Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
bears388 wrote: Dear Paul, Thanks for your reply. I was trying my hand at something I thought would be simple - scales! My version is lilypond 6.2.5.1. and my .ly files are enclosed. Please keep threads on the list so others can benefit. This has a convention of using Reply All even thoug

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Ramana Kumar
a number of things you should do: spell "title" correctly in your \header put a \version "2.6.5" tag at the top of the file use lowercase letters for specifying the key, e.g. \key g \major (i'm not sure whether this is necessary or not, but it works for me) put the \key tag inside the braces wi

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I may be just missing some package. The best I could do on this machine was to install 2.6.3 to get some of the packages correct. There were no error message in the install. TIA for any ideas, do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set perchance? No. P

Re: question regarding midi2ly

2006-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Feb-06, at 5:28 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Graham Percival wrote: You do not type the command line into the ly file, you type it on the command line. Have you used terminal? If not, try reading this: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html Just on this Gr

Re: \override NoteHead

2006-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Feb-06, at 10:18 AM, Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: Parsing...: In expression ’style: : Unbound variable: ’style in the processing window. What am I doing wrong? The pdf document prints the wrong kind of '. It replaces the normal keyboard ' with a fancy curly one. Lilypond can't handle

Re: Lilypond error for 3 eighth notes

2006-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Feb-06, at 10:59 AM, Ben Fisher wrote: Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I was expecting c'4. c'8 d'[ e']. I tend to agree Nahum, that this is not expected. I'm not an expert on these matters but generally expect to see 8th notes only grouped together when there is an even number.

Re: question regarding midi2ly

2006-02-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: > > On 11-Feb-06, at 10:57 AM, Alan wrote: > >> There is probably an answer somewhere in the documentation; at the >> moment, >> I cannot find it. I do not know how to use midi2ly. The command line >> specified >> in the documentation does not work when I type it into the

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott wrote: I may be just missing some package. The best I could do on this machine was to install 2.6.3 to get some of the packages correct. There were no error message in the install. TIA for any ideas, do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set perchance? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
Michael Phillips wrote: I don't seem to be able to get the Key Signatures to show on the bar line after I enter the command - just the Clef, time signature (a default, I belive),and the notes and accidentals as I've netered them. This even from following the tutorial instructions. Please te

RE: How to get no lyrics in foreplay

2006-02-11 Thread Nahum wengrov
Try adding more "\skip"s to the lyrics, until it aligns with your music... - Nov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Maryns Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 02:43 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: How to get no lyrics in foreplay

Re: question regarding midi2ly

2006-02-11 Thread Aurèle Duda
What do you really want to do : converting a midi file to a lilypond file or output a midi file when processing a lilypond file ? If you want to convert a midi file to lilypond file, the best way is to open a shell an look at 'man midi2ly' or 'midi2ly --help' to display the usage of the tool. the

Re: ChordsNames in French

2006-02-11 Thread Aurèle Duda
I think it's a syntax error, if I append '>>' at the end of your file (to close what you've opened at l.17), I can compile your file on my 2.7.27. Please join a copy of the error output when you ask a question, it is useful to answer you. Bonne soirée, Aurèle Jean Bergeron wrote: > Hi, > > I try

Re: Don't understand exactly where to put Completion lines

2006-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you didn't include the part of your file where you actually use the SopranoA variable, it's impossible to accurately answer your question. /Mats Quoting "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I would like to use the autocompletion in my score however when I looked at

\override NoteHead

2006-02-11 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm new to Lilypond, and am trying to change the notehead style for the first time. I've copied the code from the examples in the documentation. The simplest example would be: \new Staff \relative c { \override NoteHead #’style = #’cross c16 d e f} When I try to process this I get the outpu

Can't change fonts in lyrics

2006-02-11 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello list, Using version 2.6.5 and 2.7.17(?) I could change the fonts for my lyrics by doing this: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Garamond" \override StanzaNumber #'font-name = #"Garamond" } } Now in version 2.7.30 nothing happens, no matter what font I

Re: question regarding midi2ly

2006-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Feb-06, at 10:57 AM, Alan wrote: There is probably an answer somewhere in the documentation; at the moment, I cannot find it. I do not know how to use midi2ly. The command line specified in the documentation does not work when I type it into the ly file and compile. You do not type

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please always tell what version of LilyPond you use and preferably also include an example of what you tried. The following example, for example, works excellently in version 2.6.5. \version "2.6.0" \score{ \relative c'{ c d e f | \key d \major d e fis g } } /Mats Quoting Micha

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Gilles
Hi. > I don't seem to be able to get the Key Signatures to show on the bar line > after > I enter the command - just the Clef, time signature (a default, I belive),and > the notes and accidentals as I've netered them. This even from following the > tutorial instructions. > Please insert a s

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Ramana Kumar
show us your .ly code On 2/11/06, Michael Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't seem to be able to get the Key Signatures to show on the bar line > after > I enter the command - just the Clef, time signature (a default, I belive),and > the notes and accidentals as I've netered them. This

illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
I installed 2.7.33-1 on a machine with a new Debian sid installation. I get: GNU LilyPond 2.7.33 warning: Relocation: is absolute: argv0=/usr/local//lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond warning: Relocation: compile prefix=/usr/share/lilypond/2.7.33, new prefix=/usr/local//lilypond/usr PATH=/usr/local//

Thanks ancient notation ligature is ok in 2.7.33-2

2006-02-11 Thread Martial
Hello, very good work ! Aancient notation ligature is ok in 2.7.33-2 Thanks Regards. -- martial http://cathemline.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to get no lyrics in foreplay

2006-02-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 11 February 2006 01.43, Hendrik Maryns wrote: > Hi, > > I?m not sure about the word foreplay, I mean Dutch voorspel, it is a > short piece of music that comes before the main piece, typical in > folklore dance music. Concretely, I have a song (Erev shell shoshanim), > which has this fo

Re: Lilypond error for 3 eighth notes

2006-02-11 Thread Ben Fisher
Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I was expecting c'4. c'8 d'[ e']. I tend to agree Nahum, that this is not expected. I'm not an expert on these matters but generally expect to see 8th notes only grouped together when there is an even number. I'm not sure what the psychological advantages are to

Re: raggedbottom

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: You didn't tell us what version you are running. I believe there have been times when raggedbottom hasn't been correct. I just tested a 3 line example (with 'raggedbottom = ##t' in the paper block) with 2.7.33 and it worked perfectly. I have also

ChordsNames in French

2006-02-11 Thread Jean Bergeron
Hi, I try to achive to change the names for the Chordsnames from English to French and described in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/input/test/collated-files.html but I only obtain errors. How could I do it ? \header { title = "Chanson pour l\'Auvergnat" subtitle = " " source = " " compose

Re: How to get no lyrics in foreplay

2006-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The small example at the end of the file that you had commented out illustrated exactly the technique to use. Just specify different names of the music voice for the introduction (voorspel) and the verse. Here's a modified version of your code that should work. I also used a Text Mark to typeset

question regarding midi2ly

2006-02-11 Thread Alan
Hello: There is probably an answer somewhere in the documentation; at the moment, I cannot find it. I do not know how to use midi2ly. The command line specified in the documentation does not work when I type it into the ly file and compile. I am new to this code-based stuff: Could you please pr

Re: raggedbottom

2006-02-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott wrote: Art Hixson wrote: I have a \book in which one of the scores is only three staves long. These got spread across the page, of course, and I wanted to have a more normal spacing. Rummaging around in the archives brought up the raggedbottom and raggedlastbottom concepts. I tr

Don't understand exactly where to put Completion lines

2006-02-11 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
I would like to use the autocompletion in my score however when I looked at the manual I got confused as to where exactly to put this [copied from manual]; \new Voice \with { \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" } { c2. c8 d4 e f g a b c8 c2 b4 a g16 f4 e d c

white text on black background

2006-02-11 Thread Marius Amado Alves
Is there a way to typeset white text on a black background? This is to make scores for a children's instrument that has chord keys white for Major, black for minor. \box serves fine for the former. Thanks a lot. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Phillips
I don't seem to be able to get the Key Signatures to show on the bar line after I enter the command - just the Clef, time signature (a default, I belive),and the notes and accidentals as I've netered them. This even from following the tutorial instructions. Michael Phillips ___