Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Elaine, Thanks so much for this. I am studying all the different helpful approaches here. Most appreciated. Andrew On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 06:23, Flaming Hakama by Elaine < ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote: > > The use of edition engraver is certainly one good approach. Although, you >

Openlilylib page-layout module

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Starting a new thread on this for clarity. OK. So my previously posted MWE for string quartet with parts used tags and multiple books in one file. I found that edition-engraver and page-layout do their work and stop after the first book. Consequently have found that if I make separate file for

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Karl, Thanks for your great help. I am studying the matter! Just for now I am interested in persisting with something close to my original approach, until I find out definitively it is just plain blockheaded! Andrew On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 22:59, wrote: > > The way I handle it is to first

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi All, Here's a redacted version of Randy's file, lots of small cleanups, and the email chat tone removed. Andrew # The OpenLilyLib Edition Engraver ## What is it? In a nutshell, the Edition Engraver provides a convenient way of storing tweaks, overrides and other objects that can later be

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Randy, Gazumped. I was about to do it. Thanks for this. May I update it to make not the literal text of an email thread but remove this extraneous stuff and render it somewhat more reference material in nature? Are you an expert in edition-engraver? It would be good to have a section on

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-13 Thread 智樂喬
Hi Urs, I had a moment of free time and converted it to (what I think) is Github-usable Markdown. It's attached to this email. There was a typo or two and I also took the liberty of fixing those. I tried to add headings, but the way it's written, they're nested pretty deep, so some more editing

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.), > one = \relative c' { > \alterBroken color #(list red blue black) StaffGroup.SystemStartBracket This literally made my jaw drop. Astonishing. Thanks for making my day! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, More work shows that \applyConditionalBreaks only works on the first \book in a score. So, either my structure is faulty, with multiple books in a file, or page-layout cannot be used in this way. The same seesm to apply for edition-engraver. What then is the proper structure for parts

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, Edution-engraver is great, and page-layout is great. Thanks! For my case at the moment, I think the page-layout module is the simplest. But I can't see how to get the parts working. In the MWE I supplied, I tried putting the \applyConditionalBreaks in every spot I could, but I can't get

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:55 PM David Nalesnik wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:27 PM David Nalesnik > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:44 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > > > > > > > > Am 13.03.19 um 19:47 schrieb David Nalesnik: > > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:44 PM Aaron Hill > > > >

Re: ties and cross staff beaming

2019-03-13 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Your code has an error. Can you tell me how to fix? warning: this Voice needs a \voiceXx or \shiftXx setting \down c,8~[ \up ~] Well, "an error" - to be precise, this code 1) compiles successfully 2) gives the intended output 3) causes Lilypond to give a warning. I wasn't surprised by 3)

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:27 PM David Nalesnik wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:44 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > > > > > Am 13.03.19 um 19:47 schrieb David Nalesnik: > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:44 PM Aaron Hill > > > wrote: > > >> On 2019-03-13 11:41 am, Aaron Hill wrote: > > >>> On

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:44 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 13.03.19 um 19:47 schrieb David Nalesnik: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:44 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > >> On 2019-03-13 11:41 am, Aaron Hill wrote: > >>> On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all, > > is it possible to

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.03.19 um 19:41 schrieb Aaron Hill: On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to color it? \layout {   \context {     \Score     \override SystemStartBrace.color = #red   } } works but (\once) \override

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.03.19 um 19:47 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:44 PM Aaron Hill wrote: On 2019-03-13 11:41 am, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to color it? \layout { \context

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Andrew Bernard > To: lilypond-user Mailinglist > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:10:32 +1100 > Subject: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet > I'm seeking the advice of the list expertise on the topic of producing > parts for a string

Re: ties and cross staff beaming

2019-03-13 Thread Reggie
Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote > Am 05.03.19 um 19:27 schrieb Rachel Knight: >> That idea should have worked, but the ties don’t look quite right. >> Below is a compilable example. > > Yes, that's why working with hidden extra notes is a bit messy: We have > to prevent those from taking up space.

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread David Nalesnik
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:44 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > > On 2019-03-13 11:41 am, Aaron Hill wrote: > > On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to > >> color it? > >> > >> \layout { > >> \context { > >>

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-03-13 11:41 am, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to color it? \layout { \context { \Score \override SystemStartBrace.color = #red } } works but (\once) \override

Re: Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-03-13 10:53 am, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to color it? \layout { \context { \Score \override SystemStartBrace.color = #red } } works but (\once) \override Score.SystemStartBrace.color = #red somewhere

Color one SystemStartBrace

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, is it possible to get hold of a single SystemStartBrace/Bar/Bracket to color it? \layout { \context { \Score \override SystemStartBrace.color = #red } } works but (\once) \override Score.SystemStartBrace.color = #red somewhere in the input doesn't have any effect. Any

Re: Access the first/last line of a markup

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.03.19 um 09:34 schrieb Urs Liska: ... Well, I *thought* I'd managed to integrate it in my project infrastructure, but as often the devil is in the details. The solution works only if \apply-hack is basically the last markup command: % This works \markup \column \apply-hack { a

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.03.19 um 14:47 schrieb Andrew Bernard: Can we add Stefano Troncaro's excellent introductory material about the edition engraver to the github wiki for the project? Yes. I'll add my voice to the chorus singing the praises of this well written tract (the article here:

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/13/19, 8:04 AM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: BTW, I'm surprised that any misspelled command in the alist does not trigger any error message: \version "2.19.82" { s1^\markup{ \fret-diagram-verbose #'( (mute 6) (open 5)

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/13/19, 3:00 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: Carl Sorensen writes: > On 3/12/19, 6:42 AM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: > %\fret-diagram-terse "x;o;o;5-1-(;5-1;7-3-);" % this returns "Wrong > type argument in position 1" > } > > In order to have two

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Federico Bruni
BTW, I'm surprised that any misspelled command in the alist does not trigger any error message: \version "2.19.82" { s1^\markup{ \fret-diagram-verbose #'( (mute 6) (open 5) (open 4) (open 3) (place-fret 2 6) ;(place-fret 1 5) (please harakiri 1 5) )

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle 10:51, Thomas Morley ha scritto: > (place fret 1 7 3) This doesn't work: no 7th fret shown on first string. A typo, missing dash. (place-fret 1 7 3) will work. Oh, sure. Thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
Can we add Stefano Troncaro's excellent introductory material about the edition engraver to the github wiki for the project? I'll add my voice to the chorus singing the praises of this well written tract (the article here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-01/msg00603.html)

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread karl
... > I cannot be the only person to need to deal with this. What's the best > practice for making parts when using explicit page breaking? So the question is, how do one handle, for a given set of music, varying requirements for line and page breaks ? The way I handle it is to first split the

Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Andrew, Am 13.03.19 um 11:10 schrieb Andrew Bernard: I'm seeking the advice of the list expertise on the topic of producing parts for a string quartet. I think I know the answer to this in advance, but I want to validate my ideas. In the score I am setting for a composer colleague, we are

Advice sought on making parts for string quartet

2019-03-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
I'm seeking the advice of the list expertise on the topic of producing parts for a string quartet. I think I know the answer to this in advance, but I want to validate my ideas. In the score I am setting for a composer colleague, we are fussy about pagination and line breaks. Lilypond does a

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Mi., 13. März 2019 um 07:53 Uhr schrieb Federico Bruni : > > Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle 15:28, Carl Sorensen > ha scritto: > > In order to have two indications on the same string (the end of the > > barre plus another fret) you will need to use either the fret-diagram > > or the

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 3/12/19, 6:42 AM, "Federico Bruni" wrote: > > Hi folks > > I cannot find anything in the documentation. > As far as I can see, the barré in fret-diagram commands must start and > end on the same fret. It makes sense.. however, how can I

Re: ties and cross staff beaming

2019-03-13 Thread Rachel Knight
Thanks! This worked. I don’t have a good reason for stemUp, so I’ll switch to using voiceOne. (I’m still a pretty new Lilypond user.) Rachel > On Mar 5, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > > Am 05.03.19 um 19:27 schrieb Rachel Knight: >> That idea should have worked, but the ties

Re: Access the first/last line of a markup

2019-03-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.03.19 um 15:10 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi Aaron, thank you for this example. Am 11.03.19 um 17:20 schrieb Aaron Hill: On 2019-03-11 2:49 am, Urs Liska wrote: Hi, ... A *hack* using transparent glyphs to force alignment: \version "2.19.82" #(define-markup-command

Re: fret-diagram and barré with another finger on the same string

2019-03-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle 15:28, Carl Sorensen ha scritto: In order to have two indications on the same string (the end of the barre plus another fret) you will need to use either the fret-diagram or the fret-diagram-verbose format. fret-diagram-terse only handles one indication per