Re: Relative Tempo Markings in Lilypond 2.22

2021-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/21, 6:20 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of David M. Boothe, CAS" wrote: I have a score in 2.18, one section of which uses with the following code: \tempo \markup { \pad-to-box #'(0 . 0) #'(8 . 10) \concat { { \override #'(font-name . "

point-and-click default

2021-12-29 Thread David Zelinsky
I'm about to rant about an existing Lilyond default. Really I want to suggest a change for the developers, but I'm not sure where or how to do that. So I'll start with this rant, and I'll be happy to take any more productive steps if someone can suggest what they should be. Or, if this issue has

\trill fails barcheck with articulate.ly

2021-12-29 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Minimal example: \version "2.23.1" \include "articulate.ly" \articulate { c''1\trill | } Is this something addressed between 2.23.1 (which I have installed) and 2.23.5 (current)? —Joel C. Salomon

Relative Tempo Markings in Lilypond 2.22

2021-12-29 Thread David M. Boothe, CAS
I have a score in 2.18, one section of which uses with the following code: \tempo \markup { \pad-to-box #'(0 . 0) #'(8 . 10) \concat { { \override #'(font-name . "Linux Biolinum Slanted") \fontsize #1 "Musette " } ( \small \general-align #

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread jh
yep that helped a lot. Thanks. j On 2021-12-29 15:34, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/29/21, 3:25 PM, "jh" wrote: very curious. So your example printed better than mine the footnote is very close to the edge and the top is very far down. So I opened librewriter cut the margins to .

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/21, 3:25 PM, "jh" wrote: very curious. So your example printed better than mine the footnote is very close to the edge and the top is very far down. So I opened librewriter cut the margins to .5 and filled the top and two lines of text at the bottom and there is no

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread jh
very curious. So your example printed better than mine the footnote is very close to the edge and the top is very far down. So I opened librewriter cut the margins to .5 and filled the top and two lines of text at the bottom and there is no loss at the bottom and no extra space at the top. So t

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread Federico Bruni
On Wed, Dec 29 2021 at 12:09:12 -0700, jh wrote: thanks- not sure what to do next the printer settings are as expected. will have to think some more about it I guess. I remember that Frescobaldi had an issue with printing; can't remember if it was fixed. I see some reports in the tracker: ht

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/21, 12:09 PM, "jh" wrote: thanks- not sure what to do next the printer settings are as expected. will have to think some more about it I guess. J Here's the pdf I created. See if it prints for you. Carl Jay-Hamilton-24-5-Dec.pdf Description: Jay-Hamilton-

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread jh
thanks- not sure what to do next the printer settings are as expected. will have to think some more about it I guess. j On 2021-12-29 12:02, Carl Sorensen wrote: I added a score to your file to make it pring something. It generates a perfect PDF on my system. No extra space at the top or bott

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
I added a score to your file to make it pring something. It generates a perfect PDF on my system. No extra space at the top or bottom. \version "2.22.0" \header { title = "24-5 Dec" subtitle = "chaconne" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip .

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread jh
attached is the header I use as you can see it is Letter. Brian suggests that it's the printer and his test does suggest that it is the printer; But no other pdf produced by other software has this problem all the others (3) print with an expected top margin and bottom margin. So I'm stuck, I'd

Re: top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/21, 9:22 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of jh" wrote: hello using 2.22 and current version of Frescobaldi. using 'letter' and a new printer Canon lately the top margin above the header has gotten wider and the footnote (2 lines smaller font) on the first page of scor

top/bottom margins?

2021-12-29 Thread jh
hello using 2.22 and current version of Frescobaldi. using 'letter' and a new printer Canon lately the top margin above the header has gotten wider and the footnote (2 lines smaller font) on the first page of scores is getting cut off or the bottom line is cut in half. Is the easy solution to

Re: better control of balloon positioning

2021-12-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 26/12/2021 à 10:43, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : [...] What must I do to get, for example, Balloon text / / grob this alignment? Please advise. One solution is to wait for the patch that

Re: glossary suggestions from novice

2021-12-29 Thread Tom Sgouros
Will do. Thanks, -Tom On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 9:42 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > This sounds like something that should be treated as a possible bug. > Manual changes go in the bug tracker too. Here's what to do: > > https://lilypond.org/bug-reports.html > > -- > Knute Snortum > > > > On Wed, De

Re: Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-29 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 29/12/2021 à 09:45, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : A cleaner and more surgical solution would be: \version "2.18" #(assoc-set! (assoc-ref default-script-alist "tenuto") 'padding 0.5) \new Staff {   \relative c'' {\time 3/4 a g e--} } Although this approach manipulates internal data structur

Re: glossary suggestions from novice

2021-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
This sounds like something that should be treated as a possible bug. Manual changes go in the bug tracker too. Here's what to do: https://lilypond.org/bug-reports.html -- Knute Snortum On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 6:03 AM Tom Sgouros wrote: > > Hello all: > > I wonder if the "system" entry in the

Re: Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-29 Thread Erika Pirnes
Thank you for all the answers! The solution that best suits my situation is overriding the script.padding, what Vaughan suggested. I find the staccatos to be too close to notes as well, so having it affect all articulations doesn't seem like a problem (at least at the moment). As Lukas pointed o

glossary suggestions from novice

2021-12-29 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: I wonder if the "system" entry in the glossary might be enhanced by including the lilypond-specific definition. Currently it reads like this: "The collection of staves (staff), two or more, as used for writing down keyboard, chamber, choral, or orchestral music; a section of the score

Re: minimum measure size?

2021-12-29 Thread Tom Sgouros
Thank you all (and Brian, who replied directly) for your suggestions. Proportional notation seems to do what I need, simply, but the other seems worth investigating. -Tom On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 4:02 AM Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Consider using proportional notation to ensure th

Re: minimum measure size?

2021-12-29 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Tom, Consider using proportional notation to ensure there is always space for note values as small as you need them. Cheers, Valentin Am Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2021, 00:18:24 CET schrieb Tom Sgouros: > Hello all: > > How can I set a minimum measure size? I want to make some scratch > eng

Re: Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-29 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Erika, the problem here is that Lilypond handles many Articulations the same way. So overriding Script.padding will affect all articulations. We have recently discussed possibilites to override properties for specific articulations, but if you are using the shorthand -- for tenuto then yo

Re: Tenuto marking too close to note

2021-12-29 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Erika, I would like to have the tenuto mark a bit farther away from the note. I had a similar issue with tuplet numbers and then "\override TupletNumber.Y-offset = #-2.5" fixed the issue. I don't know what I should replace "TupletNumber" by in the case of tenuto lines. Minimal example her