Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread David Rogers
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 17:56, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> I am a guitarist. >> >> If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a >> better approach.  Or even a word processor two write out the chords like >> Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. >> >> htt

Re: The best way for a book?

2009-09-02 Thread Frederick Dennis
Dear Pierre, I noticed that your lyrics (De- us in ad- iu- tó- ri- um me- um in- ten- de.) didn't have the hyphen in the right place. Shouldn't they be: De -- us in ad -- iu -- to -- ri -- um etc.? Then the syllables get spaced out nicely. I can't help you on the other problem. Yours, Fred. __

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html Christian's trying to do something Li

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is fundament

Re: \bookpart and the "\include trouble"

2009-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > I can't get it working if in the scores there are some \include. > The error messages says there's a synthax error in the included file (even > english.ly!?). Thats because in file2 you're including english.ly, that contains toplevel expres

The best way for a book?

2009-09-02 Thread Pierre Couderc
What is the best way for a book with Lilypond extracts in it? I have tried LaTeX with lilypond book, but I get mixs of lilyponds 'images" with other images. What am I missing? Is Scribus an alternative : I see here that there are problems too? Ooffice? Thank you in advance, Pierre Couderc -

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is fundamentally based upon note

Re: one bar number per system

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:38 PM Trevor Daniels wrote: Does this not work when inserted immediately before the first full bar on the line? (I haven't actually tried it) \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) Why not write it as \once \o

Re: one bar number per system

2009-09-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: Does this not work when inserted immediately before the first full bar on the line? (I haven't actually tried it) \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #'#(#t #t #t) Why not write it as \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-visible Of

Re: one bar number per system

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dan Eble wrote Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:33 AM I would like Lilypond to print one bar number per system, except the first. The default behavior appears to be to print one bar number per system, except the first, for systems that begin at a measure break. Systems that begin in mid-meas

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-09-02 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Franz Schmid has fixed this bug in the Scribus SVN trunk, so will be included in the 1.3.6 release. Bert Federico Bruni wrote: 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

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Christian Henning wrote Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:30 AM 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 do

RE: Lilypond Speed

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Payne
> -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Michael David Crawford > Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 1:39 AM > Cc: lilypond > Subject: Re: Lilypond Speed > > It

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

2009-09-02 Thread Trevor Daniels
Frédéric Bron wrote Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:18 AM Your remark is interesting! The doc says if they are some rules defined in auto-beam.scm, you MUST use #(override and #(revert... But only when the beam durations are the same. This is stated, maybe not very clearly, where I've indi