Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I would like to have several versions of LilyPond installed at the same time to be able to test lilypond code in different versions. What would be the best way to accomplish this on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux? I recall having read something about a renaming/symlink solution on

lilypond and SVG output problem caused by an

2010-07-14 Thread wjm
Greetings, I have been having a problem with certain SVG files failing to open in Inkscape. The attached file compiles correctly and produces the expected PDF result but when generating an SVG file the result seems to be corrupt and won't open in Inkscape. However, after some considerable time

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 14 Jul 2010, 11:54 Urs Liska wrote: Hello list, Hello Urs! I would like to have several versions of LilyPond installed at the same time to be able to test lilypond code in different versions. What would be the best way to accomplish this on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux? I recall

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com wrote: On Wed 14 Jul 2010, 11:54 Urs Liska wrote: Hello list, Hello Urs! I would like to have several versions of LilyPond installed at the same time to be able to test lilypond code in different versions. What would

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:36 Urs Liska wrote: But I assume that instead of editing the symlink I should also be able to create different scripts (like lilypond2.13.27.sh) to start the different versions. Definitely --- you may combine both tricks: lilypond for default version (which is easily

Re: strange programming error

2010-07-14 Thread -Eluze
胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I encounter a strange problem on my harp part. THe message is: programming error: no note heads for the line spanner on neighbor line? Confused. It is very strange because, although it seems to be the problem of the last glissando, when I commented out

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread keith Luke
I'm interested in running multiple versions under Windows and I think the easiest way would be to create virtual machines to run each version of LilyPond. You would have to download Microsoft's Virtual PC and create virtual hard drives for each of your versions of LilyPond. There's a

RE: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread James Lowe
That sounds awfully complicated (and one would question the legality of having multiple installs of the same version of XP on one machine but I haven't read MS's EULA) Can't you just 1. install version 2.12.whatever 2. rename lilypond dir accordingly 3. install ve4rsion 2.13.whatever 4.

Re: Barres and enclose-bounds

2010-07-14 Thread paulxiii
Absolutely outstanding! Thanks to both Phil and Nick. I've tried both versions and the only thing I'd add to Phil's version is something I found amongst this forum (I think) and that is in the layout to sort out the bar number appearing above the textSpanner after a line break. It doesn't solve

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Phil Holmes
It might be complicated, but it is what I do and it works well. As it happens licensing is not an issue for me since I'm running Vista and have old copies of full retail XP. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com To: keith Luke

Re: Barres and enclose-bounds

2010-07-14 Thread Phil Burfitt
Hi Paul, I'm glad it was some use =) As to the spanner line starting at the staff left edge after a line break - thats not happening for me (version 2.13.17). The spanners always re-start on the first note of the following system and bar numbers remain in place. Odd :( However, I see from

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
James Lowe wrote Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:13 PM Can't you just 1. install version 2.12.whatever 2. rename lilypond dir accordingly 3. install ve4rsion 2.13.whatever 4. rename lilypond dir accordingly and just put back the old dir name for the version you want to use. Yes, you can. I do

Re: lilypond and SVG output problem caused by an

2010-07-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:05 AM, wjm mooney...@aim.com wrote: Greetings, I have been having a problem with certain SVG files failing to open in Inkscape. The attached file compiles correctly and produces the expected PDF result but when generating an SVG file the result seems to be corrupt

Re: Different versions of LilyPond

2010-07-14 Thread u_li
Am 14.07.2010 20:02, schrieb Trevor Daniels: James Lowe wrote Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:13 PM Can't you just 1. install version 2.12.whatever 2. rename lilypond dir accordingly 3. install ve4rsion 2.13.whatever 4. rename lilypond dir accordingly and just put back the old dir name for the

Re: [doc] Notation 1.8.2: file .eps not found?

2010-07-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:05:10PM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, I've found a small error in documentation. In Notation 1.8.2, section Graphic notation inside markup: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13//Documentation/notation/formatting-text#graphic-notation-inside-markup in the last

Re: [PATCH] Re: Duration dots and Bar lines on custom Staves.

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Wagner
Two years later, and I still haven't given up on getting Lilypond to typeset twinline. I believe I now know enough Metafont to edit feta-bolletjes.mf (I believe it's now something like feta-noteheads.mf) to add the noteheads we need. What other steps do I need to take to make the noteheads

Re: [PATCH] Re: Duration dots and Bar lines on custom Staves.

2010-07-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Wagner awag...@uiuc.edu wrote: Two years later, and I still haven't given up on getting Lilypond to typeset twinline.  I believe I now know enough Metafont to edit feta-bolletjes.mf (I believe it's now something like feta-noteheads.mf) to add the

Re: Possible bug in lyrics mode

2010-07-14 Thread Arle Lommel
I’ve gone ahead and submitted the lyric mode spacing issue to the gmane lilypond bugs list. This is the first time I've submitted a bug and as I look at the other postings, so I'll askhere if I need to do anything beyond posting it there to get the bug actually listed?For what it's worth, I've

Re: Possible bug in lyrics mode

2010-07-14 Thread Urs Liska
FYI: Added to the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1188 Best Urs Am 13.07.2010 16:48, schrieb Arle Lommel: Hi all, Just thought I'd mention something I believe to be a bug in lyrics mode, but thought I'd ask if there is a rationale for it before I submit. I

Re:Possible bug in lyrics mode

2010-07-14 Thread Arle Lommel
Just after I posted the additional example, Urs confirmed that it was posted to the bug list and given medium priority. So please disregard the question about if I needed to do anything else. The example I included may be useful though. Best, Arle

Re:strange programming error

2010-07-14 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Thanks, but... commenting \showStaffSwitch in the staff harprh stops this warning/error - could this be a starting point to track the error? I'm confused. Because all my code seems to be right, and if no \showStaffSwitch, the change staff can't work. But please tell me whether the pdf output

Re: [PATCH] Re: Duration dots and Bar lines on custom Staves.

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Wagner
Those are the patches... I'm developing on a branch of lilypond on github, though: http://github.com/drewm1980/lilypond-an/tree/mark_hanlon/input/musicnotation/ Cheers, Drew On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Andrew