Lilypond-book can´t find my files

2007-01-28 Thread Claus Rogge
Sorry folks, another wall I ran my head into ... I managed to install lilypond-book and run it. However, when I give it a file to feed on (deadwood.lytex - written with latex and extension changed manually, don´t know if that´s right??) it stubbornly insists that the file (intro.ly) is not found

Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

2007-01-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi all, thanks for pointing that out. That's exactly along the lines I was thinking. Is anybody capable of doing the scheme/lilypond code? I don't know Metafont yet but I think I could handle that part and throw in the glyphs (they are currently PS Type1). -- Orm Am 28. Januar 2007, 05:19 Uhr

Re: Lilypond-book can´t find my files

2007-01-28 Thread Claus Rogge
Claus Rogge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whoops, stop - just found some information that I had forgotten ... I´m onto it, please don´t bother to answer yet! ... and sorry ... -- My new CD "Know Greed": http://cdbaby.com/cd/rogge ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: accidentals disappear

2007-01-28 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:43:59PM -0800, Calvin Mitcham wrote: > Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > Please always tell what LilyPond version you use when sending questions > > to the mailing list. > > well,yes, some info might help :) i run lilypond 2.6.3 on a 32 bit studio64 > install of linux wi

pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
Dear list, Yesterday I posted: "Between every System I put a \break, between every Page a \pageBreak The first page is fine, the second is spread on two pages , why??" Now, just to see what happens, I remove all \breaks and \pageBreaks. The result is the other way around: on the first page ar

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This is another beginners question: Between every System I put a \break, between every Page a \pageBreak The first page is fine, the second is spread on two pages , why?? If you want to control all the page breaking manually, you should a

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list, Yesterday I posted: "Between every System I put a \break, between every Page a \pageBreak The first page is fine, the second is spread on two pages , why??" Now, just to see what happens, I remove all \breaks and \pageBreaks. The re

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
I put "ragged-bottom-last = ##f" into both versions (whith \breaks \pageBreaks and without) it does not change anything... Am 28.01.2007 um 12:58 schrieb Joe Neeman: On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list, Yesterday I posted: "Between every System I put a \break, be

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I've also experienced that \noPageBreak and \pageBreak just didn't work in 2.10.x. However it was a very complicated score. Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
the strange thing is that it worked for the first page perfect and than... Am 28.01.2007 um 13:23 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: I've also experienced that \noPageBreak and \pageBreak just didn't work in 2.10.x. However it was a very complicated score. Bert __

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
the breaks are made where I set them, the first pageBreak too, the systems of the second page are spread over two pages. Strange to me is that only the first page behave as it should... Am 28.01.2007 um 12:52 schrieb Joe Neeman: On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the breaks are made where I set them, the first pageBreak too, the systems of the second page are spread over two pages. Strange to me is that only the first page behave as it should... You forced lilypond to put page breaks in certain places.

Re: Lilypond Tool

2007-01-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi folks, I'm a BIG fan of Lilypond Tool now!! I've just installed it in my jEdit on my Windoze machine, and run a few files. The Console which shows you what's happening makes it more like my FreeBSD machine in visibility, and the PDF viewer with click-to-find is super! And the Midi launcher

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I think it was the same for me. The score was full of graces with 16 staves. If I removed 2 staves, the noPageBreak worked as well. I'm afraid I couldn't make a simple bug report, because I think its complexness was the very cause of the problem. Bert Ole Schmidt írta: the strange thing is th

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Ole, have you tried \noPageBreak? I would not be surprised if it had no effect. Bert Joe Neeman írta: On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the breaks are made where I set them, the first pageBreak too, the systems of the second page are spread over two pages. Strange to me is th

Re: Lilypond Tool

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
It seems to take an inordinate amount of time to process these files. I'm not working on huge files -- most are songs that fit on one page. But they take (according to the Console window) the best part of five minutes to process. Five minutes? Really? Could you send me a file with this pro

Re: pageBreak-layout again

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I put "ragged-bottom-last = ##f" into both versions (whith \breaks \pageBreaks and without) it does not change anything... Sorry, it should be ragged-last-bottom instead of ragged-bottom-last. ___ l

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
\noPageBreak work!! Thanks Joe! ole Am 28.01.2007 um 14:31 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: Ole, have you tried \noPageBreak? I would not be surprised if it had no effect. Bert Joe Neeman írta: On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the breaks are made where I set them, the first page

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Really? Then I'll upgrade :-) Or really find a way to report if there is an error. Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Some horizontal spacing problems.

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Gentry
Hello, Before I begin I'd just like to say how much I enjoy using Lilypond - there is absolutely nothing like it. I have to problems that I would desperately like some advice: 1. I'm writing some exercises consisting of three bars. The main part is in the first two bars and the final bar is is j

PNG size issue

2007-01-28 Thread lala lala
Hi all !I have a problem with a png file generated with lilypond. Here is my lily file :\version "2.10.6"#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)\header { title = "toto"}\paper { #(set-paper-size "a4")}melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 a4 b c d}\score { \new

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Really? Then I'll upgrade :-) Or really find a way to report if there is an error. If you are certain that you've found a bug but you can't narrow down the example, just send it anyway. Although I don't particularly like wading through large

Re: Some horizontal spacing problems.

2007-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Charles Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, Before I begin I'd just like to say how much I enjoy using Lilypond - there is absolutely nothing like it. I have to problems that I would desperately like some advice: 1. I'm writing some exercises consisting of three bars. The main part

Re: problems with german umlauts

2007-01-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Henkelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: You are mistaken. ASCII only defines character codes up to 127, see for example http://www.asciitable.com/. What your table shows is probably Latin1 (ISO 8859-1). /Mats Mats:

Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

2007-01-28 Thread v!ctor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree %100 with the addition of accidentals with arrows. However, I also think that both, the standard 1/4 and 3/4 tone signs Lilypond already has and the new ones should both be accessible, and, ideally, within the same "notehead-style". Otherwise combining them in a single score would require

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \noPageBreak work!! Thanks Joe! ole Am 28.01.2007 um 14:31 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: > Ole, have you tried \noPageBreak? I would not be surprised if it > had no effect. > > Bert > > Joe Neeman írta: >> On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On 1/28/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/28/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \noPageBreak work!! Thanks Joe! > > ole > > Am 28.01.2007 um 14:31 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: > > > Ole, have you tried \noPageBreak? I would not be surprised if it > > had no effect. > > > > Bert

lilypond and eps

2007-01-28 Thread confrey
I'm using lilypond on ubunt edgy and windows, I'm using OOoLilypond too; in linux, when I try to view eps files generated by lilypond-book, I can't see the staff and the stems only; in windows, if I set OOoLilypond to use eps instead of png, I can't view anything. I need some ideas, thanks con

Re: Some horizontal spacing problems.

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Gentry
Thanks Mats - that seems to be just the thing! Cheers, Charles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: pageBreak?

2007-01-28 Thread Ole Schmidt
No, NonMusicalPaperColumn gives an error warning... ole Am 28.01.2007 um 21:00 schrieb Joe Neeman: You can override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'page-break-permission = ##f (or line-break-permission for line breaks) in the layout block. ___ lilyp

Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Kennedy
I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is a design flaw or user ignorance. Probably the latter because I just started using LP yesterday. But I haven't been able to find an example or explanation in the user guide to help me with this. Here's my question: In the presence of "\repeat volta", how do I get

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Try \new ChordNames \with { voltaOnThisStaff = ##t } instead of "\new ChordNames" I think you could also find it in the mailing list archives. Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: Which LilyPond for Mac G3 (Pismo) running OS 10.4.7

2007-01-28 Thread David Rogers
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:25:06 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Does Mac no longer use carriage for end of line since OSX. That seem > to be the case from the command line. You are exactly correct. The vast majority of new files you will create, with just about any OS X app, will have Unix-style line

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Kennedy
> Try > \new ChordNames \with { > voltaOnThisStaff = ##t > } > instead of "\new ChordNames" Thanks. That helps quite a bit, and I looked through the archives, too. The problem now is that the volta lines are much too high, especially the one for the first ending where there is no chord symbol und

Re: Lead sheet examples?

2007-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For the record, the answer to your original question can also be found in an example in the Tips and Tricks document (I'm sure it's included in the LilyPond Snippet Repository as well). To reduce the spacing, you can do \new ChordNames \with { chordChanges = ##t voltaOnThisStaff = ##t \

Re: lilypond and eps

2007-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In Windows, I guess it's normal that you can't see any embedded EPS files on screen, but they normally show up in the printed output if you have a postscript printer. In Linux, my best guess is that you should try a newer version of Ghostscript (if you can choose between an AFPL and a GNU vers

Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

2007-01-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, we use additional simple up/down arrows placed left to normal accidentals, giving a concise way to specify the complete eighth tone scale. The glyphs are actually included in the font. This would make even more changing of alteration syntax necessary, though. I don't mind to be able to combin

Re: proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

2007-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't really see the problem. What you already have proposed is to use property settings to change between the different styles. To save some typing, it will then be easy to add macros such as \arrowQuarterToneAccidentals (please make up something shorter) and \...whatever, to easily change betw