Re: GrandStaff Name

2005-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 10:17 PM, Will Oram wrote: ...but got nothing in the output. It looks more or less like the snippet, says I. Note the \layout. And please don't post incomplete snippets -- I had to change your \relative dflat'' and \mlViolinOne/Two, since they weren't defined. Here's an ugl

Re: evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 8:03 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. Please file a bug report with evince, then. (?) ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

GrandStaff Name

2005-08-16 Thread Will Oram
Forgot to ask this the first time around. :P The trick of naming a GrandStaff (instead of each staff within) has been around for awhile (see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/input/test/out-www/lily-899083229.ly), but for the life of me I can't reproduce the effect myself. I tried \new GrandStaf

Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-16 Thread Will Oram
Many orchestral scores have tempo changes and rehearsal marks appear twice: once at the top (above the wind section) and once above the string section. It's easy to get lilypond to print \mark once at the top; can it be told to print it multiple times as described above? Will Oram // Genius @

problems instal ling 2.7.4

2005-08-16 Thread Arthur Moore
having a problem installing 2.7.4. make works no problem, make install gives me this error: make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C user install && make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C bibliography install && make PACKAGE=LILYPOND package=lilypond -C pictures install && make PACKAGE=

evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. An example .ly file: \version "2.6.0" \score { \relative c' { \time 3/4 d2. \time 7/8 e2.. \time 2/4 f2 \time 3/8 es4. \time 5/8 ges4 f4. \time 4/8 e2 \time

Re: U of Waterloo ftp site not up to date and other issues

2005-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 12:19 PM, Peter Teeson wrote: It appears that the fink packages are way out of date. Even the unstable devel version is only at 2.5.23 So just what's the point of doing things the fink way if it is so far behind? There's more up-to-date packages in fink 0.8 (which is only fo

Re: U of Waterloo ftp site not up to date and other issues

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Teeson
Thank you Kris. I am aware of the .dmg. But that is merely an install. I want to build from scratch for a number of reasons. respect... Peter On Aug 16, 2005, at 15:41, Kris Shaffer wrote: The most "straightforward way" to build Lilypond on Mac OS X now is to download the DMG package directly f

Re: 2.4 doc links broke?

2005-08-16 Thread John Mandereau
Fairchild wrote: > I can't open the regression tests or tips and tricks for v2.4?? My > problem or generic? > >- Bruce Do you mean those on the website, or on your harddisk? I had no problem opening those on the website. -- John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: U of Waterloo ftp site not up to date and other issues

2005-08-16 Thread Kris Shaffer
The most "straightforward way" to build Lilypond on Mac OS X now is to download the DMG package directly from Lilypond (new with 2.6.x--well, actually the late 2.5.x builds). You install it just like a typical Mac app: mount the image and drag the program to /Applications. It also comes w

U of Waterloo ftp site not up to date and other issues

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Teeson
Previously I had DL'd the 2.6.3 tarball and was working through building it on Panther 10.3.9 Based on Graham's comments I tried to do things the way other Mac folks do. So I downloaded and installed fink and fink commander. It appears that the fink packages are way out of date. Even the unstabl

2.4 doc links broke?

2005-08-16 Thread Fairchild
Title: 2.4 doc links broke? I can't open the regression tests or tips and tricks for v2.4??  My problem or generic?    - Bruce ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: collecting praise quotes for webpages?

2005-08-16 Thread Steve D
Here's some such unsolicited praise, which probably could be condensed and worded better, but-- ;-) As a former Finale user, I was originally daunted by LilyPond's very different approach, where the music notation exists in a plain-text file that the user can create and edit him or hersel

Unicode Fingereings

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathan Townes
Greetings All, I am beginning to write music for my harmonica practice and would like to use two Unicode characters in my fingerings: ↑ (Unicode: 2191/UTF8: E2 86 91) and ↓ (Unicode: 2193/UTF8: E2 86 93) I'm a little stumped as Unicode characters work as lyrics.. Jonathan ___

Re: Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 09.48, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > In addition to all the answers you have received earlier: > > Mark Gibbens wrote: > > If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be > > grateful for tips. I've tried the .package binary, but it appears not > > to be

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: [...] ('', '', 'psfonts', Great! Now it works. Thanks a lot. Martin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I finally found the silly bug causing the problem. The fix will appear in next versions of 2.6.x and 2.7.x. It's also easy to fix it yourself in your existing installation. Just open /usr/bin/lilypond-book (or wherever the program is installed, check with 'which lilypond-book') in a text editor (a

Re: Problems after upgrading (lilypond-book)

2005-08-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strange! Here are the results I get with version 2.6.3, $ export LANG=en_US $ lilypond-book -o out --psfonts /tmp/test.lytex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.6.3 Reading /tmp/test.lytex... Dissecting... Writing snippets... All snippets are up to date... Compiling test.tex... test.tex is up to date.

Re: force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread lfanele
is there a way to put a natural sign manually? in this example the natural sign is left out at the b, but i want to make sure the reader understands it is a b not a bes. See 6.1.3 Cautionary accidentals. It's possible that this won't work in 2.6, though. I tested it in 2.7.4, but I ha

Re: force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
You might look in the documentation under the heading "Cautionary accidentals," which happens to be section 6.1.3. Josiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, is there a way to put a natural sign manually? in this example the natural sign is left out at the b, but i want to make sure the reader u

Re: force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 3:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible that this won't work in 2.6, though. I tested it in 2.7.4, but I have a vague recollection that "! forces a natural to appear" was a recent thing. Thanks Graham, the ! did the trick, but in the 2.6 manual there is no hint tha

Re: force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 2:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to put a natural sign manually? in this example the natural sign is left out at the b, but i want to make sure the reader understands it is a b not a bes. See 6.1.3 Cautionary accidentals. It's possible that this won't work in

collecting praise quotes for webpages?

2005-08-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bec and John Silva wrote: I just wanted to second Kieren's comment. I've compared outputs from different programs, like that thread linked to by others, and I've learned many things about engraving as a result (along with examining my own older hand-engraved editions). As I've been entering my

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Aug 2005, at 09:52, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If I put \layout{raggedright=##t} into my score, I get funny line-breaks. The "below" gets printed not below, but as in the following image: I noticed the same when I tried out the function, but then I happened to upgrade to 2.7.5 where

force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread lfanele
hi, is there a way to put a natural sign manually? in this example the natural sign is left out at the b, but i want to make sure the reader understands it is a b not a bes. natural_accidental.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document This is the code for the example: \version "2.6.3" \layou

Re: Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition to all the answers you have received earlier: Mark Gibbens wrote: If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be grateful for tips. I've tried the .package binary, but it appears not to be happy with the version of Ghostview I've got (gnome-gv 1:2.8.4-0ub

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hans Aberg wrote: If I put \layout{raggedright=##t} into my score, I get funny line-breaks. The "below" gets printed not below, but as in the following image: I noticed the same when I tried out the function, but then I happened to upgrade to 2.7.5 where the bug was already solved. Since