Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:18:36PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Thanks for replying, Han-Wen. I can't find showLastLength anywhere in > that file, though. Searches for showlast and show-last came up empty. > It looks like the file is inside the SCM directory but I can't tell > where. Here

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Thanks for replying, Han-Wen. I can't find showLastLength anywhere in that file, though. Searches for showlast and show-last came up empty. It looks like the file is inside the SCM directory but I can't tell where. Here's the search I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.11.59

style sheet: extra dynamics

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
As before, I'll take comments for a few days before posting this to LSR. Style sheet file and test case included. Cheers, - Graham dynamics-extra.ly Description: Binary data dynamics-test.ly Description: Binary data ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

style sheet: dynamic {espr, dolce, legato}

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
As before, I'll collect comments for a few days before sending it to LSR. Style sheet and test case included. Experienced engravers will note that there's tons of "$dynamic $extra" strings in music, and may question the value of listing the most common ones. I have two responses in advance: 1.

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to accomplish this great idea?! > ;) > Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when invoking lilypond instead of putting it in the .ly file? Something like look at lily.scm to see where the -d options are d

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Can anyone point me in the right direction to accomplish this great idea?! ;) Jon Patrick Horgan wrote: Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/9/22 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when invoking lilypond instead of putting it

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:48:44 +0100 > "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2008/9/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Besides, -dpaper-size=\"letter\" *is* a built-in option, so lilypond >> > won't display a warning message. The ne

Re: lilypond -dhelp

2008-09-22 Thread James E. Bailey
Yeah, still same problem. I even moved the program to the Applications directory. vanessa_imac:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin jamesebailey$ ./lilypond -dhelp GNU LilyPond 2.11.59 warning: not relocating, no 2.11.59/ or current/ found under /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/R

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:48:44 +0100 "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Besides, -dpaper-size=\"letter\" *is* a built-in option, so lilypond > > won't display a warning message. The next version of this file will > > use this method. > >

Re: lilypond -dhelp

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
Interesting. Works here on 10.4.11 intel. tsubasa:~ gperciva$ lilypond -dhelp GNU LilyPond 2.11.59 Options supported by ly:set-option anti-alias-factor (1) ... Could you try deleting the LilyPond.app and installing it again? Cheers, - Graham On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:49:38 +0200 "James E.

Re: delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread James E. Bailey
On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, at 01:55AM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:51:09 +0200 >"James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: >> > The AU *should* contain info about this, but it hasn't been >>

Re: delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:51:09 +0200 "James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > > The AU *should* contain info about this, but it hasn't been > > rewritten yet and I don't know whether it contains this info. > > (and can't be bothered to chec

Re: delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread James E. Bailey
On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:28:07 -0700 (PDT) > Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How do I set delete-intermediate-files? >> >> I saw it mentioned herebut I can't figure out how to make it work. > > Same way you set any other -d option. >

lilypond -dhelp

2008-09-22 Thread James E. Bailey
On osx 10.4, using the 2.11.59-1 intel binary, I get the following: vanessa_imac:~/Desktop/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin jamesebailey$ ./lilypond -dhelp GNU LilyPond 2.11.59 warning: not relocating, no 2.11.59/ or current/ found under /Users/jamesebailey/Desktop/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resour

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:21 -0700 > Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Neil Puttock wrote: >> > ...some stuff elided... >> > This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) > > Well, IMO the main point is setting the margins a

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

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:34:52 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the meantime, a small basic google search box would mean the world > to many of us -- or at least myself :-) Presumably these things are done with google's site:www.lilypond.org option. Can you also restric

Re: delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I set delete-intermediate-files? > > I saw it mentioned herebut I can't figure out how to make it work. Same way you set any other -d option. lilypond -d delete-intermediate-files foo.ly The AU *should* co

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:21 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Puttock wrote: > > ...some stuff elided... > > This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) Well, IMO the main point is setting the margins automatically -- and simply the idea that this would be use

Re: delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Mark, 2008/9/23 Mark Polesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do I set delete-intermediate-files? > > I saw it mentioned herebut I can't figure out how to make it work. Command line: -ddelete-intermediate-files=#t .ly file: #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) Regards, Neil

delete-intermediate-files

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Polesky
How do I set delete-intermediate-files? I saw it mentioned herebut I can't figure out how to make it work. Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO I prefer Patrick's design over Andrew, it's more colorful but still serious enough (as Valentin already wrote), and I second Patrick Horgan comment on links color: maybe we could

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

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Polesky
- Original Message From: Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:35:50 PM > What exactly do you understand under "breadcrumbs navigation"? The last, say, > five visited pages? That's not possible in static html pages, as it needs > session management an

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Wasn't it a scheme to preserve page-turns and other important formatting when switching from A4 to Letter? Jon Patrick Horgan wrote: Neil Puttock wrote: ...some stuff elided... This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) Why not use the built-in option instead, i.e., run with

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Neil Puttock wrote: ...some stuff elided... This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) Why not use the built-in option instead, i.e., run with -dpaper-size="letter"? because he wanted to be able to switch back and forth via command line argument without editing the file. Pa

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

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Hawryluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:43 PM, John Mandereau > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - the colors are taken from the Monet "Waterlilies" on the LilyPond homepage >> >> I find it a good idea, even if we might decide to

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

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO I prefer Patrick's design over Andrew, it's more colorful but still > serious enough (as Valentin already wrote), and I second Patrick Horgan > comment on links color: maybe we could make links a bit more blue? > We

Re: Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Sebastian Menge wrote Monday, September 22, 2008 9:54 PM I would suggest: * a search engine field at the top of the main template (cf wikipedia) It would be nice, and others are pressing for this, but it poses some problems. * way more hyperlinks: especially between corresponding parts

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/22 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry! I've added > % run with > % lilypond -d letter spacing-a4-letter.ly > % for letter size > to the top of the file. > > This produces a warning that "no such internal option: letter", which > I'd like to get rid of, but it works all the same.

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

2008-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/22 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's hard, it probably needs AJAX... I swear I'll look into the AJAX thingy as soon as I get a life (and that answers your question about my opera, btw...) There are several resources such as http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.htm

Re: Questions on beaming and barring

2008-09-22 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Nick, > I thing I haven't managed to fix is that the barring indication looks better > if both the right- and left-hand ends are extended slightly so that they > don't both start and finish centred on a note, like so: > > \barre #0.0 "CIV" #'(-0.5 . -1) #10 > > But this means that a barre tha

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

2008-09-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 22. September 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > Hi Reinhold, hi everybody, > > I find the new documentation layout very impressive, but there's one > feature I'm still missing: the integrated search function! There are many feature that *I

Re: Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Menge
Perhaps a bit off topic: Im using lilypond only once a year or so. Then every time I have to read a lot of the docs again. Since i remember most things then, i'm quite quick (getting quicker every time ;-) ), but I must admit that I dont find my way through the docs as quickly as I could: I would

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

2008-09-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 22. September 2008 schrieb Robin Bannister: > So I propose > > A > Replace the (passive) text "Table of Contents" in the TOC panel, > with the document title, e.g. "Learning Manual". > This nearly always visible (on biggish screens). > (And

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

2008-09-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 19. September 2008 schrieb Mark Polesky: > It's nice to see the progress with the new docs! I have 3 comments: > > 1. Is anyone else wanting "breadcrumbs navigation"? So often after >I've looked something up in the docs, I find myself d

French music teacher requires a multilingual glossary

2008-09-22 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi everybody, Sorry to bother you with this, but my wife requires your help: She teaches music here in Manosque (Southern of France), and since the ITER program is in development, she has to deal with beginners (between 6 and 8 years old) just arriving from their mother country and not familiar

Re: leadsheet with intro an lyrics

2008-09-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sebastian Menge wrote: Am Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:53:02 +0200 schrieb "Robin Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: To see how, search (twice) for "Skips in lyric mode" in the vocal snippets: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Vocal-music Thanks, exactly what I was lookin

Re: leadsheet with intro an lyrics

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Menge
Am Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:53:02 +0200 schrieb "Robin Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To see how, search (twice) for "Skips in lyric mode" in the vocal > snippets: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Vocal-music Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I just RTF 2.10 manu

Re: leadsheet with intro an lyrics

2008-09-22 Thread Robin Bannister
Sebastian Menge wrote: But then the second part starts a new staff. How can I prevent that? One way would be to have just one part, which starts all three things together (like your second part) and then make the lyrics skip the intro bars. To see how, search (twice) for "Skips in lyric mod

Re: Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Stan Sanderson
A rousing hip, hip, hurrah to the authors of the documentation. Few (if any) commercial products can boast of similar quality! Regards, Stan On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Well spotted! I should have seen it from the fact that it's impossible to play this way, if not fr

Re: Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Well spotted! I should have seen it from the fact that it's impossible to play this way, if not from the facsimile itself (which I just checked, too). Thanks, Stan. I'll fix and send to Carl. Jonathan Stan Sanderson wrote: On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: but further

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/9/22 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when invoking lilypond instead of putting it in the .ly file? Something like Yes! Great idea! (my useless post du jour :-) Wo

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: I'm preparing my old scores for online publication, but I'm extremely fussy about engraving. I want users on both sides of the Atlantic to be able to print my music easily, but this only works if the music looks in the same in A4 and Letter paper. (having page turns in ran

Re: Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: but further comments are welcome. Re: sect. 2.4 The motivating example is beautifully set, but has an incorrect fingering in the second measure. The next to the last eighth note (e above middle c) should be fingered with the first finger

Documentation Review

2008-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Help needed to review documentation before 2.12 is released. --- Several sections of the Learning Manual and most of the first two Chapters of the Notation Reference are ready for review by users, and it would be good to bring these to the

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

2008-09-22 Thread Robin Bannister
I like the comprehensive navigation of the new layout [1], but feel there is still something missing. __ Say I am reading the mailing list, looking at a thread or message. I see something which gets me thinking about a probl

Re: showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/22 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when > invoking lilypond instead of putting it in the .ly file? Something like Yes! Great idea! (my useless post du jour :-) Cheers, Valentin ___

showLastLength as a command-line option?

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Would it be possible technically to specify the showLastLength value when invoking lilypond instead of putting it in the .ly file? Something like lilypond --lastlength=20 filename.ly to process only the last 20 bars? The problem with this particular example (and maybe with trying to do this

Fwd: Laikas keisti nuolaidu kortele!

2008-09-22 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
Jei Neste korteles galiojimas baigiasi, pameginkit pakeisti. Gal nesvarbu, kad ji registruota mano vardu? Arba pasidaryti dar viena, juk nieko nekainuoja. -- Forwarded message -- From: Korteles Neste Lietuva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/9/18 Subject: Laikas keisti nuolaidu korte

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Awesome!! I like it, Graham! Worked perfectly with that command. Thanks for sharing. Jon Graham Percival wrote: Sorry! I've added % run with % lilypond -d letter spacing-a4-letter.ly % for letter size to the top of the file. This produces a warning that "no such internal option: letter",

Re: midi dynamics

2008-09-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Yes, it would be very convenient if make-dynamic-script was > > extended so you also could specify the MIDI interpretation of the > > new dynamics mark. > > Section 3.5.5 "Controlling MIDI dynamics" in the 2.11 docs shows two > methods for controlling the MIDI volume for user-created dynamic

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/9/22 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry! I've added > % run with > % lilypond -d letter spacing-a4-letter.ly > % for letter size > to the top of the file. > > This produces a warning that "no such internal option: letter", which > I'd like to get rid of, but it works all the same.

Re: same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
Sorry! I've added % run with % lilypond -d letter spacing-a4-letter.ly % for letter size to the top of the file. This produces a warning that "no such internal option: letter", which I'd like to get rid of, but it works all the same. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:40:10 -0500 Jonath

same pages in a4 and letter

2008-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
I'm preparing my old scores for online publication, but I'm extremely fussy about engraving. I want users on both sides of the Atlantic to be able to print my music easily, but this only works if the music looks in the same in A4 and Letter paper. (having page turns in random places is *not* accep

Re: midi dynamics

2008-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson Quoting Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: if I need a `p espr.' mark, it's probably best (from a typographical point of view) to write c\markup { \dynamic "p" \italic " espr." } No, this is not the best solution from a typographical point of view. If you for example have

Re: How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-22 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 21. September 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Can someone tell me how I can get the text width inside scheme? > > > > There's a method called

leadsheet with intro an lyrics

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Menge
Hi all I'm writing a leadsheet with chords and lyrics. How can I let the lyrics start after 4 bars of "intro"? At the moment my score looks like that: \score { { << \chords { ... } \relative c' { ... } >> << \chords { ... } \relative c' { ... } \addlyrics { ... } >> } \header { ...

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

2008-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi Reinhold, hi everybody, I find the new documentation layout very impressive, but there's one feature I'm still missing: the integrated search function! In the attached html page I have pasted (in a very basic way) a search box at the top of the tocframe; this is more or less the kind of layout

Re: installing on mac os x 10.4.11

2008-09-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 22 Sep 2008, at 09:49, Valentin Villenave wrote: After a number of attempts to install the new version - I was getting an error message of 'file to short' - which I couldn't find any references to. Hmm. weird. Can you try the latest development (2.11.x) version? This link says it is a

Re: installing on mac os x 10.4.11

2008-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/21 rik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After a number of attempts to install the new version - I was getting an error > message of 'file to short' - which I couldn't find any references to. Hmm. weird. Can you try the latest development (2.11.x) version? Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/22 Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Should this be added to the bug tracker as a feature request or whatnot? If you can provide a simple (bugmeister-readable) bug report, you're welcome :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

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

2008-09-22 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/9/22 Dmytro O. Redchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/20 Francisco Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have seen the new design in action and I like it very much, I'd like >> to propose a minimum of >> >> padding:10px; > I agree; would suggest 1em. Yes, better. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)