Re: How to shorten up a one measure markup score?

2006-08-29 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi Rick,

altering

1*1/64

might do the trick (mind the *1/64 part)!

HTH
Markus

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>
> I'd like to use the capability of embedding a score into markup, to
indicate
> to the player how certain things are notated on the page.  In the example
> below I am doing that to indicate how string and finger numbers will
appear.
>
> My question is: Is there a way to shorten up the measure in the one
measure
> \markup score?  It appears to be adding a fair amount of padding after the
> whole note and I'd like to force it to print the ending bar immediately
> because this is just helper markup.
>
> The example below will run as-is, just paste and go, it's an interesting
> problem if anyone has a moment to try out the code below.  I've tried
> several things to no avail.
>
> thanks Rick





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Re: Embedding lily pdfs in InDesign

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

On 8/26/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Trevor Bača wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience successfully embedding lily pdf output
> in InDesign?
>
> I start by creating a new InDesign doc and then placing the
> lily-generated pdf in the InDesign doc. Just to test I then export as
> pdf, and the results are pretty bad. Staff lines, ledger lines, beams
> and hairpins show up fine; but all noteheads, accidentals, and text
> are missing. My conclusion is that all font elements are missing (the
> cheese fonts for the music elemen ts, and New Century Schoolbook for
> the text).

That's strange. Does it work when you install the LilyPond fonts into
Windows/MacOS ?

> So is there anyone out there putting lily-generated pdfs into InDesign
> successfully?
>
> (I would prefer to keep everything in lily, but using any fonts in
> lily at all other than New Century Schoolbook causes explosions when I
> send the pdf to the printers.)

That's strange. What platform are you on? The lily and NCSB aren't any
special.


Hi Graham, Han-Wen & Henning,

I've been digging around the last couple of nights trying to get
lily-generated PDFs (or EPS) to show up in InDesign correctly. And I'm
now in a position to answer comments:


Han-Wen wrote:

HW > That's strange. What platform are you on? The lily and NCSB
aren't any special.

OS X Intel with 2.9.16


HW > That's strange. Does it work when you install the LilyPond fonts into
Windows/MacOS ?

Ah, I think this is what I'm messing up. I've been trying to install
the LilyPond fonts into OS X and it's proving to be *very* difficult.
I've mentioned my installation attempts in a thread Kieren started in
February (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-02/msg00400.html)
but the short of the matter is that using OS X's FontBook to install
the several different sizes of Emmentaler has been frustrating.
FontBook shows all the sizes as being there, but InDesign will
recognize (and display in its Font menu) only 4 or 5 of the sizes. If
I delete all the Emmentaler fonts from the whatever/Fonts folder to
which FontBook writes, and then reinstall, then InDesign will see all
the sizes *until I quit InDesign and restart*, at which point InDesign
believes there're only 4 or 5 sizes again. Grrr ...

On the other hand, NCSB installed perfectly and InDesign sees it and
renders all lily NCSB text correctly all the time.

So what are "the" LilyPond fonts? NCSB together with the Emmentaler
and Feta collections only? Or are there more? Also, are there
instructions anywhere on installing the LilyPond fonts under OS X?


Graham wrote:

GP > Didn't we discuss this a few days ago on -devel?  ... at least, did you
follow all the steps that were suggested for .eps files?  There's even a
doc section (14.8) about this issue, but it's not online yet.

GP> I think that
lilypond -dno-gs-font-load
should do what you want.

Yes, Graham's definitely right here. lilypond -dno-gs-font-load (and
Han-Wen's other pointer to -deps-font-include) *do* definitely embed
the lilypond fonts into the PDF or EPS as grepping the output file's
with grep's -a option shows (or even just using vim to nose around in
the files and look for BeginFont).

But even with the lily fonts embedded, InDesign refuses to recognize
some of the fonts and does really ugly things (see pair of
attachments).


Henning wrote:

FV > I regularly use LilyPond PDFs with InDesign (CS, CS2) and ConTeXt
and never had problems with those.

This gives me hope. But take a look at the attachments. The
"before.png" shows a bit of a lily-generated pdf as it comes out of
lily. Perfect. The "after.png" shows what happens when I place the
lily-generated pdf into InDesign and then export back out of InDesign
to make a new pdf. Yuck. It looks like the lines (staff lines, ledger
lines, tuplet brackets) are aligned according to one pattern, while
(some but not all of) the noteheads, the time signatures, and the
tuplet numbers and simply aligned according to some entirely different
pattern. (There's no musical transposition here; InDesign seems to be
shifting the noteheads in the "after.png" down and to the right, even
though it kinda looks like things have transposed down a third.)

I'm assuming what *must* be going on here is that InDesign simply
isn't seeing some of the LilyPond fonts (like certain sizes of the
Emmentaler set) and so is substituting in a really ugly way. So maybe
what I really need help with is figuring out how to install "the"
LilyPond fonts under OS X.


(This is so frustrating because all I want to do with InDesign is add
skewed, kerned text for the title and composer on the front page! I
guess I should just build the title text in InDesign, save as EPS, and
then import into lily ...)

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Re: [somewhat-OT] tweaking Lilypond PS/PDF output in (e.g.) Illustrator

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

On 8/29/06, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 3/5/06, Kieren Richard MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Han-Wen, etc.:
>
> > you have to install both the Century Schoolbook font, and the feta-
> > alphabet fonts so Illustrator recognizes it.
> > I expect that you will need to convert the feta-alphabet* fonts to
> > TTF, eg. using fontforge.

Hi Kieren,

I seem to be now where you were back in February: I want to stick
lilypond output into InDesign (pretty close to Illustrator) and I'm
having all sorts of fun. I'm on OS X Intel with 2.9.16 and I was able
to use FontBook to tell OS X about Emmentaler and New Century
Schoolbook (by digging around and finding the otf folder within the
LilyPond.app package). And, happily, the InDesign font menu shows both
Emmentaler and New Century Schoolbook (and imported EPS stuff looks
great ... except that I have no noteheads ...)

I think what's missing now is that InDesign doesn't know about the
Feta .pfa fonts.


OK, actually, I think I'm wrong; I think what's missing is that
InDesign doesn't know about certain sizes of Emmentaler. (But I'm
still interested in Kieren's Feta package, if it's available!)

If I look in FontBook then I see the following Emmentaler sizes ...

 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26

... but when I look in InDesign's Type menu, I see only the following
Emmentaler sizes ...

 11, 13, 14, 16, 23, 26

... thus missing sizes 18 and 20.

So ... when I render a sample .eps file with -deps-font-include I
discover the following fonts:

Trevor-Bacas-Computer-2:~/Documents/music/lilypond/test trevorbaca$
grep -a BeginFont 211.eps
%%BeginFont: CenturySchL-Roma
%%BeginFont: Emmentaler-20

And then placing the test .eps file into InDesign causes InDesign to
complain that it can't find Emmentaler-20. This makes sense as
InDesign seems to know about neither size 18 nor 20.

So question for anybody who knows about OS X font management: why
would FontBook know about two sizes of Emmentaler that InDesign does
not?

Another question: why is InDesign complaining about not knowing about
Emmentaler-20? Isn't the whole point of an EPS that the EPS carry
around all necessary font descriptions? Shouldn't that be enough to
make InDesign happy?


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Re: [somewhat-OT] tweaking Lilypond PS/PDF output in (e.g.) Illustrator

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

On 3/5/06, Kieren Richard MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi, Han-Wen, etc.:

> you have to install both the Century Schoolbook font, and the feta-
> alphabet fonts so Illustrator recognizes it.
> I expect that you will need to convert the feta-alphabet* fonts to
> TTF, eg. using fontforge.


Hi Kieren,

I seem to be now where you were back in February: I want to stick
lilypond output into InDesign (pretty close to Illustrator) and I'm
having all sorts of fun. I'm on OS X Intel with 2.9.16 and I was able
to use FontBook to tell OS X about Emmentaler and New Century
Schoolbook (by digging around and finding the otf folder within the
LilyPond.app package). And, happily, the InDesign font menu shows both
Emmentaler and New Century Schoolbook (and imported EPS stuff looks
great ... except that I have no noteheads ...)

I think what's missing now is that InDesign doesn't know about the
Feta .pfa fonts.

Do you still have you TTF versions you cooked up in February? And
would you be willing to share?

Also, did you ever go the EPS route when you were importing to
Illustrator, or do you always import PDF? (Because it seems like
forcibly embedding in an EPS might be a more reliable way of
proceding, so I was curious if there's a reason to go the PDF route
instead.)

Trevor.

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Re: Benefits of OS X binary vs. Fink version?

2006-08-29 Thread Henrik Frisk
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Quoting Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > The one
> > thing that gets to me is I don't (automatically) have access to the
> > texinfo docs with
> > the binary version.
> 
> I hope you know that you can download all the documentation in the form
> of a zipped tar file from http://lilypond.org/web/install/.
> 
Yes, I do. But, although this could theoretically all be automated, it
means that for every update of Lilypond also make sure to get the
docs. Keeping the Fink tree up to date is easily done on a regular
basis. I know, it doesn't sound like a big deal, but...

/henrik


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Re: Preferred way of invoking lilypond from the commandline under OS X?

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

On 8/29/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Trevor Bača wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's currently the preferred way of invoking lilypond from the
> commandline under OS X?
>
> Is it still to go the lilycall.py way or is it now better to call
> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond directly?
>
> Or is there a third alternative?
>

Lilycall should be deprecated. Just run the lilypond binary directly.


Will do.

Graham, I know the manual is feature-ready and in a wait state for
final release. If it's easy to add, we might insert into 13.2
something like "To invoke LilyPond from the commandline under OS X,
run path/to/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond. The same is
true of the other scripts in the /bin directory, including
lilypond-book, convert-ly, abc2ly, etc."



> (The manual at 13.2 "Notes for the MacOS app" mentions that scripts
> exist in /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin, but is
> silent as to the best way to invoke the app.)



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Re: Benefits of OS X binary vs. Fink version?

2006-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson

Quoting Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


The one
thing that gets to me is I don't (automatically) have access to the 
texinfo docs with

the binary version.


I hope you know that you can download all the documentation in the form
of a zipped tar file from http://lilypond.org/web/install/.

  /Mats



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Re: Benefits of OS X binary vs. Fink version?

2006-08-29 Thread Henrik Frisk
Benjamin Esham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I use Mac OS X, and have Lilypond installed with Fink.  Recently,  
> however, with the transition to Intel hardware, the latest version of  
> Lilypond available there is 2.6.3.  (2.8.2 is listed, but does not  
> compile for me.)  What are the advantages and disadvantages of  
> downloading the official pre-built version and running that from  
> the command line? Will that version recognize the relevant parts of  
> the Fink installation, or does it provide all of its own stuff?   
> Thanks for any guidance here.

I've noticed that the Fink version is lacking behind. Some time ago I
aproached the maintainer about this and, at the time, he said he thought
it wasn't usefule to maintain the Fink version of Lilypond as there was
a binary version available. I convinced him that there is a reason to
have keep the Fink version updated, but recently there hasn't been any
updates on the Fink version which has made me start using the
binaries. I would however personally prefer to use the Fink
version. However, from a user perspective there's no difference. The one
thing that gets to me is I don't (automatically) have access to the texinfo 
docs with
the binary version.

The Lilypond binary doesn't reference any external libraries but comes
with everything it needs.

Perhaps aproaching the maintainer again will make him keep Lilypond up
to date?

Best,

/henrik


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Benefits of OS X binary vs. Fink version?

2006-08-29 Thread Benjamin Esham

Hello all,

I use Mac OS X, and have Lilypond installed with Fink.  Recently,  
however, with the transition to Intel hardware, the latest version of  
Lilypond available there is 2.6.3.  (2.8.2 is listed, but does not  
compile for me.)  What are the advantages and disadvantages of  
downloading the “official” pre-built version and running that from  
the command line?  Will that version recognize the relevant parts of  
the Fink installation, or does it provide all of its own stuff?   
Thanks for any guidance here.


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Re: Preferred way of invoking lilypond from the commandline under OS X?

2006-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys

Trevor Bača wrote:

Hi,

What's currently the preferred way of invoking lilypond from the
commandline under OS X?

Is it still to go the lilycall.py way or is it now better to call
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond directly?

Or is there a third alternative?



Lilycall should be deprecated. Just run the lilypond binary directly.


(The manual at 13.2 "Notes for the MacOS app" mentions that scripts
exist in /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin, but is
silent as to the best way to invoke the app.)




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RE: functions in \with

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Daniels


> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 10:47, Erik Sandberg replied:
Thanks for responding, Erik

> On Monday 28 August 2006 13:55, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > I'm happily creating and using music functions but so far my attempts to
> > define functions that can be used in \with or \context clauses
> have failed.
> > The suggested technique of making a void function using (make-music
> > 'SequentialMusic 'void #t) doesn't seem to help.
>
> What do you want to achieve, more precisely?

Being relatively new to lilypond I wanted to encapsulate useful expressions
in variables and functions as I came across them.  For music-related
expressions I find these very useful, and I wanted to do the same for other
types of sequences.  Here's a simple example (thanks, Kieren) to reduce the
size of a piano grand staff which I've failed to recast as a more general
function for use in a \with clause:

\new PianoStaff  \with {
 fontSize = #-2 % reduce size of all fonts
 \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -2)% reduce size of staves
by same amount
 \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #11% increase distance
between staves for piano dynamics
}
 ... rest of staves and music

I wanted to define a void function something like

staffSize=#(
 define-music-function (parser location fontsize separation) (number?
number?) #{
  fontSize = #$fontsize % change size of all fonts
  \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep #$fontsize)   % change size
of staves by same amount
  \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #$separation  % change
distance between staves for piano dynamics
 #}
 (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'void #t)
)

which could be used as:

\new PianoStaff \with { \staffSize #-2.0 #11.0 }

but attempts to use a function within \with {...} cause an 'unexpected
MUSIC_FUNCTION_SCM' error on \staffSize or leave the parser forlornly
'Parsing ...', depending on the contents of the function definition.

Using a variable without parametrisation gives an 'unexpected
MUSIC_IDENTIFIER' error.

I don't know whether it is possible to do this, or whether I simply haven't
learned how to do it properly yet.

> Note that \with uses a different lexical mode than music, so e.g. the
> \override keyword does not produce a music expression when used
> inside \with.

I had hoped (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'void #t) would prevent the parser
looking for music.
>
> You can probably perform operations on the whole \with block if you are
> clever, by applying a funciton on the \new expression, like
> \myFun \new Staff=foo \with {bla bla} {music}
>
As a relative newbie I don't have the confidence to try this yet - maybe one
day!
> --
> Erik
>
Trevor

>
>





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Preferred way of invoking lilypond from the commandline under OS X?

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

Hi,

What's currently the preferred way of invoking lilypond from the
commandline under OS X?

Is it still to go the lilycall.py way or is it now better to call
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond directly?

Or is there a third alternative?

(The manual at 13.2 "Notes for the MacOS app" mentions that scripts
exist in /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin, but is
silent as to the best way to invoke the app.)


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Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača

On 8/29/06, Steve D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:22:44PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> >Yes, exactly. The notes can be separately articulated, with separate
> >accidentals and so on. What the notes share will be spanning stems and
> >a single beam.
>
> OK. This is a completely different feature than what Steve is looking
> for. It's also quite a bit easier, I suspect.

Yes, that does seem different. It's true that my interest in cross-staff
chords centers around their use in the context of two adjacent staves
connected by a brace such as is used for piano or other polyphonic
instrument such as organ, harp, harpsichord or marimba.

However, I'm willing to sponsor both types of cross-staff chords (for
adjacent and non-adjacent staves) if they become considered as different
features.


OK, I'll help sponsor both, too. The first case (Steve's case) is a
true voice that happens to notate on two or more adjacent staves; the
second case (my case) is more typographical and connects notes in
(possibly nonadjacent) staves to give a textural look-and-feel to
stuff that happens in across the score.

I'm happy contributing to both; I think both affordances will have their place.


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Re: Displaying scores

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Phillips

Chuckk wrote:


I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple
things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different
thicknesses.  If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and
some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads.  Is
there another Linux pdf viewer that is more accurate?
I have Lilypond 2.8.6.
 

I prefer to use GhostView (aka gv) to view PostScript instead of PDF. 
However, I usually print from the Adobe Acrobat Reader (Linux version). 
It's not perfect, but it certainly has a better feature set than xpdf. 
Scores look okay in Acroread, better in GhostView (IMPO).


And as mentioned, using "gv --watch" gives me a near-realtime 
environment for the edit/compile/view cycle.


Best,

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Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-29 Thread Steve D
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:22:44PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> >Yes, exactly. The notes can be separately articulated, with separate
> >accidentals and so on. What the notes share will be spanning stems and
> >a single beam.
> 
> OK. This is a completely different feature than what Steve is looking 
> for. It's also quite a bit easier, I suspect.

Yes, that does seem different. It's true that my interest in cross-staff
chords centers around their use in the context of two adjacent staves
connected by a brace such as is used for piano or other polyphonic
instrument such as organ, harp, harpsichord or marimba.

However, I'm willing to sponsor both types of cross-staff chords (for
adjacent and non-adjacent staves) if they become considered as different
features.

Steve

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Re: Displaying scores

2006-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can also use gv or ghostview(?) to view PDF files (in addition to 
PS files).


 /Mats

Quoting Joseph Wakeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple
things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different
thicknesses.  If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and
some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads.  Is
there another Linux pdf viewer that is more accurate?


You can get the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux, although how easy this
is depends on your distro.  There's also XPDF and KPDF (PDF viewers
written for the X-window system and KDE, respectively, but of course
they'll work on everything).

In my experience screen output of PDFs can be dodgy anyway with certain
complex documents like scores.  When I made PDF exports from Finale they
looked terrible even in Acrobat (and not for the reasons cited in the
Lilypond documentation).  I presume your work looks fine when printed?


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Re: functions in \with

2006-08-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 28 August 2006 13:55, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> I'm happily creating and using music functions but so far my attempts to
> define functions that can be used in \with or \context clauses have failed.
> The suggested technique of making a void function using (make-music
> 'SequentialMusic 'void #t) doesn't seem to help.

What do you want to achieve, more precisely?
Note that \with uses a different lexical mode than music, so e.g. the 
\override keyword does not produce a music expression when used inside \with.

You can probably perform operations on the whole \with block if you are 
clever, by applying a funciton on the \new expression, like
\myFun \new Staff=foo \with {bla bla} {music}

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Re: Displaying scores

2006-08-29 Thread Christopher Culver
"Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple
> things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different
> thicknesses.  If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and
> some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads.  Is
> there another Linux pdf viewer that is more accurate?
> I have Lilypond 2.8.6.

Are you using the latest version of Evince? All looks fine for
me. It's xpdf that gives ugly output.


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Re: Displaying scores

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple
> things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different
> thicknesses.  If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and
> some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads.  Is
> there another Linux pdf viewer that is more accurate?

You can get the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux, although how easy this
is depends on your distro.  There's also XPDF and KPDF (PDF viewers
written for the X-window system and KDE, respectively, but of course
they'll work on everything).

In my experience screen output of PDFs can be dodgy anyway with certain
complex documents like scores.  When I made PDF exports from Finale they
looked terrible even in Acrobat (and not for the reasons cited in the
Lilypond documentation).  I presume your work looks fine when printed?


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Displaying scores

2006-08-29 Thread Chuckk Hubbard

I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple
things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different
thicknesses.  If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and
some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads.  Is
there another Linux pdf viewer that is more accurate?
I have Lilypond 2.8.6.


\version "2.8.6"
\header {
   copyright = "2006 Chuckk Hubbard"
   subtitle = ""
   title = "Your Nose Hairs and My Butt Hairs"
   tagline = "Exported by Rosegarden 4-1.2.3"
   footer = ""
}
#(set-global-staff-size 20)
\score {
   <<
   % force offset of colliding notes in chords:
   \override Score.NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.0
   \time 4/4

   \context Staff = "Right Hand 1" <<
   \set Staff.instrument = "Right Hand"
\set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f
   \context Voice = "voice 0" {
   \override Voice.TextScript #'padding = #2.0

   \clef treble
   a 16 e' g' b' cis' 8 cis'' 4 < c'' a' f' > 8 ~ < c'' a' f' > b'
   a 16 e' g' b' b fis' r8 cis' 16 gis' r8 dis' 16 ais' r8
   r1
   r1
%% 5
   r1

\bar "|."
   } % Voice

   >> % Staff

   \context Staff = "Left Hand 2" <<
   \set Staff.instrument = "Left Hand"
\set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f
   \context Voice = "voice 1" {
   \override Voice.TextScript #'padding = #2.0

   \clef bass
   a, 4~ a, 16 cis e g e8 g 4 f 8
   e 4 \times 2/3 { dis g 8 } \times 2/3 { e 4 gis 8 } <
cis gis > 4
   r1
   r1
%% 5
   r1

\bar "|."
   } % Voice

   >> % Staff (final)
   >> % notes
   \layout { papersize = "a4" }
} % score


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Re: Laissez vibrer question

2006-08-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG

> I'm trying to force the direction of a laissez vibrer tie like so:

Looking at the image I see that those ties have different horizontal
sizes.  This is really ugly.  Perhaps a parameter can be added to the
tie algorithm to dampen horizontal size changes if it is a laissez
vibrer tie.


Werner


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