Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hugh Myers wrote: I think I was keeping track of individual bars that way (with braces that is)--- you are right, newline would work just as well and few characters='s less clutter. Well, bar checks would even work better, since they are actually checked by LilyPond, thus the name... :-) Use "

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-26 Thread Hugh Myers
Here is the template I'm working with. The notes are nonsense, but the problems are the ones I've run into and have had to solve... \version "2.13.7" upper = { c4 d e f \startTextSpan % polyphonic \repeat volta 2 { g4 a b c % monophonic, see below } \alternative { { b4 \stopTextS

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-26 Thread Hugh Myers
I think I was keeping track of individual bars that way (with braces that is)--- you are right, newline would work just as well and few characters='s less clutter. Regards \stop etc. I got it to work more or less as you say. It is on another machine, I'll show you the template in the next email. -

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-26 Thread Frédéric Bron
> Since I normally program in lisp, I don't have any problems with > nested delimiters. Are you suggesting that excess (at least to your > eyes) braces are the problem or are you suggesting that the \stop is > at the wrong level? I was wondering why you add braces here: { a,8 [e'] g, [e'] f, [e']

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Hugh Myers
Since I normally program in lisp, I don't have any problems with nested delimiters. Are you suggesting that excess (at least to your eyes) braces are the problem or are you suggesting that the \stop is at the wrong level? --hsm 2009/11/25 Frédéric Bron : >> It would also help if the suggested cha

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Frédéric Bron
> It would also help if the suggested change worked. In stead I still get: Maybe it is because you use curly braces { } everywhere. Try to put the \stop... inside the { } block and not outside. But why using so many braces? Frédéric ___ lilypond-user m

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Hugh Myers
It would also help if the suggested change worked. In stead I still get: C:\Users\hsmyers\Desktop\Lily Projects>lilypond.exe malaguena.ly GNU LilyPond 2.13.7 Processing `malaguena.ly' Parsing... malaguena.ly:56:1: error: syntax error, unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER \stopTextSpan malaguena.ly:89:0:

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Hugh Myers
Since the piece in question, Malaguena, already has mixed monophony and polyphony, as well as tablature, adding voices to it doesn't seem like a very good idea. Yes, I'm aware that <<,\\ >> is shorthand for voicing, but since it is shorthand, the visual complexity of the score is kept to a readable

Re: confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Le Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:39:08 -0700, Hugh Myers a écrit : > So where do I place it? Bearing in mind that note-wise, both the start > and stop are correctly placed? \stopTextSpan is unexpected because \startTextSpan is in another Voice ! There was a warning in the [old] doc about this : (implicit

confusion in text spanning

2009-11-25 Thread Hugh Myers
This: firstPolyRepeat = { << { r4 \startTextSpan \times 2/3 {gis'8 b e } e,4 \times 2/3 {gis8 b e} e,2 } \\ {e,2.~e} >> } secondMono = { { e'8 [e'] gis, [e'] b [e] } { e,8 [e'] gis, [e'] b [e] } { a,8 [e'] c [e] b [e] } { a,8 [e'] g, [e'] f, [e'] } } thirdMono = { { e,8 [e'] gis, [e']