Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-07 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I should add that those remarks of mine were not meant as complaints about Lilypond; merely as observations. I'm very aware that as an open-source project, Lilypond's strength derives from the hard, unpaid, tireless and often thankless work by its developers. It is often said about open source

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-07 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Dear Lukas-Fabian (if I may), Thank you very much - that is quite amazing! But it does show what I have long suspected: that without some extra programming, Lilypond does not have a current facility to extract the rhythm from a music definition. All of the tablatures I've seen in Lilypond

Re: How to center note names horizontally

2023-08-07 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
It works, thank you very much! Gerardo Il giorno dom 6 ago 2023 alle ore 18:31 Jean Abou Samra ha scritto: > > Le dimanche 06 août 2023 à 18:21 +0200, Gerardo Ballabio a écrit : > > Hello, is there a way to center note names horizontally around the > corresponding note? Since I'm using Italian

Re: Is there a Scheme macro(?) to use fretboards to generate a generic guitar strum?

2023-08-07 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi David, arpeggiateChord = # (define-music-function (chord) (ly:music?) Just a warning: inventing unconventional formattings like this (putting # on a different line as the opening paren) carries the danger of keeping convert-ly (and syntax highlighters and syntax-sensitive editors) from

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-07 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Alasdair, Am 07.08.23 um 07:05 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew: In fact you can just look at the snippet at https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=848 I've set mine up slightly differently, with letters between the lines, but the principle is the same.  But as you see from this snippet, you have to

Re: A query about tablature

2023-08-07 Thread David Kastrup
Alasdair McAndrew writes: >> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 00:11, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> Alasdair McAndrew writes: >>> >>> > Thank you very much indeed for your offer. I'll try to put something >>> > together: currently my files are split up, so that all common >>> > definitions are in one file,

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le lundi 07 août 2023 à 19:00 +0100, Viktor Mastoridis a écrit : > How do I upgrade to Lilypond 2.24 on Mint 21 (Ubuntu LTS 22.4) without braking > the system? Just follow the tutorial, it will not interfere with the system in any way.

Re: Need help displaying note names in 2.22

2023-08-07 Thread Viktor Mastoridis
On Sunday, 6 August 2023, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Oops, except that this is not going to work in 2.22, since > \with-string-transformer is new in 2.24. > > However, 2.22 is not supported anymore, I would recommend upgrading to > 2.24 anyway. > How do I upgrade to Lilypond 2.24 on Mint 21