Re: battle-plan for 2.5 development

2004-11-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'd think of an email-based (and for much money also phone-based) support for *users*, i.e people who don't want to be bothered with a compiler, but have to get work done. Ideally the questions would be answered by persons who know lily in her deepest core,

did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
More than two years ago, someone on this list said they were working on shaped note support. Did this ever get added in? I need it for current and future projects. I am visiting a Mennonite denomination that still uses the Aiken shaped note system for their hymnal. I'd like to convert some of

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:23:12AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Just as some other feature requests that pop up on the mailing list, the feature would be useful to a fairly narrow group of users Over there in Europe, it can look like we are only a narrow group of users, but here in North America

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jonathan Walther writes: Finale did add shaped note support to their product for a reason; the market was there! That may or may not be so, but that is irrelevant. LilyPond is free software, things work a bit differently over here. If enough users want a feature, surely one of them can

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Don't misinterpret me, I'm just talking about the group of LilyPond users that make themselves heard on the mailing list. Only two requests during the 8 years that LilyPond has existed is very little compared to the amount of emails we have seen about other features. Also, I'm not the one taking

mutopia books as a (symbolic) funding source for Lilypond?

2004-11-18 Thread Mark Van den Borre
Hi, What if Mutopia used a print-on-demand service like lulu.com to sell printed copies of part of the archive? We could thank the Lilypond developers by donating any tiny income derived from that to Lilypond. I'm sure the Lilypond would be able to do something useful with it. I can see at least a

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Laura Conrad
Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan We North Americans do preserve some items of history Jonathan that Europe has shed. Do not discriminate against us on Jonathan that account. I don't know of any shape note tradition in Europe, and I've shown Sacred

'make install' error

2004-11-18 Thread David Bobroff
As of ChangeLog 1.2869 'make install' exits thusly: /usr/src/lilypond/stepmake/stepmake/generic-targets.make:127: warning: ignoring old commands for target `install' true local-install Not installing stepmake make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lilypond/stepmake' make[1]: Entering directory

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:05:40AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan We North Americans do preserve some items of history Jonathan that Europe has shed. Do not discriminate against us on Jonathan that account. That being said, I'm

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Laura Conrad
Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan The important thing with shape notes is that the shape Jonathan be distinct. The triangle, square, diamond, circle, Jonathan hemisphere, and the other two. So what are the other two? And what does the hemisphere mean?

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:22:43PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan The important thing with shape notes is that the shape Jonathan be distinct. The triangle, square, diamond, circle, Jonathan hemisphere, and the other two. So

Re: 'make install' error

2004-11-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Bobroff writes: As of ChangeLog 1.2869 'make install' exits thusly: install-info --info-dir=/usr/local/info ./out/lilypond.info install-info: menu item `musedata2ly' already exists, for file `./lilypond/lilypond' Thanks. Should be fixed now. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Laura Conrad
Ruud == Ruud van Silfhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ruud I don't know if this is of interest but one of the older messages Ruud in the lilypond mailing lists contained an attachment with a diff. Ruud (the mail came from someone called Glen Prideaux) Then I have two email addresses

Re: package ec-fonts-mftraced

2004-11-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: Nothing against packaging this, but are you sure that this is the only font that lilypond can use? The Latin Modern fonts (package lmodern) also contains CMR-like Type1-fonts in EC encoding. 2.5.0 CVS now supports lmodern fonts in latin1 encoding. An encoding

Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

2004-11-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:05:40AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan We North Americans do preserve some items of history Jonathan that Europe has shed. Do not discriminate against us on