kpathsea can not find file

2004-04-07 Thread David Bobroff
I just got this: Parsing... Interpreting music... warning: kpathsea can not find file: `feta20.enc' error: can't find file: `feta20.enc I've been keeping up with CVS but for some days now I haven't actually used LilyPond, so I'm not sure when this started. After 'make install' I did 'login' and

Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Edwards
Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'll have to join, then submit this message again.) I'm

Re: Problem with lilypond installation...

2004-04-07 Thread Hans Forbrich
Lilypond has 4 distribution lists. They act just like any email address, but any [authorized] email that is sent to them will be distributed to all registered members. Authorized means being on the registered list, and that can be accomplished through the links at

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread David Bobroff
At 11:58 PM 4/7/2004 +1000, you wrote: In general, each of the programs I named above seems to have problems for me, at least insofar as I have gleaned information about how they work (since I do not have copies of any of them, and have tried only demo versions of older versions of Finale and

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Michael! because I have hard disk space problems and this is a very active list Don't forget the archives (searchable!) and digest mode... =) Finale: User interface seems awkward and difficult, not sufficiently keyboard-based. Oh, I got pretty good with the keyboard (even did a fair bit

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Kieren Richard MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. If I adopt any music notation program, it will be used on a laptop computer, with its lack of a separate numeric keypad. Again, text editor says it all. In general, how configurable is LilyPond for different methods of usage? Pretty

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Michael Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. Welcome. I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'll

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Aaron
Wait a second, truthfully all the applications are pretty much notation programs, not composition programs. Lilypond is music engraving with all the bells and whistles minus the graphical interface. It takes some getting used to and could be a bit difficult for a novice to use if the notation

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Hans Forbrich
I personally think many people go about the evaluation totally backwards. They first ask 'how easy is it to get started'. Unfortunately once the honeymoon is over, then it's time to get serious and accomplish some real tasks. Every 'easy to use' package I've seen quickly grinds to a halt.

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the manual. Is it there? I did find it with

Extent of graphic or text interface with LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Edwards
My thanks to those who have given me information about LilyPond. Perhaps I just need to clarify one thing. Several people have told me that LilyPond doesn't have a graphic user interface - which I had read on the web site anyway. I said that I didn't like graphic user interfaces

Re: lyqi (was: Basic questions about LilyPond.)

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the manual. Is it there?

Re: Extent of graphic or text interface with LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread GoochRules!
On Apr 7, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Michael Edwards wrote: My thanks to those who have given me information about LilyPond. Perhaps I just need to clarify one thing. Several people have told me that LilyPond doesn't have a graphic user interface - which I had read on the web site anyway.

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23.58, Paul Scott wrote: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find

Re: Extent of graphic or text interface with LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Michael: I'm almost [...] getting the impression that LilyPond doesn't display the music on the screen at all Technically, that's true, I suppose... Lilypond converts a text source into an engraving using (La)TeX and some other magic code. Since this is fundamentally a batch process:

Schenker Graphs

2004-04-07 Thread Aaron Dalton
I am learning Lilypond to create Schenker Graphs for a major project I am currently working on for my University. After reading the documentation, I'm confident that I can accomplish most of what I need using Lilypond. I was wondering if anybody out there has already created such graphs and

Re: lyqi

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the

Upgrading to 2.2.0 in Mandrake 9.1

2004-04-07 Thread Larry Tan
i'm new to Linux and Lilypond. I have lilypond 2.1.10 installed in Mandrake 9.1. I want to update to 2.20. How do I do this? Painlessly? I went to the Thac's RPMs for Mandrake site listed on the Lilypond download page. I'm not sure which RPMs to install to complete an upgrade (and I don't

More Post-Cadenza Music

2004-04-07 Thread Will Oram
Somehow the discussion of this subject got bumped to bug-lilypond, so I'm resetting it to here. To re-describe: I have music with solo and accompaniment. The solo has a cadenza that the accompaniment has to sit through. By using skips to round to the nearest measure, the cadenza works out to