Re: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord

2011-04-02 Thread -Eluze
bruys . wrote: The problem is that in this example, there is a collision with the tie, second from the top (d'') and the f# (fis''). Ms. Gould's solution is to divide the tie leaving a gap in the tie, so that it doesn't collide. How does one divide a tie with Lilypond? this snippet

lilypond-book too many open files

2011-04-02 Thread Victor Eijkhout
Running lilypond-book generates over 2000 pdf files. And then something says too many open files. Is there a way around that? Victor. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-book too many open files

2011-04-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 03:15:07AM -0500, Victor Eijkhout wrote: Running lilypond-book generates over 2000 pdf files. And then something says too many open files. Is there a way around that? As a workaround, increase your file descriptor limit (for examepl, ulimit -n 3000). But be aware

Mac compiling and executing

2011-04-02 Thread Carl Sorensen
James, It looks to me like you don't have your path set up right. You should not be in the ~/bin directory to run lilypond. Eliminate the links ~/bin/lilypond and ~/bin/maqam.ly. move samai_bayyati_arabi_qadim.ly to another directory, say ~/test-lily Change to ~/test-lily Make sure that

Re: lilypond-book too many open files

2011-04-02 Thread Victor Eijkhout
On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Matthias Kilian wrote: In which version does this happen, 2.12 or 2.13? Using 2.12.3. Thanks, Victor. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Coloring individual staff lines snippet error

2011-04-02 Thread Paul Morris
I was trying to use this snippet to experiment with customizing staff line colors: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700 But I get the following error when trying to compile the snippet in LilyPond: Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number

Re: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould

2011-04-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:54 AM, flup2 phili...@philmassart.net wrote: Hello, In a recent message, I discovered the reference to Elaine Gould's book Beyond Bars. I never read about it before (I only knew Gardner Read and Kurt Stone books) and would like to know more about it from people who

Re: Coloring individual staff lines snippet error

2011-04-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 2, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Paul Morris wrote: I was trying to use this snippet to experiment with customizing staff line colors: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700 But I get the following error when trying to compile the snippet in LilyPond: Parsing... Interpreting music...

Re: no natural sign when clef changes

2011-04-02 Thread Keith OHara
Bernhard Ott bernhard.ott at gmx.net writes: IMHO there should be a natural sign showing the f' after the clef-change: am I wrong? music = \relative c' { c8 d e fis c d e f c8 d e fis \clef alto c d e f } This is a bug, listed at

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-02 Thread madMuze
Is there a way to lower the '8' to right above the clef? In your definitions file, you could have: clfBsUp = { \override Staff.OctavateEight #'extra-offset = #'(-0.3 . -1.2) \clef bass^8 } In the music, you would type: \clfBsUp Adjust the extra-offset numbers to

Fwd: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord

2011-04-02 Thread bruys .
-- Forwarded message -- From: bruys . noten...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord To: -Eluze elu...@gmail.com Dear Eluze, Thank you very much for that, it looks like just what I need. The link didn't

Fwd: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould

2011-04-02 Thread bruys .
-- Forwarded message -- From: bruys . noten...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould To: flup2 phili...@philmassart.net Dear Philippe, Behind Bars is published by Faber Music (Elaine Gould is an editor with Faber), so it is

Re: [PATCH] New feature: A-A. Backend

2011-04-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: Greetings, Graham's recent 2.14 announcement, as well as Mike's wonderful work on the Emoticon_engraver (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00860.html ) made me realize there are