Re: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/8, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course, I famously never use the index, so I'm not the best person to judge whether certain index entries are helpful or not. Neither am I :-) Anyone else? Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: how to shorten a TrillSpanner

2008-02-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/9, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [I can't remember if I've mailed this one out before or not, but as I had to spend a couple of minutes rediscovering it myself, I thought I'd share. Also mental note to check and add to LSR ...] Sure. Feel free to comment the code that does not work

Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Kess Vargavind
Ho, As a librarian-in-training I have to agree with Jay (it generally hurts more omitting an entry than including it, especially in a open project like this that/which doesn't really have page limits to think about). I've been thinking on speaking up about the indeces for quite some while now but

LSR account problem

2008-02-09 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi, I forgot my username and password for LSR, is there a way to get those infos or should I open a new one? ciao libero - http://webusers.siba.fi/~limuredd/ http://www.myspace.com/liberomureddu ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: recorder fingering chart

2008-02-09 Thread Libero Mureddu
Thanks Tim, it works well, however, if I try to put those signs as markup, the plus doesn't work. Bug or I'm doing something wrong? Libero Example follows: \version 2.11.38 \include english.ly \score {\relative c' { g^\markup{\musicglyph #scripts.flageolet} g^\markup{\musicglyph #scripts.plus}

Re: recorder fingering chart

2008-02-09 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi Tim and list, actually I just discovered that there are already articulation signs for closed and open. Here is an example with half positions in between. However, the articulations are closer to the staff than the markups. Is there a way to make them at the same distance from the staff? I

Re: how to shorten a TrillSpanner

2008-02-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, There's now a *much* better way of shortening one end of a trill spanner manually: using the new (as of 2.11.something) #'bound-details list. [...] TrillSpanner implements all the goodies in the #'bound- details list Thanks for the update -- this is wonderful news! Best

OS X 10.5 Leopard

2008-02-09 Thread Victor Eijkhout
I've just started Lilypond for the first time since upgrading to 10.5 and I only get the Apple menu and Lilypond, clicking on the latter produces no menu. Java problems? I had 2.10.something, but downloading 2.11.something made no difference. Victor.

BassFigure vertical alignment

2008-02-09 Thread Michael Niemeck
I need to typeset a figured bass/organo part with the figures _above_ the bassline. I do this, by simply placing the FiguredBass context between the two staves of the organo part. The problem is, however, that the figures are still vertically aligned to the top. I tried setting

Re: GDP: LM 3-4

2008-02-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:44:02 -0500 calvin mitcham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now that i'm trying to help, i'll ramble out loud here a little... to just read these sections is confusing and boring. the tweaking is especially hard to read. i mean i hardly ever have an issue about how lilypond

Re: Dynamics 2

2008-02-09 Thread David
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:47:29 + (UTC), Marco Pagliari wrote: I'm creating MIDI files for my choir. How can I set different volume levels for each section, to make one be in evidence among the others? What I understand by reading section 1.3 is that dynamics can only be attached to

Re: OS X 10.5 Leopard

2008-02-09 Thread Graham Percival
Yes, it doesn't work. See issue 506 or 508 in the bug list. Cheers, - Graham On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:56:08 -0600 Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started Lilypond for the first time since upgrading to 10.5 and I only get the Apple menu and Lilypond, clicking on the latter

RE: GDP: LM 3-4

2008-02-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
forgot to copy to list ... calvin mitcham wrote 09 February 2008 00:44 LM 3 and LM 4 are quite hard going for anyone fairly new to LilyPond. thank you trevor! i am certainly a newbie, and although i have always found these sections very confusing, i never spoke up cause i had no

Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:55:06 +0100 Kess Vargavind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I love indeces (indexes?) and use them everywhere. Would you be willing to maintain the indeces/indexes? Some of the doc writers (including myself) either aren't good, or aren't interested, in trying to think of

Re: Arabic music half flat accidental shape

2008-02-09 Thread Hans Aberg
On 8 Feb 2008, at 15:02, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2008 schrieb Hans Aberg: A half flat in Arabic music is displayed as a b but with a slash across (It is hard to describe the shape precisely). Is it possible to access such a symbol, and if not, is it possible to

Trills too far left?

2008-02-09 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi Kieren, You ever have the tr. parts of your trill spanners start showing up too far to the left? The png attached gives an example from the middle of a large score that I'm almost completely done with. No code snippet, alas, because the problem only seems to show up in the middle of large

Adding a lyrics extender line to an alternate ending

2008-02-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Can anyone tell me if there's a way to print a lyrics extender line in the beginning of the alternate ending? Please, have a look at the image and the example to get a better view what I mean. I tried to use underscores but they were not vertically aligned with the extender line. It also

Re: LSR account problem

2008-02-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/2/9, Libero Mureddu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I forgot my username and password for LSR, is there a way to get those infos or should I open a new one? Honestly, you'd better open a new one; it's gonna be faster and simpler :) ... unless Sebastiano can do anything. Seba? Cheers, Valentin

Re: Trills too far left?

2008-02-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, You ever have the tr. parts of your trill spanners start showing up too far to the left? [...] Ever seen this one before? Yes! Unfortunately, like your case, mine were in the middle of a large score -- the chamber opera I wrote last year -- and so I never got around to

Re: Adding a lyrics extender line to an alternate ending

2008-02-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Risto, Can anyone tell me if there's a way to print a lyrics extender line in the beginning of the alternate ending? See attached for a hint. Hope this helps! Kieren. START \version 2.11.37 moveLE = \once \override LyricExtender #'extra-offset = #'(-0.8 . 0 ) \paper {

musicxml2ly problems

2008-02-09 Thread James E. Bailey
Hello, I'm finding some old(er) files on my computer that I'd like to work with again, but this time in Lilypond. I'm converting them from Finale using musicxml. Unfortunately, the files don't convert and this is what I get: James-TiGERmac:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/

Re: musicxml2ly problems

2008-02-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
File /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ musicxml2ly, line 1789, in print_ly_additional_definitions for a in set(needed_additional_definitions): NameError: global name 'set' is not defined Hmm, that's weird. Which version of Python do you have installed? The set data type

Rhythm mark snippet in LSR not 2.11. compatible?

2008-02-09 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi again, I found a wonderful snippet in LSR that explained how to create rhythm marks (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204). I tested it and found out that it doesn't work that well with 2.11.(37). The space between the mark and the staff is much bigger than in the example image. If you have

Insufficent space around bar lines

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Dunlop
I'm reducing the spacing-increment to #0.80 to get a tightly spaced score. The notes are spaced to my liking except that they crowd the barlines. Is there a way to give the barlines more space? Steve ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Augmentation dot on polyphonic notes a second apart

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Dunlop
I'm running 2.11.38. In reviewing the output, I see that in situations where the score contains polyphonic voices, stems in opposing directions, and the upper voice but not the lower has an augmentation dot, the placement of the dot in the output is ambiguous. The source scores I have add

bug in bendAfter + grace?

2008-02-09 Thread CJ Bell
Can anyone reproduce this? I'm using lilypond 2.10.33 \override NoteColumn #'X-extent = #'(0 . 1) \bendAfter #4 \grace c' a' \bendAfter #4 \grace c' a' Why does only the first bendAfter show up? Thanks! -cj (NOTE: \glissando and \slur produce a similar notation that works, but \bendAfter

musicxml2ly problems

2008-02-09 Thread James E. Bailey
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Re: Subject: GDP: index entries for snippets

2008-02-09 Thread David Fedoruk
Not knowing the question to ask is often a problem for me to. You are not alone with this experience. Perhaps he is asking how docbook format works. I'm just guessing about his query myself. The html version's indeces. See above for general pointers, there really is just one main thing