Polyphonic Rest Positions and partial \longa

Hello, I've just started using Lilypond after switching from Sibelius. Lilypond seems a lot quicker and the set out especially with lyrics is a lot better and easier to correct. At the moment I have two questions... When using spacer notes e.g. << { s4 f g g } // { r4 g g g } >> the rest is alwa

Re: Polyphonic Rest Positions and partial \longa

Hello there, You might try (for the first question): r4 << { f g g } // { g g g } >> as this does the same thing, but doesn't split into polyphony. Another alternative can be found under heading 3.1.5 (Rests) in the manual, namely assigning a note-value to the rest (so if you're in treble clef, y

Re: cygwin: testers wanted for tetex bugfix release

Hello, I've tried it. Two problems: - what are the correct dependencies (what should be installed)? I installed the guile and the libguile16 package, and I had to install the gmp package too. - when I start guile, I get a message about initialization of application is not correct (0xc005). T

vertical spacing problem

Hello, all, I'd like to change either the vertical spacing or the global staff size after page one, and can't figure out a way to do that. If I have the spacing such that p.1 fits three systems, p.2 has a glaringly large white space at the bottom. To see what I'm talking about, you can download

Re: alternate lyrics + multiple strophes

Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I don't understand your problems with \skip, see the following > version of your example: I don't get \skip to play nicely with \lyricsto in 2.2.1, though. Is this something that's been fixed later? -- Arvid

Strange trouble -- current CVS

I'm having a couple of strange things happen with current CVS Lilypond. I'm now running 2.3.17 ChangeLog 1.2611 and getting this: Runaway argument? {001.5865 004. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=350001]. ...putscale \embeddedps {001.5865 004.8

Maj7 Nomenclature?

Does anyone have a guess when the Maj7 symbol will be fixed? -- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 1.0 GMU/O d+@ s: a C++ UL P+> L++ E-(---) W++ N++ o--@ K- w+(--) !O !M V PS--(+) PE++ Y !PGP t+() !5 X+() R+++($) tv b++>+++ DI@ !D G e++> h---@ r++ y? --END GEEK CODE B

Problems with titling in 2.3.16

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Lilypond 2.3.16 through Fink, and I'm having trouble with titling (i.e. the header). My title line looks like thisâ title = "Star-Spangled Banner" When I run Lilypond on the file, the title is "Star Spangled Banner"âwhere the hyphen