Re: What is the problem with \relative? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

2015-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
and give you note-name, octave and accidental *and* feedback that the note you entered was the one you meant. All going in as fast as you can play. You can even add a second pc-keyboard mounted on your MIDI keyboard so that you can control rhythm and pitch in one integrated interface. Richard

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-23 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 14:01 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 08:31 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Richard, Interesting, I didn't realize that this was a reason to use a front-end to generate the LilyPond. With the Denemo front end it is Del,M to delete a measure

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-22 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 08:31 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Richard, Interesting, I didn't realize that this was a reason to use a front-end to generate the LilyPond. With the Denemo front end it is Del,M to delete a measure in all the staffs. Does that work even when the code

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-22 Thread Richard Shann
Stack. Interesting, I didn't realize that this was a reason to use a front-end to generate the LilyPond. With the Denemo front end it is Del,M to delete a measure in all the staffs. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Richard Shann
be expensive in the current situation :( Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: title_page

2015-04-19 Thread Richard Shann
Richard If not, isn't this something that should be available? -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:21 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 18.04.2015 um 15:08 schrieb Richard Shann: On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 13:11 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 18. April 2015 12:15:08 MESZ, schrieb Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 11:51 +0200, Urs Liska wrote

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 13:11 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 18. April 2015 12:15:08 MESZ, schrieb Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 11:51 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Hi all, I just stumbled over a terminology issue: are procedure and function synonyms in Scheme

Re: procedure vs. function

2015-04-18 Thread Richard Shann
recall the difference to be that functions return a value and procedures don't. that was a common terminological distinction for some programming languages at one time apparently. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Any current MusicXML questions/issues/suggestions?

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Shann
are in the MusicXML-light category that Johan just referred to in his email. There are many ways to describe the same piece of music with MusicXML and I suspect there will never be a program that could read and make sense of all of them. Richard I guess my question would be: what is the current

Re: Any current MusicXML questions/issues/suggestions?

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Shann
repeatedly throughout the music that you would not wish to go over adding by hand). Richard but does not have all the technical details about breaks and placements. The reason we (I, at least) want to be able to import music data from (e.g.) Sibelius into LilyPond is to have LP do the superior

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Richard Shann
is not so easy to play from (which no longer mattered in the 19th c as it was just an academic thing by then). Richard I tried to include an empty markup above the 3, but it didn't work. Another idea would be to blank the extender. Has someone an idea, or another solution? -- View

Re: Figured bass: blank extender

2015-04-11 Thread Richard Shann
Sorry - I attached the wrong file :( Also, I should mention that LilyPond does not always achieve such nice alignment with this syntax and the commands to raise and lower individual figures are sometimes needed anyway. Richard On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 08:26 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Fri, 2015

Re: Does this 'and' construct make sense?

2015-03-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 11:18 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 06.03.2015 10:57, schrieb Richard Shann: On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 08:25 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: I find %% switch on debugging. #(if (and #t (defined? 'set-debug-cell-accesses!)) (set-debug-cell-accesses! 5000)) (found

Re: Does this 'and' construct make sense?

2015-03-06 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 09:57 +, Richard Shann wrote: I then found it tricky to find where in the manual this concept (true/false) was explained, but came to understand it applies to the semantics of if and while. ... and of and, or perhaps others too that are not leaping to my mind

Re: Does this 'and' construct make sense?

2015-03-06 Thread Richard Shann
. Or is this one more Scheme subtlety I don't get? so, I don't think so - the commonest cause is where someone starts with (if (and Debug (defined? 'xxx)) and then decides not to have a separate Debug flag and replaces it in bulk with #t Richard

Re: Levelling hairpins

2015-02-14 Thread Richard Shann
context. You only then have to make all the dynamics not print in the usual context, for which I'm sure someone here can suggest the incantation. That is it would look something like this: UsualContext { \override dynamics invisible \MyMusic} DynamicsContext { \MyMusic } HTH Richard I

Re: Levelling hairpins

2015-02-13 Thread Richard Shann
, but will not be engraved.) The Dynamics context can usefully contain some other items such as text scripts, text spanners, and piano pedal marks. Richard - Abraham On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:13 AM, David Sumbler [via Lilypond] [hidden email] wrote: One of my pieces has a lot of crescendo

Re: change the font for all markups

2015-02-12 Thread Richard Shann
Mono (/ (* staff-height pt) 2.5)) } { a^\markup { Test \typewriter code } } Of course, the fonts must be installed. replace Times New Roman with Luxi Mono or whatever typerwriter font you have, the what would have been in Times will come out in Mono... Richard HTH, Joram

Re: musicxml2ly

2015-02-07 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 10:35 +0100, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: Hi Richard, I installed Denemo on my ubuntu workstation and it did import the xml-file - even with the wrong work-information. The exported lilypond file seems to be fine for me, except the lyrics are missing? yes, lyrics

Re: musicxml2ly

2015-02-06 Thread Richard Shann
via Denemo. I should warn, though, that this is unlikely to be of real benefit to you directly as this import to Denemo is pretty basic. (The plus side of this is that it may work where more sophisticated imports gag on less common syntax/semantics). Richard TIA Jan-Peter

Re: \shiftOn and friends

2015-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:44 -0600, James Worlton wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: In the following I have inserted \shiftOn and \shiftOff commands in a vain attempt to get the e g chord in the second voice

Re: \shiftOn and friends

2015-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 14:52 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: Hi Richard I quote from the Notation Reference: The \shiftOn command allows (but does not force) the notes in a voice to be shifted. When \shiftOn is applied to a voice, a note or chord in that voice is shifted only if its stem

Re: \shiftOn and friends

2015-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
working with Lilypond: why is it necessary to do so much deliberate annotation to deal with clashes that one would think could be dealt with automatically? Is this by design, or simply an indication that there is more work to do? The latter I think... Richard

\shiftOn and friends

2015-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
88 Am I doing something wrong? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \shiftOn and friends

2015-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:28 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: Richard Shann wrote Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:58 PM On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 14:52 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: You'll find a clue for doing what you want if you examine the example here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-27 Thread Richard Shann
://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4154 this would enable LilyPond to compete with proprietary programs in this area. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 11:40 +, Richard Shann wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 09:21 +, Richard Shann wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:54 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Try: { b'-\tweak style #'zigzag \startTextSpan b' b' \stopTextSpan

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-26 Thread Richard Shann
- at least I can't find any trace of it. Thanks for all these suggestions, I guess an enhancement request would be for a wavy line zigzag ... Richard Pierre 2015-01-25 20:14 GMT+01:00 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 12:03 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 09:21 +, Richard Shann wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:54 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Try: { b'-\tweak style #'zigzag \startTextSpan b' b' \stopTextSpan } That is a step forward - the zigzag distinguishes the sign from the prall

\startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-25 Thread Richard Shann
I'm trying to typeset a fairly common 18th sign that looks a bit like an extended prall but less jagged (see attached). The \startTrillSpan would do at a pinch if I could get rid of the tr at the start of it. I don't see this in the docs - any help? Richard

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-25 Thread Richard Shann
. But this sort of solution, (not involving spanning) is not so attractive as overriding the drawing of the \startTrillSpan for this situation, where there could be line breaks etc. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-25 Thread Richard Shann
on the actual spanning zig-zag too... Richard On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 12:31 +0100, pls wrote: Or: \version 2.19.11 { \once\override TextSpanner.style = #'trill \time 3/4 b' \startTextSpan b' b' \stopTextSpan } hth patrick On 25.01.2015, at 12:03, Pierre Perol

Re: \startTrillSpan without the tr at the beginning?

2015-01-25 Thread Richard Shann
generate a more wavy line? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: OT: Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

2015-01-20 Thread Richard Shann
to be arranged to take up less horizontal space. The patch currently waiting to make it into LilyPond does that. You as a user still need to decide whether you want -7 or 7- or whatever for the attributes by writing chord-exceptions. Richard ___ lilypond

Re: Understanding Lilypond

2015-01-17 Thread Richard Shann
to LilyPond is the guile-1.8 interpreter. In Denemo we have moved on to guile-2.0 but I haven't come across other interpreters for Scheme, though I've noticed them mentioned in the Guile documentation. HTH Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Attaching an alist to a grob

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 12:34 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 14.01.2015 um 12:28 schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 11:29 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 14.01.2015 um 11:18 schrieb Mattes: Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2015 09:42 CET, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: Yes

Re: Attaching an alist to a grob

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Shann
) (assoc-ref obj type) (assoc-ref obj location))) ??? Richard HTH Ralf Mattes Thanks, this is of course better. sorting out nested conditionals has never been my strongest point ;-) Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread Richard Shann
. Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Information about Parts

2015-01-09 Thread Richard Shann
generate the parts into separate files which is another approach used for more elaborate LilyPond scores. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

2014-12-17 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 21:56 +, Trevor Daniels wrote: Richard, you wrote Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:50 PM Well, I am getting an unexpected order in this case: \version 2.18.0 { a'4 -\tweak script-priority 0 ^\markup\tiny\sharp -\tweak script-priority -5 ^\turn -\tweak

Re: Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

2014-12-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 11:17 +, Richard Shann wrote: On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 11:19 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Richard, Hi Trevor, See LSR addition : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=965 Thank you both - I think I can make progress now. Well, I am getting an unexpected

Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

2014-12-13 Thread Richard Shann
of controlling the position of ^Text ^\turn ^\prall in the above example. Anyone able to help? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

2014-12-13 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 11:19 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: Hi Richard, Hi Trevor, See LSR addition : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=965 Thank you both - I think I can make progress now. Richard Cheers, Pierre 2014-12-13 10:20 GMT+01:00 Trevor Daniels t.dani

Re: Chord Symbol fonts

2014-11-07 Thread Richard Shann
. Richard Some of the symbols are created using markup drawing commands, others use symbols from the music font like for the sharp and flat. -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Bric b...@flight.us wrote: how does one change the fonts for the chord symbols

Point and click off by one after markup

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
}} c' c' c' d' d' d' d' e' e' e' e' } \score { \mymusic } The trigger seems to be the new line in the markup expression. I attach the file for the avoidance of email-paste problems. Richard \version 2.18.0 mymusic

Re: Point and click off by one after markup

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
on several lines, and indeed this sometimes works without side effects. If this curious side effect from using different types of white space is difficult to avoid in the LilyPond compiler then I can easily live with it. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: OS independent forward slashes in LilyPond-Scheme?

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
it is just that Windows can cope with forward slash for backslash in file paths. (Windows command line used forward slash for introducing options, but that doesn't seem to cause a problem). Richard , but I can't test and I'd like to be sure. Best Urs

Setting entire document fonts

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
that the typewriter should show in Roman and the Roman as sans etc. This works, but if I uncomment the set-global-staff-size line it reverts to the default. What is going on here? How do I set the fonts and the overall staff size? Richard

Re: Setting entire document fonts

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 10:10 -0700, tisimst wrote: Richard, Internally, when you call set-global-staff-size, it resets the text fonts. Thus, if you want to use a different staff size, that must go PRIOR to where you define the fonts. Thank you! that works fine. Richard Kinda weird, I

Re: Point and click off by one after markup

2014-10-24 Thread Richard Shann
, but only because it treated an isolated CR as starting a new line. Richard On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 21:02 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 24.10.2014 um 13:59 schrieb Richard Shann: On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 11:15 +0200, Helge Kruse wrote: Thank you for your response. I think you should not added

Re: Can I make a TextScript occupy no space, potentially colliding?

2014-10-14 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 14:47 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: Perfect! hmm, I spoke a little too soon. It seems that \with-dimensions kills point-and-click. Understandable with 0

Can I make a TextScript occupy no space, potentially colliding?

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Shann
) a1 %-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(7 . -12) ^\markup {\fontsize #12 A } } } Is there a way to stop LilyPond trying to prevent my TextScript colliding - to say that it occupies, say, no space? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Can I make a TextScript occupy no space, potentially colliding?

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Shann
Perfect! I've found that in the documentation as well... Thank you very much, Richard On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 18:40 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 12.10.2014 um 18:21 schrieb Richard Shann: In this code I put a large letter A above the music. If I uncomment the tweak the letter A is moved

Re: Can I make a TextScript occupy no space, potentially colliding?

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: Perfect! hmm, I spoke a little too soon. It seems that \with-dimensions kills point-and-click. Understandable with 0 as the dimension, but actually this doesn't seem to be the issue: \version 2.18.0 \score { { a1 ^\markup

Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

2014-10-07 Thread Richard Shann
to be placed in one file, but that would take some serious development. Richard On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 16:09 -0700, MarcM wrote: Find attached a define-note-names.scm file that contains the definition for the new note names with ♯ and ♭. Who can help get it in lilypond source code control

Re: Supporting ♯ and ♭

2014-10-06 Thread Richard Shann
. This does work, for example after the line (cis . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 SHARP)) adding the line (c♯ . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 SHARP)) makes c♯ available for indicating c sharp. Richard Am 06.10.2014 um 15:49 schrieb MarcM: In an effort to make lilypond syntax easier for people to adopt

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Richard Shann
the command line adds more flexibility - I guess you would need the if-not-defined construct to handle this (otherwise you would *have* to define the variable on the command line). Richard instead of adding a new file. Urs HTH, Marc

Re: Figured bass - rest - hepl please

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Shann
Solo indication or ... After all, a player of the period would have had as much difficulty distinguishing that symbol from a 7 as we have after studying the handwriting style. HTH Richard The first example is the second part of the symphony and the second one is the end of recitative 1 (alto

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Shann
When you say beat numbering do you mean bar numbering? Richard On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 06:20 -0700, Son_V wrote: Thanks Simon (for your patience, in the first place). Well, it's an anacrusis, I forgot to say it. And MS can handle a correct numbering. What I'm not able to do is to make LilyPond

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Shann
- LilyPond generates the conventional numbering by default. Incidentally, I found this syntax by using Denemo which has a command to set the bar number (if you need to) and it generates LilyPond syntax directly. (And, of course, it is quicker for entering music in the first place :) ) Richard

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Shann
or unconventional bar numbering - the anacrusis bar does not count as bar number 1 - why did you want to do this? Richard -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/losing-a-bar-number-when-the-first-beat-is-irregular-tp167125p167146.html Sent from the User mailing list

Re: losing a bar number when the first beat is irregular

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Shann
. There are a lot of poor quality computer typesets out there that get all sorts of things wrong, but we can't blame Musescore for this I think. Richard (or there is some setting you'd have to do. If a piece starts with an incomplete measure this measure doesn't have a number, and the one

Re: Figured bass - rest - hepl please

2014-10-03 Thread Richard Shann
a rest above another figure - e.g. to indicate what are nowadays called power chords). Is the score you have gotten these examples from on IMSLP? Or can you upload it? Richard http://www.imgup.cz/image/gK6 http://www.imgup.cz/image/gK7

Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

2014-10-01 Thread Richard Shann
the number of staff lines). Is there a known method of getting lyrics with chord symbols? Richard \version 2.18.0 % The music follows MvmntIVoiceI = { f'4 f' aes' ees'' f' bes' ees'' g''2 g' fis'' e''' } MvmntIVoiceII = { c'4 d' e' e' f

Re: Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

2014-10-01 Thread Richard Shann
ah, yes, thank you, I had forgotten about lyricmode as I don't generate that syntax from Denemo. That is the clean way to handle this. Richard On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello Richard, you need to enter the lyrics in \lyricmode with explicit durations

Re: Is there a get-context procedure?

2014-09-25 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 21:05 -0700, Paul Morris wrote: Richard Shann-2 wrote The chordRootNamer procedure (which is itself a ChordNames context property) is not passed the context as a parameter, so my question is how do I reference the context? Is there some variable or procedure

Re: Is there a get-context procedure?

2014-09-25 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 06:47 -0700, Paul Morris wrote: Richard Shann-2 wrote Thinking about this after receiving your email, I realize that ultimately what I am trying to do is access the font-size that is being used for the markup being generated. Perhaps this is a simpler question - can

Is there a get-context procedure?

2014-09-24 Thread Richard Shann
for accessing the ChordNames context (or perhaps it should be the context that the call has been made in, if that makes sense)? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Reducing the spacing between ChordNames systems

2014-09-12 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 19:04 -0700, Paul Morris wrote: Richard Shann-2 wrote This works perfectly on my minimal example but throws up a strangeness on a real-world example. With 10 systems I get two pages with a strange gap beneath the titles. My guess is to try adjusting: markup

Re: Reducing the spacing between ChordNames systems

2014-09-11 Thread Richard Shann
with a large gap below the titles. Perhaps someone will recognize the symptom of this large gap below the titles and before the music? Thanks for the help Richard -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Reducing-the-spacing-between-ChordNames-systems

Reducing the spacing between ChordNames systems

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Shann
it must be that VerticalAxisGroup is a between-system thing, what will do the system-to-system thing when there are no ordinary staffs? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 13:27 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Richard, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:00 +0200, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello Richard, \set Score.bars-per-line

Where is define-line-markup defined/documented?

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
to appear anywhere in the documentation. Can anyone point me to the source for these? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 12:20 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: The remaining outstanding difficulty is controlling the measure width - ideally all the bar lines would align vertically down the screen (the chord symbols would be made smaller if they didn't fit). I have set \set

Re: Where is define-line-markup defined/documented?

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 12:48 +0100, James wrote: On 04/09/14 12:38, Richard Shann wrote: The snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=750 for changing the markup used for chord names makes use of Scheme procedures like define-line-markup, define-small-markup ... I don't see

Re: Where is define-line-markup defined/documented?

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 13:04 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: At 12:48 on 04 Sep 2014, James wrote: On 04/09/14 12:38, Richard Shann wrote: The snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=750 for changing the markup used for chord names makes use of Scheme procedures like define-line-markup, define

Re: Where is define-line-markup defined/documented?

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 14:17 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: At 13:41 on 04 Sep 2014, Neil Puttock wrote: On 4 September 2014 13:18, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: this illustrates the meaning, but doesn't hint at how to create a variant of the procedure (in my case, make-small

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 19:17 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: I have been developing LilyPond code to enable the generation of Chord Charts such as the one attached here. You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. http

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-30 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 15:09 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: You may wish to take a look at the playtab program. What LilyPond ( Denemo) can bring to the party is transposition, playback, adding (non-printing) drum tracks, using the same music

Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
could tweak? Richard %% LilyPond file generated by Denemo version 1.1.9 %%http://www.gnu.org/software/denemo/ \version 2.18.0 DenemoGlobalTranspose = #(define-music-function (parser location arg)(ly:music?) #{\transpose c c #arg #}) AutoBarline = {} AutoEndMovementBarline = \bar

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:00 +0200, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello Richard, \set Score.bars-per-line-engraver '(4)) Thanks - I can't get that to compile, and indeed I can't track down bars-per-line-engraver in the 2.18 docs, but I see it in snippets (see below). This anyway appears

Re: Fixed measure width for chord charts.

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Shann
, if it sounds feasible... Richard On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 15:36 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:00 +0200, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello Richard, \set Score.bars-per-line-engraver '(4)) Thanks - I can't get that to compile, and indeed I can't track down bars-per

\transposedCueDuringWithClef

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
transposition interval to bring the notes into the range of the clef in use? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \transposedCueDuringWithClef

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
but got a strange result \transposedCueDuringWithClef #flute Mvmnt 1#1 bass a { r2 } where \transpose c a is the intended transposition (to undo a \transpose c ees which is applied to the whole score). Richard On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:29 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: At 09:21 on 27 Aug 2014, Richard

Re: \transposedCueDuringWithClef

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
Thank you, that works perfectly Richard On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 11:48 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: At 10:22 on 27 Aug 2014, Richard Shann wrote: Thanks - I don't quite understand this though: what dir clef main-music doesn't seem to have an argument for the transposition and 'quoted

Measure Repeat Counter

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
'~ | c'~ | c' } where it would be nice to place numbers automatically over the repeated bars. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Measure Repeat Counter

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 18:47 +0100, James wrote: On 27/08/14 18:46, James wrote: On 27/08/14 17:07, Richard Shann wrote: In the 2.18 docs there is a syntax for placing a counter above repeated measures: \relative c'' { \set countPercentRepeats = ##t \repeat percent 4 { c1

Re: Measure Repeat Counter

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
would need to ask the following question - how can one place markup centered on a measure? I guess I will need to be digging elsewhere in the docs for an answer to that question. Richard On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 18:48 +0100, James wrote: On 27/08/14 18:47, James wrote: On 27/08/14 18:46, James

Re: Measure Repeat Counter

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Shann
Thanks! That's perfect. Richard On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 13:01 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Something like { \startMeasureCounter c'1~ | c'~ | c'~ | c

Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
neo-modern-voice-cautionary }} before the first \score { } block sets neo-modern-voice-cautionary on all the succeeding score blocks. Have I stumbled on some dodgy feature, or is this actually documented? Richard Shann ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 17:26 +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 08/20/2014 05:14 PM, Richard Shann wrote: The documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals shows how to set the accidental style for a Score context, but when

Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Shann
of the same type, but doesn't (AFAICS) reference this way of applying the setting to all Score contexts. Richard http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-layout-block can you see this in the documentation? I could see the example for Staff

Re: Toolchain: hardcopy - scanned sheet-music - lilypond?

2014-08-15 Thread Richard Shann
music) the recognition is not good enough to save effort. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Tweaking the thickness of \triangle inside a \markup?

2014-08-11 Thread Richard Shann
the markup? I ask because the very nice function (sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions ...) that farms a set of markups for chord symbol definitions does not pick up the thickness tweak if done like that. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: Accidentals centred above notes

2014-08-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 20:11 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2014-08-10 10:25 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: I hadn't realized that I had stumbled into an area of live development - thanks for making me aware of what is going on. Reflecting on things, I thought I should anyway

Re: Accidentals centred above notes

2014-08-10 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 20:44 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, 2014-08-07 9:26 GMT+02:00 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:58 AM Subject: Accidentals centred

Accidentals centred above notes

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Shann
here is: is this something that will be changed in future versions of LilyPond (in which case any -\tweak #'X-offset #'0.2 added will later prove a liability)? Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Accidentals centred above notes

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 08:26 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:58 AM Subject: Accidentals centred above notes The example given in the docs for placing a sharp

Re: Accidentals centred above notes

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 09:45 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 08:26 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:58 AM Subject: Accidentals centred above

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