can't build 2.7.16

2005-11-17 Thread Rob van den Berg
I've got a build error in 2.7.16 font-config-scheme.cc: In function `void display_fontset(FcFontSet*)': font-config-scheme.cc:32: error: invalid conversion from `FcChar8*' to `const char*' "./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" runs without problems. or should i post this to the 'bug'

Re: does musicglyph work?

2005-11-17 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Art Hixson kirjoitti: I have tried every construction I can think of for musicglyph. I get the note but not the fermata (or any other symbol). This snippet is copied straight from the documentation. What am I missing? d'4^\markup { \musicglyph #"scripts-ufermata" } I want to use the mark

Re: does musicglyph work?

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What version of LilyPond do you use? I hope that you read the documentation corresponding to exactly that version and not an older version of the manual. In version 2.6 and later, for example, the naming convention for the symbols has changed to scripts.ufermata instead of scripts-ufermata.

Re: Lyrics: many syllables -> one note?

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can also say #LEFT, #CENTER and #RIGHT instead of #-1, #0 and #1, respectively, if you find that easier to remember. /Mats David Rogers wrote: Hi After a preliminary fix for my problem with lyrics chanted to a single note (thank you, Mats and Arthur), and some extremely determined m

Re: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Michael Porcaro writes: > I am using wikitex to process this. You have sucessfully compiled and installed LilyPond, then? > to me, doesn't really indicate an error with python The reason I asked about python, is that when building/installing LilyPond python runs lilypond with generated file nam

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
...plus you need to change the clef to a treble cleff with an "8" beneath the loop - but I haven't found that clef yet. I can't understand why several people ask this question. It's included as an example in the section entitled "Clef", can you propose any way to make it even easier to find?

Re: can't build 2.7.16

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you are trying to build the latest development version, you should definitely not trouble the lilypond-user mailing list, but keep the question on lilypond-devel or bug-lilypond. If you search the archives of these mailing lists, you can also notice that you are not the only one who has rep

Re: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael Porcaro wrote: I am using wikitex to process this. Although, the error I get surely is this, and to me, doesn't really indicate an error with python, but something wrong with pango: Calculating page breaks...lilypond: relocation error: lilypond: undefined symbol: pango_fc_font_get_type

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Hi this should work right? But it generates a correct pdf, but the midi file is emty... Can you figure out the problem? Cheers Jannik == \version "2.6.3" \header { title = "A-mol pentaton skala" } \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4") tagline = "Jannik Jeppesen" indent = 0\cm } pentat

Text markup in lyrics

2005-11-17 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to typeset a piece for our choir (thus it's polyphony with lyrics attached using \lyricsto). I'm using LilyPond 2.6.3. Now, in one stanza I need to put a \breathe sign at a position, where the other stanzas mustn't have a breathe (so

Re: lilypond-book twice

2005-11-17 Thread Tim Sawyer
Thanks, that fixed it. Tim. On Tuesday 15 Nov 2005 23:39, Graham Percival wrote: > On 15-Nov-05, at 12:58 PM, Tim Sawyer wrote: > > My lilypond-book command line is: > > > > lilypond-book -V --psfonts -o output volume2.tex > > Try renaming volume2.tex to volume2.lytex > Since lilypond-book genera

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> > > ...plus you need to change the clef to a treble cleff with an "8" > > beneath the loop - but I haven't found that clef yet. > > I can't understand why several people ask this question. Because they are guitarists? :-) SCNR Thomas (guitarist) _

Re: partcombine and stems

2005-11-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
> Eduardo Vieira wrote: > > Another question: Referring to the shaped notes, how could I invert > > the notehead of the "gis2" in the 16th and 18th measure? Shouldn't the > > program automatically have made them follow the same pattern of the > > next "gis8" in the mentioned measures? > > I seem to

Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello fellows,   Does anybody know why the symbol for a fourth-note rest that looks like an inverted "Z" does not feature in any font of music notation programs? I'm used to seeing that symbol a lot, especially in hymnbooks. I wonder why it is so discarded by music programs. Is it worth inclu

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hello fellows, Does anybody know why the symbol for a fourth-note rest that looks like an inverted "Z" does not feature in any font of music notation programs? I'm used to seeing that symbol a lot, especially in hymnbooks. I wonder why it is so discarded by music progra

Re: partcombine and stems

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Eduardo Vieira wrote: I was using version 2.6.3 and then I downloaded: lilypond-2.6.4-upgrade. The problem remains the same. Also, when to voices have the same note a "fas" (triangle -- the fourth step in a scale) both noteheads are put together and what you see is a rectangle. Has it been fixed

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Vaylor Trucks
Well look at that, there it is right at the top of page 85 in the PDF. My apologies Mats - I'll change my template. \clef "G_8" From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Vaylor Trucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Guitar notation Date: Thu,

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thomas Scharkowski wrote: ...plus you need to change the clef to a treble cleff with an "8" beneath the loop - but I haven't found that clef yet. I can't understand why several people ask this question. Because they are guitarists? :-) SCNR The queston was rather why they fo

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Vaylor Trucks
You know the old joke: How do you make a guitarist play quieter and slower? Give him sheet music. From: "Thomas Scharkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Guitar notation Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:02:59 +0100 > > > ...plus you need to change the clef to a treble

Re: partcombine and stems

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Eduardo Vieira wrote: I was using version 2.6.3 and then I downloaded: lilypond-2.6.4-upgrade. The problem remains the same. can you send a real bugreport? A sample which _only_ shows the problem? Also, when to voices have the same note a "fas" (triangle -- the fourth step in a scale) both

Re: Cross noteheads

2005-11-17 Thread Andrew Neil
Thanks for that. I'm happy that it was such a simple fix! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Guitar notation

2005-11-17 Thread Vaylor Trucks
I cannot speak for others, but for myself I can say the resason is - I didn't check all that thoroughly before asking the question. Mia Culpa The queston was rather why they found it so hard to find the information in the manual. ;-) /Mats _

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

2005-11-17 Thread n0oct
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:07:28 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you search the mailing lists, you will find emails from several people > who have installed LilyPond of FreeBSD. Hopefully you can find some > useful hints there. > >/Mats I did, and none of the suggestions get

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Gilles
Hello. > Hi this should work right? Well... It doesn't, hence I started to reorganize your example so that it would look like the layout I'm used to; and this works: %- \version "2.6.3" pentatonic = \relative c { \time 4/4 \repeat volta 20 { a8\6 c\6 d\5 e\5 g\4 a\4 c\3 d\3 e\2

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:07:28 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you search the mailing lists, you will find emails from several people who have installed LilyPond of FreeBSD. Hopefully you can find some useful hints there. /Mats I did, an

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

2005-11-17 Thread n0oct
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:54:42 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's only needed to process the documentation. You can safely change > the line in configure.in that says > STEPMAKE_PROGS(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, REQUIRED, 4.7) > to read 4.6 instead and then run > ./autogen > to generat

Creating Shortcuts

2005-11-17 Thread Andrew Neil
Is it possible to create a shortcut for a particular command that one intends to use frequently within a single .ly file? I would like to use cross noteheads often and intermixed with ordinary noteheads. The appropriate \override and \revert commands are quite lengthy. It is not so much from t

Re: Help with fonts (Was: Non-latin scripts howto?)

2005-11-17 Thread Gilles
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/input/regression/out-www/lily-1601320616.ly > > On the resulting postscript, the Bulgarian and Portuguese are fine. > But not the Japanese nor the Hebrew. No Japanese fonts are installed, > but Hebrew fonts are! > > Could someone point me to maybe some comma

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread Daniel Johnson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Eduardo Vieira wrote: > >> Hello fellows, >> >> Does anybody know why the symbol for a fourth-note rest that looks >> like an inverted "Z" does not feature in any font of music notation >> programs? I'm used to seeing that symbol a lot, especially in >> hymnbooks. I won

RE: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Porcaro
"You have sucessfully compiled and installed LilyPond, then?" Correct, it installs fine, without force. "The reason I asked about python, is that when building/installing LilyPond python runs lilypond with generated file names. I did not recognize the name" Yes, I should have mentioned that lil

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Daniel Johnson wrote: In my experience, this rest looks like a backward eighth-rest; You mean like the one shown in the third score line in the example called rests.ly in the Tips and Tricks document? It's also described in the section on "Ancient rests". occasionally one sees it with both

Re: Creating Shortcuts

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Of course, just use the technique described in "2.18 Organizing larger pieces"and in "5.8 File structure" in the manual. This is how a large set of the predefined commands such as \stemUp are defined in LilyPond. /Mats Andrew Neil wrote: Is it possible to create a shortcut for a particular c

Re: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Michael Porcaro wrote: Pango 1.2 seems to work the best (I installed it through Yum, and the highest version it installs is 1.2) I can't install pango 1.6 or greater without force, because it complains about me missing glib 2.4. For instance, when I install pango 1.8 with force, I get this er

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:54:42 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's only needed to process the documentation. You can safely change the line in configure.in that says STEPMAKE_PROGS(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, REQUIRED, 4.7) to read 4.6 instead and then run .

Re: Text markup in lyrics

2005-11-17 Thread David Rogers
On Nov 17, 2005, at 03:26, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I'm trying to typeset a piece for our choir (thus it's polyphony with lyrics attached using \lyricsto). I'm using LilyPond 2.6.3. Now, in one stanza I need to put a \breathe sign at a position, where the other stanzas mustn't have a brea

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:58 pm, Daniel Johnson wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > Eduardo Vieira wrote: > > > >> Hello fellows, > >> > >> Does anybody know why the symbol for a fourth-note rest that looks > >> like an inverted "Z" does not feature in any font of music notation > >> pr

Re: does musicglyph work?

2005-11-17 Thread Art Hixson
Thanks, all. Yes, I had the wrong docs. Sorry for the bother. Mats Bengtsson wrote: What version of LilyPond do you use? I hope that you read the documentation corresponding to exactly that version and not an older version of the manual. In version 2.6 and later, for example, the naming co

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread VSD
Can you point me to an image of this symbol? In my experience, this rest looks like a backward eighth-rest; I've seen it in some music theory books printed exactly as a 8th rest mirrored over a vertical axis. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael Porcaro wrote: "You have sucessfully compiled and installed LilyPond, then?" Correct, it installs fine, without force. "The reason I asked about python, is that when building/installing LilyPond python runs lilypond with generated file names. I did not recognize the name" Yes, I shoul

Re: Text markup in lyrics

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What is the problem? Is the problem that the \markup{...} is treated as an extra syllable, whereas you want it inserted at the end of a syllable? Then, why not simply include that syllable in the markup as well? Something like mylyrics = \lyricmode { Here comes a \markup{ word \raise #1.0 \musi

markup text height

2005-11-17 Thread Roman V. Isaev
When I type d'8[( \f ^"Sostenuto" e' f' e' d' e']) | I get somethig horrible: http://www.soprano-recorder.ru/tmp/question4.gif Ugh. I have to enter d'8[( \f ^\markup { " " \raise #1.5 "Sostenuto" } e' f' e' d' e']) | but it's a lot to type the same markup syntax many times. Is there any way t

Re: markup text height

2005-11-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The standard method to move objects further away from the stave is to increase the padding, as described in "Common Tweaks" in the manual. For example \override TextScript #'padding = #3.0 to move all text scripts upwards. You can also define a macro like moveup = \once \override TextScript #'padd

Re: markup text height

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Roman V. Isaev wrote: When I type d'8[( \f ^"Sostenuto" e' f' e' d' e']) | I get somethig horrible: http://www.soprano-recorder.ru/tmp/question4.gif Ugh. I have to enter d'8[( \f ^\markup { " " \raise #1.5 "Sostenuto" } e' f' e' d' e']) | but it's a lot to type the same markup syntax many ti

RE: pango problem with lilypond 2.7

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Porcaro
"Either you have to find a precompiled package with Pango 1.6 (or newer) that is compatible with your system " No rpm above 1.2 works on my system, so I guess that is out of the question. "or you can compile it yourself against your version of glibc." You mean a pango.tar.gz file? Those don't w

Re: markup text height

2005-11-17 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 11/17, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >but it's a lot to type the same markup syntax many times. Is there any way > >to do this automagically (i.e. if the text crosses slur line, then raise > >the text above slur)? Or at least do that rasing somehow less wordy, like > >^^"text" gets raised by #1.0, ^

Re: markup text height

2005-11-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Roman V. Isaev wrote: Yep, thanks, it worked. It looks like I'm doomed to live with development branch -- first was 2.5 because of unicode, now 2.7 because of this :) I found another collision: d'8[( ^"a tempo" \mf _"con passione" cis' a b cis' a]) | http://www.soprano-recorder.ru/t

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Now I have finely found out how to repeat midi, using volta in the layout, in guitar mode... (Thanx to Gilles)... But can´t figure out how to do it in drum mode... Anyone who has experience in this area? I want the figure to be continued 4 times using volta, but played 4 times in midi as we

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

2005-11-17 Thread Karl Hammar
> >> Can you point me to an image of this symbol? > >> > > In my experience, this rest looks like a backward eighth-rest; > > I've seen it in some music theory books printed exactly as a 8th rest > mirrored over a vertical axis. Go to: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/li

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Gilles
Reworked, it works ;-) %- \version "2.6.3" intro = \new DrumStaff { \new DrumVoice { \override Beam #'positions = #'(5 . 5) \drummode { \stemUp \repeat volta 4 { 8 hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh } } } } \score { \intro \layout {} }

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
Hey. Thanx for all your answers, they are great. In the file I´m sending now, there is a intro AND a chorus in drummode... How does it work now. Later on I´ll ad verse, instrumental etc.. How does this work, when I need a pdf and a midi? I have writen my idea but it definitly doesn´t work:

Re: Repeat midi using "repeat volta"

2005-11-17 Thread Gilles
> > In the file I´m sending now, there is a intro AND a chorus in drummode... > How does it work now. Later on I´ll ad verse, instrumental etc.. How does > this work, when I need a pdf and a midi? > I have writen my idea but it definitly doesn´t work:-( It only > generates the chorus in pd

Do brackets always result in barlines?

2005-11-17 Thread Trevor Bača
Question: Is it always the case that staves that bracket together (with flared brackets, square brackets, piano braces, whatever) also always *bar* together? There are two obvious exceptions: 1. The "global" bracket that (about half the time) groups together the entire orchestra obviously doesn'

Re: Undefined control sequence. \embeddedps

2005-11-17 Thread n0oct
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:10:03 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure that configure was regenerated when you ran autogen? > Actually, it's not that hard to edit configure by hand. Just replace > all occurancies of "4.7" with "4.6" (3 places if I'm not mistaken). Quite sure-