Re: Documentation improvement

2013-02-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Albrecht Jacobs wrote Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:03 AM In Section Text: Stand-alone two-column markup (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Text#Stand_002dalone-two_002dcolumn-markup) it would be easier to use this code: diff two-column-markup.ly

Change in lilypond-book

2013-02-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Devs I've just run lilypond-book on Windows Vista after several months of inactivity and I find its behaviour has changed. Earlier all the console output from the individual runs of LilyPond while processing the snippets was reported back to the originating window, in my case a MinGW32

Re: Change in lilypond-book

2013-02-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
David and Phil wrote: From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk I've just run lilypond-book on Windows Vista after several months of inactivity and I find its behaviour has changed. Before I try to narrow down where this change originated, is this now intended? Surely not. Expected

Re: Document Kievan ligature engraver (issue 7382060)

2013-02-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
aleksandr.andreev wrote Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:49 PM I think it makes sense to push this patch first and then I will upload another patch that changes the syntax across the manual. That way it is cleaner in the commit history. Fine by me. There is also Issue 1287. I could try to

Re: Freezing for 2.18

2013-03-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Sunday, March 10, 2013 5:32 PM 2.16 is growing old. So I want to see 2.18 soon. That means we need to stabilize work that has already been done and cut down on experiments in the master branch. Agreed. Stabilizing means more or less accepting the current feature set,

Re: convert-ly rule

2013-03-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
m...@mikesolomon.org wrote Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:21 AM On 13 mars 2013, at 10:51, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: Hey all, I'm not too good at writing convert-ly rules. Is there a model I can use for replacing a property

Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed

2013-03-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:36 AM Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Do you mean that we should recommend/give more attention in docs to entering lyrics with explicit durations? more? I don't think we even mention that possibility at all. Wrong; see

Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed

2013-03-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:20 AM Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Ok, so I misremembered. Behavior and its fine points are documented. I am just skeptical that the selection of fine points is fine. Do we really need a particular associated voice instead

Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed

2013-03-17 Thread Trevor Daniels
m...@mikesolomon.org wrote Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:32 AM On 17 mars 2013, at 12:29, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2013 11:10 AM, m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: In the stop_translation_timestep method of the lyric engraver, lyrics are given note

Re: Release process for 2.18 cancelled

2013-03-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup Monday, March 18, 2013 8:52 AM It turns out that the pent-up pressure to get forward-looking changes into the master branch that have transitory user interfaces or extensive changes of internals not exposed to sufficient testing is already too high to permit a prerelease phase

Re: Release process for 2.18 cancelled

2013-03-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Monday, March 18, 2013 11:14 AM Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: David Kastrup Monday, March 18, 2013 8:52 AM It turns out that the pent-up pressure to get forward-looking changes into the master branch that have transitory user interfaces or extensive

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

2013-03-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
m...@mikesolomon.org I completely agree. It's just that fake in English means false or counterfeit. It needs another word, just don't know what yet. unchained? free? At the risk of prolonging the bike-shedding, here's my take. For me, the key consideration is to provide an easily

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

2013-03-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:38 PM m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: On 20 mars 2013, at 09:26, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: At the risk of prolonging the bike-shedding, here's my take. For me, the key consideration is to provide

Re: report a programming error when trying to align on empty parent(issue 7533046)

2013-03-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote Saturday, March 23, 2013 3:44 PM If i got everything right, you'll see in that explanation that an empty extent isn't harmful (at least in self-alignment) - it just results in offset being 0. So, the question is: in general, is it ok if a grob has empty extent?

Re: DS al Fine

2013-03-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:12 PM In the command index of the NR, we have an entry for DS al Fine: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/lilypond-index#lilypond-index_cp_letter-D However, it's not mentioned at all in the manual. Should we delete the index

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

2013-03-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joram Berger wrote Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:03 PM In my opinion, it is more important to make things easy for users (more than for developers). And here: x-offset or y-extent would feel more consistent. Such things would not be called RIGHT-align, would they? There is the constant UP, but in

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

2013-03-25 Thread Trevor Daniels
m...@mikesolomon.org wrote Monday, March 25, 2013 7:29 AM On 25 mars 2013, at 07:10, k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Conceptually, of course, there *are* two pieces. The other piece is probably at the other end of the repeat. The automatic behavior is quite good, so fortunately we will rarely

Re: Suggestions for participating institutions?

2013-03-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:52 AM On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I met a former colleague in the bus to Chemnitz, and he is at least knowledgeable about EU research programmes. Do people here have ideas about possible institutions

Re: Stable release state

2013-04-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Saturday, April 06, 2013 10:07 AM it is clear that master has stopped being suitable for turning into a stable branch. There are several ways forward, none of them particularly endearing. a) cut the stable branch before the last batch of changes and accumulate only

Re: suggestion: change OctavateEight name to ClefTransposition -opinions?

2013-04-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Saturday, April 06, 2013 10:44 PM I think I'd like ClefModifier. Something like +1 Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 1698 in lilypond: Slurs and ties are notcorrect over repeats

2013-04-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Comment #65 on issue 1698 by m...@mikesolomon.org: Slurs and ties are not correct over repeats http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1698 These are all good observations. If the patch gets reverted, I'll wait till 2.19 is out before tackling all this. Otherwise, I'll

Re: PATCHES: Countdown for April 20th 2013 - 19:00 GMT

2013-04-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi James I just wanted to tell you how invaluable these summaries are when one has several patches in the pipe-lines! I don't think I could keep track of them all without it. Thank you! Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Replace transposition example (3159) (issue 8622047)

2013-04-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
gra...@percival-music.ca error: old chunk mismatch. Could you re-upload? Done; what causes this? Did I forget to rebase maybe? https://codereview.appspot.com/8622047/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Issue 3223 in lilypond: Document known issue with Ottava bracket in one voice

2013-05-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
@Trevor - for some reason (discussed previously on dev) the tracker doesn't like emails with googlemail.com but is ok with gmail.com (so I have to manually change it each time for those that still have the googlemail.com address). I am sure someone can go and edit the 'valid owner'

Re: Issue 3223 in lilypond: Document known issue with Ottava bracketin one voice

2013-05-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil, you wrote Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:43 PM As Graham said, I could do it if I knew what it is. It might be worth raising this as an issue on the Google code tracker? I'm not sure what problem James is encountering, but it might be the same as mine, or at least they might both be fixed

Re: Issue 3223 in lilypond: Document known issue with Ottava bracketin one voice

2013-05-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil, you wrote Done that. For me too :-). Let's hope it works. ?? Looks like there's more to it than that then. The pulldown still shows googlemail for me, you, and some others. Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Issue 3223 in lilypond: Document known issue with Ottavabracketin one voice

2013-05-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Wednesday, May 08, 2013 6:12 PM Hmm. If I delete all the @googlemail contributors, save the list, add them again as @gmail, save the list, they re-appear as @googlemail. Can't get rid of that address. See previous comment about raising a bug report? I'm not sure a bug

Re: Path to LilyPond 2.18

2013-06-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, June 05, 2013 5:07 PM So for better or worse, we need to start wrapping up what we are going to call our next stable release. I propose calling the next developer release 2.17.95 to send out the message that finish-up work is called for: those translators who

Re: stencils: let some stencils carry a box-extent; issue 3255 (issue 9295044)

2013-06-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
d...@gnu.org wrote Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:42 AM I disagree. There is harm in having both since it makes people think about which to use in which situation. Since we have \pad-x and \pad-y, \pad-around makes more sense to keep. Not only does the name help with knowing just what is

Re: Documentation policy

2013-06-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:27 PM Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: the music c'2 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 \tuplet 5/4 { c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 is repeated 3 times in the single snippet. Well, I see nothing wrong with using a music variable

Re: Make format for key changes consistent; minor formatting corrections for affected regtests (issue 10868043)

2013-07-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
d...@gnu.org wrote Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:07 PM Ok, here is a true can of worms followup item: in the case where the \key statement is followed by more material on the same line, it would make sense to have a _double_ space before the following material. git grep '\\key [a-z]\+ \\[a-z]\+

Re: References to publications in the docs

2013-07-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: References to publications in the docs We currently refer to Gardner Read and others in the NR under the very sparsely populated Contemporary Music section of the NR:

Re: workaround for \partcombine limitation, how to add to docs?

2013-07-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mark Polesky wrote Monday, July 15, 2013 9:50 PM In NR 1.5.2 Multiple voices - Automatic part combining, this appears in the Known issues: All \partcombine… functions can only accept two voices and are not designed to work with lyrics; such that when one of the voices is explicitly named

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
markpole...@gmail.com wrote Friday, July 19, 2013 7:10 AM On 2013/07/18 20:47:05, dak wrote: So what would be a nice and natural user interface, and what pieces are missing from it? \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f } \new HiddenVoice = voiceForLyrics \sopranoNotes

Re: Vertical spacing tutorial (Issue 2809) (issue 11966043)

2013-07-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Wednesday, July 31, 2013 6:04 PM From: tdanielsmu...@googlemail.com Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely:2472: property. Spacing them away from the staff which they relate to Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm of an age that still prefers to see to which in print.

Re: Adds bar line section to LM (Issue 3408) (issue 12724043)

2013-08-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil, you wrote OK - I suggest I don't change my patch as you've suggested, because the way I did it was to copy the original, and so it currently follows the style for that section. I'll raised an issue to change all instances of @subheading to @unnumberedsubsubsec in the LM and do that

Re: Windows tutorial

2013-08-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil, you wrote Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:21 PM Over 30 people have looked at this page and I've had no comments, so I'm going to prepare a patch for review on the assumption that people are broadly OK with the proposed changes. I think you should. I looked at the page and it seemed

Re: one space vs. two spaces after full stop

2013-09-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:41 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: This is slightly off-topic, but maybe you enjoy the reading :-) http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 However, the above holds for printed output. For input files, I think that two spaces after a full stop makes sense

Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow

2013-09-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:11 PM - Original Message - From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net On 26/09/13 15:04, David Kastrup wrote: How many substantial patches would you expect yourself to be contributing in the wake of such a move per

Re: no critical: 2.18 is close?

2013-09-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Friday, September 27, 2013 1:33 PM I think after letting 2.17.27 settle for a few days, we are ready to create the branch. We still might make another 2.17 release afterwards to get some exposure to final fixes (like the \fill-line markup), but it better not have any

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3566 in lilypond: Grace notes should beautobeamed

2013-09-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Comment #6 on issue 3566 by d...@gnu.org: Grace notes should be autobeamed I don't think the current state warrants a convert-ly rule: it does not seem like the previous behavior is used to any reasonable degree, and it can always be reverted by removing the engraver. Anything that has

Re: Stem direction snippet

2013-09-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Friday, September 27, 2013 8:54 PM I've added a snippet (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=751) to master that explains how to set stem direction based on surrounding notes. Anyone object to my adding it to selected snippets in

Re: LSR imports and version numbers?

2013-09-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes writes Saturday, September 28, 2013 2:19 PM From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: There is a question in my mind as to what a) should bump the version to: i) current version; or ii) version that the update related to. Simplest is probably i).

Re: Add documentation for the music function \alterBroken to the NR. (issue 15060044)

2013-10-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
From: david.nales...@gmail.com https://codereview.appspot.com/15060044/diff/1/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode4396 Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:4396: Should there be a warning about not using \break to enforce line breaks? The command will work if

Re: improving our workflow with better tools - let's test things.

2013-10-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote Monday, October 21, 2013 6:50 AM On 21/10/13 06:13, Carl Sorensen wrote: What me drives crazy is the structure of the main git repository. If you follow github style, the graph gets littered with zillions of `merge request' commits, one per pull request, which

Re: [translations] Re: 2.18 release plans (again).

2013-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Werner LEMBERG wrote Saturday, October 26, 2013 8:07 PM I've now pushed stable/2.18 and synchronized translations to it. Thanks for your hard work! Indeed! Much appreciated, David! Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Suggestion: Keep original breaks

2013-11-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:30 AM I would like to suggest an enhancement in the handling of line breaks that is useful for copying scores from existing models. I suggest a command line option -dkeep-original-breaks for this switch. That way the user can add that option

Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?

2013-12-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith OHara wrote Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:36 AM Most of the increase in time to set this score happened between 2.17.0 and .1 2.16.2 2m 30s 2.17.0 2m 28s 2.17.1 4m 06s so it is probably the issue 2148 patch, use of outlines instead of boxes for layout. I did speed-test that

Re: branching

2013-12-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mike Solomon wrote Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:22 AM On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:36 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: As opposed to me, Graham excelled at organizing and maintaining community efforts like this which makes his leaving an even larger loss. His leaving is a huge loss, and

Re: Website questions: GSoC

2013-12-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:27 PM Question: Should the ideas on that page be preserved as ideas for future development? This could be on the tracker or on some other page. Most if not all of Janek's work is preserved in the LilyPond git repository under various incomplete

Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?

2013-12-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Werner LEMBERG wrote Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:07 AM raw/final would be shorter than pure/unpure. I like that. At least for me this is easier to understand from a conceptual point of view. pencil/ink. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Simplified version of Trevor Daniels' SATB framework. (issue 38720045)

2013-12-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl Peterson wrote Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:54 PM I'm not sure I agree. I think for maximum utility, the template should define as little as possible regarding the physical dimensions of the page and margin, so that the user can use whatever style they want. But if the user is going

Re: Simplified version of Trevor Daniels' SATB framework. (issue 38720045)

2013-12-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl Peterson wrote Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:49 AM And if it is a technical question (going back to your comment about the bottom of the bass being cut off), I would want to dig into why that is---what is it about this score block as opposed to an instrumental block that causes

Re: Issue 3718 in lilypond: Patch: Web: Reword contactUsAbout macro

2013-12-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Friday, December 20, 2013 9:28 AM Am 19.12.2013 11:32, schrieb lilyp...@googlecode.com: Patch counted down - please push What should I do now? The CG says I should send the patch to my mentor, but obviously this isn't applicable. Create a git format patch, post it on

Re: Issue 3718 in lilypond: Patch: Web: Reword contactUsAbout macro

2013-12-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Friday, December 20, 2013 9:48 AM Am 20.12.2013 10:45, schrieb Trevor Daniels: 3) What to do if my branch contains more than one commit? Should I squash them so the patch is one (big) commit? I wouldn't like that, for example because I would separate commits that move stuff

Re: CG organization (Git)

2013-12-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs, you wrote Sunday, December 22, 2013 8:55 AM Subject: CG organization (Git) I'm somewhat confused about the organization of the CG chapters about Git and patch review. The CG has never been properly revised and reorganised, with many sections added without considering the effect on

Re: CG organization (Git)

2013-12-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Sunday, December 22, 2013 9:40 AM Am 22.12.2013 10:29, schrieb Trevor Daniels: The CG has never been properly revised and reorganised, with many sections added without considering the effect on others. But I'm still more confused because this contradicts After a good

Re: LilyPond 2.18.0 released

2013-12-30 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Monday, December 30, 2013 4:50 PM We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0 - the new stable release. Congratulations, David! Well done! Thanks for driving this through. Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Announcing 2.18.0 widely?

2014-01-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Thursday, January 02, 2014 2:54 PM Apart from a note about the convert-ly accident, does anybody see a reason not to announce 2.18.0 presently to a wide audience? Or should we wait until 2.19.0 is out? I _think_ that the web site should be fine currently. I think it's

Re: Add Changes entries for bare rhythms and \beamExceptions (issue47850043)

2014-01-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
d...@gnu.org wrote Monday, January 06, 2014 3:27 PM Maybe one should not try finding a term at all? One might write something like Durations can now be written in music expressions without an immediately preceding pitch or chord. In the score, the missing pitches will be

Re: python/convertrules.ly: Use bare rhythms after ties for simplecases (issue 49470049)

2014-01-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
tdaniels wrote Friday, January 10, 2014 8:39 PM It would seem that when you added the respective template lines, you should have updated the version number of the file as well. With hindsight. But we never do that when editing doc files as a rule. Now of course, in analogy to the last

Re: stencil.scm: add make-path-stencil function (issue 54050043)

2014-01-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Paul Morris wrote Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:44 PM This second patch set appeared successfully on Rietveld, but it looks like the automatic test to confirm that it passes make, make check, and make docs was not triggered: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3818 So how

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3818 in lilypond: Patch: stencil.scm: addmake-path-stencil function

2014-01-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Comment #3 on issue 3818 by paulwmor...@gmail.com: Patch: stencil.scm: add make-path-stencil function http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3818 Attempting to change label to new to trigger automated tests. I don't see any interface for editing labels, just this comment

Re: Doc: Point-and-Click has wrong default value and ref to SVGoutput needs adding (issue 61630045)

2014-02-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
pkx1...@gmail.com wrote Sunday, February 16, 2014 6:51 AM Looking at the TexInfo page for @acronym https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040acronym.html It doesn't seem to give us anything that useful and perhaps (as it also says in the link above): - In

Re: Emergency call. Or not.

2014-02-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Sunday, February 16, 2014 2:45 PM I find that I'm currently dead-locking in decision-making with a somewhat tedieous task. Here is what it boils down to: basically git checkout -b translation origin/translation git log --reverse --no-merges origin/translation..origin

Ubuntu and LilyPond from scratch

2014-02-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
No sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I have just successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 from scratch, followed by git, and the LilyPond repository. Following the CG, I then ran autoconf and configure, apt-got the missing packages, and successfully ran make all and make doc. I've never

Re: Ubuntu and LilyPond from scratch

2014-02-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Friday, February 21, 2014 5:06 PM Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: I had to apt-get autoconf to enable the autoconf script to run and configure then required dblatex (a surprise - I thought this was no longer used?) and texlive-lang-cyrillic. That's all

Re: Ubuntu and LilyPond from scratch

2014-02-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
James wrote Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:48 AM On 21/02/14 16:55, Trevor Daniels wrote: No sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I have just successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 from scratch, followed by git, and the LilyPond repository. Following the CG, I then ran autoconf

Re: Automated engraving benchmarks

2014-02-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs Liska wrote Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:44 AM Hi, I just had an idea. I suggest creating a set of benchmark scores and putting them somewhere on the website. But of course we should then have default scores like a classical piano piece, a string quartet and a moderately complex

Fw: Guile 2 for Lilypond

2014-03-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Forwarding to -devel as this looks serious. Trevor - Original Message - From: spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com To: lilypond-u...@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:55 AM Subject: Re: Guile 2 for Lilypond Now that Mageia4 is out with Lilypond-2.18.0. We are working on the next

Re: Open counterpoint text, thanks to devs

2014-03-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Jonathan Nice to see you back. I can sympathize with your RSI wrist problems - I too have to be quite careful how much computer work I do for the same reason. Your textbook looks really interesting, not only for the use of LilyPond and the inclusion of mp3 files but also for sight of the

Re: Adds incipit section to NR (issue 108270043 byphilehol...@googlemail.com)

2014-08-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil, you wrote Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:18 PM And this is the nub of the discussion. There's nothing actually _wrong_ with my patch: it's just you don't like how it looks. I very much do. This time I've attached a centre-aligned and a right-aligned example, and much prefer the

Re: indclude notnames bn, etc., in English (issue 133840043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2014-08-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dan, you wrote Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:25 PM On Aug 26, 2014, at 07:13 , tdanielsmu...@googlemail.com wrote: LGTM, assuming users of English note entry are in favour. Since you asked, I think having multiple names for the same pitch creates its own problems. I have no difficulty

Re: Die, instrumentSwitch. (issue 133390043 by k-ohara5...@oco.net)

2014-08-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith, you wrote Sunday, August 31, 2014 7:36 PM On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 01:06:46 -0700, tdanielsmu...@googlemail.com wrote: A few minor comments below, but I don't see how we can just remove the instructions for setting up InstrumentSwitch without some replacement. InstrumentSwitch is used

Re: Doc: LM - correct @example for Tweak Command (issue 140630043 by pkx1...@gmail.com)

2014-09-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
James, you wrote Monday, September 15, 2014 5:52 PM On 15/09/14 16:04, d...@gnu.org wrote: [snip] which, uh, points to @var{value} being quite in the minority, and the text @var{value} is a Scheme object, which is why it must be preceded by further muddifies the distinction between # being

Re: Where to put new Scheme engravers?

2014-09-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Urs, you wrote Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:38 AM Am 28.09.2014 11:36, schrieb Trevor Daniels: Most of the engravers are written in C++ and each is a separate file in the lily/ directory. There's a little above engravers here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3066 in lilypond: tie in TabStaff (using q) displays one of the unisone notes in a chord

2014-10-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Comment #16 on issue 3066 by d...@gnu.org: tie in TabStaff (using q) displays one of the unisone notes in a chord https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3066 As I have several other tie patches on the backburner that may or may not interact with this one, and this patch

Re: Time signature markups

2014-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dan Eble wrote Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:34 AM time-signature.cc http://time-signature.cc/ has a comment at the top saying, “This file should go; the formatting can completely be done with markups.” Can anyone point me to a good example of that, or is it a unique idea? Well, that

Re: suprising touch of rest with accidentals

2014-11-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Werner LEMBERG wrote Sunday, November 02, 2014 7:03 AM [release/2.19.15-1-13-gdd5a6e7] with this input \relative c' { gis' cis e8[ r fis gis dis' e gis cis] } I would expect that there is at least a tiny distance between the rest and the sharp, but it seems that they directly

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

2014-11-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joram wrote Monday, November 03, 2014 9:09 AM For the tempo we have: \tempo Allegro 4 = 120 (and no rule turning speeds (4=120) into words (Allegro) - this case is different but also similar if you consider the following.) I would suggest this for times: \time 4/2 C and similar

Re: GUB and mpfr/mpc

2014-12-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Monday, December 01, 2014 3:25 PM I thought that I had at one time proposed something to be changed (as part of some issue?) order to deal with possible memory corruption, but a quick look through the log messages does not turn up either a commit from me or a commit

Re: Essay - Add Elaine Gould's book Behind Bars (issue 187860043 by address@hidden)

2014-12-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Villum Sejersen wrote Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:06 PM Hello Trevor and whoever took the trouble to write thge entry (I simply can't find the name anywhere) It was James I believe. Yes. concise enough. Personally, although I don't like 'The definitive...'; 'An exhaustive...' is much

satb built-in template [was Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)]

2015-01-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Johan Vromans wrote Monday, January 19, 2015 4:02 PM There is a built-in template almost exactly like this in LilyPond already I does, indeed, use a very similar approach. It doesn't provide for guitar chords and (automatic) metronome track but I could add that. Improvements would be very

Re: Some more possible tweaks to the appearance of the website

2015-02-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Paul Morris Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:43 AM I have some more changes to propose for the website. You can see two mock-ups at the links below (just remove the spaces in the URLs). One uses the current green color for the background, and in the other I tried out a blue background

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4293 in lilypond: Patch: Various fixes/improvements in connection with Smob allocation

2015-02-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Comment #3 on issue 4293 by lemzw...@googlemail.com: Patch: Various fixes/improvements in connection with Smob allocation https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4293 David, in such cases please proceed immediately! +1 Trevor ___

Re: \displayLilyMusic and default durations

2015-02-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:00 PM More seriously, currently \displayLilyMusic deals badly with { c4 c4 8 8 4 } which gets rendered as { c4 c 8 8 4 } and does consequently not recreate its input. It would be rather tricky to fix that since by the time the 8 is printed,

Re: Some more possible tweaks to the appearance of the website

2015-02-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Paul I'd be happy to go along with your index3C version, as linked below, but I'd like to see comments from others before the changes are adopted. These preferences can be very dependent on the individual's artistic sense. Trevor - Original Message - Paul Morris wrote Friday,

Re: Possible tweaks to the appearance of the website

2015-01-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Sunday, January 04, 2015 4:10 PM The major issue is that the nav bar is not present in IE. I understand IE9 is out of date, but many people use and prefer it over later versions, and for some applications you can't upgrade and have them still work. So we do need a web

Re: Change default MIDI file extension to '.mid'

2015-01-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Monday, January 05, 2015 2:35 PM From: Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com I think that LilyPond should use the most widely accepted '.mid' as default extension for the MIDI files it produces, instead of current '.midi'. This is the default on my Windows Vista PC

Re: Attachment downloader?

2015-03-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Assaf, you wrote Sunday, March 15, 2015 3:53 AM On 03/14/2015 01:57 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: I confirm this works, at least for the one instance I tried. I guess now we need to write a script which parses the JSON file to find the attachment parameters and then to wget them using

Re: Google Code shutting down

2015-03-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Federico Bruni ha scritto Monday, March 16, 2015 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Google Code shutting down I had much better experience with Redmine (Ruby on Rails). You can see an example here: http://darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable Redmine looks rather overkill for our purposes,

Building identifiers algorithmically

2015-03-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
LilyPond Schemers, I'm gradually getting the hang of Scheme, but I'd like some help with one frustrating issue. I'd like to build an identifier from two strings and use it to reference a LilyPond variable. In other words, I have several Lily variables defined like this SopranoMusic =

Re: Building identifiers algorithmically

2015-03-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
?) (ly:parser-lookup parser (string-symbol (string-append label1 label2 \score { \new Staff \getMusic Soprano Music } HTH Urs Am 21.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Trevor Daniels: LilyPond Schemers, I'm gradually getting the hang of Scheme, but I'd like some help with one

Re: Attachment downloader?

2015-03-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks Han-Wen and Chris I confirm this works, at least for the one instance I tried. I guess now we need to write a script which parses the JSON file to find the attachment parameters and then to wget them using the assembled url. Good; it's work, but at least there is a means now to extract

Generating variable containing spacer rests

2015-03-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Not being very experienced in Scheme I'm struggling to create a variable containing a spacer rest or rests with a total musical length equal to the music contained in another variable. Can anyone help? TIA Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Generating variable containing spacer rests

2015-03-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 14, 2015 6:14 PM Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Not being very experienced in Scheme I'm struggling to create a variable containing a spacer rest or rests with a total musical length equal to the music contained in another variable. Can

Re: Fwd: Google Code shutting down

2015-03-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Friday, March 13, 2015 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Google Code shutting down Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: In addition to moving the issues, the issue handling scripts would need to be updated. Things like git-cl, patchy, and the whole

Re: Fwd: Google Code shutting down

2015-03-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Han-Wen, you wrote Friday, March 13, 2015 1:45 PM On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Two questions: (a) how do we take a copy of this data base to keep it safe, including all the follow-up discussions? Making a CSV copy just seems

Generating music from a list of identifiers

2015-04-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Schemers I'm struggling to find how to do the following: I have a list of the identifiers of variables which contain either music or #f and I'd like to generate the parallel music of all of them which contain music. I can do this by listing the identifiers explicitly, like this: AllMusic

Re: Generating music from a list of identifiers

2015-04-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
, that should give you some hints. HTH Jan-Peter Am 01.04.2015 um 13:18 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Hi Schemers I'm struggling to find how to do the following: I have a list of the identifiers of variables which contain either music or #f and I'd like to generate the parallel music of all

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