Re: Pitch notation

2007-02-24 Thread Carrick Patterson
er lines, you see > > where the problem starts. And it uses the fewest possible keystrokes. > > > > Imre > > -- > > McMaster University > > Advanced Optimization Lab > > > > > ___ > lilypond-user maili

Re: Tag Schmag

2006-09-03 Thread Carrick Patterson
PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 06:59:24PM -0500, Carrick Patterson wrote: > > > >If there is ANYBODY out there who can figure out how to use \tag and > >its related commands from the Lilypond documentation I would like to > >shake this person's h

Tag Schmag

2006-09-02 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Tag Schmag If there is ANYBODY out there who can figure out how to use \tag and its related commands from the Lilypond documentation I would like to shake this person's hand and buy him a Daniel Webster cigar. ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: Fingering Type Size

2006-05-25 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Fingering Type Size Hi, Carrick: > Using version 2.8 on the Macintosh, I have been trying to make > the fingering numbers (for cello) a bit bigger to suit my aging eyes. > > I put in: >    \override Fingering #'font-size = #2 > > This made the fingering numbers about four times bigge

Fingering Type Size

2006-05-25 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Fingering Type Size Using version 2.8 on the Macintosh, I have been trying to make the fingering numbers (for cello) a bit bigger to suit my aging eyes. I put in: \override Fingering #'font-size = #2 This made the fingering numbers about four times bigger. So I tried reducing the numbe

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-05-02 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Block diagram of LilyPond I bet what is meant here is a block diagram of contexts and whatever. I'd find that useful as well. From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:16:05 +0200 To: Tomas Valusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bl

Re: mac osx point and click editor

2006-05-01 Thread Carrick Patterson
TextWrangler when I double click on them, which is great. > > > > But when I point and click at an item in a PDF file of an ly score, it > > still is opened by the LilyPond.app. > > > > Any other clues? > > > > Sean > > > > On 01.05.2006, at 1

Re: mac osx point and click editor

2006-05-01 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: mac osx point and click editor Click on an .ly file and do Get Info. You'll see a place where you can change the application that opens the file. Change to the application you like. There is an option to change all files of this kind to that application. Choose that. From: Sean Reed

Re: Whole-time rest and 3/4 time in 2.8.1

2006-04-09 Thread Carrick Patterson
making "threst" detect what time signature it was in, > and modify the "\times x/y" accordingly. > > Cheers, > - Graham > > > > _______ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.or

Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual

2006-04-08 Thread Carrick Patterson
IL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:26:46 -0700 To: Carrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "lilypond-user@gnu.org list" Subject: Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending Requires change to manual Ok I can make some sense of that but Heads up t

Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending

2006-04-07 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: problem with \partial repeated in second ending You have to do a \partial on the last measure of the first ending. From: "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Sound and Silence Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:50:29 -0700 To: "lilyp

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-06 Thread Carrick Patterson
e and kind patience in trying to explain this. From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:40:25 +0200 To: Carrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Lilypond mailing list Subject: Re: Macro pre-processing? That's exactly what you can do if you read those section

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-06 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Macro pre-processing? Yeah. Thanks. It still would be nice to be able to do something like \myPad 3.0. From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:17:22 +0200 To: Carrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-06 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Macro pre-processing? If somehow you find an answer to this and it doesn't make the list, I wish you'd post it. I can think of a million uses for being able to pass a variable to a function on the fly, and never have figured out how to do it without having a second variable that is ac

Re: No pagebreaks within a score?

2006-04-04 Thread Carrick Patterson
ne have any suggestions? > In Section 10.5.9 of the manual it suggests: "To force a new page for a new piece (in a collection of pieces or a piece in several movements), use breakbefore in the header." Will that work for you? -- Carrick Patterson Little Rock AR

Re: Change pdf viewer on mac

2006-04-02 Thread Carrick Patterson
Quoting mark oilcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- Carrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting mark oilcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > --- Orm Finnendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Change pdf viewer on mac

2006-04-02 Thread Carrick Patterson
___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > Why don't you just put at the top of your file: \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t -- Carrick Patterson Little Rock AR ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: is this a bug 2.8.0 with \turn ?

2006-03-27 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: is this a bug 2.8.0 with \turn ? You have accidentally dotted the quarter note C in the measure before the turn. That's what's throwing your time off. From: "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Sound and Silence Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27

Re: Links Missing in 2.8 Regression Tests

2006-03-23 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Re: Links Missing in 2.8 Regression Tests The file names do not work as links, although the music samples do. Sorry I was unclear. Both worked on previous versions. From: Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:27:46 -0800 To: Carrick Patterson <[EMAIL

Links Missing in 2.8 Regression Tests

2006-03-22 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Links Missing in 2.8 Regression Tests FYI the links to associated ".ly" documents are not activated in the Version 2.8 Regression Tests document. thanks. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listin

Verbose Readout

2006-03-22 Thread Carrick Patterson
On the Mac the new stable version prints in the progress window a bunch of extra information including paths to just about every file on my computer every time I "Typeset" a Lilypond file. Is there any way to revert this behavior to just printing out minimal progress information and error tracing?

Re: lyric spacing : "why not follow instructions in manual"

2006-03-16 Thread Carrick Patterson
Quoting Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I've been working on converting > files to 2.7.38 for the last few days and I'm in full agreement with > Fr. P on this. The lyric spacing in 2.7.38 is very, very bad (see the > attached image, generated from the atta

Re: STEM COLLISION

2006-03-07 Thread Carrick Patterson
Quoting MX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bonjour à tous, Hi all. > > On the attached picture [original.png] at the sopano voice, at the > beginning of the measure, there are at the same time an F quarter note > with a mordent (only for this note) and a dotted eighth note A. In the > original score, these

Re: color constants?

2006-03-07 Thread Carrick Patterson
nd variable: azure > > Parsing...ERROR: Unbound variable: salmon > > Please send a minimal, full example to the bugs list, including your > version and OS. You know the drill. :) > > Cheers, > - Graham > > > _______ > lil

Re: How to 'unset" something

2006-03-05 Thread Carrick Patterson
epends on your OS, but you'll probably find it if > you scan your entire file system. > > -- > Erik > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >

Re: more text-interspersing issues

2006-03-04 Thread Carrick Patterson
After painful experimentation I have found that this works (note that the material after \justify has to be enclosed in curly brackets): \markup{ \override #'(line-width . 110) \justify{The first exercise is to be done with very short bow movements of about one inch. The tapping or flic

Force Line Ending

2006-03-03 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Force Line Ending Is there a way within a "\markup" block with "\wordwrap" applied to force a text line ending? I'd like to be able to do: \markup { \wordwrap {CHAPTER ONE [?line ending?] Text of the chapter.} } } ... and have the chapter title on its own line. Thanks. __

Mixing Text and Music

2006-02-24 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Mixing Text and Music I am trying to do a book of cello exercises. Text and music alternate. There can be anything from a line of text to several paragraphs, followed by anything from one staff to a whole page of music. I have studied the manual and am at a complete loss as to how to proc