Re: magic diacritic markup?
[Trevor Baca] :digraphs to list the available two-key codes. The predefined codes. You may add as many as you want, only limited by your imagination about which pair of keys to choose from. :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list
[Graham Percival] [...] if somebody posts in another language, it's almost certainly because they don't feel that they can communicate in English. Requiring English out of stubbornness is just not acceptable, of course. Some people have to be reminded, once in a while, that we are living on a planet, and that they are not the mandatory center of this universe. This being said, most Lilypond users know they have a wider chance of being understood, replied to and helped, if they write in English. This is merely the statement of current state of things, with nothing judgemental in it. Moreover, the preponderance of English not likely to change for quite a long while still. Until now, I see the occurrence of non-English messages as much more refreshing than polluting. Let's welcome them. When I cannot make a meaning out of the words, I can at least hear the music in them, and especially here, we should all be sensitive to all kind of music! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Lettres accentuées
[j-f.stephant] Je cherche à utiliser des lettres accentuées dans de toutes petites partitions. Je n'ai pas trouvé, sans doute parce que j'ai mal cherché, la solution. Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider ? J'utilise la version 2.5.11 [...] C'est assez bizarre. Tout a toujours fonctionné directement pour moi, sans aucun problème, mais dans la mesure où j'utilise le code ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) dans mes sources Lilypond (je n'ai pas essayé UTF-8, ni ISO-8859-15, quoique j'imagine que ce dernier devrait probablement fonctionner facilement). Je n'utilise pas une version aussi récente que 2.5.11, toutefois! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: midi2ly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nevertheless the process of converting a particular rendering to a printed score is possible; it is an art itself and is called transcription. Nice comment! :-). Transcription is the way of a musician to say, here what I think to be the intent of the original composer. Even: here is what I would be thinking if I was composing that music! Or simpler: here is what I understood of it! This is the case of Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue which was published both as a printed score and as a piano roll [...] I did not know that. Very interesting story. Years ago, we were discussing a few details about how to interpret (or render) Widor's Vth symphony. For a gross detail, I personally think that we play it much too fast (like everything nowadays). But it happens that audio recordings started to exist in the lifetime of Widor, someone recorded Widor playing his own symphony, not long before he died. That recording changed medium a few times, but we still have it. Some people are never wrong, you know, and also, you know some people are never wrong! Aren't we lucky to have the Truth with us? :-( :-). Here, one of the gang, after listening to the recording, remarked that if Widor played it slower than nowadays, this was only because his old age destroyed the technique needed to really play it as intended. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: midi2ly
[Antonio PALAMA'] [...] a properly encoded midifile contains more information than a printed score. A printed score contains all the information necessary to a musician to play the music. A midi file contains the actual performance of the musician. A score encodes a musical intent, while a MIDI file encodes a performance. The author intent, expressed in a score, is a precious source of indications, out of which musicians may deliver myriads of different _and_ interesting renderings. This is extremely rich. No doubt that a particular performance may contain a lot of information. You may go way further than MIDI, which is so fuzzy if you consider all MIDI synthesizers around, and encode 44100 positions of the speaker membrane for each second of the play. But then, we are far away from the author intent, and in fact, one may not fully recover nor induce the original author intent from a particular rendering. The amount of raw information does not matter so much here. But the amount of genuine musical information does. And going from a score to MIDI, we surely gain a lot of raw information, but on average, we loose part of that genuine musical information designed by the composer. P.S. - I also agree that some musicians prefer to perform (or improvise) than to formalize their intent, or just do not have enough courage or introspection abilities to do such formalization. They might produce quite interesting music nevertheless. In such cases, granted, MIDI is better than nothing at all. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Recent improvements of the Lilypond mailing list
Hello, everybody. First of all, my best wishes to everybody. I just want to share my great pleasure, observing recently that spam has been almost eradicated from the Lilypond mailing list (am I dreaming?). It's a breeze of fresh air for me. My thanks to all people involved in the process of this improvement. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: [ot] SPAM/Worm problem (was: Accounts department)
[Mark Van den Borre] [...] making posting members-only isn't really newcomer-friendly. That effect is often underestimated! The current amount of SPAM on the Lilypond list sometimes make me ponder with the idea of unsubscribing. We have to be friendly to old-timers too, not only newcomers :-) What keeps me around nevertheless is the fact that Lilypond is marvellous software, and also that this list is populated with interesting people. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: constructive criticism
[John Williams] Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Why not edit the texinfo source directly, and send a patch? You are asking the users to learn texinfo, diff and patch before they can help you. And as someone else pointed out, if they install a prebuilt version, they don't even have the texinfo source. I do not know if this may be organised, but what about pairing people: one being good for documentation itself, with one being good with technicalities like Texinfo, diff and patch. The second would translate the work of the first for easing integration in the distribution. (I'm not volunteering as either in these times, however.) (Personally, gnu info is the only thing that has ever made me want to run screaming back to windows, but maybe that's just the user-interface.) I never understood what people find difficult in a user interface which uses SPC to page forward, BKS to page backward, and asks the user to remember the first letter of the words Up, Next and Previous. Do these people starve for using the mouse to the point they cannot stand the sight of a keyboard? Lilypond is dooming them to quite a hard time! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Mailing list settings
[Ferenc Wagner] My mail reader is able to filter by header lines. Are webmails really uncapable of this? On the other hand, my mail reader is also able to remove useless crap from the subject line... :) I can see that you are using a really good one! :-) The question is: which hurts more. We could probably afford the bandwidth. (I did not follow the thread -- maybe this has been discussed before?) Of course, if Lilypond mailing lists had a little less SPAM, maybe the above problem might be a bit less pressing. The SPAM filters I use are biting at the mail directly sent to me. I consider that each mailing list I'm subscribed to should be eliminating SPAM at its end, before broadcasting the mail it receives, and my own SPAM filters should be instructed to just let pass what those lists decided to broadcast. It works well on average, but only for a few lists, and Lilypond related lists among them, I have to tell my filters to not trust the list decision, and rather add their own extra-layers of filtering. This is slightly unfortunate. Lilypond mailing lists should ideally do a better job at eliminating SPAM. If we wait after the proper legislation to pop up at a planetary level, we are going to suffer a lot and for long! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Dr. Nienhuys! :-)
Hi, everybody. Han-Wen was defending his doctoral thesis earlier today, so maybe that from now on, we should take the habit of using `Dr.' when addressing him! :-) Congratulations, Dr. Nienhuys! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: No midi?
[Jan Nieuwenhuizen] charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Hoping I'm not feeding a troll...] Same feeling! :-) I appreciate that everyone stays polite. :-) Let me wish you all a nice and musicful year. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
