Re: positions of barnumbers

2008-01-24 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear Stef, On Jan 24, 2008 10:50 PM, wrote: > This is the example: The example you provided seems to be broken. All the backslashes are missing and LP cannot process the file. How did you attach it to the message? -Risto ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Damian leGassick
well, that clears it up for me. thanks all ralph, yes it was the scope of that first # that foxed me and yes i assumed wrongly that the equals sign was the assignment operator if anyone can boil this link down to a couple of sentences for the docs, i think there'd be a few people down the

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Also if you used LilyPondTool you would see that it colors the scheme parts, so you would see where the scheme part end. See attached screenshot. Bert Damian leGassick írta: actually, this confuses me too if the # puts lilypond into scheme mode, does that mean that the equals-sign in #'merge

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Well, it is quite easy to answer if you know a bit scheme. Scheme has a very very simple syntax, only 2 kinds of elements - literals, ie. Words, numbers and quotations (quotation is something that begins with a ' sign.) - expressions aka operations, which always begin and end with parentheses, li

Re: musicglyph for pedal down

2008-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Lilypondusers, my question is: which is the musicglyph for the Pedal-down-symbol in the Emmentaler-font? I tried it with {c'_markup { musicglyph #"pedal" } } but nothing happens. First of all, please be careful with the syntax, several backslashes are missing

Re: spacing

2008-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:38:42 -0500 "Palmer, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been typesetting scales and arpeggios, and I noticed that the > spacing of the eighth note triplets is not constant in the following. > It's not huge, but the triplets in the first half of the first measure > clea

spacing

2008-01-24 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - I'm running LilyPond V 2.11.27 under Win XP SP2. I've been typesetting scales and arpeggios, and I noticed that the spacing of the eighth note triplets is not constant in the following. It's not huge, but the triplets in the first half of the first measure clearly have a wider spacing

re: positions of barnumbers

2008-01-24 Thread stef . thomas
Dear Trevor, o.k. I have an example, to show You, what I mean. It is, unfortunately, not short, because of the many definitions and so on. But one can clearly recorgnize, that the barnumbers are at very strange positions. This is the example: version "2.11.34" global= { override TimeSig.TimeSi

musicglyph for pedal down

2008-01-24 Thread stef . thomas
Dear Lilypondusers, my question is: which is the musicglyph for the Pedal-down-symbol in the Emmentaler-font? I tried it with {c'_markup { musicglyph #"pedal" } } but nothing happens. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Ralph Little
> if the # puts lilypond into scheme mode, does that mean that the > equals-sign in #'merge-differently-headed = ##t is not scheme? if > it is, then why not #'merge-differently-headed = #t ? In fairness to Damian, I think his further question was more to do with the scope of the # scheme int

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Damian (et al.), actually, this confuses me too There may be a better (and, likely, more accurate) explanation than the one I'm about to give... but this works for me, so I hope it helps you. =) if the # puts lilypond into scheme mode, does that mean that the equals-sign in #'merge-

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Folks, the new LM is designed **exactly** to clarify this kind of thing. Please take a look at that; if it's unclear, then let's fix it once in the docs, instead of discussing it on -user every six months. I think the exact section is LM 4.2.3, but you should probably skim through LM 3 and the be

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
Folks, the new LM is designed **exactly** to clarify this kind of thing. Please take a look at that; if it's unclear, then let's fix it once in the docs, instead of discussing it on -user every six months. I think the exact section is LM 4.2.3, but you should probably skim through LM 3 and the be

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Damian leGassick
actually, this confuses me too if the # puts lilypond into scheme mode, does that mean that the equals-sign in #'merge-differently-headed = ##t is not scheme? if it is, then why not #'merge-differently-headed = #t ? d On 24 Jan 2008, at 16:06, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Martin Seng Hin Y

Re: musicglyph for pedal, problem with e-mail

2008-01-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/1/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Lilypond users, > after the last e-mails I got always replies like this. What does it mean? > Sorry for boring You with this question, which has nothing to do with > lilypond itself. > - weitergeleitete Nachricht - > > > Subject:

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-24 Thread Neil Thornock
Thank you by the way for this solution - it works beautifully and may encourage me to learn a bit of Scheme. > Here's one solution. > > \paper{ > > #(define (print-positive-page-number layout props arg) >(if (> (chain-assoc-get 'page:page-number props -1) 0) >(create-page-number-stenc

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:50:33 +0100 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO "quarter-flat/sharp" is non-sense and sounds ugly when speaking > of quarter-tones, and it looks like from emails in this thread that > "half-sharp" is rarely used. "quarter-tone flat/sharp" is most > meaningful a

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-24 Thread Neil Thornock
> I don't find if very useful at all. Why would you want negative page > numbers > on some pages? > > Well, the purpose would be to have front matter as part of the same file - such as an instrumentation list and performance notes - but to start page numbering with the first page of the score, as i

RE: positions of barnumbers

2008-01-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Could you please say what you consider is the 'right' position and post a small example of your ly code which shows the bar numbers at 'strange positions'. We should then be able to help you better. Trevor D > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+

Re: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Stan Sanderson wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hello list, The knowledge of programming and scripting, for me, was inadequate for years. I went 'C' Programming lectures at college (few years ago) and only learned 10% of the 2 inch thick book (my bad...). Doesn

positions of barnumbers

2008-01-24 Thread stef . thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I have a problem with the barnumbers. They very often appear at very strange positions. I assume, that it has to do with the timeSig, that I use for the time-signature. What can I do, to have the barnumbers always on the right position? Thanks for support, Stefan _

musicglyph for pedal, problem with e-mail

2008-01-24 Thread stef . thomas
Dear Lilypond users, after the last e-mails I got always replies like this. What does it mean? Sorry for boring You with this question, which has nothing to do with lilypond itself. - weitergeleitete Nachricht - Subject: The results of your email commands Date: Do 24 Jan 2008 15:42:3

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Everything beginning with a # is a Scheme-language expression. So this sets the property called 'merge-differently-headed to the value #t #t is the expression meaning true in Scheme. Hi Bertalan Fodor, Okay...assume i knew th

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
That turns lilypond into Scheme mode. Bert Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Everything beginning with a # is a Scheme-language expression. So this sets the property called 'merge-differently-headed to the value #t #t is the expression meaning true in Scheme. M

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Everything beginning with a # is a Scheme-language expression. So this sets the property called 'merge-differently-headed to the value #t #t is the expression meaning true in Scheme. Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hi List, I'm curios to know, what is the mean

Re: A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Everything beginning with a # is a Scheme-language expression. So this sets the property called 'merge-differently-headed to the value #t #t is the expression meaning true in Scheme. Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hi List, I'm curios to know, what is the meaning of "##t" in the #'merge-differentl

A question on "##t"

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Hi List, I'm curios to know, what is the meaning of "##t" in the #'merge-differently-headed = ##t ? Thank You Martin Seng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hello list, The knowledge of programming and scripting, for me, was inadequate for years. I went 'C' Programming lectures at college (few years ago) and only learned 10% of the 2 inch thick book (my bad...). Doesn't know much to cod

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-24 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008 à 09:11 -0500, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > When I speak with musicians, I almost always say "a quarter-tone > flat" -- I rarely (if ever) say "a half-flat" or "a quarter-flat". > But maybe that's just me... IMHO "quarter-flat/sharp" is non-sense and sounds ugly when spe

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi y'all, "Half-flat" perfectly makes sense, as a flat is a semi-tone and we want to name a quarter tone i.e. a half of a half tone). However, "quarter-flat" may have been already too much used to allow using anything else... When I speak with musicians, I almost always say "a quarter-tone

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-24 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 23 janvier 2008 à 10:55 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > > > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe > > > > it's a European thing? (or a poor translation from the > > > > appropriate terms in Du

Re: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Trevor Daniels wrote: Hi Martin You don't say which of the LilyPond manuals you have read, but we are at the moment preparing a Learning Manual for the development version of LilyPond (2.11). If you haven't looked at this, please try the first four chapters of this. You'll find the most recent

Re: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I think you should start making music, and if you have some goal to achieve you don't know how to, search in the manual for it. Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hello list, The knowledge of programming and scripting, for me, was inadequate for years. I went 'C

RE: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Martin You don't say which of the LilyPond manuals you have read, but we are at the moment preparing a Learning Manual for the development version of LilyPond (2.11). If you haven't looked at this, please try the first four chapters of this. You'll find the most recent version at http://kain

Re: I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I think you should start making music, and if you have some goal to achieve you don't know how to, search in the manual for it. Martin Seng Hin Yew wrote: Hello list, The knowledge of programming and scripting, for me, was inadequate for years. I went 'C' Programming lectures at college (few

I need training...

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Hello list, The knowledge of programming and scripting, for me, was inadequate for years. I went 'C' Programming lectures at college (few years ago) and only learned 10% of the 2 inch thick book (my bad...). Doesn't know much to code object-oriented programming, like lilypond (i think so...,

Re: positioning of \revert

2008-01-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A somewhat naive explanation is that something that has a duration (such as a note, spacer note or rest) should happen inbetween the \override and \revert. /Mats Paul Scott wrote: In 2.11.37 NR 6.1.5 mention is made of \revert not working. This should probably be expanded to explain what