Changing fonts in headers

2006-07-12 Thread Michael J Millett
This is a request for help in changing the font of the title to Goudy. Based on what I read in the manual, this is my best guess for how to do it, but is not working ("unexpected override"). Thanks ahead of time for any help provided. Michael Millett \version "2.8.0" \header { \override header.t

Re: One staff in ChoirStaff

2006-07-12 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hi, Kieren. Thanks for your sugention. But my hope is not match. thanks. > Hi! > > > I can't get bracket of ChiorStaff when only one staff in ChoirStaff > > as following. > > Any sugestion for this purpose? > > How about this: > > \version "2.8.5" > \score > { > \new ChoirStaff >

Re: One staff in ChoirStaff

2006-07-12 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hi, Daniel. I tried your sample. But my Lilypond (2.9.11-1 on Windows XP) doesn't work. Thanks. > % The following is untested > > \score { > \new Staff { c'4 d' e' f' } > > \layout { >\context { > \Staff > \consists System_start_delimiter_engraver >

Re: One staff in ChoirStaff

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel Johnson
IMAI Yuji wrote: Hi, lists. I can't get bracket of ChiorStaff when only one staff in ChoirStaff as following. \score { \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff { c'4 d' e' f' } >> } Any sugestion for this purpose? Thanks. % The following is untested \score { \new Staff { c'4 d'

Re: One staff in ChoirStaff

2006-07-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi! I can't get bracket of ChiorStaff when only one staff in ChoirStaff as following. Any sugestion for this purpose? How about this: \version "2.8.5" \score { \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff { c'4 d' e' f' } \new Staff { s1 } >> } Best

One staff in ChoirStaff

2006-07-12 Thread IMAI Yuji
Hi, lists. I can't get bracket of ChiorStaff when only one staff in ChoirStaff as following. \score { \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff { c'4 d' e' f' } >> } Any sugestion for this purpose? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-us

Will sponsor work on these issues

2006-07-12 Thread Steve D
Hello-- I would be happy to sponsor the work on several issues that Werner Lemberg reported to bug-lilypond last month (in June, 2006), if those issues have not already been addressed. Specifically the issues I refer to are related to ties and are mentioned in the following archived bug-lilypond

Re: I have made some clarification on the \octave directive

2006-07-12 Thread Graham Percival
Charles Cave wrote: I have been struggling to understand the documentation of \octave in section 6.2.2 (Lilypond 2.8.3 documentation - PDF file page 85) Thanks for the suggestion -- and also thanks for writing a good doc proposal. :) Cheers, - Graham

Re: Decomposing Lilypond-book for makefile optimization?

2006-07-12 Thread Graham Percival
Jeff Smith wrote: My document is quite lengthy. Every time I make a change to the master doc (the .lytex source), lilypond-book robotically goes along and recompiles all the lilypond files, even though they haven't changed. This is a bug; lilypond-book shouldn't recompile anything unnecessaril

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Graham Percival
Erik Sandberg wrote: There's also the question of what you mean by compatibility: Very advanced tweaks usually rely on the way lily's internals are organised, which may change over time. Since lily contains a Turing-complete programming language, for some language updates it is thereby _impossi

Re: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel Johnson
Palmer, Ralph wrote: Hi, Daniel Johnson - I'm using jEdit. The default font looks like Times New Roman; at least, it's seriffed. Character encoding is set to UTF-8. I cannot find any place to 1) set the font (typeface); 2) find an "insert symbol" utility; or 3) find a place to set curly quotes.

Re: Mixing text and notation

2006-07-12 Thread Graham Percival
Nicolas Prömper wrote: I want to include a short text in a score (a kind of preamble) with an advanced formatting. I'd like to use a word processing to create and format the text, and include the result in my score. Creating this text in lilypond is probably the easiest solution; other peopl

Re: Mixing text and notation

2006-07-12 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
"Geoff Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I want to have a preambel, that is split in two columns. > > \markup { > \fill-line { > \hspace #1.0 % add more of these at the beginning and end > \hspace #1.0 % to move the columns closer together > \column { > "The first column"

Re: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Ralph 3) find a place to set curly quotes. If you are on Mac OS, just type option-[ for “ (left double typographer's quote) and option-shift-[ for ” (right d.t.q.). For other OSes, perhaps someone else can help on a shortcut. Best, Kieren. _

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Hi, Daniel Johnson - I'm using jEdit. The default font looks like Times New Roman; at least, it's seriffed. Character encoding is set to UTF-8. I cannot find any place to 1) set the font (typeface); 2) find an "insert symbol" utility; or 3) find a place to set curly quotes. Anyone out there using

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 17:22, Anthony Youngman wrote: > I don't really understand grammars etc (which is why my DATABASIC thing > is on/off :-). > > But from my experience with Antlr, I don't see why you should lose > stuff. Your PEG article mentions ASTs. I don't see that converting a .ly > fil

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Bingo! Thanks, Geoff. I should have figured out that it was backwards; I think frustration had something to do with it. -Original Message- From: Geoff Horton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:42 AM To: Palmer, Ralph Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Quote wi

Re: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel Johnson
Palmer, Ralph wrote: e'''2 r2 ^\markup { \center-align { \line { (to aud.): "A TRIO." }}} Why not use curly quotes? They look more professional and are not interpreted as special characters by the parser. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

Decomposing Lilypond-book for makefile optimization?

2006-07-12 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi gang. I'm using lilypond-book to render some musical diagrams into a latex document. I'm having a problem for which I need help to solve.My document has about 30 short musical compositions that are included as diagrams. They are also full compositions in their own right, so I want to use the sta

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Anthony Youngman
I don't really understand grammars etc (which is why my DATABASIC thing is on/off :-). But from my experience with Antlr, I don't see why you should lose stuff. Your PEG article mentions ASTs. I don't see that converting a .ly file into an AST can be that hard. So, for example, we write a Antlr gr

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
On 7/12/06, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:59, Anthony Youngman wrote:> Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using> grep ...)It's not using grep, but it relies heavily on regexps (so it can somewhat fairly be compared to sed).> I've

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:59, Anthony Youngman wrote: > Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using > grep ...) It's not using grep, but it relies heavily on regexps (so it can somewhat fairly be compared to sed). > I've got an on-off thing about writing a DATABASIC

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:00, Colin Wilding wrote: > This is an important dilemma for many users, I think - we want to have all > the fixes and features in each new version, but find it frustrating when > music produced in earlier versions needs time-consuming manual editing to > upgrade. > > Ca

Re: Re: Mixing text and notation

2006-07-12 Thread Geoff Horton
I want to have a preambel, that is split in two columns. \markup { \fill-line { \hspace #1.0 % add more of these at the beginning and end \hspace #1.0 % to move the columns closer together \column { "The first column" "goes here" } \hspace #3 \column { "The seco

Re: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Geoff Horton
e'''2 r2 ^\markup { \center-align { \line { (to aud.): \""A" "TRIO."\" Backwards :) "\"A TRIO\"' ought to do it. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Re: Mixing text and notation

2006-07-12 Thread Nicolas Prömper
Hi Nicolas, I want to have a preambel, that is split in two columns. So, the result should look like this: title subtitle preamble left | preamble right I couldn't find any formatting for markup, that splits the text in two columns. I assume, that this can only be done wit

RE: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Geoff - I tried e'''2 r2 ^\markup { \center-align { \line { (to aud.): \""A" "TRIO."\" }}} and got error: syntax error, unexpected $undefined e'''2 r2 ^\markup { \center-align { \line { (to aud.): \""A" "TRIO."\" }}} Ralp

Newbie LilyPondTool installation help?

2006-07-12 Thread Joseph Anderson
Hello All, I'm looking for a bit of help getting LilyPondTool up and running on MacOS X (10.4.7). I've downloaded jEdit 4.2, and have the following plugins installed: Console 4.2.6.3 ErrorList 1.4 Jakarta Commons 0.4.4 Latest Version Check 1.5 LilyPondTool 0.2.9 Mac Os Plugin 3.0 QuickNotepad 4

Re: Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Geoff Horton
http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond.html#quote On 7/12/06, Palmer, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings - I'm grateful for LilyPond, and for all the work a number of you are putting into the program and the documentation. I can find answers to most of my questions, although some take some

Quote within markup

2006-07-12 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm grateful for LilyPond, and for all the work a number of you are putting into the program and the documentation. I can find answers to most of my questions, although some take some experimentation. At this stage, my biggest difficulty, I think, is understanding the syntax - some com

Colouring analysis brackets

2006-07-12 Thread Édouard Gilbert
Hi, I'm not using Lilypond for a long time, so sorry if my question seems ridiculous. I'm wondering if there is a way to print horizontal brackets in different colours even when they start on the same note. Here come an example (don't mind the notes or structure, they are nearly random). %

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Anthony Youngman
Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using grep ...) I've got an on-off thing about writing a DATABASIC compiler (never mind) and have come across a tool called Antlr. It is a compiler-compiler and generates lexers, parsers and treeparsers. IF someone wants to put the

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Colin Wilding
This is an important dilemma for many users, I think - we want to have all the fixes and features in each new version, but find it frustrating when music produced in earlier versions needs time-consuming manual editing to upgrade. Can I suggest a compromise? I accept that Lilypond has been evol

Re: Evolutionary User Strategery

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
Please always CC to the list. On 7/12/06, Ian Hawthorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My 0.02c The lilypond language is still evolving. Recent changes in syntax have improved usablity. However at some point the improvements to be gained by further tinkering with the syntax will be outweighed by t