Re: Two questions: slashes and rhythmic cues

2006-05-14 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 12-May-06, at 10:33 AM, Stan Mulder wrote: But when the parts are transposed the slashes move all over the place for the Bb and Eb instruments. Is there are way to keep the slash exactly on a certain note and ignore the transposition? As it happens, this is part

Re: Using Scheme

2006-05-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks Nicolas that's great!! Thanks for all your help lately it's greatly appreciated. And thanks to all that have come to my assistance with this question. Could this example along with the explanation from Nicholas be added to the manual? I think it would further the understanding of scheme

Re: help! line won't break!

2006-05-14 Thread Laura Conrad
JC == Jim Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC I'm nearly at the end of my piece, and also my wits. JC I am getting the message JC warning: can't find line breaking that satisfies constraints JC and indeed, it refuses to break, running the rest of the piece JC off of the

Re: Using Scheme

2006-05-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-May-06, at 4:12 AM, Trent Johnston wrote: Could this example along with the explanation from Nicholas be added to the manual? On general principal, read http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding For this specific case, see this email I sent to -devel yesterday:

TimeSig staff in sync with PianoStaff

2006-05-14 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.8.1 ] Hello, all! I'm writing and engraving a piece for small ensemble. I'm using modern time signatures (i.e., on a separate line above the system), and the conductor would like a second TimeSig staff just above the piano staff (the bottom-most staff) as well. No

Re: Alignment bug?

2006-05-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I really recommend you to upgrade to the latest stable version, 2.8.x. If find the Cygwin command interface convenient, you can still use the native Windows version available for download from www.lilypond.org if you just

missing fonts

2006-05-14 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi, with version 2.8.2-2 lilypond-book works quite fine, and the output is okay, as far as I can see, but I get the following message: This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2006.05.15:0028' - donatas-1.-buch.ps dvips: Font

Codas, Segnos, and bar number documentation

2006-05-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
As before, 2.6.4 lily (latest cygwin) and 2.8 docu ... Looking at the manual, codas and segnos are under Articulation, symbols that modify notes. Fine, except to me this seems completely wrong - they should be over bar-lines and modify the flow of music - they're like the : that means repeat

Re: missing fonts

2006-05-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-May-06, at 3:43 PM, Roland Goretzki wrote: This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2006.05.15:0028' - donatas-1.-buch.ps dvips: Font Aybabtu-Regular used in file lily-1732791014-1.eps is not in the mapping file. dvips: Font

Beam Positions

2006-05-14 Thread Trent Johnston
Hello again, I'm having trouble with changing the lengths of beams. When I use: \once \override Beam #'positions = #'(1 . 1.5) in the below example I get a strange beamed group. The 32nd beamed notes stick out. No matter how I adjust the numbers the 32nd notes stick out. I've added a

Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2006-05-14 Thread John Hawkinson
Christian Conkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 11 May 2006 at 00:33:30 -0500 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This does in fact help tremendously, thanks! I'm preparing a score and parts for a performance next week, and these instructions have been invaluable. However, they don't work out-of-the-box

Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2006-05-14 Thread Christian Conkle
By the way, I'm sorry for not having had time to finish productionizing my PostScript patches. I expect I'll have time in late May. It is possible (even likely!) that using my patch is causing a problem for the psbook|psnup stage. Can you try without my patch to confirm? Also, does the psnup

Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2006-05-14 Thread John Hawkinson
Christian Conkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 14 May 2006 at 22:12:27 -0500 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I switched to 2.8.1; the problem for that version (with and without your patch--I'm making tabloid/letter booklets, not 9x12) is a bit different. The Postscript output of Lilypond, after