Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 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

2008-08-29 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 in

Re: Beamed stem length

2008-08-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's much easier to answer your question in a relevant way if you show a (short but complete) example of your failing attempts. Also, if you search the mailing list archives, I'm sure that you will find a number of examples of how to set the property (normally I would also refer you to the

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

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, here is the script inline (just copy/paste the text between the ---CUT--- marks in another file): Please be aware that this script scans anything, including commented-out lines and controls. For example, title = This is a nice song

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. I'd

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

2008-08-29 Thread Alexander Kobel
James E. Bailey wrote: 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? Not that I know of. I suspect it can be done with 'override-auto-beam-setting' Not

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

2008-08-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. In any case, here is the script inline (just copy/paste the text between the ---CUT--- marks in another file): Please be aware that this script scans anything, including commented-out lines and controls. For example, title = This is a nice song \key d \major This will give

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

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If accuracy is important, I'd advise to use the MIDI scanner I posted here. This will give 100% accurate results. [For my intended usage then, this is not quite accurate since I guess that notes in repeats will be picked up several times, whereas

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd advise to generate postscript, and then convert the postscript to png (with transparancy!) using gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha \ -sOutputFile=score-page%1.png -r101 score.ps (For the best

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd advise to generate postscript, and then convert the postscript to png (with transparancy!) using gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Snyder
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: How does IE deal with pngalpha images today? According to the top Google hit I came across for png alpha ie, IE7 does support PNG alpha (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/alpha.html). -Chris ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/29 Chris Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to the top Google hit I came across for png alpha ie, IE7 does support PNG alpha (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/alpha.html). IE6 is still widely used though (30 to 60% of the users depending on the stats I've found). That said, IIRC at worse

Staff.voltaSpannerDuration

2008-08-29 Thread Werner
Hello, I wrote a staffgroup with two voices in two staffs and harmonys (chordmode). There is a repeat with alternatives over 8 bars. Want to shorten the volta bracket. I tried without succes. (No warning, no problem while lilypond is formatting, but it always is 8 bars long.) I put the \set

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
According to google analytics on lilypond.org - 25% uses IE of which 65% uses IE7. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/29 Chris Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to the top Google hit I came across for png alpha ie, IE7 does support PNG

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That said, IIRC at worse IE6 flattens PNG images on an ugly grey background, so I think LilyPond snippets would still be readable (however ugly). It's easier to add a white background to a transparent PNG than to remove a background from a PNG. So

Re: Lilypond's debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-29 Thread Rob Canning
Rob Canning wrote: Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Rob Canning: Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: At least the Debian and Kubuntu packages of lilypond-data have the following requirement: Pre-Depends: tetex-bin | texlive-base I suppose that this is not true any longer

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Snyder
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: According to google analytics on lilypond.org - 25% uses IE of which 65% uses IE7. So, 8.75% use IE6. Given that the fallback in IE6 is still usable (albeit ugly) and that that percentage will only continue to drop, it sounds to me like now is as good a time as any to

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

2008-08-29 Thread Mike Blackstock
Thanks to all for the advice. I guess I'll just use brackets for now and look at Alexander's suggestions more closely a bit later on. This was prompted by a project to do Schubert's Winterreise, but I'm thinking ahead to Wagner's Ring. pause/pause. Ok, now that you're all stopped laughing, I'm

Re: Staff.voltaSpannerDuration

2008-08-29 Thread Ralph Palmer
Werner - Try \set Score.voltaSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 4 4) Check the Notation Reference, Repeats Long repeats Normal repeats Selected snippets. Ralph On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wrote a staffgroup with two voices in two staffs

Re: Many thanks!

2008-08-29 Thread Mike Blackstock
Michael Käppler wrote: For my diploma thesis (I study church music) I made a edition of a church cantata by Georg Philipp Telemann, engraved with Lily. Currently I haven't access to public webspace, so I don't know how I can show it to you. You can also (besides mutopia) upload it to

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/8/29 Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After long fiddling I found a way to convert every shade of grey to black with a corresponding percentage of transparency: Great! for occasional, single images it would be worth to mention that the GIMP can do this in a very easy way: colors --

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Chris Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it might be a good idea to still allow PNG16 as an option, though, for users that are posting images to their own web sites? I'm sure that most sites see a much higher percentage of IE6 users. Otherwise, I'm sure

Re: Staff.voltaSpannerDuration

2008-08-29 Thread Werner
Thank you. score instead of staff was a good hint. It brings warnings, but works. (I just found out, that I still was using the documentation of 2.10.33, there I found only staff...) (But I still don't know, where to put the set-command. It works now (with the warning, that the voltabracket

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/8/29 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WE could softcode the pixmap format, so it can be set as -dpixmap-format=png16m patches appreciated! Since I've been staring at lily.scm rather a lot recently, I couldn't help noticing the following: (pixmap-format png16m GS format to use

Re: Staff.voltaSpannerDuration

2008-08-29 Thread Ralph Palmer
Werner - I confess that I don't know how contexts work, so I can't tell you exactly where the \set command goes. I'm sure someone else on the list can. As an alternative, take a look at the Learning Manual, 3.3.1. Contexts explained, and 3.3.4. Modifying context properties. I'm sure there's

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: commit 7f595671928233af9d1c76c5cb400f2010c65b72 Author: hanwen hanwen Date: Mon Sep 5 14:12:00 2005 + (make-ps-images): use png16m again, for sake of IE users. How does IE deal with pngalpha images today? They support it in IE7 and forward. Patrick

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: According to google analytics on lilypond.org - 25% uses IE of which 65% uses IE7. Why that means 8.75% of the people could potentially think png sucks.  For my web site I use png on the theory that if people are still using ie6 they should upgrade.  For a