Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread Balu Stefan
I've searched the archives but I couldn't find any good info source... I have this question: I there any way I can implement a tab stave in lilyopond? I am not sure that's the calling for it but I will explain... When you look/print a partiture from GP4 or PowerTab you usually have two staves, cl

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Are you referring to printed output or screen display of the pdf? Different PDF viewers and ghostscript libraries seem to produce different results on screen, sometimes in some fairly problematic ways. I have seen no problems when I've printed to paper, however. Josiah On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, d

Re: Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
See the manual: 7.5 Guitar 7.5.2 Tabulatures basic Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There is a section entitled "Tablatures basic" in the LilyPond manual, did you look there? /Mats Balu Stefan wrote: I've searched the archives but I couldn't find any good info source... I have this question: I there any way I can implement a tab stave in lilyopond? I am not sure that's the

Re: Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2006, 10:22 +0200 schrieb Balu Stefan: > I've searched the archives but I couldn't find any good info source... > I have this question: > I there any way I can implement a tab stave in lilyopond? I am not sure > that's the calling for it but I will explain... > When you lo

Re: Three Questions

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
More generic answer: Gilles wrote: Where can I find the Regression Test Document, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/input/regression/collated-files.html At www.lilypond.org, click on the Documentation link for your particular version of LilyPond. There, you can find the link to the Regres

Re: Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Balu Stefan wrote: > I've searched the archives but I couldn't find any good info source... > I have this question: > I there any way I can implement a tab stave in lilyopond? I am not sure > that's the calling for it but I will explain... > When you look/print a partiture from GP4 or PowerTab you

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 15.39, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > > > > because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. > > > > > > I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. > > > > no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. > > > > It could be possible to write a ma

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-12 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi! If you're using Windoze, you might want to use Wordpad, instead of Notepad as your editor. I've found on my windoze machine that this is the easiest editor to use -- I think it's part of their distro. I tried installing jEdit, but only got as far as installing java, and haven't been able

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that you have some installation problems, even though it's hard to say exactly what the problem is without seeing an example PDF file and the printouts of lilypond --verbose yourfile.ly On the other hand, I really recommend to install LilyPond version 2.6 instead. It has several improvem

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
debian wrote: > Please, > > I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system > and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a font problem, but I do not know how

Re: "moving backwards in time" ?

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15.43, Gilles wrote: > Hello. > > I'm confused by the output of the attached file: lilypond creates > an empty bar. [And generates a "programming error".] > And the clef change indicator is pushed to the next line. > > Without the addition of the second "\transpose" par

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 09.01, debian wrote: > Please, > > I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system > and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a fo

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a font problem, but I do not know how > to proceed. > Try to install the font package from there: http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/ Gilles _

Re: Three Questions

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Nahum Wengrov wrote: I have three questions. 1) Can I hide, from the pdf output, the time signature at the beginning of a score? (I've done the 2nd line of notes as a separate score, because it has an additional Voice & Lyrics staff not existing in the the 1st line.) Alternatively, can I h

Re: Parenthese

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It should work (assuming that you looked at the version of the Regression Tests document corresponding to your version of LilyPond). You haven't told what operating system you have, but in most LilyPond installations, all the example files of the Regression Test document are also available local

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Gilles wrote: Hi. because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. It could be possible to write a markup function that concatenates markup words,

Re: "moving backwards in time" ?

2006-01-12 Thread Gilles
Hello. > > > > I'm confused by the output of the attached file: lilypond creates > > an empty bar. [And generates a "programming error".] > > And the clef change indicator is pushed to the next line. > > > > Without the addition of the second "\transpose" part, the output > > is as expected. > >

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-12 Thread Paul Scott
Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! If you're using Windoze, you might want to use Wordpad, instead of Notepad as your editor. I've found on my windoze machine that this is the easiest editor to use -- I think it's part of their distro. I tried installing jEdit, but only got as far as installing jav

lilypond and suse10

2006-01-12 Thread michel pondeville
HI, lilypond 2.6.3 is not good for suse 10; installed: yes. working  :no:. error echappement... Thank you Michel ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: "moving backwards in time" ?

2006-01-12 Thread Gilles
> > I can't seem to figure out how to slightly change the structure to make > it work :-{ > > I tried with "\addlyrics" but it shows only one line of the "caption" > instead of one for each transposed part... > Several "\addlyrics" produce the same problem as "\lyricsto". > > Any hint? > Is th

Re: "moving backwards in time" ?

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 19.19, Gilles wrote: > Hello. > > > > I'm confused by the output of the attached file: lilypond creates > > > an empty bar. [And generates a "programming error".] > > > And the clef change indicator is pushed to the next line. > > > > > > Without the addition of the sec

Re: lilypond and suse10

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:04, michel pondeville wrote: > lilypond 2.6.3 is not good for suse 10; installed: yes. working > :no:. error echappement... I have the same version on Suse 10 and no problems. Can you give some more details on what exactly is not working, error messages etc.

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Frédéric Bron
Well, there is another case when this extra space is not nice and when UTF-8 cannot make it: \markup{ 1\super "st" clarinet } (space between 1 and st). Fred > In this particular case, it seems like a much better solution to use a > text editor > that handles UTF-8, but that's of course another di

RE: Three Questions

2006-01-12 Thread Nahum Wengrov
>>>Read Section "8.3.2 Hiding staves" and don't forget about the >>>remove-first option. Lyrics work this way by default. >> >>Thanks, I already got an answer here to this question. I used " >>\context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver }" in my \layout >>statement. > >Yes, but I hope you a