Re: 2.25.20 aligning text at end of multi-measure rest

Oh, right. How's this, then? \version "2.25.20" { \compressMMRests R1*10 \once \tweak direction #DOWN % optional \textEndMark \markup\sans\right-align { "poco accel." } \mark \default R1 } -William On 9/29/24 16:57, Paul Scott wrote: Thank you for your reply. I want the text at the e

Re: 2.25.20 aligning text at end of multi-measure rest

Dear Paul, Is this by any chance the output you were expecting? -William \version "2.25.20" { \compressMMRests <>^\markup\sans\right-align{ "poco accel." } R1*10 \mark \default R1 } On 9/29/24 15:44, Paul Scott wrote: My MWE seems consistent with NR 1.8.2 Text alignment but how can I

LilyPond 2.25.20

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Re: How do you insert measures into scores with many parts?

Dear David, I don't know of any command or script that adds an extra bar before measure 45 or something like that, so it's something that you will have to do manually. I think the things that will help the most for this are dutifully placing bar checks in your file (to help when you're scann

Re: unexpected 2nd staff

Dear Paul, You can add "\\" in-between the two parts in << >>. Like so: << { e8( f~2.) } \\ { e8( f d2.) } >> -William On 9/22/24 16:13, Paul Scott wrote: How can I make this happen in one staff with all the stems down? \version "2.25.19" \fixed c'' { << { e8( f~2.) } { e8( f d2.) } >> }

Re: where are the file created?

You can try looking in C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-00ou83l6/tmp2xammvvc/ , but it appears that you're using Frescobaldi and that program may or may not delete this temporary directory once the output files are generated. Thanks, -William On 9/20/24 07:39, ming tsang wrote:

Re: Bad bar check warning with two voices, appoggiatura, and articulate

Dear Stu, I don't think that is the problem here, because in original OP snippet, if you comment out the line `\new Voice { \voiceFour e,2 }`, there is no barcheck fail, and if you try the following example you can hear how the upper notes become out of sync with the lower notes in the midi.

Re: Question re: scheme, \transpose function

Dear Yoshi, Actually, I think the procedure is working correctly, but using the \transpose function within a \relative is causing some weird output. For example, the file % \version "2.25.18" \relative c' { c16 c16 } % does not result in the output that I was expectin

Re: sectionLabel formatting

Yes, just replace \textMark with \sectionLabel and it will work. -William On 9/8/24 19:59, Stu McKenzie wrote: The Notation Reference document for version 2.25.19 has a simple example on page 292: \fixed c' { \sectionLabel "Verse" c2 g \section \sectionLabel "Chorus" g2 c \bar "|." } The N

Re: Elongating Measures

Dear Greg, This looks like a good solution, but personally, when I have to tweak things like minimum length in Lilypond, I like to make it apply all the time, which you can do with context like this: \layout { \context { \Score \override Hairpin.minimum-length = 10 } }

Re: Change stem direction for voice?

Dear Stefano, Replying back to you and re-adding the list to this. I see. Quick note about your example: in your attached file on line 98 if you replace \layout { \context { \Voice \override Beam.positions = #'(5 . 5) } with \layout { \context { \Score \s

Re: Change stem direction for voice?

Dear Stefano, See the attached example which may fix what you have in mind. In it the default lilypond procedure "make-voice-props-set" (which is called when you use << // >> as well as \voiceOne \voiceTwo etc.) is overwritten so that Stems are always up. Thanks, let me know if this is what

LilyPond 2.25.19

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Re: Footnote

Dear Werner, Oh, because it's all in a `\markup` block...my bad. Probably because we can do % --- \version "2.25.18" \relative c' { \footnote #'(1 . 1) \markup {hello} c4 \footnote #'(1 . 1) "hello" c4 %\footnote #'(1 . 1) {hello} c4 % error %\footnote #'(1 . 1) \wordwrap {hell

Re: Footnote

Dear Dimitri, Actually, the \auto-footnote function operates a little weirdly (at least it didn't seem intuitive to me). The `text` and `footnote` in `\auto-footnote text footnote` are just the contents of the markup, so you write what you would write inside the brackets of \markup{}. Like b

Re: Help with scheme

Dear Michael, When I change #(define *clefs-option* (ly:get-option 'clefs)) to #(define *clefs-option* 'gamba) and (#t (define *use-gamba-clefs* #t)) to (#t (set! *use-gamba-clefs* #t)) ; note "set!" lilypond 2.25.18 compiles the code without any errors. But I don't know if this will ma

Re: Aligning a Table

Dear Dimitri, You could do this, but the table wouldn't go over multiple pages. -William \version "2.25.18" \markuplist { \fill-line { \null \column { \override #'(padding . 2) \table #'(0 0) { Itemitem Itemitem Itemitem

Re: \enablePolymeter halts bar numbers

Lucas, You can add the Bar_number_engraver to one of the staves, like so: (this will make the second example have two measure numbers) % \version "2.25.18" song = { \new TabStaff \with { \consists Bar_number_engraver}{ \tabFullNotation \time 4/4 \relative c'' { \

Re: Dynamics in Lyrics?

This is perfect, but I'll add something else to keep in mind: you can use "\markup \dynamic f" to add dynamics in markup. Thanks, -William On 8/11/24 04:20, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Chubb writes: Hi Folks, Is there a simple way to add dynamic markings to lyrics? In a multi-verse

Re: Clarification on Commercial Use of Fonts Embedded in LilyPond-Generated PDFs

Dear Peter, C059 (the text font) is released under OFL, Emmentaler (the lilypond font) under SIL open license (which means OFL, I think), and Nimbus Sans is a default Linux font and is also free for commercial use (someone can correct me if I'm wrong about any of this).[1] So you're good. Th

Re: Where is the new Lilypond release for MacOS with M1 arch?

On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 16:18 -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > Thanks for the new release! > > Where is the new Lilypond release for MacOS with M1 arch? > > I only see Intel 64bit for MacOS... Hi Kenneth, yes, official arm64 binaries are only available for the unstable series (LilyP

LilyPond 2.24.4 released!

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.4. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. This version contains a number of fixes since the releas

LilyPond 2.25.18

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Re: Changes in notation font in 2.25

Dear Jean, In this example, I cloned the directory of the git repository, then included the /otf directory like this: ~/lilypond-2.25.17/bin/lilypond -I /path/to/cadence/otf/ -dcrop -o cad_new cad.ly Does this look correct? Thanks, -William On 7/13/24 06:18, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le ven

Re: Changes in notation font in 2.25

I see, thanks for letting me know. I'll see if this is something I can contribute to in the future, but for now I don't have any experience in modifying old fonts or creating new ones. Thanks, -William On 7/13/24 02:03, Werner LEMBERG wrote: The reason is, it appears that old notation fonts

Changes in notation font in 2.25

Dear list, I was wondering if anyone could help me with the changes to the notation font in 2.25.x? I was looking for a list of changes to the emmentaler font but could not find it in https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/changes/index.html . The reason is, it appears that old notati

Slurs across staves, reach both notes

Dear list, In the following example, is there a way to make the slurs reach across all the staves to reach both notes? I'm very sorry, I could have sworn that I could make slurs across staves work correctly in the past, but I must have forgotten. Thanks, -William % -- \version "2.2

Re: move fingering

Dear Mark, You can do \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) and change "g16.^1" to "16.". See here: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/fingering-instructions Thanks, -William On 7/9/24 19:25, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Hello: The following: g4.   \once \override Tex

Re: music glyph in text

Dear David, Personally, I prefer to use the Unicode symbols U+266D (♭) and U+266F (♯) (as well as U+266E ♮) when writing flats and sharps because they are more likely to be stylized according to the text font you are using. When I'm writing a text document or a bit of text in a lilypond score

Re: Changing from percussion clef to treble clef

Dear Richard, If I do something like the following, using a regular Staff instead of RhythmicStaff and using "percussion" staff (it acts like alto clef), I can write different notes. Is this something like what you were hoping to do? Sorry, I don't know the entire context of the problem you we

Re: "Lyrics" for percussion instruments (agogo bells)

Thanks Valentin When I use your example, it does only display one stave and a percussion one too - but all the notes have been compressed onto one line But I ran with your suggestion and have now crafted what I wanted !! I'm not proficient enough to be able to write short snippets (I'm unsure

"Lyrics" for percussion instruments (agogo bells)

Hi I'm new to lilypond but I like what I've seen so far Using \drummode and \DrumStaff I have written  a score for the agogo bells I now want to add some "lyrics" (mnemonics) to help remember the notes so for agogo = \drummode {     r8  agh4    agh8    agh4    agl     agl agh 

RE: re-use a melody by removing

Tags! is the solution I was looking for. I don't know whether I appreciate more: -- Lilypond -- or the community I find here. They're both wonderful. Thank you. I will read the manual 3.4.2. I will read the manual. LSR = The LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR) https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.

RE: re-use a melody by removing

Greetings, Thank you, Kieren and Simon. When I created a minimal sample, I used a poor example and the two easy solutions you suggested would be perfect. I REALLY want to be able to re-use a melody while selectively altering parts of it. Here are two more possibilities --

re-use a melody by removing

Greetings, I'm trying to reuse a melody with slight modifications. I would like to be able to remove stem directives from a melody when it is played alone without having to copy, paste and remove Can I do something like harmonyAlone = (string-replace \harmony "\stemDown" "") or melodyMino

LilyPond 2.25.17

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Re: Two adjacent clefs

Dear Richard, I'm not sure what you mean, but I think I would do something like this for putting multiple clefs together. -William % -- \version "2.25.16" \relative c' { \override Staff.Clef.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Clef.text = \markup { \raise

Re: Question about beaming and timing count

Dear Carl, For both examples, the difference is the example writes "\tuplet 5/8" instead of "5/4" telling lilypond to put 5 notes in the space of 8 (which is not how people usually write 5-tuplets). -William On 6/7/24 10:56, Carl Witthoft wrote: Please take a look at these three snippets, f

Re: Vanishing nested tuplet

On MacOS x86, When running your file on 2.25.7, only one tuplet is shown, but when running 2.25.16, both tuplets are shown. Seems like there was a bug that has recently been fixed. Can you try running on 2.25.16? Thanks, -William On 6/5/24 22:26, David Wright wrote: On Wed 05 Jun 2024 at 19:

Get Width and Height of markup

Dear list, In the following example, I am wondering how I can find the measurements of the dimensions, specifically the width, of a markup object. This is so I can automatically indent the first line by the length of the instrumentName. Thanks, -William % \version "2.25

Position of nested tuplet brackets

Dear list, It seems that the positions of nested tuplet brackets can only be changed separately if the inner n-tuplet brackets do not start on the downbeat. Take this as an example: \version "2.25.2" { \once \override TupletBracket.positions = #'(6 . 6) \tuplet 5/4 { c'4 c' c' c' c' } \o

Re: Disable all padding and collision around markup

This is perfect, thanks so much for your responses everybody. -William On 5/19/24 10:56, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Knute, There are ways to "disable the padding" (a.k.a. have the spacing engine ignore the TextScript). However, it might be just as easy — or maybe even easier? — to simply twea

Disable all padding and collision around markup

Dear list, In the following example, I use a section label and a TextScript on a note. I offset the markup text so that it appears inside the staff, but it still makes the section text higher up. I would like to know if it is possible to disable this padding around the TextScript, so that the

Re: General question: scores and parts

Hello, %%% \version "2.25.15" structure = { \tempo 4=42 } high = {e''1} low = {a'1} \score { \header { piece = "Score" } << \new Devnull \structure \new StaffGroup << \new Staff \high \new Staff \low >> >> } \score { \header { piece = "Part Hig

Re: Can I output PNG and midi from the same file?

Dear Peter, Assuming you wrote something like % - \version "2.25.7" \score { c'4 \midi {} } % - and then ran lilypond --PNG midi.ly, then there would be no PNG output. This is because if you only include the \midi block, then lilypond produces no visual output at all. But if you

LilyPond 2.25.16

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Re: Unison notes, one stem

Dear Dirck, There is a very easy way! You can simply do \version "2.25.7" \relative c' 4 -William On 5/6/24 22:44, Dirck Nagy wrote: Hi all Does Lilypond have an easy way to display unisons on one stem?  (it is fairly common in guitar music; same note played on 2 strings simultaneously) 

Re: subscript in lyrics

Dear David, You have to make the whole title a markup, in other words title = \markup { 539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \smallCaps BC } -William On 4/26/24 18:49, David Olson wrote: Thanks for drawing my attention to \markup Does \markup also work in the header? If I'm giving a historic

Re: Highlighting lyric words

I don't know what you mean by highlighting. But you can override properties of text in lyrics like this: -William % -- \version "2.25.7" \relative c' { c4 c } \addlyrics { Hello \once\override LyricText.color = #red world } On 4/23/24 23:18, Walt North wrote: I have found how to high

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

Dear Steve, I think the reason for this is hinted at by the cryptic "5/8" in the barcheck failure message. The "mine" at the end of the first measure extends all the way until the next note ("I"), which is not at the beginning of a bar, causing the barcheck to fail. If you try the following e

Re: Special notation question

Dear Xavier, I think this is called "void notation". I write it in the following way (including an example of how to write whole notes), but it is very time-consuming, and perhaps someone else has an easier way to automatically write music like this. Thanks, -William % \version "2.

LilyPond 2.25.15

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Re: Help with Mac

Hi Alejandro, The DMG was a way to quickly install Lilypond, but it came with a few downsides. The biggest one was that Lilypond was bundled as part of the LilyPad editor app. This was what was started when you would doubleclick Lilypond.app. The LilyPad editor was a very barebones editor, a

Re: Glissandos into Note

Hi Ben, hi Greg, thanks for bringing this up - in fact I started this morning to dig up my old work, prompted by Greg's question. It seems I only developed the functions a but further back then (unfortunately I don't have time at the moment to look into it in detail) - the difference seems to be

Re: PianoPedalBracket.to-barline doesn't always work as expected

might deserve a mention in the Pedal department of the Lilypond documentation. Happy to contribute that mention. cheers Maurits Op 10-04-2024 om 12:01 schreef Jean Abou Samra: Le mardi 09 avril 2024 à 23:55 +0200, Maurits Lamers via LilyPond user discussion a écrit : Hey all, I enc

Re: PianoPedalBracket.to-barline doesn't always work as expected

Hi Aaron, Yes it does. It is just unexpected that this would be necessary. cheers Maurits Op 10-04-2024 om 00:12 schreef Aaron Hill: Does the empty chord construct help?   <>\sustainOff (I'm away from my normal environment, so I cannot test this locally to confirm.) -- Aaron Hill

PianoPedalBracket.to-barline doesn't always work as expected

Hey all, I encountered a situation where the PianoPedalBracket setting to-barline doesn't always do what you'd expect. Given the following code, the pedal bracket is not extended to the end of the bar: %%% \version "2.24.0" \score {   \new Staff {     \clef bass     \time 6/8     \relative c

Re: Breathing marks

I think that because of the combination of symbols, I would use \markup instead. \version "2.24.0" \score {   \new Staff {     \relative c'' {   c8\( b a g8 ~ g8\)^\markup { O \musicglyph "scripts.rcomma" } \acciaccatura { a'8^( } g fis) d     }   } } It is definitely not ideal, as you'd

Re: Capturing out-of-music markup for music braille

Thanks so much for thinking along. In the current setup that would still require users to change their Lilypond code. Your example did give me an idea though: if there would be something like $currentscore, the problem of getting access to the score header would be solved... cheers Maurits O

Re: Capturing out-of-music markup for music braille

urits Op 27-03-2024 om 18:07 schreef Timothy Lanfear: On 26/03/2024 14:01, Maurits Lamers via LilyPond user discussion wrote: - is there a way to get a listener or callback of some kind to capture out-of-music markup? - is there a way to get access to the global headers and / or score header

Capturing out-of-music markup for music braille

Hey all, It has been a while I posted on this mailing-list. As some of you might remember, I have been working on a music braille output system for Lilypond for quite some time now. The update on that front is that I do have a system now that can reliably output (a subset of) music braille fo

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 23:53 +0100, Hans Aikema wrote: > > Jonas, > > > > I ran this same file my Apple M1 MacBook Pro 2021 against > > > > MacPorts lilypond-devel (which is still at 2.25.13) aarch64 build > > aikebah@rajah MSDM % time (lilypond MSDM.ly 2> /dev/null ) > > ( lilypond MSDM.ly 2> /de

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 23:03 +0100, Michael Käppler wrote: > Hi Jonas, > thanks for working on this! > > > Windows build with Guile JIT: https://cloud.hahnjo.de/s/Ek5x9rybpiPNtoj > > This turns on just-in-time compilation that was added in Guile 3.0, but > > we had to keep disabled on Windows until

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 14:08 -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi Jonas; > > I hope that the following information is useful: > > Lilypond performance stats for the engraving of one very small and one > medium sized pieces > > native = Apple Silicon build > foreign = x86_64 > other = MacPorts LP

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 14:24 -0500, Karlin High wrote: > On 3/23/2024 2:00 PM, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > > Would be interesting to see how this compares to the "vanilla" package > > I tried it, 3 runs. First one maybe unfair because font cache > initialization or something. > > real0m48.643s >

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 03:20 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: > The error occurred from my WSL1 environment running Ubuntu 18.04. > Probably my own fault for keeping bionic around. Ah ok; yes, Ubuntu 18.04 is end-of-life since last year already, so I didn't check its versions. > I do have Ubuntu 20.04 u

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 18:18 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2024-03-23 6:25 am, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.14. This is > > termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for > > testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if y

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 11:39 -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi Jonas; > > I've tried engraving a couple of randomly chosen previous engravings > (using LP 2.24.x) using the new LP 2.25.14 version on my Mac (Apple > Silicon). > > Since none of my engravings are large, most of them are one to t

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 11:41 -0500, Karlin High wrote: > On 3/23/2024 10:02 AM, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > > Windows build with Guile JIT: https://cloud.hahnjo.de/s/Ek5x9rybpiPNtoj > > This turns on just-in-time compilation that was added in Guile 3.0, but

Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 14:25 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.14. This is > termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for > testing new features and recent bug fixes. Following this release, I made two special builds with the ch

LilyPond 2.25.14

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How to use define-music-function?

Hello, I'm a new lilypond user. I want to create multiple scores in a single file. These scores have some values on common. So I want to use `define-music-function` in order to avoid repetition. Here is my code now: \score { \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "۱" } \one \layout { } }

Re: coloring notes with more voices in a staff

Dear Joop, Use \tweak color #red , like so \version "2.25.6" \relative c { f'2( g4.) << { d8 | f4 f4 g16 a } { \tweak color #red g8 | d4 d4 e16 f } >> a8 r4 } Thanks, -William On 3/18/24 12:41, Go77 wrote: Hi, I'm trying

Re: Tremolo/triplet problem

Dear Ralph, I think this replicates how the original score looks: \version "2.25.7" \relative b { \clef alto \time 4/4 \tuplet 6/4 { b2.:8 } c4.*2/3:8 d4.*2/3:8 | c2.*2/3:8 b4.*2/3:8 a4.*2/3:8 } -William On 3/6/24 21:53, Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - Thanks for all your work and for your h

Re: search and replace on all included files on compile

perfect thanks! Mar 6, 2024, 14:35 by lilyp...@hillvisions.com: > On 2024-03-06 10:56 am, Michael Winter via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > >> I have a programmatically generated score and am now realizing that I want >> to make a small tweak to text markups that are throu

Re: search and replace on all included files on compile

double thanks Mar 6, 2024, 14:36 by j...@abou-samra.fr: > > Try > > \version "2.24.2"\paper { #(add-text-replacements!'(("1↑" . "1")))}{ > c'^\markup "1↑" } > > Best, > > > Jean > >

Re: search and replace on all included files on compile

, > Curt > > On 3/6/2024 10:56 AM, Michael Winter via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > >> I have a programmatically generated score and am now realizing that I >> want to make a small tweak to text markups that are throughout the >> score in multiple files that are include

search and replace on all included files on compile

I have a programmatically generated score and am now realizing that I want to make a small tweak to text markups that are throughout the score in multiple files that are included at multiple levels.  " 1↑"  replace with " 1" (e.g. remove the up arrow when it is preceded by a 1) Is it possible t

Omit footnotes and footnote text from score

Dear list, I am wondering if there is a way to omit footnotes and the text that accompanies them from a score. the reason for this is I am making a critical edition of a baroque trio sonata from a manuscript, and would like to use footnotes for editorial changes in the full score and not show

Re: "Squished" tie between 2 notes

Dear George, I put the following in a style-sheet which I import into every lilypond file: \context { \Voice \override Tie.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods \override Tie.minimum-length = #4 \override Tie.minimum-length-after-break = #4 } It shouldn't ha

LilyPond 2.25.13

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.13. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release. Please refer to the Install

Ancient vocal music lyrics extenders

Hello all, I've been trying to replicate a score from CPDL. The font is terrible, the notes are weirdly shaped. I really don't like it. I wonder what software made it. Also, why two hyphens in that short a space? (I'm wondering which software was used to make it in the first place.) I've

bar lines shift when using proportional notation

Hi LilyPonders, I would like to notate a piece proportionally. To do this, I have created (with a little help) a markup command that I can use to place time signatures above the bar lines. But as soon as I do this, they move to the left, whereas the bar lines are in the right place if I don't use

Re: Include all files in a folder

On 2024-01-21 4:43 pm, Karlin High wrote: The question was answered in 2016: What would be the current version of the answer? \includePattern [1] has a \version statement with 2.24.0, so it would appear to still be rele

Re: { } not sounding right.

Hi Werner, hi Pierre-Luc, Am 19.01.24 um 08:43 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Try this with and without the \new Voice commented. \version "2.25.12" \language "english" \score { %\new Voice << {bf bqf bf} {g gqs g} >> \layout {} \midi {} } Obviously you would need to listen

Re: Two novice questions

On 2024-01-17 10:00 am, Knute Snortum wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Peter Mayes wrote: 2. I have a lot of consecutive notes all staccato. Marking each one individually is a bit of pain. Any way to specify that the next *n* notes are all staccato? I'd like to know the answer to tha

Re: Including input files via command line

On 2024-01-16 10:12 am, Benjamin Bruce wrote: Is there a way to compile multiple input files into one output file via the command line? Currently I am using \include, but I would like to be able to choose the included file on the fly without editing the main file. If I recall correctly, LilyP

Re: Setting the emoji font

On 2024-01-16 9:12 am, YTG 1234 wrote: I want to use emoji within markup, and I can see in the output log that Lilypond can't find a character in its default emoji font (Symbola). I can't figure out how to override the default font. %%% \markup {     "🔒" %% This character isn't be found } %%

Re: Can I define custom bar lengths in LilyPond?

On 2024-01-16 8:06 am, Hajo Baess wrote: Hello LilyPond users, I wonder if there is a possibility to define a custom bar length, thus for once cancelling LilyPond's automatic insertion of bar lines. I have a complicated measure here with quite a bit of markup to accommodate in one bar. I have w

Re: Error with \layout and \context

On 2024-01-12 5:00 pm, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: \layout { \context { \Score \override BarLine.transparent = ##t \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8) \override Stem.transparent = ##t } \context { \Voice \

Re: zero-duration s to hold marks

Hi Raphael, Am 12.01.24 um 13:32 schrieb Raphael Mankin: I agree that 0 as a denominator would seem to indicate an infinite duration, and allow the rest of your argument. However <> still seems unintuitive. I agree that <> isn't obvious. But in a complex language like LilyPond, there's alway

Re: Transpose from major to minor key

Hi Matthew, Am 12.01.24 um 00:29 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: You need to remember lilypond thinks in terms of pitch, not note names. Unlike some (most?) other music software. So "\transpose g e" says "transpose EVERY note up A TONE". I'm not sure it's quite right to say that Lilypond thin

Re: Cut time/half-time/alle breve & 8/4 time

Hi Stanton, I’m setting various short organ pieces from an old Peters edition, mostly to prevent my aging brain from forgetting… One piece is in 8/4 time -the first measure has a whole note and 2 half notes. However, the time signature as printed is the cut time symbol. How can I reproduce t

Re: Transpose from major to minor key

-transformations On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM Aaron Hill via LilyPond user discussion < lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote: On 2024-01-10 1:26 pm, Butter Cream wrote: > Hi, I have a piece of music written in the key of G major and I want > the pitches to transpose to e minor. How do I do this

Re: Transpose from major to minor key

On 2024-01-10 1:26 pm, Butter Cream wrote: Hi, I have a piece of music written in the key of G major and I want the pitches to transpose to e minor. How do I do this. When I use the command \transpose g e it changes to E major (all g notes are sharped) I think you'll need to use \modalTransp

Re: Question about \include options

On 2024-01-07 11:14 pm, John Helly wrote: Aloha. In reading the documentation about \include (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files), I find the following sentence but can't find any explanation anywhere about what *#f and #t *are or do.  Can anyone en

LilyPond 2.25.12

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.12. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release. Please refer to the Install

Re: Manually control note spacing?

Hi Robert, I'm trying to make an example showing mordent symbols with text labels. I want the note positions spaced so that the text is all on one line, with notes placed as needed to fit around it. The easiest way I can think of doing that would be to put manually sized 'gap fillers' between t

Re: build a specific stable lillypond version with git

On Thu, 2024-01-04 at 22:33 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > CX writes: > > > Is it possible to build a specific stable lillypond version with sources > > retrieved by git clone instead of a source tarball download? > > If it is possible how can you do this (because I can not find the > > documentat

Re: remove extra line in outside staff notes

On 2023-12-29 7:01 am, Cordelia wrote: Hello, is it possible to remove the outside staff lines notes in a "\override StaffSymbol.line-count = #1"? Thank you, Cordelia Are you referring to ledger lines? \layout { \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol.line-count = #1 \

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