Unanswered Questions
31 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Creating a wider fermata
In LilyPond, how can I create a wide fermata that spans over several notes?
This is from Franz Schubert's Winterreise, No. 9 "Irrlicht", measure 39.
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Stop Lilypond from generating multiple files
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems like a lot of people are using Lilypond here.
Every time I compile a .ly file using lilypond for Windows10 it generates too many files. ...
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Aligning staves across pages in Lilypond
I'm looking for a way to align staves in Lilypond such that the bars are at the same height on different pages.
A somewhat contrived example to show the effect:
\version "2.24.0"
\paper {
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How can I typeset text or markup in the middle of a staff in Lilypond?
I'm working on a function to print text in the middle of the staff, with the following features
it needs to be a function so that it can be called with variable-width text or markup
it should not ...
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Print instrument name of staff whose empty section from the start was removed with RemoveAllEmptyStaves
When engraving music where an instrument comes in later in the piece, I normally prefer to remove its empty staves using RemoveAllEmptyStaves within the Staff context. When doing so, the instrument ...
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How to escape spaces and other characters when making lytex files
This is more of a compiling issue than one for LilyPond work itself.
I have been using lytex files to compile books of scores using the lilypondbook command.
It works, except that when I use the LaTeX ...
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How do I tackle the three obstacles of "Valaam Notation"?
In modern practice, old, monophonic, Russian Orthodox chants are often given simple harmonies which are usually represented in letter notation above the staff—similar to Byzantine chant, however, ...
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LilyPond - Adding dotted lines to "Table of Contents" TOC
I posted a question on here about two different coding techniques on how to add a table of contents to a LilyPond Book. I am kind of stuck with the solution in the first example, since it gives me the ...
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Place "Opus" instead of Instrument Name?
I'm trying to place the opus to the left of a Staff (which is normally the place of the instrument name), like this:
Is there a proper way to place opus in replacement of instrumentName? Something ...
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LilyPond: Consistent stem/beam position (not length)
In the style of scottish snare drumming I am trying to notate, the ideal is for all stems and beams to end at the same height.
Unlike concert snare, where all notes are on the line (so this happens ...
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Multiple systems on the same line - Lilypond
I am attending a counterpoint course, where the textbook is "Dubois - treaty on counterpoint and fugue". For that course I am writing some exercises assigned by the book on Lilypond and I ...
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Robust, flexible, nice-looking metric modulations in Lilypond
I've been working with some music that requires a LOT of metric modulations. So far I have janky functions to draw these:
\version "2.25.26"
#(define (ratio-width ratio)
(+ (truncate (...
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How to create a custom markup for chord names in lilypond
I am trying to display chord names left from the chord diagrams in lilypond. Based on answers in this question I was able to offset the positions of the diagrams and respective chord names, but the ...
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Multi-bar, multi-repeat in one measure in LilyPond
Following Lilypond: Single bar, multiple repeat, I want this for a multi measure repeat.
I've converted (./.) to (.//.) with:
percperc = \markup\concat{
\raise #0.5 \musicglyph #"dots.dot"...
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Generate different scores from a template
I am a brand new lilypond user and I am struggling to understand what the best structure for my project might be.
Here a simplified example of it
I have a main.ly file that I was planning to use as a ...
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