Re: Codas, Segnos, and bar number documentation

2006-05-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-May-06, at 3:48 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: 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 "repe

Instrument Name Spacing

2006-05-15 Thread Caleb
When using instrument names for staffs in a StaffGroup, the name is printed too close to the bar. I tried putting \override InstrumentName #'space-alist = #'((left-edge extra-space . 2.0)) in a Score context in the layout block as suggested by the docs but it didn't change anything. Cheers, Cal

Re: Alignment bug?

2006-05-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Sorry to sound so negative, but even if you found a bug in version 2.6, nobody will care to fix it, since we have a new stable version 2.8. That's fair enough, provided it *has* been spotted and fixed. I know Cygwin lag

Formatting Stanza Numbers

2006-05-15 Thread zrlaszlo
Hi, I would like to ask all of you, if there is a possibility to format Stanza Numbers using \markup commands, and altering their position relative to the lyrics (X or Y). If yes, which is the way to do it? Please, help! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Formatting-Stanza-Num

Re: TimeSig staff in sync with PianoStaff

2006-05-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You don't say how you did your TimeSig staff, but my guess is that it's very hard to achieve this automatically. Wait a second, maybe you could include the music of the piano staves as invisible notes in the extra context that you use for the time signature. However, if you send some of your cur

Re: Alignment bug?

2006-05-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 a

Re: Beam Positions

2006-05-15 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks!! - Original Message - From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trent Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Beam Positions | This clearly looks like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. | |/Mats | | Quoting Trent Johnst

Re: Beam Positions

2006-05-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This clearly looks like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. /Mats Quoting Trent Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 g

Re: missing fonts

2006-05-15 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Graham, You wrote: > From the documentation, 13.2: > "Running dvips will produce some warnings about fonts; these are > harmless and may be ignored." > > Does that help? Oh, yes, it does. I've thought something like that, but wasn't shure. :-) Thanks and Best Regards

Re: Beam Positions

2006-05-15 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Trent, You wrote: > 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 no

lilypond-book (lily2.8.2-1) fails on Win XP (SP2)

2006-05-15 Thread Mike Hüllenkremer
Dear developer team and friends of Lilpond, yesterday i installed the most up to date precompiled lilypond version for Win (v2.8.2-1). I have no phython installed other than the one that was delivered by the lilypond-setup. To verify the installation i ran basic examples from the documentation.

Page layout, measurement units

2006-05-15 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello all, from the doc: "All units dimensions are measured in staff spaces." I noticed that I cannot change this the usual way e.g. "bottom-margin = 2 \cm" in the paper block. Also from the doc: "You can also define these values in Scheme. ..., #(define bottom-margin (* 2 cm))" This does al