Re: Bug in spacing of lyrics in polyphonic context

2004-09-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 03.34, P Scott Horne wrote: In the old days of version 1.6.8, we wrote polyphony this way: {c d e}\\{e f g} Now the notation is {c d e}\\{e f g} There seems to be a bug in the engraving of lyrics set against a staff that breaks into polyphony

Is it possible to use colors ?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob van den Berg
Hi all, Is it possible to print notes and or lyrics using color ? I teach piano and keyboard, and 2 of my students are handicapped. They are used to using colors along side traditional music notation. Please have a look at http://www.jostiband.nl/NL/NLKN.HTM It's in dutch, but there are several

Re: Is it possible to use colors ?

2004-09-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For notes, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-04/msg00040.html For lyrics, you can fix it (at least up to version 2.2.x) using something like: \header{ latexpackages = color } \lyrics{ \\color{red}Red \\color{green}Green ... The problem is that it's tedious to enter and

\revert trouble

2004-09-15 Thread David Bobroff
I'm trying to put in some cue notes in a part. I've done this: % This sets up the smaller note size for the cues cue = { \set fontSize = #-3 \override Stem #'length = #5.5 \override Beam #'thickness = #0.384 \override Beam #'space-function = #(lambda (beam mult) (* 0.8

never mind

2004-09-15 Thread David Bobroff
Regarding my \revert trouble...never mind. I saw my typo right after I sent the message. I had 'fontsize' when I should have had 'fontSize.' -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

GrandStaff name ?

2004-09-15 Thread Meixner Music
Hello all! First a big Thank You to the developers of lilypond: I'm a seasoned music type setter and went through all of Finale to Graphire Music Press (which did beautiful output - not as good as lilypond of course - and regrettably died some time ago). Now I'm just digging through the

Re: GrandStaff name ?

2004-09-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
By default, LilyPond doesn't support instrument names for GrandStaff contexts, but the program is extremely flexible so it's easy for you to add the feature yourself. Just add the following to your \paper section: \paper { ... \context{ \GrandStaff \consists Instrument_name_engraver

Re: cygwin: testers wanted for tetex bugfix release

2004-09-15 Thread Bertalan Fodor
There is some problem with setup.ini: from line 95 its contents are duplicated. Anyway, I was able to install it, it seems to be good. Jan, could you also try to build a new guile to see if it allows me now to build lilypond 2.3? Bert ___

stem length tweak

2004-09-15 Thread David Bobroff
In the following example I would like to shorten the stems of beat three so that the beam is at the same height as beats 2 and 4. As it stands now, it interferes visually with the whole rest (the notes are cue notes). I've looked but have failed to find the answer. -David \version 2.3.17 cue

Re: Other versions of lilypond?

2004-09-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:26 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 18.05, Bruce Calder wrote: Hi, and thanks for this gift of an application! I've been looking for something like it for Linux for a while. I would like to use it to translate ptabtools output. I

Re: Voice vertical alignment

2004-09-15 Thread Gustavo J. Mata
It worked like a charm. Thanks a lot! Gustavo J. Mata Patrick Hubers wrote: Gustavo J. Mata schreef: ... I succeeded in writing a very simple two-voice score. The problem is that in the output the voices are not vertically aligned. I assume that this a general convention for writing several

Cross-platform problem

2004-09-15 Thread J Bruce Ashton
Good day. My friend runs Windows, and would like to have Lilypond for personal use. Unfortunately, he does not have internet access, so asked whether I could download a copy of the stable version for him and put it on a CD-ROM. I run Mac OS X, and would be delighted to oblige him. However,

Re: Cross-platform problem

2004-09-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
J. Bruce Ashton writes: My friend runs Windows, and would like to have Lilypond for personal use. Unfortunately, he does not have internet access, so asked whether I could download a copy of the stable version for him and put it on a CD-ROM. I think that if you google for Cygwin and CDROM,

Re: cygwin: testers wanted for tetex bugfix release

2004-09-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: Anyway, I was able to install it, it seems to be good. Thanks. I fixed some more things, I'll announce it tomorrow. Jan, could you also try to build a new guile to see if it allows me now to build lilypond 2.3? Which version? I'll wait for guile-1.6.5, I guess?

Re: cygwin: testers wanted for tetex bugfix release

2004-09-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bertalan Fodor writes: Anyway, I was able to install it, it seems to be good. Thanks. I fixed some more things, I'll announce it tomorrow. Jan, could you also try to build a new guile to see if it allows me now to build lilypond 2.3? Which version? I'll

Drums on multiple tracks :-)

2004-09-15 Thread R. D. Davis
While doing some MIDI file to Csound conversion, that involves separate tracks for different drums/percussion instruments, I got to thinking about Lilypond and began to wonder about putting the drums on more than one MIDI track via Lilypond ...doing so with Lilypond looked like a possibility.

Drums on multiple tracks

2004-09-15 Thread R. D. Davis
While doing some MIDI file to Csound conversion, that involves separate tracks for different drums/percussion instruments, I got to thinking about Lilypond and began to wonder about putting the drums on more than one MIDI track via Lilypond ...doing so with Lilypond looked like a possibility.

alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

2004-09-15 Thread Bernd Edler
Hello, i have trouble with applying the alternate lyrics technique from repeats.ly (de eerste maat..) from the tips tricks section of the manual to multiple stanzas. Instead of: Staff== 1st stanza 1st (bbb) 1st stanza rpt.(ccc) 2nd stanza 1st (xxx) 2nd stanza rpt.(yyy) I

ChordName/Staff Spacing

2004-09-15 Thread Matthew Schulkind
How can I squish ChordNames and Staffs closer together than they willingly want to go? I have tried: \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(0.2 . 0.2) \override SeparatingGroupSpanner #'padding = #'0.2 and \set ChordNames.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(0.2 . 0.2) Yet I still can't squish them as

no test.log file and test.ly does not run

2004-09-15 Thread David
Hello after installing this twice.. just to make sure i didnt miss anything... When i double click test.ly all it does is open the command window and im at the prompt bash-2.05b$ it doesnt generat a test.log file either it does nothing else. I downloaded it twice from two different ftps just