Re: advice on final ad lib measure

2014-08-20 Thread Matthew Collett
On 21/08/2014, at 7:51 am, Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com wrote: The last measure is played ad lib. The way they play suggests eights to me to choose a notation, but they do not look well within the 5/4 tempo (see screenshot). Which notation would you suggest there? Is there a way to tell

Re: Variable length bars

2014-06-27 Thread Matthew Collett
On 27/06/2014, at 9:53 am, Patrick or Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com wrote: I'm trying to set a John Dowland piece (Come Ye Heavy States of Night) which has a single initial time signature of 4/2 2/2 followed by measures that are either 4 half-note beats or 2 half-note beats long, in

Re: SystemStartBracket/Brace

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Collett
On 10/06/2014, at 4:28 am, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Please *never* take the mailing list off the cc without announcement. Please *never* blame ordinary list users for the idiosyncratic behaviour of the lilypond-user mailing list. This is the only list I have ever been on that does

Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

2014-06-06 Thread Matthew Collett
On 7/06/2014, at 8:23 am, Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to introduce an asterisk (*) into a lyrics line in the following piece to indicate where the congregation should join in. However, I'm getting an error unexpected * when I try it. Also, ideally I'd

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 16/05/2014, at 10:08 am, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: At first I was also inclined towards saying that it’s correct to add the 8 and it doesn’t hurt anyone, so why not just leave it where Lily puts it by default. Then I thought of a counter-example: some orchestra

Re: Frescobaldi Preview Modes

2013-10-30 Thread Matthew Collett
On 31/10/2013, at 7:03 am, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Details, Layout control, Finishing. There are a number of terms that seem more appropriate than Debug. How about Proof? Best wishes, Matthew ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Collett
On 26/10/2013, at 6:58 pm, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered aspect, but the fundamental problem is that \cadenzaOn turns off autoBeam, which in turn means that manual beaming in a cadenza creates unwanted melismata. The aim was to get vocal

Re: Automatic beaming in vocal cadenzas

2013-10-25 Thread Matthew Collett
On 26/10/2013, at 4:10 pm, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: We tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered aspect, but the fundamental problem is that \cadenzaOn turns off autoBeam, which in turn means that manual beaming in a cadenza creates unwanted melismata. So turn the autobeaming

Re: Two questions

2013-05-01 Thread Matthew Collett
On 1/05/2013, at 12:42 pm, g...@sdf.org wrote: Yes, I tried this, too. But it has two drawbacks: (a) All the places where line breaks can occur must be indicated with \bar . This is a bit annoying, but it could be tolerable. (b) What is far less tolerable is that, if I understand

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-08 Thread Matthew Collett
On 9/03/2013, at 12:22 am, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/8 Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org: David Kastrup writes: Issue 3229: Patch: Make \relative { ... } interpret the first pitch as an absolute one +1 +1 , I was currently using \relative f { } anyway, so

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-06 Thread Matthew Collett
On 7/03/2013, at 5:13 am, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Matthew shortVocalName does allow multiple verses: in the lyrics, Matthew wherever you say '\set stanza' also say '\set Matthew shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the Matthew numbers though

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Matthew Collett
On 2/03/2013, at 11:29 am, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: There are a flat and a naturals and stuff all over the place so if I just write g4 a g4. f8 e4 | How will it know to write an a flat not an a natural? It won't. 'a' means A-natural. If the note is actually an A-flat,

Re: Removing the line before a staff begins

2013-02-11 Thread Matthew Collett
On 12/02/2013, at 5:37 pm, Jay Anderson horndud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:11 PM, ryanmichaelmcclure ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on an assignment for music theory that requires a particular layout. I think you most likely only want one staff group

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/01/2013, at 12:10 am, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: ly/gregorian.ly contains a predefined \responsum command. How does this relate to the problem discussed here? Not at all: that simply prepends an ℟ to some text. Best wishes, Matthew ___

Re: lilypondbood package useful?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 16/01/2013, at 11:48 pm, Kevin Patrick Barry barr...@tcd.ie wrote: Since you asked for opinions I will offer mine. I do quite a bit of work with LaTeX and LilyPond, but I don't use lilypond-book for a couple of reasons. ... For those reasons I prefer to simply export images

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/01/2013, at 1:05 pm, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: why don't you use the red herring and add \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(-2 . 0) \responsum The suggestion of extra-offset is again a good one. Changing my definition of \responsum to responsum = \lyricmode { \once \override

Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
I'm typesetting a set of psalm verses with recurring antiphon, and would like the lyric line for each verse to end with the indication ℟. (responsum) to remind the singers to repeat the antiphon. The following does not work - the end-of-line stanza marks simply do not appear: \version 2.16

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/01/2013, at 2:25 am, Eluze wrote: one approach - define repetition = \markup { \huge \bold ℟} then use it in the lyrics within a \markup which includes the syllable after which you want this sign: verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. This is the first \markup {verse.

Re: header on every page but the first one

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Collett
On 3/01/2013, at 3:19 am, christian bos wrote: How can I add a header on every page (centred) but not on the first page. Also, how can I referr to the title set in the \header? I often use: \paper { oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty

Re: Centering lyrics in piano music for children

2012-10-01 Thread Matthew Collett
On 1/10/2012, at 3:29 pm, Michael Rivers wrote: Most beginning children's piano music uses a format with a single-line melody broken between the treble and bass clefs and lyrics written in between. I'm assuming LilyPond doesn't have a way to automatically attach some lyrics to the treble and

Re: Can anyone help to code what is in png.

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/08/2012, at 5:12 am, Tim Roberts wrote: However, the boxy notehead in your png is not the current style of writing that note (which is as a whole note with bars left and right). What you have there is the Petrucci style. You can still achieve the boxy notehead by overriding the

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages [was: Re: Appreciation / Financial support]

2012-06-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/06/2012, at 1:54 am, Tim McNamara wrote: The first few chapters of SICP would probably be very helpful. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html SICP does for computer programming what Linderholm's classic 'Mathematics Made Difficult' does for arithmetic -- except

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter it does not exactly overwhelm. I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote exactly what one is replying to. #1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}.

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
programming, but for most people functional programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural far more natural. To tempt ordinary users to dip their toe into scripting, a procedural language is the way to go. Best wishes, Matthew -- Matthew Collettm_coll...@ihug.co.nz | m.coll

Re: Vertically align bar line in polyphonic music

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/02/2012, at 12:35 am, Marcel Korpel wrote: when the note values exceed the measure length, I need a dashed bar line instead of a normal one, but *only* in the part it appears in, not in every part. I assume you have considered and rejected the idea of _Mensurstriche_ layout. Best

Re: Vertically align bar line in polyphonic music

2012-02-11 Thread Matthew Collett
On 12/02/2012, at 9:25 am, Marcel Korpel wrote: I am transcribing a 16th-century mass for 4 voices I got the next problem: its Kyrie is divided in three parts that are separated by a || bar. The last note of each part is a longa (sometimes with a fermata) that just fills up the rest of the

Re: lyrics disappear

2012-02-11 Thread Matthew Collett
On 12/02/2012, at 12:55 pm, MING TSANG wrote: 2012-02-11_183404.png shows lyrics on the score. I added voice two starting at 4th beat bar 5 to the end of bar 19 (first 3 beats). 2012-02-11_183528.png shows that all lyrics in between disappear. Need help figure out why. Don't use

Re: lyrics disappear

2012-02-11 Thread Matthew Collett
On 12/02/2012, at 2:23 pm, MING TSANG wrote: If I use new voice approach, that I need to have 50 bars rest or space before coding voice 2. No, you can still start with one voice and then split in two after 50 bars, using 'new Voice' for the second voice at the split. Best wishes, Matthew

Re: tie and/or slur

2012-02-02 Thread Matthew Collett
On 2/02/2012, at 10:35 pm, Mario Moles wrote: How i make this image?ihfcgccg.png As Urs said, the critical ingredient is tieWaitForNote. But even then it's tricky to get both hands tying as desired: \version 2.14.1 #( ly:set-option 'backend 'eps) \language english \header { tagline = ##f }

Re: Prevent automatic bar lines?

2012-02-01 Thread Matthew Collett
On 2/02/2012, at 7:42 am, AkselJ wrote: I just started using LilyPond, but I'm having trouble with bar lines being misplaced. I'm certain this is partly due to the fact I write my current piece in 15/24, and partly due to using triplets with only two notes. Neither of those should stop

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Collett
On 27/01/2012, at 6:27 am, Matie Holtzhausen wrote: \set Staff.vocalName \set Staff.shortVocalName similar to instrumentName Thanks, but I was hoping to use multiple verses in the same staff: shortVocalName does allow multiple verses: in the lyrics, wherever you say '\set stanza' also

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Collett
On 27/01/2012, at 8:19 am, Matthew Collett wrote: shortVocalName does allow multiple verses: in the lyrics, wherever you say '\set stanza' also say '\set shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the numbers though (outside the left of the staff). I should have said that if you

Re: Reduce width of single measure

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Collett
On 9/01/2012, at 8:22 am, James wrote: I tried to use this myself on the first bar of a piece to get a 'squashed' hairpin linger by extending the measure but I cannot seem to *only* make it affect the first measure. The rest of the measures are also affected. I wonder if you or anyone else

Re: Lyrics and polyphony

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Collett
On 5/01/2012, at 7:28 am, Benjamin Bruce wrote: \version 2.12.2 { c' a4 e' c' g' e' b' g' { b'1 } \\ { g'4( f' e'2) } } \addlyrics { Ex -- cel -- lent Thy name! % The last word does not appear } The problem is that the double backslash automagically creates _two_ new

Re: ragged-last-bottom doesn't take

2011-12-10 Thread Matthew Collett
On 10/12/2011, at 3:54 pm, George_ wrote: \paper { ragged-last-bottom = ##t ragged-last = ##t left-margin = 10\mm right-margin = 7\mm top-margin = 5\mm bottom-margin = 5\mm } Every one of

Re: duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-08 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 10:48 pm, David Kastrup wrote: Please, *never*, *never*, *never* send a courtesy copy of a public answer as a private mail when answering on a mailing list unless you have been _explicitly_ asked to provide such a copy. Otherwise, you set up _two_ different communication

Re: duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-08 Thread Matthew Collett
On 9/12/2011, at 2:27 pm, David Kastrup wrote: On 8/12/2011, at 10:48 pm, David Kastrup wrote: Please, *never*, *never*, *never* send a courtesy copy of a public answer as a private mail when answering on a mailing list unless you have been _explicitly_ asked to provide such a copy.

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 7:20 am, Peter Jaques wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to pass options to lilypond from lilypond.app? Otherwise I guess I'll have to dive all the way into getting a new editor set up and everything... Wow, I haven't used Vim since 1999! ;) I've been using TeXShop

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 9:28 am, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: Here's what I've currently got: \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = women \new Voice = S { \voiceOne \global \repeat volta 2 \Sa \Sb } \new Voice = A { \voiceTwo \global \A }

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 10:45 am, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: This is an improvement, at least: \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = women \new Voice \global \new Voice = S {\Sa \Sb } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womena \womenc } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womenb } }

Re: Conditionally including lyrics

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Collett
On 3/12/2011, at 12:02 am, David Kastrup wrote: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: I have a lot of small music pieces with several stanzas which I store like this textA = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. this is the first stan -- za. } textB = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 2. and

Re: New User Questions

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Collett
On 23/11/2011, at 12:18 pm, Brandon Pisani wrote: Second, and here's the rub, I'm trying to put this piece of music (http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/06/ble.htm) into the program using the code after the signature on this message. What I'm running into: without the \bar | there's

Re: Difference Between \lyricsto and associatedVoice With Melody Rhythm

2011-11-06 Thread Matthew Collett
On 7/11/2011, at 9:50 am, Bill Mooney wrote: In this file (below) I have tried to follow your example using predefined expressions - not having the music etc explicitly in the score statement. Everything works as expected until I started adding more unsung/sung sections when the subsequent

Re: Difference Between \lyricsto and associatedVoice With Melody Rhythm

2011-11-03 Thread Matthew Collett
On 4/11/2011, at 4:04 am, Christian Eitner wrote: \version 2.14.2 \new Staff { \new Voice = melody \relative { a'1 \context Voice = melody { b4. b8 b4. b8 } \context Lyrics = lyr \with

Re: Controlling placement of custodes?

2011-10-04 Thread Matthew Collett
On 4/10/2011, at 7:24 pm, Bill Mooney wrote: I cannot help with the detail of how to achieve the custos movement you ask about... However, my understanding of the Asperges is that the Antiphon is repeated only after the end of the Gloria Patri... See p11 in Liber Usualis ed.

Re: Controlling placement of custodes?

2011-10-04 Thread Matthew Collett
On 4/10/2011, at 9:04 pm, Marek Klein wrote: I use to typeset the music with the first word of antiphon too - this would solve your problem. That is a possibility; thanks for the suggestion. I am curious about how have you obtained the resulting pdf with lilypond, could I see your ly

Re: font tree setting ignored

2011-08-09 Thread Matthew Collett
On 10/08/2011, at 5:03 am, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: LilyPond 2.14.x (tested .0 and .2) on OSX-Intel ignores my font settings like \paper { #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree TeX Gyre Schola LMSans10 LMTypewriter10 Regular (/ 14 20))) } The font names are exactly the same as I

Re: creating images for web pages

2011-08-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/08/2011, at 2:20 pm, ed stuckems wrote: I'm trying to create images of lilypond output to be included in web pages. An alternative method to the one(s) so far suggested is to add #( ly:set-option 'backend 'eps) to your .ly file. This will generate both .eps and .pdf files trimmed to

Re: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread Matthew Collett
On 3/08/2011, at 5:16 am, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 02:59:22PM +, James Lowe wrote: you cannot use the Mac GUI (Finder) to do this - at least not easily in 10.6. Actually, you can. Ctrl-click on LilyPond.app, then select show package contents, then navigate to

Re: multiple timesignatures

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Collett
On 23/07/2011, at 6:26 am, Ruud van Silfhout wrote: I saw that in January of this year a new feature called compoundTime signatures is introduced in Lilypond. A good effort. compoundTime specified the timing of each measure. However, for church music (esp. hymns) this does not suffice.

Re: footer issue

2011-07-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/07/2011, at 7:25 am, christophe 1710 wrote: this need is ot have [CGY0026] on all pages instead the last one where i'd like to have tagline = \markup { \override #'(box-padding . 1.0) \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.7) \box \center-align { \small \line {

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/07/2011, at 4:28 pm, Nick Payne wrote: On 15/07/11 10:20, Matthew Collett wrote: #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) (if (not (book-last-page? layout props)) (interpret-markup layout props arg) empty-stencil)) However, any attempt to _use_ this results in 'ERROR

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/07/2011, at 11:07 pm, Matthew Collett wrote: I still don't understand why I can use 'last-page' (defined in titling-init.ly) with no problem, but cannot use 'book-last-page?' (also defined in titling-init.ly) unless I redefine it myself. Some further investigation: 'titling-init

Re: Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 16/07/2011, at 10:15 am, Neil Puttock wrote: The contents of titling-init.ly is within the scope of a \paper block; this is a different module from the one where you put your .ly code. Since none of the defines are public, they aren't exported as part of the public interface for the

Defining 'not-last-page'

2011-07-14 Thread Matthew Collett
titling-init.ly contains the following definitions: #(define (first-page layout props arg) (if (book-first-page? layout props) (interpret-markup layout props arg) empty-stencil)) #(define (last-page layout props arg) (if (book-last-page? layout props) (interpret-markup

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Collett
On 12/07/2011, at 2:35 am, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: #(define (fixed-staff-width grob) (ly:output-def-lookup (ly:grob-layout grob) 'line-width)) \layout { ragged-right = ##t \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol #'width = #fixed-staff-width } } That looks uncannily

User fonts not recognised on OS X

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
While experimenting with fancy fonts for headings and initials, I found that Lilypond (2.14.1) was not aware of the fonts in my user library (Mac OS X 10.6.8). It seems to be a simple omission from fonts.conf, which has entries for the shared library fonts (dir/Library/Fonts/dir) and the

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
On 11/07/2011, at 2:51 pm, David Nalesnik wrote: Is there any straightforward way to stop the music at its natural length, but have empty staff lines stretch the full width? You could override the width of the staff. Thank you, that does work, and is certainly an improvement on my

Re: Ragged right for contents but not staff?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Collett
On 11/07/2011, at 3:47 pm, David Nalesnik wrote: Now I just need to figure out how to calculate the desired width, given the paper size and the staff size. (I think I know what calculation needs to be done; the question is just whether my Scheme is up to automating it.) This seems to

Lilypond not finding plain Helvetica font

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Collett
Following the 'official' snippet on how to change the default text font family, I try: \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree Times New Roman Helvetica Courier (/ myStaffSize 20))) } \relative c'' { c4^\markup {

Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Collett
On 7/07/2011, at 7:10 am, Janek Warchoł wrote: Which one of the clefs in the attachment do you like best? I don't like the left one: the top loop is far too big. Of the other two, I marginally prefer the upright stance of the centre one over the more 'laid-back' style of the right one. Best

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-05 Thread Matthew Collett
On 5/07/2011, at 8:26 am, Graham Percival wrote: To me the sentence A tiny example is an example from which nothing can be removed. explains it all Can't whitespace be removed without affecting the outcome? ;) Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :) And

Options (was Re: How to generate small example PNGs)

2011-06-25 Thread Matthew Collett
On 23/06/2011, at 10:45 pm, Orm Finnendahl wrote: did you try the -dclipsystems option? Its explained in 3.4.1 of the notation reference (Extracting fragments of music). Is there anywhere a comprehensive list of the options that can follow '-d' on the command-line (or be set by

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Collett
On 20/06/2011, at 10:18 am, Michael Dykes wrote: I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. You need to give it more opportunity to find breaks. A quick fix, since you are not actually using

Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/06/2011, at 1:52 pm, Bill Mooney wrote: I want to move the lyrics down about half their height. I'd start from \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing #'basic-distance = 6.5 } and tweak the exact value to get the desired effect (the

Re: Repeating predefined stanza labels

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
On 18/06/2011, at 10:26 am, Neil Puttock wrote: In your first snippet, each invocation is a new scheme string object, thus the pointers are different. The second snippet reuses each string, so the equality check succeeds and no graphical object is created. Sneaky. Use \markup instead of

Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Collett
On 18/06/2011, at 1:20 pm, Bill Mooney wrote: As you can see in the attached example I have expanded the 'override' completely - but, to achieve a satisfactory result both the (basic-distance . ..) and (minimum-distance . ..) values have to be made equal otherwise one overrides the other in

Repeating predefined stanza labels

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Collett
The following works as expected (2.14.1): \score { \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 { g' g' g' g' \break } \addlyrics { \set stanza = 1. This is verse one; \set stanza = 1. This is line two. \set stanza = 2. This is verse two; \set stanza = 2. This is the end. } } Each line has