Re: convert-ly: why \combine \null ?

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm lilypon...@fiee.net writes: Am 2014-01-14 um 14:28 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Henning Hraban Ramm lilypon...@fiee.net writes: Hi, if I update my scores with convert-ly to 2.18, it changes every \vspace to \combine \null \vspace (within \markup{ \column {}

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: \version 2.18.0 \score { { $(let ((random-state (seed-random-state (current-time (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (x) (let ((idx (random 12 random-state))) (make-event-chord

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-16 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, Am 16.01.2014 03:16, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: 1. What — if any — drawbacks are there? - if you use it without any template mechanism, you have to assign proper edition-engraver id-paths - I can't say, what that means in production. - right now it is just ripped out of my working

compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello all, I am trying to figure out why a code of mine is not compiling, and I found that this is related to the add-grace-property. The error I receive is: *Exited with return code -1073741819.* Here are two minimal examples. The top one compiles, the bottom one doesn't:

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Peter, When engraving music that has only occasionally two or more voices (such as your example), I personally prefer to explicitly write all voices together at once in this way: \version 2.18.0 music = \relative c'' { 2. g c es4 | {e'4. d8 c2} \\ {g4 a b4. c8} | e g bes4 es ges b2. }

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Gilberto Agostinho wrote [...] in this way: Sorry, I pasted the code incompletely! Here it is: \version 2.18.0 music = \relative c'' { 2. g c es4 | {e'4. d8 c2} \\ {g4 a b4. c8} | e g bes4 es ges b2. } \score { \new Staff \music } -- View this message in context:

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Gilberto Agostinho wrote Sorry, I pasted the code incompletely! Here it is: Hmm, something is wrong, the first chord of my code is not being shown (at least here at Nabble), so if someone tries to copy and paste it into a .LY file and compile, it will not work. I guess if I upload the code like

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, what will you do with, say, 100 \addAt entries after inserting an additional bar? A replace script? In any case, since it would be an optional parameter, it wouldn’t hurt anyone to have it in there… As long as the syntax is clear and easy as to what is and is not a “mark” for

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? What do you mean? Neither \mark #4 nor \mark G mess with the counter. The point is that, if \addAt (or whatever) is “relative to marks”, then

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Gilberto! On 01/16/2014 10:44 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: Hmm, something is wrong, the first chord of my code is not being shown (at least here at Nabble) Hmm, strange problem with pasting the code... On 01/16/2014 10:36 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: When engraving music that has only

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/16/2014 11:14 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote: In my present case I must import the music via musicxml2ly because it's a piece I wrote previously in Finale (which I'm now going to finish and engrave in LilyPond). Maybe I should clarify for those not familiar with the output of musicxml2ly that

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 11:14, schrieb Peter Bjuhr: Hmm, something is wrong, the first chord of my code is not being shown (at least here at Nabble) Hmm, strange problem with pasting the code... the angled brackets tend to confuse mailing systems because they are usually used for quotes.

Re: how close are we to having an addAt or insertAt feature?

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter, - if you use it without any template mechanism, you have to assign proper edition-engraver id-paths - I can't say, what that means in production. I know you have a well-developed templating system… I wish I had time to look at it. 2. I want to change the output in context A

kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hello, Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? Using the same font in Indesign and lilypond gives me the attached output. Compare the ff -- it should look like the Indesign variant. Another question: why has the Umlaut over the u gone wrong in lilypond's

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Simon, Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? I don’t believe so… one of the many typographical features Lilypond lacks. Using the same font p.s. What font is that? It’s lovely. Another question: why has the Umlaut over the u gone wrong in lilypond's

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 11:59, schrieb Simon Bailey: Hello, Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? It does. See attachment. Using the same font in Indesign and lilypond gives me the attached output. Compare the ff -- it should look like the Indesign variant. I

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:02, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: p.s. What font is that? It’s lovely. Adobe Cronos Pro. Unfortunately non-free. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/16/2014 10:29 AM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: I am trying to figure out why a code of mine is not compiling, and I found that this is related to the add-grace-property. The error I receive is: *Exited with return code -1073741819.*

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:08, schrieb Urs Liska: But for your example I assume that the default font doesn't contain the ligatures (I had to select a different font to get that result). Sorry, I'm being stupid. While compiling with the default font does _not_ give me the ligatures, using Cronos Pro

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
p.s. What font is that? It’s lovely. Adobe Cronos Pro. Thanks! Ah, that Robert Slimbach… he sure knows what he’s doing. Unfortunately non-free. Certain things are worth paying for. =) Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, I had to select a different font And which one was that? Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? No. Text handling is done by the Pango library. Unfortunately, we don't have an interface yet to control OpenType features. This is issue #1388. The main problem is designing a good interface for Lilypond; the

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Kieren, Urs, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? I don’t believe so… one of the many typographical features Lilypond lacks. Urs' example seems to show that it

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:14, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I had to select a different font And which one was that? Minion Pro, by - Robert Slimbach ;-) I _very_ much like the Minion/Cronos combination and use it all the time. Minion in particular has the advantage of a wide array of weights

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:17, schrieb Simon Bailey: I'm using it through typekit, there are some hoops to jump through to get lilypond to recognise it. Which may be a hint where to look for problems. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, Minion Pro, by - Robert Slimbach ;-) I own this! The full Minion Pro MM font was my 21st birthday present from my parents. I _very_ much like the Minion/Cronos combination and use it all the time. I may just have to add Cronos to my font kit. Minion in particular has the advantage

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:19, schrieb Urs Liska: With condensed you have a choice of regular medium and semibold alone to select for lyrics. See attached include file on how we fine-tuned the font appearance in the Fried songs edition. Urs \version 2.17.3 %{ Default font set for Adobe Minion Pro

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Peter, Peter Bjuhr wrote I get Exited with exit status 1. (Ubuntu 13.10). Could you point me to a reference how to use this? I don't think I understand what you meant. My problem is exactly that the second code does not compile, while the top one does. The fact that you get an error while

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/16/2014 12:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Simon, Does the font handling in Lilypond know about ligatures in opentype fonts? I don’t believe so… one of the many typographical features Lilypond lacks. It should, AFAIK. Using the same font p.s. What font is that? It’s lovely. I

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 18:08, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: \version 2.18.0 \score { { $(let ((random-state (seed-random-state (current-time (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (x) (let ((idx (random 12 random-state)))

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 16.01.2014 12:17, schrieb Simon Bailey: I'm using it through typekit, there are some hoops to jump through to get lilypond to recognise it. Which may be a hint where to look for problems. copied the .otf file

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm doing . .) Obviously. $ splices a single expression (which is what make-sequential-music

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: p.s. What font is that? It’s lovely. Adobe Cronos Pro. Thanks! Ah, that Robert Slimbach… he sure knows what he’s doing. Unfortunately non-free. Certain things are worth paying for. =) Nothing more worth paying for than freedom. All

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, I am trying to figure out why a code of mine is not compiling, and I found that this is related to the add-grace-property. The error I receive is: *Exited with return code -1073741819.* Here are two minimal examples. The top

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
SOLVED, so I will post the solution here: David Kastrup wrote me You are deleting all preexisting details without replacement. So basically what needed to be done is that I should have written... 'details 'beamed-lengths (3.26 3.26 3.26 3.26) ...instead of: 'details '(beamed-lengths (3.26 3.26

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
the ligature is obviously there in my copy of the font. You are aware that `Aufführung' *without* an `ff' ligature is the correct way to write this word in German? `Auf' is a prefix, and as such it should not have a ligature with the rest of the word. A famous example of a similar situation

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 12:54, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: the ligature is obviously there in my copy of the font. You are aware that `Aufführung' *without* an `ff' ligature is the correct way to write this word in German? `Auf' is a prefix, and as such it should not have a ligature with the rest of the

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm doing . .) Obviously. $ splices a single

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Asking for a [selnolig] for LilyPond seems like too much ... Why not? It shouldn't be too difficult to use the data from this lualatex package to write a script that walks over lilypond strings, given that Frescobaldi now has a Python library to parse Lilypond input files. Werner

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
correction: what I thought was the solution is actually not working properly. It does compiles the code, but it gives an error message. The solution I am using now is to write down every single element of 'details in their default values, and then change what I want to change. Example:

RE: grace notes and ledger lines

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Gilberto Agostinho wrote This solution is actually not working properly. It works perfectly if grace notes are below the pitch B in the middle line. If the grace notes are above (thus having their stem down), I get the following error: Exited with return code -1073741819. Solved, now it works

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: SOLVED, so I will post the solution here: David Kastrup wrote me You are deleting all preexisting details without replacement. So basically what needed to be done is that I should have written... 'details 'beamed-lengths (3.26 3.26 3.26

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Nothing more worth paying for than freedom. I’m not sure I agree… but this certainly isn’t the place to discuss that. All my work on LilyPond is freely available but that does not mean that nobody pays for it. I well know this. =) What you mean is certain things are worth paying for even

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: the ligature is obviously there in my copy of the font. You are aware that `Aufführung' *without* an `ff' ligature is the correct way to write this word in German? `Auf' is a prefix, and as such it should not have a

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.01.2014 13:38, schrieb Simon Bailey: Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: the ligature is obviously there in my copy of the font. You are aware that `Aufführung' *without* an `ff' ligature is the correct way to write this word in German? `Auf' is

Re: compilation problem when using add-grace-property

2014-01-16 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David David Kastrup wrote Nice idea, doesn't work. add-grace-property does not support subproperties. Thanks a lot for your messages and help. I realized that it wasn't working and I came with the same solution as you wrote. A file with the working code (named

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The problem (as Wernes said initially) is that you can't _ask_ LilyPond for it. Depending on your OS and font setup it just does it or not ... where do i start debugging? this obviously works for other people. OS: Fedora 20

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Noeck
Hi, just to add one more (system-)configuration example: Ligatures work for me on this system: Linux, Ubuntu 13.10, LilyPond 2.18.0, tested with Linux Libertine and Century Schoolbook. It also depends on the font, Linux Libertine shows ligatures for Qu and Th, Century Schoolbook doesn’t. But

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 23:24, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, ah, for me it does not work with the default (2.16.2) Lilypond coming with Ubuntu (/usr/bin/lilypond). But with newer versions installed from the website, which use different libraries. Joram Am 16.01.2014 13:57, schrieb Simon Bailey: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Urs Liska

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
hmm. I wasn't actually aware of that. But it makes sense. ;) Note that the German support for LaTeX goes even one step further: The command | (to be inserted between the two non-ligature characters) adds some small horizontal space to avoid glyph collisions. As mentioned by Urs, there is

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use of Paul's converted code was correct. Like with _any_ material prepared for an older version

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/16/2014 02:25 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: hmm. I wasn't actually aware of that. But it makes sense. ;) Note that the German support for LaTeX goes even one step further: The command | (to be inserted between the two non-ligature characters) adds some small horizontal space to avoid

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
Hello listers, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: ah, for me it does not work with the default (2.16.2) Lilypond coming with Ubuntu (/usr/bin/lilypond). But with newer versions installed from the website, which use different libraries. Using the 64 bit _linux_

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use of Paul's converted code was correct. Like

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Bailey
ok, this is a known issue. https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2656#c29 -- Do not meddle in the affairs of trombonists, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
If for a font ff leads to collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Yes, at least for German. Or, stated differently: Should I consider it a sign of low quality of a font if consecutive letters collide or touch

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
If for a font ff leads to collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Yes, at least for German. Uh, I mean you should insert space. Virtually no font resolves this `properly' today, I reckon. Werner

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: If for a font ff leads to collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Yes, at least for German. Uh, I mean you should insert space. Virtually no font resolves this `properly'

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/16/2014 03:28 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [...] As mentioned by Urs, there is even a (semi)automatic solution called `selnolig' which uses a dictionary of German words to find and handle such non-ligatures properly (this is, you don't have to insert | any more). Amazing. IIUC, that

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
You are confused about the problem that is being discussed. Certainly not. What _you_ are talking about is not how to deal with a defective ff ligature, but rather about the typographic reasons to distinguish betweem a _working_ ff ligature and two separate ff letters when typesetting

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/16/2014 03:38 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: If for a font ff leads to collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Yes, at least for German. Uh, I mean you should insert space.

Re: Error in documentation

2014-01-16 Thread Phil Holmes
Copying to -bugs for an issue. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Crighton To: LilyPond Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:27 PM Subject: Error in documentation Hello all, in the documentation about percussion notation it is said that you

Re: Error in documentation

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: Peter Crighton wrote: Hello all, in the documentation about percussion notation it is said that you need to include the Parenthesis_engraver in order to use \parenthesize –

string concatenation 2.18 vs 2.16

2014-01-16 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
under 2.16 there were no errors in this \version 2.16.2 tom = aap + noot \book { \header { title = \tom } \relative {a b c} } under 2.18 the expression tom = aap + noot seems not to be allowed ___

Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, After being bitten (unnecessarily) by old code in the LSR and having a continuing argument with David about how it came about - I have to ask - is there any reason why all the snippets in the LSR can't be automatically updated when a new version is introduced? Surely this would not

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-17 01:28, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, - I probably should have posted the code, then it would have been clear straight away - but it wasn't a copy and paste problem. So why then did you _first_ state that Paul's version did not work, including a quote of _Paul's_ version rather

Re: Error in documentation

2014-01-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
This has been fixed already. Trevor Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:25 PM Copying to -bugs for an issue. - Original Message - From: Peter Crighton To: LilyPond Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:27 PM Subject: Error in documentation

Re: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: People, After being bitten (unnecessarily) by old code in the LSR and having a continuing argument with David about how it came about - I have to ask - is there any reason why all the snippets in the LSR can't be automatically updated when a new

Re: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated

2014-01-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au To: Lilypond User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:47 PM Subject: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated People, After being bitten (unnecessarily) by old code in the LSR and having a

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Morris
Philip Rhoades wrote maybe we (and by we I mean you - at least initially) could enhance this little bit of code to do what my Ruby script was doing? Hi Phil, Unfortunately I can't afford to take this on. Sounds like it might be a nice challenge for someone learning Scheme though. :-)

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Morris
David Kastrup wrote (make-event-chord (list You can forego the above two lines (of course removing the respective closing parens later on) nowadays. Hi David, Thanks for that tip. I'll put it on my list to add this revised 2.18 version to the LSR

Re: string concatenation 2.18 vs 2.16

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Tom van der Hoeven t...@vanderhoeven.biz writes: under 2.16 there were no errors in this \version 2.16.2 tom = aap + noot \book { \header { title = \tom } \relative {a b c} } under 2.18 the expression tom = aap + noot seems not to be allowed

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-16 Thread Alex Loomis
With the split files there are still a ton of warnings, but it creates and displays the pdf. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Alex, OK ... first note, I use this on my machine with Ubuntu 12.04 having texlive(2012)-full installed and it does compile

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Rivers
I think you just have to remember to use \oneVoice or \stemNeutral when the 2nd voice isn't playing. If the 2nd voice is coming and going frequently, you are much better off using { \voiceOne Music goes here } \new Voice { { \voiceTwo Music goes here } }

Re: Experiences from voice handling wanted

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Michael, thanks for your reply! On 01/16/2014 07:17 PM, Michael Rivers wrote: I think you just have to remember to use \oneVoice or \stemNeutral when the 2nd voice isn't playing. \oneVoice is the best choice, isn't it, because it affects more than just the stems!? If the 2nd voice is

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:05:50 +0100 Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote: I was about to ask in that direction. If for a font ff leads to collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Or, stated differently: Should I

PDF links to javascript?

2014-01-16 Thread Mike Blackstock
Is there a way to change the textedit://uri mechanism in PDF point-and-lick links to point instead to a javascript function in the webbrowser? textedit:///path/guitar.ly:42:32:39 would instead be something like: javascript:parent.handlePdfLinks(path/guitar.ly:42:32:39) and the above would be

Re: PDF links to javascript?

2014-01-16 Thread Phil Holmes
Why do you want to do this? Operating system? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Mike Blackstock To: lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 9:34 PM Subject: PDF links to javascript? Is there a way to change the textedit://uri mechanism in PDF

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Werner, I hope you agree with my short summaries of your helpful explanations? Yep. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: PDF links to javascript?

2014-01-16 Thread Mike Blackstock
Hi Phil! Re. Why do you want to do this? My source code editor is a javascript app that runs in the browser - Code Mirror. For compilation, the source code is sent to a server over a node.js/socket.io websocket; when compilation is complete, server sends browser a signal and PDF is opened in

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-17 03:44, Paul Morris wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote maybe we (and by we I mean you - at least initially) could enhance this little bit of code to do what my Ruby script was doing? Hi Phil, Unfortunately I can't afford to take this on. Sounds like it might be a nice

Re: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
Phil, On 2014-01-17 03:05, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au To: Lilypond User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:47 PM Subject: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated People, After being bitten

Re: Updating Snippets in the LSR when versions are updated

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-17 03:12, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: People, After being bitten (unnecessarily) by old code in the LSR and having a continuing argument with David about how it came about - I have to ask - is there any reason why all the snippets in the

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, as far as I scanned the thread nobody analyzed the problem of the shifted umlaut diacritic. You might look up „composed“ vs. „decomposed“ Unicode - e.g. OSX uses (or used to use in previous versions) decomposed Unicode, where always „composing“ diacritics are used, opposite to complete

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-16 Thread MarcM
Check out also the The LilyPond Snippet Repository ♪♫ http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=column http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=column http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=column -- View this message in context:

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, David took this discussion off-list and then accused me of not having the guts to respond on-list . . so here the reply I sent him: On 2014-01-17 16:00, Philip Rhoades wrote: David, On 2014-01-17 15:20, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David,

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-16 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
So the tex-template doesn't suit (well) other environments then mine. Another thing I have to look at is: I use system to call the xelatex process. It might be better to use execp or exece. I'll investigate. It should be possible to use pandoc in the same manner. Pandoc can make use of