Problems with PDF printing

2005-09-23 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi all! I've recently noticed that when I print one of my PDF files, the chord names come out garbled -- all 'm's or 'n's or 'u's and the like. The on-screen display is fine, as is the PS file. And when I print the PS file, it's perfect. I'm using 2.5.29 (waiting for 2.6.x or 2.7.x to come

Re: Font regression woes

2005-09-23 Thread Jukka Akkanen
On Sep 22, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: On 9/22/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: Rendering /input/regression/font-name.ly under OS X with 2.7.9 generates ... is this 10.3 or 10.4 ? 10.4.2 The problem is with th

RE: Textedit URL in Windows XP

2005-09-23 Thread Stephan Moss
When I click on the link in Acrobate Reader, IE has Invalid Syntax Error as the window title This appeasr in the address bar: textedit:///cygdrive/C/Music/Powerhouse/PowerHouse.ly:422:4:32 And the window has: The page cannot be displayed. (It's interesting that IE comes up, since I have Firef

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-23 Thread Daniel Johnson
Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question > concening the attached piece of music. > The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural > normally placed before the note? And is this an alternative (standard) > notation for acciden

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 23 September 2005 01:31 pm, Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question > concening the attached piece of music. > The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural > normally placed before the note? It is a comment. If

Notation

2005-09-23 Thread Shajik
  Dear Sir/madam,   I am an entry level keyboard player (Not professional). I hope you can help me to answer my question.   Instead of sitting and listening several time to learn and play a music from CD's of own choice, is there any software available in the music industry  to generate nota

Running Lilypond on FC4

2005-09-23 Thread Shawn Ogston
Not sure if this workaround was posted recently as it was somewhat difficult to find. If you are getting this error in 2.6.3 or 2.7.10 on FC4: GNU LilyPond 2.7.10 /usr/share/guile/1.6/srfi/srfi-13.scm:159:1: In procedure dynamic-link in expres sion (load-extension "libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1"

SUSE 9.3 and fontforge

2005-09-23 Thread Suzanne Blatt
Hello, I'm trying to build Lilypond 2.5 as the one that came with SUSE 9.3 doesn't work. My problem is fontforge. The 'old' fontforge that came with SUSE has been uninstalled, I found and downloaded the 'new' fontforge from the web but I cannot seem to get the compilers to find it - so my co

En: Re: midi don't ties...

2005-09-23 Thread Alexandre Reche e Silva
--- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Data: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:36:15 +0200 > De: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: Alexandre Reche e Silva > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Assunto: Re: midi don't ties... > > Please always keep the discussion on the mailing > list, for the > benefit

Re: Changing font in Lilypond...

2005-09-23 Thread lily
> "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> On 20-Sep-05, at 10:11 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: >> How do I get Lily to use a more sensible font for PDF output? >> Because I don't have New Centiury Schoolbok installed on my system, >> lyrics come out in Courier (and look awful

Re: How to pause a staff with some horizontal whitespage?

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Mogensen
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Peter Mogensen wrote: > >> Mats Bengtsson wrote: >> >>> Read the NEWS in the documentation for version 2.6. >> >> Unless I'm mistaken \stopStaff \startStaff doesn't stop output of notes. >> Only the staff-lines. >> >> To use this, it would require to insert skip-notes in

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-23 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Peter Mogensen wrote: Ruud van Silfhout wrote: As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question concening the attached piece of music. The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural normally placed before the note? And is this an alternative (standard) no

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Mogensen
Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question > concening the attached piece of music. > The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural > normally placed before the note? And is this an alternative (standard) > notation for accident

Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-23 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question concening the attached piece of music. The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural normally placed before the note? And is this an alternative (standard) notation for accidentals? And if so, can this be don

cosponsoring ties into alternate endings

2005-09-23 Thread D Josiah Boothby
would fundable.org be a viable option? from the faq, the segment on how much it costs: http://www.fundable.org/help#howmuch apparently, the price is dependent upon paypal. i am on the morning end of an all-nighter, so it is entirely possible that i'm missing something. josiah ___

Re: Tuplet Formatter-Navigating in the Program Reference

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only two available in the program is the default one and fraction-tuplet-formatter. If you want to do your own, it's probably easiest to use the definitions of the already existing functions as the starting point, see /usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3/scm/translation-functions.scm or wherever the file

Tuplet Formatter-Navigating in the Program Reference

2005-09-23 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
To learn about formatting tuplets, I get into: tupletNumberFormatFunction (procedure) Function taking a music as input, producing a string. This function is called to determine the text to print on a tuplet bracket. Then how can I learn what are the options and their syntax, for e

Re: alignment of text in TextSpanner

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Assuming that you mean vertical alignment throughout, I now understand why you complained about alignment on the letter 'd'. Maybe it helps to use a trick similar to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00305.html /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of lilypond

Re: alignment of text in TextSpanner

2005-09-23 Thread libero . mureddu3
> >What version of lilypond are you using? I just tried this in 2.7.8 and >it looks >ok to me... what exactly is the problem with the alignment? > >- Graham > Sorry, I've forgot: lilypond 2.7.10 in macos 10.4.2 BTW, the discussion now is about another problem (that I wanted to send to the list a

Re: ignoring ties for lyrics

2005-09-23 Thread Kevin Nowaczyk
Yes I did try this already, Here's my sample, I want the word "for" in the second verse to land on the eighth note in the beginning of the second measure. I included a png of my output. As you see in my code the \set ignoreMelismata is one word before the word I want to ignore the tie. I tried s

Re: 2 quick questions from a music teacher

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would also like to insert a comment so that there are no bar numbers visible (since any non-critical information is a distraction I'd like to avoid). I think there are examples in either Tips&Tricks or Regression Tests about how to control bar number visibility. (search for barNumberVisibil

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 10.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to use the new support for laissez vibrer > in version 2.7.10, to draw these ties? That's #1 in Han-Wen's sponsorable solution (see thread "Co-sponsoring Was: Ties in second endings") -- Erik ___

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to use the new support for laissez vibrer in version 2.7.10, to draw these ties? that's exactly the feature I am trying to raise money for. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen __

Re: Lilypond manual

2005-09-23 Thread Hans Aberg
On 23 Sep 2005, at 05:43, Graham Percival wrote: On 22-Sep-05, at 4:47 PM, Suzanne Blatt wrote: Can anyone shed some light as to why the manual examples are not working? Many of the manual examples are presented as fragments -- ie It is also safer to pick examples from the HTML version,

Re: Vertical spacing tweaks.

2005-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Do you want the systems to be vertically aligned against the page boundaries with their staves (ie. the 5-line staff symbols) iso. their bounding boxes? Yes, precisely. It would (theoretically) therefore be possible for the bound

Re: Co-sponsoring Was: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Peter Mogensen wrote: You're right. But the I was trying to make is that if something requires desing-considerations for a clean solution, then it can be difficult to find "small useful solutions", which together gets you all the way. I'm not in a position to evaluate whether this is the case, s

Re: alignment of text in TextSpanner

2005-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: Maybe Graham or Mats or Nicolas can explain how to adjust the x-axis alignment of edge text independently? Unfortunately, that's not possible with \override, but why don't you try something like \markup { \center { foo } } -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ht

Re: 2 quick questions from a music teacher

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 18 September 2005 20.26, Matthew Thibeault wrote: > Hello and thanks for such a fantastic program. I am a music teacher > with experience with programs like Sibelius. I am just learning > Lilypond in hopes of using it with the students I teach at the School > of the Arts in San Francisco.

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Mogensen
Erik Sandberg wrote: >>Define "proper". >>The above requires you to add the hack to all staves if you need it in >>one staff. That's too much trouble for my lilypond use. > > > - it's future compatible (I have plans to fix the grace note bug). > - with your solution, the tied note is placed sligh

Re: alignment of text in TextSpanner

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Bača wrote: On 9/21/05, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20-Sep-05, at 11:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \relative c'' { \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("s.p." . "ord.") \override TextSpanner #'bound-padding = #1.0 \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Wouldn't it be possible to use the new support for laissez vibrer in version 2.7.10, to draw these ties? /Mats D Josiah Boothby wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:33 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Ties are not normally continued into second endings, but a standard trick is to add a tie from an

Re: Converting music files in Windows

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00416.html for some instructions. /Mats Ben van Zanten wrote: Hello, I hope this is not a FAQ but in the past I've created such a nice collection of music in V2.4.2, hardly a single one will run in 2.6 or higher. I found I'd

Re: Co-sponsoring Was: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 01.19, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > IIRC think I have set the price at EUR 110 for #1 + #2 (incl VAT and/or > > transfer costs, depending on where you live.) > > Sorry, I'm a bit uncoherent. The point I'm trying to make is that the > "Grand Unifi

Re: top-line tempo text markings

2005-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read the section on "Text Marks" in the manual. /Mats D Josiah Boothby wrote: I recall a thread on this subject a few months ago, but I have not been able to find it in the archives. I'm trying to create a tempo marking -- something like "Andante" -- that only shows in the top line of a s

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 22 September 2005 11.37, Peter Mogensen wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > why not do something like this? > > > > \new DrumStaff { > >\drummode { > > \repeat volta 2 { sn4 sn sn sn} > > \alternative { > >{sn4 sn sn sn } > >{\grace s

Re: Textedit URL in Windows XP

2005-09-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Stephan Moss writes: > When I click on a note or other object in Acrobat Reader, it invokes IE > with the textedit url and gives an error. What is the error? > This is probably simple and probably documented somewhere I missed. This is what the installer does WriteRegStr HKCR "textedit" "U