again: extra accidental-style

2008-01-01 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Valentin, I've read Your messagea concerning the new accidental style and I must say, this is exactly what I'm searching for. Could this problem be solved? Or have You found another solution for Yourself? Thanks for Your support, Stefan Stefan Thomas Siebengebirgsallee 9 50939 Köln

Leaving

2008-01-01 Thread Graham Percival
With the end of 2007, I am announcing my intention to leave LilyPond. I began using LilyPond in the summer of 2001. For the next three years, I wrote a lot of music, and gave a tiny amount of help for the project. Then I finished my first degree and moved to a different university. I also

Leaving: replacements

2008-01-01 Thread Graham Percival
An previously announced, am I gradually leaving LilyPond. This leaves a large number of tasks unfilled. Please seriously consider helping lilypond. If one person attempts to do everything in this list, they will quickly get burned out. Some of these tasks might seem trivial, but spreading the

Leaving: I can't help

2008-01-01 Thread Graham Percival
Some users may have read the emails Leaving: replacements and and thought gee, I wish I could help, but ``I don't know enough''. I would like to debunk this myth. I don't know enough, either! Neither did I when I began. I was a music composition student, with no

Changing header font name

2008-01-01 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Is it possible to change the font name (or default font name) one time for the entire header (title, subtitle, composer, poet, ...) instead of changing it field by field? Is it possible also to change the font name (or default font name) one time for all markups, whereever they are: inside a

RE: Leaving

2008-01-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham I'm sure everyone on this list will wish to express their appreciation for everything you have done for the LilyPond project and the many users of LilyPond. To say we shall miss you is the biggest understatement of the year! If every user was willing to contribute just 1% of the effort

Re: getting line feeds and page feeds in \markup between scores

2008-01-01 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 1 janv. 08 à 00:44, Jay Ricketts a écrit : Hi, I'm using \Book to put a hymnal together, and have hit a total snag trying to get some sort of intelligent pagination and line spacing to happen. I'm using \include to pull in stand-alone scores I've written, and using \markup lines between

Re: caesura usage

2008-01-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 1 januari 2008, schreef Paul Scott: \version 2.11.36 caesuraOn = \override BreathingSign #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup scripts.caesura.straight) caesuraOff = \override BreathingSign #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup scripts.rcomma) { c'4 \caesuraOn \breathe d'

Re: Leaving

2008-01-01 Thread Deacon Geoffrey Horton
My thanks also. One of the great flaws of most Open Source projects is a manual that's helpful only to the people who originally wrote the program. You deserve a lot of thanks for all your work in making sure that's not the case for LilyPond. ___

combining little complete pieces in one book?

2008-01-01 Thread Ole Schmidt
Dear list, Is it possible to create one file/pdf out of many little files who look like below with the \include command? (Having all the titles included...) using the\book { } command...? I can produce only lots of error warnings... thanks for a hint ole %%

Re:Questions from new lilypond user ( guitar string indication)

2008-01-01 Thread Jay Hamilton
Change the \ to a hypen - Someone else has probably already told you this. Yours- Jay Jay Hamilton www.soundand.com 206-328-7694 Message: 8 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: guitarmiami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions from new lilypond user To: lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: again: extra accidental-style

2008-01-01 Thread Rune Zedeler
Citat Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've read Your messagea concerning the new accidental style and I must say, this is exactly what I'm searching for. Could this problem be solved? Or have You found another solution for Yourself? We are working on a solution. It will hopefully (and

tupletspanner duration

2008-01-01 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, in the below qoted file I have a problem with the tuplet spanner, wich is to short in the 5th measure. I think it has to Do with the \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) . Is there a possibility to revert this? Thanks for Your support. Stefan Here the short

Re: tupletspanner duration

2008-01-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 1 januari 2008, schreef Stefan Thomas: in the below qoted file I have a problem with the tuplet spanner, wich is to short in the 5th measure. I think it has to Do with the \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) . Is there a possibility to revert this? Put \set

Re: again: extra accidental-style

2008-01-01 Thread Rune Zedeler
Citat Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: could You be so kind to tell me, what this dev/rune from git means? At the moment, I don't understand the meaning of it. In this case unfortunately I don't think you will be able to use this approach. You will need to be able to build lilypond yourself,

Re: Questions from new lilypond user

2008-01-01 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:20 PM, guitarmiami wrote: I'm trying to learn Lilypond by transcribing Dowland's Lacrimae Pavan from lute tablature to guitar. I have a few questions: One more minor, but perhaps helpful point. I have found that looking at Lilypond-encoded guitar pieces in

Re: again: extra accidental-style

2008-01-01 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Rune, thanks for Your support. So I'm looking forward to 2.12. But let me ask one last question about these accidental-things. I don't understand, why in the below quoted example the natural signs for e and a are missing. Has it to do with the make-moment thing? And if yes, what can be done

Re: caesura usage

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op dinsdag 1 januari 2008, schreef Paul Scott: \version 2.11.36 caesuraOn = \override BreathingSign #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup scripts.caesura.straight) caesuraOff = \override BreathingSign #'text = #(make-musicglyph-markup scripts.rcomma) { c'4

Re: Leaving: replacements

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: An previously announced, am I gradually leaving LilyPond. This leaves a large number of tasks unfilled.ate lilypond knowledge) I would consider the job of Documentation Editor. Does it require building on multiple platforms? I have a GNU/Linux x86 box capable of

Re: Leaving: replacements

2008-01-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/1, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Graham Percival wrote: An previously announced, am I gradually leaving LilyPond. This leaves a large number of tasks unfilled.ate lilypond knowledge) I would consider the job of Documentation Editor. Does it require building on multiple platforms?

A spacing issue - moving a single note

2008-01-01 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I have a situation like f8.[ \clef alto c'16] where the alto clef and the extra beam on the 16th note overlap. I want to keep the beam, as I want my typeset score to reflect as much as possible the original 17th century manuscript from which I'm working. So what I want to do is to move the

Re: Leaving: replacements

2008-01-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:48:35 -0700 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote: An previously announced, am I gradually leaving LilyPond. This leaves a large number of tasks unfilled.ate lilypond knowledge) I would consider the job of Documentation Editor. Does it

Re: A spacing issue - moving a single note

2008-01-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 1 januari 2008, schreef Alasdair McAndrew: I have a situation like f8.[ \clef alto c'16] where the alto clef and the extra beam on the 16th note overlap. I want to keep the beam, as I want my typeset score to reflect as much as possible the original 17th century manuscript from

Re: Leaving: replacements

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: 2008/1/1, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Graham Percival wrote: An previously announced, am I gradually leaving LilyPond. This leaves a large number of tasks unfilled.ate lilypond knowledge) I would consider the job of Documentation Editor. Does it

text encoding compatibility

2008-01-01 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I'm writing my piano transcription of a Chinese folksong. But when I typed the Chinese title and related header info, Lilypond reported error message of incompatible font. I think Lilypond is an English based program, so, can you make it free to accept other types of text such as Chinese,

Re: text encoding compatibility

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:11 PM, hhpmusic wrote: Hi, I'm writing my piano transcription of a Chinese folksong. But when I typed the Chinese title and related header info, Lilypond reported error message of incompatible font. I think Lilypond is an English based program, so, can you make it