ANN: LilyKDE, tool to work with LilyPond in KDE

2008-02-12 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, I just released version 0.3 of my shiny new lil' pet project: LilyKDE. It combines the power of KDE, Kate and KPDF to make editing LilyPond files in KDE easier. If you use KDE you might like it: http://lilykde.googlecode.com/ Best regards for all, Wilbert Berendsen -- http://www.wilbertber

Colored lines in staff

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Tonda
Is there a way to color selectively some of the lines in a staff? Here's an image representing what I'm talking about. -- Daniel Tonda C. <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

suggestion for LM 5.1.3

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Under LM 5.1.3 "Large projects" could we include something like this? It might also fit under 5.1.4 "Saving typing with variables and functions". Either way, I didn't discover this simple idea until I was browsing through the mailing list, and it would have saved me some trouble. (I was adding rehe

Re: Leopard?

2008-02-12 Thread Trevor Bača
Hey Andrea, Note that you may have to download the PPC (ie, G3 / G4 / G5) rather than the Intel binary. This proves to be the case on my MacBook (though I haven't tested on any other 10.5 boxes)! Trevor. On Feb 12, 2008 10:31 PM, Benedict Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. If you have Li

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Black
Graham Percival wrote: Anybody confused about file structure: Please read the Learing Manual on the GDP website: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ LM 3.1 How LilyPond files work in particular. "3.1.1 Introduction to the LilyPond file structure" has clarified things for me. It is a great improv

Re: Leopard?

2008-02-12 Thread Benedict Singer
Yes. If you have Lilypond in /Applications then you can run / Applications/Lilypond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond music.ly and then open the result in Preview. Preview in Leopard will also pick up file changes without having to close and reopen the file, so you can just leave it open.

Re: Not enough memory??

2008-02-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Yes, there is a way to reduce memory footprint. Set the LILYPOND_GC_YIELD environment variable to a small value. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Invoking-lilypond Dominic Neumann írta: Hi, some days ago I moved my LilyPond production system from an older computer

Re: Leopard?

2008-02-12 Thread Andrea Valle
Sorry for the late reply. This means that lily program from terminal works fine and it's the Lily GUI App that does not work? Thanks -a- On 11 Feb 2008, at 19:32, James E. Bailey wrote: you can use an external editor (Textmate, TeXShop) to edit and compile lilypond files in osx 10.5 Am 1

Not enough memory??

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, some days ago I moved my LilyPond production system from an older computer (733MHz, 128 MB RAM) to a VMWare image on a notebook. Since that time I very often get the error /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:24:15: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar (No

This works, but I don't understand why

2008-02-12 Thread James Wilkinson
The d flat has both an accent and a staccato mark over it. Lilypond wants to put he accent on top of the staccato. I wanted the staccato on top of the accent. Here are four tries. Two of them work; two of them don't. (no surprise there) Two seem to be according to the manual page 96; two don't

Re: override Stem beamed-lengths

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new here and new to lilypond, but I read the posts from a few years ago about tweaking the stem lengths of beamed notes. The posts deal with earlier versions. Whenever you find a solution in such an old post, try to figure out the version number it was written for

LaTeX sans font for LilyPond lyrics?

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, is there an easy way to use the LaTeX sans font for LilyPond lyrics? I already search the mailinglist but I couldn´t find a solution for it. Dominic ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypon

Re: Making a transparant of the created musicsheet

2008-02-12 Thread Zoltan Selyem
Dear Paul, > For a presentation in PowerPoint I want to create a musicsheet > with bars and and even text witch i can make transparant and > copy/paste to ppt. > Is that and option within Lilypond ? LilyPond can create image files. If, for example, your .ly source is called music.ly you can cal

override Stem beamed-lengths

2008-02-12 Thread cl
I'm new here and new to lilypond, but I read the posts from a few years ago about tweaking the stem lengths of beamed notes.  The posts deal with earlier versions.   This code   \version "2.10.33" \relative c' { a8[ g] \override Stem #'beamed-lengths = #'(20) a8[ g] \revert Stem #'beamed-lengths a

Re: specific temperament and pitch

2008-02-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Feb 2008, at 21:25, neuro wrote: Actually, I was trying to convince my ears first that, "the major 3rds of every major chord in a tonic piece should be played a little bit lower -- as 'just intonation' tuned, rather than 12-equal temperamented," and hoping Lilypond's midi could play

Re: Difficult layout questions

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Kieren, Risto and Joe, thanks for your answers. They were all very helpful for me. In detail: 1. I added the following to my \layout { } block: \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0.5 . 2.5) } which works very good. Co

Making a transparant of the created musicsheet

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Hickendorff
Dear sirs, For a presentation in PowerPoint I want to create a musicsheet with bars and and even text witch i can make transparant and copy/paste to ppt. Is that and option within Lilypond ? Thank you Paul ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Walter Hofmeister
Thanks Mats, found it and you are right, it is something I should know about as instrumental music is exactly what I do. Walter On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Walter Hofmeister wrote: Hi Werner, I have made a quick search for \skipBar and have not been able to fi

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Graham Percival
Anybody confused about file structure: Please read the Learing Manual on the GDP website: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ LM 3.1 How LilyPond files work in particular. Cheers, - Graham On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:11 + (UTC) Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bertalan. > > Bertalan

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Walter Hofmeister wrote: Hi Werner, I have made a quick search for \skipBar and have not been able to find it. Where did you find it? Did you try to use the search function available at the bottom of www.lilypond.org? It's certainly a useful setting to know about, at least if you're type

Re: feta fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The following code is both simpler and provides the list in the .log file if you run in Windows: \version "2.10.0" #(map ly:message (ly:otf-glyph-list (ly:font-load "emmentaler-20"))) /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: Right, the list in the appendix of the on-line version isn't useful if you are vis

Re: LSR account problem

2008-02-12 Thread Libero Mureddu
Ciao Seba, can you find my old account? If you can't, I'll make a new one. ciao libero On Feb 9, 2008 10:49 PM, Sebastiano Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > > 2008/2/9, Libero Mureddu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I forgot my username

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Yes, you are right, though I only wanted to provide a fragment from the grammar, just to show the point. I also didn't notice I can't have a paper block, because I was concerned only about grammar rules and not the actions. Mats Bengtsson wrote: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: See t

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: See the attached image for a simplified structure definition of a score block. Nice! I don't agree with all details, though. Well, \set is a music expression, namely a music property definition. What is good to remember is that there is 3 kinds of outp

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I'm just reading the LilyPond parser code :-) See the attached image for a simplified structure definition of a score block. Well, \set is a music expression, namely a music property definition. What is good to remember is that there is 3 kinds of output definition: \paper, \layout and \midi

Re: GDP: adrop a NR 1 doc section!

2008-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, If you're interested in "adopting" a doc section, Put me down for "Simultaneous". Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Defining extra glyph-name

2008-02-12 Thread Hans Aberg
See the makam example http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/snippets/Pitches#Pitches It seems one needs to have a glyph-name in order get this method working. Hans On 12 Feb 2008, at 13:34, Mats Bengtsson wrote: How did you plan to access the character using the glyph-name? Isn't it

Re: Defining extra glyph-name

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How did you plan to access the character using the glyph-name? Isn't it just as easy to access it using its Unicode character code? /Mats Hans Aberg wrote: How are new glyph-name's defined for an external (Unicode), so that they can be used in glyph-name-alist? (Which seems to be the requir

Re: file structure (hierarchy) - where to put \set

2008-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, My view is that it is preferable to put the skipBars (and other \set commands) into a section away from the music. I also believe that. Any hints as to where I am going wrong, When the skipBars property is being set, you need to use \set only if it's inline (inside the music);

Re: GDP: adrop a NR 1 doc section!

2008-02-12 Thread till
Hi Graham, I am interested in a try. You can probably tell about my English and if it is even helpful if I mess everything up, but if you think it would help I will start looking at 1.6 Staff notation. Greetings Till Graham Percival-2 wrote: > > GDP website: > http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ >

Re: file structure (hierarchy) - where to put \set

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Black
I have been playing with skipBars and have been getting rather confused. My view is that it is preferable to put the skipBars (and other \set commands) into a section away from the music. I have tried the following but get t_layout.ly:11:5: error: syntax error, unexpected \set \set skipBars

Re: file structure (hierarchy)

2008-02-12 Thread Werner
Hello Bertalan. Bertalan Fodor organum.hu> writes: > > It is because a score block, ie. \score { ... } can only contain the > following: > - one music expression OR one score identifier (a score defined as a > variable) > > > - THEN zero or more header, output definition or object_id_setting

Defining extra glyph-name

2008-02-12 Thread Hans Aberg
How are new glyph-name's defined for an external (Unicode), so that they can be used in glyph-name-alist? (Which seems to be the requirement if one wants to have more accidentals, like some of those in the Unicode standard.) Hans Åberg ___ l

Re: feta fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Right, the list in the appendix of the on-line version isn't useful if you are visually impaired, since it's a bitmapped image. However, as Hans pointed out in his previous answer, the corresponding PDF version of the manual contains the list in machine readable form, even though it might be confu

Re: Several issues transcribing ancient notation (clefs, noteheads, spacing)

2008-02-12 Thread till
Benedict Singer-2 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on transcribing several ancient hymn tunes in ancient > notation, and I've run across a few issues, listed below. I've been using > Petrucci note heads and a clef, and mensural time signatures (and rests, I > believe). > > 1) Is there an ea

Re: feta fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Hans Aberg
On 12 Feb 2008, at 05:21, hhpmusic wrote: Hi, I can't see the picture, and the Scheme codes are confusing. So I can't get the list of all glyphs in Feta fonts. Can anyone give me a list? Thank you! I noticed they don't show in Safari, but http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/l

Re: Divisi lyrics

2008-02-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What version of LilyPond do you use? I tried your example with both 2.10.33 and 2.11.39 and it compiles without any warning printouts and the result looks fine. However, you are stretching the syntactic capabilities of LilyPond a bit, since you are mixing a <<{...} \\ {...} >> construct (which gi

Re: time signature

2008-02-12 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Oops. Sorry for the previous mail. On 12/02/2008, Risto Vääräniemi wrote: > > How can I unhide the time signature in the first bar? > > Thanks! I must agree with Valentin. I first read: "How can I _hide_ the..." and the reply was based on that misinterpretation. -Risto ___

Re: time signature

2008-02-12 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, On 10/02/2008, Németh Pál wrote: > How can I unhide the time signature in the first bar? > Thanks! Try putting this code inside the \layout statement: \context { \Score \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f } Or specify \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f in your mus

Divisi lyrics

2008-02-12 Thread siepmann
This seems to be a commonly raised issue, but I'm perplexed as to why my attempt at a solution (below) has failed: << { \voiceOne dis2( eis8 fis gis4) fis2 fis4. fis8 fis4 fis2 ~ fis4 gis2 ais4 r4} \\ \new Voice = "vII" { \voiceTwo dis,2 (eis8 dis cis b) ais2 b4. dis8 cisis4 dis2( ais4) c