Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Uh, at the moment, nothing is possible since no line of code has > been written. If you are interested about what goes on in my head, > you'd be able to use either \violin1 or \violin#1 naturally \violin1 is OK for me. Regarding the calling syntax, I prefer to define with \set \violin1 an

Re: New read/eval Scheme syntax inconsistent in handling existing code

2011-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > I don't see why defmacro should have ceased working, so it might be > worth revisiting the problems you experienced. It's not defmacro that ceased working, it's just that I previously used the old ly:make-music-function syntax, which you chan

Re: Issue 2068 in lilypond: Patch: Doc: CG: add instructions for staging branch

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Updates: Labels: -Patch-new Patch-needs_work Comment #1 on issue 2068 by gra...@percival-music.ca: Patch: Doc: CG: add instructions for staging branch http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2068 (No comment was entered for this change.) __

Re: Issue 2067 in lilypond: Patch: Give \displayLilyMusic and \displayMusic optional port arguments.

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Comment #8 on issue 2067 by d...@gnu.org: Patch: Give \displayLilyMusic and \displayMusic optional port arguments. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2067 Uh, James? Could you double-check whether the message is introduced by this particular patch? __

Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Comment #1 on issue 2072 by d...@gnu.org: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2072 Well, I have to take back that particular syntax since it could not be made to work: detecting assignment would require seeing the = as a lookahead to

Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> I propose developing the infrastructure that allows saying >> violin = \makeVector 2 >> and afterwards using >> \violin 1 = { ... } % backslash is no typo here >> as well as { ... \violin 1 } >> It will be possible to use arbitrary numbers (or Scheme expressions) >> as i

Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I propose developing the infrastructure that allows saying > violin = \makeVector 2 > and afterwards using > \violin 1 = { ... } % backslash is no typo here > as well as { ... \violin 1 } > It will be possible to use arbitrary numbers (or Scheme expressions) > as index, and this would straightfo

Re: Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread Keith OHara
googlecode.com> writes: > I propose developing the infrastructure that allows saying > violin = \makeVector 2 > and afterwards using > \violin 1 = { ... } % backslash is no typo here > as well as { ... \violin 1 } Remember that issue 1670 asked for numbers embedded in identifiers violin1mvt2

Issue 2072 in lilypond: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Status: New Owner: d...@gnu.org Labels: Type-Enhancement Bounty New issue 2072 by d...@gnu.org: Add proper complex variables to Lilypond http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2072 A frequent complaint on the mailing list is that Lilypond does not permit identifiers with numbers in

Re: Issue 2069 in lilypond: Patch: More nuanced BarLine extra-spacing-height to allow tighter horizontal spacing

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Comment #5 on issue 2069 by carl.d.s...@gmail.com: Patch: More nuanced BarLine extra-spacing-height to allow tighter horizontal spacing http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2069 To clarify my objection -- I don't like having the chord names so close together. But I'm not oppo

Re: (German) Documentation not precise

2011-12-03 Thread Phil Holmes
"Mathias Weber" wrote in message news:loom.20111203t113431-...@post.gmane.org... In der deutschen Version der Seite: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/properties-found- in-interfaces Im Absatz "Den Kontext im Liedtextmodus bestimmen" heißt es: "Bei Gesangstexten funktioniert

Re: (German) Documentation flaw

2011-12-03 Thread David Kastrup
Mathias Weber writes: > Auf der deutschen Variante der Seite > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/contexts-explained > > heißt es im zweiten Absatz: > > "Während LilyPond den Eingabetext interpretiert, wird die musikalische > Information von rechts nach links gelesen, in etwa,

(German) Documentation flaw

2011-12-03 Thread Mathias Weber
Auf der deutschen Variante der Seite http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/contexts-explained heißt es im zweiten Absatz: "Während LilyPond den Eingabetext interpretiert, wird die musikalische Information von rechts nach links gelesen, in etwa, wie man eine Partitur von links nach

Re: Issue 2069 in lilypond: Patch: More nuanced BarLine extra-spacing-height to allow tighter horizontal spacing

2011-12-03 Thread lilypond
Comment #4 on issue 2069 by mts...@gmail.com: Patch: More nuanced BarLine extra-spacing-height to allow tighter horizontal spacing http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2069 Keith is right - if you transpose the example in snapshot.png up an octave, you'll get the close spacing

(German) Documentation not precise

2011-12-03 Thread Mathias Weber
In der deutschen Version der Seite: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/properties-found- in-interfaces Im Absatz "Den Kontext im Liedtextmodus bestimmen" heißt es: "Bei Gesangstexten funktioniert der \override-Befehl nicht mehr, wenn Sie den Kontext im oben dargestellten Format