Re: \keepWithTag #'A {\keepWithTag #'B \music}

2016-05-16 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
Copying to the list, from an off-list conversation. Which I started since I wasn't sure I was saying anything useful. On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > Ciao David, you wrote: > > > Great news! I'll have to look into that since I'm not familiar

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-05-16 22:52 GMT+02:00 Carl Sorensen : > > > On 5/16/16 1:20 PM, "Malte Meyn" wrote: > >> >>Am 16.05.2016 um 01:23 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >>> 2) The tremolo lines are too thick (they should be thinner than beams, >>>but >>> in LilyPond they are the

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Noeck
Hi Carl, bringing this up and already offering a solution is really nice. Thank you for your work! I can only tell what my gut feeling is: 1) I like the wider tremolos more for whole notes 2) Again, I like the thick lines more 3) The tremolos inside the staff look much cleaner/better. 4)

Re: Ledger Lines and Tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Noeck
Am 12.05.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Dave Higgins: > That doesn't appear to move the tremolo in any direction. Tried (5 . 5). My previous mail did not come through (yet?), so I try once again: Only if you are talking about \repeat tremolos with two notes this works. For the example above (one note,

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/16/16 1:20 PM, "Malte Meyn" wrote: > >Am 16.05.2016 um 01:23 schrieb Carl Sorensen: >> 2) The tremolo lines are too thick (they should be thinner than beams, >>but >> in LilyPond they are the same thickness). > >IMO your variant isn¹t much better: The tremolo beams

What is the correct way(TM) to set a Rezitationston?

2016-05-16 Thread Lilypond-User Mailing List
Hi all, I need to set a document containing one or more Rezitationstöne[1] (I don't know if there is a correct english translation). The score looks like my hand drawn score at [2]. I came up with the following file to set this kind of music: \version "2.19.37" \score{ { \key g \major

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In reviewing Gould (p. 222), I found several defaults in LilyPond > that go against Gould's recommendations. > > 1) The tremolo lines are too wide (they should be only as wide as a >crotchet note head). This is a matter of taste, it seems. I have seen scores where the width of tremolos

Re: MagnifyStaff Bug?

2016-05-16 Thread Noeck
Hi, I was also wondering where the problem is in the given example. Precise questions help to get answers. Am 15.05.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Carl-Henrik Buschmann: > Those lines at the end of the system should be perfect in line with the > ends of the staff, should they not? I have not seen it in

magnifyStaff bug?

2016-05-16 Thread Carl-Henrik Buschmann
I’m trying to typeset a very simple piano and violin arrangement and while doing the piano part I wanted to have the violin staff «cue sized» as a reference to the pianist. I used \magnifyStaff and while it works wonders, it gives me this at the end of each system:

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.05.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Malte Meyn: IMO your variant isn’t much better: I should have first thanked you to work on this topic at all (and your changes 1 and 3 are indeed worth to be included into LilyPond; 2 with some further changes, I have no opinion on 4 but these thoughts let me

Re: MagnifyStaff Bug?

2016-05-16 Thread Carl-Henrik Buschmann
Hi Simon, > it’s a known issue that alignment of barlines can be difficult in such cases. > I think we have a tracker issue, and it’s a non-trivial question how such > barlines should be aligned by default. So it is a know issue, that it is all i needed to know. Harm did find something in the

Re: Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 16.05.2016 um 01:23 schrieb Carl Sorensen: 2) The tremolo lines are too thick (they should be thinner than beams, but in LilyPond they are the same thickness). IMO your variant isn’t much better: The tremolo beams look *very* slim now. Two ideas: 1. Does Gould say something about *how

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 8:50 PM, "Andrew Bernard" wrote: >Hi Ryan, > >Yes, at 2.19.41 specifying dotted-line style for text spanners just uses >tiny dashes that look a bit like dots, and you can¹t make them larger. Actually, you can make them larger with the TextSpanner.thickness

Re: MagnifyStaff Bug?

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 1:20 PM, "Carl-Henrik Buschmann" wrote: >Those lines at the end of the system should be perfect in line with >the ends of the staff, should they not? I have not seen it in print >before, >have anybody else? >PS. >After >that speech about not giving a

Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dave Higgins noted that for notes outside of the staff, tremolo indications collided with ledger lines. In reviewing Gould (p. 222), I found several defaults in LilyPond that go against Gould's recommendations. 1) The tremolo lines are too wide (they should be only as wide as a crotchet note

Re: Ledger Lines and Tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Noeck
>> For example: a1:32 would give 4 ledger lines but it's hard to tell >> that there are 4 ledger lines because the tremolo covers it. >> >> What's the syntax to lower the tremolo? > > \override Beam.positions = #'(0 . 1) > > Change the 0 and 1 to suit > > Trevor Only if you are talking

Single-note tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dave Higgins noted that for notes outside of the staff, tremolo indications collided with ledger lines. In reviewing Gould (p. 222), I found several defaults in LilyPond that go against Gould's recommendations. 1) The tremolo lines are too wide (they should be only as wide as a crotchet note

Re: Page Break in Lilypond-book

2016-05-16 Thread Alberto Simões
On 16/05/16 18:50, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 May 2016 at 15:34:30 (+0100), Alberto Simões wrote: > It seems that \pageBreak is not honored by Lilypond. > I found an old post [1] that seems to state that it is needed to > enclose each portion in a different \book block (?). > > Can anybody

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 4:18 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >Hello I am trying to go for a classic textSpan look, by using essentially >a period '.' quite large and bold. >as the in lieu of the 'dashed-line, line style. Is there a way I can do >this? Ryan, I can find no way of doing

Re: Can not reach the list

2016-05-16 Thread Alberto Simões
Just wait. I sent one on 14th, and got it delivered today :) On 15/05/16 22:03, Joram wrote: Hi, my mails do not reach lilypond-user. Does that only happen to me or is it a general problem? I have written 4 mails in the last week an none appeared on the list. Is there something I can do?

Re: Can not reach the list

2016-05-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:03 15/05/2016 +, Joram Noname wrote: my mails do not reach lilypond-user. Does that only happen to me ... No, it's often happened to me too. ... or is it a general problem? Is there something I can do? There ought to be - but sadly it seems no-one is prepared to investigate. I

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 7:12 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >great! Thanks Carl. Question, you have dots, I have the dashed line. When >I try: >% >\override TextSpanner.style = #'dotted-line > \override TextSpanner.dash-fraction = 0 >\override TextSpanner.dash-period = 5 >

Can not reach the list

2016-05-16 Thread Joram
Hi, my mails do not reach lilypond-user. Does that only happen to me or is it a general problem? I have written 4 mails in the last week an none appeared on the list. Is there something I can do? Best, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Page Break in Lilypond-book

2016-05-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 14 May 2016 at 15:34:30 (+0100), Alberto Simões wrote: > It seems that \pageBreak is not honored by Lilypond. > I found an old post [1] that seems to state that it is needed to > enclose each portion in a different \book block (?). > > Can anybody confirm? Or explain the better way to

Re: Page Break in Lilypond-book

2016-05-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Alberto Simões" To: "lilypond" Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 3:34 PM Subject: Page Break in Lilypond-book Hi It seems that \pageBreak is not honored by Lilypond. I found an old post [1] that seems to

Re: Ledger Lines and Tremolos

2016-05-16 Thread Noeck
Hi Dave, >> For example: a1:32 would give 4 ledger lines but it's hard to tell >> that there are 4 ledger lines because the tremolo covers it. > And make them lighter. The a has one octave more ledger lines. You can try this and adjust the values: { \override StemTremolo.Y-offset = 3

Re: making TextSpanner.style a very bold and large period

2016-05-16 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/15/16 4:24 PM, "Ryan Michael" wrote: >please confer with this Schoenberg op 30 engraving, where the "rit ... >Tempo" are designed in the way I am trying to achieve. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidU-4YF03Y It looks to me like all they have done in that

Re: "unroll code"

2016-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15. Mai 2016 17:18:10 GMT+01:00, schrieb Paul : >On 05/15/2016 09:01 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Sun 15 May 2016 at 13:07:31 (+0200), imj-muz...@bluewin.ch wrote: >>> Would such manipulations be easy in Scheme, using DisplayMusic to >output the result ? >Maybe

Page Break in Lilypond-book

2016-05-16 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi It seems that \pageBreak is not honored by Lilypond. I found an old post [1] that seems to state that it is needed to enclose each portion in a different \book block (?). Can anybody confirm? Or explain the better way to force page break from within a .ly file, to happen in the

How's the #'id property used

2016-05-16 Thread Ewald Liska
Hi all, may I ask how the 'id property defined in grob-interface is actually used? I can assign it a value using { c' \once \override NoteHead.id = "Hi, I'm an ID" d' e' } and it will show up properly in the resulting SVF file. But is that property actually used somewhere already or it

Re: MagnifyStaff Bug?

2016-05-16 Thread Carl-Henrik Buschmann
Hi Simon, > it’s a known issue that alignment of barlines can be difficult in such cases. > I think we have a tracker issue, and it’s a non-trivial question how such > barlines should be aligned by default. So it is a know issue, that it is all i needed to know. Harm did find something in the