Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:19, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Hello César ; > > Just a few words. > > As a matter of fact, I've switched to linux in the mean time I've > switched to Lilypond... But we can't ask everyone to do so, and > therefore I agree it indeed lacks a decent user interface ; es

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:41, Tomas Valusek wrote: > Hello, > > it would be nice to be able to correct some things using mouse (most > notably, slur shapes, system distances, markup positioning etc.) Shaping > slurs using mouse is quite easy, but doing the same in .ly file is quite > cumbersom

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Erik Sandberg wrote: Subversion has a nice solution to this problem, through tortoisesvn, which works as a plugin for windows explorer: By right-clicking on a directory, you can access a menu through which you can perform all common subversion tasks. Would it be useful to create a similar l

Retrograde canon

2006-10-31 Thread Marco
Hi all. Is it possible to engrave, with Lilypond, something similar to "Canone 1 a 2" http://assioma5.altervista.org/05_Apparati/Cancrizzante.html, that is a mirrored clef and key accidentals at the end of the score? Marco ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
Well as far as I know Windows Lilypond users are still missing the cute TortoiseSVN-like menu icons... ...maybe it could help... :) But that said, the work that has been done on MacOSX Lilypond.app is extremely valuable (even icon-wise...). I know there are plans to do the same with the Windows

Re: Folding a line of lyrics

2006-10-31 Thread Geoff Horton
Actually, the rest of the lyrics on the first line is better. This looks like exactly what I want. Thank you! Geoff On 10/31/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One possibility is \lyricmode{ ... \markup{\column{\line{ The first line would go like this } \line{and the second would c

Re: New User (Problems getting started)

2006-10-31 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app.html#Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app On 10/31/06, Cliff Pruitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey everyone,  I'm just trying Lilypond for the first time today andI'm hoping this list is a resource that can help me out a bit.I

New User (Problems getting started)

2006-10-31 Thread Cliff Pruitt
Hey everyone, I'm just trying Lilypond for the first time today and I'm hoping this list is a resource that can help me out a bit. I use an Intel based Mac running OS X 10.4.8. I'm hoping to get Lilypond running via the command line (not via the OS X GUI). The hope is to use Lilypond for

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
César Penagos wrote: > > Dears Lilyponders: > I'm a very in-love user of Lilypond, actually I have installed the 2.9.26 > version. I'm attend to update my preferred music score program. > For many times i sow in the user archives, people asking for a graphical > interface. I thing there is a

Re: convert relative to absolute...

2006-10-31 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Julian Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the > same style as an example piece of music. > I wrote a little program in supercollider to take a sequence of > lilypond notes, learn patterns from them and then generate > output fo

convert relative to absolute...

2006-10-31 Thread Julian Peterson
I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the same style as an example piece of music. I wrote a little program in supercollider to take a sequence of lilypond notes, learn patterns from them and then generate output for lilypond to render into a score. The material I wo

Re: convert relative to absolute...

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Julian Peterson wrote: > > I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the > same style as an example piece of music. > I wrote a little program in supercollider to take a sequence of lilypond > notes, learn patterns from them and then generate > output for lilypond to

Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Cliff Pruitt
Hi All, I wrote earlier today about a first time use question and got a very helpful answer, so first let me say thanks to the list as a whole. I'm starting to learn Lilypond and I think its a great piece of software. Obviously there is a learning curve but I'm OK with that. Before I get

Re: Wishlist for Guitar (or string) features (newbie!)

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
I've found that the addition of FretBoard greatly enhances chords and wanted to congratulate everyone involved. I also would like the possibility of muted strings in tablature, like the X in notation that I haven't been able to accomplish so far... Daniel T. Mats Bengtsson wrote: I hope you ha

Re: convert relative to absolute...

2006-10-31 Thread Julian Peterson
Perfect, that is exactly what I needed. Thanks for your help, JP Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Julian Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the same style as an example piece of music. I wrote a little program in supercollider to tak

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
In step 1 I need to just provide lyrics for my vocalists, and lyricswith chord names for the musicians.  So for example I would need the Lilypond equivalent of:G  D   C D   Over all the earth You reign onGhighthe problem with this, is that you somehow will need to tell Lilypond how

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not simply specify the rhythm both for the chords and the lyric syllables. If you don't need the melody anyway, it's probably a detour to do what Simon proposes. \score{ << \new ChordNames \chordmode { g4 d2 c4 d1 g } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { Over4 all2 the4 earth You reign on high } >> }

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Cliff Pruitt
Thanks for the advice. The suggestions would be great if I were more proficient at writing out music in general. I think what I'm trying to figure out is the best way to approximate the correct phrases quickly without taking the time to be accurate. I'm very slow at determining music notat

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Ed Ardzinski
The suggestions would be great if I were more proficient at writing out music in general. I think what I'm trying to figure out is the best way to approximate the correct phrases quickly without taking the time to be accurate. I understand the "not take the time to be accurate" but my guess

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-10-31 Thread Cliff Pruitt
I understand the "not take the time to be accurate" but my guess is at some point you might want to be more accurate. My general LP template uses voices for chord names, a rhythm context, and some other instrumental line - could be a vocal melody, but I'm primarily a bass player so more of

Problems with the server?

2006-10-31 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, My lilypond-user mail seems to be coming in rather big batches maybe a dozen or so messages at once), and now I'm starting to receive duplicate posts. I am aware of problems with my email at my ISP, but this doesn't seem to be the same thing. Has anyone else noticed this? -- ===