Re: Basic LilyPond Cheat Sheet

2011-09-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 09/12/2011 04:19 PM, Nick Payne wrote: ... elision by patrick... I can't print it from Adobe Reader on Ubuntu either. I also opened it in the default PDF document viewer that comes with Ubuntu (Evince), and in that, most of the text just displays as blocks of various sizes and shades - see

Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-25 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just a web page design sort of comment. The font is quite small for older eyes like mine (mid 50s;). The line spacing is really tight as well. I can scale the font up, but the pages still don't breathe. It would be a lot more approachable if you didn't try to make everything fit in such a

Re: creating images for web pages

2011-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
There's also lily2image. $ lily2image Usage: lily2image [-v] [-t] [-rN] [-fFORMAT] filename -v print version number and quit -aabout - tell about us and exit -tset background to transparent -r=Nset resolution to N (usually 72-2000)

Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
can put them in the regular staff, and it works, tucking them under the Chords, but it's not at all what I want. Help!!!;) Patrick \version 2.13.45 \header { title = Let Him Roll subtitle = by Guy Clark subsubtitle = tablature by Patrick Horgan copyright = Copyright Guy Clark } \layout

Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 04/23/2011 02:03 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: ...elision by Patrick... You'll see my attempt to put H at appropriate places doesn't work. Apparently a TabStaff is missing whatever engraver would put them in? I can put them in the regular staff, and it works, tucking them under the Chords

Re: [tablatures] Re: Could I get a critique on my first lilypond tab?

2011-04-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 04/23/2011 02:50 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 02.36 -0700, Patrick Horgan ha scritto: I figured it out. It was the Text_engraver I needed. So I'm attaching a new version that has H in the appropriate place. Please let me know if there are better/more elegant

How can I get my second tab voice to have stems!

2011-04-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
Using GNU LilyPond 2.13.45, with this source there's no stems for the quarter notes in the bottom voice in the tab staff. I'm attaching a png that shows the problem. (I turned off the footer so the png would be small instead of being a whole page.) \version 2.13.45 \paper { oddFooterMarkup =

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 03/17/2011 07:15 AM, Marc Mouries wrote: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer? Sure many times,

Re: How do you tell tempo for indications in English

2011-02-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 02/02/2011 03:59 AM, James Lowe wrote: ... elision by patrick ... I don’t think there is such a thing a 'authentic' tempo range if you are referring to setting crotchet/quaver/minim tempo speeds. What you are asking, it seems is, 'what speed is 'cheerful''? Which doesn't makes much sense.

Re: How do you tell tempo for indications in English

2011-02-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 02/02/2011 06:43 AM, Michael Ellis wrote: Hi Patrick, Short of conducting extensive field research in Ireland's pubs, you might try asking the question here. http://www.thesession.org/discussions/ Cheers, Mike What a treasure. Thank you mike. It lead me to

Re: How do you tell tempo for indications in English

2011-02-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 02/02/2011 03:30 AM, Ralph Palmer wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com mailto:phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm setting some of O'Neill's Irish tunes, and the tempo indications are (a selection): Animated, Boldly, Cheerful, Cheerfully, Gaily

How do you tell tempo for indications in English

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
I'm setting some of O'Neill's Irish tunes, and the tempo indications are (a selection): Animated, Boldly, Cheerful, Cheerfully, Gaily, Gracefully, Moderate, Plaintive, Plaintively, Playful, Playfully, Rather slow, Slow, Slow and distinctly, Slow and mournful, Slow and tenderly, Slow and with

Re: exercise notation

2011-01-25 Thread Patrick Horgan
typesetter = Jeff Covey Patrick Horgan maintainer = Jeff Covey Patrick Horgan maintainerEmail = jeff.covey at pobox dot com patrick at dbp-consulting dot com maintainerWeb = http://jeffcovey.net/; % brought up to 2.11.49 and minor edits by patr...@dbp-consulting.com % put 2.10.33

Re: Complex time signature

2011-01-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Someone mentioned this format and I had the files laying around from when they came through the list before. I didn't keep track of who wrote them. compound-test.png \version 2.11.62 compoundTimeSignature = #(define-music-function (parser layout timesig compound) (list? list?) #{ %

Re: ottava bassa

2011-01-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 01/12/2011 07:42 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: l...@internet.com.uy If you modify that function in scm/define-music-callbacks.scm to 'Voice instead of 'Staff, then \ottava only applies to the current voice (which is, however, probably now what we want by

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-04 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 01/04/2011 06:47 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: Just another data point, it compiles fine for my on a recent git pull from trunk on ubuntu Natty Narwhal. Patrick \version 2.12.2 #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) \paper { indent = 0.0 ragged-last = ##f } \header {

Re: Can't build local docs with current git pull

2011-01-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 01/01/2011 07:46 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 12/31/10 11:43 PM, Patrick Horganphorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this a known thing or should I look at it? Please look at it. It's not a known bug. Thanks, Carl You're welcome, first, is this an issue, or can I ignore it? langdefs.py:

Can't build local docs with current git pull

2010-12-31 Thread Patrick Horgan
Did git pull, make dist-clean, make all, make install, all completed fine. Then make doc results in: Renaming input to: `tablature-fretboard-open-string.ly'] Interpreting music... [/usr/local/lilypond/out/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-20.otf]Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Re: Can't build lilypond missing lily-guile.hh

2010-12-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 12/06/2010 02:05 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: No joy. Still seg-faulting on the simplest files. But! It was a gcc bug, not a lilypond bug. I was using gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20101109. Pulling down and building gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20101207 and then rebuilding lilypond made everything happy. Sorry

Re: Can't build lilypond missing lily-guile.hh

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 12/06/2010 12:14 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: git checkout HEAD lily/include/lily-guile.hh That's strange. That got it, but I wonder why git pull didn't? After getting it, now it complains about another missing file included from lily-guile.hh. ./include/lily-guile.hh:37:34: fatal error:

Re: Can't build lilypond missing lily-guile.hh

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 12/06/2010 10:17 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: 2010/12/6 Patrick Horganphorg...@yahoo.com: patr...@dell$ git checkout Dflower/include/guile-compatibility.hh Dlily/guile-init.cc Dlily/include/lily-guile-macros.hh Dlily/lily-guile.cc Dly/guile-debugger.ly D

Re: vim

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 12/03/2010 09:24 AM, Patrick Karl wrote: On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:01 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:58:07 -0800 From: michael webstersemiqua...@mac.com Subject: Re:vim To: lilypond-user@gnu.org

Can't build lilypond missing lily-guile.hh

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Horgan
Has anyone else seen this? git pull, make cleandist, autogen.sh with no complaints, then make fails with this result: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lilypond/lily' cp -p /usr/local/lilypond/config.hh out/config.hh rm -f ./out/accidental-engraver.dep;

Re: Incorrect Lilypond version

2010-01-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
hsweet wrote: Hi all... I've installed what I think should be Lilypond 2.12 every way I can dream up, the installation messages say it's installing 2.12. but lilypond -v still thinks it 2.10.33. Perhaps you have another lilypond earlier in your path? Type which lilypond from the command

Re: How to include a file just once?

2010-01-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
Too bad there's no #ifdef #define #endif or a conditional include on a variable known to identify the inclusion of a particular file. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Divided voices

2010-01-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: It is important for the same voices to remain in the same Voice context. So if you have this: \new Voice = "soprano" { c8 d e } and you want to go to S1 and S2, you should use this construct: \score { \new Staff { \new Voice = "soprano"

Re: Incorrect Lilypond version

2010-01-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
Federico Bruni wrote: ...elision by patrick... I've often wondered why, even though I have a version of LilyPond installed from repository (therefore located in /usr/bin), when I install a package of a new version that version becomes the default in the environment. For example now:

Does the lovely Introduction to the 2.12 LM exist in 2.13?

2010-01-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
I hadn't read the LM for some time and thought it would be nice to see how it was doing. I started reading the 2.12 version and was wonderfully surprised by the Introduction which gives great history and context to understand the rest. I saw one document issue I thought I might bring up with

Re: Part name with staff groups/grand staff

2010-01-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: You mean like the following example? Doesn't work with odd numbers of staffs. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: 2 songs on one page

2010-01-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: У нд, 2010-01-10 у 13:49 +0100, Martin Tarenskeen пише: Hi, I want to put two (little) songs on one page, both complete with title, subtitle, and composer headers, but footer information - if any - only at the bottom of the page. But I can't figure out

Re: 2 songs on one page

2010-01-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Patrick (et al.), for people who haven't used the LSR (lilypond snippet repository) before, if you click on the pretty pictures of things you want to do, they turn into lilypond code for you to learn from:) It's all automagic. Your post

Re: [frogs] Re: Numeric note heads for singers

2010-01-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
pound...@lineone.net wrote: ... elision by patrick ... This: \layout { \context { \Voice \consists \ez-numbers-engraver } } Gives this error: numerNoteHeads2.ly:29:14: error: syntax error, unexpected SCM_IDENTIFIER, expecting STRING \consists

I hope you like this off-topic post

2009-12-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just quickly, because many will miss this, on gamedev network there's a cool little orchestration tutorial. http://www.gamedev.net/reference/music/features/brfOrchGuide/ Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: first bar width

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Federico Bruni wrote: I'm writing a blank sheet to be used for hand writing (see attached file). The problem is that the first bar of each line is too large compared with the other bars. I guess this is due to a default padding value of some property.. I don't know which.. You'd want some

I need some pointers

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
I've committed to making a key for guitar tablature that will show little snippets of tab along with descriptions. How do I do that? Any pointers greatly appreciated;) I understand TAB quite well, and vocal music on lilypond well, as well, but well, don't understand how TAB on lilypond that

Re: Inline score inside markup - bugs in music alignment

2009-10-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: ...elision by Patrick ... I am so sorry that I did not study computer science so that I would understand scheme coding, but to my greatest misfortune it is above my capabiblities. I am alone to be blamed for this, but this is the reason that I am looking for someone to

Re: Inline score inside markup - bugs in music alignment

2009-10-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't feel bad. I have a Masters in Computer Science and I don't understand Scheme at all in spite of having an AI class that used Scheme about a million years ago. sarcasm

Just a quick TAB question

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick Horgan
Soon to do my first guitar tab piece in lily and was wondering if there's any way to automagically print out the TAB key, i.e. the thing that explains to the reader/player what all the TAB symbols mean? Most TAB pieces have one, and since there's a number of /families/ of guitar TAB notation

Re: Just a quick TAB question

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick Horgan
Carl Sorensen wrote: On 10/27/09 12:53 PM, "Patrick Horgan" phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Soon to do my first guitar tab piece in lily and was wondering if there's any way to automagically print out the TAB key, i.e. the thing that explains to the reader/player what a

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: What about a version that read from standard input and wrote to standard input? I'm thinking about the documentation -- we could automatically format all lilypond input syntax. On unix a lot of tools default to input coming from one or more file(s) whose names are

Re: title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Frederick, using 2.13.4, with your version of the title on a separate page, I get 434 instances of: programming error: note head has no event cause continuing, cross fingers and 217 instances of: programming error: these accidentals do not have a pitch continuing, cross fingers It follows a

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just out of curiosity, (since I don't play, nor read, drum music), I compiled this with lilypond version 2.13.4 on ubuntu. It built the output, but with many complaints like: GNU LilyPond 2.13.4 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... [8] Preprocessing graphical objects...

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Philippe Hezaine wrote: elision done here... Hi, There is an error in the typesetting. The author writes cymr8 sn8 Write it: cymr sn8 Cheers. Thanks! one quick global search and replace and the code compiles cleanly and gives a good output. Patrick

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks for the replies. I could fix all of my problems. I'm using multipliers now which I find easier to use and to read. Thanks to Brett Duncan. This now finishes my first project using lilypond. I like it and will continue using it. Great stuff! Christian

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html Christian's trying to do something

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-12 Thread Patrick Horgan
Definitely like alternative style 1 ( the green ) better. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
It's a matter of not enough dots to have dots in all the right places. o o o o Imagine three lines have to be shown by turning on the dots above. The top and the bottom row line right up with rows

Re: publish to website

2009-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Gerard McConnell wrote: AFAIK to put an image on a web-page, I need a bitmap, not a .pdf.I can't find any reference to .png in any of thedocs. So far I've been using alt-printScreen and Paint to produce .png files. While this sort of works, I'm not getting the best output that

Re: publish to website

2009-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick Horgan wrote: Gerard McConnell wrote: AFAIK to put an image on a web-page, I need a bitmap, not a .pdf.I can't find any reference to .png in any of thedocs. So far I've been using alt-printScreen and Paint to produce .png files. While this sort of works

Re: Speed-up compiling

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Michael Kppler wrote: Hi all, I'm "suffering" from enormous compiling durations on large files. With "large" I mean a file with about 250 measures and seven staves per system. The last time I compiled the file completely (without using showLastLength) I did it overnight, since after one and

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
David Fedoruk wrote: The original BerkLee Real Fake book is no longer available, nor are some of the others. These fake books have to have thousands of clearances to be ablel to put these books together as they are and be able to be legally sold. Ironically, their The Real Book was a

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: I'll volunteer for css and/or proofreading. I also don't have a job or girlfriend;) I'll be in Peru much of August though and looking for a job after that. Put me to work. (Although I'll have to confess, as far as css goes, the current new stuff is looking great

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: Anyway, I think we're living exciting times with regards to LilyPond, and no matter how long it takes I do believe we're making history right here :-) That's exciting!!! And I believe true. And I believe that although there is much credit to go around, we should

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/7/6 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: I also like the layout of gimp.org. Click their menu links too. Nice looking site. Since you're mentioning that, http://www.blender.org/ has a top-menu that is very similar to the new Lily website's

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: ...oh there was various stuff (I'm sure I don't remember what) elided here... I didn't expect a reference to Nanoha on the -user mailist. (so of course I had to add one myself ;) Thank you for that:) Cheers, - Graham Regards, Patrick

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On this page http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine and these day web-developers say that 1024x768 is the new 800x600.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of /batch/ system. When we used it years ago we meant as opposed to interactive. You submitted your batch job with job control and all the jobs got ran in batches with all the other jobs that were ready when the operator got

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: Here's a very rough initial draft of our new website: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html The purple background as used on the documentation page has terrible contrast/clash with the blue of unvisited links on Firefox on Linux making it

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: I'm still experimenting with this. :-) I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast: This is great for me! Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: unusual Alto Clef

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Cool!! I've attached the infamous Ravel quartet snippet that prompted me to post the query about this clef in the first place. Your C clef looks nice in there, almost like the original. Of course in this passage there's a switch to treble clef, and when it returns to

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:40:48 -0700 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...muchly stuff elided... Thanks, Graham, I laughed out loud in Pizza My Heart reading this until people were staring at me in envy! Patrick

Re: \mark, chords and notes collide

2008-10-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Sebastian Menge wrote: BTW: Does anyone know the latex-package layouts (as introduced in the latex companion)? It renders the layout of a page with all properties (margins etc) displayed by lines and text. Something similar would be awful for lilypond. I always feel like groping in the dark with

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-04 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: Here's a slightly updated version of my produce the same score on A4 and letter paper. Should be easier to understand. Thanks:) It crossed the line from extremely cool to elegant. Beautiful. Patrick ___ lilypond-user

Re: png cropping

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I've actually tried to do this. I booted into the Windows partition of my machine and installed Cygwin and the netpbm package, but I had trouble finding the netpbm stuff from the Cygwin bash shell. The shell seemed very isolated from the rest of the machine, as I

Re: png cropping

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/10/3 Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Patrick, you mentioned at some point along the way that it would have been better if I had started the whole thing in Python instead of bash. Would this also have made it easier to port to Windows? It wouldn't make it any

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: No, since the -dhelp options change more often, and they're more advanced stuff anyway. If they continue to change frequently, it'd be a good target for a script building the documentation page from the output of the -dhelp Patrick

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tomas Valusek wrote: Jonathan Kulp napsal(a): After much revision, addition, and general fussing about with it, I'm happy to post the official version of what we're calling lily2image, a script for converting lilypond source files to cropped image files in many different formats suitable

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick, if you add a line-height: 1.125em; to the .settitle section it fixes the strange overlap on small windows.  The one it inherits from the body section uses a different em, and although you specify it in ems, it's inherited in pixels.  Or in CSS speak, you don't inherit the specified

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: I like your stylesheet, in general. But I think some of the font sizes you are using will render parts of the documentation illegible on certain platforms (such as in the TOC). I like your choice of color especially. I know that most of this is personal, but I looked

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kurt Kroon wrote: And while I'm thinking about it, you could deal with the line-height issue by setting it to 1.125, without any units. Thanks! I'd read the section on this in the spec, (and just re-read it), and it doesn't point out how much better it is for inheritance, and I didn't get

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/index.html In particular, look at that page with both the current default and Patrick's alternative style Well done:) I still prefer Patrick's style and wish it were the default. I also wish that Patrick's

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Huh, I don't quite understand what you mean with the last sentence... What should be changed in the sidebar? I like the white background on the main page, the contrast is low on the sidebar. I think it would be much better with a white background as well. Patrick

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the front page, in Opera on Linux, the word `Reference' overlaps the previous line: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/index.html Are you specifying an interline spacing, rather than using the natural one for the font? Peter C When

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well done:) I still prefer Patrick's style and wish it were the default. I also wish that Patrick's style affected the sidebar contents. Hi Patrick, What do you mean

Re: Regarding the new Table of Contents in the GUB docs

2008-09-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Ahm, sorry if I sound destructive, but: How hard is it to click on [Contents], which is located in EVERY gray navigation bar on EVERY page Does anyone else feel like we're doomed to follow Reinhold having good ideas only weeks after he's already had them;) Patrick

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Horgan
Alexander Kobel wrote: Guys, I've been busy the last few weeks and just loosely followed the ongoing discussions about the doc design, but I just recognized you did a great job there! And I like the unobtrusive link coloring... However, one suggestion: Have you talked about the size of the

Re: lilypond.org down?

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Horgan
Paul Scott wrote: Hi, From here lilypond.org seems to be down. I can't even ping it. Paul Scott From here too--if some can get to it, then something on the backbone quit routing for some reason. I did a traceroute which only worked to 12 hops, then tried up to 30 with no happiness. You

Re: choral sample

2008-09-24 Thread Patrick Horgan
of Christmas mutopiainstrument = Voice source = Arista Edition style = Renaissance copyright = Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 typesetter = Jeff Covey Patrick Horgan maintainer = Jeff Covey Patrick Horgan maintainerEmail = jeff.covey at pobox dot com patrick at dbp-consulting

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: Okay, I know what the problem is, but the fix is not simple. Our implementation uses a *persistent* and an *alternate* stylesheet, but since we want the alternate stylesheet to override the default stylesheet, many of the default styles should be in a *preferred*

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: I'm preparing my old scores for online publication, but I'm extremely fussy about engraving. I want users on both sides of the Atlantic to be able to print my music easily, but this only works if the music looks in the same in A4 and Letter paper. (having page turns in

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/9/22 Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when invoking lilypond instead of putting it in the .ly file? Something like Yes! Great idea! (my useless post du jour :-)

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Neil Puttock wrote: ...some stuff elided... This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) Why not use the built-in option instead, i.e., run with -dpaper-size=letter? because he wanted to be able to switch back and forth via command line argument without editing the file.

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO I prefer Patrick's design over Andrew, it's more colorful but still serious enough (as Valentin already wrote), and I second Patrick Horgan comment on links color: maybe we could

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
but still serious enough (as Valentin already wrote), and I second Patrick Horgan comment on links color: maybe we could make links a bit more blue? And note that the other Patrick reported that his style was supposed to produce underlined links, (and did on his machine). Has anyone looked into w

Re: png cropping

2008-09-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
assistant - Patrick Horgan # #*# # Change log # # 1.1.1 Added -a, -V and much comments # 1.1 Added checking of return codes so we could # abort if something failed. # 1.0 Initi

Re: png cropping

2008-09-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Thanks for trying it out, Josh! Glad to hear it worked for you on OSX. Patrick has been dealing with the flags, and I don't really understand how to do them, so my very dirty solution would be simply to comment out the last bit of the script that opens the file :). I

Bad image with one of the snippets

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
In snippet no. 433 the Rehearsal Marks don't have the alignment you might expect. Grabbing down the snippet and compiling it with the current lilypond works fine and produces the desired result, but in the image in the snippet, the alignment of the rehearsal marks never move. It made it quite

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
ther are found. I also check for the existence of pnmtojpeg and abort the script if not found with a message that the netpbm utilities have to be installed to use the script. Now the script is much larger because of all the checking. Patrick Jon script attached this time... Patrick

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Alright, this is probably my last version. It now checks the input for format against all the available conversions (found by looking for all the programs in the filesystem that start with ppmto and pnmto) and if you didn't pick one, gives you all the choices! Enter desired output format

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Hi Patrick, I've been running your script trying to use the command-line arguments, and something's happening with the format argument. I specify it with an argument, but then I still get prompted for format. I might not be doing the flag right. I've tried it with

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Andrew Hawryluk wrote: I just learned that there are a lot of Monet Waterlilies to choose from, so maybe this will be helpful to anyone on the list with graphics skills: With any of the newer browsers you can use pngs with alpha, and take any image and give it much transparency to the point

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: This is an old thread but I found it in my email box and thought I'd respond because I've recently written a script to handle this sort of thing. I share with some trepidation since last time I shared a script, someone pointed out to me that there was already a lilypond

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I now added Patrick's design as an alternative stylesheet in git and triggered a rebuild of the docs on kainhofer.com. This way we can evaluate at the same time all the designs we get and then decide which we should use (or which aspects of which design should

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Might as well throw in Jakob Nielson's Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Josh Parmenter wrote: You can set the tagline to in the \header block. Ah, but I specifically asked for a way to do it without editing the file so the script to do it via command line argument. This just doesn't make the cut grin; NEXT! Patrick

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm guessing that one of the netpbm tools will handle transparency, it's just a matter of figuring out which one. Didn't this come up on a recent thread? I seem to remember trying it out on something and getting a transparent background. When I get some time later I'll

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Here's a modified version of Jonathan's unix/linux script that supports arguments which are: -t or --transparency : output format forced to png and you get transparency -r=N or --resolution==N : (example -r=72) set resolution -f=FORMAT or --format=FORMAT : (example -f=jpeg) set

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Jon, 2008/9/17 Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm guessing that one of the netpbm tools will handle transparency, it's just a matter of figuring out which one. Didn't this come up on a recent thread? I seem to remember trying it out on something and

Re: Vertical spacing between Staff and Lyrics

2008-09-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
Johan Vromans wrote: ...much elided... http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/ltx01.png http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/ltx02.png The second one looks quite similar to a lilypond score when rendered with: \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } It would certainly be your friend doing something

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