Re: Song: multiple verses and refrain

On 7/8/24 09:37, Raphael Mankin wrote: I am having difficulty layout  satisfactorily a song that has 3 verses and a refrain. The refrain comes on a separate line from the verses. It looks unsightly, and wastes space on the page. Neither NR nor LM seem to address this case. I don’t remember wh

Re: Unable to align lyric to rests (with MWE)

On 1/2/24 22:18, John Helly wrote: That worked in terms of alignment.  I still wonder if it's written incorrectly.  Seems like there should be notes on the 'but' and 'and' when I listen to the recording.  Not sure. Brothers In Arms, Mark Knopfler. It’s a kind of shorthand. As Kieren said, y

Combining percussion parts in one staff

I’m engraving a marching band score. The pitched instruments were fun. Percussion is giving me a headache, though. Each drum has its own part, e.g.: % bass.ily \version "2.18.2" bassMusic = \drummode { bd4 \f r bd r | } % bass.ly \version "2.18.2" \include "bass.ily" \score { \new Rhythmi

Re: Doing A Fiddle Tunebook in Lilypond

On 10/29/19 11:28 PM, Solomon Foster wrote: "Christopher R. Maden" writes: The important part is to have files for each tune that define all the info but which don’t actually *do* anything. That gives you the flexibility to do different things with that info in different contexts.

Re: Doing A Fiddle Tunebook in Lilypond

On 10/29/19 1:14 PM, Solomon Foster wrote: I've been using Lilypond to render fiddle tunes for nearly a decade now, and I'm looking at taking the next step -- namely making a proper, large scale tunebook with it. While the book I'm working on right now has hundreds of tunes, it's not mine to red

Re: LP-set songbook released

On 4/29/19 4:39 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: On 29 Apr 2019, at 08:08, Michael Hendry wrote: On 29 Apr 2019, at 07:37, Anders Eriksson wrote: Works perfectly with Adobe Reader 2019.010.20099 on Windows 10 Also works perfectly with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on iMac running Mac OS X High Sierra.

Re: LP-set songbook released

On 4/27/19 4:59 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: A very creditable production. Don't worry about the letter/A4 issue, it printed out perfectly on my A4 system. There is one problem though, the tempo marks have all printed as odd line shapes: steps, symbols like pi or just vertical bars. The display

LP-set songbook released

As previously mentioned, I was planning to release a songbook to go with my recent album of sea chanteys. I’ve called it good enough, and announced it to the world. The harmony settings were much improved by the feedback and comments here; thank you all. Whenever I talk up LilyPond with othe

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 3/3/19 2:34 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Why not just use MS Word or Latex ? If you don't need musical notation, why use a music notation program ? I have the songs fully scored out in LilyPond. My guitarist is scared by the lines and dots, so I want to give him a simple lead sheet — withou

Re: Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

On 3/3/19 12:40 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: It is a messy hack, but here is something: [...] My goal was to leave the lead sheet snippet from the docs intact and do everything with \layout. There are probably other grobs that will need \omitting depending on your music. Spacing will almost certai

Lead sheets: lyrics and chords, no melody?

I have a guitarist who is afraid of written music. (That is a conversation for another day — suffice to say, I’m working on it.) I’d like to produce what he’s used to: lyrics with chords above them. (See _Rise Up Singing_ or a thousand other songbooks for examples.) I have many songs set in

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

On 2/4/19 10:18 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: I overlooked \cueClefUnset so that's the better option. For the grob, the Internals reference is your friend: CueEndClef Thanks! I really need to get more familiar with the internals reference. One of these days in my copious free time. David, thanks

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

On 2/4/19 6:03 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: Note in this case I changed the CueClef font-size to match the reduced size of a non-cue clef when it appears within a line. That looks great, thanks! The \cueClefUnset bass clef still looks tiny, and if I use \cueClef to switch back to bass, it shows up i

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

On 2/4/19 12:36 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: This comes up reasonably often. May I ask why you don't simply start the piece with the treble clef? If you immediately change to treble, what is the point of having the bass clef at this point? It's a musical decision up to you, but it always strikes me

Re: Change staff clef immediately after time signature

On 2/3/19 9:43 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: Does \cueClef help? It does... though then when I \clef bass back again it’s ignored. I can use \cueClefUnset... Thanks, this is a great workaround. I suspect there is a better (more properly LilyPondish) answer, but this is more than adequate for now.

Change staff clef immediately after time signature

This is probably a FAQ, but I can’t find the right combination of search terms to tease it from the ether... I want a piano staff, with the left hand to start with bass clef, but then immediately switch to treble clef after the time signature. Mnon-WE is attached. Probably this involves monk

Re: Error: bad expression type

On 1/3/19 4:59 AM, Vaughan McAlley wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 20:26, Andrew Bernard wrote: You can have markup between scores, so if you make this change it will work: titleFootnotes = \markup { \null } titleFootnotes = {} works, which might be a little closer to “nothing” :-) Thanks!

Error: bad expression type

tl;dr: in 2.14, I used to call a variable (\theFootnotes) between a layout score and a MIDI score. That was defined as ##f in an included file. After convert-ly-ing to 2.18, I get “error: bad expression type.” Why? =-=-=-= I have a bunch of music that was done with 2.14. I just ran conver

Re: Engraving 2½ vocal parts

On 12/24/18 4:39 AM, Michael Gerdau wrote: You can create Staff 7. like this: \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "8." } << \clef "treble_8" \key c \minor \time 3/4 \partial 4 << { \new Voice \voiceOne \descant } { \new Voice \voiceTwo \melody } { \new Voice \voi

Engraving 2½ vocal parts

Continuing the work on my chantey songbook... http://music.maden.org/index.php?title=Spanish_Ladies_(New_England) > has seven lines in the chorus, but two pairs are nearly identical. I’m trying to set them as single lines, with splits as needed, resulting in a staff with two lines most of the t

Re: Style question: lead-and-chorus music

On 10/15/18 10:59 PM, Vaughan McAlley wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 11:07 Christopher R. Maden, wrote: I’ve just released an album of sea chanteys (as threatened like a year ago). I’m giving away a songbook with my arrangements — since I had to make MIDI guide tracks for the recording anyway

Re: log output contains error messages in non-default language

On 11/11/18 11:44 AM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: That being said, I’m only 95% sure this is Ukrainian and not Russian: there are no "give-away" glyphs or combinations (i.e., those used often in Russian, but very rarely in Ukrainian), but it’s a small sample size. Yes, there are — the Cyrillic dott

Style question: lead-and-chorus music

I’ve just released an album of sea chanteys (as threatened like a year ago). I’m giving away a songbook with my arrangements — since I had to make MIDI guide tracks for the recording anyway, why not? I’m struggling, though, with how best to engrave them. There are 3 to 6 voices in each choru

Re: Attaching lyrics to intermittent vocals with polyphony

On 07/23/2018 05:11 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: If you want a 5-voices-polyphony (and no chords) you need \voiceFive. I see no problem here. Thanks, Harm! No problem there — just wondering if that was the best approach. Sure looks like it. Probably you could initiate all 5 voices in this man

Re: Attaching lyrics to intermittent vocals with polyphony

On 07/22/2018 09:37 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: tl;dr: interrupted five-voice polyphony — how to attach lyrics, and still get proper polyphonic engraving, in 2.18.2? Naturally I found the (an?) answer after posting... http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices

Attaching lyrics to intermittent vocals with polyphony

tl;dr: interrupted five-voice polyphony — how to attach lyrics, and still get proper polyphonic engraving, in 2.18.2? I had a call-and-response arrangement with three response parts, and assigned lyrics to the responses like so: << { \new Voice = "response" s1*6 | }

Re: Backing track creation with LilyPond

On 02/13/2018 03:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote: So I decided maybe sing this time. I am out of training (obviously) but by plastering reverb in and using LilyPond for creating the backing track, I got something annoyingly useful at first pitch. Now I just need to figure out how to do a proper coun

Re: Book of tunes with an index

On 12/13/2017 04:02 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: I'm running LilyPond 2.19.80 under Linux/Ubuntu 16.04. I have a fair amount of experience with LilyPond, but none with lilypond-book or LaTeX. I'm assembling a collection of fiddle tunes, and I'd like an index. I thought of using a table of contents

Album update featuring LilyPond

I posted an update to my Kickstarter last night, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crism/shower-chanteys/posts/2067099>, explaining how I use LilyPond to make guide tracks for vocal recording. I’m also planning to release a songbook with the arrangements from the album, once they’re all done

Re: automatic beaming of tuplets only - is this possible ?

On 11/21/2017 09:57 AM, David Kastrup wrote: "The repos" for what distribution? 2.18.0 was released in December 2013. What repos carry software that has been replaced 4 years ago? Distros released 4 years ago, like Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty, supported through April 2019) and its derivatives,

Re: Invisible note lines?

On 10/27/2017 12:25 PM, bb wrote: I interpret this to have to comment out one of the two \score blocks for printing and the other for to get the midi? or do I miss the point? Try it! If you run LilyPond on a file foo.ly with \score { ...music \layout {} } \score { ...music \midi {} } you’ll

Lilypond-backed album being recorded

I’m recording an album of traditional sea chanteys (or shanties, if you speak British English). I’m using LilyPond to work out the harmony arrangements and to create MIDI guide tracks, and it’s working out really well. I’ll be periodically sharing the scores and posting updates on the Kickst

Re: Suggestions for page layout

On 10/25/2017 04:34 PM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: I'm looking into getting a large format printer so I can print parts on tabloid paper. As such, I'm looking for a way to create the pdfs necessary for doing the booklet layout. Currently, the only way I know to to prepare such layouts, wit

Re: Adding an introductory note(s)

On 08/01/2017 10:33 AM, Stephen Nesbitt wrote: Yeah hard to describe. Assume that both the A and B part have a quarter note pickup measure. These pickups bars differ from each other. The first alternative in the A section will end with the notes from the A anacrusis. The second alternative in the

Re: Video generation on linux systems: Note and rests change color

On 07/23/2017 03:56 AM, Knut Petersen wrote: I got some font errors during the lilypond compile: "warning: no glyph for character U+9F in font [...] ./texgyreschola- [*]" (Square brackets with placeholders for brevity.) Looks my setup is choking on the German ß sharp-S thing. Lilypond handles u

Re: coloring notes according harmonic function

On 06/18/2017 12:26 PM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: Is there any automatic way to color the notes of a simple piece in a specified tonality according to their harmonic function? For example: the tonic in red colour, the dominant in green colour etc. etc ? This is just a curiosity. I was thinking that

Re: New LilyPond website

On 11/29/2016 02:39 AM, David Kastrup wrote: We have several blind users reading and writing on this mailing list alone. Text browsers tend to do a rather bad job at getting scripted pages rendered in a useful manner. This is no longer true. Current accessibility guidelines assume JavaScript

Re: Easier way to do double-quotes in lyrics?

On 07/08/2016 04:40 PM, BGM wrote: When we want to use a double-quote character in lyrics, we have to *remember* to write them like this ( from the docs ): \addlyrics { "\"I" am so lone -- "ly,\"" said she }

Re: PDF author metadata

On 07/07/2016 02:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Federico Bruni writes: Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The composer or the typesetter? Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there is a standard. The PDF standard states: Key TypeValu

Re: Using strings and other types to return markup

On 05/11/2016 11:58 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: I didn't think it was really a tilde either, but it just seemed to make a close approximation. Attached is my LilyPond approximation of that section of the madrigal. It is a tilde; the tilde derives precisely from the scriptural abbreviation for elid

Re: More ponderings on Chordmode

On 02/05/2016 02:31 PM, Peter Gentry wrote: I cannot discover a means to have the chords sound as a guitar in this example everything I try ends up as a piano. Is it possible to assign a midiInstrument to the chordNotes? \chords { \set ChordNames.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (s

Re: Repeat 8va

On 01/08/2016 04:08 PM, John Gourlay wrote: As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin. In the old published version I’m working from (1902), the score looks like this at measure 22: I’m concerned about the “Repeat 8va”, which I assume means that o

Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext)

On 11/09/2015 02:47 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: The very first thing they said to me was, “Add measure numbers.” That’s sufficient reason for me. =) Good answer. In that case, I would pick one part, and force those measure numbers in as numeric rehearsal marks in the other parts. Otherwis

Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext)

On 11/09/2015 01:47 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Is there a standard/convention/best practice on measure numbering in polymetric scores? I’m running into an issue of that myself (in my song “The Country Wife”), and can’t find anything definitive. Note: Gould (p. 484) writes, “Bar numbers should n

Re: sharping naturals

On 07/23/2015 11:33 AM, Brother Gabriel-Marie wrote: When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. I think this is a common misunderstanding for new Lilypond users. Another way to phrase this i

Re: Quoted music and midi

On 03/06/2015 11:36 AM, Cynthia Karl wrote: > The printed output is fine: but although it makes a midi file with > two channels, there don't seem to be any notes in midi channel 2: > > Is this a known problem? I wouldn’t consider that a problem... if I quote the violin part in a trumpet part, I w

Re: Variables when compiling a book

On 02/03/2015 08:58 AM, John McWilliam wrote: > You may be right in which case I will have to study your construct > and apply it to my Piobaireachd tunes, however, I was hoping for a > simpler solution. If you cannot see one then I suppose I must bite > the bullet but I'm not very code literate

Re: Variables when compiling a book

On 02/02/2015 02:34 PM, John McWilliam wrote: > I am compiling a collection of bagpipe tunes and am having a problem > when the individual files are to be compiled into a book. Many of the > tunes have sections of music defined in variables - these definitions > lie outside the \score context and a

Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

On 01/18/2015 09:44 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Other obvious ones? Melody + chords (tunes, e.g. Irish or old-timey) Instrument + piano (accompanied instrument solo) ~crism -- Chris Maden, text nerd http://crism.maden.org/ > Surround hate and force it to surrender. GnuPG fingerprint: DB08 CF6

Re: bug with compound glyphs and/or diacritical markings?

On 01/11/2015 02:18 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hello all, > > The code > > \version “2.19.15" > \markup \fontsize #12 “й" > > gives > > [n.b., The diacritical mark should be centred directly above the glyph.] > > Is that expected, or is this a bug? > In either case, is there a sug

Re: Scheme function for alternate tagged swing stopped working

On 12/24/2014 11:15 PM, I wrote: > I’m trying to figure out a generic way to do a *shallow* copy of > heterogeneous structures (i.e., to traverse and copy unmodified as a > starting point, before introducing the few small modifications I want > to make). Searching hasn’t turned up anything other

Re: Scheme function for alternate tagged swing stopped working

On 12/21/2014 04:29 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: > it's due to the changes for 'EventChord. Until 2.15.x (don't > remember the exact version) every single note was wrapped into an > 'EventChord. Thanks, Harm! That’s the clue I needed. > A quick fix would be to wrap the music into EventChords again.

Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum

On 12/22/2014 04:36 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > I can understand your frustration. > I think that LilyPond team's choices are sometimes a bit > "conservative". > > Q&A websites are just way better than a traditional mailing list. > Period. My 2¢: Nothing is stopping anyone from asking and answeri

Scheme function for alternate tagged swing stopped working

I wrote a function \sw, against LilyPond 2.12, a while back. It takes music as an argument, and returns two copies of the music, one tagged 'layout and one tagged 'midi. The 'midi tagged one has eighth notes changed to quarter-eighth triplets (i.e., swung). I’ve run it through convert-ly a coupl

Re: One instrument out of form

On 12/15/2014 03:07 PM, Dan van Ginhoven wrote: > I'm writing lilypond score for six brass instruments from old > handwritten sheets. > The tune I'm working with has the form: > > {Intro 4 bars} {A repeat twice 32 bars} {B repeat twice 16 bars} {A 32 > bars} {Trio repeat twice 32 bars } > > Alas

Re: Music font switching question

On 07/08/2014 05:16 PM, tisimst wrote: > You simply put this block into you .ly file and now you get those > fonts instead of the defaults. /What if/, using a similar syntax we > could change the music and brace fonts like this (additions > highlighted): Add the new different things at the *end* o

Re: swung and straight at the same time

On 04/10/2014 08:30 AM, Mike Solomon wrote: > I am trying to output MIDIs of a piece where I have swung and > straight parts going on at the same time. I have a little function I > use that changes the entire piece to swung by varying the tempo, but > that won’t work here. What I need is somethin

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

On 11/16/2013 07:50 PM, ayutheos wrote: > I have a song consisting of a single staff which has the following > structure: > > (1) Intro | (2) Part one | (3) Music only | (4) Part two > > How do I add lyrics to Parts One and Two only? Section (3) is a > short 4 bars of music. > > I've gone throug

Re: Is there a way to split a score across two sheets?

On 10/17/2013 11:17 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Ben Beeson wrote: >> I'd like to do this without splitting the notes into a left and >> right score in a ly file if possible. IMO: don’t try to do this in LilyPond. Horses for courses; this is not the right tool. Engrave the score for a double-si

Re: Extended first syllable in polysyllabic word

On 10/08/2013 11:03 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > Thank you; that solves it. I'm sure there's a good technical reason > for this order, but I don't yet have anywhere near enough experience > with LilyPond internals to understand it. (I'll get there.) > > Again, thank you. A syllable can be follo

Re: Extended first syllable in polysyllabic word

On 10/08/2013 06:59 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > It would seem that they way I wrote it below, "Cath _ -- erine", > *should* work, but this gives an error: > > programming error: hyphen not finished yet > > Also, the hyphen between "Cath" and "erine" is not displayed. > > What am I doing wrong?

Re: Two End bar

On 07/20/2013 10:39 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > You've specified the bars in all your voices. It looks like the bass > voice ends before the others, so you're seeing the double-bar for the > bass voice, then the others. Typically, you only want one voice > explicitly declaring bars (and breaks) to a

MusicXML

I am comfortable with LilyPond, but not quite an expert. I am an expert in XML and XSLT, and it sounds like it would be of benefit to LilyPond to have better support for MusicXML (though I don’t use it myself). Can someone please summarize (or point me to a summary of) the current state of MusicX

Re: Bar lines

On 03/06/2013 02:16 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: > I'd rather see lilyponds input structure being optimized. The > \repeat construct doesnt allow for d'al segno, da capo and stuff > like that. + about 70 brazilian This was a surprising omission to me as a new LilyPond user, given how logically almost eve

Re: Chinese punctuation in Lyric mode

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/2013 06:53 PM, Silas S. Brown wrote: > Hi Werner, here is a minimal test case: > > \new Voice { c' c' c' c' } \addlyrics { 啊, 啊, 啊, 啊 } \addlyrics { > 啊， 啊， 啊， 啊 } \addlyrics { 啊、 啊、 啊、 啊 } > > (The Chinese character 啊 is like "ah".) In the

Re: Removing a time signature only once

On 01/15/2013 04:27 PM, james wrote: > As previously noted in kieren's email, you need to add "Staff." > before TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f in order to specify the context > that you want the override to take place in. Yes! Thank you, James. I had not properly understood Kieren. This works no

Re: Removing a time signature only once

On 01/15/2013 04:05 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > You need to specify the context: OK... a more complete example is attached. The time signature is invoked in songGlobalsVerse. That’s used in a Staff: songVocals = \new Staff << \clef treble << { \songGlobalsIntro \repeat vol

Re: Removing a time signature only once

On 01/15/2013 03:40 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> tl;dr: How does one remove a time signature completely (not just >> transparent) without removing the time signature engraver? > > I believe this will work: > \once \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f Thanks, Kieren. That doesn’t seem to wo

Removing a time signature only once

tl;dr: How does one remove a time signature completely (not just transparent) without removing the time signature engraver? I have a song that changes time signature for the chorus (and then back, obviously, for the next verse). In the printed version, I do not want to re-assert the time signatur

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

On 01/11/2013 03:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > File names are hierarchical. If you don't specify a filename inside > of a bookpart, do you think that the bookpart should not be written > out? I’m afraid I don’t follow... what do filenames have to do with this? If you just meant title... I expect

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2013 03:09 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > The following input works: > > \version "2.14.2" > > \paper { %print-all-headers = ##t } > > \book { \header { title = "My Songbook" } \markuplines > \table-of-contents \bookpart { \tocItem \markup { M

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2013 12:06 AM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > Suddenly, every song has the book title *and* the song title at > the start. Using print-all-headers only makes things worse, as I > get the book title but *not* the song title. A

Re: Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2013 12:06 AM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > I have a songbook I created in LilyPond 2.12.3. I recently > upgraded to 2.14.2.[*] (And yes, I did run convert-ly... no bearing on this particular issue, AFAICT, but I suspect someone wi

Book title showing up on every score in a songbook (2.14.2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a songbook I created in LilyPond 2.12.3. I recently upgraded to 2.14.2.[*] Suddenly, every song has the book title *and* the song title at the start. Using print-all-headers only makes things worse, as I get the book title but *not* the song

Re: font selection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 02:47 PM, Josiah Boothby wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:52:18 + Gerard McConnell > wrote: >> Hello, A Microsoft security update prevents me from using >> Lilypond's OpenType Century Schoolbook L. > > This baffles me, but as someone

Re: include header conflicts

On 11/25/2012 08:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I've got an individual .ly file for each cue (song or orchestral > interlude) in my musical. I want to include them in a complete > score .ly file, but when I do that the header variables conflict > (e.g., the first or last 'title' or 'piece' value

Re: Variable names?

On 11/18/2012 05:26 PM, David Kastrup wrote: At the current point of time, the rule is that "alphabetic" is a-z, A-Z, and _any_ non-ASCII character. This is a bit excessive, but short of a reliable "is a letter" test, this was easiest to implement. Getting off-topic for -user, but... Most pro

Re: Stanzas beginning in the middle of the piece

On 10/27/2012 11:15 PM, Hugh Resnick wrote: > I am trying to insert a section with two verses in the middle of a > piece: > > text = \lyricmode { > Here's the refrain > \set stanza = #"1. " > Here's Stanza One > \set stanza = #"2. " > Here's Stanza Two } > > Right now, only the refrain and Stanza

Re: pitch name transpose into numeric pr key signature

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/2012 12:06 PM, MING TSANG wrote: > I am seeking to print number beneath the note. Refer to the png. > On Key C seems correct on "AA" "BB". On Key G only "AA" is correct > and "BB" is wrong On Key E-flat, again "AA" is correct, and "BB" is >

Re: Saving Input File

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/09/2012 03:08 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > I have searched the manuals and on-line for a solution to my > problem. I am using Word 2010 (wrong?) to write the input file. > Word allows only a .doc extension. Lilypond seems to recognize only >

Re: Bar check fail with pick-ups in repeats

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2012 02:32 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > \partial should only be used at the start of a piece. I don't have > the 2.12 docs, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats#Long-repeats > , which recommends: \partial 4 \repe

Re: Bar check fail with pick-ups in repeats

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2012 01:02 AM, Nathan wrote: > Is this what you want? > > \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 3 4) How is that different from \partial 4*3? I ended up using \partial 4*3 in the short alternative endings, which results in correct la

Bar check fail with pick-ups in repeats

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why does the attached file fail? Simplified: c c c c | c c c |: c | c c c c | 1. c c c :| 2. c c c c | c c c c || It seems to me, according to what (I recall that) I learned throughout school, that this is correct; and when unfolded, all the bar lin

Re: Composer header field with large staff size

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/2012 07:57 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > With a large staff size and a longish composer field, the composer > name runs off the right-hand edge of the page, even though there > is plenty of room for it to be accommodated within the left and > rig

Re: PDF information issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2012 05:50 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > see: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage-big-page#point-and-click Thanks! > - -dno-point-and-click was exactly what I was looking for; lilypond --help had not revealed that wisdom. Than

PDF information issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Poking around my system today, I noticed two interesting things about the PDFs generated by LilyPond. 1) There is no metadata associated with the PDF. Well, the producer and creator are set to the appropriate software. However, when a top-level titl

Re: bookpart, titles and table-of-contents

On 09/02/2012 05:45 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il 02/09/2012 18:33, Christopher R. Maden ha scritto: >> The \bookpart starts a new page. > > Regarding this, I have another question: is it possible to prevent > the page break between two bookparts? I've tried putting

Re: bookpart, titles and table-of-contents

On 09/02/2012 08:22 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > I'm trying a different approach¹ in creating a book. Let me first > explain what I 'd like to achieve. > > Let's say I have some scores which I'd like to print either on > their own and inside a book which includes them all; and I want the > title t

Re: bracket notehead

On 08/04/2012 06:59 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > That's because parentheses aren't brackets. > > () "parentheses" > [] "brackets" > {} "curly brackets", occasionally "braces" > <> "angle brackets" I would not normally be a pedant... ah, who am I kidding? This is a legitimate doc bug, I think: what

Re: tunefl and other web services

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2012 12:04 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote: > I seem to be relishing in your bluntness - cute - so let me return > the favor. The women is a top Toronto model with her own agency; > I'll take her tastes over yours, thanks. What your taste in women

Re: combining pieces in one book

On 06/23/2012 09:53 AM, "Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger" wrote: > I have many pieces for male choir, that are stored as .ly-files in a > directory with a subdirectory for every piece. All of them use some > files via \include command. Those files are situated in the parent > directory. > > Now I woul

Re: ly2video - create videos from your LilyPond projects

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looks great! A few notes — almost all negative, so I should say that aside from these, it seems a really excellent start. 1) In the download, the Python script isn’t executable. See if you can make it so within the zip file. [I have some package de

Re: Troubles posting to lilypond-users list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/26/2012 02:29 PM, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote: > I can see 5 messages from you :-). Maybe you don't see your own > messages? It seems to be a common phenomenon on this list: Someone posts complaining that their posts don’t come through, immediately

Re: Lilypond and ePub

On 03/02/2012 04:38 PM, Nils wrote: > Any thoughts on this topic? I immediately found this relevant to my > interest, once I saw the staticness and resulting uglyness of PDF > compared to the elegance of ePub (for text). I can not imagine music > notation as pdf here. I would be interested in help

Re: articulate not working ?

On 02/14/2012 06:46 AM, m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: > Is he reading this mailinglist(s) ? Can't find his e-mail address. I doubt it, but I have CC’d him on this message. I sent an e-mail a couple of months ago with some proposed changes to mordent and prall, and never got a response. ~Chris --

Re: Multiple notes over same lyric

On 01/30/2012 09:28 PM, mdspencer wrote: > I have tried many of the examples from the lilypond manuals > (different lyric entry modes, associated voices, using slurs, manual > lyric durations, etc.) with no luck. Am I missing something simple > here? Any ideas? The problem is not with aligning the

Re: MIDI Dynamics

On 01/28/2012 07:45 AM, Helge Kruse wrote: > In this example the dynamics in the down staff is necessary for MIDI > but no wanted for the layout. I almost always end up with separate scores for layout and MIDI. dynamics = { s4\f\> s4*3\! s4\p s4 } right = \relative c'' { c d e f g a } left = \rel

Re: repeat

On 01/25/2012 04:52 PM, James wrote: > So someone is going to have to convince me that \bar is bad. For the same reason that semantic markup in text is preferred: semantic markup vs. semantic markup. You know what you want your text (prose or music) to look like today, but you may not know what y

Re: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)

On 01/22/2012 07:15 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote a long message about tensions between users and developers. Well said, Xavier. We users certainly appreciate the many, many hours and the deep expertise put in by the developers to make such an excellent tool. And I think the developers (if I may, not

Re: Copyright for specific scores in a book

Thanks to James and Xavier for the suggestions. I was really asking if I was overlooking something about the copyright assertion, being surprised that LilyPond ignores it per-score. This seems like a bug; I’ll report it. I can use markup to make the correct text come out, but I’ll wait to hack a

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