Adjusting instrumentation of a MIDI output?

2024-05-07 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Hello, I've set various instruments for my MIDI output (from an early 18th century piece), but I have a new soundfont with better instruments. Is there any way I can get lilypond to pick up, as it were, the instrument from this soundfont? As it is, I just set the Staff.midiInstrument to one of

Re: Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Graham King
(copying the list, so that others can benefit/contribute) Giles, I played around with this some more, and got slightly better results by setting \override Score.SpacingSpanner.shortest-duration-space = #1 Another tip, which might be obvious: for proof-reading, I often play the MIDI output and

Re: \after positioning in voices

2024-05-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> >   % \after 2 \< \after 8*7 \!\> \after 2 \! >   s2 d8(c b2) Make that       s2 d8(\< c \after 8 \> b2) <>\! \after doesn't work the way you indented your code suggests you think it does. The syntax is \after DURATION ARTICULATION MUSIC and gives something roughly equivalent to

\after positioning in voices

2024-05-07 Thread Robert Garrigos
I have this code which uses \after to position dynamic marks in the right place where I want them: \version "2.25.14" \language "english" example = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 5/4 { \after 2\< \after 8*7 \> \repeat unfold 10 {e16 f} \!| } } \score { \new

Re: Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Graham King
On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 09:18 +, Giles Boardman wrote: > By the way, I know it's not a Lilypond question, but if anyone can > tell me how to interpret "Verte"(?) that would be a help too. Sorry, I missed this part of your question. It just means "turn (the page)" - much like the modern "V.S."

Re: Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Graham King
I had a similar question a while back [1], which Harm kindly solved. Try something like this (it should work in older versions of lilypond): %~~~ \version "2.23.10" \header { title = "Odhekaton" composer = "Obrecht" piece = "Alto" } \paper { ragged-right = ##t }

Re: Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Giles, > I am new to Lilypond Welcome! > I would like to remove the space from around the notes and bunch them up like > in the original. I tried a couple of things I found that looked relevant - > they're commented out in my snippet - and "\compressEmptyMeasures" but to no > avail .

Spacing in mensural notation

2024-05-07 Thread Giles Boardman
Hello, I am new to Lilypond, cutting my teeth on a couple of pretty simple layouts - this exercise is to reproduce a page of a Petrucci score. [X] I'm thrilled with this [cid:710639fb-021d-4038-8cea-e057f36c7914] but I would like to remove the space from around the notes and