Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

Nick Payne writes: > On 24/12/12 10:42, David Kastrup wrote: > >> This should have a better hit/miss ratio. >> > Yes, that does fix the problem with the spanner terminating at the > wrong place. However, there is still the problem with nesting of > braces where one uses \barreX { } to indicate a

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

On 24/12/12 10:42, David Kastrup wrote: Nick Payne writes: On 24/12/12 08:27, Federico Bruni wrote: Il 23/12/2012 21:06, Nick Payne ha scritto: I believe only 1/6 and 5/6 exist as Unicode characters. In mathematical notation one would use 1/3, 2/3, and 1/2, so 2/6, 4/6, and 3/6 are not provi

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

Nick Payne writes: > On 24/12/12 08:27, Federico Bruni wrote: >> Il 23/12/2012 21:06, Nick Payne ha scritto: >>> >>> I believe only 1/6 and 5/6 exist as Unicode characters. In mathematical >>> notation one would use 1/3, 2/3, and 1/2, so 2/6, 4/6, and 3/6 are not >>> provided. >>> >>> I notate a

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

Il 24/12/2012 00:07, Nick Payne ha scritto: But that barre function doesn't work correctly in several situations. If you try to notate the first barre in my example using the function above: \barre2 3 { c4 c c \times 2/3 { c8 c c\stopTextSpan } } what happens is that rather than continuing to

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

Il 23/12/2012 22:27, Federico Bruni ha scritto: Il 23/12/2012 21:06, Nick Payne ha scritto: I believe only 1/6 and 5/6 exist as Unicode characters. In mathematical notation one would use 1/3, 2/3, and 1/2, so 2/6, 4/6, and 3/6 are not provided. I notate a barre with a partial indicator like so

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

On 24/12/12 08:27, Federico Bruni wrote: Il 23/12/2012 21:06, Nick Payne ha scritto: I believe only 1/6 and 5/6 exist as Unicode characters. In mathematical notation one would use 1/3, 2/3, and 1/2, so 2/6, 4/6, and 3/6 are not provided. I notate a barre with a partial indicator like so: Tha

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

Il 23/12/2012 21:06, Nick Payne ha scritto: I believe only 1/6 and 5/6 exist as Unicode characters. In mathematical notation one would use 1/3, 2/3, and 1/2, so 2/6, 4/6, and 3/6 are not provided. I notate a barre with a partial indicator like so: Thanks for the reminder... I remember you had

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

Il 24/11/2012 03:34, Keith OHara ha scritto: You might not have seen that Nick posted a much nicer formatting for barre indications. It avoids taking apart LilyPond's internal data structures, which makes it better for mutopi

Re: unicode fractions for barre indications

On 24/12/12 06:12, Federico Bruni wrote: I'd like to use Unicode characters to indicate all the possible semi-barré on a six string guitar: on two, three, four or five strings. I've checked this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms And I could find only ⅚ There's any way to have 2/6

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

On 24/12/12 05:14, Jay Hamilton wrote: In win7 I am able to associate a type of file with a specific *.ly for example, in this case 2.16 . And happily it seems to work. Frescobaldi has an option to automatically choose the Lilypond version from the version statement in the source file. _

unicode fractions for barre indications

I'd like to use Unicode characters to indicate all the possible semi-barré on a six string guitar: on two, three, four or five strings. I've checked this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms And I could find only ⅚ There's any way to have 2/6, 3/6 and 4/6 as Unicode? Thanks -- Feder

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

2012/12/23 martinwguy : > On 23 December 2012 18:56, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> I've only 6 versions on my laptop. >> Most of them in my home-directory. >> To distuingish them, I renamed the folder and the programm (to be >> found in /usr/bin) and created shortcuts for the >> different programs. >

Re: Tweaking notehead direction in chords

On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > I think there is no way to align moved noteheads left and right from > the stem _and_ to keep a correct 'stem-attachment in x-axis-direction > in all thinkable cases. > The y-value of 'stem-attachment has to be modified in several situations >

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

In win7 I am able to associate a type of file with a specific *.ly for example, in this case 2.16 . And happily it seems to work. Thank you both. Mission accomplished Jay On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > ** > Hmm. I don't believe the current install creates an association

Re: Tweaking notehead direction in chords

2012/12/23 Paul Morris : > On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > >> I think there is no way to align moved noteheads left and right from >> the stem _and_ to keep a correct 'stem-attachment in x-axis-direction >> in all thinkable cases. >> The y-value of 'stem-attachment has to be

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

On 23 December 2012 18:56, Thomas Morley wrote: > I've only 6 versions on my laptop. > Most of them in my home-directory. > To distuingish them, I renamed the folder and the programm (to be > found in /usr/bin) and created shortcuts for the > different programs. > These shortcuts are per default f

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

2012/12/23 Jay Hamilton : > Ok I can put it in a different directory (I'm pretty sure) but your > 'depends' makes me leary that it's not straight forward in the running. > At the moment all I do and have done for years is create a piece in an > editor save it to a folder click on file in the folde

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

Hmm. I don't believe the current install creates an association that allows you to double click to run Lilypond. I think you either must have done this years ago, or a very old install did it, and associated .ly files with something like c:\Program Files\lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond.exe. If you

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

On 23 December 2012 17:47, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > What a nice proposal! Actually the known issue that "\set associatedVoice = #"lala" must be placed one syllable before the one to which the change in voice is to apply" is really really annoying. This is registered as issue #1354 I think. http

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

Ok I can put it in a different directory (I'm pretty sure) but your 'depends' makes me leary that it's not straight forward in the running. At the moment all I do and have done for years is create a piece in an editor save it to a folder click on file in the folder. If I have to do something else

Re: installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

Depends a little on how you run it, but installing in a separate directory keeps the 2 quite separate. I currently have 68 versions installed. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: i...@soundand.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:22 PM Subj

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

On 21 December 2012 09:03, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > Hey all, > > I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them > with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to > send me: > > 1) Features you need implemented. > 2) Bugs you need fixe

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

Hi Mike, > A quick note to let you know that #2 is doable via a hack. Wonderful news! > You'll have to manually put this TextSpanner in the topmost context For most of my scores, that would be fine: I use a custom "ScoreMarks" context, which is in the topmost (Score) context. > That's my not-

Re: number of measures per staff

Am 23.12.2012 16:50, schrieb d paddy: I can't seem to locate any information about how one continues a conversation in a thread... There was only a "send email to Urs Liska" button, so my apologies if this is the wrong thing to do... I was mistaken about the lilypond version, it is GNU LilyPon

Re: number of measures per staff

On 23 December 2012 14:56, d paddy wrote: > I would like to have four measures per staff (but more generally, how to > control when to go to the next staff?). > The following does not work, for two reasons: First, it inserts a mess of > empty measures rather than > putting music in the measures.

installing 2.16 and keeping 2.14?

After starting a rather large, to me, flurry a bit ago.. I was going to -today- install 2.16 but due to having a large opera in 2.14 and never successfully converting I want and was told it was possible to have both. Win7 But I don't know how to do it.. Thanks Jay _

Re: Macro function for changing the size of a single staff

On Dec 22, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Thomas Morley wrote: > nice function! Thanks! > But making it work with "2.14.2" is not a matter of correct usage of "$" > "2.14.2" doesn't accept music-functions in \with or \layout. Ok, I thought something like that might be the case, so thanks for letting me k

Re: For those who need new features and bug fixes...

On 21 déc. 2012, at 14:01, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Mike, > >> I have two 16ish-hour flights this holiday season and I'll be filling them >> with composition, Sudoku, and LilyPond programming. So, this is the time to >> send me: >> 1) Features you need implemented. >> 2) Bugs you need f