Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Hi, unfortunately I don't know anything about Slackware, but a live CD with the latest stable version of lilypond would be great! 2008/8/29 Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Op donderdag 28 augustus 2008, schreef Valentin Villenave: > > the Nimblex guys seem to be ready to include LilyPond

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 25 augustus 2008, schreef Gilles Sadowski: >  $ convert test.png -transparent white test_tr.png This will convert 'white' to '100% transparent', but not the shades of grey created by the anti-aliasing algorithms in ghostscript. After long fiddling I found a way to convert every shade

Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op donderdag 28 augustus 2008, schreef Valentin Villenave: > the Nimblex guys seem to be ready to include LilyPond in their > distribution if we can help them doing so; they'd like > (understandably) to have a KDE menu entry for it, so maybe it would be > a good idea to include LilyKDE as well, wit

Beamed stem length

2008-08-28 Thread Christian Schweden
Hello, I want to shorten the length of beamed stems in a four-voice piano staff, but it seems that the beamed-stem-shorten-property doesn't take effect. Could anyone give me a hint how to solve the problem using Version 2.10.33? Thanks, Chris __

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:18 PM Oh, if you haven't carefully read NR 6, that might be good... although it hasn't been touched yet, so I don't know if Trevor wants to hear about any problems you find in it. That's up to him... It will be quite a while before I get to N

Re: indexing

2008-08-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ralph, you wrote Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:07 PM I've been indexing the Notation Reference sections as I learn they're ready - that is, announced as finished. I will check the Learning Manual files you mentioned. I do get them from Savannah. I don't have posting rights, as far a I know, so

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Kulp wrote Perhaps we should add an example in Notation Reference where it talks about "controlling the placement of chord fingerings" showing that even for single notes you have to use a chord construct for the fingeringOrientation to work. I didn't get to do this in fretted string

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I am unable to get the attachment (I get http error 404). What am I missing? A possible explanation was given in another post. In any case, here is the script inline (just copy/paste the text between the "---CUT---" marks in another file): ---CUT--- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use IO::File; my $

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Scott
Kenny Stephens wrote: > Gilles Sadowski harfang.homelinux.org> writes: > > >> Here is a Perl script that counts the notes in LilyPond files (only the >> English pitch names). >> Example usage: >> countLilyNotes.pl *.ly >> >> Best, >> Gilles >> >> Attachment (countLilyNotes.pl): text/x-perl,

Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/23 Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You are right, nimblex looks great,it would be a good thing, if there could > be included Lilypond! Hi Stefan, hi everybody, the Nimblex guys seem to be ready to include LilyPond in their distribution if we can help them doing so; they'd like (under

Re: Getting a list of all pitches used in a score

2008-08-28 Thread Kenny Stephens
Gilles Sadowski harfang.homelinux.org> writes: > Here is a Perl script that counts the notes in LilyPond files (only the > English pitch names). > Example usage: > countLilyNotes.pl *.ly > > Best, > Gilles > > Attachment (countLilyNotes.pl): text/x-perl, 665 bytes > I am unable to get the

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl, Perhaps we should add an example in Notation Reference where it talks about "controlling the placement of chord fingerings" showing that even for single notes you have to use a chord construct for the fingeringOrientation to work. I didn't get to do this in fretted strings because "fin

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi Steven, I did the documentation on guitar stuff so I'm familiar with this issue. I suspect that what you're missing is a <> chord construct around whatever it is that you want affected. When I was running through all of the commands I noticed that the only way the \set fingeringOrientatio

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Steven Padalino wrote: Hi, Using Lilipond 2.10.33 with jEdit 4.3pre15 on Windows XP SP2. The \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) is not working. Finger numbers continue to appear at the top or bottom of note stems. I could easily be wrong but try #'(LEFT)

LH fingering not working

2008-08-28 Thread Steven Padalino
Hi, Using Lilipond 2.10.33 with jEdit 4.3pre15 on Windows XP SP2. The \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left) is not working. Finger numbers continue to appear at the top or bottom of note stems. I have the command positioned after the "staffClassicalGuitar = \new Staff" command and before

Re: Vocal slurring and override-auto-beam-setting?

2008-08-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.08.2008 um 17:11 schrieb Mike Blackstock: Not being a singer, I assumed that vocal music never has beams - Current style guides indicate that vocal music follows beaming rules for instrument music. wrong! I see that when notes are slurred, the slurred notes have beams. Is there a

Re: Vocal slurring and override-auto-beam-setting?

2008-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mike Blackstock wrote: Not being a singer, I assumed that vocal music never has beams - wrong! I see that when notes are slurred, the slurred notes have beams. Is there an easy way to indicate that if notes are within a slur, they should be beamed, otherwise not? No, there's no easy way, but

Vocal slurring and override-auto-beam-setting?

2008-08-28 Thread Mike Blackstock
Not being a singer, I assumed that vocal music never has beams - wrong! I see that when notes are slurred, the slurred notes have beams. Is there an easy way to indicate that if notes are within a slur, they should be beamed, otherwise not? I suspect it can be done with 'override-auto-beam-set

Re: indexing

2008-08-28 Thread Ralph Palmer
Thanks, Trevor - I've been indexing the Notation Reference sections as I learn they're ready - that is, announced as finished. I will check the Learning Manual files you mentioned. I do get them from Savannah. I don't have posting rights, as far a I know, so I've been submitting them to Carl Soren

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 8/28/08, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that the best use of my Lilypond volunteer time? I'm an > experienced programmer (Java, a half-dozen scripting languages, etc.) > *and* an advanced Lilypond user and working composer — should I be > teaching myself Scheme and/or C++, an

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, for some reason refused to learn scheme and do bug fixes That's the second time you've mentioned that in a couple of emails… Is that the best use of my Lilypond volunteer time? I'm an experienced programmer (Java, a half-dozen scripting languages, etc.) *and* an advanced Lilypo

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 8/28/08, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James E. Bailey wrote: >> Speaking of which, how difficult would it be to collect a "known >> issues" list? Something akin to the LSR, but for known issues for >> which there are solutions. It would help tons when troubleshooting why >> a pa

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: Speaking of which, how difficult would it be to collect a "known issues" list? Something akin to the LSR, but for known issues for which there are solutions. It would help tons when troubleshooting why a particular output isn't what's expected. Isn't the intention to -

Re: collision problem

2008-08-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 8/28/08, James E. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, it worked perfectly. You know, I looked at that in the > documentation, but it never occurred to me that it was the same problem. > > Speaking of which, how difficult would it be to collect a "known > issues" list? Something akin to

Re: ChordNames prints small characters for added bassnotes, I'd prefer capital like C/E or Cm/Es ...

2008-08-28 Thread Werner
Thanks a lot for the hint with the change in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/chord-name.scm Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: strange appoggiatura behaviour

2008-08-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
James E. Bailey Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:51 PM Wow, thanks. With that bit of information, I could change my code appropriately. \version "2.11.57" { \relative { \voiceOne \appoggiatura e' \voiceOne f4 e d c b a g f } } Can this be mentioned somewhere in th

Re: paper size and printing

2008-08-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Alexander, the default paper size in my pdf program is a4. But I have to set there the margins to 1.27 cm, 1.27 cm, 1.57 cm and 1.57 cm. Otherwise the lilypond generated pdf file would be too large for a a4 paper. 2008/8/25 Alexander Kobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stefan Thomas wrote: > > Dear