Re: Fixed, tight staff spacing

2008-02-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
Trevor Baca wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > You can set #'line-break-system-details alignment-offsets independently and > score-globally. > > For example: > > > %%% BEGIN %%% > > \version "2.11.34" > > \layout { >\context { > \Score > \override NonMusicalPaperColumn > #'line-break-sy

Fixed, tight staff spacing

2008-02-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
throughout the score. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Marcus Macauley ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Repositioning \tempo, and one other question

2006-10-23 Thread Marcus Macauley
OnionRingOfDoom wrote: Like the subject says, is there any way to reposition the \tempo mark? I'd love to be able to move it a bit to the left. First, here's the fish: \once \override Score.MetronomeMark #'X-offset = #-2 right before your first tempo mark to move it 2 spaces to the left. T

Re: Lyrics collide with barlines

2006-10-23 Thread Marcus Macauley
Catalin Francu wrote: Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. ... Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of space between barlines and text". Hi Catalin, This doesn't quite address your question/gripe, but for what it's worth, if a piece of regular

Re: \transpose within a Scheme function?

2006-10-21 Thread Marcus Macauley
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Marcus Macauley schreef: I'm trying to figure out how to include a Lilypond \transpose function within a Scheme function. I'm not even sure if it makes sense to do try (ly:music-transpose ) Wow, there it is, right in front of my nose. I actually se

Re: parenthesize

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
Whoops. I didn't see that Rick had already responded. Marcus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: parenthesize

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
Julian Peterson wrote: I seem to be unable to parenthesize notes using the method explained in the manual. Even this simple example fails: {c d \parenthesize e f g} Am I misunderstanding that the output of the above should include a parenthesized e ? I'm not sure why, but \parenthesize

\transpose within a Scheme function?

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
I'm trying to figure out how to include a Lilypond \transpose function within a Scheme function. I'm not even sure if it makes sense to do that, but I haven't thought of a better way. Here's an example of what I'm trying to do: overtones = #(define-music-function (parser location numbers fu

Re: Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
Kieren MacMillan wrote: In order to make Lilypond think an object has no horizontal or vertical size, respectively, use \once \override ObjectName #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) or \once \override ObjectName #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0), where the \once is optional (as always) and ObjectName is

Re: Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
Kieren MacMillan wrote: In order to make Lilypond think an object has no horizontal or vertical size, respectively, use \once \override ObjectName #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0) or \once \override ObjectName #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0), where the \once is optional (as always) and ObjectName i

Reducing the length of a broken beam/beamlet/beam fragment?

2006-10-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
The partial beams that you get with, e.g., a dotted rhythm: Is it possible to reduce the length of such beamlets? I think Lilypond's default minimum length is a bit too long, especially for tightly-spaced music, but I haven't been able to find a way to change it. Marcus

Making an object not take up vertical space?

2006-10-17 Thread Marcus Macauley
Is it possible to make an object (e.g., a text markup) not take up any vertical space? I've been using Mats' tip for inserting extra vertical space, to good effect, e.g. (customized): pushup = #(define-music-function (parser location padding) (number?) #{ s1*0^\marku

Re: Scheme Question

2006-10-17 Thread Marcus Macauley
Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know why this e-mail didn't make it to the Lilypond list, but, anyhow, have you ever checked the program FOMUS (http://common-lisp.net/project/fomus/doc/)? If you think of algorithimic composition and working with Lisp and Scheme, that might

Why are variables received by #(define-music-function) unbound in #{ #(scheme code here?) #}

2006-10-15 Thread Marcus Macauley
Either I've found a bug, or (more likely) I don't understand how variables are passed between Lilypond and Scheme. Below is an example, where a #(define-music-function...) block receives a variable, stringone. That variable seems to be accessible (i.e. bound, if I have my terminology straig

Re: Making notes in Scheme?

2006-10-15 Thread Marcus Macauley
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: "Marcus Macauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I see that there are basically two ways to make notes (music) from within a Scheme block. As far as I can tell, one way is powerful but cumbersome, and the other way is simple but not very powerful.

Re: Trying to set next-padding to 0

2006-10-14 Thread Marcus Macauley
Stephen Torri wrote: Below is my attempt at setting the next-padding value to 0 in a score so that the individual measure lines are moving closer to each other. With the annotate-spacing set to true I don't see next-padding changing to zero. What is the proper way to set next-padding? Stephen

Making notes in Scheme?

2006-10-14 Thread Marcus Macauley
I see that there are basically two ways to make notes (music) from within a Scheme block. As far as I can tell, one way is powerful but cumbersome, and the other way is simple but not very powerful. I'm hoping maybe there's a third way that I haven't discovered yet, or that the second way i

Re: Scheme question

2006-10-13 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: mypitch = #0 #(define mypitch 0) One of them is enough! That's why I said I "put one of these lines at the beginning of the file". When I got the error, I tried defining the variable in Scheme

Scheme question

2006-10-13 Thread Marcus Macauley
I've read in the Lilypond documentation chapter 11, "Interfaces for programmers", Appendix B, "Scheme tutorial", and the beginning of the Scheme manual at: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r5rs-html/r5rs_toc.html But I'm stuck on a simple problem which probably has a simple a

Re: never mind Re: The file changes; lilypond doesn't notice

2006-10-11 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you can isolate the problem, please send a bug report, a segmentation fault is always a serious bug! OK, I posted a bug report to bug-lilypond. (The problem, in short, was that \addquote couldn't handle a \new Voice. The documentation mentions this limitation, but sa

never mind Re: The file changes; lilypond doesn't notice

2006-10-10 Thread Marcus Macauley
Now I see that the reason lilypond doesn't "notice" the changes in my file is because it has a "Segmentation fault", but the Console in jEdit doesn't tell me that. Running lilypond from the command line does. And Lilypond still works fine on my other files. So presumably something went wron

The file changes; lilypond doesn't notice

2006-10-10 Thread Marcus Macauley
I'm using Lilypond 2.9.17 on Gentoo Linux, with jEdit 4.3pre6 and LilypondTool 2.8. Sometimes when I make a change or a few changes to the score (and save the file, of course) and then run Lilypond again (from within jEdit, using LilypondTool), it doesn't notice my changes, and simply outpu

Horizontal beams (automatically)?

2006-10-08 Thread Marcus Macauley
I know this has been asked before, but I haven't found an answer: Is there a way to automatically make all beams flat, or to automatically make a certain beam flat? Searching the documentation and lilypond-user, I found two methods, neither of them sufficient. The first method, \overri

Re: why doesn't Y-offset work for Hairpins?

2006-10-08 Thread Marcus Macauley
Kieren MacMillan wrote: In the meantime, you can use \once \override DynamicLineSpanner #'padding = #6 which is what I *always* use anyway! =) Mats Bengtsson wrote: The explanation may be something similar as the explanation in the section on "Text Markup" on why \left-align doesn't

why doesn't Y-offset work for Hairpins?

2006-10-08 Thread Marcus Macauley
The documentation page for Hairpin -- http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Hairpin.html -- lists Y-offset as one of the standard settings. It also says that Hairpin supports grob-interface, and the grob-interface page -- http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/u

Re: To hide a time signature

2006-10-02 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats, If you search the index of the manual for "transparent objects", "removing objects", "hiding objects" or "invisible objects" you will find a link to some more information on the "transparent" property in the manual. Thanks. I don't know how I missed that before. \once \override St

Re: To hide a time signature

2006-10-02 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats, I wrote: I'm trying to hide the first time signature, but display any which come later. So here's a snippet: \version "2.9.17" { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-visibility = ##(#f #f #f) \time 4/4 c'1 \time 3/4 c'2. } The tweak is based on this page: http://lilypond.org/doc

Re: To hide a time signature

2006-10-01 Thread Marcus Macauley
Hi Kieren, I don't claim it's necessarily "better", but another way [to hide the initial time signature but not subsequent ones] would be \version "2.9.17" { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \time 4/4 c'1 \time 3/4 c'2. } Indeed, that works too. But where is

To hide a time signature

2006-10-01 Thread Marcus Macauley
I'm trying to hide the first time signature, but display any which come later. So here's a snippet: \version "2.9.17" { \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-visibility = ##(#f #f #f) \time 4/4 c'1 \time 3/4 c'2. } The tweak is based on this page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentati

Re: instrument names for GrandStaff, etc.

2006-10-01 Thread Marcus Macauley
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:39:09 -0400, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Marcus: Just a quick suggestion. Why not let a GrandStaff have an instrumentName (and a shortInstrumentName), just like a Staff and a PianoStaff already do? Just in case you don't know, you can always add

instrument names for GrandStaff, etc.

2006-09-30 Thread Marcus Macauley
Hi, Just a quick suggestion. Why not let a GrandStaff have an instrumentName (and a shortInstrumentName), just like a Staff and a PianoStaff already do? Instrument names could even be allowed for a ChoirStaff or a StaffGroup, though I imagine the need to use it in those cases would be less

Re: Accidentals tied over a line break

2006-08-25 Thread Marcus Macauley
Markus: That's a way to manually suppress accidentals after a line break; thanks. But I need a way to do it automatically. > Is the example in "Section 9.3.7: Difficult Tweaks" of any help? Kieren: That looks like it might be helpful, but I don't understand the syntax well enough to adapt the

Accidentals tied over a line break

2006-08-23 Thread Marcus Macauley
Hello, Currently, if a note with an accidental is tied over a line break, the accidental is repeated on the new line. Is there any way to turn off this behavior? I looked in the manual; "9.1.1 Automatic accidentals" would seem to be the relevant section, but it doesn't say anything about tied

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-17 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As an alternative to the second method -- and a perhaps more conventional one, recommended by Kurt Stone -- niente can be notated not with the dynamic letter "n" but with the italic "n." (this ti

Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Marcus Macauley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:27:24 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another way of notating this, which I prefer, but also I think needs to be implemented, is to follow the decresc. (or precede the cres

al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

2006-03-16 Thread Marcus Macauley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:29:43 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/16/06, Arno Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dear list, for a contemporary music score i need hairpin having a circles around their tip, indicating cresc./descresc. from/into silence. what is the easiest way

Tabloid paper size - how I got it working

2005-02-15 Thread Marcus Macauley
that typing "gs --version" at a command prompt displays "8.15", while typing "ghostscript --version" displays "7.07". I suppose I could make symbolic links in the /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin directories to choose which version I wanted to use, but now that it's at least working I feel more like leaving it alone! Marcus Macauley ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: compiling ec-fonts-mftraced

2004-12-01 Thread Marcus Macauley
Hi Scott/others, I am having the same problem. I'm running the latest version of Gentoo (2004.3-r1, kernel 2.6.9), and have tried compiling each version of ec-fonts-mtraced, using "make" or "make all install", and it generates the same error every time (as Scott copied below). Actually, I thought