Re: installing lilypond

2009-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
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On 7/15/09 5:40 AM, Graham Norton graha...@iprimus.com.au wrote:

 Hello. I tried installing lilypond tonight on my iMac, OS v. 10.5.7. I am an
 experienced TexShop user.
 
 I created the lilypond.engine file for bash in TeXShop (you should say this
 text
 file needs a .engine extension) and moved it into the TeXShop engine
 directory.
 Then I did chmod +x on the file from terminal.

Have you been to http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/?

I ask because the instructions there say to create LilyPond.engine (thus
saying it needs a .engine extension IMO)

 
 A window saying successful installation (which included a scale program) came
 onto my desktop.
 
 It said I should copy this window and compile it. I was unable to copy it (by
 selecting it and pressing apple key c, which beeped) and so could not compile
 it.
 
 Anyway, I went into TexShop and typed in the \header{ } etc. (with a few
 initial comments) and changed the file extension to .ly but it failed to
 compile
 in lilypond (from the typesetting button) and so there is no pdf file.
 
 Should I have surrounded it with latex commands (\documentclass etc.)??

No.  LaTeX is *not* involved in the creation of lilypond files (although
LilyPond files can be embedded in LaTeX files with lilypond-book).

 
 Here is the file (which I called scale.ly) that I tried to compile:
 
 %{
 Welcome to Lilypond
 
 %}
 \header{
 title=A scale in Lilypond}
 \relative{c d e f g h a b c}
 \version 2.12.2

This file should produce output.  It's probably not a LilyPond problem, but
rather some challenge in your TexShop setup.

try issuing the following commands from a terminal

which lilypond
(see if lilypond is visible to the shell)

if lilypond is visible to the shell, then do

lilypond scale.ly

If this creates scale.pdf, then lilypond is successfully installed, and the
remaining issues are integration with TexShop.

Hope this helps,

Carl



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\mark vertical alignment with Chord symbols.

2009-07-15 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
Dear Fellows: I'm currently experiencing a problem with aligning a DC al fine mark, as show in the enclosed picture. How can I put it below the chord symbol? This is the setup for the \markmelody = \relative c' {\override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible\override Score.RehearsalMark #'font-size = #-2\override MultiMeasureRestText #'self-alignment-X = #DOWN\time 3/4\clef treble\key a \majorr4 e8 fis\( \times 2/3 {fis\)gis a} %1.. ...gis8 fis e fis gis cis %39a2.  %40\bar "|."\override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT\override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #6.0\once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'outside-staff-priority = #-1\mark "D.C. al Fine"I just can't see how to put it between the staff and the chord. Any help will be appreciated.ThanksGuillermo___
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fret diagrams

2009-07-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all,

I'm desperately trying to typeset a simple C major fret diagram (guitar: first 
position). Here's my minimal example:

\version 2.12.2
\include predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly

mychords = \chordmode {
  c
  }
  
{  
 
\context ChordNames {
\mychords
}
\context FretBoards {
\mychords
}
 
}

The resulting diagram shows a c major chord in fifth position instead of first 
position (of the guitar). It probably doesn't work because I can't find the 
file »predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly« neither on my computer nor on the web. 
It's the same result with or without the \include-command. Where do I get this 
file from? If I have to create it myself: what is it supposed to look like? I 
didn't find any hints in the docs.

Thank you for your help!

Patrick
 

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Re: fret diagrams

2009-07-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Marc,

Thanks for your quick reply. I had used Smultron with an older version of 
LilyPond (2.11.37). The path was wrong so I didn't realise that I wasn't using 
2.12.2. After fixing the path I get the same results as you. But when I compile 
the file with the LilyPond-editor I get the following error messages:

(process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333

(process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333

(process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333

(process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333

Maybe I should update to 2.13.3?!

Cheers,
Patrick


 Original-Nachricht 
 Datum: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:25:21 +0200
 Von: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de
 An: Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de
 Betreff: Re: fret diagrams

 Patrick Schmidt schrieb:
  Hi all,
 
  I'm desperately trying to typeset a simple C major fret diagram (guitar:
 first position). Here's my minimal example:
 
  \version 2.12.2
  \include predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly
 
  mychords = \chordmode {
c
}

  {  
   
  \context ChordNames {
  \mychords
  }
  \context FretBoards {
  \mychords
  }
   
  }
 

 Your file works perfectly for me; I use version 2.13.3, but this doesn't 
 matter, I think.
 When I comment out the include command, I get xxx553 for c major, 
 otherwise it shows
 your desired chord.
  The resulting diagram shows a c major chord in fifth position instead of
 first position (of the guitar). It probably doesn't work because I can't
 find the file »predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly« neither on my computer nor
 on the web. It's the same result with or without the \include-command.
 Where do I get this file from? If I have to create it myself: what is it
 supposed to look like? I didn't find any hints in the docs.

 
 This file is part of the lilypond package - do you get an error message 
 when you invoke lilypond?
 
 Marc
  Thank you for your help!
 
  Patrick
   
 

  
 
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Re: fret diagrams

2009-07-15 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Problem solved. With 2.13.3 I don't get any error messages. Thanks again for 
your help!
Patrick
 Original-Nachricht 
 Datum: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:45:12 +0200
 Von: Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de
 An: lilypond-user@gnu.org
 Betreff: Re: fret diagrams

 Hi Marc,
 
 Thanks for your quick reply. I had used Smultron with an older version of
 LilyPond (2.11.37). The path was wrong so I didn't realise that I wasn't
 using 2.12.2. After fixing the path I get the same results as you. But when I
 compile the file with the LilyPond-editor I get the following error
 messages:
 
 (process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333
 
 (process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333
 
 (process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333
 
 (process:4832): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333
 
 Maybe I should update to 2.13.3?!
 
 Cheers,
 Patrick
 
 
  Original-Nachricht 
  Datum: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:25:21 +0200
  Von: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de
  An: Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de
  Betreff: Re: fret diagrams
 
  Patrick Schmidt schrieb:
   Hi all,
  
   I'm desperately trying to typeset a simple C major fret diagram
 (guitar:
  first position). Here's my minimal example:
  
   \version 2.12.2
   \include predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly
  
   mychords = \chordmode {
 c
 }
 
   {  

 \context ChordNames {
 \mychords
 }
 \context FretBoards {
 \mychords
 }

   }
  
 
  Your file works perfectly for me; I use version 2.13.3, but this doesn't
  matter, I think.
  When I comment out the include command, I get xxx553 for c major, 
  otherwise it shows
  your desired chord.
   The resulting diagram shows a c major chord in fifth position instead
 of
  first position (of the guitar). It probably doesn't work because I can't
  find the file »predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly« neither on my computer
 nor
  on the web. It's the same result with or without the \include-command.
  Where do I get this file from? If I have to create it myself: what is it
  supposed to look like? I didn't find any hints in the docs.
 
  
  This file is part of the lilypond package - do you get an error message 
  when you invoke lilypond?
  
  Marc
   Thank you for your help!
  
   Patrick

  
 
  
 
  
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guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to indicate a
guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3, but the
- is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd
finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same string. (Just
in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like:

   c-{-3} or c--3

The first doesn't work and the latter puts the -3 below the note. Is there a
mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the documentation and
not found an example, but I could have missed it.

Cheers


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Avoid indenting the first bar

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Weissmann
Hello,

I'm using Lilypond to add a hymn to a LaTeX document. I'm very impressed!

A couple of questions:

- how can I avoid indenting the first line of music?
- what does the symbol in quotation marks mean mean (visualise it
rotated clockwise by about 30 degrees) :||:?

Many thanks,
Tom SW


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Re: Avoid indenting the first bar

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Weissmann
 - what does the symbol in quotation marks mean mean (visualise it
 rotated clockwise by about 30 degrees) :||:?

It could be a kind of simile mark, which would make sense because it
marks a repetition of the words and a near repetition of the music.
However, the only simile marks I can find live inside the stave, not
above it as this one does.


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Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-15 Thread David Fedoruk
Hi:

I did, as I mentioned earlier, visit my local music store and looked at
their selection of fake books.  I found what was the first legally published
one in its new format. I was dissa pointed. Although it was as nicely
typeset as the New Rea Book  from Shur Music, there was no explanation of
what their chords meant. There was simply an index of tunes along with
composition and copyright credits. The notes themselves looked as if they
had been typset as any music book wouldl have been. The chord indications,
howver, looked as if they had been manually entered. So I could see where
any standard way of entering chord names slightly changed from time to timne
and from context to context.

I am impressed with The New Reall  Book series from Sher because of the
way it is documented and the way they have gone about making sure each tune
is following a real standard way of playin the changes. I own some of the
recordings they have  consulted so I have checked against their source.
They've had to make some decisions of their own on a standard way of
notating this since they actually send this to print. LIlypond doesn't have
to make those choices, merely enable us to express the notes the way we or
the composer/arranger intended.


The notation that I was mainly concerned with was how to enter a bass note
with the chord indication. I must say, I was shocked. I was both right and
wrong in my assertions that the bass note was indicated under the chord
name.

The bass note was under  the chord name, but with a slash not a straight
line as I had stated. So, you can see how I was right and wrong. The slash
with the chord name under the chord as they indicate in that publication
would conform to what I have known to be correct in the past.

I think now, that the chord along with the intended bass note belong
together as an element or object in themselves. Alterations of the chord are
a second element or object beside the chord name. These do not happen
frequently, but when they do, they are important. Mostly they indicate an
inversion of the chord named. These seem to occur most frequently at cadence
points. An example occurs in the last bars of All the Things You Are where
there is a progression with a step-wise bass pattern moving from a firIst
inversion of the named chord and ending on the root position. In some cases
there are going to be chord indications on each beat. Collisions willl be
inevitable. It seems the slash with the bass note close under the chord name
made this easier to read.

I gather the slash would have naturally happend when copyists wrote these
charts out by hand. Mostly being right handed the slant would naturally
occur. What I saw in that publiation was for the most part clear and
readable.

I won't argue for or against any one way at this point, just for clarity and
compactness. When I get a chance, I will call my Jazz musician friends and
see how they expect to see it written. We have a major jazz festival in
progress here so everyone is seriously busy. (There was a very good trumpet
player int he store trying out instruments and having a long discussion with
the sales person about lacquer and how thick it is and what it does  to the
sound!--- I know, seriously off topic).

Lilypond should not seek to make a new method of entering this type of
notation, it shoud simply enable copyists to make their music look the way
they or the composer intended and to do it in a way that makes it easy for
performing musicians to read. Am I  makeing sense here?

cheers,
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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Peter Buhr pab...@sympatico.ca wrote:

 When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to indicate
 a
 guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3, but
 the
 - is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd
 finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same string.
 (Just
 in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like:

   c-{-3} or c--3

 The first doesn't work and the latter puts the -3 below the note. Is
 there a
 mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the documentation
 and
 not found an example, but I could have missed it.


You can rotate objects and markups. I've done a little experiment here that
doesn't look very good yet but may put you on the right track. Search the
Notation Reference manual for rotation, formatting text, positioning
objects, and the like.

\version 2.13.4

\relative c'' {
  c-1 d^\markup { \center-align { \rotate #30 - \finger 1 }}
}

HTH,

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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
   You can rotate objects and markups. I've done a little experiment here that
   doesn't look very good yet but may put you on the right track. Search the
   Notation Reference manual for rotation, formatting text, positioning
   objects, and the like.

   \version 2.13.4

   \relative c'' {
 c-1 d^\markup { \center-align { \rotate #30 - \finger 1 }}
   }

The problem with this approach is that it just seems to build a glyph and place
it above the note without any knowledge of what the glyph represents. So when I
put this markup into my score it does not follow any of the rules I have set
for fingering.

\override Staff.Fingering #'font-name = #times
\override Staff.Fingering #'font-size = #-4
\override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'()

Essentially, I want the fingering code to manage the glyph not me. But I have
no way to give the fingering code a general glyph, just digits. You might think
that \finger would identify the glyph but it doesn't seem to. Does this make
sense?


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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara


On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Buhr wrote:

When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to  
indicate a
guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like  
-3, but the
- is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide  
the 3rd
finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same  
string. (Just

in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like:

   c-{-3} or c--3

The first doesn't work and the latter puts the -3 below the note.  
Is there a
mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the  
documentation and

not found an example, but I could have missed it.


In 30 years of playing guitar (jazz and rock), I have never seen this  
notation.  Is there an example on the Web you can point to?  I'd be  
interested in seeing how it's used.



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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Buhr
   In 30 years of playing guitar (jazz and rock), I have never seen this
   notation.  Is there an example on the Web you can point to?  I'd be
   interested in seeing how it's used.

Ummm, I'll look on the web to see if I can fine something. However, what I'm
reading from is the Guitar Repertoire and Studies/Etudies books from the RCM
http://www.rcmusic.ca. The left-hand shifting notation is used throughout all
of the study books from grade 1 to grade 10. Any guitar player in Canada that
goes through the RCM has been brought up with this notation. I just assumed it
was universal.  The study books are not online so I can't show you my primary
examples. If you want, I can scan a page and email it directly to you.


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website draft 6

2009-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
Moved to the official server:
http://lilypond.org/~graham/

Wanted, in order of preference:
1) git-enabled contributors.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-06/msg00348.html
  (this burden to contributors might be relaxed in the future, but
  that would be at least 1 month away)

2) non-git-enabled contributors.  If you can write text files.. or
  even just emails... then write some text to include.  For
  example, nobody is working on Introductions-Features.  The hard
  part is figuring out what to write, not the actual formatting!

3) proofreading, checking, etc: if you find spelling/grammatical
  mistakes, or can think of shorter+simpler wordings (remember, we
  have a lot of ESL readers, so simple text is good!), send such
  corrections.

  Also, is there anything on the old website that's not on the
  draft website?  I mean, anything that doesn't have a stub?
  Don't complain about the lack of the Essay, since we have a
  spot reserved for it.  But other than those reserved spot
  issues, are we missing anything?

4) suggestions.  Yes, these are still valuable, but we could have
  all the hey, try out this blue-shaded color scheme ideas in
  the world.  But if nobody is working on the .css file, then
  nothing will happen.

Oh, that reminds me -- the css file.  This also counts as #2
(writing text files)... if you're willing to edit that file and
send us new versions of it, we can take care of the git stuff for
you.

Cheers,
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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote:


 On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Buhr wrote:

  When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to
 indicate a
 guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3,
 but the
 - is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd
 finger from its previous position to this marked note on the same string.
 (Just
 in case someone doesn't know. ;-) So I want to write something like:

   c-{-3} or c--3

 The first doesn't work and the latter puts the -3 below the note. Is
 there a
 mechanism to accomplish this? Again, I have scanned all the documentation
 and
 not found an example, but I could have missed it.


 In 30 years of playing guitar (jazz and rock), I have never seen this
 notation.  Is there an example on the Web you can point to?  I'd be
 interested in seeing how it's used.


This fingering indication is very common in classical guitar music. I see it
all the time but haven't tried to do it in Lilypond before tonight. Peter,
your objections to my initial approach make perfect sense, I just don't know
how to work around them. :)

Jon
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Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen



On 7/15/09 8:18 PM, Peter Buhr pab...@sympatico.ca wrote:

You can rotate objects and markups. I've done a little experiment here that
doesn't look very good yet but may put you on the right track. Search the
Notation Reference manual for rotation, formatting text, positioning
objects, and the like.
 
\version 2.13.4
 
\relative c'' {
  c-1 d^\markup { \center-align { \rotate #30 - \finger 1 }}
}
 
 The problem with this approach is that it just seems to build a glyph and
 place
 it above the note without any knowledge of what the glyph represents. So when
 I
 put this markup into my score it does not follow any of the rules I have set
 for fingering.
 
 \override Staff.Fingering #'font-name = #times
 \override Staff.Fingering #'font-size = #-4
 \override Fingering #'staff-padding = #'()
 
 Essentially, I want the fingering code to manage the glyph not me. But I have
 no way to give the fingering code a general glyph, just digits. You might
 think
 that \finger would identify the glyph but it doesn't seem to. Does this make
 sense?
 

You can have the fingering produce any markup you want by doing

\once \override Staff.Fingering #'stencil = your markup procedure goes
here


HTH,

Carl



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Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara


On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:42 PM, David Fedoruk wrote:

I did, as I mentioned earlier, visit my local music store and  
looked at their selection of fake books.  I found what was the  
first legally published one in its new format. I was dissa pointed.


That's not very specific.  By chance were you looking at the Hal  
Leonard versions of the Real Books (6th Edition, Book II 2nd edition,  
Book III)?


The original Real Books were hand written by an unidentified person  
allegedly affiliated with the Berklee school of music in Boston; the  
most commonly suggested person was a well-known professional jazz  
bassist who wrote the chords out as he and his colleagues preferred.   
For most jazz musicians, the original Real Books are the de facto  
standard (although they are not completely internally consistent).   
The original books contained a number of errors and a number of  
performance-specific transcriptions of songs.  Even very famous songs  
in the Real Book like Four contain errors (which have become  
canonized by being played that way for over 30 years).  The Hal  
Leonard Real Books are more accurate- or less performance-specific  
than the original Real Books.


I am impressed with The New Reall  Book series from Sher because  
of the way it is documented and the way they have gone about making  
sure each tune is following a real standard way of playin the changes.


FWIW the original Real Books had a page of common chord voicings in  
note form for reference.  But jazz musicians know what a Ebmin7b5 or  
Ebø means, for example, and there is no need to provide documentation  
of this.  Students may need this, but they should get it elsewhere  
than from a book of tunes.  Mark Levine's textbook on jazz harmony is  
a great resource and one every jazz student should work through.   
Fake books are not textbooks, they are intended for bandstand use by  
professionals.


FWIW the Sher books are IMHO the best and most accurate of the  
various fake books.  They should be the standard and not the Real  
Books.  Sher made a point of checking the chords for accuracy far  
above and beyond the original Real Books (for example, compare  
Here's That Rainy Day, in which the original Real Book chords bear  
little resemblance to the proper chords of the song).  However, the  
original Real Book (vol. 1) is simply The Book as in is that tune  
in the book?  Bandleaders will frequently call songs by page number  
rather than title (because the Real Book is rather, umm, flexible as  
to its interpretation of alphabetization).


The notation that I was mainly concerned with was how to enter a  
bass note with the chord indication. I must say, I was shocked. I  
was both right and wrong in my assertions that the bass note was  
indicated under the chord name.


The bass note was under  the chord name, but with a slash not a  
straight line as I had stated. So, you can see how I was right and  
wrong. The slash with the chord name under the chord as they  
indicate in that publication would conform to what I have known to  
be correct in the past.


Normally the form for displaying a chord with a specific bass note is  
a diagonal slash:  Gmaj7/A for example.  Polychords (two triads  
stacked) are sometimes written as two chordnames arranged vertically  
with a short horizontal line separating them, but you'll find none of  
those in the Real Books IIRC:


Ebmin
__

Fmin

I think now, that the chord along with the intended bass note  
belong together as an element or object in themselves. Alterations  
of the chord are a second element or object beside the chord name.  
These do not happen frequently, but when they do, they are  
important. Mostly they indicate an inversion of the chord named.  
These seem to occur most frequently at cadence points. An example  
occurs in the last bars of All the Things You Are where there is  
a progression with a step-wise bass pattern moving from a first  
inversion of the named chord and ending on the root position. In  
some cases there are going to be chord indications on each beat.  
Collisions willl be inevitable. It seems the slash with the bass  
note close under the chord name made this easier to read.


Slash chords are usually written to specify a voicing to a  
keyboardist or guitarist, often to maintain a specific movement in  
the bass under the harmony:


   |  Dmin7  Dmin7/C  |   Bb7  A7  |  Dmaj7|

for example.  It's a simple way to write out the motion and is  
instantly readable.


I gather the slash would have naturally happend when copyists wrote  
these charts out by hand. Mostly being right handed the slant would  
naturally occur. What I saw in that publiation was for the most  
part clear and readable.


Right, it's intended to be instantly readable by a musician playing  
the song for the first time on the bandstand.


I won't argue for or against any one way at this point, just for  
clarity and compactness.


Those are the key things.


Re: ANN: LilyPondTool 2.12.858 Release Candidate

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Hi Bertalan,

I'm having trouble getting the Virtual Piano to work for me:
- I can hear notes that are played with mouse clicks or keyboard
strokes, but they are not inserted in my .ly file
- the Virtual Piano does not seem to recognize MIDI keyboard strokes

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Andrew (Ubuntu 9.04)

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Bertalan Fodor
(LilyPondTool)lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote:
 Hi,

 thanks to the bug hunters, I created an improved, fixed, shinier version of
 LilyPondTool.
 This is the Release Candidate before I release this to the jEdit plugin
 repository for the widest public.
 It contains some enhancements and many fixes, especially for the PDF viewer.
 Now you can turn the page back and not just forward for example :) (Though I
 just found a bug about turning the page, then clicking on a note.)

 Download it from:
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit/files/lily4jedit/lily4jedit-2.12.858.zip/download

 And unzip to the jEdit settings folder: $HOME/.jEdit, where $HOME is you
 home folder

 In the final release there will be documentation as well :)

 Cheers,

 Bert



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different lyrics with different alternatives

2009-07-15 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello,
  I seldom deal with songs, and am hard to search the mailinglist (NR. leaves 
this section empty!). So maybe this problem has been discussed before.
  I'm writing a song with two verses most of the time. In the melody-only 
version (I'll give it to my teacher), the melody is repeated with alternatives, 
the second of which is different, then to the end. Here's an example shows what 
I'm writing:
\relative c' {
  \time 4/4
  \repeat volta 2 {
c4 d e f |
g a b c |
d c b a |
  }
  \alternative { { g1 } { g2. g4 } }
  a b c a | g f e d | c1 \bar |.
}
  You can imagine what the two verses of lyrics look like:
1.  Do re mi fa sol la si do re do si la sol.
2.  Do re mi fa sol la si do re do si la sol, sol la si do la sol fa mi re do.
  So, how to correctly add these different two verses?
Regards
Haipeng


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Re: website draft 6

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara


On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Graham Percival wrote:


For example, nobody is working on Introductions-Features.


I'll have a go at this in the next few days.  The basics are already  
there and seem to me to just need a little polishing, maybe a few  
slightly different headings.  But it's midnight right now and I have  
to go to work in the morning!



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