RE: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-26 Thread Eduardo Vieira da Silva
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly > From: jvrom...@squirrel.nl > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:47:15 +0100 > > Johan Vromans writes: > > > Either approach (plugin and Rosegarden) requires quite some manual > > editing. > > I tried it on a project I was just

Changing alignment of lyrics at the beginning of a new system

2008-08-22 Thread Eduardo Vieira da Silva
could be used to make the first syllable of a new system to be left aligned automatically. I hope I can make sense. Anyone takes the challenge? Sorry but I have no Scheme knowledge. I'm trying to get a grasp of Python first... Edua

Re: GDP: tutorial final draft

2007-11-22 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello! I just noticed this typo in the page: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Voices-and-vocals.html#Voices-and-vocals instead of: You have already seen the \lyricsAdd{} command it should be: You have already seen the

Re: GDP: tutorial final draft

2007-11-22 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello! I just noticed this typo in the page: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Voices-and-vocals.html#Voices-and-vocals instead of: You have already seen the \lyricsAdd{} command it should be: You have already seen the

Re: Introduction to Lilypond in Portuguese

2007-09-08 Thread Eduardo Vieira
razilian user too. Lately the busyness of life has prevented me to contribute more to the Lilypond documentation, even in a translation. Good job! I hope some day I can do more for these brilliant piece of software. Eduardo Vieira __

Re: sunday school music

2007-09-08 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, with your help I'm getting there! > > I had figured out having a second DevNull voice to space the repeating > last night. > > I'm not sure I understand the second snippet tho. > > also I'm sure that there is some kind of \markup that I can use

Re: SVG output sponsorship

2007-08-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Vivian Barty-Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I'm using various bits of graphics in this piece > which aren't natively supported by Lilypond. Although I could add them > all as EPS markups, the amount of time I would spend adjusting the > positions of them makes it a lot easier to do it this w

Re: PSPad: a Lily-friendly editor for Windows

2007-07-07 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando madhg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I used to use Crimson for writing lilypond. Excellent for small projects, > less convenient for a large project with one main file to be compiled and > several other files contaning the music for individual staves. > > I can now recommend another editor, PSP

Re: ly2xml?

2007-02-12 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Peter Mogensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Anyway.. I assume such does not exists. I was wondering if I could > implement one my self with out knowing too much of Lilypond internals > and without writing an entire parser for the Lilypond file format (which > often changes). > > So, i see tha

Re: Lyric-notehead alignment problem

2007-02-06 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Illtud Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So there's no way to achieve what I want? Ie, manually > beamed notes with a syllable per note within a beam aligned > normally under the note? Yes, there is just use this property: \set ignoreMelismata = ##t Ar8 ddydd Sul aeth Dic yn

PDFtoMusic

2007-02-03 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, users! Read this first: Did you ever suffer for not being able to simply hear a PDF score you downloaded on the Internet? Did you, at least once, give up from using the score file sent by a friend, because his music program wasn't compatible with yours? If you changed your score editor in t

Re: Lyrics Problem

2007-01-30 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando 9-bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello! > > I got a problem adding lyrics to a piece for four brass instruments. > Although I already searched the net and some forums I didn't get any > furhter, but I hope you can help me. > > That's what I've got: > ... > \new PianoStaff << > \new St

Re: Lyrics Problem

2007-01-30 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando 9-bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello! > > I got a problem adding lyrics to a piece for four brass instruments. > Although I already searched the net and some forums I didn't get any > furhter, but I hope you can help me. > > That's what I've got: > ... > \new PianoStaff << > \new St

Technique for aligning lyrics with voices in different staves --HOWTO

2007-01-27 Thread Eduardo Vieira
(pair? toplevel-scores) output-empty-score-list) programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct* Prob::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*) continuing, cross fingers programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct* Context_def::mark_smob(scm_unused

Re: How to use the point-and-click feature in windows?

2007-01-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Note:I mentioned jEdit because the pdf viewer designed for LilypondTool > doesn`t > > work in my machine, it must be because I only have a little over 200MB of > free > > RAM usually from my 512MB Ram. > > > I don't think that is the problem. I thi

Re: Macros for typesetting chords and polyphony

2007-01-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For simpler cases I'd (also) use jEdit's Abbreviation capabilities > (instead). (Perhaps along with SuperAbbrevs plugin.) > However, you examples with abbreviations are as the following. > The second is trivial with jEdit's abbreviations. You just set

How to use the point-and-click feature in windows?

2007-01-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
What can I do to configure lilypond or whatever so that the point-and-click can work from Adobe Reader to, say jEdit or notepad? Note:I mentioned jEdit because the pdf viewer designed for LilypondTool doesn`t work in my machine, it must be because I only have a little over 200MB of free RAM usuall

Macros for typesetting chords and polyphony

2007-01-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello users! Using Autohotkey (www.autohotkey.com), I created 2 macros that intend to speed up the typing of chords. Here is what they do: First macro: -- Press q, then < > is written. -- Type the duration, e.g. < >4. As soon as you hit the "space" key, the caret moves back to one space

Re: Can you put dynamic marks in the lyrics?

2007-01-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Sietse Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hullo Kieren, > > Sietse Brouwer wrote: > > > Is it at all possible to call a dynamics mark inside \lyricmode, so > > > I can do something like \set stanza = "\f 1." ? > > Kieren MacMillan replied: > > I think > > \dynamics f 1. > > will work. > >

Re: Two notes per syllable and two syllables per note

2006-12-23 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to write a hymn in Spanish. Sometimes there are two syllables on > one note (not uncommon in hymns in Spanish, usually two vowels come together) > and there are some pairs of notes which take two syllables in some verses and > one in others. I

Re: Has anyone extended \include?

2006-12-22 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If you have done this can you share it or sell it to me? (please dont > suggest m4, I gave up on that monster) > > Thanks > Hi, Rick! Yes, this preprocessor looks scary, as well as some advanced programming with Scheme. But once I got

Re: How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>>> "Eduardo" == Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> %% I don't want the hyphen "ti" and "frut" to disappear. The others > can > >

Re: How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello list, I'm still puzzled with this problem. Can anybody help me? > We know that in some words an hyphen should be used and as part of lyrics of > a > song it must not disappear. > I'm trying to do that based on a sugge

Re: Lyrics in poly

2006-12-19 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando David Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ezequiel Sierra wrote: > > >The thing is that the music is a hymn so i cant make different lines > >of lyrics for different voices > > Ezequiel, it's hard to understand what you really want. I sent the file 001-modif.ly and it doesn't seem you are tryin

Re: Lyrics in poly

2006-12-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
it dosent work either i put all stems down even the first voice > > On Dec 18, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Eduardo Vieira wrote: > > > << \context Voice = "melodia" { \voiceOne bes'4. bes8 4 > g> } > > \context Voice = "alto" { \voiceTwo f4 f4 } >&g

How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
We know that in some words an hyphen should be used and as part of lyrics of a song it must not disappear. I'm trying to do that based on a suggestion of an older version of the manual, but to no avail: %%% Here's the snippet: %% I don't want the hyphen "ti" and "frut" to disappear. The others ca

How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
We know that in some words an hyphen should be used and as part of lyrics of a song it must not disappear. I'm trying to do that based on a suggestion of an older version of the manual, but to no avail: %%% Here's the snippet: %% I don't want the hyphen "ti" and "frut" to disappear. The others ca

How to make "undisappearable" hyphens?

2006-12-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
We know that in some words an hyphen should be used and as part of lyrics of a song it must not disappear. I'm trying to do that based on a suggestion of an older version of the manual, but to no avail: %%% Here's the snippet: %% I don't want the hyphen "ti" and "frut" to disappear. The others ca

Re: Lyrics in poly

2006-12-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Ezequiel Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > here is the file > > I altered line 75 to this. Then you can do the rest as the pattern: << \context Voice = "melodia" { \voiceOne bes'4. bes8 4 } \context Voice = "alto" { \voiceTwo f4 f4 } >> \oneVoice As Mats pointed, if you use \voiceOne and \v

Re: tie different chord

2006-12-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Ezequiel Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ~ > in a f clef > > > > dosent work > On Dec 17, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You need a *slur*, not a tie: ( ) Eduardo ___ Com o Click21 você tem sempre va

Re: Lyrics in poly

2006-12-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Ezequiel Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > to be more specific > > << \context Voice = "melodia" { \voiceOne bes'4. bes8 4 g> } { \voiceTwo f4 f4 } >> \oneVoice > > i get all stems down of that staff why? > > You should to include \new Voice (or \new Voice = "something") , after \voiceTwo:

Left alignment of lyrics when not using "lyricsto"

2006-12-16 Thread Eduardo Vieira
In the second example, the first 3 lyric-syllables are left aligned to the note-head because I specified the durations and didn't use lyricsto. Intend behaviour? % Created on Thu Dec 14 07:50:40 GMT-03:00 2006 \version "2.10.2" \include "english.ly" verse= \lyricmode { come8 good old friends }

Re: Single staff polyphony and one lyric voice

2006-12-16 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Now I try to dissociate the two voices, and the lyrics do not align > any longer. > > % ** this does not work > \new Staff \relative c' {<< > { s2. e'8 e~ >e4 e8 e~ e2 > } \\ > { r2. g,8 a~ >a4^\marku

Re: Why are these lyrics being left aligned?

2006-12-13 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems that your attachments have been filtered out by the mailing list > software. Could you please include the .ly file in the email body. > >/Mats > Ok. Here it is: % Created on Fri Feb 03 20:21:54 BRST 2006 \version "2.8.0" #(ly:set-option

Why are these lyrics being left aligned?

2006-12-12 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, list! I've been reviewing one of my first songs typesetted with Lilypond and noticed a problem that I don't know how to solve: The words for the tenor and bass become left aligned after these voices are splitted and put back together. See the picture where it shows the words "O do not fa

Re: Barlines between staffs

2006-12-11 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Maurits Lamers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I can't find in the list your first post. Did you try in the context Lyrics revert those properties for the bass? Maybe in layout you could try this that I never tested: \context { \Lyrics = SopraanLyrics { \consis

Re: Piano polyphony

2006-12-09 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Tomas Valusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > in piano music, there are often situations where temporary voices are > introduced. It's not true polyphony, because the additional voices are > temporal and are use only to mark prolonged notes. What is the simplest > way to typeset the exam

RE: lilypond and editors

2006-12-08 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I use LilyPondTool for jEdit and it is great and worth having it . My conclusion is that we may as well have two good text editors. Since I know, that jEdit is slower and I also experienced crashes or very slow instances when the Lilypond documentation w

Re: Extracting parts from a .ly file?

2006-12-06 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Joseph Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think it must have been the lilypond mailserver seeing the 'at' sign > and assuming that it is an email address, because it is wrong in the > list archives. The line should read: > > my($fin,$fout,$label) = @ARGV; > > I have put spaces either side of

Re: Extracting parts from a .ly file?

2006-12-06 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Joe wrote: > It is not pretty and it doesn't to a great deal of syntax checking but > below is a perl script I've just thrown together which extract the > parts as you require. It should pick out things like 'soprano' while > ignoring things like '\soprano'. You should save it in a file called >

Extracting parts from a .ly file?

2006-12-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello users, does anybody have a Python or Perl script to extract parts from a .ly file and save them into a different file? For example: I have several files with: soprano = { music } alto = { music } etc. and would like to get each part in a different file (soprano.ly, alto.ly, etc.ly) . If

Re: which language for programming

2006-11-22 Thread Eduardo Vieira
, Automation scripts, and so on. let us see what are our conclusions, say within 6 more months. Best regards, Eduardo Vieira ___ Com o Click21 você tem sempre vantagens! Além do email com 1 Gb, Acelerador, Blog,

Re:Crazy idea: point-and-click for PDF end-users?

2006-11-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! Foxit Reader already gives the ability of annotating PDFs, drawing shapes, etc, even for free. But doing for free adds a stamp Edited by Fox Reader, etc. What is interesting is that this stamp is not visible in Adobe Reader, just the annotations you made. So, this basic and feasible thing alrea

Re: old way of vertically centering refrain no longer works

2006-11-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Citando Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One workaround is described in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-09/msg00015.html > >/Mats > Thanks Mats! I knew there was that page somewhere but couldn't narrow my search sufficiently. Best regards, Eduardo ___

Re: old way of vertically centering refrain no longer works

2006-11-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
ew approach for that? Eduardo Vieira ___ Com o Click21 você tem sempre vantagens! Além do email com 1 Gb, Acelerador, Blog, Flog, Games e atendimento 24 horas, voce também pode falar minutos DDD com a promoção Click 21

How to add a smart alignment to my lyrics?

2006-11-08 Thread Eduardo Vieira
he code, I'd be much beholden to him. Regards, Eduardo Vieira ___ Com o Click21 você tem sempre vantagens! Além do email com 1 Gb, Acelerador, Blog, Flog, Games e atendimento 24 horas, voce também pode falar m

Enjoying version 2.9.27

2006-11-07 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! I'm using version 2.9.27 in Windows XP and am enjoying it very much. It was good to see that the ps files can be viewed in GhostView and also could be distilled with Acrobat Distiller (not a big deal tho'). EPS works nice, too. And a big thanks to Han-Wen for fixing the sizes of the shaped n

Slur usage

2006-11-06 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello list, is there a musical difference between these two styles of slurring? { e( f() g) } and { e( f g) } I have seen songs using either style. Which is more proper? Personally I prefer the latter. But I'm not a musician. Eduardo

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-11-01 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! You can google about "ChordML", I think it is what you need. There are some shareware for these kind of job, too. I don't remember the names, but a search with "lyrics and chords" gave me a few hits. Good luck. Eduardo ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Making notes in Scheme?

2006-10-16 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, to me Scheme/Lisp is (still) Greek. But you may find interesting what FOMUS has to offer, if you`re thinking of algorithmical composition. Check it out: http://common-lisp.net/project/fomus/ Eduardo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: partcombine not giving joy for hymns

2006-09-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi,   I have found that \partcombine is not the ideal tool for hymns if you follow this convention: soprano and alto in the same staff as chords, if the interval is of a second or unison, then the stems are split (soprano, stem up; alto, stem down). Now you have to choices: either typeset th

Re: Tying only one note of a chord?

2006-07-27 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, Trevor! I didn't notice much difference with the thickness using your technique. But, anyway, you can tweak the thickness, too. Now for the question as to whether it is possible to tie only one note fo chord, this snippet compiles with warning, but shows it is possible: %%% BEGIN %%%

Re: Lyrics and centering

2006-07-25 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Kieren wrote: > As for the "automatic placement" issue, I have to say that I do a > fair bit of manual tweaking of my lyrics, in order to "make it fit" > or "make it look good" -- as you indicated, I think Lilypond does a > pretty amazing job, considering how complex (and, often, subjective) >

Re: selecting fonts -- partial solution (Mac OS X)

2006-07-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Recently I switched from Windows Me to XP, and haven't tried to change fonts yet. But lilypond generates a file located in c:\Documents and Settings\???\ called .lilypond-2.9.5-font.cache-1 that lists all the fonts of the system, I suppose. You should check how the name of the font is written in

Re: Problems with melismata

2006-07-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Strange. I use version 2.9.5 and I didn't get any warning. The output you can see in the png file. Maybe you should try it in a stable version (2.8.x) Armin Wrote: "Thank you for the link, but it does not solve the problem. I get the extender in the text, but the text then starts only at the

Re: Problems with melismata

2006-07-14 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! I think this message can help you: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-03/msg00514.html - Original Message - From: "Armin Lambacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:20 AM Subject: Problems with melismata Hello, I tried the following

Re: Stick glyph?

2006-07-07 Thread Eduardo Vieira
There are three workarounds I can think of: 1- If you have these glyphs in a musical font, use them as markups, changing the default font with the musical one. 2- Use PostScript. One can insert a PostScript code as a markup. For us that don't know PostScript, we could make the glyph in CorelDra

Re: Problem Adding Lyrics to Poly

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! Replace this line: << \new Voice = "staffCinco" { \voiceOne { bes'4. bes8 4 } } { \voiceTwo f4 f } \oneVoice >> With this: << { \voiceOne { bes'4. bes8 4 } } { \voiceTwo f4 f } >> \oneVoice Erase this line: \set associatedVoice = staffCinco *** A Good Tip: Checke this site

Re: Chords with ()

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! Check this message for an answer: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00708.html - Original Message - From: "Ezequiel Sierra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Chords with () > Does anyone know how to put the chords

Re: New user + notation queries

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
e same thing, but with PDF files > accessible via the web instead. > > Eduardo Vieira wrote: >> Hello, I don't really understand what you want your score to look like about >> those invisible notehead. Maybe you could post a small picture of what you >> ca

Re: Problem with this file

2006-07-03 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Ola, Ezequiel! The problem of lyrics jumping to another stanza can be solved by doing this: Substitute all the constructs: << { "notes" } \\ { notes }>> with: << { \voiceOne "notes" } \new Voice { \voiceTwo "notes" } >> \oneVoice If you do it this way, you won't probably need to use stemUp an

Re: New user + notation queries

2006-06-29 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, I don't really understand what you want your score to look like about those invisible notehead. Maybe you could post a small picture of what you can do using Finale. And we would see to the right solution. Joseph wrote: >>> (2) In the second bar, you can see that there are sometimes re

Re: proportional grace notes

2006-06-23 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! I may be giving you the wrong information, but in the Program reference (Scheme Functions) about ly:make moment it reads: "Function: ly:make-moment n d gn gd Create the rational number with main timing n/d, and optional grace timin gn/gd. Moment is a point in musical time. It is

Re: Documentation - first impressions of the latest manual

2006-06-23 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Anthony wrote: There's also the little matter of the examples are supposed to be "here's how to put a hyphen into lyrics text" and if I fix them, I'll be turning them into examples of "here's how to force a hyphen into lyrics when lily doesn't want to do it". - Hi! I guess the simpler s

Re: DYI \chordcombine

2006-06-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
could change their direction tweaking TieColumn properties. Eduardo - Original Message - From: Simon Dahlbacka To: Eduardo Vieira Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:57 AM Subject: Re: DYI \chordcombine On 6/21/06, Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: DYI \chordcombine

2006-06-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
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Re: Pronunciation of the author's names

2006-06-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Thank you! Now I have an idea. - Original Message - From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:06 AM Subject: Re: Pronunciation of the author's names > Shamus schreef: >>> Meeting Han-Wen last time I asked him

Re: Export from Lilypond

2006-06-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Tomasz wrote: How other score formats i can create from my lily scores. It should be openable in other score editors (finale or capella). It is possible ? I can't see it in docs. Regards Tomasz - Hi! Lilypond only exports to midi. Maybe in the future it will export to MusicXML. Depend

Re: DYI \chordcombine

2006-06-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! Isn't \partcombine what you need? Eduardo - Original Message - From: Simon Dahlbacka To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: DYI \chordcombine I've been wanting something like \chordcombine, i.e. combine multiple voices into chords if they occ

Re: shape notes

2006-06-20 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Great! This topic was brought up right in time. I was about to post one similar. In the past I had sent the attachment (shapednotesnew.pdf) to Han-Wen, and I would like to request some changes to the shaped notes design: -> The half-notes (minims) in many shaped notes songbooks have one or more

Pronunciation of the author's names

2006-06-19 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello list, How do you pronounce Nienhuys? And Jan Nieuwenhuizen? Thanks, Eduardo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

How many users?

2006-06-19 Thread Eduardo Vieira
I was just curious, nothing else, to know how many users are subscribed to this list. Eduardo Vieira ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: barline problem

2006-06-14 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello users, Ghostscript comes with tools for ps/pdf conversion into several formats. Xpdf converts pdf->ps->pdf. They all run in Windows. Another thing to try is to convert the PDF into PDF again, using print to PDF tools. There are many like that for free, like PDF995. I may be wrong but Te

Re: stemUp stemDown with chords

2006-06-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! Try the following (Also read the manual where it says "explicitly instanting voices"): << \new Voice {\voiceOne d'4 c'2} {\voiceTwo b4 a2}>> \oneVoice Cheers, Eduardo - Original Message - From: "Mark Dewey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:45 AM Subje

Re: How to work with makefile?

2006-06-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
ony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduardo Vieira<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes>Hello list! Once in a while I see .ly examples posted in this list in a zip file >containing several pieces and a file called "

How to work with makefile?

2006-05-31 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello list! Once in a while I see .ly examples posted in this list in a zip file containing several pieces and a file called "makefile". I suppose it is to put all the parts together. Is it possible to work with it Windows?   Regards,   Eduardo ___

Fw: Lilypond developing: getting started

2006-05-29 Thread Eduardo Vieira
- Original Message - From: "Eduardo Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kieren Richard MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Lilypond developing: getting started Hi, Kieren! I'm not one of the developers, o

Re: Connecting notes on separate staves...

2006-05-20 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi, Rick!   Try this: \once \override NoteColumn #'X-offset = #1.3 8 r r Adjust the number until you're satisfied.   Regards,   Eduardo   - Original Message - From: Rick Hogg To: Thies Albrecht ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 6:13 PM Subject: R

Re: Question about lyrics in voices

2006-05-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi, Shelagh! For your lyrics to be properly aligned with "lyricsto", you need to "explicitly instantiate voices" (See this section in the docs). So instead of << \\ >>, do this: << \new Voice { \voiceOne g4\rest\p d8 d fs4 fs ~| fs d fs fs ~| %this [*was*] problem section fs d fs fs | a g fs2 }

Re: Stacking up lyrics in same stanza

2006-05-11 Thread Eduardo Vieira
> My problem is about stacking up lyrics in the same stanza, bracketing them > and vertically adjusting the stanza number. See picture. > I played around with a lot of things for days, but I did not find any serios > workaround. Please, help! Hi, Collin Wilding, one of the Lilypond users ga

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-03 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Sorry for prolonging this thread... but have you taken a look at David Raleigh Arnold's "Lilypond Tools"? They are some interesting Python scripts for handling "\include" among other things. I forgot the URL, so use Google, please. Eduardo Vieira - Original M

Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

2006-05-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
icsto two { ... } \context Lyrics = verseTwo \lyricsto one { ... } I hope I didn't confuse you even more:) Eduardo Vieira ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

2006-05-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
icsto "one" \new Lyrics { Lu lu lu lu } And add these words to the first lyricsto: La la la la Lu lu lu lu As to the vertical spacing between lines of lyrics, I'll give you a hint. See in the manual the SATB template, a line that ends with "extent". Good luck!

Re: Syllables not centered under notes after volta

2006-04-29 Thread Eduardo Vieira
gt;With: \lyricsto "one" I'm not in a position to judge it a bug. I'm a beginner. So, I'll let the experts have their judgement. Best regards, Eduardo Vieira - Original Message - From: "Eyolf Ostrem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Frida

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-26 Thread Eduardo Vieira
- Original Message - From: "Jennifer Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff > > Sorry for answering my own post, but I have found something that may be > relevant; in the manual,

Re: Boxes and bars

2006-04-26 Thread Eduardo Vieira
I, a beginner too, and maybe others don't really understand your need, but here are my guesses (I hope someone else will help too). My first advice is to upgrade your version of Lilypond. :) About item 2: You might find answers in 8.4.1 Polymetric notation. Also if you use \set Score.defaultBarType

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

2006-04-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
You can use the tool, pstoedit, which can be included in Ghostview. It exports to a variety of vector formats including wmf. Some filters are shareware, though. Another option is to find an old version of Corel Draw, sometimes they very inexpensive. I have Corel 7. Good luck, Eduardo - Origi

Alignment of lyrics in the beginning of each system

2006-04-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! I would like to have the first lyric syllable of a stanza automatically left-aligned in the begining of each new system. Is it possible currently? I know that if I specify line breaks, and change the alignment of the next syllable, this is easily obtained. But I'd rather not to add line bre

Re: shifting an aligned syllable further yet

2006-04-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
ichard MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eduardo Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:05 PM Subject: Re: shifting an aligned syllable further yet > Hi, Eduardo: > > > Hello list, I wonder how can I shift these two left-aligned lyric

shifting an aligned syllable further yet

2006-04-21 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello list, I wonder how can I shift these two left-aligned lyric syllable more to the right and they would still be left-aligned in relation to each other?   Here's my code:   \version "2.8.0"   vI = \lyricmode {  \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1Great is the Lord! }vII = \l

Re: Cannot get the lyrics in polyphony

2006-04-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
'' { << \new Voice = nogood { \voiceTwo do2 re8 mi8 fa8 sol8 } { \voiceOne mi2 fa8 sol8 la8 si8 } >> \oneVoice | << \context Voice = nogood { \voiceTwo do1 } { \voiceOne sol1} >> \oneVoice } Eduardo Vieira - Original Message - From: "Ric

Re: Feature requests

2006-04-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Horton are going to make some contributions to the docs about Vocal Music in a near future, that's why I'm researching more about lily's lyrics management. - Original Message - From: Jacob Cooper To: Cameron Horsburgh ; Eduardo Vieira ; Geoff Horton Sent: Saturday, April 1

Re: Feature requests

2006-04-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Jacob Cooper wrote: > I don't care as much how > they're entered as how they're output. Right now, it looks like syllables are > aligned so that the left edge of the longest syllable (in polyphonic choral > music) is aligned with the center of the note it's matched with, and in every > other part,

Re: Helping with the documentation

2006-04-15 Thread Eduardo Vieira
k about the documentation page: The PDF for "Regression Tests" and "Tips and Tricks" have the same name: collated-files.pdf. It would be good to have different names for each. Regards, Eduardo Vieira ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: PDF file sizes on windows. Feedback wanted

2006-04-07 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi, I'm using Lilypond in Windows ME. Actually, I never noticed that the size of the PDFs are big, usually they're much smaller than the PS. I also have ghostscript 8.50 installed in c:\gs\gs8.50. Here's what I got: C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/GDI32.dll bff35a413bee4c1dd468a96ee65c8b5e C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/USER

Re: combining stems

2006-03-28 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi, Simon! I had been wondering about the same thing and browsing the list archive I found a solution in the thread "Stemming for hymnal" I think the solution for you would be to arrange the score block like this \score { << \voiceOne \sopranThree \altThree \tenorThree >> } I've been testing t

how to use a postscript font in a .ly file?

2006-03-20 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello friends, I'm wondering how can I use a PostScript font in a text markup for my score. Here are my settings: Windows ME, Lilypond 2.7.39, the installed font: Isabella (c:\psfonts\iz__.PFB). I saw in the regression tests an example (font-postcript.ly), but I can't figure out myself how to

Re: [somewhat-OT] tweaking Lilypond PS/PDF output in (e.g.) Illustrator

2006-02-25 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi Kieren, I'll share some of my similar experiences. I have Corel Draw 7 (Windows), and I could import Lilypond .ps files with no trouble if they were from version 2.6.3. But I had to choose the option of importing text as vector, not as text, for if I tryied otherwise all the music glyphs that a

working with abc2ly

2006-02-23 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello users, There's a part in the manual that says: "Similarly, %%LY slyrics more words will cause the text following the "slyrics" keyword to be inserted into the current line of lyrics" Sorry, but I still don't understand this. Does anybody have an abc file with such "slyrics" tweaking? I wo

linewidth and header alignment

2006-02-18 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello fellow users, I still don't know how to make the header items to be aligned with the staff when I change its linewidth. I have set the paper to a5, the linewidth is 11.5. Now the composer name remains where it was, before I changed the linewidth. How do I do this? Thanks, Eduardo Windows

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