Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please search the mailing list archives for discussions on this topic. /Mats Nicholas Haggin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, all. I have recently been experiencing problems with vertical placement of staves in lilypond-book after upgrading

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
On 1-Aug-05, at 11:59 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Please search the mailing list archives for discussions on this topic. I think that this is new information, though -- at least, I've been following this with some interest, and I didn't know that this bug was triggered by including

Re: set tieWaitForNote - 2 problems

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sacha Standen wrote: Also, tying notes to skips appears not to be possible as here: \version 2.6.1.1 {c' ~ s} Forgot to answer this one. It has never worked to tie a note to a skip, just as it doesn't work to tie a note to a note with a different pitch. See the section on Hidden Notes in

Re: set tieWaitForNote - 2 problems

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Where did you add the setting? The following should work. \version 2.6.1 {s2 gis''4. fis''8\stemUp } \\ { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t b8~ fis'~ a'~ cis''~ b fis' a' cis''2 } Please read the details in the manual on what the construct {...} \\ {...} actually does in terms of contexts, to find

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Right, this highlights that there is a round-off problem involved as well, which further illustrates that the current solution isn't really stable. The problem is that LaTeX points pt don't exactly correspond to PostScript points bp. In fact 72.27pt = 72bp =1 inch. The default text width in a

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Guy Banay wrote: I didn't know that, but maybe I should've guessed. Anyway, GS-ESP-8.01 (the one that's installed by default on Ubuntu 5.04) generates readable pdf without complaining. I guess we should check for GS 8.x and not GS 8.15 specifically (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Note that the same problem would have appeared even if LaTeX and PostScript had used the same definition of point, since the text width of a LaTeX document does not have to be an integer number of points, whereas the width of an eps file is rounded to the closest integer

header in \score

2005-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
When you define the \header inside the \score block, only the piece (and presumably opus) fields are printed. Is this expected behaviour? If the \header is defined before the \score (ie \header{} \score{} then all headers are printed. % 2.6.1, only piece is printed, not title. \score{ { c'\f

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: It seems that there is a hiresbb option to the graphics and graphicx packages that makes it read the %%HiResBoundingBox instead of BoundingBox. However, the rounding problem is easily solved by adding \linebreak commands. Have you thought about the bounding boxes for the

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: I guess we should check for GS 8.x and not GS 8.15 specifically (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't ship the latest GS). The last time I checked, debian's gs-8.01 and gs-8.14 did not work. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The

Re: header in \score

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I didn't know about this feature/bug either! However, you may want to use \paper{ scoreTitleMarkup = \bookTitleMarkup } anyway in your case to get full titles on all scores. /Mats Graham Percival wrote: When you define the \header inside the \score block, only the piece (and presumably

Re: header in \score

2005-08-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: When you define the \header inside the \score block, only the piece (and presumably opus) fields are printed. Is this expected behaviour? If the \header is defined before the \score (ie \header{} \score{} Yes. Otherwise, we'd get two titles if the \header for \book was

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that there is a hiresbb option to the graphics and graphicx packages that makes it read the %%HiResBoundingBox instead of BoundingBox. However, the rounding problem is easily solved by adding \linebreak commands. Have you thought about the bounding boxes for the different score lines?

RE: header in \score

2005-08-02 Thread Sven Axelsson
From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you define the \header inside the \score block, only the piece (and presumably opus) fields are printed. Is this expected behaviour? If the \header is defined before the \score (ie \header{} \score{} then all headers are printed.

Re: latex error message

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you expect me to remember your initial message of this thread? It's over a week since I read it! ;-) Seriously, it turns out that the cause of your problem was that you used a Windows style path instead of Cygwin/Unix style. Just replace the backslash in \include ..\stuff.ly with an ordinary

Re: Bad vertical placement of staves with lilypond-book-2.6.1

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: It seems that there is a hiresbb option to the graphics and graphicx packages that makes it read the %%HiResBoundingBox instead of BoundingBox. However, the rounding problem is easily solved by adding \linebreak commands. Have you thought about

Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

2005-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: (although I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't ship the latest GS). Ubuntu is a snapshot of debian/unstable with extra user-experience polish. Only since July 15th, 8.15 is in debian (fixing a whishlist bug from a lilypond user :-) Maybe we could check a specific gs

Re: Staff.alignAboveContext and volta brackets

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Both problems pointed out in this thread show a limitation in the handling of volta brackets. A volta bracket is only printed over contexts where the property voltaOnThisStaff is set to true. At the beginning of a score, this property is automatically set to true for the topmost Staff context and

RE: latex error message

2005-08-02 Thread Fairchild
Mats - Thanks for the insight. Pretty #$@ subtle, especially for a DOS\Windows guy. Note that without the #(ly:set-point-and-click 'line-column), the \include ..\stuff.ly works fine. As presented below it also works, just gives the error message: Error invoking `latex \\nonstopmode \\input

Re: latex error message

2005-08-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Fairchild wrote: Note that without the #(ly:set-point-and-click 'line-column), the \include ..\stuff.ly works fine. Exactly, that's the only situation where the path of the file is included in the LaTeX code. I can't find any documentation of \include other than simple use examples. It

RE: latex error message

2005-08-02 Thread Fairchild
Mats - You state: The initialization of LilyPond is done in a number of files that are included as soon as you start the program. Nothing that you have to bother about. I would like to know what files are included. They contain default settings -- often useful and more reliably correct that the

Re: Critical bug in LilyPad: eof is not written for a file which becomes shorter

2005-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Heikki Johannes Junes writes: I have tried to use LilyPad. Therefore, it is impossible to make a file shorter using only LilyPad. Thanks. Fixed in CVS. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien |