Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread Joe Neeman
I'm researching how do I make a note head smaller because I need to fit a few more notes on a line to keep it from going nuts and extending lines way past explicit \break commands. I've googled and grep'd tons of documents, and I still don't know how to do it. I've found possible solutions,

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread donald_j_axel
On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:48:40 -0500 Jim Sabatke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm researching how do I make a note head smaller because I need to fit a few more notes on a line to keep it from Many techniques can be found in the documentation, this is one of them. [...] place the commands.

totally blind user with questions

2004-06-01 Thread Orlando Fiol
Hello. My name is Orlando Fiol. I am a totally blind composer/arranger interested in using your program to write scores. is the syntax at least sufficiently ASCII driven that I can indicate note names, registers and rhythmic values? I figure it might be necessary to have my scores

Re: totally blind user with questions

2004-06-01 Thread David Bobroff
At 04:52 AM 6/1/2004 -0400, Orlando Fiol wrote: Hello. My name is Orlando Fiol. I am a totally blind composer/arranger interested in using your program to write scores. is the syntax at least sufficiently ASCII driven that I can indicate note names, registers and rhythmic values? I figure

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread David Boersma
Hello Donald, On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, donald_j_axel wrote: You will soon find out that it is very difficult to write decent documentation and that many Lilyponders actually write useable but annoying (wrong) English. This will of course bounce back to you: if you are a native English speaker

installing in windows

2004-06-01 Thread David Bobroff
Orlando, First I want to recommend strongly that you keep these discussions on the user list as you will likely get more help that way. Also, if I steer you wrong someone will correct me. At the moment, I'm just trying to install the damn thing using Windows 2K. I was supposed to get a

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2004-06-01 Thread anonymous NFS user
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Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread Hendrik
Joe Neeman wrote: I don't think it's possible to use lilypond without lots of painful research. I haven't been able to find an index, or google search that will reliably return simple information. In my opinion, the most important piece of missing documentation is one that describes the

Double fingering instructions

2004-06-01 Thread Hendrik
Hello, Apart from that I don't get my file running yet, I'd like to put double fingering instructions, as needed for the piece of guitar-music I'm trying to typeset. In the part fingering in the manual, I found b-2 to be a b with a 2 above, but I'd also like there to be an a: the 2 says to use

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread dax2
Thanks for your kind reaction, On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:48:59 -0500 Jim Sabatke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If documentation is usable, then it is good. Grammar and word choices can always be modified by others. I don't find such language very disturbing anyway; it's the content that

installing in Windows 2K

2004-06-01 Thread Orlando Fiol
Hi all. I am a totally blind user trying to install Lilypond on a Windows 2K system. I can select the cygwin directory, type of net connection and download site. But when I get to the package view, I see no Publishers section and no references to Lilypond anywhere. Perhaps, there is a Java

Re: can MIDI support voice?

2004-06-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 31 May 2004 08:51 pm, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:48:48 -0400 Ting Gan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came upone a problem with MIDI files. I have a piece of music which has a voice and a piano part. The MIDI file which lilypond file output to does not play

RE: installing in Windows 2K

2004-06-01 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Can the problem be that the cygwin setup window is not correctly sized? Try to click on the 'View' button. Then you get a 'Full' view. Now the table columns are Current, New, Binary, Src?, Categories and Package In the package column you should find lilypond, but you must click in the 'New'

Re: Double fingering instructions

2004-06-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 07:57 am, Hendrik wrote: Hello, Apart from that I don't get my file running yet, I'd like to put double fingering instructions, as needed for the piece of guitar-music I'm trying to typeset. In the part fingering in the manual, I found b-2 to be a b with a 2

Returned mail - nameserver error report

2004-06-01 Thread MAILER-DAEMON
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Returned mail - nameserver error report

2004-06-01 Thread MAILER-DAEMON
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2004-06-01 Thread emeasmex
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blind user, installing on Windows

2004-06-01 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, David Bobroff said: As a side note, you may be interested to know that there has been discussion on one of the LilyPond lists (there are three; user, bug, and devel) about braille output from LilyPond. I'm not sure if development in that direction has gone very far. Yes, Braille output

Percussion madness.

2004-06-01 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Anybody know what's wrong with this? Lilypond 2.2.2 on Linux. Percussion staff seems to split into notes-type Voices for the multi-drumvoice stuff. This is the smallest I can get it, but I can't figure out what's going on. Seems to be something to do with the r1, which I have some markup

need help installing lilypond

2004-06-01 Thread Tom Stinnett
I downloaded everything according to the website instruction. When I double-click on test.ly, there is a message saying Windows cannot open this file. There is no test.log with the test.ly. I have downloaded this twice. Any advice? I think this program is a great idea, and am anxious to get it

Re: need help installing lilypond

2004-06-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you get a Cygwin icon or entry in the Program menu. Double click on that to start a command window. Enter the command: lilypond If it answers something like Command not found, you have not managed to install the package. Just rerun setup.exe again and make sure that the line with the Lilypond

Re: Help getting started

2004-06-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: place the commands. I've tried searching the lilypond wiki site, but the searches returns mostly hits on how to setup the wiki. You hit a weak point here. Your criticism is a little over the target though. Some Lilypond writers think it is very nice that a

It doesnt work

2004-06-01 Thread Akhil Jindal
I get like a cmd screen when I click the icon ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: It doesnt work

2004-06-01 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Akhil Jindal wrote: I get like a cmd screen when I click the icon Sounds perfectly normal. Now go on and read the tutorial. ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 2

2004-06-01 Thread A. Deubelbeiss
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:14:47 -0400 From: Orlando Fiol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: installing in Windows 2K To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Hi all. I am a totally blind user trying to install Lilypond on a

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 2

2004-06-01 Thread Laura Conrad
A == A Deubelbeiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A Sorry this process is so complicated, but I have neither the competence A nor the tools to do anything about it. Actually, I just installed lilypond quite easily on a new system with a large hard drive by simply selecting all at that

Bunched-Up Staves

2004-06-01 Thread Will Oram
I just made the jump from 2.2.2 to 2.3.3. Before, my orchestral score was looking fine on PDF. As many staves that could fit on one page without feeling cramped, were put on one page. With 2.3, there is an EXTREME case of staves overlapping. The way it looks now, the upper quarter of page 1 is