Re: Lilypond SVG output in 2.12.1

2009-02-03 Thread Benjamin Esham
Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: I've had a look at making this correction using a sed script, but can't find anything in the documentation relating to the handling of hexadecimal numbers. Does anyone have any ideas, before I write a script manually correcting each grob? Does anyone know where th

Re: Lilypond on Leopard - who has it working?

2007-12-16 Thread Benjamin Esham
Sven Axelsson wrote: > OK, I know. The standard reply to the Lilypond vs. Lopard question is > "compile it yourself". I could do that, but I believe it is a bit more > complicated than just > > make > sudo make install > > so it wold be easier if someone who has done this already could m

Re: Lilypond SVG output

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin Esham
Graham Percival wrote: > Benjamin Esham wrote: > > > > > [getting usable SVG output from LilyPond] > > > > FWIW, this how-to is now available from the LSR at > > <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=334>. > > Great! I'm very interes

Re: Lilypond SVG output

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin Esham
Benjamin Esham wrote: > [getting usable SVG output from LilyPond] FWIW, this how-to is now available from the LSR at <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=334>. Cheers, -- Benjamin D. Esham E-mail/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM bdesham128 | PGP D676BB9A "Science is a dif

Re: Lilypond SVG output

2007-09-03 Thread Benjamin Esham
Benjamin Esham wrote: > [how to get usable SVG output from LilyPond] I neglected to mention two things... First, there are still some symbols (such as the piano-staff brace) that do not show up in Inkscape. I'm not sure whether this is a LilyPond issue, a font issue, or an Inksca

Re: Lilypond SVG output

2007-09-03 Thread Benjamin Esham
[cc'ing to the list] Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: Dear Benjamin and Nick, This was just to let you know that I've got fixing the Lilypond SVG output down to three "replace" operations in EMacs. Editing the SVG file you replace: 1: all occurrences of "feta-alphabet20" with "Emmentaler" 2: al

Re: SVG output sponsorship

2007-08-15 Thread Benjamin Esham
Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: > While I'm a committed Lilyponder, and much prefer the output to other > programs, [fixing Lilypond's SVG output] would seem to be a valuable > investment in terms of user-friendliness. Could you give me an estimate of > what this would cost, Han-Wen? Are there others w

Re: LilyPond extension/plugin for MediaWiki software

2007-07-26 Thread Benjamin Esham
Mark Dewey wrote: > I've heard tell that there is a LilyPond extension or plugin for MediaWiki > (that's the software they use with Wikipedia). I have a wiki > (HymnWiki.org) that uses LilyPond files quite a bit . . . so, I'm > interested in finding out what the plugin is for, what it is called,

Re: Fonts in SVG output

2007-07-07 Thread Benjamin Esham
Graham Percival wrote: > I strongly urge anybody who is interested in SVG support to consider > contributing resources (either source code or offering a bounty) to this > end. If you are involved in a project that uses SVG (like this Wikimedia > Commons thing), then perhaps you could encourage on

Re: Fonts in SVG output

2007-07-07 Thread Benjamin Esham
Benjamin Esham wrote: > I'm having some issues with Lilypond 2.10.x's SVG export. I seem to have fixed most (all?) of my font problems. I now have another problem, however. In order to submit one of LilyPond's SVGs to e.g. the Wikimedia Commons, it is necessary to convert al

Hard-to-engrave bits involving polyphony

2007-06-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I'm engraving one of Chopin's nocturnes for Mutopia and I've run into a couple of limitations that I don't know how to get around. First off, I have a situation like this: \relative c'' { << { f8 e ~ } \\ { c4 s4 } >> } where I need the c4 tied to the c in the first —in

Re: Fonts in SVG output

2007-06-01 Thread Benjamin Esham
John Mandereau wrote: Currently, it's not a good idea to include SVG files generated by LilyPond in web pages on the Internet, because you have to make sure OTF fonts -- from the LilyPond version used to generate the SVG -- are installed on the (e.g. in ~/.fonts). SVG files generated by Lily

Re: Fonts in SVG output

2007-05-31 Thread Benjamin Esham
Krokyn wrote: and the piano-staff brace showed up as a small box. I think there is problem with font, not in Inkscape. Preview of svg file is with bad fonts in Gnome Nautilus too. It is not possible choose Aubabtu from font list in Text Editors (I tried it in OpenOffice in Ubuntu). And I

Fonts in SVG output

2007-05-27 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I'm having some issues with Lilypond 2.10.x's SVG export. I tried to open an exported file in Inkscape 0.44.1, and most of the music showed up fine, but the time signature was in a wrong font, and the piano-staff brace showed up as a small box. I've already copied the fonts

Re: Markup for cadenza rest

2007-03-22 Thread Benjamin Esham
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I am typesetting a horn part from a piano concerto, and I'm having difficulty with the "Cadenza" rests in the piece. What I would like is a rest in the staff—it can be a 4-beat rest, like r1, a full- measure rest, like R1, or a long multi-measure rest, with the h

Markup for cadenza rest

2007-03-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I am typesetting a horn part from a piano concerto, and I'm having difficulty with the "Cadenza" rests in the piece. What I would like is a rest in the staff—it can be a 4-beat rest, like r1, a full- measure rest, like R1, or a long multi-measure rest, with the horizontal bar;

RSS/Atom feed for new releases?

2007-02-02 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, Is there any RSS (or Atom) feed currently set up to track new releases? I try to keep up with the latest stable release of LilyPond, but in order to do so I have to visit the website periodically, which I can never remember to do. I took a look at the git page, and there seem

Re: how to invoke lilypond from vim

2006-11-16 Thread Benjamin Esham
[Sorry about that… I replied to the sender and forgot to include the list.] Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Good night to all, I was wondering how can I invoke lilypond from vim ? I tried with :make but it invokes gnu make. I looked at lilypond.vim on compilers folder of vim plugin and it s

Re: Syntax questions

2006-09-26 Thread Benjamin Esham
Markus Schneider wrote: Hi Benjamin, Lilypond and I are disagreeing about some syntax in 2.8, hopefully someone can help... hn = { \markup{Hn.} } use: hn = \markup{Hn.} Also, I'm having difficulty understanding the syntax of the \column command. cText = \markup { \column { "1st" "2nd" "3

Syntax questions

2006-09-25 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, Lilypond and I are disagreeing about some syntax in 2.8, hopefully someone can help... I have a statement like hn = { \markup{Hn.} } in the body of my .ly file; it's not inside any blocks or anything, it's just out by itself. Lilypond claims that the above statement is a s

Re: Half-sheet music

2006-09-12 Thread Benjamin Esham
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Mattl wrote: I am trying to re-write a hard-to-read half sheet of music for my marching band. It needs to take up a half sheet, and i can't figure out how to do this. The dimensions I need are 8.5 by 5.5 inches, and i need them ASAP. Thanks in advance for

Re: Preferred way of invoking lilypond from the commandline under OS X?

2006-09-02 Thread Benjamin Esham
Graham Percival wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: Graham, I know the manual is feature-ready and in a wait state for final release. If it's easy to add, we might insert into 13.2 something like "To invoke LilyPond from the commandline under OS X, run path/to/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypo

Benefits of OS X binary vs. Fink version?

2006-08-29 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I use Mac OS X, and have Lilypond installed with Fink. Recently, however, with the transition to Intel hardware, the latest version of Lilypond available there is 2.6.3. (2.8.2 is listed, but does not compile for me.) What are the advantages and disadvantages of downloading

Re: LilyPond 2.8 for OS X with Fink?

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Esham
Matthias Neeracher wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: Does anyone (Matthias?) have any idea when LilyPond 2.8 and/or 2.9 will become available for Mac OS X through Fink? I have the latest package descriptions from CVS, and the latest versions available are 2.6.4 (for stable) and 2.7.28 (for

LilyPond 2.8 for OS X with Fink?

2006-05-13 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, Does anyone (Matthias?) have any idea when LilyPond 2.8 and/or 2.9 will become available for Mac OS X through Fink? I have the latest package descriptions from CVS, and the latest versions available are 2.6.4 (for stable) and 2.7.28 (for testing). Cheers, -- Benjamin D. Esham [EMAIL

Re: LilyPond and OpenDocument

2006-05-04 Thread Benjamin Esham
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: There is a notice in the sponsoring section of the website that lists something about OOorg. I wrote and asked Han-Wen about it and was told that there was a bridge that made the project possible but that it would be expensive You might want to take

Re: Auto beaming question

2006-02-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Joe Neeman wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: - groups of sixteenth and thirty-second notes. These should also be beamed per beat, e.g. three sixteenths and two thirty-seconds. #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 32 * *) 1 4) #(override-auto-beam-se

Auto beaming question

2006-02-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I'm trying to typeset a piece (it's the Allemanda from Bach's second violin partita, BWV 1004, in case you care). I'm having a little bit of trouble configuring the auto beaming to do exactly what I want. There are basically three rhythmic units present in the piece (which is

Re: Why not a forum?

2005-11-14 Thread Benjamin Esham
Johann Petrak wrote: I am pretty new to lilypond and this list, but I wonder if it would be possible to create a discussion forum on the lilypond website? My experience is that forums are much more convenient to discuss problems. One of the advantages is that one can make different forums for

Re: Favorite editor

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans wrote: I am new to the list, but I have been using Lilypond for the last year or so, currently version 2.4.5 on Debian Sarge. Right now I edit ly-files with Midnight Commander, have a terminal open for making output and a file-manager to o

Changing the font for all text in a document

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Esham
In LilyPond 2.6.x, is it possible to select a certain font to be used for all text? I looked at the "font selection" section of the manual, but didn't really see a way to change the font for everything in the document. Can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks! -- Benjamin D. Esham [EMA

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-26 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: LilyPond started to use an ugly sans-serif font (Verdana, specifically) for all text in my score-- titles, bar numbers, text markups, etc. This happens even in files with no special font-related commands

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-25 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jul 25, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm using LilyPond 2.6.1 with fink 0.24.7 on Mac OS X 10.4.2. After I updated from Lily 2.4.x to 2.6.1, LilyPond started to use an ugly sans-serif font (Verdana, specifically) for all text in my score-- t

LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-24 Thread Benjamin Esham
I'm using LilyPond 2.6.1 with fink 0.24.7 on Mac OS X 10.4.2. After I updated from Lily 2.4.x to 2.6.1, LilyPond started to use an ugly sans-serif font (Verdana, specifically) for all text in my score-- titles, bar numbers, text markups, etc. This happens even in files with no special fon

Re: More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:43 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 21:40 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm trying to typeset music that has three one-measure repeats in a row-- i.e., the measure before them

Re: More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm trying to typeset music that has three one-measure repeats in a row-- i.e., the measure before them is to be played a total of four times. Is there a way to get

More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-20 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to typeset music that has three one-measure repeats in a row-- i.e., the measure before them is to be played a total of four times. Is there a way to get this using LilyPond? I couldn't find anything in the manual or the mailing lis

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing l ist (was: accord en français)

2005-06-24 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jun 24, 2005, at 9:10 AM, andrea valle wrote: (...Ehm, I'm sorry to be unpopular and I don't want to seem unkind...). I understand with no problem French and I like it very much even if I cannot speak it, but the language of the list is, helas!, English: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: New glyph, language.ly (from: notation for pitch bends and drops)

2005-02-09 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:43 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Is there any objection to my having my own language.ly? [...] I don't like to hack like that without permission, especially if I'm the only one doing the thing in question. Go right ahead-- there

Re: Extra bar at the end.

2005-01-17 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jan 17, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! What am I missing here? Using 2.2.2, the PDF output has an extra bar at the very end of the bass clef (but not in the treble clef). I've checked all my notes and words, and everything seems correct, but there is that strange extra empty ba

Re: arpeggio in polyphony

2005-01-17 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jan 17, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Albert Einstein wrote: Do someone know what changes must be set to connect arpeggio' brackets in one? I attach files: ly (2.4.2) and gif illustrate problem -- on picture thera are two brackets not one as I want; I need one bracket for barre (fret indication) in guita

Re: reminder accidentals

2004-12-24 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Dec 24, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Ridwan Sami wrote: Benjamin Esham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does anyone know of a way to put the "!" at the end of notes in an lengthy .ly file quickly so that there are no syntax errors? What text editor are you using? You (or someone else) could

Re: reminder accidentals

2004-12-24 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Dec 24, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Ridwan Sami wrote: i have this habit of forgetting to play certain notes as sharp of flat when a peice has a key signature other than c major. i would manually put in the "!" for accidental reminders but there are well over ten-thousand such notes in the peices that i a

Re: forte subite under the pitch

2004-12-21 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Dec 21, 2004, at 7:00 AM, Albert Einstein wrote: I need two words under one pitch: \f subito When I use a''\f_\markup{subito} then subito covers forte sign. What is the solution? One possible solution (untested): a''\markup{\dynamic f subito} HTH, -- Benjamin D. Esham{ http://b

PianoStaff label moving downwards

2004-12-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello all, I'm typesetting some piano music with LilyPond 2.4.2, and I'd like the grand staff to be labeled "19". Using the code below, it was working fine, but all of a sudden the label moved downwards. I can't figure out what I changed to cause this; does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! \co

Slurs and polyphony

2004-11-20 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any clean-looking way to use slurs that do the following-- - - start in the default (i.e. monophonic) voice and end in a polyphonic voice? - - start in a polyphonic voice and end in the default voice? - - start in one polyphonic voice and end

Re: Custom paper sizes?

2004-11-14 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 14, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Any ideas what's going on, and how I can set a custom paper size? (Are there other variables that need to be set in \paper?) I think you will have to set all relevant variables: linewidth, textheight, a

Re: Custom paper sizes?

2004-11-14 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 14, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: How do I manually set the height and width of the paper I'm printing/ outputting to? I tried to set [hv]size in the \layout block, but nothing seemed to change. What version

Custom paper sizes?

2004-11-14 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I manually set the height and width of the paper I'm printing/ outputting to? I tried to set [hv]size in the \layout block, but nothing seemed to change. I also tried to manually edit paper.scm by adding another line like ("handheld" . (con

Re: natural sign before g'' in combination gis' g''

2004-11-13 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 13, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Albert Einstein wrote: Why lilypond don't put natral before g'' in combination gis' g'' ? a'\mf gis' a' \< g'' >~ 8 < a' c''>16 % bar < g' e''> dis'' e''\! a''~ a'' c''' g'' e'' % bar 8 f' b' e''>16\> 8 < e' g' c''>1

Full-sized clefs for clef changes?

2004-11-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
I'm engraving a simple piece-- it's a demonstration of middle C with various clefs, and it looks like this: \clef treblec'1 \clef alto c' \clef tenor c' \clef bass c' After each whole note, there is a small clef, a bar line, and then the next note. Is there a way to a) make the c

Re: Making a fake half note

2004-11-08 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Nov 8, 2004, at 5:05 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: This feature is now described in a subsection of the manual called "Scaling durations". Can you propose some change to the documentation that makes it easier to find this useful trick? (Of course, there are hundreds of different small tricks that ma

Re: Making a fake half note

2004-11-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Nov 6, 2004, at 8:25 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm trying to engrave a quarter note with a half note (i.e., empty) head. I'm guessing I have to play with the style property of NoteHead; however, the manual doesn't give any indication of what kinds

Making a fake half note

2004-11-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to engrave a quarter note with a half note (i.e., empty) head. I'm guessing I have to play with the style property of NoteHead; however, the manual doesn't give any indication of what kinds of values this property can be changed to. What

Changing spacing-increment under 2.3.25?

2004-10-31 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm using LilyPond 2.3.25 under Mac OS X, and I'm trying to change the value of spacing-increment. With previous versions, I could do, e.g., \paper { \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #3.0 } } but in the latest ve

Re: two questions

2004-10-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 11, 2004, at 8:10 PM, Michiel Lange wrote: when I create a part like this [...] The music shifts up one octave (quite logically) I "fixed" it so far with \octave c'' wherever it would go wrong... Is there a way to prevent this (as \octave c'' w

Problems with titling in 2.3.16

2004-09-18 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Lilypond 2.3.16 through Fink, and I'm having trouble with titling (i.e. the header). My title line looks like thisâ title = "Star-Spangled Banner" When I run Lilypond on the file, the title is "Star Spangled Banner"âwhere the hyphen

Re: Code check for a measure error, please

2004-09-03 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I'm working on a score and cannot find what cause of a measure check error is. I've pasted the code below, with the results of running lilypond on the file. r16 f16.[ ef16] d8--[ bf,--]

Re: Natural signs in accidentals

2004-08-13 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 13, 2004, at 4:17 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: It is actually in the documentation. At the bottom of the section on Accidentals, you can find links to the Program reference of the Accidental_engraver. In the list of properties, you can find a property called extraNatural that handles exactly th

Natural signs in accidentals

2004-08-12 Thread Benjamin Esham
Maybe this is addressed in the documentation, but I didn't see it anywhere, so I'm asking here.—Anyway, consider this music snippet: \key a \major% three sharps: F#, C#, G# ges'1 The G-flat is displayed with two accidentals: a natural (which I assume is supposed to cancel the sharp in th

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:43 AM, David Rogers wrote: As a temporary fix, is it possible to let it print the old-style signs but add your own number over top? The players would probably not be too disturbed... I'm not exactly sure what you want, but maybe something like this? \time 4/4 R1*2^\markup{\n

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 11, 2004, at 4:04 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: To see what I'm talking about, take a look at the first example image in the "Multi measure rests" section of the user manual. The 17-measure rest is as I described it above, while the 4-measure rest is displayed differently. I'm trying to get

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-11 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 11, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: - Can a \sffz dynamic command be added? One can make this using text markups, but it seems like the "real" dynamic markings are more horizontally centered on the notes than the markups. This is unfortunately not answered in the documentation, b

Re: Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 10, 2004, at 11:28 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On 10-Aug-04, at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: - In concert band music, multi-measure rests always appear as a thick horizontal bar with vertical flares at each end-- for an example of this, see the 17-measure rest in the "Multi measure

Some random lilypond questions

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
I have a bunch of mostly unrelated questions about lilypond. Any responses to any of these items would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! - In concert band music, multi-measure rests always appear as a thick horizontal bar with vertical flares at each end-- for an example of this, see the 17-measur

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Paul Scott wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 03:43 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote: I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections. In these sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth not

Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections. In these sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth note. I'm trying to typeset an indication of this; usually, it appears as two beamed eighth notes, an equals sign, and then a quarter and an eig

Re: metronome mark

2004-08-06 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Libero Mureddu wrote: Il giorno 06/ago/04, alle 11:21, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto: Unfortunately, you have found a bug that was introduced in version 2.2.5. If you have the possibility to install version 2.2.4 the metronome markings should work correctly. I will send a bu

Lilypond can't find its fonts

2004-08-01 Thread Benjamin Esham
(This is being cross-posted to both lilypond-user and fink-users. Please reply to only one of these lists.) I'm using LilyPond 2.3.8 (package lilypond-unstable 2.3.8-1) with fink 0.20.6 and the latest package descriptions, and my OS is Mac OS X.3.4. I'm having all kinds of trouble with Lily. Fo

Re: help

2004-07-31 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jul 31, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Graham Percival wrote: If Rosegarden/Noteedit/MusE/ any those graphical score editing programs (that also export lily code) run on windows and osx in addition to Linux, it might be better to point newbies at those programs. Lilypond could focus its speciality (makin

Re: sharing our .ly

2004-07-09 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Jul 9, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 13.12, Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote: I think it would be profitable for all of us that we share our .ly : to my mind, full examples could be a good help for all of us. What do you think of creating a "your .ly" list in the lily

Problems running LilyPond on OS X

2004-06-24 Thread Benjamin Esham
I'm running LilyPond 2.2.3 with fink, and whenever I try to process a file I get this: paper output to `keys.tex'... Analyzing keys.tex... Running ... lilypond: error: LaTeX failed on the output file. lilypond: error: The error log is as follows: LATEX output to `keys.late

Positioning of absolute dynamics

2004-05-01 Thread Benjamin Esham
I am using lilypond 2.1.37, and am trying to typeset some absolute dynamic markings so that they are not strictly below the note in question, but off to the left (and therefore above where they would normally be). I looked in the manual, but couldn't seem to find anything. How is it possible t

Re: 2 Questions: spacing-increment and bar numbers

2004-03-27 Thread Benjamin Esham
On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using Lilypond 2.1.28 on Mac OS X 10.3.2. I can't manually set the horizontal spacing of my music. The example given in the reference manual, \paper { \translator { \ScoreContext SpacingSpanner \overr

2 Questions: spacing-increment and bar numbers

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Esham
(I'm sorry if I sent this twice; I didn't receive a copy of the message even though I am set to receive copies of my own messages, so I thought that maybe it hadn't been delivered.) Hello, I am using Lilypond 2.1.28 on Mac OS X 10.3.2. I can't manually set the horizontal spacing of my music. The

2 Questions: spacing-increment and bar numbers

2004-03-10 Thread Benjamin Esham
Hello, I am using Lilypond 2.1.28 on Mac OS X 10.3.2. I can't manually set the horizontal spacing of my music. The example given in the reference manual, \paper { \translator { \ScoreContext SpacingSpanner \override #'spacing-increment = #3.0 } } does not work for me. I also tried pu