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-system-details =

Fixed, tight staff spacing

2008-02-18 Thread Marcus Macauley
. 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.

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 musicobject pitch) Wow, there it is, right in front of my nose. I actually

\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

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

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: 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

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

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

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?) #{

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. I'm hoping maybe there's

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

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

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

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

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 (second line above) instead

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

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

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 --

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

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,

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:

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

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

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

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 time with a period

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 cresc.) with a bold/italic n

Tabloid paper size - how I got it working

2005-02-15 Thread Marcus Macauley
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 I