Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, >> 4. Things would be way easier if the EE (and/or Frescobaldi) had a method to >> highlight (colour-ing the grobs?) all mods, and a linking method to >> navigate to the correct spot in the edition file. There was an example of >> this [colouring part] some time ago, but I don't

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
> > 4. Things would be way easier if the EE (and/or Frescobaldi) had a method > to highlight (colour-ing the grobs?) all mods, and a linking method to > navigate to the correct spot in the edition file. There was an example of > this [colouring part] some time ago, but I don't know if it was

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, On Feb 20, 2018, at 4:46 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > At least I used it a lot in a score containing lyrics to balance the > syllables in order to get the rhythmic picture of the score intact. A staggeringly large percentage of my \editionMods are Lyric-nudges.

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, >> 1. Use of \editionModList and other convenience "compressors" can, >> in many cases, make for maintenance difficulties. > interesting point. Yes… I didn't really think about it until I was well into using it heavily. OT: That inspired me to write this "compressed" score of "Mary Had

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20. Februar 2018 18:42:03 MEZ schrieb Kieren MacMillan : >Hi Stefano, > >> I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, >since as Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each >possibility. I too think that a discussion should be had

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, > I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, since as > Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each possibility. I too think > that a discussion should be had about that, to see what use-cases and needs > arise. How do you usually do that here? Do

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Stefano Troncaro
I completely missed development1.ly, that is great! The way the proc is managed is particularly useful. It seemed to me that all the ingredients for a convenience function are already there. I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, since as Urs already mentioned there are

Re:A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread David Sumbler
Thank you all for your responses to my original post, and for the ensuing discussion which I am following with great interest.  I shall not reply to each response individually, mainly because I have little to offer that would be constructive: I made my original post because it was my view as a

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-20 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Stefano, this is a great idea! Setting global context variables can reduce the needed code significantly. In https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver/blob/master/usage-examples/development-1.ly I use global variables to create "dynamic" editionModLists. The files development*.ly

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-19 Thread Stefano Troncaro
I've been wanting to expand my earlier tutorial with a section dealing with \editionModList since I think the convenience of it can be useful to many users. However, it is not a solution for every situation. Particularly, it is not useful when you need to insert objects as part of your edition if

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, > to address multiple contexts at once you can use regular expressions and > wildcards like in > https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver/blob/master/usage-examples/development-3.ly YAY! I didn't know this was in there. (I'm sure I would have, if I had gotten my head

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi David, Urs already answered. I understand your concerns about the input and I am always open for ideas to ease the input for the edition-engraver. Like Urs already mentioned your proposal will be difficult to implement because it doesn't use the standard parser schemes. But it sheds light

Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-19 Thread lists
Hi David, 19. Februar 2018 12:00, "David Sumbler" schrieb: > As a newcomer to using Edition Engraver, and looking at the example > files etc., I wondered why they were written with so much repetition. > "Perhaps it is just to keep things easy for newcomers like me to >

A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

2018-02-19 Thread David Sumbler
As a newcomer to using Edition Engraver, and looking at the example files etc., I wondered why they were written with so much repetition.  "Perhaps it is just to keep things easy for newcomers like me to understand," I thought. So I experimented with reformatting using braces as Lilypond does,

A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Mike Dean
(1) how can I get a certain field to break across two (or more) lines? example: \version 2.18.0 \header { copyright = Copyright © 2003 by composer-name. For all countries. All rights reserved. } (2) I'd like to force more space (one or more blank lines) between the header and the start of

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.03.2014 03:39, schrieb Mike Dean: (1) how can I get a certain field to break across two (or more) lines? example: \version 2.18.0 \header { copyright = Copyright © 2003 by composer-name. For all countries. All rights reserved. } copyright = \markup \right-column { Copyright by

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 24.03.2014 03:39, schrieb Mike Dean: (1) how can I get a certain field to break across two (or more) lines? example: \version 2.18.0 \header { copyright = Copyright © 2003 by composer-name. For all countries. All rights reserved. } Perhaps you'd also like to try \version 2.19.3

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 24.03.2014 15:45, schrieb Mike Dean: Hi Marc: Thanks for the feedback! Hi Mike, please don't forget to reply to all, so that others can join the discussion. I have a further question lining up the two marks in question 5 having implemented your suggestion has resulted in the

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Mike Dean
Yes, I am compiling as I go along (not always merrily) Mike Dean On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Mike Dean dean...@aquinas.edu wrote: I guess I haven't figured the two indicators out correctly... \score { \tempo \markup { \bold Lento Lontano, e molto legato} \mark \markup {

Re: A couple of questions that I'm having trouble finding how to do it in the manuals or in the LSR

2014-03-24 Thread Mike Dean
I guess I haven't figured the two indicators out correctly... \score { \tempo \markup { \bold Lento Lontano, e molto legato} \mark \markup { Chorale-like } places Chorale-like above the tempo indicator, and aligns with the edge of the staff. What I haven't found is getting the

first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Francisco Vila
/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out searching: 1. As you see, in the source code I have everything organized by measure. Is there a way to add lyrics by measure instead of in a separate chunk? The score would be easier to write

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com writes: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly Here likely the Github

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out searching: 1. As you see, in the source code I have everything organized by measure. Is there a way to add lyrics by measure instead

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered...

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com writes: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder:

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: Without an authorization by Stevie Wonder, publishing a version of his work on GitHub is not allowed in most countries of the world, so you should likely make this part of your repository private. Either that, or move to a country which allows such publishing. As an

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.11.2012 10:11, schrieb Xavier Noria: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered... is there a way to center them? I'm embarrassed that I don't exactly know when and where,

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
You can even find it in _handwritten_ 19th century scores. For example look at the last measure in this Schubert manuscript: http://www.schubert-online.at/activpage/manuskripte.php?werke_id=253werkteile_id=image=MH_00122_D648_052.jpggroesse=100aktion=einzelbildbild_id=51 BTW: nice website!

Re: couple of questions

2004-09-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Unfortunately, mail attachments on this mailing list are filtered away in an attempt to reduce the problems with virus emails. Could you please resend to the mailing list with the .ly file included at the end of the text part of your mail. Also, small examples isolating one problem at a time are

couple of questions

2004-09-06 Thread Philip Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I'm fairly new to lilypond, but I've got a couple of small problems. I've attached my .ly files so it's easier to describe them. In bar 69, where there's a trill on an E, I would like to have the arco markup below, but then it gets written

Re: Just a couple quick questions.

2004-03-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you search the mailing list archives, you will, for example, find http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-10/msg00244.html and if you search the Regression test document on the documentation web site, you will find

Just a couple quick questions.

2004-03-24 Thread Lyle Raymond
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 9:36 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Now that I look more carefully at the output you sent earlier, it looks as if you try to set the header field 'pagenumber' in your file. Is that right? I just discovered that the pagenumber field was the culprit. Thanks for your

Just a couple quick questions.

2004-03-24 Thread Lyle Raymond
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 9:36 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Now that I look more carefully at the output you sent earlier, it looks as if you try to set the header field 'pagenumber' in your file. Is that right? I just discovered that the pagenumber field was the culprit. Thanks for your

Re: Just a couple quick questions.

2004-03-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:54, Lyle Raymond wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 9:36 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Now that I look more carefully at the output you sent earlier, it looks as if you try to set the header field 'pagenumber' in your file. Is that right? I just discovered that

Couple of questions

2001-09-19 Thread Jérémie Lumbroso
Hi all, Since a few weeks, I've gone into serious typesetting with an average of a page an hour (two staffs, four voi- ces), because I'm restauring the works of a lost harp- sichordist for a friend, and with every piece, I've dis- covered more and more the incredible

Re: Couple of questions

2001-09-19 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jérémie Lumbroso wrote: - There doesn't seem to be a double repeat bar :||: I Use \bar :|: Why don't you use LilyPond's repeat-function to autocreate the correct bars? - I perfectly know that sluring grace notes with the next one is not available in current stable