New Essay:nitpicking

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Deubelbeiss
I became aware of the Essay rewrite through the bug list and had a quick 
read-through of the new text. I agree it's an improvement over the old one, but 
would like to point out three minor matters.

Typo: In the penultimate paragraph of _1.3 Automated engraving - Getting things 
right_, please replace "acceptible" with "acceptable" (twice)

Typo: In _1.4 Building software - Music representation_, replace "heirarchical" 
with "hierarchical" (just before the music example preceding the Tidy Structure 
of Nested Boxes illustration)

Finally, for a less clear-cut problem: I can't follow the argument about sharp 
points in _1.2 Engraving details - Music fonts_ (the paragraph after the 
illustration comparing Opus with Feta/Emmentaler).

In the middle of a discussion of legibility and beauty in music fonts, a design 
choice (non-pointy angles) is justified through a technical restriction 
(fragile dies) that doesn't apply in a computer-based printing context. I'll 
happily agree that the Lilypond variety "just looks nicer", but if nobody can 
come up with a concise explanation to put in the essay, I'd suggest not 
mentioning the matter at all. The current text produces a somewhat fanboyish 
impression, justifying a design detail with "because The Masters did it that 
way" even while admitting that said Masters' reasons for choosing their 
solution no longer apply.

...  or leave it, I guess. I think the old essay had roughly the same 
text there, and it doesn't seem to have provoked any complaints.
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Regression comparisons: something rotten

2008-02-22 Thread Alexander Deubelbeiss
In http://lilypond.org/test/v2.11.40-1/compare-v2.11.39-1/index.html some of 
the regression tests show log files instead of notation images. Here's the list:

volta-broken-left-edge
chord-names-languages
instrument-name
multi-measure-rest-instr-name
profile-property-access
instrument-name-dynamic
quote-cue-during
alignment-vertical-spacing
quote-during
tag-filter
quote
instrument-name-markup
clip-systems
instrument-switch
drums
quote-grace
instrument-name-hara-kiri
prefatory-spacing-matter
fret-boards
option-help
instrument-name-partial

Nearly all of these do have images on the collated-files page, so the problem 
seems to be with the comparison setup rather than with actual tests breaking on 
the current version.

The one that does not have a collated-files image is option-help.ly -- should 
there be one, or is the result written to the console for that test?
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Re: Lilypond-book docs incorrect

2008-03-10 Thread Alexander Deubelbeiss
You seem to be using the documentation for version 2.1. Go to the link in your 
message and replace "v2.1" in the URL with "v2.8" (or "v2.10" for the latest 
version).

The newer version of that page does explain about the psfonts option, and 
contains a link to section 13.6 "Invoking lilypond-book" which tells you how to 
feed the psfonts file to dvips.

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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:44:08 + (UTC)
> From: Kevin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Lilypond-book docs incorrect
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> The only docs I can find on lilypond-book 
> (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Integrating-text-and-music.html#Integrating-text-and-music)
> appear to be misleading without further information.  The instructions are
> as 
> follows:
> (1) insert lilypond markup in a .tex file (mybook.tex);
> (2) mkdir outputs;
> (3) lilypond-book --output=outputs/ mybook.tex;
> (4) cd outputs;
> (5) latex mybook;
> (6) dvips -Ppdf -u +lilypond mybook;
> (7) ps2pdf mybook.ps.
> (I suppose that in theory all the above steps could be combined into a
> switch 
> that is passable to lilypond-book saying "make me a pdf out of this tex
> file, 
> please", but there may be some reason why this has not been done.)
> 
> The above process gives a pdf in which the notation is missing noteheads
> and 
> other things like clefs.  In turn, this appears to be linked to the
> workflow 
> being unable to access the Feta font at some stage(s).  Item (3) therefore
> needs to read:
> lilypond-book --psfonts --output=outputs/ mybook.tex
> but the same issue must also occur elsewhere, probably at (7).
> 
> I have been trying various permutations with various programs and googling
> for 
> around 10 hours now, and I've given up.  Apparently lilypond-book is 
> the "recommended" way of doing this (since the lilypond --tex approach is
> no 
> longer properly supported), but it plainly doesn't work as advertised. 
> Several 
> of the pages I turned up via Google recount people's problems with getting
> the 
> Feta font seen by LaTeX, but there seems to be no good (ie
> easily-applicable) 
> solution to that issue either (the current fonts have no .fd file, for 
> instance, so they would need to be compiled from source, which is not
> something 
> everyone can do).
> 
> What I'm doing now is to generate a pdf from the .ly file produced by 
> Rosegarden (which is a terrific visual front-end for Lilypond) for each of
> the 
> notation snippets I wanted to reference, take a snapshot of it at 200%,
> crop 
> and reduce it in GIMP, and then insert it as a picture in KWord.  The
> snippets 
> come out slightly fuzzy, but the process is considerably simpler and less 
> time-consuming than the lilypond-book option, and produces a useable
> result.
> 
> It's very sad that an excellent project like Lilypond, dedicated to
> producing 
> high-quality notation engraving, doesn't seem to offer a reliable and 
> documented way of working with LaTeX, dedicated to producing high-quality 
> typesetting, even though they are both based on the same TeX engine, and
> even 
> though it would seem that they are ideal companions.  Rosegarden can take
> its 
> notation view and convert it via Lilypond into a pdf at the click of a
> button, 
> and it's not clear why converting a tex file into a pdf should be so much 
> harder.
> 
> For the record, I am using:
> openSUSE 10.2
> lilypond 2.8.7-15
> te_latex 3.0-58
> 
> 
> Kevin Donnelly
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User Manual, spelling: accacciatura

2004-07-29 Thread Alexander Deubelbeiss
Hi ho,

I noticed that three of the misspellings survive in the User Manual 2.2.3:
Two in section 3.7.10, in the variable names "startAccacciaturaMusic" and
"stopAccacciaturaMusic", and the third in the Unified Index.

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