Re: Latest Lilypond versions on Ubuntu?

2008-01-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/1/9, Joseph Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use Lilypond on Ubuntu and I just user the installer from lilypond.org. Get the latest from here: http://lilypond.org/web/install/ and then in a console, $ chmod +x lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh $ sudo ./lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh This

Re: Parallel music

2008-01-10 Thread Zbyněk Burget
Trevor Daniels napsal(a): Have a look at the 2.11 development branch Learning Manual at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-le arning/index , in particular Section 3.2 Voices contain music. You will find the answer there. Although this documentation is for release 2.11 it

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your example can be reduced to \version 2.11.37 \relative c''' { a8\rest ais4 } which shows the same bug, namely a collision between the rest and the note (which only seems to happen if the pitch is high enough so that the note gets a ledger line). This is a regression against 2.10.33.

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Damian leGassick
with ragged-right = ##t there's no collision d On 10 Jan 2008, at 09:37, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Your example can be reduced to \version 2.11.37 \relative c''' { a8\rest ais4 } which shows the same bug, namely a collision between the rest and the note (which only seems to happen if the pitch

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Damian leGassick wrote: with ragged-right = ##t there's no collision When I try it here, I don't see any difference if I set ragged-right or not. Note that I have compiled LilyPond myself based on the latest version of the source code in GIT, so if it's a very recent bug you may not see it

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try it here, I don't see any difference if I set ragged-right or not. Note that I have compiled LilyPond myself based on the latest version of the source code in GIT, so if it's a very recent bug you may not see it in your version. I have

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/10, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try it here, I don't see any difference if I set ragged-right or not. Note that I have compiled LilyPond myself based on the latest version of the source code in GIT, so if it's a very recent bug you may not see

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, that's what I mean. If you compare to 2.10, you will see a significant difference. I have to take your word here :) The fact that \relative c''' { a8\rest \once \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #10 ais4 } doesn't make any

Re: collision, is there a workaround?

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: This is the FIRST TIME EVER that I see a (smallest) mistake in one of your mails! Then you haven't read them so carefully! :-) Anyway, I realize that my previous formulations of this bug (and therefore your description of it in the bug tracker) may be

Re: Git ebuild

2008-01-10 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op woensdag 9 januari 2008, schreef milarepa7: Hello, I'd like to know if one of you use the git sources with portage? I didn't find any ebuild and I've to admit that it's not easy for me to write one. It's sure there's gentoo users working with these versions how do you do that? I use

Re: different tempos

2008-01-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Kostia, Welcome to Lilypond! =) Without seeing your exact code (Lilypond source file), it is difficult to diagnose the problem. However, I might recommend the following approach: 1. Writing all the music in a very short time signature (e.g., 2/4, or even 1/4). 2. Remove all

Re: Orchestral score

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Have you tried \override VerticalAlignment #'max-stretch = #1000 /Mats Reilly wrote: Sorry to repost this problem so soon, but I really am stumped. On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am stumped. I have a score with 22 staves, one system to a page. I want

Re: Orchestral score

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you tried \override VerticalAlignment #'max-stretch = #1000 Wow, I didn't know that one. I tried to add it to the LSR, but I seem to have misunderstood how it works: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=371 Can you enlighten me? Cheers,

Re: Orchestral score

2008-01-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What I tried was just a copy of the example in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vertical-spacing-inside-a-system#Vertical-spacing-inside-a-system (without the paper-size and staff-size settings and removing the unnecessary \book{...}) where I replaced the current

Re: Orchestral score

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What I tried was just a copy of the example in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vertical-spacing-inside-a-system#Vertical-spacing-inside-a-system (without the paper-size and staff-size settings and removing the unnecessary

Line-width, Staff Size, Print Size

2008-01-10 Thread Reilly
What is the relationship between the digital size of the line-width and staff height (in Lilypond specs, in the .ps file, and in the .pdf file) and the printed output? Is it true and invariant? If I specify that the line-width = 178 mm, is it truly 178 mm? If I specify a staff height

Re: Line-width, Staff Size, Print Size

2008-01-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
Reilly reilly at together.net writes: I am now preparing a major orchestral score and parts and sending the .pdf files electronically to a print shop. I will format the musical score for an 8.5 x 11 in original so that the print shop will enlarge the score perfectly to 11x14 inches and

Re: Line-width, Staff Size, Print Size

2008-01-10 Thread Karl Hammar
What is the relationship between the digital size of the line-width and staff height (in Lilypond specs, in the .ps file, and in the .pdf file) and the printed output? Is it true and invariant? Depends on your printer and it might call for minor adjustments. But it should be 1:1. Print out a

Win98 SE?

2008-01-10 Thread Norman Drucker
I'm a newbie to things Gnu and would like to know whether trying to install and use Lilypond on my Win98 SE system is going to be impossible or a major headache. I've reviewed the forum archive and see that people have had problems with Win98 in the past, but being a newbie, I don't even

systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Ole Schmidt
Hi all, where do I have to put systemSeperatorMarkup = ##t to get those double slashes in my score. I've tried inside the \paper { } block whith no success thank you for help ole ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Ole Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: where do I have to put systemSeperatorMarkup = ##t to get those double slashes in my score. I've tried inside the \paper { } block whith no success \paper { systemSeparatorMarkup = \slashSeparator } works here. Maybe it's just a typo error...

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Ole Schmidt
thanks a lot, I don't now how to concatenate the information given in the manual, it was pretty cryptic to me: systemSeparatorMarkup This contains a markup ob ject, which will be inserted between systems. This is often used for orchestral scores. Unset by default. The markup command

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Ole Schmidt
btw, can I change the size of the seperators- they look pretty cute but I doubt if they help...(see jpg) thanks ole inline: Bild 2.jpg Am 10.01.2008 um 20:22 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/1/10, Ole Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: where do I have to put systemSeperatorMarkup = ##t to get

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Tim Reeves
Ole Schmidt wrote: where do I have to put systemSeperatorMarkup = ##t to get those double slashes in my score. I've tried inside the \paper { } block whith no success Someone suggested it was a typo - sure enough, seperator != separator. Tim

Re: Git ebuild

2008-01-10 Thread milarepa7
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: I use Gentoo, but install my lily manually from git to /usr/local/ ... Thanks a lot, I've just done it and everything seems to work fine! I didn't compile by hand for a long time and that was a pleasure... The single strange thing that happened is that I can't

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread lilypondtool
If you look at the declaration of slashSeparator (it is in titling-init.ly): slashSeparator = \markup { \hcenter \vcenter \combine \beam #2.0 #0.5 #0.48 \raise #0.7 \beam #2.0 #0.5 #0.48 } You will easily see how to change it. Quoting Ole Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: btw, can I change

Re: systemSeperators

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/10, Ole Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: btw, can I change the size of the seperators- they look pretty cute but I doubt if they help...(see jpg) thanks What does the doc tell you? systemSeparatorMarkup This contains a markup ob ject, which will be inserted between systems. OK. So it is

special characters in markup

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Scott
I can no longer find (with the 2.11 docs) how to put special (reserved) characters into text markup. Can someone please remind me? TIA, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: special characters in markup

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Scott
Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: I can no longer find (with the 2.11 docs) how to put special (reserved) characters into text markup. Can someone please remind me? TIA, Paul Scott Maybe : \markup \char #'2014-Germain That's a good answer which I can use. I was actually thinking

Re: special characters in markup

2008-01-10 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: I can no longer find (with the 2.11 docs) how to put special (reserved) characters into text markup. Can someone please remind me? TIA, Paul Scott Maybe : \markup \char #'2014-Germain That's a good answer which I can use. I was actually thinking

Re: special characters in markup

2008-01-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/11, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's a good answer which I can use. This is not really needed anymore, as LilyPond can support all UTF-8 characters natively. I was actually thinking about normal characters like '' which have another syntactical meaning in Lily. Actually, the

opening Lilypond

2008-01-10 Thread fencinflyer
Help! I have apparently successfully downloaded Lilypond to my Windows XP PC, but whenever I double click on the desktop icon all I get is the silly Let's take it for a test drive window. I'd really like to use your program; and feel silly asking How do I turn the darn thing on? I've tried

Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-10 Thread Graham Percival
Try reading the tutorial. - Graham On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:09:29 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I have apparently successfully downloaded Lilypond to my Windows XP PC, but whenever I double click on the desktop icon all I get is the silly Let's take it for a test drive window. I'd

Lilypond: Newsgroup?

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Slapeta
Hi all, I guess there are no newsgroups reflecting the lilypond mailing lists at the moment.? If not, should we try to set them up? That would make some things a lot easier. Regards, Stefan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Lilypond: Newsgroup?

2008-01-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:16:20 +0100 Stefan Slapeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess there are no newsgroups reflecting the lilypond mailing lists at the moment.? If not, should we try to set them up? That would make some things a lot easier. I can't see it making a huge difference. If

Re: Lilypond: Newsgroup?

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Slapeta
I can't see it making a huge difference. If you're interested, I believe that gmane supplies NNTP. I only spent 30 seconds looking at their site, so I'm not totally certain though. I do - searching in old threads is a _LOT_ easier with a newsgroup client than via http archive! I've