Simple? Stretch a couple of measures.

2007-11-07 Thread fedge
Hi, At the end of my piece, the last staff has two bars (measures). With: ragged-right = ##f The 2 measures are too STRETCHED out. With: ragged-right = ##t The 2 measures are too CLOSE together. I don't really want proportional spacing. And I'm sure there's a simple way to do this, but I

MIDI (how to) mute only one staff

2007-10-12 Thread fedge
Hello, I figured this should be an easy thing to do, but I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find anything. I have a staff (chords in a lead sheet) that I would like to mute in the MIDI file. Is there a way to disable the MIDI for that staff, or set the MIDI volume to zero, or set

3 Sided Box?

2007-09-25 Thread fedge
Hello, I'm new to using Lilypond, and Finale for that matter. I'm trying to decide which is better. So far, what I like about Lilypond is that I seem to be able to do just about anything I want ... except this: I like the \box option around a text markup, but I would really like it if it only