Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
You mixed up the \score block with the music variables.This one now works. Regards,Wim. flute.ly Description: Binary data On 15 May 2013, at 01:40 , Sarah k Alawami wrote:Interesting. It worked when I did this before but now I'm unsure of how I did it lol!  here is the change I tried to make. It'

Re: Quick Frescobaldi question

2013-05-14 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/5/7 SoundsFromSound > Hello all, > > I was just playing around in Frescobaldi tonight and I noticed that since > updating to v2.0.9, my menu items are now "text" and not icons*. > > See included images please: can anyone tell me if I can make my Ubuntu > 13.04 > version show icons like in th

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Derek
sigh... -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ANN-Frescobaldi-2-0-10-tp145815p145929.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.o

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Paul Morris
Urs Liska wrote > Am Dienstag, den 14.05.2013, 22:14 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Derek < > cushy@ > > writes: >> >> > Sorry David, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. >> >> Never mind, it was just an attempt at a bad joke. >> > I found it really funny. Especially with this

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Interesting. It worked when I did this before but now I'm unsure of how I did it lol!  here is the change I tried to make. flute.ly Description: Binary data  It's in the ly file in line 66 that it errors out. lol!Take care. On May 14, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Carl Peterson wrote

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
lol. right now i don't want any printed output. I just want to hear it so I can know if my octaves ran away on me and went on a trip with out my permission. lol! I'll try it out anyways. it said completion successful so wonder what happened? Take care and be blessed. On May 14, 2013, at 4:19 PM

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Carl Peterson
I think you need to include all your music notation in another set of braces and add a layout block to get printed output, like this: \score { { % music notation goes here } \midi { } % need this for midi \layout { } % need this for pdf } On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Sarah k Alawami

Re: an easier way to create the midi block

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello. Your trick does not work too well. I stays completion successful but there's no midi on my desk top where i have my files. Here is an example of a ly file I want to test with this. If I can get this to work I can work faster to get this done by 11:59 tonight. lol! flute.ly Description

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-05-14 Thread Derek
Hi there, I followed the instructions properly (I think) but I am running into this error when I try to launch frescobaldi Traceback (most recent call last): File "frescobaldi", line 3, in import frescobaldi_app.main File "/Applications/frescobaldi-2.0.10/frescobaldi_app/main.py", line 26

Re: Home brew & Frescobaldi (Mac)

2013-05-14 Thread flup2
I suppose that the Lilypond binary must be the Windows version, in that case. Philippe -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Home-brew-Frescobaldi-Mac-tp145904p145922.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Home brew & Frescobaldi (Mac)

2013-05-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
On May 14, 2013, at 3:37 PM, flup2 wrote: > Hello, > > The last time I tried Homebrew, I wasn't able to compile PyQT. Thus I didn't > go further. > > I didn't try Wine yet > > Philippe > Thanks. I installed the Wine Mac binary and used it to install the Frescobaldi Windows package and als

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Derek
It is all good. I was being a bit obtuse just to be 100% clear. Having said that and I am not directing this at you David but in general: lilypond and frescobaldi are fantastic peices of software and I believe they should be more widely used but when newbies come here looking for help it doesn't he

Re: Home brew & Frescobaldi (Mac)

2013-05-14 Thread flup2
Hello, The last time I tried Homebrew, I wasn't able to compile PyQT. Thus I didn't go further. I didn't try Wine yet Philippe -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Home-brew-Frescobaldi-Mac-tp145904p145919.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabb

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-05-14 Thread flup2
The best thing would be: if it works, don't upgrade dependencies. Some QT or PyQT upgrades caused problems some weeks ago, but with Macports, it's always possible to go back to a previous working installed version. For Frescobaldi itself, you only need to upgrade it. Frescobaldi and its dependenci

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 14.05.2013, 22:14 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: > Derek writes: > > > Sorry David, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. > > Never mind, it was just an attempt at a bad joke. > I found it really funny. Especially with this appendix :-) __

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Derek writes: > Sorry David, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Never mind, it was just an attempt at a bad joke. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 14 May 2013, at 19:34 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: lol. I did that and it seems to work, but it is failing majored in the viola part. I tried to make a midi of just th part by putitn it in to a test file but it is not working correctly. I can never tell when my octaves will in your words

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Derek
Sorry David, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ANN-Frescobaldi-2-0-10-tp145815p145914.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-us

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-05-14 Thread Paul Morris
flup2 wrote > Here is a step by step guide to install Frescobaldi on a Mac OS X system. > > I hope to have some time to make this easier to read (and, why not, > include it to Frescobaldi website) Philippe, Thanks for this guide! It would definitely be good to have it on the Frescobaldi website

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
lol. I did that and it seems to work, but it is failing majored in the viola part. I tried to make a midi of just th part by putitn it in to a test file but it is not working correctly. I can never tell when my octaves will in your words "run away" though. as I'm hearing it in my enternal ear

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Wim van Dommelen writes: > Those "octave check" warnings are the only one you can sort of safely > disregard, they put thing back on track. Well, if they put things back on track, things have been off-track at the point of warning. What is safe about disregarding that? -- David Kastrup

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
If you want a MIDI file put \midi {} right after the line where \layout is stated, but before the last closing bracket. Regards, Wim. On 14 May 2013, at 19:03 , Sarah k Alawami wrote: Ah. except my midi file is not being created for some reason. I'll just put that part through a website

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Line 274 for Violin I should be (I think): 4 d'8 b a g 4 d'8 b a g| I assume the first note in the tritone runs in the melody also. Note that what you did in Violin II is perfect, you did put in the octave checks, LilyPond will then issue a warning AND change the note to the octave you want

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ah. except my midi file is not being created for some reason. I'll just put that part through a website I can't recall, but it generates midi files of lily pond music and see whas a miss. I don't want to hear the whole score yet. lol! Thanks. On May 14, 2013, at 8:53 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

Re: octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Sarah k Alawami writes: > Hello to all. Octave checks in my viola part are failing. I made sure > that the right octave signs are there but I must be hearing it > differently then what I'm reading on the page the source that is. > > I mace sure that unless I want to change o gives each note must

octave checks in the viola line of my assignment are failing.

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello to all. Octave checks in my viola part are failing. I made sure that the right octave signs are there but I must be hearing it differently then what I'm reading on the page the source that is. I mace sure that unless I want to change o gives each note must be at at most a 4th a part be

Home brew & Frescobaldi (Mac)

2013-05-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
Don't want to complicate things, but has anyone had any success installing Frescobaldi using Homebrew (as an alternative to MacPorts) or iinstalling the Windows Frescobaldi package (on Mac) using Wine? Thanks, Stan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: Modern custodes?

2013-05-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Modern custodes? Is there a way to use the custodes feature of LilyPond, but with modern glyphs (for example normal notes with the \teeny size), instead of the funny medieval glyphs? I see in: htt

Re: Lyrics spacing issues

2013-05-14 Thread Eluze
Carl Peterson-2 wrote > Reposting a previous question with code example. Note that depending on > how > the alignment is defined, about a notehead of space is added to one side > of > the lyrics or the other. what's wrong with it? if you like to change this use sth like \layout { \context {

Re: frescobaldi: no icons in toolbars (was Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10)

2013-05-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op 13-05-13 20:55, SoundsFromSound schreef: Hmm...odd. I did a simple restart and everything is working correctly. The icons are now appearing, and it seems that your suggestion about unchecking the "system icons" preference was all that was needed. indeed all settings take effect on 'Ok' except

Re: oddly corrupt midi - need help

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Madoka - Thanks for your response! I couldn't see how your solution could work, upon first reading it, but the general idea of making ALL voices repeat made instance sense. I've been away from Lilypond for about two years and it shows! Thanks for your help - the corrupt midi issue was a big d

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-05-14 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, flup2 wrote: > Here is a step by step guide to install Frescobaldi on a Mac OS X system. Thanks!! I'll check it out tonight. If it works, perhaps I can 'entice' the conductor of our choir to convert to Lilpypond! Christ van Willegen _

Re: Modern custodes?

2013-05-14 Thread ghe
Is there a way to use the custodes feature of LilyPond, but with modern glyphs (for example normal notes with the \teeny size), instead of the funny medieval glyphs? I see in: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation_002d_002dcommon-features#custodes that four

Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-05-14 Thread flup2
Hello all, Here is a step by step guide to install Frescobaldi on a Mac OS X system. Frescobaldi has some known issues on a mac (see below) but after these steps you should be able to: - use Frescobaldi (of course) - launch Frescobaldi with a double clickable icon - play MIDI * install macports (

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Derek writes: > Does anyone have a complete idiot's guide to installing Frescobaldi on > a mac via macports or whatever? And when I say idiot I mean total > idiot. You already said "on a mac". Man, you gotta learn not to tempt free software creeps like that. That's "better waste a few friendshi

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, considering all the messages on this thread: Would there be a Mac user with sufficient knowledge out there to assist Wilbert and prepare either a simple installer or at least a reliable and comprehensive installation guide, not just now but also for upcoming releases? It seems that there

Re: oddly corrupt midi - need help

2013-05-14 Thread Madoka Machitani
I'm sorry, I noticed my solution doesn't work. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Madoka Machitani wrote: > Hi, Tom! > > To answer question 1 (and only 1), you need to add volta repeats to voice > two as well. > [omitting the wrong part] So, It seems you have to explicitly write volta repeats to v

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread flup2
Hello, Here are some instructions: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/frescobaldi/mac/frescobaldi/pY4BliX2wT0/j1ximcZDlkwJ In short, the dependencies of Frescobald

Re: getting error already have slur in my compilation

2013-05-14 Thread Wim van Dommelen
Hi Sarah, The transpose looks much better now! Good. But in the trumpet you still made a mistake in the order. When you use both \relative and a \transpose, do it like this: trumpetMusic = \transpose c' d { \relative c' { \key g \major \repeat volta 2 { \partial r8 | then all music is ente

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Derek
Does anyone have a complete idiot's guide to installing Frescobaldi on a mac via macports or whatever? And when I say idiot I mean total idiot. Many of the instructions I have found just say install this or that but leave out the how to? I am in the same position I think popler doesn't work but the

Re: getting error already have slur in my compilation

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 14.05.2013, 08:30 +0200 schrieb Helge Kruse: > You opened a slur in line 92: c8( > In line 93 you try to open a new slur without closing the previous > one: cis8( > > > Close the first or check if it's the wrong location to start the slur. > Hi Sarah, probably Helge told you

Re: oddly corrupt midi - need help

2013-05-14 Thread Madoka Machitani
Hi, Tom! To answer question 1 (and only 1), you need to add volta repeats to voice two as well. For that matter, utilizing the "global" variable is a good practice, I think. Namely, Add the following lines to the variable "global": \repeat volta 2 { s1*3/4*3 } \alternative { {s1*3/4} {s1*3/4