On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:55:14AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
There is a section in the Learning Manual, section 5.2 When things don't
work, which I intend to extend to include help about common errors,
obscure error messages or mysterious happenings, like music running off
the edge of
I think we should just add a discussion about common errors in LM
5.2 (also, make sure you include the highly cryptic error message
when you forget a } ).
I just wonder whether this cryptic error message can be improved, for
example, by adding a note for the user to check the existence of the
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:19:01AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I think we should just add a discussion about common errors in LM
5.2 (also, make sure you include the highly cryptic error message
when you forget a } ).
I just wonder whether this cryptic error message can be improved, for
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:50:02AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
The meow... yum comment was about a cat eating the canary, since
I like cats.
Aah. In what form do you like cats?
On my bed, and purring. :)
(... I said on, not in!)
Perhaps as cat juice? May I call you Alf? :-)
Huh, I
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:50:14PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Graham Percival wrote:
I intend on really testing my claim that a FAQ merely
demonstrates problems in the docs.
Why not view the FAQ as part of the docs?
Where do we draw the line for F? I mean, how do I make
artificial
From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF
files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen. In such cases, I
strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file, or
a wrapper program like gv or gsview.
Have a look at the attached image: the left part
The meow... yum comment was about a cat eating the canary, since
I like cats.
Aah. In what form do you like cats? Perhaps as cat juice? May I
call you Alf? :-)
Werner
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:42:44AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF
files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen. In such cases, I
strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file, or
a wrapper program
Graham Percival wrote:
Agreed! That's why it goes in when things go wrong.
Do you mean into the current LM 5.2 When thing's don't work or
somewhere else? If you prefer to rename the FAQ (or rather the section
on common mistakes of the FAQ) into When things go wrong, I'd claim
that it's
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:22:11AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Do you mean into the current LM 5.2 When thing's don't work or
somewhere else? If you prefer to rename the FAQ (or rather the section
on common mistakes of the FAQ) into When things go wrong, I'd claim
that it's still a
E.g. LilyPondTool preview is better.
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To: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: good rendering of PDF
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:42:44AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG
Graham Percival wrote Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:27 AM
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:22:11AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Do you mean into the current LM 5.2 When thing's don't work or
somewhere else? If you prefer to rename the FAQ (or rather the
section
on common mistakes of the FAQ) into
Werner LEMBERG wrote Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:42 AM
From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF
files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen. In such
cases, I
strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file,
or
a wrapper program like gv or
Graham Percival wrote:
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:22:11AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Do you mean into the current LM 5.2 When thing's don't work or
somewhere else? If you prefer to rename the FAQ (or rather the section
on common mistakes of the FAQ) into When things go wrong, I'd
Dear Lilyponders,
An acquaintance of mine from another venue, Jezra Lickter, has
written a Python script to convert .bww and .bmw files (Bagpipe
Music Writer format) to Lilypond format. I don't know anything
about bagpipe music, but I've tried the script on a few .bww files
and it seems to
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
Yes, there is an enhance thin lines setting in Reader 9 (or perhaps in
8 as well), which should be turned off I think.
Good call! I never knew about this setting but it helps. The
barlines (for example) look much more natural without the enhanced
thin
Have a look at the attached image: the left part shows the rendering
result of a piece (compiled with lilypond 2.13.1) with gv (at 25%
scaling, using gs 8.64), and the right part is with acroread 8.1.5 (at
58.6% scaling). What a difference.
Interesting and strange! I don't know in de
-Eluze wrote:
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF
files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen. In such cases, I
strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file, or
a wrapper program like gv or gsview.
Have a look
- the actual acrobat reader version on windows is 9.1.2
Not on Linux...
- how did you convert from pdf to png (is it a snapshot, a
conversion with another tool, something else?)
A simple screen snapshot of the two PDF viewer windows side by side.
- what does it mean to have a scaling of
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
- the actual acrobat reader version on windows is 9.1.2
Not on Linux...
I'm using acroread 9.1.0 on xubuntu 9.04.
Jon
--
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
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On 7/2/09 1:41 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote:
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:50:14PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Graham Percival wrote:
where is the gui is unfortunately still common, but the
new website and the 10.5 GUI work should fix that.
Actually, I beg to
- the actual acrobat reader version on windows is 9.1.2
Not on Linux...
I'm using acroread 9.1.0 on xubuntu 9.04.
Ah! Good to know.
Werner
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9.1.2 on Ubuntu 8.04
Upgrades come later for Linux, but they get around in time.
David
Jonathan Kulp wrote:
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
- the actual acrobat reader version on windows is 9.1.2
Not on Linux...
I'm using acroread 9.1.0 on xubuntu 9.04.
Jon
Thanks, Nick.
I'll fiddle with it some and see how it works for me.
David
Nick Payne wrote:
Here's the function I use for indicating harmonics:
%===
==
harmonics = #(define-music-function (parser location text
Graham Percival wrote:
...oh there was various stuff (I'm sure I don't remember what) elided
here...
I didn't expect a reference to Nanoha on the -user mailist. (so
of course I had to add one myself ;)
Thank you for that:)
Cheers,
- Graham
Regards,
Patrick
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