Re: guitar music notation issues

[Tom Cloyd]

Werner,

I still cannot believe what an amazing list this is. It fully matches 
the Ruby (programming language) list I'm on, for sheer helpfulness and 
rapid response, and that's saying a LOT, believe me. Wow. So, why is 
this? In both cases, I think it's because the basic tool involved is so 
very useful, and so much appreciated. A huge credit to the creators of 
those tools, in both cases. How lucky we are, in the open source world.

As for the particulars of your response, I'm very grateful for your 
help. You've put me back to work so fast that I can easily predict I 
won't get enough sleep tonight.

Thanks again!

t.

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 2. The last two lines in the code are identical, except that the
> > last one has right hand fingering notated. Uncomment that last line
> > and the same sort of right hand fingering notation that works in
> > measure one suddenly makes the compliler nuts.
> >     
>
> It's a simple syntax clash -- you have to add a few more spaces to
> tell lilypond where your scheme expression (this is the stuff starting
> with `#' ends).  I've prettified your code a bit, and it compiles
> fine.  You can fine-tune the positions of graphical objects (`grobs'
> in lilypond speak) with extra-offset (search this keyword in the manual).
>
> BTW, don't intermix slurs with ties.  The latter uses `~' between
> notes, the former uses the `(' and `)' suffixes.
>
>
>     Werner
>
>
> ======================================================================
>
>
> \version "2.11.56"
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 20) % 20 this is said to be standard for most scores
>
> \paper {
>   #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'portrait)
>   ragged-last-bottom = ##t % turns off vertical justify
>   left-margin = 0.6\in
>   line-width = 7\in     % works better than specifying R-margin
>   bottom-margin = .7\in
>   top-margin = 0.7\in
> }
>
> \layout {
>   indent = 0.0\cm % remove indent on first staff
> }
>
> \header {
>   title = "Prelude #1 for classical guitar"
>   subtitle = "An etude for walking with angels (2007.06.04)"
>   composer = "Tom Cloyd"
>   tagline = \markup { \small "score set by Tom Cloyd - with Lilipond - 
> address@hidden" } % this is the copyright line
> }
>
> #(define RH rightHandFinger)
>
> \new Staff {
>   \key g \major
>   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'()
>
>   % this prints numerical time signatures
>   \time 5/4
>   \partial 2
>   << { r4^"Lento" < e''\1-\RH#2 fis''-1\3-\RH#3 g''-4\2-\RH#4 >4\fermata } \\
>      { e4 ~ e\fermata } >> |
>
>   \relative c''{
>     \times 2/3 { e8[ fis\3 g]\2 } e4 e e e |
>     \times 2/3 { e8[-\RH#3 fis\3-\RH#1 g]\2-\RH#2 } e4 e e e |
>   }
> }
>
>   


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