How to use global variables with \Markup

2007-02-04 Thread Paul Harouff
I want to alternate markup text verses (reader) with scores (choir). The text verses change from week to week, but the scores remain the same. What I want to do is something like this: % % VERSES HERE % BVone = \new Text { Enter verse one text here } BVtwo = \new Text { Enter verse two text her

Re: First attempt with Lilypond - TeX compatibility problems?

2007-02-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Miguel Ramos escreveu: > Good evening, > > I have just installed Lilypond for the first time and my first > attempts at using Lilypond have been frustrated. I installed Lilypond > 2.2.2 (I'm using FreeBSD and this is the version found in the ports > tree). Try getting a binary from http://lilyp

First attempt with Lilypond - TeX compatibility problems?

2007-02-04 Thread Miguel Ramos
Good evening, I have just installed Lilypond for the first time and my first attempts at using Lilypond have been frustrated. I installed Lilypond 2.2.2 (I'm using FreeBSD and this is the version found in the ports tree). Following the tutorial, the first file I created contained the following:

Re: make-dynamic-script shows mysterious aligning behaviour

2007-02-04 Thread Joe Neeman
On 2/2/07, Roland Goretzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi at all, (using version 2.10.14) make-dynamic-script is a nice feature, but there seems to be a bug, from which I don't know, wether it is a lilypond bug or a font bug or something like that: If You have a crescendoText and then an own dy

convert-ly is now working under mac os x

2007-02-04 Thread Ole Schmidt
I just downloaded the latest version LP 2.11.15-2, the conversion-ly problem is fixed forget about my last mail. ole ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Update syntax

2007-02-04 Thread Ole Schmidt
I overlooked it, now I've pasted the whole text at the end of my convert-ly file: (pasted text:) datadir = '/usr/share/lilypond/2.10.13' if not os.path.isdir (datadir): datadir = '/usr/share/lilypond/2.10.13' sys.path.insert (0, os.path.join (d

Re: Update syntax

2007-02-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/4/07, Ole Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Trevor, When I try to use convert-ly via the terminal (I am using Mac OS X 10.4.8) or via Lilypond / Compile-menu/ Update syntax, I get the following error message: --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applica

Re: Update syntax

2007-02-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Ole Schmidt wrote: Hi Trevor, When I try to use convert-ly via the terminal (I am using Mac OS X 10.4.8) or via Lilypond / Compile-menu/ Update syntax, I get the following error message: --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Appli

musicxml problems

2007-02-04 Thread Jim Hauxwell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using capella-scan to scan some music into musicxml format and am having some problems with lilypond. I've tested the xml file in noteedit, sibelius4 (demo) and in Finale 2007 (demo) and it looks fine, so I'm sure there is nothing wrong with

Re: Immediate Need For Midi Output

2007-02-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Rune Zedeler wrote: I have attached a small example that produces midi output. Whoops, I forgot to attach. Here goes. -Rune \version "2.10.0" melody = { \time 3/4 \key d \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "flute" d''4 d''8 e''8 fis''4 | g''4. fis''8 e''4 | d''2 cis''4 | d''2. | }

Re: Immediate Need For Midi Output

2007-02-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Hi Jared! I am surprised that the manual has no information written specificly for blind people. I am pretty sure that we have had other blind users (for the obvious reasons that you specify). Not able to find it in the archives though. If you would help writing a section for blind people I thi

Midi -- What am I doing wrong?

2007-02-04 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi List, I've been working on this piece for Barbershop chorus, and because of the features of close harmony, I frequently review the midi file (simple piano is fine for now). When I introduced the extra divisi voices in stanza 4, I all of a sudden found that the midi was playing only the bass c

Re: Update syntax

2007-02-04 Thread Ole Schmidt
Hi Trevor, When I try to use convert-ly via the terminal (I am using Mac OS X 10.4.8) or via Lilypond / Compile-menu/ Update syntax, I get the following error message: --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/conver