Re: OSX version ???

2008-01-13 Thread Paul Scott
Daniel Henry wrote: Hi and thank you for developing such an interesting project. I use a Mac with OsX 10.5. I downloaded Lilypond for Mac 2.10.33 and decompressed the .tar file. The application seemed to install fine and opened when double-clicked. A small text file opened as well

latex, newcommand and lilypond-book

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, in my latex file I have: \newcommand{\lily }[1]{\lilypondfile{#1}{#1}} but, lilypond-book then complains: lilypond-book: error: file not found: #1 Again in my niavete, I had hoped to use blocks of latex code like: \begin{figure}[h] \index{over the ocean}

RE: OSX version ???

2008-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Daniel Welcome to LilyPond! What you describe is quite correct behaviour. LilyPond is unlike many applications and does not have pull-down menus. Instead you must prepare and save a text file written in LilyPond input format, and then drop this on the LilyPond icon to convert this to a printed

Re: Keeping score titles with empty music

2008-01-13 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
You can use \new Devnull { c } %% music will not be print instead of \context Voice {} ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: double repeat voltas

2008-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Fedoruk wrote 13 January 2008 06:28 I've worked ahead on this piece of music and found that perhaps the problem is not where it thought that it was. What I saw as a single bar line in the middle of a bar is actually an extra bar who's ending bar line I could not see (yet). As

RE: Fitting more bars in a line

2008-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith You may need to use \noBreak and \break commands to manually control the number of bars in a system. By forbidding line breaks with \noBreak at the point where the breaks currently are, you should get more bars on a line. Alternatively, if there are too many systems you could set

RE: Which engraver creates \fermataMarkup

2008-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote 12 January 2008 21:54 Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2008 schrieb Trevor Daniels: Why not just leave the fermata (and everything else that you don't want) out of mII? Because I'm also creating one score for the second voice alone, so each voice needs to have the

slanted stem

2008-01-13 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
is it possible to get a stem slanted? -- Esenlikler! Best regards! Mehmet Okonsar pianist, composer, conductor == www.okonsar.com == Bugunku ozdeyisiniz: Your fortune for today is: == If I traveled to the end of the rainbow

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-13 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 13 janv. 08 à 08:57, Joe Mc Cool a écrit : On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:45:45PM +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: You may get rid off LaTeX and use LilyPond only, for instance with the help of this titling stylesheet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368 Newbie: Please, I have tried

Re: double repeat voltas

2008-01-13 Thread David Fedoruk
This is usually a symptom of an incorrect note duration (one that is too long) or maybe an extra inserted note, which cause all remaining notes to be shifted slightly to the right, and at the end of the section the little bit left over causes a new bar to be started. You are using bar

from abc a general approach ?

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, I am trying to put together a collection of (Irish) traditional music and I need some general advice. I have lilypond book working quite well, but I find the abc code is such that the resulting abc2ly files are often unsatisfactory - problems with beaming, abc2ly complains about a

Re: Fitting more bars in a line

2008-01-13 Thread David Bobroff
Keith Dunsire wrote: I am attempting to transpose a victoria piece from CPDL which is written in Lilypond (http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/ly/Vadam_Et_Circuibo_Civitatem.ly) the PDf is http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/pdf/Vadam_Et_Circuibo_Civitatem.pdf. I am using 2.11.something and have had

Re: Shifting a markup

2008-01-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/13, Alasdair McAndrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a time change (from 6/2 to 9/4), and at the time change I have the markup: \markup { \smaller \note #2 #1 = \smaller \note #2. #1 } above the first note in the new time signature. But I'd like to shift the entire markup to the

Re: OSX version ???

2008-01-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/13, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What you describe is quite correct behaviour. Not really, there is indeed a bug. Daniel, can you please read this mail I sent a few days ago? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2008-01/msg00152.html I hope this will not prevent you

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/13, Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is something wrong in LSR wrt to character encoding. OK, I've added it on my ask-Sebastiano list. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

RE: Shifting a markup

2008-01-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Alasdair One way is to use the \mark command. This is normally used for rehearsal marks, and the key point is that it is positioned relative to the barline. The horizontal adjustment can be varied from left-aligned to right-aligned by setting self-alignment-X. Left-aligned is -1, right-aligned

Feature request: attach notation elements to barlines

2008-01-13 Thread Jamie Bullock
Hi, Something I often want to be able to do is to attach a notational element to a barline. For example: |\fermata - place a fermata over a barline |\! - end a (de)crescendo at a barline |\sustainUp - end pedalling at a barline |\stopTextSpan - end a text spanner over a

feature request: per-score ragged-last-bottom

2008-01-13 Thread Jamie Bullock
Hi, It would be extremely useful to be able to make settings that are available in the \paper block on a per-score basis. So for each score in a book, one could do \layout { ragged-last-bottom=##f } etc. Anyone interested in implementing this feature for sponsorship? Jamie --

Re: Which engraver creates \fermataMarkup

2008-01-13 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I'm having a piece with each vocal voice split into two, which are printed on the same staff. As I only want to print dynamics, articulations etc. once, I simply remove the corresponding engravers from the second voice. However, I have not been able to find the proper engraver for the

Re: Shifting a markup

2008-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor (et al.): by setting self-alignment-X. Left-aligned is -1, right-aligned +1. Any value inbetween may be specified. For the record, I believe *any* value (i.e., not necessarily in the range [-1,1]) may be specified. Cheers, Kieren.

Re: slanted stem

2008-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mehmet, is it possible to get a stem slanted? I answered the same question for you some time ago... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00208.html Hope this helps. Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Arpeggio in the wrong bar

2008-01-13 Thread Arjan Bos
On 12 jan 2008, at 17:56, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/12, Arjan Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This only occurs when the arpeggio mark applies to a chord with fingering in it and when that same arpeggio mark spans two or more voices. Are there any ideas on this list on how to prevent it?

Re: Which engraver creates \fermataMarkup

2008-01-13 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 schrieb Gilles THIBAULT: I'm having a piece with each vocal voice split into two, which are printed on the same staff. As I only want to print dynamics, articulations etc. once, I simply remove the corresponding engravers from the second voice. However, I

Re: Which engraver creates \fermataMarkup

2008-01-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/13, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow, that's really cool! It is indeed :) Thanks a lot for the scheme code. I've added a snippet to the LSR showcasing your approach: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=372 Thanks, (happily) approved. I modified your title a bit, however it

Lilypond slowness when invoking with *.ly

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi all, when processing a number of files, it takes on my machine much more time calling Lily with: lilypond *.ly than lilypond a.ly lilypond b.ly Is this a general issue with Lily's memory managment? Regards, Michael ___ lilypond-user

Stacking order TextScript / FiguredBass

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi all, how can I place TextScripts above a FiguredBass context? Following example: \version 2.11.37 \score { \new FiguredBass \figuremode { 64 5 6 4 5 3 } \new Staff { c'4^blabla d e f } } Thanks for any advice, Michael ___ lilypond-user

hungarian characters

2008-01-13 Thread Nemeth Pal
Hi! I have a question of lilypond (\version 2.10.10) in Windows XP I want to use special characters in lyrics (é á ú ü ű ő ö ó í) How can I do that? Thanks! Németh Pál Fót 2151 Károlyi István u.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: hungarian characters

2008-01-13 Thread Tiago Morin
Szia! Lilypond suports UTF8 as character encoding input. Save your file in UTF8 encoding and it will appear in the pdf like you wrote it. Tiago On Jan 13, 2008 8:48 PM, Nemeth Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a question of lilypond (\version 2.10.10) in Windows XP I want to use

Re: Fitting more bars in a line

2008-01-13 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 12 januari 2008, schreef Keith Dunsire: Please can anyone suggest what I can do to fit 8 or 9 bars per line rather than 7 or 8. I get the best results with the system-count variable, try putting \layout { system-count = 11 } in the score section of the first part and \layout {

GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches

2008-01-13 Thread Graham Percival
I'm still seeking comments on NR 1.1 Pitches. As far as I know, only one advanced user has read the whole thing in the past month. If you read it and didn't see any problems, please let me know. View it here (and not on lilypond.org!) http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ A pdf is available. The

Re: new LilyPond based project

2008-01-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
BopLand.org wrote: This is an announcement about new LilyPond based project. http://bopland.org The BopLand.org project is FREE knowledge database for improvising musician. The database contains hundreds of beautiful melodic patterns played by outstanding jazz musicians like Bill

partcombine

2008-01-13 Thread Ole Schmidt
dear all, in the following snippet I use \partcombine and no Triplets are displayed. When I % the \partcombine and the second part then everything is fine. Do I miss something? ole % \new Staff { \set Staff.printPartCombineTexts = ##f \time 6/4 \clef G_8

Re: Feature request: attach notation elements to barlines

2008-01-13 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Jamie Bullock wrote: Something I often want to be able to do is to attach a notational element to a barline. Good idea. |\p |\f etc. would also be nice. When there isn't too much vertical space you have to place dynamics on invisible rests and play with extra-space which sometimes is