Re: Best way to center beam between upper/lower staff?

2024-03-08 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Aaron Hill on Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:58:21 -0800: > Is `\autoChange` [1] what you were looking for? Well, I had looked at \autoChange but it seems to add extra staves when used with multiple voices. I had also looked at Beam.auto-knee-gap and it didn't seem to make any difference

Best way to center beam between upper/lower staff?

2024-03-07 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, This has to be a FAQ, yet all my searching turned up a mixed bag. I'm trying to have some notes cross from the lower staff to the upper staff but want the beam to automatically center. In my example this is accomplished in measure 3 with much manual work. Is there a better way?

Re: Using __ extender in lyrics

2024-03-03 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Hans Aikema on Sun, 03 Mar 2024 18:46:46 +0100: > A solution to it is to put an empty lyric ("") on the parenthesised f > when there are no lyrics for it That's so simple and I don't know why I didn't think of doing just that (hindsight and all that) instead of trying to use

Using __ extender in lyrics

2024-03-03 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I seem to have some fundamental misunderstanding about how the __ extender is to be used in lyrics. It seems that under some conditions it doesn't behave as I would expect but I may be doing it wrong. Given the following example, what am I doing wrong? It works fine

Re: Volta spanner missing edge when using "|" as endRepeatType

2024-02-29 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Thomas Morley on Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:47:06 +0100: > \allowVoltaHook = "|" > placed toplevel, should do the trick. Thanks, for the archives, the correct syntax is (without the "="): \allowVoltaHook "|" Works great. Andy

Volta spanner missing edge when using "|" as endRepeatType

2024-02-28 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I want to place an interlude that happens only the first time through a a section that has a repeat and a second interlude for the second time through. I don't want the repeat measure bar showing up in the middle of the piece, so I set the endRepeatType to "|", but when I do that,

Re: How to align second repeat verse against second voice

2024-02-26 Thread Andy Bradford
> Reading the rhythm would be easier if you replaced two of the dotted > quarter notes with an eighth note tied to the following quarter note. Yes, that's a great suggestion too and in fact I had already been considering that very modification. Thanks, Andy

Re: How to align second repeat verse against second voice

2024-02-25 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Aaron Hill on Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:51:44 -0800: > Probably the easiest the option is to \set associatedVoice to > temporarily align your lyrics to the alternate notes. The important > quirk of associatedVoice is that you must make the change a syllable > ahead of when you

How to align second repeat verse against second voice

2024-02-24 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I have a piece with two verses in a repeat. The second time through there is a slight alteration in one of the measures which adds additional notes. I've been able to accomplish this using a temporary voice, but I'm not sure if this is the best way as the words "ma -

Re: WARNING: SPAM / MALWARE being sent to list members

2023-10-23 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Jean Abou Samra on Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:53:25 +0200: > Let's not get into a debate about this on the list. We can discuss it > privately if you like. Not worth debating. I was hoping that whatever is generating spam in response to list posts would send me something. Andy

Re: WARNING: SPAM / MALWARE being sent to list members

2023-10-23 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Jean Abou Samra on Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:28:12 +0200: > Luckily, we have technologies (SPF and DKIM) that can guarantee an > email is sent from the owner of the sender address, and if an email > doesn't pass SPF/DKIM, it's very likely to be blocked by your spam > filter.

Re: Wanting to leave list

2023-06-17 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said David Kastrup on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:44:54 +0200: > Some mail clients may, for that reason, even have a dedicated > "Unsubscribe" button. But you can always look in the headers. It's a shame that something like mailing list headers isn't made easy by Gmail to Gmail's users.

Re: Accent on single note of chord?

2022-09-24 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Jean Abou Samra on Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:17:26 +0200: > Are you asking this because you saw this notation in a printed score, > or because you want to use it even though it's nonstandard? Yes, the attachment that I included in my original email was a snippet from an actual printed

Accent on single note of chord?

2022-09-24 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, Has anyone come across notation where only a single note in the chord has an accent? I had hoped that it might just work by placing the accent within the chord, but alas it did not: \version "2.18.2" \relative { 4 e-5> } See attached. Thanks, Andy

How to cause voice order to reverse?

2021-10-14 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, How can I have Lilypond reverse the order of voice placement as described here for the entire score? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#-Voice-order Trying to get the second voice to come after the first voice as far as engraving order (in

End pedal optionally with text.

2021-10-02 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I'm trying to accomplish something similar to attached image where the sustain pedal ends without showing the line. In ASCII: Ped. __/\ Optionally, it would be nice to follow it with something like: Ped. __/\ con ped. I've been able to eliminate the

Re: How to shift trill to below phrasing slur?

2020-12-01 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Thomas Morley on Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:07:22 +0100: > avoid-slur is the correct method: Is see, thank you! The problem was apparently I didn't know that the \trill was part of Script object (I think that's the term) so I had put the avoid-slur property on the wrong thing. Thanks,

How to shift trill to below phrasing slur?

2020-12-01 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I have a small section of music that has a trill that Lilypond places on top of a phrasing slur, but I would like it beneath (between the staff and the slur). I've tried to use: -\tweak Y-offset #-3 \trill And it doesn't seem to have any effect at all (even though modifications to the

Convert from Personal Composer to Lilypond?

2017-12-10 Thread Andy Bradford
Hello, I searched the archives (and also search engines) and couldn't find a discussion about converting Personal Composer (.pc files) into Lilypond, so I thought I would ask if anyone knows of a conversion tool. I could manually engrave it again from the PDF output that I have, but it

Re: [OT] Linux Users

2017-11-18 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "Brett M. Gilio" on Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:59:27 -0600: > How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any > of you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather > than graphical tools? I wonder if analysis of the user-agent strings from the web

Re: old f-clef

2017-06-29 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Stanton Sanderson on Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:59:54 -0500: > Still, it would have been better to have asked about the older f-clef > before starting the project, which is in recognition of the 500th > anniversary of the Reformation. Sounds like an interesting project. I'm familiar

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-30 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said John Roper on Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:58:35 -0500: > jmroper.com/lilypond I never got to see the originally proposed changes. At any rate, consider my opinion as just another nobody's voice in the crowd, one of many non-stakeholder LilyPond users, but personally, I