Re: Compound meter

Mea culpa. It's built in to 2.19.82. Apologies for the noise. Andrew On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 12:52, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > But it's a very large chunk of Scheme for a relatively small matter, yet > another bit of complex code to look after locally. Is this function

Compound meter

LSR 745 does a nice job of providing for complex compound meter time signatures. But it's a very large chunk of Scheme for a relatively small matter, yet another bit of complex code to look after locally. Is this functionality built in to lilypond by now? Andrew __

Re: print bass staff not always

Hi Valentin, Great! Re staff visibility in piano, that was going to be my comment also. But I always say, give people what they want. At least lilypond lets you do it if you like. Andrew On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:00, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > That being said, I have never seen a piano p

Re: print bass staff not always

Hi Gianmaria, I know you can do this with GrandStaff and the score context settings shown here. Not sure how to do it with PianoStaff. Andrew % \version "2.19.82" rh = { \clef treble \repeat unfold 3 {a1 b1 c'1 d'1 \break}} lh = { \clef bass s1*4 a1 1 1 1} \score { \new GrandStaff <<

Re: Use of \vspace and \hspace

Hi Valentin, I was led to muse just today that almost all the recent questions on lilypond are about spacing and tweaking positions of some sort or other. [Well, I suppose you could argie that engraving is only about spacing objects and nothing else anyway!] With no disrespect to any documentation

Re: Pedal gradual release

Hi Aaron, What we really want is a lovely curved bezier spline! I appreciate your suggestion, but I personally would rather code PostScript than hack hairpins to be pedal dynamics. I went through all that when I tried to do this by hijacking text spanners, and it was never satisfactory. The desir

Pedal gradual release

I use a wedge type symbol to indicate gradual release of a piano pedal. Since this is not built in to lilypond, I developed code like the following to do the job, using PostScript. I don't mind using PostScript as I am fluent in it, but objectively, this is terribly special case code. Is there anyb

Space before barline

OK. This is the magic to make space after the barline. \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(semi-fixed-space . 5) But how does one get space between the last note in a bar and the barline? There's a large number of combinations to try and I can't find anything that works - although I

Re: Overrun of right margin

Problem solved after much deconstruction. I am setting a string quartet. In this section almost every note has a glissando, and some become to small to see. So I set this: \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #5 \override Glissando #'springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-r

Re: Overrun of right margin

Aye, true enough indeed! Nothing is simple in music. Andrew On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 04:31, Karlin High wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:15 AM Andrew Bernard > wrote: > >> Sometimes I wish I could just get to set nice Marching Band music >> instead. {No disresp

Re: Overrun of right margin

Hi Jean, Thank you. This is difficult New Complexity School music and the rhythms are hugely complicated, and with rapid metric modulation all over I sometimes have to leave out barchecks to get everything going (which is bad practice). So I am fairly certain you are right. I had not thought of t

Re: Overrun of right margin

More info: I am using this: \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.page-break-permission = ##f Which seems to be the cause. This may yet again come down just to my ignorance. I have used the above construct to stop pages breaking unle

Overrun of right margin

I have some fairly dense scoring, but not immensely packed. Using A4 landscape, I find one page - only one - keeps running over the right margin. I have not see that before and I am not sure how to construct an MWE, and the score is too large to post. What conditions would cause this behaviour? I

Re: Appoggiatura before barline

Hi Harm, Thanks. I tend to adjust rest positions manually anyway, so that's not an issue for me personally. With a bar full of notes it also usually looks pretty good. Andrew On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 12:20, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Spacing is a little off. The R1 is not really centered: > > ___

Re: Appoggiatura before barline

I should add that this works for grace notes also, which is actually what I use the technique for. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appoggiatura before barline

Hi Harm, I have been using this heavily thanks to David K for a very long time. Although it may be a cheat, it works just fine. I see no drawbacks. What is the downside here? Andrew On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 07:15, Thomas Morley wrote: > > you could try to use David K's cheat: > > { > R1 > %

Tie minimum length

The NR for 2.19.82 in section 3.2.128 'tie interface' states: min-length If the tie is shorter than this amount (in staff-spaces) an increasingly large length penalty is incurred. But if I use this an error is thrown. Using minimum-length works fine. warning: cannot find property type-check for

Springs and rods

Yet another annoying question about documentation from me. After figuring out how to make a glissando longer, and discovering this in the NR under the spanner interface: minimum-length (dimension, in staff space) Try to make a spanner at least this long, normally in the horizontal direction. This

Re: Right way to make a function for a set of articulations on a note

Hi All, My miserable example stimulated the right answer. The power of the MWE! Big thanks to all. Most appreciated. Andrew On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 22:59, David Kastrup wrote: > > That's basically a big heap of rubbish. You were right to feel > uncomfortable with that. Try > > \version "2.1

Right way to make a function for a set of articulations on a note

I often need use a tenuoto with a parenthesised accent, but I only just figured out how to achieve that. Now ti would be convenient have a function of some sort as a shorthand. Is this the right way to do it that I came up with? I feel a bit uncomfortable about the <>, and maybe this should be som

Re: System spacing for Certain

Hi Reggie, If I understand you aright, you want explicit positioning of a system. This is in the NR at Section 4.4.2 Explicit staff an system positions. (2.19.82). Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Emmentaler & friends

Hi Massimiliano, Do use 2.19.82. Although it's modestly termed 'unstable', it is actually very very stable. This use of the term unstable is an open source development convention more than anything in the context of lilypond. The lilypodndreleases are remarkably stable in the last couple of years.

Re: Emmentaler & friends

Hi Massimilano, Lilypond has few restrictions, but one is that it does not currently support slurs across voices. Refer to the Notation Reference manual Snippets sections for the topic 'Creating slurs across voices'. It shows how to use invisible notes to do this. I am compelled to say that lilyp

Bounds of this piece aren't breakable

Here's an error that has suddenly arisen in my score. I have no idea what the cause is. Frescobaldi output: Starting lilypond 2.19.82 [piece-90-101.ly]... Processing `/home/andro/work/lilypond/sq1/piece-90-101.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...[8] Preprocessing graphical objects... Interpreting

Atom lilypond mode

Does anybody use the lilypond mode for the Atom editor? Is it any good? I'd be interested to hear opinions. I'm a long term emacs user, but Atom seems to be progressing nicely. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gn

Re: Make dynamic script with long text

Hello Harm, This is totally brilliant, and works perfectly. Here is an interesting technical documentation issue, which is that I had no idea this has anything to do with extra-spacing-width, and only hit on it after long searches of the web and the archives, then based on somebody's guess. Someh

Re: Make dynamic script with long text

Hmm. Adding extra-spacing-width seems to work. ppecrescText = \markup { \normal-text \italic "pp e cresc ..." } ppecresc = \tweak DynamicText.self-alignment-X #LEFT \tweak DynamicText.extra-spacing-width #'(0 . -20) #(make-dynamic-script ppecrescText) This idea came from a post from 2017. htt

Re: Make dynamic script with long text

Hi Trevor, Really? Makes no difference at all in my MWE. Even afer correcting for the '=' sign in the tweak. Did you try it? What do I not see a result? Andrew On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 23:35, Trevor wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Andrew Ber

Make dynamic script with long text

Using make-dynamic-script generally works well for me. But now I need to have "pp e cresc...". This is all well and good, except I would like the dynamic text to run across the span barlines. The following MWE shows what I have. The text shies away from the span barline and pushes things around. I

Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac

Thats a big version jump for Apple, up to 14 from 13. Andrew On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 00:13, Tim McNamara wrote: > That's what I was wondering. Might be helpful to make from source rather > than using the precompiled binary. The MacOS update to 14.2 might have > broken something- different vers

Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac

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Emboldening articulations

I think I have asked this before in the past, but I don't recall any answers. I know that articulations come from the lilypond font but is there any way to make them bolder, or more emphatic? There's an LSR for bold tenuto, but I often use ^-^> as a construct and I want both signs bolder, and arti

Re: Error: bad expression type

Great explanation Harm. This ought to be in the NR for people. Andrew On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:49, Thomas Morley wrote: > > whenever you call something in a ly-file with \whatever, then this > needs to do one of three things (are there others?): > >

Re: Error: bad expression type

Hi Christopher, I can't quite nut this one out, but you can't just have ##f sitting in the open between scores - it's a bad expression. You can't place in that location a variable referring to an expression that has a boolean as its evaluation. You can have markup between scores, so if you make t

Re: Automatic narrowing in Emacs?

Hi All, I now remember it was exactly this issue some time ago that caused me to stop using lilypond-mode. The narrowing does not get undone properly. My emacs-lisp coding is not up to fixing it. Is there anyone that could have a go at it? Andrew ___

Re: Automatic narrowing in Emacs?

Hi David, Never heard of this being automatic. Have you got a lot of customisations in your emacs? What version are you running (not that I think that makes any difference) and on what platform? Weird. hard to imagine how you would have both set a mark and typed C-x n n inadvertently. I always f

Re: [OT] Variations in ordinals and building floor numbers

Hi All, Amazing. Elevatorpedia. http://elevation.wikia.com/wiki/Floor_numbering I don't think it's possible to add any more! Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: [OT] Variations in ordinals and building floor numbers

Hi David, Never seen '*' in Australia. My colleague lives in a apartment where the ground floor in the lift is marked 0, then 1, 2, 3 etc. Stupid! Obviously designed by a programmer used to zero based arrays. There's no basement, but I suppose they would have made it -1. Andrew _

Re: Flat flared hairpins

Hi Thomas, The correction works and all is good. Thanks so much. An interesting point I discovered. If you use \< for the hairpins, the LEFT, RIGHT settings are correct. but if you use /< they are reversed - but still work fine. A fascinating side effect of the code. [It did have me a bit confuse

Re: Flat flared hairpins

Hi Harm, I am greatly in your debt. This is really excellent, and you have picked up exactly what I need. Using it, I have found that when having a hairpin that crosses a line break (my main original question) the flare height is set incorrectly. It's quite hard to see in your example, but it's t

Re: Looking for inter-note ornament

Clearer in context: \version "2.19.82" music = { d''4.-2 \once \override Script.X-offset = -1 c''8[\upbow-1 b'-2 a'-3] } \score { \new Staff { \music } \layout { } } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: Looking for inter-note ornament

Possibly? \version "2.19.82" music = { d''4. \once \override Script.X-offset = -1 c''8[\upbow b' a'] } Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

[OT] Happy New Year

A Happy New Year to all the fanstastically helpful and learned colleagues on this great list. I would be unable to do my work without you all. All the best from Down Under! Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.or

Re: Looking for inter-note ornament

Hi Helge, Can't you just use a violin upbow \upbow? Or are you asking how to offset it between notes? Andrew On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 00:32, Helge Kruse wrote: > My teacher calls this > "Auswerfen" or "Rauswerfen". I don't know how this is called in English. > All fingers shall be moved away fr

Re: Flat flared hairpins

American floors: 11 12 14 15 English floors: 11 12 13 14 I saw this a lot when I worked in new York. Andrew On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 00:07, Wols Lists wrote: > > American English floors: first second third fourth > English floors: ground first second third > > _

Re: Flat flared hairpins

Hi Malte, I may be able to work with something like below. Why do you have to use cadr and not cdr on the ly:grob-set-property line? Isn't the broken part the second item in a list of two items? How to understand this? % \version "2.19.82" % simple debug print #(define (dbg . args) "Simp

Re: Flat flared hairpins

Hi Malte, This is good. And thank you. But I need control over the flares over a line break. I really don't know what to do. I suppose this has to be coded in Scheme. I know Scheme well, but I don't understand this level of seemingly undocumented internal machinery, the whole business of broken o

Flat flared hairpins

I need some special flat, flared ended hairpins to indicate pulsing in a string quartet I am setting for a friend. So far, I managed to adapt a textspanner to do the job. It's fiddly but OK. However, because I use a custom graphic path markup for the spanner, the code does not deal with line breaks

Re: Shorten TextSpanner dashed line

Hi Davide, You could play with this: \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.padding = 1 Have a look at the internals reference. Andrew On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 09:47, Davide Liessi wrote: > Is it possible to automatically shorten the dashed line in > TextSpanners so that the line of the f

Re: Whole measure rest in 9/4 time

Hi David, What does usable-duration-logs mean? The NR internals section says: usable-duration-logs (list): '(-3 -2 -1 0) List of duration-logs that can be used in typesetting the grob. I am aware the NR is reference not tutorial, but this entry has very little explanatory value. What do the log

Re: How to make italian tablature

Hello Mario, Apologies. I was unaware you are blind. It was not stated. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to make italian tablature

Hi Mario, Lilypond is fantastic, but maybe not the most advanced authentic style lute tab environment. Although not an answer to your direct question, have you looked at Beier Tab? It supports Italian lute tab, and makes very elegant period looking tab output, and very clean to read, and lots of o

Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

Adding more data: works fine on Debian 9 in Virtualbox 5.22 running under Windows 10. 4'25". Compiles fine. Intel Core i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40 GHz. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-use

Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

Hi Reggie, What OS are you on? Andrew On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 10:48, Reggie wrote: > I am trying to understand theoretically why this is failing. It's only 16 > pages. I am a minimalist composer so as a test I tried this extreme > situation. But yet I don't quite agree rather that it's that ex

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

Hi Laura, I was so disappointed with the complete mess the current abc2ly makes of Irish tunes from the vast repository at thesession.org that I started looking into this. The others mentioned that using abc2xml and then using musixxml2ly supplied with lilypond is the way forward. I found this to

Re: Status and future of abc2ly

HI Jean Louis, Looks nice, but not open source. So not for me, and not a solution for adding to lilypond. Andrew On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 23:33, Jean Louis Thiry wrote: > Hi everyone, > The easiest and reliable way to translate from .abc to .ly is to use the > excellent TablEdit

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

Hi Urs, I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I can't imagine there is any user base using it in earnest, or even at all, else there would be lots of complaints. Or perhaps I was doing something wrong. I feel that it does not deserve a place in the stable. I think instead of incl

musicxml2ly was re abc2ly

Using musicxml2ly with 2.19.82 on a file converted from ABC with the current downloadbale versionof abc2xml, I get a badly messed up header block, which throws errors in lilypond. Here's an example of a tune converted from thesession.org, perfectly good ABC notation: \header { source = "^@h^@

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

BC to lilypond. Andrew On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 21:38, Rutger Hofman wrote: > On 10-12-18 10:40, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Hi Johan, > > > > Having recently become interested in Irish Traditional Music where there > > are countless tens of thousands of tunes in ABC, t

Re: Status and future of abc2ly

Hi Johan, Having recently become interested in Irish Traditional Music where there are countless tens of thousands of tunes in ABC, the de facto standard for the tradition, I'd be keen to see abc2ly brought up to date. My tests with it on a sample of several tunes from thesession.org can only be d

Re: Music-function "arguments" - help

Hi Mansour, The Notation Reference manual can be difficult to follow at first. We all suffer that. Now that it's cleared up, just by way of example I use this: dynamicsX-offset = #(define-music-function (offset) (number?) #{ \once \override DynamicText.X-offset = $offset \once \o

Re: Generate staff-less chord and lyrics sheet

Hi Annette, A minimal working example would be good (MWE). But can't you simply hide the staff? See NR for 2.19.82 Section 1.6.2, subsection Hiding Staves. [Works in earlier lilypond versions as well.] "Staff lines can be hidden by removing the Staff_symbol_engraver from the Staff context. As a

Re: Not Nice Review of the LilyPond

Hi Reggie, It's not a review, it's a guide. There's one paragraph mentioning the documentation is difficult and it's well known that like UNIX manuals the NR is reference not tutorial. Besides he says this: "In spite of these difficulties, LilyPond is astoundingly powerful, and produces very beau

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

Hi David, We have a similar tradition in Australia (British colony?) in organ playing. That's why I thought the other key sig. is redundant. Andrew On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 09:38, David Wright wrote: > > In my experience, the convention in church music in Britain is that > organists can transpos

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

HI Mark, Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to google for! Andrew On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 02:55, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > > Perhaps the purpose is to indicate the possibility

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

Hi Tyler, Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of myself here! Andrew On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 21:57, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key

Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

My apologies - I read this as referring to the 'documentation' meaning the HTML files, viewable with Frescobaldi or a browser. I failed to see that this was referring to PDF, and even read the comment that 'I downloaded the PDF' as meaning that was the solution! How wrong can I be? I can confirm t

Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

I am curious then as to why it all works fine for me and presumably others? Sounds like a Mac font problem to me, given my other current experience with Alegreya, as initially raised by Kieren. Or has 2.19.82 been rebuilt since I downloaded it some time ago? I may be wrong! Andrew On Sat, 24 N

Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

Hi Patrick, This is supposed to be helpful information, but you may see it as not. For what it is worth, there is no such issue on any of my machines., Windows 10, Debian 9, Ubuntu 18.10 and Mac OS 10.13.6 High Sierra. So at least we know the docs do work for at least one person! I will add that

Re: Harp glissandi

For example, \version "2.19.82" { \time 4/4 \clef treble \once \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(1 . 3) c''4_\markup { \draw-squiggle-line #0.3 #'(2 . -3) ##t } c'' } Poorly done, but you see the gist of it. Andrew ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: Harp glissandi

Or you could just use \draw-squiggle-line as a markup. This gives you control lof thre end point, and you can offset markups to whereever you want, more or less. See A.11.3 Graphic in the NR (version 2.91.82) Nobody says they actually have to be semantic glissandos in actuality. Andrew _

Re: Harp glissandi

Hi Rachel, There's more than one way to do this. But how about a simple rotation? \override Glissando.rotation = #'(45 0 0.5) Adjust rotation parameters to taste. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: Tie and ornaments problem

Hi, MWE please. Then much easier to demonstrate in your context. Andrew On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 08:40, Ethan Sue wrote: > I am trying to write something in lilypond and came across this part that > I can't figure out how to notate. > What I would like to make is D1 with a prallmordent and then

Re: Lyrics not under correct staff

Hi Peter, One way to do it. Just follow the example in the NR. You have 2.19.52. I'd urge you to upgrade to 2.19.82. My usual comment: although the development releases are called 'unstable' I find it is pretty hard to crash them, and I bash away at the program all day. I think the term unstable,

Re: Flat flared hairpins

Well I have worked out one way to do this. I use an event function, and return \startTextSpan from the event function. Previously I mistakenly thought you could jist have tweak commands in the event function. While not the full workup with flat hairpins with left flared ends, right flared ends, or

Attaching images to posts

What is the approved and recommend way to attach images for small examples to posts in this list? In the past I have just made an attachment to the post, but it occurred to me that may not be the best thing to do. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: controlling the tie "gap" [and a possible bug?]

As it happens, I'm doing a 200 page string quartet at the moment and every page and every part is full of slurs like this, that end and start on a single note. In this case it is to indicate the pulsing of the phrase and repeated notes in particular - and in case this is obscure, it is mentioned in

Re: Point and click with Gnome 3 and Emacs

Answering my own question, sorry for the noise. Start emacs --daemon. Then run emacsclient -c. This after following the instructions in the NR to setup Gnome 3. [It was the -c flag that eluded me.] Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

Point and click with Gnome 3 and Emacs

With lilypond 2.19.82 on Debian 9.6 running Gnome 3, I followed the instructions on how to set up point and click from PDF to emacs. All works, except that I get a new emacs instance every time. I then realized that one has to run emacsclient for this to work, but I can't quite figure out what to d

Re: My finances.

No it is not insidious. The money remains in your balance until accepted by the receiver. It's a good and fluent system. If the receiver does not accept it, it remains your money. Paypal international fees are vastly lower than our Australian bank charges. Useful and easy and completely ethical. A

Re: Adjusting angle of glissando

Hi Mark, Thanks! I also just discovered this approach: \once \override Glissando.bound-details.left.Y = #-3.8 \once \override Glissando.bound-details.right.Y = #-4.2 On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 20:40, Mark Knoop wrote: > You want something like > > -\tweak extra-dy #-1 \glissando > ___

Adjusting angle of glissando

My colleague wants a glissando on an angle down from the first note to the last in the typical example of his work attached. How can one adjust the endpoints of a glissando? I looked everywhere to no avail. While we are here, I am told that this is stock standard and common notation. Is it actual

Re: Time signature and beat markers

Answering my own question, this simple approach works: \time 5/4 \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) I'm happy to make the thincker barlines manually, unless anybody has some clever special engraver ideas. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: Time signature and beat markers

just does not seem smooth. % \version "2.19.82" music = { \time 5/4 \scaleDurations 5/1 { c'4 c'16 c' c' c' c'4 c' c' \bar "." c'4 c'8 c' c'4 c' c' \bar "." } } \score { \ne

Time signature and beat markers

My complexity school composer colleague uses what he calls beat markers instead of barlines to assist players locating where they are in the complex mass of notes. So for example, we have a section of 5/4. but there is a barline (actually, we use the old mensural type line system) every beat, so I

Re: Lutoslawski-style box notation

Hello Gents, It's GPL 3. Where is the problem? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Score and parts with global variable

Pardon me. Ignore question 2. I had failed to write the correct code as per the template example. Apologies for that particular noise. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Score and parts with global variable

After a long time using lilypond, for solo instrumental music exclusively, now setting a string quartet for the first time and needing score and parts. I confess that I am confused about using a global variable for tempo indications and so on and so forth. Two newbie questions. 1. In the NR templ

Re: Lutoslawski-style box notation

Hi David, In the license directory where all the open source licenses are provided, lilypond is clearly using GPL 3. That's open source. If you follow that. I cant see the difficulty. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://

Re: Lutoslawski-style box notation

Hi David, Isn't Lilypond open source? Cant you make your code open source? I am not following your idea. Andrew > > And, no :( I removed it from GitHub, because I simply do not > understand how I would license such a thing, give proper > acknowledgement to LilyPond. It quotes code from LilyPo

Re: textedit - how to set tab size for correct column calculation?

Hi David, Lilypond only cares about whitespace. Tbas are not integral to the syntax, as they are in some programming languages. Why don't you consider using Frescobaldi? Its a very capable and good lilypond environment. I cant see why, given that it exists, anybody would use a crude text editor. I

Re: fonts not working as expected [SOLVED, at least for OP]

Hi All, It's something much more subtle than the system/user font location. On my system, despite Kieran's success, it does not work, and when K upgrades the mac it may not work for him. In correspondence with the typographer of the font, we have all definitively established what the correct versi

Re: fonts not working as expected [SOLVED, at least for OP]

Hi Karlin, I am continuing to look into it. Andrew > I got the latest Alegreya font version 2.008 from GitHub, added only the > OTF font files using FontBook, and restarted the computer. So far, my Mac’s > LilyPond has not picked up on the Alegreya font. No consequence for me, I > don’t do pro

Re: fonts not working as expected

issue therefore. Andrew On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 03:06, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 30/10/2018 14.08, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I have written to huertatipografica to ask where the definitive and most > > current state of Alegreya is to be found, from their website or from > > g

Re: fonts not working as expected

I have written to huertatipografica to ask where the definitive and most current state of Alegreya is to be found, from their website or from github. It's not clear what the relationship is between the two. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: Alegreya [was: fonts not working as expected [SOLVED, at least for OP]]

Hi Alexander, it's definitely a Mac only issue. Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.10 are just fine. Andrew On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 21:33, Alexander Kobel wrote: > > > While there's not yet an answer: from what I can tell, the OTF in both > versions 2.007 (from huertatipografica.com) and 2.008 (the tagge

Re: fonts not working as expected

Hi Kieren, I tested this carefully on WIndows 10, with lilypond 2.19.82, and Alegreya Medium from Huerta Tipografica direct. All works fine. The output PDF according to Acrobat Pro DC shows two fonts from your example, Alegreya-Medium (Embedded Subset) and TeXGyreSchola-Regular (Embedded Subset),

Re: fonts not working as expected [SOLVED, at least for OP]

Hi Kieren, Does not solve the issue for me! As said, I used the proper font from Huerta Tipografica, as said a while back. My Mac was reinstalled pristine especially to test this for you. I normally work on Linux. Is the Mac version of lilypond the neglected step-sister? Andrew On Tue, 30 Oc

Re: fonts not working as expected

It's lilypond it does not work in. Other programs are fine. You need to get the genuine guaranteed from from Huerta Tipografica ti be sure about all aspects of the font. It's free to download - very generous for such an elegant font. Andrew ___ lilypond-

Re: fonts not working as expected

He is using Alegreya Medium. Andrew On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 02:17, Abraham Lee wrote: > Kieren, > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM Kieren MacMillan < > kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Abraham, >> >> > When you say “outputs nothing” do you mean nothing appears, or nothing >> changes

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