J. wrote:
I looked at the directions on the lilypond site for
setting it up but, because of my noviciate I got confused
with all the places and symbols.
I found a page here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Vim-mode
It isn't clear which of those things you
henrik == henrik pantle pan...@gmx.de writes:
henrik hi, i wonder where to find the solution for my problem. i
henrik guess a lot of others do too.
henrik i want the chord names above the piano staff:
You need to add a score block thus:
guitarChords = \chordmode { ...}
upper = \relative {
Le 10 nov. 2009 à 07:19, David Kastrup a écrit :
Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr writes:
Le 9 nov. 2009 à 11:10, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit :
It happens to my scores that when using \markuplines for long texts
(more
than a page), Lilypond leaves a first or a last line orphaned
Hi all,
I can't find any mention of an implementation of double or combination trill
in the docs anywhere.
Has anyone found a way to implement these (trills with two or more notes
other than the principal note)?
many thanks,
piaras
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Perhaps a stupid question - is there any reason NOT to
upgrade from 2.12.x to 2.13.7?
Thanks,
Gerard
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Hi, Perhaps a stupid question - is there any reason NOT to
upgrade from 2.12.x to 2.13.7?
Possibly. 2.13.7 could have changes in syntax, or experimental
features. It worths it if you want to help testing it.
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Hi Jonathan,
It's not to easy to find the right locations indeed, perhaps this might
help. First you have to edit a file called filetype.vim, located in
/home/yourusername/.vim/
If it isn't there, you can just create it:
touch /home/yourusername/.vim/filetype.vim
If the .vim directory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 12:13:49 schrieb Gerard McConnell:
Hi,
Perhaps a stupid question - is there any reason NOT to
upgrade from 2.12.x to 2.13.7?
If you are adjusting the vertical layout (staff spacing, padding etc.), then
things will
Hi,
I use \chordSymbols hack (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=608) in my jazz
charts and although, it works quite well in normal cases, it has some
limitations: you can't write C phryg or combination of 6,7,9,11,13 not in the
font etc. I read threads on jazz chords on this list as well
Hi,
a friend send me a score written with encore, I am porting it in
lilypond. This score has 4 instruments, a sax, a cello and two pianos.
Now, the part of the first piano has to be played an octave higher the
what is written on the score, so the guy who has written it with
encore has placed an
Hi.
Now, the part of the first piano has to be played an octave higher the
what is written on the score, so the guy who has written it with
encore has placed an 8 over the clefs of the piano staves.
Is this a standard way to specify to play an octave higher?
If yes, how can I do this with
Use
\set Staff.clefOctavation = #7 in the octavated staff
See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-pitches
for details.
Bert
Francesco Petrogalli wrote:
Hi,
a friend send me a score written with encore, I am porting it in
lilypond. This score has 4
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:44 -0500, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote:
Also, the complaint here isn't that there's some inherent defect in
the program or the documentation, rather that you didn't want to
take
the time to learn how to use lilypond when you could do it in
sibelius
user28 wrote:
is it possible to make they more compact?
with \textLengthOn you can make sure the next note or barline is starting
when the text has been written.
additionally you can move the starting position of your bows (which i
replaced with \dmarcato) to the right if needed.
{
Václav Šmilauer wrote:
other than using \markup{...} in lyrics context for every single chord
If your needs are met by (a possibly modifed) ChordNames most of the time,
you can use replaceCN to deal with the impossible cases.
Hi Craig (et al.),
I must say that the faster thing is a typical United States
behavior.
Whether or not it started in the USA, it's a worldwide phenomenon
now. =)
[Disclosure: I'm Canadian.]
Our markets and media constantly barrage us with time issues.
I think maybe convenience is a
Dear community,
I have a last question.
Why is the shortInstrumentName for Violin one solo not shown?
Here the snippet:
\version 2.12.2
violineA = \context Staff =ViolineA
{ \set Staff.instrumentName = Violine 1
\set Staff.shortInstrumentName=Vlne.1
c'' 4 d'' e'' f'' g'' a'' b''
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Erik Appeldoorn ursus.k...@ziggo.nl wrote:
[...]
On the plus I found, good looking scores, very flexible
On the minus I found, very tedious, time-consuming and heavily relying on
work-arounds.
Hope this will give some inside. I won't say I'll never try again,
figured this one out:
On 11 Nov 2009, at 14:56, Stefan Thomas wrote:
I have a last question.
Why is the shortInstrumentName for Violin one solo not shown?
because the staff only just started. lily puts the instrumentName at
the beginning of the first line of a staff. (naïve explanation,
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
Hi Craig (et al.),
I must say that the faster thing is a typical United States
behavior.
Whether or not it started in the USA, it's a worldwide phenomenon now.
=)
[Disclosure: I'm Canadian.]
It is too cheap to put this down to
Frédéric Bron wrote:
BTW, I have found a strange behaviour of modern accidentals rule:
LilyPond considers volta alternatives as previous measure. Is this
correct? (Note the natural sign at the 2nd and 3rd alternatives, not
related to the previous _played_ measure.)
Yes, this is known
It seems that overriding #'remove-empty for Staff.VerticalAxisGroup has only an
effect if it is called prior to the first note of the staff. Any
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-empty = ##t (or ##f)
after the first note does not have any effect.
Now, this is a problem, if the whole
On 11/11/09 4:51 AM, VáclavŠmilauer eudo...@arcig.cz wrote:
Hi,
I use \chordSymbols hack (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=608) in my jazz
charts and although, it works quite well in normal cases, it has some
limitations: you can't write C phryg or combination of 6,7,9,11,13 not in
Le 11 nov. 2009 à 16:07, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit :
Now, this is a problem, if the whole score consists of several
different parts.
For example, I have a choral score with fugues and a soprano solo.
during the fugues, none of the staves should be removed (if e.g. the
Alto sets
in 9
Given that scheme calculations may be passed to the barLine bar-size
property, I was attempting to draw a barLine which would be only a half
length long vertically. When the size of the score is constant, it is not
difficult to hard-code a specific bar-size, but since I use several staff
sizes,
Hi David,
It is too cheap to put this down to faster. The problem is not that
you need longer to do some things with Lilypond initially. The
problem
is that there is a large number of things for which there is no proper
way to do them at all, and you have to take out the crowbar.
As is
ok. cool.
thanks for the tip.
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Jiri Zurek (Prague) zu...@ics.cas.cz writes:
\once \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #(* ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size
0.5) \bar |
Try something like
\once \override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #(lambda(x) (* 0.5
(ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size x))) \bar |
It is probably possible to fabricate
I don't see the now definitely O/T you put in the subject line. The
subject was that somebody quit, and we are talking about the reasons.
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
It is too cheap to put this down to faster. The problem is not
that you need longer to do some
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
[...]
I don't see the now definitely O/T you put in the subject line. The
subject was that somebody quit, and we are talking about the reasons.
[...]
It is too cheap to put this down to faster. The problem is not
that you need longer
I'm not topposting
Third attempt because of topposting automoderation -- this _is_ a
nuisance.
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
[...]
I don't see the now definitely O/T you put in the subject line. The
subject was that somebody quit, and we are talking about the
Jiri Zurek wrote:
What is wrong with my syntax, please?
ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size needs a parameter.
If you get used to writing things like
\override Staff.BarLine #'bar-size = #ly:bar-line::calc-bar-size
you think that is all you ever need to say.
But the functions for grob
Hi David,
I think that sums up very well why somebody would prefer not working
with Lilypond. Not only do you have to rely on expert advice, but the
main advice is please do what an expert would do, or shut up.
Please show me where I said anything resembling shut up...?
I'm sorry if you
Sorry for the post in triplicate. Gmane's response time confused me.
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
Hi David,
I think that sums up very well why somebody would prefer not working
with Lilypond. Not only do you have to rely on expert advice, but the
main advice is
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:11:26PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
I couldn't agree more! [See Steps 12, above.]
I think that sums up very well why somebody would prefer not working
with Lilypond. Not only do you have to rely on expert
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:12:44PM +, Graham Percival wrote:
Other than kidnap + torture, of course. I might vote for this,
but it strikes me that it might cause long-term problems...
Addendum: I don't know the details that you want, so torturing me
won't help.
I'd *like* to know those
Hi David,
[By the way, since it's apparently open season on posting style
criticism: your consistent lack of salutation and valediction in your
posts makes you seem rude, curt, and above all patronizing.]
Reasonable entails a collective effort not to repeat avoidable
work and
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:11:26PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
But if there is roadmap, design and vision, I have not yet been able
to find it in the obvious places I have been looking for.
The information for developers is the CG.
The
Hi David (and anyone else who makes it here, wondering how to find
the CG),
The manuals don't tell anything about CG, where it is, what it does.
URL:http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/ does not tell.
There is no directory of that name in the distribution.
Step 1: Go to home page.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:47:33PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
The information for developers is the CG.
The manuals don't tell anything about CG, where it is, what it does.
URL:http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/ does not tell.
Op woensdag 11-11-2009 om 20:08 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David
Kastrup:
As we both (all) know, there IS a reasonable way to become an expert
at Lilypond
No. A _reasonable_ way to become an expert is by reading into
increasingly more expert-level documentation and working with it.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:01:33PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Step 3: Click on Documentation for LilyPond 2.13 (latest development)
[since you're going to be helping with development, this is the logical
choice].
Location: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/
Not the general
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kieren MacMillan
kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Hi David (and anyone else who makes it here, wondering how to find the
CG),
The manuals don't tell anything about CG, where it is, what it does.
URL:http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/ does not
Hi Graham,
the more available/obvious choice would be
to make the new website the main one.
Currently, that's waiting on:
- 2-5 hours of texinfo file editing
I just pulled a new origin/master from git.
Today, I've got upwards of 3 hours to code: what do you want me to
work on?
Cheers,
On 11.11.2009, at 12:13, Gerard McConnell wrote:
Hi, Perhaps a stupid question - is there any reason NOT to
upgrade from 2.12.x to 2.13.7?
Thanks,
Gerard
I tend to work from the if it ain't broke, don't fix it principle.
So, unless there's something fundamentally broken that you
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
Hi David,
[By the way, since it's apparently open season on posting style
criticism: your consistent lack of salutation and valediction in your
posts makes you seem rude, curt, and above all patronizing.]
Perfectly accurate.
On 11/11/09 12:12 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:11:26PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
But if there is roadmap, design and vision, I have not yet been able to
find it in the obvious places I have been looking for.
The information for
Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl writes:
Also seen several times are people sending /lots/ of questions,
be it users or developers, and after everything has been
answered, the user quits or potential developers says she has no
time or does not thing she is up for it after all.
If the
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:19:37PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Graham,
- 2-5 hours of texinfo file editing
I just pulled a new origin/master from git.
Today, I've got upwards of 3 hours to code: what do you want me to work
on?
The first thing that comes to mind is Alternate input.
Hi David,
Where does the GDP document the meaning of the acronym GDP?
Here's one place (of many):
http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding
It does not say what kind of code to put where for what reason.
Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kieren MacMillan
kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Hi David (and anyone else who makes it here, wondering how to find the
CG),
The manuals don't tell anything about CG, where it is, what it
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:53:11PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
It does not tell you what language/classes/operations to use to
implement what kind of task.
OK, then submit a feature request — rant on -user does not count — and
maybe someone in the know will help out.
No, please don't.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:49:28PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl writes:
Also seen several times are people sending /lots/ of questions,
be it users or developers, and after everything has been
answered, the user quits or potential developers says
Graham,
The first thing that comes to mind is Alternate input.
Documentation/general/introduction.texi
@node Alternate input
I have to mao-ing learn TEXI now?
So much for your 2-5 hours estimate...
Still-doing-it-but-thinking-there's-almost-definitely-a-better-way,
Kieren.
David,
Thanks for your willingness to articulate some concerns. I think that your
careful thinking can be of real help to the LilyPond community, expecially
if you can help us make things better.
On 11/11/09 7:21 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:
Kieren MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:05:59PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
The first thing that comes to mind is Alternate input.
Documentation/general/introduction.texi
@node Alternate input
I have to mao-ing learn TEXI now?
So much for your 2-5 hours estimate...
I stand by my 2-5 hours of editing
Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes:
David,
Thanks for your willingness to articulate some concerns. I think that
your careful thinking can be of real help to the LilyPond community,
expecially if you can help us make things better.
Thanks for putting up with me.
On 11/11/09 7:21 AM,
@node Alternate input
I have to mao-ing learn TEXI now?
What's the problem here? If you don't want to do nifty things it's
just a quite simple markup language. And since there has already been
written a lot of TEXI documentation for lilypond I'm quite sure that
you find examples for almost
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:
\spannerText rit.
b1\startTextSpan
e,\stopTextSpan
What is wrong with
b1\startSpan rit.
e,\stopSpan
? Why force meddling with an internal variable in the first place? You
need the text anyway, why not make it part of
When a repeated section begins in one clef and ends in another (as in the Basso
Continuo part I'm working on), it would be nice to be able to add a reminder
clef at the end of the repeated section, to alert the player to return to the
original clef when the repeat sign is reached.
This behavior
Werner,
What's the problem here?
The problem is that I come to Lilypond with a skill set —
specifically, many years of Java+Javascript+(X)HTML+XSL(T)+CSS+(La)
TeX experience — which should be more than adequate for any modern
documentation project involving a WWW component.
I want to
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:47:28PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Werner,
What's the problem here?
The problem is that I come to Lilypond with a skill set — specifically,
many years of Java+Javascript+(X)HTML+XSL(T)+CSS+(La)TeX experience —
which should be more than adequate for any
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 22:33 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes:
The code to establish a ritardando could be easily written, and may (or may
not) be done as part of the forthcoming GLISS (Grand LilyPond Input Syntax
Stabilization) project. There's currently
On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
For me, this situation is awkward, impeding and dissatisfactory. For
others, it is reason to go away. I don't see that anything is gained
for chastising me for my impression. That is merely shooting the
messenger. Actually, more than the
Things like ritardando can't be found in the
notation index and are
programmed something like
Some performance indications,
e.g., rallentando or accelerando, are
written as text and are
extended over multiple notes with dotted lines.
Such objects, called
spanners,
VáclavŠmilauer wrote:
I use \chordSymbols hack (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=608) in my
jazz
charts and although, it works quite well in normal cases, it has some
limitations: you can't write C phryg or combination of 6,7,9,11,13 not
in the
font etc.
C phryg doesn't exist, true,
Hi Graham,
If we did stuff in plain html, we'd lose the pdf docs. If we did
stuff in plain latex, we'd lose the html docs (without a lot of
tweaking). Both would lose the info docs, which IMO wouldn't be
terrible, but some people seem to like.
I don't even know what the info docs are, so
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:39:26PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Graham,
If we did stuff in plain html, we'd lose the pdf docs. If we did
stuff in plain latex, we'd lose the html docs (without a lot of
tweaking). Both would lose the info docs, which IMO wouldn't be
terrible, but some
David,
I appreciate your persistence in this. I think that you are having part of
the difficulty in this conversation because it's on -user, not on -devel.
The modifications to anything except input files (which use lilypond code
and embedded scheme) really involve knowledge that's primarily
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:47:28PM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Werner,
What's the problem here?
The problem is that I come to Lilypond with a skill set — specifically,
many years of Java+Javascript+(X)HTML+XSL(T)+CSS+(La)TeX experience —
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes:
Hi Graham,
If we did stuff in plain html, we'd lose the pdf docs. If we did
stuff in plain latex, we'd lose the html docs (without a lot of
tweaking). Both would lose the info docs, which IMO wouldn't be
terrible, but some people seem
On 11.11.2009, at 22:37, Peter Kaplan wrote:
When a repeated section begins in one clef and ends in another (as
in the Basso
Continuo part I'm working on), it would be nice to be able to add a
reminder
clef at the end of the repeated section, to alert the player to
return to the
original
Hi,
http://lilypond.org/web/install/ is showing version numbers 0.0.0-0
instead of 2.13.7-1 for the development branch. This is not the first
time this has happened, so I guess there is someone who will fix this.
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Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes:
David,
I appreciate your persistence in this. I think that you are having part of
the difficulty in this conversation because it's on -user, not on -devel.
The modifications to anything except input files (which use lilypond code
and embedded
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