Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Oh, one minor thing: I notice that the urls are all in the form /lilypond-general_[NUMBER].html Can this be fixed? Yes, obviously -- the documentation has sensible url names. I'm not certain why this didn't happen

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:48:24PM +0200, Robin Bannister wrote: This involved introducing something like notation into the url of the online Notation Reference. This would make it easier to get inurl-googling hits. But maybe this is going to happen anyway? Yes, this should be an

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:11:38AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: I've not been so active in LP doc work recently as I'm migrating a choral website I maintain to php 5 and xml, and I can't leave it in a half-completed state for long. I wish I could simply upload my changes to the hosting site

Re: website draft 5, help wanted

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
Welcome! Yes, please begin by installing git. On OSX, this blog post: http://theappleblog.com/2009/03/10/using-git-with-os-x-6-tools-to-get-you-up-and-running/ suggests a git osx graphical installer: http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/ I haven't tried it myself. I would actually be

Re: Reading the LM

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:26:16AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: - Original Message - From: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:36 PM Subject: Reading the LM 2. In 2.2.6, partial measures and gracenotes are covered. In the

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:33 AM Hmm, maybe we could set up a pyramid scheme here. Trevor handles git for two new contributors, then in a few months, each of those people learn git and handles it for for two more new contributors, etc. :) Happy to do that - Mark is

sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh does not work

2009-07-14 Thread Franz L. Kuhlmann
Ladies and Gentlemen! Help - What is wrong with me or my Windows XP PC? Subject command (/sh lilypond-2.12.2-1.linux-x86.sh) is rejected in my DOS box *'Der Befehl sh ist falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden.'* Pls Help Greetings Franz L. Kuhlmann / begin:vcard fn:Franz L

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Graham, I'm willing and (hopefully) able to help! I have experience in LaTeX so I might also get along with texinfo. I've edited quite a lot of html-files in my life. I might be able to do some mundane css-job. The »Ich nein katza,«-part sounds interesting to me! ;-). I might as well do

Re: sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh does not work

2009-07-14 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2009/7/14 Franz L. Kuhlmann f_kuhlm...@freenet.de- Zobraziť citovaný text - Ladies and Gentlemen! Help - What is wrong with me or my Windows XP PC? Subject command (*sh lilypond-2.12.2-1.linux-x86.sh) is rejected in my DOS box 'Der Befehl sh ist falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht

Tweaking ties in single staff polyphony

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, how can I tweak the form of a tie in one voice in order to avoid a collision of the tie with the notes of another voice of a single staff polyphony? I do not merely want to move the tie position but bend the tie to almost achieve a semicircle above the noteheads of the other voice.

Re: Tweaking ties in single staff polyphony

2009-07-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick Schmidt wrote Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:44 PM how can I tweak the form of a tie in one voice in order to avoid a collision of the tie with the notes of another voice of a single staff polyphony? I do not merely want to move the tie position but bend the tie to almost achieve a

Re: Tweaking ties in single staff polyphony

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Trevor, thank you for the hint. It took me a while to find out that the commands have to be right in front of the note to which the tie is attached. After playing around with the coordinates everything looks ok. Patrick Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:06:19

solving dynamics clash

2009-07-14 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I write a piece with a StaffGroup where the bar lines should connect the staves indicating the staves that define one instrument. The dynamics are written in a separat voice. The problem is, that the dynamics clash with the bar lines. This occurs at many locations. Is there a way

Re: Tweaking ties in single staff polyphony

2009-07-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick, you wrote Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:27 PM thank you for the hint. It took me a while to find out that the commands have to be right in front of the note to which the tie is attached. Thanks for the feedback. I've clarified that point in the docs. Trevor

Re: solving dynamics clash

2009-07-14 Thread James E. Bailey
On 14.07.2009, at 21:20, Helge Kruse wrote: Hello, I write a piece with a StaffGroup where the bar lines should connect the staves indicating the staves that define one instrument. The dynamics are written in a separat voice. The problem is, that the dynamics clash with the bar lines.

Re: sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux-x86.sh does not work

2009-07-14 Thread Franz L. Kuhlmann
Hi, Simon Thank you for your fast reply - yes, you are quite right - and after scrolling down on the */lilypond.org/web/install/#2.12* page my problem went away just like that - Thanks to all of you Franz L. Kuhlmann Simon Dahlbacka schrieb: I would be more surprised if trying to use sh (unix

tieing notes in a complex gesture

2009-07-14 Thread Josh Nichols
I am having trouble trying to figure out how to tie together the groupings in this gesture: \relative c'' { \time 2/4 a16. \breathe e32 \afterGrace e8\startTrillSpan( { d32[ e)]\stopTrillSpan } fis16. d32 \afterGrace d8\startTrillSpan( { cis32[ d)]\stopTrillSpan } } I don't know how to

Re: tieing notes in a complex gesture

2009-07-14 Thread Josh Nichols
I meant to say beaming! Beaming these rhythmic groups! - Josh Nichols SDG On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Josh Nichols josh.d.nich...@gmail.comwrote: I am having trouble trying to figure out how to tie together the groupings in this gesture: \relative

Re: lyric tie font size

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Polesky
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Is the fontsize of the lyric tie glyph user-settable? [v2.13, if it matters...] I don't think it is, but I've engineered a workaround that you can modify to suit your needs. At the moment, it only accepts two arguments, but properly it should accept any number. I'm sure