Re: violin/strings double-stopping

2006-04-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Apr-06, at 11:09 AM, bears388 wrote: Further to my last email: I have solved my problem as per the source & pdf files attached. Probably not elegant, but it does what is needed. Ok. Did you know that you can define variables (ie commands) ? \fakeGrace = { \stemUp \override NoteHead #'

Re: violin/strings double-stopping

2006-04-24 Thread Graham Percival
Please keep email traffic on the mailist, so that other people can benefit from the answers. To make notes smaller, you can use \tiny, \small, and \normalsize. These are handy ways of changing the font size; for example, tiny = \set fontSize = #-2 (you can guess how to make notes larger than

Re: violin/strings double-stopping

2006-04-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Apr-06, at 2:14 AM, Michael Phillips wrote: How do you notate double-stopping for string instruments? The manual doesn't help. A double stop is like a chord, so 8 This is covered in the tutorial, section 2.10. If you want to use specific joined notes, try this: << d' \\ >> - Graham

violin/strings double-stopping

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Phillips
How do you notate double-stopping for string instruments? The manual doesn't help. For instance: bes'8 bes' bes ' | etc with double-stopping as f''8 f'' f''; or d' with double stopping as a chord f' <> Both examples from a Vivaldi Concerto solo part. I am using \version = "2.6.5" Thanks, Michael