RE: horizontal beams

2011-01-22 Thread ljc
I don't know how the code works, but as someone who browses the LSR I would just say that there is only one tweak needed, but you are implying there are cases when you need more than one tweak. i'm not implying, i'm saying it quite explicitly. and i sent a complete example demonstrating

Re: horizontal beams

2011-01-22 Thread ljc
Then I think we might need to find out if \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 without any extra tweaks *should* work in all cases or not. If it should then we have a bug and it should be reported as such. yes, i think that the tweak definitely should work without further tweaks. it looks

RE: horizontal beams

2011-01-21 Thread ljc
James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com escribió: So if you know that it does not guarantee horizontal beams then the snippet is wrong and it needs to be corrected, I can only go on what I am told in the documentation or the snippet repository. So there is no point adding another snippet to

Re: horizontal beams

2011-01-20 Thread ljc
James, i must say i'm confused by most of your mail... We don't add \overrides (i.e tweaks) to the manual directly. ??? the line \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 is in the manual in an example how to make beams horizontal. the manual is actually full of snippets with \overrides, so

Re: horizontal beams

2011-01-19 Thread ljc
Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com escribió: \override Beam #'details #'round-to-zero-slope = #0 \override Beam #'details #'damping-direction-penalty = #0 I've added these two, and it seemed to work. thank you, dmytro. yes, it seems to work (except for kneed beams, but i

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-14 Thread ljc
Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com escribió: Would it be possible to have two functions, one for voice ottava and one for staff ottava? that would be great, yes. and i don't agree with this: It would be better if ottavation markings only affected a single voice (and if they are intended to

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-12 Thread ljc
Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com escribió: You can force a manual ottava bracket by setting ottavation. thank you, neil! your code works very well using the correct pitches. still so much to learn about lilypond... ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-12 Thread ljc
Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com escribió: No, not easily. Currently, the callback function make-ottava-set for OttavaMusic has it hardcoded to assign the ottavation properties to the staff: thank you for the clarification, i'm not familiar with the source code (i'm not a

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-11 Thread ljc
Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net escribió: This is awkward, because Lilypond applies the ottava to all the notes on the staff. thanks for your answer, keith (and all the others who responded). your code works well to get what i want, and i see there are other solutions. but it seems that

ottava bassa

2011-01-10 Thread ljc
hello list, in the piano part of an ensemble piece i need (want, that is) to put an ottava bassa indication that applies only to the lower chord in the left hand. the problem is that at the same time a loco chord is tied above it (see the attached image). i tried different combinations,

new feature request (was: the greatness of LilyPond)

2009-01-24 Thread ljc
Quoting Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: Did you know that LilyPond can draw cross-staff kneed beams from one staff to another, even if there's another staff in the way? this is a great feature indeed. what i really miss is a similar way to connect chords across staves. the present way,

Re: straight-flag and no-flag

2009-01-23 Thread ljc
Quoting Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Please notice that I'm using the 'flag property for no-flag, too! Also notice that there is no ' in front of no-flag (as opposed to 'no-flag when you use 'flag-style). that was it! i hadn't realized there was no ' before of no-flag,

straight-flag and no-flag

2009-01-22 Thread ljc
dear list, i realized that \override Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag doesn't work when using \override Stem #'flag-style = #modern-straight-flag i'm using the new straight flags in my score, but at certain part i need stems without flags in order to conect chords across staves, according

Re: straight-flag and no-flag

2009-01-22 Thread ljc
Quoting Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: By setting the #'flag property instead of #'flag-style ;-) \relative c' { \autoBeamOff \override Stem #'flag = #modern-straight-flag g'8 g g g g g g g | \override Stem #'flag = #no-flag g8 g g g g g g g