Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Alastair Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches > of the archives haven't turned up anything useful. Is there any way > of converting lilypond files into music xml? If not, are there any > plans for such a tool? > > I use softwa

Re: start of lilypond

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Scott
Heinz Lehmann wrote: > Dear sir, > > Lilypond has been installed on Windows XP. It does not start by double > clickung > on the lilypondsymbol on the desktop or below programs. The samples as well > cannot be started. The programs provided by internet as well as the download > were working fine.

start of lilypond

2008-08-24 Thread Heinz Lehmann
Dear sir, Lilypond has been installed on Windows XP. It does not start by double clickung on the lilypondsymbol on the desktop or below programs. The samples as well cannot be started. The programs provided by internet as well as the download were working fine. Please give instructions how to ove

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, What I'd like to do is modify the standard files so you can just tell lilypond what sort of header you'd like - orchestral, band, whatever - without the fuss of people of "other traditions" having to have personal modifications. It would also be great to have the ability to define

Re: Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

2008-08-24 Thread Dominic Neumann
As you can see at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/TimeSignature#TimeSignatureyou can say \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'C to reset the TimeSignature behaviour to the default. Here ( http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ancient

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes 2008/8/24 Maarten Deen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks, that's exactly what I need (and no, I had no idea to look there). I expect it will be overwritten when I do an upgrade? Just to make a mental note to edit it again

Re: Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

2008-08-24 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:56:11AM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > It's not in the manual, and I can't search the LSR because it's down ... > > I want time signatures of "Common" and "Cut Common" in my music. I know > they're the default settings, but I've already put > > \override Staff.Time

Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

2008-08-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
It's not in the manual, and I can't search the LSR because it's down ... I want time signatures of "Common" and "Cut Common" in my music. I know they're the default settings, but I've already put \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() at the start of my piece to give me an opening time

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Alastair Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches of the > archives haven't turned up anything useful. Is there any way of converting > lilypond files into music xml? If not, are there any plans for such a tool? This is registe

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Patrick Horgan
Maarten Deen wrote: Lilypond has as standard setting that the instrument is put centered below the title, subtitle, etc. But I'm used to the first page having the intrument set at the left side of the page (where Poet is placed) and only for subsequent pages the instrument is set top center.

Re: Lyrics independent of notes

2008-08-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hold the horses, there seems to be a regression bug lurking around here. I happened to have a copy of 2.11.34 installed and using that, the two lyric lines in the following example have the same alignment, whereas with 2.11.56 all syllables of the bottom line are left aligned with the notes. I def

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-24 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, it has been discussed before and it has been excepted for future implementation. Have a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-08/msg00838.html . Have a look at the whole thread. There are two addi

Re: Lyrics independent of notes

2008-08-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: The warnings are not exactly errors. Another thread with the words "durations needed" in which Mats explained very well some related issues, can be of help. I've now been able to check back to 2.10.34, and the warnings were issued there too. Seems like they might have b

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Scott
On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 24. August 2008 schrieb Maarten Deen: Valentin Villenave wrote: It's not so hard, really. Just copy the appropriate definition from the source code (the relevant file is titling-i

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 24. August 2008 schrieb Maarten Deen: > Valentin Villenave wrote: > > It's not so hard, really. Just copy the appropriate definition from > > the source code (the relevant file is titling-init.ly), and redefine > > Thanks, that's exactly wh

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Maarten Deen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, that's exactly what I need (and no, I had no idea to look there). > I expect it will be overwritten when I do an upgrade? Just to make a mental > note to edit it again when I do. If you modify the titling-init source file, it will be overwritt

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Maarten Deen
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/8/24 Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maarten Deen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Can this be done in lilypond? Having the instrument on the left side of the page on the first page only? You need to rewrite the code that produ

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maarten Deen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes >> Can this be done in lilypond? Having the instrument on the left side of >> the page on the first page only? > > You need to rewrite the code that produces the header. I

Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-24 Thread Alastair Irving
Hello List I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches of the archives haven't turned up anything useful. Is there any way of converting lilypond files into music xml? If not, are there any plans for such a tool? I use software to convert music into Braille, and it

Re: lyrics

2008-08-24 Thread Lara Diamand
Thanks!! And thanks to everybody that replied! I finaly got my song right, I'm very greatful. Since I'm not a real Lilypond-hero, it takes a lot of time for me to work things out and it is very comforting that after 3 hours of searching myself (that is my timelimit for a problem) there is a forum w

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > > The problem is that most of the people who actually do the work with > lilypond, while they want it to be "the best tool for producing printed > music", they're European orchestral musicians steeped in the European > orchestral tradition, and their traditions ar

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maarten Deen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Lilypond has as standard setting that the instrument is put centered below the title, subtitle, etc. But I'm used to the first page having the intrument set at the left side of the page (where Poet is placed) and only for su

Re: play lily midi drum files

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Depends what system you are running on. See the Learning Manual for 2.11, section 4.6.3 Other sources of information, for how to find the ly/ directory. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Grammostola Rosea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 3:06 PM Subject: Re:

Re: play lily midi drum files

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
This is briefly described in the Notation Manual for Release 2.11, section 3.5.6 Percussion in MIDI, although this section is in need of some expansion. Use a DrumStaff to code your percussion and these will be correctly exported to MIDI channel 10 using the standard percussion instrument nu

Re: question about installation

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Luc These windows are not part of LilyPond - they are merely the normal windows which are used in your computer. That image shows a window in which files are being edited, a window in which the pdf output is being displayed, and a window in which the LilyPond program was executed. There is

Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Maarten Deen
Lilypond has as standard setting that the instrument is put centered below the title, subtitle, etc. But I'm used to the first page having the intrument set at the left side of the page (where Poet is placed) and only for subsequent pages the instrument is set top center. In fact, I've been loo

Re: play lily midi drum files

2008-08-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do you play from lilypond exported midi drum files? How do match hi-hat from score with hi-hat from sequencer/ synth? Regards, edit: and where can I find: ly/drumpitch-init.ly file? ___ lilypond-user mailing l

play lily midi drum files

2008-08-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, How do you play from lilypond exported midi drum files? How do match hi-hat from score with hi-hat from sequencer/ synth? Regards, ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: question about installation

2008-08-24 Thread Luc Dejans
Hi - thanks for your answers, Valentin & Trevor! Sorry for my additional newbee-question: I can run the program indeed, but how do I get the windows as displayed on http://lilypond.org/web/install/getting-started.html? Till now, I just can work in a text file, convert it into Lilypond and view the

Re: script for running convert-ly on multiple files

2008-08-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok I tried this and it works flawlessly (of course). Instead of a script, a simple command: convert-ly -e * Exactly the same result as my script. I don't know why I can't think to look for man pages for every command. Linux and Lilypond are humbling things... :) Thanks again, Nicolas. Jo

Re: script for running convert-ly on multiple files

2008-08-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ah. Thanks Nicolas. I should have realized there were options. That simplifies things considerably :) Jonathan Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Le 24 août 08 à 14:40, Jonathan Kulp a écrit : for LILYFILE in *.ly do echo "updating syntax on $LILYFILE..." convert-ly $LILYFILE > $LILYFILE-new sleep

Re: script for running convert-ly on multiple files

2008-08-24 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 24 août 08 à 14:40, Jonathan Kulp a écrit : for LILYFILE in *.ly do echo "updating syntax on $LILYFILE..." convert-ly $LILYFILE > $LILYFILE-new sleep 1 mv $LILYFILE-new $LILYFILE done The -e option of convert-ly can be used to modify the file in place. nicolas _

script for running convert-ly on multiple files

2008-08-24 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Dear Lilyponders, I thought I'd share a script I wrote for running the convert-ly process on batches of files. I realize a script like this is trivial for experienced users, but I'd been doing conversions one file at a time myself until I learned how to do this kind of script, and I figured

Re: question about installation

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Luc Dejans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last week I downloaded and runned LilyPond 2.10 for Windows. My computer > runs Windows Vista. Greetings Luc, don't worry, nobody's perfect :) [Hey Trevor, you're not alone anymore :-) ] > While trying to install LilyPond on Cygwin, I didn't get the

Lyrics - NR 2.1.3.2

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francisco Are you still working on Lyrics? If so, may I suggest an addition to NR 2.1.3.2 Lyrics independent of notes? The section would then show two methods of producing lyrics independent of notes. The following example works in 2.11, although it did not work correctly in 2.10, which is

Re: SLopUF: Sumatra and issue 635 (pdf locking)

2008-08-24 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
LilyPondTool's PDF viewer solves this problem by automatically closing the file when compiling. In Windows, you can also use taskkill.exe to close the pdf before the compilation http://commandwindows.com/taskkill.htm Here is the little script (lily.bat ) i use to run lilypond. %

question about installation

2008-08-24 Thread Luc Dejans
Hello Last week I downloaded and runned LilyPond 2.10 for Windows. My computer runs Windows Vista. While trying to install LilyPond on Cygwin, I didn't get the same Package View dialogue as showed on the web page http://lilypond.org/web/install/cygwin: there were other programs in my list, but not

Re: how to change the LILYPOND_GC_YIELD

2008-08-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Thanks, I think there must be something seriously wrong with my system! But since I did export LILYPOND_GC_YIELD=10 (!!) I am able to run lilypond properly. But does someone know, how I can get find the problem in my linx (sidux) system? I've de- and reinstalled lilypond, but the problems are of th

Re: Lyrics independent of notes

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francisco Vila wrote Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:47 AM 2008/8/21 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This seems like a regression. It looks OK in the manual as that example has not been edited recently and so has not been recompiled recently either. In the file for my local doc build it was l

Re: Many thanks!

2008-08-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Don Ravey wrote Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:19 AM It's been a long time since I've used list servers, I hope I'm responding correctly. Absolutely fine! I'm blown away at the rapid and very helpful response I got to my question. Dominic, Jonathan and Brett: your comments and advice are much

Re: SLopUF: Sumatra and issue 635 (pdf locking)

2008-08-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor
LilyPondTool's PDF viewer solves this problem by automatically closing the file when compiling. Bert > --- Original Message --- > From: "Robin Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lilypond-user" > Sent: 08/08/23/, 12:11:43 > Subject: SLopUF: Sumatra and issue 635 (pdf locking) > > 2.