download failure

2008-06-02 Thread Peter Helner
Dear Sies! When I, according to instruction (to activate lilypond)put the welcome to lilypond on the desktop and drop it on the lilypond-icon i only get an errormessage. Greetings from Peter Helner ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: how to get error messages in a separate text file

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
James E. Bailey wrote: I'm using bash, but on OSX. And I don't really get the results that I was looking for with this. I still get my errors in stdout. I run Lily from the command line in XDarwin and I do exactly what Gilles said and it works fine here. Since the errors are clearly output to

piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm really tring here, there should be online classes to figure this out, it just doesn't make sense to me. If anyone would be willing to help, I've posted a sample of what the music looks like, and it can be seen here. Really, all I would like is to have the dynamics centered between the

Re: download failure

2008-06-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have started reading the Tutorial (preferably the one for version 2.11, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/index which is much improved and still applies almost completely to 2.10). It's impossible to say anything more specific since you don't say what

Re: add tenuto

2008-06-02 Thread Stefan Thomas
Yeah, great! It excludes the ties and the rests too, that seems to be perfect for me! Thanks a lot!! 2008/6/2 Gilles THIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #(define (addTenutoFilterFunction event) (let ( (eventname (ly:music-property event 'name)) ) (if (eq? eventname 'EventChord) (let (

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Really, all I would like is to have the dynamics centered between the two piano staves. Try: \layout { \context { \type Engraver_group \name Dynamics

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/1 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see if anything new happens. The only difference AFAIK is that \context allows you to tap into an existing context:

Re: how to get error messages in a separate text file

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
James E. Bailey wrote: Maybe I don't understand what role the 2 has in this. But it really doesn't work for me 2 is stderr. (0 is stdin, 1 is stdout) bash-3.2$ lilypond test1.ly 2 err.txt There is no space between the 2 and the . GNU LilyPond 2.11.47 »test1.ly« wird verarbeitet

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see if anything new happens. The only difference AFAIK is

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda just use them interchangably and see if anything new happens. The

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: James E. Bailey wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 09:57 schrieb Valentin Villenave: 2008/6/1 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How coincidental. I've been wondering myself about the difference between \new and \context. I kinda just use them

Re: Fret diagrams

2008-06-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
Thomas Scharkowski t.scharkowski at t-online.de writes: Hello, can the lines of a fret diagram get diffent widths? For example 6th string thick, 5th string thinner, 1st thinnest? Thank you Thomas Currently, no. It would be a relatively simple fix to add this functionality, but it

Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Philip Kim
I've tried installing 3 versions, the most recent to the stable and another older version but non of them will start. I can see that it is running in the back when I see it on the Windows Task Manager but the program won't run except hogging up the CPU power. What is wrong? Am I missing some

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 Philip Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've tried installing 3 versions, the most recent to the stable and another older version but non of them will start. I can see that it is running in the back when I see it on the Windows Task Manager but the program won't run except hogging up the CPU

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/2 Philip Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the reply, Valentin. But no luck. I couldn't get the program to run. I can't even see any text editor running. I don't know what is wrong. Just open an editor (notepad.exe, if you haven't anything better), type some code in it: { c' e'

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread Philip Kim
Thanks for the reply, Valentin. But no luck. I couldn't get the program to run. I can't even see any text editor running. I don't know what is wrong. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/6/2 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try: \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 3) instead of (-1 . 1 ) It's ugly, but it (kind of) works. ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly different; it doesn't need the hackish extra-offset

Re: Lilypond won't start, non of the versions.

2008-06-02 Thread David
Lilypond is not supposed to start, at least not in the way you are expecting. Lilypond works like this: 1. You type a text file containing music instructions. 2. When you finish typing, you give a command for Lilypond to interpret your file. 3. Lilypond follows the instructions in your text

Re: Template for 4 total elements

2008-06-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
plasmacarwash creamtowney at yahoo.com writes: Dear Madames/Sirs, I was wondering if anyone has already made a template for simple contemporary scorebooks consisiting of: 1. The Vocal melody line. 2. The Lyrics 3. Notation chords for guitar and 4. Fretboard images I'm responding

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread Jesse Engle
If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context, why does the following example not do so? \version 2.10.33 \new Staff = mycontext \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. } \context Staff = mycontext \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 } On 6/2/08, James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 18:29 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2008/6/2 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try: \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 3) instead of (-1 . 1 ) It's ugly, but it (kind of) works. ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly

Re: Template for 4 total elements

2008-06-02 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/6/2 Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin/Neil -- Perhaps this could be added to the LSR? I think it will work with version 10. It certainly does. :) I've added it as 'Single staff template with notes, lyrics, chords and frets', though LSR is up the creek again, so I can't provide a

Re: header, layout and paper blocks as variables...

2008-06-02 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi José, Valentin Matt have already given much better responses to this thread. But, on the chance that what you're really looking for is simply a way to *externalize* big, complicated \header or \layout or \paper blocks from your main .ly file, then bear in mind that you can do this: ### BEGIN

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:36:35 +0200 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 18:29 schrieb Neil Puttock: ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly different; it doesn't need the hackish extra-offset overrides. Oooh, where does one find this elusive piano

Re: rhythm template function

2008-06-02 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Yes, I tried the snippet You mentioned below (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390), but there is another problem: unfortunately it is difficult to integrate tuplets in it! Using the rhythm.ly defined in this snippet, you can do something like that. %%%

Printing Jazz Chords; Lilypond 2.10.33

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Dieckmann
Hi, how can I print Chordnames like Gmb6? I didn't succseed with \new ChordNames { \set chordChange = ##t \chordmode { g1:m-6 %or g:m6- or g:m6_ ... } } Where can I find a good explanation. I don't get around with the tutorial - to me it's too fast, too

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 02.06.2008 um 22:04 schrieb Graham Percival: On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:36:35 +0200 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 02.06.2008 um 18:29 schrieb Neil Puttock: ...or use the template for 2.11, which is slightly different; it doesn't need the hackish extra-offset overrides.

Re: Printing Jazz Chords; Lilypond 2.10.33

2008-06-02 Thread Michael Watts
c:m6- works here with 2.11.43 on Linux... inline: Minor6.png___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Context creation

2008-06-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jesse, If \context allegedly allows one to add notes to an existing context, why does the following example not do so? \version 2.10.33 \new Staff = mycontext \relative c' { c4 d e f g2. } \context Staff = mycontext \relative c' { g'4 g f e d c1 } Because you have asked (implicitly) for

Re: piano centered dynamics

2008-06-02 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Thanks Graham. I went and got this template and applied it to a piano piece of mine. The centering of dynamics is lovely, but I also have a problem that many of the dynamics that are attached to a spacer at the beginning of a measure *collide* with the barline. Has anyone else had this

Re: Template for 4 total elements

2008-06-02 Thread plasmacarwash
Guys, I'm checkin' it first thing tomorrow a.m. Thanks, Jay Neil Puttock wrote: 2008/6/2 Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin/Neil -- Perhaps this could be added to the LSR? I think it will work with version 10. It certainly does. :) I've added it as 'Single staff

Re: Printing Jazz Chords; Lilypond 2.10.33/Linux

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Dieckmann
Yes, ... it works hm I thought I've tried it and got an error message... Thank you and sorry for wasting your time. Frank On Monday 02 June 2008 23:57:17 Michael Watts wrote: c:m6- works here with 2.11.43 on Linux... ___ lilypond-user