I get the impression that most of the serious Lilypond users want to use
only Lilypond for editing their scores. I used Lilypond with Inkscape for
years, for my purposes it was an ideal combination since I could create
absolutely any graphic effect or edit on the scores; no extra programming
requ
eople here
have worked on this sort of problem before, so any advice would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks for any help,
Gerard McConnell
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Hello, I've switched to Frescobaldi, it's great. How do I set up where the
output files are stored? The initial setup sends them to a Windows/temp/
folder but I want to change that.
Thanks for any help,
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Hi, the default keyboard shortcut for toggling the music view on/off uses
the META key. Which key is that?Is is possible to maximise/restore the
music view?
Thanks,
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I can't talk about dyslexia, but for people who don't have that problem
sight-reading is usually pretty hard too. How much time do you spend per
day practising sight-reading? It's hard to improve at all unless you're
doing consistent daily work on it. The rate of Improvement is usually
closely
How do you get Lilypond to output SVG from Frescobaldi?
Thanks,
Gerard
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Hello, the following:
"\"Some" -- "day\"",
produces:
syntax error, unexpected ','
and "\"Some" -- "day,\"" gets "Some-day,"
however the result I want is: "Some-day",
What is the correct syntax for that?
Thanks for any help,
Gerard
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Nope, I haven't figured out how to do that.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Shane Brandes wrote:
> Can you make the measures less long so you can easier see the whole cantus
> firmus? There is a vast amount of space for one note at a time.
>
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Hello,
I've written a set of Java applets to help students practise first year
counterpoint exercises. How could I go about finding out if someone
somewhere would be interested in giving advice on its design or any other
aspect? In a perfect world someone might like to help with the coding, but
I
If you don't get fixed up here it's worth visiting the Inkscape help squad:
https://launchpad.net/inkscape
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There was a windows update recently which broke the fonts, this has now
been fixed with a more recent update. It gave me trouble last month too -
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1090851
Lilypond + Inkscape is the best notation solution I've used :-)
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Hello,
A Microsoft security update prevents me from using Lilypond's OpenType
Century Schoolbook L.
I need to use an alternative for Lyrics and Tab numbers.
I replaced the default fonts with the following from section 1.8.3 in the
Notation Reference:
myStaffSize=#20
#(define fonts
(ma
Apparently Microsoft has created the problem:
«Known issues with this security update
We are aware of issues related to OpenType Font (OTF) rendering in
applications such as PowerPoint on affected versions of Windows that occur
after this security update is applied. We are currently investigat
t having to go through the old
material?
Thanks again,
Gerard
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:06 AM, SoundsFromSound
wrote:
> Gerard McConnell-2 wrote
> > Thanks Joram,
> > I checked with Firefox on my machine and it displays the svg fine too.
> > Does it seem that there must be some sett
Thanks Joram,
I checked with Firefox on my machine and it displays the svg fine too.
Does it seem that there must be some settings in Inkscape that I need to
fix?
Gerard
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Noeck wrote:
>
>
> Am 15.12.2012 23:46, schrieb Gerard McConnell:
> > Phil,
to either 2.16.1 or latest development and let us
> know if you still have problems.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> *From:* Gerard McConnell
> *To:* lilypond-user@gnu.org
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 15, 2012 9:53 PM
> *Subject:* sv
Hello,
I'm using v 2.13.50. Is there any known problem with the SVG output? I'm
losing numbers and text when I try to open it with Inkscape 0.48.
Thanks for any help,
Gerard
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Hello, I would like to print lyrics below tab staff.
The following produces the tab plus unwanted music notation at actual pitch
with lyrics underneath
that.
\score {
\new TabStaff {
d4\4 d\4 a\3 a\3 b\3 b\3 a2\3
}
\addlyrics {
Twink -- le twink -- le lit -- tle star,
I haven't tried this, but it seems to me that the relevant snippet is
likely to be:
Suppressing warnings for clashing note columns
If notes from two voices with stems in the same direction are placed at the
same position, and both voices have no shift or the same shift specified,
the error message
Hello,
Sorry to repost this, I've checked the manual pretty thoroughly, I think,
and can't find the answer.
I don't mean to be a nuisance, I won't post this again.
Is it possible to specify a channel for MIDI output?
Also, is there a choice of encoding that will allow me to read the contents
of the
If this sort of work is done just for your own students then the *extremely
easy and fast* way to do it is by taking Lilypond's SVG output and editing
it in Inkscape. That will allow you to do ANY sort of graphics work
(colors, pictures, etc.) on your score with pinpoint accuracy.
On Fri, Nov 2
Hello,
I understand that I can send information to separate (sequential) MIDI
channels by using different staves.
Is it possible to specify a specific MIDI channel for a staff?
Thanks,
Gerard
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Eleven furlongs?
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mark Stephen Mrotek
> wrote:
> > If this were a video the Hallelujah Course would be playing in the
> > background!
>
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Check this out: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/30724/appoggiatura
Gerard
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek
wrote:
> Mr. Thomas:
>
> ** **
>
> Actually the musical term is in Italian. It is acciaccatura. If the little
> note does not have the stroke it is called a
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:12 AM, James Harkins wrote:
> First off, I've switched from Emacs LilyPond-mode to Frescobaldi 2.
> Amazing, incredible work! SO much easier to write. (And I love the ease of
> updating via git.)
>
> But... I'm not sure if this is the right place to report a small confus
Well, if you can't transpose at sight yourself and you haven't got time to
write it out in full then you have several options.
First, learn to play it in the original key, then write the chord symbols
in the NEW key above the piano part and learn to play your own arrangement
in the new key. This
Hello,
Has anybody else been getting a lot of junk emails? It seems as if the
mailing list has been accessed by a nuisance.
Thanks,
Gerard
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Oh sorry, I just realized it's a build-from-source.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Gerard McConnell wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> unpaper looks very good, do you know if there's a Windows equivalent?
> Gerry
>
>
> unpaper is ideal for this also
Hello Mark,
unpaper looks very good, do you know if there's a Windows equivalent?
Gerry
unpaper is ideal for this also
> http://unpaper.berlios.de/
>
>
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Hello,
Does anybody here know of software that could convert a .pdf into .ly?
Mayber .pdf to .xml first, then to .ly?
Or .pdf into .svg, or some sort of image file? I got some music from the
IMSLP site, it needs to be rotated and cleaned up a bit.
Thanks for any help,
Gerard
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Hello,
Please, what's wrong with the following code:
\version "2.12.50"
\layout {
\ragged-last = ##t
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
}
it gets the error message:
error: unknown escaped string: `\ragged-last'
\ragged-last = ##t
Thanks,
Gerard
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I often see topics introduced here in which solutions are sought for
font-related or position-related problems. Almost all of these problems are
easily solved by creating an SVG file with Lilypond and then editing that
file with Inkscape.What is the downside of working this way?
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Hello,
I haven't seen this error message before, could someone explain it please?
I'm not sure I need to include the file, so I'll wait for info.
Thanks,
Gerard
> %lilypond %args "C:\Documents and Settings\Dad\Desktop\musicPages\adele.ly
"
Processing `C:/Documents and Settings/Dad/Desktop/musicPag
Your second example shows the correct beaming as required in Associated
Board theory exams.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Nick Payne wrote:
> According to Gould (p.153, about half way down the page), the Lilypond
> default beaming for 3/4 is incorrect in the following example; it should be
>
Hello,
This probably isn't really the right place to post this, but I know people
here know
the answer to my query.
I've put together a web-site for learning Fux-style species counterpoint.
Although some of the music examples were drawn in the dark days before I
discovered Lilypond, most of them we
Hello,
sorry to bring this up, I know it's been asked before but I couldn't find
the info in the docs.
I want to try out the new version; my present setup is jEdit/LilyPond 2.12.
What do I need to
reset when I install 2.13.50? Sorry about asking this, but I use LilyPond
every day and spending
seve
Hello,
The following is a chord sheet which I'll need to edit in Inkscape.
Lilypond produces the pdf fine, but when I use "%lilypond -dbackend=svg
%buffer"
the message is ": In expression (repeat-slash 2.0 1.0 ...):
: Unbound variable: repeat-slash"
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help,
gerar
This one has been around for a few years and the demo looks good -
http://www.braeburn.co.uk/demos/scanning.html
gerard
>
> > This is an active area of research; look for "music OCR" or "score
> > OCR" on google scholar. Most papers that I've seen export data in
> > musicxml format, but if you p
Thank you very much.
Gerard
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Hello,
Yesterday James Lowe mentioned drew attention to Issue 1204 at:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1204
Yet again, an excellent idea from LilyPond's developers.
Could someone please give a brief example of how to use
ly:font-config-add-directory
and
ly:font-config-add
Hello,
I've forgotten how to use an alternative music font. Of course the default
font is excellent, but last year someone mentioned an
alternative, I think it began with G, not Garamond.And then, how would I
use that instead of the default font? Sorry, I know
this has been covered but I can'
Hello,
I find that when I open a LilyPond produced guitar tablature saved as SVG in
Inkscape the fret numbers are covered with solid
retangles. I then have to go through the score removing each rectangle in
order to reveal the number underneath.
Is there a search & replace edit I can do to the SVG
... a staff. (stave? :-) ).
>
> James
>>
>
> That's a funny one; obviously plural is always staves, I think staff is
preferable for single.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Gerard
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Of course "\tuplet 9/8" is the clearest syntax for English speakers since it
correlates nicely with "a tuplet of 9 in the space of 8"; but I think Jethro
is right.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Jethro Van Thuyne
wrote:
> Why the urge to change? When \times has been used for such a long time,
Hello,
Just wondering about a behaviour when I'm using the PDF viewer in the
excellent JEdit/LilyPondTool.
With some scores, when I click on a note in the PDF I am returned to that
note in the
.ly file; with other scores this does not occur. In both cases I have the
"Follow caret" check box
select
er, I hope it's not bad etiquette to mention that it's caret.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Jan Kohnert <
nospam001-li...@jankoh.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Chip Wiegand schrieb:
> > On 10/4/2010 6:48 PM, Jan Kohnert wrote:
> > > Chip Wiegand schrieb:
> > >> Got it - I noticed you put a carot betwee
Hello,
How do I get barlines to appear in the following?
\version "2.12.0"
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
\context {
\Staff
\remove "Clef_engraver"
\override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1
}
}
\score {
\new Staff
\
I agree that in the examples you gave the accidentals look a lot better in
the 2.12 versions.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Keith E OHara wrote:
> In "First impressions of alpha test" I wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:41:24 -0700, Joe Neeman
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Do you consider this desir
2010/9/25 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
> Hello,
> I'm very glad that 2.13.34 is much better than previous devel versions
> since 2.13.24. The only shortcoming is, however, still spacing. In my case,
> the overture uses 35 pages in 2.13.24, while 37 in 2.13.34, with one
> "couldn't fit music on page:" warni
Sorry about that, brief problem with my email that resulted in
double-posting.
Excellent answer sorted my question out immediately, thanks again.
Gerard
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> Check your inbox for the answer to this question you were sent yesterday.
>
>
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Hello,
I've included a minimal example below; why doesn't it work and how do I
correct it?
(It works fine without the alto and tenor parts.)
Many thanks yet again,
Gerard
\version "2.12.2"
\score {
\new PianoStaff {
<<
\new Staff {
<<
\new Voice="soprano" { \voiceOne
Hello,
I've included a minimal example below; why doesn't it work and how do I
correct it?
(It works fine without the alto and tenor parts.)
Many thanks yet again,
Gerard
\version "2.12.2"
\score {
\new PianoStaff {
<<
\new Staff {
<<
\new Voice="soprano" { \voiceOne
I'm using 1.12.2 and get the svg output through LilyPondTool with
%lilypond -dbackend=svg %buffer.
There is no border on anything when the file is opened in Inkscape, but even
if there was, all you need to do is ungroup twice and every element is
individually accessible. You can copy, cut, paste
How do you enter that symbol (U+2FAD) on a Windows machine? Not just for
Lilypond, but text files in general?
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For these sort of situtaions I turn \autoBeamOff and use
[ ] to write beams as required.
Gerard
- Original Message -
From: u_li
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 12:24 PM
Subject: beatLength / beaming in 4/4
[sorry if this should be a double post. When
No problem with Inkscape on Windows -
LilyPondTool, LilyPond, and Inkscape seems to me
to be the current state of the art setup. Thanks again
to the developers for their outstanding generosity in
providing these great tools.
Gerard
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From: "Carl Sorensen"
To: "josé
'font-shape = #'normal
Gerard
- Original Message -----
From: "James Bailey"
To: "Gerard McConnell"
Cc: "Kieren MacMillan" ;
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: text formatting inside \addlyrics
On 22.04.2010, at 23:04, Gerard McConnell
- Original Message -
From: "Kieren MacMillan"
To: "Gerard McConnell"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: text formatting inside \addlyrics
Hi Gerard,
How do I italicize a section of text inside \addlyrics?
\markup \italic { a s
Hello,
How do I italicize a section of text inside \addlyrics?
Something like this, I figured, though this is wrong -
{ c4 c8 c c4 c }
\addlyrics { one \italic two and \normal-text three four }
which surprised me because the following does work -
\addlyrics { one \huge two and \normalsize three f
I'm still using 2.12 for the svg output. Open the .svg output file from
Lilypond with a text editor and replace all the feta-alphabet26 with
emmentaler. I'm using Inkscape 0.47, so
then I have to select the entire input file and ungroup twice, that gives you
access to all the elements. LilyP
Woo HOo! At last one I know the answer to!
Inside the \layout {} block add the following:
\context {
\Lyrics \override LyricText #'font-name = #"yourFont"
}
See Section 4 of the Learning Manual - Tweaking Output, for #'font-style, size,
etc.
I don't know the answer to many of these questions
Hello,
There have been some questions lately about things like:
slurs that cross staves, accidentals in chords, various
spacing issues, etc. These are things that are very easy
to do when Lilypond svg output is edited in Inkscape.
My question - is printed output from Inkscape inferior to
nor
I saw musicologyman's post about "double slurs
within beamed notes" and didn't quite have the
answer to his question, but realized that the edit
he wants to perform is exactly the sort of thing that is
simple to do when you use LilyPond's SVG output.
Open the SVG file in Inkscape0.47 and edit a
Are there any concerns about the images not being viewable on some
browsers
or operating systems (e.g. missing fonts)?
Hello,
I'm using LilyPond 2.12 and Inkscape 0.47 on Win XP.
The following doesn't exactly answer your question but is related.
When SVG output from LilyPond is loaded into Inks
After seeing that output, I'm curious: has anybody
played around in Lilypond with making the staff curve
around (like forming a circle, or
just bending down the page or something)? I'd like to
be able to do that.
Best,
Jonathan
This is exactly why I 'm so glad that Lilypond can
produce S
Hello,
when I use the following line in the console:
%lilypond -dbackend=svg %buffer
I'm guessing that 1. I'm calling LilyPond 2. sending it
an argument (or parameter?) and 3. telling LilyPond to
process the file in the buffer. What exactly is the %?
I presume that I can replace %buffer with a p
I'm dumbstruck by it, the combination of
LilyPond/LilyPondTool/Inkscape
is absolutely outstanding. The svg
output from LilyPond 2.12.0 opens up perfectly
in Inkscape 0.47, where the beautiful
notation can be manipulated
easily, coloured, text placed anywhere, lines
curved into circles like those
d
any .svg output file.
Should the console should be giving
me a message like "Layout output to 'filename.svg'?"
I have Lilypond version 2.12.0.
Thanks again,
Gerard
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From: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
To: Gerard McConnell
Cc: lilypond-user@
Can I get use LilypondTool to tell Lilypond to produce SVG output?
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Am I wrong in thinking that when the SVG output is usable
for Windows machines, then that output can be imported
into Inkscape, where it can be worked on further to
produce pages like those in children's piano tutors, with
pictures, circles around clefs or key signatures, pretty much
any sort
Hello,
I'm sure this is in the docs somewhere;
I've checked the index, sections 4.4 & 4.5, and the
snippets list, but I can't figure out how to write some
text (\markup?) above the clefs.
I'd also like to be able to move the text around that area
a little bit, for which I'm guessing that it'
Hello,
Here I want to change the font size of the lyrics. I've placed
\override #' font-size = # -2
before \addlyrics, just after it, inside the brackets, and various other
combinations with << >>. How do I make the lyrics smaller here?
And probably more important, is there a way I should
Hello,
As you can see from the following code snippet, the
three words don't seem to go on the same baseline under the notes. Could you
please tell me what I've done wrong?
Thanks for any help,
Gerard
\version "2.12.2"
\layout {
ragged-right = ##f
}
\score {
{
\set Staff.instrumentName =
Hi,
Perhaps a stupid question - is there any reason NOT to
upgrade from 2.12.x to 2.13.7?
Thanks,
Gerard
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On my windows machine typing
lilypond -dbackend=svg myFileName.ly
in the DOS command window does produce an SVG file, but the noteheads,
clefs, and barlines are missing.
All I get are staves, beams, and text.
Gerard
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From: "Patrick McCarty"
To: "Nate Lally"
Cc:
Hello,
I've been using Lilypond to draw examples for my
counterpoint tutorial website at:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/fugue.html
The staff lines are somewhat blurred. What is the
likely reason for this? (I'm converting the output to
.png with {lilypond --png file.ly} )
(As I state on t
To use git I would need a compiler to "build" it?
Thanks,
Gerard
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AFAIK to put an image on a web-page, I need a bitmap, not a .pdf. I can't find
any reference to .png in any of the docs. So far I've been using
alt-printScreen and Paint to produce .png files. While this sort of works, I'm
not getting the best output that Lilypond can deliver, due to minor
Hello Grammostola,
I have a website which answers your questions about scales
and chords. The site also includes several Java applets
which allow you to test your knowledge of intervals,
chords, and species counterpoint in 2 parts.
The URL is http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/mainSite.html
I
I used these:
\paper {
between-system-space = 15\mm
between-system-padding = 0\mm
}
However, I also used a page title and this:
#(set-global-staff-size 26)
It caused a number of problems, one of which is that the
distance between scores did not increase or decrease in
a predictable way. Also t
Hello, I'm in difficulty again. In the following I want to
change the text font size;
I tried \addLyrics { \markup { \fontsize #-1.0 "text" } }
which compiled without a warning and changes the
font size, but misplaces the text.
Thanks,
Gerard
\relative c' {
\new PianoStaff \with { \accept
Hello,
Why am I getting overlapping note heads in this example, and what
is the solution?
Thanks for any help,
Gerard
\score {
\new Staff {
\time 4/4
\relative c' {
<<
\new Voice { \voiceOne b'4 \times 2/3 {c8 b c} d2 ~ d4 d8 c g4 c }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo s2 s4 e
Having worked on the docs for 4 years and approximately three
thousand hours, you really don't need to convince me. Just
convince others -- and perhaps yourself -- that it's worth getting
involved. My work at this point is a meta-contributor: I
contribute (teach) people how to contribute to lily
I've been looking at the Re: date in footer thread; I can understand how the
experts get annoyed. They're doing lots of
volunteer work to develop what is a really beautiful (but horrendously
difficult to learn) program, and figure that the rest of
us should be doing our bit to sort out the doc
Hello,
I would like to use Lilypond to write sight-reading exercises for my piano
students. The exercises are generally 8 bars long, on a single system, with a
final barline at the end of each line. Each new line requires a time
signature.
How do I suppress the time signature which is insert
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