System start delimiters

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Dickinson
Hello, I'm currently using Lilypond to typeset my assignments for my instrumentation class. My teacher would like to have a bracket connecting the string staves and an additional brace connecting the violin staves. Right now, I can get both the bracket and the brace, but I can't figure out how

Re: feta20.afm

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There have been several questions related to yours on the mailing list recently. However, you forgot to provide enough information to make it possible to help you. What operating system do you use? How did you install LilyPond, did you compile it yourself or use a precompiled package? In the

Re: blanco output, return value 256

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Run again with the additional flag lilypond --verbose simple.ly and send the resulting printouts to the mailing list. /Mats Tapio Tuovila wrote: Hi, I compiled lilypond 2.5.9 on Suse 9.1 However, running lilypond on lilypond-2.5.9/input/simple.ly results as follows: lilypond simple.ly GNU

Re: Fw: how to get lillypond to run

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You say yourself that the test file worked perfectly, so you already know how to run the program. For the next question, namely on how to use the program, you have to realize that LilyPond is one of these programs where you cannot expect to do anything useful without reading the manual, at least

Re: Spaced score

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since the spacing is determined globally for the full score, my first attempt would be to do \override Score.SpacingSpanner instead of PianoStaff.SpacingSpanner (haven't tried it, though). /Mats Sebastiano Vigna wrote: It is my understanding that overriding shortest-duration-space like this

Re: System start delimiters

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Dickinson
Whoops. Sorry about that. Apparently you can't do what I tried to do last time. Here's that last message without the part that borked everything up. I'm currently using Lilypond to typeset assignments for my instrumentation class. My teacher would like a bracket connecting the string staves

How to tie a flat to g sharp

2005-01-24 Thread Kilian A. Foth
Greetings, I am having a hard time convincing Lilypond to create a tie between enharmonic variants: \version 2.4.0 \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff { \time 4/4 \key des \major \relative c'' { es as c es4\arpeggio des'8 c { c es ges as2 } \\ {

Re: System start delimiters

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your example works fine in the latest stable version, 2.4.3. It seems that you have found a bug in the development version. I wouldn't recommend the development version for any serious typesetting. On the other hand, I would recommend you to report this bug and all other bugs you find to the

Dashed slur

2005-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Is there a way to set not only the length of the dash in a dashed slur, but also the space between dashes? (2.4.2) Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Merge rests into one in two voices

2005-01-24 Thread Gilles
If i have two voices on the same staff, rests will appear in the upper and lower part of the staff. Is it possible to merge them into one rest in the middle if the values of the rests are the same? In one of the voices, use the \oneVoice command, and in the others, put skips s. Best, Gilles

Re: How to tie a flat to g sharp

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 24 January 2005 12.01, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Greetings, I am having a hard time convincing Lilypond to create a tie between enharmonic variants: This is nonstandard practise, and hence not easy to do cleanly (AFAIK). A quickdirty fix could be to create invisible 'a' notes in the

Re: How to tie a flat to g sharp

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 24 January 2005 14.41, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Erik Sandberg writes: On Monday 24 January 2005 12.01, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Greetings, I am having a hard time convincing Lilypond to create a tie between enharmonic variants: This is nonstandard practise, and hence

Re: Merge rests into one in two voices

2005-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Erik Sandberg rta: On Saturday 22 January 2005 21.00, Michael Brennan wrote: Hi! I have a question which i couldnt find a answer for in the docs, I hope i send this to the right list. Anyway, here goes. If i have two voices on the same staff, rests will appear in the

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2005-01-24 Thread Riky VDB
Hello everybody, I would like to give more information about my installation problem I've sent on january the 21st. It seems several persons have the same problem but on different platforms. Personally, I've tried to run lilypond 2.2 on a windows95 platform. I have followed the installation

Re: Installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Lukas Giesinger
At 13:17 22.01.2005, Mats Bengtsson wrote: In Lukas' case, it might be necessary to choose reinstall or if that's not available (don't remember) to run setup.exe twice, first uninstalling the lilypond package and then installing it again. I tried choosing all - reinstall which did not help. Still

Re: Installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Lukas Giesinger
At 20:56 24.01.2005, Riky VDB wrote: Basically, Lilypond has a problem finding the feta20.afm file. But I've checked my directories, this file can be found under : C:\cygwin\usr\share\lilypond\2.4.2\fonts Does your installation also stop at /etc/postinstall/postinstall-lilypond.sh (98% of

Re: Installation problem (read first)

2005-01-24 Thread Lukas Giesinger
My mails were lacking quotation prefixes so I'm reposting them. Sorry. At 13:17 22.01.2005, Mats Bengtsson wrote: In Lukas' case, it might be necessary to choose reinstall or if that's not available (don't remember) to run setup.exe twice, first uninstalling the lilypond package and then

Re: blanco output, return value 256

2005-01-24 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Mats Bengtsson kirjoitti: Run again with the additional flag lilypond --verbose simple.ly and send the resulting printouts to the mailing list. /Mats Hi, this is what it gives: /lilypond-2.5.9/input lilypond --verbose simple.ly GNU LilyPond 2.5.9 LILYPOND_DATADIR =/usr/local/share/lilypond

Re: Installation problem (read first)

2005-01-24 Thread Lukas Giesinger
Repost with quotation prefixes inserted. At 20:56 24.01.2005, Riky VDB wrote: Basically, Lilypond has a problem finding the feta20.afm file. But I've checked my directories, this file can be found under : C:\cygwin\usr\share\lilypond\2.4.2\fonts Does your installation also stop at

\remove Time_signature_engraver

2005-01-24 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi folks! I've looked through the manual, and I've tried putting the \remove command in everywhere it looks as if it should go, with no success. I use 2.2.2, and would like to remove the time signature in the piece I've copied below. Can anybody help on where to put that? Or what else to

Re: Rest Collision Bug

2005-01-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 24 January 2005 07:23 am, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 03.16, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: So is your proposed fix, in other words, that shiftOn should apply to colliding rests also? so in your exemple the e4\rest should be shifted a few mm to the right? No.

Re: Rest Collision Bug

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 23 January 2005 03.16, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There is a rule which is quite obscure now about collision of rests and notes when there are three or four voices on a staff. If there is not enough space between the upper and lower voices for a rest for an inside voice, that rest