Re: Feature requests

Hi Jake, I took a look in the score. I see that vocal music in Lilypond have many approaches for setting up lyrics, and the one used in this score wasn't very successful. To correct all the problems would take an extra effort that I will leave it up to you. I'm still learning the lyrics management

What to use to edit output after the fact?

I've been using Lilypond to do all the homework for my composition class. Of course, I was happy with a lot of the output, so I deleted the source files. (Yeah, yeah, I know, never delete anything...) Now I find that I want to change the file, so I thought I'd just edit the postscript

kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

Hi,After getting annoyed with the fact that lilypond fails if I happen to keep Acrobat Reader open (since it for some curious reason holds an exclusive lock on the file) when running it I wondered if lilypond could kill acrobat reader, before trying to generate the pdf? It seems that it is

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

Hi, Doug: Does Lilypond output standard postscript? Can't answer that, but I have the same frustrations as you, so I'd love to know that answer as well... =) Is there a better program to edit the output files with? Not that I know of. However, if you run the Lilypond-generated ps

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

I'm having a worse problem: Often, unpredictably, LilyPond will fail to open the PDF to write (without Acrobat running), and there seems to be some kind of filesystem inconsistency (WinXP). Can't delete the file, can't open it, but it appears in the directory. When I reboot the computer, the

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

Outright killing the EXE would be problematic for those of us who keep Adobe opened with the user manual and other documents while coding lilypond. It should instead issue a Close request to Adobe telling it to close the file name if it's currently opened. Yes I believe Adobe Reader exposes a

Getting cost estimate for sponsored enhancement

I am in the process of writing up a requirements document for a feature enhancement that I may want to sponsor (if I can afford it). To whom can I send this document to get an estimate of it's cost and feasibility? Can I send it in Microsoft Word format or would you prefer a PDF? -- View this

Re: Getting cost estimate for sponsored enhancement

See the links from www.lilypond.org - Sponsoring! (In other words, contact Han-Wen directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know, he is away from his email for a couple of weeks now.) /Mats Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: I am in the process of writing up a requirements document for a

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

It's a well-known fact that Illustrator is unable to handle all features of the Postscript language, even though Adobe wrote the specs themselves. It's also a well-known fact that LilyPond uses some Postscript features that for example all but the latest versions of Ghostscript fail to handle

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

On 4/17/06, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a well-known fact that Illustrator is unable to handle all features of the Postscript language, even though Adobe wrote the specs themselves. It's also a well-known fact that LilyPond uses some Postscript features that for example all

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

I frequently use Illustrator as a post-Lilypond editor for musical graphics for theory handouts or papers, and I just use the PDF files which Lilypond outputs. The only issue I've run into (on Lilypond 2.6.x and Illustrator CS 2, Mac OS 10.3.8), aside from the fact that you can only edit

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 at 16:14:48 -0400 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4/17/06, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I'm not sure how well it actually adheres to the Postscript standard. I think the biggest compliance issues have to do with 1.

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

FWIW, I experimented a bit with the wrapper theory myself, attached is a python script that closes a specified file using DDE (requires pywin32 extensions)regards,Simon On 4/17/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outright killing the EXE would be problematic for those of us who

Extraneous Text Notation Placement (Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc.)

I'm working on a very large collection of lead sheets and I'd like to label the Verses and Choruses accordingly. The optimal placement of this notation would be above and to the left (or even just to the left) of my Chord line notation. I tried using markup, but it only shows up BELOW the chord

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

Actually, I've found that if you just close the document inside Acrobat Reader, the program runs fine. The data simply isn't changed if you leave it open. So, just close the document, and leave Reader running. I have had no problems doing this. ~Ben ___

hairpin length for one note

2.9.2 (on Debian sid) 6.5.3 Dynamics A hairpin starts at the left edge of the beginning note and ends on the right edge of the ending note. but f2\\! gives: gotitbadnotes.ly:252:6: warning: can't find start of (de)crescendo f2\ \! r2 [8][16][24][32][40] Shouldn't this just

Re: Getting cost estimate for sponsored enhancement

Can I send it in Microsoft Word format Given that these are free software programmers who use Linux and buy into the GNU philosophy, I don't think they would take too kindly to receiving a proprietary file format they almost certainly despise... ___

one line - two voices + 2 sets of lyrics

Hi, I am setting up a piece of music that has a soprano and alto line. I have figured out how to add lyrics to the alto line but realise that my soprano lyrics will be tricky. The soprano line is primarily one voice but at two locations, I need to split into two parts. I have accomplished this

Re: one line - two voices + 2 sets of lyrics

I am setting up a piece of music that has a soprano and alto line. I have figured out how to add lyrics to the alto line but realise that my soprano lyrics will be tricky. See if this helps any: http://www.geoffhorton.com/hymns/7FoldAmen.ly Geoff

Re: Drum Kit Writing

Thanks for this Cameron- this helps a great deal I just about understand what you've done, so shall have a go at applying the same way to my piece. The multirests at the start of my part still confuse me as to how I could get that to work without doubling it all up in both voices,

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

On 4/17/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I've found that if you just close the document inside Acrobat Reader, the program runs fine. The data simply isn't changed if you leave it open. So, just close the document, and leave Reader running. I have had no problems doing this. The

Re: Lily is writing the PDF to the /bin ignoring the --output option tag

I'm sorry, my mistake. This appears to be working when I only specify a directory in --output= and not a directory with file name like I was trying to do. lp changes the working folder to the --output folder just fine and all my batch outputs are going there as expected. Jan Nieuwenhuizen

Re: kill off acrobat reader before generating .pdf?

Thats what I do, I would not want to kill the process because I have already set the page setup for the right paper size, just auto-closing it would be handy though. Ben-51 wrote: Actually, I've found that if you just close the document *inside* Acrobat Reader, the program runs fine. The