Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Claudio Garanzini claudiogaranz...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any blind musician or composer that’' use lilypond regularly? Greetings Claudio, I should not be the first one to mention him, but we've been having a regular user (and contributor!) for a few years,

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: There are very few out there who are pushing her farther, or promoting her more enthusiastically, than I. Hi Kieren, (at least) two can play this game :-) All we would need — as I’ve suggested many times

Re: just a frustrated yop...

2014-02-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2014-02-18 11:20 GMT+01:00 Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: There are very few out there who are pushing her farther, or promoting her more enthusiastically, than I. Hi Kieren, (at least) two

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread Phil Holmes
See http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=751 \relative c' { g' a b a g8 a b a g2 } \layout { \context { \Voice \consists Melody_engraver \override Stem #'neutral-direction = #'() } } -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net To: Kieren

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: And another thing -- totally unrelated this time -- I've been wishing for, would be that the determination of stem direction would be made more intelligent and context-aware; for example the following example would look a tad better if all the

Re: just a frustrated yop...

2014-02-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: I really believed lily already did this. In fact, that's what lilypond page in Spahish wikipedia says. Where did this come from? I must have been dreaming. Yes, I've had that dream too for quite some time. But my

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 18.02.2014 11:20, schrieb Valentin Villenave: [...] And another thing -- totally unrelated this time -- I've been wishing for, would be that the determination of stem direction would be made more intelligent and context-aware; for example the following example would look a tad better if all

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#Selected-Snippets-40 OK, you got me. (Too bad it only applies to the middle note, however. What would be be great is if its scope could be made

Re: just a frustrated yop…

2014-02-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-02-17 2:50 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: But this screenshot is a perfect example of how she drives me crazy sometimes: All we would need — as I’ve suggested many times in the past — is a setting which said “this grob can move left/right/up/down to avoid

RE: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Roberts
Chris Crossen ch...@crossen.net wrote: The trick to getting the crisp horizontal and vertical lines while still getting anti-aliased curves is the ghostscript option -dGraphicsAlphaBits. When Lilypond produces a .png file it set this to 4. If you set it to 1 instead, you get horizontal and

Re: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

2014-02-18 Thread steve
Howdy! I put together a sample of ties and a couple of apogg/slurs... This issue is hugely dependent on context, particularly spacing requirements, so some stuff was not reproducible as it ocurred in the origina, and other times new stuff came up that was not evident before...

Tweaking a tie with shapeII fails

2014-02-18 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi, I am trying to tweak an inconsistent tie with the otherwise excellent shapeII function that Janek has written. But in this case I didn't succeed. As you can see it does work for a slur, so why doesn't it tweak my tie? Greetings, Ed \version 2.18.0 % Janek Warchoł %

Distributing LilyPond

2014-02-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hello LilyPonders, I am currently writing my thesis on algorithmic music and I use LilyPond with all the programs that I wrote (used as examples in my thesis). Basically, I created a kind of a Fortran library of subroutines that are summoned in a Fortran code but output LilyPond sintax in a .LY

Re: Distributing LilyPond

2014-02-18 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho gilbertohasn...@gmail.com writes: Hello LilyPonders, I am currently writing my thesis on algorithmic music and I use LilyPond with all the programs that I wrote (used as examples in my thesis). Basically, I created a kind of a Fortran library of subroutines that are

RE: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Crossen
Chris Crossen ch...@crossen.net wrote: The trick to getting the crisp horizontal and vertical lines while still getting anti-aliased curves is the ghostscript option - dGraphicsAlphaBits. When Lilypond produces a .png file it set this to 4. If you set it to 1 instead, you get horizontal

Re: Tweaking a tie with shapeII fails

2014-02-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hello, 2014-02-18 21:33 GMT+01:00 Ed Gordijn ed.klari...@gmail.com: Hi, I am trying to tweak an inconsistent tie with the otherwise excellent shapeII function that Janek has written. But in this case I didn't succeed. As you can see it does work for a slur, so why doesn't it tweak my tie?

Re: Distributing LilyPond

2014-02-18 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
David Kastrup wrote I doubt that anybody really worried all too much about the bonafide state of all the GUB-generated binary installers we distribute through our website. As long as you include the basic sourceball, you'll not have dirtier hands than we do. Thanks a lot for your quick

Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread Jim Long
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:13:57PM -0700, Chris Crossen wrote: I think I'll continue using GIMP to extract the images from PDFs. If you're resigned to that technique, have you tried ImageMagick's 'convert' utility? It can convert PDF to PNG/JPG/whatever you want, and likely in a more

RE: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Crossen
From: Jim Long [mailto:lilyp...@umpquanet.com] On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:13:57PM -0700, Chris Crossen wrote: I think I'll continue using GIMP to extract the images from PDFs. If you're resigned to that technique, have you tried ImageMagick's 'convert' utility? It can convert PDF to

Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Crossen
From: Jim Long [mailto:lilyp...@umpquanet.com] On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:13:57PM -0700, Chris Crossen wrote: I think I'll continue using GIMP to extract the images from PDFs. If you're resigned to that technique, have you tried ImageMagick's 'convert' utility? It can convert PDF to

Re: Horizontalized scores

2014-02-18 Thread David Kastrup
Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:13:57PM -0700, Chris Crossen wrote: I think I'll continue using GIMP to extract the images from PDFs. If you're resigned to that technique, have you tried ImageMagick's 'convert' utility? It can convert PDF to