Printed score with Lily 2.7.26-2 on Windows

2006-01-04 Thread Frédéric Bron
Lily 2.7.26-2 on Windows works fine now but I have one trouble: The pdf looks fine on the screen but the printed score is strange: all texts have been replaced by "yy" or "w" or "t". The only font that prints good is dynamic. Has somebody the same difficulty? F

Re: linewidth

2006-01-04 Thread gacl (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi, I appreciate the offer but I can't afford it. Maybe there is a work-around? See, I have some sheets with beginner's music that fits really well the 4 measures per line format, but on this one piece, I have one measure all by itself and if I use raggedlast, I get a tiny measure, and if I don't

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread stk
> . . . If you don't mind, can I ask what code or language is this > workaround based on? (Like why does one need to input two pairs of > number combinations to obtain a symbol) This is based on Unicode, but that doesn't really answer your question, as Unicode is nothing but a catalogue of thousan

Re: Embedded Measures

2006-01-04 Thread gacl (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi, Thanks for your help, but I get this error when I try to view this files: # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/My Documents/Lecciones/Programas de Musica' Processing `C:/My Documents/Lecciones/Programas de Musica/lily-1831563529.ly' Parsing...ERROR: Unbound variable: print-s

Re: Embedded Measures

2006-01-04 Thread Hans Forbrich
Are you perhaps looking for something like this? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/input/test/lily-1831563529.ly Or like this? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/input/test/lily-1576890297.ly -- Proud user of Lilypond Music Typesetting Tools http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread stk
>>      -- this is a slow way to insert utf-8 characters, so it would be >> suitable only if you need to insert just a *few* utf-8 characters here >> and there > One way around that is to give each symbol an ascii name like grave or > whatever is meaningful to you. Then you just insert \your-name-

Embedded Measures

2006-01-04 Thread gacl (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi, Once again, thank you for this software. I was wondering if I could do what I call "tumor measures" :smile: . They look like this: |--|---|---|-| |--|---|---|-| |--|---|---|-| |--|---

Re: Strum notation

2006-01-04 Thread Stephen Torri
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 02:04 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > So I am looking for a notation that tells me to strum either up or down > > for a certain period of time. For example strum down once per beat in a > > 4/4 time. > > what does strum notation look like? Well I have found a few. -

Re: Strum notation

2006-01-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Stephen Torri wrote: Is there a feature in lilypond for doing what is called "strum notation"? I am looking for something which will let me write down the strumming pattern for a variety of worship songs to help aid learning the song. Often I find hearing a strumming pattern once is not enough. S

Re: Fonts - 2.7.26 / Windows and Fedora

2006-01-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Steve Martin wrote: Trent Johnston hotmail.com> writes: I've recently installed 2.7.26 in both Windows and Fedora formats. Both versions seem to use the Feta font for lyrics and titles so I end up with music symbols rather than words. Anyone else have similar problems? It seems the the

Re: Unique stanza layout

2006-01-04 Thread Gilles
> Hi, I am using Lilypond 2.7.27 for Windows 98 and I'm trying to compile a > choral work. Here is an simple file of my problem: > > [...] > > Here, the first stanza "melody" covers the entire music. For the second > stanza "other", the lyrics only appear at certain points of the music. In > th

Re: Fonts - 2.7.26 / Windows and Fedora

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Martin
Trent Johnston hotmail.com> writes: > I've recently installed 2.7.26 in both Windows and > Fedora formats. Both versions seem to use the Feta font for lyrics and titles so > I end up with music symbols rather than words. >   > Anyone else have similar problems? It seems the the > problem affe

Re: LilyPond 2.6.4-5 installation "breaks " Windows

2006-01-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bill Welch writes: > I have to say that from a Windows user's point of view, this is a very > serious bug that really should be in a stable version as soon as > possible. I've made lilypond-2.6.5-1.exe available, also as upgrade. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - T

Strum notation

2006-01-04 Thread Stephen Torri
Is there a feature in lilypond for doing what is called "strum notation"? I am looking for something which will let me write down the strumming pattern for a variety of worship songs to help aid learning the song. Often I find hearing a strumming pattern once is not enough. Some musicians can pick

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-04 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4 Jan 2006, at 4:33 pm, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Wouldn't it be better to have \followrests mean that the rest takes its pitch from the next note in the part? Rests are cues and the ideal pitch for a rest if there is more than one part is th

Re: What is the header "texttranslator" for

2006-01-04 Thread David Rogers
On 3-Jan-2006, at 5:26 PM, Bernard Hurley wrote: Hi all, The header field "texttranslator" is mentioned in the Lilypond documentation for version 2.7.27 but doesn't seem to do anything! Some headers are available but not printed by default. On my machine, the default setup is found in ...

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Jan-06, at 7:26 PM, liang seng wrote: Hi, do you mean that on Windows XP, the word editors (like Notepad) are able to save text files in utf-8 code? (Since I don't have WinXP, I don't know if that is possible) I may have to borrow a colleague's computer with Win XP to continue my work.

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:42 am, Maarten Storm wrote: > Nicholas Bailey wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I'm trying to typeset a piece of polyphonic keyboard music by the > > English composer John Bull with version 2.4 and 2.6 (two different > > platforms), and I've noticed the positioning of the

Re: LilyPond 2.6.4-5 installation "breaks " Windows

2006-01-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: > I assume that you mean 2.7.26-2. Yes, thanks Mats. > Could you please make a corrected stable version as well? Good point. We haven't considered that yet. Han-Wen? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all

Unique stanza layout

2006-01-04 Thread liang seng
Hi, I am using Lilypond 2.7.27 for Windows 98 and I'm trying to compile a choral work. Here is an simple file of my problem: \version "2.7.27" << \new Staff \context Voice = "melody" \relative c' { << \context Voice = other { \voiceOne g a b4 } \context Voice = melody { \voiceTwo g4 a b } >>

Unique stanza layout

2006-01-04 Thread liang seng
Hi, I am using Lilypond 2.7.27 for Windows 98 and I'm trying to compile a choral work. Here is an simple file of my problem: \version "2.7.27" << \new Staff \context Voice = "melody" \relative c' { << \context Voice = other { \voiceOne g a b4 } \context Voice = melody { \voiceTwo g4 a b } >>

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread vanDongen/Gilcher
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 08:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Notepad file *itself* you will see, for every desired accented character, > a weird-looking pair of symbols; >      -- this is a slow way to insert utf-8 characters, so it would be > suitable only if you need to insert just a *few* utf-

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread liang seng
Hi, I would like to thank you for providing the workaround. If you don't mind, can I ask what code or language is this workaround based on? (Like why does one need to input two pairs of number combinations to obtain a symbol) This will do well for me. Since I only need the symbol (più) twice for

Re: LilyPond 2.6.4-5 installation "breaks " Windows

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I assume that you mean 2.7.26-2. Could you please make a corrected stable version as well? /Mats Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: Manager\Environment. Normally it is type REG_EXPAND_SZ, but after the Lilypond install, it is simply a REG_SZ. This should be fix

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Nicholas Bailey wrote: ..., so I went off on the tangent of trying to get something like \override VoiceOne.Rest ... to work (which of course I couldn't). Of course you can, but not exactly with that syntax. If you read in "6.6.2 Explicitly instantiating voices", you will learn that the Voic

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Nicholas Bailey wrote: Also, just a very very minor thing, but the braces at the left hand side of the staff have increased in size since 2.4. This looks fine, but they collide with the bar numbers now, so you have to increase their offset to generate really nice output. (I think I know how

Re: It works - Lilypond on a Windows XP PC

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I really recommend to use the proposed extension .ly on the LilyPond files. Then, you can for example double-click on the file to process it. I think the problem you had initially, happened since you didn't convince Notepad to save the file with extension .ly but got .ly.txt. The trick is to cha

Re: LilyPond 2.6.4-5 installation "breaks " Windows

2006-01-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >> Manager\Environment. Normally it is type REG_EXPAND_SZ, but after >> the Lilypond install, it is simply a REG_SZ. This should be fixed in, and by, lilypond-2.6.26-2.exe. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www

Re: Sharing rest mark when sharing it in ChoirStaff

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00203.html /Mats Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: Caio Tiago Oliveira, 04-01-2006 01:31: Well, my subject may be too specific, but my doubt is just it: I'm using the template from the 2.6.6 documentation for a ChoirStaff. I can use i

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
liang seng wrote: Hi, do you mean that on Windows XP, the word editors (like Notepad) are able to save text files in utf-8 code? Exactly! (Since I don't have WinXP, I don't know if that is possible) I may have to borrow a colleague's computer with Win XP to continue my work. As I have a

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-04 Thread stk
> Hi, does this mean that I cannot input these special characters using > Windows 98 platform and using Notepad? Are there other alternatives? I think there are hardly any people on this list who use W98 and Notepad. However, I do, and there is a work-around. I will e-mail you directly a file wit