Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
Alternative key signatures like this are also used to save space in a book of musical exercises. Rather than print out the exact same think in a key a half-step away, both keys are indicated. - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Bernard" > To: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" > Sent:

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI Mark, Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to google for! Andrew On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 02:55, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > > Perhaps the purpose is to indicate the

Re: how to reference paper variables in a music function

2018-11-29 Thread Jeff Olson
Thanks, David, for your prompt reply. Unfortunately I do not have the ability to alter the source in any way (including commenting out lines) once the source has been submitted to Mutopia.  Their process is to specify the paper size on the lilypond command line; any code like those

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 23:22 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : > > Thomas Morley writes: > > > Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 11:04 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann > > : > > > >> > >> As a further point is the term "standard markup objects" well- > >> documented - does it mean "top-level markups", or what I tend

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 11:04 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann > : > >> >> As a further point is the term "standard markup objects" well- >> documented - does it mean "top-level markups", or what I tend to refer >> to as \markup{} blocks? > > I think what's meant is the

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Richard, please bear in mind I'm not a native speaker. Thus work on the docs is pretty difficult for me. That said: Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 11:04 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann : > On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 09:50 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Well, in NR 1.8.1 Writing text one can read about

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 11:57 Uhr schrieb Tyler Mitchell : > > I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key > signature to my music, something like this: > > https://www.ldx.ca/tmp/paren-key-1.png > > I experimented with adding two \key commands one after the other, >

Re: how to reference paper variables in a music function

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 09:34 Uhr schrieb Jeff Olson : > > I have a complex Mutopia submission that requires different formatting > for A4 and Letter sized paper (it's too tight on the page to trust > lilypond's spacing algorithms on the same source without paper specific > tweaks). > > So I'd

Re: Comparison of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico -- would like to add Lilypond

2018-11-29 Thread Abraham Lee
Hi, David! On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:51 PM David Bellows wrote: > > Ok, everyone. I have finally gotten around to adding data about LilyPond > > Excellent work and thank you! > My pleasure ;-) > Lilypond does look good here. I am curious, what are forked stems? You > have that as a "no" for

Re: Comparison of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico -- would like to add Lilypond

2018-11-29 Thread Abraham Lee
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:18 PM Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Di., 27. Nov. 2018 um 00:16 Uhr schrieb Malte Meyn < > lilyp...@maltemeyn.de>: > > > „Notes, forked stems“ (l. 109) > > → should be „yes (fake: rotated stems or custom lines)“ > > > > Or like attached pdf. > Most recent code here (if

Re: how to reference paper variables in a music function

2018-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Nov 2018 at 23:12:20 (-0700), Jeff Olson wrote: > I have a complex Mutopia submission that requires different formatting > for A4 and Letter sized paper (it's too tight on the page to trust > lilypond's spacing algorithms on the same source without paper > specific tweaks). > > So I'd

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 00:32:34 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even > mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of > myself here! It gives you instant transposition of a semitone. And if

RE: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Andrew, Perhaps the purpose is to indicate the possibility of singing in two difference keys. Here D major and Db major. Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Bernard Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:33 AM To:

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Tyler, Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of myself here! Andrew On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 21:57, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key

Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key signature to my music, something like this: https://www.ldx.ca/tmp/paren-key-1.png I experimented with adding two \key commands one after the other, but I get the error: foo.ly:5:9: warning: Two simultaneous

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 09:50 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 09:33 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann > : > > > > On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 15:45 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > > > Sorry, I should have made it clearer that this index is being > > > > automatically generated. Now

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 09:33 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann : > > On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 15:45 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > > Sorry, I should have made it clearer that this index is being > > > automatically generated. Now you point out that there is an > > > \autoOageBreaksOff, which is what

how to reference paper variables in a music function

2018-11-29 Thread Jeff Olson
I have a complex Mutopia submission that requires different formatting for A4 and Letter sized paper (it's too tight on the page to trust lilypond's spacing algorithms on the same source without paper specific tweaks). So I'd like to define a music function (see "ifLetter" below) that can

Re: Protecting against page breaks in markup

2018-11-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 15:45 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > Sorry, I should have made it clearer that this index is being > > automatically generated. Now you point out that there is an > > \autoOageBreaksOff, which is what I thought I needed, I realize > > that it > > wouldn't help - I would