tiny ties

2005-11-02 Thread Edward Neeman
Hi list, I have some ties at the end of a line that appear unreadably small, like little dots. It seems that \overriding the Tie 'control-points doesn't work anymore (bug?) Is there any way to increase the size of these ties? Many thanks, Edward Neeman ___

Re: what is wrong with this \markup /padding?

2005-11-02 Thread Edward Neeman
--- "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I've copied (retyped) it from the manual. > > \once \override TextScript #'padding = 2.0 > \markup{ \italic Moderato } add a hash: #2.0 Cheers, Edward Neeman __

Re: what is wrong with this \markup /padding?

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel Johnson
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I think I've copied (retyped) it from the manual. \once \override TextScript #'padding = 2.0 \markup{ \italic Moderato } All I am attemptin is to get the word Moderato higher above the notes of the staff. the response I get is C:/Documents and Setting

what is wrong with this \markup /padding?

2005-11-02 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
I think I've copied (retyped) it from the manual. \once \override TextScript #'padding = 2.0 \markup{ \italic Moderato } All I am attemptin is to get the word Moderato higher above the notes of the staff. the response I get is C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Desktop/NoteWorthy/nwc files/Guit

lilypond-book fragment padding?

2005-11-02 Thread Edwin Vane
Hi, I'm noticing that objects that are near the edge of the fragment (such as the '3' in a triplet in relation to the bottom of the output) are being clilpped slightly (the bottom of the 3 gets cut off). I've noticed this with text on the right edge of the fragment as well (in this case, the right

Re: Fontconfig error

2005-11-02 Thread Will Oram
Yes, sorry, I meant 2.6.4. Will On Nov 2, 2005, at 3.59 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I can't provide any hints on the font problems directly, but are you sure that you reinstalled version 2.6.3? The printouts say 2.6.4! /Mats Will Oram wrote: I need to use lilypond-book so I reinstalled th

Re: problem or bug?

2005-11-02 Thread Edward Neeman
--- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>In the 5th bar, I'm puzzled as to why the running > >>trill line does not span > >>to the end of the bar when I explicitly attached > the > >>\stopTrillSpan at the > >>last spacer quarter note of the bar? I could > "cheat" > >>by attaching >

Re: extra bar

2005-11-02 Thread Graham Percival
On 2-Nov-05, at 1:36 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Actually, \cadenzaOn is just a shorthand for \set Timing.timing = ##f Arthur's code would probably work as expected if changed score.timing into Score.timing or Timing.Timing (the latter is recommended) or the shorthand \cadenzaOn. This is why I

Re: \book usage

2005-11-02 Thread Graham Percival
On 2-Nov-05, at 4:06 AM, Gilles wrote: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \lilypondfile{1allegro/score.ly} \liypondfile{2largo/score.ly} \end{document} If I understand correctly, this is to make it possible to insert text between the different movements (as is the purpose of \book). Ri

Re: stemless notes

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have been able to get transparent note stems working. > >Now I am trying to create to short vertical lines on each side of the stemless >notes to indicate that there is a string of words sung on that one note in >free time. I tried using the \barOne and \barTwo def

Re: Scribus - alternative to lilybook?

2005-11-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Henrik Frisk wrote: That would actually be pretty neat... Sponsored feature, anyone? This sounds interesting, although I'm not quite sure what you mean. Once I've imported a pdf into Scribus your suggestion would allow me to edit the .ly file and then have the plugin render the new pdf and r

SOLVED: strange beam behavior

2005-11-02 Thread Scott Russell
Hi everyone,The \partial command did, in fact, fix this. Below is the revised Lilypond code and a link to the PNG of the 2 affected lines.http://www.nd.edu/~srussel2/lilypond/correctedBeams.pngMaking the first group of 5 16ths into a "partial bar" and explicitly specifying an invisible bar between

Pango font problem

2005-11-02 Thread Frédéric Bron
Using Lily 2.6.4 with Cygwin I have problems with new font system. If I do not specify anything, the output is Sans-Serif. If I try to specify what is in the doc to have Roman output, i.e. #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman" "Helvetica" "Courier" (/ mySta

Re: Scribus - alternative to lilybook?

2005-11-02 Thread Henrik Frisk
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur Dyck wrote: > > I haven't seen anything on this list about Scribus, a linux-based > > desktop publishing program. I have been playing with it and it has > > some interesting features. Basically, you define your page size > > with borders and t

stemless notes

2005-11-02 Thread 89dakota
I have been able to get transparent note stems working. Now I am trying to create to short vertical lines on each side of the stemless notes to indicate that there is a string of words sung on that one note in free time. I tried using the \barOne and \barTwo definitions in the Gregorian chan

Re: [SPAM] Re: Scribus - alternative to lilybook?

2005-11-02 Thread andrea valle
(I did exactly that job using ConTeXt as typesetting environment for my scores. We discussed of lily in the ConTeXt mailing list for a while. Here two half-finished works:www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-I.pdf www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-II.pdf score fragments by lily, graph

Re: Adjusting bar length

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As long as you only have text markups attached to notes, read in Section "8.1.1 Text scripts" on how to use \fatText. If you want more spacing, you can use something like \override TextScript #'extra-X-extent = #'(-0.5 . 0.5) For \mark, I don't know the answer from the top of my head. /Mats

Re: Scribus - alternative to lilybook?

2005-11-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Arthur Dyck wrote: I haven't seen anything on this list about Scribus, a linux-based desktop publishing program. I have been playing with it and it has some interesting features. Basically, you define your page size with borders and then create text or image boxes for your input. You can imp

Scribus - alternative to lilybook?

2005-11-02 Thread Arthur Dyck
I haven't seen anything on this list about Scribus, a linux-based desktop publishing program. I have been playing with it and it has some interesting features. Basically, you define your page size with borders and then create text or image boxes for your input. You can import lilypond pdf ima

Re: extra bar

2005-11-02 Thread Arthur Dyck
Thank you both for your suggestions. They are very helpful. Arthur On Wednesday 02 November 2005 04:36 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Actually, \cadenzaOn is just a shorthand for > \set Timing.timing = ##f > Arthur's code would probably work as expected if changed > score.timing into Score.timing o

Adjusting bar length

2005-11-02 Thread Edwin Vane
Hi, I have a bar over which I have a couple of text markups (some attached with \mark when I want them attached to barlines). However, I find that longer text items run into each other. I've tried the 'padding' attribute of TextScripts but it only seems to increase padding between the staff and th

Re: \book usage

2005-11-02 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > My solution is to use lilypond-book and \book: > > --- foo.lytex: > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > \lilypondfile{1allegro/score.ly} > \liypondfile{2largo/score.ly} > \end{document} > If I understand correctly, this is to make it possible to insert text between the differe

Re: \book usage

2005-11-02 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > >Now, in the documentation for 2.6.3, I read about the \book block; > >so, I changed the above into > > This isn't necessary. All toplevel \scores are put into a single book > automatically. > Ah, I see, thanks. I think that this, and Mats's clarification would be valuable additions

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-11-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: > Thanks for your efforts! However, is it really that hard to make a simple > test case yourself? Yes, it is. To me, the whole Windows platform is some sort of ugly black voodoo, as you can see from the snippets I sent, it works for me. Just as the previous release worked

Re: \book usage

2005-11-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Gilles wrote: Hello. To generate a piece with multiple movements, I'm used to the following document layout, which compiles fine: Now, in the documentation for 2.6.3, I read about the \book block; so, I changed the above into This isn't necessary. All toplevel \scores are put into a sing

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks for your efforts! However, is it really that hard to make a simple test case yourself? There are still a number of problems to solve: When you run from the Windows (XP) command window: 1. Python is still not setup correctly. For example, you get: >>midi2ly Traceback (most recent call last

Re: \book usage

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only reason to use \book{...} in an ordinary .ly file is if you want several output PDF files from one single .ly file (you get one PDF for each \book{...} section if you have several of them). If you have a single \book{...} in a .ly file, you can simply remove it and get the same result (exc

Re: extra bar

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Actually, \cadenzaOn is just a shorthand for \set Timing.timing = ##f Arthur's code would probably work as expected if changed score.timing into Score.timing or Timing.Timing (the latter is recommended) or the shorthand \cadenzaOn. Note that LilyPond is sensitive about uppercase/lowercase! /Mat

Re: strange beam behavior

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
But, the \partial command is supposed to fix that, isn't it? There shouldn't be any need for manual beams. /Mats Edward Neeman wrote: Hi Scott, Even though it is a cadenza, the beams still work in 4/4. If you count it out, you will realise that the beams are split in the natural place for

Re: Fontconfig error

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I can't provide any hints on the font problems directly, but are you sure that you reinstalled version 2.6.3? The printouts say 2.6.4! /Mats Will Oram wrote: I need to use lilypond-book so I reinstalled the 2.6.3 Terminal version on 10.4.2 from fink, in addition to regular use of the .app.

Re: technique for mixing / matching tunes

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jason Addison wrote: What is the recommended technique for defining tunes in separate files so that they can be used to generate pdf with only that tune, or pdf wth several consecutive tunes? For example (what I'm try and failing with--I thing because I use variables outside of score but insid

Re: problem or bug?

2005-11-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the 5th bar, I'm puzzled as to why the running trill line does not span to the end of the bar when I explicitly attached the \stopTrillSpan at the last spacer quarter note of the bar? I could "cheat" by attaching \stopTrillSpan to a hidden grace note at the end of the bar but I wouldn't l

Re: extra bar

2005-11-02 Thread Edward Neeman
If you don't want barlines (except where you specify them explicitly) add /cadenzaOn to any of the parts. Otherwise it will add bars in 4/4 (default) time. Cheers, Edward Neeman --- Arthur Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me why I have an extra bar before > the double bar? I do