Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-12 Thread Johan Vromans
David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument Sounds like a Unicode mixup. E.g., the copyright character is stored in the file encoded as iso-8859.1 instead of utf-8? -- Johan ___

Re: LilyPondTool and jPedal preview

2009-01-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Could you please report this and such bugs on http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit (use the Tracker feature). Unfortunately I don't have much time to test. And using this tracker is the only way to ensure I don't forget about these bugs. Thanks, Bert Nick Payne wrote: I see the

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-12 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/1/12 David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com: \header { title = Stock Arrangement copyright = (c)2009 An Author } programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument continuing, cross fingers programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.

Re: make-music function question

2009-01-12 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Please, help me with my own music function creation. How can I modify music object or create a new one with existing music data and add sustain event to it? If I understand correct, I must use make-music function and then use (make-span-event 'SustainEvent START) call to generate sustain

Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Hall
Hello List is it possible to combine harmonics notation with a small stemless parenthesized note indicating the sounding pitch of a string harmonic? Something like a e' \harmonic \parenthesize e'' -but also including a small stemless notehead (\tiny?) for the e'' This is common in C20th

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2009-01-12 Thread John Mandereau
Stefan Thomas a écrit : Dear John, I tried now Your key-diatonic tranposition, but, in the below quoted snippet, it doesn't work. I get the error message: programming error: moving backwards in time Hello Stefan, I can reproduce this error and I get strange output (staves with only the staff

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Tom Hall wrote: Hello List is it possible to combine harmonics notation with a small stemless parenthesized note indicating the sounding pitch of a string harmonic? Something like a e' \harmonic \parenthesize e'' -but also including a small stemless notehead (\tiny?) for the e'' This is

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Tom Hall wrote: Hello List is it possible to combine harmonics notation with a small stemless parenthesized note indicating the sounding pitch of a string harmonic? Something like a e' \harmonic \parenthesize e'' -but also including a small stemless notehead (\tiny?)

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Sorry, Tom. I forgot in the first email that you wanted the parenthesized note to be small. Here's the revised snippet, which I've just added to the LSR as well. Jon Sorry again. I plead the early hour. :| I mistakenly used a guitar clef with this. Change the

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Kieren, Yes, I'm trying to make it not cross through the stemsm 2009/1/11 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Hi Stefan, with me version of lilypond it looks like in the attached png-file. Looks just like mine… and I like it! Are you trying to make it not cross through the

Re: make-music function question

2009-01-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/12/09 2:07 AM, Gilles THIBAULT gilles.thiba...@free.fr wrote: Please, help me with my own music function creation. How can I modify music object or create a new one with existing music data and add sustain event to it? If I understand correct, I must use make-music function

Re: not so nice slur

2009-01-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefan, Yes, I'm trying to make it not cross through the stems Here's one option: \version 2.12.0 \include english.ly slurFix = { \once \override PhrasingSlur #'height-limit = #4 \once \override PhrasingSlur #'ratio = #0.6 \once \override PhrasingSlur #'positions = #'(7 . 7) }

sequences

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Fehr
I am looking for a way to create sequences in a key. The old posting I found (Re: command for 'sequences'? Rune Zedeler Fri, 21 Sep 2001) is written for an old version. leaving away the old stuff I get to this solution - which does not work. Any help available Thomas \version 2.12.1

Re: Copyright symbol SOLVED

2009-01-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 11 January 2009, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, copy;, #169; and © don't work. Thank you so much for your answers. It was the editor, nedit. Emacs saves old files with the old encoding regardless of a

Re: Copyright symbol SOLVED

2009-01-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 12. Januar 2009 schrieb David Raleigh Arnold: This could never have happened if the symbol were present in any header example or template. Every copyright notice should have the symbol, because without it it's not a copyright notice.

LilyPond 2.12.1 and TeXShop 2.18 - problems with LilypondLaTeX.engine solved (OS X 10.4 Tiger)

2009-01-12 Thread techek
After installing the latest version of MacTeX-2008 and LilyPond the LilypondLaTeX.engine produced a couple of error messages. I believe to have solved the problem by modifying Nicola Vitacolonna's script (which has - by the way - never worked with me as posted!). It reads now as follows:

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Hall
Thanks Jon that was really helpful. From your post and lily docs, I've cobbled together the following below, which seems to work OK, aiming to use a global variable to save some space. A question about this: is there a way to move the parenthesisation (\parenthesize) to within the global

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Tom Hall wrote: Thanks Jon that was really helpful. From your post and lily docs, I've cobbled together the following below, which seems to work OK, aiming to use a global variable to save some space. A question about this: is there a way to move the parenthesisation (\parenthesize) to

Re: sequences

2009-01-12 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
leaving away the old stuff I get to this solution - which does not work. Any help available Thomas \version 2.12.1 #(define ((shift-pitch amount) p) (let* ((o (ly:pitch-octave p)) (a (ly:pitch-alteration p)) (n (ly:pitch-notename p))) (set! n (+ amount n)) (while ( n

Re: Copyright symbol SOLVED

2009-01-12 Thread Brett Duncan
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: This could never have happened if the symbol were present in any header example or template. Every copyright notice should have the symbol, because without it it's not a copyright notice. Not true - if it has the word Copyright followed by the year of publication

Slur across voices without taking time with hidden notes

2009-01-12 Thread Nick Payne
In this example, excerpted from a score, how can I get a slur between the two notes? The snippets repository shows slurs across voices using hidden notes, but the hidden notes are counted in the timing. \relative c' { \time 3/4 { b'4\rest e,2 | } \\ {

Beam collision next note's accidental within single voice

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Hall
Hello list how can I move a beamed note (the e-flat below) to the right, to avoid collision of the accidental with the beam of the preceding note? I've managed to lift the beams OK by overriding the beam positions, but what's needed i think is a horizontal right shift e-flat. I've looked at

RE: Beam collision next note's accidental within single voice

2009-01-12 Thread Nick Payne
Why not move the beam instead. A few choices: %== \version 2.12.1 \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 3/8 d,4 ~ \once\override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 d32 ees'16. | d,4 ~ \once\override Beam #'positions = #'(5.5 . 6.5) d32 ees'16. | d,4 ~

Re: Beam collision next note's accidental within single voice

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Hall
Hello Nick Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net writes: Why not move the beam instead. A few choices: %== \version 2.12.1 \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 3/8 d,4 ~ \once\override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 d32 ees'16. | d,4 ~

Re: Slur across voices without taking time with hidden notes

2009-01-12 Thread James E. Bailey
You could try putting the slur in a completely different voice altogether. {b'4\rest e,2}\\{a,2.}\\{\hideNotes a4_( e2)} Am 12.01.2009 um 21:56 schrieb Nick Payne: In this example, excerpted from a score, how can I get a slur between the two notes? The snippets repository shows slurs

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/12/09 10:21 AM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Tom Hall wrote: Thanks Jon that was really helpful. From your post and lily docs, I've cobbled together the following below, which seems to work OK, aiming to use a global variable to save some space. A question about

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Yes, this is a job for scheme, because parenthesize is a music function, and it needs to have music following it. That's why you can't move it into an identifier. The custosNote example in Section 6.1.2 of the Notation Reference should give you the pattern you need to

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Hall
Carl D. Sorensen c_sorensen at byu.edu writes: Yes, this is a job for scheme, because parenthesize is a music function, and it needs to have music following it. That's why you can't move it into an identifier. The custosNote example in Section 6.1.2 of the Notation Reference should give

Re: Beam collision next note's accidental within single voice

2009-01-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tom Hall wrote Monday, January 12, 2009 9:45 PM Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net writes: Why not move the beam instead. A few choices: %== \version 2.12.1 \new Staff \relative c'' { \time 3/8 d,4 ~ \once\override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 d32 ees'16. | d,4

Lilypond Windows Vista

2009-01-12 Thread Frida van Leeuwen
Is is possible to run Lilypond on a notebook with Windows Vista, ore is a Vista-version coming out soon? Your program seems pretty interesting to me! Frida ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lilypond Windows Vista

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Frida van Leeuwen wrote: Is is possible to run Lilypond on a notebook with Windows Vista, ore is a Vista-version coming out soon? Your program seems pretty interesting to me! Frida ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Re: Slur across voices without taking time with hidden notes

2009-01-12 Thread nick . payne
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } The problem there is that even with mergeDifferentlyDottedOn and mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn, LP won't merge a half note with a quarter note, so the visible and hidden a notes aren't merged and the slur doesn't line up with the

Re: Artificial harmonics with sounding pitch in parenthesis

2009-01-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/12/09 3:21 PM, Tom Hall r...@ludions.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen c_sorensen at byu.edu writes: Yes, this is a job for scheme, because parenthesize is a music function, and it needs to have music following it. That's why you can't move it into an identifier. The custosNote

Re: Copyright symbol

2009-01-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:12:41PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: Strange that the usual method fails. This is a less elegant solution, but it should work. Patrick, it doesn't work for me either, and I've saved as UTF-8. Hope this

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-12 Thread M Watts
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: I've noticed scores compile much quicker on much lower specced machines, Indeed so, my 32 bit 1.6Ghz with 512 meg ram takes 4 minutes 39 seconds -- no swapsies either. time lilypond score.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.1 Processing `score.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...

Assigning lyrics to stanzas without using \lyricsto

2009-01-12 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Hello, I'm trying to write some lyrics to a chorus and two stanzas, explicitly specifying the duration of each syllable (see sample file at the end). While trying to assign each of the stanza lyrics to the music, I find myself on this situation: · If I use \lyricsto, the specified durations are

Re: Assigning lyrics to stanzas without using \lyricsto

2009-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
First of all, I would recommend you to upgrade to the new stable version 2.12, which is much better than 2.10, not the least when it comes to the documentation. There are two issues involved here, when you manually specify the durations of the syllables: - If you want the verses to start