Re: from MIDI?

2008-03-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hello George, list, It's possible to make a .ly file into a MIDI file, but is it possible to have a midi file and convert it back to a .ly file, or even better, a .pdf file? Yes, there is. There is a command called 'midi2ly' that converts a MIDI file to a Lilypond file. YOu can then use

Re: Beginning single staff with vertical line

2008-03-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear Marius, The SystemStartBar seems to be in Score context. To make it appear try the following: % \version 2.11.39 \score { \new StaffGroup \override StaffGroup.SystemStartBracket #'collapse-height = #1 \override Score.SystemStartBar #'collapse-height = #1 \new Staff {

Re: simultaneous free rhythms

2008-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00864.html for some hints. /Mats luis jure wrote: hello list, i found a problem i can't solve by myself. i'm writing a string quartet with a section where the four instruments play in free rhythm, independently from each other.

Constant space between title (header) and 1st system

2008-03-26 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Are there any plans for a setting that could be used for setting the spacing between the title / header and the first system? Now the spacing is affected by between-system-padding. Usually it's OK but if you're making e.g. a song book that have songs with different paddings the results are

Re: simultaneous free rhythms

2008-03-26 Thread Karl Hammar
Luis Jure: i'm writing a string quartet with a section where the four instruments play in free rhythm, independently from each other. the cello plays a melody and the three other instruments play whole notes with fermatas, all of them freely. ... If you are really aiming for *independent*

Re: simultaneous free rhythms

2008-03-26 Thread Ole Schmidt
this may be serve as a model (fractional arithmetic...) \version 2.11.42 violin = \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver } { %\override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t \time 48/16 \compressMusic #'(3 . 4) { \relative c' { g'''1\fermata s4\breathe cis,,,1\fermata

Re: Parenthesizing rests

2008-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
parenthesized is a layout object property that only is included in the accidental-interface, where it is used to determine if a cautionary accidental should be typeset using smaller font or by including it in parentheses. parenthesize, on the other hand, is a music property, which is used

Re: Parenthesizing rests

2008-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Playing around with \displayMusic, I got a hint on how to obtain a parenthesized rest: \version 2.10.0 \relative c' { c d e #(ly:export (make-music 'EventChord 'elements (list (make-music 'RestEvent 'parenthesize #t 'duration (ly:make-duration 2 0 1

Re: Beginning single staff with vertical line

2008-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Note that this solution only works in recent 2.11.x versions, not in 2.l0 or earlier. /Mats Risto Vääräniemi wrote: Dear Marius, The SystemStartBar seems to be in Score context. To make it appear try the following: % \version 2.11.39 \score { \new StaffGroup \override

Lilypond vs Finale

2008-03-26 Thread Jean-Gabriel GILLARD
Bonjour, j'utilise Finale 2007 que j'apprécie beaucoup pour sa maniabilité et ses nombreuses possibilités. Néanmoins, j'ai atterri sur votre site, suite au mail d'un ami. Votre projet semble intéressant, mais je n'ai pas compris certaines choses. Par exemple, la police utilisée est elle changeable

vim compiles always in root directory

2008-03-26 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
Hi, compiling LilyPond in vim prompts always the output files in root directory. It doesn't matter where the source file is. But I want the output in the directory in which source file is. Where can I change this? Thanks for tips Wolfgang - Wolfgang Mechsner

Re: vim compiles always in root directory

2008-03-26 Thread Graham Percival
I recommend looking at the output of lilypond --help Cheers, - Graham On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:24 +0100 Wolfgang Mechsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, compiling LilyPond in vim prompts always the output files in root directory. It doesn't matter where the source file is. But I want

Re: vim compiles always in root directory

2008-03-26 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
uups, it doesn't help me really, I am sorry - or I'm understanding something wrong . My problem: 1. In Gvim I compile a *.ly file somewhere in a directory. I use F5 to compile it. 2. The output files (*.ps an *pdf) are always in root directory Regards Wolfgang * Graham Percival [26.03.08

Re: Lilypond vs Finale [translation into English]

2008-03-26 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Salut Jean-Gabriel, Je vais essayer une petite traduction pour les membres de la liste qui ne parlent pas le français j'espère que je le peux bien faire. SVP de me corriger si j'ai fait les erreurs. Une question -- dans votre paragraphe Peut-on inserer les tournes ... Cela signifie par

Re: vim compiles always in root directory

2008-03-26 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op woensdag 26 maart 2008, schreef Wolfgang Mechsner: uups, it doesn't help me really, I am sorry - or I'm understanding something wrong . My problem: 1. In Gvim I compile a *.ly file somewhere in a directory. I use F5 to compile it. 2. The output files (*.ps an *pdf) are always in root

Re: Lilypond vs Finale

2008-03-26 Thread Francois Planiol
Cher Jean-Gabriel, il n'est pas tres ineressant de comparer les deux programmes, car la Philosophie des approches sont tres differentes. Les features que tu demandes existent toutes sous lily, certaines specialites finales comme decrocher les queux des notes ne marchent pas (encore) sous

Re: \smallCaps and special characteres

2008-03-26 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 25 mars 08 à 19:54, Zenith a écrit : Please, is it possible to use \smallCaps with some special characteres like ç, ã, è, etc. Thx, Zenith It is possible, by redefining \smallCaps in order to force it dealing with accented characters (which guile does not). I use the following

Re: Lilypond vs Finale [translation into English]

2008-03-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
[transfering to -user-fr] Bonjour Jean-Gabriel, hi Joseph and François, Je vous propose de poursuivre cette discussion en français sur la liste de discussion spécialement dédiée aux utilisateurs francophones de lilypond: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr Les questions que

Mac-intel Leopard

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes
Will there be a Leopard version available soon? I tried to follow the steps involved to get LilyPond working but I am a musician not a computer programmer - LOL! It's too complicated... Thank you. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Mac-intel Leopard

2008-03-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/3/26, Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will there be a Leopard version available soon? I tried to follow the steps involved to get LilyPond working but I am a musician not a computer programmer - LOL! It's too complicated... Yes, it is complicated. However, it does work... I am musician

Re: \smallCaps and special characteres

2008-03-26 Thread Zenith
Well, thanks for the answer. :clap: I thought it would be an easy way, :confused:at this moment, this solution is too advanced to me. %-| But, I promiss that I'll try to change this on the right place... (rs) :thinking: Thx,:handshake: Zenith Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Le 25 mars 08 à

Re: Mac-intel Leopard

2008-03-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/3/26, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Plus, perhaps you haven't thought that Apple broke their code in the first place, not us. You can't blame any LilyPond developer for an Apple-specific defect. Nicolas Sceaux has managed to make it work, perhaps if you write him he'll send

Re: Mac-intel Leopard

2008-03-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/3/26, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That said, perhaps we could ask Nicolas to distribute his binary? Even unmaintained (e.g. stuck at 2.11.3x or whatever), this could be a nice workaround for 10.5 users, couldn't it? Sure we can. The problem is that the lilypond binary

re: vim compiles always in root directory

2008-03-26 Thread Romel Anthony S. Bismonte
I ran into a similar issue when I was writing this musical some time back. My workaround was basically this: 1) In the directory that I have the music in (let's say it was /path/to) I put in a startvim script and a render script. 2) The startvim script just called vim. 3) The render script had

Re: Mac-intel Leopard

2008-03-26 Thread Benedict Singer
It appears that all he's doing is compiling the command line binary for OS X, and in that case, the binary contained in the PPC OS X version actually works fine under Leopard with Intel - indeed, it's what I've been using from Terminal since upgrading to Leopard. Perhaps the issue is

Re: do these notes exist?

2008-03-26 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
Hi Maarten, Hi List, I also feel almost silly to give you what follows. This should be a theoretical matter , just for correct writting of a major scale according to its definition, i.e. has to be diatonic in its writting. I have already seen such things while learning accordion bass