Help with Lilypond on Windows

2004-06-21 Thread J L
Hi, Recently I found out about Lilypond. On the homepage there are many good reports from users of Lilypond. Curious, and wanting a music layout/typesetting/etc. program that I wouldn't have to spend in the hundreds or thousands to obtain, I downloaded a copy. Note: I am running a Windows XP co

Help with Lilypond on Windows

2004-06-21 Thread J L
Hi, Recently I found out about Lilypond. On the homepage there are many good reports from users of Lilypond. Curious, and wanting a music layout/typesetting/etc. program that I wouldn't have to spend in the hundreds or thousands to obtain, I downloaded a copy. Note: I am running a Windows XP co

Making a lilypond-book (Modified by Will Oram)

2004-06-21 Thread Will Oram
I'm about ready to put three movements together inside one book assembled through lilypond-book. Having only toyed with l-book, I think I'll need some help. Let's assume I want movements separated in subdirectories, and the .tex file in the top level. How would I get l-book to read ly files in

Re: TextSpanner padding

2004-06-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Will Oram wrote: > > In lily 2.2.2, I'm trying to push a trill TextSpanner up a few spaces. > > This produces parse errors: > > > > \override TextSpanner #'staff-padding = #'2.5 > > The problem is the #'2.5 -- it should be #2.5. With #'2.5, I think > you're telling

Re: TextSpanner padding

2004-06-21 Thread Doug Asherman
Will Oram wrote: In lily 2.2.2, I'm trying to push a trill TextSpanner up a few spaces. This produces parse errors: \override TextSpanner #'staff-padding = #'2.5 The problem is the #'2.5 -- it should be #2.5. With #'2.5, I think you're telling Lilypond you have symbol called "2.5"; and I'm pret

[svoboda@mandal.lti.cs.cmu.edu] Lilypond Comments!

2004-06-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > simply indicate on the modeline just what beat the cursor is on...or > rather how many beats lie between the cursor and the previous | or {. Brilliant idea! I'm not aware of efforts in this direction. > One could attack this problem with another Emacs patch...which wo

TextSpanner padding

2004-06-21 Thread Will Oram
In lily 2.2.2, I'm trying to push a trill TextSpanner up a few spaces. This produces parse errors: \override TextSpanner #'staff-padding = #'2.5 As does this: \override Staff.TextSpanner #'staff-padding = #'2.5 Now I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts? Best, Will Oram // Genius @ Large // AIM spamguy

Re: Question on syntax

2004-06-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 21 June 2004 22.36, Scott Webber wrote: > Hey, I'm trying to build a new lilypond version straight from cvs and > I'm not sure if it's working right. > > Is this still valid syntax: Try adding a \version "2.2.0" and run convert-ly on the file. Syntax often does change in the unstable br

Question on syntax

2004-06-21 Thread Scott Webber
Hey, I'm trying to build a new lilypond version straight from cvs and I'm not sure if it's working right. Is this still valid syntax: \score { \context PianoStaff << \property PianoStaff.followVoice = ##t \context Staff=right \right \context Dynamics=dynamics \dynamics \context Staff

RE: [svoboda@mandal.lti.cs.cmu.edu] Lilypond Comments!

2004-06-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
> -> Another problem is enterying lyrics to a melody, often the lyric > syllables don't match up to the melody notes, and I have to tweak the > melody or lyrics. Any attempts to solve this problem? I have several > possible solutions, but don't know what is good/possible/easy. You must call each

RE: Glissando Event

2004-06-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Most grobs are in the Voice context, so probably try the Voice context. I'm just guessing, the default value is set like this: \override Voice.Glissando #'zigzag-width = #0.75 Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.or

Glissando Event

2004-06-21 Thread Clemens Seeolzer
Dear lilypond programmers & users I'm not very common in programming. So, I've problems to change the zigzag-width in glissando How is the correct syntax. I didn't find a programming example for it. I use lilypond Version 2.2.x Here a part of my music \notes \relative f'{

can't see fonts, just barlines and staff lines

2004-06-21 Thread Ben Crowell
What PDF viewer are you using? I've experienced a problem that sounds like what you're describing when I used gpdf to view the output. Works fine with xpdf and Acrobat Reader. If you could post your pdf output on a web site, other people could try viewing it.

[svoboda@mandal.lti.cs.cmu.edu] Lilypond Comments!

2004-06-21 Thread svoboda
Hello, I have used Lilypond just last week to create a few musical scores (pop music with a chordline, melody line, and lyrics). Anyway I have some comments regarding usage, mainly the problems I encountered. I can possibly fix them given some encouragement...mainly I want to know if anything has

can't see fonts, just barlines and staff lines

2004-06-21 Thread Arturo Araya
Ok, quick newbie question (haven't found a FAQ that deals with this anywhere, so here goes): I've successfully installed Lilypond 2.0.3 on Gentoo from an ebuild. It appears to have generated the fonts I need. When I ran lilypond on a test document (one that comes from the Manual) it generated th

fingering size

2004-06-21 Thread LEGRAND Jean-Marc
Bonjour tout le monde ! I'd like to change font size for fingering (figures much too big and thick) gor all the score I'm typesetting. I'd like thiner and smaller figures : how can I do, please (couldn't find any trick in the doc or the archives) ?

RE: template for SATB+piano

2004-06-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Just to advertise the LilyPondTool a bit, this is what I got running the wizard, with 6 clicks. (I can see now that there is a little bug: the staffPiano is declared as Piano) \version "2.2.2" #(ly:set-point-and-click 'line-column) \header { } \include "deutsch.ly" verse= \lyrics { } staf

LilypondTool Beta 0.2

2004-06-21 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, I have tried to update jEdit on windows xp with the new LilyPondTool.jar (397 kb) but with no success. I get the following error message: -- Plugin Error The following plugin could not be loaded: C:\Programme\jEdit 4.1\jars\LilypondTool.jar: Cannot start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundE