Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Kieren MacMillan writes: > That being said, nobody's stopping anyone who wants to write a Scheme > function that would support such a beast: that's the beauty of open > source software! ;) As an experiment, and not because I think it is a good idea, I toyed with something to make this happen, s

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Tucker
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I'm almost finished with my first lilypond piece. I'm quite happy with the results. But, there are a couple of questions left regarding the output. Please consider the following piece: \version "2.12.2" #(ly:set-option 'delete-in

Re: where is the default auto-beam settings for 2/4 defined?

2009-09-01 Thread Frédéric Bron
> I don't have the exact 2.12.2 version to hand, > but if scm/auto-beam.scm is as you say there > is no need to revert these settings as they > only affect 32nd notes.  All you need to do is > to change the default beat-grouping: > >  \set beatGrouping = #'(2) > > In version 2.12.1 (which I have to

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-01 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Christian" == Christian Henning writes: Christian> I added the duration for the two c:m but the second c:m is Christian> still not showing. Mhmm, weird. If you set chordChanges, then chords are printed only when they change. You have two c-minors in a row, so the second will not be prin

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-01 Thread Christian Henning
I just realized a small error in my script. Here is the updated version: \version "2.12.2" #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) % deletes the .ps file automatically \header { title = "title" composer = "band" } << \new ChordNames { \chordmode {

Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-01 Thread Christian Henning
Hi there, I'm almost finished with my first lilypond piece. I'm quite happy with the results. But, there are a couple of questions left regarding the output. Please consider the following piece: \version "2.12.2" #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) % deletes the .ps file automatically

Re: chord durations

2009-09-01 Thread Christian Henning
Cool, that worked. Though, in essence, I need to use the ChordNames.chordChanges variable to surpress repeated chords. I wonder where the current documentation mention this? googling for "chordchanges" brings me to lilypond 2.9 documentation. There is the chapter "7.2.3. Printing chord names" which

Re: Permission denied due to MIDI with percussion

2009-09-01 Thread dflo404
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:33 PM, dflo404 wrote: > > Glad you figured it out, Dan. Your code ran just fine for me, too. :) > > Your \score block looks o.k., although the indentation looks funny in my > email reader. It's probably fine in your editor. I'd recommend us

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-09-01 Thread Jack Cooper
I used Scribus to help lay out my first large book project. The main issue I had with the version of Scribus I was using was that the various methods for incorporating lilypond pdf output rendered *horribly* in print. I tried a number of methods, and each time I noticed distinct degradation in ou

Re: Permission denied due to MIDI with percussion

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:33 PM, dflo404 wrote: > > Wow I feel dumb. I just realized it was doing that because the MIDI file > was > still open. I closed it out and it worked fine. > Glad you figured it out, Dan. Your code ran just fine for me, too. :) > > Still though, after looking at my co

Re: Permission denied due to MIDI with percussion

2009-09-01 Thread dflo404
Wow I feel dumb. I just realized it was doing that because the MIDI file was still open. I closed it out and it worked fine. Still though, after looking at my code could you guys lend any advice? I don't really understand the whole Score part, I just have that all there after looking at othe

Permission denied due to MIDI with percussion

2009-09-01 Thread dflo404
Hello all. I understand the basics to Lilypond, but I am still very new to it. I am working on a song that has a lot of different percussive instruments playing at once, and I was hoping I could transfer it to Lilypond to produce some good looking sheet music as well as a MIDI file. So far I h

Re: where is the default auto-beam settings for 2/4 defined?

2009-09-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Frédéric Bron wrote Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:37 PM In the following example, beams for 8 notes end at 1:4, 2:4, 3:4 and 4:4 but the only thing I can find in scm/auto-beam.scm about time 2/4 is: ((end 1 32 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 1 8)) ((end 1 32 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 2 8)) ((end 1

where is the default auto-beam settings for 2/4 defined?

2009-09-01 Thread Frédéric Bron
In the following example, beams for 8 notes end at 1:4, 2:4, 3:4 and 4:4 but the only thing I can find in scm/auto-beam.scm about time 2/4 is: ((end 1 32 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 1 8)) ((end 1 32 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 2 8)) ((end 1 32 2 4) . ,(ly:make-moment 3 8)) How can I revert this ru

Re: Need some help with \include "makam.ly"

2009-09-01 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Mark Polesky wrote: > Joseph Wakeling wrote: >> Really we need an expert on Turkish classical music to come and give >> review or advice on Lilypond's functionality and documentation. Who >> originally implemented makam.ly? No details are provided in the file... > > Ha! I was just looking at thi

Re: Layout problem in Loro

2009-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello Jean-Alexis, A while ago, I have typed the lead sheet for Loro. I have a small problem in measure 12. May be it's just a matter of adjustment, or a bug. Looks like a bug to me... at the very least, it's a poorly- documented, undesirable default. =) See, the chord text is making the

Layout problem in Loro

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
Hi, A while ago, I have typed the lead sheet for Loro. I have a small problem in measure 12. May be it's just a matter of adjustment, or a bug. See, the chord text is making the second note of the melodic line too much to the right. Suggestions? Thanks all! Jean-Alexis loro_.ly Descript

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-09-01 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Frederick Dennis wrote: > In Sibelius, you put the key signature, e.g. F sharp major, then type > the plain letter names, e.g. f g a b c d e f which plays back as the > scale of F sharp major. I knew there was a reason why I didn't like Sibelius ... 'simple' ways of working that wind up generating

followKeySignature

2009-09-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
# keys.sed # Writes chromatics for *single letter* notes, according to user flag, # to save typing. There is *no* transposition. # Uses b for flat, w for double flat. s and x # Use 'n' for natural to prevent alteration, b included. no h. # Writes in "international.ly" form. intl.sed can conver

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: While LilyPond may be single threaded, in general the underlying operating system is multithreaded. It might be the case that a system call LilyPond depends on can get executed in a multithreaded way. LilyPond almost does not interact with the OS except for reading and

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: > > > Peter Chubb wrote: >> >> Han-Wen> More importantly: LilyPond is single-threaded, so the number >> Han-Wen> of cores is irrelevant. > > While LilyPond may be single threaded, in general the underlying operating > system is multithr

Re: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
Peter Chubb wrote: Han-Wen> More importantly: LilyPond is single-threaded, so the number Han-Wen> of cores is irrelevant. While LilyPond may be single threaded, in general the underlying operating system is multithreaded. It might be the case that a system call LilyPond depends on can get

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-09-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joseph, The discussion is heading in some unfortunate directions because of a confusion between data entry -- which is a matter of the user interface -- and the underlying data _structures_, which are something else. [...] What's implicit in this is that Finale's data structures, like Lily

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-09-01 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David R, > >> AFAIK, all of the graphical-interface music scoring programs >> use the visually-oriented logic. > > The last time I used Finale — which, thankfully, was a very long time > ago! ;) — there were only two ways of entering notes: > > 1. From a MIDI keyboar

gitMusic - experimental hosting for versioning lilypond scores

2009-09-01 Thread Bogdan Bivolaru
Hello, I'm planning to build an experiment consisting of a project service for collaborative editing & versioning of music files. My objective is to engage more artists in the kind of collaborative work that happens between free/open source software contributors. After a long time when I was desig

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-09-01 Thread Federico Bruni
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8400 thanks while waiting for the patch that fixes this bug, I finally managed to make a book in Scribus by splitting each pdf file and importing a different pdf for each page. Not handy at all (if I change the .ly fi

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-09-01 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8400 Federico Bruni wrote: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I checked this at my installation (1.3.5.0) There is a clear bug: if you change the page attribute for one image, it also changes for the other. Have you submitted a bug report for scribus abou