Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Peter O'Doherty
I'm not quite sure what I did wrong but I tried this a few times and it still doesn't want to work. I am able to run steps 1 - 4 but at step 5, the line already reads "export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin" so it doesn't seem to make sense to add ":/Applications/

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Graham Percival
Geoff Horton wrote: Thanks, Graham. So here's what Peter (and I) need to do, assuming that you moved the LilyPond app off your desktop and into the Applications folder: Werner mentioned altering the documentation. Just in case you don't have it handy, here's the link: http://lilypond.org/web

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks for this Graham (and your patience!). I think I messed it up somewhere. Here's what I have: 1) lilypond.app is in /applications folder 2) I call up a terminal and see this: ip5455a71f:~ peter$ cd '/Applications/' ip5455a71f:/Applications peter$ 3) Then I type: nano 4) next: I hit R.

Fwd: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
[Resending my mail to maillist, since Reply does not do "the right thing"]-- Forwarded message --From: Simon Dahlbacka < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Sep 17, 2006 12:51 PMSubject: Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)To: Peter O'Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you have the .profile in the wrong place

Re: old way of vertically centering refrain no longer works

2006-09-17 Thread Geoff Horton
So, my question is, what is the correct way to vertically center a refrain shared by several stanzas? A real hack method is simply to include it only in the middle stanza Verse one line one Verse one line two Verse two line one Verse two line two Refrain line Verse Three line one Verse Three

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread nicola
Hi, I have written a very simple Lilypond engine for TeXShop, which you may find here: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/vitacolo/freesoftware.html Maybe this can help. Regards Nicola In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael J Millett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this doesn't help, but I have h

Re: tie problem

2006-09-17 Thread Rainer Hahnekamp
Hi Kieren, thank you very much vor answer. Your snippet solved the problem and btw. it makes completely sense. Should really be better integrated into the documentation. Greetings, Rainer Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi, Rainer: > >> I've following code: >> 1\arpeggio ~ | << 1\fermata \\ {r2 r4 b

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Geoff Horton
> export > PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin IMO, it's better to do this: export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Apps/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin That way the existing path is still used, even if it's set somewhere else (say, /etc/profile). I agree

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks for all your help.I eventually got it to work using Nicola Vitacolonna's Lilypond engine for TeXShop which can be found here: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/vitacolo/freesoftware.htmlI would definately recommend it - it works beautifully.Regards,Peter___

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Graham Percival
Peter O'Doherty wrote: ip5455a71f:~ peter$ cd '/Applications/' ip5455a71f:/Applications peter$ You edit/create the .profile in your home directory. Don't change directories; just open up a terminal and create the file. - Graham ___ lilypond-user

Re: tie problem

2006-09-17 Thread Graham Percival
Hi Rainer, Fell free to help. See http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding - Graham Rainer Hahnekamp wrote: Hi Kieren, thank you very much vor answer. Your snippet solved the problem and btw. it makes completely sense. Should really be better integrated into the docu

Re: tie problem

2006-09-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Note that this already is described fairly clearly both in "Basic Polyphony" and "Explicitly Instantiating Voices". However, if you have any idea on how to make it even clearer/easier to find, then they are off course welcome. Graham Percival wrote: Hi Rainer, Fell free to help. See http://li

Re: Lilypond + LaTex (on Mac)

2006-09-17 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 9/17/06 4:18 AM, "nicola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have written a very simple Lilypond engine for TeXShop, which you may > find here: > > http://www.dimi.uniud.it/vitacolo/freesoftware.html > > Maybe this can help. > > Regards > Nicola > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mich

obey measures with eps backend

2006-09-17 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Hi there! I'm just trying to fix the LilyPond moduke for ConTeXt to work with e.g. the latest 2.9; the module works similar to lilypond-book. My problem is, that the EPS is always too big, i.e. much bigger than defined. My LilyPond snippet has linewidth = 341.43306\pt but the EPS and PDF

Re: tie problem

2006-09-17 Thread Maurí­cio
I believe this approach could also work properly: << 1\arpeggio~ \\ s1 >> | << 1\fermata \\ {r2 r4 b'32 (c d e f g a b)} >> i.e., a second "space" voice is added to the first compass. However, don't take it as example of good style, since I've just started to learn Lily. Best, Mauríc

problem with line breaking with polyrhythm

2006-09-17 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi list,I'm having problems trying to write scores for some pieces with polyrhythm:lilypond says that:warning: can't find line breaking that satisfies constraintsI put here a minimal example that shows anyway the problem, my real situation is on a much bigger scale, that's why I need to force in th

Re: Tie from voices to chord (begginer)

2006-09-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Maurí cio! I have two voices that I should tie to a chord. Is it possible to do that? Would the attached example for you? I know it's not *exactly* what you were asking for -- it uses a convention of engraving that *fakes* two separate voices, rather than actually *being* two voices

Re: problem with line breaking with polyrhythm

2006-09-17 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Libero! > and I have to split a measure in the middle... Line breaks only work at "proper" bar lines. (see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Line-breaking.html#index-g_t_005cbreak-1560) In your example the third 4:5 in the second staff overlaps the invisible bar. >From

How to break timing coordination between my ossia and main staffs?

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I'm using a user-created staff context to "accepts" ossia notes mid-stream (see OssiaUnsynchronized below). I have a piece where my ossia length will have a different number of measures than the main staff (more or fewer). So for example if the ossia passage has 2 measures to the main staffs 1 m

Re: Tie from voices to chord (begginer)

2006-09-17 Thread Maurí­cio
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Maurí cio! I have two voices that I should tie to a chord. Is it possible to do that? Would the attached example for you? (...) theMusic = \relative c' { \time 2/4 \set tieWaitForNote = ##t c4~ e4~ 2 \set tieWaitForNote = ##f } No, it doesn'

Re: Tie from voices to chord (begginer)

2006-09-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Maurí cio: if I could get lilypond to draw the first c4 as a c2, while keeping that note time as a 1/4. Do you think that is possible? With Lilypond, *anything* is possible! ;-) theMusic = \relative c' { \time 2/4 \set tieWaitForNote = ##t c2*1/2~ e4~ 2 \set tieWaitFor

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
It's really up to you. In the end the goal is to separate music from structure so that you can freely re-use your template files for subsequent pieces without having to change or re-write the templates. I tend to keep all the music variable setting for all parts in a single file, then I make an

Re: Orchestral score file organization

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Here is a simple example of separating music from structure, just make sure all the music goes into variables, then the templates only reference variables, not any particular songs music: myMusic_ForConcertoNo3.ly would contain this kind of stuff: varViolinINotes = \relative c' { a-4 b c d } var

Re: Tie from voices to chord (begginer)

2006-09-17 Thread Maurí­cio
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Maurí cio: if I could get lilypond to draw the first c4 as a c2, (...) With Lilypond, *anything* is possible! ;-) (...) If you absolutely need the rest (in the second voice), I might be able to take a few seconds and whip up a solution. Best, Kieren. Cool!

Rather involved TextSpanner edge-text Scheme markup question

2006-09-17 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, I'm trying to get the edge text of a series of consecutive TextSpanners to vertically align according to baseline. I've pasted in a sequence of ever-closer steps but beware that the post is long. If you're not interested in markup, skip to the next thread. Here's what I'm starting out with,

Re: How to break timing coordination between my ossia and main staffs?

2006-09-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have read the section on "Polymetric notation". It shows several methods to modify the synchronization between staves. Yet another alternative is to use ^\markup{\score{...}} /Mats Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: I'm using a user-created staff context to "accepts" ossia notes mid-s