Re: help on unreadable text (cygwin)

2005-12-11 Thread Frédéric Bron
I have already sent a font problem with lilypond on cygwin (2.6.4) but nobody could answer: on cygwin, by default, the font is "sans serif" and not roman. If I apply what's in the doc to be roman, then "\italic" does not work anymore. There is also the problem you mention: on cygwin, the versi

Re: coda placement problem

2005-12-11 Thread D Josiah Boothby
have you tried overriding with #'padding instead of #'extra-offset? josiah On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Kenneth Teh wrote: I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol. The closest I've come to what I want is reproduced below. g2 c,2 | \mark \markup { \small \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" } % ma

coda placement problem

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Teh
I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol. The closest I've come to what I want is reproduced below. g2 c,2 | \mark \markup { \small \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" } % mark jump point r8 g'8 af8[ g8] ef4 d4 | c1~ | c1 \once \override Score.RehearsalMark

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: Each syntactic thing you can do for actual music entry---i.e. most of what you type inside \score other than managing contexts---is interpreted as a musical expression, much as 3+4 might be interpreted as a mathematical expression. As each expression is read in, it is classi

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 11 December 2005 07.33, Don Blaheta wrote: > It all started with wanting to just move over a few pieces of text, but > finally I sat down and worked my way through the labyrinth of figuring > out how the system works. The problem is that there are a lot of > high-level concepts, like "gr

help on unreadable text (cygwin)

2005-12-11 Thread Riccardo Cohen
Hi, I just downloaded lilypond for windows, it takes about 15sec to launch, and then displays quick dos window that closes immediatly. But it works !). So I tried the cygwin version, and it is much quicker, and the script lily-wins opens the pdf automatically which is great. Unfortunately, al

Re: Suggestion

2005-12-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Pedro M (Morphix user) wrote: I suggest the user can include the lyrics with the music notation in a similar way to karaoke files (so, the user play the music in a MID and sing the songs too). IIRC, this already works. Are you suggesting this as a feature, sponsored feature, or what? --

Ossia up?

2005-12-11 Thread Fairchild
Title: Ossia up? The ly file below creates a single bar (ossia) below the main staff line.  How to position it above?    - Bruce \version "2.4.6"             \score {         \relative c'' { | e1    <<

Re: Including style files

2005-12-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:14 am, Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a beginner at lilypond and I am getting confused trying to do something > which seems to be a very natural and frequently occuring task to me, but for > which I cannot find proper documentation and/or examples on the web and in t

Re: Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

2005-12-11 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > 2) I've noticed lyrics misalignments before, but they seem worse > > recently; this piece is a good example. Actually, as I look at it I > > think the lyrics syllables are horizontally centred with each other, but > > left-aligned with the note head. That's not how I thought it was > > s

Re: triplets

2005-12-11 Thread Frédéric Bron
Why isn't this the default? Would it be possible to add those rules to auto-beam.scm? Frédéric Mats Bengtsson wrote: A better solution is to tell LilyPond to automatically beam the triplets this way, see "8.6.2 Setting automatic beam behavior" for more details. For Jutta's example, just add #

suspended chords

2005-12-11 Thread David Wynn
Why, when I specify something like 'a:sus' in chordmode, and have lilypond print the chords, it only prints 'A' instead of 'Asus'? Is there a simple way to get lily to actually print the 'sus' on the page? David Wynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Library versions

2005-12-11 Thread Pedro Kröger
Don Blaheta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible that when configuring lilypond you don't require the > super-duper latest version of all the libraries unless there's actually > some feature there that you need? I don't think so. > Which certainly sets an awfully high bar for contributi

Re: Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

2005-12-11 Thread Don Blaheta
So I managed to find workarounds for two of the problems: > 1) Is there any way to make the stanza numbers line up? Virtually every > time I've done stanza numbers, they've looked like this, sometimes worse > (overprinting the start of the line). The answer I've found is "forget stanzas and use