Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-12 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 13 March 2012 11:44, James Harkins wrote: > At Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:02 -0400, > lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: >> Impressive! Can you now create scores as quickly as you used to in >> Finale? I think I can now... I’ve been using Lilypond for about six months now and like James I enjoy

Re: Lilypond and ePub

2012-03-05 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 5 March 2012 18:19, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Francisco Vila wrote: > >> 2012/3/2 Nils : >>> >>> I tried pdf and epub books now and it is clear that epdf is not a good >>> format for this device. I suspect the same for other readers which are not >>> A4 size or bigg

Re: Ambitus after incipit

2012-02-05 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 6 February 2012 11:01, Bockett Hunter wrote: > I am doing an edition of some early music, so each voice > has an "incipit", which is the start of the music in the old clef. > (There is an example in A.5 Ancient Notation Templates.) > > I also wish to show the range of each voice.  When I add >

Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

2012-01-23 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 24 January 2012 15:06, Shane Brandes wrote: > My reasoned opinion, which Hayden reiterated, on Gould's pronouncement > about the matter. Anyway, certainly some ammunition to dissuade the > editor. > > Shane > I’ve just looked at the sample pages of Behind Bars and would say that all the exampl

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 20 January 2012 10:29, Benedict Singer wrote: > On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set >>> my pieces, and composition has take

Orphaned bars

2012-01-13 Thread Vaughan McAlley
I work with renaissance choral music separated into sections with double barlines. There’s not really any need to put a line-break at these double bars, but it looks bad if the last bar of a section begins a line or the first bar of a section ends a line: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0YNwfxb1

Re: Compressing mensural notation

2011-10-31 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 31 October 2011 02:46, Phil Holmes wrote: > \include "gregorian.ly" > \paper { >  ragged-right = ##t > } > > > \score { >  \new MensuralStaff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } >  << >   \new MensuralVoice = "Tenor" { >     \key f \major >     \tempo 1 = 120 >     \override Score.BarNu

Divisi in separate staves

2011-10-24 Thread Vaughan McAlley
Greetings, I’m working on a string orchestra piece which has two cello parts, both independent enough to warrant separate staves, except for 24 bars in the middle where they are in unison. It would be nice in the score to mark it "unis." and leave out the second cello for the duration of the uniso

Re: [issue 1482] \caps \fromproperty and markup->string

2011-10-06 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 7 October 2011 04:39, David Kastrup wrote: > Jan-Peter Voigt writes: > >> Am 06.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb: >> >>> Vaughan McAlley writes: >>> >>>> On 7 October 2011 00:12, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: >>>>> Hi Vaughan, >>>>

Re: [issue 1482] \caps \fromproperty and markup->string

2011-10-06 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 7 October 2011 00:12, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hi Vaughan, > > I introduced the define-lyric-markup method a few mails ago, so it is no > lilypond standard. > Here I added methods to your file and used the recaps command, I introduced > in a revious mail, to capsify markups recursively whatchin

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-05 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 5 October 2011 18:48, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello list, > > for the simple case of italic lyrics, the answer withe override/revert is > already given. But I just wanted to point out another possibility for more > complex markups in lyrics: > In the following snippet I define a function to cr

Re: markup in lyrics

2011-10-04 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 4 October 2011 14:44, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Kieren MacMillan sympatico.ca> writes: >> What about >>     \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic … > \revert LyricText #'font-shape >> ? > > Works great. Thanks. > > Regards, > Benjamin > > > It’s not obvious from the documentation that

Re: Good work, Keith!

2011-10-04 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 5 October 2011 03:57, Tim Roberts wrote: > Francisco Vila wrote: >> Hello all, I think this is remarkable: Keith OHara has put Dvořák's >> 9th symphony in Mutopia. Kudos! >> >> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1793 > > That is remarkable, indeed. > > There are some odd thi

Simple variable definition

2011-08-21 Thread Vaughan McAlley
I’ve spent way to long trying to work this out... the simple test file: %test1.ly \version "2.14.2" myTranspose =\transpose c' c staffOneName = "Soprano" % Version for men’s choir %{ myTranspose = \transpose c' g staffOneName = "Alto" %} ...produces test1.ly:4:0: error: syntax error, unex

Re: Misleading autobeaming in 3/4

2011-08-16 Thread Vaughan McAlley
Bertrand Bordage wrote: >Ok, I'll keep LilyPond's default beaming since it's the usual notation. >Thanks! >Bertrand No! Beam it how _you_ like. Otherwise it’s like using Times font just because it’s the Microsoft Word default :-) Just say you’re following Debussy... I ran into a similar problem r

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