Re: Piano duets on facing pages - something new in 2.8.x?

2010-07-30 Thread madhg
Bugzilla from tvalu...@seznam.cz wrote: Hello, ... Is it possible to synchronize page breaks on facing pages of piano duet music with primo on the right-hand side and secondo on the left-hand side? I also would be interested in this traditional way of engraving piano duets, and

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-07-24 Thread madhg
This thread has gone quiet, and I am wondering whether the new flags might be in a future lilypond version? David (who started the ball rolling but doesn't have the technical ability to contribute) -- View this message in context:

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-07-24 Thread madhg
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: There are currently three things that are bothering me: 1) What are the optimal values for the flag angle, the flag length (for up/downstems), the flag thickness and the space between two adjacent flags? 2) The flags do not start at the very top/bottom of

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-07-24 Thread madhg
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: There are currently three things that are bothering me: 1) What are the optimal values for the flag angle, the flag length (for up/downstems), the flag thickness and the space between two adjacent flags? 2) The flags do not start at the very top/bottom of

Re: yrics on one line with some repeated sections

2008-07-14 Thread madhg
madhg wrote: ... Example below. The lyrics for the last section are engraved aligned with the second stanza for the repeated section. The lyrics are going to get lower and lower down if there are more repeated sections. ... OK, I found the answer by trial and error: arrange

yrics on one line with some repeated sections

2008-07-13 Thread madhg
I've done simple songs OK. Now I'm struggling to understand how lyrics relate to voices and staves in a more complex setup: a through-composed song with several stanzas, some with their own music, but some with repeated music. Example below. The lyrics for the last section are engraved

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-06-19 Thread madhg
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Actually, adding different flags in lilypond is quite simple: Simply use \override Stem #'flag-style = #'flagstylename and lilypond will use the characters flags.flagstylename[ud][3456] as flags. Now, to implement straight flags, all one has to do is to

Re: not-so-ancient flags

2008-06-18 Thread madhg
Frescobaldi 1637 (Toccate... Libro Primo) http://www.nabble.com/file/p17961525/Frescobaldi-flags.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/not-so-ancient-flags-tp17872782p17961525.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

not-so-ancient flags

2008-06-16 Thread madhg
I'm transcribing some early classical prints. They use flags which are bolder and clearer than modern flags - at least for 8ths and 16ths. http://www.nabble.com/file/p17872782/flags.jpg Would there be any interest in having this as another style of ancient flag? It's obviously not

change fontsize in stanzas

2008-06-12 Thread madhg
I'm printing additional stanzas at the end of a song, using \markup{ \column{ \line{asdf asdf } ... The text of the stanzas comes out smaller than the lyric font. I haven't given any text-font-changing commands. I can enlarge the stanzas by putting \large inside every \line of every stanza.

Re: change fontsize in stanzas

2008-06-12 Thread madhg
Valentin Villenave wrote: In other words, \markup { \large toto toto } only works for the first toto whereas \markup { \large { toto toto } } works for both. Can you read 1.8.2.1 carefully and tell me how I could make it more clear ? I had thought that the purpose of

slur breaks compound ornament \prall\turn

2008-06-06 Thread madhg
I'm having problems with a slur ending on a note with the early classical ornament \prall\turn. Sometimes the slur ends between the \prall and the \turn and their order is inverted, the prall coming below the turn instead of above. But it's very context-dependent, and it took some experiment

Re: slur breaks compound ornament \prall\turn

2008-06-06 Thread madhg
Gilles THIBAULT wrote: Strange endeed. You can fixe the slurs behaviour with the 'avoid-slur property of the Script grob \override Voice.Script #'avoid-slur = #'outside Gilles Excellent, thank you very much David ___

Re: PSPad: a Lily-friendly editor for Windows

2007-07-07 Thread madhg
Eduardo Vieira-3 wrote: Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hello! I've downloaded it. What else do I need to do after installing the program and copying the Lilypond.ini to the folder syntax, so it can start working, that is, using syntax

PSPad: a Lily-friendly editor for Windows

2007-07-06 Thread madhg
I used to use Crimson for writing lilypond. Excellent for small projects, less convenient for a large project with one main file to be compiled and several other files contaning the music for individual staves. I can now recommend another editor, PSPad, which like Crimson is a general

Re: problem: figured bass on a rest

2007-07-05 Thread madhg
I hunted in lilypond-bug and found issue 77 figured bass does not print figure over rest, http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=77can=1q=figure This was with v. 2.9.18. Han-Wen wrote Kludged a solution with ignoreFiguredBassRest property. I found incomplete documentation of this

problem: figured bass on a rest

2007-06-23 Thread madhg
Figured bass applied to a rest in the bass-line works OK when the figures are entered using \new FiguredBass I prefer using entering the figures into the Staff context, as in the first score block in the example below, because the figures are then closer to the notes. But then a figure

Re: figured bass above/below notes?

2007-06-17 Thread madhg
Graham Percival-2 wrote: http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding Ah. I hadn't seen this, I'll send a revision to the docs tomorrow. thanks, David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/figured-bass-above-below-notes--tf3926627.html#a11161442

Re: figured bass above/below notes?

2007-06-16 Thread madhg
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: madhg wrote: There are two ways of adding figured bass: (a) ... and (b) \new Staff = bassStaff \mybassnotes \context Staff = bassStaff \myfigures which puts figures above the notes by default. Can it be made to put them below the notes? I looked

figured bass above/below notes?

2007-06-15 Thread madhg
There are two ways of adding figured bass: (a) \new Staff \mybassnotes \new Figured Bass \myfigures which gives figures below the staff, arranged ina horizontal line (b) \new Staff = bassStaff \mybassnotes \context Staff = bassStaff \myfigures which puts the figures in vertical

weird \parenthesize behaviour

2007-06-15 Thread madhg
This attempt at a parenthesized appoggiatura produces tiny tiny parentheses, enclosing the notehead only; and the accidental is outside, instead of inside, the parentheses. \version 2.11.25 \new Score { \new Staff \relative c' { \appoggiatura \parenthesize cis8 d }

writing identifiers

2007-05-23 Thread madhg
I'd like to have an identifier to represent \once \override Slur #'transparent = ##t \appoggiatura (nearly the same as \grace, but with better spacing when the gracenote is a quarter-note). I tried to model it on: padText = #(define-music-function (parser location padding) (number?)

Re: writing identifiers

2007-05-23 Thread madhg
Graham Percival-2 wrote: Follow the links. From the bottom of 4.2, there's a link to 4.3. That has a link to 5.6, which might solve this issue, but it's more likely that then you'll need to follow the link to chapter 12 advanced tweaks with scheme. Thanks, Graham. I had followed

Re: writing identifiers

2007-05-23 Thread madhg
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: It's not that tricky ... as long as you know what arguments to put into the first line of the function definition. Anyway, you've solved my immediate problem; and I'll use guesswork if I need to do something similar another time. Many thanks, David -- View this

Re: increase space between system staves

2007-05-01 Thread madhg
Hi. I'm no expert, but it successfully increased distance between the 2 staves of my score when I inserted this command at the beginning of the music for the lower stave, rather than putting it at the level of the score. David steve berthiaume wrote: hello, i have my blank score sheet

quarter-note rest : alternative shape?

2007-04-27 Thread madhg
Quarter-note rests are sometimes printed in a different shape: the mirror-image of the 8th note rest. I've looked in the lilypond help, and searched these forums, but can't find a reference to it. Is it possible to use this shape of quarter-note rest? David -- View this message in context:

gracenote producing wrong clef

2007-04-24 Thread madhg
In keyboard music, an appoggiatura for the first note in the treble staff interferes with the clefs in the lower staff. It makes the bass staff start with a treble clef folllowed immediately by the correct bass clef. Removing the appogg gets rid of the problem: lower staff starts with the

Re: gracenote producing wrong clef

2007-04-24 Thread madhg
Michael Lauer wrote: See the end of the section on grace notes in the manual. Thank you very much. I learn that I should always look for the bugs section at the end of a manual page. -- View this message in context: