Rob Vlasaty writes:
I'm using Lilypond 2.5.25 native on Windows XP. Lilypond couldn't
find some of my fonts in the windows\fonts folder. I copied the
true-type font I wanted to the lilypond\user\share\gs\fonts folder
(as it is specified in my fonts.conf file), and it worked right
away.
On 1-Jun-05, at 10:17 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
On 6/1/05 5:23 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where did you get stuck?
Put the lilypond.sh script somewhere in your path. Does this mean in
the
directory where your .ly file is or in the same folder where the
Lilypond.app
I was wondering if it could be done automatically. I've tried
I don't know what's best. For a much larger portion of the music, it
might be a valid warning. Ideas?
i can think of instances where a warning is valid, but the only ones
that come to mind right off the bat are generally
I'm installing 2.5.27 in my home directory. I have already compiled
ghostscript 8.15 in my home directory, but when I try compiling lilypond,
I can't figure out how to find $HOME/bin/gs. I tried
--with-gs=$HOME/bin/gs, and looking through config.make doesn't offer me
any clues.
It is
Sean Reed wrote:
i can think of instances where a warning is valid, but the only ones
that come to mind right off the bat are generally stylistic issues; for
example, when beaming a 16th note to a dotted 8th rest in most common
forms of classical music notation.
what other situations for
Basil Crow wrote:
LilyPond 2.5.26 for Windows uses Verdana as the default font, but I want
to use the serif and sans serifs Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. I've been
getting away by hacking lines 355-356 of C:\Program
Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\2.5.26\font.scm to read:
(add-pango-fonts
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
ok, but it's a problem on w95/98 (probably ME too), so we should
mention/detect it during the installation?
That's a cool idea.
Kevin, could you please test this nsis script*, before and after you
fix the environment? Other windows95 based users are welcome to test
(Graham, or someone else, we should really try to make sure that
all commands and reserved words available in LilyPond are listed
in the Index. \layout is one of those missing. Doing such an exercise
would also help identifying what information is missing from the manual
today.)
Part of an
How would I change the font in the header? And is it possible to use
Palatino (or URW Palladio, as it may be called)? Where would I look to
find this?
Currently I'm doing it by overriding the font in individual text markups,
but this feels slow:
\header {
title = \markup { \override
You may also find some useful hints at the bottom of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/More-stanzas.html#More-stanzas
(even though it's the manual for version 2.5.xx, it's relevant also for
2.4).
/Mats
Ruud van Silfhout wrote:
Roman,
I have rewritten your
D Josiah Boothby wrote:
How would I change the font in the header? And is it possible to use
Palatino (or URW Palladio, as it may be called)? Where would I look to
find this?
Currently I'm doing it by overriding the font in individual text
markups, but this feels slow:
\header {
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:29:37AM +0100, andrew Black wrote:
Mats Bengtsson wrote:
...
\context{
\Lyrics
\override LyricText #'font-size = #2
I am finding certain aspects of Lilypond's syntax a little cryptic.
Specifically
- what is the difference
One hackers solution would be to include
\score{
...
\header{
...
breakbefore = \possiblebreak
}
}
in each score file. In the top level file doing the includes,
you can then define
possiblebreak=##f
at the top of the file and
possiblebreak=##t
before you include a file where
It should be noted that this solution will not work in LilyPond
version 2.5 or later.
/Mats
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Hi,
here is a small how-to for others who try to do the same. I had to
add footnotes for lyrics in my song book, here is how I did it:
In the .ly file:
First set encoding
Fairchild wrote:
Been investigating instructions for specifying crescendos and decrescendos
in version 2.4.3. For several things, either: a) I don't understand, b) the
documentation needs enhancement, and/or c) implementation should be changed.
My test bed is attached.
1) The User Guide,
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forcing pagebreaks in multi-score book
One hackers solution would be to include
\score{
...
\header{
...
breakbefore = \possiblebreak
}
}
in each score file. In the top level file doing the includes,
If I were to do something like this, I would probably put the
full \score{...} in the included file. This was also the structure
I had in mind when writing the previous answer. However now that
I read your question more carefully, I notice that you want to
keep the \score within the main file
Ok here is where I am confused. There is a structure
for files which makes a file valid.
Then there is a grammar which must also be followed
for the lanuguage of lilypond.
I get the feeling after reading the docs that the
structure of lilypond is loose.
What I mean is that it appear (if I am
Hi,
I have a Cygwin install of Lilypond 2.4.6. I am trying to emulate something
I already typed out in Sibelius and have got stuck in the font-name part.
Basically, I would like all my fonts to be Book Antiqua or Palatino.
The manual does mention somethings but I just don't understand where to
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forcing pagebreaks in multi-score book
If I were to do something like this, I would probably put the
full \score{...} in the included file. This was also the structure
I had in mind when writing the previous answer. However now
Aaron Mehl wrote:
Ok here is where I am confused. There is a structure
for files which makes a file valid.
Then there is a grammar which must also be followed
for the lanuguage of lilypond.
I get the feeling after reading the docs that the
structure of lilypond is loose.
What I mean is
Hi! I want to write a kind of play with integrated
music using Lilypond(-book) 2.4.3 and Miktex. What is
the easiest/cleanest way to call one voice \mathbb{Q}
, i.e. the mathmatical symbol for the rational
numbers? I'm not very experienced in working with
lilypond (just struggling to get the score
Then my original proposal with,
possiblebreak = ##t
\score { \include ... }
possiblebreak = ##f
should work just fine. Where in the file do you get the syntax error?
/Mats
Sven Axelsson wrote:
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forcing pagebreaks in
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then my original proposal with,
possiblebreak = ##t
\score { \include ... }
possiblebreak = ##f
should work just fine. Where in the file do you get the syntax error?
At the point of possiblebreak = ##t. Note that this is inside a
Is a mechanism planned to convert older coding to current coding with
the stand-alone versions? I have convert-ly through the Fink install,
but it is not current with the latest stand-alone version.
I should add that the converted (to 2.5.22 in my install) coding
appears to work with the
Hi!
What is the best way to engrave glissandi between chords?
--
Regards,
Jamie
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--- Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me it's the opposite. I find it much harder to
see
the structure if you only have a long \score{...}
where
I have to scroll several pages from beginning to
end.
Well if I take docbook as an example a book can have
multiple sections no
How do I find out which fonts are available? I recall seeing a post about
Pango needing to be able to use the fonts, but I don't know where to look.
The font selection tools I have (xfontsel/gtkfontsel, using Debian) enable
me to find a lot of fonts, but very few of them seem to be recognized
-Original Message-
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:22 AM
To: Fairchild
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Crescendo-Decrescendo
Fairchild wrote:
Been investigating instructions for specifying crescendos and
decrescendos in version
Hi,
I have a Cywin install of Lilypond 2.4.6. I am trying to emulate something
I already typed out in Sibelius and have got stuck in the font-name part.
Basically, I would like all my fonts to be Book Antiqua or Palatino.
The manual does mention somethings but I just don't understand where
Hi,
I have a Cygwin install of Lilypond 2.4.6. I am trying to emulate something
I already typed out in Sibelius and have got stuck in the font-name part.
Basically, I would like all my fonts to be Book Antiqua or Palatino.
The manual does mention somethings but I just don't understand where to
On 2-Jun-05, at 1:18 AM, D Josiah Boothby wrote:
I'm installing 2.5.27 in my home directory. I have already compiled
ghostscript 8.15 in my home directory, but when I try compiling
lilypond, I can't figure out how to find $HOME/bin/gs. I tried
--with-gs=$HOME/bin/gs, and looking through
Lilypond 2.5.26 Windows.
Something seems to have happened to the autobeamer in version 2.5.
Often (but not always) it seems to put no beams on the last group
in a bar, and sometimes it misses other groups as well.
I have been unable to understand what causes this, but the below
example
Look into c:\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\fonts\vf and vf and try to find some
magic string for the font, like
\override LyricText #'font-name = #pzcmi
Bert
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| I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined
| and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond
| much and mean much easier to the newbie.
I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing about
lilypond: the lack of a (obvious-to-the-user) uniform
| I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined
| and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond
| much and mean much easier to the newbie.
I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing about
lilypond: the lack of a (obvious-to-the-user) uniform
Sven Axelsson wrote:
Lilypond 2.5.26 Windows.
Something seems to have happened to the autobeamer in version 2.5.
Often (but not always) it seems to put no beams on the last group
in a bar, and sometimes it misses other groups as well.
I have been unable to understand what causes this, but the
Hi to all and sorry if it's obvious, but I wasn't able to find an
answer in the docs .
I'd like to make many image files with music fragments (to be inserted
in a diagram realize with a latex package). I need pdfs, as I cannot
use lily-book.
Everything's ok if I can set an arbitrary papersize.
At Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:55:00 +0200,
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It should be noted that this solution will not work in LilyPond
version 2.5 or later.
I won't look at lilypond 2.5 until it becomes 2.6 ;) but I hope that
footnotes (and maybe other TeX constructs) in lyrics will
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