documentation for 2.16 searches 2.17 site

2013-02-12 Thread Laura Conrad
. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org We had a young pitcher on that club named Jimmy St. Vrain. He was a left-handed pitcher and a right-handed batter

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-13 Thread Laura Conrad
lilypond-book file for this project. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line Laura length of the music to be much less than the actual width of Laura the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it Laura puts the footers.) I

lilypond-book via dvi and ps no longer seems to work

2012-08-04 Thread Laura Conrad
-- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org You want the listener not to think he's taken a breath, rather what nuanced phrasing! Unidentified voice teacher, quoted

landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-03 Thread Laura Conrad
comment out the \usepackage{geometry} line that has landscape, and use the line for portrait geometry, the line length of the music is set correctly. The landscape version works correctly in lilypond 2.12, but not in 2.14 or 2.15. test.lytex Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon

Ligatures and ambits don't mix

2011-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached test file bombs with a segmentation fault in lilypond 2.14.1. If you comment out either the ambitus_engraver or the stuff about the ligature engravers, it compiles as expected. test.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer

Re: Ligatures and ambits don't mix

2011-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Dmytro == Dmytro O Redchuk brownian@gmail.com writes: Dmytro On Mon 27 Jun 2011, 10:58 Laura Conrad wrote: The attached test file bombs with a segmentation fault in lilypond 2.14.1. If you comment out either the ambitus_engraver or the stuff about

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 8 March 2011 18:05, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Does anyone know a way to tell lily that an empty barline shouldn't have space, but there should still be some space around the barlines that are being printed

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 9 March 2011 16:02, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Unfortunately, it creates a new one.  In some cases, such as the attached small example, when I use this BarType I get a lot of errors: programming error

Re: lilypond-book crashes on missing .ly file

2011-03-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Colin == Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca writes: I believe this was also true in 2.12, so it isn't a regression. Colin Many of lilypond's scripts and modules will produce a python Colin traceback on an ABEND, Laura. Do you mean that you would Colin expect lilypond-book

lilypond-book crashes on missing .ly file

2011-03-04 Thread Laura Conrad
) TypeError: 'str' object is not callable I believe this was also true in 2.12, so it isn't a regression. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org The opposite of funny isn't serious

Re: full-measure rests don't seem to reserve adequate space

2010-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 11 August 2010 22:01, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: The attached file should have 4 full-measure rests, but in fact looks to the casual user like there are only three. A workaround is to make sure

full-measure rests don't seem to reserve adequate space

2010-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org After much pondering, I think I understand a basic reason why a glass of something reviving is so welcome in the early evening

Re: abc2ly produces bad output

2010-03-21 Thread Laura Conrad
notes. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org I had to breathe more frequently (but take smaller breaths), but also to use all the air I had in reserve, and not mistake the lack

Re: transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-11-01 Thread Laura Conrad
) cluttering up the notes files. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Jesus, I'm Thirsty. (Danku) 'Who's getting the beer?' Judas stepped up to the bar. He'd had a windfall! Danny

Re: transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-10-31 Thread Laura Conrad
? notehead.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org G.P. 7: Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion

transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-10-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Part of the joy of falling in love -- for the intelligent, the watchers, the judicious -- is the delicious license to set

Re: Point and Click on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-19 Thread Laura Conrad
. I never investigated any further after getting a working version, though. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ...in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught

file crashes musicxml2ly

2009-02-11 Thread Laura Conrad
newl...@clavichord:/tmp$ This is on 2.12.0. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 The opposite of funny isn't serious; the opposite of both funny and serious is sordid. R. A. Lafferty

software usage email

2009-02-05 Thread Laura
Compose a message to send to gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

abc2ly crash

2008-10-17 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached abc file crashes abc2ly in 2.11.62. This is a regression from 2.10.33. test-2.10.62.abc Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Thus, for instance, the Liberal party (to which

documentation bug: lilypond-book

2008-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
that garbage in front of pdf into what it looks like on the screen, -, I get a usage message. The correct option is --pdf. There must be a way to make texinfo produce html which conveys that better than what's there now. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097

lilypond-book fails to unindent after instrument name

2008-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
, installed from the GUB on an unbuntu Hardy Heron system. simplebook.lytex Description: Binary data testsimple.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Strong hope is a much greater stimulant

Re: lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-09-01 Thread Laura Conrad
PATH if there is a different version in /usr/bin. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 At dawn, the magpie sings, and by day the black cockatoo wing their way across a sunny sky. The koala, possum, dingo and carpet

Re: lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-09-01 Thread Laura Conrad
/bin and ~/bin, because my $PATH is James defined as ~/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin, as expected, the one in my James ~/bin folder is the one called. I'm glad it works somewhere, but it really doesn't for me. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097

lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-08-31 Thread Laura Conrad
. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 America, where you're free to say anything you want, and you'd better not say what you're not supposed to! Tommy Smothers, quoted by Cory Doctorow on the Boing Boing blog

Re: Issue 518 in lilypond: \oldaddlyrics broken

2007-12-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Hanwenn == codesite-noreply [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hanwenn Issue 518: \oldaddlyrics broken Hanwenn Convert manually to use \lyricsto Is that better than \addlyrics? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway

Re: oldaddlyrics

2007-12-03 Thread Laura Conrad
function actually worked, it would be a less serious bug, but still a deficiency. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug

moving the bar line engraver to the staff level breaks \partial

2007-05-12 Thread Laura Conrad
part as expected, but ignores the \partial statement for the second part. Adding an explicit measure position command to the second voice: \set Timing.measurePosition = #(ly:make-moment -1 2) works around the problem. partialscore.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Staff lines not drawn when line breaking algorithm fails

2007-03-14 Thread Laura Conrad
than it has to be. I actually consider it a bug that it doesn't just brute-force pick a place to break the line so that it can print all the notes on the page, but at least the notes it does print should be legible. nolines.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http

Re: Convert-ly doesn't convert some ancient-font stuff

2007-02-14 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Laura Conrad wrote: This is two bugs, but the file is pretty simple. If you really want two different files, I'll split it. Graham Are those exhaustive lists of things that convert-ly should do? It's an exhaustive

Convert-ly doesn't convert some ancient-font stuff

2007-02-12 Thread Laura Conrad
do this, either. convert-ly-ancient.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond

unknown clef error message out of date.

2007-02-10 Thread Laura Conrad
When I attempt to use a clef that isn't supported, I get: warning: unknown clef type `mensural-f3' warning: see scm/clef.scm for supported clefs But the current name of the file that defines the clefs seems to be scm/parser-clef.scm. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org

Re: unknown clef error message out of date.

2007-02-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Laura Conrad wrote: When I attempt to use a clef that isn't supported, I get: warning: unknown clef type `mensural-f3' warning: see scm/clef.scm for supported clefs But the current name of the file

Re: abc2ly

2007-01-08 Thread Laura Conrad
Han-Wen == Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Han-Wen Laura is the only one using abc2ly on a regular basis. The ABC standard Han-Wen is so convoluted that it's hard to work out what's valid and invalid ABC. Correction: Laura is the only regular contributor to this list who

Re: Convert-ly crashes

2006-12-20 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham I puzzled over what priority to give this -- I mean, who's going to be Graham converting things that old Most of us who were using lilypond that long ago. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617

elision produces bad postscript in lilypond-book

2006-12-12 Thread Laura Conrad
except for the page number at the bottom. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: FiguredBass Extender Lines wrong position - 2.9.26

2006-10-24 Thread Laura Conrad
can insert a rest with |r|. The Paul rest will clear any previous alignment. For example, you can Paul write Paul 4 68 r8 Paul instead of Paul 4 64 This is a workaround, but is a nuisance for transcribers. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org

abc2ly not updated for current midi tempo specification

2006-10-16 Thread Laura Conrad
-moment , perminute, , duration, )\n\t\t }\n]) instead of midi_specs=string.join([\\tempo, duration, =, perminute]) -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

Re: programming error: Improbable offset for stencil:

2006-05-18 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC The attached lilypond file gives a bunch of errors of the form: LC programming error: Improbable offset for stencil: -1073741857.60 staff space LC Setting to zero. LC continuing, cross fingers LC and then comes up

2.8 lilypond-book not handling geometry package very well

2006-05-16 Thread Laura Conrad
: Binary data Lilypond-book also seems to have stopped regenerating the .ly files when the width changes, which it used to do back in 2.0 at least. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

Re: help! line won't break!

2006-05-14 Thread Laura Conrad
. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii

2006-05-09 Thread Laura Conrad
printers didn't subtract from V, although they did from X. So the fourth piece was , but the ninth one was IX. Maybe we need Elizabethan Roman as well as Old and New. :) -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

Re: lilypond-book output hangs ps2pdf

2006-04-14 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC ps2pdf seems to be hanging on the postscript output from LC lilypond-book. The directory in which this is happening is LC http://serpent.laymusic.org/~newlily/music/gibbons/may. I investigated this further, and it turns out

Re: 2.8.1 pdf file size

2006-04-05 Thread Laura Conrad
the answer already to go looking in Appendix D of the manual, which is where the fix is. GP Exact proposal, please. A new section in chapter 4? Definitely the command line version should be documented when you say lilypond --help. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http

lilypond-book output hangs ps2pdf

2006-03-29 Thread Laura Conrad
of lilypond files. This is on a debian sid system with tetex pinned at 2.0.2. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug

programming error: Improbable offset for stencil:

2006-03-28 Thread Laura Conrad
/music/ingalls/night/score-perform-bugreport.pdf A very similar score, with lyrics laid out a little bit differently http://serpent.laymusic.org/~newlily/music/ingalls/night/score-aminor.ly, comes out fine. score-perform.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http

PDF files are almost 2 orders of magnitude bigger on 2.7 than on 2.6

2006-02-24 Thread Laura Conrad
-2.7.pdf I think this is a fairly critical problem. In addition, the friend who drew my attention to this problem found that neither the 2.6 nor the 2.7 pdf files would display correctly with Acrobat 3.0 on Mac OS 9. Is this a known problem? test.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto

Re: PDF files are almost 2 orders of magnitude bigger on 2.7 than on 2.6

2006-02-24 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC In addition, the friend who drew my attention to this problem found LC that neither the 2.6 nor the 2.7 pdf files would display correctly LC with Acrobat 3.0 on Mac OS 9. Is this a known problem? It turns out that if you create

[Laura Conrad] abc2ly -b writes bad lilypond for '' construct

2006-02-19 Thread Laura Conrad
(this may be another bug) is printed without a flag on the e''8. The ABC: f e is correctly translated to: fis''4. e''8 -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ---End Message--- -- Laura

abc2ly chord parsing problem

2006-01-23 Thread Laura Conrad
The following ABC notes: [ B2 E2 ] translate correctly into the lilypond: b'2e'2 However, if you leave out the spaces between the brackets and the notes: [B2 E2] you get the following incorrect lilypond: b'2[e'2 ] -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http

Re: abc2ly chord parsing problem

2006-01-23 Thread Laura Conrad
Sorry, this is in lilypond 2.6.6. LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC The following (correct) ABC notes: LC [ B2 E2 ] LC translate correctly into the lilypond: LC b'2e'2 LC However, if you leave out the spaces between the brackets

lilypond 2.6.0 on win98SE makes ps but not pdf file (but thinks it does)

2005-07-15 Thread Dave and Laura Robertson
Dear Lilypond developers: I have recently downloaded LilyPond 2.6.0 for Windows from your website, and have found two oddities (may not be bugs??) in its operation, that you may be interested in, as the behavior is not explained or noted in the html file containing the user's manual. (This