Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-02 Thread Frédéric Bron
Back then I created a cartoonish music-note character as a joke: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/lilypond.png I still use it every now and then on the unofficial LilyPond community website, lilynet.net . I like it very much. It would be nice to have it as a wallpaper!

French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Graham Norton
Thanks for the comments. I am using the editor TeXShop with MacOSX, and so I cannot enter French characters via the editor. I did not find 3.3.3 of the reference manual useful. How/where does one find the hex code for e' for instance? Googling ISO/IEC did not shed any light on how to

Re: French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Frédéric Bron
I am using the editor TeXShop with MacOSX, and so I cannot enter French characters via the editor. I did not find  3.3.3 of the reference manual useful. How/where does one find the hex code for e' for instance? Googling ISO/IEC did not shed any light on how to find the actual codes.

Re: ties across voices

2009-08-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Thank you all for your solutions! I prefer the fiddling with voiceOne and voiceTwo etc. (see below) because it ties the notes not only visually (as opposed to invisible extra notes in one voice). The midi-version sounds right, too. I think this is a case for the snippet repository. All the

Re: French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Graham, I am using the editor TeXShop with MacOSX, and so I cannot enter French characters via the editor. Yes, you can! It's not difficult. Go to TeXShop/Preferences, choose encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) and click ok. Then you can enter any accent you want. Cheers, Patrick

Re: French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi Graham, it's much easier than you think. If you want to enter for example an é, just type »´e« or whatever character you want. Some characters (like umlauts) may not be directly accessible via a certain key but there are always shortcuts for characters. Maybe you should install the software

Re: French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Frédéric Bron
Thanks, but the first two lines of your attachment came through as e cute:  'squareroot sign' 'copywrite sign' e grave:  'squareroot sign' 'copywrite sign' which I cannot use. There seems to be a transmission error here  but You still must enable UTF-8 mode in your editor. Frédéric

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread craigbakalian
Hi all, I have been working on the score, I have been using the documentation cited below, and all is working just fine. I was just questioning if anyone has experience in working with large measures and looking for a good prototype of how to approach the issue. More of a typesetting question

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-02 Thread Matthieu Jacquot
If you need one more publisher to fill the empty space in the production page, you could add my http://theshadylanepublishing.com website , it is very very small so I don't know if it will be fine. Matthieu - http://theshadylanepublishing.com/ The Shady Lane Publishing -- View this

Re: French acccents

2009-08-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hm, strange that you can't use the Special Characters. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work. I can use it without any problems. Anyway: Are you sure that the encoding is UTF-8? Close TeXShop, open it again and check Preferences. In the case of »é« I think you are using the wrong

Re: Aphex Twin DeathWaltz

2009-08-02 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, What's this score featuring? I'd like to know some about it. Could anyone please give me a simple visual description? Regards Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Aphex Twin DeathWaltz

2009-08-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Haipeng This score is a joke. It's an impossibly complex score with all sorts of ridiculous constructs and amusing articulations. For example,the header says Words and music by John Stump, arranged by Accident and there are textual instructions like Adagio cantabile with a rock tempo feel

chord slides

2009-08-02 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, I would like to achieve a chord slide. Here's my code (based on the Double Glissando snippet): \version 2.13.3 \relative c'{ e,16 e { % new voice ( = \voiceOne), hidden \hideNotes % attach glissando to note heads e'\glissando f } \\ { %

Re: French accents

2009-08-02 Thread Graham Norton
Dear All, The Unicodes are available from TeXShop Edit Special Characters (in MaC OS). Just select a character and let the mouse hover over it. (A total of 2820 glyphs can be obtained this way.) Here is a table of special French characters obtained in this way: character

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
craigbakalian wrote: I have been working on the score, I have been using the documentation cited below, and all is working just fine. I was just questioning if anyone has experience in working with large measures and looking for a good prototype of how to approach the issue. More of a

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
There is a problem, however -- a slight extra space appears where the invisible fake-barlines (possible break-points) are. And the obvious way of correcting that didn't work. I'll ask the other developers if there's a way to fix that. I've reported this already:

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
Werner LEMBERG wrote: There is a problem, however -- a slight extra space appears where the invisible fake-barlines (possible break-points) are. And the obvious way of correcting that didn't work. I'll ask the other developers if there's a way to fix that. I've reported this

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:39 -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: Werner LEMBERG wrote: There is a problem, however -- a slight extra space appears where the invisible fake-barlines (possible break-points) are. And the obvious way of correcting that didn't work. I'll ask the other developers

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
Joe Neeman wrote: The semantically valid solution (IMO) is ignore the \bar in the spacing problem and insert only one spring (between the notes). Fortunately, we have a mechanism for that already (called loose columns). It's just a matter of tweaking the inclusion test for this mechanism to

Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: that's one bug I'd be happy to see fixed! Well, for the time being, here's a slightly improved compromise. - Mark \version 2.13.3 \layout { % line-width is set just to demonstrate the function. line-width = #50 } softBreak = { \once \override Staff.BarLine

Re: French accents

2009-08-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Norton wrote Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:06 PM PS I think it would be useful if the doc in Notation Reference 3.3.3 said something about how to obtain the unicodes (for users who are not using a UTF-8 supported edito)r. Done. I've added a uref to the Unicode Consortium at

Re: chord slides

2009-08-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick Schmidt wrote Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:50 PM I would like to achieve a chord slide. 1) How come that I can see the glissando marks when I use half notes but not when I use sixteenths? The glissando can often become so short it is invisible, as happens here. It's length can be

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I think a note about arrowed arpeggios that cross staves would be helpful under the Arpeggios-Known issues and warnings subheading in NR 1.3.3. There's such a note about cross-staff tremolos being tricky, which saved me from trying a bunch of unnecessary tweaks to get

Lilypond speed

2009-08-02 Thread hernan
My main frustration with Lilypond is speed. In my setup (Win-XP, P4 3.0Ghz, 1G ram) to process a fairly simple scoresheet (2 or 3 pages) it takes about 8 seconds. That might not seem a great deal, but it is really annoying when one is doing lots of retouching (edit one bit, compile, see results,

Re: Lilypond speed

2009-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:19:28AM +, hernan wrote: Is there some recipe to speed things up? Are the performance bottlenecks identified? There are some minor tweaks you can do. I think they're currently listed in LM 5. Speeding up typesetting or something like that. I read in the

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-08-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se, lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Monday, August 3,

Re: \arpeggioArrowUp across staves

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I guess I would have expected \arpeggioArrowUp to affect all the following arpeggios, regardless of whether they are connected or not. What do you think? Ah, I put a context where I meant to put a parent. This is why I need someone to test this stuff. You can fix it