Re: LilyPond searchpaths

2014-11-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Nov 2014, at 01:36, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-24 15:53 GMT+01:00 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com: There seems to be a problem with the 'lilypond’ searchpaths for file arguments given to it: When trying to compile a local file named ‘makam.ly’, it reinterprets

LilyPond searchpaths

2014-11-24 Thread Hans Aberg
There seems to be a problem with the 'lilypond’ searchpaths for file arguments given to it: When trying to compile a local file named ‘makam.ly’, it reinterprets it as being the one in the distribution [1]. The local file compiles if given another name, and does not call the distribution one

Re: Composer not right-aligned

2014-09-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Sep 2014, at 16:19, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/09/14 10:49, Aurélien Bello wrote: Composer's name ist not right-aligned, but under the title. It only gets normal if you specify a poet and an instrument as well. which version are you using? This could be fixed already in

Re: Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-07-31 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 May 2014, at 18:45, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/05/14 17:07, Hans Aberg wrote: Thanks, you too. Another issue is: this script cannot output correct MIDI for ornaments that use auxiliaries other than what given by the staff and its key signature, as LilyPond does not have

Re: Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-06-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Jun 2014, at 22:27, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3975 Fine. I recall LilyPond does not have a way to indicate accidental intervals as operators, but one way around that would be to indicate the two notes involved rather than the

Re: Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-05-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 May 2014, at 07:24, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Can you be more explicit what it is you are requesting (for those that file bug reports and don't understand the nuances of \pralls and \trills necessarily)? There might be needed a series of parameters, setting the style for each

Re: Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-05-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 May 2014, at 16:16, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3928 Thanks Thanks, you too. Another issue is: this script cannot output correct MIDI for ornaments that use auxiliaries other than what given by the staff and its key signature, as

Re: Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-05-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 May 2014, at 18:45, James pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: Another issue is: this script cannot output correct MIDI for ornaments that use auxiliaries other than what given by the staff and its key signature, as LilyPond does not have an internal construct for that. Could you give a simple

Articulate.ly prall trill

2014-05-23 Thread Hans Aberg
The file articulate.ly writes ornaments as used before c. 1800, it seems: initially, the PrallTriller was four notes beginning with upper auxiliary, which is what this file writes for \prall but used only in special positions, cf. example below from Harvard concise”, inverted mordent, but it

Re: turkish accidental eksik bakiye missing in emmentaler font

2013-11-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Nov 2013, at 03:54, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Philippe Ploquin philippeploquin at neuf.fr writes: The accidental called eksik bakiye is missing in lilypond. On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:08:02 -0800, Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: In the Ph.D. thesis by Ozan Yarman, 79

Re: turkish accidental eksik bakiye missing in emmentaler font

2013-11-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Nov 2013, at 10:11, I wrote: The Persian LilyPond is set in E60 - it could now be changed to E53. But the Persian microtonal accidentals koron and sori are still missing in LilyPond. The average values that Farhat gives fits well with Pythagorean tuning where the sori raises two

Re: turkish accidental eksik bakiye missing in emmentaler font

2013-11-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:37, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Philippe Ploquin philippeploquin at neuf.fr writes: The accidental called eksik bakiye is missing in lilypond. Can anyone give a link to a reference image showing this accidental in use? There is one at [1]. In

Re: turkish accidental eksik bakiye missing in emmentaler font

2013-11-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Nov 2013, at 20:36, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:35:48 -0800, Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:37, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Philippe Ploquin philippeploquin at neuf.fr writes: The accidental called eksik bakiye

Re: NR 2.6.2 Bagpipes

2013-10-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Oct 2013, at 01:32, Sven Axelsson sven.axels...@gmail.com wrote: The manual uses nominally D major (even though that isn’t really true). Maybe a better way of putting it is similar to Wikipedia: Bagpipe music is written in the key of D major with the key signature usually omitted from

Re: NR 2.6.2 Bagpipes

2013-10-08 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Oct 2013, at 00:43, Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca wrote: Reported as Issue 3605: DOC: Bagpipe.ly corrections needed Great! Yes, it looks like it is about GHB. Perhaps the file should have been called GHB.ly. ___ bug-lilypond mailing list

NR 2.6.2 Bagpipes

2013-10-07 Thread Hans Aberg
The GHB or Great Highland Bagpipe, is tuned in A mixolydian, often considerably higher than the standard pitch, up towards A = 480 Hz. The manual [1], Bagpipes, 2.6.2, calls it D major, and omits the Great in the name of the bagpipe. Cf. [2], and net-searches on GHB mixolydian. 1.

Articulate of short \prall

2013-05-24 Thread Hans Aberg
The articulate.ly file (tried with LilyPond 2.16.0) cannot handle \prall applied to a 16th note, as in the example below, which is used in Balkan music. In the example below, the first 4th note indicates this use, and the second the expansion I would prefer: just ignore moving back to the

Re: walter

2013-02-01 Thread Hans Aberg
On 30 Jan 2013, at 15:20, BLANCO PLATA blancopl...@gmail.com wrote: yo necesitaria esta programa para trabajar pues [s]oy profe de musica [I need this program to work as I am music teacher] You might try the lilypond-user lists; the main one is in English, but there is one in Spanish, too.

Re: walter

2013-02-01 Thread Hans Aberg
On 1 Feb 2013, at 10:53, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Hans. I've contacted him directly. I told Colin, but I should have told publicly, sorry. Yes, one reason for cc-ing the list is letting others know the state of the issue. Hans

Re: Lilypond 2.16.0 released!

2012-08-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 24 Aug 2012, at 17:01, Graham Percival wrote: We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0. This page says MacOS X 10.7 Lion is not yet supported, but the Intel version GUI works on 10.7.4, and for the LilyPond PPC version, it will never be supported as 10.7 cannot run it

Re: Lilypond 2.16.0 released!

2012-08-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Aug 2012, at 11:49, Colin Hall wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:16:08AM +0200, Hans Aberg wrote: On 24 Aug 2012, at 17:01, Graham Percival wrote: We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0. This page says MacOS X 10.7 Lion is not yet supported, but the Intel

Re: Call for help from Mac OS X users (was Re: PNG output not working (Mac OS X Lion))

2012-05-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 May 2012, at 01:28, Colin Hall wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:53:59PM +0200, Marek Klein wrote: 2012/5/23 Raphael Frey freyraph...@gmail.com unfortunately PNG output doesn't work on Mac OS X Lion LilyPond 2.15.38 PS: Other question: Why does LilyPond speak German with me although

Re: Lilypond doesn't start with Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3

2012-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Feb 2012, at 17:53, David Kastrup wrote: After updating my Mac Lilypond didn't start anymore. I'm only able to convert .ly to .pdf with the Terminal. I send a link to a screenshot. Error report: http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/2789/v52vbunc_png.htm How about mentioning the

Re: Lilypond doesn't start with Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3

2012-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Feb 2012, at 01:31, Michael Gasperl wrote: Hi, I'm using version 2.15.23, and with my lion 10.7.3 i get this error message. now I found the combination jEdit+Lilypondtool and am glad wit it. best regards, michael Have you seen this:

Re: Lilypond doesn't start with Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3

2012-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
is it is the LilyPond GUI or something wrong with your update. Hans Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com: On 3 Feb 2012, at 17:53, David Kastrup wrote: After updating my Mac Lilypond didn't start anymore. I'm only able to convert .ly to .pdf with the Terminal. I send

Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

2012-01-31 Thread Hans Aberg
On 31 Jan 2012, at 03:53, James Worlton wrote: I downloaded the most recent development version for my Mac PPC (10.4) system, and double-clicked the LilyPond.app after extracting the .tar.bz2 file. Normally this opens up the test file that you can save compile. This time, though, the

Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

2012-01-31 Thread Hans Aberg
On 31 Jan 2012, at 15:47, James Worlton wrote: This link says CFFileDescriptor requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2050/_index.html So that means I'm stuck at 2.15.26? (Or 2.14.x?) Or is this something that was overlooked in compiling the PPC

Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

2012-01-31 Thread Hans Aberg
On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:41, Carl Sorensen wrote: This link says CFFileDescriptor requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2050/_index.html So that means I'm stuck at 2.15.26? (Or 2.14.x?) Or is this something that was overlooked in compiling the

Re: Problem running midi2ly on Mac OS X 10.6.8

2012-01-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Jan 2012, at 23:03, Ralph Palmer wrote: The 2.14.2 version of Lilypond for Intel Macs running OS x 10.6 contains the shared library midi.so, used by midi2ly. Unfortunately it contains 32-bit code which is incompatible with Python 2.6 which by default runs in 64-bit mode, and midi2ly

Re: Issue 2159 in lilypond: Patch: lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters

2012-01-01 Thread Hans Aberg
On 1 Jan 2012, at 20:22, lilyp...@googlecode.com wrote: Updates: Labels: Patch-new Comment #2 on issue 2159 by d...@gnu.org: Patch: lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2159#c2 lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters

Re: Issue 2159 in lilypond: Patch: lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters

2012-01-01 Thread Hans Aberg
On 1 Jan 2012, at 21:06, David Kastrup wrote: Updates: Labels: Patch-new Comment #2 on issue 2159 by d...@gnu.org: Patch: lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2159#c2 lexer.ll: Warn about non-UTF-8 characters Making the

Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals

2011-11-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Nov 2011, at 05:38, David Kastrup wrote: Unfortunately, it is just programmers and not musicians who have a reasonable chance of being able to figure out how to produce ♯ on a computer keyboard. One approach is having an editor which can provide replacements for input text. So one just

Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals

2011-11-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Nov 2011, at 10:19, David Kastrup wrote: Unfortunately, it is just programmers and not musicians who have a reasonable chance of being able to figure out how to produce ♯ on a computer keyboard. One approach is having an editor which can provide replacements for input text. So one

Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals

2011-11-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Nov 2011, at 15:31, Pavel Roskin wrote: I hacked together some code, scm/define-note-names.scm, with a language unicode added. I wish I looked at that file before starting this thread. Even though Unicode symbols are international, the note names are not. The English B is not

Re: LilyPond 2.15.18 released

2011-11-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Nov 2011, at 16:46, Graham Percival wrote: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.18. The Mac OS X application Show Info gives the version as 2.14.2. However, lilypond --version is the correct 2.15.18. Hans ___ bug-lilypond

Re: OSX Lion cannot run lilymidi

2011-10-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Oct 2011, at 21:43, Maccesch wrote: I have the latest unstable Version (2.15.15-1) installed on OS X Lion. The GUI seems to work fine, but if I try to run lilymidi from the Terminal I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./lilymidi, line 237, in module go ()

Re: grace synchronization

2011-08-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Aug 2011, at 08:01, David Kastrup wrote: Now, either of those breaks when combined with one of the following two: c4 \clef bass \grace e8 c4 (clef at 1/4G-1/8 or 1/4G-inf) or c4 \grace e8 \clef bass c4 (clef at 1/4G-0 in both cases) What do you mean with breaks? Why should

Re: grace synchronization

2011-08-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Aug 2011, at 17:43, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I'm running into a rather irritating grace synchronization problem — an acciaccatura in one voice is overriding an explicit page break — and so I wanted to know what it would take to fix the grace sync problem once and for all. By

Re: grace synchronization

2011-08-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Aug 2011, at 21:30, Hans Aberg wrote: On 26 Aug 2011, at 17:43, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I'm running into a rather irritating grace synchronization problem — an acciaccatura in one voice is overriding an explicit page break — and so I wanted to know what it would take to fix

Re: grace synchronization

2011-08-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Aug 2011, at 22:47, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I now got it working: just put in a grace note with a skip in the other staff. I had already tried that in my score — doesn't fix the problem. To fix the problem, I first commented out the other staff (in fact, some chord names). When that

Re: grace synchronization

2011-08-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Aug 2011, at 00:51, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: On Fr., 26. Aug. 2011 23:32:39 CEST, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I checked around, and Rationals (which are used for time) have a representation of -inf. I think it would be a good start if the default grace time component (namely

Re: Mac OS X Lion killed LilyPond

2011-07-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Jul 2011, at 13:04, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: after upgrading my Mac to Lion Lilypond doesn't start anymore. There is the following message displayed: - ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/ ...Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/objc/_objc.so,

Re: midi2ly fails on OSX 10.6.8

2011-07-10 Thread Hans Aberg
Please cc the list, so that others can engage in the issue. Hans On 10 Jul 2011, at 10:55, Floris van Manen wrote: On Jul 10, 2011, at 00:20, Hans Aberg wrote: On 9 Jul 2011, at 22:19, Floris van Manen wrote: L.S. While trying to launch the midi2ly app, it will fail to start

Re: midi2ly fails on OSX 10.6.8

2011-07-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Jul 2011, at 22:19, Floris van Manen wrote: L.S. While trying to launch the midi2ly app, it will fail to start: $/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly Traceback (most recent call last): File /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly, line 54, in

Re: bug report on 2.15.2 Mac OS X Intel version

2011-06-21 Thread Hans Aberg
On 21 June 2011 11:25, Henk Verhaar wrote: So what I did is, I copied an existing .ly file in the Finder and renamed it to its intended new name, ran the syntax updater, updated some fluff (some %obsolete marks introduced by the syntax updater), renamed the variables (name, composer,

Re: enharmonic problem with \transpose - should we modify it?

2011-06-17 Thread Hans Aberg
On 17 Jun 2011, at 07:19, Keith OHara wrote: Summary: { \key c \minor \transpose gis as { es } } produces feses in output. I think it would be better if it outputted es. I have used `\transpose gis as` to change enharmonic spellings, so probably others have used it as well, so it should

Re: LilyPond 2.13.61: MIDI names broken

2011-05-17 Thread Hans Aberg
On 17 May 2011, at 06:38, Keith OHara wrote: I did not see if already reported, but \set Staff.midiInstrument is broken in LilyPond 2.13.61: affect only first note. It works in LilyPond 2.13.52. Thanks, Hans. You are welcome, Keith. This sounds like

LilyPond 2.13.61: MIDI names broken

2011-05-16 Thread Hans Aberg
I did not see if already reported, but \set Staff.midiInstrument is broken in LilyPond 2.13.61: affect only first note. It works in LilyPond 2.13.52. Hans ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org

Re: midi2ly

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Aberg
[Please keep the cc to the bug-lilypond list, so that others may help.] On 18 Mar 2011, at 02:58, Isambard Khroustaliov wrote: Thanks for this, running otool I get: Zeit-2:~ zeit$ otool -arch i386 -L /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/python/midi.so

Re: midi2ly

2011-03-17 Thread Hans Aberg
On 17 Mar 2011, at 17:39, Sam Britton wrote: I've been trying for a while now to get midi2ly to work to no avail. I get the error below. Is there anyway to fix this? ... /Applications /LilyPond.app /Contents /Resources /lib /lilypond /current /python /midi.so : mach-o, but wrong

Re: programming error: Going back in MIDI time

2010-11-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Nov 2010, at 12:37, Ralph Palmer wrote: Thanks for your report. This has been accepted as Issue 1412 : http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1412 Fine. Pondly (as Valentin would say), Pond-lily Yours, Hans ___

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Feb 2010, at 04:59, Stan Sanderson wrote: I just tested it on my PPC 10.5.8 with Lily 2.13.10. It was a relatively short .ly file, but there were no errors reported. Tested what? My apologies if it wasn't clear that I compiled a .ly source file using Lilypond 2.13.10 without moving

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
One can use 'dtruss lilypond empty', which the writes the stuff below. So for some reason, lilypond does call stuff in /usr/local/lib/. And it seems, as I thought, that it is libltdl that is the problem - I used a different version. The Guile manual, sec. 4.2.1, says that it uses

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
Addition: The Guile manual, sec. 4.2.1, says: It will look in the places that are usual for your operating system, and it will additionally look into the directories listed in the LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. So guile is probably hardwired to look into /usr/local/lib/. It

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
I have done some more debugging, and the result is surprising: When I move only /usr/local/lib/libltdl.7.dylib to another name, then lilypond works; however, dtruss shows that it calls /usr/lib/libltdl. 7.dylib ! So lilypond may never have called

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
They say on the Bug-Libtool list that the behavior might be changed using 'install_name_tool'. Hans ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
It seems that the 'lilypond' that is inside LilyPond.app*) on Mac OS X (tried on 10.5.8) calls stuff in /usr/local/ which can cause the program to fail by segmentation fault: I just updated to guile-1.8.7 and gmp-4.3.1, and then both LilyPond 2.13.7 and 2.13.11 failed - segmentation fault

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Feb 2010, at 00:13, Stan Sanderson wrote: It seems that the 'lilypond' that is inside LilyPond.app*) on Mac OS X (tried on 10.5.8) calls stuff in /usr/local/ which can cause the program to fail by segmentation fault: I just updated to guile-1.8.7 and gmp-4.3.1, and then both LilyPond

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Feb 2010, at 00:47, James Bailey wrote: This may have to do with the order of things in your $PATH. Possibly, unless 'lilypond' sets its own. But why is 'lilypond' calling it? Library paths are hardcoded. And calling stuff that comes with the OS should be called using full paths if

Re: Mac OS X: 'lilypond' calling stuff in /usr/local/

2010-02-03 Thread Hans Aberg
It may have to do with libtool, which has libltdl which Guile calls when doing the extensibility stuff. I used libtool-2.2.6b when making guile. So if LilyPond's guile was made with another version, but calls stuff outside it directory, that might cause it. Hans

Re: Support of Snow Leopard

2009-10-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Oct 2009, at 05:42, Marc Tyndel wrote: when I type pango, pango is not found. But if I type pango-querymodules --version it works. Carl pointed me to it in an email. Pango's in the Lilypond.app package. Specifically, /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ Pango is a

Re: programm

2009-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2009, at 07:34, monte-negro wrote: мне нужна программа открытия файлов .ly If it is an editor you are looking for, that would be the LilyPond- User list. Be sure to indicate the platform you are using, and using English might give more replies. Hans

Re: Support of Snow Leopard

2009-09-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Sep 2009, at 04:32, Antheo wrote: From what i read it seems the dev version 2.13.3 should work on Snow Leopard but I just tried and it takes 100% of the CPU on my machine. Are you sure it is LilyPond? Try 'top -uR' in Terminal. Hans

Re: Support of Snow Leopard

2009-09-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Sep 2009, at 12:38, Marc wrote: I saw lilypond taking 99% in the activity app Is it causing any problems? - If so, you might try 'nice'. Hans ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org

Re: Support of Snow Leopard

2009-09-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Sep 2009, at 18:28, Marc wrote: Would you mind elaborating what you mean by trying nice? Lilypond gets stuck at 100% ... Try 'man nice'. ...and don't produce any output nor does it print anything besides the version number. Such details are good to mention in bug reports. If I

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Aug 2009, at 00:51, David Kastrup wrote: I figure LilyPond might support what people want to typeset. Yes, if I tell it explicitly. Short of that, Lilypond should pick the way that best reflects the art of typesetting, as recognized by the developers. It is ok if there are manual

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Aug 2009, at 11:13, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/8/8 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Meter changes should occur before an opening repeat sign. If there is a closing one immediately adjacently, opening and closing one are placed apart, and the meter change in between. Thanks, I've

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:07, Bernard Hurley wrote: The default rule is really that one should have a minimum number of time signatures if the repeat construct is expanded*). That seems like a reasonable rule. But a quick look through my pile of full scores (Mostly Dover reprints of 18th and

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-08 Thread Hans Aberg
On 8 Aug 2009, at 15:41, Valentin Villenave wrote: Er, I got lost in the discussion. Could you sum up your report (possibly with a picture)? The default rule is really that one should have a minimum number of time signatures if the repeat construct is expanded*). An alternative way to put

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Aug 2009, at 08:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Here an example from Brahms Gesamtausgabe, Haydn Variations, which demonstrates what I mean. I have looked into some Bulgarian sheet music, and they do the same as in Hindemith and in your example: 1. If the meter shift occurs at a staff break,

Re: 2/4 not before repeat line in incipit to `Repeats'

2009-08-06 Thread Hans Aberg
On 6 Aug 2009, at 18:59, David Kastrup wrote: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: In the incipit to the `Repeats' section, I think it should be 2 | |: 4 | instead of | 2 |: | 4 Later in the chapter there is a snippet which demonstrates this. Not sure. It would appear

Re: Can't use a filename with a colon in it?

2009-08-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Aug 2009, at 10:06, Trevor Daniels wrote: This is Lilypond trying to find a file called 16.ly when I asked it to open a file called Jn3:16.ly I should have seen that :( Sorry for the noise. I can't investigate further myself as Windows does not permit files to be saved with a colon

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-29 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 21:05, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I use a self-compiled version for x86, that I made by following Nicolas Sceaux's instructions. If you mean the Mac OS X link on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL#Compiling-from-source it is dead. Also the Bison

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:18, Graham Percival wrote: Nevertheless, I can work on that issue concerning the mac osx lilypond. I have one tiger ppc and one leopard intel, so i'll check compat for both OSes and architectures. That would be great! Leopard has python 2.5.1 by default, so there's

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 15:14, Graham Percival wrote: I found page for Mac OS X, though somewhat dated (2005), which actually suggests #!/usr/bin/env python http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/opensourcescripting.html Also, MacPorts has Python, on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.6 PPC G4):

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 15:51, Cláudia Soares wrote: Hi Hans, GUB stands for Grand Unified Builder and it is a project that was born with lilypond. Please check the web page Graham mentioned http://lilypond.org/gub/ This lilypond builder has some kind of all in one egg approach and it provides

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 15:59, Graham Percival wrote: I'd quite like it to work easily on OSX, although I think that convert-ly is much more important than lilypond-book -- any OSX user who uses LaTeX will have no problem manually changing the #!/usr/bin/foo although they will rightly be annoyed by

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 17:23, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Hi Hans, GUB stands for Grand Unified Builder and it is a project that was born with lilypond. Please check the web page Graham mentioned http://lilypond.org/gub/ This lilypond builder has some kind of all in one egg approach and it provides a

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Mar 2009, at 00:55, Trevor Daniels wrote: The manual says that \char #65 produces the letter A. Here, 65 is an ordinary integer. Which position number basis? The ASCII hexadecimal number for A is 41, in languages like C/C++ written as 0x41, and in Unicode U+0041. What is the

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Mar 2009, at 10:34, Francisco Vila wrote: However, I agree the description of \char in the manual could be clearer. It needs to indicate the hex string is a variable length dependent on the character being encoded. I'll fix it. Trevor This is what confused me. The integer argument to

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-26 Thread Hans Aberg
executes whatever python is first in the search-path. The former executes the system installed python. If you make this change, make sure that error messages write out the full path of the program (as in 'which python'), as errors depending on the program are hard to catch. Hans Aberg

Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

2009-03-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Mar 2009, at 02:26, Cláudia Soares wrote: One info source about shebangs can be found at http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ For Mac Os X 10.5.6 PPC G4, I got: $ ./invoker.sh argv[0]: /tmp/showargs argv[1]: -1 argv[2]: -2 argv[3]: -3 argv[4]: ./invoker.sh Hans

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-25 Thread Hans Aberg
speaking, there are two UTF-8. Hans Aberg ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: wide-char is wide

2009-03-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Mar 2009, at 23:30, Francisco Vila wrote: From your kind explanation would be right to say that the argument to the LilyPond \char command is a simple natural number and not a multibyte utf-8 sequence? This is what --I think-- still has to be made clear. Everything you write out and see

Re: Limitation with beat grouping

2009-03-23 Thread Hans Aberg
On 23 Mar 2009, at 01:54, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: I've had a problem with some auto beaming, and after some discussion on -user[1] I believe it's a limitation with LilyPond's autobeaming mechanism. Here's my problem: I am setting a piece in 4/4 that has many examples of the figure a8 a a

Re: Limitation with beat grouping

2009-03-23 Thread Hans Aberg
On 23 Mar 2009, at 09:26, Trevor Daniels wrote: Just to clarify, the problem is to automatically beam the pattern with 16th as a[8 a] a[ a16 a] while _also_ beaming four 8ths as a8[ a a a]. That is, to end the 8th beam after two notes if later on it runs into 16th but to continue otherwise.

Re: Limitation with beat grouping

2009-03-23 Thread Hans Aberg
On 23 Mar 2009, at 11:50, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: The problem, as I see it, is tied to the metric interpretation of 4/4, which is ambiguous: it can be taken as a strong beat (metric accent) on 1 followed by weaker on 2, 3 and 4. Alternatively, 3 can be accented more than 2 and 4, but

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Mar 2009, at 02:34, Kees van den Doel wrote: One idea is to generate some other format, perhaps Scala seq files, which in turn can produce MIDI files. When there is microtonal information present, Scala can use special algorithms to assign MIDI channels, and also keep track of

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Mar 2009, at 09:59, Mats Bengtsson wrote: in scala because the pitchbends generated from lilypond for the microtones are ignored when producing a scale .seq file. I have discussed it with Manual Op de Coul, and he think it is a good idea, but the problem is finding someone that can

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Mar 2009, at 00:41, Kees van den Doel wrote: Aren't you using a synth with a vibrato channel then? Of course. Not sure what you are thinking of with all these questions. Point is that if I could generate MIDI messages in the score I could do what I want. Yes, I see that now. I was

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Mar 2009, at 09:57, Mats Bengtsson wrote: One technical problem of such a general feature, is that some MIDI commands that are intended to apply to all MIDI tracks should be inserted in track 0, whereas other MIDI commands (that contain a channel number) should be inserted in the

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Mar 2009, at 02:27, Kees van den Doel wrote: Not sure I understand, I need a vibrato, not a trill. Well, how do you want realize your vibrato, MIDI-wise? Hans ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Mar 2009, at 19:26, Kees van den Doel wrote: Well, how do you want realize your vibrato, MIDI-wise? Set MIDI controller number 1 to a non-zero value on the channel. Aren't you using a synth with a vibrato channel then? Hans ___

Re: MIDI interface (feature request)

2009-03-17 Thread Hans Aberg
On 17 Mar 2009, at 02:32, Kees van den Doel wrote: I would like to see a general method to insert MIDI command in the score. My specific need is to add vibrato to certain notes by setting the appropriate controller. My application is Persian music where vibrato is a must on certain notes.

Re: Multiple repeat nested with alternative

2009-03-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Mar 2009, at 21:09, Peter Budny wrote: It might suffice to support a syntax like \repeat volta 2 {A B} \alternative {C} \repeat volta 2 {D E} \alternative {F} G H I J ... That is, simply indicating one alternative less than in the volta. LilyPond could then infer that there

Re: Multiple repeat nested with alternative

2009-03-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Mar 2009, at 13:48, Valentin Villenave wrote: I'd happily add an official enhancement request for that, but I need a more precise and specific report (preferably with a minimal example). Each \alternative might need a subsequence of the integer interval [1...n] indicated. For example,

Re: Multiple repeat nested with alternative

2009-03-13 Thread Hans Aberg
As I mentioned in my last post, I think the problem is that some repeat alternatives may be empty. If the last one is empty, one ends up on the situation in the original post. So perhaps it suffices with admitting \alternative {}. But if a termination of the whole construct is needed,

Re: Multiple repeat nested with alternative

2009-03-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Mar 2009, at 09:49, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [1. ] [2. [1. ] [2. | x x x x | x x x x | x x x x :||: x x x x | x x x x | x x x x :|| x x x | x | A B

Typo in Snippets 2.11.39: compound-time example

2008-02-28 Thread Hans Aberg
There seems to be a typo in Snippets 2.11.39, pp. 21-22: There should be an extra 2 between the two last 3s to get the 25/8 Sedi Donka rhythm used there. (One way to remember it, is as a compound of 7 = 3 +2+2+ and 11=2+2+3+2+2.) So on p. 21, it should be: \override Staff.TimeSignature

Re: Typo in Snippets 2.11.39: compound-time example

2008-02-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Feb 2008, at 14:22, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Are you sure that you understand how the compound-time Scheme function works? No me either :-). Actually, I use: barlines = { \repeat unfold 8 {s16*7 \bar : s16*7 \bar : s16*11 | } } \score { \new Staff \barlines \relative {

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