Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel appears to ignore LYEDITOR

2009-05-10 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 mai 09 à 20:32, Neil Tiffin a écrit : I am using the following in a shell script to start lilypond export LYEDITOR='bbedit +%(line)s %(file)s' echo $LYEDITOR cd '/Users/Shared/MainMusicFolder/lilypond files' /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond --verbose -fpdf

Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel appears to ignore LYEDITOR

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Tiffin
Nicolas, This looks really good and would have save me considerable time. Thank you for the pointer. Lilypond team: Could the info in the article or at least a pointer be added to http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/ Lilypond team: the info in the docs at

Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel appears to ignore LYEDITOR

2009-05-10 Thread Graham Percival
We don't link to external websites in the docs. If you can tell us exactly what text to add or remove, we can do that. See: http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding (in particular, Small additions) Cheers, - Graham On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:32:53AM -0500, Neil Tiffin

Re: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel appears to ignore LYEDITOR

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Tiffin
Sure, Please add another note following just after the existing note at the bottom of the 2.3 Point and click. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Point-and-click#Point-and-click table class=cartouche border=1trtd pbNote:/b The methods described above

Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Pekka Siponen
1. The beamed stems on the beat are too short, they should be the same lenght (an octave) as the 1/4 note on the second beat. Thus the c's would have the same stem lenght. Also the stem lenghts on the third and fourth beat should be the same. The third beat stems are a little too long and the

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Pekka Siponen wrote: 1. The beamed stems on the beat are too short, they should be the same length (an octave) as the 1/4 note on the second beat. Thus the c's would have the same stem length. The stems and beams in the first beat look exactly as they should according to p.105 of Ted Ross'

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: Pekka Siponen wrote: Also the stem lengths on the third and fourth beat should be the same. The third beat stems are a little too long and the fourth beat stem is too short. Attached is the lilypond output. I will look into this. What source are you using to make

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: As far as implementing this, I have no idea. I don't know how LilyPond is set up to calculate these things, and I imagine making changes of this sort would be quite involved. I'll leave that to the developers. The

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
LilyPond does not use a hardcoded set of rules; rather, it tries to score different configurations, and pick the one with the best scores. This is a technique that works much better than hardcoding different rules, but in some cases there are small divergences with the 'prescribed' quants.

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: The rules in Ross' books are guidelines, and they certainly don't cover all the cases. Yes, but what about the too-short stem on the middle-line note: Your assertion that the 4th beat stem is too short is supported by Ted Ross, who says on p.85 that the downward

Re: SeparationItem #'padding not working anymore?

2009-05-10 Thread pg
Hi I recently installed ubuntu 9.04 which uses lilypond version 2.12.1-0. I used SeparationItem #'padding# on most of my printing as an include file attached to the file exported from tuxguitar. But try as I might I cannot get either NoteMusicalPaperColumn or PaperColumn to work. Can any give

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: LilyPond does not use a hardcoded set of rules; rather, it tries to score different configurations, and pick the one with the best scores.  This is a technique that works much better than hardcoding different rules, but in

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: The rules in Ross' books are guidelines, and they certainly don't cover all the cases. Yes, but what about the too-short stem on the middle-line note: It could be that there is a bug; there

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Pekka Siponen
My point is that the stem lenghts should lead the eye: if the note goes down the stem goes down, if the note stays the same the stem stays the same. Ross book maybe a good starting point to this. My original example would be fine if the phrase ended on the first beat, but it is supposed to

Re: Stem lenghts

2009-05-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
My point is that the stem lenghts should lead the eye: if the note goes down the stem goes down, if the note stays the same the stem stays the same. Ross book maybe a good starting point to this. Noone is questioning this. My original example would be fine if the phrase ended on the first