Re: Lytex and directory structure

2008-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:33:19 -0300 Hugo Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I put it into the main file, everything goes ok. Put if I put this > same code into any file that is in a subdirectory, like > '../Cap01/cap01-02_notacao.tex' I receive an error in the Latex. It > says: > > "! LaTeX

Re: Running LilyPond from a memory stick

2008-04-11 Thread Ben Lewis
Start > Run > RegEdit? I know it exists in XP, so that should work. On Friday 11 April 2008 16:25:14 Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2008/4/11 Palmer, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Has anyone been able to run LilyPond from/on a memory stick? I have a 16 > > Gb stick, and I'd like to run LilyPond

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-11 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
The bracket has to be in quotes http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-markup-introduction#Text-markup-introduction Ok, here are the first line of the fist verse stanzaOneOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1. {" Child, you're mine and I love you. Lend thine ear to wh

Snippet 390

2008-04-11 Thread Alexander Kobel
Oh, and since I'm typing right now anyway: Here's a slight modification of LSR snippet 390 to also modify rest events, laying around here for some time... (if (or (eq? 'NoteEvent (ly:music-property chordElt 'name)) (eq? 'RestEvent (ly:music-property chordElt 'name))) ins

Re: Metronome marks

2008-04-11 Thread Alexander Kobel
Risto Vääräniemi wrote: On 08/04/2008, Trevor Daniels wrote: The snippet 204 doesn't work very well with 2.11 because it uses negative padding to position the rhythm mark closer to the staff and that's not supported by 2.11. I think there's another drawback of the snippet. I had a very similar

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread Alexander Kobel
The first appearance of "ewig reicher Gott" to come in my mind is "Nun danket alle Gott", a very well-known choral by Johann Crüger on a text by Martin Rinckart (German Catholic "Gotteslob", 266). It seems to be usually translated with "bounteous God" there; e.g. cf. http://www.cyberhymn

[ANN] LilyKDE 0.5.0 released

2008-04-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, LilyKDE 0.5.0 has been released[1]. A major new feature is support for Rumor[2], to enter music by playing on a MIDI keyboard or your computer keyboard. Many adjustments are possible including automatic detection of lilypond language, time and key signature of the current document. Ther

Re: Running LilyPond from a memory stick

2008-04-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/11 Palmer, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anyone been able to run LilyPond from/on a memory stick? I have a 16 > Gb stick, and I'd like to run LilyPond from it, but I don't know what > problems I'm likely to encounter. The computers I plan to use both run > Windows XP SP2. > > The st

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread David R. Linn
>> In that case, it might be rendered as "ever reigning God" or "ever >> ruling God" as in "Jesus Lives, and So Shall I" (based on "Jesus lebt, >> mit ihm auch ich," by Christian F. Gellert, tune commonly attributed >> to Joachim Neander) Oops, that's wrong. The tune for "Jesus lebt, mit ihm auc

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Hedekar
AHHH, there's the problem! I should have known better! -Eric On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > > And I did a visual check to make sure all of the {} and <<>> are > matching > > throughout the document. > > They do match, but you've inserted q

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread David R. Linn
fiëé visuëlle wrote: The meaning of "reich" in this example is extremely uncommon in (modern) German. I *guess* it refers to the old stem of "-rich" (like in names) that means "ruler", similar to "Reich" (empire, see "dein Reich komme" in German paternoster). In that case, it might be render

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Eric, > And I did a visual check to make sure all of the {} and <<>> are matching > throughout the document. They do match, but you've inserted quite a few comments before brackets, which means LilyPond ignores them: \FlTwo %flute2 >> or \new Staff {\VlnOne %violin1 } Have a look at se

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
Eric Hedekar wrote: > > Looks like you forgot a } or >> somewhere. > > Also, try putting everything inside a GrandStaff or <<>> or > something like that. > > Cheers, - Graham > > > > Hi Grahm, > > Whenever I put in a <<>> I get an: orchestra.ly:199:0: error: > syntax error, unexpected >> So now you

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:38:35 -0700 "Eric Hedekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever I put in a <<>> I get an: > orchestra.ly:199:0: error: syntax error, unexpected >> Don't put it literally a <<>>. > And I did a visual check to make sure all of the {} and <<>> are > matching throughout the d

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Hedekar
> > Looks like you forgot a } or >> somewhere. > > Also, try putting everything inside a GrandStaff or <<>> or > something like that. > > Cheers, > - Graham > Hi Grahm, Whenever I put in a <<>> I get an: orchestra.ly:199:0: error: syntax error, unexpected >> And I did a visual check to make sur

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > > "- what is a good way of translating the German "ewig reicher > > > Gott", [...] > > The meaning of "reich" in this example is extremely uncommon in > (modern) German. I *guess* it refers to the old stem of "-rich" > (like in names) that means "ruler", similar to "Reich" (empire, see > "dei

Re: Forcing a chord output

2008-04-11 Thread Dominic Neumann
Yes, there is. You only have to say \set chordChanges = ##f and if you want to change it back \set chordChanges = ##t have fun! 2008/4/11, Stan Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you have the same consecutive chords, only the first one prints out. > > Is it possible to force display of

Forcing a chord output

2008-04-11 Thread Stan Mulder
If you have the same consecutive chords, only the first one prints out. Is it possible to force display of a subsequent chord in this case? I find this is necessary when a new phrase or section appears: end of A section: ... C:7 beginning of B section C:7 ... Normally the C7 in the B section wo

Re: Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:12:36 -0700 "Eric Hedekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to parse/compile (not sure what you call it for > lilypond) an Orchestra score I'm writing but I keep getting this > error: /usr/bin/../share/lilypond/2.10.25/ly/init.ly:45:70: error: > syntax error,

Orchestra file causing an init.ly error

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Hedekar
Hi, I'm attempting to parse/compile (not sure what you call it for lilypond) an Orchestra score I'm writing but I keep getting this error: /usr/bin/../share/lilypond/2.10.25/ly/init.ly:45:70: error: syntax error, unexpected $end (apply ly:make-book $defaultpaper $defaultheader toplevel-scores)))

Re: Building Lilypond for Leopard (calling Nicholas Sceaux)

2008-04-11 Thread Arjan Bos
On 10 apr 2008, at 13:24, Sven Axelsson wrote: This is how make ends: No rule to make target `out/lilypond.info', needed by `default'. Stop. I found that this is the cause: /opt/local/bin/perl /usr/local/src/lilypond/lilypond/buildscripts/out/ help2man out/lilypond-invoke-editor > out/lil

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-04-11 um 20:59 schrieb David R. Linn: "- what is a good way of translating the German "ewig reicher Gott", meaning something like God, who has power forever. (perhaps a common English version already exists for this song)" /God everlasting, God ever powerful / I don't think I can he

Re: OFF: Help from native English speakers (epsecially if speaking German)

2008-04-11 Thread Trevor Bača
"Choralsatz" can come across just fine like that: "chorale setting" or "hymn setting". As for the other two, what are the sources of the text? Are they preexisting texts? Or original texts in German (or Hungarian)? If the texts are preexisting, best would be to find a traditional English edition o

Re: other suggestions

2008-04-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks Levi I know nothing of percussion myself, so I'll copy this to -user to elicit some responses from those that do. In particular, how best to indicate "sticking", and the notation for a drum-roll. However, I'll file this away and pass it on to whoever rewrites this section of the manu

Re: Staff regular layout

2008-04-11 Thread Trevor Bača
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:46 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I cannot find in the documentation whether it is possible to have > staves layout identically on all pages (matching side to side). > > For example, in my problem the optimal spacing found by Lilypond (2.11) is > 5 staves in the 1st

Re: English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread David R. Linn
David Stocker wrote: Hi Bert, It's been a few years and I'm afraid my German has gotten rusty, but I'll give it a try anyway. "- how would you call the 4-voice arrangements of hymns used in presbiterian liturgy. Just "hymn arrangement"? (Choralsatz in German)" I'm an Amercian raised in a P

Filename output numbering

2008-04-11 Thread Stan Mulder
When specifying --png at the command line, songs over 9 pages have a sorting problem: Song-page10.png Song-page11.png Song-page1.png Song-page2.png ... My image viewer is seeing page 10 of my score before I get to page 1. Then when I get to page 9 I've got to back up and find page 10. Is there

Re: volta repeat challenge

2008-04-11 Thread Stan Mulder
Stan Mulder earthlink.net> writes: > > I want to repeat a 16 bar comping section. > > I can get it to write the slash marks, but the repeat symbols won't show up. > I'm > using the "comp" macro found at lilypond.org (I think) which writes the slash > marks. I can post that if necessary. > I

Running LilyPond from a memory stick

2008-04-11 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - Has anyone been able to run LilyPond from/on a memory stick? I have a 16 Gb stick, and I'd like to run LilyPond from it, but I don't know what problems I'm likely to encounter. The computers I plan to use both run Windows XP SP2. The stick is set up to run programs, but it looks for U

English Translation

2008-04-11 Thread David Stocker
Hi Bert, It's been a few years and I'm afraid my German has gotten rusty, but I'll give it a try anyway. "- how would you call the 4-voice arrangements of hymns used in presbiterian liturgy. Just "hymn arrangement"? (Choralsatz in German)" The common English rendering is simply "Chorale" or

Re: OFF: Help from native English speakers (epsecially if speaking German)

2008-04-11 Thread calvin mitcham
ok, just my guesses... sometimes, we will just call 4 voice arrangements "SATB music", for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. we might call a pleading, begging prayer "earnest prayer" we might say "omnipotent God" for the last one. On 4/11/08, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not read the section called "Lyrics independent of notes" in the manual? /Mats Quoting "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ah, then you just need a voice without the staff and its engravers. I would look at the snippet that adds all the engravers one by one, because it will have ev

Staff regular layout

2008-04-11 Thread papa.eric
Hi, I cannot find in the documentation whether it is possible to have staves layout identically on all pages (matching side to side). For example, in my problem the optimal spacing found by Lilypond (2.11) is 5 staves in the 1st page, 4 in the second, 5 in the 3rd, 3 in the last. In the second

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Ah, then you just need a voice without the staff and its engravers. I would look at the snippet that adds all the engravers one by one, because it will have everything already removed, and you can just add what you need. Am 11.04.2008 um 09:50 schrieb Brett Duncan: James E. Bailey wrote:

Re: White Baroque notation (was: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34)

2008-04-11 Thread Karl Hammar
Kurt: > On 2008/04/09 3:45 PM, "Karl Hammar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Trevor Daniels schrieb: > > ... > >>> .3 Baroque rhythmic notation (new) > >> Karl: > >> > >> We don't have lilypond examples of this. I have seen this in a Novello > >> score for Purcells Dido. So I suggest we dro

Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Bonte
You may want to have a look at an old post about http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-nice-formatted-Chords-%2B-Lyrics-layout-for-guitar-players-to13829430.html#a13829430 Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players . Look especially at the layout part, which will render the s

OFF: Help from native English speakers (epsecially if speaking German)

2008-04-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Dear English speaking LilyPonders, (especially if you know some German) the choir I used to sing with publishes a CD. We'd like to create the information booklet in 3 languages, Hungarian, German and English Could you please help me finding the best words for the following: - how would you cal