Re: newbie questions

[Mats Bengtsson]

luis jure wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i'm new to lilypond and this is my first message to the list. first of
> all, a big thank you to all the developers and contributors for this
> great software.
>
>   
Welcome!
> ...
> now i have three questions regarding a short fragment i've written, i
> hope it's OK to attach the code and a small png file (11 Kb):
>
>   
Definitely!

It seems that all three of your problems would classify as bugs or at 
least as
requests for enhancements, so I send them to the bug-lilypond mailing list.
> 1) in measure number 4 of the score, the beam in the 3rd quarter note
> of the right hand is slightly slanted *upwards*, not downwards as it
> should be;
>   
Agree! This seems to be related to how widely spaced the music is, as
can be seen in the following small example:
\version "2.10.0"
\layout{
%  line-width = 5\cm % Gives expected beam slanted downwards
 line-width = 10\cm % Gives unexpected beam slanted upwards
}
\relative c'''{
 \time 2/4
 fis16 dis b ais cis4
}

If you look at the example called beam-position.ly in the Regression 
Test document,
you will learn that you can try
\override Stem  #'no-stem-extend = ##t
but you will probably not be happy with that solution. Rather, you can 
take a look
at the example beam-control.ly in Tips and Tricks, which shows how to 
manually
set the vertical position of the left and right edge of the beam.
> 2) from measure 4 to 5, in the right hand a note with an accidental is
> tied across the line break, the accidental in the following note
> (beginning m. 5) collides with the tie;
>   
You may find something useful if you search the mailing list archives, the
problem looks familiar. For the bug report, here comes a minimal example:

\version "2.10.0"
\layout{ragged-right = ##t }
\relative c'''{ cis1 ~ \break cis }

> 3) at the end of m. 6 there's again a note tied to the following
> measure across the line break, but since there's a clef change in the
> left hand, the tie ends before the line.
>   
I cannot recall having seen exactly this problem mentioned earlier.
Here's a minimal example:
\version "2.10.0"
\layout{ragged-right = ##t }
<<
 \new Staff \relative c'''{ cis1 ~ \break cis }
 \new Staff \relative c{ \clef bass a \clef treble cis }
>>

> my question are: how can i correct those issues? are they the usual
> behavior, what have i done wrong? i'm using lilypond 2.8.8 on gentoo
> linux.
>   
I'd recommend you to upgrade to version 2.10, an installation package is
available at www.lilypond.org -> Downloads.

However, this doesn't solve exactly your problems, even though many other
bugs have been fixed and the layout has been improved. Unfortunately, I 
don't
have any good fixes for the last two problems.

When looking at your .ly file, I noticed that you don't use the \repeat 
feature
to typeset repeats.


  /Mats