Embedded preview in output EPS files

2007-05-07 Thread Clifford W. Racz
I read the manual. I searched the source code. To use an EPS file in a word processing document (such as MS Word), I am using a command like this: lilypond -b eps --png --pdf foobar.ly The EPS prints fine, but there is no embedded preview in the file. That is completely understood. The d

Re: weird seg-fault involving lyrics; take two

2007-05-07 Thread David Bobroff
Yup, updating to 2.10.23 made the problem go away. Thanks! -David John Mandereau wrote: > Le lundi 07 mai 2007 à 17:50 +, David Bobroff a écrit : > >> I sent a problem to the list the other day. I have not gotten any >> response. Perhaps my example file was too big. Here is the problem

Re: weird seg-fault involving lyrics; take two

2007-05-07 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 07 mai 2007 à 17:50 +, David Bobroff a écrit : > I sent a problem to the list the other day. I have not gotten any > response. Perhaps my example file was too big. Here is the problem > again with a smaller input file: > > I'm having a problem involving lyrics. In the following fi

weird seg-fault involving lyrics; take two

2007-05-07 Thread David Bobroff
I sent a problem to the list the other day. I have not gotten any response. Perhaps my example file was too big. Here is the problem again with a smaller input file: I'm having a problem involving lyrics. In the following file, if I comment out the line with \addlyrics LilyPond will process it

Re: jazz chords superscript

2007-05-07 Thread Eyolf Oestrem
On 07.05.2007 (12:51), steve berthiaume wrote: note: i'm still trying to decode the regression test- what's the "ignatzek" thing all about? is that something someone added to lilypond, and the program will know what to do with it? "Ignatzek" is an unfunctional set of chord designations whic

re: jazz chords superscript

2007-05-07 Thread steve berthiaume
mats advice helped; i'll post the code as reference for anyone else. note: i'm still trying to decode the regression test- what's the "ignatzek" thing all about? is that something someone added to lilypond, and the program will know what to do with it? here's the code: \version "2.10.20"

Re: ottava

2007-05-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > How does the musician know which of the voices the ottava bracket > should apply to? It's always the top voice. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html You can play the cards you're dealt, o

Re: Feature request: discretionary lyrics

2007-05-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I forward this feature request to the developers list. However, since LilyPond is freeware, the best way to get such a feature implemented is to implement it yourself or make someone else sufficiently interested in the idea to do the implementation. /Mats Zoltán Selyem wrote: Hello all, B

Re: How do I typeset this!?

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Berndt
Urgh, sorry, I just forgot the \\ between the two Voices :) thanks! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Feature request: discretionary lyrics

2007-05-07 Thread Zoltán Selyem
Hello all, Briefly, if you now TeX, I'd like something for Lilypond lyrics which works like \discretionary{}{}{} in TeX. Explanation from The TeXbook: "A discretionary break consists of three sequences of characters called the pre-break, post-break, and no-break texts. The idea is that if a lin

Re: can't open .ly file

2007-05-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Themis Matsoukas wrote: Well..., no, I forgot about convert-ly. However, I cannot find it on the menu and when I invoke it the terminal, I receive tcsh: convert-ly: Command not found. This confuses me because I thought that convert-ly is installed along with lilypond. Am I missing something?

Re: jazz chords superscript

2007-05-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What LilyPond version do you use? Please always try to include a complete (but short) example of LilyPond code, that can be run directly through LilyPond, which shows what you have tried, when sending a question to the mailing list. I suspect that the problem is not the \super command, which i

Re: How do I typeset this!?

2007-05-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would rather use \new Voice << { 1~2 } \\ { e''2. c''4} >> see the section on Basic polyphony in the manual. /Mats Rune Zedeler wrote: Citat Matthias Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: consider the following bit of markup: \new Voice << { 1~2 } { e''2. c''4} >> I am not sure I unders

Re: hiding empty staves

2007-05-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting fiëé visuëlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ahoi! In LP 2.6 I could hide empty staves (also in the first system) with \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } Can't remember if I also needed \set Score . skipBars = ##t In LP 2.10 an empty stave in the first system is only hidden with