Re: Embedded preview in output EPS files

2007-05-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not create a BAT script (or whatever scripting language you prefer) that first calls LilyPond and then epstool? LilyPond already contains too many dependencies to external programs, and I guess the main hackers don't want yet another external program that has to be included in the LilyPond

lyric vertical spacing

2007-05-08 Thread David Bobroff
I want to move some lyrics much closer to the staff. I also think I need to decrease the space below them as well. I have not yet found the right place in the docs. Could somebody point the way? -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: lyric vertical spacing

2007-05-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Which LilyPond version? The vertical spacing handling has changed significantly in the latest development version 2.11, compared to earlier versions. You should be able to find several examples in the mailing list archives. The basic ideas are described in the section on Vertical spacing

Re: removing tags

2007-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
Bernard, if this helps you, could you please add it to LSR so that other people can easily find this answer? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ Cheers, - Graham Michael Lauer wrote: Bernard Hurley bernard at fong-hurley.org.uk writes: Hi all, Is there any way of removing tags from music? You can

Re: LILYPOND_DATADIR in 2.10 / broken MIDI

2007-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
fiëé visuëlle wrote: GNU LilyPond 2.10.23 Fehler: LILYPONDPREFIX is obsolete, use LILYPOND_DATADIR I thought that would have been fixed? I thought so too, and I can't reproduce this on my system. Could you remove lilypond and remove any shell scripts? Then install lilypond again from

Re: Automatic note splitting and line breaks - version 2.11.22

2007-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
Bernard Hurley wrote: According to the documentation on Automatic note splitting: If you want to allow line breaking on the bar lines where Completion_heads_engraver splits notes, you must also remove Forbid_line_breaks_engraver. This doesn't work, and apparently has never worked. I could

Re: LILYPOND_DATADIR in 2.10 / broken MIDI

2007-05-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
According to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2007-01/msg00416.html this bug existed in early 2.11 versions but was fixed some time ago. I cannot repeat it with 2.11.23 or 2.10.20 (haven't tried 2.10.23 but I would be surprised if the bug had returned again). /Mats Further,

use only one page (a5)

2007-05-08 Thread Andreas Gemperle
Hello I use lilypond for 2 days now, so I'm really new to it. I try to rewrite a short march on a a5paper-size. I have to write about 8 systems and I'd like to have them all on the one page, but I don't get it. At the moment it looks like this: ## \paper { #(set-paper-size

Re: use only one page (a5)

2007-05-08 Thread Zoltán Selyem
Hello Andi, \version 2.6.3 In this old version there were no dashes in variable names of the \paper and \layout block. So either you should write \paper { betweensystempadding = #0.1 betweensystemspace = #0.1 raggedlastbottom = ##f raggedbottom = ##f

name of chord font?

2007-05-08 Thread steve berthiaume
hello, what is the name of the font used for chord names? i'm adding chords as text markup (version 2.10.20), and I would like the chord symbols to look distinct from the other text. thanks, -steve ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: name of chord font?

2007-05-08 Thread Selyem Zoltán
Hello Steve, what is the name of the font used for chord names? It's Verdana. i'm adding chords as text markup (version 2.10.20), and I would like the chord symbols to look distinct from the other text. I do the same (with Verdana Bold though), but I think there is a way to define your own

chord notation annoyance

2007-05-08 Thread Victor Eijkhout
The notation g/b4 is apparently incorrect, it should be g4/b. Could the error message be improved somewhat? The following is rather unhelpful. Basically I had to take apart my chord sheet measure by measure to find the offending entry. Parsing.../Applications/Audio and

text in chord lines

2007-05-08 Thread Victor Eijkhout
I want to indicate a measure rest in a chord line. This doesn't work: a1 | s1^tacet | a1 What's the solution? Victor. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

hiding only one empty staff

2007-05-08 Thread Zoltán Selyem
Hi, I'd like to hide staff lines that only have rests, but I'd like to do this for only one staff, not all of them. Can LilyPond do that? Thanks, Zoltán ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

partial measure in figured bass

2007-05-08 Thread Victor Eijkhout
When I write \partial 4 _4 I get: Parsing... fredo, figured.ly:2:13: error: syntax error, unexpected '_', expecting or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH \partial 4 _ 4 | but the music is otherwise typeset correctly. What's the legal solution? Victor.

Template for a leadsheet (vocal, chords, lyrics, several verses)

2007-05-08 Thread Jens Meyer
Hello Lilypond-users! I used music-printing with my Windows-sequencing-software since several years until I met Lilypond yesterday. Wow - I am deeply impressed about this software! I spent several hours (and a part of the night...) to understand the basics and to print my first layout. Printing

Re: hiding only one empty staff

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Lauer
Zoltán Selyem sese at elte.hu writes: Hi, I'd like to hide staff lines that only have rests, but I'd like to do this for only one staff, not all of them. Can LilyPond do that? Thanks, Zoltán Create the staff that can be hidden like this (from the definition of

Re: Embedded preview in output EPS files

2007-05-08 Thread Clifford W. Racz
Forgive me... I did *not *mean to imply that I thought another dependency should be added. In fact, just the opposite... this was *not a feature request*. I am fairly sure that ghostscript can already add image previews (epstool just calls ghostscript, and GSView also has the

Re: get-option, set-option: what options?

2007-05-08 Thread Damian leGassick
found it lilypond -dhelp display-bar-numbers is pre 2.11.23? D On 8 May 2007, at 15:40, Damian leGassick wrote: (v 2.11.23) docs have stuff like ly:get-option display-bar-numbers or ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f which get or set global options i get that but... where do i look

OOoLilyPond on Windows

2007-05-08 Thread Tim Reeves
I tried to set up OOoLilyPond on Windows XP, OpenOffice.org 2.1, Lilypond 2.11.23, OOoLilyPond 0.3.1 (i.e. all the latest) and when I try to run it I get the following error: lilypond: unrecognized option '-b' Any ideas how to fix this? Is it due to OOoLilypond not being up to date with

Re: OOoLilyPond on Windows

2007-05-08 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 08 mai 2007 à 10:42 -0700, Tim Reeves a écrit : I tried to set up OOoLilyPond on Windows XP, OpenOffice.org 2.1, Lilypond 2.11.23, OOoLilyPond 0.3.1 (i.e. all the latest) and when I try to run it I get the following error: lilypond: unrecognized option '-b' Any ideas how to

Re: OOoLilyPond on Windows

2007-05-08 Thread Tim Reeves
Thanks John, So is there a simple way to change the OOoLilyPond macro to send -dbackend=foo instead of -b foo? Tim Reeves John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/08/2007 11:24 AM To Tim Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject Re: OOoLilyPond on Windows Le mardi 08

Re: Template for a leadsheet (vocal, chords, lyrics, several verses)

2007-05-08 Thread Jack Cooper
Jens Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Lilypond-users! I used music-printing with my Windows-sequencing-software since several years until I met Lilypond yesterday. Wow - I am deeply impressed about this software! I spent several hours (and a part of the night...) to understand the basics

more: chords as text markup

2007-05-08 Thread steve berthiaume
hope these questions aren't too stupid or nitpicky: i am trying to add chord symbols as text markup rather than through chords mode, because i can't make sense of the process as outlined in the manual or regression tests (my problem). in the following example, in changing font to verdana, i