Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

2007-11-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 02:03 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > As a composer by myself, it's a mystery to me why so many composers > love to use 128th and 256th, most time for no good reason. Let's ask ourselves about that well-known piano hack, Ludwig van Beethoven. Later we'll turn to Mozart, who d

Re: draft release announcement

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:37 -0600, Trevor Bača wrote: > > The rule still taught in US classrooms for capitalizing titles is that > the "important" words all get capitals (which comes down to something > like prepositions and articles being lowercase, with everything else > in uppercase). This is o

Re: polyphony voices sharing stems? (hymnody feature)

2006-09-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ted Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most hymns are sung in four part harmony. Or three part. However, they > are entered as piano music. because they are almost always accompanied > by a piano because we moderns don't spend much time memorizing complex > melodies. Actually, most hymns are

Re: lilypond Scheme syntax in ly/music-fonctions-init.ly

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ludovic RESLINGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually I haven't tested, because I am on packaging of guile-1.8 in > debian. I think this is independently useful work to do (and thanks for taking it on), and since upstream says they use 1.8 and everyone else says that 1.8 works, and that 1.6.8

Re: lilypond Scheme syntax in ly/music-fonctions-init.ly

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ludovic RESLINGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I'm on the problem, to solve it, we need guile-1.8 serie.Hi, Heikki Junes' email suggests that using 1.8 creates a different problem; is this not your experience? What guile is being used by the upstream developers? The installation instructi

lilypond Scheme syntax in ly/music-functions-init.ly

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
In lilypond 2.8.4, ly/music-functions-init.ly, there occurs the following snippet (we're using Guile 1.6.8): %% FIXME: guile-1.7 required? %#(use-modules (scm display-lily))invalid module name for use-syntax ((srfi srfi-39)) I am in fact seeing this error. Are there people successfully buildi

Re: confusion about version numbers

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG schreef: >> What does it mean that there are lilypond 2.8.5 binaries for some >> archs, but only source for 2.8.4? > > That I botched the source upload of 2.8.5 I do that all the time. :) Does that

confusion about version numbers

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
What does it mean that there are lilypond 2.8.5 binaries for some archs, but only source for 2.8.4? Thomas ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: About lilypond's build problem with debian

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG schreef: >> The problem is that lilypond's build system assumes that lilypond is >> already installed on the system. >> >> Han-Wen Nienhuys said no, it uses LILYPONDPREFIX, but as I poi

Re: About lilypond's build problem with debian

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG schreef: > >> I'm distressed that nobody has bothered to fix the bug since then. In >> the thread on the mailing list you can see that if LILYPONDPREFIX is >> set correctly, the bug goes away. &

Re: About lilypond's build problem with debian

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ludovic RESLINGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw in archive some messages about a problem to build lilypond in > debian unstable. I think this is not a problem of python's version, because > I tested to build with python2.4 and python2.5, and the problem stay the > same: > > chmod 755 out/con

release announcements?

2006-05-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Why do I never see release announcements on lilypond-devel? ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

what is 2.8.2?

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
how is it that there are binary packages for some systems for 2.8.2, but no source? ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > >> Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-03/msg00066.html >> >> Thanks. I think for Debian it will be ok to just require python2.4. > > Good catch, the c

Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-03/msg00066.html Thanks. I think for Debian it will be ok to just require python2.4. So that still leaves as a bug the mismatch between how make/lilypond-vars.make sets LILYPONDPREFIX and how

Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/src/lilypond-2.8.1$ ls /usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess* > /usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py /usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.pyo > /usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.pyc Sorry, what I meant to do here was: $ ls /us

Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2006/4/28, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >   File "scripts/out/convert-ly", line 39, in ? import > lilylib as ly ImportError: No module named lilylib >

Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Heikki Johannes Junes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A brute force solution was to "make" so many times, that you can finally > see the missing buildscripts/out/ to appear, and the build to compile. That doesn't work; it simply capitalizes on the bug in the Makefile relying on the shell's > redir

building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I'm trying to build lilypond 2.8.1 on debian unstable. Doing ./configure and make, it configures sensibly AFAICT, and starts building, and then dies with the following: /usr/bin/perl /home/src/lilypond-2.8.1/buildscripts/out/help2man out/convert-ly > out/convert-ly.1 help2man: can't get `--help

Re: Email addresses in Ubuntu package

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In debian/control (the Description field, the last two lines). Oops, that's a bug! Debian packages normally don't put that in the Description at all. ;) ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.o

Re: Email addresses in Ubuntu package

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the Ubuntu package, an incorrect address to Han-Wen is given. The > domain name is now xs4all.nl, not cs.uu.nl. (this was updated today in > all source files). Where in the package? ___ lilypond-devel mai

Re: help! eps no workie

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Tyler Eaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:07:17 -0400, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> You can use --preview to get an EPS fi

Re: help! eps no workie

2005-10-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can use --preview to get an EPS file. > >> Title:CenturySchl.-Roma >> Creator:LilyPond >> CreationDate:Sun Mar 27 19:14:13 2005 >> but no actual music. >> Eek. What might be wrong? > > this is normal. OO will only print the image. Yeah, it turns

help! eps no workie

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
So I can produce (blurry) png images, but eps output produces files that gs can't read and oowriter can't do anything with. gs simply displays empty pages, and oowriter includes just boxes of the proper size that say "Creator:LilyPond". No actual music. gv's display is different: for the -1.eps

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What tex intricacies did you use? Integration with [la]tex documents > is still supported, but using .eps snippets now. Not many. I've never been a power lilypond user, and my needs would be quite satisfied with .eps. I didn't much integrate it w

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ok; they were once used for processing the texinfo docs, right? > > They are still used for producing the PDF documentatation, so there is > still a build dependency on tetex. Also, tetex is great for making > documents with lilypond snippets, but

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, it's a dangerous thing. Among other things, their version >> numbers might collide badly with the official Debian ones. Best it >> should have different package names to prevent this sort of thing from >> happening. > > Whe have this on our

another wishlist item

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
So the availability of mensural and "gregorian" square-note notation in lilypond is great. Will we ever see diastematic neumes?! :) (Just pushing the envelope...) ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: Debian lilypond

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you print the document on a 1200 dpi printer, you must create > 1200 dpi PNGs to get full quality. I don't know what "full size" > means in terms of dpi, but if it means >=1200 dpi, then it should of > course be ok for most users (though the correspon

Re: Debian lilypond

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PNGs suffer from limited resolution. It's probably wiser to include .eps or > embedded .pdf files (perhaps pngs can be used as preview images, if that's > needed). Why? If I generate a png at full size, how do I lose? What am I missing? _

Debian lilypond

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
OK, I'm building and uploading a new lilypond version for Debian with the new patches that Jan Nieuwenhuizen helpfully provided. In addition, dropping TeX from the build dependencies will make many people happy. It would be fun if (hint hint) there were a clever way to integrate lilypond and ope

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >>>ec-fonts-mftraced >> Wait, you mean showed up and is now gone? What's it for anymore? >> Why >> did we ever have it? :) > > It was for Lily 2.4, which supported Latin1

lilypond packaging

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
The INSTALL.txt says suggests the "International fonts" for building the website, which of course we want in the Debian package. These fonts are only needed to build the website, right, because the fonts in question get embedded into the images? Thomas _

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LilyPond no longer uses > > ec-fonts-mftraced Wait, you mean showed up and is now gone? What's it for anymore? Why did we ever have it? :) > I think the package > > musixtex-fonts > > does not exist and if it does, I cannot imagine any co

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > >> But now there's a new, more subtle, one. > > Fixed in CVS, see patch below. > > Thanks for the report (and sorry that this kludge survived in the > first place). Ah, I like. Many thanks. My patch was worse (to have an

Re: lilypond puts a shared library in /usr/share

2005-10-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pedro Kröger) writes: > >>> This is very bad mojo and a violation of the GNU coding standards, >>> which require that /usr/share is only for architecture independent >>> files. >> &

Re: lilypond puts a shared library in /usr/share

2005-10-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pedro Kröger) writes: >> This is very bad mojo and a violation of the GNU coding standards, >> which require that /usr/share is only for architecture independent >> files. > > really? I thought that /usr/local/share was for architecture independent > files: > > "The root of the

lilypond puts a shared library in /usr/share

2005-10-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lilypond installs a shared library in /usr/share, to wit: /usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3/python/midi.so (2.6.4 has the same problem.) This is very bad mojo and a violation of the GNU coding standards, which require that /usr/share is only for architecture independent files. Thomas ___

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the very least, the code in lily.scm should be fixed to set the > running-from-gui? flag on a sensible basis. Failing that, the --safe > switch should be honored by lily-parser-scheme.cc. I misunderstood here the purpose of

Re: a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But now there's a new, more subtle, one. Normal Debian automatic > build procedure is to build things with input redirected from > /dev/null. Ok, I have found out (thanks to strace) where the rest of the output is going; i

a new lilypond build failure

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
So delightfully, mftrace version 1.1.17 does indeed fix the previous build problems. But now there's a new, more subtle, one. Normal Debian automatic build procedure is to build things with input redirected from /dev/null. This causes a failure in running lilypond for documentation generation.

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting a fix now. Done; here is the patch: --- /home/debian/mftrace-1.1.16/gf2pbm.c 2005-10-15 13:57:58.0 -0700 +++ /home/src/mftrace-1.1.16/gf2pbm.c 2005-10-15 14:23:49.0 -0700 @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ uby

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Ah, I have found the problem. The Debian package builds gf2pbm with >>>optimization on (-O2). gf2pbm misbehaves when

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah, I have found the problem. The Debian package builds gf2pbm with > optimization on (-O2). gf2pbm misbehaves when compiled with > optimization, and works fine when compiled without. More specifically, failure happens with: -

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >>> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>>Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >>>> >

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >>> >>>>This is almost certainly not a compiler bug, of course, it's much more &

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> This is almost certainly not a compiler bug, of course, it's much more >> likely a problem inside gf2pbm. > > Aha, GCC spews some warnings about dubitable pointer manipulations. >

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hrmmph. Is this still an mftrace problem (does mftrace cmr10 >>> produce a .pfa which looks good in fontforge?) >> Al

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hrmmph. Is this still an mftrace problem (does mftrace cmr10 >>> produce a .pfa which looks good in fontforge?) >> Al

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrmmph. Is this still an mftrace problem (does mftrace cmr10 produce a > .pfa which looks good in fontforge?) Alas, no. I get no glyphs, and the output of mftrace is as follows. BTW, there is presumably a missing "\n" on one of these printfs. Tho

Re: Illegal C++

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Wiz Aus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > miss the many admittedly powerful tools that are available under linux. > But never yet have I felt the slightly bit compelled to choose to develop > under that platform. I'm sorry, but I like my GUI's, and my single > keystroke > compile and debug cycles,

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I'm using mftrace version 1.1.12, and potrace version 1.7. Autotrace >> version 0.31.1 is also installed, but mftrace says it uses potrace if >> both are there. mftrace also u

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I'm using mftrace version 1.1.12, and potrace version 1.7. Autotrace >> version 0.31.1 is also installed, but mftrace says it uses potrace if >> both are there. mftrace also u

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > from codepoint E100 onward, you should see isolated rests, accidentals > and noteheads in the glyph table. Well, it's no surprise that I didn't see anything! Making progress here; clearly something is busted in font generation. The fontforge call

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What are the "emmentaler" glyphs? I know music, but I don't know how >> to recognize what I should see. > > gnome-character-map > view > unicode block > font : emmentaler > block: private unicode area > > from codepoint E100 onward, you should see

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > input/example-1.ly:4:16: warning: note head `noteheads.s2' not found > > (combing from note-head.cc line 65), it doesn't contain the correct glyph. > > If you want to analyze the problem, you could trace into > fm->find_by_name(idx) a few lines befo

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to analyze the problem, you could trace into > fm->find_by_name(idx) a few lines before using gdb. It might be a > compatibility problem with freetype. Do the emmentaler glyphs show up in > gnome-character-map if you install the .otf i

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>can you do >>> >>> export LILYPONDPREFIX= >>> lily/out/lilypond input/example-1 >>> >

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can you do > > export LILYPONDPREFIX= > lily/out/lilypond input/example-1 > > this should give the same errors. Indeed it does (though without the infinite loop). > Can you post what > > lily/out/lilypond --verbose input/example-1 > > says?

Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Lilypond 2.6.3 does not build on powerpc. >> "make all" works fine, but "make web" fails. >> The specific error happens while building the documentation thus: >> &

cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lilypond 2.6.3 does not build on powerpc. "make all" works fine, but "make web" fails. The specific error happens while building the documentation thus: one Description: Binary data (These last two lines then get printed forever in an apparent infinite loop.) The contents of the lily-177087

Re: Is Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2005-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 02:14]: > > I know how to take care of the package. But Anthony Fok is currently > > the maintainer, so he needs to either orphan it or offer it for > > a

Re: Is Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2005-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the offer! I'm not sure however how adopting a package > works, I guess you'll have to sort with Anthony and Pedro. I know how to take care of the package. But Anthony Fok is currently the maintainer, so he needs to either orphan it or

Re: Is Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2005-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We are a bit concerned with old LilyPond packages, and a potential > > new maintainer (Pedro Kroger) with his sponsor going mia. > > Who was going to sponsor him? I use lilypond all the time, so I'm happy to adopt it if necessary. I'm a bad mentor