Re: Lilypond 1.5.60 for Windows

[Carlos Garcia Suarez]

I see your point and concur. Maybe I went the hard way because I am still in
the process of getting myself familiar with manipulation of the properties
(I think I am finally getting there).

With respect to fingering: my piano professor tells me that normally in
piano the finger instructions for the right hand are put above the stave and
for the left hand below. This serves the purpuse also of knowing which hand
to use when a voice crosses over staves, as it happens in the piece I sent.

I will re-work the piece under 1.5.60 and see what I can get, but wanted to
keep the whole thing into pages, that was really the whole reason for making
the stuff so much involve.

Thanks

Carlos



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
To: "Carlos Garcia Suarez" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>; "LilyPond User"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Lilypond 1.5.60 for Windows


> > The file I am sending has been already modified. I am not sure that the
> > comment I made about notes in the wrong octave was right, I discovered
an
> > error in a change I did that trigerred a wrong melody move and fixed.
> >
> > But I still see differences with the behavior of 1.4.xx. The main one  I
see
> > is in the vertical aligment of things.  For example, the fingering
notation
> > in this file, looks bad now where it looked nice before. Another similar
> > situation I have found is with the supercripts in the chord notation
e.g.
> > A7, the seven ends up to high. But the fingering thing is the most
intriging
> > since, it took a lot time to make look nice, now I have to re-do it
somehow.
>
> I see! You have actually tweaked many parameters to make the score
> as compact as possible and still making it look well in 1.4.xx.
> In order to keep full compatibility of such a score would
> unfortunately make it impossible for the developers to improve
> the default layout. However, I notice that the default direction
> (above or below the stave) of fingerings has changed a bit.
> I don't know how much of it is actually intentional, but to me
> it makes sence to put fingerings above the stave as much as
> possible, which seems to be what 1.5.xx does.
> You could set the default direction explicitly using
>
> \score{
>   ...
>   \paper{
>     ...
>     \translator {
>       \ScoreContext
>       Fingering \override #'direction = #-1
>      }
>   }
> }
>
> but that will not give the same result as you had before,
> either. However, if you explicitly specify the direction
> (using ^ or _ instead of -) for some more fingerings, you'll
> get a result that's more compatible to previous and future
> Lilypond version in this particulare example.
> In general, though, I prefer to make as few such detailed
> layout instructions in the .ly files as possible, leaving
> the layout work to Lilypond, possibly changing some
> overall layout issues by changing the padding of fingerings,
> text scripts and so on (a better alternative than using
> lots of mi^""^"Largo").
>
>    /Mats