Re: Lilypond missing note head files

2005-12-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's certainly not a FAQ, I cannot recall having seen this very problem before. However, you can get much more help from the mailing list if you - Tell what operating system you use - Tell how you installed LilyPond (from some precompiled package or by compiling it yourself) - Include the

Re: Including style files

2005-12-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Daniel Johnson wrote: ... This becomes much easier in later versions of the 2.7 tree, when many \set's are replaced by \override's and therefore are eligible to be included in a global \layout block (this includes vertical-extent). It's not more or less difficult to do global settings of

Re: \sl

2005-12-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11.25, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! What's the syntax in 2.7.20 for skip lyrics? Previously, I had %shorthand for Skip Lyric sl = { \skip 2 } in the global section, and \sl where the words demanded it. How should that be? IIRC, you can now

Re: switch to lilypond from finale

2005-12-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 08 December 2005 14.47, Pedro Kröger wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One problem is that Lily will usually process the entire piece, which makes entering large pieces time consuming. but it needn't to be. One can use variables to hold sections of music and

Re: \sl

2005-12-09 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi Erik, Yes, I did finally discover that. I'm slowly getting used to how the newer version works (2.7.20), and like the somewhat-streamlined syntax a whole lot. I'm definitely not a geek, so whenever something has been simplified, it's better for me. Blessings, Fr. Gordon Gilbert

Re: Lilypond missing note head files

2005-12-09 Thread Lambros Lambrou
Hi, If it helps, I had this exact same problem when I tried to compile LilyPond from source. The way I fixed it was to compile and install the latest stable versions of GPL Ghostscript (8.15) and mftrace (1.1.17). Not exactly sure which of these two fixed the problem, probably mftrace, but

Lilypond-book output

2005-12-09 Thread qc17
Hi list, I hope the problem was not discussed in earlier threads. Here I have a minimal lytex-example test.lytex and the corresponding lilypondfile which is actually the score-text.ly from the Regression tests in the dokumentation. ...and processed with: lilypond-book -f latex --psfonts

Re: Including style files

2005-12-09 Thread Jonatan Liljedahl
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:24:42 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Johnson wrote: ... This becomes much easier in later versions of the 2.7 tree, when many \set's are replaced by \override's and therefore are eligible to be included in a global \layout block (this

Extending feta font

2005-12-09 Thread Andrzej Kopec
How to or is is possible (at all, easily at least) to insert (and use inside lily) custom glyphs to feta musical font? I know, that almost anything could be inserted as PS, but this way would be more confortable, because of scaling and portability (operating with bare stencils is much harder

Re: Lilypond missing note head files

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Torri
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:19 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: It's certainly not a FAQ, I cannot recall having seen this very problem before. However, you can get much more help from the mailing list if you - Tell what operating system you use Gentoo Linux (2005.1) - Tell how you installed

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2005-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Darius Blasband [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the positive side, I guess - Nicolas might contradict me here - Had you not written that, I would not have answered :-p that Python would have enabled far more people to hack with the internals., as the procedural-OO paradigm is more popular than

Re: bezier-sandwich stencil

2005-12-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Andrzej Kopec wrote: I had been looking at sources before asking this question, but this hadn't provided any solution. Also Lookup::bezier_sandwich didn't help. I get this (or similar) from lily: ... Layout output to `scm-markup-stencil-01.ps'...

Re: Filtering expressions?

2005-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a way to remove certain types of events from an existing music expression? Maybe the follwing can be of help: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different-editions-from-one-source.html Good advice, indeed. As soon as you

Single line stave

2005-12-09 Thread Jamie Bullock
Dear list, I apologise if this in the docs and/or the list archives - I couldn't find the answer.. Is there a way to reduce the stave down to a single line for a number of bars in a score. I tried using percussion-style like this: \new DrumStaff \set DrumStaff.drumStyletable =

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2005-12-09 Thread darius
I would have never thought that this mailing list, of all places, would host yet another language war ! Quoting Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: that Python would have enabled far more people to hack with the internals., as the procedural-OO paradigm is more popular than functional

Articulation placement in 2.4.6 and 2.7.19

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, the placement of the articulations is different in the attached pdfs made with 2.4.6 (cygwin) and 2.7.19 (windows) and is incorrect in the 2.7.19 file. Is this a bug? Thomas -- \version 2.4.6 % \version 2.7.19 \header { title = Gavotte piece = Allegro moderato }

Articulation placment in 2.4.8 and 2.7.19

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, the placement of the staccato dots is different in the attached pdfs made with 2.4.6 (cygwin) and 2.7.19 (windows) and is incorrect in the 2.7.19 file. Is this a bug? Thomas -- \version 2.4.6 % \version 2.7.19 \header { title = Gavotte piece = Allegro moderato }

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2005-12-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Scheme really preventing users from hacking LilyPond's internals? I sure believe it does. Scheme is ok, but too remote to many people's culture. My perception has always been that the first few hurdles Scheme doesn't really help, but I doubt whether this is the

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 37, Issue 24

2005-12-09 Thread A. Deubelbeiss
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:04:03 -0200 From: Jonatan Liljedahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filtering expressions? To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] See 8.2.8 Different editions from one source in the manual for more info... Thanks everyone. \tag seems

Putting a TabStaff and Staff on same sheet with lyrics

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Torri
Here is a simple file that I thought would be a good start for me getting into using lilypond. The intent is to produce the sheet music for fingerpicking guitar in regular note notation and tablature with the lyrics. I am not seeing the first staff of 'Guitar 1' on the output. Also I am not sure

Re: Putting a TabStaff and Staff on same sheet with lyrics

2005-12-09 Thread Gilles
Hi. Here is a simple file that I thought would be a good start for me getting into using lilypond. The intent is to produce the sheet music for fingerpicking guitar in regular note notation and tablature with the lyrics. I am not seeing the first staff of 'Guitar 1' on the output. Also I am

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2005-12-09 Thread Pedro Kröger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have never thought that this mailing list, of all places, would host yet another language war ! It was not my intention to start a language war. I should have made clear that my point was: 1. I don't see the point of re-writing working code just to replace a

RE: Single line stave

2005-12-09 Thread Fairchild
Jamie - Maybe \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Bullock Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:07 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Single line stave Dear

Re: Putting a TabStaff and Staff on same sheet with lyrics

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Torri
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 01:00 +0100, Gilles wrote: Attached is your file, slightly modified: - Removed the \key setting from the global variable because it causes a warning when used in the tab staff context Right. That makes sense when you think about it. - Moved the global variable