Lilypond and CPU cost, system resource exhaust... (was: Strange error causes Lilypond refus...)

2008-06-22 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I restarted my comuter and then add a virtual RAM to a volume o my hard disk, settg the size varying from 1GB to 2GB. Then the score can be compile, but very slow, with some errors because of my music codes. But I'm wondering why Lilypond takes so many CPU usage and need such a large memor

Re: strange error causes Lilypond refuse to compile

2008-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
(for your other email) I would attempt to isolate and fix these problems before playing with virtual memory. I must admit that the error message looks like a problem with memory allocation, but I think the solution to this lies in either your tweaks, or in a bug with 2.11.49. Unfortunately, trac

creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
How can I create png output of a small snippet that is cropped to the size of the snippet, a la the lilypond documentation? I want to create images to put into a Word document. (It already exists, and I don't see the need to redo it all in LaTeX, especially as I don't really know LaTeX) lilypond -

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs, from the 2.11 docs. Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10 docs as well, albeit in a different document. Cheers, - Graham On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:43:32 +1000 "Matthew Rowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I create png ou

Re: Line spacing with \markuplines and capital Ge rman Umlaute (ÄÜÖ)

2008-06-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 19 mai 08 à 15:58, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : When I use \markuplines\justified-lines, I would expect that all lines are equally spaced, just like in a word processor. However, if a line contains a capital Umlaut (i.e. Ä, Ö, Ü, ...), then that line is spaced just a little bit more tha

Re: Lilypond and CPU cost, system resource exhaust... (was: Strangeerror causes Lilypond refus...)

2008-06-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Haipeng I tried your score on my laptop, running MS Vista, with 2.11.49. The working set was around 127 Mb, and there was no paging. The original score caused Ghostscript to fail due to missing fonts, so I commented out the lines which had font-name overrides. It then compiled successful

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/6/22 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs, > from the 2.11 docs. Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10 > docs as well, albeit in a different document. > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:43:32 +1000 > "Matthew Rowles" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Vertical stretching of groups

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Andrew Hawryluk gmail.com> writes: > > That sounds very nice, but here's where I'm stuck: > << > \new Staff { ... } > \new Lyrics { ... } > \new Staff { ...} > >> > How does LP know which staff the Lyrics should be kept close to? I haven't searched the internals. I've just looked at the

Re: Figured Bass - vertical position and symbol over rest

2008-06-22 Thread Arno Rog
> > Carl Sorensen byu.edu> writes: > Carl, Thanks for your help. I've narrowed down the problem a bit. Begin code << \new Staff = MyStaff \figuremode { \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN \set Staff.useBassFigureExtenders = ##t < _! >

Re: StaffGroup bar line problem in polymetric notation

2008-06-22 Thread Libero Mureddu
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:18:27 + (UTC) > From: Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: StaffGroup bar line problem in polymetric notation > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > If you remove the StaffBar engrav

Re: StaffGroup bar line problem in polymetric notation

2008-06-22 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi, now I got the "rest" issue :-) Maybe it was related with the \new Staff correction that I mentioned in the previous email. ciao Libero ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: StaffGroup bar line problem in polymetric notation

2008-06-22 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi Carl and list, I just realized that for some (to me) strange reason, with your solution (using \override StaffGroup.SpanBar #'stencil = ##f instead of \remove "Span_bar_engraver"), the grand piano staff doesn't have anymore the barline across its two staves. Do you have any idea about this behav

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 22 juni 2008, schreef Francisco Vila: > 2008/6/22 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs, > > from the 2.11 docs. Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10 > > docs as well, albeit in a different document. > > > After a qu

Extra space in beginning of file

2008-06-22 Thread Siddharth Patil
How do I remove extra space in the beginning of Lilypond output (PDF)? An example is at http://ksd5.bot.nu/media/FHS%20Alma%20Mater.pdf. I want to remove all the white space between the heading and the beginning of the music. -- Siddharth Patil http://ksd5.bot.nu/blog/ PGP Key ID: 0x8E1CE870 ___

Lilypond on OSX

2008-06-22 Thread Steve Schow
Has Lilypond been fixed to work properly on OSX Leopard yet? I see all kinds of archived messages about problems with it and I have just downloaded the latest 2.11.x version and indeed it does not seem to work on first try. here is what happens now: 1 - Download lilypond for Intel OSX 2

Re: Figured Bass - vertical position and symbol over rest

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Arno Rog gmail.com> writes: > > In this example, although there is no note in the bass, the continuo > player has > to play one chord, starting at the location of the rest and during the > remainder > of the example. > > It is customary (and is used frequently) to display a line starting from

Re: Lilypond on OSX

2008-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:44 -0700 Steve Schow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has Lilypond been fixed to work properly on OSX Leopard yet? Check for yourself: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list type "osx" in the search. Cheers, - Graham ___

Re: Lilypond on OSX

2008-06-22 Thread Damian leGassick
download the ppc version, it works fine - just use a different editor - vim, emacs, textmate, lilypond-tool (jEdit) are all good- it's only the lilypond text editor which doesn't work, and to be honest you won't miss it. d On 22 Jun 2008, at 23:40, Steve Schow wrote: Has Lilypond been

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/6/22 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs, > from the 2.11 docs. Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10 > docs as well, albeit in a different document. > (Lets try again, without the attachments) Yes, I did read that,

Re: Lilypond on OSX

2008-06-22 Thread Steve Schow
I can totally live without the gui. If the only thing is I have to run the command line PPC version, I can live with the long load time. Thanks for letting me know. On Jun 22, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Damian leGassick wrote: download the ppc version, it works fine - just use a different editor

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/6/23 Matthew Rowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've tried it again with PNG and EPS (I hadn't tried this before), and > I may have found a bug... ... > if I try (copied from the docs) > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly > > I get a nice EPS file that is cro

GDP: first draft of NR 1.5 Simultaneous

2008-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
I'm proud to announce the first draft of NR 1.5 Simultaneous! This is the third section of the NR to reach this stage; many thanks to Francisco for his hard work on this section. Please proofread this section carefully. Let us know about any omissions or anything that's unclear. If you like work

Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Rowles
2008/6/23 Francisco Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Graham has explained it perfectly in the docs, moments ago. Use > -dbackend=eps and --png this way: > > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts --png myfile.ly Well, I wouldn't have guessed that! I'll give it a bash when I get

Re: StaffGroup bar line problem in polymetric notation

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
Libero Mureddu gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Carl and list, > I just realized that for some (to me) strange reason, with your > solution (using \override StaffGroup.SpanBar #'stencil = ##f instead > of \remove "Span_bar_engraver"), the grand piano staff doesn't have > anymore the barline across its

re: Lilypond and CPU cost, system resource exhaust...

2008-06-22 Thread hhpmusic
Dear Trevor: Thank you for your help! I now understand the real problems. I'm using Kaspersky Lab, a bad anti-virus software, which takes lots of system resource (someone made a distorted Chinese translation, Ka ba sji, means preventing from working normally and then crash!). It damaged my sy

Re: Figured Bass - vertical position and symbol over rest

2008-06-22 Thread Arno Rog
> Arno, > > The good news is, yes it can be done, and quite simply. You simply need > to set Staff.ignoreFiguredBassRest = ##f. > Carl, You're a genius (or quite close to it) Arno Rog ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li