Re: naturalize pitches

2016-03-31 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2016-03-30 13:49, Jaime Oliver wrote: Sometimes it preferable to change the source directly instead of using function calls. Could you explain when this is the case? This was only a general reflection. The source code is more transparent without getting filtered by functions that

Re: naturalize pitches

2016-03-29 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2016-03-18 11:39, Jaime Oliver wrote: I am using version 2.18.2-1, with frescobaldi on a mac os x 10.11.2 Any help would be greatly appreciated! As you are using Frescobaldi you may want to take a look at Transpose, Modal transpose and Mode shift in Tools->Pitch. Sometimes it

Re: Better slashed graces

2015-12-02 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-11-30 18:01, tisimst wrote: I know that beamed grace notes don't /need/ a slash, so maybe there could be a hook to turn it on or off? There already is \slashedGrace. But it doesn't work for multiple notes. Best Peter ___ lilypond-user

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >and >developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in ages, but it would be

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-09-10 15:57, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Just in case this doesn’t make it to the poll stage… >>>This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? >>Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... >I send in this reminder not

Re: how to define rehersal marks globally?

2015-09-05 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-09-04 18:32, David Kastrup wrote: >Hi, > >When I have a score, how can I define rehersal marks globally (instead of in every voice) so that they appear in every other voice, when I print it out (like below)? > >%% >global= { > \time 4/4 > \key c

Re: Ensemble full score annotations and parts

2015-08-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-08-21 08:54, tisimst wrote: We have a full score for an ensemble of several instruments that has a top line of extensive annotations. How does one go about creating this so that it appears not only in the full score, but also in every individual part? I have

Re: sharping naturals

2015-08-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
When you use key signatures like A major or B Major you end up with a lot of naturals in the score for which you may have to manually add sharps. Is there a switch that will automatically sharp all the naturals? David, in a previous thread some time ago on a similar topic I think I recall

Re: String Results of Changing Pitches

2015-08-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-08-09 15:37, Thomas Morley wrote: Not sure whether Frescobaldi has a feature which fits your needs better To transpose in Frescobaldi use Tools-Pitch-Transpose. Best Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-23 19:29, Malte Meyn wrote: By the way, how would one write a g natural in b major, if ‘g’ lead to a g sharp? ‘ges’? But if so, how to write a ges? I assume you mean g# minor with the same accidentals in the key signature as b major. The lead tone to gis (g sharp) is fisis (f

Re: sharping naturals

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-24 09:59, Urs Liska wrote: By the way, how would one write a g natural in b major, if ‘g’ lead to a g sharp? ‘ges’? But if so, how to write a ges? I assume you mean g# minor with the same accidentals in the key signature as b major. The lead tone to gis (g sharp) is fisis (f

Re: = sign in time signature

2015-07-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-10 11:47, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, Is there a way to obtain the following, i.e 3/4 = 9/8, from Jacques Ibert’s « Deux mouvements »? Thanks! JM Take a look at this https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/notation-snippets/interchangeable-metres.

Re: Exporting quarter tones to midi?

2015-07-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-03 16:13, Urs Liska wrote: I guess my question then is whether there's a way to export it to another notation program - since all of them use a different protocol to define quarter tones. I saw that there's a lilypond-musicxml project but I am not sure what stage of development it

Forwarding LilyPond issue

2015-07-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Reported on the Frescobaldi issue tracker: I'm a Fedora 22 user with Frescobaldi 2.18.1 and Lilypond 2.19. I'm having an issue when i try to engrave a score. It seems to fail when it tries to generate a pdf. Layout output to|duba.ps'...Converting to|./duba.pdf'... warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER

Re: Forwarding LilyPond issue

2015-07-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-08 09:57, Urs Liska wrote: fatal error: failed files: /home/marsan/Documentos/Partituras/Coral/Duba/duba.ly What is wrong? Thanks. I'm not familiar with this (but Urs responded that it's a known issue). Is it a Fedora specific problem? Any workarounds? It's not necessarily

Re: Forwarding LilyPond issue

2015-07-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
(I've never seen this in Ubuntu.) On 2015-07-08 10:11, Urs Liska wrote: [...] it only affects binary releases and not my self-built LPs [...] That could explain why I haven't encountered it. Best Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Forwarding LilyPond issue

2015-07-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-07-08 10:17, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Peter, I reported this some time ago for Fedora 22. The issue has been dealt with and fixed and is now working in 2.19.22. Previous versions fail with the error you show, but 2.19.22 is now good. It’s not a Frescobaldi error. Andrew

Re: using python snippets in Lilypond

2015-06-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-21 16:28, David Kastrup wrote: Dear All, I understand that there is a way to use python snippets within a lilypond score. Not that I know of, so it would seem that any such possibility would not be advertised widely and definitely not be a core feature of LilyPond. The LilyPond

Re: using python snippets in Lilypond

2015-06-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-21 16:47, Urs Liska wrote: Just a question: would it be possible to call a Python script from Scheme (this should be possible) and use its output in LilyPond? Maybe you'll find some answers here: http://www.zak.co.il/a/itches/pyguile Best Peter

Re: using python snippets in Lilypond

2015-06-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Yes, you can use Python snippets in Frescobaldi, but not in the LilyPond code/score directly - instead they are created in a special Snippets editor. So I create the python snippet - how do I then call it in the score? I apologize if this is too basic of a question... No I don't think it

Re: using python snippets in Lilypond

2015-06-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-21 18:37, Paul Morris wrote: If it's changes you perform regularly on the score, a Snippet could conveniently be applied to a keyboard shortcut or to the Snippets menu - otherways you run it from the Snippets manager. Does anyone know if there is a way to add these snippets to

Re: offseting /makeCluster

2015-06-18 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-18 20:49, Peter Bjuhr wrote: I have no idea but I guess you have already tried using offsets!?? Perhaps that should have been: I guess you have tried all offsets!? Best Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: offseting /makeCluster

2015-06-18 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-18 17:22, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: I need to notate a graphic score which uses some unusual notation for dynamics: they have their own staff and they consist of polygons (similar to dealing with volume of a track in Pro Tools, REAPER or other DAW). I realised that to avoid creating

Re: offseting /makeCluster

2015-06-18 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-18 21:12, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: I guess you have tried all offsets!? You guessed wrong: I actually missed the most obvious offset which is Staff.ClusterSpanner.extra-offset (somehow I was convinced that it had to do with noteheads and that offset wasn't working). Using

Re: Engrave error

2015-06-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-11 13:52, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Opened Frescobaldi today and got a 62097 error when I tried to engrave. I did some research and the 62097 error seems to be triggered by Qt: void QProcessPrivate::killProcess() { if (pid) TerminateProcess(pid-hProcess, 0xf291); }

Re: Git + LilyPond

2015-06-07 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-07 11:35, Peter Bjuhr wrote: What I now consider is my best option in this case is to simply add the single repo as a remote in the larger repo and merge it in. Maybe I should add that normally this would probably be too simplistic, but it actually fits my file structure

Re: Git + LilyPond

2015-06-07 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Thanks for all suggestions. It's really appreciated! I have a question for those who use version control (and especially Git) with LilyPond: When I write a new piece (or rather when a first version is written) I'd like to edit this as a single repo. But when it's (more) finished I think it

Git + LilyPond

2015-06-06 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi all, I have a question for those who use version control (and especially Git) with LilyPond: When I write a new piece (or rather when a first version is written) I'd like to edit this as a single repo. But when it's (more) finished I think it would be better to collect it with other

Re: point-and-click from PDF viewer to lilypond editor

2015-06-06 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-06-06 10:40, Federico Bruni wrote: Does anybody here use point-and-click from an external PDF viewer (either Evince or Xpdf) to the lilypond editor? I find it useful when transcribing from a PDF manuscript, because I can organize three different windows (manuscript, PDF preview and

Re: slur syntax

2015-05-23 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-05-23 18:56, Peter Bjuhr wrote: In Frescobaldi if you use Quick Insert to slur the four notes you'll get: |a( b c d)| I tend to think the syntax |a ( b c d )| is preferable, but maybe with this syntax it is clearer that the '(' belongs to the 'a' and not to the 'b

Re: slur syntax

2015-05-23 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-05-23 18:29, Gianmaria Lari wrote: I understood that slur markers are not brackets in the mathematical sense but simply mark something to start or end but don't understand the consequences of this. Wouldn't be possible to slur the four notes a b c d using the other syntax (a b c

Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-26 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-04-26 15:13, Simon Albrecht wrote: If this is so easy for frescobaldi to have this converter relative2absolute, and so usefull to have input files in absolute, why not implant (implement) a commandline option to lily that would convert the relative blocks founds to absolute?

Re: E-mail management question

2015-04-23 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-04-23 16:59, SonusProj . wrote: Subscribing to this e-mail list is overwhelming me with e-mail posts that are beyond me and outside of my scope of interest. Is it possible to throttle the e-mail so I don't receive 70 e-mails a day? I guess I am seeing if there is a forum type

Re: Slur and tie

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-04-21 09:51, Urs Liska wrote: is this correct? \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c) ~ c( b a d,) } How is it different from: \relative c''' { a,,( e' b' c ~ c b a d,) } My musical intuition prefers the second line but the original score reads the first. The first version isn't

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-04-17 15:03, Urs Liska wrote: - most people in the business have moved away from taken the status quo with Finale and Sibelius for granted. - they know that they *have* to find new answers. - many (except a few die-hard reactionists) see that LilyPond and friends *can* offer answers

Re: Incorrect bar number comments in input file

2015-03-30 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-03-29 23:31, Charles Johnson wrote: Is it just me or are there often instances where bar number 'comments' are misnumbered in input files? Is this perhaps a tool autogeneration problem Kind regards, Charles Johnson One example of auto generated ly files is when using musicxml2ly.

Re: Implementation of \tuplet allow both incorrect and correct musical expressions

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-03-26 10:53, Simon Albrecht wrote: The essay on writing readable tuplets was quite interesting. From the context I assume you're referring to my post about tuplets on the LilyPond blog: http://lilypondblog.org/2014/09/how-to-write-readable-tuplets/. I'm really glad you found it

Re: Implementation of \tuplet allow both incorrect and correct musical expressions

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-03-26 21:47, Simon Albrecht wrote: Peter, My strange example of tuplets using neither Math Rule nor Nearness Rule will be clarified if I show the context. Here is that context from a part of the piece I wrote for solo bassoon: \version 2.18.2 \language english \score { \relative c'

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-03-23 18:37, SoundsFromSound wrote: Hi all, I also am having quite a headache installing the new Frescobaldi 2.18 and python-ly on my friend's laptop. It's a new, clean install on Debian and I left all install locations as their default. I am getting the same error, saying python-ly

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18

2015-03-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-03-09 11:41, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, for whatever reason I keep running into problems whenever I try to upgrade Frescobaldi (or install it on another machine). This time, I downloaded the .tar.gz bundles of both frescobaldi 2.18 and python-ly 0.9.1 into ~/Frescobaldi/, unpacked

Write result of abc2ly to standard output

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi, when you use musicxml2ly and midi2ly you can write the output to stdout by this command: | ||--output=-| For abc2ly this doesn't work. Is there any workaround? Best Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Write result of abc2ly to standard output

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2015-02-16 21:56, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: when you use musicxml2ly and midi2ly you can write the output to stdout by this command: --output=- For abc2ly this doesn't work. Is there any workaround? abc2ly --output=/dev/stdout infile.abc works for me on Linux. Don't know about Mac

Re: Frescobaldi custom script

2014-10-26 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-10-26 13:31, Vaughan McAlley wrote: Sorry if I’m wrong, but can’t you type anything you like into Frescobaldi’s Engrave (Custom) command line window? Something like: python ~/scripts/myLilypondScript.py $filename ...should run the script and pass it the filename, however that works in

Re: Frescobaldi custom script

2014-10-25 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-10-24 15:01, Noeck wrote: Hi, I have a question concerning Frescobaldi: Is it possible to run a custom script (bash/python) from Frescobaldi. This would be my use case: I have a script that runs lilypond and then timidity and other tools to get ogg rehearsal files which are then

Re: Spanner

2014-08-19 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-08-19 13:52, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hi, I'm looking for something similar to the notation used in contemporary scores to indicate things like wide vibrato, microtonal undulations, indeterminate glissando - it closely resembles a trill spanner (without the tr) but is more rounded and

Re: Spanner

2014-08-19 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-08-19 15:15, Peter O'Doherty wrote: On 08/19/2014 03:01 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: On 2014-08-19 13:52, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hi, I'm looking for something similar to the notation used in contemporary scores to indicate things like wide vibrato, microtonal undulations, indeterminate

Re: Spanner

2014-08-19 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-08-19 17:15, Peter Bjuhr wrote: If you change the glyph names I think you'll be able to get what you want. Here is the full list of glyphs to choose between: http://www.smufl.org/version/latest/range/multiSegmentLines/ Best Peter

Re: Retrograde and inversion clefs

2014-08-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-08-09 00:11, guoguocuozuoduo wrote: Hi all, I am working on a piece that uses reversed and inverted clefs which indicate retrograde and inversion. The reversed clef is placed at the end of a line to indicate retrograde; the inverted clef is placed before the main clef to indicate

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Thanks a lot! On 2014-05-20 00:49, Mark Polesky wrote: Peter Bjuhr wrote: And from there it would be easy to get the moment with 'ly:duration-string'. I don't think you need ly:duration-string; I think you can just skip that step. Yes, that was indeed a rambling. I meant I

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Thanks a lot! On 2014-05-20 00:50, Thomas Morley wrote: Is it possible to include and use 'parse-simple-duration' in a local script (without copy and pasting it)? Well, I would have no problem to c/p 'parse-simple-duration', though yes, it is possible: #(define (note-to-moment notestr)

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-20 10:26, David Kastrup wrote: Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com writes: Then you would use it like this: \set Timing.baseMoment = #(note-to-moment 4.) Anything wrong with \set Timing.baseMoment = #(ly:duration-length #{ 4. #}) Ok, you need 2.19 for it, but it seems like one

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-20 12:02, David Kastrup wrote: Thanks, indeed it is cheaper. But I'm not sure if I can use it. This is part of a larger whole. Basically the user is intended to input a string with the duration, and the string will be used both for \set Timing.baseMoment and for markup via \note

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-20 12:23, David Kastrup wrote: We probably should let \note accept a duration, but it's not actually hard to pick apart and use \note-by-number on the parts. Maybe you misunderstood me!? I meant that the functionality was intended for a larger script... So? Maybe it was me that

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-20 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: You want to enter a duration in a simple manner and use it in several contexts. One as markup, one as a duration or length. The suggestion was to let LilyPond see it not as a string but as a duration and go from there instead of writing your own

Re: Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-19 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-15 15:17, Peter Bjuhr wrote: is there already a function that converts a string 4. to the fraction '3/8', or the other-way round? Maybe it's helpful to know that the string is intended for use with \note, e g \note #4. #UP and the fraction is intended for use with \set

Function for note string to fraction?

2014-05-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi all, is there already a function that converts a string 4. to the fraction '3/8', or the other-way round? Maybe it's helpful to know that the string is intended for use with \note, e g \note #4. #UP and the fraction is intended for use with \set Timing.baseMoment, e g \set

Re: Trill span problem

2014-05-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-05-08 16:22, Knute Snortum wrote: I have a problem with sequential trill spans. they seems to be just a little too long and therefore they stagger vertically. I would think the solution is to shorten the trill span but I'm not sure how to do this. \version 2.18.2 \relative c'''

Re: Oskar Fried: the Big Bang

2014-03-12 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Janek and I have made some fuzz recently about that secret March 11, and now's the time to disclose the great news: Our edition of Oskar Fried's songs was elected BEST EDITION 2014 by the German Music Publishers' Association, and we'll receive the award at the Frankfurt Musikmesse on Friday!

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-27 20:44, Peter Bjuhr wrote: Hello, I have a question about changing stems. In my case it's related to an exploration of using SMuFL Fonts in LilyPond, which are made available in the openLilyLib snippets repository by Joram Berger and Nathan Ho. I would like to take

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-28 17:18, Urs Liska wrote: Is the attachment really what you intended? No, I attach what it should look like. I don't know what could be wrong... Do you have the latest version of the smufl script? There is no fixed rule about this, but the suggestion for using this library

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-28 18:36, Urs Liska wrote: Now that I've seen this works: It would be extremely cool if you could write a blog post about how one can create custom stuff using Bravura like this. I think there are some possible uses for that (e.g. clusters). Noeck's posts clearly point in that

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-28 22:18, Urs Liska wrote: That'd be great. Just come back to us when you're likely to get started. I think this actually has _two_ sides: accessing SMuFL glyphs on the one hand (as a practical way to extend Lily's own capabilities) and the process of replacing a stencil. I think

Re: Changing stem stencil

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-03-01 00:04, Nathan Ho wrote: I'm glad to hear that my work on both the SMuFL package and the LSR snippet has helped you! However, there's a much easier solution: #(define (penderecki-tremolo grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:vcenter #:smuflglyph

Changing stem stencil

2014-02-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hello, I have a question about changing stems. In my case it's related to an exploration of using SMuFL Fonts in LilyPond, which are made available in the openLilyLib snippets repository by Joram Berger and Nathan Ho. I would like to take the opportunity to thank them both! Attached is my

Re: light articulation

2014-02-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-27 18:33, Urs Liska wrote: The attached image shows signs to denote heavy and light syllables in poems (unfortunately I don't have an idea how they're called in English). We have the portato in LilyPond/Feta which has a very similar meaning to the lyric pendant, but if I'm not

Re: light articulation

2014-02-27 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 2014-02-27 22:09, Urs Liska wrote: This is exactly the glyph I wanted. But unfortunately it really doesn't look compatible with Feta (replace the last r4 with f--) and see. I'm not sure you would like the Bravura tenuto better: \relative c'{ \stemUp f4 _\markup { \smuflchar ##xE486 }

Re: When was dot notation for dotted property paths added?

2014-01-23 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/23/2014 10:40 AM, Urs Liska wrote: Somewhere in 2.17. David introduced the change from \override Stem #'length to \override Stem.length I would like to know in which LilyPond version this appeared. Somehow I don't seem to be able to think of the right search terms to locate the

Re: When was dot notation for dotted property paths added?

2014-01-23 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/23/2014 10:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com writes: Could it be this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=680df85187d0f3862b1ef1cf7a14f8ad7b7f0ee9;hp=ee89ee2c8ee328ec261b822aa9e260c9d623c086 No. Sorry! Probably followed

Re: Split Parts

2014-01-21 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Orm! On 01/21/2014 09:06 PM, Orm Finnendahl wrote: I'm taking the plunge to write a pretty big orchestra piece with lilypond (contemporary music) and am wondering how to organize the parts: There will be sections in the piece where e.g. the first violins are split (maybe sometimes only for a

Re: PDF links to javascript?

2014-01-17 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/17/2014 02:00 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote: Is there a way to change the textedit://uri mechanism in PDF point-and-lick links to point instead to a javascript function in the webbrowser? I've been looking around, but I know zilch about PDF documents; the closest I got was this, which

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Gilberto! On 01/16/2014 10:44 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hmm, something is wrong, the first chord of my code is not being shown (at least here at Nabble) Hmm, strange problem with pasting the code... On 01/16/2014 10:36 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: When engraving music that has only

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/16/2014 11:14 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: In my present case I must import the music via musicxml2ly because it's a piece I wrote previously in Finale (which I'm now going to finish and engrave in LilyPond). Maybe I should clarify for those not familiar with the output of musicxml2ly

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/16/2014 10:29 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: I am trying to figure out why a code of mine is not compiling, and I found that this is related to the add-grace-property. The error I receive is: *Exited with return code -1073741819.*

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Michael, thanks for your reply! On 01/16/2014 07:17 PM, Michael Rivers wrote: I think you just have to remember to use \oneVoice or \stemNeutral when the 2nd voice isn't playing. \oneVoice is the best choice, isn't it, because it affects more than just the stems!? If the 2nd voice is

Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hello all, this is asking for advices from you experienced LilyPond users. Lets say you're engraving music for an instrument capable of playing multiple voices, and the structure of the music is a mix between using one voice and several. (In my case I'm thinking about piano music, but lets

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 04:33 PM, Paul Scott wrote: +1 I've also been doing this for many years. I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! On 01/15/2014 03:48 PM, jensgc wrote: In effect - if there is someway to have \voiceA changed to \voiceAA in the example

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com writes: I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! Just don't let any programmers hear that. David, I'm sorry; I must again ask you what you mean? Is this a joke I'm missing

Re: global variables

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 05:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: On 01/15/2014 04:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhrpeterbj...@gmail.com writes: I've started using global variables more recently but can highly recommend it! Just don't let any programmers hear that. David, I'm sorry; I must again ask

Re: articulation marks

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 05:40 PM, Martin Duclos wrote: I'm at a loss in finding a way to do some articulation marks. I'm looking for an accented staccato so should be a combination of -. and - on top of each other. Is this possible? I think the way to do this is to write the two articulations in

Re: nuancing and customizing midi rendering

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/15/2014 08:28 PM, Bric wrote: Please forgive me if this has been discussed and/or documented; I haven't found specifics yet. Are there lilypond controls for things like staccato, accents, and other articulations/dynamics, with respect to midi output? I noticed that the midi output is

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/10/2014 07:37 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, j...@post.cz wrote: Hi, I am new to this forum and also new to Lilypond Frescobaldi. Still learning the basics... I would like to ask for some help with xml import/export since I am not able to get it to work. First

Re: [Frescobaldi] Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Martin, thanks for the report. It's very good for the development with some feedback! On 01/08/2014 08:49 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Frescobaldi's musicxml export is still in an early stage of development so I will not try to mail a list with all things that fail or don't work yet.

Heard on Twitter

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Bjuhr
In a reply the MuseScore Twitter account stated that the LilyPond export function will be removed in the next version: @shoorick77 Lilypond export is removed for next version in favour of consolidating efforts on MusicXML i/o http://twitter.com/musescore/status/409830922658529280 Best

Re: Gittip (and Supporting my work on LilyPond financially)

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 12/02/2013 02:03 AM, Paul Morris wrote: I have been keeping my eye on Gittip. It's basically a tool that lets individuals make ongoing weekly payments to other individuals (or organizations) to support whatever work they do. It happens that more often than not this is volunteer work on

Re: Frescobaldi Project Support

2013-11-30 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/16/2013 02:06 PM, Urs Liska wrote: SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com schrieb: Does anyone know of a place where one can donate to help support the Frescobaldi project? I can't find any link on the website, http://www.frescobaldi.org/ and I was curious if there was another

Re: musicxml2ly output indentation style

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/17/2013 07:02 PM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I did a short try with the dev version from Github (downloaded zip there) but I see no difference. Still had to use Tools-Format manually. Sorry for a stupid question, but did you install after download? But even if it works, it would

Re: musicxml2ly output indentation style

2013-11-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/14/2013 09:16 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, The lilypond output that is produced from musicxml2ly uses another indentation style than I see in my own scores when using for example Vim or Frescobaldi, or in all examples in the Lilypond documentation. for example: %commonly used

Re: export to musescore

2013-11-13 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/13/2013 12:00 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: On 11/12/2013 09:40 AM, Urs Liska wrote: the way to go would be MusicXML export. While this wish has popped up every now and then for years, Peter Bjuhr has just started to give it an actual try. We don't know how far this will get

Re: Cluster function

2013-11-13 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/13/2013 08:43 PM, Mark Knoop wrote: Has anyone had success making clusters such as in the attached image? This is not possible with the builtin \makeClusters function which removes stems, beams, accidentals, etc. Ideally code something like cis' ais''8. \cluster c' ais''8. to produce

Re: Bar numbers position

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/10/2013 09:40 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hi Janek, Janek Warchoł wrote ...i believe the barnumbers in the engraved examples interfere with clefs. I've seen some scores where similarly placed barnumbers looked like clef transposition (especially when the first bar in a system was

Re: Bar numbers position

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 09:28 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: What she writes is this: Place bar numbers at the beginning of each system, ideally above the clef of the top stave. The above quote is from p. 484 by the way... Best Peter ___ lilypond-user

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/10/2013 12:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: One should never _discard_ what an authority has to say and should try tracking its reasoning, but if the results from following instructions don't actually lead to convincing results (in particular when comparing them with the printed results),

Re: Volunteers for a few comparison experiments

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Janek is somewhat disappointed by aspects of LilyPond's performance, and I have the idea it would be good to put him (and his readers) in the right perspective by having some actual comparisons. While I have to admit he's right with his criticisms I assume in some (or all) aspects other tools

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 12:53 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Here the accidental could be mistakenly taken for a part of the key signature if it's too close. (The example appears fine to me when I compile it, but I would like to mention it anyway.) I think the worst case on my .PNG image was the one with

Re: Volunteers for a few comparison experiments

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 05:35 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com writes: I would like to volunteer for this, because it sounds important. But I only have Finale 2011. I used to upgrade to every other Finale version. But after I moved to LilyPond I have had no plans of upgrading

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 05:35 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Here we go: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n153739/image.png As you can see, the distances here are roughly 1 and 1.5 units, while the example I posted before (with clef and with more accidentals) has a distance of merely 0.5

Re: Volunteers for a few comparison experiments

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 05:52 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Bjuhr peterbj...@gmail.com writes: Sounds like for I the LilyPond thy typesetter am a jealous typesetter, visiting the misalignment of the glyphs upon the page unto the third and fourth printing. Sorry David, I don't get this!??? Or like

Re: Volunteers for a few comparison experiments

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 06:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Ah, thanks! You should expand this into The Ten Commandments of LilyPond! :-) Usually, the forced analogies get strained after making it past two bullet points at most. Then the greater the challenge! Seriously though, this is more meant as

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 12:53 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Although I agree with you that these things are important, there are certain things that could make problems clearer and are not used. Ex: it is not standard to write a little 8 under the bass clef when dealing with Contrabass in a

Re: Beam positions and time signature spacing

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/11/2013 07:21 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Peter Bjuhr wrote Based on these two examples, it would indeed seem that LilyPond is intelligent enough to adjust for this potential problem; in the first example where there were no risk of mistakenly take the accidental for a part of the key

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