problem I'm using LilyPond to typeset sheet music for a church choir to perform. Depending on who is available on any given week, songs will be played in various keys. We have an amazing pianist who can play anything we throw at her and the guitarists will typically pencil in alternate chords, but I want to make things easier by having...
lilypond can color notes in a arbitrary way using \override NoteHead #'color = #red c with the default color is black. But I like to color all notes by height, so that my kids can more easily learn to recognize the notes as the c, d, e, f, ... are associated with its own color. The above allows me to do this, but is rather verbose. I...
(I can't tell if this is meant to be SO or SU, so please move it as necessary.) Lilypond automatically puts in measure bars for me, but only if there's more than one line. I'm writing a part for which I'm doing: \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 and measure bars do not appear. (That's kind of odd: just because there's no pitc...
I'm working on Carnatic music scores that involve complex time signatures, that will require modified bar lines Pattern for barlines for: 8/4 beats: 1 2 3 4 (dashed bar here) 5, 6 (Dotted Bar) 7, 8 (double bar) Here's one bar of actual score g16( f) d8 ees( ees) d16( c d8) bes16[( d c bes \bar "dashed" a g]) a[( bes c] d[ ...
Hey, Do you know a pythonic simple way to check whether a Lilypond (.ly) file is valid ? ...
I am trying to do a clean build of Lilypond on a clean install of Mac OS X. Dependencies have been installed using Brew. I do ./configure && make all in the Lilypond dir. It gets through the configure and starts building but ends on ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: "libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3", message: "file not found" ...