bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
0.5) \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #0 \override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1 } } \version "2.23.7" %% CHANGELOG %% %% 2022-04-21 Werner Lemberg %% %% * Update `add-grob-definition` to make it work with current development %% version (2.23.7). %% %% 2019-05-28 Thomas Mo

Re: problem with extending 'magnetic snapping lyrics' engraver

2022-04-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> but how about just >> changing >> >>    (let* ((hyphen-sten (ly:lyric-hyphen::print hyphen)) >> >> to >> >>    (let* ((hyphen-sten (ly:grob-property hyphen 'stencil)) >> >> >> ? Then you can do \override LyricHyphen.stencil = #what-you-want to >> get the result. > > D'oh, so simple, thanks aga

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Here is an example where it fails to position lyrics correctly (see > last system in the image). And while we are at it: Here is another bug, already reported in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-03/msg00289.html I've slightly sharpened the test to exclude the possibilit

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The second bug is super hard to fix: when you tell LilyPond about > spacing constraints between lyrics, before line breaking, you need > to assume a lyric syllable won't be moved to the left by > 'magnetism', because if you do, the spacer might think it can space > its right neighbor more to th

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Did I miss something? > > Whoops, big problem at line breaks ... This is ingenious :-) Thanks *a lot* for this solution. In my tests it seems to work fine. Two comments. * I *strongly* vote for polishing and documenting this so that it can be added to LilyPond. It's an invaluable feature

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> This is ingenious :-) Thanks *a lot* for this solution. In my >> tests it seems to work fine > > You're welcome. I spoke too soon :-) There is a problem with ligatures at the syllable boundaries (and kerning). While this can be considered an ugliness in languages based on the latin script,

how to change extents of a grob?

2022-04-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Dear LilyPonders, I can get the extents of a grob with `ly:grob-extent`. What is the corresponding Scheme function to set the extents? Or to ask in a different way: At the time when properties are processed and you have to manipulate stencils, changing the stencil of a grob doesn't change the

Re: how to change extents of a grob?

2022-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Or to ask in a different way: At the time when properties are >> processed and you have to manipulate stencils, changing the stencil >> of a grob doesn't change the extents of this grob, AFAICS. > > You are not supposed to change stencils at all. They are not > entities with identity. > > C

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> There is a problem with ligatures at the syllable boundaries (and > kerning). [...] it is not sufficient to shift the right syllable > in a syllable pair to the left. Instead, the following should be > done. [...] Meanwhile I could implement this :-) I will submit a MR soon. Werner

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How did you do that? Sorry to rain on your parade, but I would not > want you to put a lot of work in it if it will not be of mergeable > quality. Attached. In the end the necessary modifications were surprisingly minor. Please comment, there is certainly room for improvements. Werner

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Attached. In the end the necessary modifications were surprisingly >> minor. Please comment, there is certainly room for improvements. > > Thanks. This is a bit what I feared: in this state, there is > potential for things going wrong with other after-line-breaking > callbacks. Those are th

Re: bug in magnetic snapping lyrics engraver

2022-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
ainly room for improvements. Attached is another version for testing without the need to patch LilyPond. Werner % magnetic-lyrics.ily % % written by % Jean Abou Samra % Werner Lemberg % % Version 2022-Apr-15 \version "2.23.7" #(define (Left_hyphen_pointer_engraver context)

Re: Unwanted font ligature

2022-04-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I am trying to write the dynamic "sfffz".  But when I write > \markup\dynamic"sfffz" the first sf is made a ligature, then the > last two are made another ligature - the difference in spacing of > the f's is ugly, as in the attached image - is there anything I can > do about it? A quick would b

Re: Annotation brackets,Annotation brackets

2022-05-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I’ve created some code for creating well behaved annotation brackets > for some SE question, which I want to share with you all in case > someone of you can use it. Very nice! This smells like a good snippet for the LSR :-) Werner

top-level markup in Scheme

2022-05-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
What is the Scheme equivalent to a top-level markup like ``` \markup \italic "foo" ``` ? I can't find it in the documentation. Werner

Re: top-level markup in Scheme

2022-05-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> What is the Scheme equivalent to a top-level markup like >> >> ``` >> \markup \italic "foo" >> ``` >> >> ? I can't find it in the documentation. > > I am not a fan of the markup macro, but of course > > (make-italic-markup "foo") > > will also work. Thanks. > It is not clear what you mean

Re: top-level markup in Scheme

2022-05-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> On the other hand, a LilyPond input file containing only >> >> ``` >> #(make-italic-markup "foo") >> ``` >> >> prints nothing. I now wonder how I can modify the latter to make >> it actually work – what is the 'appropriate hook'? > > s/#/$ This did the trick, thanks! Reading the documenta

Re: An issue with kerning in a defined dynamic "sfffz" solved

2022-05-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Some time ago I wrote saying that I could not get the marking > "sfffz" to kern properly. Someone replied that it did for them, and > I let it sit there, waiting until I needed a solution, which point I > have now reached. I have been slow and dense in recognising where > the issue lies - I am

within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Within a markup, I want to `\translate` an object by the x-extent of another markup. How can I do that? While we have `\with-dimensions` and friends to adjust the size of an object, it seems to me that we don't have something similar for offsets... Would it be necessary to define `\translate-w

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Within a markup, I want to `\translate` an object by the x-extent >> of another markup. How can I do that? >> >> While we have `\with-dimensions` and friends to adjust the size of >> an object, it seems to me that we don't have something similar for >> offsets... Would it be necessary to de

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The problem at hand is stacking fixed-width single-digit and >> two-digit numbers. Single-digit numbers should be left-aligned for >> various reasons: >> >> ``` >> 9 >> 8 >> 7 >> ``` >> >> If there is a two-digit number, it should be right-aligned at the >> right edge of the left-aligned

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How about > > \markup \typewriter \column { 9 \general-align #X #CENTER 10 } Nope, this doesn't align properly – see my answer to David's e-mail for a longer explanation. Werner

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The problem at hand is stacking fixed-width single-digit and two-digit numbers. Single-digit numbers should be left-aligned for various reasons: ``` 9 8 7 ``` If there is a two-digit number, it should be right-aligned at the right

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Again, I have no idea what you are trying to achieve here and how > kerning has anything to do with it. OK. Next try. Here are the assumptions. * Numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., 9 all have a width of 100 units. * Number 10, however, has a kerning of -50 units between digits 0 and 1, making a total

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> * Single-digit numbers are left-aligned. > > Why? They have equal width. Do you rather mean that the reference > point is supposed to be on the left edge? Yes. Sorry for the sloppy wording. > What is the alignment supposed to be if there are _only_ two-digit > numbers? This situation do

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Sth like > > \markup \box \number \column \with-dimensions-from \right-align "0" > \right-align { 11 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 } While this is an ingenious solution – thanks! – it doesn't fit my needs, alas, since two-digit numbers stick out to the left of the box. This is exacerbated by the fact that in

Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

2022-05-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> AFAICS, we are back to square one, needing the possibility to >> `\translate` something by the width of another markup. I will cook >> something up and see how well it works. > > > Probably > > ``` > \version "2.22.2" > > #(define-markup-command (translate-by-extent-of layout props axis directi

printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Let's assume that I have 40 bars of flute 1 and 2 in a single staff of a full score. At the very beginning of these bars I write "a 2", and I want this remark repeated at the beginning of every staff where this is still true. [Obviously I'm not using `\partCombine` :-)] Has anyone already set

Re: LilyPond 2.23.9 released

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Currently homebrew provides Lilypond 2.22.2 for Apple Silicon, >> that is what I am using. > > Did you try running the x86_64 binaries via Apple's Rosetta tool? That > might be a bit slower than native executables, but given that Homebrew > builds 2.22.2 without Guile bytecode, it might actu

Re: LilyPond 2.23.9 released

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Note that the MacPorts port of LilyPond 2.22.2 already uses Guile >> 2.2 bytecode and provides a binary for Apple Silicon, too. >> >>   https://ports.macports.org/port/lilypond/details/ > > No, the 2.22.2 version uses Guile 1.8 as can be easily seen from the > dependencies. Even if it used G

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically,Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> while it is probably not the best way to do it, here is a > pragmatical solution to the problem. Thanks a lot! Will try it soon. Werner

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> while it is probably not the best way to do it, here is a >> pragmatical solution to the problem. > > Thanks a lot! Will try it soon. Basically, it works great, but there are two problems (tested with 2.23.9). * It doesn't print 'a 2' at the very beginning. * Contrary to `\mark`, the 'a 2'

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The optimal solution (IMO) would be to improve the whole instrument > definition, switching, and [staff-]labelling framework such that > \addInstrumentDefinition and \instrumentSwitch would change the > appropriate texts so that the engraver(s) could present the > information automagically acco

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Basically, it works great, but there are two problems (tested with > 2.23.9). > > * It doesn't print 'a 2' at the very beginning. > > * Contrary to `\mark`, the 'a 2' should always be horizontally > aligned to a note column and not to prefatory matter like time or > key signatures. And I'

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Meanwhile, how about using a spanner rather than an item? See > attached. Very nice, thanks! Besides the (hopefully) harmless warning ``` programming error: Spanner `TextSpanner' is not fully contained in parent spanner. Ignoring orphaned part continuing, cross fingers ``

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically,Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I’ve changed it up so that the a2 is always aligned to the note when > it is set. This also solves the first one not being printed. Thanks! Werner

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Meanwhile, how about using a spanner rather than an item? See >> attached. Aaand some nits :-) * Contrary to Valentin's solution, the first 'a 2' text is not left-aligned to the left edge of the note head. This is especially visible with whole notes (see attached image). It is not clea

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> Meanwhile, how about using a spanner rather than an item? See >>> attached. > > Aaand some nits :-) I forget another one. * If you look at the attached image (from 'Carmina burana') it probably makes sense to have the staff annotation engraver actually live in the Voice context. We sh

`StaffGroup` prevents articulation shifted under time signature

2022-05-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[LilyPond version 2.23.9] The following example ``` << \new Staff { f'1 } \new Staff { f'1 \tweak X-offset #-5 \pp } >> \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { f'1 } \new Staff { f'1 \tweak X-offset #-5 \pp } >> ``` shows that I can't move the 'pp' to sit under the time signature if I use `Sta

Re: `StaffGroup` prevents articulation shifted under time signature

2022-05-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The following example >> >> ``` >> << >>\new Staff { f'1 } >>\new Staff { f'1 \tweak X-offset #-5 \pp } >> \new StaffGroup << >>\new Staff { f'1 } >>\new Staff { f'1 \tweak X-offset #-5 \pp } >> ``` >> >> shows that I can't move the 'pp' to sit under the time signature if >> I us

Re: `StaffGroup` prevents articulation shifted under time signature

2022-05-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> dynamicLengthOff = { > \override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(+inf.0 . -inf.0) > \override DynamicText.extra-spacing-height = #'(0 . 0) > } Nice idea, thanks! Werner

Re: printing "a 2" at the beginning of staves automatically

2022-05-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> * Contrary to Valentin's solution, the first 'a 2' text is not >> left-aligned to the left edge of the note head. This is >> especially visible with whole notes (see attached image). [...] > > See the attached file, fixing that problem and making it per-voice. Thanks, will test soon in m

make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-05-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[git f326290b65351] Please have a look at the attached image. What must I do to make the breathe sign 'ignore' the change clef so that the breathe sign is positioned as if the change clef wasn't there? Werner

Re: make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-05-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [git f326290b65351] > > Please have a look at the attached image. What must I do to make > the breathe sign 'ignore' the change clef so that the breathe sign > is positioned as if the change clef wasn't there? Well, having some code certainly helps :-) ``` { 1 \breathe | } { 1 \breathe \cl

Re: make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-05-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> Please have a look at the attached image. What must I do to make >>> the breathe sign 'ignore' the change clef so that the breathe sign >>> is positioned as if the change clef wasn't there? [...] > > There's always this sort of trick: [...] Excellent, thank you! > Is this canonical present

Re: Piano pedalling in (conductor) scores

2022-05-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Well, just look at a Mahler score. He was one of the great > conductors, and the strings are full of bowing marks. How many of > them are followed by conductors these days I don't know. Well, just look at a Richard Strauss score :-) His scores are full of legatos in the strings which are de

vertical half-brackets

2022-05-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
For piano music it is common to indicate the use of the right hand in the lower staff with a 'half-bracket' (and vice versa for the upper staff), see image. Two questions. * What's the right term for this 'half-bracket'? * Has someone coded this already? I couldn't find code in the LSR. Thank

Re: vertical half-brackets

2022-05-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> * What's the right term for this 'half-bracket'? BTW, in SMuFL this symbol is called 'keyboardPlayWithRH' :-) https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/keyboard-techniques.html Werner

Re: vertical half-brackets

2022-05-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> For piano music it is common to indicate the use of the right hand in >> the lower staff with a 'half-bracket' [...] > > In the NR I find > > Indicating cross-staff chords with arpeggio bracket [...] > > It's not a half-bracket but it's the closest in the manual I can > find at a glance. Tha

Re: vertical half-brackets

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> * Has someone coded this already? I couldn't find code in the LSR. > > I don't know if this is still the most ideal way, but it works. > [...] Thanks a lot for all the replies! I'll analyze them and cook something up for my needs. Werner

rehearsal marks, top-staff lyrics, and moved engravers

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Dear LilyPonders, the snippet below demonstrates that top-staff lyrics are incorrectly positioned above rehearsal marks if the engraver for the latter is moved to another context (I need that in a full score with rehearsal marks printed simultaneously at three different vertical positions). Wha

Re: rehearsal marks, top-staff lyrics, and moved engravers

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I think you likely want to move the Mark_engraver to a kind of > MarkLine context instead. Well, the problem is that such a context needs the `Axis_group_engraver`, which tries to align stuff horizontally on a line. I don't want that. Rehearsal and tempo marks should be aligned on the selecte

Re: rehearsal marks, top-staff lyrics, and moved engravers

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> the snippet below demonstrates that top-staff lyrics are >> incorrectly positioned above rehearsal marks if the engraver for >> the latter is moved to another context (I need that in a full score >> with rehearsal marks printed simultaneously at three different >> vertical positions). > > Tha

Re: rehearsal marks, top-staff lyrics, and moved engravers

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Rehearsal and tempo marks should be aligned > on the selected staff as if they were part of it, see attached > example. I forgot to also move `Metronome_mark_engraver` in my example, but it doesn't make a visual difference here. Werner

Re: make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
David, thanks for your code – I consider it quite an elegant solution. > squashed = > \once \propertyTweak stencil > #(grob-transformer 'stencil > (lambda (grob old) > (ly:stencil-aligned-to old X RIGHT))) > \etc > > { 1 \breathe | } > > { 1 \breathe \squashed Sta

Re: make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm not sure why this takes into account the right endpoint of the > extent on the left but not the left endpoint of the extent on the > right. I think it might just be assuming that all break-aligned > grobs have an extent starting at 0. Or maybe it's simply a thinko... Werner

Re: make \breath (kind-of) ignore clef change

2022-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> This code might serve as an example for `\propertyTweak`, which the >> NR is currently missing. >> >> Would you care to submit an MR, expanding the documentation >> accordingly? > > I'm not sure if the NR is the best place for explaining > \propertyTweak. Its usefulness is basically to be a h

Re: Left-hand end of tuplet bracket sometimes wrong

2022-06-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I find that even using shorten-pair (with a negative first value) > fails to do this as I expected. So now I don't know any way to > print the bracket with the preferred layout... This looks like a bug. Please file an issue at https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues Werner

Re: Left-hand end of tuplet bracket sometimes wrong

2022-06-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I find that even using shorten-pair (with a negative first value) >> fails to do this as I expected. So now I don't know any way to >> print the bracket with the preferred layout... > > This looks like a bug. Please file an issue at > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues Neve

stacking of figured bass elements

2022-06-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Consider the following example: ``` \figures { } ``` As can be seen in the attached image, the elements are separated by padding only; they are not vertically spaced using `baseline-skip` or something similar. How can I change that? Werner

Re: stacking of figured bass elements

2022-06-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Consider the following example: >> >> ``` >> \figures { >> >> } >> ``` >> >> As can be seen in the attached image, the elements are separated by >> padding only; they are not vertically spaced using `baseline-skip` >> or something similar. >> >> How can I change that? > > Like this? > > \v

Re: stacking of figured bass elements

2022-06-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Then I don't understand the problem. What characteristic of > baseline-skip do you wish? Is it that it counts from the origin of > each markup and somehow this distance is more convenient for you to > provide? Is it that it ignores the extents of the markups? I want equal vertical spacing of li

Re: stacking of figured bass elements

2022-06-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> This sounds like it might be related to my [long-standing] concerns > about leading, etc., in markups: there either isn’t a convenient > mechanism to deal with texts/markups *from their baseline [and not > their reference point]*, or the convenient mechanism exists and > isn’t sufficiently well

musikalische Funktionssymbole (music function symbols)

2019-07-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I've just stumbled upon this page https://tobiw.de/tbdm/funktionssymbole , presenting a macro that helps with entering (German-style) music function symbols. The blogpost is in German, but a LaTeX user will certainly understand the code easily. It is also explained in English at https://

Re: Bug with transpose in functions

2019-07-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Functions like transpose act destructively on their argument, so you > need a copy or the original will get changed. [...] How can Joe User find out whether a function is acting destructively? Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

inter-letter spacing?

2019-07-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, any idea how to realize inter-letter spacing? Has someone already written a macro like \markup { \letter-spacing #0.1 "foobar" } which should be equivalent to \markup { \concat { "f" \hspace #0.1 "o" \hspace #0.1 ...

Re: inter-letter spacing?

2019-07-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> any idea how to realize inter-letter spacing? Has someone already > written a macro like > > \markup { \letter-spacing #0.1 "foobar" } > > which should be equivalent to > > \markup { \concat { "f" \hspace #0.1 > "o" \hspace #0.1 > ... >

Re: inter-letter spacing?

2019-07-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> PS: Right now, I would be thankful for a pointer to this simplistic >> solution :-) > > \markup \override #'(word-space . 0.4) > \line { #(map! string (string->list "foobar")) } Thanks a lot! This works for my use-case. Werner ___

slurs and ties to end of bar

2019-07-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, I have to typeset a bunch of snippets that contain ties and slurs either from a (not typeset) bar at the left or to a bar to the right (see attached example). What is the recommended way to do that gracefully? Werner ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: slurs and ties to end of bar

2019-07-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You mean you just want the slurs to extend before and after the > notes? Yes, but ... > Any reason you can't use \shapeII from openlilylib? ... I don't want to have a manual solution – but thanks for the suggestion. What I imagine is a possibility to specify `front matter' and `back matter'

Re: slurs and ties to end of bar

2019-07-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> What I imagine is a possibility to specify `front matter' and >> `back matter' that gets processed but not displayed, for example >> >>\relative c' { >> \frontmatter { f4( } >> g a b c >> \backmatter { d) } >>} >> >> which should be handled as >> >>\relative c' { >>

Re: slurs and ties to end of bar

2019-07-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I have to typeset a bunch of snippets that contain ties and slurs >> either from a (not typeset) bar at the left or to a bar to the >> right (see attached example). What is the recommended way to do >> that gracefully? > > I'm still not sure what you're after and/or the wished workflow. See

private messages to David K.

2019-07-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Hi David K., in the last few days you should have received some private messages from me and others sent to . Did you get them? In case you didn't get them, or if you got them and you answered: I didn't receive a reply; maybe there is a mailing issue. I would gladly resend the messages to an

Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Using http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1000 I wonder how to get the effect for a single note. Ideally, I would like to write \genericSpan <...parameters ...> e\startGroup\endGroup but since `\genericSpan' uses a `HorizontalBracket' grob, this fails; it needs at least two notes. I was

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm not sure if that helps you with your case (probably not), but > you should at least know that this snippet has by now evolved into > this openLilyLib package: https://github.com/openlilylib/analysis/, > https://github.com/openlilylib/analysis/wiki/Frames Thanks for the info! Werner _

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Using > > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1000 > > I wonder how to get the effect for a single note. Ideally, I would > like to write > > \genericSpan <...parameters ...> > e\startGroup\stopGroup With the attached patch (for git master) I get exactly that :-) Not sure whether the

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Not sure whether the coding fits lilypond's C++ style, however. > > Seriously? C++ has loops, you don't need goto for that. What construction do you suggest as a replacement? >> + // One single-moment bracket is allowed. Abbreviating a horizontal >> + // bracket's `START' span-direction

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> Seriously? C++ has loops, you don't need goto for that. >> >> What construction do you suggest as a replacement? > > A loop? Well, yes. However, everything seems quite inelegant and bloated to me in comparison to this simple `goto' [and I don't think that such a local `goto' is something t

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Slightly off-topic: Currently it’s not possible to end one bracket > and start the next at the same moment, that’s > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5240/ where I > mentioned overlapping brackets. IIRC the brackets are started and > ended when the bracket count is increased or d

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So how do you distinguish a nested bracket starting and ending at > the same musical moment to ending one bracket and starting the next > at the same musical moment? Here's the algorithm. For a given moment, (1) count the number of \startGroup and \stopGroup events for a given moment and

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Oops, some typos. Here a corrected algorithm version. Here's the algorithm. For a given moment, (1) count the number of \startGroup and \stopGroup events and push the events onto a stack so that they can be referenced later on (function `listen_note_grouping'), (2) create a Horizontal

Re: Colored box behind a single note

2019-07-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Ideally, I would like to write >> >> \genericSpan <...parameters ...> >> e\startGroup\endGroup >> >> but since `\genericSpan' uses a `HorizontalBracket' grob, this >> fails; it needs at least two notes. >> >> I wasn't able to find a suitable solution in the web; IMHO, it >> would be a quite

Re: padding problem

2019-08-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You could experiment with setting > page-breaking-system-system-spacing, which can let you specify > custom spacing variables that apply just for the determination of > page breaking. Aaah, I was totally unaware of this paper variable. Thanks a lot! Adjusting it makes my example work. We

\unset in paper block

2019-08-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I wonder whether it is possible to use \unset in the paper block. The use-case is lyluatex, which sets `left-margin'; I want to unset this value so that lilypond only takes the line width into account to automatically center it. In other words, I would like to have % from lyluatex \paper

Re: \unset in paper block

2019-08-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I wonder whether it is possible to use \unset in the paper block. > The use-case is lyluatex, which sets `left-margin'; I want to unset > this value so that lilypond only takes the line width into account > to automatically center it. > > In other words, I would like to have > >% from lylu

Re: \unset in paper block

2019-08-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> IIRC these assignments in \paper and \layout and \header blocks are > functionally equivalent to defining a variable in Scheme like > > #(define left-margin 100) Yes. > The kind of \unset you’re asking for requires the previous value to > have been saved onto some stack, which I doubt exists/

Re: \unset in paper block

2019-08-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> To ask differently: In file `paper.scm' I can see >> >> (module-remove! m 'line-width) >> >> to remove `line-width'; I now wonder what value for `m' I have to >> use... > > \paper { > #(module-remove! (current-module) 'line-width) > } > > should work for doing this via Scheme. This wor

Re: LilyPond and FontForge

2019-08-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I would really appreciate someone explaining how to generate these > tables using FontForge. thanks! (0) Please read `mf/README'. For better readability of log files created by METAFONT I suggest that you (temporarily) set max_print_line=1000 in your environment. (1) A run of

Re: Cue label

2019-08-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> it strikes me as odd and unnecessary that one has to manually add a > label with the instrument name to each cue. Wouldn’t it make more > sense to supply that instrument name as a string (or markup) as an > additional argument to \addQuote and have \cueDuring (and > \cueDuringWithClef) automati

Re: LilyPond and FontForge

2019-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I would really appreciate someone explaining how to generate these >> tables using FontForge. thanks! I've just updated `mf/README' in the git repository with an even more detailed description of the conversion process. Werner ___ lilypond-use

Frescobaldi: show documentation for lilypond 2.19

2019-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[Frescobaldi 3 on Windows] If I press the F9 button to open the lilypond documentation, I get the pages for version 2.18. However, my installed lilypond version is 2.19.83. What must I do to make Frescobaldi display the 2.19 documentation? Werner

Re: Frescobaldi: show documentation for lilypond 2.19

2019-08-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> If I press the F9 button to open the lilypond documentation, I get >> the pages for version 2.18. However, my installed lilypond version >> is 2.19.83. What must I do to make Frescobaldi display the 2.19 >> documentation? > > on Linux in the Edit>Preferences dialogue there is a tab for > ‘Lil

Re: Cue tremolo

2019-08-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> beams on cue notes are thinner and closer to each other than on > regular notes. The same is, however, not the case for tremolo beams. > [...] This is issue #5506; see commit 9c0e1363accceec8a686c868a6a5e5340317c331 Werner ___ lilypond-user

Music Engraving Conference Mozarteum (Jan. 2020)

2019-09-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Dear LilyPonders! Lukas-Fabian Moser, Urs Liska, and I proudly announce the conference Music Engraving in the 21st Century Developments and Perspectives January 17th – 19th, 2020 Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria All details – and a Call for Papers – can be found here: https://www.uni-mo

Re: A periodic enquiry re 2.20

2019-09-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>Probable background of Urs’ question: >>https://www.uni-mozarteum.at/en/kunst/music-engraving-conference.php > > Yes, but I didn't want to disclose that before Werner makes an > official announcement ;-) Well, I was just taking a shower before sitting in front of my Computer :-) Werner

\tweak-like function

2019-09-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Dear LilyPonders, please consider this snippet. moveDyn = #(define-music-function (X Y) (number? number?) #{ \once \override DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority = ##f \once \override DynamicText.X-offset = #X \once \offset Y-offset #Y DynamicLineSpanner #})

Re: \tweak-like function

2019-09-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> moveDynTweak = -\single \moveDyn \etc Thanks! >> I naïvely tried >> >> moveDynTweak = >> #(define-music-function (X Y) (number? number?) >> #{ \once \override DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority = ##f >> \once \override DynamicText.X-offset = #X >> \once \of

Re: \tweak-like function

2019-09-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> moveDynTweak = >> #(define-music-function (X Y) (number? number?) >> #{ \tweak DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority ##f >> \tweak DynamicText.X-offset #X >> \offset DynamicLineSpanner.Y-offset #Y >> \etc #}) > > Should have worked when using -\moveDy

Re: \tweak-like function

2019-09-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Thanks! Please check whether >> >> moveDyn = >> #(define-event-function (X Y etc) (number? number? ly:music?) >> #{ \tweak DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority ##f >> \tweak DynamicText.X-offset #X >> \offset DynamicLineSpanner.Y-offset #Y >> etc #})

Re: \tweak-like function

2019-09-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Oops, and of course #etc (or whatever it is called now). I now have % A tweak-like function to move dynamics. moveDyn = #(define-event-function (x y event) (number? number? ly:event?) #{ \tweak DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority ##f \offset DynamicText.X-offset #x

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