Re: [OT] Linux Users

2017-11-17 Thread Jaime
What do you mean by graphical tools? J Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 17, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Brett M. Gilio wrote: > > How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any of > you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather than > graphical

[OT] Linux Users

2017-11-17 Thread Brett M. Gilio
How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any of you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather than graphical tools? BMG -- Brett M. Gilio B.S. Biological Sciences B.M. Music Composition http://www.brettgilio.com/

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Louis Guillaume
On 11/17/17 10:30 AM, Edward Neeman wrote: Hello, 1. Why the giant gap between scores when the music goes to a second page? - (this happens regardless of how ragged-last-bottom is set) ragged-last-bottom doesn't seem to affect the space between score blocks, so multiple score blocks are

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Richard Chonak
The first line is indented because of the default indent setting. You can control this in the \layout block. For example: \layout { indent = 1\cm } If you specify a zero, then omit the units and enter simply: "indent = 0". If you have two \score objects in a single .ly file, each one has

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Vivyan, Am 17.11.2017 um 20:01 schrieb Vivyan: I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. This is a good idea ;-) Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? It's

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 17/11/17 21:28, Peter Chubb wrote: > For interest, here's a link to a short article written by Poul > Anderson, as if English were purged of almost all non-germanic words, > and still used German-style compounds. > > Very off topic! >

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Peter Chubb
For interest, here's a link to a short article written by Poul Anderson, as if English were purged of almost all non-germanic words, and still used German-style compounds. Very off topic! https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ -- Dr

Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Vivyan
I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wol, >>> Even the possessive "Kieren's" is derived from old English "Kierenes" >>> (though even most native speakers don't know that). >> Of course, they don't need to know that because English accepts >> 's tacked onto almost anything to indicate a possessive relationship.² > Because the

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 17.11.2017 20:01, Vivyan wrote: I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? Welcome to the Pond! In general, starting out with LilyPond gets a lot easier if you work your way through the Learning Manual – it

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Ben
On 11/17/2017 2:01 PM, Vivyan wrote: I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? -- Sent from:

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Caagr98
That looks like you're creating a new score for the third line. It has indentation, no measure number, a new clef without a courtesy clef, etc.. It looks like you intended to place both staves in parallel inside a PianoStaff, but you've somehow put them in different \score blocks instead. On

Re: Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Ben
On 11/17/2017 2:01 PM, Vivyan wrote: I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? Hi Vivyan, Can you please share the code of

Tidying Score

2017-11-17 Thread Vivyan
I'm just starting writing music using lilypond. Im getting this problem where my staves arn't lining up how can I fix this? -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread mskala
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, J Martin Rushton wrote: > There is a similar issue with the "apologetic apostrophe" in Scots. > From the 18thC to mid-20thC writers inserted apostrophes where Scots > didn't have a consonant that English does. For instance the English > word "give" is equivalent to the Scots

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Karlin High
On 11/17/2017 11:43 AM, Wol's lists wrote: If you don't, you get into the Humpty Dumpty world of "words mean what I say they mean" and you can't understand what someone else is saying https://xkcd.com/1860/ it's like people saying "computer memory" when they mean the hard disk... Or my

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Wol's lists
On 17/11/17 16:10, David Wright wrote: On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, [Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:] An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 17/11/17 07:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Some people also think they need to use an apostrophe in dialect words like > "Mader’l" (Bavarian/Austrian diminutive of "Maid/Mädchen"), and that’s also > completely wrong, since "-e(r)l" ("-le" in Suebian, "-li" in Swiss German) is > just

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread David Wright
On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 07:45:58 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi all, > > [Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:] > > An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" > > (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English use in "don’t" (do not). > > It's

Re: Moving from lilypond 2.18 to 2.19

2017-11-17 Thread David Kastrup
Matt Wallis writes: > On 17/11/2017 14:15, David Kastrup wrote: >>> There are no error messages referring to my own lilypond source files, >>> which makes me wonder what's going on here. >> Your source is triggering an error in the library. Have you called >> convert-ly -ed on

Re: Moving from lilypond 2.18 to 2.19

2017-11-17 Thread Matt Wallis
On 17/11/2017 14:15, David Kastrup wrote: There are no error messages referring to my own lilypond source files, which makes me wonder what's going on here. Your source is triggering an error in the library. Have you called convert-ly -ed on your source in order to upgrade its syntax? I

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Hello, > 1. Why the giant gap between scores when the music goes to a second page? - > (this happens regardless of how ragged-last-bottom is set) ragged-last-bottom doesn't seem to affect the space between score blocks, so multiple score blocks are spaced out evenly on the last page, even if

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Ben
On 11/17/2017 9:39 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote: Hello, Yes when you uncomment out those measures I see what you mean. You have a few options. If you really want to compact, just add ragged-last-bottom = ##f to the paper block and it looks nice and tidy together :) You are using multiple

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Louis Guillaume
On 11/17/17 9:00 AM, Ben wrote: On 11/17/2017 1:19 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote: On 11/16/17 8:18 PM, Ben wrote: On 11/16/2017 5:11 PM, Louis Guillaume wrote: \score {     ... } Hello, Your code does not compile, could you share a working example so we can help you better with the indent,

Re: Moving from lilypond 2.18 to 2.19

2017-11-17 Thread David Kastrup
Matt Wallis writes: > Hi, > > Having seen that many here are using 2.19, I thought I'd have a go. I > use both Mac/OS and Linux, but what I'm describing here is for Mac/OS. > > I install lilypond via macports which provides two packages: > >lilypond @2.18.2_5 (textproc) >

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Ben
On 11/17/2017 1:19 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote: On 11/16/17 8:18 PM, Ben wrote: On 11/16/2017 5:11 PM, Louis Guillaume wrote: \score {     ... } Hello, Your code does not compile, could you share a working example so we can help you better with the indent, etc? Also, let us know what

Moving from lilypond 2.18 to 2.19

2017-11-17 Thread Matt Wallis
Hi, Having seen that many here are using 2.19, I thought I'd have a go. I use both Mac/OS and Linux, but what I'm describing here is for Mac/OS. I install lilypond via macports which provides two packages: lilypond @2.18.2_5 (textproc) lilypond-devel @2.19.80 (textproc) So, I

Re: The space between "\score"s

2017-11-17 Thread Edward Neeman
You'll want to adjust the score-system-spacing variable in the \paper block. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables Did you try setting ragged-last-bottom = ##f? Best, Edward -- Dr. Edward Neeman Adjunct Instructor, South

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > An apostrophe in German is a sign for something left out like "so’n Ding" > (short for "so ein Ding"), similar to English use in "don’t" (do not). It's the same in English, naturally. Even the possessive "Kieren's" is derived from old English "Kierenes" (though even most native

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
In this example ... Der Vogelsberg, wo's.." the apostrophe makes the sentence ambiguous. Grammatically it is correct, however the apostrophe can stand for "es" or "das" (non PC). The version "...wos " is not correct and not used in correct German. Regards Am 17.11.2017 10:48, schrieb Knut

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

2017-11-17 Thread Knut Petersen
Am 17.11.2017 um 08:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: The wrong use of an apostrophe in German is called "Deppen-Apostroph" (Deppostroph?), it shows only that you don’t master your mother language. Sometimes an apostrophe completely changes the meaning of a sentence: "Der Vogelsberg, wo's