Re: convert-ly doesn't catch `make-pango-font-tree`

2023-04-09 Thread Joram Berger
Yes, I regularly use this snippet to set the document fonts. I think I learned it from Abraham Lee. IIRC, Frescobaldi also pasted it with the menu entry Tools > Document fonts … What is the new and correct command? What Frescobaldi gives me? \paper { #(define fonts (set-global-fonts

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Joram Berger
Hi Lukas, once again, I am no expert on ancient notation. So I don't know whether the length of the stems in your renaissance style are required to be exactly as long as they are now. They roughly end in the middle of a staff space for notes on this position and on a staff line for notes on a

Re: Possible tweaks to the appearance of the website

2015-01-05 Thread Joram Berger
http://clairnote.org / lilypond-web-demo2/ Hi Paul, I like your changes to the website. Especially the flatter gradient in the top menu is more modern. I would even have preferred the removal of the background image and the small icon next to LilyPond. Others see that differently. Two small

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-20 Thread Joram Berger
Am 20.01.2014 18:02, schrieb Alex Loomis: I'm still getting a lot of warnings, but it works beautifully! The word silence is in roman, but commenting out the line \override-lines #'(font-name . Century Schoolbook L) makes it italic. I assume this is because you need to specify an

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, this is another thing, but how about adding a nice standard notation example to the wikipedia entry? (like http://lilypond.org/ly-examples/bach-bwv610.png) This Stockhausen is very impressive if you want to know that you can tweak most everything to your needs. And it is now really close to

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
For me it now looks heavily distorted (wrong aspect ratio) Joram Am 13.01.2014 12:26, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Attached are a source version, without the font change for the time sig which crashes SVG creation, and the SVG output. Thanks! Looks great. I've updated the Wikipedia page.

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.01.2014 14:04, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: For me it now looks heavily distorted (wrong aspect ratio) Which browser? Firefox 26, Chromium and Konqueror 4.8.5 - also after reload. On the other hand, the uncropped SVG image

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
works for me now. Joram ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Double G clef, tenor G clef, varpercussion clef and varC clef (issue 47840043)

2014-01-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 06.01.2014 12:17, schrieb lemzw...@googlemail.com: I've now had some time to check the glyphs. Here my comments. 1. Please make all corners round in `clefs.varC' and `clefs.tenorG'. 2. In `clefs.tenorG', I'm not sure that the left `slanted' end of the top horizontal bar should really

Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?

2013-03-24 Thread Joram Berger
Am 24.03.2013 12:34, schrieb David Kastrup: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: The axis names are #X and #Y so I am not in favor. What about changing axis names as well? I'm all for it. Not really easy. We have in C++ macros X Y LEFT RIGHT etc, and making them lowercase would heavily

Re: Allows slurs to break at barlines. (issue 7424049)

2013-03-20 Thread Joram Berger
Am 20.03.2013 19:10, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: But there are millions of TeX users who are used to \phantom. And I believe that a lot of Lilypond users are TeX users also. This means that those users are already acquainted with this command and can easily deduce what it does. I think knowing

Re: R shorthand

2013-03-19 Thread Joram Berger
Even while I am a bit sceptical whether the syntax for R should differ from r, I see your point. Rather than R14 for a 14 measure rest, I would suggest to keep the syntax close to the one before: R*14 (This way I would almost be convinced ;) ) Could the duration be optional this way, keeping the

Re: bar line interface / repat structure considerations

2013-03-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, I would like to add some thoughts to that: 1.) What I use (and what is probably the most frequent case) are: a) \repeat {} and \alternative { {} {} } % repeats b) \bar || % new section c) \bar |. % end of staff The first is syntactical the others are bar lines. Syntactical elements for

LilyPond logo

2013-02-12 Thread Joram Berger
Is http://lilypond.org/website/pictures/double-lily-modified3.png available at higher resolution (or even as a vector graphic) anywhere? Hi! Wouldn't it be a good idea to invent a new/derived LilyPond logo as vector graphic and perhaps a bit more schematic/abstract (like logos typically

Re: Accidental placement

2013-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.01.2013 19:31, schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: … It is possible to do accidental configuration scoring with a priority queue, very much how we do slurs. But I have no clue how much this would slow the program down. It is only an issue for chords with more than 2 accidentals, which should

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-14 Thread Joram Berger
I summarize the open issues, concerning the German translation (point 3 is could be also concerns the English documentation). Am 13.11.2012 21:15, schrieb Joram Berger: Hi, recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that could be wrong – at least I don't understand

Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that could be wrong – at least I don't understand why it is documented like that: 1) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations It is: % Scale music by *2 Should it be? % Scale

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.11.2012 23:59, schrieb Keith OHara: Joram Berger joram.noeck at gmx.de writes: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling- durations It is: % Scale music by *2 Should it be? [ ... ] % Divide durations by 2 The notes are typed printed

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 14.11.2012 00:15, schrieb Trevor Daniels: Joram Berger wrote Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:15 PM recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that could be wrong – at least I don't understand why it is documented like that: 1) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread Joram Berger
Some comments from my usage experience. Am 12.11.2012 12:27, schrieb David Kastrup: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: ... The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming language. Every syntax is

integration of chordmode in normal music

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Dear developers, how about integrating the chordmode into normal music syntax? Reasoning: chords are music, too. And with … chords are already possible in the music input. Many modifiers like duration, alteration, etc. are also possible with chords. So they are similar in many ways. A solution

easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily and for the opposite feature [ and ] represent much more convenient solutions. Possible solution: use X or ; (or any other reasonable token as a \noBeam equivalent. Again, this is

Re: easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 06.11.2012 22:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Joram Berger joram.no...@gmx.de writes: Hi, here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily and for the opposite feature [ and ] represent much more convenient solutions. Possible

Re: easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 07.11.2012 00:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Joram Berger joram.no...@gmx.de writes: Am 06.11.2012 22:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Joram Berger joram.no...@gmx.de writes: Hi, here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-04 Thread Joram Berger
Am 04.11.2012 01:36, schrieb David Kastrup: Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: do you really want to add /francais/? It's not likely more scary to the French than espanol is to the Spanish. Basically there are two options making sense to me: native language name in utf-8, or English language

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-04 Thread Joram Berger
Am 04.11.2012 00:17, schrieb David Kastrup: Joram Berger joram.no...@gmx.de writes: Would it be an idea to add … français as aliases to italiano? According to my knowledge in French, the note names are the same and bémol/dièse also fits with the Italian abbreviations -b/-d. I think

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: Ah, so \language español will do the same as \language espanol? That's nice. http://codereview.appspot.com/__6811060/ As far as I see, there is no language french or français. Would it be an idea to add french, francais and français as aliases to italiano (like

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: Ah, so \language español will do the same as \language espanol? That's nice. http://codereview.appspot.com/__6811060/ As far as I see, there is no language french or français. Would it be an idea to add french, francais and français as aliases to italiano (like

svg output

2012-10-23 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, could the lilypond options to specify the output file format be unified? Currently, depending on the format, there are different options: --pdf or --formats=pdf (and ps and png) -dbackend=svg (eps, scm, …) Even though things are perhaps a little bit different, I would suggest to include svg

Re: svg output

2012-10-23 Thread Joram Berger
Am 23.10.2012 09:08, Federico Bruni: 2012/10/23 Joram Berger joram.no...@gmx.de: Even though things are perhaps a little bit different, I would suggest to include svg (or the whole backend-options) into formats, if possible. Because thats essentially what the user wants: get the output

Forced accidentals and octave check

2012-10-22 Thread Joram Berger
Dear developers, is there a reason that the forced accidental must not be written before the octavation? It took me some time to figure out which order does compile. (a) This works: cis'!=' (b) This doesn't: cis!'=' However, I would consider (b) more logical as the exclamation mark forces the

Re: How to proceed

2012-10-17 Thread Joram Berger
Am 16.10.2012 02:44, schrieb David Kastrup: Most of the things that would count as simplifications are so because they drop details used for distinguishing things told to the computer. Where those distinctions are distinctions between non-sensical directions and potentially useful directions,

Filled with enthusiasm for Lilypond

2012-10-15 Thread Joram Berger
Dear Lilypond developers, I joined this list to thank you all for your amazing work! In 2002, I was searching for a free music typesetting program. From the first moment, when I found Lilypond I liked how Lilypond cares about beautiful scores and how well thought the basic syntax is. Since then

Re: How to proceed

2012-10-15 Thread Joram Berger
Am 15.10.2012 22:14, schrieb Janek Warchoł: dear Werner, On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: we've now had zillions of e-mails without coming to a concensus. David has shown extreme patience in discussing all aspects, and I want to have at least *some*