Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Chubb
> "kieren" == kieren macmillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kieren> Mats, >> I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 >> should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, >> not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of >> X-offset a

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Kim Bastin
Thanks Mark. My own solution, finally, was to define a dummy dynamic: spacer = #(make-dynamic-script (markup "")) and attach it to the starting note, where it displaces the left end of the hairpin to the right by about the width of a notehead. It's not the finest control, and it has kludge wr

Re: Questions on policy.txt

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 12 May 2008 18:10:48 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham, > > I'm sorry to be obtuse on this, but I want to do the job right. So I > figure if I spend a bit of your time in the beginning, I'll save some > at the end... You're quite right to do so! Of course, no

Questions on policy.txt

2008-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Graham, I'm sorry to be obtuse on this, but I want to do the job right. So I figure if I spend a bit of your time in the beginning, I'll save some at the end... policy.txt has the following: BEGIN COPIED TEXT % SECTION ORGANIZATION The order of headings inside documentation sect

Re: pitches.itely not in doc-src

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 13 May 2008 01:39:48 +0200 "Francisco Vila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/13 Carl D. Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But when I look in http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/doc-src/, > > there is no pitches.itely. > > Yes, there is one, look carefully. Just between "percussion.itely" an

Re: pitches.itely not in doc-src

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
Sorry! I was cleaning out that folder, and forgot that people still need to see it. It's uploaded now. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:13:06 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham, > > I'm following your instructions in writing-sections.txt: > > REQUIRED READIN

Re: pitches.itely not in doc-src

2008-05-12 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/5/13 Carl D. Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But when I look in http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/doc-src/, > there is no pitches.itely. Yes, there is one, look carefully. Just between "percussion.itely" and "repeats.itely" > Where do I find pitches.itely? http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/doc-src

pitches.itely not in doc-src

2008-05-12 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Graham, I'm following your instructions in writing-sections.txt: REQUIRED READING (snip) - NR 1.1 Pitches. Ideally, read it in your favorite output format (either info, PDF, or HTML), *and* in source format (pitches.itely). This is our "demonstration" chapter, so the below points really j

Re: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:19:15 -0700 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We still have two "entry-level" positions: Sorry, my mad rush to cancel the message failed. We have three "entry-level" positions: Unfretted strings Winds Ancient I'd still like to reserve these two longer sections

Re: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:35:14 + (UTC) Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops -- I just checked current.txt and found that Jonathan's name is > on it. If that's true, then put me down for Chords. I've been > needing to learn more about chords... Great, done! We still have two "entry

Re: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
Carl Sorensen byu.edu> writes: > > Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > > > Graham, > > I've got some time now. Put me down for Fretted Strings. > > Carl Sorensen > Oops -- I just checked current.txt and found that Jonathan's name is on it. If that's true, then put me down for Chords. I

Re: GDP status, May 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > > As you probably know, we're nearing the end of the Grand > Documentation Project of LilyPond. It ends in Aug, so there's > only three and a half months left. > > For more general background about GDP, see: > http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/ > Graham, I've

Re: The LilyPond Report: a new weekly opinion column about Lily's world

2008-05-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everyone, A new issue of the "Lilypond Report" is out: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-9 This week's issue discusses open-source hardware, accordion support, intermediate files, LSR downtimes and bug statistics. I'd also like to announce that next week's issue will b

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread kieren_macmillan
Mats, I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding to get what you want, but I'm not convinced that this is the e

Re: switcj of percussion staves

2008-05-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Oh, many thanks! I don't understand why, but it helped!! Once you think about it, it's fairly logical that the line-positions property overrides the line-count property, especially if you look at some of the examples of line-positions provided in the

Re: switcj of percussion staves

2008-05-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Oh, many thanks! I don't understand why, but it helped!! 2008/5/12 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Stefan > > It seems that the #'line-positions setting remains in effect over a > \stopStaff \startStaff, and overrules #'line-count. Include > > \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions

Re: switcj of percussion staves

2008-05-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan It seems that the #'line-positions setting remains in effect over a \stopStaff \startStaff, and overrules #'line-count. Include \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(0) in trommel and it should then work. Actually, if you specify #'line-positions you don't need to speci

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding to get what you want, but I'm not convinced that this is the expected

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Knoop
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:20 +1000, Kim Bastin wrote: > What's the override for moving the ends of a hairpin horizontally? I > need to start one a little to the right of its default position because > it collides with a cross-staffed note. But I can only find information > about moving hairpins v

switcj of percussion staves

2008-05-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I have a problem, that's going to drive me crazy at the moment!! Why can't I do a change of staff lines in the below quoted example? %% Begin %% trommel = { \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count = 1 \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #3 } normalsystem = {\overr

Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Kim Bastin
What's the override for moving the ends of a hairpin horizontally? I need to start one a little to the right of its default position because it collides with a cross-staffed note. But I can only find information about moving hairpins vertically. I tried this: \once \override Hairpin #'X-offset

Re: Lilypondfile: does not seem to work

2008-05-12 Thread stefankaegi
Ok. So well.. I tweaked a little bit and now it seems to work. What I wanted is just the anhang (appendix) to be typesetted by lilypond, the other examples I wanted as simple images. So I kept the file structure and just made a file anhang.lytex which I compiled (tanks very much for the make file)