Re: Using IPA lyrics

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Lauer
Glendan Lawler glendan.lawler at gmail.com writes: Problem Unresolved and WorsenedSo not only is the old problem of garbled IPA still there, now I'm having problems with basic Latin as well.  For the staff lyrics, it seems I'm now also having trouble with the letter capital N, which for

Re: lyric tie font size

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Lauer
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: Hello all, Is the fontsize of the lyric tie glyph user-settable? [v2.13, if it matters...] Thanks, Kieren. I don't see any simple way, but you can copy the default (mostly in define-markup-commands.scm), tweak it to suit,

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-07-04 Thread Michael Lauer
Neil Puttock n.puttock at gmail.com writes: With apologies to Michael, here's a simpler method for centring text using a grob callback, which effectively does the same as your old code by retrieving the notehead (or rest) from the PaperColumn then mimicking the centered_on_x_parent

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-24 Thread Michael Lauer
Wilbert Berendsen lilykde at xs4all.nl writes: Op zondag 24 mei 2009, schreef madMuze: perhaps a Schemer could pull the X-extent info from the attachment point notehead, divide it by 2 and send that to the offset. Meanwhile, it may to helpful to know that: quarter-note head width =

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Lauer
, but it's a start-- Hope that's useful-- Michael Lauer I'm trying to redesign my website, and one idea I have is to have a graphic in the header with a facsimile on one side and lily's output on the other. So it's important that people not look at the lilypond output and say, Wow, that's

Re: [LilyPond] Unequal line spacing in columns

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Lauer
-Eluze eluzew at gmail.com writes: Sven Siegmund wrote: In my case the vertical line spacing in the left and right column differ a tiny bit. I wouldn't notice it wouldn't it be for this big that's probably due to lines with/without ascenders/descenders! In particular I think

Re: clef visibility at a line break

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Lauer
Tao Cumplido tao_lilyponduser at gmx.net writes: Hi all, I have a clef change at a line break and would like to make the smaller changing clef, that is shown just before the break, invisible. \set Staff.explicitClefVisibility = #end-of-line-invisible

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure - Alexander.ly (0/1)

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Lauer
Tim Slattery Slattery_T at bls.gov writes: The \bar : gets me the repeat symbol I wanted. But the extra repeat is still there, and I'm getting more errors from this syntax alexander2.ly:25:20: warning: not a grob name, `Barline' { \partial 8*4 g2 \once \override

Re: Can't get it to look like I want it to

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Lauer
Tim Slattery Slattery_T at bls.gov writes: I still can't get my output to look the way I want it to.Maybe Lilypond just doesn't do this. Traditional Sacred Harp music uses four dots, one between each line, for a repeat symbol. It looks just like what you get when you specify \bar:. The

Re: Repeat in the middle of a measure

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Lauer
Tim Slattery Slattery_T at bls.gov writes: There are four voice parts, the \repeat volta 2 is in each one at the same place. I cannot figure out where the extra begin-repeat comes from. Here are the four voice parts, if that's not enough, I'll send more. The entire file is 105 lines

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Lauer
Stefan Waler stefan at waler.at writes: Great! Could you add petrucci-f5 at the next opportunity? Thanks, Stefan You can do it yourself, by putting this line in your .ly file: #(append! supported-clefs '((petrucci-f5 . (clefs.petrucci.f 4 0 I don't think the glyph is really

Re: Unexpected character change on Vista

2008-10-25 Thread Michael Lauer
Michael Lauer mrlauer1 at yahoo.com writes: A somewhat better fix is to copy the old times.ttf (and the bold/italic versions, and any other system fonts you may want to use)) into c:\users\username\.fonts\ , and then tell fontconfig to ignore the system fonts. The only way I can see to do

Re: Unexpected character change on Vista

2008-10-25 Thread Michael Lauer
sdfgsdhdshd discussions-sur-forums at orange.fr writes: I have a better workaround: 1) write the .ly file on Vista 2) When OK, copy the file on another pc with XP. 3) LLP on XP generates the final pdf file. Yes, that would work too. :-/ On this Vista pc, i also use Word, with

Re: New ancient time signature?

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Lauer
Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org writes: The documentation for ancient time signatures http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient-time-signatures (it doesn't seem to have changed noticeably since 2.10, which is what I'm actually using) has a circle with a dot

Re: kerning in lyrics?

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Lauer
Tao Cumplido tao_lilyponduser at gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to activate kerning in lyricmode? regards, Tao There's nothing to activate--if your font has kerning information (as the default Century Schoolbook does) then you should get kerning, in lyricmode and everywhere else.

Re: hyphens and spacing

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Lauer
Charles Gran sonance at campdeadly.com writes: I'm copying a choral piece and am finding the spacing too tight, I want to open it up and also have all hyphens in the lyrics print. Can anyone help or direct me to the appropriate sections in docs? I did find: \override Lyrics.LyricSpace

Re: lyrics and polyphony

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Lauer
Charles Gran sonance at campdeadly.com writes: [I tried resarching this topic on the list archive but most related topics are too extensive for me to sort out.] In a choral piece, I have a part that tempoarily divides into (single- line) polyphony. How do I handle lyrics at this point?

Re: support for

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Lauer
dstutz david.stutz at gmail.com writes: Thanks to the Lilypond team for creating such a fine piece of software. I am trying to use the Unicode code points for Byzantine chant notation in my score, which begin at x1D000. When I try to use ly:wide-char to enter one of these characters, I

Re: moving bar line engraver to staff level

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Lauer
Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org writes: I think this is a bug, but since I don't usually rely on the default bar line engraver, I'm sending this to user in case I'm doing something really dumb. The attached file is in 2/2, and should start with a partial measure, in both parts.

Re: hiding only one empty staff

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Lauer
Zoltán Selyem sese at elte.hu writes: Hi, I'd like to hide staff lines that only have rests, but I'd like to do this for only one staff, not all of them. Can LilyPond do that? Thanks, Zoltán Create the staff that can be hidden like this (from the definition of

Re: removing tags

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Lauer
Bernard Hurley bernard at fong-hurley.org.uk writes: Hi all, Is there any way of removing tags from music? You can write a music function to do it: stripTags = #(define-music-function (parser loc m) (ly:music?) (music-map (lambda (x) (ly:music-set-property! x 'tags '()) x) m))

Re: manual beaming in a triplet or sextuplet

2007-04-28 Thread Michael Lauer
Luc luc at smooth.ch writes: Hi Thanks - and sorry if I was not exact in my formulation! I want the triplet/ sextuplets in the 1st measure to have the same appearance as the 2nd measure - and not vice versa. Hope this is clearer! Luc Setting beatLength seems to work: \version

Re: Bar numbers in unmetered music.

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Lauer
AB and_xyz at hotmail.com writes: Hi list, for unmetered music, I'm using \cadenzaOn \cadenzaOff but \set score.currentBarNumber seems not working. I'm pretty sure I'm missin' something but what? You need to reset measurePosition to get the bar number to print. You can do that

Re: gracenote producing wrong clef

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Lauer
madhg d.griffel at bris.ac.uk writes: In keyboard music, an appoggiatura for the first note in the treble staff interferes with the clefs in the lower staff. It makes the bass staff start with a treble clef folllowed immediately by the correct bass clef. Removing the appogg gets rid

Re: Resetting where a barline starts

2007-04-04 Thread Michael Lauer
Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org writes: I'm transcribing a piece that was originally barless, but in lilypond terms it switches between 2/2 and 3/2 meters. (Actually the 3/2 is really a 3/4, since there are a lot of quarter notes, but I want it to print in single-digit style as a 3,

Re: Where the dot belongs to...

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Lauer
José Luis Cruz joseluisjazz at gmail.com writes: Well, although in this case it's pretty clear that the dot belongs to the F (can't be any other way), it's true that the disposition is somehow odd. I entered the same sequence of music in sibelius to see how that software dealed with that

Re: Re; Problem with lyrics

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Lauer
Cesar Penagos penagos.cesar at gmail.com writes: Saludos Lilypond Team: Thank You Fred for your words, I send this because i have the feel that I do not explain very clear. Then I go again: In the News section for the 2.10.20 version of Lilypond appears the following (Lyrics text may