Excessive type-strictness?

2012-09-27 Thread James Harkins
In lilypond 2.15.36, I just hit an issue where this override caused lilypond to exit with code 1. \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 Changing it to this allowed compilation to succeed: \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.0 I tried to make a MCE but both overrides worked

Bug in lyrics placement in mensural music?

2012-09-27 Thread Phil Holmes
The code below produces the image attached. As can be seen, using a StaffGroup with mensural staves places the lyrics above the top stave, and I can't find an over-ride that gets them in the proper place. I _think_ this must be a bug, but wondering if anyone knows better? \new StaffGroup {

Re: Excessive type-strictness?

2012-09-27 Thread Eluze
James Harkins-2 wrote In lilypond 2.15.36, I just hit an issue where this override caused lilypond to exit with code 1. \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 Changing it to this allowed compilation to succeed: \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.0 I tried to make

Re: Bug in lyrics placement in mensural music?

2012-09-27 Thread Eluze
Phil Holmes wrote The code below produces the image attached. As can be seen, using a StaffGroup with mensural staves places the lyrics above the top stave, and I can't find an over-ride that gets them in the proper place. I _think_ this must be a bug, but wondering if anyone knows

Re: Excessive type-strictness?

2012-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: In lilypond 2.15.36, I just hit an issue where this override caused lilypond to exit with code 1. Exit 1 is a regular error, so you should have seen an error message. \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1 Changing it to this allowed

Cannot use italics for lyrics text

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas Chardin
Hi, Using the code below I manage to change the global font and size. The stanza number color is also applied but the italics shape asked is not applied, without any error message. Does someone have any idea why this is not working? My code is: \version 2.14.2 %%snip: page variables sopWords

Re: Bug in lyrics placement in mensural music?

2012-09-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:02 PM The code below produces the image attached. As can be seen, using a StaffGroup with mensural staves places the lyrics above the top stave, and I can't find an over-ride that gets them in the proper place. I _think_ this must be a

Re: Cannot use italics for lyrics text

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/9/27 Thomas Chardin chardin.tho...@gmail.com: Hi, Using the code below I manage to change the global font and size. The stanza number color is also applied but the italics shape asked is not applied, without any error message. Does someone have any idea why this is not working? My

Re: Cannot use italics for lyrics text

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/9/27 Thomas CHARDIN chardin.tho...@gmail.com: I feared that the stanza number would also be in italics doing this... But it happens to work fine; thanks! Thomas Glad to here this! Please don't forget to answer to all. Others might be interested, if it works for you, too. Regards,