Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-31 Thread Stephen Corey
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:00:02 +, Stephen Corey wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using Lilypond regularly for several years now with great > satisfaction. Recently, I've begun using lilypond generated png files > in powerpoint presentations and I'd like to know if there is a way to > generate the

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
It was with the extra offset part. I was putting the #' in the wrong place (inside the parentheses instead of out). If I had dug deeper I probably could have figured it out but I just googled a solution instead. I don't think it's a problem with \tweak part of the docs. You can't possibly en

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan, you wrote Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:30 PM Ok, now I'm getting somewhere. I couldn't make the \tweak command work with extra-offset from looking at the manual Can you give me a clue what the difficulty was? Did you use a recent manual? Was the difficulty with the \tweak command

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ok, now I'm getting somewhere. I couldn't make the \tweak command work with extra-offset from looking at the manual, but I found an example in a guitar piece at Mutopia: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/TarregaF/adelita/adelita.ly From this I learned exactly where to put stuff and now I can

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Karl Hammar
Valentin wrote: > 2008/8/31 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, it is only recommended if you want to use lilypond-book > > in conjunction with latex to produce a document. In that > > case, it's pretty obvious to anybody that you need a tex > > distribution anyway. However, for the 99% o

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-08-31 Thread Joseph Haig
2008/8/31 Grammostola Rosea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dominic Neumann wrote: >> >> To add more lines of lyrics easily add another \addlyrics { ... } >> after the first. >> It doesn´t matter if there´s a repeat in the notes - LilyPond typesets >> the lyrics as you see them on the paper. >> >> >> > > Bu

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/31 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, it is only recommended if you want to use lilypond-book > in conjunction with latex to produce a document. In that > case, it's pretty obvious to anybody that you need a tex > distribution anyway. However, for the 99% of the users who > don't u

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-08-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Dominic Neumann wrote: To add more lines of lyrics easily add another \addlyrics { ... } after the first. It doesn´t matter if there´s a repeat in the notes - LilyPond typesets the lyrics as you see them on the paper. But I don't use \addlyrics here, but: verse = \lyricmode { % Lyrics fo

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Francisco Vila wrote: Isn't this exactly what the "recommends: " field in .deb files is for? lilypond-book should recommend latex, docbook, texinfo, and www-browser. it does need latex, it does not need docbook (I wonder), it does not need www-browser. So we have to levels of recommendn

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Have a look at NR 5.3.4 The \tweak command. I rewrote this recently, so I'd like to know whether or not this is clear and helpful. Thanks. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lyrics and repeat

2008-08-31 Thread Dominic Neumann
To add more lines of lyrics easily add another \addlyrics { ... } after the first. It doesn´t matter if there´s a repeat in the notes - LilyPond typesets the lyrics as you see them on the paper. Hope this helps Dominic 2008/8/31 Grammostola Rosea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I want to add lyr

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/8/31 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:49:53 +0200 > Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Karl Hammar: >> > >> > As long as lilypond-book is included there is a

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Ha! I totally forgot about "tweak"! Now I remember seeing that example where one note of a chord is smaller than the other three. I'm going to try it. Many thanks, James. I bet this will fix it. Jonathan James E. Bailey wrote: First, I know nothing about this, but, Am 31.08.2008 um 19:23

Re: lilypond-latex

2008-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This script hasn't been updated since 2006, whereas LilyPond has kept changing improving significantly since then. Why not read in the manual on how to use lilypond-book with the --pdf option, which simplifies things a lot. If you still need a script to simplify things even further, I'm sure you c

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: are the consequences of not cleaning these files up significant compared with the implications of relying on what should no longer be a dependency. Yes. Because the files are still hanging around, failure to clean them produces bugs. People will expect to get

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread James E. Bailey
First, I know nothing about this, but, Am 31.08.2008 um 19:23 schrieb Jonathan Kulp: Hi Tom, While it's possible to position fingerings very precisely using extra-offset, you can only do so to notes inside chord constructs. Fine. The problem is that if you're trying to position the finge

lyrics and repeat

2008-08-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I want to add lyrics to a song with a repeat in it. So part one of the song is repeated ones and I want to add lyrics on both parts. Here's my score, with lyrics only for the first part yet... global = { \key f \major \tempo 4=76 \time 4/4 } chordNames = \chordmode { \global f2 a:m

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/8/31 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Karl Hammar: >> Thomas wrote: >> > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:16 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: >> > > the debian package lilypond-data has a pre-depend of texlive th

Re: make-column-markup

2008-08-31 Thread David Séverin
Le Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:34:44 +0200, "Gilles THIBAULT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > when 'my' colmark markup-command > Nice function ... > >is called with one of its > >arg being either \papaccel or \papritar, it's sort of thinking > >it should 'piling up' the given args with the previous c

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Karl Hammar
Reinhold wrote: > Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Karl Hammar: > > Thomas wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:16 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: > > > > the debian package lilypond-data has a pre-depend of texlive though > > > > lilypond no longer has a runtime dependency on tex > > ... > > As l

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi Tom, Ok I've been fiddling with this for a while and I don't suppose I'm any farther along than you were. One of the problems is something that I noticed when I was engraving one of my own pieces a few days ago. While it's possible to position fingerings very precisely using extra-offset, yo

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Tom, I'll try to fiddle with this tonight. Hurricane Gustav is headed straight toward my home in Lafayette, Louisiana, so we've evacuated to my parents' house in Tennessee until the storm goes through. I'll probably have some Lilypond time later today though. Glad the docs and the examples

Re: make-column-markup

2008-08-31 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
when 'my' colmark markup-command Nice function ... is called with one of its arg being either \papaccel or \papritar, it's sort of thinking it should 'piling up' the given args with the previous call of colmark Don't sure i undertand what you want but perhaps you can try the command \

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:49:53 +0200 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Karl Hammar: > > > > As long as lilypond-book is included there is a dependancy on latex. > > lilypond-book it is also able t

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Karl Hammar: > Thomas wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:16 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: > > > the debian package lilypond-data has a pre-depend of texlive though > > > lilypond no longer has a runtime dependency on

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Karl Hammar
Thomas wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:16 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: > > the debian package lilypond-data has a pre-depend of texlive though > > lilypond no longer has a runtime dependency on tex ... As long as lilypond-book is included there is a dependancy on latex. Regards, /Karl

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-08-31 Thread Tom Cloyd
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I did the documentation on guitar stuff so I'm familiar with this issue. Jonathan - thanks for the extended examples. Very helpful. However, Here's a sticky wicket I cannot get past: \relative c'{ << { s2 r4 \over

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:16 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: > the debian package lilypond-data has a pre-depend of texlive though > lilypond no longer has a runtime dependency on tex > this is because as thomas explained : > > > When the package is upgraded, the old > > automatically generated fonts

Re: lilypond as an web-based application?

2008-08-31 Thread Stefan Thomas
Yes, that looks very promising! 2008/8/30 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all you server-side 'Ponder-ers! > > I think a few of us are convinced LilyPond can have a >> future as a client+server application >> > > For the record, I eventually want to set up a server for my musical theat