Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-02 Thread liang seng
Hi, does this mean that I cannot input these special characters using Windows 98 platform and using Notepad? Are there other alternatives? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: ice-9/boot-9.scm issue in LilyPond 2.7.26

2006-01-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2006-01-03 um 02:07 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: The old ice-9/boot-9.scm problem strikes again, this time with LP 2.7.26-1 on MacOS X something's obviously broken with the PATH searching. For now you can fix temporarily with LILYPOND_RELOCATE_PREFIX=.../LilyPond.a

Re: ice-9/boot-9.scm issue in LilyPond 2.7.26

2006-01-02 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-01-03 um 02:07 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: The old ice-9/boot-9.scm problem strikes again, this time with LP 2.7.26-1 on MacOS X something's obviously broken with the PATH searching. For now you can fix temporarily with LILYPOND_RELOCATE_PREFIX=.../LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/

Re: ice-9/boot-9.scm issue in LilyPond 2.7.26

2006-01-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Hi there! The old ice-9/boot-9.scm problem strikes again, this time with LP 2.7.26-1 on MacOS X something's obviously broken with the PATH searching. For now you can fix temporarily with LILYPOND_RELOCATE_PREFIX=.../LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/ where ... is the d

ice-9/boot-9.scm issue in LilyPond 2.7.26

2006-01-02 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Hi there! The old ice-9/boot-9.scm problem strikes again, this time with LP 2.7.26-1 on MacOS X $ lilypond --verbose gives: GNU LilyPond 2.7.26 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path Nathir:~ hraban$ lilypond --verbose GNU LilyPond

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread andrea valle
I'm sorry, I tried but I'm not able to find a solution by myself starting from PianoStaff. I do not understand how to put arbitrary staves insise a pianostaff. Could you please post an example to be hacked? -a- On 2 Jan 2006, at 17:23, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: andrea valle wrote: Certainl

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: Certainly, but isn't it much easier to make new context with 1-line staves at fixed distances (see PianoStaff definition for inspiration)? Andrea, If you go the multiple-1-line-contexts-together route, will beaming still work correctly? Yes, as long as the distance betwee

Re: Sponsorship question; pdf files; captions

2006-01-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/2/06, Linda Seltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy New Year Friends, > > Sponsorship > I tried to send e-mail to the sponsorship address and received an error > message. Could someone please post information on sponsorship, > particular, the amount in US dollars, with information on payin

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/2/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > andrea valle wrote: > > Mats, > > thanks a lot as usual. > > Your code is precious, but I suspected I could reach good results via > > superimposition of different staves. > > I'd like to have it in one unique staff for ease (so I can have on

Re: Trouble rendering tamil characters (indic)

2006-01-02 Thread Arun Kumar
Thankfully the problem turned out to be in the true-type font that was getting selected. When I forced a different (better?) unicode font, it worked very well. Thanks Arun ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/ma

Re: Sponsorship question; pdf files; captions

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Linda Seltzer wrote: PDF files I haven't received replies on this, but one question I have is: what is the difrerence between Adobe Acrobat and the reader that comes with a Windows PC? Does Acrobat provide the capability to convert a file from .pdf format to a format that is readable as a pictu

Re: \score

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Scott wrote: Can more than header parts than "piece" be changed now? Read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles to find the answer. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: \score

2006-01-02 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: One example when you have to use \score explicitly is when you have several scores in the same .ly file (for example several movements) and want to specify a separate title for each of them. Then you have to put the \header block within the corresponding \score block, so Li

Sponsorship question; pdf files; captions

2006-01-02 Thread Linda Seltzer
Happy New Year Friends, Sponsorship I tried to send e-mail to the sponsorship address and received an error message. Could someone please post information on sponsorship, particular, the amount in US dollars, with information on paying by check by U.S. air mail rather than paypal (last time I tri

Re: TeX backend (font encodings in scheme)

2006-01-02 Thread Tobias Schlemmer
> Tobias Schlemmer wrote: > > work. Unfortunately I do not know, if the tex backend honours the > > produced text metrics. > > It should. As the tex backend just takes the metrics from the result of > running the texstr file, lily doesn't care about what encoding you use. Thank you very much.

Re: Unable to tie chords together in chordmode

2006-01-02 Thread Stephen Torri
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 16:34 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I'm sure you realize that you can get the desired output by specifying > only the first occurance of the chord, with a longer duration, for example > to get a chord spanning 3 full measures in common time, use something like > > \chordmode

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
andrea valle wrote: Mats, thanks a lot as usual. Your code is precious, but I suspected I could reach good results via superimposition of different staves. I'd like to have it in one unique staff for ease (so I can have one voice): this kind of spacing is very common for percussion in 20th cen

Re: Unable to tie chords together in chordmode

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Stephen Torri wrote: What kind of layout did you expect for ties between chords? /Mats I was expecting to see only the first chord name for a tied pair. Instead of printing the second chord name a space would be inserted so that the chord name following it would be properly spaced.

lilypond install on Fedora Core 4

2006-01-02 Thread Arthur Dyck
I am having difficulty installing the lilypond binary on a new installation of FC4 due to the ghostscript 8.15 dependency. This is the case with both 2.6 and 2.7. I have tried installing ghostscript as per the Install page in documentation. My terminal program does not recognize "rpmbuild" as a

Re: Unable to tie chords together in chordmode

2006-01-02 Thread Stephen Torri
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:57 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If you typeset your chords using a ChordNames context, > \new ChordNames \harmonies > then there is no support for ties. On the other hand, if you typeset the > chords using normal notes, > \new Staff \harmonies > then you will of course al

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread andrea valle
Mats, thanks a lot as usual. Your code is precious, but I suspected I could reach good results via superimposition of different staves. I'd like to have it in one unique staff for ease (so I can have one voice): this kind of spacing is very common for percussion in 20th century and I don't want

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-02 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-01-02 um 12:43 schrieb liang seng: Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.x series for Windows 98 and I would like to know how can we input special characters into Lilypond using standard word editors like Notepad? I would like to put the word "piu forte" in a text markup, but with a backslash

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't know about the capabilities of NotePad in Windows 98, but on newer Windows versions, you can easily choose to save the file as UTF-8, which is what LilyPond needs. /Mats liang seng wrote: Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.x series for Windows 98 and I would like to know how can we input spe

Re: rests missing

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems to be some problems with the numeric font. If you make a .ly file containing the following two lines \version "2.6.0" \markup{\number 0123456789 } and process it with LilyPond, you should get an output PDF, where the numbers 0-9 are printed in a nice bold font. My guess is that some of

Inputting special symbols

2006-01-02 Thread liang seng
Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.x series for Windows 98 and I would like to know how can we input special characters into Lilypond using standard word editors like Notepad? I would like to put the word "piu forte" in a text markup, but with a backslash on top of the u in "piu". I tried using Alt+151

Re: Another Stanza problem

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
uunail (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Thus I wanted to have a blank line as a separator between the alto- and tenor- lyrics. The workaround I'm using is to put another stanza written in white (= invisible) at this place. Is there another, perhaps more elegant way to achieve that? Try somet

Re: Unable to tie chords together in chordmode

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you typeset your chords using a ChordNames context, \new ChordNames \harmonies then there is no support for ties. On the other hand, if you typeset the chords using normal notes, \new Staff \harmonies then you will of course also get the ties. So, it really has nothing to do with \chordmode p

Re: \score

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Each \score block corresponds to one score in the output. What probably confuses you is that it nowadays is optional in most situations to explicitly use \score{...}, if you don't add it yourself, LilyPond will figure out anyway. One example when you have to use \score explicitly is when you have

Re: percussion staves

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Now that I see your original question, you could do something like: \score{ << \new RhythmicStaff \with { instrument = "cymb." \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 } { c4 c8 c } \new DrumStaff \with { instrument = "cast." \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1 } { c

Re: A few questions

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: 3. How do I generate "\" signs inside the lines, so I can show when to play the Chord that way? An example: 4 strokes on the guitar: \ \ \ \ In addition to all answers you have already received: Maybe you want to take a look also at Sect. "6.7.7 Measure repeats". /

Re: Percussion staves: news?

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I can see, there is no easy solution. You could redefine the function used to print the StaffSymbol object. The default implementation, Staff_symbol::print is done in C++, but it should be possible to do it in Scheme as well. /Mats andrea valle wrote: Hi list, sorry to bother you

Re: left-Align lyrics under notes

2006-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
\once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1 "Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the" Holy Spi -- rit, You can replace the #-1 by #LEFT if you find that easier to remember. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond