Re: alpha test, spacing ajusments

2010-10-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/10/10 15:48, Keith E OHara wrote: Friends of the forthcoming Lilypond 2.14, The third alpha version, 2.13.37, has resolved the obvious problems in the spacing mechanism. The default spacing, though, could use some adjustment. Now is our opportunity to recommend good defaults. Actuall

Re: NoteNames and alternative note names

2010-10-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:13:58AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: > But not Lilyputians? I see: my phantasy is dwarfed next to that of this group :-)) Regards - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMyQmDBcgs9XrR

Re: NoteNames and alternative note names

2010-10-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:57:56PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:12 PM, wrote: [...] > I like both. We sometimes use LilyPonders, as well :-) :-) [...] > Very interesting. LilyPond doesn't support Balinese music y

alpha test, spacing ajusments

2010-10-27 Thread Keith E OHara
Friends of the forthcoming Lilypond 2.14, The third alpha version, 2.13.37, has resolved the obvious problems in the spacing mechanism. The default spacing, though, could use some adjustment. Now is our opportunity to recommend good defaults. I have been having fun testing the alpha version

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: > Thanks for the excellent reply, Valentin. s/excellent/clueless: as Patrick pointed out, we already have exactly the same feature request in our tracker... (Oh, now I understand: we already have --pdf and --png, why not --svg as well indeed.

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: Hmm. This is prompting a rather harsh reaction from me which will predictably draw all kinds of flames. I am always bemused by the recurrent user-dismissive attitude that pervades

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:06:27AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote: Hi guys! As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be

Re: NoteNames and alternative note names

2010-10-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/10/10 08:57, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:12 PM, wrote: Dear Lilipondians (or should I say Lilyponderers ;) I like both. We sometimes use LilyPonders, as well :-) But not Lilyputians? ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: NoteNames and alternative note names

2010-10-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:12 PM, wrote: > Dear Lilipondians > > (or should I say Lilyponderers ;) I like both. We sometimes use LilyPonders, as well :-) > I'm trying to typeset notes with "alternative" names (i.e. not c, d, e > etc, but i, o, e, u, a --  as is customary in Balinese Gamelan).

Re: Changing stencil of full measure rest (R1, not r1)

2010-10-27 Thread joemaffei
And I found the solution I was originally looking for: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/ajax/Documentation/snippets/repeats.html#Isolated-percent-repeats -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Changing-stencil-of-full-measure-rest-%28R1%2C-not-r1%29-tp30053272p30071527.html Sent f

NoteNames and alternative note names

2010-10-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Lilipondians (or should I say Lilyponderers ;) I'm trying to typeset notes with "alternative" names (i.e. not c, d, e etc, but i, o, e, u, a -- as is customary in Balinese Gamelan). Now there are nice examples of how to do that, e.g. in espano

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Bill Mooney
fr. michael gilmary wrote... >> I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how >> to get extra vertical space between staves. Xavier Scheuer replied %%% My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest deve

Re: Voice solely for formatting?

2010-10-27 Thread James Bailey
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Christopher Meredith wrote: > Somewhere in my travels, I saw a LilyPond source file in which the author had > created a voice that contained only formatting directives and no notes, so > that the other voices would contain only notes and no formatting directives. >

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Dude!  It's a balmy (by Glasgow standards) 14 degrees.  Go outside > and walk around in a park.  Then, when you come back inside, type: > >  lilypond --help > > :) Wow. It's been too long since I've done that, indeed. > Because that's alr

Voice solely for formatting?

2010-10-27 Thread Christopher Meredith
Somewhere in my travels, I saw a LilyPond source file in which the author had created a voice that contained only formatting directives and no notes, so that the other voices would contain only notes and no formatting directives. This "technical" voice contained all the staff markup, barlines, dyna

Re: Changing stencil of full measure rest (R1, not r1)

2010-10-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 October 2010 18:23, joemaffei wrote: > > I'm new to Lilypond and I've been working on a project notating chord charts > (slash notation). In Sibelius, I notate song sections that are repeated > verbatim (i.e. "Chorus") using a bar with a hidden full measure rest. Above > it, I add boxed text

Re: Changing stencil of full measure rest (R1, not r1)

2010-10-27 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-27 18:23, joemaffei wrote: I'm new to Lilypond and I've been working on a project notating chord charts (slash notation). In Sibelius, I notate song sections that are repeated verbatim (i.e. "Chorus") using a bar with a hidden full measure rest. Above it, I add boxed text with the sec

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > Hi: > > I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how > to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest development version (2.13)

extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. Here's a sample doc: TimeKey= {\key f \major} FredMusic = \relative c' { a' bes c d } BarneyMusic = \relative c' { f g a bes } VerseOne = \lyricmode { La dee dee dah } V

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim Reeves
> Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:48:22 +0100 > From: Graham Percival > Subject: Re: Feature request > To: Tim McNamara > Cc: Robert Clausecker , lilypond-user > > Message-ID: <20101027144822.ga14...@futoi> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:06

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote: Hi guys! Greetings, As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be nice to add a --svg switch to the program, so that you can write lilypond --svg fancystuff.ly in

Re: Switching staves with \times looks odd

2010-10-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Richie Gress wrote: > I'm having a small issue here. I'm writing a score for Mutopia which > involves some beamed notes, which are in a \times 4/6 { ... } block, > switching staves like this: > \times 4/6 { \stemUp [aes c> 16.\f \change Staff="RH" \stemDown 32]

Re: Switching staves with \times looks odd

2010-10-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Is it possible to force the "6" to appear above the beam as > intended? I can provide my .ly if you like. What about this: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=646 Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote: > Hi guys! Greetings, > As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be nice to add a > --svg switch to the program, so that you can write > >    lilypond --svg fancystuff.ly > > instead of > >    lilypond -dbackend=svg fancystuff.l

Switching staves with \times looks odd

2010-10-27 Thread Richie Gress
Hi. I'm having a small issue here. I'm writing a score for Mutopia which involves some beamed notes, which are in a \times 4/6 { ... } block, switching staves like this: \times 4/6 { \stemUp [ ees aes c> 16.\f \change Staff="RH" \stemDown aes>32] } This works, except that the "6" is displayed

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread James
I am top posting! Forwarding to lilypond-user as this is more appropriate: On 27/10/2010 13:05, Robert Clausecker wrote: Hi guys! I request a feature for the upcoming 2.14.0. As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be nice to add a --svg switch to the program, so that you can write

markup fromproperty footer

2010-10-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello List, I wish to fill the footer of a book containing several pieces with Composer, Title *and* Piece. I do this regularly without the piece-info ... --snip-- \paper { oddFooterMarkup = \markup { \fill-line { \concat { \fromproperty #'header:composer ", " \bold \fromproperty #'he

Re: Pedal Notation Syntax and Commands

2010-10-27 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > Hi All, Mr Rookie here... We've all been there :) > I'd like to annotate using "bracket" pedal style as shown here: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Piano#Piano-pedals First off: \sustainOn &Co. have to be att