Re: key signature dosen't work

2006-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-May-06, at 9:57 PM, IMAI Yuji wrote: I got 2.9.6-1 binary for Windows. And I found key signature dosen't work. Yes, this is a known bug. The 2.9 version is the unstable/development version; issues like this crop up from time to time. For normal use, we recommend using the 2.8 versio

More Figured Bass Improvements... (potential sponsorship)

2006-05-25 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Han-Wen and Lilyponders, I am looking at the potential to sponsor more changes to the figured bass system. While the figured bass system is comphrehensive and looks good it's placement within a score that needs adjusting. There is often a wide a gap between the staff and the figures when using

Chordname accidental munging

2006-05-25 Thread Shamus
First of all, I must congratulate the developers on all the nice features that have been added to Lilypond since the 1.x days. I've been getting much more mileage out of lily since then, and I really appreciate all the hard work that you guys have put into it. :-) My problem lately is that whi

key signature dosen't work

2006-05-25 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hi, users. I got 2.9.6-1 binary for Windows. And I found key signature dosen't work. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

how to shorten a TrillSpanner

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all! I'm trying to fix the collision in the following example: \version "2.9.5" \relative { \once \override TrillSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'( 10 . 10 ) c1 \startTrillSpan b\stopTrillSpan\startTrillSpan c\stopTrillSpan } Doesn't matter what numbers I use -- no eff

Re: raise text in Scheme

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Nicolas: Read: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text- markup.html Thanks! (Interesting how the addition of \hspace #0 actually raises the text automatically -- the result was that I need to LOWER the text now!!) One last thing I can't seem to do is build into

Re: Even and odd page-margins [slightly OT]

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Rick: the key element is still that an opened book always has "mirrored margins". Of course. I suppose if you glue bound the pages on a stiff spine then you would need more room for the arc created out of the spine. This is actually what I was talking about: Bringhurst says you need

Re: Even and odd page-margins [slightly OT]

2006-05-25 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Sure, but the key element is still that an opened book always has "mirrored margins". It's all depends on how you do your book binding of course. I have one of those plastic spine binders that I use to make my fake books that allow the paper to lay pretty flat when opened. I suppose if you glue

Re: Fingering Type Size

2006-05-25 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Fingering Type Size Hi, Carrick: > Using version 2.8 on the Macintosh, I have been trying to make > the fingering numbers (for cello) a bit bigger to suit my aging eyes. > > I put in: >    \override Fingering #'font-size = #2 > > This made the fingering numbers about four times bigge

Re: Inital barnumber?

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
Graham Percival wrote: On 23-May-06, at 2:29 PM, Christian Conkle wrote: I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a "musicological document" with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar numbering correc

Re: raise text in Scheme

2006-05-25 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Kieren Richard MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, all! > > Why does the following #:raise neither work nor throw an error? > > hairpinMoltoRaised = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:raise 22 > #:normal-text #:italic #:smaller "molto") ) Read: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/u

Re: Connecting arpeggio brackets?

2006-05-25 Thread Rick Hogg
Hello,Anybody?  I've searched the archives to the best of my abilities and coming up empty-handed.  Need to know how to attach arpeggio brackets between piano staves.  Read belowThanksRick Hogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Just wondering how to connect arpeggio brackets.  I've done the \set Pia

Re: Fingering Type Size

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Carrick: Using version 2.8 on the Macintosh, I have been trying to make the fingering numbers (for cello) a bit bigger to suit my aging eyes. I put in: \override Fingering #'font-size = #2 This made the fingering numbers about four times bigger. If you look in the docs under the Finge

Fingering Type Size

2006-05-25 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Fingering Type Size Using version 2.8 on the Macintosh, I have been trying to make the fingering numbers (for cello) a bit bigger to suit my aging eyes. I put in: \override Fingering #'font-size = #2 This made the fingering numbers about four times bigger. So I tried reducing the numbe

Re: Even and odd page-margins [slightly OT]

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hi, Rick: With the wider margin always falling on the binding spine. Just for the record... According to essentially every example in Robert Bringhurst's amazing book, "The Elements of Typographic Style", the internal (spine) gutter should be smaller than the outside (page edge) margin. [

Re: Even and odd page-margins

2006-05-25 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
This would be a great feature, you could either define separate margin properties for even/odd, or more simply there could be a "mrror page margins LR" and "mirror page margins TB" flags that when set to true will "flip the left/right (or top/bottom margins)" opposite each other. This way when yo

raise text in Scheme

2006-05-25 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all! Why does the following #:raise neither work nor throw an error? Thanks, Kieren. %% CODE SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.9.5" \paper { indent = 0\in line-width = 2\in } dynNull = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1) ) hairpinPoco = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:no

Re: German text characters

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen
From: "bears388" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:00 AM Dear Both, Coincidentally found the answer to my problem by reading the maillist archive and fiddling around! It's very similar to the solution given by Stephen, to whom many thanks! Here's my take:- Write the inpu

Re: ../buildscripts/pfx2ttf.fontforge: line 5 (lilypond-2.8.3)

2006-05-25 Thread linux23dragon
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:13, Karl Hammar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hello > > > > I'm not yet sure if this is a lilypond-2.8.3, or a system dependency > > issue. I just keep on getting the same build error, even after applying > > the txt0Au64mQ5b.txt "diff" by Karl Hammar... > > I

Re: Inital barnumber?

2006-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-May-06, at 2:29 PM, Christian Conkle wrote: I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a "musicological document" with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar numbering correct, and it would be nice

Re: Even and odd page-margins

2006-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-May-06, at 7:31 PM, Gianluca D. wrote: I'd like to ask if anyone knows a way to set different margins for odd and even pages with Lilypond. I've tried to find some information from the manual of boh 2.8 and 2.9 version, but I couldn't find anything. I don't believe that this is curren