Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:01, Joshua Parmenter wrote: > Shouldn't all tremolo lines be at the same angle (usually about 30 > degrees)? > > Sorry, I am new to the list, and am not sure where this thread > started. But in standard notation, this is not what usual tremolo > markings look like. I started

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Shouldn't all tremolo lines be at the same angle (usually about 30 > degrees)? AFAIK, this isn't true in the presence of beams. Can you provide a counterexample (this is, a small scanned image)? In that case we have to make it configurable. Werner ___

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've tweaked it by adding a little more to the minimum length of the > stem. The Franck output is unchanged, I've attached the new > Tchaikovsky output. Very nice! > Oh, and I remembered a ChangeLog entry this time :) Please add it just to the mail and don't include it into the diff directly.

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Joshua Parmenter
Shouldn't all tremolo lines be at the same angle (usually about 30 degrees)? Sorry, I am new to the list, and am not sure where this thread started. But in standard notation, this is not what usual tremolo markings look like. Josh On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: On Tue,

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:43, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > It seems this issue doesn't bother anyone else? In any case, now > > that 2.8 is out there, I thought I'd start pushing this point again. > > I attach a patch that gives the behaviour that I think is correct. > > I also attach 2 examples of the d

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It seems this issue doesn't bother anyone else? In any case, now > that 2.8 is out there, I thought I'd start pushing this point again. > I attach a patch that gives the behaviour that I think is correct. > I also attach 2 examples of the differences between the existing and > the proposed behav

GUB: patch for linux_kernel_headers

2006-03-27 Thread Pedro Kröger
Hi, You may want to apply the attached patch. It updates linux_kernel_headers to 2.6.13+0rc3-2.1. I couldn't find 2.6.13+0rc3-2 from any mirror. Pedro New patches: [updated version of Linux_kernel_headers Pedro Kröger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20060328000836] { hunk ./lib/arm.py 18 - linux.Linux_

Re: lilypond-book fails; python 2.3 used instead of 2.4

2006-03-27 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Graham Percival wrote: > I have python2.4 installed via fink, but it's still finding the system > 2.3 (at /usr/bin/python). Any hints? I was brutal: I removed /usr/bin/python and linked to /sw/bin/python... Hth, Dscho ___

Re: please spread release announcement

2006-03-27 Thread Daniel Johnson
Good news: As of yesterday, there is an ebuild for 2.8.0 in Gentoo portage. Previously, the latest versions were 2.4.2 and 2.5.2. It's good not to have to roll my own ebuilds anymore. All Gentoo Lilypond users who update their systems regularly will see this if they have the unstable flag s

Re: time signature in ancient notation

2006-03-27 Thread Juergen Reuter
Yes, this looks better. Now, that we have "barAlways = ##t", we can also drop these "dMinima" etc. definitions. I also set the \version to 2.8.0 (just looks nicer in the source). Result is attached. I think it's still not perfect, but much better than what is currently in the docu. Graha

Re: gregorian chant improvement

2006-03-27 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Elie Roux wrote: Hello, I'm working on gregorian chant reprensentation for a project student in a graduate ingeneering school in France, and I have had a lot of discussion with a monk on it. My aim is to improve gregorian chant representation in free softwares for monk to u

lilypond-book fails; python 2.3 used instead of 2.4

2006-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
lilypond-book produces pdfs with incorrect margins, and displays this error message: --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/gperciva/Apps//LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond- book", line 1754, in ? main () File "/Users/gperciva/Apps//LilyPond.app/Contents/Re

Re: Tremolo positioning

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Neeman
It seems this issue doesn't bother anyone else? In any case, now that 2.8 is out there, I thought I'd start pushing this point again. I attach a patch that gives the behaviour that I think is correct. I also attach 2 examples of the differences between the existing and the proposed behaviours.

Improvements to Postscript backend (patches included)

2006-03-27 Thread David Feuer
I made some changes to the Postscript backend, making the output more readable (especially for text), around 10% shorter, and, at least in theory, also faster to interpret. These changes are just a start, but I hope they help. I'd like to know if it might be possible to make the backend work a

slur between fingers

2006-03-27 Thread Gianni Bertoni
I would like to now if it is possible to type the change of fingers not only using the two numbers(i.e 5-1) but also adding a little slur above the two fingers. I found lots of score with the little slurs between fingers without dash Thanks Gianni Bertoni ___

Manual tie formatting, slight inconsistency

2006-03-27 Thread Steve D
I am personally extremely grateful for all of the great changes in LilyPond's tie formatting code during these last many months: both the improvements in the default tie formatting and especially the new ability to override the default formatting with manual adjustments. I have thought of an incon

Re: Some newbie troubles, especially with text

2006-03-27 Thread Stephen
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lily-devel" Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 4:09 PM Graham Percival wrote: On 20-Mar-06, at 8:18 AM, Stephen wrote: I don't think Rehearsal Marks are as flexible as \mar

Re: GUB: gub-builder.py fails to build flex

2006-03-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Pedro Kröger wrote: The command: python gub-builder.py -p local build flex fails because flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz unpacks to flex-2.5.4 (without the "a") and gub-builder is trying to do: tar -C /home/kroger/devel/gub/target/local/src -zcf /home/kroger/devel/gub/uploads/local/flex-2.5.4a-src.local.gu

Re: GUB: darwin7-sdk

2006-03-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Pedro Kröger wrote: GUB asks for a darwin7-sdk-0.4.tar.gz file. where can I download it? I google for it but I found nothing useful. you should get it automatically if you do make download -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Co

Postscript Backend patches with lines fixed (hopefully)

2006-03-27 Thread David Feuer
It looks like my email client messed up the lines on the patches I sent in. I'm trying again with a different one. Hope this works. I also attached the patches, just in case. Note: I'm pretty sure these changes won't break CID fonts, but it'd be a good idea to double check that. David Feuer

Lily2.8.0-5 on Windows

2006-03-27 Thread J L
Hi, I've just upgraded to version 2.8.0-5 on Windows. Firstly, it seems to be slower than the 2.7.x series, about the same speed as the old 2.6.x series. Secondly, could a compressed archive of the files installed by the installer be added as a target of the GUB? Alternatively, an option cou

lilypond-book and included files

2006-03-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Lilypond-book doesn't seem to understand the include structure very well. That is, it's using the included files, but doesn't seem to know that it needs to rebuild the snippets if you change an included file. I'm working around this by removing all the snippets when I change anything, but obviou

Re: GUB: error 404 osx-lilypad-0.2.tar.gz

2006-03-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Pedro Kröger wrote: I get a 404 not found error when make download tries to fetch http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/osx-lilypad-0.2.tar.gz. this happens with darcs up to this patch: Thu Mar 23 11:08:27 BRT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * document why NSIS_CONFIG_LOG is switched off. thanks. fixed. --

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Marco Gusy wrote: I just want to obtain the correct beaming behaviour in vocal music (like in the sample image i sent) without getting mad beaming and "melismaing" by hand. The rule should simply be "Break beam on every new syllable". Since lilypond implemented the auto-melisma using dashes

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't really understand what you mean. If you don't want any connection between the lyrics and the notes, just skip \lyricsto and specify the duration of each syllable. If you want information from the lyrics to affect the notes, then you would still have to specify the duration of each syllable

please spread release announcement

2006-03-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hello! you can help promote lilypond by spreading the release announcement. * The HTML version is at http://lilypond.org/web/announce-v2.8.html * The text version is at http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/workbook/press.txt?root=lilypond note that the text is UTF-8 ; take car

Re: Vocal music and beaming

2006-03-27 Thread Marco Gusy
Alle 09:48, mercoledì 22 marzo 2006, Marco Gusy ha scritto: > (ignoring ties) I meant ignoring slurs, ties are ok ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Page and line penalties

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Neeman
As far as I can tell, page and line penalties are used _only_ for forbidding and forcing page breaks. Is there much chance they will ever be used for anything else? If not, they could be replaced by booleans - this would make the breaking algorithms a bit easier. Also, there seems to be some co

gregorian chant improvement

2006-03-27 Thread Elie Roux
Hello, I'm working on gregorian chant reprensentation for a project student in a graduate ingeneering school in France, and I have had a lot of discussion with a monk on it. My aim is to improve gregorian chant representation in free softwares for monk to use it. I read the latest version of the