Re: Miscellaneous quesiotns

[Mats Bengtsson]

LEGRAND Jean-Marc wrote:
> Hi everybody !
> Bonjour tout le monde !
>
> Very glad to reach this mailing list : I've beginning with Lilypond2.0 since 3 
> months, and
> discovered some tricks on my own, but I still very depend on what you know 
> about it ! So, a few
> questions :
>
> 1. I'd like to edit some of my music in lanscape layout : what should I do ?

Already answered by others.

> 2. I'd like to use ancient musical object in baroque music (I'm "lilyponding" 
> Marin MARAIS pieces
> for the viol), that don't appear in Lilypond libraries. How can I create my own 
> libraries ? (just
> like in FIANLE, where you can get such issue) ?

What do you mean by "musical objects"? If you mean articulations, I hope
you have seen the full list of available symbols at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Articulations.html
In order to add new ones, the most difficult task is to add the symbol
to the font (requires competence in the Metafont language and a good
taste for the layout). Once that's done, the rest is easy.

> ...

> And now, a trick :
>
> I couldn't manage to include properly grace notes without messing up the 
> general page layout (pb
> with length of measures). To avoid this, I indicate
> \property Score.timing = ##f  in the \note block and put the bars where I want, 
> regardless the real
> length of my measures. It's very usefull with ancient music, where the global 
> beat was not always
> respected. I've not tested yet, but I think that doesn't match the MIDI 
> behavior at all !

I'm not sure what problems you experienced with \grace{...}
(or \acciaccatura or \appoggiatura). This is the recommended approach
and helps to avoid all kind of problems when you want to match the
timing between the several parts in the piece.

  /Mats