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Re: PDF with no page breaks

Jay Anderson — 2012-05-17T01:23:40

I'd be interested in this. I've always just picked a large width and
turned on ragged right.

-----Jay

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

Nick Payne — 2012-05-16T23:59:25

Sure is. Probably better to use P=\rightHandFinger #1, and can then use 
- or ^ or _ as needed.

Nick

Re: Testimonial

Carl Sorensen — 2012-05-16T22:40:29


On 5/16/12 12:46 PM, "Tim Roberts" <timr< at >probo.com> wrote:

When in doubt, count steps going up.

c and g (ascending) are in different relative octaves; c and f are in the
same.

c . d . e . f =>count 4 notes, so it's the same relative octave.

c . d . e . f . g  => count 5 notes, so it's a different relative octave

This is insensitive to accidentals.  Whenever I am on the boundary and I
can't remember, I just count the notes going up.

HTH,

Carl

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

fresco — 2012-05-16T22:15:45


David Kastrup wrote:

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

fresco — 2012-05-16T22:04:15


David Kastrup wrote:

So, the first stanza of the lyrics, I wanted to insert, is:

Es zogen einst fünf wilde Schwäne,
Schwäne leuchtend weiß und schön..etc.

My question is:

Where and how can I place  \addlyrics
and the
\include "festival.ly" 

I do not know, if it is possible to create an .xml in this way, i.e. by
importing
a regular midi-file.

By the way, I just want to use the singing voices for my animations with
main actor Tux.
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/tuxtrick/1

Kind regards,
fresco

Re: Page breaking question

wjm — 2012-05-16T21:42:35

Hi Jay,
I had the impression that you were starting out on a project.

You have over 300 hymns in separate Lilypond files already?
If that were so then it might be a time to use a document processor like 
scribus, or something similar. Otherwise, there probably / hopefully is 
someone on the list who might be able to help with combining existing LP 
files.

Sorry I can't help further.
Regards
Bill

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

David Kastrup — 2012-05-16T21:24:46


That is an error message when reading festival.ly, so it would appear
that you are reading festival.ly at a nonsensical place or, less likely,
with an incompatible version of LilyPond.  Since you don't actually
quote the resulting file after your changes, it is impossible to guess
more than that.

Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

fresco — 2012-05-15T21:19:42

Hello!

I've just registered and I am a newbie with regard to lilypond.

1. When I export the file with the following text (lily2.ly) to xml
   <Code>
#(define version-seen? #t)
\version "2.12.3-7"
#(set! %load-path (cons ".." %load-path))
\include "festival.ly"
#(set! song:*debug* #f)
\festival #"lily2.xml" { \tempo 4 = 100 }
{
\time 3/4
\relative { c2 e4 g2. }
\addlyrics { play the game }
\addlyrics { speel het spel }
\addlyrics { joue le jeu }
}

lilypond creates the file "lily2.xml" and I can listen to the singing voice
by means of the festival command:
festival> (tts "/...lily2.xml" 'singing) 

But when I try to insert:
\include "festival.ly"
#(set! song:*debug* #f)
\festival #"bach-präl.xml" { \tempo 4 = 100 }

into another file (see text below), I get error messages like:

"/usr/share/lilypond/2.12.3/ly/festival.ly:25:0: Fehler: syntax error,
unexpected SCM_TOKEN"

The follwing test-file "c-bis-f.ly" I created in NtEd and exported it to a
lily-file:
<code>
\header {
}

#(set-default-paper-size "a4")

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

fresco — 2012-05-16T13:28:25


fresco wrote:

I intend to use the singing voices for my animations with Tux as the main
actor.
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/tuxtrick/1

Re: Testimonial

Tim Roberts — 2012-05-16T20:18:42

That's somewhat problematic on Windows.  I wrote a handler script to
handle the URL from Acrobat, but it requires gvim coding as well, and at
that point I lost interest.



Yes, yet another good habit I should learn.  Hmm; perhaps I should write
up an article on "good habits of successful Lilypond coders", and open
it up for helpful contributions.

PDF with no page breaks

Nils — 2012-05-16T21:31:53

Hello,

I want a PDF with no pagebreaks and no linebreaks. The result would be
one single, big page. Naturally in landscape format.

Can this be done automatically, without caculating the page size by
hand?

Nils

Re: Testimonial

Janek Warchoł — 2012-05-16T19:25:46

Indeed - if you haven't already, definitely try Frescobaldi (.org)

cheers,
Janek

Re: Testimonial

David Kastrup — 2012-05-16T19:22:56


As long as you are not using external scripts for creating your actual
source file, configuring your PDF viewer for point-and-click
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/usage/point-and-click>
should do wonders for that.


You mean like

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches#octave-checks>?

If you use them routinely every few measures, this limits the compass of
followup errors.


[Checking] Oh.  We are on the general list rather than the developers'.
That explains it.

All the best,

Testimonial

Tim Roberts — 2012-05-16T18:46:47

It's interesting how much a few little clues can help simplify things. 
I'm arranging a number of pieces for clarinet quartet.  I had been using
relative brute force, using separate blocks for the parts, using
external scripts to generate separate PDF files, etc.  The code was ugly
and, as a professional programmer, I hated it.

After watching this list for a while, I learned enough hints about
\parallelMusic and tags and \bookpart to redo things, and suddenly my
Lilypond files are self-contained, workable, and readable.  I can
actually find the notes I need to change, instead of wading through a
big, complicated block.  I did the entire first movement of Brandenburg
3 for clarinet quartet in about two days, and I could not be happier
with the results -- both the output and the Lilypond source are pretty.

I still lose track of the relative octaves while I'm doing data entry,
but that problem is unlikely to be solved through technology...

My compliments to the long-timers on this list for your patience.  It

Re: Page breaking question

Jay Anderson — 2012-05-16T14:42:22

Right. I'm wondering if there's a way for this to automatically
happen. There are 300+ hymns and if I decide to change things I'd
prefer to not redo the whole page break situation manually.

-----Jay

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

David Kastrup — 2012-05-16T10:52:43


One should actually replace the two occurences of "string?" above with
"markup?".  Everything else can stay identical.  But it means that one
can then also write things like

H = \defineletter \markup \raise #0.5 \smaller \natural

at no additional cost:

\version "2.15.36"

#(define (fingering-event? m) (and (ly:music? m)
           (music-is-of-type? m 'fingering-event)))

letter =
#(define-event-function (parser location l fingering)
    (markup? fingering-event?)
  (let* ((finger (ly:music-property fingering 'digit))
 (n (number->string finger)))
   #{
     -\tweak #'text
     \markup \concat \fontsize #6 \normal-text { #l #n }
     #fingering
   #}))

defineletter =
#(define-scheme-function (parser location l) (markup?)
  (define-event-function (parser location fingering) (fingering-event?)
   #{ -\letter #l #fingering #}))

X = \defineletter x
Y = \defineletter y
Z = \defineletter z
H = \defineletter \markup \raise #0.5 \smaller \natural

\relative c' {
        <a\X-1
         cis\Y-2
         e\

Re: (Small) error in Notation Reference

Trevor Daniels — 2012-05-16T10:45:59

Philip, you wrote Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:01 AM



Stick with it, it all falls into place eventually!  But it is hard 
initially, that's
why it's important to correct misleading or confusing documentation.  Any
help you can provide is most welcome.  Your suggestion has already
been incorporated and will appear in the next release.  Thanks!

Trevor

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

Janek Warchoł — 2012-05-16T10:27:34

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Christopher Webster
<christopher< at >claytonwebster.net> wrote:

Glad i helped :)
I see that Urs already answered your questions about paralell voices.

cheers,
Janek

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Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

David Kastrup — 2012-05-16T10:23:07


Now _this_ one has potential to profit from parser improvements:

\version "2.15.36"

#(define (fingering-event? m) (and (ly:music? m)
           (music-is-of-type? m 'fingering-event)))

letter =
#(define-event-function (parser location l fingering)
    (string? fingering-event?)
  (let* ((finger (ly:music-property fingering 'digit))
 (n (number->string finger)))
   #{
     -\tweak #'text
     \markup \concat \fontsize #6 \normal-text { #l #n }
     #fingering
   #}))

\relative c' {
        <a\letter x-1
         cis\letter y-2
         e\letter z-3>
}

First we define our own predicate for recognizing and accepting _only_
fingering events (this works fine even though -1 does look like an
integer, and indeed our predicate is called with -1, too, to see whether
that would be an acceptable interpretation as well).

Because we are now guaranteed to have the right kind of event, we need
not create a new event.  Instead we just tweak the existing one.  The
function we define can be an event function, so o

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

Pierre Perol-Schneider — 2012-05-16T09:31:26

Lol !

2012/5/16 David Kastrup <dak< at >gnu.org>

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Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

Pierre Perol-Schneider — 2012-05-16T09:31:17

No Nick, sorry for the missundersanding, that's for left hand fingering.
But I'll keep your ideas in mind.
Thanks anyway

2012/5/16 Nick Payne <nick.payne< at >internode.on.net>

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