Re: Vertical spacing within header blocks

2012-08-18 Thread Robin Bannister
Is there a way of adjusting the vertical spacing within a header block? See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00035.html Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: NR 4.1.6: blank-last-page-force and penalty values

2012-08-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ian Hulin wrote Friday, August 17, 2012 11:52 PM How about calling this property allow-widow-recto-last-page? Maybe it's a bit of a mouthful, but it describes what it does on the can: the higher you set the value the less likely it is that ly:page-turn-breaking will produce a last page that

Horizontal brackets: adjust start and end point

2012-08-18 Thread Davide Liessi
Hi everybody. I'm using horizontal brackets in a piece I'm transcribing, with bracket-flare set to 0. I would like the bracket symbols to start a bit before the first note and end a bit after the last (let's say a bit = about the length of the head of a quarter note). E.g. in the following piece

Re: Roman page numbers.

2012-08-18 Thread David Nalesnik
Hello, On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings All, There must surely be an easy answer to this, though I have yet to find it. How does one produce page numbers in Roman numerals? And how does one then revert to Arabic numerals? If

Re: Horizontal brackets: adjust start and end point

2012-08-18 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Davide, On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Davide Liessi dal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody. I'm using horizontal brackets in a piece I'm transcribing, with bracket-flare set to 0. I would like the bracket symbols to start a bit before the first note and end a bit after the last (let's

Re: Horizontal brackets: adjust start and end point

2012-08-18 Thread Davide Liessi
Hi David, I'm using horizontal brackets in a piece I'm transcribing, with bracket-flare set to 0. I would like the bracket symbols to start a bit before the first note and end a bit after the last (let's say a bit = about the length of the head of a quarter note). You can use the

chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread Curt Siffert
(apologies if this was posted multiple times - I tried through gmane first and it gave me errors.) Hi, as a songwriter that sings/plays, I often want to put together rough lead sheets that communicate chords/lyrics/structure as a memory aid, or to give to backup musicians. It's not necessary for

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.7

2012-08-18 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:10:05 +0200 Phil Hézaine philippe.heza...@free.fr schreef: m = textedit_match(link.url()) TypeError: expected string or buffer this occurs when SIP, PyQt4 and Python-Poppler-Qt4 do not match. be sure there is only one version of either, and that is compiled with the

Re: chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Curt Siffert accou...@museworld.com writes: Hi, as a songwriter that sings/plays, I often want to put together rough lead sheets that communicate chords/lyrics/structure as a memory aid, or to give to backup musicians. Aren't you looking for a tool like Chordii?

Re: chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread Curt Siffert
No - I use a chordii-like approach for an earlier part of my process, but for this I want something that communicates song structure more specifically. I was able to improve the template by pulling in some suggestions from the spoken-music part of the docs. I have to put the length of the first

Re: LilyPond hangs on os x

2012-08-18 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 24 juil. 2012, at 03:51, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On 6 juil. 2012, at 08:51, David Kastrup wrote: m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: Hey all, I'm running LilyPond on the command line from Mac OS X and it is hanging right after printing the version. I downloaded

Fermata with parenthesis

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
Hello, I would like to ask for some advice on writing functions using Scheme. I'm looking to have a up fermata object with parenthesis, at the beginning I was using *make-dynamic-script* to achieve that (of course I had to use ^ or _ to properly place it). Now I'm using *make-music* specifying

Re: Fermata with parenthesis

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel E. Moctezuma
As an additional note, maybe because of using 'TextScriptEvent on the function definition, I have to override on a TextScript object to successfully override any property on the parenUFermata object created. Taking a look on how to override properties on an ordinary fermata object, it seems you

Re: chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread wjm
You wrote:- +++ Hi, as a songwriter that sings/plays, I often want to put together rough lead sheets that communicate chords/lyrics/structure as a memory aid, or to give to backup musicians. Hi Curt, After a bit of tinkering with

Fermata with parenthesis

2012-08-18 Thread wjm
You wrote:- +++ I would like to ask for some advice on writing functions using Scheme. I'm looking to have a up fermata object with parenthesis, +++ At the risk of seeming naive, I ask whether you are reinventing the wheel with this particular

Different versions of LilyPond on Windows7

2012-08-18 Thread Mark Mathias
The Wikipedia article on Frescobaldi says that it will work with more than one version of LilyPond installed. How do I install more than one version under Windows7? Is there something special needed in Frescobaldi as well to make it call the version with which I'm working? Thanks! Mark

Re: LilyPond hangs on os x

2012-08-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Lilypond still hangs periodically on OS X - whenever I do a backtrace, the last couple functions change from time to time but it is always in FreeType that the problem occurs: Interesting. I'm not aware of FreeType problems on Mac OS X. Perhaps the version of FreeType built and bundled w/