Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-21 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Thank you all for additional information. I thought I was missing something very simple. On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 2:17 AM David Kastrup wrote: > > Kenneth Wolcott writes: > > > Hi Carl; > > > > When I try this tremolo with the colons, it displays fine, but midi > > sounds as if there is no

Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Kenneth Wolcott writes: > Hi Carl; > > When I try this tremolo with the colons, it displays fine, but midi > sounds as if there is no abbreviation. Of course, I see that the colon > syntax is not supported for midi with Lilypond. > > So I try the same with the \repeat tremolo syntax, it

Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-21 Thread Thomas Morley
gt; > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:53 AM Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/19/21, 12:39 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kenneth Wolcott" > > > > > kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > &g

Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-20 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
.com> wrote: > > > > Hi; > > > > See attached screenshot. > > > > "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book. > > > > Does Lilypond support this musical shortcut? > > > > > > See >

Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-19 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
AWESOME! I completely missed it. Thanks. On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:53 AM Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > > On 11/19/21, 12:39 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kenneth Wolcott" > kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi; > > See attached screen

Re: "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book

2021-11-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/19/21, 12:39 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kenneth Wolcott" wrote: Hi; See attached screenshot. "abbreviations" as found in a Rubanks Intermediate Method book. Does Lilypond support this musical shortcut? See https://li

Re: Question about abbreviations

2020-08-27 Thread Jean-Julien Fleck
4. 8 4. > > > > *From:* lilypond-user *On > Behalf Of *Alasdair McAndrew > *Sent:* 27 August 2020 09:49 > *To:* lilypond-user Mailinglist > *Subject:* Question about abbreviations > > > > Hello, > > > > I don't know if this is possible in Lilypond,

RE: Question about abbreviations

2020-08-27 Thread Timothy Lanfear
Provided you use a recent version of Lilypond, e.g. 2.20.0, the pitch is carried forward from the previous note and you can write c4. 8 4. From: lilypond-user On Behalf Of Alasdair McAndrew Sent: 27 August 2020 09:49 To: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: Question about abbreviations

Re: Question about abbreviations

2020-08-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. 2020-08-27 10:48 UTC+02:00, Alasdair McAndrew : > Hello, > > I don't know if this is possible in Lilypond, so I'm asking the experts... > In a bar of 3/4 time I might have, say: c4. c8 c4 - a very standard > rhythm. I remember once that in a score-writing system I used years ago, > this

Question about abbreviations

2020-08-27 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Hello, I don't know if this is possible in Lilypond, so I'm asking the experts... In a bar of 3/4 time I might have, say: c4. c8 c4 - a very standard rhythm. I remember once that in a score-writing system I used years ago, this could be abbreviated as c>c c. I know that < > are used in Lilypond

Re: print instrument abbreviations to left of staff

2016-05-20 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 20.05.2016 00:52, Ryan Michael wrote: \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Cello " You don’t need the # here; strings in LilyPond syntax and Scheme syntax are equivalent. Best, Simon ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: print instrument abbreviations to left of staff

2016-05-19 Thread tisimst
\set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"abbr." On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Michael [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n190777...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hello, I have a string quartet score, > and I would like to show the canonical abbreviations for each instrument

print instrument abbreviations to left of staff

2016-05-19 Thread Ryan Michael
Hello, I have a string quartet score, and I would like to show the canonical abbreviations for each instrument to the left of each staff line throughout the piece. How can I do that? Ryan. p.s. this is my layout: \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff << \global \cello >&g

Re: [OT] Scribal abbreviations (Was: Re: Using strings and other types to return markup)

2016-05-11 Thread Andrew Bernard
It's not just macrons of course: Phil is dabbling in the wonderful world of scribal abbreviations. I agree. I think it’s a macron indicating an elided n or m that Phil has got. An introduction to scribal abbreviations, a very fascinating rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbr

[OT] Scribal abbreviations (Was: Re: Using strings and other types to return markup)

2016-05-11 Thread Graham King
Strictly speaking, I think we're talking about a macron, rather than a tilda. It's not just macrons of course: Phil is dabbling in the wonderful world of scribal abbreviations. Most people are interested in expanding (rather than reproducing) the abbreviations, and for anyone trying to do so

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-05 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:56:47 +0200 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: ... it should be in some way characteristic of a tuplet, A tuplet is nothing more than a sequence of notes that do not have a discrete duration like 1/4 or 1/8. For example, a 3/2 tuplet means the notes have 2/3 of

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 05.04.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Johan Vromans: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:56:47 +0200 Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: ... it should be in some way characteristic of a tuplet, A tuplet is nothing more than a sequence of notes that do not have a discrete duration like 1/4 or 1/8. For

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 03.04.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Mattes: [...] Well, think of it like this (slightly oversimplified): 'tuplet' is a lilypond function, '\' will _call_ this function. Let's quickly check that: guile tuplet #Music function #procedure #f (parser location ratio tuplet-span music) If you

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Don't do it. Redefining standard commands just to save typing is a terrible idea. It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Apropos outsmarting tools: with LilyPond source code in particular, you risk doing that to

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.04.2015 um 12:37 schrieb Reedmace Star: * 2015-04-03 10:25 +0200 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Since your question already got answered directly, I hope I can add a piece of advice without sounding

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.04.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Mattes: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I'll note that for

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Reedmace Star
* 2015-04-03 10:25 +0200 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Since your question already got answered directly, I hope I can add a piece of advice without sounding too destructive: Don't do it. Redefining

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe we can conceive of a good, intuitive and short alternative notation for triplets (and/or

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.04.2015 um 18:56 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Am 04.04.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Johan Vromans: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 04.04.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Johan Vromans: On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: It depends. Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read. Maybe we can conceive of a good, intuitive and short

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread guoguocuozuoduo
Yes, simply write t = \tuplet at the beginning of your file. 在 2015年4月3日,16:26,Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com 写道: Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Andrew [I am happy to take the dumb question of the year award for this!]

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-03 12:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com: Are you sure? This gives a cascade of errors: \version 2.19.17 t = \tuplet \relative c'' { \t 3/2 { c c c } } Andrew On 3 April 2015 at 19:27:33, guoguocuozuoduo (brian777...@hotmail.com) wrote: Yes, simply

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( 2015-04-03 13:18 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: 2015-04-03 12:58 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, 2015-04-03 12:32 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: %% or: t

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Andrew Bernard
Are you sure? This gives a cascade of errors: \version 2.19.17 t = \tuplet \relative c'' {   \t 3/2 { c c c } } Andrew On 3 April 2015 at 19:27:33, guoguocuozuoduo (brian777...@hotmail.com) wrote: Yes, simply write t = \tuplet at the beginning of your file. 在 2015年4月3日,16:26,Andrew

Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Andrew Bernard
Can I make a simple abbreviation for input? For example \t instead of \tuplet? Andrew [I am happy to take the dumb question of the year award for this!] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Neil Puttock
On 3 April 2015 at 12:19, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( This should work: #(define t tuplet) Cheers, Neil ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Steve Downes
Works for me noted for future use. Thanks Steve On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:22:45PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: On 3 April 2015 at 12:19, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( This should work: #(define t tuplet)

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Harm, 2015-04-03 12:32 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: %% or: t = #(define-music-function (parser location ratio tuplet-span music) (fraction? (ly:duration? '()) ly:music?) #{ \tuplet $frac $tuplet-span $mus #}) Copy/paste typos? t = #(define-music-function

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-04-03 12:58 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, 2015-04-03 12:32 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com: %% or: t = #(define-music-function (parser location ratio tuplet-span music) (fraction? (ly:duration? '()) ly:music?) #{

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Mattes
Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:36 CEST, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mattes r.mat...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Mattes
Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I'll note that for explaining in a blog post

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I'll note that for explaining in a blog post because it seems like a good example for demonstrating the relation between Scheme and

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Mattes r.mat...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:36 CEST, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mattes r.mat...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Kevin Barry
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I'll note that for explaining in a blog post because it seems like a good example for demonstrating the relation between Scheme and LilyPond variables and the role of symbols. Maybe it fits into a post I've just started to

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mattes r.mat...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: Am Freitag, 03. April 2015 20:15 CEST, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org schrieb: Am 03.04.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Kevin Barry: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.04.2015 um 13:19 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( Passing '() as default parameter doesn't seem to work here, you have to call \tuplet explicitly one way or the other: t = #(define-music-function (parser location ratio tup-span mus)

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thank you Neil! 2015-04-03 14:22 GMT+02:00 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: On 3 April 2015 at 12:19, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( This should work: #(define t tuplet) Cheers, Neil

Re: Abbreviations

2015-04-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.04.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Neil Puttock: On 3 April 2015 at 12:19, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, doesn't seem to work too... ;( This should work: #(define t tuplet) Cheers, Neil I'll note that for explaining in a blog post because it seems

Re: Standard for instrument names and their abbreviations

2011-10-15 Thread David Rogers
Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm currently writing several orchestral scores and I'm looking for a reference (book?) for standard instrument names and their abbreviations. The first google results do not give the same results. I do not believe there is any single

Standard for instrument names and their abbreviations

2011-10-08 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, I'm currently writing several orchestral scores and I'm looking for a reference (book?) for standard instrument names and their abbreviations. The first google results do not give the same results. For example, what is the standard abbreviation for Violin II? V II, V.II, Vl II, Vl.II, Vn II

instrument names and abbreviations in italian

2011-07-16 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, the question is not only related to lilypond but I would like to know, if there is somewhere in the web a page, where You can find the names of the orchestral instruments and their common abbreviations in italian. Thanks for Your help Stefan

RE: instrument names and abbreviations in italian

2011-07-16 Thread James Lowe
July 2011 18:11 To: lilypond-user Subject: instrument names and abbreviations in italian Dear community, the question is not only related to lilypond but I would like to know, if there is somewhere in the web a page, where You can find the names of the orchestral instruments and their common

Defining user abbreviations

2007-12-29 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
The problem I have is placing a single beam between the fourth and fifth notes of a run of 32nd notes, as in: g32[ a b \set stemRightBeamCount = #1 c \set stemLeftBeamCount = #1 d c b a] But this is rather verbose. How can I define my own commands or abbreviations to do this with less typing

Re: Defining user abbreviations

2007-12-29 Thread Ole Schmidt
a] But this is rather verbose. How can I define my own commands or abbreviations to do this with less typing, and where in my file would such commands go? Thanks, Alasdair ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Fret diagram how to stop abbreviations

2007-12-22 Thread Thermo
-diagram-how-to-stop-abbreviations-tp14466682p14466682.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fret diagram how to stop abbreviations

2007-12-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Thermo Graham.Okely at iinet.net.au writes: I am trying to get Lilypong to show a fret diagram in its natural place without adding (iii) and placing the diagram in the first fret position. All you need to do is increase the fret-count to make it work. First method: ^\markup