Re: editor for windows

2008-09-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/9/13 Lewis Overton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use a Mac and an external editor ... BUT ... I have a friend with a > Windows system. He asked me to recommend an editor to use with Lilypond > files. Any recommendations? I use Notepad++ (with some syntax highlighting specifications). I've tried JE

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: >> > a:hover { >> > /* >> > change the text color like you do >> > hide the underlining/border

Re: daily summary

2008-09-14 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/09/12 1:19 PM, "Stefan Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear lilypond users, > since a couple of day I don't get the [daily] summary of the user-group any > more. Is it a problem I share with others? > Yes: the list postmaster is aware of the issue and has already contacted the GNU p

Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Nice work, Kieren. I forgot about#'height-limit. I also forgot to include an image file (something I'm trying to do more). Here it is: Mark <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Polesky
2008/9/14 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, the strings in this list are only used to build up the > glyph names. That _IS_ unfortunate. I was under the impression that if I wanted to create my own pedal asterisk, I could (ie. without compiling from source!) I think this is the

Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Polesky
B, regarding the slurs, modifying the #'positions property of Slur would be the ideal solution, but, for some reason, I couldn't make that solution work. I opted to use the #'avoid-slur property of TextScript to make an acceptable (but not ideal) appearance. Other than that, I put a bunch of idea

Fwd: Website harmony teaching

2008-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM Subject: Fwd: Website harmony teaching To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message: > From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: September 14, 2008 3:38:08 PM PDT > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >

Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi B, 1) It took me almost like forever, to get the cross staff slurs to render. I'm quite sure there must be an easier way to mark them up. Any of you have an idea? Other than making the code a little easier to read (using variables, etc.), I don't think so… see my attached solution (tru

Re: clef after line break in unmetered music

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/14 Steven van Roode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks Neil. Using cadenza, I ended up with bar lines still being visible. Why? They only appear when you set them. > However, I found another solution which works fine: > > http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Rhythms.htm

Re: clef after line break in unmetered music

2008-09-14 Thread Steven van Roode
Thanks Neil. Using cadenza, I ended up with bar lines still being visible. However, I found another solution which works fine: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Rhythms.html#Chant-or-psalms-notation Regards, Steven > Date: Sun, 1

beaming

2008-09-14 Thread Josh Parmenter
Hi all... I am trying to understand the Beam #'beaming property, and can't seem to figure out the syntax to override the settings. As a short example, what I would like to do is tell the middle beam not to draw. None of these syntaxes throws an error, but none seems to change any settings.

Re: emacs-mode

2008-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The tex backend for LilyPond hasn't been supported for several years now. Don't expect it to work! /Mats James E. Bailey wrote: Well, now that lilypond can compile a file in emacs, I've been looking around, getting myself acquainted with the various options. Apparently, the 2tex option calls

Re: vertical spacing inside a system

2008-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
That's completely normal. What you probably want to specify is the extent of the Staff. /Mats Alan Fabian wrote: Hi, the "VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent" does not work with "Voice" in a "ChoirStaff". Is that normal? ("\override Voice.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-3 . 3)"

Re: clef after line break in unmetered music

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Steven, 2008/9/13 Steven van Roode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I encounter the following problem: > > In a piece of unmeterd music (like psalm tones or recited text) > I want to decide the place of the line > breaks. I use > > \remove "Time_signature_engraver" > \remove "Bar_engraver" > > to get rid

vertical spacing inside a system

2008-09-14 Thread Alan Fabian
Hi, the "VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent" does not work with "Voice" in a "ChoirStaff". Is that normal? ("\override Voice.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-3 . 3)") Alan P.S.: I am using lilypond version 2.10.33 ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-14 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 12 sept. 08 à 18:59, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Yes, Lilypond wastes 10% of the vertical space on each page. You have 98 left, but lilypond reserves a little less than 20 units for possible rounding errors when calculating the staff spacings (yes, I agree, that's insane!). So lilypond

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I haven't tested it on Wine (I'm on 64bits), but in a virtual machine. The new build works fine here. That did the trick! Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

2008-09-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Obviously, I can't (easily) tweak the placing of things like "Allegro" if it's going to be inserted into lots of parts (nor do I want the hassle). But, to give a current example, my trombone

Re: a script / tool for transposing a lilypond staff / source file by a given interval and output result as a new file

2008-09-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daryna Baikadamova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Thanks for your help!  However I have three questions: when we enter new scores, should we enter in concert pitch? You suggested that it is not a good idea to use \displayLilyMusic because it only outputs absolute p

Re: Newby questions

2008-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilypond --pdf filename.ly There's no need for the --pdf flag, you get a PDF by default. On my WInXP machine, this works fine. The program spits out some status lines, and the *.ps and *.pdf files appear. On my Win Vista laptop, when I type the command the version

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

2008-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Obviously, I can't (easily) tweak the placing of things like "Allegro" if it's going to be inserted into lots of parts (nor do I want the hassle). But, to give a current example, my trombone part has a top f (in lily terms, an f' in bass clef) right where I want to

Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-14 Thread b
Hi list. I'm a beginner in lilypond (and sheet music). Just started typing in a piece. Everything is fine - except for the last couple of measures. I've been all around searching all documentation and this list. However, I still have some problems. I'd be thankful if any of you experts would

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: > > a:hover { > > /* > > change the text color like you do > > hide the underlining/border if you wish, I'd rather not > > */ > > I would remove underlining, because the differe

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm rebuilding mingw with last known GUILE version to work. Note that > it does work on Wine. I haven't tested it on Wine (I'm on 64bits), but in a virtual machine. Does your current build include the recent mingw fix from Ludovic? If so, you can

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I also compressed the spacing of the footer and changed the link's >> appearance, as Reinhold suggested. > > Yes, that looks much better. I'm still wondering if we need the line > "This document was generated by Pa

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I'm rebuilding mingw with last known GUILE version to work. Note that it does work on Wine. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? > > Gosh, th

re: strange position of tuplet number

2008-09-14 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, I found out, that fingerings work much better than tuplet-numbers in connection with cross-staff beams. My problem is: how can I make the fingerings look like the tuplet-numbers? Here a short example: \version "2.11.49" ohnezahl = { \override TupletNumber #'stencil = ##f } re

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I'm rebuilding mingw with last known GUILE version to work. Note that it does work on Wine. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? > > Gosh, th

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 schrieb Patrick McCarty: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding the tables, e.g. "Note names in other languages": > > I'd suggest > > > > th, td { > >verti

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: > Looks good so far, but I'd suggest to make the underlining of links a > bit less annoying, esp. in the navigation frame where there are lots > of them. > Something like: > > a { > text

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
> 2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? Gosh, this deserves to be dealt with ASAP, indeed. I have posted a report on the devel list, and the official issue in our tracker is http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=6

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? This is already reported on the bug list: gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/14 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But why wouldn't (i.e., doesn't) this work? > > \layout > { >\context >{ >\Score >pedalSustainStrings = #'("Ped." "*Ped." (markup #:lower 0.45 > "*") ) >} > } Unfortunately, the strings in th

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks good so far, but I'd suggest to make the underlining of links a bit > less annoying, esp. in the navigation frame where there are lots of them. > Something like: > > a { >text-decoration: none; >

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-09-14 um 05:18 schrieb Patrick McCarty: http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/start.html The clickable links are: * Notation Reference * one big page (for the Notation Reference) * Developers resources Looks good so far, but I'd suggest to make the underlining of links a bit less

[LSR] A tableture for clarinet

2008-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Every day a new nice problem. :) The above snippete fiddles with PostScript, directly. The result is not convertible by convert: --- ERROR: /invalidfileaccess in --.libfile-- Operand stack: (/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf// emmentaler-11.otf) Font (/usr/lo

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, No, unless you're compiling from source. The asterisk's bounding box is hard-coded during font generation (see attached image). But why wouldn't (i.e., doesn't) this work? \layout { \context { \Score pedalSustainStrings = #'("Ped." "*P

Re: piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Mark, 2008/9/14 Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When using \sustainOn and \sustainOff to make piano pedal marks, > the "Ped." glyph and the "*" glyph (which has less height) are > drawn with the tops vertically aligned. Is there a way to align > them at the baseline without manual overrides

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 schrieb Patrick McCarty: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the new Lilypond documentation we are looking for a good screen > > design (i.e. a mockup image of how

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Patrick, sure, this would be a workaround, but one can hardly call it a solution... Actually. it doesn't change the fact that there >is< enough space to fit both systems on one page, even with the larger page-top-space. But for some unknown reason Lilypond decides differently. However, as Rei

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Henning Plumeyer
Rembrandt Wolpert a écrit : Trying to use lilypond-book with 2.11.58-1 I get the following error. Reading March.tex... Dissecting... Writing snippets... Processing... Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 2.11.58 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" i

Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Michael Phillips wrote: Thanks for your input You're welcome. It was pretty much a wild guess; there was so little to go on. And I've never used Lilypad. there is very little unimportant content I can remove. Certainly, no music notes There is another way to reduce the file size sligh

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Renaud Flavigny
Rembrandt Wolpert a écrit : Trying to use lilypond-book with 2.11.58-1 I get the following error. Reading March.tex... Dissecting... Writing snippets... Processing... Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 2.11.58 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm"