Re: Visual Slur Tweaking Tool

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
As I can see you need Java 1.6 to run. I think Stewart should compile this to the 1.5 target. More, you should run it with java -jar LilyPondBezierTool.jar Bert Werner LEMBERG írta: I’ve knocked up a tool that allows for some tweaking of the control points of slurs visually; it can be

LilyPondTool 2.10.2 Visual Edition (tm)

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hi, I've just released LilyPondTool's new version on sourceforge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit) I called it visual edition because it is so trendy and because LilyPondTool now features some visual tools, thanks to its integrated PDF viewer. See the demos at

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.2 Visual Edition (tm)

2006-12-29 Thread Matevž Jekovec
Thanks! It works perfectly, including the hyphenation for my language (Slovenian). Running KUbuntu Feisty unstable. btw. Any way you could add a MIDI player for the score? Regards. - Matevž Bertalan Fodor pravi: Hi, I've just released LilyPondTool's new version on sourceforge

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.2 Visual Edition (tm)

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
See global options dockable windows LilyPond midi player Matevž Jekovec írta: Thanks! It works perfectly, including the hyphenation for my language (Slovenian). Running KUbuntu Feisty unstable. btw. Any way you could add a MIDI player for the score? Regards. - Matevž Bertalan Fodor

page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Matevž Jekovec
Hello, I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, its translation etc.) and the next pages the score itself. I'm using \book for this but I can't force the very first staff to be on the second page - it's always on the first one, although it gets cut-off. Attaching

Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Francesco Spiga
Hi everyone! I'm editing an early-18th-century French composition. As in French baroque music 3/4 time is written just by a great 3, I'd like to know if it exist in LilyPond a command to this sign. Thank you... :-) Franek ___ lilypond-user

German translation

2006-12-29 Thread Till Rettig
Ok, so here comes the de.po-file (which is yet not compatible with my translation, since that is called new-de) Till # nl.po -- LilyPond Dutch website language file # Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tineke de munnik [EMAIL PROTECTED]. # Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL

Re: page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Matevž Jekovec matevz.jekovec at gmail.com writes: I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, its translation etc.) and the next pages the score itself. I'm using \book for this but I can't force the very first staff to be on the second page - it's always on the

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I'm editing an early-18th-century French composition. As in French baroque music 3/4 time is written just by a great 3, I'd like to know if it exist in LilyPond a command to this sign. Some time ago, I had asked how to define a compound time signature. I got some hints but couldn't

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.2 Visual Edition (tm)

2006-12-29 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, Am 29. Dezember 2006, 10:14 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Bertalan Fodor: Hi, I've just released LilyPondTool's new version on sourceforge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit) I called it visual edition because it is so trendy and because LilyPondTool now features some visual

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10.2 Visual Edition (tm)

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
The rendering is made via a slightly modified version of JPedal PDF viewer. It is used as source code not library, so it would be possible to make enhancements in this direction. (However, it won't be me, who makes LilyPondTool-emacs integration ;-) ) Bert I wonder how difficult it would be

Re: page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Matevž Jekovec
Thanks, it works! I added breakbefore = ##t to \header in \score block and the score began on a new page. Regards. - Matevž Arvid Grøtting pravi: Matevž Jekovec matevz.jekovec at gmail.com writes: I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, its

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Franek, I recently and finally managed to solve the problem for an Allemaigne, changig the time signature of the Recoupe from 3/4 to a single 3. I include the file here, you can see the special command: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit \time 3/4 which I had to put in

sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Pierre Abbat wrote: But bemol is not an adjective. Yes, it is, according to the _Real Academia Española_. It is both an adjective and a noun (as is 'sostenido'). So the possibilities are: Re sostenido / La nota sostenida. Re bemol / La nota bemol. If you do a Goolge search for nota bemol,

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 16:58 schrieb Christopher A. LaFond: Pierre Abbat wrote: But bemol is not an adjective. Yes, it is, according to the _Real Academia Española_. It is both an adjective and a noun (as is 'sostenido'). So the possibilities are: Re sostenido / La nota sostenida. Re bemol /

Re: A contribution to the Wiki

2006-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: I was thinking if I could add a section to the Wiki. I use ubuntu and my main desktop environment is GNOME. I've added a couple of nautilus scripts for the nautilus-actions that do two things basically: 1) Right click on a Lilypond file gives the option to

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Manuel wrote: You are right, but nota sostenida doesn't sound correct, since it is equivocal. However, it is being used everywhere, it seems, to mean sharp as its principle meaning. Shouldn't usage dictate correctness if it becomes fairly universal? The other use of the word -- sustained

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 17:53 schrieb Christopher A. LaFond: Manuel wrote: You are right, but nota sostenida doesn't sound correct, since it is equivocal. However, it is being used everywhere, it seems, to mean sharp as its principle meaning. Shouldn't usage dictate correctness if it becomes

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Manuel wrote: la nota sostenida más larga I would use the masculine here. It could be the longest tenuto note. Possibly, an enquiry at RAE's services will shed light upon this. Manuel That was an example culled from an internet site in Spanish. My point was that there are easy ways to

Some more German cathegory two)

2006-12-29 Thread Till Rettig
So here come the files that are marked with cathegory two. I will send them alone, so they would replace those with the same names in the tarball I sent earlier today. Now I started with the engraving-text, which is really quite a lot of work. I was just asking myself if it wouldn't be wiser to

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 18:29 schrieb Christopher A. LaFond: Manuel wrote: la nota sostenida más larga I would use the masculine here. It could be the longest tenuto note. Possibly, an enquiry at RAE's services will shed light upon this. Manuel That was an example culled from an internet site

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 02:17 schrieb John Mandereau: ( ... ) Although I agree that having one didactical introduction and one reference work is a good idea, don't forget that even a reference work must be somewhat didactical, since even the expert is learning. No, a real reference is pure

\break dosen`t work

2006-12-29 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
Take a look at this file and see the line that has \break \break it dosent work not even with one break %** \version 2.10.2 %** numeroHimno = 69 tituloHimno = Digno Es El Cordero

Re: vertical arrow

2006-12-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Orm Finnendahl escreveu: Hi, I'm trying to produce a vertical arrow with arbitrary length at a specified horizontal position above the staff, preferrably with a definable dashed line. I got the arrowhead with the following markup command but don't get the line of the arrow:

Re: \break dosen`t work

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Scott
Ezequiel Sierra wrote: Take a look at this file and see the line that has \break \break it dosent work not even with one break If you back this up and try removing things one at a time you will either discover your problem or arrive at a short version so we can help more easily. Paul Scott

Re: numbers as arguments in define-markup-command

2006-12-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Orm Finnendahl escreveu: Hi, I try to define a markup for vertical arrows and can't get the function to take two numbers as arguments. Using strings as arguments or a number and a string works. It seems the last argument to define-markup-command has to be a string. Does anybody know why and

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 28 December 2006 11:13, Brett Duncan wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from a programmer's point of view where the

Bad phrasing slur

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Does anybody know why does the phrasing slur here begin at the first note's head? \version 2.10.0 \relative { \clef treble \key bes \major \time 3/4 \partial 4*1 f4 \( bes( d8 c) d bes g'4 \) es2 } Manuel ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: Unfortunately, the number above does not always follow from the duration. E.g., the factors 2/3 and 4/6 are mathematically equal, but give different numbers. It is probably difficult to define when to use 4/6 and 2/3, respectively (e.g., I guess {c8[ c16 c c8]} could

Re: Any way to turn off warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns?

2006-12-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:12, Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, So my question is: is there any way to turn off the clashing note column warnings? I think this is the one place where one of Lily's warnings truly is completely harmless and I feel safe turning it off. More importantly, I really

Re: German translation

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Till Rettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added the translated files first cathegory as an attachment. Thanks! I have included them in GIT, replacing the old de/ tree. I was really not sure how to add/commit/what ever them with git. If I figure it right then when I add them with git, they get

Re: German translation

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Till Rettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so here comes the de.po-file (which is yet not compatible with my translation, since that is called new-de) Till # nl.po -- LilyPond Dutch website language file Thanks. Can you update the header information, setting yourself as tranlator, etc?

Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Harouff
I've been using Lilypond for the past week and just installed Lily4jEdit. I am transcribing a complete Eastern Orthodox Christmas Vigil church service from Russian Znamenny Chant to English and am extremely frustrated at how hard it is to troubleshoot command errors. It's taken me 4 days to get

Re: Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Using the latest version of the lily4jedit plugin (2.10.2, released today) and lilypond 2.10.5 I can convert-ly c:\temp temp\asdf.ly Bert Paul Harouff írta: I've been using Lilypond for the past week and just installed Lily4jEdit. I am transcribing a complete Eastern Orthodox Christmas Vigil

break without ending measure

2006-12-29 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
can i break before the measure ends? i need to know how. like two notes after the measure begins make a break and the other two notes below ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Some more German cathegory two)

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Till Rettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So here come the files that are marked with cathegory two. I will send them alone, so they would replace those with the same names in the tarball I sent earlier today. I cannot identify the separate pages here. Can you please send them again using git

Re: break without ending measure

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Scott
Ezequiel Sierra wrote: can i break before the measure ends? i need to know how. like two notes after the measure begins make a break and the other two notes below I believe you can only break at a bar line which can be an invisible one: \bar \break works for me even if the measure isn't

Translation off-topic

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Hi to all: I just wanted to thank you for giving me the opportunity of translating lilypond to spanish. Doing this has helped me understand it much better than I thought I did. In the process of translating, one can find inconsistencies or places where in the original version, things do

RE: FW: Visual Slur Tweaking Tool

2006-12-29 Thread Stewart Holmes
Hello again. I've recompiled for Java 1.5, and tidied up/fixed some things. www.stewartholmes.com/LilypondBezierTool.jar. Bertalan; regarding your calculation for staff-space to pixels. I tried your values, but they turned out a touch too short. I then made a Lilypond file with a slur that I

Re: German translation

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so here comes the de.po-file (which is yet not compatible with my translation, since that is called new-de) Also, please pull the latest version from git and translate all entries. I removed some dutch translations, now the top menu on

Another Chant Notation Question

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Harouff
The next hymn I am transcribing has optional melismas offset with brackets on the staff. What is the simplest way to insert [ and ] around the notes? Ideally something like \bar [ would be great. Paul ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-29 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Manuel wrote: John Mandreau: My offer to integrate your work into the official tutorial was premature, as it is not clear now how to integrate it (or add it) into the official docs, that's why I second Joe and Graham's suggestion: the ideal current hosting of your work is certainly a wiki, for

Re: Visual Slur Tweaking Tool

2006-12-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Hello again. I've recompiled for Java 1.5, and tidied up/fixed some things. www.stewartholmes.com/LilypondBezierTool.jar. It works now, thanks. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Geoff Horton
I finally figured out that the only way to represent chant lyrics is to associate the first syllable and last syllable with their own notes then quote the text in between so it centers under the breve. This is the only way to force all of the lyrics to center under its own measure. Actually, it

Re: Another Chant Notation Question

2006-12-29 Thread Geoff Horton
Does it have to be brackets? Parentheses are a lot easier. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Another Chant Notation Question

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Harouff
Parentheses will work. I've seen it both ways. Paul -Original Message- From: Geoff Horton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 3:13 PM To: Paul Harouff Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Another Chant Notation Question Does it have to be brackets? Parentheses

Re: Another Chant Notation Question

2006-12-29 Thread Geoff Horton
Parentheses will work. I've seen it both ways. Try this: http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond.html#parentheses If necessary, I think you can set up a one-note chord. I haven't tested it recently, but AFAIK nothing was done to break it. Geoff ___

Re: sostenido/bemol

2006-12-29 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Manuel wrote: I'm not sure I understand you. The original question was whether the word nota, wherever it appears followed by # , should give its gender to sostenida, or else the abstract gender of un sostenido would be correct, una nota sostenido. I think the last is right. What I'm saying

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Bonnie, only a brief message for the moment to ask you if you would consider adapting the Absolute Beginners Guide for Windows users? (the final title has been your suggestion, if I remember it right). I don't know exactly what does and does not belong in this list. Must learn it

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:44, Manuel wrote: I think Daniel means the set of sharp or flats right from the clef. I wouldn't call it just armadura, as someone might try to put on the whole key signature of God ;) which would be as silly as someone's signature on a check being three flats.

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Pierre, I'm answering privately, not to exceed the list's requirements. Manuel Am 29/12/2006 um 23:11 schrieb Pierre Abbat: On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:44, Manuel wrote: I think Daniel means the set of sharp or flats right from the clef. I wouldn't call it just armadura, as someone

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-29 Thread Brett Duncan
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 11:13, Brett Duncan wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from a

where to put \remove 'Time_signature etc..?

2006-12-29 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hello- I've searched the manual for 2.8x and come up with the line to remove the time signature however no matter where I put it ( and I've tried all 3 places- in layout, in score after \time, above score plus a couple of others that I didn't see in the manual) and I just keep getting the

Re: Transposable Fret Diagrams for Guitar

2006-12-29 Thread passport
Carl this sounds good, but I work from notes myself, to derive names with my own chord names exception list. The main pitfalls I see are that the permutations of chord forms for guitar against chord names would be in the hundreds of thousands of table entries just for the basic forms. As long

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Bonnie, Hi Manuel, Bonnie Rogers wrote: Hi Manuel, I felt the same way you did about the wiki, but I took a few minutes late last night to check it out, and I found that it really is quite friendly and easy to use. I may not have figured out everything, but I had no trouble setting

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-29 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Manuel wrote: Bonnie, only a brief message for the moment to ask you if you would consider adapting the Absolute Beginners Guide for Windows users? I'll try to get the process started, at least, using the wiki. I may not have time to do much until next week. Cheers! Bonnie

RE: Transposable Fret Diagrams for Guitar

2006-12-29 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Rick H wrote: Carl this sounds good, but I work from notes myself, to derive names with my own chord names exception list. The main pitfalls I see are that the permutations of chord forms for guitar against chord names would be in the hundreds of thousands of table entries just for

Re: where to put \remove 'Time_signature etc..?

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Jay Hamilton wrote: Hello- I've searched the manual for 2.8x and come up with the line to remove the time signature however no matter where I put it ( and I've tried all 3 places- in layout, in score after \time, above score plus a couple of others that I didn't see in the manual) and I just

transpose just the midi

2006-12-29 Thread Neuro
Excuse me, one small questions. How can I transpose just the midi output? for example, French horn is in F; we want it sounds fifth lower than written. Here are the examples, 0 %% file horn.ly 1 horn = { 2 \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \column { Horn \line { in F } } } 3 \set

Re: German translation

2006-12-29 Thread Till Rettig
Wow this worked fast -- this is actually my first bit of work for the great community, so quite happy that results are coming so quick. Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: For the next batch of files, please use this method. Please make sure that you only add files to the git archive that you are

Tutorial para principiantes en la Wiki

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Greetings! I've put (with Manuel's) permission, the beginners tutorial for absolute beginners (spanish) in the Wiki: http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Tutorial_para_principiantes Manuel: Try modifying the last section to include your information, so that you start getting