Re: 1.7.12: Multiple marks?

2003-02-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Many thanks for the suggestion. This is s close it loses the > 'rehearsal mark' font for the "23" and the "*N" (it comes out the same as > normal lyrics text.) My next attempt was > > \mark #'(lines (mark "23") (mark "*N") (music "scripts-segno")) > > but tha

Re: Conditional expressions

2003-02-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it possible to pass two music expressions to a scheme function > as arguments? > no, but you can use \apply #func { arg1 arg2 } this passes a sequential music with 2 elts to func. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen

Chords under voltas ?

2003-02-24 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Is there a way to print the chord names _under_ the volta bars ? I saw some stuff in the archives but doesn't quite work (at least not on 1.6.7). BTW while searching the archives I saw that several people were interested in reducing the font size for chords. This is what I managed to come

Re: frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Sawer
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > > > Hmm. Unfortunately Mutopia is down right now, so I can't check, but > > what version is that lilypond source? > > Near the top of the/a file(s), there should be a line something like > > this: > >

Re: PDF Manual fonts?

2003-02-24 Thread Jonathan Kelly
Mats, thanks for the update ... glad to know I'm *not* going crazy ... I did wonder for a while. Just starting to get into it ... printed out my first score today, WoHoo! Looks Great! Cheers. Jonathan. On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:26:06 +0100, you wrote: >It seems that noone else who answered bother

Shared lyrics with occasional short solos

2003-02-24 Thread Peter B. Steiger
I'm using Lilypond (1.6.6-1, installed from RPM binaries to Red Hat 7.3) primarily for my barbershop quartet music, and I'm having a little trouble finding the right way to show lyrics. In a typical quartet piece, all four parts sing the same words *most of the time*, but there are spots where

question about info documentation

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Vanier
First off, thanks very much to those who responded to my question about partial scores. I notice that the emacs info documentation comes with this in the top-level file (lilypond.info): START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * GNU LilyPond: (lilypond).The GNU music typesetter. * ly2dvi: (lilyp

Re: PS error in GSView

2003-02-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 24 February 2003 11:04 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > I think that lilypond contributes its own version of config,ps, > > in order to print with a4 paper. TeTeX TeX and LaTeX > > have lettersize as the default, (I hope. An European > > maintainer might chang

Re: 1.7.12: Multiple marks?

2003-02-24 Thread Hans Forbrich
Many thanks for the suggestion. This is s close it loses the 'rehearsal mark' font for the "23" and the "*N" (it comes out the same as normal lyrics text.) My next attempt was \mark #'(lines (mark "23") (mark "*N") (music "scripts-segno")) but that did not change to the rehearsal mark f

Re: Conditional expressions

2003-02-24 Thread Dr A V Le Blanc
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:52:49PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > There are probably simpler methods to achieve what you want to do. > Take a look at the two collections of examples at the web page, > Go to lilypond.org, click on Documentation:Index and then on > "tips-and-tricks" and "Regression T

Re: 1.7.12: Multiple marks?

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How about (untested) \mark #'(lines "23" "*N" (music "scripts-segno")) /Mats Hans Forbrich wrote: The source for the current score I'm working has multiple 'marks' on the same bar - the bar I'm looking at has a 'rehearsal mark (circled bar number)', a 'segno' and a 'narrator's mark ("*N")' st

1.7.12: Multiple marks?

2003-02-24 Thread Hans Forbrich
The source for the current score I'm working has multiple 'marks' on the same bar - the bar I'm looking at has a 'rehearsal mark (circled bar number)', a 'segno' and a 'narrator's mark ("*N")' stacked at the same spot. If I use multiple \mark indicators [\mark "23" \mark "*N", \mark #'(music "scri

Re: PS error in GSView

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I think that lilypond contributes its own version of config,ps, in order to print with a4 paper. TeTeX TeX and LaTeX have lettersize as the default, (I hope. An European maintainer might change it.) which is why you can delete the lines instead of changing them. This i

Re: PS error in GSView

2003-02-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 24 February 2003 05:20 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > That's really weird. I notice you have a brand new version of > Ghostscript, could it be a bug in that? BeginPaperSize should > be a standard construct as far as I know. I'd look for more > information at www.ghostscript.com. > > Anyway,

Re: Conditional expressions

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There are probably simpler methods to achieve what you want to do. Take a look at the two collections of examples at the web page, Go to lilypond.org, click on Documentation:Index and then on "tips-and-tricks" and "Regression Tests" respectively. The Regression tests document contains an example on

Re: Help request: multiple staffs and lyrics

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Take a look at some of the lyrics examples in the tips-and-tricks document (third time today that I refer to the same document on the mailing list!). Go to lilypond.org, click on Documentation:Index and then on tips-and-tricks and search for "lyrics". /Mats Christ van Willegen wrote: Mats Beng

Re: bar spacing

2003-02-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 23 February 2003 06:04 am, Michael Vanier wrote: > Quick question: is there a way to force lilypond to make all the bars > on a single line equally wide? I realize that this isn't usually the > right thing to do for a finished score, but I'm using it to write > partial scores that I will

Re: frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
After I set up guile-1.4 (RH7.3 ships with guile-1.3.4) lilypond-1.6.7 configure ends with: ) WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs: pktrace mftrace ) ) See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build LilyPond ) Remove config.cache before rerunning ./configure ) ) Type: )

Re: frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

2003-02-24 Thread larry
Graham Percival wrote: > > Hmm. Unfortunately Mutopia is down right now, so I can't check, but > what version is that lilypond source? > Near the top of the/a file(s), there should be a line something like > this: > \version "1.2.14" Fur Elise is old enough it doesn't even _have_ a version ID :-

Re: bar spacing

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This, and tons of other features, can be found in the "tips-and-tricks" document. Just go to lilypond.org, click on Documentation:Index and then on tips-and-tricks. The example you should look at is partial-blank.ly /Mats Michael Vanier wrote: Quick question: is there a way to force lilypond to

Re: Do have I found a bug ?

2003-02-24 Thread Alexandre Beneteau
I agree with you, and I would be sad I you should think I critic lilypond or the people who work on it. The project is impressive and thanks to it, I've be able to produce beautiful sheet music since 99. I don't think I will use so much a graphical music program, as I don't use word processor b

Re: strange warnings

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Vanier
Never mind -- it turns out that the error was happening in the next line. An off-by-one error in the line count, I guess, or else emacs' line numbering doesn't match lilypond's. Mike > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:16:47 -0800 > From: Michael Vanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm getting strange warni

strange warnings

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Vanier
I'm getting strange warning messages in a lilypond file that are unrelated to the contents of the line being warned about: foo.ly:147:6: warning: unbound spanner `Beam': s1 foo.ly:147:6: warning: beam has less than two visible stems: s1 foo.ly:147:6: warning: Beam has less than tw

Re: bar spacing

2003-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:04:18 -0800 Michael Vanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick question: is there a way to force lilypond to make all the bars on a > single line equally wide? I realize that this isn't usually the right > thing to do for a finished score, but I'm using it to write partial sc

Re: Do have I found a bug ?

2003-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:51:57 +0100 Alexandre Beneteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you agree if I would say lilypond's error messages are sometimes > confusing ? I'll agree that some programs have more useful error messages. However, I don't intend that statement to be a criticism of the wo

Re: frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

2003-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:58:38 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a copy of Fur Elise that I downloaded from mutopia, then > hacked^H^H^H^H^H^Harranged for Flute and Viola, that I need to > make some edits on. But I can't for the life of me get a version > of lilypond that reads it, or for that

Re: frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's really hard to give any advice without more information. Please send us the output of ly2dvi -V whateverfile.ly which will give some more printouts on what might have gone wrong. When you built the program, did you have to install anything extra efter you first issued configure? In that case,

Re: Problems building under Solaris 8

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Pete Young wrote: ... That allowed me to fix a few 'syntax' errors in lilypond-book.py, the 'import lilypond as ly' one I reported earlier and use of the ' += ' operator - maybe this is a consequence of me having python 1.5 rather than python 2? Note that the fix you suggested in an earlier emai

Re: PDF Manual fonts?

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that noone else who answered bothered to actually take a look at the file you refer to. The PS and PDF versions of the manual for the stable Lilypond version are indeed broken. The underlying problem is an error in the font setup for the Type1 versions of the musical fonts. For the moment,

Re: PS error in GSView

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
That's really weird. I notice you have a brand new version of Ghostscript, could it be a bug in that? BeginPaperSize should be a standard construct as far as I know. I'd look for more information at www.ghostscript.com. Anyway, the problem is not at all related to Lilypond. The lines are generated

Re: 1.6.6-1 font problems

2003-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Also, there a bug in the latest stable versions 1.6.x. If you try to use the Type1 (vectorized) fonts instead of the default Type3 (bitmapped) fonts, the wrong fonts will be shown in the Postscript or PDF. I think that's what happened to you. The simple solution, if you just want a PS file to view