Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 01:15:08PM +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: [...] >Debian example lags behind the leading edge to focus on stability. [...] To be fair, though, most home Debian users use the testing / unstable releases (that are actually quite stable in spite of the names -- the *really* u

Re: User defined color name

2016-12-30 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Samuel, Use Scheme: #(define myColour (rgb-color 0.898 0.208 0.172)) #(define myOtherColour (rgb-color 0.4 0.3 0.5)) { c'4^\markup { \with-color #myColour "some colour" } c'4^\markup { \with-color #myOtherColour "some other colour" } } Andrew On 31 December 2016 at 06:50, rpspring...

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Martin and All, What you say is true, but is is also the case that distributions, rather than being just branding or naming on top of Linux, tend to focus on certain aspects and become established for that. Debian example lags behind the leading edge to focus on stability. Ubuntu tries to focus

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
This is a long thread ... Never ask "what's the best Linux distro for ..." You will not get a (meaning *one*) usable answer ;-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Blog posts, call for

2016-12-30 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Greg, thanks for replying. Am 30.12.2016 um 22:21 schrieb Gregrs: > > If you feel the urge or have anything to share please feel free to get > > in touch with me. > > Hi Urs, > > I may be able to write a post about my experience of using LilyPond to > engrave a musical that I wrote. I also use

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/12/16 22:10, David Wright wrote: > I don't know whether the OP likes change or not, except that they are > certainly making a big change going from to linux. > It just seemed to me that your posts were expressing negative prejudices > about OSes you don't get on with. I guess I couldn't see

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Dec 2016 at 21:04:23 (+), Wols Lists wrote: > On 30/12/16 04:49, David Wright wrote: > >>> I don't know what the happy medium is, though! > >> > > >> > Start with something easy? Ubuntu or Kubuntu sounds a good choice BUT. I > >> > just cannot get on with Debian-based distros or Gnom

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread Craig Dabelstein
Hi all, Thanks for all the input and suggestions. Happy New Year to all Lilyponders. All the best, Craig On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 at 7:05 am, Wols Lists wrote: > On 30/12/16 04:49, David Wright wrote: > >>> I don't know what the happy medium is, though! > >> > > >> > Start with something easy? Ubun

Re: Blog posts, call for

2016-12-30 Thread Gregrs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >If you feel the urge or have anything to share please feel free to get >in touch with me. Hi Urs, I may be able to write a post about my experience of using LilyPond to engrave a musical that I wrote. I also used git for version control, GNU mak

Suppressing/deleting extra file output

2016-12-30 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
I'm using the lilypond-book preamble to manually prepare scores for inclusion in a LaTeX document. However, this preamble produces a bunch of files which I don't need (.count, .texi, and .eps files) and which are cluttering up my directory, making it hard to find the scores themselves. Are th

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2016-12-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/12/16 04:49, David Wright wrote: >>> I don't know what the happy medium is, though! >> > >> > Start with something easy? Ubuntu or Kubuntu sounds a good choice BUT. I >> > just cannot get on with Debian-based distros or Gnome. > Could you explain that a bit? I can't see why the OP would take

Re: User defined color name

2016-12-30 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2016-12-30 3:07 PM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: mycol = #(rgb-color 0.898 0.208 0.172) Perfect. Thanks. -- ✝ Br. Samuel, OSB St. Anselm’s Abbey Washington, DC (R. Padraic Springuel) PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: User defined color name

2016-12-30 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Samuel, You can assign your color to a variable: either mycol = #(rgb-color 0.898 0.208 0.172) or #(define mycol (rgb-color 0.898 0.208 0.172)) and then use \with-color #mycol HTH Jan-Peter Am 30. Dezember 2016 20:50:17 MEZ, schrieb "Br. Samuel Springuel" : >Is there a way to define a n

User defined color name

2016-12-30 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
Is there a way to define a new color name for use with \with-color in markups? I have a particular color which I'm trying to match and while I have it's RGB profile and can use \with-color #(rgb-color 0.898 0.208 0.172) each time, if I later decide that I need to adjust those numbers to get a

Re: Special bar lines

2016-12-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-12-30 17:52 GMT+01:00 Br. Samuel Springuel : > Whoops. Spoke to soon. I have some scores where I have these special bar > lines and either "|." or ":|." and when made in a universal manner, these > overrides affect them as well (in both the thick line is thinned, in ":|." > the dots are also

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.12.2016 um 12:59 schrieb Klaus Blum: > Don't walk away... Bad English doesn't always have to be a shame: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MaO0OAZZUE > ;-) > (To all Germans: Don't be afraid, it's NOT that famous Oettinger > video...) LOL. To which of the numerous highlights are you refer

Re: Special bar lines

2016-12-30 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
Whoops. Spoke to soon. I have some scores where I have these special bar lines and either "|." or ":|." and when made in a universal manner, these overrides affect them as well (in both the thick line is thinned, in ":|." the dots are also reduced in size). Is there a way to change these set

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread SoundsFromSound
Klaus Blum wrote > > SoundsFromSound wrote >> Anyone know how to change the font of the macro editor window / >> itself / >> in OooLilyPond? > I can only speak for OpenOffice, but I guess it works in a similar way on > LibreOffice, so here we go: > > Open the OooLilyPond macro, just as you did

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread Klaus Blum
Hi guys, thanks for all the replies! Am 30.12.2016 um 07:36 schrieb Brian Barker: At 09:17 30/12/2016 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: How did OOoLP accomplish this? - by distracting an axe murderer who loves beautiful scores thus giving you enough time to escape? OOoLP giving you external hea

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread Klaus Blum
SoundsFromSound wrote > Anyone know how to change the font of the macro editor window / > itself / > in OooLilyPond? I can only speak for OpenOffice, but I guess it works in a similar way on LibreOffice, so here we go: Open the OooLilyPond macro, just as you did before. There you have some ta

Re: French tablature?

2016-12-30 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Many thanks - I've taken your advice to upgrade to version 2.19.53 (also advised by other correspondents), and ran your example with the code block to fix the alignment. It looks lovely! Is it possible to write tablature directly as letters on the 6-line staff, rather than as pitches? The re

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30. Dezember 2016 09:32:42 MEZ, schrieb "m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl" : >Shouldn't this go in a real bugreport/patchsuggestion somewhere, so we >can expect a new OooLP some day? The latest release is quite old. Is >someone maintaining it? IIRC it is officially unmaintained. Quite a pity ... Urs

Re: French tablature?

2016-12-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.12.2016 um 09:27 schrieb Malte Meyn: Then you can add the following code to the \layout-\context-\TabStaff block (f. e. after setting tablatureFormat): \override TabNoteHead.before-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'Y-offset (+

Re: OOoLilyPond

2016-12-30 Thread m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl
Shouldn't this go in a real bugreport/patchsuggestion somewhere, so we can expect a new OooLP some day? The latest release is quite old. Is someone maintaining it?MTVerzonden vanaf mijn Huawei mobiele telefoon Oorspronkelijk bericht Onderwerp: Re: OOoLilyPondVan: Martin Tarenskeen A

Re: French tablature?

2016-12-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.12.2016 um 09:09 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew: I tried it without the RhythmicStaff, just to see what the tablature looks like. However, the tablature is written on the lines, rather than between them. I suppose this could be tweaked by moving all the letters up by half the distance betwee

Re: French tablature?

2016-12-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.12.2016 um 05:16 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew: Many thanks! I didn't know about RhythmicStaff. Is this all possible in version 2.18.2 (which I'm using)? Not everything is possible: the additionalBassStrings property has been added in 2.19; so 2.18.2 won’t support this. /home/Lilypond

Re: French tablature?

2016-12-30 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I tried it without the RhythmicStaff, just to see what the tablature looks like. However, the tablature is written on the lines, rather than between them. I suppose this could be tweaked by moving all the letters up by half the distance between lines, but it would be nice to have this done au