Re: update all files with convert.ly

On 9/5/2012 9:47 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > On 2012-09-04 11:37, David Kastrup wrote:> Stefan Thomas > writes: > > > >> Dear community, > >> how can I update all my ly files (including subfolders) with one > >> command? > > > > Depending on operating system, something like > > > > find -name

Re: beam across larger rest

On 9/5/2012 9:50 AM, Tiresia GIUNO wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:43:49 +0200 > Federico Bruni wrote: > >> Then it may depend on the context: you may need to use Staff instead >> of Timing. I've not looked at your example... > Nope.. If you find an answer, please let me know. This issue interests

Re: beam across larger rest

On 9/5/2012 2:30 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 04/09/12 17:54, David Bobroff wrote: >> In this example I have a beam going across a rest larger than the beam >> value. >> >> \version "2.16.0" >> >> \relative { >>{ d16-[ r r8 e16-] r r8 } &g

beam across larger rest

In this example I have a beam going across a rest larger than the beam value. \version "2.16.0" \relative { { d16-[ r r8 e16-] r r8 } } The 16th beam breaks over the 8th rest. Is it possible to extend the 16th beam across the 8th rest like this?: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/double-be

Re: notation in \tempo mark

On 8/31/2012 8:42 AM, eluze wrote: > bobr...@centrum.is wrote >> I want to include a bit of notation in a \tempo mark. The default >> syntax allows for something like: >> >> \tempo "Allegro" 4 = 120 >> >> Do I need to create two scores with everything removed except the 16th >> notes and then plug

notation in \tempo mark

I want to include a bit of notation in a \tempo mark. The default syntax allows for something like: \tempo "Allegro" 4 = 120 I need to do something a bit different. I want: \tempo "Veloce" [ two beamed 16ths ] = [ three beamed 16ths ] Image here: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/tempo-mar

convert-ly anomaly

I just upgraded to 2.16 (not sure that's actually relevant). I went to work on some files that I hadn't touched since v2.5.x. Before doing anything else I decided to run convert-ly on them. When I work in Windows I prefer to do my LilyPond stuff in cygwin. When I tried to run convert-ly the res

parenthesize compound time sig

I thought I had the solution already in a file but I can't find it. I have a compound time signature defined and I would like to enclose the whole thing in (). I found the snippet for enclosing a standard time signature but I couldn't work out how to adapt it. #(define ((compound-time one two

Re: pas encore parvenue à ouvrir le programme

On 7/30/2012 8:25 AM, Hohmann Scarlett wrote: > Bonjour > > J'ai bien effectué le test : j'ai le PDF et le document en texte > sauf que je ne parviens pas encore à ouvrir un programme > > et comme le document est en anglais, je ne sais pas ce que j'ai manqué > > Merci d'avance pour l'aide > pa

Re: separating design from pure score

On 3/14/2012 6:16 PM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

On 3/13/2012 10:01 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Stjepan Horvat writes: Did you try to press number 3 in sibelius..i think it would create a third interval..and so on..i'm not sure.. Now this is actually a great example about what makes LilyPond so much better to work in the long run with than Sib

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

On 3/12/2012 2:15 PM, John Link wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:01 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote: 1) What is the easiest way to extract parts from a score? A Zen master would reply "mu" (= un-ask the question). "Extracting" parts is a

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

On 3/12/2012 1:52 PM, John Link wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/11/2012 6:39 PM, John Link wrote: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

On 3/11/2012 6:39 PM, John Link wrote: A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25 through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 1

\cadenzaOff and accidentals

I'm re-framing my query regarding accidental behavior following \cadenzaOff. After some discussion about this on bug- it is quite clear that '\cadenzaOff' *only* affects counting/timing and '\bar' *only* paints a graphic of a bar line. Currently, if an accidental appears in the cadenza it wil

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

On 2/28/2012 7:42 PM, Bryn Hughes wrote: Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a quest

Re: complex-beam

On 2/27/2012 7:36 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 2/26/12 2:10 AM, "David Bobroff" wrote: I'm looking for a way to achieve this beaming pattern: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/lily/complex-beam.png Can LilyPond do t

complex-beam

I'm looking for a way to achieve this beaming pattern: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/lily/complex-beam.png Can LilyPond do this? I suspect I'll have to use a combination of subdivideBeams and stemRightBeamCount/stemLeftBeamCount. Is there a known solution? Thanks, David ___

Re: Incorrect bar placement

On 12/11/2011 2:38 PM, Naomi Gage wrote: Hello, I am a relatively new lilypond user. I am working on a score and 62 measures into the score, the bar placement is incorrect when I include a run of 16th notes, as follows: staffFlute = \new Staff { \time 2/4 \set Staff.instrumentName = "Flute"

Re: tacet trouble

On 12/8/2011 9:54 PM, me wrote: \markup { \fill-line { \fontsize #3 \bold \concat { "I. MOVEMENT - " \italic "TACE" } } } Ah yes, beautiful! Thank you! -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

tacet trouble

I'm replacing a damaged page from a part. I want to follow the style of the rest of the pages. I want to indicate a tacet movement like this: \markup { \fill-line { \fontsize #3 \bold "I. MOVEMENT - TACE" } } The above works just fine. What I want, though, is to have the word "TACE

restNumberThreshold

I want to adjust the restNumberThreshold value so that single full measure rests get a "1" above them. Obviously, I found a reference to the thing that needs an \override, but I haven't figured out the complete syntax. \override MultiMeasureRest #'restNumberThreshold = #0 ...doesn't work. H

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

On 11/27/2011 11:38 AM, James wrote: David, On 27 November 2011 11:17, David Bobroff <mailto:bobr...@centrum.is>> wrote: On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for example: { a b c d | a b c d } Then shift it down half a tone without altering the key signature. -- -- James

Re: New User Questions

On 11/22/2011 11:18 PM, Brandon Pisani wrote: Howdy, y'all, I just started trying to use this recently. My eventual use is to compile a personal (non-distributed, non-sold, etc.) tunebook for tin whistle. I am trying, or thought I was trying, to start of small, and I don't understand some of

Re: Whole Measure Rests

On 11/10/2011 6:19 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: I am a little confused by capital R rests. There are two aspects that confuse me. First, I don't understand why whole-measure small-r rests are not centered in the measure. Compare: { \time 4/4 r1 r1 r1 } { \time 4/4 R1 R1 R1 } As a life-lon

Re: clashing note columns

On 10/20/2011 8:46 AM, David Bobroff wrote: In a piece I'm doing in LilyPond I have a lot more single-staff polyphony than I've dealt with before. I'm getting loads of: warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns The *output* looks fine. Example: http://notendur.cent

clashing note columns

In a piece I'm doing in LilyPond I have a lot more single-staff polyphony than I've dealt with before. I'm getting loads of: warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns The *output* looks fine. Example: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/lily/measure.png The 'd' in the half-note chord

Re: doubled accidental

On 9/5/2011 7:55 PM, Maxim Gawrilow wrote: I'm not top posting. If the initial key sets a note flat (b-flat minor) and I later change this note to sharp (ges to gis), in the score I get two accidentals in a row: first a natural and right to it the sharp. There is no need of the natural, it only

Re: Simple variable definition

On 8/21/2011 7:21 AM, Vaughan McAlley wrote: I’ve spent way to long trying to work this out... the simple test file: %test1.ly \version "2.14.2" myTranspose =\transpose c' c staffOneName = "Soprano" % Version for men’s choir %{ myTranspose = \transpose c' g staffOneName = "Alto" %} ...pr

Re: beaming problem in 2.14

On 6/23/2011 11:31 AM, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, the following code works fine in 2.12.3. but doesn't in 2.14.1. Is there a possibility to get it working in 2.14.1? \version "2.14.1" music = { \clef bass r2 r4 r8 f, r2 r4 g,8 r r4 f, 8 r8 r2 } beams = { \repeat "unfold" 24 {

Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

On 6/3/2011 11:09 AM, Vuott wrote: ...but how can I produce (export) a midi file by LilyPond ? Graham Percival-3 wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Urs Liska wrote: I will have to somehow convert a LilyPond score to Finale :-( You _might_ be able to save some time by producing a mi

Re: warning: crescendo too small

On 6/3/2011 10:05 AM, David Santamauro wrote: Hi, When magnified 500%, the crescendo looks like a '|' ... the snippet: \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" \score { << \relative g' { \clef "treble" \key c \major \time 4/4 r2 r4 d'^\markup { \tiny "Solo" }

Re: transpose

On 6/2/2011 3:00 PM, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hi, Can someone please help me adjust this example so it's transposed correctly for Bb clarinet? Where should I put the \transpose c' d' \clarinet ? Thanks, Peter \version "2.12.3" \include "english.ly" \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)

Re: Compound time signature

On 6/1/2011 6:30 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/6/1 Paul Scott > No. I need for example: 3/4 6/8 <3/4 bar> <6/8 bar> <3/4 bar> <6/8 bar> etc. I remember that i saw something like that done in Lily, but i cannot find it :( I found this in archiv

Re: \key Moves \chords Below Staff

On 4/18/2011 9:03 AM, Christian Eitner wrote: Dear Xavier, On 18 April 2011 10:40, Xavier Scheuer wrote: It is due to implicit context creation. If you explicit your contexts (Staff, ChordNames) then such problem would not appear. As explained in the doc, \chords { ... } is a shortcut notat

ossia again

My ossias are working but I've got a troubling artifact. In the following snippet I get some space at the end of the first line following the barline. At the end of the second line I get a disembodied bar line which I had not seen in the actual score I'm making. I'm missing some important de

more ossia

Thanks, Trevor for tweaking my code so the lyrics line up. I'm still at a loss to understand why that is, but that can wait. In looking at the result of my struggles with ossias I have concluded that I want something a bit different from what I'm getting now. The ossia sections in this score

Re: ossia and lyrics

On 4/13/2011 8:20 PM, David Bobroff wrote: On 4/13/2011 5:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Please reply-all when answering a question on the user-list - that way everyone can see your answers and contribute. Also - if you're lucky enough to have a mail program that always properly quotes w

Re: ossia and lyrics

This may give you what you want, even with 2.12.3 Phil Holmes - Original Message ----- From: "David Bobroff" To: "Phil Holmes" Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:58 PM Subject: Re: ossia and lyrics Oops! v2.12.3 On 4/13/2011 4:41 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Could you

ossia and lyrics

I've been tasked with altering a score I've prepared. The score currently consists of a piano part with a vocal line and a contrabass obligato line. As it stands, all is well. Now I need to put in ossia passages for the voice. I have managed to create ossia passages by using examples in the

Re: emacs mode in XP? [solved]

David Bobroff wrote: I've got emacs on a Windows XP machine and would like to get the LilyPond emacs mode working with it. Is anyone out there doing this? Here's what I did/do: 1. Copy the *.el files from LilyPond/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp to [emacs]/lisp. 2. Add this line to .e

emacs mode in XP?

I've got emacs on a Windows XP machine and would like to get the LilyPond emacs mode working with it. Is anyone out there doing this? Thanks, David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-u

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

On 3/3/2011 6:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able to locate a way to do jazz style multiple bar repeats like these for writing out chord progressions for solos. Can anyone point me to the place in the documentation (assuming there is such a place)? Thanks! ___

Re: layout questions

I was after, in combination with outside-staff-priority for rehearsal marks set to 1. Thanks! -David Cheers, Mike On 11/15/10 5:36 AM, "David Bobroff" wrote: I'm typesetting from an ugly hand-written part. It's a trombone part to an orchestral piece and, therefor, consists larg

layout questions

I'm typesetting from an ugly hand-written part. It's a trombone part to an orchestral piece and, therefor, consists largely of multi-measure rests. I'm using the contruct: \textLengthOn s1*0^\markup{ whatever } R1*X ...to stretch the multi-measure rests to fit the length of the markup. So

Re: probematic transposition

On 9/13/2010 8:56 PM, waterho...@ultrasw.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:58:03 +, David Bobroff wrote: I've got a piece in Eb major with a section in E major. For the instrumentation involved it will almost certainly be necessary to transpose it all down a minor 3rd due to the ran

Re: probematic transposition

On 9/13/2010 8:56 PM, waterho...@ultrasw.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:58:03 +, David Bobroff wrote: I've got a piece in Eb major with a section in E major. For the instrumentation involved it will almost certainly be necessary to transpose it all down a minor 3rd due to the ran

probematic transposition

I've got a piece in Eb major with a section in E major. For the instrumentation involved it will almost certainly be necessary to transpose it all down a minor 3rd due to the range in some of the parts. The Eb section comes out in C which is just fine but the E major ends up in C# major whic

Re: Mixed Time Signatures: Non regular alternantion between 5/8 and 8/8

On 8/22/2010 9:32 AM, fauban wrote: Dear Lilypond community: I am typesetting a piece in two sections: The first one consists of 5/8 and 8/8 bars. Their alternaton does not follow any pattern. Then, the next section is always in 9/8. How can I engrave one of those mixed time signatures (that is

absolute rest positioning

Is there a straightforward way to position rests by using an absolute offset from the center of the staff? I have a measure with cue notes and main instrument rests beneath. The problem arises when I transpose the instrument. The cues need to stay where they are, which is working, but if I

Re: line breaks in long parallel cadenzas

On 5/30/2010 11:14 PM, zbigniew brzezinski wrote: Hello, I'm trying to produce a piano score with two independent staves with long sections of unmetered music filled with notes of different rhythmical values. using two cadenzas with \bar "" fails to produce a line break (I guess since the rhythm

Re: Flag left or right of stem

On 5/25/2010 9:32 AM, craigbakalian wrote: Hi All, I know this may be in the docs, but I don't even know what to call this, but I can describe it. I have a piece in 7/8 with a lilypond measure sited below - r8 d'8 ees'8[ f'16 ges'8 f'16] ges'8.[ f'16] This is in the docs. Check section

oops

Sorry folks, I wasn't paying attention when my auto-complete auto-completed. Please delete my previous Thanks, David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

David_Bobroff_2009-extras

Lisa, I'm going to NYC on Sunday and will be away from this machine for two weeks so I'm sending you some extra expense numbers in the event that you need them. Music/supplies $861.20 That's anything from CDs, sheet music, valve oil, etc. Maintenance/repairs $290.61 Instrument insurance $20

Re: wah-wah-effect

Stefan, For this particular snippet I would normally expect to see simply; +? with no dash or dashed line between the + and ?. For such a sort note this would be perfectly clear. For a longer note that gradually opens/closes such a dashed line would be fine, but I would also probably expec

Re: Blotch in d

On 2/21/2010 1:08 PM, Graham Okely wrote: Mark I am using; Windows XP JEdit 4.3pre15 Lilypond 2.12.3 I use LilyPondToolJPedal version2.80b12STD to view it and print it. So printing does produce the blotch. ! Found it!!:jumping: If I open the pdf in Adobe Reader it is fine! So i

Re: Feature

On 2/14/2010 10:25 AM, Robert Clausecker wrote: Dear Lilypond Team I was copying some notes with lilypond and wondered myself, if lilypond supports something like shown in the attachment. This is a part of an orchestral score. Is such a thing supported by lilypond? Yours, Robert Clausecker

space-between-pieces

I'm trying to put extra space between consecutive pieces in a \bookpart{} block and have been unsuccessful. I have looked carefully through "4.1.2 Page formatting: Vertical dimensions" and tried a number of things, but none of them seems to apply to this situation. The only thing that has don

Re: Lilypond vs Score

On 2/1/2010 9:57 PM, Bobber wrote: I have been having a discussion with a small publisher who uses the music manuscript program called Score. He says that neither Lilypond or Finale can produce engraving that is comparable to Score. And that most of the major music publishers in the world use

Re: Decrescendo on a single note

Tom, You may find some clues here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg03101.html Note that this message refers to a rather outdated version (1.7.3) but it may help you. Generally, the trick is to attach the termination of the (de)crescendo to a skip value. You may also nee

Re: Installing question

cd to the directory where your installer is chmod 755 run the installer -David Howard wrote: I have downloaded the Installer to my Limux Suse 10.2 Desktop. I see is is a Shell Script. Where do I go from here please ?? ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Beginner's questions

I think that the likely problem is that you should change: to: 2 You have specified a chord and the time values for chords takes place after the chord. -David Pierre RUEL wrote: Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fac

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall times. My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM and the Linux box is a much older machine; 733MHz with maybe 768Mb RAM. The uninstall on the much slower Linux hardware is a few seconds, while on the

Re: slashSeparator - usage

I don't think I can offer a way to do what you're asking. I mainly want to point out that the slash separator is working as advertised for you. It is used in scores to make it easy to find line breaks in a large score particularly when the number of staves changes as instruments are removed f

Re: Using IPA lyrics

I just tried your *.ly code on my machine and it came out fine. I don't see characters on top of each other. I'm using version 2.13.5. I can't say for sure if there is an issue with IPA and v2.12.2 but it's possible. -David Glendan Lawler wrote: Hello, I need some help: I'm trying to put s

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "open the software." I'm going to conclude that you missed a detail about how LilyPond works. It does *not* have an interactive interface like Finale/Sibelius. To use LilyPond you must create/edit a text file which contains the definitions of your music.

Re: Transposing a whole book (pieces in different keys) by a given interval

I've put together some projects that I knew I wanted to be able to transpose easily. What I did was to include a \transpose block for each score: \transpose c c { stuff } Then I would do a search/replace. For going up a fourth I would replace "transpose c c" with "transpose c f". That sho

Re: Drawing lines across staves

Mark Engelberg wrote: How do I connect a note on one staff to a note on another staff with a dashed line? I imagine I want to use a glissando, tweaked to be a dashed line, but my searches for "glissando cross staves" have turned up nothing. Thanks. _

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:56PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: But in this instance, the majority of coders line up in opposition. You have shouted down the users, but convinced none. Why? Because you are wrong. We don't care. We don't have to. We're the telepho

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

example I gave. -David David Bobroff wrote: Correct. *ALL* pitches in the input *must* be explicitly given. The key signature assignment tells LilyPond how to display the pitches. For exmaple; 'e' *always* means e-natural no matter what the key signature is. -David Simon Mackenzi

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

Correct. *ALL* pitches in the input *must* be explicitly given. The key signature assignment tells LilyPond how to display the pitches. For exmaple; 'e' *always* means e-natural no matter what the key signature is. -David Simon Mackenzie wrote: Hi guys correct me if I am wrong. The g mino

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

Without seeing your code we can only speculate about your problem. Having said that, however, new users often miss the point that LilyPond needs to be told the actual pitch of every note regardless of the key signature. If you're getting, for example, e-naturals when you want e-flats, be sure

Re: whiteout barlines?

Maybe this will help: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Other#index-_005cwhiteout -David Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I would like to whiteout a bit of the first barline, in the below quoted example. Is it possible? Or are there other possible solutions? Thanks,

Re: Right block to contain setting of print-first-page-number

I've been using \bookpart myself with very satisfactory results. I put print-first-page-number = ##t in the \paper{} block for each \bookpart block. I don't, however, necessarily put one piece in a \bookpart block. What I often do is put a whole number of pages in a \bookpart block. For exampl

manual volta help

The following is giving me almost what I'm after. A couple things are evading my attempts to solve them. 1) I want to print the volta texts as \italic (for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. 2) I would like to close the volta box on the right side of the "Fine"

text with \musicglyph

I'm trying to create a \mark which contains: \markup {\bold \large "D.S. al" \musicglyph #"scripts.varcoda" } ...and I'm not getting entirely what I need. The varcoda sign is too low and too close to the preceding text. I've been searching through the docs to find a solution and have not yet

varSign?

I ran across a variant of "Segno" which can be viewed here: http://notendur.centrum.is/~bobroff/varSign/varSign.html It's pretty obvious; it's just to the right of the time signature. I don't think I can produce a cleaner one but I was wondering if this glyph could be added. LilyPond already

Re: Parallel music coming out in series

I don't have the inventions available to look at but my memory says that the ornament should occur on beat 4 on the 'b8'. You've put in too much skip time in the UpperOrnamentVoice. It starts: s2 s1 ...which is equal to six beats. Typo? Change it to: s2 s4 ..or.. s2. ...and your probl

Re: how to add a utf-8 character to the title

If you're using a UTF-8 aware editor it should be a simple matter to simply enter your accented 'e' in your input file and have it appear in the output. Is your editor UTF-8 aware/capable and are you saving the file as UTF-8? -David Brian Kidd wrote: hello, this seems like a simple thing,

Re: Looking for Time signature tweak

It would be easier for someone here to find the problem if you posted your input code. -David Villum Sejersen wrote: I am presently typesetting (version 2.13.2) a small SATB motet from the composer's 23-years old original hand-written manuscript. As usual in such cases finding out what was ac

Re: getting rid of ' and , in older scores

jEdit, or any decent editor for that matter, has a 'search/replace' function. Can't you simply search for ' and , and replace with ? This would cost you a few seconds per file. I imagine that you could also use sed to do this even faster. -David Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, I've

Re: Specialist staff for Hungarian bagipe

I'm sure you can get LilyPond to do what you need. Start here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying-single-staves#Modifying-single-staves -David Arle Lommel wrote: I have made a specialist notation for notating the Hungarian bagpipe and am hoping to figure out a

indentation question

I noticed something which seemed peculiar to me. When editing a *.ly file I found I got an error when using \appoggiatura inside a slur. I realized that this was probably due to \appoggiatura using a normal slur construct. When I used a phrasing slurs around the \appoggiatura the error went

Re: Confused about asterisk notation

Brandon Olivares wrote: Hi, I converted a midi to lilypond format, and am trying to make my way through the notation. One of the tracks starts with this: s16*259 16 16 16 s16 16 16 I get that s16, I think, is pretty much equivalent to a 16th rest for that voice? But what's s16*259? Is that a

Re: Stroked quarter note

Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I am transcribing a music that uses a lot of quarter notes that have their beam stroked. Acccordingly with my few music knowledge, this means that the note can be splited in two notes. Any body knows how to mimic this in Lylipond? I just found it for grace notes. Th

Re: memory problem?

Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/4/29 David Bobroff : Cannot allocate memory How much RAM and swapfile amount do you have? 2Gb physical RAM. On the coLinux side there is a swap file that claims to be 524,288kb (512Mb?) and on the Windows side the paging file for virtual memory is 2,046Mb

memory problem?

I'm having a problem that I don't understand. I have a file which makes a book of etudes. I'm using a series of \bookpart{} blocks inside a \book{} block. When I try to run the whole thing I get this at the end of the terminal output: Layout output to `ten.ps'... Converting to `./ten.pdf'.

Re: Transpose

Maybe if you posted your *.ly file we could give you a more informative answer. Without seeing that it is difficult to diagnose your problem. -David Ossie Wilson Snr wrote: I am using LP 2.8.6 on a Windows 98 300MHz machine. My current problem is in transposing a song (for a grand daught

Re: very big pdf ps

Point and click is on by default. I saw no switching off of point and click. This would greatly reduce the size of the PDF. -David Francois Planiol wrote: Hi dear lilyponders, I set a piece for organ (see source here); the admin of the webpage where the piece is published asked if its poss

auto-beaming

I'm trying to work out some auto-beaming modifications. In 2/4 time I want: 4 8th notes beamed 4 16th notes beamed 8 32nd notes beamed with a subdivision at the 8th note level Is this possible? I understand that I'll need to revert some beaming rules in auto-beam.scm. Frankly, I get a bit lo

Re: "Orphaned pages"

Håvar Skaugen wrote: Hello Thanks for developing lilypond. I have begun to typeset all my music with lilypond and I'm very content with the results. However, there's one feature I'm missing: Is it possible to make lilypond avoid orphaned pages; pages that have only one staff or system. Thes

Re: Multi measure rest for non 4/4 measures

Check the section on whole measure rests. You should have a capital 'R' instead of a lower case 'r' after your time signature. -David lucifree wrote: Hi I wanted to have something like that : \set Score.skipBars = ##t \time 12/8 r1*12/8*4 ie the multi measure rest with a big 4 on top of it

Re: Drum writing...is there a way to save and recall custom commands?

RandomLilyPondUser wrote: I'm writing drum scores, and it takes a lot of copy and pasting for flams, ruffs, and gracenotes. For example, every time I need a flam, I have to paste this entire code: \override Stem #'length = #4 \acciaccatura {sn8} \revert Stem #'length sn4 is there a way I can ma

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

I've noticed that myself. For me the answer was to *print* the PDF with Acrobat Reader. -David Chip wrote: When I view my file as .pdf it shows the very small margins all the way around the page. When I print the .pdf using jpedal I get what appears to be 1" margins left and right and bottom

Re: Fermata on bar line

Tim Yang wrote: Hi: How do I put a fermata on the bar line instead on top of a note? I think what's generally done is to put a fermata inside a \mark which will place it directly over the barline. -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: line missing from portato and tenuto

abqconlon wrote: I am using the \portato and \tenuto to add articulations to my music. In both cases the horizontal line does not appear in the PDF. In the case of the portato, the dot does appear so it looks like a staccato. my \staccato and \accent and others that I have tried work fine. One

Re: another newbie download problem

Pierre Russell Straddler wrote: preface: I just got a "top posting" error message, which I've never seen before. I apologise for this breech of protocol and etiquette Hi there I tried to download Lilypond from the lilypond site. When I "do what I am told" (i.e. "open with text editor

Re: two-pass line breaking

Basil, I've massaged your input file a bit. I think this produces what you want. Notice I commented out the Score.timing line. % melody = \relative c' { %\set Score.timing = ##f f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a b f4 g a

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

Mats Bengtsson wrote: Can anybody explain why 90% of all the newcomers who send a "how do I run the program" or "how do I install the program" or similar, send it to bug-lilypond instead of lilypond-user? Where on the web is the bug mailing list so much more visible than the usage list? Or, per

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