\tieDotted problem under Lily 2.4.2

2005-05-20 Thread Warren Stickney
Hi listers, Using Lily 2.4.2 with cygwin it appears that \tieDotted is broken. \slurDotted is working OK however and I've used this in it's place to get my pdf. Could some kind person have a quick look at \tieDotted under 2.5 to see that it's going to be alright for the upcoming 2.6 release. Wa

Re: Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

2005-05-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 20 May 2005 21.18, Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > To set up a score for the SATB part this might look like the score > below. I once sent something like this to lily, but it didn't make it to > the archive or the documentation. (no pun intended) Perhaps it's something for LSR?

Re: Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

2005-05-20 Thread Bertalan Fodor
This is exactly what the Score Setup Wizard of jEdit's LilyPondTool is for. I don't think that dozens of templates would be better. Bert It seems to me that I need to build up a template to do this (and by building it up myself I will understand it!) My starting point was http://lilypond.org/doc/v

Re: Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

2005-05-20 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
andrew Black wrote: Hi I am fairly new to lilypond. I have RTFM-ed but am rather confused by the number of ways of adding lyrics to a score. My confusion might be caused by not understanding what \new and \context does. My basic requirement is - SATB, each one line - piano part It seems to

Re: newbie troubleshooting

2005-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-May-05, at 6:07 AM, Uzu Maki wrote: adding a score line each time... You're currently using version 2.2.x (or even 2.0.x). Please upgrade to 2.4.x or higher. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.or

newbie troubleshooting

2005-05-20 Thread Uzu Maki
Hi, I use vim under Linux (debian) for editing text files. Why doesn't it work when I do this ? \relative { c' d e f g a b c } like in: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/input/out-www/simple.ly.txt I get this error message: " Exécution de lilypond-bin... « try1 » maintenant en traitement Analyse... /

Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

2005-05-20 Thread andrew Black
Hi I am fairly new to lilypond. I have RTFM-ed but am rather confused by the number of ways of adding lyrics to a score. My confusion might be caused by not understanding what \new and \context does. My basic requirement is - SATB, each one line - piano part It seems to me that I need to b

Re: Why do chords print below staff?

2005-05-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2005 17.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Tricky one! I send a copy to bug-lilypond, both since the difference between \chords and \chordmode is completely undocumented (except for the NEWS file for 2.4) and since I don't realize why the chords end up below the sta

Re: transpose

2005-05-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Probably that your new key includes more sharps or flats than the earlier one, so it takes somewhat more space to typeset. This in turn might make LilyPond break some lines one measure earlier in order to get as close as possible to the desired normal note spacing. /Mats Henrik Åberg wrote: I ha

Re: transpose

2005-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On 19-May-05, at 11:51 AM, Henrik Åberg wrote: I had a piece in one key and transposed it to another with the transpose command. Now the piece is printed on three pages instead of two and I can't see why.   Could you tell me what is going on, please? Without an example, probably not. My guess is

Re: Building 2.5.24 on Cygwin

2005-05-20 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I think that's a bug. I've already reported it to lilypond-devel. I think that's the correct place for building issues. Perhaps you can fix it, if you take this part from a Gnumakefile.in from some previous release. Note that you have to have some other packages not listed in Packaging, namely pkgc