Tritone anomaly

2006-05-02 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, or been bothered by it, but there's a slightly irritating anomaly when entering the interval of a tritone (augmented fourth.) When in \relative mode and using the interval in a melodic line, LilyPond assumes that the tritone goes down. However, when using it

emacs lilypond-mode, GUB?

2006-05-02 Thread Josiah Boothby
when installing with the GUB, how do I use the emacs mode? Based on the instructions from the compilation guide, I tried creating a folder in my .emacs folder called site-lisp (so ~/.emacs/site-lisp) and copied all of the files from /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ into it, and crea

Re: Hara_kiri_engraver

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen
- Original Message - From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:14 AM Subject: Hara_kiri_engraver How do I specifiy a specific Staff? I found the answer: use \with to bind a layout command to a specific Staff. My score block looks like this: \score {

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 29 April 2006 12:30, Tomas Valusek wrote: > Hello, > > has anyone created a block diagram of LilyPond, which would show data > flow, relationship between various modules, etc? It would be great help > for obtaining global idea what LilyPond's about. I have a created one in my master th

Hara_kiri_engraver

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen
How do I specifiy a specific Staff? \remove "Axis_group_engraver" \consists"Hara_kiri_engraver" I don't want this to apply to the PianoStaff. Stephen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

2006-05-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Lothar wrote: "I'm using version 2.2.6. I'd like to upgrade, but 2.2.6 is the only version that is supported by my distribution (debian sarge). As far as I know, there are no .deb - packages available." Don't those universal installers that Lilypond provides work for your system? "The probl

rest positioning failure

2006-05-02 Thread Martin Bergande
dear all, why does "b4/rest" in the following file.ly position the rest - exactly like "r4" - to f'' (see the attached pdf output), while "a4/rest" and "c4/rest" would work as expected? Is there a special command apart from tweaking to enforce the b' position? martin % start file.ly \versio

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
David Feuer wrote: On 5/2/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, being a musician I was unaware of such a program. I'll go buy the m4 Windows XP version after I look at a demo version. m4 is free for Cygwin. cygwin isn't even necessary. A lot of GNU (free) software

Bar numbers collision

2006-05-02 Thread Enrico Licini
Is this bug going to be correct? A whole month is passed ad this bug is still in the stable release of lilypond :-( ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread darius
I've used it quite a bit as well, but that was a couple of years ago. More recently, Han-Wen has shown be how I could achieve most of what I needed using better integrated constructs. M4 worked fine, quoting kind of killed me though... D. Quoting joe ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have used

Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

2006-05-02 Thread Lothar Schmid
On 5/2/06, Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Lothar,You didn't say the version you're using, but by your example it is too oldto even compile in the latest version (2.8.0). Well, after I removed \notes,it did. My first advice is to upgrade you version. I'm using version 2.2.6. I'd li

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread joe ferguson
I have used M4 as a preprocessor, and it worked quite well. Then I found out the proper construct for what I wanted to do, so I dropped it on that little project. But I wouldn't hesitate to use it again if I got stuck like I was at that time. M4: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/ Werner LEMBE

Re: Kile and Lilypond-Book Howto

2006-05-02 Thread Lothar Schmid
Thanks very much! Lothar Schmid ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread David Feuer
On 5/2/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, being a musician I was unaware of such a program. I'll go buy the m4 Windows XP version after I look at a demo version. m4 is free for Cygwin. David ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Thanks, being a musician I was unaware of such a program. I'll go buy the m4 Windows XP version after I look at a demo version. I need to generate chord fret markup of each chord form in all enharmonic spellings at every neck position, as a \include library of diagrams. This is 200-300 lines of

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Macro pre-processors should generate source code, and stream it in, > period. Then use a proper macro language for it! > Macros have nothing to do with compilation or scheme or c++ or > anything else in lilypond. They should just provide some logical > constructs like IF/THEN/ELSE, LOOPING,

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Here is a recent arrangement I did of Danny Boy using only the fretboard markup commands: http://www.windcrestsoftware.com/Rick/DannyBoy.pdf It uses the "terse" syntax and does the chord names with markup also, it's working out pretty good so I'll prpbably begin doing all may backlogged arrangem

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Probably becasause I'm unaware of them. I spend my spare time arranging music and getting ready for gigs. If there are "canned" macro processors that can do this then I should look into learning one of them. And if thats the case then maybe the developers time would be better off being spent on

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread David Feuer
On 5/2/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Macro pre-processors should generate source code, and stream it in, period. Macros have nothing to do with compilation or scheme or c++ or anything else in lilypond. I much prefer the way Scheme handles macros. It seems somewhat un

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-05-02 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Block diagram of LilyPond I bet what is meant here is a block diagram of contexts and whatever. I'd find that useful as well. From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:16:05 +0200 To: Tomas Valusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bl

Re: Kile and Lilypond-Book Howto

2006-05-02 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
On Tue 02 May 2006 06:23, Josiah Boothby wrote: > On 5/1/06, Lothar Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... For lilypond-book projects, I > > > have set Kile up to make things easy. ... > > > > How did you set up Kile? I tried to configure it to produce output with > > lilypond, but gave up af

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Macro pre-processors should generate source code, and stream it in, period. > > I just want to output strings into the input stream dynamically, that goes > beyond \include files and offers concat, replacement of tokens, and some > rudim

Re: Betweensystemspace

2006-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Philpott
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: It's very hard to guess exactly what you tried without seeing the actual files. Also, you will get much better assistance from the mailing list if you clarify the following: - Have you verified that it's anything particular for lilypond-book or do you see the same in sc

ChoirStaff: system, staff, and measure number spacing

2006-05-02 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, I've been using LilyPond for a while now, and am starting to reach the point where I need to tweak things slightly more than the manual makes clear. Specifically, I have an SATB vocal piece layed out on a ChoirStaff, and I'd like to tweak the following things: 1) Currently LilyPond l

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Macro pre-processors should generate source code, and stream it in, period. Macros have nothing to do with compilation or scheme or c++ or anything else in lilypond. They should just provide some logical constructs like IF/THEN/ELSE, LOOPING, and CASE, and other functions like concatenation/repl

Re: Staff: vertical spacing, reduce chord name distance

2006-05-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Daniel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thomas Scharkowski wrote: IIRC in previous versions I could reduce the distance between a staff and chord symbols by this command: \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 1) In 2.8.1 this is: \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

Re: Betweensystemspace

2006-05-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's very hard to guess exactly what you tried without seeing the actual files. Also, you will get much better assistance from the mailing list if you clarify the following: - Have you verified that it's anything particular for lilypond-book or do you see the same in scores typeset directly wit

Betweensystemspace

2006-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Philpott
Hallo, I'm trying to put together several pieces of music using lilypond-book and Latex. Whenever a piece has several voices, then the default betweensystemspace doesn't get taken over into the output, and the systems are very (too) close together. Setting betweensystemspace or padding explicitly

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Graham Percival schreef: In all honesty, I'm with Geoff on this one. All the #() stuff looks scary, and having the "parser location" "non-arguments" (I mean, they're never referenced in the actual code) was the straw that broke my They are if y

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Be warned that I won't accept patches that attempt to add any ad-hoc programming/macro language features. This has been my position for the last 10 years, and I don't see any reason to change it. One reason is that we already have it, although it

Re: Which frontend?

2006-05-02 Thread Artur Rataj
Hello! Is there any front end that allow for skipping between different staffs? For example, if the cursor is at a certain note in one staff, after pressing some key the cursor would jump to a respective note in another staff? Thanks, Artur ___ lilyp

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-02 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Chord Mode apparently has little utility in actually scoring notes, unless you want to use block chords. You could try to use fret diagrams with markup, or I think you are stuck manually scoring your chords on a staff. Even if "six" note chords could be specified it would still be restrictive.

Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

2006-05-02 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello Lothar, You didn't say the version you're using, but by your example it is too old to even compile in the latest version (2.8.0). Well, after I removed \notes, it did. My first advice is to upgrade you version. Addressing your need, I think the easiest way is just remove \lyricsto "one"

Re: Which frontend?

2006-05-02 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
On Tue 02 May 2006 08:31, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > Well, I'm a bit disappointed about what you said about the > jEdit+LilyPondTool set. > - I can confirm that setting up everything may be more than just to > apt-get something. However, as far as I see you may get LilyPondTool > running by just downl

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival schreef: In all honesty, I'm with Geoff on this one. All the #() stuff looks scary, and having the "parser location" "non-arguments" (I mean, they're never referenced in the actual code) was the straw that broke my They are if you do real-world stuff. In particular, the locat

Re: Which frontend?

2006-05-02 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I personally prefer JLilyPondTool myself over other tools (ok, NoteEdit is a composition tool and cannot count - it's not a typesetter). It's completely cross-platform like Jedit, it's simply installed in Jedit by Plugins->Plugin manager..., update list, select jlilypondtool to install. Beside the

Object hierarchy in LilyPond?

2006-05-02 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I'm trying to figure out an overall object hierarchy of LilyPond. The only way I've discovered so far is to traverse programmers guide and follow links. But this is very tedious, since if I want to get something done in non-default way, this approach is very confusing. Could someone p