Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi pabuhr. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM, pabuhr wrote: > I've been working on the last version of David Nalesnik's guide-finger code. > The reason is a horizontal and vertical placement problem when the guide line > is long and/or at a steep angle. I have managed to fix the vertical problem,

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-17 Thread pabuhr
I've been working on the last version of David Nalesnik's guide-finger code. The reason is a horizontal and vertical placement problem when the guide line is long and/or at a steep angle. I have managed to fix the vertical problem, but the horizontal problem has me flummoxed. The example below show

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 08/10/12 15:16, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. >> Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file >> /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf > Uh, oh, this is a nonsense error message. There *never* exists > U+10

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. > Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf Uh, oh, this is a nonsense error message. There *never* exists U+10002E3A, since this is outside of the valid Uni

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Me again-- On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: [...] > > It's meant to connect fingering numbers, but you can hide the first > number to mimic the effect of the function earlier in the thread. > (I'm sure something could be done to this so you wouldn't need to do > that!) > I

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi again, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Nick, > [...] > if you're interested simply in > drawing lines, then there will be greater flexibility with a line > stencil, rather than em- and en-dashes and such. I've adapted the > function to do just that (see attached).

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Nick, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nick Payne wrote: [...] > > Thanks, that's very useful. I added three functions to your code which which > take just the slope as parameter and default to using either hyphen, en > dash, and em dash, to cater for different degrees of tightness of note >

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/10/12 11:07, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi pabuhr, > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, pabuhr wrote: > > [...] > >> Below is my attempt at a guide finger (which I'm sure you saw a few months >> ago). > http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg73509.html > > [...] > >> The problem wi

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: [...] > two month ago I created the code below (the same is attached, too). > It is not exactly what you want, but it should give you some ideas. Just tried this out. Very cool! -David

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi pabuhr, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, pabuhr wrote: [...] > > Below is my attempt at a guide finger (which I'm sure you saw a few months > ago). http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg73509.html [...] > The problem with my > version is that the combined guide/finger-number

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread pabuhr
I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in ... Hey Nick, we certainly struggle with indicating a guide finger. 8-) First, an observation, which I know you are already aware of, but I'll make it anyway. It is important to differentiate between the glissando, which ma

Re: Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/6 Nick Payne : > I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in > most cases where there are chords, I don't want it between all the notes > in successive chords. Can this be done without creating a separate > hidden voice with the single notes having the glissando bet

Glissando between single notes in chord

2012-10-06 Thread Nick Payne
I'm using glissandos to indicate a guide finger in fingering, and in most cases where there are chords, I don't want it between all the notes in successive chords. Can this be done without creating a separate hidden voice with the single notes having the glissando between them. e.g. in the followin