Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 17:21, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 02/14/2013 04:44 PM, Urs Liska wrote: While it may not seem to be intuitive you can actually write extremely robust house style sheets (or rather libraries which I find much more reliable than any preset templates or whatever you could

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 17:50, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 02/14/2013 05:32 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Maybe I'll get in touch with you before. I already intended to present the outline of the presentation here and ask for feedback - I think it's an issue that concerns many of us

Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 18:05, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi all, On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: I will soon pick up on that communication, and then I'll surely raise the engraving issue, showing them some of my 'raw' scores, Janek's beautiful final versions and maybe

Re: Overlapping brackets

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.02.2013 20:47, schrieb Aleksandr Andreev: Hello list members! I noticed from the documentation that analysis brackets cannot overlap. Is there some other way one could produce a graphic such as this one? http://www.ponomar.net/files/arnoldt.png I didn't check this, but I assume that if

Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, maybe it's an academic question, but maybe it also triggers the curiosity of some Scheme-hackers ;-) Is it possible to write something (probably a Scheme function) that lets LilyPond compile a file twice with a different file included or a different command line option? Or is it

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
, On 14.02.2013 20:50, Urs Liska wrote: Hi list, maybe it's an academic question, but maybe it also triggers the curiosity of some Scheme-hackers ;-) I wouldn't call it academic - if want to build some kind of workflow, you will face the need for creating several pdfs from one ly-file. Is it possible to write

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
15.02.2013 09:37, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Urs, On 14.02.2013 20:50, Urs Liska wrote: Hi list, maybe it's an academic question, but maybe it also triggers the curiosity of some Scheme-hackers ;-) I wouldn't call it academic - if want to build some kind of workflow, you will face

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2013 12:18, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Am 15.02.2013 11:40, schrieb Urs Liska: You can create an adhoc-book in scheme with a #{-#} construct: writeScoreOddEven = #(define-void-function (parser location score) (ly:score?) (let ((book #{ \book { \score { $score } } #})) ; process

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2013 12:39, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am 15.02.2013 12:18, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Am 15.02.2013 11:40, schrieb Urs Liska: You can create an adhoc-book in scheme with a #{-#} construct: writeScoreOddEven = #(define

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2013 13:24, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: o dear, thunderbirds always destroys any formatting done in frescobaldi ... here my working example as an attachment. ;-) Just for the record: Attached is my final version of the function (that will go into openLilyLib ...). I (re-)added a

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
/OLLincludes/compilationTools/writeScoreOddEven-UsageTest.ly:13:4 1: Wrong type to apply: #unspecified Exited with return code 1 Is there something wrong with my calling syntax? Best Urs Am 15.02.2013 13:30, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 15.02.2013 13:24, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: o dear, thunderbirds

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2013 13:01, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: OK, copypaste lost a paren ... but not in the let-line, but in the end of the whole function. Ah, OK. And since I 'corrected' the non-matching brackets in the line itself, Frescobaldi's syntax highlighting led me to believe everything was alright

Re: 19th-cent. accidental notation

2013-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 19.02.2013 18:58, schrieb Luca Rossetto Casel: Il 19/02/2013 15:13, Urs Liska ha scritto: But OTOH it is impossible to make a perfect edition. [...] Again, in cases of similar complexity I find quite necessary to acclude a critical report to the score. Yes, but it really isn't possible

Re: 19th-cent. accidental notation

2013-02-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.02.2013 11:22, schrieb Nick Payne: On 20/02/13 20:33, Urs Liska wrote: [...] There actually _are_ such ideas and attempts. At least the Reger Edition has already started publishing digital editions. And there is more research going on. I also once read about a huge project (sponsored

Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread Urs Liska
http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/02/welcome/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.02.2013 11:18, schrieb Jim Long: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:41:01AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: I will say that the merging of noteheads onto stems is probably the weak spot in my knowledge. [...] The piece also generates several warnings about

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.02.2013 11:27, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: I was trying to reproduce the example .png given in the blog, accessible at http://felixrosch.com/example.png. That example shows two grouped staves, each with two horn parts written on the same stem, as though

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.02.2013 11:33, schrieb Noeck: Am 22.02.2013 04:41, schrieb Jim Long: 1) label a staffgroup with a centered instrument name, instead of only being able to label each separate staff of the group; 2) splitting out separate instrument parts whilst also being able to flexibly combine parts

Nested include question

2013-02-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, thanks to answers on this list I managed to set up a 'compilation engine' that works somewhat like in the attached minimal example. (The actually used function compileScore is more complex and creates different output based on several conditions.) \compileScore takes a \score {},

Re: Changing document text size

2013-02-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.02.2013 17:14, schrieb Nels Daily: How do you change the relative size of all text (titles, bar numbers, marks, page numbers, etc.) in a document? #(set-global-staff-size X) as a toplevel expression. X is the staff-size, I think 20 is normal.

Re: Mutopia

2013-02-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.02.2013 17:58, schrieb Noeck: Hi, I have some pieces (vocal scores of 3 chorals of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and in future some more) that I would like to share. I got no response from the mutopiaproject. Is there anything new since:

Re: Multiple Movements -- made simple?

2013-02-23 Thread Urs Liska
I can't do that right now, but: This seems like a kind of FAQ. It's all in the manuals, but newcomers regularely seem to have difficulties to bring the pieces together. So if somebody would be willing to contribute a (rather short, I'd estimate 3-4 pages) tutorial on that topic I'd be happy o

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-23 Thread Urs Liska
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:16:30 +0100 Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: (Apologies to David, I hit Reply instead of Reply List when first writing this response.) On 02/22/2013 12:10 AM, David Kastrup wrote: If the file format describes exactly how the finished score

Re: Special Symbols on Piano Staff

2013-02-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.02.2013 22:47, schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek: Hello: Within a piano staff 1)For what term/command do I search the on-line manual for directions to print a bracket, [ , indicating one hand to play pitches on both staves, and From my library files: %{ \chordBracket Use an

Re: Special Symbols on Piano Staff

2013-02-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.02.2013 00:00, schrieb Nathan: Nathan Oops, sorry for the duplicate answer. Somehow I missed the others... At least our answers are consistent :-) Regards, Nathan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Is there an easy solution to across voice slurs

2013-02-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.02.2013 07:37, schrieb Derek: Hi there, I was just wondering if there are any options for doing cross voice slurs like in this silly example The usual way to accomplish what you are looking for is adding a hidden voice (where everything is hidden except the slur/tie/phrasingSlur). I

Functional analysis symbols

2013-02-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, did anybody do some functional analysis with LilyPond (I'm talking about printing the results of course, not the act of analysis itself)? The attached image is done with an ancient version of Finale, where I had bought an analysis font extension then. Any ideas how to approach this with

Re: Functional analysis symbols

2013-02-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, Yes, probably that's the way to go. I'm just somewhat afraid of it, because it looks like it'll become quite complex. So I'd hoped someone else has already implemented something ... Best Urs Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Urs Liska

Re: CPU usage and barchecks

2013-02-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.02.2013 03:50, schrieb Antonio Gervasoni: Paul wrote: Hi Antonio, You might find this interesting: http://lilypond.org/schikkers-list/ The basic idea is to have LilyPond render only a small bit of the music: the bit that changed. Excellent!!! Antonio But isn't that far from being

Re: Advocating non-free softwares [WAS: Heads up about Frescobaldi Ubuntu - Insert Menu Glitch]

2013-02-26 Thread Urs Liska
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:20:11 +0100 li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Francois Planiol writes: No idea... I just begun to use the last realease of frescobaldi under [a freedom-limiting operating system] and this is just

Re: Functional analysis symbols

2013-02-26 Thread Urs Liska
/25, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: Hi, Yes, probably that's the way to go. I'm just somewhat afraid of it, because it looks like it'll become quite complex. So I'd hoped someone else has already implemented something ... Best Urs Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb

Re: Functional analysis symbols

2013-02-26 Thread Urs Liska
Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Urs, On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:07:42 -0500 Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com wrote: I had send a post about it. I would like also a solution. Thanks for your

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-28 Thread Urs Liska
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:14:31 +0100 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: Just incredible. This LilyPond community is simply untouchable - /unmatched /anywhere else on the web, in my experience. LaTeX community (the plain TeX community, in

Re: what should I use for a string section score

2013-02-28 Thread Urs Liska
Hello, would you please be more specific about what you actually need? Is your question about how to set up the Lilypond score, about which instruments you should use for the task or about how to determine the music by ear? Best Urs Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com schrieb: Hello. I

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 12:27, schrieb David Kastrup: An ex of mine studied Romance Language and Literature with a minor in ... I'm probably pissed a lot more than she was that this was likely a smart choice for her to make. That would be a wonderful story if it wasn't so sad :-(

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 17:05, schrieb PMA: bobr...@centrum.is wrote: An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. -- David Kastrup NICE! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: what should I use for a string section score

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
then what would be the easiest and less stressful way of doing this? I want this score to look as good as I can get it. Thanks. On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de mailto:li...@ursliska.de wrote: Hello, would you please be more specific about what you actually need

Re: what should I use for a string section score

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
\new Staff \global \viola \new Staff \global \cello \new Staff \global \bass \layout { } \midi { } } Am 01.03.2013 19:32, schrieb Urs Liska: I'm still not 100% sure if I understand you fully. Is it correct that you found the template here: http://www.lilypond.org

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 21:29, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: If you want to force the display of an accidental, you can append an exclamation mark to your note, like this: e4 f e4. des8 c4 | d!4 e You can also put the natural (or sharp or flat) sign between brackets, by using the question mark: e4 f

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 21:23, schrieb Sarah k Alawami: Ok. I know how to notate the sharps and flats but I might have missed in the big manual how to notate naturals and there are a lot of them in this piece. For anyone familiar with the chopin prelude in c minor right hand and possibly left hand

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 23:29, schrieb Sarah k Alawami: k. I think it's starting to click a bit. but for the naturals and stuff do I still mark them? I don't' want this piece to sound a mess if I ever get a chance to hear it lol! Ok so how will lily pond know the difference between the 3 minors? There

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread Urs Liska
Am 01.03.2013 23:44, schrieb Sarah k Alawami: Hey thanks for your explanation. it is helping a bit. how ever I think it is still complaining about this measure d4 e! g4. f8 e If I recall though it is d, e natural, g, f, e flat. so Do I need to mark it as an e flat at the end of that measure

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 15:57, schrieb Eby Mani: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2672/waltz29rw.jpg Not sure if this can be done on lilypond as the output on the example is crazy and have no respect for the paper ;-) . But it is a problematic score as per engraving standards and there are more crazy

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 17:36, schrieb Noeck: Am 02.03.2013 17:21, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 02.03.2013 15:57, schrieb Eby Mani: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2672/waltz29rw.jpg Not sure if this can be done on lilypond as the output on the example is crazy and have no respect for the paper

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 15:57, schrieb Eby Mani: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2672/waltz29rw.jpg Not sure if this can be done on lilypond as the output on the example is crazy and have no respect for the paper ;-) . But it is a problematic score as per engraving standards and there are more crazy

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne: Urs Liska (02 Mar 2013 @ 17:39) If the original poster of the example could tell us what this is actually? It's a score created by John Stump, see here http://classicalconvert.com/2008/01/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/ and here http

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 18:27, schrieb Brett McCoy: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Am 02.03.2013 15:57, schrieb Eby Mani: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2672/waltz29rw.jpg Not sure if this can be done on lilypond as the output on the example is crazy and have

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 18:27, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 03/02/2013 06:22 PM, Urs Liska wrote: OTH we might take this as an opportunity to do something else as a showcase project. I wouldn't suggest Goldberg Variations but rather something complex from the end of the 19th century (i.e. just

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 18:30, schrieb Urs Liska: Am 02.03.2013 18:27, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 03/02/2013 06:22 PM, Urs Liska wrote: OTH we might take this as an opportunity to do something else as a showcase project. I wouldn't suggest Goldberg Variations but rather something complex from

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 19:41, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 03/02/2013 06:43 PM, Jethro Van Thuyne wrote: Renewed copyright 1952 by Helene Berg. How long did/does such a renewal run? Well, this is the discussion on the subject on IMSLP's forums: http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=13t=3503 I

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 19:09, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: On 03/02/2013 06:30 PM, Urs Liska wrote: I also thought of Berg already. Maybe also his songs? (could prove useful for me when having to play transpositions ...) But the Clarinet Pieces are beautiful too. Good point. Well, tell you what

Re: making progress I think. Thanks all.

2013-03-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 02.03.2013 21:20, schrieb Sarah k Alawami: Well I'm getting fewer errors lol! Here is the score attached I got some errors but the pdf still produced. here is the log Processing `/Users/SA/Desktop/second violin part.ly' Parsing... /Users/SA/Desktop/second violin part.ly:7:11: error:

Re: 19th-cent. accidental notation

2013-03-03 Thread Urs Liska
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:02:44 +0100 Luca Rossetto Casel luca.rosse...@email.it wrote: Il 20/02/2013 10:33, Urs Liska ha scritto: Yes, but it really isn't possible to make it perfect in the sense that it suits every possible use case. Dear Urs, please forgive me for replying so late - I

Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

2013-03-04 Thread Urs Liska
[mailto:joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 6:43 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond? On 01/11/2013 12:44 AM, Urs Liska wrote: I doubt very much that they care about you showing how to re-implement these few bars in a notation

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-03-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.03.2013 15:16, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: This is a great idea. What'd I'd recommend is doing a natural version and a version with lots of tweaks. If you define all the tweaks in a separate file, then all you

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread Urs Liska
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:24:15 +0100 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly to Marc i'd very much like to see LilyPond automatically end pieces with final barline. I understand David's concern, but i think that it can be quite easily addressed. For example, we could have a

Re: A plea for a documentation change ... Just a tiny one

2013-03-07 Thread Urs Liska
Please send such requests to bug-lilyp...@gnu.org in future (I forwarded it this time) Am 07.03.2013 06:55, schrieb Guy Stalnaker: I've just spent an entire evening trying to figure out how to add some lyric text to one voice of a three-measure two-voice section of a score. I used as my basis

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.03.2013 12:50, schrieb David Kastrup: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain music from so-called copyrighted

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.03.2013 15:25, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am 09.03.2013 12:50, schrieb David Kastrup: james james.lilyp...@googlemail.com writes: On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This paper might

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Mike Blackstock: This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain music from so-called copyrighted scores: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244 Abstract: Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Torsten, thank you very much for your work. This is great! While I probably won't use it ever for myself, I find that an extremely useful addition to LilyPond, and I hope you will get enough assistance to get it into LilyPond's default distribution. Best Urs Am 14.03.2013 11:36,

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:38, schrieb Tim McNamara: On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de wrote: Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:49, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, On 2013-Mar-15, at 11:42, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: AFAIK the only way (except creating a pango-font-ree) is to redefine booktitlemarkup and/or scoretitlemarkup from scratch to be able to access the font settings for these items

Re: Changing accidental style for one section of a piece

2013-03-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 15:07, schrieb James Harkins: Hi, I'm working on a piece now where most of it is modal, but one section will be free-chromatic. I would like to use one of the more modern accidental styles, but only in that section. I read the section of the manual about automatic

Re: R shorthand

2013-03-19 Thread Urs Liska
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:38:10 -0400 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Shane, one would think that might cause more difficult programming necessitating the keeping tracking of various R values through out the piece as defined by a time signature as opposed to us

Re: User comments on R shorthand

2013-03-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.03.2013 16:25, schrieb James Harkins: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: - Old: R2 == a full measure rest in 2/4 time - New: R2 == *two* full measure rests in any time signature Actually, I like this. This would also help in situations like

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Janek, thanks for these explanations. If the feedback doesn't give you a sufficiently clear idea where to put the material, you know what I'd suggest? ;-) Best Urs Am 23.03.2013 15:05, schrieb Janek Warcho?: Hi, here's an explanation of what's happening when we're using XY-offset,

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.03.2013 23:56, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi all, ... On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: this is great!! I've never read a better explanation of x_aligned_on_self and aligned_on_x_parent. thanks! :) Could i ask you to write a function that

Re: default margins and lilypond-book

2013-03-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.03.2013 14:11, schrieb Jeremy Boor: I'm trying to wrestle lilypond-book into making a songbook (while realizing that's in intended [and better] for musicological documents). Can someone direct me to a list of default lilypond values for margins? My goal is to tweak the margins in the

Re: Suggestions for participating institutions?

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
I have to admit that I don't fully understand the implications of that exposé yet, but it might be interesting to think about Complete Editions. I know that it is a current discussion to enhance the idea of editions by digital media. For example the Reger Edition has started to provide DVDs

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
edited from the original prints by Urs Liska and Alexander Gurdon (m...@ursliska.de, alexander.gur...@tu-dortmund.de) %} %{TYPE: This file is part of the global configuration %} %{FILE: This file globally switches on the display of control-points To achieve this, just

Re: Suggestions for participating institutions?

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2013 10:16, schrieb Urs Liska: I have to admit that I don't fully understand the implications of that exposé yet, but it might be interesting to think about Complete Editions. I know that it is a current discussion to enhance the idea of editions by digital media. For example

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2013 12:20, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi all, On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de mailto:li...@ursliska.de wrote: Wow, cool! Can you give a quick hint why this isn't possible to implement as an \override? Attached you'll find a function

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2013 12:46, schrieb Richard Shann: Dear LilyPonders, When a tied note with accidental ties across a line boundary the accidental is repeated in the next bar. If there is a further note with the same accidental, the accidental is repeated, which looks very odd, as the accidental has

Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.03.2013 13:12, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net wrote: Dear LilyPonders, When a tied note with accidental ties across a line boundary the accidental is repeated in the next bar. If there is a further note with the same

Re: best way to make a songbook (was default margins and lilypond-book)

2013-03-26 Thread Urs Liska
Now that's what I call a good investment :-) I spent very little time on your case, and in return we get a very valuable resource! I will send you a few comments with private mail later, but thank you for writing this. Best Urs Am 26.03.2013 17:10, schrieb Jeremy Boor: I wrote a blog post

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-03-29 Thread Urs Liska
First of all, I think we have quite a consensus on what we intend - which is a good start. On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:43:59 -0500 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Mar 29, 2013, at 4:42 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 03/28/2013 08:28 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: My understanding is

Re: [OT] name of 1/256 note?

2013-03-30 Thread Urs Liska
No, it can't. There are also strange errors when a transposition would result in triple accidentals. Urs Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net schrieb: On 31/03/13 01:00, Thomas Morley wrote: 2013/3/30 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com

Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-03-31 Thread Urs Liska
Is it possible to refer to a staff relative to the current staff and not by its name? So, is it possible to write something like \change Staff = previous/next or higher/lower instead of \change Staff = Explicit-name-of-staff inside a PianoStaff? I'd be interested in creating a generic

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
Eluze elu...@gmail.com schrieb: Urs Liska-4 wrote Is it possible to refer to a staff relative to the current staff and not by its name? So, is it possible to write something like \change Staff = previous/next or higher/lower instead of \change Staff = Explicit-name-of-staff

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks for the idea, but I'm looking for a generic solution tha doesn't rely on given staff names. Best Urs Vaughan McAlley vaug...@mcalley.net.au schrieb: On 31 March 2013 22:36, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Is it possible to refer to a staff relative to the current staff

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
OK, thanks for the information. And does anybody know how/if one can retrieve information about the existing (staff) context? Some property accible by Scheme? Eluze elu...@gmail.com schrieb: Urs Liska-4 wrote Of course I'm also talking about PianoStaves with more than two staves

Re: xml

2013-04-01 Thread Urs Liska
I'm sorry to tell you that this isn't possible yet. It seems it wouldn't be too complicated to get at least the basic content (without LilyPond's superior layout quality) to xml. But it hasn't been done yet. Urs lorenzo bianchi lorenzo.bian...@lorbi.info schrieb: hi all i'm really sorry if

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-02 Thread Urs Liska
Hi harm, Thank you for this. I'll try to understand it as soon as I have access to a non-deficient* computer again. Best Urs * i.e. lilypond-equipped ;-) Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com schrieb: 2013/4/1 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de OK, thanks for the information. And does

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-04-02 Thread Urs Liska
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net schrieb: Anyway, back to the key issue -- would you like me to draft an email to the Software Freedom Law Center? The fact that this issue is of concern also to people in the TeX community makes me feel that it's something they should

Re: Multi column page setup

2013-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
If you don't find a lilypond-wise solution (which I'm afraid) yo'll probably have to define a 1/16th paper size with suitably small margins and use an external tool (suggestions depending on your OS and output format) to arrange them on the full paper. HTH Urs Hanns Holger Rutz

RE: My return to Lilypond

2013-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.com schrieb: From: Janek Warchoł Sent: ‎April‎ ‎4‎, ‎2013 ‎11‎:‎55‎ ‎AM To: Eduardo Silva Subject: Re: My return to Lilypond Hi, i was absent when you wrote this email, and i've read it just now. How did you fare? Unfortunately i cannot do much to

Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi Werner, i'm performing some archeological research on emails that were sent during my absence and i found this one: 2013/1/20 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: what must I write to shorten an unbeamed stem by, say, one unit? A naive approach

Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
we're ready for that. Best Urs 2013/4/5 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi Werner, i'm performing some archeological research on emails that were sent during my absence and i found this one: 2013/1/20 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: what

Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-05 Thread Urs Liska
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 22:05:24 +0200 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/4/5 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: hmm, i think that your email body got eaten. Janek Oops, you're right. But before that happened I had asked whether

Re: Lilypond libraries

2013-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
Fried is a private edition project Janek and I are working on, so these references are spurious and don't mean anything. OpenLilyLib is a project with a family of resources for LilyPond and LaTeX. It is currently in a pre-release state, therefore there _are_ references but rather unclear ones

Re: define \header

2013-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
You may put your \header in a separate file and \include it where you want it to appear. Does that help you? Urs Am 06.04.2013 17:02, schrieb bobr...@centrum.is: I think I've probably answered my own question already. I want to define a header block and then use the definition later. What

Re: define \header

2013-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
couldn't make it work anyway. When you say: You may put your \header in a separate file and \include it where you want it to appear. Do you mean: \score { \definedScoreStuff \header { \include headerFile.ly } } -David - Original Message - From: Urs Liska li

Re: define \header

2013-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
manually for each chorale? Or do you have a default block that you include? Urs On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:08:05 +0200 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Sorry, a closer look showed me that your request was quite the opposite of what my suggestion could provide :-( Really a \header block

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-07 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Harm, thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't quite do what I need, and I don't really understand it. But fortunately it gives quite a good clue how to ask more concretely. It seems that functions/properties like ly:context-id ly:context-name provide information on the current

Re: Displaying an empty staff

2013-04-08 Thread Urs Liska
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:28:39 +0200 Carlo Stemberger carlo.stember...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/4/8 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net ** Use spacer rests in the staff where you want the hand-written answer. Thank you! However in this way I have to calculate the number of empty staves.

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.04.2013 08:49, schrieb David Kastrup: Jacques Menu jacques.m...@tvtmail.ch writes: Hello folks, I've been experimenting with Sibelius 7.1.3 as a front-end to Lily, i.e. as a note input engine. This lead me to fix some issues in musicxml2ly: - the comment bar number at the end

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.04.2013 11:38, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Putting the bar number at the start of the line would require %{ 5 %} a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | instead. I like that. It's tedious to type manually, but a computer program doesn't know that word :-) Werner Would something like %@5 a,4 (

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.04.2013 13:19, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/4/9 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: Putting the bar number at the start of the line would require %{ 5 %} a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | instead. I like that. It's tedious to type manually, but a computer program doesn't know that word :-) Indeed,

Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
I never used Sibelius, and the last version of Finale I actually worked with was 2001. Therefore I'd like to ask here before writing something inappropriately negative about them ;-) Is it possible to output cropped output in .png or .pdf format from them, just like -dpreview or lilypond-book

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