Thanks.
-Original Message-
From: Rune Zedeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 January 2007 02:01
To: Stewart Holmes
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange...
Stewart Holmes wrote:
2.10.9.
Okay.
I can reproduce in latest stable (2.10.10) but not in latest dev (2.11.10
Hello again,
If you look at www.stewartholmes.com/moonlight3_letter.pdf again; on page 25
of the pdf, in the last bar there is something peculiar going on; there is a
stray tuplet bracket over some notes. I'm using the latest dev version. On
previous versions, this same thing was present, but
Hi everyone,
I've just finished working on a piece, but I get a rather peculiar error:
See the 2nd bar of the 25th page of the pdf at www.stewartholmes.com/m3.pdf.
Notice how, on the second beat, the beam has not been drawn correctly. It's
almost as though the beam at the top should actually
2.10.9.
-Original Message-
From: Rune Zedeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 January 2007 01:28
To: Stewart Holmes
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange...
Stewart Holmes wrote:
I've just finished working on a piece, but I get a rather peculiar
error: See the 2^nd bar
1) Try lilypondbook; I'd go into more detail, but it's an area I've not
ventured into.
2) In the header, use tagline =
4) In the \layout section, use ragged-right = ##f
Stewart
Still, I have a number of problem.
1) I'd like to generate a 'small' pdf, to be embedded in a text,
rather than a
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From: Stewart Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 December 2006 14:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Off-Topic: Orchestration Aid
Software wise, I know that Sibelius does some of these, for example
instrument ranges, string fingering, harp pedalling
disturbing
I saw in your code that at last you didn't use my formula for
calculating pixels to staff space. Have you come out some more precise
solution?
Congratulations, again. (If you'd like to include it into LilyPondTool
yourself, you're welcome ;-) )
Bert
Stewart Holmes írta:
Greetings
Greetings,
I’ve knocked up a tool that allows for some tweaking of the control points
of slurs visually; it can be downloaded from HYPERLINK
http://www.stewartholmes.com/LilypondBezierTool.jarwww.stewartholmes.com/L
ilypondBezierTool.jar. Source files are included. It’s still a bit ugly
around
Hi there,
I'm working on a tool-like widget to use for tweaking scores. For a given
staff size, how many pixels is 1 staff-space?
Cheers,
Stewart
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I think you have the easiest way there. You could do something like \markup
{ \bold T ime }, but then you'd have to play with the word separation, and
things get far uglier
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From: Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent:
Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a few minutes. Set a man on fire,
and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ;)
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From: Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: Swing
I think this whole
discussion is becoming increasingly ridiculous, but here's a thought; the next
time the same person is stuck with something, I bet they'll now search through
the archives; maybe they previously didn't know they were
searchable.
I'm sure that Kieren had no intention of
Hi,
I'm trying to manually alter some slurs, by setting
the control points. This seems, however, not to work across page breaks. I know
one solution is to ensure there is no page break, but that's not possible in
this case. Is there any way of dealing with slurs over page breaks?
Cheers,
It seems as if you just found one of the features that differ between
version 2.8 and 2.9. I don't know any details but it's probably related to
Erik's major revision of the front end of LilyPond.
One simple solution that works well in both 2.8 and 2.9 is:
fingerscript = {
\once \override
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Laissez-vibrer-ties.html
Is that of any use? You can use LaissezVibrerTieColumn #'X-extent to
lengthen them to your desired length.
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From: Michael J Millett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Ah, thanks. This here language that Lilypond uses... I understand it's used
in other things. What's it called, and do you know of any good
tutorial/information sites?
Thanks for your help,
Stewart
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From: Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL
, syntax error, unexpected MUSIC_FUNCTION_SCM. I'm not
quite sure what I'm doing wrong.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From: Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Markup macro
Hmm. 2.8.0 here, and I can't get it to play.
- Original Message -
From: Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Markup macro?
Stewart:
Your example compiles fine on my
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To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Markup macro?
Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, Stewart:
I can do what I want with \markup { \finger 5-4 }, but I'm
looking for a
nice neat macro I can use instead
Hi,
I'm trying to do something like:
fingerSwitch= #(define-music-function (parser
location text) (string?)#{ \markup { \finger $text
}
#})
c4-\fingerSwitch
but it's not working. I guess that you can't attach
scheme code to a note in such a way. Is there a nice neat solution to this? The
}, but I'm looking for a nice neat macro I can use instead of having to add
markup every time.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From:
tiM
To: 'Stewart Holmes' ; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:06
AM
Subject: RE: Markup macro?
Hey stewerd
Has anyone had any joy regarding/ideas for this?
I'm at rather an impass at to how I might progress.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From: Stewart Holmes
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: TextSpanner misbehaving?
Greetings,
It seems
: Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: TextSpanner misbehaving?
Hi, Stewart:
Has anyone had any joy regarding/ideas for this?
I'm at rather an impass at to how I might progress.
See
Joe,
Thanks for the reply. The circled numbers are indeed used to denote string
number, a very common practice on the guitar.
Thanks,
Stewart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Clarity
Greetings,
It seems that, under certain circumstances,
TextSpanner misbehaves. Bug or not, this is probably my fault for bad
organisation. I attach a .ly file that shows this in effect.
Notice how the textspanner doesn't extend to its
full duration. Now recompile the file, but remove the
Oh dear, I can't type. Let me clarify:
Notice how the textspanner doesn't extend to
its full duration. Now recompile the file, but remove the line, \context Voice =
"2" { \voiceTwo \pedal }, and notice how
... the textspanner now functions as it should
do.
Since the [problem] disappears
Greetings,
I was wondering what other people thought about
this. I'm fingering some music for the guitar, and I'm starting to wonder about
how readable the fingerings are (i.e. the 3 on the 3rd beat of bar 2 in the
attached png). Am I being over-critical and too much of a
perfectionist?
I might clarify a couple of these. Some of them have literal translations
which provide a good indication of their meaning.
Adagio Slow, leisurely
Literally, 'at ease'
Andante Moving with a moderate tempo
Literally, 'walking'
Con Brio with vigor and spirit
Literally, 'with liveliness'
Academics poison the well when they use the system for analysis, which is
a purpose for which it was never intended. Do not follow the
innovations suggested by academic articles. It leads to such abominations
as the flat13th chord or the B#7, which is better written C7, regardless
of a big fat
A .py is a python script. Your machine should be able to handle them, I
think Lilypond installs a Python interpreter. To run the files, you have to
use the command line prompt (Start - Run... - cmd).
- Original Message -
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rick Hansen (aka
Hi,
I'm trying to use convert-ly to update http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BeethovenLv/O27/moonlight1/moonlight1.ly.
However, when I do, I'm given some nasty errors, which don't really mean a lot
to me. My question... is it worth the time trying to tinker with the source file
to get
Sorry, using 2.8.0 here.
To find which version to convert to, did you just use trial error?
Cheers,
Stewart
- Original Message -
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Re
lilypond.exe is purely a command-line tool. Lilypond (.ly) files are plain
text files... you can edit them with notepad, or your text editor of choice
(I believe the Windows installer associates .ly files with LilyPad, included
with Lilypond). To compile a file, right click on it, and you
This is either a bug, or a subtlety that I'm not
understanding; clarification on either would be appreciated.
If you look at the output, notice that the markup
is only correctly right-aligned when I use \override instead of \once
\override.
I'm not really sure to do; I'm currently using
Howdy,
I'm using a TextSpanner over a linebreak. I've
modified it using:
\once \override TextSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(-7
. -8)
This causes there to be a gap in the textspanner at
the start of the next line.
This gap disappears if I remove the shorten-pair
modification... but then
I hesitate to call this a bug, as I'm not sure if
there's some reason that this functionality is intended.
Example 1:
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
a-1 b-2 c-3 d-4
The fingering is printed above the notes, no matter
what fingeringOrientations is set to.
Example 2:
\set
Consider:
\once \override TextSpanner #'edge-text =
#'("CVIII" . "")
s8\startTextSpan s8 s4 ss\stopTextSpan
|
This makes the TextSpanner too far to the right for
my taste, so I move it with:
\override TextSpanner #'extra-offset = #'(-2 .
0)
However, the line of the spanner is now too
, for example a pedal
bracket, negative values lengthening the text-spanner.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From: Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: TextSpanner length?
Hi
My intention is to offer downloads of PDF files. My plan was to source from
public domain sources, such as archives of old sheet music, and indeed parts
of Mutopia which are under certain licence.
I'm not sure I understand why I would want to sell printed music - surely,
here, I would not be
I don't think there's much problem about people willing to buy... the
quality can be as good or better as printed editions, thanks to Lilypond,
and the price can be very reasonable due to very little overhead. I'd quite
happily buy (decent) scores from the internet if they were around the same
control... after all, nobody will pay money for music unless it looks
professional.
- Original Message -
From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Lilypond store?
I hope
few days maybe, and see about any other responses.
Then, if everything is reasonably positive, I'll start to try and get people to
volunteer to help with this project.
Thanks,
Stewart
- Original Message -
From:
Anthony Youngman
To: Stewart Holmes ; lilypond-user@gnu.org
I suggest that you start a discussion thread on mutopia's mailing lists:
If
you have constructive ideas on how to create an archive of high-quality
public domain notes, then I would strongly recommend you to use your ideas
to
improve mutopia; if that's not possible, use mutopia as a base for
On 7/5/06, Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suggest that you start a discussion thread on mutopia's mailing
lists:
If
you have constructive ideas on how to create an archive of
high-quality
public domain notes, then I would strongly recommend you to use your
ideas
Aha, thanks... just what I was looking for.
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From: Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Cc: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: 'Slanted' fractions
On Monday 03 July 2006 16:48, Stewart Holmes
Okay... this may seem like a strange place for
this, but it's seem the best place to put it in order to get
attention/opinions.
What I'm proposing is some kind of a collaboration
between Lilypond users to submit their scores to an online score (the scores
being engraved from public domain
I'm trying to do some guitar barring, which
involves using the fraction 1/2. The markup /fraction gives me a fraction with
one number vertically above the other. I'd quite like it so that the 1 is in the
top left, the 2 in the bottom right, with a diagonal line
inbetween.
Is this possible
mutopiatitle = Recuerdos de la Alhambra
mutopiacomposer = F. Tárrega (1852-1909)
mutopiainstrument = Guitar
source = Orfeo Tracio Edition
style = Romantic
copyright = Public Domain
maintainer = Stewart Holmes
lastupdated = 2006/May/26
dedication = Hommage á l'eminent artiste Alfred Cottin
title
Aha, thanks for catching those... amazing how one
can be completely oblivious to some things so blatant.
- Original Message -
From:
Diosnel
Herrnsdorf
To: Stewart Holmes
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:26
AM
Subject: Re: Feedback
Hi, Stewart,
You'd
If you're using Acrobat viewer, then this is your PDF viewer. Onscreen, it
doesn't always display very accurately, possibly something to do with the
resolution at which it displays the image. But try printing the document
out; everything will look fine. You just have to learn to take Acrobat's
Hi,
I'm looking to put a line break in a piece, but
leave just that line ragged, in order to create some white space to the side of
the bar. I'm not sure if Lilypond can do this, but is there any kind of
workaround known?
Thanks,
Stewart
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Fantastic, just the trick. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: One-time ragged-right?
Hi,
you can try this:
By using the commands \stopStaff and \startStaff you can determine where
your staff stops
Hi,
From what the documentation says, these features
are fairly limited; string numbers can't seem to be moved, and fingering numbers
can only be moved to be to the left/right/top/bottom of a note.
Please tell me there are ways of tweaking these so
I don't have to resort to doing the whole
Domain
maintainer = Stewart Holmes
lastupdated = 2006/May/26
dedication = Hommage á l'eminent artiste Alfred Cottin
title = Recuerdos de la Alhambra
composer = Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909)
arranger = Fingerings revised by Stewart Holmes
copyright = Public Domain
}
top = \relative c
{
a32 e
Hmm... I think I may have misunderstood the documentation originally. If I
use
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4 'Staff)
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 2 'Staff)
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 3 4 'Staff)
it works. The trick must be to define
Thanks for the tip. The strange thing is, the large space is completely
unlabelled. One strange thing, is that when I change the global staff size,
the size of the space changes.
Cheers,
Stewart
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From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL
Bingo! You're too good at this Mats, thanks.
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From: Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stewart Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: Odd space
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond
Hello,
I use the following _expression_:
\times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } \times 2/3 { des8 ees f
}ges8 ees
I get the 2 triplets at thestart of the bar,
but they are beamed together with all the triplets.
Also, later:
\times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } \times 2/3 { des,8 ees f
} \times 2/3 { des,8
pianobass.ly
\include violin1.ly
\include violin2.ly
\include viola.ly
\include cello.ly
#(set-default-paper-size a4 )
#(set-global-staff-size 14 )
\header
{
title = Sonata for Piano Quintet
composer = Stewart Holmes, Candidate No. 4526
}
global =
{
\key e \major
\time 4/4
}
thescore = \score
Am I supposed to do something like this to move my
dynamics down on the page? This thing has me beat.
\layout{\context{\Staff \set
DynamicLineSpanner #'staff-padding = #-5}}
Cheers,
Stewart
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Hi,
I'm trying to move some dynamics downards. From
various places from the internet, I've come up with:
\context Staff =
violini\property
Staff.DynamicLineSpanner \override #'direction =
#-1\global\set
Staff.instrument = "Violin I"\set Staff.instr =
"Vln.
I"\violini\override
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