feedback on 2.13.34

2010-09-24 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm very glad that 2.13.34 is much better than previous devel versions since 2.13.24. The only shortcoming is, however, still spacing. In my case, the overture uses 35 pages in 2.13.24, while 37 in 2.13.34, with one "couldn't fit music on page:" warning in the middle. I don't know which

Re: Fw: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-24 Thread Ian Hulin
Ming, On 24/09/10 23:15, MING TSANG wrote: > Hi, neuro: > > I think you problem can be resolved. Please refer to vol94 issue 94 message 3 > from Phil Holmes. If you are not absolutely need .ps, don't try. > > > My problem is after I added as suggested from Phil Holmes, I got the .ps file >

Re: need a header in the middle of a page

2010-09-24 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 25 September 2010 00:07, Michael Dykes wrote: > > Hullo all. I am doing some more of my traditional Orthodox Chant music, and > I have two systems of music representing 2 diff Prokeimena (psalm verses > chanted before the Epistle Reading). Above the second system, I need an > additional header

Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully. (MING TSANG)

2010-09-24 Thread Ian Hulin
Ming, First of all see if your lilypond version is OK. Click on the Windows Menu Button and Select the Run option. When the window pops up type in cmd and click OK to start a terminal session. The prompt should tell you you're in the "My Documents" directory for your account. Enter notepad test.ly

Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypondsucessfully. (MING TSANG)

2010-09-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
MING TSANG wrote Friday, September 24, 2010 7:56 PM The jedit version is 4.3.2; lilypond is v2.13.33. I see the viewer icon. I single click it and it displays nothing. It is because the .pdf file is not created even though the jedit console says it did generate a .pdf file. Ghostscript is

Re: Fw: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-24 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, neuro: I think you problem can be resolved. Please refer to vol94 issue 94 message 3 from Phil Holmes. If you are not absolutely need .ps, don't try. My problem is after I added as suggested from Phil Holmes, I got the .ps file and I lost .pdf file. I comment out the line "#(ly:set-opt

Re:Re: visual problem on two triplets in 4/4 time

2010-09-24 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Sorry for the noise, it's my fault of not setting tupplet spanner duration in a continuous triplets, not my example here. Regards Haipeng ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

need a header in the middle of a page

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo all. I am doing some more of my traditional Orthodox Chant music, and I have two systems of music representing 2 diff Prokeimena (psalm verses chanted before the Epistle Reading). Above the second system, I need an additional header (in the style of the first header, same font, size, etc.) in

Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully. (MING TSANG)

2010-09-24 Thread MING TSANG
Fr. Gordon, The jedit version is 4.3.2; lilypond is v2.13.33. I see the viewer icon. I single click it and it displays nothing. It is because the .pdf file is not created even though the jedit console says it did generate a .pdf file. Ming. From: Father Go

Re: First impressions of alpha test

2010-09-24 Thread Keith E OHara
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:41:24 -0700, Joe Neeman wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Keith E OHara wrote: The horizontal spacing now quite aggressively tucks notes under/over the accidentals of the following notes. Do you consider this desirable? There are a couple bug reports about rela

Re: Fw: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-24 Thread neuro黃學仁
Dear Dr. Tsang You might want to check out lilypond --help Actually, I have met similar, (or more precisely, reverse,) problems when I run 2.13.33 last month. It seems, lilypond have output a pdf file, without a ps file as the ps file was converted to pdf, when I run 2.13.33 last month, as lily

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Phil Burfitt" > > To: > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. > > > >>Graham Percival wrote > >>PS if you want a hint, one of those discussions

Re: visual problem on two triplets in 4/4 time

2010-09-24 Thread Keith E OHara
My mother found a problem when I write continuous triplets. For example, \time 4/4 c'4 c' \times 2/3 { c'8 d' e' } \times 2/3 { f' g' a' } The two triplets are grouped like one sextupplet, but with two 3's. What's the problem? Is it a wrong practice in notation convention? Is it controlled by

Re: Optimising output for screen

2010-09-24 Thread Tim Reeves
> Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:31:09 +0100 > From: "Phil Holmes" > Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. > To: "Graham Percival" > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Message-ID: <9fadf3787e2141f5b5d436db4e695...@advent> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Phil Burfitt" To: Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. Graham Percival wrote PS if you want a hint, one of those discussions was in 2007. Graham, Thanks for the pointer..had a chuckle with the continued

Re: First impressions of alpha test

2010-09-24 Thread Joe Neeman
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Keith E OHara wrote: > What are everyone's first impressions of 2.13.34, the alpha test? > > I remembered to run convert-ly (which worked for me, but I don't have MacOS > 10.4, where James W ran into trouble) but it made very few changes to scores > written for 2

Re:Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully. (MING TSANG)

2010-09-24 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi! I have used Lilypondtool both on Windoze, and on Ubuntu, and the toolbar immediately above the open file has little icons for everything you need. One of them is a tiny sheet of paper representing the PDF option. Do you have that on your version? If so, simply click that (once not twice) and

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Burfitt
Graham Percival wrote PS if you want a hint, one of those discussions was in 2007. Graham, Thanks for the pointer..had a chuckle with the continued discussion 2 years later. Pity the solution was never accepted/implemented, probably not a very important issue then, but I believe it will b

Re: visual problem on two triplets in 4/4 time

2010-09-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/24/10 9:25 AM, "胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng" wrote: > Hello, > My mother found a problem when I write continuous triplets. For example, > \time 4/4 c'4 c' \times 2/3 { c'8 d' e' } \times 2/3 { f' g' a' } > The two triplets are grouped like one sextupplet, but with two 3's. What's the > problem? Is

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread David Kastrup
Kaz Kylheku writes: > For reference, I have here Adobe Reader 9.3.3 and Evince 2.30.3. > > I do see the bar lines over-extending past the staff lines. > This must be a Lilypond bug. Not at all. > If that were a scaling artifact, it would be impossible to > draw the letter T without the stem cro

Re: visual problem on two triplets in 4/4 time

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
Simply compiling and displaying the code you supplied gives 2 crochets and then 2 pairs of beamed triplets. It's not 6 notes beamed together. I'd guess that you have over-ridden some beaming setting elsewhere in your score. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haip

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "Phil Burfitt" ; "Trevor Daniels" ; Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: So I would conclude - if you need excell

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:49:15 +0100, "Phil Burfitt" wrote: > Trevor, I've downloaded a number of PDF viewers for Windows and taken > screen snapshots at 96dpi on Vista of each at 100% scaling (PNG > attachment). Problems occur in all of them as to be expected as > Lilyponds output is optimised for

Fw: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-24 Thread MING TSANG
the following reply all did't go thru. Now I try again, just send ti lilypond users. - Forwarded Message From: MING TSANG To: Kaz Kylheku Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 8:58:11 AM Subject: Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessful

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-24 17:42, Phil Holmes wrote: It's my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong, somebody) that LilyPond is optimised neither for screen or print - it outputs as PDF, and so the quality of the image seen depends on the quality of the program that interprets the PDF. LilyPond is essentially

Re: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-24 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:27 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: > Gets to the point of saying "Applying conversion:" and just stops > -- Does the file compile when you try it in 2.13.34? It may be that there are no changes which need to be made. ___ lilypond-use

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Burfitt wrote Friday, September 24, 2010 3:49 PM Trevor, I've downloaded a number of PDF viewers for Windows and taken screen snapshots at 96dpi on Vista of each at 100% scaling (PNG attachment). Problems occur in all of them as to be expected as Lilyponds output is optimised for printe

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > So I would conclude - if you need excellent screen display, you'll either > need a carefully written PDF viewer, or a screen with a resolution of around > 1000 dpi. If anybody is seriously interested in this issue, then why not look at the mai

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Phil Burfitt" To: "Trevor Daniels" Cc: Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. Trevor, I've downloaded a number of PDF viewers for Windows and taken screen snapshots at 96dpi on Vista of each at 100% scaling (P

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Burfitt
Doh! Adobe doesn't seem to anti-alias raster images... Should be"Adobe doesn't seem to anti-alias VECTOR images Phil. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

visual problem on two triplets in 4/4 time

2010-09-24 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, My mother found a problem when I write continuous triplets. For example, \time 4/4 c'4 c' \times 2/3 { c'8 d' e' } \times 2/3 { f' g' a' } The two triplets are grouped like one sextupplet, but with two 3's. What's the problem? Is it a wrong practice in notation convention? Is it controlle

First impressions of alpha test

2010-09-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
Keith Ohara wrote: > What are everyone's first impressions of 2.13.34, the alpha test? Thanks for the review! And especially, thanks for testing it on some old scores to make sure we don't have regressions. > The auto-beaming has changed, and seems to beam a little less often than the > old sy

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/24/10 4:37 AM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: > Carl, > > first of all thank you very much for your patch! I had a quick look > at it on Rietveld and I'm stunned. I don't know how you managed to > get all of this done in such a short period of time. You're welcome. When one is really familiar w

Re: Jedit with lilypond tools

2010-09-24 Thread MING TSANG
Thank you Bertalan. I did a search on c: drive for the .pdf file and cannot locate it anywhere. From: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) To: MING TSANG Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 6:35:14 AM Subject: Re: Jedit with lilypond tools Pe

Re: Help needed - missing .pdf file after running lilypond sucessfully.

2010-09-24 Thread MING TSANG
Kaz, thank you. I don't know how to run lilypond on CMD EXE. Can you provide some command line script? I try the alternative method as suggested. I got the following message: "GS.EXE entry point not found -- the procedure entry point gsapi_delete_insta...@4 could not be located in the dynamic

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-24 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-09-24 13:56, eluze wrote: Am 23.09.2010, 16:52 Uhr, schrieb Phil Holmes : Snippets need to be marked approved before they are visible. I can do this, so if you want one checking and approving, please ask here. yes, please - is it usual to mention the author? if yes, then Alexander Kobe

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-24 Thread eluze
Am 23.09.2010, 16:52 Uhr, schrieb Phil Holmes : - Original Message - From: "-Eluze" i have modified it now - i have no idea how long it takes to be "officialy" reachable, but in case you can look for ⌂ printing odd bar numbers only or http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=712

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Carl, first of all thank you very much for your patch! I had a quick look at it on Rietveld and I'm stunned. I don't know how you managed to get all of this done in such a short period of time. Am 24.09.2010 um 07:12 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Patrick, I've loaded a patch on Rietveld that all

Re: Jedit with lilypond tools

2010-09-24 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Perhaps that version of LilyPond puts the PDF in a different directory than the .ly file is in MING TSANG wrote: I use jedit with lilypond tool. I also use lilypond 2.13.33 The console has the following message. However, I cannot locate the .pdf file. I do a search on c:\ drive and cannot fin

Re: Arpeggio glyph markup

2010-09-24 Thread keith Luke
Yes, I am doing a jazz-style arrangement. I guess I'll just make a chord of whole notes so the \arpeggio will work. I ended up using *1 \arpeggio -\markup {\italic \fontsize #2 "Fine"} \fermata* to get the arpeggio glyph to display. Thanks for pointing out the oversight on needing at least two s

Re: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4)

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "James Wilkinson" To: Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:27 AM Subject: 2.13.34-1 freezes when updating syntax (Mac 10.4) Gets to the point of saying "Applying conversion:" and just stops Others might understand this, but I haven't a clue what you're say

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Trevor Daniels" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "Phil Burfitt" ; "Kaz Kylheku" Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:59 PM Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. Phil Holmes wote Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:37 PM I have noticed the way Adobe Reader re

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-09-24 Thread vicente
>> if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus >> you: >> 1) save typing >> > Yes, if I were just starting, I would save typing. This time I didn't > discover this problem until I already had it done the other way, so it's > just going to be extra work. Yeah, I know I'm

First impressions of alpha test

2010-09-24 Thread Keith E OHara
What are everyone's first impressions of 2.13.34, the alpha test? I remembered to run convert-ly (which worked for me, but I don't have MacOS 10.4, where James W ran into trouble) but it made very few changes to scores written for 2.12. The change that jumped out at me was the spacing, both of

Re: adding 'HarmonicEvent?

2010-09-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Marc Hohl schrieb: [...] Meanwhile, it tried to expand your function by adapting some lsr snippets, http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=82 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=696 Playing (or struggling?) with the latter, I came up with the following: ---8<--- \version "2.13.32" #(define (ma