Re: I need some pointers

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
and other stuff. The Makefile shows the steps used to produce a PDF file. Thanks, Marcus \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{draftcopy} \title{Guitar Tuning ``All Fourths''} \author{Marcus Brinkmann} \date{\today \ (Version 1.0)} \begin{document} \maketitle % Kommentare % Kadenzen

Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:06:50 +0200, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to be picky, but I still haven't seen the most standard of all standard methods mentioned in this thread: \once \override TextScript #'padding = #1.5 c''^\markup{...} Works fine for me, thank you. Marcus

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:08:36 -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilypond does an excellent job on these songs, and only few manual tweaks were necessary. Some tweaks may be the result of my lack of understanding of Lilypond internals. The whole book contains 136 songs, each

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:07:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arvid Grøtting) wrote: Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a typographic nit: the margins seem rather on the small side. Have you done

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/6/12, Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All type-setting of the original 1867 text is finished and in very good shape. Future improvements will be done in other areas, like a new preface, illustrations

\raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:42:54 +0200, Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, in song No. 27 the markup text Variation second. is placed too low, so it´s directly printed onto the notes. Thanks. My work around apparently stopped working. The problem is that this does not work:

Re: same font in stanzas and latex.

2007-06-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:08:25 +0200, Sebastian Menge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im still a newbie in lilypond, though i've type set about 5 pieces. but anyway... I want to make a small booklet for my marriage with all the hymns and songs and additional text (title, preface, program, thankyous

Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
information below and at: http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/slave-songs.html I want to thank the Lilypond team, without whom this work would not have been possible at all! Kind regards, Marcus Brinkmann The PDF file and the source: http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/slave-songs-1.0-alpha.pdf http

Re: Optional Notes (Small noteheads)

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:29:25 -0700 (PDT), MusicallyForbidden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some pieces of choral music, optional notes are indicated by a smaller-than-normal notehead. How is this achieved? Thank you! \tweak #'font-size #-4 c'' Greetings, Marcus

Re: in-line note font elements in lilypond-book + latex?

2007-05-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ordinary text. Here is another example with only a Text Markup command \begin{lilypond} \markup{\note #4 #UP = 100 } \end{lilypond} followed by some more text. \end{document} /Mats Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hi, I would like to typeset, for example, quarter-note = 100 as part

in-line note font elements in lilypond-book + latex?

2007-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I would like to typeset, for example, quarter-note = 100 as part of a text in a paragraph, rather than as a vertical block element. I can possibly mess around with latex to get the desired effect, using nested box elements and includegraphics (if you have already a solution for that, please

Re: lilypond-book questions

2006-06-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:21:07 -0700, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I superscript text, like footnotemarkers, in lyrics mode? Footnotemarkers are part of Unicode, but they should be superscripted to improve the output. Alternatively, I guess one can use the superscripted

lilypond-book questions

2006-06-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I try to update my project from 2.4 to latest lilypond, so I can finally release it and forget about it. This is very unrewarding work. Apparently I didn't manage to use supported idioms to implement the output I wanted to have. The TeX backend seems to be broken in 2.9.9. Is it still

unicode font (metric?) problem

2005-12-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, the following input file prints the lyrics like this: 1 4 The superscript 1 is placed correctly. Same for superscript 2 and 3 (0x00B9, 0x00B2, 0x00B3 respectively). The superscript 4 is placed incorrectly. Same for superscript 0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (0x207x). I don't even

Re: using footnotes on lyrics with lilypond-book

2005-06-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:55:00 +0200, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be noted that this solution will not work in LilyPond version 2.5 or later. I won't look at lilypond 2.5 until it becomes 2.6 ;) but I hope that footnotes (and maybe other TeX constructs) in lyrics will

stemNeutral and autoBeamOff makes b always stem down?

2005-05-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, if autoBeamOff is used, and stemNeutral, is it true that the note b will always get the stem down? Here are two examples which don't look so good in my opinion: { \autoBeamOff g'4 a' b' a' | d''4 d'' a' b' } Result (stem direction Down or Up): U U D U | D D U D I would expect rather: U

Re: Limit on lilypond-book

2005-05-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Sat, 14 May 2005 21:37:35 +0200, Herman Grootaers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:31, Bernard Hurley wrote: I just ran a check with two early files removed from the original file. now there are 1105 files in the directory, but the breaking one went OK. Restarting

using footnotes on lyrics with lilypond-book

2005-05-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, here is a small how-to for others who try to do the same. I had to add footnotes for lyrics in my song book, here is how I did it: In the .ly file: First set encoding to TeX, so the extra tex commands will not be counted as space: \encoding Tex To add footnotes, you need to put the

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:12:17 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: In addition I disagree that (at least for wind players) that it's closer to 1:1 than it is to 3:2. 2:1 is close enough for jazz at least as a notation as Benjamin would use it. The only correct answer is that the music should swing in

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Sat, 7 Aug 2004 09:02:30 -0700, David Rogers wrote: On Aug 7, 2004, at 5:50 AM, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Real Jazzers write them in straight 8ths, 'nuff said. Chance is that if you don't know what it should sound like, it doesn't matter if it's written in 1:1, 3:1, 2:1, it just won't

Re: note tweaks for variations in small size

2004-07-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:04:22 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: (dependent on how far the pitch is apart and if the value is the same). I have tried to do the same in lilypond, and it turns out to be extra-ordinarly hard. There should probably be a mechanism to do this neatly (entering

note tweaks for variations in small size

2004-07-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I want to typeset a couple of transcribed songs[1], and many of them contain variations of short sequences of notes or even single notes. In the original manuscript, those are set in a smaller type. Sometimes the variation is put as another, smaller note-head on the same stem as the main