Ties and repeats

2015-09-16 Thread Frank Wuest
Hi everyone, I'm currently transforming the bass part of a big band arrangement (8 pages, boo!) into a more usable form. That means using a bunch of repeats with alternatives, plus ties across these alternatives. Now I know that regular ties don't work from the end of an alternative to the be

Can't get chord symbols to print right

2013-07-09 Thread Frank Wuest
Hi everyone, I just need to rearrange some sheet music, and this is the first time I need to incorporate chord symbols. I tried to go about according to the documentation, but can't quite get things to work. Th following code: \version "2.16.1" \header { title = whatever" } { \key des \major \

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-11 Thread Frank Wuest
Hello, Von: Graham Percival >Technical reasons?  not many.  Cultural reasons?  they don't like >binaries. Actually, there are two significant technical reasons: the official FreeBSD packages are usually a bit behind on updates, and if you're running an older version of FreeBSD, packages may

Re: Bug or user error?

2011-07-15 Thread Frank Wuest
Hi, thanks to all for the quick replies and the clarification. It's been some time since I read the documentation on this subject, and I seem to recall that things may have not been quite as clear back then. cheers, Frank ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Bug or user error?

2011-07-15 Thread Frank Wuest
G'day everyone, I've been reading this list for some time, but this is the first time I post something. I'm the bass player with a bigband, and I want to use Lilypond mainly to convert some of the sheet music I'm getting into something more useful. Anyway, the first installation was somewhat M