Re: [PATCH] Fix for bug #218 (center staccato over stem instead of notehead)

2008-12-16 Thread Maximilian Albert
2008/12/17 Neil Puttock : > 2008/12/16 Maximilian Albert : > >> Alright, the adapted patch #2 is attached. Obviously I put too much >> focus on making a regression test more visually appealing than minimal >> and functional... > > Looks OK, but your \header block isn't closed. Whoops, corrected in

Re: [PATCH] Fix for bug #218 (center staccato over stem instead of notehead)

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/16 Maximilian Albert : > Alright, the adapted patch #2 is attached. Obviously I put too much > focus on making a regression test more visually appealing than minimal > and functional... Looks OK, but your \header block isn't closed. You can junk the \layout block, since lilypond-book set

Re: [PATCH] Fix for bug #218 (center staccato over stem instead of notehead)

2008-12-16 Thread Maximilian Albert
2008/12/13 Han-Wen Nienhuys : > No need to test 3 values, 0.0 and != 0.0 should be enough. Be sure to > test both stem up and stem down. > > Use only 1 note for each situation (or, if you need to test beams, 2). Alright, the adapted patch #2 is attached. Obviously I put too much focus on making a

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I would have beaten the the world record of the 100m escaping out of the music school if I would have had to say "double bémol sol". Nevertheless it is a matter of vocal cords, I still sing "sol" and not "fa"... Once a French conductor sang the melody "a a gis a g fis g" with the words "la

Re: PATCH: Arrowed accidentals for microtone notation

2008-12-16 Thread Maximilian Albert
2008/12/14 Werner LEMBERG : > >> Can we please make sure to include at least one example of input >> syntax in the newsfile? > > Well, it's Maximilian's turn... Yup, sorry. During the last couple of days I didn't have access to the computer I presently work on (and won't have for another few days)

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Why is Dutch the default language for note-entry? English uses the > > fewest keystrokes. For comparison, here's a measure from Chopin's > > Fantasie-impromptu: > > because we are Dutch

\chordmode related deficiencys in the command index (Appendix G)

2008-12-16 Thread Danalute
Appendix G has entries for /: and /+ , used in \chordmode { } There is no entry for \chordmode There is no entry for the symbols '<' and '>' discussion of the < notelist> convention (an alternate way to enter chords in a note stream), is left to an entry in Appendix H (Combining notes

Re: Building LilyPond with GUB on a 64bit machine with 32bit OS

2008-12-16 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 20:49:56 schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: > Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 18:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Reinhold > Kainhofer: > > [back onto lily-devel] > > > Actually, even that does not work, since during the execution of th

Re: Building LilyPond with GUB on a 64bit machine with 32bit OS

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 18:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Reinhold Kainhofer: [back onto lily-devel] > Actually, even that does not work, since during the execution of the > configure > checks, there is > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/reinhold/lilypond/gub/target/tools/root/usr/lib" Why is this

Re: Building LilyPond with GUB on a 64bit machine with 32bit OS

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 18:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Reinhold Kainhofer: [oops, back onto lily-devel] > > This is odd, we should not be linking to anything in tools/. Can you > > figure out why that happens? > > In the lilypond config.log: > configure:8037: checking guile compile flags

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 16.12.2008 17:20, Carl D. Sorensen disait : On 12/16/08 8:58 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > Why is Dutch the default language for note-entry? > English uses the fewest keystrokes. For comparison, > here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu: because we are Dutch, and because we think the Dutch are better in general: you can a

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, I think that, even though accidentals come before the note in musical output, in the text stream g# is much more readable than #g. Agreed — at least in English, one says (i.e., reads) "g sharp" not "sharp g". Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/16/08 8:58 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: > Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: >> On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) You

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
But then why not use a font like this: http://www.icogitate.com/~ergosum/fonts/musicfonts.htm Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 15:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > >> You might call for using Unicode: > >> r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > >> g♯) > >> > >> You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too.

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 05:58 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Graham Percival: > Could this be an independant language? I don't see why it's > stuffed into ly/nederlands.ly (other than this being the default). > Could it be ly/utf8.ly instead? So it should be, left as an excercise to I-won-t-say-

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
No it, can't be. Think of Bb H in german etc. Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:43PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:48, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: You might call for using Unicode: r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e g♯) You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Thank you. I think it increases readability, too. Han

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 15:06, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Well, I then suggest to be consequent, using the following Unicode characters instead of ♯♯ and ♭♭: U+1D12A MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE SHARP U+1D12B MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE FLAT Sure, only that both should possible to use, in Western music notat

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: > > > You might call for using Unicode: > > r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > > g♯) > > > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. > > Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Well, I then suggest to be cons

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:43PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. > > Now that's a fun idea. It even works! Could this be an independant language? I don't

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 16-12-2008 om 13:07 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Hans Aberg: > On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: > You might call for using Unicode: > r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e > g♯) > > You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too. Now that's a fun

Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote: English uses the fewest keystrokes. Computer languages no more attempt to minimize the number of keystrokes, as code tends to be unreadable. For comparison, here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu: English: r16 gs( a gs fss gs cs e