Hiding metronome mark gives cannot align on self: empty element

2010-09-27 Thread Nick Payne
If I hide the metronome mark with \override Score.MetronomeMark #'stencil = ##f, the console output contains: Preprocessing graphical objects... programming error: cannot align on self: empty element continuing, cross fingers programming error: cannot align on self: empty element continuing,

Scoping problem in define-music-function

2010-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, thanks to Reinhold Kainhofer and Wilbert Berendsen I managed to get a callback with an additional argument. Now I want to write a music function like this: myFunction = #(define-music-function parser location fret music) (string? ly:music?) (let (( ... some expressions ... ))

Re: Scoping problem in define-music-function

2010-09-27 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Montag, 27. September 2010, um 10:28:53 schrieb Marc Hohl: string:2:46: Fehler: GUILE signalisierte einen Fehler für den hier beginnenden Ausdruck \override TabNoteHead #(quote stencil) = # (my-special-callback fret) Unbound variable: fret

Re: Scoping problem in define-music-function

2010-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Hello list, thanks to Reinhold Kainhofer and Wilbert Berendsen I managed to get a callback with an additional argument. Now I want to write a music function like this: myFunction = #(define-music-function parser location fret music) (string? ly:music?)

Re: Scoping problem in define-music-function

2010-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Marc Hohl schrieb: Hello list, thanks to Reinhold Kainhofer and Wilbert Berendsen I managed to get a callback with an additional argument. Now I want to write a music function like this: myFunction = #(define-music-function parser location fret music) (string? ly:music?) (let (( ... some

Re: 2.13.34

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
I used the full version of Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF portfolio of the 2.13.34 English PDF docs, which is indexed to be able to search across all the manuals at once. It can be downloaded from http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/music/lilydoc.pdf (38Mb). It can only be used with v9.x

Re: Hiding metronome mark gives cannot align on self: empty element

2010-09-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Nick Payne wrote Monday, September 27, 2010 9:25 AM If I hide the metronome mark with \override Score.MetronomeMark #'stencil = ##f, the console output contains: Preprocessing graphical objects... programming error: cannot align on self: empty element continuing, cross fingers programming

How to pass an ApplyOutputEvent to a music function? (Vertical bracket indicating which hand should play)

2010-09-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, (Neil: please forgive me for directly Ccing you, but your input is always of such great help to me :) I'm trying to address a question that's sometimes asked on the list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-08/msg00903.html Basically, here's what I've been

font size for numbers on easyHeadOn with number

2010-09-27 Thread MING TSANG
Carl, The following is minimum lilypond code. I ran the .ly twice : one with (1) and the other with (2). The number font size stays the same (small). One other thing, I lost the tagline for lilypond PR. (1) \override Voice.NoteHead #'font-size = #-0.25 (2) \override Voice.NoteHead

Re: hspace in cm?

2010-09-27 Thread Robin Bannister
Xavier Scheuer wrote: Robin (or somebody else), could you provide me a version of your put-mm but using \hspace instead of \vspace ? ... in order to make a _horizontal_ space with a value in millimeters Well, I've had Lilypond on the back burner for a while, so I'm a bit rusty. By swapping

Re: 2.13.34

2010-09-27 Thread -Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote: I used the full version of Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF portfolio of the 2.13.34 English PDF docs, which is indexed to be able to search across all the manuals at once. It can be downloaded from http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/music/lilydoc.pdf (38Mb). It can

Re: font size for numbers on easyHeadOn with number

2010-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/10 8:06 AM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Carl, The following is minimum lilypond code. I ran the .ly twice : one with (1) and the other with (2). The number font size stays the same (small). (1) \override Voice.NoteHead #'font-size = #-0.25 (2) \override

alpha test autobeaming

2010-09-27 Thread Keith E OHara
In First impressions of alpha test I wrote: The auto-beaming seems to beam a little less often than the old system. My old scores had two situations with missing beams, neither one is a simple regression: 1) swung triplets in 2/8 are not beamed. Both 2.12 and 2.13 are missing beams, but

Re: alpha test autobeaming

2010-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
Keith, Thanks for an excellent report. On 9/27/10 11:51 AM, Keith E OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: In First impressions of alpha test I wrote: My old scores had two situations with missing beams, neither one is a simple regression: 1) swung triplets in 2/8 are not beamed. Both 2.12

How to create a music function properly?

2010-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello list, after having written mails way too early to this list recently while overlooking the obvious, I think I stumbled upon a *real* problem now :-/ Please have a look at the attached file. This is not the real world problem, but I boiled it down to a nearly minimal example. Only version

Re: How to create a music function properly?

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Puttock
On 27 September 2010 20:02, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: harmonicTestOne = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)  (let* ((test 2)         (result (/ test 2)))  #{    \override TabNoteHead #'transparent = ##t  #}  (make-harmonic music)  (display \nDummy output

Re: How to create a music function properly?

2010-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Hello list, after having written mails way too early to this list recently while overlooking the obvious, I think I stumbled upon a *real* problem now :-/ Please have a look at the attached file. This is not the real world problem, but I boiled it down to

Re: alpha test autobeaming

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Puttock
On 27 September 2010 19:47, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: This is a very interesting issue. The following code beams properly, without the override.  But it also reports a warning message: warning: cannot find or create `Timing' called `' \cadenzaOn only works if there's either an

Re: How to create a music function properly?

2010-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
Neil Puttock schrieb: On 27 September 2010 20:02, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: harmonicTestOne = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) (let* ((test 2) (result (/ test 2))) #{ \override TabNoteHead #'transparent = ##t #} (make-harmonic music)

Re: How to create a music function properly?

2010-09-27 Thread Marc Hohl
David Kastrup schrieb: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Hello list, after having written mails way too early to this list recently while overlooking the obvious, I think I stumbled upon a *real* problem now :-/ Please have a look at the attached file. This is not the real world problem,

Re: alpha test, horizontal spacing

2010-09-27 Thread Gerard McConnell
I agree that in the examples you gave the accidentals look a lot better in the 2.12 versions. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Keith E OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: In First impressions of alpha test I wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:41:24 -0700, Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com wrote: Do

Re: Twelve-tone notation

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Puttock
On 27 September 2010 01:34, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, that's what Neil was describing, but I'd like to add one wrinkle.  Maybe I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the wide staff-spaces are not supposed to be twice as big, but 1.5 times.  So I don't think it's quite

skip 2 page numbers

2010-09-27 Thread James Bailey
I got from someone (probably kieran) a while back a simple scheme function to skip the first two page numbers. It works fine, but I'd like to move the page numbers to the footer. This, is what I got: \version 2.11.65-1 \include titling-init.ly #(define (skip-two-page-numbers layout props arg)

Re: Creating metronome staff?

2010-09-27 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Bajnok Kristóf kris...@bajnok.hu writes: I'm looking for a way to create metronome beats to a melody which has variable times (4/4, 6/8, etc). Is there a function to make it automatically? Here's what I've come up with. Comments welcome, I'm interested how it could be done better.

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Don't feel any pressure to test my patch. I just wanted you to know it was available because you had made the feature request. It will get added to git relatively soon, and there should be a new release coming soon as well. I actually haven't got a clue what I have to do with your

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/27/10 3:32 PM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Don't feel any pressure to test my patch. I just wanted you to know it was available because you had made the feature request. It will get added to git relatively soon, and there should be a new release coming soon as

Re: How to include a file/definition temporarily?

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Schmidt
BTW at the end of the build process I got the following errors: Dissecting...lilypond-book.py: error: file not found: fretboards- alternate-tables.ly Do you have a file Documentation/snippets/new/fretboards-alternate-tables.ly? No, I haven't. IF you do, you may need to run

Re: alpha test autobeaming

2010-09-27 Thread k-ohara5a5a
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:55:22 -0700, Neil Puttock wrote: On 27 September 2010 19:47, Carl Sorensen wrote: The following code beams properly, without the override. But it also reports a warning message: warning: cannot find or create `Timing' called `' \cadenzaOn only works if there's

fonts on OSX and 2.13.34

2010-09-27 Thread James Bailey
Has something changed with the way fonts in 2.13 work, custom fonts aren't loaded. \version 2.12.2 \markup \left-column { \line { How razorback jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts. } \line { \override #'(font-name . Times Italic) { How razorback jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts. } }