Re: \char #

2005-09-14 Thread stk
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... \huge > > is not supposed to work when a font-name is explicitly selected ... > this is an oversight in the manual. Starting from 2.6, it should work. Oh yes, go

Change staff within a chord

2005-09-14 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
Did I missed the solution? How can one change staff within a chord? Best Regards, Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-14 Thread Trent J
Hi Bertalan It does.. I've tried using gsview to view the pdf which works.. but when lilypond is run again to update the score ... lilypond stops with a permission error which indicates that the pdf file is being deleted before the new one is created. Trent From:  Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Using the PDF file is not possible for updating since Lilypond deletes the old PDF before writing the new one which means closing the pdf before running lilypond. I thought that in GhostScript that doesn't matter. Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: \Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As has already been said, there are thousands of different possible (and useful) tweaks you can do. However, the kind of collection you propose does already exist, it's called the LilyPond Snippet Repository. You can find a link to it if you click on Documentation at www.lilypond.org. Actually, for

RE: \Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Axelsson
From: Trent Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all again,   [snip]    For instance currently I want a brace around the 3 staves in my current score... I've used the StaffGroup in the score section which gave me the brace no problems ... but now I'm trying to have

Re: \Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15.09, Trent Johnston wrote: > Hello all again, > > I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years now. Usually I > get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output better. > > I've read the manual dozens of times for each version.. but always

Re: change staff within chord?

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-08/msg00318.html with followups (if I understand your questions correctly). /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, how would i change the staff within a chord (it is important that the necks keep connected across the staves? the

\Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

2005-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Hello all again,   I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years now. Usually I get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output better.   I've read the manual dozens of times for each version.. but always get tripped up with the \overrides  \contexts etc... I'm a m

change staff within chord?

2005-09-14 Thread lfanele
hello list, how would i change the staff within a chord (it is important that the necks keep connected across the staves? the \change Staff command doesn't work within the chord < ... >. here is my sample code: / \version "2.6.3" #(set-global-staff-

Re: make fails on 2.7.10, SuSE 9.3

2005-09-14 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Mats Bengtsson kirjoitti: Please don't annoy the lilypond-user mailing list with bug reports and specific questions related to the latest development version. I apologize. My purpose was to send that to lilypond-devel list. -mea culpa, sorry Tapio ___

Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks Mats, For testing this also.. thought I was going a bit mad... I use Musixtex as well (although working hard to migrate over to lilypond) and I have no trouble with using gsview to look at the postscript files produced. As I've said before there doesn't seem to be any other postcript viewe

Re: make fails on 2.7.10, SuSE 9.3

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please don't annoy the lilypond-user mailing list with bug reports and specific questions related to the latest development version. Send bug reports to bug-lilypond and questions specific to the 2.7.x versions to lilypond-devel. Regarding this specific bug, there are already two of us who have se

make fails on 2.7.10, SuSE 9.3

2005-09-14 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Hi, 2.7.10 gives following error message on SuSE 9.3 (x86); all previous versions 2.7.x did compile all right, though. -Some new dependency? (BTW the error message looks similar with http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-09/msg00045.html ) Any ideas? My best, Tapio --

Re: grace notes dimensions

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
andrea valle wrote: On 14 Sep 2005, at 10:43, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If I interpret your question correctly, you want a normal size note with a slash through the flag. Just do something like c4. \once \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" d8 c2 Thanks a lot, that's perfect. I'm always

Re: grace notes dimensions

2005-09-14 Thread andrea valle
On 14 Sep 2005, at 10:43, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If I interpret your question correctly, you want a normal size note with a slash through the flag. Just do something like c4. \once \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" d8 c2 Thanks a lot, that's perfect. I'm always a bit confused about w

Re: \char #

2005-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Windows filename is SToccata.TTF; if you say \markup { \override #'(font-name . "SToccata") XX } where XX is *not* two X's but rather a single (double-byte) utf-8 character (entered however you do it on your system) where the utf-8 character chosen is one of

Re: grace notes dimensions

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If I interpret your question correctly, you want a normal size note with a slash through the flag. Just do something like c4. \once \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" d8 c2 If you also want the other feature of the grace note, namely that it doesn't influence the rhythm, then you may want

Re: midi2ly troubles

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00416.html for a description of one method to make these programs work in Windows. /Mats Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Start menu to Run type cmd That gives you the command window from there you're on your own. Jay Rob D

Re: lines, with or without arrows anywhere

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The answer depends on where "anywhere" is? One general answer is to use embedded Postscript commands, see the example called embedded-postscript.ly in the Tips and Tricks document. However, in many situations, it might be easier to use some of the other features in LilyPond that draws lines, possi

Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In Linux, you can view the Postscript file if you use a recent version of Ghostscript (note that GSView in Windows and gv and ghostview in Linux just are interface programs that internally use ghostscript to actually show the postscript). So, I tried to upgrade ghostscript (and the corresponding G