Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-30 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 26 May 2012 03:28, Klaus Föhl wrote: > > Hello, > > I like the lilypond notation using \relative being concise and readable. > Entering on a computer keyboard is fairly quick, but still it feels > that playing a melody line would be so much quicker. In particular > if one does not have a typing

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Philip Thomas : (...) > The problem: How do I get the Background Notes to sit happily where I want > them on page 3? (...) Hi Philip, how about this setup? It adds the "Background Notes" to the footer of page three. % \version "2.15.39" textPlusTranslation

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, > that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system); I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic. > they stopped after implementing TeX compatibility (alias "OTS" = old > ts. system). I heard it was slugg

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread -Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote: > > #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) > (if (and (chain-assoc-get 'page:is-bookpart-last-page props #f) > (chain-assoc-get 'page:is-last-bookpart props #f)) > empty-stencil > (interpret-markup layout props arg))) >

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett writes: > On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Lua with "separate statements with >> semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is >> procedural, not functional, > > And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There > are so

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 21:35 schrieb Bernardo Barros: On 05/30/2012 09:14 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: Not sure about the user base, but it is growing fast. it seems some very motivated guy started a implementation of TeX in Haskell. It says it already does math formulas and footnotes. Maybe he is j

Re: re-attacked glissandi

2012-05-30 Thread padovani
I have already sent this to Bernardo, but maybe it could be helpful to somebody else... (just did not wrote the markups and the TextSpanner that are in the original version) josé \version "2.15.38" olosbhead = { \once \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'(1 . -0.05) \once \overr

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 21:09 schrieb Marc Hohl: Lua does not have such a large user base. More like a fan base. Python, in contrast, is solidly mainstream. I dream of a chimera of LuaTeX and LilyPond, that would be ideal for my not-only-musical typesetting needs... +1 (Well I know: patches were

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Bernardo Barros
On 05/30/2012 09:14 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Not > sure about the user base, but it is growing fast. it seems some very motivated guy started a implementation of TeX in Haskell. It says it already does math formulas and footnotes. Maybe he is just crazy. https://github.com/luispedro/hex He

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 30.05.2012 00:02, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2012-05-29 um 20:07 schrieb David Kastrup: If it is for easy user scripting: Lua. Flexible, easy to learn, especially designed for that purpose. Yup. And fast. And easily mappable to a different language like LilyPond. String or symbol?

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Payne
On 31/05/12 00:09, Kai Lautenschläger wrote: ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 30.05.2012 um 15:11 schrieb -Eluze: is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly [...] this gives more flexibility in defining header-/ yes! I would appriciate that very much. I would support that as well

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
> Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:31:49 +0200 > From: David Kastrup > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: musescore lands sponsoring? > Message-ID: <87fwahu1lm@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Carl Sorensen writes: > >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen gnu.org> writes: >

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > There are also a few advantages [of using MuseScore]: > > a) MusicXML export means the results are usable in a variety of notation >   programs making use of an open standard. Indeed, having MusicXML exprort can give Lily more popularity. >

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Bernardo Barros
On 05/30/2012 02:10 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > C++ does not blend at all, and Python with its "indentation matters" > would be horrors on top of horrors. Lua with "separate statements with > semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is > procedural, not functional, and thus the

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote: > I know I'm rehashing old ground, but I think that these projects stand to > mutually benefit from each other if and only if they evolve in "natural" > directions given their goals. ...  In general, the idea of LilyPond is to > build a master engraver

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen gnu.org> writes: > > >> Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this >> sponsoring project? What are we missing? > > Somebody who was willing to run a Kickstarter project and make it > happen. It is not just that. There are als

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen gnu.org> writes: > Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this > sponsoring project? What are we missing? Somebody who was willing to run a Kickstarter project and make it happen. The people who put the project together choose their tools, mostly from

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 30.05.2012 um 15:11 schrieb -Eluze : > > is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly > [...] > > this gives more flexibility in defining header-/ yes! I would appriciate that very much. Kai ___ lilypond-use

Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Thomas
Dear fellow users, I am setting an SATB choral piece that runs to 9 systems, which include several repeated passages, plus a larger-than-usual header (it contains the text of the piece and a translation) and two other largish text blocks (Background Notes plus Pronunciation Guide). The Header, Bac

add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread -Eluze
is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly the code I found for this is something like #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) (if (not (book-last-page? layout props)) (interpret-markup layout props arg) empty-stencil)) this gives more flexibility in defining header-/footerm

Re: Flag becomes separated from stem

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Nick Payne : > I have a couple of scores where I occasionally override Stem #'X-extent of a > note in order to force more space around the note to prevent elements > colliding. This gave no problems with version 2.14, but I notice with the > current development version that doing this wit

Flag becomes separated from stem

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Payne
I have a couple of scores where I occasionally override Stem #'X-extent of a note in order to force more space around the note to prevent elements colliding. This gave no problems with version 2.14, but I notice with the current development version that doing this with a flagged note causes the

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
"m...@apollinemike.com" writes: > That said, people have been writing rather critical things of Scheme. > I'll just say that I <3 Scheme! One thing that it has going for it is that it is reasonably well-delimited, so passing in and out of it using # is trivial (for a suitable definition of trivi

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread mike
On 29 mai 2012, at 23:56, Lucas Gonze wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Nils wrote: >> AFAIK musescore dropped Lilypond export support because of a lack of >> interest and in favour of musicXML (whatever that means, I read it somewhere >> on the musescore twitter account or something li

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 30 mai 2012, at 03:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Janek Warchoł > wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: While the scheme integration have been a big leap forward in terms of expandability and fl

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Ben Luo
Totally agree Wasil. A beautiful sheet, the syntax is only very small part. Lilypond make other default setting great. We just focus on music and syntax. These are the key of music. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Wasil Sergejczyk wrote: > >> There is a chance, but only when the syntax is *obvio