Re: some questions

[Cameron Horsburgh]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:26:02AM -0800, James Bailey wrote:
> 
>    Hello everyone
> 
>    I'm actually doing rather well with lilypond, with a few minor
>    exceptions. One is that my staff names don't show up and I get the odd
>    warning from lilypond:
> 
>    warning: can't find property type-check for `instrument'
>    (translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
> 
>    warning: doing assignment anyway
> 
>    My lilypond file consists of:
> 
>    {
> 
>    \set Staff.instrument = "Bass"
> 
>    \set Staff.instr = "B"
> 
>    c d e f
> 
>    }
> 
>    \version "2.10.0"
> 

Have a look in section 8.2.5 of the 2.10 manual. The names have changed 
slightly:


    \set Staff.instrumentName = "Bass"
 
    \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "B"



>    I'm using macintosh version 2.10.0. Any thoughts?" And I thought that
>    I could make staff instruments anything I wanted to.
> 
>    Also, I'm trying to raise a metronome mark above a dynamic once.
> 
>    {
> 
>      \context
> 
>      {
> 
>       \Score
> 
>       \override MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 3)
> 
>      }
> 
>    }
> 
>    works, but it raises the metronome mark every time and adding
>    \once doesn't work. I'm sure I'm just not understanding the manual
>    well.
> 

Anything in the layout block will apply to the whole piece. If you want to use 
the directive once, put it immediately before the metronome mark in the music 
(untested):

[music]
a b \once \override MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 3) \tempo 4=120 c d
[more music]

Hope this helps!



-- 

=============================================
Cameron Horsburgh

=============================================