Re: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Nick, > I thing I haven't managed to fix is that the barring indication looks better > if both the right- and left-hand ends are extended slightly so that they > don't both start and finish centred on a note, like so: > > \barre #0.0 "CIV" #'(-0.5 . -1) #10 > > But this means that a barre tha

RE: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-21 Thread Nick Payne
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Payne Sent: Saturday, 20 September 2008 12:16 To: 'Mailinglist lilypond-user' Subject: RE: Questions on beaming and barring Thanks again. One final (I hope) question. When the duration of the barr

RE: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Payne
Thanks again. One final (I hope) question. When the duration of the barre causes it to start on one stave and finish on another, that presents two problems in the output: 1. On the stave where the barre continues, it starts slightly to the left of the very beginning of the stave rather than abo

Re: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-19 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Nick, 2008/9/19 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Neil > > Thanks. I used your function definition in a short test and it worked just as > I wanted. Strangely, however, when I used the function identically in the > piece I'm engraving, I just get a dashed line where I should see the barring

RE: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Payne
re indication should be. Can anyone shed some light on this? Nick -Original Message- From: Neil Puttock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 06:12 To: Kieren MacMillan Cc: Nick Payne; Mailinglist lilypond-user Subject: Re: Questions on beaming and barring 2008/9

RE: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Payne
ursday, 18 September 2008 06:12 To: Kieren MacMillan Cc: Nick Payne; Mailinglist lilypond-user Subject: Re: Questions on beaming and barring 2008/9/17 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Usually, I would suggest running convert-ly, but that appears not to work on > this file for

Re: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-17 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/17 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Usually, I would suggest running convert-ly, but that appears not to work on > this file for some reason (which I'm too busy to figure out right now) — > instead, I manually updated the following function definition for you: Some of the changes to

Re: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, I tested the Mutopia source adelita.ly file with Lilypond 2.11.58 The file was written for Lilypond 2.8.0, and many things have changed since then. Usually, I would suggest running convert-ly, but that appears not to work on this file for some reason (which I'm too busy to figur

Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-17 Thread Nick Payne
1. Is it possible to put a slight slope on beams which Lilypond defaults to engraving as flat? I've found out how to flatten a sloped beam but not the reverse. Where I've got a whole page of arpeggiated 16th notes, I think it looks better to have them all slightly sloping than flat. 2. I'm tryi