Re: Creating otvaves with cue notes as the bottom note

This is butt ugly, Knute, but maybe suggesting a possible way: \version "2.25.14" \language "english" % see also https://github.com/lilypond/lilypond/blob/master/scm/music-functions.scm#L2036 #(define (make-script x)    (make-music 'ArticulationEvent    'arti

Re: Frescobaldi... panic alternatives?

Thanks again for the text, Ken!  I've put it up for review along with a bunch of housekeeping bits, and it could get merged into the documentation mid-week.  You'll be able to point to your contribution to LilyPond! Cheers, Colin On 2024-05-01 22:33, Kenneth Flak wrote: OK, giving it a shot

Re: Frescobaldi... panic alternatives?

This looks really good, Ken. I'm going to do a general tidy up on the Easier Editing page, but I hope to have something up for review in a day or two. I've installed neovim, but to save a bit of time: is the point-and-click two-way, like Frescobaldi, or from PDF to code only? Cheers, Colin

Re: Frescobaldi... panic alternatives?

On 2024-05-01 12:38, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Maybe one of you two can provide some text for https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/web/easier-editing It happens that my first contribution to the Lilypond documentation was a rewrite of the Easier Editing section, some 14 years ago or s

Re: Lilypond and digital readers

Shamelessly copying the tip for my own use! I also use MobileSheets Pro, and absolutely depend on it for my choral stuff. Your tip gives me some ideas for stuff I know I'll be singing: things like highlighting my bass part (NR 1.7.1ff), colouring key and time changes . . . Dude, I'm going to ha

Re: Two novice questions

In Frescobaldi, make sure the quick insert panel is visible: Tools | Coding | Quick Insert Select your range of notes, then click on the articulation you want. HTH, Colin On 2024-01-17 13:13, Aaron Hill via LilyPond user discussion wrote: On 2024-01-17 10:00 am, Knute Snortum wrote: On Wed,

Re: Pickup measure

Part of the problem is solved when you take out the s2 after the \partial notes in each part. The purpose of \partial is to avoid having to supply "missing" time in the first bar. You might, as a suggestion, consider moving your \breaks *before* the quarter notes instead of after, to follow the

Re: having trouble with a segno repeat

At line 102 or so, you have an extra curly brace. When I take that out, all is good. I found it by folding section by section till I saw your coda was not folded when it should have been. HTH, Colin On 2023-09-11 19:10, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; I'm trying to follow the segno repeat wit

Re: Frescobaldi issue 16: .ly is missing by saving

On UbuntuStudio, Kubuntu 23.04, the .ly extension was automatic. Cheers, Colin On 2023-05-29 14:47, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi all I'm wondering if we can close this old Frescobaldi issue: https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/16 In some desktops (like GNOME) Frescobaldi used to sa

Re: Policy for posts from non-members

On 2023-02-22 16:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi Jean; I've been following this thread for some while. I really applaud your intentions and efforts with regards to this mailing list management; your dedication is impressive and appreciated. Hear, hear! Colin

Re: Access header-modules from inside markup-command

On 2022-06-27 17:27, Thomas Morley wrote: I try to code sort of a tablature for Akkordzither. Instead of longish descriptions best look at the image at the bottom of https://gitlab.com/Thomas_Morley/zither-ly/-/tree/development This looks very much like klavarskribo. I wonder if Wilbert Be

Music publishing houses accepting Lilypond files?

As the title implies: I've just converted a score from Finale, after the composer had given up trying to get a readable layout. He's delighted with the result, and seems interested in exploring LP. As he is also considering publishing his piece, my question to the community is: which publishers

Re: SATB.Ly template and putting lyrics below the staff

On 2022-03-09 15:47, Trevor wrote: Ah OK. Did you see that you can also specify several verses? These are aligned with the rhythms in the soprano voice (or the alto if there is no soprano line) when you specify two voices per staff. They are placed between the two staves. I've attached an exam

Re: SATB.Ly template and putting lyrics below the staff

On 2022-03-09 04:51, Trevor wrote: Hi Colin, you wrote 08/03/2022 00:39:10: I've just discovered Trevor Daniels' satb.ly system, and huge kudos to him! I've tweaked a bit by adding   \consists Merge_rests_engraver to a Layout variable, but I'm wrestling the lyrics a bit. By default, they c

SATB.Ly template and putting lyrics below the staff

I've just discovered Trevor Daniels' satb.ly system, and huge kudos to him! I've tweaked a bit by adding   \consists Merge_rests_engraver to a Layout variable, but I'm wrestling the lyrics a bit. By default, they come out aligned above context; how can I get them below? Cheers, Colin

Re: Delay for list posts to arrive

I found much the same delay this afternoon, sending the patch list to the developers list took about 3 hours to show up in my mail. Cheers, Colin On 2022-02-01 15:50, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Hi, Lately I've found myself a couple times duplicating answers already provided on this list by othe

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

On 2019-12-28 1:11 a.m., Andrew Bernard wrote: Thank you Wilbert and the team. With an existing Ubuntu 19.04 Frescobaldi 3.0.0 installation, all I had to do was install from the tarball and add the following: apt install python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine Running Fedora 31 and an existing 3.0.0 Fresc

Re: Frescobaldi LilyPond Log

On 2019-11-02 6:19 p.m., Andrew Bernard wrote: Good question. I have been wanting to make it smaller for a long time. Andrew On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 11:17, Freeman Gilmore mailto:freeman.gilm...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is there a way to make the font larger in the Frescobaldi, LilyPond Log?

Re: Microtonal music in LilyPond

On 2019-09-01 2:36 p.m., Freeman Gilmore wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 3:01 PM Pierre Perol-Schneider > wrote: Please use convert-ly to get the right syntax: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/invoking-convert_002dly.htmleers

Re: glissando

On 2019-04-01 5:28 p.m., Gianmaria Lari wrote: Attached to this email a screenshot of the result of this code \version "2.21.0" \fixed c'' {   \override Glissando.style = #'zigzag   c \glissando \hideNotes c, \unHideNotes d e f } I think that \bendAfter #-4 (replacing  \gl

Re: Template for flexible vertical spacing \paper variables

On 2019-03-02 9:46 a.m., Paul Morris wrote: I got tired of looking up the flexible vertical spacing \paper variables: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables So I put together some boilerplate (below) that I can use as a snippet in Fres

Re: Combine these segments for same score

On 2018-12-16 9:47 a.m., Reggie wrote: David Wright wrote You will have to accept a line break at each change of score, but then the only reason I would break a piece down into score fragments is because it's made up of sections with grossly differing layouts (like number of parts/choirs/soloist

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 2018-05-04 07:51 AM, Karlin High wrote: On 5/4/2018 8:41 AM, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: Hello Hans, Sorry for not knowing, what does GHB mean in our context? In another Hans Åberg message less than a month ago, it was an abbreviation for Great Highland Bagpipe. I tried Googling it, but

Re: bracket articulation

On 2018-02-01 10:38 PM, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Is there a way to put an articulation (a staccatissimo symbol) in square brackets above a note, such as [ ! ], where ! = a staccatissimo articulation? I've tried several different permutations with no success. Thanks in advance,

Re: more Lead sheet with variables

On 2018-01-23 03:59 PM, Joseph Austin wrote: Follow-up questions: 2. Where do I set the language option to get error messages in English? I'm running Mac Sierra 10.3.3 3. Thanks to all who pointed out the invalid "\" before "melody". So I applied the same to chords and lyrics and got new errors

Re: Frescobaldi Qt5

On 2017-11-22 08:54 PM, Brett M. Gilio wrote: I know the Frescobaldi developers have been planning for a transition to PyQt5/Qt5. I am quite versed with python and qt5, does anybody know how far along they have gone in this? I'm running it in the following environment, with no particular proble

Re: importing midifiles

On 2017-04-17 06:18 AM, Bert Van den Brink wrote: Dear all I just subscribed to the mailing list and as a real beginner I have a question about importing midi. How to configure that? I already have the output of midi but maybe you need a totally different context for this. As I am blind lilypon

Re: Fwd: Justify to both sides

On 2017-03-18 10:28 AM, CieMaKat . wrote: Hello everyone! I would like to place custom header for piece, i.e.: hymn number and authors of music and lyrics aligned to both sides of the page: Obraz w treści 2 I tried to do it with fill-line, but then part of the /"Lyrics author" /goes off the

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.20.0, Frescobaldi 3.0.0, python-ly 0.9.5

On 2017-02-17 08:24 AM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Wilbert, Thank you for this release! I'm using v2.20 now and it's working beautifully. However, I've been unable to run Frescobaldi 3 on my Linux Mint laptop, I keep getting errors. I've already installed (what I think is) all the dependencies, bu

Re: Midi output with highlighted voices

On 2017-01-12 02:58 AM, Jonathan Scholbach wrote: Dear Ponders, I have a feature wish, and I hope this is the right channel to utter it: I typeset choir pieces and in this field it is a big advantage of LilyPond that producing MIDI files with highlighted voices for each single voice is possible

Re: Bug on LP web page

On 2016-12-17 02:53 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi Peter This was fixed in January, but only the 2.19 version has the correct link: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/index.html I don't know if we have a proper and easy way to backport it to 2.18 I'm not sure what the bug m

Re: Trolling and unacceptable behaviour on the list

On 2016-11-18 06:35 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Matthew, The people making it a big deal is just me. Now having lost all credibility, it's time I unsubscribed and stopped contributing. Andrew Andrew, I hope you will reconsider the thought of unsubscribing: leaving the list simply Feeds Th

Re: Solution to 7 over sqr(71) time against integer polyrhythms

On 2016-11-17 03:47 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Here’s the point where I instantly feel compelled to say “ok, now let’s really ban him from the list”. You are calling Kieren, honorable member of the community and one of the most proficient LilyPond users there are, an outright liar. That’s outr

Re: Dynamically outputting \books

On 2016-11-10 12:36 PM, Morten Lemvigh wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a procedure to create rehearsal midi files for each voice of a choir piece. In order to do that I need to be able to dynamically create \book blocks (one for each voice). Is that possible? I have tried to have a music fun

Re: Ask about the typesetting of Lilypond

On 16-05-22 02:18 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno dom 22 mag 2016 alle 9:51, 15221328968 <15221328...@163.com> ha scritto: Hello : I am using Lilypond to make a music score. But I found there are many bars in one line, and it is not very beautiful as the picture below shows. Could I ask

Re: Replying to posts

On 16-04-28 10:05 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: As far as I know this particular list does not have a list owner, and there are no published rules. Of course there is a list owner. However, up to now there wasn't a single person who stomped our nuts too hard, so to say, forcing us to banning him or

Re: Weird error when using skipTypesetting

On 16-04-04 05:12 PM, Sharon Rosner wrote: Sharon Rosner wrote In addition, the music is cut immediately after the last note, and does not show the bar line that I’m explicitly asking for: For anyone who's interested, I've found a workaround technique based on code in music-functions.scm. The c

Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

On 16-04-04 02:57 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Noeck writes: … and enjoy your climbing! I hope I don't produce much more misinformation until you are safely back ;) Uh, I'm already back. I'm only enjoying the open spots on my fingertips now. They'll close up in the next few days, and in 10 days

Re: How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

On 16-03-31 02:14 AM, m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Btw: the concept of Swing notation is not Limited to Jazz Blues Pop music. In old French Baroque music there was something similar called "inegalité". Such music can also benifit from a lilypond/scheme functioneren like this. In fact, there

Re: How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

On 16-03-30 08:49 PM, Stephen MacNeil wrote: Hi Colin Sometime ago I came across a file on the net... not sure where. It was written by Johannes Rohrer I believe. Anyway all you do is \include "../SwingMarks.ly" % location of file #(load "../swing.scm") % location of file and it will p

How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

I'm transcribing a piece originally written with a lot of syncopation, using half-values ties across the beat, as well as what I think must be intended as a "swing" feel, notated with dotted rhythms. No problem reproducing the visual elements, but I also need to produce practice tracks for an a

Re: mute percussion notation

On 16-03-21 12:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Bernard writes: For me cgh in deep link http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/ff/lily-6bb651bc.ly [image of music] And cghm in in deep link http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/80/lily-6aae8ef4.ly [image of music] Both found in

Re: Decreasing horizontal spacing when setting a chant

On 16-03-05 11:30 AM, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Hello: I am setting a chant using modern notation. What technique would I use to decrease the horizontal spacing in the example below? I looked in the snippets. I also trying adjusting the common shortest duration property, but to no avail.

Re: Tied Notes in Voices, or change of time

On 16-02-26 07:22 PM, William Marchant wrote: Hi All, I have attached a snippet of code which shows a problem I have encountered. Notice that in the first measure in Voice One, there is a c16 tied to a c4, and below in Voice Two an e16 tied to e4. This I expected. Note however, at the end o

Re: Best way to provide LilyPond via thumb drive

On 16-02-12 06:06 AM, Ralph Palmer wrote: Greetings - Soon, I shall be visiting a music school which almost certainly has computers but which probably has little internet access. I would like to give them a thumb drive with all the files they would need for setup, learning, and running LilyPo

Re: More ponderings on Chordmode

On 16-02-05 01:31 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? \relative c'' \new Staff { \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoust

Re: Manual page breaking causing assertion failure

On 16-01-09 03:38 PM, Chris Yate wrote: No, it's not self-built, it's the latest dev image from the website! Windows 10, 64bit. Any other info you need? Chris On 9 Jan 2016 10:17 pm, "Colin Campbell" <mailto:c...@shaw.ca>> wrote: On 16-01-08 07:09 PM, Chris

Re: Manual page breaking causing assertion failure

On 16-01-08 07:09 PM, Chris Yate wrote: Hi, I'm trying to paginate my score nicely and the automatic paging isn't good enough. So I'm doing all the page breaks manually -- and a certain situation is causing an assertion failure on compilation: << Snippet of output: MIDI output to `BeiM

Fwd: Concerts in Berlin with LilyPond scores

Forwarding to the User group, as it's more appropriate there, and for wider distribution. All the best for the concerts, Aurélien, and thanks for letting us know. Cheers, Colin Forwarded Message Subject:Concerts in Berlin with LilyPond scores Date: Thu, 7 Jan 201

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

On 16-01-05 09:55 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: I wonder if the spaces delimited by the lines are thorpes? I' also carpent for a living, though. I also wonder how I thought there were eight spaces, not nine, but that's probably why I'm an apprentice carpenter! Colin -- I&

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

On 16-01-05 09:47 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: According to the Unicode Standard 6.2, this is u0023, which is designated Number Sign, and also known equivalently as: pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe I have always called it octothorpe, mostly because it is just such a great word! I w

Re: How to transpose an entire piece of music?

On 15-12-22 02:04 PM, Bernhard Kleine wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I had a christmas carol "Zu Bethelem geboren" with is in F-Dur. That piece has a bass voice going to "großem F" more than once. Since the other voice are not at all at their upper limit, I thought to tra

Fwd: Re: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH fails in gs, OS X El Capitan

Forwarded from bug list, as there are likely more users who can help. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH fails in gs, OS X El Capitan Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 10:35:06 -0700 (MST) From: stefandres To: bug-lilyp...@gnu.org Hi, I have the same probl

Re: Introducing "LilyPond HTML Live Score"

On 15-11-29 11:08 AM, Mathieu Demange wrote: Hello all, I've been developing a tool which is at a very early stage now, but I humbly guess you should like the idea. Check this very simple page and click the "play" button (or you can click any note or rest). http://www.mathieudemange.fr/lilyp

Re: dynamic with markup

On 15-10-10 07:58 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello, I recall that instructions were once given to achieve: */p /*/ma ben marcato/, yet my search of the LSP was not successful. Please direct me to its location. Thank you for your kind attention. Mark You will probably find the Notat

Re: error message

On 15-10-09 05:20 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello, Using Lilypond2.18.0, Frescobaldi 2.18.1. When clicking the Lilypond icon in Frescobaldi the following appears: Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.18.2 [Nocturne Ab.ly]...Aborting lilypond-windows.exe 2.18.2 [Nocturne Ab.ly]... Exited wi

Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

On 15-10-04 06:29 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Karen S. Billings wrote: I'm a former Bell Labs engineer, where I used Unix (vi, awk, shell, etc.) everyday. I got so used to using those tools, and I find I miss their power... I'm really struggling to learn how to u

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

On 2015-09-11 06:17 PM, Tim Reeves wrote: So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks! ;) It has been said that the way to avoid becoming an old dog is to keep learning new tricks

Re: LilyPond crashes on \musicglyph #"space"

On 2015-08-29 06:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann writes: I just noticed that LilyPond is crashing on this: \version "2.18.0" { <> ^\markup {\musicglyph #"space"} s1*4/4 } with Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects...terminate called after throwing an instance of '

Re: Setting systems-per-page just for a single score out of many

On 2015-08-03 02:58 AM, Leszek Wroński wrote: Guys, I'm terribly sorry for spamming the group, but it turns out writing the problem down was enough for me to find a solution. If anyone ever searches the group for an answer to a similar question, here is my idea (which works for me, but certainly

Re: Snowballing

On 2015-06-25 03:08 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Probably it’s a bug in Thunderbird then. I’ll see where to report it. Thanks, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user FWIW, I run Thun

Re: "Assertion failed!"

On 2015-06-13 07:54 PM, Keith OHara wrote: Colin Campbell shaw.ca> writes: Under the assumption that the changed assertion handling is exposing previously non-fatal bugs, I propose to create separate issues for the 3 items now known: Daniel's two and another reported by Andrew Barnard

Re: "Assertion failed!"

On 2015-06-13 10:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Daniel Rosen writes: -Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 5:23 AM To: Andrew Bernard Cc: Daniel Rosen; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: "Assertion failed!" Andrew Bernard writes: Hi

Re: modern-cautionary accidentals

On 2015-06-07 03:54 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: Patrick Karl , you wrote Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:27 PM The discussion of Automatic Accidentals in the Chapter 1 of the Notation Manual says: modern-cautionary This rule is similar to modern, but the ‘extra’ accidentals (the ones not typeset by de

Re: dodecaphonic-no-repeat and grace notes

On 2015-06-06 06:52 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: the second one does not receive an accidental as it's suppose to: I believe dodecaphonic-first is the style you need, Gilberto. Cheers, Colin -- I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to b

Re: Problem with shaping chord ties held over several measures

On 2015-06-06 06:21 PM, Knute Snortum wrote: Hello LilyPonders, I'm having a problem shaping ties of chords after more than one measure. I have an internal voice that comes in on the third measure and the ties go right through it. \shape doesn't seem powerful enough to handle this (at least

Re: Displaying a staff despite \removeEmptyStaves

On 2015-04-05 01:38 PM, Anton Curl wrote: Hi everyone! Is it possible to force an empty staff to be displayed occasionally when \removeEmptyStaves is used? Thanks! Anton Curl As a quick, off the top of my admittedly empty head, kludge: assuming you know where the staff will break, why not

Re: Using lilypond examples in an essay or text document

On 2015-04-04 02:20 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: On 4 Apr 2015, at 21:10, Urs Liska wrote: Am 4. April 2015 21:41:17 MESZ, schrieb Daniel Contreras : subject line says it all, I want to use Lily Pond in a text document. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks a bunc

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18

Ben, The following python commands showed me where an unexpected ly module was being read: $ python import ly ly.__path__ ly.__file__ I suspect you will find similar results, i.e. an ly module on your path *before* the one created by Wilbert's python-ly. Cheers, Colin -- I've learned

Re: Problem with lyrics in alternative endings that contain leading rests

On 2015-03-24 08:28 PM, Peter Heisen wrote: Dear List, ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user I can see that the problem seems to involve a lack of output, but perhaps a bit more in

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18

On 2015-03-24 05:02 PM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: * Ouch. Any chance this will be fixed soon, either for frescobaldi or for ly2video? I was just planning to try the ly2video utility. Or even better: Wouldn't it be nice if Adam and Wilbert could work

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18

el list, where I had a similar sdounding problem: *** On 2015-03-11 12:16 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:53:03 -0600 Colin Campbell schreef: >>> import ly.pkginfo Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in Impo

Re: Starting music at an arbitrary bar

On 2015-03-14 04:26 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Simon, Thankyou very much, that's exactly what I wanted. What's _really_ annoying is that I had the following page (which has MIDI output on it) open. Regards, Martin Also, if you are using Fre

Frescobaldi 2.18 install problems on KXStudio

After manually running updatedb and locate, then deleting any instance of frescobaldi and python-ly in /usr/* in order to remove prior version conflicts, I ran sudo python setup.py install from the unzipped source directory, which finished as below (emphasis added):

Re: Lilypond--iPads--Git

On 2015-02-27 11:31 PM, Craig Dabelstein wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Does anyone have experience with trying to write lilypond files on their iPad and uploading them to Git? I'm using the Textastic app on the iPad (because it recognises Lilypond syntax), combined with Textexpander for all my snip

Re: Spacing Cheat Sheet

On 2015-02-21 06:04 AM, Noeck wrote: Hi Kaj, hi Lilypond users, I also would like to say that again that spacing is a bit daunting. But I hope with the help you got here, it is possible to adjust the spacing you need. The deeper understanding will come with time and it is difficult if one wants

Re: Naming convention brainstorming

On 2015-01-31 06:41 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, for quite some time now I've been using a concept that is very useful, but finally I'd like to give it an authoritative name to be used in different places. I'm talking about the working, thinking and compiling mode when I'm working on the _c

Re: Information about Parts

On 2015-01-08 04:10 PM, Matthew James Briggs wrote: Hello, I just joined this list because I was searching unsuccessfully for information about Lilypond's features for extracting and producing individual parts from a score. Does Lilypond have features akin to Finale's linked-parts? I suspect

Re: Piano scoring with centered dynamics

On 2015-01-03 11:47 AM, Arno Waschk wrote: Obviously the piano dynamics template did not make it from 2.12 to 2.18 docs, which is a pity. Even although the example given in 2.12 seems overloaded by other tweakings (which may or may not be helpful for users) for my taste. Arno I see that

Re: help with floating windows on Frescobaldi, I lost my Music Pane

On 2014-12-13 11:48 AM, Kathryn Strauch wrote: Frescobaldi 2.0.16, Lillypond 2.18.2-1 on Mac OSX 10.8.5 I inadvertantly converted the compiled Music View pane into a floating window and later closed that window. I can't get the window back and, if I get it back, I can't figure out how to doc

Re: Trying to subscribe

On 2014-12-09 01:59 PM, Stan Mulder wrote: Daniel Berjón Díez gmail.com> writes: On 09 Dec 2014, at 19:46, Stan Mulder earthlink.net> wrote: I am trying to subscribe to the lilypond list. Nothing I do works. I don't think it worked this time either. I for one cannot read your message.;)

Re: Problems with Completion_heads_engraver

On 2014-11-29 02:59 PM, Jay Vara wrote: For some reason the Completion heads engraver does not seem to be working in some situations. In some cases it swallows up a note (although timing wise it seems ok) and sometimes it produces some weird looking notes. Here is one example I was able to recr

Re: Custom Key Signatures

On 14-11-13 10:13 AM, st...@linuxsuite.org wrote: Howdy! I want to make a custom key signature. It should have f# c# a# How can I do this? -steve THis will get you started, Steve: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/pitches

Re: Two voices ending score

On 14-10-25 09:32 AM, Son_V wrote: And WHY i get this ghost beat 71? How can I get it away? (always thanks ...) It would be easier to comment on a minimal example, but the "ghost bar" is a clear indicator that you have more bars in one voice than the rest. You might have a look at the sect

Re: 2.19.14: lost ability to add note name in fret board ?

On 14-09-20 07:00 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: I wouldn't call it a regression, because adding and printing strings in dots was not documented, not really supported (as far as scaling is concerned) and not covered by a regtest, as far as I can tell. Therefore I did not pay attention to keep this fun

Re: Another humble question, this is about \skip

On 14-09-13 01:21 PM, Son_V wrote: Hi, first I want to thank all that have answered to my latest message (I've ordered on Amazon "Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation", to have an authoritative source). I have encountered a problem with a test score that I'm unable to solve. I att

Re: beginner stanza help

On 14-09-09 06:35 PM, Steven Arntson wrote: I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What am I doing wrong? text = \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"1. " here are | %m1 the words | %m2 } \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"2. "

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

On 14-09-08 11:49 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: The full function would then be: %<- lSkip = #(define-music-function (parser location skips) (number?) #{ \lyricmode { " " \repeat unfold $(- skips 1) { \skip 1 } } #}) %<- For me,

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

On 14-09-08 01:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: (in reference to lyric \skips not terminating an extender) Try a single space in quotes: " " -- Phil Holmes Thanks, Phil. I found that in my testing later yesterday. It will at least get the project done, although in a way which feels a bit kludgy.

Re: Add lyrics after n measures

On 14-08-29 02:21 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 29.08.2014 um 16:58 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Marco, Always copy the list in your messages, to let the them know. Put as many \skip as you have notes in the melody in the first 8 bars if you use \addlyrics or \lyricsto, Much more convenient: u

Re: Shortest duration by --verbose option?

On 14-07-29 05:27 PM, James Harkins wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/horizontal-spacing-overview says: ~~ The most common shortest duration is determined as follows: in every measure, the shortest duration is determined. The most common shortest duration is taken as

Re: predefined mandolin tuning wrong?

On 14-07-28 03:42 AM, BB wrote: Sorry, I reduced the code too much! I started with the following code trying to redefine a fretboard: \version "2.18.0" #default-fret-table \chordmode {a:m7} %#guitar-tuning %#"5;x;5;5;5;x;" #mandolin-tuning #"o;o;o;o;" theChords = \chordmode { a:m7 }

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

On 14-07-17 02:00 PM, Malte Meyn wrote: On 17.07.2014 21:56, Larry Kent wrote: David, You sent me this link: http://download.lin uxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/lilypond-ancient-1.4.1

Re: Updating a score from version 1.4

On 14-07-17 10:52 AM, Larry Kent wrote: Thanks, James, David, and Hwaen. Convert-ly doesn't handle version 1.4 very well, not surprising. The current project I'm working on is a very short piece, so I may just start over with this one. Long-term, however, it would be nice to find somewhere t

Re: Multirest in temporary polyphonial passage

On 14-07-16 10:40 AM, Hartmut Leister wrote: Dear Lilypond users, I have a small problem, when dealing with multirests in temporary polyphonial passages. See my minimum non-working example [1] - in bar 2 the synchronous rests of voice I have a source snippet perfectly merging multirest, when us

Re: Shorten ledger lines

On 14-07-13 01:46 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: 2014-07-13 5:38 GMT+02:00 Paul Morris >: Here we go: Nice Paul ! And here's a complement to get rid of the gap between startStaff and stopStaff : \version "2.18.2" { g d c d c d \once\hide Staff.BarL

Re: perfect major thirds

On 14-07-01 02:31 PM, David Olson wrote: what should I write to actually do this? > The arrows represent the alteration > that changes a Pythagorean major > third to a perfect major third. And MIDI will output this, right? Just click o

Re: solfege display for tie & slur

On 14-06-30 07:39 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Hi, Colin: <><><><> Thank you for the suggestion. But I want to preserve what is code in the staff. I do not want to display second ⓢ and third ⓢ above the staff (the same way midi track just extend the beats without playing it). The same for second ⓕ

Re: solfege display for tie & slur

On 14-06-30 06:53 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Lily ponders: With the help from the list I have the .ly file that I use quite often. Many thanks lily ponders. Is it possible to modify the code do not display the tied note? example in the attached .ly file: i.e. (1) do not display second ⓢ & third ⓢ be

Re: unterminated tie?

On 14-06-19 04:01 PM, Marc Weber wrote: .ly file: \version "2.18.2" << \context Voice = train_left_medium { \relative c' { g4~ b } } || Processing `sheet.ly' || Parsing... || Interpreting music... sheet.ly|4 col 28| warning: unterminated tie || \relative c' { g4 ||

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