Re: GDP: renaming Program {usage, reference}

2007-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
Eyolf Østrem wrote: Sorry - my fault, I was thinking of the Program Usage, which to a large extent has to do with how to write code to produce a certain output (the LP-book part) leaving bits and pieces which not necessarily belongs together with the notation reference thematically, but which

Re: text first draft

2007-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival asked on 03 November 2007 06:57 Text REWRITE - overview of text entry: rename? Also, fill in. - or possibly delete it? A real-life example would be good to encourage the reader to go further, and convince him the solution to his particular

Re: Numbered musical notation (Jianpu)

2007-11-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Nov 2007, at 10:16, Silas S. Brown wrote: Would it be feasible to make Lilypond produce the numbered musical notation described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation ? I don't know about LilyPond, but one can try using the Unicode combining marks. (Like perhaps

RE: text first draft

2007-11-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
From: Graham Percival 04 November 2007 08:31 Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival asked on 03 November 2007 06:57 Text REWRITE - overview of text entry: rename? Also, fill in. - or possibly delete it? A real-life example would be good to encourage the reader to go

Re: OO and MIDI support

2007-11-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 05 October 2007, Hans Aberg wrote: On 5 Oct 2007, at 01:20, Graham Percival wrote: Midi support in lilypond is quite limited, and this is not likely to change in the near future. Might it possible to handle this by OO (object orientation)? The idea is that if objects can be

Re: Scheme code for extracting LilyPond header properties?

2007-11-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, John Zaitseff wrote: Dear Nicolas / LilyPonders, I store a field in the header, lastupdated, in the form 09-Oct-2007; the \parsed-date function converts that to something like 9 October, 2007: % \parsed-date DATE - convert a DD-MMM- property to a fully

Mediawiki extension

2007-11-04 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, I have some problems on a setup with Debian + Mediawiki + Lilypond. I installed it according to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LilyPond I have Debian stable (Etch), Lilypond 2.8.7. Then I had to upgrade Lilypond to 2.10.29 (Debian testing) and guile to 1.8.2 (Debian unstable). I

still space between lyric syllabes when hyphens are removed

2007-11-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, When lyric syllabes with a hyphen in between come very close together, the hyphen is removed. Which is OK. But: sometimes there is still a little bit of space between the syllabes. What I would like is that IF the hyphen is removed (e.g. when shorter than 1 staffspace), the syllabes are

Re: Newbie question about variable durations

2007-11-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 3 november 2007, schreef Ben: I thought I had this figured out, but now I'm stuck. My program generates midi notes and converts them to lily variables (ie noteone = {ees'} ). What I need to do next is add my durations onto them. It seems so simple but I get error after error. Yes,

Re: OO and MIDI support

2007-11-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Nov 2007, at 17:43, Erik Sandberg wrote: Midi support in lilypond is quite limited, and this is not likely to change in the near future. Might it possible to handle this by OO (object orientation)? The idea is that if objects can be defined (in pseudocode) turn := default: ...

Re: Mediawiki extension

2007-11-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi Yann, I copied some Lilypond files from some other sites, including lilypond.org, but they do not work out of the box. Simple examples work, but complex ones do not. There are many syntax errors. You are using examples from old lilypond versions that do not compile anymore. See

song with multi-voice ending

2007-11-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
I've a song with one voice, but the ending has three. I need those in different staves, because they've slightly different texts, but I didn't manage it yet. What's wrong with my code below? The first (one voice) part works. --- \score { {

Re: song with multi-voice ending

2007-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What LilyPond version do you use? I don't have the time now to make dummy definitions of all your variables, so I have not done any trial and error. However, I would first try something along the lines of \score { \new ChordNames { \germanChords \set chordChanges = ##t

erratic key change marking

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Listrom
I am having some trouble with an erratic key change mark. The d major change seems to leave an open staff line with the d mark before that actual begining of the music. Any help would be great! Regards, Michael Here is the code: \version 2.10.33 \header{ title = Breaking Something subtitle

Re: Chords do not appear at the right position

2007-11-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi Niklas Uhrberg, I forward your questions to the user mailinglist. op zondag 4 november 2007, schreef je: Ok, thanks a lot for answering. I got it working also by using chordmode copying one of the templates. Is there a way to have triangle denoting a major seven chord appear aligned