Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Michae Phillips wrote: Is there a reason why entering notes in a score is suddenly stopped? Well, I had a hunch and followed it up. Lilypad handles up to 3 bytes and no more. [1] Maybe you are using Lilypad and your file has become too large for it. By way of explanation: When you g

Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Phillips wrote: Thanks for your input You're welcome. It was pretty much a wild guess; there was so little to go on. And I've never used Lilypad. there is very little unimportant content I can remove. Certainly, no music notes There is another way to reduce the file size sligh

Re: no tuplet bracket, why?

2008-09-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: why in the below quoted example the tuplet bracket is hidden? But in the example you supplied, both tuplet brackets are visible [1]. Did you test your example before posting? However, the tuplet brackets get shorter as additional measures are added. If enough measures

Re: no tuplet bracket, why?

2008-09-17 Thread Robin Bannister
One way to keep it longer would be to make the tuplet contents wider, Another way, illustrated in the LSR [1], is easier to apply: \once \set tupletFullLength = ##t [1] http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=398 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-use

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-22 Thread Robin Bannister
I like the comprehensive navigation of the new layout [1], but feel there is still something missing. __ Say I am reading the mailing list, looking at a thread or message. I see something which gets me thinking about a probl

Re: leadsheet with intro an lyrics

2008-09-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Sebastian Menge wrote: But then the second part starts a new staff. How can I prevent that? One way would be to have just one part, which starts all three things together (like your second part) and then make the lyrics skip the intro bars. To see how, search (twice) for "Skips in lyric mod

Re: trouble with slur

2008-09-26 Thread Robin Bannister
And for your second question: B. Wha I can make a different size of staff? Upper bigest look for "Changing the staff size" in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Staff-notation Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 22. September 2008 schrieb Robin Bannister: > So I propose > > A > Replace the (passive) text "Table of Contents" in the TOC panel, > with the document title, e.g. "Learning Manual". > This nearly always visible (on b

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: so basically, you want ... a link to the back to the documentation index No, I didn't mean that. That is in your TODO, and not at all urgent for regular users. Robin Bannister wrote: This is because I regard B as just another entry in the TOC. The TOC doe

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: Okay, see if this design looks better: ... What do you think? Well, I ought to be asleep. But that hasn't worked out too well yet. I realised I had messed up my last two posts (png uncompressed) and got back online to patch things up a bit. What do you think? We

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Kurt Kroon wrote: the CSS "quasi-frames" already provide the affordance of a fixed navigation frame, so it isn't necessary to make their backgrounds "matchy-matchy". I don't understand which background areas you are referring to. By "navigation bars" I was referring to the horizontal stripes

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: This is always a good argument (similar things should look similar), however, I think in our case we can afford to use a "nicer" color in the sidebar, since it is already spacially separated from the contents (by having its own column on the left). I would turn this

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Me answering Rheinhold: > The pale yellow/light brown would make the navbars almost invisible on TFT > screens, so I think the current state is much better. ... So what/where is the current state? Sorry, I got mixed up; I thought this meant the navbars would disappear. But now I think it mea

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: I agree with yours and Reinhold's idea to remove underlining and visited link colors in the TOC pane. Should the same apply to the main doc pane? NAV BAR What I said about TOC scanning doesn't apply here; there is no list. There are probably two main sorts of usage

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast Yes, yes, yes! Thank you very much. At last I feel the web designer was more concerned about making it easy to read rather than easy to look at

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-12 Thread Robin Bannister
It's fine having the language bar down at the bottom of a docs page. But in the bigpage case you've probably done a lot of reading before you reach it, and wish you had seen it earlier. So I suggest something like bighead.png: I Put an additional language bar at the top of bigpages. Che

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Some thoughts on searching. Valentin Villenave wrote: the search function should show the results in the main "frame" on the right, without making the tocframe disappear The toc pane and the main pane are a coherent unit. The user refers to the toc to see e.g. - what part of the document

Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams

2008-10-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: You could also go to the LilyPond Snippet Repository and search for beam: If you are feeling lucky you could also google for beam horizontal inurl:v2-11 site:lilypond.org/doc/ Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Francisco Vila wrote [Re: translated big pages]: Additionally, would it be possible to internationalize the "Back To Documentation Index" link? Some usability comments, please, before this gets translated. This is currently displayed as << Back to Documentation Index _a___ I suppos

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: unless someone can come up with something better than "<<", which also indicates a navigational element But *you* did, some time ago! [Top][Contents][Index][ ? ] All you need is the above. See it at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: How about "Overview" instead of "Index"? A better choice! And I counter with "Documentation Home". But a second word is overkill. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gn

Re: help with tieWaitForNote

2008-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Richard Wattenbarger wrote: the d-flat tie doesn't render in the upper voice When you ask for tieWaitForNote like this, it gets turned on for the voice and doesn't affect any other voices, e.g. a voice for the right hand. The << {} // {} >> construct needs two voices and sets up its own, an

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: No! After all, you are already reading the documentation, so a link to "Documentation" simply does not make sense. I was visiting LM 4.6.1 this morning, reading about tweaking output, and I wondered afterwards if, while there, I could have argued that a link to "Tw

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Patrick McCarty wrote: I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the new color choices. My quoted "Yes please" was to "Blue in Green" which really shouted at you. This one is a lot more restrained but just as easy to read. OK, the tocpane is not unified with the navbar in any way, but I

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-11-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Hallo. Me again, this time with a navbar suggestion. The first time I saw the navbar it seemed rather indigestible - so much text to read. But I did understand that the square brackets were indicating buttons. The second time was after visiting help, where I came to see that, for me at any

Re: partials and midi

2009-01-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Joe Mc Cool wrote: Surely the repeat should play from d4 d8 e d c. What am I doing wrong ? The \bar commands are only graphical. They make it look, on paper, as if the repeat would start from d4. But the repeat actually starts where you have placed the \repeat command. Put the \repeat com

Re: collision between glissando and sharp

2009-01-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: This is a known bug - see issue 40. The workaround given there is: \once \override Glissando #'gap = #0.5 \once \override Glissando #'extra-offset = #'(-0.5 . 0) Hope that's good enough for you, as the bug priority is low! I was going to try and answer this one, havi

Re: \credenzaOn and forced line break

2009-01-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: How do I get a staff line to break when I am using \credenzaOn? Insert a \bar command where you want to allow a line break i.e.\bar ""(or \bar "|") I don't see any info on this in the manuals http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Line-breaking end

Re: grace note without slurred but needs a slashed stem

2009-01-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: You probably can make slur transparent? Or precede \grace with \once \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilyp

Re: grace note without slurred but needs a slashed stem

2009-01-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: ... with an identifier: .. which can be adapted to cope with a group of grace notes: mygrace = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) #{ \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" \grace $music \revert Stem #'stroke-style #}) N.B. - any beam

Re: newbie issues:repetition, midi & lyrics

2009-01-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Grateful Frog wrote: how to get that out in a midi file that plays properly, and only the melody not the lyrics and chords? You can get the midi output to do repeats, but it won't know about the D.C. So give it a helping hand by defining myNotesDC = { \repeat volta

Re: Unable to force hshift

2009-01-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Waler wrote: I'm not able anymore to set a manual shift for a note. Any workaround...? I'm not sure what you want. How about this? \once \override NoteColumn #'horizontal-shift = #-1 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: Issue with cross staff beam

2009-01-24 Thread Robin Bannister
A similar problem was discussed recently http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00530.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Unable to force hshift

2009-01-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Waler wrote:" \once \override NoteColumn #'horizontal-shift = #-1 As you can see, this is part of my score - but is has no effect. Please reconsider. There are two note-column-interface shifts; this is the other one. And if this turns out to be more like what you are looking for, y

Re: bar "||" kills start-repeat

2009-01-31 Thread Robin Bannister
Simon Bailey wrote: so basically that paragraph is telling me to NOT use the manual repeat barlines and use \repeat volta instead. The documentation uses a lot of different names for repeats. When you say "manual repeat barlines" it sounds as though you may not be distinguishing - manual ba

Re: staff collision because of a postscript line

2009-02-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: Is there a possibilitie to avoid automatically this collision The eyeglasses example in NR B.8.3. uses the \with-dimensions command for this. \with-dimensions #'(0 . 3.5) #'(0 . 4) for your case? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypon

Re: staff collision because of a postscript line

2009-02-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: What does this \with-dimensions-command exactly do? Is it explained in the manual? It is mentioned right at the end of NR B.8.6. I think that by "dimensions" you are meant to understand the X-extent and Y-extent [1] of the markup that follows. I suppose that if the mark

Re: phrasing slur continued through a repeat?

2009-02-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Well, \repeatTie doesn't take you very far into the ensuing phrase. And it doesn't swoop properly. A fairly easy way in this case is to add a hidden grace note: { \hideNotes \grace b16\( \unHideNotes c8 g8 c8 \) | } And you can use the grace pitch to adjust the starting height. This is usuall

Re: phrasing slur continued through a repeat?

2009-02-03 Thread Robin Bannister
Ed Ravin wrote: Would the extra grace notes corrupt the MIDI output? No. But you can hear them, and you might think that inappropriate. :) Try out this: { \once \override Rest #'transparent = ##t \grace b4\rest\( c8 g8 c8 \) | } Cheers, Robin

Re: phrasing slur continued through a repeat?

2009-02-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Ed Ravin wrote: I'm guessing the silent rest somehow makes the grace note silent? I wanted a rest (for silence). If you say just "r32", lilypond gives you silence OK, but also does the vertical positioning automatically, so you can't adjust the slur any more. \rest lets you do the vertica

Re: multimeasure rest with no number of measures?

2009-02-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Chipwrote: I want a multi-measure rest with no number on it. This gets rid of the number: mmrNoNum = \once \override MultiMeasureRestNumber #'stencil = ##f as in: \mmrNoNum R1*16 Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.o

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Eluze wrote: looking at the example(s) (\sourcefileline 765 and following) in _notation reference_ the finger indications seem to be on the same line and so do the top fret lines (in the pdf and html version). when i compile these examples the results look different and unbalanced: I get diff

Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Jayaratna wrote: This does not seem to work: <<{\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp a4_~ a}>> Well, this looks like (part of) what you want! Or is it that you then don't see how to cope with the d2.? The manual mentions connecting ties across voices ( Snippets / Rhythms / Making an obj

Re: controlling the alignment of FretBoards

2009-02-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Please file a bug report Already started, now done. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-02/msg00014.html ? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: long text in "composer" / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: How I can write long text to composer to header? Try composer = \markup \right-align "Some long text ... " If this isn't what you want, have a look at NR 3.2.1 where the demo splits the composer text onto two lines using \center-column. Why don't hide TimeSignature?

Re: long text in "composer" / invisible TimeSignature

2009-02-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Zbyněk Burget wrote: Splitting it onto two lines is unavailing. Therefore i want way to expanding width of this line. The default layout puts poet, instrument and composer all on one line. This is not compatible with the length of your composer text. Even if instrument is unused, its (centred)

Re: Colliding rests warning

2009-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: I couldn't find anything in the documentation. This comment in the rest collision source code might be relevant. TODO: look at horizontal-shift to determine ordering between rests for more than two voices. So maybe you just have to ignore it? Or do something like this

Re: Question: VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

2009-02-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Since Lilypond 2.11. this does not work anymore I have a lot of single sheets based on a 2.10 template which ensured I had enough vertical space for pencilling in fingering. The vertical spacing rework in 2.11 gave me the same problem. This is probably to do with t

Re: NR 4.3.6 Explicit Breaks

2009-02-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: Lily still breaks lines where it wants to. You are fighting something very powerful and don't know it. All that blank space on those pages! It is reasonable to think that saying \pageBreak means that you are quite happy with whatever blank space is needed to skip the rest of th

Re: Slurs and repeats

2009-02-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: Is there a correct way to do this that I haven't been able to figure out? No. Not yet. But see the recent thread at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00028.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: Strange output from convert-ly

2009-02-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Mats Bengtsson wrote: try to nail down which conversion rule The rule for 2.1.27 (re tuning) prints this. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Gilles Sadowski wrote: This seems to work for me (see attached files). But don't you need an \instrumentSwitch command near the end? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-u

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees van den Doel wrote. on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug? It seems to me that LSR 258 is demonstrating only whiteout. It is not demonstrating how to deal with the concomitant horizontal layout problems, because it cheats here: - uses ragged-right = ##f (with only on

Re: Text over fermata

2009-02-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Joseph Haigwrote: I get the text under the fermata. How can I force it above? Use \once \override Script #'script-priority = #-100 as mentioned in "Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts" in NR 1.3.1. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render: F(Ab7Dbmaj7C7) ChordName outputs via text-interface, so the easiest way should be \once \override ChordNames.Cho

Re: Parenthesizing chord names

2009-03-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Robin Bannister wrote: As "addBrackets" it wrapped only a single chord, but you could derive a left_only and a right_only version easily enough. I wanted to see if I could make such a pair deliver something close to what the OP illustrated, and managed this using \put-adjacent. T

Again: stemBoth problem

2009-03-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: > I don't know whether this gives two stems No, it doesn't. It is just a chord, and a chord (in one voice) has only one stem. In this case the still active \stemUp makes its stem go in a different direction to the following \stemDown notes and so the accompanying (automatic

Re: smaller distance between first Staff and TimeSig

2009-03-05 Thread Robin Bannister
Stefan Thomas wrote: I can't reduce the distance between the TimeSig and the first Staff of the Score. How can I do it? Um, - don't override max-stretch? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/ma

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: it just resulted in messed up measures A judicious use of time distortion may help you here. \transpose c c'{ \hideNotes g,32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | \hideNotes c''32\glissando \unHideNotes c'4*7/8 c'4 c'4 r4 | a1*3/4\fermata \hideNotes d'4\glissando \unHid

Re: glissando up from no note to a note

2009-03-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Andrew Wilson wrote: Shouldn't this be r2*3/4 \hideNotes d8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b That works too. (Modifying the rest simplifies the beaming.) A subsequent proposal moved the rest more into the gap: s8 r2*1/2 \hideNotes a8\glissando \unHideNotes a'8 fs d b and I suppose the

Re: TrillSpanner edge-text

2009-03-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > the "tr" mark is still there. Yes, you can't easily tell how near you are to getting it right. Try \override TrillSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = ##f Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: I want to have the percent sign for a duplicate chord in the next measure (in \chordmode). I don't know how particular you are. Would this be good enough? percentCN = \once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: but it is the "normal" percent sign with open zeros, where the repeat sign has filled zeros Yes, well, those repeat signs are site-mixed as it were, and I have no idea how to persuade the contractor to do an unscheduled job in unfamiliar surroundings. But I did find some

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: I get Guile errors GUILE signaled an error for expression started here: markup # :bold #:fontsize 1 #:char #x066A Well, it works at my end. Something is corrupted. My best theory is that your version now ends #'stencil = markup #:bold #:fontsize 1 #:char #x066A))

Re: Problem with arpeggio across voices and fingering

2009-03-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: What I want is the fingering just to the left of the notes and the arpeggio just to the left of the fingering. I'm pretty sure you ought to change the order in which these things are hung onto the side of the notes. But I'm afraid I can't help you with that. As regards ho

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Neil Puttock wrote: it's possible to duplicate its code in Scheme: Or its appearance in markup ;-) simile = \markup { \combine \translate #'(0.3 . 1.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \combine \translate #'(1.7 . 0.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \rotate #90 \translate#'(0 . 2) \beam #2 #-1 #0.5 }

Re: drum-sticking (textscript) order weird behavior

2009-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Roel Spruit wrote:: somehow the order in the output is reversed That's queer. With me (2.12) they both read R L from top to bottom. However, with 2.10 they both read L R from top to bottom. Are you using an intermediate version? ;-) Is this suitable as a workaround? LR = \markup \colum

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-29 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees Serier wrote: Looks good, but how to use it, I'm only a beginning Lilypond user :-( I have a vague feeling you may not have received my reply diagnosing your arabic percent problem: Kees Serier wrote: I get Guile errors GUILE signaled an error for expression started here: markup #

Re: Transpose

2009-03-30 Thread Robin Bannister
Ossie Wilson wrote: I have attached the Ly file After a cursory look, I would say this file is badly mangled as regards key signatures. In part one at bar 29 it helps to say \key dfinstead of\key cs because the subseqent notes are e.g. df, gf, ... Also part one should declare _

Re: How to input keysignature or timesignature in \markup?

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Wei-Wei Guo wrote: I still have no idea how to input some music symbols, such as a short piece of pure staff, timesignature, keysignature, and so on. Search the snippet repository for "engravers". In particular, try out the (complete) snippet in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=280 Ch

Re: shift lyrics closer to staff

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Marek Klein wrote: I tried it using the commented line, but it didn't work You can make the cantus more approachable. Adjust the -2 to taste. \include "gregorian.ly" \score { << \new VaticanaVoice = "cantus" { \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-2 . 4)

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: Is this possible without faking the chord by creating two voices? Sometimes I like to show in my piano fingering that one finger of a chord should temporarily act as a pivot while the other fingers are moving to the the next chord. Maybe there is a recognised symbol for tha

Re: Tip/Trick: Double-Breve or Single-Breve-with-Double-Sidebars

2009-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: This function should be good at least as far back as v2.10. \draw-line was introduced after 2.10. Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: the laissezVibrer tie specified in the bass voice also appears on the two simultaneous notes in the treble voice. This is because of the names you gave your voices. They happen to be the same as those automatically chosen by the << { } \\ { } >> construct. So at this poi

Re: LaissezVibrer tie on single note of chord

2009-04-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: Is this possible without faking the chord by creating two voices? Is this more what you are looking for? It is not all that easy to use: - you have to work out the position, e.g. -9, by yourself - and it won't move when you transpose. See IR 3.2.84. %

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Miklos Vajna wrote: First, currently the output has "Bm" for my chord, but actually I would like to have it as 'Bm \super "omit3"/A'. Like this? (verbatim) replaceCN = #(define-music-function (parser location new) (markup?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda (g

Re: Fingerings with Flat Symbol

2009-04-21 Thread Robin Bannister
Jonathan Townes wrote: the use of fingerings would be much faster and require less typing This nice aspect of fingerings is due to the parser knowing what a fingering looks like. But this is defined as being a single digit, so you only have ten things you can ask for (corresponding to 0 .. 9)

Re: Centered footnotes and spacing

2009-04-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: I'm putting the finishing touches on a book of English folk tunes, but have a few problems. I suppose it's rather crude, but I like using \null for things like this. So, for the footer: \markup { Engraved ... } becomes \markup \fill-line { \null \line

Re: Bar lines at beginning of a line

2009-04-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Boris Lau wrote: I thought it would be quite natural if this would do the job: \override Staff.BarLine #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) but it doesn't. Certainly a reasonable expectation. This is normally #'#(#t #t #f), but there are cases when Lilypond switches over to #'#(#t #t #t) auto

Re: Head of merged half note getting filled

2009-05-01 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: If I have one note each bar that requires a direction change, then it's actually simpler to use the \once command,as \stemUp requires the corresponding \stemDown or \stemNeutral after the note. I found it quite a disappoinment to discover that apparently similar things lik

Re: Page breaking and squeezing as many systems on a page as possible?

2009-05-02 Thread Robin Bannister
Does anyone have an idea why the fourth system is put on the second page I'm out of my depth here, but if your title is done the normal Lilypond way, with bookTitleMarkup, it counts as a system too. So might the pagebreaker be putting 4 systems on all pages? And have you tried

Re: Bracketed notes

2009-05-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Austin wrote: Is it possible to enclose a note in brackets? Use \parenthesize http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Parentheses Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Lewis Overton wrote: I'm curious about what others are doing to print a "scoop" I have an occasional need for this when transposing saxophone parts, and then I use brackettips as you do/did [1]. I first did such bends in a clumsy beginners way and had to put the brackettips in a dedicated a

Re: scoop before note

2009-06-08 Thread Robin Bannister
Chip wrote: but no matter what numbers I put in the positions parameters the slur does not move. The \once makes this override act only on the c'2 and the c'2 has no slur. The override acts on the slur if it comes after the c'2, but it moves the slur vertically; not what you wanted. Ho

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: Does anyone know of some other workaround? It's rather crude, but the following override makes your slur horizontal: \relative c' { \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(-3 . -3) \slurDown e8 ( r16 r8.) } Cheers, Robin ___

Re: Laissez-vibrer tie of non-zero duration?

2009-06-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Kalirren wrote: In general, is it possible to create a laissez-vibrer tie that lasts a certain length of time, or until a certain note? Probably not, because IR 3.2.85 [1] says it is A tie which is only on one side connected to a note head. You could however make it _look_ longer, but then -

Re: [dal segno / da capo] -> "Kopf" "Kopf"

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
For starters, have a look at these snippets in the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=coda+segno Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 (The \mark command makes a RehearsalMark.) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Help - trouble with tuplets

2009-07-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Karenee Herman wrote: Somehow, the bass line ends up offset from the treble The second bar of "lower" should beR2. (for a 3/4 bar). So it's not really the triplets giving trouble. please forgive me if this seems simple! Forgiven. Cheers, Robin _

Re: \mark vertical alignment with Chord symbols.

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Jesús Guillermo Andrade wrote: How can I put it below the chord symbol? These marks, i.e. RehearsalMark, are normally put above everything else. This is done by having the corresponding engraver in the Score context. You can move the engraver down to where your melody is by doing \layout { \

Re: Note names above pitches

2009-07-17 Thread Robin Bannister
Adam Good wrote: I vaguely remember an example That would be the 'easy play' noteheads mentioned in NR 1.1.4. But you probably want something more like this: cabbage = { c a b b a g e } \score { << \new NoteNames \cabbage \new Staff { \clef bass \cabbage } >> } Cheers, Robin

Re: midi output without harmonies from ChordNames

2009-07-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Werner wrote: % innerhalb des score-Blockes („neben“ dem layout-Block) % Ausgabe einer Mididatei (zum Anhören/Abspielen) This bit of comment describes how to get Midi and PDF coming out the same. When you want them coming out differently, you use _two_ score blocks: - one score block has \m

Re: Staff change in a chord

2009-07-23 Thread Robin Bannister
Mark Polesky wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? Some time back I chose this missing bracket as a theme for a Scheme exercise. Nothing revolutionary, just to get some practice in Scheme. It has the limitations arising from misusing Arpeggio. I found it needed a lot of different tweaks to

Re: Manipulating grob properties doesn't work

2009-07-26 Thread Robin Bannister
Marc Hohl wrote: This worked fine with ties, but when I try the same with slurs, it simply shows no difference. (display right-bound) says - Tie: # - Slur: # Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: manual volta help

2009-07-28 Thread Robin Bannister
David Bobroff wrote: for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. This is because the voltas use the music font and it has special letters for doing dynamics like sfz and rfz. The way described in NR.1.4.1. at "Text can be included ..." would in your case define mar

Re: cannot end slur

2009-08-03 Thread Robin Bannister
A phrasing slur goes all the way. (Don't ask me why!) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: "triplet feel" symbol

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Look for "swing" in the LSR. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=swing Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Option to not collapse lyrics & chords?

2009-08-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim Walters wrote: Is there any way to [...] leave the same amount of white space as would be used if lyrics/chords were present? This amount can vary. The vertical space allotted depends on what is being typeset; e.g. Cm needs less height than Cm7 Based on a discussion last September

Re: Fingering brackets

2024-08-07 Thread Robin Bannister
Luca Fascione wrote: I'm looking for a way to make a "fingering bracket": this would be a vertical bracket on the left or right of a few simultaneous notes, to indicate they are all to be fingered with the same finger. Things to note: - I can't use the arpeggio mark, because it's not uncommon

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