Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic D.C. \italic al Fine } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Hans Aberg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-14 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-14 um 05:56 schrieb Graham Percival: What's the best way to get two markup strings (once containing a gjpqy, the other without such characters) to align? In the example below, the bag is typeset higher than foo, because the g requires space under the line. The extra space seems

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 2:16 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic D.C. \italic al Fine } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. - Graham

Re: alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 3:34 AM, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2005-08-14 um 05:56 schrieb Graham Percival: What's the best way to get two markup strings (once containing a gjpqy, the other without such characters) to align? In the example below, the bag is typeset higher than foo, because the g

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 12:54, Graham Percival wrote: I want to put a markup \markup { \center-align {\italic D.C. \italic al Fine } } under or over the last barline of the piece. How do I do that? Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. I have already seen it. The lines \once

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 14:32, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Lilypond 2.7.4 thoroughly exceeds expectations regarding computer- generated music engraving output -- quite simply, it leaves every other app in the dust (and, indeed, most commercially-available scores, regardless of their engraving

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hans Aberg writes: If somebody is interest in a comparison, one has had a thread in the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.theory with the same music piece being typeset in seven different programs, including LilyPond. Yes. Unfortunately, an older version of LilyPond was used. Jan. -- Jan

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
JN == Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JN Hans Aberg writes: If somebody is interest in a comparison, one has had a thread in the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.theory with the same music piece being typeset in seven different programs, including LilyPond. JN Yes.

slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread lfanele
hi everybody,i just discovered this great piece of software yesterday and i am really amazed by its functionality and engraving beauty. i quickly decided to use this software for my work instead of sibelius or finale, which are way too clumsy to use for my taste.Right now i'm working on a

RE: Flipping text in a \markup

2005-08-14 Thread Fairchild
Sven - Thinking Polish, try this: %%% \version 2.4.6 \score { { c''1 c''^\markup { \postscript # 2.2 2 moveto /Times findfont 2.0 scalefont setfont 180 rotate (K) show } c''^\markup { \postscript # 2.4 2 moveto /Times findfont 3.0 scalefont setfont 180 rotate (K) show }

Re: Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-14 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, thanks to Graham for his almost instantaneous help. On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:08, Graham Percival wrote: s1 means a whole-note invisible rest -- in other words, sixteen 16th notes. You probably want to use s2 here. Indeed, I should do better in basic math... The duration is specified

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 4:38 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: On 14 Aug 2005, at 12:54, Graham Percival wrote: Please look at the second example in 8.1.3 Text marks. I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the

Re: slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Aug-05, at 9:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - i want to show the half tones between e and f,  b and c: i would like to use a V shaped slur for that (right now it's just a simple slur), is there a command i have overseen to generate such a shape. i tried some markup commands but that

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 23:20, Graham Percival wrote: I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the error: Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' Parsing...unnamed port: In expression

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hey, HW-J-etc: Just wanted you to know that you rock! Lilypond 2.7.4 thoroughly exceeds expectations regarding computer-generated music engraving output -- quite simply, it leaves every other app in the dust (and, indeed, most commercially-available scores,

Re: LilyPond Version in PDF

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dax2 wrote: Working with a couple of different LilyPond versions I sometimes must reassure myself whether some output really was LilyPond 2.6.x or something else. I think it would be nice to be able to see from the PDF which LilyPond version was used to transform the source. Though I

Re: sponsoring better tied chords?

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
VSD wrote: All, it seems that Lilypond still manages the tied chords poorly, and the ties in chords collide very often. e.g. see: http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png imho this problem should be solved to avoid poor looking spots in the otherwise gorgeously engraved lilypond

Re: slurs and brackets

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody, i just discovered this great piece of software yesterday and i am really amazed by its functionality and engraving beauty. i quickly decided to use this software for my work instead of sibelius or finale, which are way too clumsy to use for my taste.

Re: Auto-beaming in asymmetrical time signatures

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hans Aberg wrote: Apparently one just adds a few more override-auto-beam-setting: \time 7/16 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 2 16) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 4 16) Sorry for bothering you with so simple matters. Can one insert automated dotted bar-lines

Re: Lilypond error

2005-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Steve Leyland wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance guys, but I wonder if you can help? I've recently set up a new desktop machine running Fedora Core 4 and loaded Lilypond version 2.6.1. When I try to run the... it looks like a packaging error in GUILE. Which version/where did you get it from?

question à propos de LilyPond

2005-08-14 Thread adam\.guillaume
Bonjour, je viens de découvrir LilyPond et je m'entraine à l'utiliser. Il me semble qu'il serait plus simple à utiliser avec un logiciel de traitement de texte tel que Context par exemple qui permet de visualiser avec des couleurs les différents caractères utilisés, dans différents langages de

Lilypond Fonts

2005-08-14 Thread david wynn
I've recently rebuilt my Linux system from scratch, and am still trying to get everything back to the way it was. I use a mostly Kubuntu system, but am willing to add Debian Testing modules where necessary. My Lilypond version is now 2.4.5 from Debian. The actual music -- notes / staffs /

character encoding problem with windows

2005-08-14 Thread Jay Anderson
I'm trying to update a piece that I typeset with the 2.4.0 cygwin build. I decided to upgrade to the newest native windows version but when I compile none of the special characters show up (Très modéré, più, etc...). I get nothing instead of them. Is this a problem anyone else has experienced? Is

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Han-Wen: Thanks! it's not perfect yet, but we're getting there, Agreed! Han-Wen sponsor me Nienhuys. How 'bout quoting a sponsorship cost for each of the fixes in this first measure: 1. Ties between two notes spaced closely together on inner-staff lines: too tall. 2. Tempo

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Laura: For those who just want to see the pdf's and not read the whole thread, I've posted links to them on my blog http://www.laymusic.org/blosxom-static/publishing. Thanks! That is quite a helpful investigation... Surprisingly, Finale makes quite a good showing in this case --

Re: question à propos de LilyPond

2005-08-14 Thread Kris Shaffer
If my French is correct, he is asking for a text editor which utilizes context-sensitive coloring for Lilypond code, as many text editors (Context is his example) do with common programming languages. Response: I use Jedit with the lilytool plugin. It recognizes Lilypond syntax and even

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-14 Thread stk
Hans Aberg wrote: . . . The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the error: Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' Parsing...unnamed port: In expression ^Òself-alignment-X: unnamed port: Unbound