Re: Hiding lyrics extenders on empty measures

2022-11-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 23/11/2022 à 10:32, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : As it turns out, it’s Score.LyricHyphen.stencil I have to play with, since in my actual score, the end of the word 'Kum -- ba -- ya' occurs at the beginning of the coda [...] This is an interesting case, which probably nobody has thought of prev

Re: Mandatory dashes in lyrics

2021-10-09 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 09/10/2021 à 16:55, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : Folks, especially those of French tongue, how should one deal with a word like "entends-tu" in Lyrics? {   c'8 8 8 } \addlyrics {   En -- tends-tu } If I am not mistaken, the dash (is it one?) between "tends" and "tu" is mandatory, and it

Re: Selectively remove some staves consisting only of rests

2019-02-04 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 04/02/2019 à 10:17, Andrew Bernard a écrit : I want to remove some staves containing only rests and yet retain others in my quartet score. [When there is a long solo I want the other parts suppressed, but when just one instrument is at rest I want the empty staff to show in the set of four].

Re: Strange warnings

2018-05-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 25/05/2018 à 17:42, David Sumbler a écrit : The only thing I have managed to establish is that it seems to be related to the 1st violins and cellos, which have staves arranged thus:   << \new Staff     \ScoreThreeCelloA \new Staff \with { \RemoveAllEmpt

Re: Frenched score and instrumentName.

2017-06-01 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 01/06/2017 à 03:01, Hwaen Ch'uqi a écrit : Greetings Kieren, Yes, I had considered that but had hoped that there would be a smoother solution that would not then require me to change shortInstrumentName for each part to reflect the desired abbreviations to follow. You can type \once \set

Re: multi language score

2017-05-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/05/2017 à 10:20, Gianmaria Lari a écrit : I want to write a score with some didactical annotation in different language (french and italian). In case I decide to generate two separate score, one in italian and one in french, what's the best way to manage the source? What I did when engra

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-04 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 03/12/2016 à 22:28, Graham Percival a écrit : On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:50:50PM +0100, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: I've already given it a try, but get stopped by some errors I don't know how to resolve (I've no knowledge about perl). Three patches are available for any

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-02 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 02/12/2016 à 02:10, Paul a écrit : Hi Carl, On 12/01/2016 12:44 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: One thing that is note mentioned in your quote is that texinfo separates semantics from appearance. It is this precise separation that allows one to make big but consistent changes in the appearance of

Re: request for help: huge score

2016-11-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 24/11/2016 à 21:11, Thomas Morley a écrit : 2016-11-23 18:53 GMT+01:00 Jean-Charles Malahieude : Still not finalized, but here are Campra's Festes vénitiennes. Urtext.ly does'nt generate the MIDIs, as opposed to Conducteur.ly many thanks for your score. I first compiled it wi

Re: 4 hands piano pieces book

2016-05-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 08/05/2016 à 16:27, Urs Liska a écrit : The issue with that kind of score is that one needs two independent scores with identical page breaks. AFAICS there's still no alternative to doing that manually, though. Has anyone tried to build it as one markup with three columns (left pianist,

Re: adding stand alone text after a score

2016-01-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 08/01/2016 18:50, Ryan Michael a écrit : Hello I have the following score block: \score { \new StaffGroup << [...] >> \markup { \fill-line { Hello hello hello } } \layout { } \midi { } } However I get the error: syntax error, unexpected \markup Just move your ma

Re: NR 4.1.4 ragged bottom and vertical spacing

2015-12-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 11/12/2015 16:43, Federico Bruni a écrit : Ragged comes from standard printing terminology: non-justified text is described as "ragged right". ok, thanks non-justified is the synonym I was looking for As a joke, pardon the French speaker, I would say it is the difference between frog ea

Re: tips for formatting an interview

2015-11-17 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 14/11/2015 15:22, Federico Bruni a écrit : Hi all I'm trying to format directly in LilyPond an interview (the single text only part of a book). I don't want to use lilypond-book and LaTeX just because of this minor part of the book. I've two questions: 1) There's any way to place the text o

Programming error with removeEmptyStaves

2015-11-16 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, How could I find the culprit in a 5 staves score which looks all right? The logs say --8<-- Processing `/home/jcharles/Partothek/Campra/Fetes_Venitiennes/Conducteur.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Interpreting music...[8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88][96][104][112][120]

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 10/09/2015 15:00, Peter Bjuhr a écrit : On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially inte

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 12/05/2015 17:18, Shane Brandes a écrit : I agree no useful way to make a solid conclusion on numbers. I also know several people that use Lilypond but either don't need the functionality to the point they need to be here on this list or don't want to have the clutter in their inbox and simply

Re: page link in PDF may lead to wrong page

2015-04-28 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 28/04/2015 10:03, ArnoldTheresius a écrit : Hello, if the first-page-number is different than 1, then the page-links in the PDF (i.e. TOC, \page-link, \label & \page-ref) lead you to the wrong page. E.g. first-page-number = 3; then a link to page 4 will lead you to the 4th page, but this is pa

Re: Frescobaldi 2.17

2014-12-26 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 26/12/2014 10:59, Wilbert Berendsen a écrit : Dear all, A new release of Frescobaldi is out with some new features, bug fixes and improvements. Changes: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/v2.17/ChangeLog Download: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/releases (source and Windows ex

Re: lyrics extender and acciaccatura

2014-11-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 11/11/2014 17:22, David Kastrup a écrit : David Nalesnik writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:53 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Jean-Charles, The problem I see here is that the X-parent of the LyricText is being set to the NoteColumn of main note rather than to the grace note. (Perhaps tha

lyrics extender and acciaccatura

2014-11-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, Trying to align a syllable to acciaccaturas, I came across an extender problem: The extender should stop *before* the rest, not when encountering the next acciaccatura. \version "2.19.15" Music = { r4 \acciaccatura { c'8 } e'4~ e'2~ e'1 r4 \acciaccatura { e'8 } c'2. } TextKO

Re: Whole-measure rests that specify rhythmic value

2014-08-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 08/08/2014 08:46, Janek Warchoł disait : Hi, 2014-08-05 18:54 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider : Hi, 2014-08-04 23:57 GMT+02:00 Micah Walter : I have a whole measure rest. I would like the dotted half-note glyph, which specifies the rhythmic value, but I would also like it to be centered

Re: Mensural ligature

2014-05-23 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 09/05/2014 01:04, KarlHammer disait : Jean-Charles Malahieude: On my way to typeset a mass by Monteverdi, I'm blocked with some ligatures (see http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/expanded-history-musical-notation-part-4/ for examples) You seem to equate ligatures

Re: Mutopia [WAS: Re: Add LilyPond incipit on an IMSLP page.]

2014-05-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 08/05/2014 17:35, Federico Bruni disait : 2014-05-08 16:49 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider: Can I ask you why? It's because of the license restrictions (NonCommercial clause is not accepted by Mutopia)? Because I'm no Mutopia user. Now the right question would be why am I not a user ?

Re: Mensural ligature

2014-05-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 08/05/2014 10:18, Éditions IN NOMINE disait : Hi Jean-Charles ! Here's what I'm using for black mensural, adapted to your snippet : \version "2.19.3" mens = \once \override NoteHead #'style = #'neomensural blackBrevis = { \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \onc

Mensural ligature

2014-05-07 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all! On my way to typeset a mass by Monteverdi, I'm blocked with some ligatures (see http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/expanded-history-musical-notation-part-4/ for examples) I can code the first one in its 8th image like this: << \tag #'Urtext { \[ d1 e1*3/4 \] }

Re: Label placed at end of \book not recognised in \paper

2014-01-22 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 21/01/2014 19:14, Tom van der Hoeven disait : below you will find an example. It is made such that on the first page there is no room left. As you can see I use the last page in order to get the number of pages of a book. I found this solution on the internet, it works but it is not straight f

Re: Lilypond Cheat Sheet 2.18

2014-01-01 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 01/01/2014 18:50, Noeck disait : Hi all, * The French translation is probably rather poorly done by me. Corrections and other comments to all language versions are welcome! Good job! Thanks (I'll give the links on the French list when updated). - Commentaire % … und %{ … %} + Commentaire

Re: LilyPond 2.18.0 released

2013-12-30 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 30/12/2013 17:50, David Kastrup disait : We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0 - the new stable release. Thank you David and every contributor! Cheers, Jean-Charles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-28 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 27/12/2013 03:54, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hi Jean-Charles, Problem is that the reset occurs at _every_ book-part; you then cannot open a part on an act basis. There should be a property: \paper { first-page-number = 3 } That would solve it! =) Best would be to have it "calculat

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-23 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 22/12/2013 01:23, Kieren MacMillan disait : For Bach, thanks to David Nalesnik and Thomas Morley, a function to center an unique note and align it with R1\fermataMarkup (like in old scores). Nice! Is that part of the regular distro now? No. By the way, you've to be absolutely sure ther

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-17 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 16/12/2013 22:59, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. Have you looked at Nicolas Sceaux's works (http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/)? For my part, I re-typeset K

Re: Using a 'global' variable with multi-bar rests

2013-11-21 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 21/11/2013 17:50, Stig Johan Berggren disait : \version "2.12.3" global = { \time 4/4 \skip 1*3 \time 3/4 \skip 2.*2 \bar "|." } flute = \relative c'' { R1*3 d2. c } Replace \new Staff << \global \flute >> with \new Staff << \compressFullBarRests \global \flute

Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for?

2013-11-17 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 17/11/2013 06:52, Werner LEMBERG disait : In other words, I can live with ragged-bottom compression if lilypond emits a warning that it has to compress a page – and lilypond should also emit the corresponding page number in the warning message. I don't know if this would be easy, but it wo

Re: currentBarnumber in layout?

2013-08-21 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 21/08/2013 15:05, Thomas Morley disait : Hi, playing around with some code to answer a request about setting BarNumber for the first measure at the German lilypond forum http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1529.0 I've found: \version "2.17.24" \layout { \context { \Score

Re: Figured bass brackets (bug?)

2013-07-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 23/07/2013 22:45, Robin Bannister disait : Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Could anyone help me finish this BWV246 project? Well, I don't know anything about figured bass but it seems that LilyPond's square brackets are not intended to be spread apart. add_brackets is called even

Figured bass brackets (bug?)

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi! I'm trying to reproduce editorial markings in figured bass like in the enclosed image, but get nowhere even after having read the sources. I admit I don't fully get the add_brackets function in lily/figured-bass-engraver.cc and need someone to correct my commenting of these lines I find

Editorial figured bass

2013-07-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, I need some help in order to reproduce the enclosed image. I don't care replacing the parentheses used in the original by brackets, but impossible to get only either the opening or closing bracket, even if \displayMusic { \new Staff \with { implicitBassFigures = #'(99) } { \figure

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-06-03 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 02/06/2013 20:18, Thomas Morley disait : 2013/6/2 Jean-Charles Malahieude : Only nitpicking, as you can notice, is that it is the right side of the digits (9, 5 and 6) that get aligned on the center of the note and not the "full box". True, though regard the output of the foll

Re: Appoggiatura in Anacrusis

2013-06-03 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 03/06/2013 17:32, Mark Stephen Mrotek disait : Good Day! A piece begins with an anacrusis – see attached file “without.ly.” When the “g” is notated as an appoggiatura to the “f” – see attached file “with.ly” – some dreck appears. Both hands don't have the same duration since one of them (R

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 02/06/2013 17:50, Thomas Morley disait : In the attached code I tried to affect BassFigure. Not sure whether it's the best way, though it works. In addition I added code to affect ChordName and FretBoard, too, and reworked the definition for `read-out'. As far as I can observe with such a

Re: Dotted bar not showing?

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 02/06/2013 16:47, Alberto Simões disait : Hello I am running lilypond version 2.17.17 (MacOSX), and something that never had happened to me before just occurred: A dotted bar is not showing. I am using the standard \bar ":" but the bar do not get printed. If I use a standard bar | I get it.

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 02/06/2013 14:14, Thomas Morley disait : 2013/6/2 Jean-Charles Malahieude : Le 31/05/2013 22:02, Thomas Morley disait : maybe of interest for you: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/center-NoteColumn-td34436.html Attaching the most recent version of the code, your example included

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 31/05/2013 22:02, Thomas Morley disait : maybe of interest for you: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/center-NoteColumn-td34436.html Attaching the most recent version of the code, your example included. Many thanks to David Nalesnik. HTH, Harm It helps, but I cannot find a way to

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-06-01 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 31/05/2013 22:24, Jean-Charles Malahieude disait : Le 31/05/2013 22:02, Thomas Morley disait : I'll have a look on it tomorrow, since my eyes are quite tired now. I wanted to mimic Breitkopf's original with the last bar (and the book contains 80 scores). Many, many thanks to

Re: Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-05-31 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 31/05/2013 22:02, Thomas Morley disait : 2013/5/31 Jean-Charles Malahieude : Hi all, When the final bar of a score contains a single note in one staff (or voice) and the other a full bar rest, is there an easy way to automatically center them both and obtain something more pleasant than

Aligning c1 |. with R1 |.

2013-05-31 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, When the final bar of a score contains a single note in one staff (or voice) and the other a full bar rest, is there an easy way to automatically center them both and obtain something more pleasant than what is produced by default? Thanks for any pointer or advice for building a functi

ballooning a note including its attributes

2013-05-10 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, I need, for an examination paper, to add a ballooning over two consecutive notes. So far, so good I can play with the slopes, but how can I adapt the engraver to include the accidental (in other words emphasize the C-sharp, not just the C) and add some padding between the object and t

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-24 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 23/03/2013 18:13, Trevor Daniels disait : Noeck wrote Saturday, March 23, 2013 5:55 PM This is explained very concisely and without examples in the NR, see http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/aligning-objects I disagree. As an average user, I feel quite lost in this s

Re: [for Italian users] how to translate "spanner"?

2012-08-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 24/08/2012 16:59, Mike disait On 24 août 2012, at 16:52, Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote: I am not a native English speaker, but aren't the segments of a bridge between the vertical supports called spans? If that's right, one could find the Italian word for such segments and lift the lilypond

Re: [for Italian users] how to translate "spanner"?

2012-08-24 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 23/08/2012 21:36, Mike disait : On 23 août 2012, at 21:28, Tiresia GIUNO wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:07:34 +0200 "address@hidden" wrote: Chipping in as this issue came up in a talk I gave in France a few years ago. It seems that it'd be good to standardize this in Romance languages as

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 14:53, James disait : Jean-Charles, I don't understand how Lyrics work in LilyPond or what your last paragraph means (it is meaningless to me, sorry - I play trumpet, I don't sing, so never need to read or use lyrics in a score) I was hoping that you could give me a texidoc string

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 14:53, James disait : Jean-Charles, I don't understand how Lyrics work in LilyPond or what your last paragraph means (it is meaningless to me, sorry - I play trumpet, I don't sing, so never need to read or use lyrics in a score) I was hoping that you could give me a texidoc string

Re: Combining lyrics lines

2012-03-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/03/2012 12:38, James disait : Hello, On 18 March 2012 11:33, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Le 17/03/2012 11:14, Reedmace Star disait : In the first line, Alice and Eve alternate strictly in singing, so their lyrics get collapsed: ALICE EVE ALICE EVE maybe that the

Re: Grace at beginning of score

2012-03-09 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 09/03/2012 05:20, ornello disait : What is the right way to write a grace note at the beginning of the score (or after a clef/time/key signature change)? Here is my attempt: [...] But this issue does not mention a workaround? Does anybody know a trick? Have a look at the "Known issues" i

Re: \grace after \cadenzaOff suppresses auto-beams

2012-03-05 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
And I just found a solution that works even better for me... %%% previous stuff \cadenzaOff \bar "|" \appoggiatura b4 \set Timing.measurePosition = #(ly:make-moment 0 4) %%% subsequent stuff ...by setting the measurePosition *after* the grace/appoggiatura and before the first "beat" o

Re: programming error: moment not increasing

2011-11-19 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/11/2011 15:05, Sebastian Canagaratna disait : I can write these part in different scores, but the midi comes in different files. If you'd like to have _all_ sections in one "concatenated" MIDI, you just have to create a "musical expression" indicating what is the sequence. Don't forget

"official" way to have a MultiMeasureRest force appearance of a french-ed Staff

2011-11-08 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 07/11/2011 09:22, Kieren MacMillan disait : Situation: Lilypond 2.15.x Staff has been "french-ed" by \RemoveEmptyStaves; one particular MultiMeasureRest needs to be visible What's the current best practice for doing this? What I would do, if enough spacing in the other staves, is forcing a

Re: Variable assignment in music functions

2011-11-03 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 03/11/2011 20:02, David Kastrup disait : \paper { tocname = "Inhaltsverzeichnis" } #(define-markup-command (toc layout props) () (interpret-markup layout props (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'tocname "none"))) \markup \toc But the list is a bit longer (cf. enclosure) I first def

Re: Variable assignment in music functions

2011-11-03 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 03/11/2011 20:02, David Kastrup disait : Jean-Charles Malahieude writes: Le 03/11/2011 19:02, Michael Ellis disait : This allows me to do \set midiInstrument = #(cueInstrument 'get) in my cueNotes and similar functions and the choice of instruments can be set within the .ly

Re: Variable assignment in music functions

2011-11-03 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
"Inhaltsverzeichnis" looks better in German than "Table des matières". So I had to find a way to collect all the strings that should be adapted in one place (per language) and set this preference in one dedicated file that gets included in each master file. Cheers, Jean-Cha

Re: context-sensitive or redefinable variables

2011-10-24 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 24/10/2011 12:57, Frederick Bartlett disait : In setting an a apella SATB piece and the (generated) rehearsal piano part, I would like to create two PDF files with different linebreaks. Each part has many occurrences of a variable "midBarBreak" defined as { \bar "" \break } so as to break up

MIDI outputname

2011-10-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, I've spent a while in searching how to achieve my needs, but with no success, until now. Let's say that Arthur plays with "Matriochkas": lots of basic files that get included and distributed in an Act-file (bookpart), all the Act-files being included in an Opus-file (book). The fu

Re: King Arthur

2011-10-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 14/10/2011 11:32, Francisco Vila disait : 2011/10/14 Ed Gordijn: Hi Jean-Charles, This is quite a large work. Nice work and good promotion for Lilypond! Indeed. I usually post these sort of news to our Spanish list. You may! I have a question. Many publish on Mutopia. Others on CPD

King Arthur

2011-10-07 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hello all, Just to inform you that I've typeset the 1843 Taylor's edition of the opera. It is available at http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/King_Arthur_%28Henry_Purcell%29 Cheers, Jean-Charles Malahieude ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

partcombine for reduction of vocal parts

2011-08-10 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, For the piece I'm typesetting, I need a continuo part containing a reduction of the SATB. As I encounter many warnings like /home/jcharles/Partothek/Arthur/Act5/E/ntenor.ily:36:5: Warning : already have slur f8[ ( e f g] f4) d e4. fs8 /home/jcharles/Partothek/Arthur/Act5/E/nbass

Re: Devnull: how to make it take no space

2011-06-23 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/06/2011 16:46, Jean-Charles Malahieude disait : Le 18/06/2011 15:57, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hi Jean-Charles, In the book I'm engraving, it happens that some instruments get "tacet" for certain pieces. In order to generate a full table of contents, I treat them through

Re: Devnull: how to make it take no space

2011-06-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/06/2011 15:57, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hi Jean-Charles, In the book I'm engraving, it happens that some instruments get "tacet" for certain pieces. In order to generate a full table of contents, I treat them through "Devnull". The problem is that I often get what follows. In this tiny e

Devnull: how to make it take no space

2011-06-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all, In the book I'm engraving, it happens that some instruments get "tacet" for certain pieces. In order to generate a full table of contents, I treat them through "Devnull". The problem is that I often get what follows. In this tiny example, I would like the "devnull" to not take any ve

book and instrument

2011-05-26 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi all! When using a separate book for generating instrumental parts, is there a easy way to get rid of the superfluous "instrument" appearing with each bookpart? ---8<--- \version "2.13.61" \book { \header { title = "The Book Title" instrument = "instrument" } \bookpart { \header { titl

Re: positioning lyrics when both solo and tutti

2011-05-09 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 05/05/2011 21:44, Reinhold Kainhofer disait : Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011, 20:45:48 schrieb J.-Charles Malahieude: On my way to typing "King Arthur", I'm trying to reproduce what is on the attached image: the choir enters on the last syllables of the soloist. Is there an easier to achieve thi

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-18 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 18/01/2011 20:21, Marc Hohl disait : Am 18.01.2011 18:56, schrieb Graham Percival: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:24:11PM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: These functions should be bundled in a snippet, or perhaps included in the lilypond distribution? Start by adding it to LSR. Done. http://lsr.dsi.

Re: What is "Ped" font?

2010-08-15 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 15/08/2010 11:43, Xavier Scheuer disait : I'd like to know if someone has an idea which font is used to write "Ped" (command \sustainOn ). Is it based on an existing font (and which one)? Just have a look at Appendix A.6 of the notation manual... Cheers, Jean-Charles __

Special layout for a score : four hands

2009-11-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi, all! Some time ago, Werner asked on the devel-list in a thread about "setting the number of pages for a score" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-02/msg00211.html My main concern is to make lilypond handle the above described situation automatically -- lilypond's normal

Re: lilypond 2.13.7 is released

2009-11-07 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Forgot the list! On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:52:59PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival writes: > LilyPond 2.13.7 is out. This release theoretically works on osx > 10.6, without breaking anything on other OSes, Not even lines? Those aren't breaks; they're... carriage returns. Duri

Re: A6-sheet

2009-09-25 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi, I've been trying and trying. Removed settings, changed some, but I just can't get a good A6-sized sheet. These are my files: http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.ly http://www.ff.fm/downloads/ptfm.pdf It seems to me, I'm getting an A4 pdf. But the biggest problem is getting the staffs and meas

French music teacher requires a multilingual glossary

2008-09-22 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
anks in advance, for them as well as my wife. Cheers Jean-Charles Malahieude French translator of LilyPond ENGLISH : YOUR-LANGUAGE A (note) accidental ancient minor scale arpeggio ascending interval B(note) bar bar line baritone clef bass clef beam beat bind (équivalent de t

OT: music teacher requires a multilingual glossary

2008-09-16 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi everybody, Sorry to bother you with this, but my wife requires your help: She teaches music here in Manosque (Southern of France) and since the ITER program is in development, she has to deal with beginners (between 6 and 8 years old) just arriving from their mother country and not famili

Re: GDP: six

2007-09-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 14.09.2007 17:23, Graham Percival disait : http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Doc Sounds very promising. I like this progressive discovery. Just one question: due to the alignement and their "timing effect", wouldn't it be judicious to move the "grace notes" to the "1.2.6

Whatis on the fly

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
>> 2007/8/1, Francois Planiol-Auger : >> Yes I know, its a newby question. And I found nothing really helpful >> that defines it in relation with lilypond. >> Can somebody explain? > > 2007/8/1, Valentin Villenave : > If I understood correctly (English is not my native language), > something yo

Re: Polyphony and (disappearing) lyrics

2007-07-19 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 20.07.2007, Romel Anthony S. Bismonte disait : I came into this question right at the end of typesetting a piece. Here's the (minimal) code: \version "2.10.25" \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \score { << \new Voice="twinkle" \relative c' { c c g' g <<

Re: Empty lines showing

2007-07-12 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 12.07.2007, Daniel Boronka disait : I'm writing multiple lines of music and some parts come in later by a few lines (or sometimes a page or 2). Does anyone know how to make to empty bars and empty lines not show up until needed? See example below: Have a look at section 8.3.2 Hiding stave

RE: Merging scores in one pdf

2007-07-10 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 10.07.2007, Paul Harouff disait : I've been having the same problem trying to put multiple hymns in a single file with the priest's prayers before and after each hymn. LilyPond handles music great, but plain text is a pain. I had given up and started pasting the music into a Word document as

Re: lilypond book makefile

2007-07-05 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 05.07.2007 09:23, Jesse Engle disait : Hi everyone, I've recently installed TeTeX on my Mac, and I'm excited to begin using the TeX typesetting software in conjunction with Lilypond. My problem is that, because `lilypond-book`, `latex` and `dvips` are used to produce the output, I'm not s

Re: Line / page breaks

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
As a complement to what we discussed some days ago, here is how I managed to give everybody his own score of the cantata. Since I don't manage to deal correctly with Latex neither with lilypond-book, and the emacs lilypond-mode is self-sufficient for a pdf output and the midis that will be bur

Re: ties vs. slurs

2004-03-15 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le Dimanche 14 Mars 2004 22:09, GoochRules! a écrit : > Greetings, > > Does lilypond handle "f8( f4)" and "f8~ f4" differently? Is ...~ ... > simply a short cut for ...( ...)? What about "f8( f1)( f2)" vs. f8~ > f1~ f2? > > > --M Peltzer As indicated in the glossary (not only for non-Engli

Re: Line / page breaks

2004-03-14 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le Vendredi 12 Mars 2004 00:05, Paul Scott a écrit : > Roland Goretzki wrote: > >Hello list, hello Zbynek, > > > >You wrote: > >>Is way to define linebreak (or pagebreak) in files with \score sections? > >>Breaks are on other place at score and on other place at part. > > > >AFAIK You can give the