Re: Catching error messages

2007-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: lilypond -dlog-file=log foo.ly lilypond -dseparate-log-files foo.ly bar.ly and no log files. > > Thoughts? They all work on 2.11.18. Evidently something changed between 2.10 and 2.11. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilyp

Making accidentals truly take up no horizontal space

2007-02-14 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Tip or trick directed primarily at the proportional notation crowd. For some time I've wondered how to get accidentals to truly take up no horizontal space. I first thought the answer would be in turning on strict-note-spacing because strict-note-spacing causes the horziontal space of clefs

Re: Controlling the very first bit of "preferatory" spacing?

2007-02-14 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/6/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This is obscure, but I figure it can't hurt to ask ... In this rhythmic snippet, the "perferatory" spacing on only the very first system collapses down to nothing (compared to the remaining three systems). Is there any way to control this am

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Also for page numbering my batch script updates a common page number include file that the next song simply includes. This file contains nothing more than: \firstPageNumber = #42 the variable \firstPageNumber is referenced by the scores, the batch job just updates the #number value for the star

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
FWIW, I assemble my song books using ghostscript. I create batch jobs that compile all the songs into separate PDF's, I make table of contents, index, texts, etc. in the word processor of my choice and print those pages to PDF file(s). Certain educational pages I also make in my word processor b

Re: The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen Martin
Dominic Neumann dominicneumann.de> writes: > > Hi,I´m quite new to lilypond but I´m already fascinated. I want to layout a whole songbook with about 200 songs. Until now I worked with Sibelius and now I´m thinking of typesetting that songbook with lilypond. But there are some things to consi

Re: Banjo part is relative but shouldn't be

2007-02-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 19:05, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Remove "\relative <<" and its matching ">>". Your banjo will no > longer need 64 frets. Thanks both of you. I copied the code from an example in the manual, and didn't know what to do with "\relative" that isn't followed by a note. Pier

Re: Banjo part is relative but shouldn't be

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Dalley
Remove "\relative <<" and its matching ">>". Your banjo will no longer need 64 frets. Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm writing a song with a banjo accompaniment. The melody line is relative > and > comes out correct. The banjo line, since it jumps all over the strings, I > write

Re: Banjo part is relative but shouldn't be

2007-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm writing a song with a banjo accompaniment. The melody line is relative and comes out correct. The banjo line, since it jumps all over the strings, I write in absolute notation, but Lily writes it as relative and goes all the way up to the 64th fret. How do I fix this?

Banjo part is relative but shouldn't be

2007-02-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm writing a song with a banjo accompaniment. The melody line is relative and comes out correct. The banjo line, since it jumps all over the strings, I write in absolute notation, but Lily writes it as relative and goes all the way up to the 64th fret. How do I fix this? phma \paper { indent

Re: How to align markup \column to the right

2007-02-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Well, due to other bugs in lilypond, I use 2.8 - which has this buggy. Bert Martial írta: Hi You don't obtain this (see image joint) with the syntaxe ? \relative c' { \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \column { \right-align { \tiny { "A""Bela"

Re: How to align markup \column to the right

2007-02-14 Thread Martial
Hi You don't obtain this (see image joint) with the syntaxe ? \relative c' { \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \column { \right-align { \tiny { "A""Bela" "Bartok" "1940" }} }

Re: Two staves one stops with repeat the other continues

2007-02-14 Thread Jay Hamilton
Mats- Yes your new example works fine. I'm guessing that having two different endings on the second line is just not possible and that is why you left it the 'older' way which is a pity as the version with endings is a bit clearer for my students. Anyway I am going to sit down and examine all y

Re: How to align markup \column to the right

2007-02-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
That doesn't work correctly for me. It puts the text too much to the left of the score. Bert Martial írta: hi try this : \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \column { \right-align {"A" \tiny "Bela" \tiny "Bartok" "1940" } }} \set Staff.instrument = \markup { \right-align \column { "A" \

Re: Two staves one stops with repeat the other continues

2007-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I didn't use \relative mode in the simple example I sent earlier. Here's a version of your code that hopefully works better. \version "2.8.4" \header { title = "Little Chaconne" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = "CC lic 2.5 some rights reserved Jay Hamilton 2007" tagline = "see http://cre

Re: Catching error messages

2007-02-14 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:45:46PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Cameron Horsburgh escreveu: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:09:39PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > >> don't; -dlog-file=foo is the recommended method. -dseparate-log-files if > >> you need multiple logs. > > > > I might have

The best way to create a songbook?

2007-02-14 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, I´m quite new to lilypond but I´m already fascinated. I want to layout a whole songbook with about 200 songs. Until now I worked with Sibelius and now I´m thinking of typesetting that songbook with lilypond. But there are some things to consider and I hope you can help me a bit: 1) Should I

Re: File fails prooperty type check

2007-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: in response to the line: \override Glissando #'breakable = ##t Oops, my fault. I shouldn't have added that file. Delete it for now; I've moved it into the 2.11 staging area. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: File fails prooperty type check

2007-02-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Cameron Horsburgh escreveu: > Hi folks, > > I'm currently cleaning up a few files in the LSR, and I've come across > an error that I don't know what to do with. (Please bear with me -- > I'll have a few of these over the next few days! The LSR is, of > course, full of constructs that used to be gr

Re: Catching error messages

2007-02-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Cameron Horsburgh escreveu: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:09:39PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> don't; -dlog-file=foo is the recommended method. -dseparate-log-files if >> you need multiple logs. > > I might have this wrong, but I have problems with each of these: > > lilypond -dlog-fil

Re: remove time signature

2007-02-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
Dr. Johannes Zellner zellner.org> writes: > > Hello, > > How can I remove the time signature? -- I googled and found > > \override TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t > > which works but leaves some space for the 'transparent' time signature. > > So: how can I completely remove the time si

Re: new to lily pond... freezing during compiling

2007-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Don't forget :-) cut-n-paste has problems with apostrophes and quotes. If the example has these in it, make sure they are plain ones, and haven't been "fancified" by TeX or whatever. This used to be a problem in the PDF version of the manual, but at least since vers

Re: remove time signature

2007-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f This is a method that works for other objects as well. Can't you also remove the time signature engraver instead? This method would also work for othe

File fails prooperty type check

2007-02-14 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm currently cleaning up a few files in the LSR, and I've come across an error that I don't know what to do with. (Please bear with me -- I'll have a few of these over the next few days! The LSR is, of course, full of constructs that used to be great ideas.) The file I'm currently work

Re: Catching error messages

2007-02-14 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:09:39PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > don't; -dlog-file=foo is the recommended method. -dseparate-log-files if > you need multiple logs. I might have this wrong, but I have problems with each of these: lilypond -dlog-file=log foo.ly runs as expected, but no log

Re: remove time signature

2007-02-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f This is a method that works for other objects as well. Can't you also remove the time signature engraver instead? This method would also work for other objects. You'll need to re

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] Rhythmic slashes, are just too [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard to do

2007-02-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Paul, I would hope/think that it would not cost much... Maybe just a cloning of the code that currently does rests, except with a different notehead and optional stems (so that durations other than quarter note

Re: new to lily pond... freezing during compiling

2007-02-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Please always tell what LilyPond version you are using (and on what operating system) when sending questions to the mailing list. The best way to troubleshoot such a problem is to run LilyPond from a command line and look a

Re: Rhythmic slashes, are just too [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard to do

2007-02-14 Thread Rune Zedeler
Apart from the warnings, are there any problems with the following? \version "2.10.10" slashrests = { \override Staff.Rest #'style = #'slash \override Staff.Rest #'glyph-name = "2slash" \override Staff.Rest #'stencil = #ly:note-head::print } normalrests = { \revert Staff.Rest #'s

Re: Rhythmic slashes, are just too [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard to do

2007-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Based on the discussion in November last year, I propose two solutions \version "2.10.0" rs = { \once \override Rest #'stencil = #ly:percent-repeat-item-interface::beat-slash \once \override Rest #'thickness = #'0.48 \once \override Rest #'slope = #'1.7 r4 } comp = #(define-music-function (