Re: Tweaking within markup

2009-02-14 Thread M Watts
Nick Payne wrote: Is it possible? I want to put a parenthesized natural above some notes. If I do it within a single markup, the natural sign is not aligned with the parentheses, and I haven't found any simpler way to get them aligned except by having the left parens, the natural, and the right p

LilyPond crashes Scala

2009-02-14 Thread rey2009
Feb 14th 2009 Hello- I am running windows XP -SP2 version and tried to used Scala v 2.25s You must use GTK+ . I am using GTK+ Runtime version 2.14.7 Well Scala just choked(never started) Finally Huygens from Scala http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ suggested that I put GTK2-Runtime as the f

Tweaking within markup

2009-02-14 Thread Nick Payne
Is it possible? I want to put a parenthesized natural above some notes. If I do it within a single markup, the natural sign is not aligned with the parentheses, and I haven't found any simpler way to get them aligned except by having the left parens, the natural, and the right parens each in their

Re: Newbie question: Brief alternative lyrics-and-notes during repeat

2009-02-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
aliteralmind wrote: This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you Jon. Your example code taught me big time. Thanks for the help. I haven't tried the following yet, but I think I also understand now, how to make this work both with or without a second verse of lyrics. A combination of two vers

Re: Newbie question: Brief alternative lyrics-and-notes during repeat

2009-02-14 Thread aliteralmind
This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you Jon. Your example code taught me big time. Thanks for the help. I haven't tried the following yet, but I think I also understand now, how to make this work both with or without a second verse of lyrics. A combination of two versus, and two VOICES, w

Re: On-screen (low-resolution) image quality

2009-02-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Arnout Engelen wrote: > Do you have any ideas for improving low-resolution output? My script is of > course just a proof of concept - what would be the 'right' way and place to > tackle this? The 101 number was chosen such that a (IIRC) the staff spaces are an i

Re: also, lyric help

2009-02-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
James E. Bailey wrote Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:38 AM El 11.02.2009, a las 12:10, Trevor Daniels escribió: James E. Bailey wrote Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:28 AM Am 07.01.2009 um 11:06 schrieb Graham Percival: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:02PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Tha

Re: Newbie question: brief alternative notes-and-lyrics in repeat

2009-02-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jeff, I responded to this last night, although I suppose it's possible my response didn't answer all of your questions. Check the archives if you're not subscribed to the list. :) Jon Jeff Epstein wrote: How do you create lyrics for brief alternative notes, existing in repeated sections (

On-screen (low-resolution) image quality

2009-02-14 Thread Arnout Engelen
Hi, I'm writing a piece of software that (among other things) displays sheet music (fragments). I've been looking at existing components to take care of rendering the music, and even though lilypond focuses on print rather than on-screen viewing, it seems like a powerful option. I've long been u

Newbie question: brief alternative notes-and-lyrics in repeat

2009-02-14 Thread Jeff Epstein
How do you create lyrics for brief alternative notes, existing in repeated sections (when there are not enough notes to justify duplicating the entire section)? Here is a demonstration picture of what I am trying to do: http://jeffyepstein.com/tmp/alternative_lyrics.gif The red is what I can't

On-screen (low-resolution) image quality

2009-02-14 Thread Arnout Engelen
Hi, I'm writing a piece of software that (among other things) displays sheet music (fragments). I've been looking at existing components to take care of rendering the music, and even though lilypond focuses on print rather than on-screen viewing, it seems like a powerful option. I've long been u

Re: Question: VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

2009-02-14 Thread Robin Bannister
Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Since Lilypond 2.11. this does not work anymore I have a lot of single sheets based on a 2.10 template which ensured I had enough vertical space for pencilling in fingering. The vertical spacing rework in 2.11 gave me the same problem. This is probably to do with t

Re: Titles on separate page

2009-02-14 Thread James E. Bailey
El 14.02.2009, a las 09:18, Simon Bailey escribió: hi, On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:24 AM, sdfgsdhdshd wrote: i want the first system to be on the page after the titles. If you put a huge value to after-title-space: the first system is still at the same page (=> bug?). I tried other parameters, b

Re: Problem with fingering

2009-02-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tomas Valusek wrote Friday, February 13, 2009 7:20 PM thanks for solution. It's great to have any solution. Could anyone please send it into LSR for future reference? OK. I've added this to the LSR. It should appear as soon as it has been approved by Valentin. Trevor Nevertheless, I cons

Re: Titles on separate page

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:24 AM, sdfgsdhdshd wrote: i want the first system to be on the page after the titles. If you put a huge value to after-title-space: the first system is still at the same page (=> bug?). I tried other parameters, but didn't managed to do it. Any solution? iirc, th