problem with compillation of a large file

2010-12-09 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I have a proplem with a large score. When I run lilypond, I get at the end the error message Preprocessing graphical objects...string:9:110: In procedure procedure-name in expression (procedure-name stil-proc): string:9:110: Wrong type argument in position 1: #f I can compile

How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Greetings Lilypouncers, Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature? I'm not sure whether this is standard or not, but I used it once or twice at the beginning of a score that shows an excerpt from, say, the middle of a piece, to make it clear that the time signature also

Re: ANDLINUX: Easy virtualization option

2010-12-09 Thread Mike Blackstock
I hadn`t noticed that - thx for pointing it out. I`ll keep an eye out for 64-bit version. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net wrote: thanks for passing the info. that's interesting. Too bad is supports only 32 bits OS. On Dec 6, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Mike Blackstock

Re: Tremolo beams between more than two notes

2010-12-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010, um 15:22:57 schrieb Phil Holmes: Yes - the code gets confused as the breves get higher: \version 2.13.41 \relative c' { \repeat tremolo 4 { f16 a d a } \repeat tremolo 4 { a16 b e b } \repeat tremolo 4 { b d f d } } You want a bug report,

musescore

2010-12-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature? There's a quick way to bracketify a time signature: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169 To get real parentheses requires a little more tweaking. Maybe someone who has already done this will chime in. If

Re: musescore

2010-12-09 Thread Nils Gey
We will see where this leads. Set course to intercept, Number One Nils, out. http://www.denemo.org On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:49:57 +0100 Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org wrote: This is smart pr

Re: Extracting pitch names from music

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Ellis
Just found the markup macro in the docs. Changing (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text new-name) to (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text (markup #:italic #:smaller new-name)) does what I'm looking for. Is this the right way to handle issues like this? By that question, I think I really

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/9/10 8:28 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature? There's a quick way to bracketify a time signature: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169 To get real parentheses requires a little

Odd output

2010-12-09 Thread Marco Correia
Hi, I just started using lilypond, so it is very possible that I'm making some mistake. When compiling this example: \include english.ly { \clef treble \time 4/4 { fs'4 } \\ { f'4 } } I see two notes on fs (occupying the same position but with stems up and down). There is no

Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread Vicente Solsona
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:36:23 +0100, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings Lilypouncers, Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature? I'm not sure whether this is standard or not, but I used it once or twice at the beginning of a score that shows an excerpt

Re: lilypond cameo

2010-12-09 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Vicente Solsona vice...@lavabit.com wrote: the following comments in the original video page (http://vimeo.com/17419652) are remarkable: Q. Brilliant. Love the guitar solo! Sibelius or Finale? A. LilyPond Awesome! -- Brett W. McCoy --

lilypond cameo

2010-12-09 Thread Vicente Solsona
dear lilyponders, just received this from planet.linuxaudio.org: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/12/utterly-brilliant-fan-made-jonathan-coulton-music-video-with-lilypad-notation-cameo/ the following comments in the original video page (http://vimeo.com/17419652) are remarkable: Q.

Re: Extracting pitch names from music

2010-12-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: Putting the \midi block inside a separate \score block solved the audio doubling issue. I could still use some suggestions regarding how to control the font properties of the NoteNames output. With lyrics, I can do

Directions for setting up LyX 2.0 with lilypond 2.13+ on OS X

2010-12-09 Thread Henry Flurry
There are multiple ways to get this done, but there appears to be only one way sanctioned by the lilypond folks. Most of the directions on this list talk of adding the .../LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin to the $PATH in order to get LyX to work, but the problem with this is that it exposes

Re: musescore

2010-12-09 Thread Marc Mouries
i just tried it and it took me forever to enter 5 notes and add text about the notes. However, looking at the lilypond file generated from MuseScore, this reminded me how big the size of the lilypond file is compared to the number of notes. %= %

RE: musescore

2010-12-09 Thread Ed Ardzinski
A friend sent me a link about it recently and I looked over the 1st few tutorials, but did not go any further. It seemed to be a decent concept from the little I saw. Does anyone have an opinion if it's a good manuscript program? Not that I am interested in stopping my use of

Re: Extracting pitch names from music

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Ellis
Putting the \midi block inside a separate \score block solved the audio doubling issue. I could still use some suggestions regarding how to control the font properties of the NoteNames output. With lyrics, I can do things like \context { \Lyrics %% Pack stanzas a little closer

RE: Odd output

2010-12-09 Thread James Lowe
Hello -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of Marco Correia Sent: Fri 12/10/2010 0:35 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Odd output Hi, I just started using lilypond, so it is very possible that I'm making some mistake. When

RE: lilypond cameo

2010-12-09 Thread James Lowe
Hmm..that video was only slightly more annoying than a bouncing ball over lyrics...for those that want to 'show me the money'...it all starts with LilyPond at about 2:11. Although he obviously doesn't like the 'sans' Font for Chords ;) James -Original Message- From:

RE: How to parenthesize a time signature

2010-12-09 Thread James Lowe
Carl, -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of Carl Sorensen Sent: Fri 12/10/2010 0:06 To: Mark Polesky; lilypond-user@gnu.org; Jonathan Wilkes Subject: Re: How to parenthesize a time signature On 12/9/10 8:28 AM, Mark Polesky

Re: lilypond cameo

2010-12-09 Thread Jan Warchoł
2010/12/10 James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com Hmm..that video was only slightly more annoying than a bouncing ball over lyrics...for those that want to 'show me the money'...it all starts with LilyPond at about 2:11. Although he obviously doesn't like the  'sans' Font for Chords I don't