Re: LilyPond and FreeBSD

2005-06-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Jun-05, at 12:45 PM, Basil Crow wrote: Assuming that I have user (not root) access to a FreeBSD system with compilers, etc., could I get LilyPond running? I could contact the box's maintainer and ask for the dependencies to be installed in order for me to be able to compile LilyPond int

Re: changing default font

2005-06-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Jun-05, at 9:02 AM, Sterling Sympatico wrote: My default font for titles and any markup is some sort of typewriter with very poor kerning. How does one change this to something like a bookman or some other font installed on my computer. I am running a linux system. All the example files

RE: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-17 Thread Fairchild
Bert - Re A) That's not nice. I try hard to keep c:\ clean and bury stuff in c:\Program Files, necessary when maintaining multiple versions. Re B) I use v 2.4.3. It does produce pdf when invoked from Cygwin. Re C) How does lilypond gather it's arguments. Under Cygwin, I use "-f ps ". Solv

Re: Painfully making my way...

2005-06-17 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Check to make sure that the manual you are using is for the same version as the lilypond that you are using. I didn't pay attention to this and had the same problem. Jay Sebastiano Vigna wrote: ...into LSR being working again. For some reason, lilypond refuses to compile any snippet from the

Re: Staff size and font names

2005-06-17 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
In my limited experimentation they are relational to each other. I.E. the larger the staff size the large in relation to that size are the fonts used. Jay Basil Crow wrote: In the following sample: % change for other default global staff size. myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-p

RE: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-17 Thread Fairchild
Bert - A) Don't find "use cygwin" as a Plugins > Plugin Options. Do find a place to set the Bash path at Plugins > Plugin Options > Plugins > LilyTool, but nothing I guess works. Saving from jEdit and invoking as "lilypond -f ps test" from a Cygwin window is effective. B) Don't find an option

Re: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor
A) Don't find "use cygwin" as a Plugins > Plugin Options. Do find a place to set the Bash path at Plugins > Plugin Options > Plugins > LilyTool, but nothing I guess works. Saving from jEdit and invoking as "lilypond -f ps test" from a Cygwin window is effective. Sorry, that means you use t

Staff size and font names

2005-06-17 Thread Basil Crow
In the following sample: % change for other default global staff size. myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "Minion Pro" "Myriad Pro" "Courier" (/ myStaffSize 20))) what is the relevance of the " myStaffSize = #20" line in relation to selecting font names. I don't qu

LilyPond and FreeBSD

2005-06-17 Thread Basil Crow
Assuming that I have user (not root) access to a FreeBSD system with compilers, etc., could I get LilyPond running? I could contact the box's maintainer and ask for the dependencies to be installed in order for me to be able to compile LilyPond into my home directory. But what are LilyPond's cu

Re: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor
1) When processing, Plugins > LilyTool > Process/view > Run Lilypond produces "warning: can't find file: `/cygdrive/C/Program' " in the console window, then fails. ??? That happens when there is "use cygwin" set in the Plugin Options, but the native lilypond is set as the lilypond executab

RE: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-17 Thread Fairchild
Bert - With your help, I've made considerable progress with jEdit. Installation seems complete, But I've found a way to get stuck again. 1) When processing, Plugins > LilyTool > Process/view > Run Lilypond produces "warning: can't find file: `/cygdrive/C/Program' " in the console window, then

LSR more or less running

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
OK, after one day of efforts it is more or less working. There is an important question: have snippets that we incorporated in LSR been updated? For instance, Transposing_and_naming_instrument_groups.ly does not compile with 2.5.31, but it does after a convert-ly, giving Calculating line breaks..

changing default font

2005-06-17 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi again, My default font for titles and any markup is some sort of typewriter with very poor kerning. How does one change this to something like a bookman or some other font installed on my computer. I am running a linux system. All the example files I see don't specify a font but the output i

Re: output of vocal music score

2005-06-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Yes, either do that or make the frontpage in a separate program and paste the PDF files together. /Mats Sterling Sympatico wrote: Hi, I am trying set a small vocal piece (2 part with a short 3rd part). All is well for notation but am curious of any recommendations for a folded part. Front

Painfully making my way...

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
...into LSR being working again. For some reason, lilypond refuses to compile any snippet from the manual. For instance, lily-1260486893.ly from the manual (the first example about notes) lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.5.31 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing gr

output of vocal music score

2005-06-17 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi, I am trying set a small vocal piece (2 part with a short 3rd part). All is well for notation but am curious of any recommendations for a folded part. Front page = cover, 2nd page = 1st page of music, 3rd page = 2nd page of music, etc.) I am thinking that doing this in latex with a \begin{li

opening pdf files

2005-06-17 Thread Sacha Standen
Hello   I've still been having problems with the latest version and have now upgraded to 2.5.31-1 to see if it solves any problems, but without success.   Now, although I can save files as .ly, when I try to process this as a PDF file, although it runs bash no new files are created, so I can

Re: Problems with K460

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:55 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If you suspect a bug, please send the email to bug-lilypond instead > (which I have now done). > I forgot about the list. I'll reroute my additional messages. Of course it's a bug: it's a *regression* bug. It compiled perfectly with 2.4.

Re: Problems with K460

2005-06-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you suspect a bug, please send the email to bug-lilypond instead (which I have now done). I'm not sure if you have noticed that the bug is visible also in the output. The following example cut out from your score illustrates that the appoggiaturas in the '\repeat unfold' section appear too far

Problems with K460

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I've downloaded lily 2.5.31 for Fedora Core 4 (I had the crazy idea of upgrading the box running LSR--tell me I'm stupid, please). K460 (downloadable from vigna.dsi.unimi.it/music.php) stopped compliling cleanly--I get programming error: moving backwards in time continuing, cross fingers and afte

RE: LilyPond 2.5.31-4 for MacOS X

2005-06-17 Thread libero . mureddu3
Now it works, it took few minutes the first time, after that everything went fast and smooth. Just one thing: I tried to modify, from the info of my ".ly" file (command+i), the default application to use to open ".ly" files. But it says that is not possible to set Lilypond as default application to

Re: Problem with LaTeX

2005-06-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Memering wrote: > >> Is it possible to get text with font metrics/kerning using >> the 2.5.x versions? If yes, the reasons for still wanting to >> use the TeX backend are indeed strange. > >> If not, they're obvious. I switched back to 2.4 beca

Re: png generation and lilypond 2.5.29-2 on winxp

2005-06-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Roman V. Isaev writes: >> Good. I already changed this in CVS, but replaced '~a' with ~S, so >> that you get double quotes. That should work also for file names with >> spaces. > > Nope, it does not :) How odd. Maybe try use "~a" then, instead of ~S. It could be that it only works for s