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11 March 2026

  • 08:1508:15, 11 March 2026 Alternate \textSpanner engraver (hist | edit) [10,142 bytes] Lemzwerg (talk | contribs) (Created page with "LilyPond's default text spanner engraver can only handle a single text spanner per voice at a time. The engraver in this snippet provides an alternate implementation to circumvent this limitation; it uses spanner IDs to specify start and end of overlapping text spanners. To use it, replace <code>Text_spanner_engraver</code> with <code>\alternateTextSpannerEngraver</code>. The example below demonstrates two possible ways to specify a spanner ID: either define a new com...")

6 March 2026

  • 11:3211:32, 6 March 2026 Slurs with stemless note heads (hist | edit) [1,808 bytes] Gabriel Ellsworth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If you do not want your notes to have stems, <code>\omit Stem</code> is very useful. But you may find that LilyPond positions the start or end points of some slurs incorrectly. By setting <code>\override NoteHead.stem-attachment = #'(0 . 0)</code> you can move the stem attachment point to the center of the note head, which results in better slur positioning for stemless note heads. Source of music: [https://archive.org/details/manualofgregoria00dela/page/266/mode/1up A...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

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31 January 2026

  • 12:1612:16, 31 January 2026 Typesetting IPA transcriptions for lyrics (hist | edit) [4,876 bytes] Gabriel Ellsworth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Singers may find it useful if you add International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions to some or all of your lyrics. This snippet shows four ways to typeset IPA transcriptions in LilyPond. # As a '''stanza of lyrics'''. This approach works well when you want '''exhaustive IPA''' (i.e., transcriptions of every lyric). # In a '''markup block''' separate from your score. Also good for exhaustive IPA. Tip: As you are editing, you can [https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Docu...")

29 January 2026

  • 22:3622:36, 29 January 2026 Grouping instrument names with square brackets (hist | edit) [1,985 bytes] Gabriel Ellsworth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If you want to label a group of instruments (staves, voices), you can draw lines to create your own shapes that mimic the appearance of the square brackets used by the <code>SystemStartSquare</code> system start delimiter (see [https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/displaying-staves#grouping-staves “Grouping staves” in the Notation Reference]). Adjust the numerical values in the <code>\score</code> block below as needed for your score. <lilypond vers...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

28 January 2026

  • 22:4722:47, 28 January 2026 Making lyrics take bar lines into account (hist | edit) [3,003 bytes] Gabriel Ellsworth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "By default, Lyrics contexts do not contain <code>Bar_engraver</code>, so your lyrics will not take into account divisions between measures. Longer lyric items will appear to “spill across” bar lines. This snippet shows how you can add <code>Bar_engraver</code> to lyrics and hide bar lines, so that each individual lyric will be contained within the horizontal space between two consecutive bar lines. This approach can have undesirable effects on the horizontal spacin...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 15:4815:48, 28 January 2026 Unmetered music: An alternative to \cadenzaOn (hist | edit) [4,232 bytes] Gabriel Ellsworth (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If your music is unmetered, you might use <code>\cadenzaOn</code>. But <code>\cadenzaOn</code> will disable automatic measure demarcation, and when it is applied, the <code>\bar</code> command will ''not'' start a new measure. <u>If you want the features that come with measure demarcation</u> (e.g., resetting '''accidentals''', automatic '''bar numbering''', automatic '''beaming'''), the following approach may be useful. It combines <code>\omit TimeSignature</code> with...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

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23 December 2025

  • 22:1922:19, 23 December 2025 Giving fingerings extra space (hist | edit) [502 bytes] Schrodinger-s-kitten (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Fingerings placed to the left of note heads can sometimes look too close to previous note heads. It is possible to use the <code>extra-spacing-width</code> property to fix this: <lilypond version="2.24"> \paper { indent = #0 ragged-right = ##t } \relative c'' { \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) c4 c c <cis-3> \break c4 c c <cis \tweak Fingering.extra-spacing-width #'(-1 . 0) -3> } </lilypond> Category:Tweaks and overrides Category:Chords Cat...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 22:0422:04, 23 December 2025 Unfolding tremolo repeats (hist | edit) [1,826 bytes] Schrodinger-s-kitten (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Under normal circumstances, <code><note>:<duration></code>, the shortcut of <code>\repeat tremolo</code> is not unfolded by <code>\unfoldRepeats</code>. This function works around that: <lilypond version="2.24"> fixTremolos = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (music-map (lambda (m) (let ((event (any (lambda (a) (and (music-is-of-type? a 'tremolo-event) a)) (ly:music-pr...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 21:1621:16, 23 December 2025 Aligning text marks to notes (hist | edit) [655 bytes] Schrodinger-s-kitten (talk | contribs) (Created page with "By default, <code>TextMark</code> objects are aligned to the left edge of the staff. They can be aligned to the first note of the line instead by setting the <code>non-musical</code> property to false. <lilypond version="2.24"> \paper { indent = #0 ragged-right = ##t } { \textMark "mark a" c'1 | \break \override Score.TextMark.non-musical = ##f \textMark "mark b" c' | } </lilypond>") Tag: Visual edit: Switched originally created as "Aligning text marks to the first note of the measure"
  • 20:1020:10, 23 December 2025 Shades of gold (hist | edit) [9,710 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A list of golden shades, ready for copy&paste to be used in Lilypond. == Golden shades X11-Colors == *X11-color example use in Lilypond: <code style="user-select: all">\markup \with-color #(x11-color 'PaleGoldenrod)</code> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console', 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 0.8em;" |- !Color name||style="width: 200px;"|Color||RGB||Lilypond Code |- |PaleGoldenrod||style="background-color:#EEE8AA"|  ||rgb(238,232,17...")
  • 20:0120:01, 23 December 2025 HTML color names table (hist | edit) [18,306 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A list of standard HTML color names according to [https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors%20hex.asp W3Schools], the RGB color codes ready to be copied for use in Lilypond. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-family: 'Lucida Console', 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 0.8em;" |- !Color name !style="width: 200px;"|color !RGB !Hex code !Lilypond code |- |maroon||style="background-color: rgb(128,0,0)| ||rgb(128,0,0)||#800000||style="user-select: all"|#(rgb-color (/...")

21 December 2025

  • 12:4512:45, 21 December 2025 Score featuring 4 voices, chords, lyrics and more (hist | edit) [2,006 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This example tries to show multiple features of Lilypond and provides an example of a score with four voices, harmonies and lyrics. == Voices == *four voices <code>sop</code> , <code>alt</code>, <code>ten</code>, <code>bas</code> and the variable <code>Akk</code> for the chords == Lyrics == *multiple stanzas with refrains in one <code>Lyrics</code> context *<code>\override LyricText.font-name = #"Linux Libertine G"</code> for a change of the lyricfont (in this wiki of no...")

20 December 2025

  • 20:0820:08, 20 December 2025 Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (hist | edit) [10,559 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "German advent song with many features of Lilypond. The header is not displaying, I don't know why. <lilypond version="2.24"> \language "deutsch" #(set-global-staff-size 24) musicextrema = #(define-music-function (mus)(ly:music?) (let* ( (alle-pitches (let loop ((mus mus) (pitches '())) (let ((p (ly:music-property mus 'pitch))) (if (ly:pitch? p) (cons p pitches) (let ((elt (ly:music-property mus 'ele...")
  • 19:3319:33, 20 December 2025 Drawing candles (hist | edit) [60,503 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The advantage of using a path compared to an EPS is that you can choose any color. Image is from openclipart.org <div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -ms-user-select: text; -moz-user-select: all; user-select: all; display: inline-block;"><lilypond version="2.24"> \paper { tagline = ##f } #(define kerze '( (moveto 1181.183 -46.832) (rcurveto 8.598 -8.598 20.316 -48.618 25.374 -71.971) (rcurveto 10.421 -52.119 10.524 -125.377 5.924 -126.578) (r...")
  • 18:5018:50, 20 December 2025 Drawing an accordion (hist | edit) [263,372 bytes] Manuela (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<lilypond version="2.24"> \paper { tagline = ##f } #(define accordion '( (moveto 72.46 396) (rcurveto -1.447 -1.297 -2.707 -3.034 -2.8 -3.859) (rcurveto -0.4426 -3.908 0.0916 -4.65 3.317 -4.603) (rcurveto 1.788 0.0258 19.68 -2.841 39.75 -6.372) (rcurveto 32.41 -5.699 36.86 -6.705 39.68 -8.972) (rcurveto 1.748 -1.404 3.21 -3.416 3.25 -4.47) (rcurveto 0.1194 -3.168 1.359 -0.8806 1.618 2.986) (rcurveto 0.1569 2.342 1.211 4.611...")
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