Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website.
Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out;
who has time to read all the crap on a product's website?
Once they've clicked on the downloaded icon on their screen something
reasonable should happen.
Kees
-
Hugh Myers wrote:
I had expected each page to begin in the same location. They don't.
Why? What may be done to restrain lilypond?
i just run it with version 2.12.3 where it seems okay to me.
then i added a new page (with version 2.13.9) and it seems that only the
last page is affected -
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Graham Percival
gra...@percival-music.ca wrote:
No. The alternate input page is extremely easy to find.
With all due respect, you may be missing the point here. Bertalan's
suggestion, as I read it, wasn't so much about the website
presentation than the program
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote:
I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your
feature request is now on the issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937
Wow, thank you for digging up that one.
Cheers,
Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes:
Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website.
Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out; who
has time to read all the crap on a product's website? Once they've
clicked on the downloaded icon on their screen
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
on this page clicking *Manuals* in the top note leads to the 2.12.2 manuals,
whereas clicking *download* goes to the 2.13.9 downloads.
--
View this
Hi! I want to make a sheet that has the approximate look of the (among dummers)
classic Stick Control by G.L. Stone.
This book has you practising combinations of right hand strokes and left hand
strokes, like so: RLRR LRLL. My problem is that if I just write out the row of
combinations and notes
2009/12/18 Fredrik Carlén norderg...@gmail.com:
(without \skip) | RLRRLRLL | (with skip) |RLRR LRL|L . SkipMusic and SkipEvent
are fillers that take up duration as per the page
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/SkipMusic#SkipMusic
. I suppose I'd like a filler
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:34:26AM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Graham Percival
gra...@percival-music.ca wrote:
No. The alternate input page is extremely easy to find.
With all due respect, you may be missing the point here.
I haven't missed the point.
Il 18/12/2009 00:57, Graham Percival ha scritto:
Pretend that you've never heard of lilypond. Does the webpage
answer the questions, or present the information, that you wanted
to know before you got involved?
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/index.html
Here:
2009/12/18 Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com:
Il 18/12/2009 00:57, Graham Percival ha scritto:
Pretend that you've never heard of lilypond. Does the webpage
answer the questions, or present the information, that you wanted
to know before you got involved?
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
Introduction pages, please do.
LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
Alternate Input. Since this link is to the right of Text
Input, the implication
I found one big clue to the problem: findfont fails trying to find
some Japanese font or something. A postscript file is produced
without errors, but ps2pdf fails with findfont. I have to run:
ps2pdf -dNOSAFER file.ly
to produce the pdf.
Does anybody know anything more about this issue? Does
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:59:17AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes:
Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website.
Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out; who
has time to read all the crap on a product's
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:41:00AM +0100, Gilles THIBAULT wrote:
Does anybody know anything more about this issue? Does some piece of
software need an upgrade?
Well, i have never understood why the LSR cannot compile the snippet
( http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=615 ) .
I supposed that
2009/12/18 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:
I'm willing to change the name, but I'm not convinced that any of
thsoe are more attractive than alternate input. More to the
point, the bottom of text input tries to direct people there,
with the easier editing environments stuff.
Hmm,
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:00:57AM -0800, -Eluze wrote:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
on this page clicking *Manuals* in the top note leads to the 2.12.2 manuals,
whereas
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:36:57AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/12/18 Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com:
Il 18/12/2009 00:57, Graham Percival ha scritto:
Pretend that you've never heard of lilypond. Does the webpage
answer the questions, or present the information, that you wanted
2009/12/18 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:
So the question is what action from the clicking on the downloaded
icon will be the fastest leading to the average unsuspecting user
writing and processing their first Michael row the boat ashore kind of
file.
The *first* question is how
I suppose I'd like a filler that does *not* take up duration
You can use a breath mark for this
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Curves#Breath-marks
and then make it blank by overriding #'text or #'transparent.
gap = {
\once \override BreathingSign #'text =
%
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:47:26AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/12/18 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:
Hmm, on second thought, what about calling it Easier editing?
That alliterates, so it gets a 20% bonus to its attractiveness. :)
I often call them Improved Environments.
Hugh Myers wrote:
How do I remove it such that each page begins at same top-left corner?
--hsm
Hi, Hugh,
there are a few settings mentioned in the paper layout which might help
you, but there's quite a difference between 2.12.x and 2.13.y.
Most notably are, of course, top-margin and
Alexander Kobel wrote:
Hugh Myers wrote:
How do I remove it such that each page begins at same top-left corner?
If you're not afraid of using the command line, if you're on Linux
(might work on Windows also, but I have no clue if you can get all the
required tools there), and if the
Quoting Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com:
Il 18/12/2009 00:57, Graham Percival ha scritto:
Pretend that you've never heard of lilypond. Does the webpage
answer the questions, or present the information, that you wanted
to know before you got involved?
Il 18/12/2009 06:32, Jonathan Wilkes ha scritto:
LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under Alternate Input. Since this
link is to the right of Text Input, the implication
is that they are alternatives to text input, which of course is false: All the
information under the Text
Forgive me for jumping in, as this is a long thread and I have only
been partially reading it. However, I have a couple of comments which
I hope will be useful.
Firstly, I think the new web site looks great. I do not think the
current site looks particularly bad (I have seen much worse), but it
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
Introduction pages, please do.
LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
Alternate Input. Since this
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
The *first* question is how do we discourage people who don't want
lilypond from downloading it? Some people don't get text input, and
will never take the time to learn. Such as my mother, for example.
Yes, that's as important as it is for a
Il 18/12/2009 10:36, Francisco Vila ha scritto:
2009/12/18 Federico Brunibrunol...@gmx.com:
I would add this line, before executing the file (I know Unix users should
not have any problem with that, but still.. it's just a line.. and it can
help newbies):
chmod a+x lilypond-2.12.2-OS-TYPE.sh
Quoting Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:00:57AM -0800, -Eluze wrote:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/development#Development
on this page clicking *Manuals* in the top
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
Introduction pages, please do.
LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi,
Hello, me again! I am kinda new to this, so bear with me; I *will* RTFM (and to
some extent I have) thouroughly, but now all I have time for is to skim through
selected parts. In doing this, however, I have found no way of splitting the
page into two columns. My work in Lilypond right now is
Hi Fredrik,
To print as many as possible of these, I need to split the page
into two
columns. This is the last thing I need to do, everything else is
working
perfectly. I haven't found anything in the manual, nor in LSR about
how to do
this. Is it possible?
You can always put a \score
Thanks for the pointer, Alexander. I had looked, but not far enough.
Here is what works:
\version 2.13.7
\header {
tagline = ##f
}
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\remove Time_signature_engraver
}
}
\paper{
indent = 0\mm
paper-width = 3\in
line-width = 1.5\in
paper-height = 5\in
Key in my testing to both first and last page top-left problems is:
\paper{
indent = 0\mm
paper-width = 3\in
line-width = 1.5\in
paper-height = 5\in
print-page-number = ##f
after-title-space = 0\mm
before-title-space = 0\mm
between-system-padding = 0\mm
between-system-space =
Maybe change Alternate Input to Input software, or Input
programs, or Progams, At least One of Which You Will Use to Enter
Your Scores if You At All Value Your Time and Sanity.
Input aids.
Hmm, on second thought, what about calling it Easier editing?
'Aids' isn't much better for the
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:04:05PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Quoting Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:
Thanks, I missed that! I'll add this to my TODO.
I hope you also know that you end up at the 2.13 manual if you click on
the quick link to the Manuals 2.12.2 on the main page.
Hi Graham,
On 18/12/09 09:38, Graham Percival wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:50PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
If you can suggest an improvement, especially in the
Introduction pages, please do.
LilyPondTool, Frescobaldi, Emacs and Vim are listed under
Alternate Input. Since this
Patrick McCarty wrote:
I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your
feature request is now on the issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937
Sorry for the delay. If you have any further examples to contribute,
I would be happy to add them to
Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
Patrick McCarty wrote:
I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your
feature request is now on the issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937
Sorry for the delay. If you have any further examples to contribute,
I
Is it possible to just download everything needed to make an install
disk that includes jedit/lilypondtool/other plugins (I have 17 plugins
installed)? I want to get a computer that has no internet connection set
up for working on music and lily.
Thanks,
chip
It is possible, it just depends on how adept you are and what you want
really want out of your OS.
For example I have used Damn Small Linux, booting from a USB stick then
download the applications from with then RAM disk image this loads
(including Lilypond and a PDf viewer etc) and then make
2009/12/18 chip c...@wiegand.org:
Is it possible to just download everything needed to make an install disk
that includes jedit/lilypondtool/other plugins (I have 17 plugins
installed)? I want to get a computer that has no internet connection set up
for working on music and lily.
Windows or
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes:
Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website.
Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out; who
has time to read all the crap on a product's website? Once
Graham Percival wrote:
A couple of comments on the text at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/text-input#Text-input:
You never mention that you need a text editor.
Well, the windows and OSX lilyponds come with their own text
editor. I admit that I'm just assuming that
Given:
\version 2.13.7
\header {
tagline = ##f
}
\layout {
\context {
\Staff
\remove Time_signature_engraver
}
}
\paper{
indent = 0\mm
paper-width = 3\in
line-width = 1.5\in
paper-height = 5\in
print-page-number = ##f
after-title-space = 0\mm
before-title-space = 0\mm
Federico Bruni ha scritto:
Il 13/12/2009 19:10, Luca Rossetto Casel ha scritto:
[...] I have found and adapted to my
needs a snippet to print smaller articulations. Here it is the staccato
one:
smallStaccato =
#(let ((m (make-music 'ArticulationEvent 'articulation-type
staccato)))
Hugh Myers wrote:
Given:
\version 2.13.7
[...]
How do I control the distance between the staff and the tab staff.
[...] I've played around with \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup
#'minimum-Y-extent to no avail
Hi, Hugh,
AFAICS, the #'minimum-Y-extent does not work anymore for staves in
Dear Ralph,
thanks for Your hint. I've downloaded Textpad.
It works well, but unfortunately I couldn't get syntax-highlighting with it.
Isn't it available?
2009/12/16 Ralph Palmer palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
Stefan -
I have been using ConTEXT on my Win XP machine. It's freeware, and has
Given:
flashNote = #(define-music-function (parser location note)(ly:music?) #{
$note s2. \pageBreak
#}
)
I'd like to modify it so that a fixed duration for the note can be
within the function rather than in the calling sequence. Like so:
instead of
\flashNote e,4
I'd rather
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:23 +
From: Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk
Subject: Re: GUI
To: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca
Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com,
lilypond-user@gnu.org
Message-ID: 4b2b914b.7020...@hulin.org.uk
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8;
From: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 85, Issue 56
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 11:02 PM
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:23 +
From: Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk
Subject: Re: GUI
To: Graham Percival
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stefan Thomas wrote:
Dear Ralph,
thanks for Your hint. I've downloaded Textpad.
It works well, but unfortunately I couldn't get syntax-highlighting with it.
Isn't it available?
2009/12/16 Ralph Palmer palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
Stefan -
I have been using
Hugh Myers wrote:
Given:
flashNote = #(define-music-function (parser location note)(ly:music?) #{
$note s2. \pageBreak
#}
)
I'd like to modify it so that a fixed duration for the note can be
within the function rather than in the calling sequence. [...]
I've tried various versions of
Thanks again Alexander--- thats the third time today you've bailed me
out! Hope I can return same someday.
--hgsm
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote:
Hugh Myers wrote:
Given:
flashNote = #(define-music-function (parser location note)(ly:music?) #{
$note
Hugh Myers wrote:
Thanks again Alexander--- thats the third time today you've bailed me
out! Hope I can return same someday.
You're welcome. If it's not me whom you can help, it's someone else.
Just fair - I've been there, too, and there have benn others... :-)
Cheers,
Alexander
Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/12/18 chip c...@wiegand.org:
Is it possible to just download everything needed to make an install disk
that includes jedit/lilypondtool/other plugins (I have 17 plugins
installed)? I want to get a computer that has no internet connection set up
for working on music
Hu Haipeng wrote:
only a few pages [...] and some of these with staves missing
I ran this through 2.13.9. The most obvious problems are:
A:
The first page has music running off the bottom.
I suppose so many staves can't be fitted in vertically.
One of the following makes things fit on
With 2.12.2, the overture compiles (with some warnings), and looks OK
on a4 paper, except for the last page, where bar numbers are printed for
non-existant staves. Also the copyright notice on the first page
collides with the music.
With 2.13.9, the 'cello parts run off the bottom of the first
On 18/12/2009 5:31 PM, chip wrote:
Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/12/18 chip c...@wiegand.org:
Is it possible to just download everything needed to make an install
disk
that includes jedit/lilypondtool/other plugins (I have 17 plugins
installed)? I want to get a computer that has no internet
I have previously seen inquires about making flash cards with
Lilypond. Thinking that this would be a good way to learn more about
the world of musical typesetting I decided to re-invent this
particular wheel. With a fair amount of help from the list here is
cards.ly:
%%
%%
%% cards.ly --
Thanks.
Haipeng
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Thanks.
I had found most of that.
What I had meant is more along the lines of what Tim McNamara said:
IMHO here is where we run into the issue of what LilyPond *is.*
It's a backend with no face, basically. This is something that most
Windows and Mac users will find hard to grasp initially,
Excellent, that's what I hoping for.
Thanks,
chip
Aaron Dalton wrote:
On 18/12/2009 5:31 PM, chip wrote:
Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/12/18 chip c...@wiegand.org:
Is it possible to just download everything needed to make an install
disk
that includes jedit/lilypondtool/other
Just quickly, because many will miss this, on gamedev network there's a
cool little orchestration tutorial.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/music/features/brfOrchGuide/
Patrick
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2009/12/19 chip c...@wiegand.org:
Excellent, that's what I hoping for.
Thanks,
chip
I don't see a settings folder, did find a settings-backup folder buried
under Documents and Settings etc etc etc.
Can I just copy the entire .jedit folder from that directory and paste
into a new install of
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