Re: lilypond-book

2005-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Feb-05, at 9:30 PM, J L wrote: 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? I don't understand what you mean. I've used \clef many times in lilypond-book. Also, how should I us

Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
An alternative way to print a line between two verses is to add an extra line of "lyrics" that only contains a space followed by an extender line that lasts for the full piece. For example, in a piece in 4/4 that is 24 bars long, you could use \new Lyrics \lyricmode{ _1*24 __ } /Mats Nicholas Ha

RE: Lilypondtest failed

2005-02-15 Thread arjan.bos
On 13-Feb-05, at 9:08 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! > > It is perhaps something wrong deep in the

Re: lilypond-book

2005-02-15 Thread Laura Conrad
> "GP" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GP> On 14-Feb-05, at 9:30 PM, J L wrote: >> 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? GP> I don'

Re: lilypond-book

2005-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Laura Conrad wrote: "GP" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GP> On 14-Feb-05, at 9:30 PM, J L wrote: >> 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?

beamlets over spacers

2005-02-15 Thread Qian Li
Hello. First, I want to thank you for providing an alternative to pricey broken programs like Finale. I am using version 2.2.5. I am trying to write many groups of four 16th-notes some of which are separated by 16th-rest value spacers. When I force-beam the notes over any spacer, the double bea

Re: Lilypondtest failed

2005-02-15 Thread Oddmund Åvik
Walter Hofmeister skreiv: > On 2/14/05 3:35 AM, "Oddmund Åvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Graham Percival skreiv: [snip] >>> Alternately, use fink unstable and install lilypond from there >>> (version 2.4.2). >>> I recommend this option, since 2.4.2 is easier to use and the docs are >>>

Tabloid paper size - how I got it working

2005-02-15 Thread Marcus Macauley
I was getting ready to write this list asking if anyone had had luck generating tabloid (11x17) PS/PDFs from Lilypond, but in the process, I figured out how to do it. Since I'm not sure exactly what it was I did that made it work, and since I have three versions of Ghostscript (7.07, 8.15, and 8.5

Textcircled again

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, \set Staff.instrument = \markup {"\\textcircled{\\footnotesize 3}"} used to work in lily 2.2, does not work in 2.4.2. c^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\footnotesize 3}"} inside the score block does. Why? Thomas lily 2.4.2 cygwin ___ lilypo

lilypond presentation

2005-02-15 Thread Karl Hammar
I am looking for a presentation about lilypond, are there any available? Regards, /Karl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Converting to test.ps does not work?

2005-02-15 Thread Guido Spaanbroek
Hi,   I’ve just installed LilyPond 2.4.1 from pre-compiled binaries using rpm. When running lilypond I get the following error. After execution no .ps file is created. There is a .dvi file which I can see with a dvi viewer under windows. The bars are shown. (The notes are not but under windows I do

Re: Lyrics with slightly different rhythms

2005-02-15 Thread Don Blaheta
Responding to my own post, because I figured it out, and I hate it when I search mail archives only to find a question sans answer: Quoth Don Blaheta: > I'm having a hard time getting LilyPond to do just what I want here. > ... I have a song whose rhythm varies slightly to accommodate the > lyrics

Using lilypond-book

2005-02-15 Thread Don Blaheta
Today's questions are about using lilypond-book. I'm putting together a pamphlet with various short pieces for a service; in typing in the pieces, my metadata-happy self is putting in all the title, author, and meter info, but I don't really want all that in there when it's assembled into book for

Chord Symbol Problems

2005-02-15 Thread Lyle Raymond
It's been a while since I worked with Lilypond. I'm still getting the capital M instead of a delta (triangle) when engraving maj7 chord symbols. Has this bug been fixed? Also, I'm at a loss trying to figure out how to notate a m7b5. How is this done? -- Gxis Revida, S L Raymond Sup