Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:25:26AM +0200, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > > Hmm. Maybe it's a problem with 2.13.3. I don't know about this > > file in particular, but I now see that there definitely *are* > > some files which require 2.13.4. > > I installed 2.13.4 and tried to build documentation. I'm

Re: emacs on Ubuntu

2009-09-16 Thread James E. Bailey
On 17.09.2009, at 03:08, Ralph Palmer wrote: Or is there another helpful text editor (with highlighting), other than jedit (with seems to be slow and resource intensive, in my experience)? There's a section that says vim has lilypond support, and nano supports syntax hilighting. (And, al

Re: emacs on Ubuntu

2009-09-16 Thread David Stocker
Hi Ralph, To my novice eyes, it seems there is one of two possible issues here: 1. The path indicated in your "init.el" file, which is supposed to point to the lilypond-mode files in your LilyPond installation folder is incorrect, or 2. "init.el" points to the place where the lilyp

emacs on Ubuntu

2009-09-16 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi, I've been here before, but I've still got a problem. I'm running Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope), Lilypond 2.12.2, and emacs 22.2.1. Whenever I try to open a .ly file in emacs, I get : File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "lilypond-mode") Has anyone else had this prob

outside-staff-priority with slur and hairpin

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I did a quick exercise typsetting a Schumann score, and I'm puzzled because to get the hairpin under the slur I had to turn up 'outside-staff-priority for the slur to be greater than 250. Otherwise, the snippet below doesn't work correctly. Reading the NR, it sounds like Lilypo

Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-09-16, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: > > >Tim McNamara wrote: > >> The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 > > > >See LSR 432.Before the \break, add > >\once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = > >#begin-of-line

Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 See LSR 432.Before the \break, add \once \override Score.RehearsalMark#'break- visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible Good grief. But thank you,

Fwd: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
And of course I replied only to myself, since the reply-to header is not set to the mailing list for some reason. Begin forwarded message: From: Tim McNamara Date: September 16, 2009 9:17:03 AM CDT To: Tim McNamara Subject: Re: Help with positioning coda glyph On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:45 AM,

Snippets

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Austin
I'm trying to extract some Lilypond snippets to insert into a Word document, and found a trick in the archives here: \version "2.13.3" %{ Austin collection of Mumming Plays %} \layout { clip-regions = #(list (cons (make-rhythmic-lo

Re: special markings for string players....

2009-09-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Paul Malcolm schrieb: Can anyone answer the following. I am a string (Viola) player and need some special markings in my sheet music. One is the usual semitone marker. This is like a circumflex between two notes. For example e f would be written roughly as e^f but with the circumflex over

Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Giddings
The easiest answer was : \override Score.SpanBar #'break-visibility = #'#( #t #f #t ) Aha! Great -- I knew there'd be a way. It wasn't _quite_ as simple as that, of course... To recap: I had a GrandStaff holding a ChoirStaff (of 2 staffs) and a PianoStaff (of 2 Staffs). So I changed th

Re: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: Neil Thornock wrote: Sorry about the last one!... If you don't want stems at all: \override Stem #'stencil = ##f In many situations, \override Stem #'transparent = ##t may be preferrable, since many other objects need a stem to attach to. Yes, but I want the slur co

Re: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Neil Thornock wrote: Sorry about the last one!... If you don't want stems at all: \override Stem #'stencil = ##f In many situations, \override Stem #'transparent = ##t may be preferrable, since many other objects need a stem to attach to. /Mats On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Marc Ho

Re: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-16 Thread Marc Hohl
Neil Thornock schrieb: Sorry about the last one!... If you don't want stems at all: \override Stem #'stencil = ##f I know, but if I do so, the (invisible) stems still have an influence on the positioning of the slurs. I thought I could avoid this by setting the Stem #'length appropriately.

Re: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-16 Thread Neil Thornock
Sorry about the last one!... If you don't want stems at all: \override Stem #'stencil = ##f On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to manipulate the length of the stems but I got strange results. > Please compile the following file: > >

Re: Questions about Stem #'length

2009-09-16 Thread Neil Thornock
If you don On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to manipulate the length of the stems but I got strange results. > Please compile the following file: > > --- > > \version "2.13.3" > > test = \relative c { >  << { c4 ( d\5 ) e ( f

Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Tim McNamara wrote: The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 See LSR 432.Before the \break, add \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible LilyPond won't put the coda glyph at the beginning of bar 31. At leas

Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, 2009/9/14 Andrew Giddings > Hi all, > > Does anyone know whether it's possible to automatically join the barlines at > the ends of lines across all staffs? > > I'm writing a piece for SATB+piano -- a ChoirStaff of two staffs, above a > PianoStaff of two staffs also, all combined in a GrandS

Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
I am having problems getting LilyPond to properly position coda glyphs. I've included the code to see if others reproduce it. The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 but LilyPond insists on putting it at the end of bar 29. The /break command seems to be involved (is this a bu

Re: Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Bannister
Andrew Giddings wrote: I've searched the manual, the mailing list archive, and the web, but I couldn't see anything directly relevant. Did you see these? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-07/msg00127.html http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=semichoirstaff Cheers

Joining barlines at the ends of lines?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Giddings
Hi all, Does anyone know whether it's possible to automatically join the barlines at the ends of lines across all staffs? I'm writing a piece for SATB+piano -- a ChoirStaff of two staffs, above a PianoStaff of two staffs also, all combined in a GrandStaff. So normally each barline is spl