Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Dewey
be able to help out at least a little (let me know) while you're getting used to things. - Mark Tim Litwiller wrote: I have a bunch on sunday school songs like this that I need to put into lilypond so we can make clean nice prints. I have been playing with it for a week now and going thru th

Re: Sunday School songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I'm playing with it. The notes are slightly different from my copy I changed to the head style we use - I haven't got the part combine working yet. and the tenor and bass repeating words I haven't figured out yet. Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi Tim, Attached is a copy of a hymn I have do

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
Tim Litwiller litwiller.net> writes: > > so far I've been able to either have lyrics or combine notes - but not > both. > then where notes collide I need to have a flag go each direction. > I've circled examples in the attachment. Do I assume correctly that the half-note C on "men" is done cor

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
Ralph Little wrote: Hi Tim, OK, it is a bit of a frig if you fancy giving it a try, but I think I can make it happen and it depends on what version of Lilypond you are using. Find the file part-combiner.scm - it should be in the scm directory of your Lilpond installation. Search for the s

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Tim Litwiller wrote: I can do it this way - but it sure would be simpler to input if we are able to have each voice separated. Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It use

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I updated the link to contain the whole scan. this song only has 4 or 5 but I need something flexible enough for 60 - 100 songs. \partcombine {f4 f f g a8 a4 } {c4 c c c f8 f4} <> \partcombine {a2} {f2}... I'm not sure that that is much better, though - it depends on how many of the spl

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Tim Litwiller wrote: I can do it this way - but it sure would be simpler to input if we are able to have each voice separated. Hi Tim, I looked at the partcombiner code which is written in scheme and I have to say it is pretty impenetrable :( I was trying to think of a way to fool the partc

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have my .ly file at home. I'll have to wait till I get there this evening to send you an example. Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It uses chords instead of \partcombi

Re: sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, I had a bit of a fiddle and came up with the following which produces pretty much what you want, but I'm not really happy with it. It uses chords instead of \partcombine which would make note entry a lot easier. If someone knows how to tweak the operation of \partcombine so that some note

sunday school songs

2007-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
I have a bunch on sunday school songs like this that I need to put into lilypond so we can make clean nice prints. I have been playing with it for a week now and going thru the manual and tutorial, downloading samples and layout tools like Jedit and the pspad plug ins and canorus. I haven&#