Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread David Kastrup
Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: If the simple-fraction components of a compound time signature respected the time signature style, would that qualify as useful or as undesirable? For example, 2 + 32 + 3 4 - + C vs.- + - 4

Re: Issue 3286: add single-C time signature style (issue 164830043 by nine.fierce.ballads at gmail.com)

2014-11-04 Thread Benkő Pál
I don’t recall that anybody so far has been able to explain how they know a piece is in 4/2 when it is denoted cut-C. Can you? as well as knowing whether a customary C (cut or uncut) signals 2/2 or 4/4 (or 1/1, see below). I maintain that the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor is in

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.11.2014 um 07:48 schrieb David Kastrup: Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: If the simple-fraction components of a compound time signature respected the time signature style, would that qualify as useful or as undesirable? For example, 2 + 32 + 3 4 - + C

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Dan Eble
2 + 32 + 3 4 - + C vs.- + - 44 4 Undesirable in my book. I overlooked the fact that the denominators are the same, so either […] I'd rather not use the C symbol in these cases. Bad example. What if it were

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Nov 2014, at 10:49, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 07:48 schrieb David Kastrup: Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: If the simple-fraction components of a compound time signature respected the time signature style, would that qualify as useful or as undesirable?

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.11.2014 um 15:18 schrieb Hans Aberg: On 4 Nov 2014, at 10:49, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 07:48 schrieb David Kastrup: Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: If the simple-fraction components of a compound time signature respected the time signature style, would

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.11.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Dan Eble: 2 + 32 + 3 4 - + C vs.- + - 44 4 Undesirable in my book. I overlooked the fact that the denominators are the same, so either […] I'd rather not use the C symbol in these

Re: Compound time signature style

2014-11-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Nov 2014, at 19:52, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 15:18 schrieb Hans Aberg: On 4 Nov 2014, at 10:49, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 07:48 schrieb David Kastrup: Dan Eble d...@faithful.be writes: If the simple-fraction components of a

Erroneus error message or what?

2014-11-04 Thread Villum Sejersen
For information: I compile both lilypond-dev and fontforge from git sources, situated in /usr/local/src and the executables in /usr/local/bin/ - (in debian testing, not ubuntu). Lately, building lilypond, I have occationally encountered a strange error-massage: ERROR: Please install

Re: Erroneus error message or what?

2014-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Lately, building lilypond, I have occationally encountered a strange error-massage: ERROR: Please install required programs: /usr/local/bin/fontforge = 20110222 (installed: 3ec845c4fe718af4908ce2dc25b66d0594930) BUT: There IS installed a version of fontforge (with the quoted hash, at