Re: midi2ly doesn't follow time signatures (beat divisions)

2014-02-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.02.2014 03:09, schrieb Paul Morris: For what it's worth, if anyone is looking for ways to improve midi2ly, the first footnote of this blog post: http://blog.steinberg.net/2014/02/development-diary-part-the-fifth/#fn-523-1 notes that midi2ly does not follow the beat divisions of the time s

Re: Scorio and GPL

2014-02-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 20.02.2014 08:20, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: > Then at least I would say it would be more *gentleman-like* if they at > least would mention LilyPond prominently on their website. +1 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.g

Re: Scorio and GPL

2014-02-19 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: Hi Martin, Back to the point: The non-free apps are used to access the servers of scorio. AFAIK there is no GPL licensed code needed to run the app, its just accessing a web-service. Cheers, Jan-Peter Then at least I would say it would be more ge

Re: Scorio and GPL

2014-02-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Martin, I know scorio and talked to the developers at musicfair (Musikmesse) 2011 in Frankfurt (am Rhein, Germany). They do in fact use lilypond. But AFAICS they do not violate the GPL, because lilypond is not selled, just there service of engraving on scorios servers - or better, the applicati

Scorio and GPL

2014-02-19 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Did anyone ever try Scorio? It looks like a nice web-based score editor which also has special versions for tablets. On the www.scorio.com website I could not find it uses LilyPond, but by what I suspected when looking at the produced scores was confirmed in the following anouncement: h

Re: midi2ly doesn't follow time signatures (beat divisions)

2014-02-19 Thread Shane Brandes
O.k. I ran it the 2.18 to midi through midi2ly does in fact fail miserably in appearance of typeset result however if you inspect the durations they are correct. However the odd thing is midi2ly makes a 2.14 type file. So it for whatever reason seems to be producing durations in the form of x8*y

midi2ly doesn't follow time signatures (beat divisions)

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Morris
For what it's worth, if anyone is looking for ways to improve midi2ly, the first footnote of this blog post: http://blog.steinberg.net/2014/02/development-diary-part-the-fifth/#fn-523-1 notes that midi2ly does not follow the beat divisions of the time signature when it decides how to represent t

Re: Continuing issues with variable \markup issues in footers

2014-02-19 Thread Eluze
Joshua Nichols wrote > So, after taking the advice of the forum, I supplanted the following > snippet: > > oddFooterMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \fontsize #2 > > \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string > > \on-the-fly #first-page \fromproperty #'header:copyright > >

Re: help with recompile

2014-02-19 Thread Bric
On 02/19/2014 03:28 PM, Bric wrote: I need to recompile. I upgraded to bleeding-edge, pre-release ubuntu Trusty 14.04. (Yeah. I know. Probably dumb.) Got a bunch of packages with build-depend ("sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond") ./configure is now giving me: ERROR: Please install required p

Re: Tweaking a tie with shapeII fails

2014-02-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-02-19 21:09 GMT+01:00 Ed Gordijn : > Hi Janek, > >> (actually, i believe it would make more sense to fix tie formatting >> itself). >> > > I think you are right but that isn't an easy task. I was looking for a tweak > that is a little more robust because it is now depending on the note > spaci

Continuing issues with variable \markup issues in footers

2014-02-19 Thread Joshua Nichols
So, after taking the advice of the forum, I supplanted the following snippet: oddFooterMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \fontsize #2 \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string \on-the-fly #first-page \fromproperty #'header:copyright } and compiled. What I'm getting is a

help with recompile

2014-02-19 Thread Bric
I need to recompile. I upgraded to bleeding-edge, pre-release ubuntu Trusty 14.04. (Yeah. I know. Probably dumb.) Got a bunch of packages with build-depend ("sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond") ./configure is now giving me: ERROR: Please install required programs: FlexLexer.h (flex package)

Re: Tweaking a tie with shapeII fails

2014-02-19 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi Janek, (actually, i believe it would make more sense to fix tie formatting itself). I think you are right but that isn't an easy task. I was looking for a tweak that is a little more robust because it is now depending on the note spacing. If I use for example ragged-right = ##f the tie is

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread Noeck
> I would say one thing: that in terms of consistency, LilyPond > outperforms a number of earlier pieces of engraved music hands down. I would like to second that: I was comparing hand engraved scores recently to look for their clefs and their ottava brackets. For the latter I even found differen

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 19.02.2014 19:11, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:30 PM Subject: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ? Howdy! I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look according to the stateme

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:30 PM Subject: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ? Howdy! I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look according to the statement on lilypond.org that lilypond

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Steve, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM, wrote: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/essay/engraved-examples-_0028bwv-861_0029 > > Hmm, Is the Bärenreiter Neue Bach Ausgabe engraving the "gold > standard" in > engraving that LilyPond seeks? At least for Bach? > I would thi

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread steve
> Hi Steve, > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > >> >> Howdy! >> >> I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look >> according to the >> statement on lilypond.org that lilypond >> >> "creates beautiful sheet music following the best traditions of >> cla

Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Steve, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > > Howdy! > > I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look > according to the > statement on lilypond.org that lilypond > > "creates beautiful sheet music following the best traditions of > classical music eng

What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

2014-02-19 Thread steve
Howdy! I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look according to the statement on lilypond.org that lilypond "creates beautiful sheet music following the best traditions of classical music engraving." I was looking at a couple of engravings, Ralph Kirkpa

Re: notes fixed alignment for rhytmic notation

2014-02-19 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Carlo, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Carlo Vanoni wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I need to write some rhytmic exercises for my students. I would like to > align the notes in the various lines not for the "best fit" output, but > aligning the notes duration. > In each line, a given note duration

notes fixed alignment for rhytmic notation

2014-02-19 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Hi everyone! I need to write some rhytmic exercises for my students. I would like to align the notes in the various lines not for the "best fit" output, but aligning the notes duration. In each line, a given note duration uses a fixed amount of space, resulting in a notes alignment that give a

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > There was also a Russian developer (Mark Polesky, IIRC?) who dealt > with those kinds of questions. (He's more a -devel than a -user guy, > though.) How stupid of me! That wasn't Mark (who is well known amongst the -devel team), but so

Re: Lilypond for blind musicians

2014-02-19 Thread claudio garanzini
Hi all! I really appreciate your help and I hope to be a future contributor for this great program and for this mailing list. I'll get in contact with Haipeng for sure. Thanks again to all of you for your help in suggesting mee messages, ideas and so on. I think Lilypond could be a great way for wr