Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 5:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1) save typing 2) help lilypond so it does't need to

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 6:22 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1)

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/13/10 11:49 AM, James Bailey wrote: On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: Any chance the full-measure/multi-measure problem will get fixed? How can we merge a multi-measure rest with a part-measure rest? Unless things have changed, even trying to merge multi-measure rests

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-12 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 6:19 PM, James Bailey wrote: 2) In another measure the upper voice has a quarter rest followed by a half note on the bottom line of the staff. The lower voice has a dotted half rest. The problem here is that the half note in the upper voice is so low on the staff that it prints over

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/11/10 5:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1) save typing 2) help lilypond so it does't need to

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
So I finally separated the dynamics from the notes, and it works! But I had a couple of problems: 1) Whenever both instruments have a rest, Lilypond stacks them vertically. James Bailey sent me a link to a snippet that fixes that. (How did he know that was going to be my next problem?) My

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread James Wilkinson
On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: When I put two voices on the same staff that have identical markings for dynamics and tempo, Lilypond prints them both, one above the other. [...] Back to my original question: if Lilypond can see that one of these things needs to be moved, how hard w

Re: minor inconsistency in \paper-settings?

2010-10-05 Thread James Wilkinson
On 10/3/10 3:45 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: It would seem desirable to have a warning message when a non-existent property is set in a \paper{} block. Why not whenever a non-existent property is set anywhere? +++

notes sharing stems

2010-09-30 Thread James Wilkinson
\version 2.13.34 I've got three percussion voices sharing a staff. When I made the bottom two voices be \voiceTwo and \voiceFour, I got downward stems, but each note had its own stem. Then I tried making them both be \voiceTwo. That gave me the printed output that I wanted: when notes coincid

Re: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-28 Thread James Wilkinson
At 4:26 PM -0400 9/28/10, James Wilkinson wrote: I was using Lilytool in jEdit. There's a button there to update versions. When you do that it reports progress in a console window. The last message that it printed was "Applying conversion". Nothing after that. It always wor

Re: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-28 Thread James Wilkinson
> Gets to the point of saying "Applying conversion:" and just stops Others might understand this, but I haven't a clue what you're saying. Could you be a little more specific about what you're doing and what is happening? (head hanging in shame; must have been getting late) I was using Lily

2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Gets to the point of saying "Applying conversion:" and just stops -- - Jimmy Wilkinson| Professor Emeritus of Computer Science ji...@cs.cofc.edu| The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston S

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:07 +0200 From: "Vicente Solsona" Subject: Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff To: lilypond-user@gnu.org, "James Wilkinson" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:19:05 +0200, Jam

duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-23 Thread James Wilkinson
\version 2.13.31 When I put two voices on the same staff that have identical markings for dynamics and tempo, Lilypond prints them both, one above the other. Looking in the archives the other day I saw that the approved solution is to pull these markings out and attach them to another voice

Re: Where does "\override Score.BarNumber ..." go

2010-09-02 Thread James Wilkinson
Jay Anderson wrote: If you want it to apply globally here's probably what you're wanting to do: \version "2.13.31" \layout { \context { \Score \override BarNumber #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) } } \score { << \new Staff { \repeat unfold 40 { c

where does "override Score.BarNumber ....." go

2010-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
All the examples that I've found using this line have it in with the notes: \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) I'm making a full score for maybe two dozen instruments, each with its own music expression. Everywhere that I tried putting this line in the descriptio

Re: vertical spacing not under my control

2010-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
I added a \paper block and put in it between-system-spacing = #'((space . 20) (stretchability . 30)) which I found in the "Vertical Dimensions" section, which I got to from a link in the "Vertical spacing between systems" sections that one of you pointed me to. For a while it kept saying "wa

Re:(de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Here's a small example that produces the message. Looks innocuous to me, but ... -- - Jimmy Wilkinson| Professor Emeritus of Computer Science ji...@cs.cofc.edu| The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160

(de)crescendo on items with specified volume

2010-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm getting this message: "programming error: (de)crescendo on items with specified volume" The output looks fine, but I'd like to eliminate the message, anyway. It doesn't tell me what or where I did that makes it unhappy, and I'm not sharp enough to tell from the message itself why it's unha

vertical spacing uncontrollable

2010-08-31 Thread James Wilkinson
I was wondering why I never got a response to this. Turns out that I sent it to gun.org. Duh. Let's try again. version is 2.13.29-1 This is a flute part, so there's just one staff per system. It's two pages long. Page one has 8 staves spaced to fill the page. Page two has 7 staves that are

programming error: stopped tuplet bracket has left nor right bound

2010-08-25 Thread James Wilkinson
I found a trick, I believe in the snippets, that enabled me to extend a crescendo across a rest. That involved adding a parallel voice made up of spaces and attaching the crescendo to them instead of to the notes. It worked, and I got correct output, but it gave the message quoted above. I've i

This works, but I don't understand why

2008-02-12 Thread James Wilkinson
The d flat has both an accent and a staccato mark over it. Lilypond wants to put he accent on top of the staccato. I wanted the staccato on top of the accent. Here are four tries. Two of them work; two of them don't. (no surprise there) Two seem to be according to the manual page 96; two don't

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 60, Issue 46

2007-11-17 Thread James Wilkinson
> the instrument name "oboe" does not print \version "2.11.27" \include "LoHow.ly" \context Staff { \set Staff.instrument = "oboe" \clef treble \alto} If you look at the current docs, you'll see that the relevant properties are now called "instrumentName" (for the name on the first system

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 60, Issue 42

2007-11-16 Thread James Wilkinson
This still works just fine except that the instrument name "oboe" does not print at the beginning of the first line. That part was working just fine a year ago. Can anybody tell me what happened? I've tried 2.11.27 and 2.10.33, and it doesn't work with either of them. Ii can't remember what ver

a modest proposal for input syntax

2007-08-09 Thread James Wilkinson
My biggest problem in typing input is getting notes in the correct octave. Relative mode doesn't help me that much because I have to stop and think which direction is within a fourth of the previous note. The thing that's unambiguous is direction. If I'm on the b in the middle of the staff,

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 80

2006-05-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Message: 8 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:46:56 -0400 From: James Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: subdivided beams partially successful I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into s

index glitch?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
While scrolling through the index I noticed an entry for "The Feta Font" alphabetized by "The" in the T section. There is no corresponding entry alphabetized by "Feta" in the F section. This seems wrong on both counts. -- - Jimmy Wilki

cues?

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
My original contains cues: small notes (played by someone else) near the end of an extended rest that are there to help the player come back in at the right time. I suppose that my problem is that I don't know what such notes are called in Europe. I couldn't find "cue" in the index. thanks -

subdivided beams partially successful

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into subgroups of three. I.e. the top beam covers six stems, and there are two bottom beams, one for the first three notes and one for the second three notes

pageBreak fails

2006-05-26 Thread James Wilkinson
I couldn't get \pageBreak to work consistently in 2.7.27 I was doing something like this example from the web site: title = "Konzert Nr. 3 Es dur" subtitle = "für Horn und Orchester" composer = "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)" I had three movements, which I put into separate include

small things in jEdit plugin

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
I'm reporting this here because I don't know where else to report it. The jEdit plugin gives you an autocompletion list when you type a \. Some things appear to be missing from the list of choices. I've not made an exhaustive search, but came across the following: \< \f \!. What happens i

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 39, Issue 32

2006-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: combining files What didn't work? First of all, you can skip the \book command, which is implicitly added around any LilyPond input file if you don't write it yourself. Also, within each \score{...}, the music should come before the \heade

crescendo ruins MIDI file

2006-02-16 Thread James Wilkinson
I have an example in which the insertion of a crescendo in the music causes the generated MIDI file to be bad. Removing the crescendo fixes the problem. Is this a known problem? I'm using version 2.7.17 on Windows. A second thing: \< and \f don't work the same way in jEdit as \p. It looks li

Re: Double notes

2001-11-25 Thread James Wilkinson
hat does the trick perfectly. James. -- James Wilkinson Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it c

Double notes

2001-11-22 Thread James Wilkinson
reves, touching, both on the C (ledger) line. How do I get this effect in Lilypond? Thanks in advance, James. -- James Wilkinson Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ___ Lil