works perfectly: \version "2.19.39" { a4 _\markup {test} } but this doesn't: \version "2.19.39" { \chordmode {c} \markup {test} } Why? How can I write some text on the chords? g. ___

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Apr 2016 at 13:34:01 (+0200), Martin Neubauer wrote: > On 6 April 2016 at 13:23, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > when I explored the effect of that setting, I wasn't sure the outcome is > > really that desirable > > > > Wait… is your example **actually** what happen

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Original-Nachricht Hi Martin, when I explored the effect of that setting, I wasn't sure the outcome is really that desirable Wait… is your example **actually** what happens with Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f? It’s awful. That should DEFINITELY not be the default. In 3/4 ti

Re: change chord name

2016-04-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/6/16 3:30 AM, "lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu@gnu.org on behalf of Ugo Pecoraro" wrote: >I would change the name of the fourth removing the south to get C4 instead >Csus4. How can j do it? Ugo, This is a question that should be asked on -user, not on -devel. -devel is about mak

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Martin Neubauer
On 6 April 2016 at 13:23, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > when I explored the effect of that setting, I wasn't sure the outcome is > really that desirable > > Wait… is your example **actually** what happens with > Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f? > At least on my computer, yes. I didn't c

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Martin, > when I explored the effect of that setting, I wasn't sure the outcome is > really that desirable Wait… is your example **actually** what happens with Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f? It’s awful. That should DEFINITELY not be the default. In 3/4 time, my beaming is always in three pai

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Martin Neubauer
On 6 April 2016 at 09:10, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > From the Notation Reference: > "In engraving from the Romantic and Classical periods, beams often begin > midway through the measure in 3/4 time, but modern practice is to avoid the > false impression of 6/8 time (see Gould, p. 153)." > > Shou

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
Yess. Great support on this list! Thanks! On 04/06/2016 11:58 AM, David Kastrup wrote: mj writes: \context { \FretBoards \override FretBoards.FretBoard.size = #0.8 You are putting a spurious FretBoards into that override. } \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_eng

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
mj writes: >> \context { \FretBoards >> \override FretBoards.FretBoard.size = #0.8 You are putting a spurious FretBoards into that override. >> } >> \context { >> \Score >> \remove "Bar_number_engraver" >> } >> } > > but there is seems to be ignored. You should have been gett

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
Hi Phil, Thanks for your reply. The page you reference (which I read) is where I found the code that I used: \new FretBoards { % Set global properties of fret diagram \override FretBoards.FretBoard.size = #'1.2 This DOES take effect in my main file like this: \score { << \new

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "mj" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 10:10 AM Subject: Re: two beginners questions Hi Phil, list, On 04/05/2016 05:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font-size = #-1 } to your layout block. That works, and no

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
On 04/06/2016 10:27 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: You sure? It’s known that some distributions package 2.16.2 still, but 2.19.2 is a really odd choice… anyway, in most cases one will want to install a recent version manually. Well... I'm not entirely sure anymore. Anyway: I'm now working with 2.18

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
Hi Phil, list, On 04/05/2016 05:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font-size = #-1 } to your layout block. That works, and now I'd like the fret diagrams to be reduced as well. Below is an exerpt from my include file, which works for everything, excep

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 09:31, mj wrote: On 04/05/2016 05:55 PM, David Kastrup wrote: 2.19.2, however, is almost as old as 2.18.0 (close to two years I think). It's actually older than 2.18.1. That seems like a strange choice to use. Well, strange as it may be, it was the lilypond version that was auto

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 09:10, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Even simpler (for the 3/4 case): /\set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f/ From the Notation Reference: "In engraving from the Romantic and Classical periods, beams often begin midway through the measure in 3/4 time, but modern practice is to avoid the

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 06.04.2016 04:46, Martin Neubauer wrote: I was more curious about the existence of music that's strictly in 3/4 time and where the way of printing a three-quaver pickup would actually make a difference. There are hardly such cases before 1900, and that’s exactly why the convention changed.

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
I understand the versioning now, thanks. On 04/05/2016 05:55 PM, David Kastrup wrote: 2.19.2, however, is almost as old as 2.18.0 (close to two years I think). It's actually older than 2.18.1. That seems like a strange choice to use. Well, strange as it may be, it was the lilypond version that

Re: two beginners questions

2016-04-06 Thread mj
Hi all, Thanks very much for the kind reactions, both on- and offlist. My issues are solved. :-) MJ On 04/05/2016 05:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "mj" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:43 PM Subject: two beginners questions Hi, Just trying out lilypond

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Even simpler (for the 3/4 case): /\set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f/ From the Notation Reference: "In engraving from the Romantic and Classical periods, beams often begin midway through the measure in 3/4 time, but modern practice is to avoid the false impression of 6/8 time (see Gould, p.