Still: Drums track/notes

2001-10-15 Thread Joerg Anders
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Amelie Zapf wrote: Hi Joerg, I frequently have to write drum parts. That works, except for the midi playback. I define a macro: cr = { \property Voice.NoteHead \override #'style = #'cross } and ncr = { \property Voice.NoteHead \revert #'style }

Re: Still: Drums track/notes

2001-10-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Amelie Zapf wrote: Hi Joerg, I frequently have to write drum parts. That works, except for the midi playback. I define a macro: cr = { \property Voice.NoteHead \override #'style = #'cross } and ncr = { \property Voice.NoteHead \revert

Re: Re^2: Font problem, Xdvi, quite urgent.

2001-10-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mats wrote: Do you use the environment variable settings in lilypond-1.x.xx/buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile (installed in /etc/profile.d/ if you install the Lilypond RPM)? I myself use the alternative described in http://lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondFaqs to link the Lilypond MF

Grace notes, chords and slurs.

2001-10-15 Thread Antoniouk Sergio
Firstly, I want to ask how I can typeset chord that spans two piano stafs, two (for example) notes on left hand, two on right hand staff. When I try to do such thing I got full chord on one of the staves. Secondly, when I try to use slur after grace notes like this: \grace {[c16 d e f]} c2 e g

I've seen drums.ly, but ...

2001-10-15 Thread Joerg Anders
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Mats Bengtsson wrote: What is a 4rd drum symbol? Have you seen the example file input/test/drums.ly? Yes, I've seen it. But: $ ly2dvi drums.ly (y|n|e|a)? yes Running LilyPond... GNU LilyPond 1.5.6 Now processing: `/tmp/drums.ly' Parsing... /tmp/drums.ly:5:23: error:

Re: Font problem, Xdvi, quite urgent.

2001-10-15 Thread David Pirotte
Amelie Zapf wrote: Amelie, if you are using a distribution that includes tetex, then the following suggestion might help you: 1. get the latest xdvi-22.48 ftp://ftp.math.berkeley.edu/pub/Software/TeX/ 2. ./configure --with-tetex (or --with-tetex=PATHLIST)

Re: I've seen drums.ly, but ...

2001-10-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Mats Bengtsson wrote: What is a 4rd drum symbol? Have you seen the example file input/test/drums.ly? Yes, I've seen it. But: $ ly2dvi drums.ly (y|n|e|a)? yes Running LilyPond... GNU LilyPond 1.5.6 Now processing: `/tmp/drums.ly' Parsing...

Re: Grace notes, chords and slurs.

2001-10-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Firstly, I want to ask how I can typeset chord that spans two piano stafs, two (for example) notes on left hand, two on right hand staff. When I try to do such thing I got full chord on one of the staves. I don't think that's specifically supported at the moment, even though you could make

Re: Re^2: Font problem, Xdvi, quite urgent.

2001-10-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, both Lilypond, xdvi and dvips should be able to find the necessary fonts. Note that $MFINPUTS should end or begin with a colon, so TeX finds the default fonts as well. Here may lie part of the problem. When configuring xdvi, you

Linux:noteedit:drum notes

2001-10-15 Thread Joerg Anders
noteedit-1.15.0 is available: http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html New features: = - drum notes Thanks to Erik Sigra [EMAIL PROTECTED] He made some changes which make noteedit more KDE conform. Among them:

Re: cleverer stem direction

2001-10-15 Thread William R. Brohinsky
For what it's worth, when I took music theory, we were advised (and this is in consonance with numerous music copy tutorial books, I can quote references for some if needed) to keep stems in one direction when passing through the middle line of the staff. Thus, for a scale starting on the bottom

Re: Re^2: Font problem, Xdvi, quite urgent.

2001-10-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real problem (or feature) is that large parts of the texmf.cnf file relies on the magic variable $SELFAUTODIR which is set from argv[0] of the calling program. O, no! I never install foreign software in /usr or /usr/local. That probably

Re: cleverer stem direction

2001-10-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Never heard of this. For me it suffices that such a practice might be confusing to beginners. There might be other reasons why it might be desirable to have the B stem up or down. In any case, neither way is correct or incorrect, so why complicate matters?