Re: Lyrics - align first wowel of a syllable under the notehead

2009-01-28 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Daer Mats, thank you very much for the suggestion. However, on my setup, your sollution does not seem to work. I still use Lilypond 2.12.1 and I simply copied your code without any change to a file and compiled with Lilypond. The result is shown on the image - the syllables are still

Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I don't understand what you mean, can you provide an example? Thanks for answering, Mats. With the following code the bar number displaces the notes in each bar to the right. If I remove the two self-alignment-X overrides the bar number does not displace any music.

Re: control-points dont seem to work for tupletbracket

2009-01-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Ricardo Teruel wrote: I think it's quite common to have curved tuplet brackets specifically for triplets. Less common all the time, because it is a terrible idea. The player can't tell whether it's a tuplet bracket, a legato (phrasing slur), or a legatura (slur).

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
After reading some more threads about the lyrics alignment, I have got the impression, that the problem of a syllable overlapping with the last note(s) of the preceding melisma could be solved by adding an extender to the melismatic syllable. The extender should last up to low c of the last bar

scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-28 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i am just starting looking at scheme and have been looking at the examples linked from here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-music-functions#Overview-of-music-functions i have something specific in mind and cant see anything quite like it in the

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Lyrics syllables should not overlap in any case, LilyPond should automatically increase the note dinstance if needed. So it seems to me as a bug. Bert Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: After reading some more threads about the lyrics alignment, I have got the impression, that the problem of a

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.01.2009 um 13:19 schrieb Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool): Lyrics syllables should not overlap in any case, LilyPond should automatically increase the note dinstance if needed. So it seems to me as a bug. It's a known issue in section 2.1.3. Melismata are not detected

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.01.2009 um 13:28 schrieb James E. Bailey: Am 28.01.2009 um 13:19 schrieb Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool): Lyrics syllables should not overlap in any case, LilyPond should automatically increase the note dinstance if needed. So it seems to me as a bug. It's a known issue in

Re: Chord Naming

2009-01-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On Friday 23 January 2009, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: We currently have issues with the chord naming functions of LilyPond. If we pass a \chordmode chord to the the ChordNames construct, we very seldom get out what we put in

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Indeed, my problem is completely different than automatic insertion of extenders. Indeed, I want Lilypond that it adds some padding automatically to the notehead whenever there is long syllable under it, so that the physical extent of the printed letters of that syllable does not overlap with

flats in f major don't work

2009-01-28 Thread jmj586
Hello, I have tried many things to try to print an F major scale using bes for b-flat and keep getting a syntax error. If I just use b I get a b natural in the output. How do I correct this??? -- View this message in context:

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Now taking a second look, I don't think it's a bug, only a limitation of the lyrics engraving procedure: it doesn't take notes into acount, only resolves lyrics overlapping (when two syllables would overlap.) You should change the alignment of the syllable a bit (not to the left, but like 0.3

Re: flats in f major don't work

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
jmj586 wrote: Hello, I have tried many things to try to print an F major scale using bes for b-flat and keep getting a syntax error. If I just use b I get a b natural in the output. How do I correct this??? It sounds like you have an \include english.ly command or some other language

define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Could someone please explain why this works: #(define-markup-command (test layout props stringA stringB) (string? string?) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:bold stringA #:italic stringB))) \markup \test #one #two but this doesn't: #(define-markup-command

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Ignore previous post… I figured it out! For those who will find this in the future, the offending line (markup #:column (cons stringA stringB needs to be (markup (#:column (stringA stringB) In plain terms, the specific markup function — in this case,

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:11:21AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: p.s. Is there any way that this could be better explained in the docs? The examples on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/ Markup-construction-in-Scheme#Markup-construction-in-Scheme seem to suggest

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Sure it can! But unless you help, it won't. :) Just suggest the exact text to add or subtract, and it'll be done within days by Jonathan. To be honest, I don't feel that I understand *why* the change in my Scheme made it work, so I don't feel good suggesting a doc fix. I

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:42:35AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Graham, Sure it can! But unless you help, it won't. :) Just suggest the exact text to add or subtract, and it'll be done within days by Jonathan. To be honest, I don't feel that I understand *why* the change in my

Re: define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: Hey, that's way more than I know about the subject. Remember my rule for doc-work: you don't need to be perfect; you just need to be better than nothing. Is this in the Contributor's Guide? I don't remember this rule ;) If you can't think of anything else, just send

Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-28 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
I have installed LilyPond 2.12.1-1 on a Mac Mini running MAC OS X 10.4.11 for Mac Intel machines but now I getting the following error messages when I attempt to compile my project. I have also attempted to use 2.11.65 but keep receiving the same error messages. The same code compiles fine on

Re: vista

2009-01-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Please see the instructions at http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Where_is_the_app%3F or http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/ Tutorial Am 28.01.2009 um 18:49 schrieb Antoine Plante: Hello, I have been trying to install the software without

Re: Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
This is an error that exists in 2.12.1. See the list bug-lilyp...@gnu.org for the fix that is needed. 2.12.2 has the fix, and is available for download. Please try 2.12.2. Thanks, Carl On 1/28/09 9:56 AM, Simon J Mackenzie smac...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have installed LilyPond 2.12.1-1

lilypond on Windows ME

2009-01-28 Thread Till Rettig
Hello lilypond list! I report a problem by a user on the German forum: He installed LilyPond 2.12 on Windows ME and invoked the program from the command line. He got the following errors: 3 times: Fontconfig warning: no cachedir found (Dann folgt ein Ordnername und Pfad) adding cachedir.

Re: Compilation Errors on MAC OS X 10.4.11

2009-01-28 Thread Brett Duncan
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: This is an error that exists in 2.12.1. See the list bug-lilyp...@gnu.org for the fix that is needed. 2.12.2 has the fix, and is available for download. Please try 2.12.2. Thanks, Carl 2.12.2 fixes the problem with font-file-as-ps-string, but the Pango warnings

Re: [ANN] LilyPondTool-2.12-r2 released

2009-01-28 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, here comes chaos production again. I just wanted to be sure, made a clean install of jedit, included the new lily files etc.: And IT WORKS. I have made 2 dozens of corrections, compilations and views and the system was stable. Congrats. Allow me one suggestion: Could you line out

Re: vista

2009-01-28 Thread Tim Slattery
I have been trying to install the software without success. I downloaded the windows vista version. When I click on the desktop icon, a text file welcome me. I follow the instruction and it creates a pdf file of a scale. I can't seem to open the program more that that. It's not an

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Now taking a second look, I don't think it's a bug, only a limitation of the lyrics engraving procedure: it doesn't take notes into acount, only resolves lyrics overlapping (when two syllables would overlap.) Well, if the limitation leads to undesired

Re: Lyrics spacing problem - overlapping syllables

2009-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James E. Bailey wrote: ... padding a notehead is beyond my ability. And it's what I would do if it bothered me. See Known issues and warnings of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Horizontal-spacing-overview#Horizontal-spacing-overview /Mats

postscript parentheses

2009-01-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Is anyone PS-savvy enough to tell me how to draw scalable (independently in X and Y) parentheses using \postscript? Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lyrics - align first wowel of a syllable under the notehead -- SUCCESS

2009-01-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Success! It's not perfect, because it doesn't recognize that we're using a proportional font, but it looks pretty good to me. It uses vowels (characters that are always vowels) and secondary vowels (characters that are vowels only if there isn't a regular vowel, like y in english), both of which

Why can't I post here using email

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Wilson
I have sent several posts to lilypond-user from my mail client, none of them have turned up. I've looked at the mailman page, it fails to tell me which arcane ritual I haven't followed. Anyone care to enlighten me? How do I post to lilypond-user using a sane method. Where sane method is

Re: Why can't I post here using email

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Andrew Wilson wrote: I have sent several posts to lilypond-user from my mail client, none of them have turned up. I've looked at the mailman page, it fails to tell me which arcane ritual I haven't followed. Anyone care to enlighten me? How do I post to lilypond-user using a sane method.

define-markup-function problem

2009-01-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: Hi all, Could someone please explain why this works: #(define-markup-command (test layout props stringA stringB) (string? string?) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:bold stringA #:italic stringB))) \markup

Re: lilypond on Windows ME

2009-01-28 Thread Charlie Ledocq
Hi Till, I know this brings no specific solution to you but...this is my experience. I personaly attempt to install Lilypond 2.10.33 on a medion Laptop PIII600MHz192MBRam+WinMe two years ago...and I dismissed ...because * Lilypond was working too too slowly :-(( * I read also in forums

Re: postscript parentheses

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Is anyone PS-savvy enough to tell me how to draw scalable (independently in X and Y) parentheses using \postscript? Kieren, At the moment, for some reason, a glacier could outrun my computer. So unfortunately, my solution is quick, dirty, cumbersome, inelegant and

Re: Why can't I post here using email

2009-01-28 Thread M Watts
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I use Thunderbird and post to the list all the time without problems. Me too -- it just works. I take it the OP's problem is solved, because his message got through! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org