Re: Lilypondtest failed

2005-02-14 Thread Oddmund Åvik
Graham Percival skreiv: On 13-Feb-05, at 9:08 AM, Oddmund Åvik wrote: I have installed version 2.2.5 in Mac OSX with Fink (I would like to install 2.5 but haven't yet found out how...) and tested it as proposed in Getting started: Unfortunately the getting started web page has been

Re: Copyright symbol

2005-02-14 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi everyone! copyright = \markup { Copyright \\copyright \ 1999 } This definitly works. But what I observed is, that lilypond seems to be unable to estimate the length of the string as soon as you use the copyright symbol. This results in a misaligned string. Unfortunately the same happens when

Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can set the property extraVerticalExtent to increase the space above or below a verse. For example, to increase the spacing below a line of lyrics, you can do \new Lyrics \with {extraVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 0)} \lyricsto mymelody \mylyrics /Mats Nicholas Haggin wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: Difference in in output between LP and lilypond-book

2005-02-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 13 February 2005 07:40 pm, Paul Scott wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: That's what Pedro Kroger's 'lilypond-snapshot' does. Both lilypond (2.2.6) and lilypond-snapshot (2.4.2) work fine on my debian/testing machine, but unfortunately there is a font problem with

Re: Multi-verse lyrics (more)

2005-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hard to say without seeing what you have tried. If you don't want to send out the file publicly, you could send me a copy by private email and I'll take a look. However, first you should try yourself to simplify your example and see if you can figure out yourself what causes the problem. Often it

does 2nd ending closing }} somehow effect a previous \transpose

2005-02-14 Thread Chip
In the piece pasted below, Benedicite by Dan Goggin from the musical Nunsense, there appears to be a problem with the \transpose and the second ending. The \transpose is on line 70, the 2nd ending on line 93. When I close the second ending all the notes after that measure are no longer transposed.

Re: does 2nd ending closing }} somehow effect a previous \transpose

2005-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is completely natural. Check out the exact syntax of the \tranpose command in the manual. Then you will realize that if you have, for example \transpose f g c1 c1 then, the transposition only applies to the first C1 (since that's the music expression that comes directly after the from and

Re: Lilypondtest failed

2005-02-14 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 2/14/05 3:35 AM, Oddmund Åvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival skreiv: On 13-Feb-05, at 9:08 AM, Oddmund Åvik wrote: I have installed version 2.2.5 in Mac OSX with Fink (I would like to install 2.5 but haven't yet found out how...) and tested it as proposed in Getting started:

Re: OpenBSD port - half success

2005-02-14 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0700, Matt Jibson wrote: I have started a port for lilypond onto OpenBSD. Currently everything builds and installs. The output is only half working, though. As an example: [...] In addition to lilypond, I also had to create ports to autotrace,

Re: Lilypondtest failed

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Feb-05, at 1:35 AM, Oddmund Åvik wrote: Yes, I wish to use the later version, so I uninstalled version 2.2.5 and tried to install the unstable version, but I got the message: /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/cc1plus is not executable! That's odd, but before you panic, try updating fink so

Re: OpenBSD port - half success

2005-02-14 Thread Matt Jibson
Matthias Kilian wrote: Could you publish your ports somewhere on a web or ftp server or send them to me? I'm short of time, but a Lilypond port is on my long-term TODO list, too. I don't promise anything, but when I get some spare time, I'd love to assist your porting work.

Stuck building LilyPond

2005-02-14 Thread Guido
Hi, Because I could not get the ready compiled binaries to work I decided to compile them myself from CVS. I got all the desired packages such as tetex, glib2 etc. and I managed to create the configure script. It is compiling all the sources but I get stuck at linking time with the following

lilypond-book

2005-02-14 Thread J L
Hi, I think that lilypond-book could be improved so that basic commands such as \clef can be used, or is there some way to do this without loading seperate files? Also, how should I use bits of the feta font mixed with the text? I ran into this problem, tried doing it with markup only to find

Re: Stuck building LilyPond

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Feb-05, at 2:17 PM, Guido wrote: Because I could not get the ready compiled binaries to work I decided to compile them myself from CVS. I got all the desired packages such as tetex, I assume you're working from the unstable CVS? I highly recommend that you attempt to get compiled

Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-14 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mats Bengtsson wrote: | You can set the property extraVerticalExtent to increase the space | above or below a verse. For example, to increase the spacing below | a line of lyrics, you can do | \new Lyrics \with {extraVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 0)}

Re: Png ouput quality was RE: .tex in texniccentre

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Feb-05, at 12:22 PM, Anton Woldhek wrote: The quality of the output generated with lilypond --png is a lot lower then that of a pdf. Is there anything I can do about this? Also, I wanna create short examples much like those in the documentation of lilypond, any hints? I don't know about

Re: Png ouput quality was RE: .tex in texniccentre

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
Please keep lilypond traffic on the mailist, so that other people can benefit from the answers On 14-Feb-05, at 9:54 PM, Anton Woldhek wrote: If you want to have short (or long!) examples within a text document, then please read the section about lilypond-book; that's exactly what it's for. Yes