lyric placement

2005-07-11 Thread Arthur Dyck
I'm just starting to play with lp by working on a hymn. The format is upper and lower piano staves with the verses in the middle. I was using chords for the upper and lower until I came to a place where I had two 8th notes in the soprano over a 1/4 in the alto. I don't know if it's the best

Figured Bass Improvements Potential Sponsorship of Improving this Feature.

2005-07-11 Thread Trent J
Dear All, Currently I am thinking about sponsoring the improvement of the figured bass system within LilyPond. The Main features that I am proposing are: 1: The alignment of the figures are calcuated from the top of the figured group and spaced appropriately from the bottom of the note they appear

Re: Stems up and down

2005-07-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Jul-05, at 5:26 AM, Georges Roux wrote: Graham Percival a écrit : Use \\ instead of // . sorry but << { \stemUp ... } \\ { \stemDown ... } >> isn't good because it's not 2 voices but one voice You are mistaken. Please read the manual section on Polyphony. - Graham ___

Jean-marc LEGRAND/CRS/FR/RM/Corp est absent(e).

2005-07-11 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Je serai absent(e) du 30/06/2005 au 24/07/2005. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

lilypond-book problem remains in 2.6.1

2005-07-11 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The output issues I posted about earlier (to lilypond-user only) remain under 2.6.1, although the other bugs I ran into are now fixed. http://nhaggin.freeshell.org/lilybook-trouble/ Again, note the vertical placement of staves in hymnal.pdf.

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Rob Vlasaty
Paul, you asked how I was invoking lilypond. In the Cygwin window, I navigate to the folder where my files are stored then I type in: lilypond    test.ly Doing this always worked fine in version 2.4, but 2.6 can't find the file.  Using Georg's method of typing in the whole path found the file.  In

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Nicholas Haggin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a known bug that is fixed in the CVS; the Python script which is lilypond-book is missing "import tempfile" near the beginning. If you are feeling courageous :) you can make the change yourself; just ad

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a known bug that is fixed in the CVS; the Python script which is lilypond-book is missing "import tempfile" near the beginning. If you are feeling courageous :) you can make the change yourself; just add the line import tempfil

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Wolfgang Mechsner wrote: After installing 2.6.0 with "lilypond-2.6.0.x86.package" (Thank you so much for this nice installation script!) on Debian System (the previous version version 2.4 worked fine) I have a problem with lilypond-book. I get this message: # lilypond-book -o out te

problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
After installing 2.6.0 with "lilypond-2.6.0.x86.package" (Thank you so much for this nice installation script!) on Debian System (the previous version version 2.4 worked fine) I have a problem with lilypond-book. I get this message: # lilypond-book -o out test.tex lilypond-book-bin-2.6

Re: force accidentals

2005-07-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
"Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicoas, > > Mehmet meant to say "Can the function be modified to not put an > accidental or natural on notes repeated in the same measure." > > Put it another way and the question is: "Can we make the accidental > engraver treat the natural exactly the way i

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Rob Vlasaty wrote: I installed 2.6.0 for Cygwin on my Windows XP this morning.  Lilypond says that it can not find my files when I try to run it. My other response did not address your first question. Others will probably pick this up faster and better since I have not run Lily under cygwin

Re: Lilypond and stability

2005-07-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Sebastiano Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 20:07 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: >> realised - you can write your own repeat unfold! I'm no Scheme expert, >> but I managed to write this quick hack: > > Scheme hacks are not portable across versions, and certainly not fixed >

RE: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Georg Dummer
Specifying the whole path solved this problem: $ lilypond -V /cygdrive/z/temp/2.6/test/test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.6.0 But then 'PFAPFAemmentaler-26.pfa.pfa' is not found (the file 'PFAemmentaler-26.pfa' exists)??? Georg error: can't find file: `/usr/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/type1//PFAPFAemme

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Rob Vlasaty wrote: I installed 2.6.0 for Cygwin on my Windows XP this morning.  Lilypond says that it can not find my files when I try to run it.  I also tried running my files through Lilypond-book and got the following errors: File "/usr/bin/lilypond-book", line 1616, in ? main () File "/us

Re: force accidentals

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen
Nicoas, Mehmet meant to say "Can the function be modified to not put an accidental or natural on notes repeated in the same measure." Put it another way and the question is: "Can we make the accidental engraver treat the natural exactly the way it treats the sharp and flat?" In Atonal music

multiline footer in Postscript backend

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Van den Borre
Hi, I'm working on a Mutopia score. I'm having trouble creating a multiline footer with the Postscript backend. Any suggestions on how to accomplish that in the most elegant way? Mark -- Mark Van den Borre Noormannenstraat 113 3000 Leuven, België +32 486 961726 __

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Rob Vlasaty
I installed 2.6.0 for Cygwin on my Windows XP this morning.  Lilypond says that it can not find my files when I try to run it.  I also tried running my files through Lilypond-book and got the following errors: File "/usr/bin/lilypond-book", line 1616, in ? main () File "/usr/bin/lilypond-book",

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-07-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
"Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) I don't understand some elements, and hope for enlightenment about: >a) def-music-function (location MagArg) (number?) This is the way to define new LilyPond "keywords", eg functions manipulating their argument in order to build some music ex

Re: Stems up and down

2005-07-11 Thread Georges Roux
Graham Percival a écrit : > > On 11-Jul-05, at 4:34 AM, Georges Roux wrote: > >> << { \stemUp ... } // { \stemDown ... } >> I try this but, it s not >> correct because there is only one voice. >> >> How to do it? > > > Use \\ instead of // . > > - Graham > sorry but << { \stemUp ... } \\ { \stem

Re: Stems up and down

2005-07-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Jul-05, at 4:34 AM, Georges Roux wrote: << { \stemUp ... } // { \stemDown ... } >> I try this but, it s not correct because there is only one voice. How to do it? Use \\ instead of // . - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Stems up and down

2005-07-11 Thread Georges Roux
Problems with J.S.Bach and polyphony Have one voice, but played as 2 voices I need the stems up for the "upper voice" and down for the "lower voice", as in 2 voices but in one voice ;-) \time 3/4 cis16 a,16_"forte" a'16 a,16 gis'16 a,16 a'16 a,16 b'16 a,16 gis'16 a,16   %63 Something like:

Lilypond and stability [Was: K460 does not compile under 2.6.0]

2005-07-11 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 20:07 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: > realised - you can write your own repeat unfold! I'm no Scheme expert, > but I managed to write this quick hack: Scheme hacks are not portable across versions, and certainly not fixed by convert-ly (I just removed a snippet from LSR becaus

Re: K460 does not compile under 2.6.0

2005-07-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 09 July 2005 21.48, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > I don't want to seem iterative, but my source for K460 > (http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/music/K460.ly) does not compile still with > 2.6.0. Problems start with the appoggiatura at measure 28. > > I would like just to know if the answer is "won't