Re: clusters: note spacing problem and other things

[Bob Schmertz]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, David Pirotte wrote:

>Hello
>
>;; --
>
>I am new user of lilypond. I am a composer, a young composer, and I hope
>that I will be able to write my music with lilypond. But modern music is
>quite demanding and so much more difficult to typeset then ancient
>music.

I, too, am a new user, so I can only make some half-educated guesses to
your problems :)

>   ly2dvi (GNU LilyPond) 1.5.13

I am using 1.4.7, so forgive me if what I say might not apply to your
version.

>    1. the following compiles ok
>
>       \score {
>         \notes <
>           \context Staff = Cl {
>             \property Staff.instrument = "Cl Sib"
>             \time 8/4 
>             \clef violin
>             {r2. r2.}

...which does not fill out an 8/4 measure...

>             }
>           \context Staff = staffB {
>             \time 8/4
>             \clef bass
>             \relative a,
>             {a2. <a2. b2. c2. a2is> <a2. b2. c2. a2is>}

In my version of lilypond, the suffix for the accidental must come
immediately after the note name.  Thus, for a half-note A-sharp, you must
write 'ais2', not 'a2is'.

>       but does not produce the expected display results: even the "r2." and
>       the "a2." does not produce the result expected, (the dot is in the note,
>       and not after the note)
>
>       or is it my xdvi? (it seems i have xdvik, should i get another xdvi?

Even with the problems I mentioned, the initial a2. looks fine to
me; maybe it is indeed your xdvi.  You could run dvips or dvipdf and view
it with gv to confirm.

>
>    2. the following does not compiles
>

[snip]

>             {a2. <a2. b2. c2. a2is.> <a2. b2. c2. a2is.>}
>% a2is. instead of a2is

Now I'm sure that placing the dot after the accidental suffix isn't going
to work...

>    3. i wanted to call staff using numbers to, but is seems not possible:

I'm a newbie to LilyPond and the TeX world in general, but it does seem to
me that variable names in TeX (and, by extension, LilyPond) can't contain
digits, unfortunately.  This would include staff names and anything else
you might give a name.

HTH

-- 
Bob