Re: Controlling MIDI output and chords

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:41 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: > You'll probably want to create two \score blocks, one for layout, with the > chords, and one for MIDI, without the chords. > James E. Bailey Ahh. Is there an easy way to macrofy that? My file currently looks like this: \version "2.10.33"

Re: Controlling MIDI output and chords

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 29.10.2009, at 07:30, Chris Angelico wrote: Hi! Apologies for using the list for something that's probably clearly described on page 32767 of the docs, but I've been searching around and can't find it among the massive amounts of information there!! :) I'm using Lilypond to create both MIDI

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 28.10.2009, at 19:34, James E. Bailey wrote: I thought at first that Python 2.6 was bundled in the darwin installers now, but I'm not so sure. Is the python executable in your LilyPond_devel.app/Contents/MacOS just a wrapper or something? Because I see that the md5 library in your backtra

Controlling MIDI output and chords

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Angelico
Hi! Apologies for using the list for something that's probably clearly described on page 32767 of the docs, but I've been searching around and can't find it among the massive amounts of information there!! :) I'm using Lilypond to create both MIDI and PDF scores. What I hope to achieve is a printa

Re: PNG output croping bottom of page?

2009-10-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi, On 2009-10-28, Alberto Simões wrote: > > Sure. Ill try to keep uptodate with releases so the site gets fixes asap :) So here is what I have found... The command `lilypond -fpng file.ly' uses the PS backend by default, and when Ghostscript tries to crop a single-page PS file with -dEPSCrop,

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 29.10.2009, at 00:40, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:34:31PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Okay, yeah, that solved the problem. downgrading to python 2.4.6 solved the problem and lilypond-book works perfectly now. Whom do I talk to to have this updated in the distribu

Re: define-music-function... want to create markups instea of marks

2009-10-28 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I want to print generate the texts and symbols above each staff, and not only above the entire system... By default, the \mark command is printed in the upper Staff of the system. If you want to print \mark in others staves you'll need to add the "Mark_engraver" to this Staff You ca

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:34:31PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: > Okay, yeah, that solved the problem. downgrading to python 2.4.6 solved > the problem and lilypond-book works perfectly now. Whom do I talk to to > have this updated in the distributed binary? This assumes that we have anybody work

Re: automatic "note-as-denominator" time signatures?

2009-10-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 20:40:05 schrieb Carl Sorensen: > On 10/28/09 12:33 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" > > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Can the snippet > > > > > > > > be made into an automatic callback

Re: define-music-function... want to create markups instea of marks

2009-10-28 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I want to print generate the texts and symbols above each staff, and not only above the entire system... By default, the \mark command is printed in the upper Staff of the system. If you want to print \mark in others staves you'll need to add the "Mark_engraver" to this Staff : \new Staff \w

define-music-function... want to create markups instea of marks

2009-10-28 Thread ze patavinas
Hello, I'm trying to rewrite a code I have created to make marks to write markups... I.e: I want to print generate the texts and symbols above each staff, and not only above the entire system... But I didn't managed to make define-music function to write markups. So, while this prints marks withou

scheme function to write timesigs with notes as denominators

2009-10-28 Thread ze patavinas
Hi, I'm trying to write a scheme function to write timesigs with notes as denominators I don't understand why it does not print the stem and the notehead: #(define ((testing one note num) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number (#:line (

Re: Which markup for text paragraphs containing fragments of music?

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 28.10.2009, at 18:56, Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: Please forgive this beginner question. Could you please tell me which markup to use if I want to print longer text paragraph which would correctly wrap along page margins? \markuplines exists for this purpose And not even that, but w

Re: automatic "note-as-denominator" time signatures?

2009-10-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/28/09 12:33 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: > Hi all, > > Can the snippet > > > > be made into an automatic callback, instead of requiring the creation > of a markup each time? i.e., I would love to be able to say something > like > >

automatic "note-as-denominator" time signatures?

2009-10-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Can the snippet be made into an automatic callback, instead of requiring the creation of a markup each time? i.e., I would love to be able to say something like \useNoteDenominators or \override TimeSignature #'denominator-style

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 28.10.2009, at 08:13, James E. Bailey wrote: On 28.10.2009, at 03:23, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: Ah, I just realised you meant with the development version (it's not the main version I use, so I didn't think about it). I still have

Which markup for text paragraphs containing fragments of music?

2009-10-28 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Please forgive this beginner question. Could you please tell me which markup to use if I want to print longer text paragraph which would correctly wrap along page margins? And not even that, but which would correctly flow onto a second page if a bottom margin of the first page is reached? And stil

Re: scheme function to write timesigs with notes

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
ze patavinas wrote: I don't understand why it does not print the stem and the notehead It as if it doesn't like the notehead style being undefined. Just add #:override '(style . 'default) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: do you care about bug reports?

2009-10-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, The problem is rather that the braces currently are scaled linearly, i.e. by the same factor both horizontally and vertically, whereas it probably looks better to to use different factors so that the thickness doesn't grow as quickly as the height. That's what I meant... thanks f

Re: do you care about bug reports?

2009-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Jonathan, I guess "stretched vertically" is a bit vague; I guess what I'm seeing is that as braces get larger, they are less thick than a perfectly scaled version of the smaller brace Yes, I see that, and it makes sense — so it's scaled, but not linearly. The pro

scheme function to write timesigs with notes

2009-10-28 Thread ze patavinas
Hi, I'm trying to write a scheme function to write timesigs with notes as denominators I don't understand why it does not print the stem and the notehead: #(define ((testing one note num) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number (#:line (

Re: do you care about bug reports?

2009-10-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jonathan, I guess "stretched vertically" is a bit vague; I guess what I'm seeing is that as braces get larger, they are less thick than a perfectly scaled version of the smaller brace Yes, I see that, and it makes sense — so it's scaled, but not linearly. That might be considered a bug. =

Re: PNG output croping bottom of page?

2009-10-28 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-10-27, Alberto Simões wrote: >> Patrick McCarty wrote: >>> Can you test with 2.13.6? IIRC, there were some PNG cropping fixes >>> between 2.13.4 and 2.13.6. >> I am getting the same problem with 2.13.6 :( > > I'm glad I found the LY file on your site so tha

Re: Harmonica tablature notation

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Bannister
bradford powell wrote: When I try that (with something like (draw "4" 1)), I still get: error [...] (#:flat) Sorry. This must be related to the restriction I referenced. It seems that instead of (make-list bends #:flat) you have to say (make-list bends (make-flat-marku

Re: PNG output croping bottom of page?

2009-10-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-27, Alberto Simões wrote: > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > > Can you test with 2.13.6? IIRC, there were some PNG cropping fixes > > between 2.13.4 and 2.13.6. > > I am getting the same problem with 2.13.6 :( I'm glad I found the LY file on your site so that I could test. :-) I can repr

Re: distance between staves?

2009-10-28 Thread Marc Hohl
Joe Neeman schrieb: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:20 +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: I have a file with normal and tab staves, and in the last bar the highest notes touch the tab staff regardless of the values for VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent. How can I increase this distance? Hi Marc, Try

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-28 Thread James E. Bailey
On 28.10.2009, at 03:23, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: Ah, I just realised you meant with the development version (it's not the main version I use, so I didn't think about it). I still have the md5 problem: 19:13:40 jamesebailey lilypond s