Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-05 Thread David Bobroff
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "open the software." I'm going to conclude that you missed a detail about how LilyPond works. It does *not* have an interactive interface like Finale/Sibelius. To use LilyPond you must create/edit a text file which contains the definitions of your music.

Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-05 Thread Ami Magori Cohen
Hi, Thank you very much for this software,and for your help. After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page with the title 'Lily Pad'-typing the basic commands didn't produced any notation [th

Re:title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-05 Thread Frederick Dennis
Dear All, I was very interested in the correspondence about a title-page. I noticed that Kieren's solution seemed to ignore the original header information and insert another markup for it while Valentin's solution produced very small titles while using \book so I took the liberty of combining the

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Note that there's a ton of similar improvements that we *could* be > adding, if there was sufficient interest amongst advanced users to > do it.  I've been wanting to organize such an effort for at least > two years, and might start it in G

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:09:54PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > By the way, why the mao haven't we included Nicolas' \vspace command > in LilyPond already? Because nobody sent a patch? > I'll send a patch right now. Ok. Note that there's a ton of similar improvements that we *could* be ad

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Fair enough... but your version gives her no control over the > placement/format of the title, nor any suggestion/hint on how/where to look > to fix it. Yes. I should have added that \markup mode is her friend as well :-) title = \markup

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Susan Dittmar
Thanks to both Kieren and Valentin! I appreciate both approches. Neither did work with the version of lilypond provided by openSuSE 11.1, so I installed and tested 2.12.2, and now both versions work. Now I'm back to tweaking it into what I really need... Again thanks for the fast help,

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Nick Payne
See attached. There may be easier ways, but this is what I use... Susan Dittmar wrote: Hello folks, I am very sorry in case this is a FAQ. I am quite new to lilypond and maybe did not search the right places. I would like to have lilypond generate the title on a page of its own. I tried with

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, Actually, that isn't even needed. Fair enough... but your version gives her no control over the placement/format of the title, nor any suggestion/hint on how/where to look to fix it. I was trying to make it a learning opportunity. ;) Cheers, Kieren. __

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I think Valentin probably meant you should try something like the attached. Actually, that isn't even needed. Susan: in fact, \book is your friend: \version "2.10.33" % I strongly recommend using 2.12 or 2.13! \paper { print-page-numb

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Susan, Here's a shortened version of what I want, could someone please tell me how to correct the \pageBreak (hidden behind comments as it does not work this way)? I wish it to happen after the title but before the first line of musics. I think Valentin probably meant you should try so

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Susan Dittmar
Dear Valentin, thanks for your answer. I could not make it work, probably because I do not really understand lilypond syntax yet. Here's a shortened version of what I want, could someone please tell me how to correct the \pageBreak (hidden behind comments as it does not work this way)? I wish it

Re: Ties and Ledger Lines

2009-10-05 Thread Alexander Kobel
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi, In the following snippet, the only ties that look nice are the ones that happen immediately before and after the line break. The other ties touch the ledger lines. The tie/ledger line collision doesn't happen in 4/4. Not that it helps, but it's nothing to

Ties and Ledger Lines

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi, In the following snippet, the only ties that look nice are the ones that happen immediately before and after the line break. The other ties touch the ledger lines. The tie/ledger line collision doesn't happen in 4/4. How can I get the other ties to look like the ones surrounding t

The Drummer's Gigsaw: upgrade + BOOGIE-BASE.

2009-10-05 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Hi all, I'm not goaded you and the Gigsaw is not a catapult, but there was a bug about ride bell (rb) hence a new version. You must DELETE or RENAME the old installed version before you'd decompress the new one. http://philippe.hezaine.free.fr/spip.php?article46 By the way there is a BOOGIE-WOO

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels writes: Trevor> Fronimo uses its own custom fonts for this style. Trevor> They are licensed with the phrase: Trevor> "The fonts coming with Fronimo are given for Trevor> free, but their use is restricted to non Trevor> commercial purposes f

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francisco Vila wrote Monday, October 05, 2009 4:01 PM Thankyou, Trevor and Valentin. As you possibly imagine, this goes about converting to LilyPond to a Finale+Fromino user, a guitar professor colleague of mine. He lost his purchased Fromino installation after one of his routine HDF+WR (HD-fo

Re: title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Susan Dittmar wrote: > I would like to have lilypond generate the title on a page of its own. I > tried with > > \paper{ >        %... >        paper-height = 7.425\cm >        after-title-space = 7.425\cm >        %... > } Not the way to go (IMHO). > but lilypond

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > Thank you, Trevor and Valentin. You're welcome, added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=865 with an initial bounty. > As you possibly imagine, this goes > about converting to LilyPond to a Finale+Fromino user, a guitar >

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Francisco Vila
Thankyou, Trevor and Valentin. As you possibly imagine, this goes about converting to LilyPond to a Finale+Fromino user, a guitar professor colleague of mine. He lost his purchased Fromino installation after one of his routine HDF+WR (HD-formatting-and-Windows-reinstalling). 2009/10/5 Valentin Vil

title on a separate page

2009-10-05 Thread Susan Dittmar
Hello folks, I am very sorry in case this is a FAQ. I am quite new to lilypond and maybe did not search the right places. I would like to have lilypond generate the title on a page of its own. I tried with \paper{ %... paper-height = 7.425\cm after-title-space = 7.425\cm

Re: Midi and Font Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Federico Bruni
Br. Athanasius Pelletier O.F.M.I. wrote: I am trying to get lilypond to output midi and .pdf but right now it only outputs midi and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Is there also a way to make the midi play faster without adding any symbols to the score? You should move \layout block insid

Midi and Font Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Br. Athanasius Pelletier O.F.M.I.
I am trying to get lilypond to output midi and .pdf but right now it only outputs midi and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Is there also a way to make the midi play faster without adding any symbols to the score? And also I am also doing something wrong with the fonts, because it is still usi

Re: MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > How about > > \version "2.13.4" > mymusic = \relative c' {c d e f } Indeed. Added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=864 Thanks, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: >> Hello, would this kind of ancient tablatures very difficult to do? >> >> http://www.mateus-lutes.com/tablature/ > > I don't know, but it is very beautiful, isn't it! Yes indeed. I'm CCing the tablatures list, and perhaps we could consider a

Re: [Fwd: lilypond on eee pc]

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:06:01AM -0700, David Fedoruk wrote: > I tried the Xandros distribution but soon realised that many of the > applications i needed to run just would not run right on Xandros. My > Eee Pc 1000 only startedd performing well for me when I installed Easy > Peasy. It is a Netbo

Re: [Fwd: lilypond on eee pc]

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:35:26AM +0200, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hello eeePc-Users, > > This is not a good workingmachine because: I get headaches from working > on a 7" screen ;) > But its really great that I can fix mistakes and typos on the road and > print resulting PDFs almost anywhere

Re: [Fwd: lilypond on eee pc]

2009-10-05 Thread David Fedoruk
I tried the Xandros distribution but soon realised that many of the applications i needed to run just would not run right on Xandros. My Eee Pc 1000 only startedd performing well for me when I installed Easy Peasy. It is a Netbook version of Ubuntu. However, I really hated the desktop setup which

Re: [Fwd: lilypond on eee pc]

2009-10-05 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello eeePc-Users, Ubuntu and Kubuntu both come in 'netbook remix' form. I think that has more to do with user interface than with size of the install, but it's worth looking into. That's right, I am using Ubuntu Netbook Remix on an eeepc 900a. I think its worth looking at ubuntu.com to see, i