Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:10:32AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On May 23, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > >> My goal is not to insult you into feeling bad; my goal is >> to insult you into HELPING US FIX THINGS. Learn scheme. Join the >> Frogs. Contribute to lilypond. If everybody

Compilation Errors using Emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-24 Thread weiss nicht
Hallo, somehow things are more complicated in the lilypond/emacs world, even the newsgroups But anyway, although I already recieved helpfull tips from the list (thanks Peter Chubb!)I still can't get started working with lilypond-mode since I don't understand the compilation process: I have

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Wilbert, unfotunately, I couldn't install frescobaldi from source. After running make I got the message: Scanning dependencies of target bytecompile_python [ 0%] Byte-compiling signals.py [ 0%] Byte-compiling rational.py [ 0%] Byte-compiling kateshell/mainwindow.py [ 0%] Byte-compiling

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:57:20PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On May 23, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > >> Unfortunately, Tim's point is at odds with the philosophy of free >> software - which can be pretty succinctly stated as "he who writes the >> software makes the rules".

\partial

2009-05-24 Thread Mario Moles
Ciao a tutti! Perché usando \partial rimane dello spazio bianco dopo i 3/4? Grazie! -- oiram/bin/selom cofon ={\cadenzaOff \bar "|"\cadenzaOn} cofn ={\cadenzaOff \bar "|"\cadenzaOn} snu = { \set stringNumberOrientations = #'(up) } snd = { \set stringNumberOrientations = #'(down) } snl = { \set st

RE: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wilbert, > There must be a way to really center a simple text above a note. > But [this centers] the text above the *left* side of the note: > { > \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER > c'4-"text" > } > How can I center a text or markup above the *center* of the note/chord?

Re: [Frescobaldi] [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-24 Thread rosea grammostola
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > > Hi all, > > Frescobaldi 0.7.9 has been released. This release contains some bugfixes > and > small improvements. Changes: > > * Spurious crashes (since 0.7.8) seem to have been eliminated. > * Alt-Up and Alt-Down now jump to the first l

Re: Compilation Errors using Emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:38:22PM +0200, weiss nicht wrote: > I have a latex document like this, named guitarbook.ly: Try naming it guitarbook.lytex I have no clue how emacs stuff works, but the convention is to name lilypond-book files as .lytex (see the docs), so perhaps the authors of the rel

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <894cbbba-43cf-47cf-9e73-a3a7a2504...@bitstream.net>, Tim McNamara writes On May 23, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <1243107160.13852.64.ca...@mung-papu>, Ari Torhamo writes The first option is achieved by handling everything a non-programmer can do: mana

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2009, at 2:47 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On the other hand, I am a psychologist with some knowledge of how people interact with information and those skills might offer a way to contribute and I have tried to do that. Also, my use (and others') of the software, feedback on its usab

Output_property_engraver

2009-05-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I have a question concerning this snippet: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Expressive-marks#Piano-template-with-centered-dynamics I don't know, what the "Output_property_engraver" does. I've read the explanations, but I didn't understand, unfortunately

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-24 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael Lauer writes: Michael> Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: >> >> But when I transcribe Petrucci from the facsimile, the spacing lilypond >> does always looks clunky, especially in the parts with large >> note-values. >> >> >> I believ

Re: \partial

2009-05-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/24 Mario Moles : > Ciao a tutti! > Perché usando \partial rimane dello spazio bianco dopo i 3/4? Your input has s2 \partial 4*1 and this makes the blank space to appear. Delete the 's2' part and you'll have a normal upbeat. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org

RE: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-24 Thread madMuze
perhaps a Schemer could pull the X-extent info from the attachment point notehead, divide it by 2 and send that to the offset. Meanwhile, it may to helpful to know that: quarter-note head width = about 1.31 half-note head width = about 1.39 whole-note head width = about 1.96 (in staff space uni

Re: \partial

2009-05-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/24 Mario Moles : > In data domenica 24 maggio 2009 17:41:23, hai scritto: >> 2009/5/24 Mario Moles : >> > Ciao a tutti! >> > Perché usando \partial rimane dello spazio bianco dopo i 3/4? Right now your code is too complex to obtain a quick response. Please follow the guidelines given in

Re: Output_property_engraver

2009-05-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/24 Stefan Thomas : > Dear community, > I have a question concerning this snippet: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Expressive-marks#Piano-template-with-centered-dynamics > I don't know, what the "Output_property_engraver" does. I don't know, either, but note that

Re: Output_property_engraver

2009-05-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Francisco, thanks for Your help. Yes, You're right, I should change << \lower >> to \lower. I somebody else knows, what the Output_property_eOutput_property_engraver does, I still would like to know it. It seems to be important 2009/5/24 Francisco Vila > 2009/5/24 Stefan Thomas : > > Dear c

Re: Output_property_engraver

2009-05-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/5/24 Stefan Thomas : > Dear Francisco, > thanks for Your help. > Yes, You're right, I should change << \lower >> to \lower. > I somebody else knows, what the Output_property_eOutput_property_engraver > does, I still would like to know it. > It seems to be important Well, if you delete that li

Re: Output_property_engraver

2009-05-24 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:21:04PM +0200, Stefan Thomas wrote: > > I somebody else knows, what the Output_property_eOutput_property_engraver > does, I still would like to know it. > It seems to be important The Output_property_engraver is used with the \applyOutput music function. I found this ou

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-24 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 24 mei 2009, schreef madMuze: > perhaps a Schemer could pull the X-extent info from the attachment point > notehead, divide it by 2 and send that to the offset. Meanwhile, it may to > helpful to know that: > quarter-note head width = about 1.31 > half-note head width = about 1.39 > who

Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

2009-05-24 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/24/09 8:56 AM, "Laura Conrad" wrote: > > I think so. There's a lot of stuff where modern transcribers typically > halve or even quarter the note values, and I'd prefer not to but it's > problematic with the normal lilypond spacing. (One reason it probably > became common is that the sa

Re: transposing etc

2009-05-24 Thread Bill Mooney
Dear Peter, and Chip and Jonathan, Your comments have provided great guidance for this occasional user! :) My question about transposing did indeed relate to the usage of transposing an entire piece, after it had been encoded earlier - perhaps obtained from another source altogether. The proces

Re: How to really center a text above a note?

2009-05-24 Thread Michael Lauer
Wilbert Berendsen xs4all.nl> writes: > > Op zondag 24 mei 2009, schreef madMuze: > > perhaps a Schemer could pull the X-extent info from the attachment point > > notehead, divide it by 2 and send that to the offset. Meanwhile, it may to > > helpful to know that: > > quarter-note head width = ab

Re: transposing etc

2009-05-24 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Bill" == Bill Mooney writes: Bill> My question about transposing did indeed relate to the usage of Bill> transposing an entire piece, after it had been encoded earlier - perhaps Bill> obtained from another source altogether. For this kind of thing, get everything working, then in your

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Wilbert, I tried installing meinproc4, but, unfortunately, it is not in the repositorys of Kubuntu. I guess I will wait, until a package for my distro is built. 2009/5/24 Wilbert Berendsen > Op zondag 24 mei 2009, schreef Stefan Thomas: > > /bin/sh: KDE4_MEINPROC_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND: not fo

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-24 Thread Herbert Liechti
Stefan Thomas schrieb: > Dear Wilbert, > unfotunately, I couldn't install frescobaldi from source. > After running make I got the message: > cache.bz2 > /bin/sh: KDE4_MEINPROC_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND: not found > make[2]: *** [doc/index.cache.bz2] Fehler 127 > make[1]: *** [doc/CMakeFiles/doc-handbook.

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7.9

2009-05-24 Thread Herbert Liechti
Herbert Liechti schrieb: > Stefan Thomas schrieb: > >> Dear Wilbert, >> unfotunately, I couldn't install frescobaldi from source. >> After running make I got the message: >> cache.bz2 >> /bin/sh: KDE4_MEINPROC_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND: not found >> make[2]: *** [doc/index.cache.bz2] Fehler 127 >> mak