Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 11/20/08 2:24 PM, Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Templates make Lilypond life a lot easier. Is there a place where I can find the templates from the manual as separate files ? Copying

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Francisco Vila
Great work. However, I find there is only one thing wrong with it: it's for vim. :-) 2008/11/21 Eyolf Østrem [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The most useful and simple tool I've had the pleasure to work on lilypond files with, is Nicolas Sceaux's lyqi mode (lilypond quick insert). There is only one thing

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Friday, November 21, 2008 8:15 AM Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 11/20/08 2:24 PM, Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Templates make Lilypond life a lot easier. Is there a place where I can find the

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Martin Tarenskeen wrote Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:24 PM On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Try the template called piano-centered-lyrics (A.2.3) in the Learning Manual. Thank you, just what I was looking for. One thing I don't understand about this (and some

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:31:40AM -, Trevor Daniels wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:24 PM I want to learn and not only use the templates but also understand what I'm doing. Maybe some %comment lines should be added to the templates in the learning manual ?

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Tarenskeen wrote Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:24 PM Why \new Staff = upper {...} and \new Staff = lower {...} ? I use just \new Staff {...} with the same results. [...] You're quite right though, the names are quite unnecessary. By giving

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Also there is a quick insert mode work in progress for jEdit / LilyPondTool. However, I could not make enough progress yet, but the foundations are there, so in the after-the-next release it will be available. However, my quick insert mode will be really a virtual piano made from the keyboard. I

Re: lyrics in a PianoStaff

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By giving the Staff a name you can refer to its context later. See sect. 5.1.2. Also, the Staff name will be the track name used in the MIDI file. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: \slurDashed and not

2008-11-21 Thread stefanozanobini
I've solved the (quite stupid) problem. So: \slurDashed d16*(* a*)* a d d*(* a*)* *\slurSolid* a d d a a d d a a d 2008/11/20 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use \slurSolid. As you can see from the 2.11 docs, this works. Try to construct a minimal example of your problem; this will

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 21.11.2008 (14:34), Bertalan Fodor wrote: Also there is a quick insert mode work in progress for jEdit / LilyPondTool. That's the second reason why I found out I had to make something myself (third, actually: after my sound contempt for emacs, and the desire to do some learning-by-doing): I

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 21 nov. 08 à 14:34, Bertalan Fodor a écrit : In LilyPondTool you'll be able to type: c g c s x c (try it!) Much more natural. However, it makes it complicated, because the software must know the key. So for example is c minor it will be rendered as c es c bes, b c but in h major, it

Confirmation for Lilypond List

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Grepps
This is a confirmation of my email for the lilypond mailing list. Thanks, Paul Grepps ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Then for sure I will include your layout as an option. Bert Nicolas Sceaux írta: Le 21 nov. 08 à 14:34, Bertalan Fodor a écrit : In LilyPondTool you'll be able to type: c g c s x c (try it!) Much more natural. However, it makes it complicated, because the software must know the key. So

Parser error when including file

2008-11-21 Thread Arjan Bos
Dear list, I have the following two files: includeError.ly: \version 2.11.63 #(define RH rightHandFinger) and includedError.ly: y\version 2.11.63 \include includedError.ly And if I compile the second file, the parser tells me that the first file is missing an '='. includedError.ly:2:0:

Re: Parser error when including file

2008-11-21 Thread Jan van Dijk
Dear Arjan, Your file includedError starts with the declaration of a variable: y Hereafter lilypond expects an = For example: y = test I think the y is a typo. When you remove this letter, your problem should be solved. Kind regards, Jan van Dijk. Op Friday 21 November 2008 22:39:16 schreef

Fwd: Parser error when including file

2008-11-21 Thread Arjan Bos
From: Arjan Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 november 2008 23:03:02 GMT+01:00 To: Jan van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Parser error when including file Yes you are right, and I perfectly understand the error. However, the error is signalled in the other file! And sadly, this is not

Newly defined Voice context and RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-11-21 Thread Roman Stawski
Hi everyone It seems that if I create a new context based on the Voice context, it won't play with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext at all. Try the snippet below as is, and then uncomment the commented block. A warning is generated and lyrics are no longer rendered. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Re: Fwd: Parser error when including file

2008-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Arjan Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, the error is signalled in the other file! Not really. LP processes the includeError.ly. It sees 'y', and starts looking for and '='. I assume it processes the \version internally, and then starts including the includedError.ly. Again, it processes

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-21 Thread John Sellers
I have no argument with what you say about the documentation compared with many kinds of technical documentation, as long as you stick close to home. The Lilypond folks work hard and do a lot of nice stuff, including documentation. However, that doesn't change the facts of what I say. The

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 21.11.2008 (18:50), Nicolas Sceaux wrote: I'm using the keyboard mapping suggested by a user and described here: http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/index.php/2006/07/01/8 That's very close to my layout. The arrangement of the pitch keys is a little different, but the principle is the same.

Re: Quick-insert mode for vim -- work in progress

2008-11-21 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 21.11.2008 (21:00), Bertalan Fodor wrote: Then for sure I will include your layout as an option. ... and an option to customize the layout, I assume? e -- At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1 - Use Linux! ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: percent repeat glyph

2008-11-21 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Daniel, 2008/11/17 Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have just got back from a band rehearsal, and tonight for the first time I could see what bothers me about Lilypond's percent glyph: the dots are too far out. I think they should be horizontally closer to the centre, so that the space

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/21/08 4:56 PM, John Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no argument with what you say about the documentation compared with many kinds of technical documentation, as long as you stick close to home. The Lilypond folks work hard and do a lot of nice stuff, including

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:20:23PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 11/21/08 4:56 PM, John Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The origin of the problem is that developers don't have to walk the path of the newbies from beginning to end and it is very difficult to provide a whole