Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? A4 exclusively, sometimes folded A3 (but only when letting print through external service providers). But I always suffer from that being somewhat too small for really usable scores. If I ha

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Andrew, I use A4 for most "small" or "normal" scores (SATB choir). Sometimes A5 But full scores for the director with an orchestral score I use B4 - sometimes A3. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? Andrew

Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: B Series paper

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Brian, We could go halves in a shipping container. Andrew On 20 April 2015 at 05:29:07, Brian Barker (b.m.bar...@btinternet.com) wrote I've got this down to 19 tonnes, but I doubt that's any more useful! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-19 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:39:29 -0400 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Do you not remember the tipping point when OpenOffice was > embraced over Microsoft Office as the official office application suite > by certain governments? That's a totally different case: OO and MSO are two similar tools, that have

Page numbers

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
If you want to put an arbitrary page number in the header, not the proper consecutive one, how can this be done? Useful when setting a score where you do not necessary;y do the pages in monotonically increasing order. Andrew ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, Can you tell me why we should be interested in helping music publishers exactly? If they are such corporate dinosaurs that do not recognise the benefits of advanced lilypond technology, open source and open systems, of what concern is it to the community of lilypond engravers? I would

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote: [...] > Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing > instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in > concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the > other way around, as it

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles (et al.), > To whom LilyPond should strive to "offer the future”? To everyone it possibly can. ;) > IMHO, certainly not to the "[...] big house[s] with traditions, > regulations and limitations”. Why not? What’s to say that Lilypond can’t initially fit within those traditions, regul

Re: Do we really offer the future?

2015-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 17.04.2015 um 16:05 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, First off, thank you so much for your continuing efforts on behalf of Lilypond. They are really important, and no doubt time- and energy-consuming for you, with little promise of immediate benefit to you personally. The ‘Pond apprecia

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-19 Thread MING TSANG
Paul, It is terrific. Now only one input of notes is generating Voice Staff for jianpu notation and new Staff for music score.  Thank you. I try to put  r8  r16  r32 and I got the following error:Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.17 [sample_jianpu2.ly]...Processing `K:/sample_lily-code/sample_j

回复: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-19 Thread Super-User
Hi,Paul! I am impressed by your code! You have really made things automated! To note about improvement, accidentals in jianpu look identical to those in standard notation, but the baseline is about 0.75 height position of numeric note head height button up. Lines indicating duration (aka. beam

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Morris
Hi David, > On Apr 18, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Paul Morris wrote: > > In the attached file is a start on a more automated way to do it. It uses a > custom note head engraver and custom rest engraver (written in Scheme) to > automatically alter the note head and rest stencils. By going further in th

Re: title_page

2015-04-19 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
Urs, Yours is the approach I used. It did exactly what I needed. Thank you! In this case I had some parts which started on the left page. I needed something on the "cover" so as not to leave it blank. -David - Original Message - > From: "Urs Liska" > To: rich...@rshann.plus.com, bo

Re: title_page

2015-04-19 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:33:25 + (GMT) "bobr...@centrum.is" wrote: > Create separate title/cover page in LaTeX and assemble the PDFs; seems a > bit kludgy, though should work just fine. Failing any more integrated > approach I would probably do this. This is the approach I've been using for y

Re: Font trouble

2015-04-19 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/04/15 22:57, Wols Lists wrote: > I must admit this is an example of "monkey see, monkey do" coding, but > I'm pretty certain I was given it on this list originally, this is the > second time I've tried to do something like this, and it's most > definitely not right ... > > I'm trying to repl

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-19 Thread Keith OHara
Trevor Daniels treda.co.uk> writes: > Martin Tarenskeen wrote Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:29 PM > > > Just a wild guess: did anyone on Windows try the same speed comparison using > > the --ps option instead of pdf output? > > Just done that. The conversion from ps to pdf takes only a couple o

Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

2015-04-19 Thread PMA
Andrew Bernard wrote: Yes, it is quite muddy! I just took a look at the Guile 2.0 reference manual. Generally they use procedure but the book also uses the term function interchangeably further on inside, so I suppose it does not matter so much! No doubt the book is written by a large team of

Re: Something wrong with transposing instruments?

2015-04-19 Thread Gilles
Hello. On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:00:46 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Gilles, [...] Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the other way

Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

2015-04-19 Thread PMA
Wols Lists wrote: On 18/04/15 22:11, PMA wrote: Aha. So the improper-er their code got, the tougher time compilers had trying to -- as Martin says -- "throw it out". All told, is there now any real need _not_ to use the terms "function" and "procedure" interchangeably? That is, any real need

Re: B Series paper

2015-04-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Andrew, Hi Nick, Maybe try small local printers: they can usually cut you custom sizes in the colour/weight/sort you need. They'll probably quote for few thousand pieces though... Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-19 11:11 GMT+02:00 Nick Payne : > On 19/04/2015 18:46, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Dear Pond

Re: Something wrong with transposing instruments? (Was: Re: Survey: Large scores)

2015-04-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Gilles, >> [...] >> >> Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing >> instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in >> concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the >> other way around, as it is implemented at the moment). >> [...] >

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-04-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, I feel really stupid having said such a silly question just after a first lecture... Here's some old open source code just in case it'll help you find some inspiration ;) : http://www.a1soft.com/smusic/ Sorry for the noise, Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-18 15:16 GMT+02:00 Super-User : > Hi Pi

Re: Introducing some 'path' drawing tools

2015-04-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Paul 2015-04-18 21:22 GMT+02:00 Paul Morris : > Hi Pierre, > > Looking at this some more I see how it would really be handy for working > with paths in LilyPond. Thanks for creating it and sharing it! I made > some revisions to the code in the graph-paper file, simplifying things. > See atta

Re: 256th notes (was: How to define a non existing grob)

2015-04-19 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Added to the LSR: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=995 Cheers, Pierre ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Something wrong with transposing instruments? (Was: Re: Survey: Large scores)

2015-04-19 Thread Gilles
Hi. [Sorry for the thread hijacking.] [...] Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the other way around, as it is implemented at the moment)

Re: Survey: Large scores

2015-04-19 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Kieren, Am Samstag, den 18. April 2015 um 17:54:44 Uhr (-0400) schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > > Would love to see it, but the link didn’t work for me… =\ that's strange. I just tried again and it works for me. Could it be that your browser complained because of a missing certificate as the syste

Re: Problem with repeat alternative endings that contain lyrics andleading rests

2015-04-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Heisen wrote Wednesday, March 25, 2015 3:42 AM > In the following modified example, the first beat of each ending has been > changed to a rest, and a syllable removed from the lyrics to match. Now when > compiled, it shows two first endings and two second endings. Moreover the > log co

Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Yes, it is quite muddy! I just took a look at the Guile 2.0 reference manual. Generally they use procedure but the book also uses the term function interchangeably further on inside, so I suppose it does not matter so much! No doubt the book is written by a large team of authors. An argument f

Re: Specifying output format in the .ly file?

2015-04-19 Thread Anton Curl
Hi Peter, I don't know if it's possible to specify the output format in the Lilypond file, but you can choose the paper size from the command line: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/command_002dline-usage Then you have two commands to run, but you don't have to update your

Re: B Series paper

2015-04-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/04/2015 18:46, Andrew Bernard wrote: Dear Ponderers, Down under here in Australia we use A4 and A3. A4 is just too small for piano music, and A3 is generally too big to fit on the music desk comfortably. The ideal size for me is Klavierformat (235x310mm) which is the standard size of

Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

2015-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 19. April 2015 10:35:08 MESZ, schrieb Andrew Bernard : >Well if you consult the bible Structure and Interpretation of Computer >Programs by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman, the term function is >strictly reserved for mathematical objects, and procedure is uniformly >used for what people loosely

B Series paper

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Dear Ponderers, Down under here in Australia we use A4 and A3. A4 is just too small for piano music, and A3 is generally too big to fit on the music desk comfortably. The ideal size for me is Klavierformat (235x310mm) which is the standard size of editions such as Henle and so on. This paper si

Re: Slur inside tuplet bracket

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Thank you! I have been using  \override TupletBracket.avoid-slur = #’outside to no effect. Why do you have to adjust the number but not the bracket? Not entirely obvious. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu

Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Well if you consult the bible Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman, the term function is strictly reserved for mathematical objects, and procedure is uniformly used for what people loosely call functions. As to the discussion about the distinction b

Re: title_page

2015-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 19. April 2015 10:09:53 MESZ, schrieb Richard Shann : >On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 23:33 +, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: >> I'm trying to make a title/cover page within LilyPond. I'm aware of >the possibility of workarounds: >> >> lilypond-book/LaTeX; Strikes me as a bit ham-fisted, not sure if

Re: title_page

2015-04-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 23:33 +, bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > I'm trying to make a title/cover page within LilyPond. I'm aware of the > possibility of workarounds: > > lilypond-book/LaTeX; Strikes me as a bit ham-fisted, not sure if I would run > into trouble as I've seen the warning about \pa