Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Sep 2021 at 23:07:35 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Jean Abou Samra writes: > > Le 12/09/2021 à 02:32, Kira Garvie a écrit : > >> Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the > >> curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know > >> how to do them

Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 19:11:36 (-0700), H. S. Teoh wrote: > I discovered that converting the pdf to ps and back again significantly > reduces the file size. So it's kinda my poor-man's way of compressing > pdfs. Of course, this only works if your pdf doesn't contain any > features incompatible w

Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 21:35:00 (+0200), Valentin Petzel wrote: > From what I see pdftops appears to be intelligent enough to rasterize the > file > only if it does actually contain transparency. If it does it uses a much less > smooth rasterization that is probably not fit for printing, so be ca

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Kira Garvie
Oooh thank you! ~Kira On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 7:54 PM Karlin High wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 7:32 PM Kira Garvie wrote: > > how do I insert the curly quotes? > > If you are using Frescobaldi: > > Ctrl + ' = ‘’ > Ctrl + Shift + " = “” > > The “curly” typographical quotes will be inserted a

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Karlin High
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 7:32 PM Kira Garvie wrote: > how do I insert the curly quotes? If you are using Frescobaldi: Ctrl + ' = ‘’ Ctrl + Shift + " = “” The “curly” typographical quotes will be inserted as a pair. If text is highlighted first, there will be on each side of the highlighted passa

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le 12/09/2021 à 02:32, Kira Garvie a écrit : >> Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the >> curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know >> how to do them myself! > > The one thing that changed my computer life as a > French

Re: Slashed grace notes

2021-09-12 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >>> I think it is standard practice to have slashed grace note only for a >>> single note. >> Tell the composers! > > As a composer, I differentiate quite specifically: slashed grace notes > (regardless of the number) are meant to be played on the beat, while

Re: Slashed grace notes

2021-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, >> I think it is standard practice to have slashed grace note only for a single >> note. > Tell the composers! As a composer, I differentiate quite specifically: slashed grace notes (regardless of the number) are meant to be played on the beat, while unslashed grace notes are placed be

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 12/09/2021 à 02:32, Kira Garvie a écrit : Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know how to do them myself! The one thing that changed my computer life as a French speaker trying to type ÉÀŒÇ is a Compo

Re: Slashed grace notes

2021-09-12 Thread Paul Hodges
Unfortunately, my composer clearly didn't use that convention (past, because he died last year), as he wrote the slashed notes before the barline... Paul On 12/09/2021 19:52:45, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi all, > >>> I think it is standard practice to have slashed grace note only for a >

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Paul Hodges
I use WizKey to type accents and a great many special characters including curly quotes: https://antibody-software.com/wizkey/ Sadly it's not free, though. Paul On 12/09/2021 06:18:17, "Aaron Hill" wrote: >On 2021-09-11 5:32 pm, Kira Garvie wrote: >>Following up on this question from thursday

Re: Slashed grace notes

2021-09-12 Thread Paul Hodges
On 12/09/2021 19:04:16, "Xavier Scheuer" wrote: >I think it is standard practice to have slashed grace note only for a >single note. Tell the composers! The piece I'm currently setting contains, e.g.: >But if you really want to have slashed for grouped have a look at: >https://lsr.di.unimi.

Re: Slashed grace notes

2021-09-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 22:04, Carlos Martinez < car...@newsoundmusicstudio.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am finding out that slashed grace notes don’t show the slash when they are grouped ? > > Any suggestions? Hello, I think it is standard practice to have slashed grace note only for a single note.

Re: Mostly unisono multi-voice staff also merging whole notes together

2021-09-12 Thread Hans Aikema
> On 12 Sep 2021, at 02:17, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > > On 9/11/21, 1:03 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Hans Aikema" > hans.aik...@aikebah.net> wrote: > >Hi all, > >In a score I have two parts (Alto I and II) that’s for most of the score > unisono. > >In order to be able

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2021-09-12 2:32 am, Kira Garvie wrote: (Anyone who types “blessèd” that much probably works in a similar line of work to me - that word sounds funny to me with just one syllable now! I am a church organist/ music director.)! Similar role, indeed. Though in my case, I am just filling the p

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread Kira Garvie
Thank you Aaron!! (Anyone who types “blessèd” that much probably works in a similar line of work to me - that word sounds funny to me with just one syllable now! I am a church organist/ music director.)! On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 1:18 AM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-09-11 5:32 pm, Kira Garvie wrote