Re: jazz chord names

2007-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just read the section on "Chord names" in the LilyPond user manual, to get an idea of what can be done in LilyPond. I'm surprised that you managed to find out about this mailing list but not about the user manual. /Mats Quoting Rich E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there, I'd like to be able to

Odd problem with pdf output/layout

2007-04-08 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hello- Below is first movement of a String Quartet. When I compile it the first pdf page had two systems and it isn't until the 5th page that I get 3 systems on a page. Yet there is obviously room on the 2-4th pages for 3 systems per page. Is the problem in my coding or something else? Thanks-J

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-08 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Tom, You wrote: > > . . . if convert-ly doesn't work, most of the note-entry should be > > straightforward to reuse, leaving organization and tweaking to be done > > (for me, that usually takes about half of the time of preparing a > > score, so that's not so bad). > > [ ... ] >

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-08 Thread Arvid Grøtting
alcor.concordia.ca> writes: > I wonder what the typical note-entry-time/layout-tweak-time ratio is > amongst LilyPond users. I'm probably not average (who is?), but I guess I spend about 40% of the time spent on a score on initial note entry, 30% on layout tweaking, 20% on proofreading and

parts from score or score from parts?

2007-04-08 Thread steve berthiaume
hello, i need to do a bunch of three-horn arrangements of pop tunes; and it's better for me to check everything if all three staffs are on the same page in a score. my first attempt was to write all the parts individually, then combine them into a score. This seems to be the easiest way with my

Re: parts from score or score from parts?

2007-04-08 Thread David Rogers
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:39:39 -0400, steve berthiaume wrote: > i need to do a bunch of three-horn arrangements of pop tunes; and it's > better for me to check everything if all three staffs are on the same page > in a score. my first attempt was to write all the parts individually, then > combine t