Re: 3.0?

2014-01-12 Thread Urs Liska
"Janek Warchoł" schrieb: >2014/1/12 Carl Peterson : >> What I would *ultimately* like is the ability for someone to visually >write >> each part on separate staves (or using two staves with two voices >each), >> then those parts are translated into the template without any direct >code >> manipu

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-12 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2014/1/12 Carl Peterson : >> What I would *ultimately* like is the ability for someone to visually >> write each part on separate staves (or using two staves with two >> voices each), then those parts are translated into the template >> without any direct code manipulation

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/12 Carl Peterson : > What I would *ultimately* like is the ability for someone to visually write > each part on separate staves (or using two staves with two voices each), > then those parts are translated into the template without any direct code > manipulation. The visual interface would b

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Carl Peterson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Paul Morris wrote: > Carl Sorensen-3 wrote > > I can't speak for Carl P's work. For me, effective LP input files > require > > structure (variables, contexts) that MusicXML knows nothing of. And it's > > generally easier to create them than to fix them on import

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Paul Morris
Carl Sorensen-3 wrote > I can't speak for Carl P's work. For me, effective LP input files require > structure (variables, contexts) that MusicXML knows nothing of. And it's > generally easier to create them than to fix them on import. I see what you mean. Unfortunately it makes it harder to use

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 09.01.2014, 10:13 -0500 schrieb Carl Peterson: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:20 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow > > that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually oriented > > workflows detract from the

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2014/1/11 David Kastrup : >> One very nice integrated experience is offered by preview-latex >> http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex>. > > > Indeed, this is very nice. Although i haven't used it, i know i would > enjoy it :) Well, actually it's a lot better t

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/11 David Kastrup : > One very nice integrated experience is offered by preview-latex > http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex>. Indeed, this is very nice. Although i haven't used it, i know i would enjoy it :) j ___ lilypond-devel ma

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Jan 10, 2014, at 11:41 PM, "Paul Morris" wrote: > Seems like getting just the notes (not layout) out of an > imported musicXML file should be an easy and straightforward thing, but I > guess not? > I can't speak for Carl P's work. For me, effective LP input files require structure (vari

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2014/1/10 Urs Liska : >> >> Well, >> compiling a few measures of a single staff feels nearly instantaneous, and >> when you're editing an orchestral score this makes a huge difference. >> >> Generally I'd think it would be a good idea to have such an interface in >> Fresco

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/10 Urs Liska : > > Well, > compiling a few measures of a single staff feels nearly instantaneous, and > when you're editing an orchestral score this makes a huge difference. > > Generally I'd think it would be a good idea to have such an interface in > Frescobaldi. I know that this is not

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Morris
Carl Peterson wrote > Retyping by far. I pretty much write exclusively a cappella SATB, and I > have developed a very specific template/workflow for the part combining > and > layout. I've tried a few different ways of getting the music from these > formats into LP, and in each case, I found myself

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.01.2014 23:37, schrieb Carl Peterson: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > >> >> Well, >> compiling a few measures of a single staff feels nearly instantaneous, and >> when you're editing an orchestral score this makes a huge difference. >> >> Generally I'd think it would be

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > > Well, > compiling a few measures of a single staff feels nearly instantaneous, and > when you're editing an orchestral score this makes a huge difference. > > Generally I'd think it would be a good idea to have such an interface in > Frescobal

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/9/14 9:43 PM, "SoundsFromSound" wrote: >dak wrote >> Joseph Rushton Wakeling >Word document features the >> consistent use of document styles for arriving at typographically >> superior results. >> >> -- >> David Kastrup >> >> __

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread karl
Carl Peterson: ... > Retyping by far. I pretty much write exclusively a cappella SATB, and I > have developed a very specific template/workflow for the part combining and > layout. I've tried a few different ways of getting the music from these > formats into LP, and in each case, I found myself sp

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread karl
Urs Liska: > Am 10.01.2014 22:23, schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > Carl Peterson: ... > >> There's a visual component and a matter of input error reduction, because I > >> have been known to enter incorrect octaves or durations and not realize it > >> until I've finished typing and have compiled the e

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.01.2014 22:23, schrieb k...@aspodata.se: Carl Peterson: ... I know someone suggested just turning off the PDF conversion to speed things up, but it's not just a matter of instantaneous aural feedback. Ok. There's a visual component and a matter of input error reduction, because I have

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread karl
Carl Peterson: ... > I know someone suggested just turning off the PDF conversion to speed > things up, but it's not just a matter of instantaneous aural feedback. Ok. > There's a visual component and a matter of input error reduction, because I > have been known to enter incorrect octaves or dur

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-10 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Paul Morris wrote: > Carl Peterson wrote > > I use MuseScore, > > Scorio, and Finale Notepad (depending on where I am and how I feel) > > for compositional work because they provide ease of note entry in the > > composing process and the ability to have instant a

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Morris
Carl Peterson wrote > I use MuseScore, > Scorio, and Finale Notepad (depending on where I am and how I feel) > for compositional work because they provide ease of note entry in the > composing process and the ability to have instant aural feedback on > what I've written (particularly if I'm not at

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread SoundsFromSound
dak wrote > Joseph Rushton Wakeling < > joseph.wakeling@ > > writes: > >> On 09/01/14 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow >>> that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually oriented >>> workflows detract from the impo

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 09/01/14 21:05, David Kastrup wrote: That must be the reason why the typical Word document features the consistent use of document styles for arriving at typographically superior results. I'm not sure that I feel happy about your benchmark for comparison. I think Lilypond's user base is a

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
David Kastrup schrieb: >Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > >> On 09/01/14 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow >>> that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually >oriented >>> workflows detract from the importance of g

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 09/01/14 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: >> Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow >> that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually oriented >> workflows detract from the importance of getting good default >> typesettin

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 09/01/14 12:20, David Kastrup wrote: Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually oriented workflows detract from the importance of getting good default typesetting. I'm not sure that's necessarily the case.

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread karl
Carl Peterson: ... > Now, consider an IDE/GUI setup > (perhaps an extension of Frescobaldi) that would allow me to define a > variable for a voice, then pop up a musical staff to enter and play > back the notes for that variable without dealing with the whole > compilation process. No manual tweaki

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Carl Peterson
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:20 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Another problem is that LilyPond has a usage philosophy and workflow > that strongly penalizes manual tweaks. Graphically/manually oriented > workflows detract from the importance of getting good default > typesetting. I don't know that I ag

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Please don't beat me up, but that's something I wondered about for > quite some time: > Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? > I mean 2.0 followed on 1.8, and now we're already towards .20 > > Is there any general idea about what would make the next major program

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 09.01.2014 12:03, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? >> >> I could imagine that if LilyPond were made into an engraving library, >> and/or heavy rewiring to make it deeply integrated with a gui, > > Hm, t

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:07:07PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > But it would probably make it more attractive for the consumer > market if it had a nice default GUI. I personally would be pleased > to see Frescobaldi become such a default GUI (of course not cutting > out other options). Particularly g

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Mike Solomon
On Jan 9, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 09.01.2014 12:03, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? >> >> I could imagine that if LilyPond were made into an engraving library, >> and/or heavy rewiring to make it deeply in

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.01.2014 12:03, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Urs Liska writes: Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? I could imagine that if LilyPond were made into an engraving library, and/or heavy rewiring to make it deeply integrated with a gui, Hm, this is something I was also thinking

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "LilyPond Development Team" Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:53 AM Subject: 3.0? Please don't beat me up, but that's something I wondered about for quite some time: Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? I mean 2.0 followed on

Re: 3.0?

2014-01-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Urs Liska writes: > Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be? I could imagine that if LilyPond were made into an engraving library, and/or heavy rewiring to make it deeply integrated with a gui, or accept another native input language like the lilypond-driven fixed fresh release of MusicX

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My mistake. > pango 1.4.1 was the debian's one. I have 1.5.0 from (old) CVS. This is the > one that was used to compile LilyPond with --enable-gui. > I am upgrading to pango 1.5.2. > > What does BLOEDIGE_RAND mean? bleeding edge? > Should I use pango, g

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicolas Sceaux writes: > >>> That's quite strange. I tested on a fresh machine. What versions of >>> fontconfig/gnome/pango do you use? >> >> fontconfig is version 2.2.3 >> gnome is 2.6.1 >> pango is 1.4.1 >> >> ohoh, maybe I should look at guile-

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicolas Sceaux writes: >> That's quite strange. I tested on a fresh machine. What versions of >> fontconfig/gnome/pango do you use? > > fontconfig is version 2.2.3 > gnome is 2.6.1 > pango is 1.4.1 > > ohoh, maybe I should look at guile-gnome.sh again, and get a more > recent pango. I'm doing t

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's quite strange. I tested on a fresh machine. What versions of > fontconfig/gnome/pango do you use? fontconfig is version 2.2.3 gnome is 2.6.1 pango is 1.4.1 ohoh, maybe I should look at guile-gnome.sh again, and get a more recent pango. I'

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicolas Sceaux writes: > (without the closing tag) Of coures, sorry. fc-list |grep -i lily Fontconfig error: "~/.fonts.conf", line 3: mismatched tag > LilyPond\-feta:style=Regular Ok. > but still no feta glyphs displayed when invoking lilypond -fgnome. That's quite strange. I tested on a f

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-23 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> I recall that it wasn't so long ago that not all distributions shipped >> with fontconfig, which is instrumental in getting fonts from >> ~/.fonts/ configured correctly. > > That's it! xset/xlsfonts has nothing todo wi

Re: 3.0

2004-09-20 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
Lilypond 2.3 is marked as broken on freebsd. Now that I'we moved to freebsd, I notice a lot more when the luxury of an up to date lilypond doesn't exist. I will try to do what I can to help straighten it out before 3.0. Has anyone heard form Patrick Atamaniuk (the freebsd packager)? I have had

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > I recall that it wasn't so long ago that not all distributions shipped > with fontconfig, which is instrumental in getting fonts from > ~/.fonts/ configured correctly. That's it! xset/xlsfonts has nothing todo with gnome/pango fonts. It seems gnome-font-install doesn

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > >> > $ ln -s ~/cvs/lilypond/mf/out ~/.fonts > >> > $ mkfontdir ~/.fonts > >> > $ xset +fp ~/.fonts > >> > >> Something went wrong here. Does xlsfonts report the feta fonts? > > > > Could it be that this is system/distribution specifi

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> > $ ln -s ~/cvs/lilypond/mf/out ~/.fonts >> > $ mkfontdir ~/.fonts >> > $ xset +fp ~/.fonts >> >> Something went wrong here. Does xlsfonts report the feta fonts? > > Could it be that this is system/distribution specific? Until we know what's wrong, it could be

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Nicolas Sceaux writes: > > > I have some troubles with it: feta fonts seem not to be found when > > the gnome output is displayed, although I have done: > > $ ln -s ~/cvs/lilypond/mf/out ~/.fonts > > $ mkfontdir ~/.fonts > > $ xset +fp ~/.fonts > > Something went

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicolas Sceaux writes: > >> I have some troubles with it: feta fonts seem not to be found when >> the gnome output is displayed, although I have done: >> $ ln -s ~/cvs/lilypond/mf/out ~/.fonts >> $ mkfontdir ~/.fonts >> $ xset +fp ~/.fonts > >

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicolas Sceaux writes: > I have some troubles with it: feta fonts seem not to be found when > the gnome output is displayed, although I have done: > $ ln -s ~/cvs/lilypond/mf/out ~/.fonts > $ mkfontdir ~/.fonts > $ xset +fp ~/.fonts Something went wrong here. Does xlsfonts report the feta

Re: 3.0

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 18 September 2004 13.24, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Hi guys, > > 3.0 is almost ready. For the 3.0 release > > 1. I've put back TeX as the default backend. I welcome patches that > will Do The Right thing for encodings and landscape options of > \bookpaper. > > 2. I will have a anoth

Re: 3.0 -- gnome backend

2004-09-19 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There is also some other good news: some of the dependencies for the >> LilyPond GNOME backend have been released or are almost ready to be >> released. This means that in a short while we will have "native" >> point-and-click, without requiring

Re: 3.0

2004-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 1. I've put back TeX as the default backend. I welcome patches that > > will Do The Right thing for encodings and landscape options of > > \bookpaper. > > may I ask why have you put the TeX back-end back as the default? > although not yet perfect the ps back-end

Re: 3.0

2004-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3.0 is almost ready. For the 3.0 release that's great! > 1. I've put back TeX as the default backend. I welcome patches that > will Do The Right thing for encodings and landscape options of > \bookpaper. may I ask why have you put the TeX bac