Re: automatic chord splitting in piano staff

2013-11-28 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Excellent! I can base my code on extract note. Many thanks! Jean-Alexis On 28 nov. 2013, at 00:33, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: Jean-Alexis Montignies-2 wrote Hi There! I’m writing a reduction of a big band part. The saxes have to be printed into a piano staff. For now I have written

automatic chord splitting in piano staff

2013-11-27 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi There! I’m writing a reduction of a big band part. The saxes have to be printed into a piano staff. For now I have written everything in one music expression. For instance: {g e c a,8 q8 f d b, g,4 ef c a, gf, d b, af, f,8 c a, g, e,8 r8 q4. ~ q4 r4} I would like that every note below c

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-10-30 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Warning! Don’t try to do update on Mavericks (MacOS 10.9) as QT is currently not compiling. If installed before upgrading to 10.9, Frescobaldi continues to work. Jean-Alexis On 18 oct. 2013, at 03:23, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: Davide, Thanks for the portfile and the easy to

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-06-07 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I've got a bit of experience on frescobaldi builds. I have started doing a .app bundle for Mac, but never succeeded and I am slow because of the low available time for this project. So if you want to continue upon what I have discovered, I'll switch to more technical matter. (I'm CCing

Re: Frescobaldi install (was: final score)

2013-03-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I'm a little late. There is a bug in PyQt4 last version that prevents frescobaldi to run smoothy. There is a work around but you would need frescobaldi development version. That's why I didn't answer right away. I would recommend to install qt4-mac (aqua) instead of the X11 version. This

Re: repeat unfold evaluated each time

2012-10-15 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 12 oct. 2012, at 17:27, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Is there a way to force lilypond to evaluate the repeated music each time? No. Should I write my own repeat function? Won't help as arguments are evaluated before a function is being called. The best you can do is writing

Re: missing 2.17.4 source archive

2012-10-12 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net To: Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:17 AM Subject: Re: missing 2.17.4 source archive - Original Message - From: Jean

repeat unfold evaluated each time

2012-10-12 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I'm starting to play with scheme in Lilypond. I'm adapting a snippet about creating random notes. I'd like to be able to make the code more customizable for a non coding user. So I tried something like this: random-state = # (seed-random-state (current-time)) randomNote =

midi and repeated notes

2012-10-12 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
around? Greetings, Jean-Alexis Montignies ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

missing 2.17.4 source archive

2012-10-10 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi there, I was in the process of upgrading macports to install 2.17.4 and I noticed that the source tar.gz is not in http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v2.17/ Greetings, Jean-Alexis ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: mac lion

2012-09-12 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I've been using command line only, self compiled version of Lilypond for 2 years now. The lilypond and lilypond-devel in macports are updated very regularly. I'm now running 2.17.1 on mountain lion. This version if 3-4 times faster (at least last times I compared with 2.14 versions) than

Re: Chordname collisions

2012-09-09 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi Doesn't look like a regression (at least it's there since 2.12), see bug 1700. They are some work around proposal. I would recommend that if you're annoyed by this issue, you star it in google code. Greetings, Jean-Alexis On 9 sept. 2012, at 12:59, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote:

Re: Multiple tensions in Chord Mode

2012-05-28 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 28 mai 2012, at 20:55, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 5/28/12 9:48 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote: In chord mode: c:7.9-.9+ In regular markup: c e g bes des' dis' Both of these produce a chord symbol AND chord without the flat-nine. It seems to only accommodate one 9th, and uses

Re: difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-13 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 8 mars 2012, at 07:51, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info wrote: On 7 mars 2012, at 22:14, Janek Warchoł wrote: As for your question, any reason not to set page-count = #1 to force Lily to fill one page only? Yes: I

difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi there, I've written a score and after playing with spacing, and margins I made it a one page score. But at the end of the page, there is about 20 mm left. If I increase the top margin to 1mm (it's 0 for now as is bottom margin), lilypond add a second page, though obviously from the human

Re: difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 7 mars 2012, at 12:10, Hans Aikema wrote: On 7-3-2012 11:26, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote: Hi there, I've written a score and after playing with spacing, and margins I made it a one page score. But at the end of the page, there is about 20 mm left. If I increase the top margin

Re: difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Sorry, this important information was missing :) I'm still at 2.15.29 Jean-Alexis On 7 mars 2012, at 12:19, James wrote: hello, On 7 March 2012 11:17, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info wrote: On 7 mars 2012, at 12:10, Hans Aikema wrote: On 7-3-2012 11:26, Jean-Alexis

Re: MacOS X Lion (10.7) support?

2012-03-04 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
lilypond or lilypond-devel. It's not as difficult as it seems to use the command line. You can use any text editor (as TextEdit.app) to edit your lilypond files. Jean-Alexis Montignies On 4 mars 2012, at 03:23, Jeff Kopmanis wrote: Any idea when a Lion release of Lilypond will be ready

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
I first suggested to put the column code because I think it would be probably useful. The polychord snippets would need a little more work, as I advance in the theory class, i'll know which cases are pertinent to add, but still it could be a good example. I didn't realized there were two

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-05 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
as remarked here: lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00177.html there are some problems with polychord-column. I changed it to the new dir-column-line. But in both cases the chords are aligned with their root. Depending whether an accidental is added or not the horizontal

polychords: a working solution

2012-02-03 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, For those interested, I've came to a satisfactory solution for me to display polychords. Here's a working code, though to be complete, it would require adding all the possibilities in the exceptions. I'll add the specific chords as I'll need them. As you can see you have to set two

Re: Roadblock MacOSX 10.4 for release of LilyPond 2.16

2012-02-03 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, It looks from the trace that it's the UI that's not working. May be the command line tool is still working, and may be the command line tool built from Fink (a package manager on MacOS) is working as well. (MacPorts requires MacOS 10.6). So there might be workarounds. My opinion is that

horizontal line separator in column markup (as in fraction or polychord)

2012-02-02 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I'm trying to write a polychord markup that looks like a mathematical fraction. May be I've overlooked something, but I didn't found a way to draw a horizontal line between to text lines of a column. I'm using: \markup {\override #`(direction . ,UP) \dir-column { C

Re: Chordmode et frescobaldi

2012-01-30 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
C'est je pense dû à un bug de Lilypond: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/20 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1022 :Tu peux 'voter' pour que le problème soit corrigé en cliquant dans la colonne 'Star' pour ce problème Jean-Alexis On 30 janv. 2012, at 17:26, simon

Re: Chordmode et frescobaldi

2012-01-30 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Sorry, wrong list as I was replying to the lilypond-user-fr to which I'm also subscribed. Jean-Alexis you are on an English speaking list and the chance to get an answer in your language is very small! you can also try http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/ or frescobaldi.

polychords proof of concept

2012-01-29 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, Here is a report on my attempts to display polychords in lilypond. Feedback and comments are welcome! As it's my beginnings in scheme, programming style may not be very good :). I was able to print the chord root name transposed in the markup. Now I can't print the transposed root name

Re: polychords, using root in chord markup?

2012-01-27 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 3 déc. 2011, at 05:27, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/2/11 3:59 PM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info wrote: Hi, I will have to write polychords (as my jazz harmony classes is getting to that) in Lilypond. I'm looking for ways to do this. Polychord - Wikipedia, the free

Macports lilypond-devel

2012-01-24 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've submitted a portfile for the development version of Lilypond to Macports. It should be up now so to install last (command line only) version of lilypond, you can do: sudo port install lilypond-devel Next step would be to add Frescobaldi ;)

Chords with notes collision: should I report this bug?

2012-01-10 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, Yeah I know I always find bugs with chord names ;) Or did I do something wrong? Anyway there is a strange behavior happening always on second staff line. Happy new year! Jean-Alexis k.ly Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Chords with notes collision: should I report this bug?

2012-01-10 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Well if I replace \new Voice by \new Staff, it fixes the problem! Jean-Alexis On 10 janv. 2012, at 14:16, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote: Hi, Yeah I know I always find bugs with chord names ;) Or did I do something wrong? Anyway there is a strange behavior happening always on second staff

Re: Chords with notes collision: should I report this bug?

2012-01-10 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 10 janv. 2012, at 17:40, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Chords with notes collision: should I report this bug? Hi, Yeah I

Re: Merry Christmas with Frescobaldi 2.0!

2011-12-26 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Wonderful, Thanks a lot! I've just succeeded in installing that on MacOs (using libraries compiled with MacPorts), needed to install python-poppler-qt4 and py-portmidi by hand. I already have some wishes ;). Merry christmas! Jean-Alexis On 26 déc. 2011, at 11:07, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:

polychords, using root in chord markup?

2011-12-02 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I will have to write polychords (as my jazz harmony classes is getting to that) in Lilypond. I'm looking for ways to do this. Polychord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Is it be possible to use the root or a transposed root into the markup of a chord? I could then use the extensions to

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 19 oct. 2011, at 01:03, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 18 October 2011 10:06, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. Neither way I have

Re: Font problem with fink compiled lilypond

2011-08-15 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 14 août 2011, at 23:47, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Here are the messages I get in the console: warning: no PostScript font name for font `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/10x20.pcf.gz' It's improbable that you want to use an X11 font with LilyPond. To be more precise: LilyPond only

Font problem with fink compiled lilypond

2011-08-14 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, I've been compiling lilypond with fink (MacOS X 10.6) for two years. Since a update about one year ago I didn't track down, I have some trouble with some unicode characters (in that case 0x266D which is a flat sign). The binary version works with the same chars. The advantage of the fink

Re: printed bars thickness inconsistencies

2011-07-26 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
It looks much better on screen (Preview.app: MacOS X system renderer) and on Xerox Phaser 5400! Remains a little bit of smearing on the top of the staff, but this is much less than before and could be some rounding/smoothing issue in the renderers. More specifically, on screen, the horizontal

printed bars thickness inconsistencies

2011-07-17 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi All! I have since I use lilypond some problems when printing. Bars (standard ones) are of different thickness. It happens on my printer (Xerox 5400) but no on some others so I first thought it was a printer problem. What makes me think it could be a problem with generated pdf is: - it only

Re: chord name spacing bug?

2011-06-20 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 15 juin 2011, at 08:08, Keith OHara wrote: Jean-Alexis Montignies ja at montignies.info writes: I have a small example, I have hard time finding a shorter one. Should I fill this as a bug? I think so. Do you think this shorter example demonstrates the same bug as what caused you

chord name spacing bug?

2011-06-14 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
HI, This is a problem I periodically come across many times: collision between chord names (note that this happens even with no false bass chords), may be when the melody is active. I have a small example, I have hard time finding a shorter one. Should I fill this as a bug? In the same vein:

Re: Colliding articulation with beam

2010-01-30 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
? Jean-Alexis Cheers, - Graham On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:20:07PM +0100, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote: Hi, Should I submit the following as a bug? As a work around I would like to add more space between the chords and the system. How can I achieve that? You will note

Colliding articulation with beam

2010-01-27 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, Should I submit the following as a bug? As a work around I would like to add more space between the chords and the system. How can I achieve that? You will note that articulation are placed on top. This is a request from my notation class teacher, is there's a way to do that automatically:

Layout problem in Loro

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, A while ago, I have typed the lead sheet for Loro. I have a small problem in measure 12. May be it's just a matter of adjustment, or a bug. See, the chord text is making the second note of the melodic line too much to the right. Suggestions? Thanks all! Jean-Alexis loro_.ly

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-13 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Le 9 juin 09 à 18:25, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : On 6/9/09 9:16 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@sente.ch wrote: You can find an example of a chord notated as 'phrygian' (well it's more a modal indication, but that's what the composer Gary Peacock intended) in the lead sheet

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-11 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Le 10 juin 09 à 02:11, kzt a écrit : Hi, You can find an example of a chord notated as 'phrygian' (well it's more a modal indication, but that's what the composer Gary Peacock intended) in the lead sheet for Vignette. More arguments for using names: Alt is much more easy to write and

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-09 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Lilypond of other programs will never be able to interpret notes as chords (even humans can't do that because there are always ambiguities). I think the more sensitive approach for pop and jazz is a chord library with a string as input (maj7) and as output a notation as markup for chord

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
for the flat and sharp before the extensions as it gives a very natural layout in this case. Greetings! Jean-Alexis Montignies % write out all custom exceptions here: customChordExceptions = { % from ionian c e g b- \markup { maj7 } c e g b d'- \markup { maj9 } % from mixolydian c e g

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
1) I had some difficulties to write the Alt chords (for me it's based on the superlocrian scale 1 2- 2+ 3 4+ 6- (or 5+) 7-) because the scale has two seconds. (Note that the diminished scale cannot be written for now with the chord notation, if you ever want to write a 8 note chord ;) ).

How to create a header within a \new score

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
) } { \new ChordNames = chords { \harmoniesSolo } \new Voice = headVoice { \solo } \header { piece = chords for solos } } How to do this? Jean-Alexis Montignies

Re: stacked markup with parenthesis

2009-01-27 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
} \line { b13 } } } } } Comments or ideas to draw parentheses instead are welcome! Greetings, Jean-Alexis Montignies Le 9 janv. 09 à 20:57, James E. Bailey a écrit : It's crude, and there's probably a better parenthesis glyph, but it's a quick and dirty

Re: stacked markup with parenthesis

2009-01-09 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi All! So does anyone have an idea how to achieve this (with or without parenteses) ? I would do that for chord markups for tensions. In the most complicated case I need three stacked numbers i.e: (b9, #9, b13) Thanks all and happy new year. Le 14 avr. 08 à 15:11, lasconic a écrit :

Re: Lyrics starting on 2nd note

2008-12-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
I've used the \with syntax and it works, still I have no idea why the code I wrote did not worked in 3/4 (In 4/4, I have a similar score working). Thanks anyway! Le 11 déc. 08 à 11:06, James E. Bailey a écrit : Am 11.12.2008 um 10:47 schrieb Jean-Alexis Montignies: Hi there! I'm

Lyrics starting on 2nd note

2008-12-11 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi there! I'm surprised to have the text of my lead sheet starting on the second note. Did I miss something obvious? :) Thanks for your help. Jean-Alexis Here's the code ran through 2.11.63 version: minForJan.ly Description: Binary data ___

Lyrics and slurs and articulation

2008-05-08 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
2.11.33). In other places, I would like to put a single sylable for three notes without printing a slur. Would the easier thing to do to create a hidden melody used for the lyrics? How to achieve that? Thanks! Jean-Alexis Montignies ___ lilypond