Re: Changing midi-tempo within score

2017-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.01.2017 01:07, UCas wrote: So, what is the better way for changing the tempo? Doing it with \tempo seems more... semantic. Isn't it? Is there any up- or downside with this two commands? Well, the difference is just that with \tempo it will be printed as well, setting tempoWholesPerMinute

stringTuning question

2017-01-08 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello folks, In the second score below, I replaced calls to ly:make-pitch, as generated by musicxml2ly, by the more modern chord-like notation . Thought the two of them would be equivalent, but I get the following messages: Starting lilypond 2.19.44 [staffTuning problem.ly]... Processing `/Users

Re: stringTuning question

2017-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Menu Jacques writes: > Hello folks, > > In the second score below, I replaced calls to ly:make-pitch, as > generated by musicxml2ly, by the more modern chord-like notation > . Wrong order, must be low to high. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Changing midi-tempo within score

2017-01-08 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> So, what is the better way for changing the tempo? >> Doing it with \tempo seems more... semantic. Isn't it? >> > > So if the composer wrote a tempo indication, use \tempo; if the composer > didn’t write anything and it’s just a tempo modification, use the latter. > This strikes me as odd: whe

init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
Can someone explain to me what the functionality of the init.ly file is? In particular I'm trying to figure out if I could write one which is specific to a particular project so that I can use the same ly source for two different projects and yet produce different output versions by simply inv

Re: Changing midi-tempo within score

2017-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.01.2017 19:15, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: So if the composer wrote a tempo indication, use \tempo; if the composer didn’t write anything and it’s just a tempo modification, use the latter. This strikes me as odd: when would you change tempo unless it was indicated by t

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.01.2017 20:33, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: use the same ly source for two different projects and yet produce different output versions by simply invoking lilypond with the appropriate --init option on the source. I think often all you need is a clever \include structure and invoking di

Re: stringTuning question

2017-01-08 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello David, Thanks a lot, I overlooked that! JM > Le 8 janv. 2017 à 18:42, David Kastrup a écrit : > > Menu Jacques writes: > >> Hello folks, >> >> In the second score below, I replaced calls to ly:make-pitch, as >> generated by musicxml2ly, by the more modern chord-like notation >> . > >

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2017-01-08 3:06 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: I think often all you need is a clever \include structure and invoking different .ly files, which apply different settings and both include the same content I've thought about this, but so far haven't found a completely satisfactory way of doing this

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-01-08 22:43 GMT+01:00 Br. Samuel Springuel : > On 2017-01-08 3:06 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> >> I think often all you need is a clever \include structure and >> invoking different .ly files, which apply different settings and both >> include the same content > > > I've thought about this, bu

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2017-01-08 4:53 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: How about make and makefile? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/make-and-makefiles Never used them for own scores, though, sounds it may be what you're looking for. After reading that page it sounds like this may work for now, but one

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2017-01-08 4:43 PM, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: Another option might be using the -e option to initialise a Scheme variable, which then triggers a switch inside your .ly file. This sounds like it might be more promising, at least for the scores I write myself. When borrowing source from oth

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-01-08 23:38 GMT+01:00 Br. Samuel Springuel : > Is there a way to set a top level `\paper` block > entirely within Scheme? Probably: #(define my-settings '( (indent . 10) (short-indent . 10) (line-width . 80) )) #(for-each (lambda (settings) (ly:output-def-set-variabl

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.01.2017 23:38, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: Is there a way to set a top level `\paper` block entirely within Scheme? I imagine there is, however there is practically no documentation to be found even in the source code (or did I look at the wrong places/the wrong way?). Here is an essay,

help with frameEngraver-bars-and-boxes function

2017-01-08 Thread James.Correa
Hi, This is my first time writing on the list. I have using lilypond for a few months, and I find in the list archive a function written by David Nalesnik that is exactly what I need for my score. It compiles ok on Lilypond 2.18.2, but I am using 2.19.53 for my score and I am getting this warni

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2017-01-08 6:01 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: #(define my-settings '( (indent . 10) (short-indent . 10) (line-width . 80) )) #(for-each (lambda (settings) (ly:output-def-set-variable! $defaultpaper (car settings) (cdr settings))) my-settings) This works when copied and p

Re: init.ly, what does it do?

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 Jan 2017 at 21:17:53 (-0500), Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > With this file saved to the same folder as my test score, > `lilypond-dev --init="my_init.ly" test.ly` produces identical > results to `lilypond-dev test.ly`. I would, therefore, guess that > while LilyPond has initialized enou