Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread flup2
If you're not confortable with the Terminal and use Texworks, you have to tell to Texworks with command to run: lilypond-book in place of pdflatex (or pdfxelatex etc. according to your usual LaTeX choice). In Texworks, go to the Preferences, in the "Typesetting" tab. In "Path for Tex...", add the

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread Urs Liska
I'm somewhat split in this question: I very much like stackexchange and use it as a resource for latex, git and python questions regularly. Finding answers to Lilypond questions there would be nice too. But I think the user base of Lilypond is significantly smaller than of the other mentiones t

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho writes: > I am also totally up for this idea as well. What's wrong with this list? Everybody wants to take his LilyPond business to the web interface of his choice that takes a lot of additional work over just reading and typing text and further dilutes the LilyPond knowledge

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Joshua Nichols writes: >>JoshTeX systems are not required or intended to recognize either lilypond > or >>lilypond-book. > > I understood this. But from what I can see in the documentation, my problem > isn't addressed in the lilypond documentation > >>What particularly was your problem in applyi

Re: Percent repeats and polyphony. Bug?

2013-11-01 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/11/2 Francisco Vila : > Hello. I bring this from the Spanish list: > > { > \time 2/4 > \repeat percent 3 << b'2 \\ b2 >> > \repeat percent 3 b2 > } > > [image attached] > > Here, the repeated part which has polyphony lacks one of the percent > symbols. Anyone knows why? Thanks. > > -- >

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
I am also totally up for this idea as well. I have been posting some questions and answers related to LilyPond programming on the Stack Overflow website, but unfortunately there are too few people dealing with LilyPond over there. Stack Exchange also has a website called Musical Practice & Performa

Evenly spacing lyrics

2013-11-01 Thread Carl Peterson
All, Is there a way to tell LilyPond to try to space lyrics evenly, as opposed to spacing notes roughly proportionally? I'm working with an SATB hymn sheet where there are dotted half notes and quarter notes and eighth notes all together, and the normal spacing engine that gives more space to long

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
It seems like a good many people support the idea. Thanks Noeck for that link--it seems like many supported it back then. It doesn't seem like too much work to create a page. I have created a proposal for it: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/61575/lilypond I have also created a generic s

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread Noeck
I am very much in favour of it, see this post from *exactly* one year ago: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-11/msg00018.html Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
I know that AskUbuntu is WONDERFUL--it is the webpage that helped me breech the gap between being a newbie to a confident user in Ubuntu. A LilyPond page would be tremendous not only to new users but also for archiving information. Yes, the mailing list is excellent, but for someone who is absolute

Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread Rachael Thomas Carlson
Hello Ryan: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 16:30 -0700, ryanmichaelmcclure wrote: > What are your thoughts about creating a LilyPond Stack > Exchange page? I have found the LaTex Stack Exchange very useful. I think that LilyPond would definitely benefit from a Stack Exchange-type website. I don't mean

Percent repeats and polyphony. Bug?

2013-11-01 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello. I bring this from the Spanish list: { \time 2/4 \repeat percent 3 << b'2 \\ b2 >> \repeat percent 3 b2 } [image attached] Here, the repeated part which has polyphony lacks one of the percent symbols. Anyone knows why? Thanks. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , ww

Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?

2013-11-01 Thread ryanmichaelmcclure
I'm not sure if many of you are familiar with Stack Exchange. However, to those who are--What are your thoughts about creating a LilyPond Stack Exchange page? I personally love the concept of Stack Exchange, and I believe that it would be great for the LilyPond community. - Ryan McClure Lun

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread Joshua Nichols
>JoshTeX systems are not required or intended to recognize either lilypond or >lilypond-book. I understood this. But from what I can see in the documentation, my problem isn't addressed in the lilypond documentation >What particularly was your problem in applying this to your case? I don't know

Re: fret diagrams with no staffs

2013-11-01 Thread Renato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 02:56:17 + Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On 10/31/13 8:47 AM, "Renato" wrote: > > >However I have not been able to (due to my superficial knowledge of > >lilypond and snippets dealing with "chord diagrams over a > >staff" scen

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Noeck
For me, it does not occur with 2.17 versions (.9 and .26) but only with 2.16.2. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Two possible "ugly bugs"

2013-11-01 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Thanks for the suggestion Peter, it indeed works very well! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Two-possible-ugly-bugs-tp152672p153211.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: > No, the PostScript is still fine. But when you ask Ghostscript to > convert it to anything else, it has its own idea what to convert. Nice. How did you come by this one? Greetings, Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofS

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/01/2013 09:32 PM, David Kastrup wrote: No, the PostScript is still fine. But when you ask Ghostscript to convert it to anything else, it has its own idea what to convert. Ok! At first I thought it was an easter egg, but so close to Halloween it must be a bug! Best Peter ___

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On 11/01/2013 09:01 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: >> >> On 11/01/2013 08:52 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> >>> Only by analogy. LilyPond is not at fault for _this_ one. >>> >> Ok, I see. Always fun with a little game! :-) >> > I guess it must be related to the creation of the postsc

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/01/2013 09:01 PM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: On 11/01/2013 08:52 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Only by analogy. LilyPond is not at fault for _this_ one. Ok, I see. Always fun with a little game! :-) I guess it must be related to the creation of the postscript...(?) Best Peter

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Bjuhr writes: > > > On 11/01/2013 07:53 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Can you guess what the output of saving and running the following file > >> will be? > >> > > Is the surprising output related to this? > >> If an included file is g

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/01/2013 08:52 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Only by analogy. LilyPond is not at fault for _this_ one. Ok, I see. Always fun with a little game! :-) Best Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Bjuhr writes: > On 11/01/2013 07:53 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Can you guess what the output of saving and running the following file >> will be? >> > Is the surprising output related to this? >> If an included file is given a name which is the same as one in >> LilyPond's installation fil

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 11/01/2013 07:53 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Can you guess what the output of saving and running the following file will be? Is the surprising output related to this? If an included file is given a name which is the same as one in LilyPond's installation files, LilyPond's file from the instal

And now for something completely different.

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Can you guess what the output of saving and running the following file will be? \markup \center-align { hoi hoo } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Helge Kruse writes: > C:\lybook>lilypond-book --output=out --pdf demo.lytex > Usage: lilypond-book [OPTION]... FILE > > Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook > document. I seem to remember that Windows does something weird with = on the command line. You either nee

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 01.11.2013 16:44, schrieb David Kastrup: Joshua Nichols writes: Somewhat related: How in the world do I invoke lilypond or lilypond-book in LaTeX, or TexWorks? I don't know TexWorks, and one does not invoke lilypond or lilypond-book in LaTeX. lilypond-book converts a .lytex files into im

Re: ChordNames in Staff context

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > Hi Keith, > > thanks for your reply! > >>> May I ask what the reasons were for >>> removing that technique? >> >> Probably, no-one watching the changes knew that this was a technique. > > that would be a pity! LilyPond can't support everything which people consider "a te

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Joshua Nichols writes: > Somewhat related: How in the world do I invoke lilypond or > lilypond-book in LaTeX, or TexWorks? I don't know TexWorks, and one does not invoke lilypond or lilypond-book in LaTeX. lilypond-book converts a .lytex files into images and a normal LaTeX .tex file which can

Re: On creating "title pages" and the like

2013-11-01 Thread Joshua Nichols
I've tried using the terminal, I cannot get anything to pull up. Truth be told, however, I feel a bit turned around. But your help and support is wonderful, and I will keep hacking at it until I can get something to work. There were examples scrubbed in the mailing list that I was not able to look