[ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
Hi all, Thought you might be interested to hear that I built a new music harmony website which uses LilyPond to dynamically generate images of chords and scales: http://scalematcher.adamspiers.org/ Look in the FAQ for details of how to see the LilyPond source code ;-) Now I have to figure

Re: text to the *right* of staves?

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
Many thanks both, I'll try these!! On 14 August 2013 14:59, Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch wrote: Adam Spiers-5 wrote How can I put text *after* a staff? I.e. directly to the right of the final barline? And here is another way: \version 2.16.2 { \repeat unfold 44 R1 \bar |. %

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Ralph Palmer
Wow! Great work, Adam. Is this worth some other publicity, Listers? Ralph On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Adam Spiers lilypond-u...@adamspiers.orgwrote: Hi all, Thought you might be interested to hear that I built a new music harmony website which uses LilyPond to dynamically generate

NEW: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-09-20 to 2013-09-24

2013-08-24 Thread David Kastrup
The LilyPond meeting scheduled for last week has been postponed since after a few last-minute cancellations we just were too few to make any sense, apart from a three-person meeting not involving large drives. Very interesting, by the way. So we now have rescheduled the meeting to the second

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Paul Morris
Very cool and well done! A nice use of LilyPond. Here are a couple of small suggestions: - On the results page why not include a sentence about what the red notes mean? That way the user doesn't have to leave that page to remind themselves. - Why not include a tiny link to the .ly source file

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
On 24 August 2013 16:55, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: Very cool and well done! A nice use of LilyPond. Thanks :) Here are a couple of small suggestions: - On the results page why not include a sentence about what the red notes mean? That way the user doesn't have to leave that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Tim McNamara
I think posting announcements to some of the rec.music.makers.* Usenet groups would make sense, as well as other fora for musicians (especially jazz musicians since they are likely to be interested in the chord-scale relationship more than a lot of other musical styles). I'll scatter a few

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
Thanks Tim. I have posted it to a couple of jazz-oriented facebook groups and hope that it will gradually percolate far and wide, but your assistance in spreading the word would be most welcome! On 24 August 2013 17:52, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: I think posting announcements to

Re: DiceWaltz-1.2

2013-08-24 Thread Robin Newman
Hi Martin I have been having fun with your program, and have produced an amended version to produce the Contredanse from the cards which are included in my version of the dice playing game (Philips Ediiton) The version can be chosen by an extra argument -c (choice) 1 for the waltz 2 for the

LSR repository web site

2013-08-24 Thread MING TSANG
Dear lilyponders: Is there any problem with the lilypond LSR repository web site? When I try, I got the following error message. Ming. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to lsr.dsi.unimi.it___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Jim Long
Adam: Your page is fun to play with, and a handy reference. Two comments, if I may: There's a user interface glitch, and unfortunately right now I'm forced to use Windows 7, but at least I have Firefox. The Root dropdown box behaves very nicely: when I click on it, it drops down, and when I

Re: LSR repository web site

2013-08-24 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-08-24 04:18 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Dear lilyponders: Is there any problem with the lilypond LSR repository web site? When I try, I got the following error message. Ming. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to lsr.dsi.unimi.it According to isitup.org,lsr.dsi.unimi.it isn't, at

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
On 25 August 2013 00:41, Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: Adam: Your page is fun to play with, and a handy reference. Two comments, if I may: There's a user interface glitch, and unfortunately right now I'm forced to use Windows 7, but at least I have Firefox. The Root dropdown box

generic GNU Linux package download problems

2013-08-24 Thread Tom Cloyd
Greetings - I'm trying to download the current stable package, at http://lilypond.org/unix.html. The link go to a script, not a download package. It opens in my browser and does nothing. I'm not seen this novel behavior before, and don't know what to do at this point. My objective is to

Re: LSR repository web site

2013-08-24 Thread MING TSANG
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Re: LSR repository web site

2013-08-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/25 MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com: Thank you Colin: I just do a ping and it confirm that the web page is unreachable. Ming. LSR is down the second day now. Probably server service? The last time I it lasted almost a week, IIRC. Patience ... ... ... Cheers, Harm

Re: generic GNU Linux package download problems

2013-08-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/25 Tom Cloyd tomcloydm...@gmail.com: Greetings - I'm trying to download the current stable package, at http://lilypond.org/unix.html. The link go to a script, not a download package. It opens in my browser and does nothing. Can't confirm. Works on my machine with Ubuntu 10.04,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/8/25 Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com: Adam: Your page is fun to play with, and a handy reference. Two comments, if I may: There's a user interface glitch, and unfortunately right now I'm forced to use Windows 7, but at least I have Firefox. The Root dropdown box behaves very nicely:

Re: generic GNU Linux package download problems

2013-08-24 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-08-24 06:36 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Greetings - I'm trying to download the current stable package, at http://lilypond.org/unix.html. The link go to a script, not a download package. It opens in my browser and does nothing. I'm not seen this novel behavior before, and don't know what to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Mike Blackstock
Wow, terrific. Any thoughts on adding a graphic that will grab more attention in links to the site [ie Facebook, Google+ ...] ? On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Adam Spiers lilypond-u...@adamspiers.orgwrote: Hi all, Thought you might be interested to hear that I built a new music harmony

Re: LSR repository web site

2013-08-24 Thread MING TSANG
Thank you, Thomas, for the info.  I will wait for it to come back.  Hope it is soon - sort of miss it. Ming. From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com To: MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org lilypond-user@gnu.org; c...@shaw.ca

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Adam Spiers
Thanks. You mean like a logo icon? I'd be delighted to use one, but I'm no artist ... On 25 August 2013 02:20, Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, terrific. Any thoughts on adding a graphic that will grab more attention in links to the site [ie Facebook, Google+ ...] ? On

Re: generic GNU Linux package download problems

2013-08-24 Thread Nick Payne
On 25/08/13 10:36, Tom Cloyd wrote: Greetings - I'm trying to download the current stable package, at http://lilypond.org/unix.html. The link go to a script, not a download package. It opens in my browser and does nothing. I'm not seen this novel behavior before, and don't know what to do

Re: generic GNU Linux package download problems

2013-08-24 Thread Tom Cloyd
Colin, Thanks for your quick response, but I'm not making sense of them. On 08/24/2013 07:10 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: On 13-08-24 06:36 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Greetings - I'm trying to download the current stable package, at http://lilypond.org/unix.html. The link go to a script, not a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Mike Blackstock
re I'm no artist - that makes two of us. You could just use this bigger version of your favicon: http://blackstockweb.ca/logo.png,, which doesn't have to actually be seen anywhere on your page; then the line 'link rel=image_src href=pathtologo/logo.png /' in the head will give the bottom 'scrape'