Re: Shorthand for "once override"?

2020-09-02 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Thanks, Martin - that would be a great suggestion except that the numbers will change depending on the position of the note on the staff, and its surrounds - even including the direction of the stem. Every time the symbol appears it will need to be carefully placed by hand, so to speak, to ensure

Re: upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi, > Op 2 sep. 2020, om 21:07 heeft David Kastrup het volgende > geschreven: > > Maurits Lamers writes: > >> Hi, >> >>> convert-ly does text replacements. It is not a full parser. If text >>> replacements are supposed to work, you need to write your text in a way >>> that the replacement

Re: upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Maurits Lamers writes: > >> Hi, >> >>> convert-ly does text replacements. It is not a full parser. If text >>> replacements are supposed to work, you need to write your text in a way >>> that the replacement patterns cover. Stuff like putting # on one line >>> and a co

Re: upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: > Hi, > >> convert-ly does text replacements. It is not a full parser. If text >> replacements are supposed to work, you need to write your text in a way >> that the replacement patterns cover. Stuff like putting # on one line >> and a corresponding opening paren on the

Re: upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi, > convert-ly does text replacements. It is not a full parser. If text > replacements are supposed to work, you need to write your text in a way > that the replacement patterns cover. Stuff like putting # on one line > and a corresponding opening paren on the next line are just too weird > f

Re: figures above staff in explicit FiguredBass

2020-09-02 Thread Leszek Wroński
Thank you very much! The 'alignAboveContext' bit did the trick! Best regards, Leszek. On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 12:06, Leo Correia de Verdier < leo.correia.de.verd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something like: > > \version "2.20.0" > << > \new Staff = "basso" { > \clef bass c1 } > \new FiguredBass

Re: Shorthand for "once override"?

2020-09-02 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Errr... because I don't know enough about Lilypond to distinguish between an override and a tweak. I just happened to have found a Lilypond score (admittedly an old one) which uses overrides to place special symbols next to notes, and I'm doing that because I can see that it works. But if tweakin

Re: upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: > Hi all, > > In order to have my braille generator not have to support Lilypond 2.14 I > tried to upgrade my music library I am building this braille generator on. > > However, because of (a lot of) specific "hacks" on the layout, simply running > convert-ly on the entir

Re: Shorthand for "once override"?

2020-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Alasdair McAndrew writes: > In my attempt to typeset some early 18th century French music for viola da > gamba, I'm trying to keep to the original notation as closely as possible. > Thus I'm using a breath mark to indicate a trill, and a sans-serif x for a > mordent. So for example, I have > > m

Re: figures above staff in explicit FiguredBass

2020-09-02 Thread Leo Correia de Verdier
Something like: \version "2.20.0" << \new Staff = "basso" { \clef bass c1 } \new FiguredBass \with { alignAboveContext = "basso" } \figuremode { <7>2 <6-> } >> > 2 sep. 2020 kl. 11:25 skrev Leszek Wroński : > > Dear Experts, > > I would like to have the figures in my figur

figures above staff in explicit FiguredBass

2020-09-02 Thread Leszek Wroński
Dear Experts, I would like to have the figures in my figured bass to be engraved above the staff. This piece of documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/contexts-and-engravers says the following: "When writing a figured bass, you can place the figures above or below the

upgrading a songbook from 2.14 to 2.18

2020-09-02 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi all, In order to have my braille generator not have to support Lilypond 2.14 I tried to upgrade my music library I am building this braille generator on. However, because of (a lot of) specific "hacks" on the layout, simply running convert-ly on the entire library doesn't completely finish t

Re: Shorthand for "once override"?

2020-09-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Oh sorry - you were actually asking about \once \override. SORRY! there's a huge discussion about the abbreviation of this on the development list and I had that in mind. Andrew

Re: Shorthand for "once override"?

2020-09-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Didn't we already have this conversation? You can make an engraver  to do all the French ornaments. The outline is on Scores of Beauty. I can help you do it if you like. Anything like what you have suggested is a just a sort of hack. Even though you can force it to work, it is suboptimal. It ca