Re: purple highlight in Frescobaldi

Hello Joseph, Something that tricked me for a long time also. Many people don't realize F. has a 'mark current line' function, accessible from the View menu, or Ctrl-B by default. It's a useful feature for bookmarking lines of interest. You can have more than one mark. When you move off the line,

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

Hi Peter, Not sure if this is helpful at this stage, but with lilypond 2.19.82 and Frescobaldi 3.0.1 on Windows 10 version1803 (OS Build 17134.320) all works fine. Sometimes it helps to know all is working for somebody else. My result would tend to indicate it is a local problem for you. Are

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

Hi Peter, Just tried 2.19.82 on an up to the minute W10 machine and all works fine. Would that version be worth trying? Could it be some clash with Python on your system? Lilypond has ti bundled, but maybe you did not check that box on installation? Just an idea. Andrew On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

Hi Anders, That assumes it is a big endian 32 bit int. Is that always correct on Windows? I guess I am asking is lilypond 32 bit on Windows? Andrew On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 22:16, Anders Eriksson wrote: > > The Error code c005 is the code for an > *access violation *-1073741819 is the

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Satire is IP just the same as anything else. Unless your comment was satirical! Andrew On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 04:26, Aaron Hill wrote: > > > P.S. I'm not sure how international intellectual property laws deal > with satire. > > ___ lilypond-user

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Hi Urs, I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will be irrelevant to some large subset of people. For example, my new complexity stuff would just

Re: Weird gap between staff lines and ending bar line

Hi Simon, MWE Sir! [You can't get off so lightly :-)] I'd be interested to take a look, and see if it is platform dependent. Andrew On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 10:53, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > I don’t really have an idea how that might come about and I’m inclined > to save myself the trouble and

Re: Defining 4 \breve time in Carmina Burana

Hi Simon, That's not illegal at all anywhere in the world just so that other list members don't get the wrong impression. Selling multiple copies, i.e., making a derivative work, without permission or licence from the copyright holder would be. Similar to photocopying of complete works for study

Re: Offset PedalMarking

Hi Aaron and Malte, I have been looking for this concept for ages! Thanks Gents. Andrew On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 19:18, Aaron Hill wrote: > > You might be able to achieve this by adjusting both the > `parent-alignment-X` and `self-alignment-X` properties. See the > following: > > >

Re: cadenza when having multiple staffs

Hi Edmundo, As per the standard convention for the list, posting a minimal working example (MWE as they are called) would be helpful and make it easier for people to point out the solution, in general. In the meantime, I'll engrave that section for you to show how I would do it. Andrew On

Re: tuplet error

Hi Aaron and Craig, I understand that already. But why the obscure notation is what I was asking. Surely it can be written clearly or more explicitly? And if you feel it needed explaining to me, it's going to need explaining to other players, isn't it Craig? Andrew On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 17:39,

Re: tuplet error

Hi Craig, It's a legitimate warning but not an error because you cant draw a bracket in this context really. As a keyboard player who has recently taken up flute myself, I am compelled to ask what you actually mean by this notation? To me it is not at all clear, and in my engraving work, clarity

Re: What are new users to do about LilyPond PDF Documentation?

Hi David, Dial-up? In Australia there is no longer any such service available anywhere, as far as I know. Really dial-up? You can't even buy dial-up modems any more here. i am curious. Andrew On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 09:57, David Wright wrote: > > The bad news: ~155MB download currently. For

Re: What are new users to do about LilyPond PDF Documentation?

Hi Reggie, Downloading the HTML integrates very nicely with Frescobaldi. Personally, I have never used the PDF for that reason. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: align dynamic with text

Not only does it do the job, it's a proper dynamic and so has all the properties of a dynamic. This can be useful. I have a library of 30 or 40 of these constructs for my work, like f poco, for example. Andrew On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 11:30, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Thanks Andrew, > > > >

Re: align dynamic with text

Hi Mark, This may be what you are thinking of. This way makes a proper dynamic, not just text markup. Andrew \version "2.19.82" fstrettoText = \markup { \center-align \line { \hspace #0.1 f \normal-text \italic stretto } } fstretto = #(make-dynamic-script fstrettoText) {

Re: Proprietary Software term

Incompatibility for the second term, vendor lock-in for the first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in Andrew On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 20:17, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to use > in an abstract. > > We've talked about the

Re: Slurs inside a beam

Hi Aaron, All good. But I use \shapeII from the openlilylib library. There are some insoluble issues with it that crop up sometimes, but in general I hammer it heavily in use and it holds up well. There are a variety of ways to specify the shape, including using polar coordinates which is

Re: Slurs inside a beam

Hi David, One way to do it: \version "2.19" { 8. 16 } >From the Changes page: A new command \=X has been added – where ‘X’ can be any non-negative integer or symbol – so that a specific ‘id’ can be assigned to the start and end of slurs and phrasing slurs. This is useful when simultaneous

Re: Lilypond website down?

Hi Phil, Google? Isn't that a commercial service? Who pays for it? Andrew On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 05:40, Phil Holmes wrote: > It's hosted by Google these days, so I assume they have a means of > monitoring and fixing this... > > ___ lilypond-user

Re: layout of markup text

Hi Peter, There's a large discussion of text centered in spanners in the archives of this list, and lots of code contributions by the learned colleagues herein. Have a search. I have a Scheme solution but I think others have better than mine. Andrew

Re: Some text formatting advice

Hi Urs, I have been wanting a way to specify an absolute width for measures since I started using lilypond. It would be great to have this. But I fear it will never be forthcoming. I understand this is difficult if not impossible. Although I personally think it is a sort of musical abuse of what

Re: More spacing troubles.

Hi Hwaen, \fill-line spreads out text evenly spaced across a line. You don't need it. Also, if you want to specify indents, one way to do so is to use the text on a line with \line. Try something like your modified example below. [You could have made it much more minimal.] Andrew \version

Re: Interactive PDF Link to Notes in Preview

Indeed, there's a standard simple way to allow unsigned applications and this is normal for OS X, and has been for some time (although it is slightly hidden). I can confirm this continues to work at the current OS X version 10.13 High Sierra. The technique is mentioned above. No need to delete

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

Hi Sylvius, I knew everybody would discourage you and suggest modern harmonic notation! Anyway, I can do the postscript for you. Give me a couple of days. Although it can be said that some performers stumble over old notations, I quite like them, especially in the 17-18c works I engrave and play.

Re: dotted semicircle indicating harmonics

Hi Sylvius, Before answering your question, you have version 2.21.0. Where is this from? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Interactive PDF Link to Notes in Preview

Hi Anders, Federico, F: Not Notes. No such thing I have seen. You probably mean TextEdit, the basic standard supplied text editor. It's been a while since I used my Mac for lilypond, so I can't remember, but I think any text editor could be made to work. Since it now cannot due to Apple's

Re: Interactive PDF Link to Notes in Preview

Hi Zone, For some reason I can't see your original post anymore. Anyway, since somebody mentioned Skim, I now recall there was a length discussion of this exact same topic in the list a while ago. It would be worth you while to look at the archives. I do sometimes use a Mac, and I do also now

Re: Frescobaldi to default window layout

Hi Urs, I can't quite say I agree with that. The default when first opened is to not show the Documentation Window. You have to choose it to turn it on. Trivial to do and little effort, yes, but the point is my default is but everyone's default. Andrew On 1 July 2018 at 17:35, Urs Liska wrote:

RE: Frescobaldi to default window layout

Hi Freeman, There’s no default layout reset command as far as I know. It’s easy to sometimes mess up the window positions. Bu you can just shuffle them back with a bit of practice by dragging the title bar tab and inserting the window in the place you want. There is a bit of a knack to it.

Re: music-function name shadowing a Scheme keyword

Hi Urs, It's not a Scheme language keyword, but a procedure name from SRFI-1. I concur with the others that it is not really good practice to override this, even though Scheme allows you to do many wonderful things. That's bound to lead to hard to diagnose unpredictable behaviour for users at

Re: scheme with Frescobaldi

Hi Freeman, I'm not understanding this thread. For Scheme development or learning, why wouldn't you use a command line REPL, such as the one provided with guile? Are you trying to use Frescobaldi as some sort of IDE? That seems dubious to me, and not at all fluent or easy. Andrew

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

Hi Karlin, Have submitted an issue on the Github repo. Thanks. There's 291 outstanding issues presently. Perhaps I should hop in and start debugging some Python. Andrew On 23 June 2018 at 12:49, Karlin High wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Bernard > wrote: > >

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

Hi Joshua, Hold on! I just tried again to check, and now the error occurs for me also. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/Frescobaldi.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.5/frescobaldi_app/musicview/__init__.py", line 312, in copyImage File

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

Hi Joshua, New install of F. this morning, 2.20.0 on OSX 10.3.5. Works fine. Image capture no problem. While this does not solve your issue, it does form evidence that it works just fine. This install was from the DMG image provided on the release page. Andrew

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

Hi Joshua, I am running this up now for you on my Mac at 10.13.5. From whence did you obtain Frescobaldi? If mac ports, a lot has changed, as the version of Darwin underneath OSX has changed considerably - new major rev. number. You would need to reinstall it from a clean beginning. Andrew

Frescobaldi website

Now only in Nederlands language. English link leads nowhere. Dutch is a fine language, but I am not sure everybody reads it! Any idea on what is happening? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Pages numbering for piano 4 hands

Thanks Robin, but to difficult to do something with yout link... I synchronized both Secondo and Primo (turn of pages), and import the PDF's into Master PDF Editor. I'm able to do pratically all what is required to have a excellent 4 hands PDF. -- Sent from:

Pages numbering for piano 4 hands

Hi all! I try to make a 4 hands partition for piano, with 2 files: Secundo and Primo, with for each a separate page numbering: 2, 4, 6 and so on for Secundo and 3, 5, 7 etc. for Primo. Is it possible, and if yes, how? Regards. Bernard -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

Apologies - your subject has the Mac OS version. Missed that in my haste. What version of Frescobaldi? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Cannot PNG capture with Frescobaldi macOS 10.13.5

HI Joshua, As per normal, it would be most helpful if you provide version information for the operating system and Frescobaldi, and any other Pythons you have that may be involved. Otherwise it's a bit hard for people to help and/or replicate. Andrew On 20 June 2018 at 00:30, Joshua Nichols

Re: Font trouble when compiling via Windows Subsystem for Linux

Hi Brent, Not to answer your question, but why don't you run full blown proper Linux under Virtualbox on Windows 10? This is what I do. Has large advantages. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Add 'generic' padding between two staves (once)

HI Ben, I am surprised that an alternative way to do this has not been mentioned. Adding invisible spacers objects always bothered me, personally. Have you looked at NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details settings? Please refer to the NR Section 4.4.2 Explicit staff and system

Re: reference for well-shaped slurs

Hi Mason, I use \shapeII extensively. I think the point about engraving is that while rules based, it is an art, and the result depends on the skill and good taste of the user. There is no definitive 'good slur'. The function therefore has two uses, one to fix lilypond slurs that are not

Re: [OT] Search for Morgensterns Galgenlieder for choir

Hi Bernahrd. Try IMSLP: http://imslp.org/wiki/Galgenlieder_(B%C3%B6ttger%2C_Martin) Andrew On 10 June 2018 at 05:12, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > When I was young we sung a piece of Christian Morgensterns Galgenlieder > with the Youth choir of Gelsenkirchen: Es gibt ein Gespenst, das frisst >

Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

Hi Harold, Welcome to the Pond. Lilypond does a pretty good job (actually, not just pretty good, but amazing) left to it's own devices, but music scoring is so rich that there are situations where you may need to help it out a bit. The virtue of lilypond is that there are tweaks and adjustments

LSR search

What has happened to the LSR search engine? It has different ordering options, with the hard to understand 'late' and 'early' order, and choosing those it fails to return any results. Has this code been changed recently? Where is the best place to post this issue? Andrew

Re: Using \markup to define arrow-heads with TextSpanner

Hello N, Welcome to the Pond. There are examples of arrows on the Lilypond Snippet Repository that may be helpful to you. http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search Andrew On 7 June 2018 at 21:27, NMcB wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could advise what the process to modifying > arrow-heads in

Scheme learning

Hi Robert, I've started a new thread on the topic under discussion of the difficulty of learning Scheme. This comes up frequently. Putting my programmer hat on, it's a common experience for programmers brought up in C family languages to be baffled and daunted by Scheme and Lisp family languages.

Re: System start delimiter for single staff

Hi David, Thanks very much. This is exactly what is needed. It was the collapse-height concept that I was missing. This works well. Can you explain in what respect you designate this as stupid? It's certainly non-standard practice, but I find it is better to accede to these requests from my

System start delimiter for single staff

I am attempting to make MS paper for a colleague who idiosyncratically uses a thick bar at the left on single staves. This is simple for a staff group, but how does one do it for a single ungrouped set of staves? Refer to attached sketch. Andrew ___

Re: check undefined variable scheme

Hi Gianmaria, The others have beat me to it, but I just wanted to say you should read up on closures in Scheme. This will give you are really good grasp of what's going on. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Simple solution for combining an odd number of parts

Why wait for 2.19? It's been stable for a long time. You would be unlikely to encounter bugs. [Every time I encourage this people jump in a point out all the reasons why not to use it, but I hammer it hard all day with really complex scores and have no issues. I think it's wonderful.] It's

Re: Ad lib glissando

Hi Helge. I usually just draw this stuff as PostScript paths. Do you want me to do you an example? Andrew On 21 May 2018 at 20:08, Helge Kruse wrote: > I want to typeset a noisy part. It should give the impression of an > explosion. The composer used a notation that

Re: Parenthesis/bracket/brace questions

Hi Brent, Unless I am totally missing the point, this was discussed on the list a couple of years ago, and a simple solution provided oin LSR 957. Is the following not what you want? Andrew % LSR 957 #(define-markup-command (openBracket layout props heitgh) (number?)

Re: naming a glyph

Hi Freeman, Let us know what you re trying to do. Why do you want to create a glyph? Are you new to lilypond? If so, welcome to the Pond! Andrew On 20 May 2018 at 22:44, Freeman Gilmore wrote: > ​ > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Torsten Hämmerle < >

Re: Intervals between various B pitches

Can I add a comment to this? The reason they must be referred to as unisons is because the notes are on the same staff position, and they have the same note name. This distinguishes them from chromatic semitones, or seconds, etc. I would say that in music theory the B is called the note (I know

Re: Tick lines for beats in bar

ultBarType = "'" c''8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 | \bar "." c''8 } On 18 May 2018 at 23:44, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I get tick barlines to indicate beats in a bar, within the time > signature. The example at hand is in 10/8, but t

Re: Large Time Signatures Within Staves?

Hi Ben, How curious - isn't this solved by the thread I just created today on essentially the same topic? Shifting time signatures must be in the wind! Andrew On 18 May 2018 at 21:20, Ben wrote: > > Does anyone know a snippet or function that allows this? Is it

Re: Displace position of time signature

Hi Aaron, Both of these solutions are excellent and useful and exactly what I am after. Thanks! Manual fiddling of this stuff is fine by me for the New Complexity scores that I do, which need lots of coaxing into shape. Andrew ___ lilypond-user

Re: Displace position of time signature

Hi Aaron, Thank you very much. The next logical (or stupid?) question is, can one snug the notes under the time signature, as though it occupied no space? Andrew On 18 May 2018 at 10:57, Aaron Hill wrote: > > > \version "2.19.81" > { \override

Displace position of time signature

Is it possible to have time signatures show above the barline, not inline in the staff? I'm aware there is a solution using a separate staff for time signatures, but I would rather not use that, as I do want them to sit very snug on top of the barline. Andrew

Re: Solution to have repeats with upbeat and different alternatives??

Hi Steve, I'm unclear what the problem is. Seems also easy. Can you show your code? I am also puzzled about you saying there are several ways to set the first part. Again, I cant see how one would do it differently to how I showed. This proves I don't know what you are referring to as your

Re: Solution to have repeats with upbeat and different alternatives??

Hi Steve, Does this sketch help you out? Andrew \version "2.19.81" { \time 3/4 \key es \major \partial 4 bes8. ees'16 | ees'2 g'8. es'16 | \repeat volta 2 { es'4 d'4. es'8 | R1*3/4^\markup "etc" } \alternative { { g'4 f'8 bes'8\rest bes8. es'16 |

Re: Solution to have repeats with upbeat and different alternatives??

Hi Steve, Opus 31 has only three Sonatas, not four. What work are you referring to? Dare I say, don't you just have an extra note in the last second alternative? Perhaps if I could find the Allegretto you are referring to it would help see what you are actually asking. Let us know which Sonata.

Re: spacing of gracenote beams

Hi Amy, You are not alone. My biggest - probably my only - gripe with lilypond is the uneven spacing of gracenote beams. I have attempted for a long time to solve this, or at least work around it, to no avail. There's a function David Nalesnik wrote called \spaceStemsEvenly, but it is very hit

Re: split { {a b} {c' d'} {e' f'} } in multiple expression

Hi Gianmaria, >From your posts I suspect you may find a use for Abjad. Have you looked into it? Just a suggestion. Andrew On 16 May 2018 at 02:43, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I have a musical expression made of several musical expression like the > following: > > { {a

Re: Trouble with notation fonts when resizing

Hi Brett, I don't know if this is absolute best way to do it, but I use the following setup: Works for me. If this is wrong, somebody let me know! I have custom settings for staff size and font size (possibly somewhat peculiar for my complex scores.) Andrew #(set-global-staff-size 12)

Re: Frescobaldi font size preferences

HI Malte, Frescobaldi 3.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.04. The font changes, but not the size. [But thanks for the tip - I never found that setting before.] Could this be a bug? The font size can be changed in the editor window OK. Andrew On 11 May 2018 at 18:28, Malte Meyn wrote:

Frescobaldi font size preferences

Is there a way to set the font size of the lilypond log window to what one desires? I am unable to find this setting. Apologies for posting here but it would appear that the Google Groups group for Frescobaldi is more or less moribund. Andrew ___

Re: FW: shaped notes

Hi Brad (or is it Marshall?) Lilypond is enormously customisable with techniques that vary from simple to advanced Scheme programming. You can make noteheads whatever shape you desire. Send an image of what you want to the list and people may be able to help you. The current request is vague.

Re: Markup after system

Hi Phil, Exactly what I require. Thank you. Why I could not locate this, I don't know - lack of inspiration for search keywords I guess. Andrew On 7 May 2018 at 21:57, Phil Holmes wrote: > Does http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=190 help at all? > >

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Hi Harm, I use the original function a lot. This is a staggering amount of what can only be described as virtuoso code, for such a little thing. I am amazed. Thanks. I understand this builds on the fingering function to work. Could it not be done more simply (?) with some sort of note head

Markup after system

I'm sure this has been discussed previously, but my searching cannot uncover it. How does one put markup text after a system, as per the attached example image? Andrew dacapo Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Layout of a (piano) hand indicator

Hello foxfanfare, I use this function from Simon a lot. Here's a way to add extra parameters to this function. As an example, this lets you specify the length of the hook. How is your Scheme coding skill? You'll notice the use of quasiquoting to get the length value where it is needed in the

Re: Large set of parts

Hi Wol, Metre is the word you are looking for! On 29 April 2018 at 22:42, Wol's lists wrote: > Shakespeare is almost all poetry, not prose. And it rarely rhymes. I can't > remember the correct term, but poetry is defined by repeating rhythms, not > by rhyming. Much

Re: \magnifyStaff alters thickness of barlines

Hi Brent, Would something like this do perhaps? \version "2.19.81" \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "right" \with { fontSize = #-6 \override StaffSymbol.staff-space = #(magstep -6) } \relative c'' {a4 a a a \bar "|."} \new Staff = "left"

Re: Large set of parts

Hi Shane, It's not really a tongue twister for Mandarin speakers, so much as a wonderful play on tones on the same phoneme. It's not hard to pronounce - my definition of a tongue twister - but just a glorious play with language. There's only four tones in Mandarin. [This latter point can be

Re: spacer rest *

Hi Gianmaria, You would have to get somebody like DK to explain it. I think it may have something to do with the semantics of the parser, where an isolated number represents a pitch with the pitch name elided, and since rests have no pitch, the parser would not know what to do. It seems hard to

Re: spacer rest *

Hi Gianmaria, The shorthand of using a duration number only applies to notes, not rests. As per the NR: Isolated durations – durations without a pitch – that occur within a music sequence will take their pitch from the preceding note or chord. That is how it is. More learned fellows may be

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

Hi Kaj, Then why not use four voices for SATB, and two staves as per say a standard vocal template, such as the example hymn template in the Snippets section of the manual? All the dot clashes go away - which is I suppose the advantage of the established way of setting such music for SATB,

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

Hi David, No. My error - that shiftOnn is spurious. Andrew On 27 April 2018 at 01:32, David Wright wrote: > > Your output is clearer to me too, but identical to knocking out the > OP's overrides (top version). Do I need to update beyond 2.19.80 to > see the effect

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

Hi Kaj, This would be clear to me: \version "2.19.81" \new Staff { \relative c' << \new Voice { \voiceOne \shiftOnn 2. f4 2. f4 2. f4 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo 2. f4 2. f4 2. f4 } >> } No? I know it is not

Re: Dots wrongly positioned in not merged chords

Hello Kaj, That would be unusual notation, if piano. The notes lose their simultaneity, making it unclear to read. What is this for actually then? Andrew On 26 April 2018 at 19:37, <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > How do I get the dots follow the notes? >

Re: Rehearsal mark font in \markup

Hi Evan, At the risk of introducing more noise from me, you can set the font-family and font-size and so on and so forth of the RehearsalMark. So then you know what it is, instead of having to query it programmatically. Is that of any help? Andrew ___

Re: Rehearsal mark font in \markup

Pardon me! You did give an MWE. Apologies! Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Rehearsal mark font in \markup

Hi Evan, Suggest looking in the NR. A mark can use markup. The simple example given: \mark \markup{ \box A1 } Is that what you are after? I'm not really clear what you want. A MWE would always be good. Andrew On 26 April 2018 at 12:15, Evan Driscoll wrote: > Suppose in a

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

Hi Tim, The development versions are very stable. I hammer them all day with massively complex scores, and no problems arise. The term 'unstable' is a self deprecating conventional trope of modesty used in the open source world. Take the risk - it's worth it. And there are so many good new

Re: Frescobaldi external PDF viewer not updating

Hi All, I don't think it's case closed yet. Although this is referring to pdflatex, it directly references problems with Skim and file notifications in the Mac OS kernel. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36504/latexmk-pvc-option-breaks-when-compiling-beamer-class/36585#36585 There may

Frescobaldi external PDF viewer not updating

HI Keiren, I have unhijacked the thread with a new subject. OK. Mac up and running: Mac OS 10.13.4 Frescobaldi 2.20.0 Lilypond 2.19.80 Skim 1.4.34 All works fine. I am unable to duplicate your problem. I do note that I have explicitly turned on 'check for file changes' and 'reload

Re: frescobaldi destination temp folder

HI Kieren, Mac OS is unix based, so it is likely to use standard unix system calls and library calls. On some unix systems, the temp file name generation algorithm includes a time based component. Maybe the tmp name changes after some time period perhaps? This is pure speculation, but could be

repeatTie length

How can you make a repeatTie longer? The default is a little too crimped for my style. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: frescobaldi destination temp folder

Hi Kieran, Using F 3.0.0, if you don't save the file a temp filename is generated. The output goes to a file in /tmp (Linux) which is a randomly generated name different each time. So how are you even looking at that? Can you explain in more detail your setup? Layout output to

Re: Moving just text, leaving articulations in place?

Hi Robert and Simon, I posted a code example here of how to recast the Larsen library as articulations, not markup. You can take it from there and convert the whole lot the same way. Andrew On 19 April 2018 at 08:25, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 18.04.2018 18:38, Robert

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

Hi Robert, EasyABC, the one I am using, is open source. Would you like me to investigate? I think we are probably off topic by now. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

Hi Robert, Having just learned ABC, I see that it supports rolls, but not all the Larsen ornament notation. I see no reason why ABC can't be extended - there are many, dozens in fact, ABC editors that are open source. Worth looking into. It you can produce a trill in ABC, you can produce a cut.

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

Hello Robert, Speaking as a programmer myself with over forty years of experience, and an advanced lilypond users, I can categorically assert that lilypond is not trying to be 'clever'. This is an utter misunderstanding. Lilypond is however trying to engrave music to the highest possible

Re: Properties outside of scores

Hi Emilio, Something like this can be adapted to your need? Andrew \version "2.19.81" % simple debug print #(define (dbg . args) "Simple debug console print." (cond ((not (null? args)) (display (car args)) (display " ") (apply dbg (cdr args))) (else

Re: Consistent vertical alignment of annotations, disable time signiture

Hi Robert, As I mentioned and others have said, there is no substitute for studying the NR and the Learning Manual, in detail, exhaustively. It's a powerful program with enormous control, unlike typical GUI programs. It's no different to learning to play tin whistle. Nobody would expect to learn

Re: Defining custom symbols

Hi Robert, Hmm. I have played around with this a bit. I think if you are using safe mode of necessity then you simply can't use lilypond for this use case. Sooner or later you have to mix Lilypond and Scheme, and it is forbidden in safe mode. Transforming the code for the cut from the repo in

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