Re: Some doubts

[Mats Bengtsson]

Don't doubt, see the possibilities!

Daniel Berjón Díez wrote:
> Hello, everybody,
>
> I'm trying to typeset the Sonata in A for violin and piano by César Franck, but I'm kind of new to Lilypond, and I would like to ask you if is it possible to do some things I would like to do. As I don't know if it's allowed or desirable to send attachments to the list, I've put in a web server an example of what I'd like to do: http://www.gtic.ssr.upm.es/dberjon/franck.png 
>
> 1. Is there a way to typeset the half brackets printed in red on the example? 
> They're used, as all of you know, to indicate that the notes in the bracket 
> should be played with the left hand, so the player don't break his/her right 
> hand trying to stretch it to play all what's written in the upper staff. ;) I 
> don't know if they receive any proper name in English, sorry about that.

As far as I know, there is no builtin support for it. You may want to
try something similar to
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#molecule-hacking.ly

> 2. How can I specify the font and size for the indications (The "molto dolce", 
> in this case)? I've been reading the manual, but I've been unable to understand it. :(

If you just want to specify it for this particular text, I recommend to
use the \markup{...} feature, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html
For example, you could say _\markup{ \bold {molto dolce}}

If you want to do the same change to all text annotations in the score,
it's better to set some properties, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Font-selection.html
For example, you could say
\property Voice.TextScript \override #'font-relative-size = #1
\property Voice.TextScript \override #'font-shape = #'italic
and then just do d8_"molto dolce"

> 3. Is there a simple way to typeset in a smaller size both the soloist staff 
> and all the objects contained or associated with it? I mean, as this would be 
> the piano score, the violin part is provided only as a reference, and the 
> pianist doesn't need to see a very big violin part, but I would like to extract 
> that part for the particella for the violinist without having to change all 
> font sizes and the rest of the objects.

Certainly, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html#staff-size.ly

> 4. How do I put dynamics affecting all the piano part, not only the upper or 
> lower staff?

What do you mean? If you want dynamics typeset centered between the two
staves, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/template/out-www/collated-files.html#piano-dynamics.ly

  /Mats