Re: lilypond and LaTeX. Music glyph in a sentence.

2006-03-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 27 February 2006 20.26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear fellows: I'm working on an essay where a sentence like the following is needed The first segment has a duration of 110 dotted quarter and blah, blah... where dotted quarter should be replaced by the musical glyph. 1) Is

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09.06, Graham Percival wrote: On 20-Feb-06, at 7:12 PM, Steve D wrote: The graphical example doesn't seem to accurately illustrate the code above it. The stems for notes on the middle line of the staff all point down, despite \override Stem #'neutral-direction =

Re: tuplet collision

2006-02-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 16 January 2006 18.50, andrea valle wrote: I forgot to say (maybe it's relevant) that I changed staff space and I use percussion. Here's a minimum excerpt: Hi, The bug is fixed in 2.5.35. Thanks! -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http

Re: not doing staff change(s) correctly

2006-02-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 18 February 2006 13.54, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: [Mac OS X 10.4.4 ; Lilypond Version 2.7.28-2 (Build from 30-12-2005 19:17) ] Hi, everyone! Clearly I don't understand the \change Staff feature... =\ Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong in the enclosed excerpt?

Re: Defining shortcuts for scheme code

2006-02-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13.14, Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi everybody! To prevent having to use extensive scheme code inside my score I prefer to define shortcuts for often used code snippets, e.g. when setting ottavation on and off. In the following code example Point'n'click is turned

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06.28, Richard Schoeller wrote: I'd like to weigh in on this one. My experience is totally contrary to the way this discussion has gone. The actual entry and correction of the music is a trivial small part of the time I spend working with Lilypond. I spend much

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF. Sounds very strange. However, if ps-pdf conversion does take forever, then you

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Ben Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up. Instead of running lilypond.exe

Re: How to get no lyrics in foreplay

2006-02-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 11 February 2006 01.43, Hendrik Maryns wrote: Hi, I?m not sure about the word foreplay, I mean Dutch voorspel, it is a short piece of music that comes before the main piece, typical in folklore dance music. Concretely, I have a song (Erev shell shoshanim), which has this

Re: How to add another output format?

2006-02-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 13.09, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Milan Zamazal wrote: I started to work on a small project to output a Festival singing mode file from LilyPond input (this is useful for blind authors to easily check lyrics is properly aligned with music). I think this could be

Re: Windows GUI

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11.26, Ramana Kumar wrote: (minor correction: these projects are implementations of GNU, not Linux emulators. They require that you rebuild packages, and they do not offer binary compatibility between platforms. Porting denemo to mingw or cygwin is probably a

Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

2006-02-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 February 2006 23.16, Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hello users, I've been struggling to set the lyrics correctly for this song. But I can't assign the word right and the word true (2nd stanza) for the note d2. in this part: { d2. } \\ { g,4.( f4.) } \\ creates new voices implicitly,

Re: split lyrics

2006-02-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 02 February 2006 00.11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking through the archives and I've found almost exactly what I need. I'm trying to have a split where the text for the upper part is above the staff, and the text for lower voice is below the staff, and I just cannot

Re: Questions from a Wanderer Returning

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 January 2006 11.59, Alan McConnell wrote: Assembled Wisdom! I used lilypond several years ago, but had a lot of trouble upgrading, because then one had to build from scratch and there were always guile imcompatibilities, etc. So I did nothing with computer music typesetting

Re: Lyrics and figured bass positioning

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 29 January 2006 15.09, Gilles wrote: In the attached file, I want to stack two PianoStaff (each with their own lyrics and figured bass lines). [See attached pdf.] But I can't figure out why the lyrics and figures intended for the first piano (setup in lines 58-59) come *after*

Re: Hara kiri staffs takes up space

2006-01-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
) to bug-lilypond. Chances are it's the same problem as hara-kiri-pianostaff-instr.ly in the bug archive, so you could check that first (follow one of the links below). -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ http

Re: Grace Note Size

2006-01-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22.31, Tim Sawyer wrote: I'm doing this to get percussion drag notation in lilypond 2.6: \appoggiatura { e16[ e16 ] } \stemUp e4 The grace notes stems are as long as the main note - it would be better if they were smaller. Is there a property I can tweak to do

Re: etf2ly

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07.58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm just wondering… I'm in lilypond version 2.6.5 on OSX. I'm finding myself increasingly more facile with the program by the minute. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong with etf2ly. I don't get output, I just get

Re: markup free positioning?

2006-01-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 22 January 2006 21.51, Felix Hammer wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2006 21:24 schrieben Sie: #(def-markup-command (with-dimensions layout props x y arg) (number-pair? number-pair? markup?)    Set the dimensions of @var{arg} to @var{x} and @var{y}.    (let* ((m (interpret-markup

Re: TextTo: a modest proposal

2006-01-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 21 January 2006 00.34, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I am interested in what other long-time users of lilypond think of this suggestion to implement a \textto to work similarly to \lyricsto. for lilypond entry of fingering and text: example: bassfinger = \text { .3 '4 .

Re: How to invoke Lilypond-book (Windows / Ubuntu)

2006-01-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18.18, Bostjan Kuzman wrote: Thanks for the advice. However, though double clicking lilypond-book.py does something in Windows, I still don't know how to process the files. Running python c:/Progra~1/LilyPond/usr/bin/lilypond-book.py from Command prompt looks

Re: short tunes

2006-01-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 20 January 2006 20.01, debian wrote: Traditional tunes tend to be short. Just a burst of eight bars, repeated usually and then a burst of another eight bars again repeated. I would like to play the tune a number of times 1,2,3 perhaps 4 times. I could go: timidity my.tune

Re: Double clefs?

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07.40, amhso (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: I'm new to all this lilypond. I used to use noteworhty so this is a big change for me. anyways... Picture of my situation . I don't get how to format all this stuff. feels like programming. How do i make the second clef

Re: Migration from Finale: music xml or etf

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16.37, Tomasz Bojczuk wrote: Form which format of Finale files (music xml or ETF) I will get better Lilypond file (some notation details like dynamic, key/tempo chenges, maybe fingering etc. ) ?? I don't know what's better currently, but I have a feeling that

Re: How to invoke Lilypond-book (Windows / Ubuntu)

2006-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19.18, Bostjan Kuzman wrote: I've succesfully installed Lilypond 2.7.27-4 in Windows and in Ubuntu Breezy (the autopackage - I would suggest using sudo sh lilypond-X.Y.Z.linux.sh to avoid path problems here). However, I don't know how to invoke lilypond-book in any

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 03.16, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: alanvw wrote: PS I would like to hear from others who use Notepad++ and a comment from Han. (the name's Han-Wen, not Han). it looks interesting, since it can be compiled under MinGW as well. However, It also looks like it might

Re: tuplet collision

2006-01-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 16 January 2006 10.49, andrea valle wrote: Dear all, In a piece with a lot of tuplets, I have many collisions between bracket/number and beams. I solved my problem via manual adjustment. Also, I noticed that changing fonts I was able to avoid the collisions. But this is a

Re: Suddenly lyrics aren't with the right notes

2006-01-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 15 January 2006 13.34, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Below is excerpt from a triple choir piece. I took it out trying to find what I've done wrong to have the lyricmode skip some notes but I don't see my error. winxp the word 'meek' is attached properly but then the next

Re: moving backwards in time ?

2006-01-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 23.36, Gilles wrote: I can't seem to figure out how to slightly change the structure to make it work :-{ I tried with \addlyrics but it shows only one line of the caption instead of one for each transposed part... Several \addlyrics produce the same problem

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 15.39, Gilles wrote: Hi. because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. It could be possible to write a markup function that

Re: moving backwards in time ?

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15.43, Gilles wrote: Hello. I'm confused by the output of the attached file: lilypond creates an empty bar. [And generates a programming error.] And the clef change indicator is pushed to the next line. Without the addition of the second \transpose part, the

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 09.01, debian wrote: Please, I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines etc look ugly. Probably this is a font

Re: moving backwards in time ?

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 19.19, Gilles wrote: Hello. I'm confused by the output of the attached file: lilypond creates an empty bar. [And generates a programming error.] And the clef change indicator is pushed to the next line. Without the addition of the second \transpose

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 06 January 2006 02.22, Linda Seltzer wrote: User Experience engineering does not require a GUI or an abandonment of the programming and typesetting approach. It does not require the abandonment of providing detailed features. What it requires is that the language and documentation

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05.15, liang seng wrote: Hi, I'm just wondering if we can use utf-8 to input Chinese (or other Asian) characters as well? Yes, see input/sakura-sakura.ly -- Erik ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Syntactic synonyms, or no?

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14.20, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: Also, there are some limitations with the \with construct (for example, \consists bugreport please. sorry, I remembered incorrectly (it is \accepts that doesn't work inside \with, see with-accepts.ly in bug

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 05 January 2006 12.25, Gilles wrote: Hello. The problem I've had with that is that when I define eaigu = the utf-8 double byte for é and then (later) say \markup sym \eaigu trique what I get in the PDF file is sym é trique because Lilypond

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Marc Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps only providing one installer installing lilypond and jedit + lily4jedit, perhaps with the default settings to show the error list pluigin docked at the bottom or the like would have saved those 10 min administration time ... in case it works out

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Marc Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps only providing one installer installing lilypond and jedit + lily4jedit, perhaps with the default settings to show the error list pluigin docked at the bottom or the like would have saved those 10 min administration time ... in case it works out

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Linda Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would greatly encourage the project to focus on the user interface and the user experience if this is to catch on in a large way. Having to install separate editors (and who knows what bugs that will bring and what other mailing lists one will have

Re: \acciaccatura and \times

2005-12-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. Seemingly a bug in the same family as my previous post. Still not a bug (IMHO), just a missing feature. The same solution should work. It is known that implicit context creation has some problems when a piece starts with \times, \grace etc., so it's

Re: Version differences

2005-12-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20.57, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi folks! I have been using version 2.7.20 on FreeBSD very successfully for a few weeks now. Using jEdit for my .ly files, which is nice too. Now. I recently acquired a Windoze computer (XP) and installed 2.7.18 on there. My

Re: Braces in PianoStaff

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 17 December 2005 21.10, Anna Choma wrote: Hello! I use the 2.6.3 version of Lilypond. I've noticed that braces that appear ont the left side of each line are wider than the staff. Can one change this as to make that the ends of the brace would stick to the staff and not extend

Re: Invisible notes, Scheme contexts

2005-12-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 22.27, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder whether this should be changed too. This would mean that \clef alto \clef alto becomes \clef #alto or \clef #'alto This will simplify the syntax a

Re: Invisible notes, Scheme contexts

2005-12-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 10.55, Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Han-Wen Nienhuys: Don Blaheta wrote: 2) Is there a Scheme function to retrieve the _current_ context? It looks like all the functions require a context as an argument. What do you mean by current ? Where do you need it ?

Re: Polyphony lyrics

2005-12-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Don Blaheta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I compile the following in 2.6.4, I get---as expected---one column under the third note with p and s. However, I *don't* get *anything* under the sixth note (where I would expect q and t). Why? \score { \context Voice = foo { a b c \\ d e

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 11 December 2005 07.33, Don Blaheta wrote: It all started with wanting to just move over a few pieces of text, but finally I sat down and worked my way through the labyrinth of figuring out how the system works. The problem is that there are a lot of high-level concepts, like grob

Re: Doubt:Significate of #

2005-12-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 10 December 2005 14.44, Pedro Martínez wrote: Hello again! I am reading step by step the tutorial that I can find at the web of lilypond and, except the dificulties that I have because of the language, I think I understand correctly and I am going to put it in practice nearly.

Re: Ottava bassa bug

2005-12-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 09 December 2005 02.37, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: The below snippet shows a bug, the d,, note isn't affected by the octavation: (see bug.png) Any tips? The problem is that the \clef command is executed after the \octdn command; this overrides the middleCPosition property. This can

Re: \sl

2005-12-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11.25, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! What's the syntax in 2.7.20 for skip lyrics? Previously, I had %shorthand for Skip Lyric sl = { \skip 2 } in the global section, and \sl where the words demanded it. How should that be? IIRC, you can now

Re: switch to lilypond from finale

2005-12-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 08 December 2005 14.47, Pedro Kröger wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One problem is that Lily will usually process the entire piece, which makes entering large pieces time consuming. but it needn't to be. One can use variables to hold sections of music and

Re: Why aren't repeats unfolded automatically in MIDI?

2005-12-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 04 December 2005 18.32, Raphael Manfredi wrote: What is the technical reason for repeats to not be automatically played (i.e. unfolded) as many times as necessary in the MIDI output? The \unfoldRepeats is a crude hack, and I fail to see the justification behind this feature.

Re: 7/8 length in chordmode?

2005-12-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 03 December 2005 14.50, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Hi there, I need a lot of chords to take the length of a 7/8 measure, but there isn't a appropriate length 'code', is there? Try d2..:m or d1*7/8:m -- Erik ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: 2717 and up creates no pdf of old lys in macosx

2005-12-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
-beamed-rests.ly: %crash critical %Sean Reed \version 2.7.15 \header { texidoc = lily segfaults. reportedin =2.7.16 } \relative c' { r16[ b r8] } -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ http://lilypond.org

Re: different notehead sizes in one chord

2005-12-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 01 December 2005 20.16, Bertalan Fodor wrote: Could an easier and faster way be sponsored? I have a suggestion: - Let music events have a optional grob property list, just like contexts have. This could be initialised with a syntax similar to: c d-\override NoteHead #'color = #blue

Re: Fwd: 2717 and up creates no pdf of old lys in macosx

2005-12-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 02 December 2005 19.37, Sean Reed wrote: sorry if this has come up before, but i'm finding an unexplainable behavior with newer version of lilypond on macos 10.4. i have several .ly files that i began around 2.7.7 or so, that are relatively long. when i open them in any version up

Re: Collision challenge

2005-12-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 02 December 2005 21.28, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Hi, I'm facing some collision problems in a score with three voices on one staff: Why don't you just add \voiceThree in the middle voice? This resolves most collisions. -- Erik ___

Re: Double slur to specific notes of a chors

2005-11-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 20 November 2005 22.44, Maik Schmidt wrote: Hi! I've set three melodies for piano, working quite well. But now I've come to a point where I do not know how to get it working. I've got three chords, joint by slurs: {\set doubleSlurs = ##t f a( f a)( f a f')} Looks well except

Re: \unfoldRepeats bug? [was: Partial measure moment]

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 14.37, Gilles wrote: Hello. - Partial bars: You probably don't want to use \partial in the middle of a piece. In your example, it tends to destroy the bar numbering. I think it's a better idea to set Timing.measureLength directly. One thing that might

Re: The limits of StaffGroup nesting

2005-11-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 14 November 2005 02.10, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On 11/12/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: So, both for ease of implementation -- and because actual composers seem to bar and bracket things quite arbitrarily -- maybe the request

Re: The limits of StaffGroup nesting

2005-11-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On 11/12/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: So, both for ease of implementation -- and because actual composers seem to bar and bracket things quite arbitrarily -- maybe the request shouldn't be for arbitrarily nested contexts, but instead to free up

Re: Lyric problems

2005-11-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 12 November 2005 11.53, Seng Liang wrote: Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.12 for Windows 98 and I am having some lyric difficulties. Here is the file: \version 2.7.12 \relative c' { \set Staff.instrument=Soprano \clef treble #(set-accidental-style 'modern) \key f

Re: The limits of StaffGroup nesting

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 11 November 2005 23.25, Trevor Bača wrote: The InnerStaffGroup system start bracket needs manual nudging to the left, but both brackets are present around the expected staves. Adding another InnerStaffGroup doesn't do what we might expect, however: The type of a context can never

Re: [OT] was: Re: lilypond fonts and inkscape

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11.09, Sean Reed wrote: btw: this program (inkscape) looks excitingly promising as an alternative to illustrator, but unfortunately opening .ps files appears to still only be a working function on linux and not yet on osx! I've been playing with inkscape too,

Re: Can an identifier contain a \score?

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 06 November 2005 23.47, Mark Cookson wrote: However, I can't seem to get anything along these lines... cmajoroneoctave = { \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t \cadenzaOn c8[ d e f] g[ a b c] b[ a g f] e[ d] c4 \cadenzaOff \bar || }

Re: padding between key signature, time signature, and first note of bar

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 07 November 2005 07.05, Sterling Sympatico wrote: Hi again, How do I pad between time signature and first note of a bar? I notice that the first note following a time signature is almost touching the time sig. I seem to recall this being a bug but was wondering if it was fixed now

Re: Repeating the midi sound?

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 06 November 2005 22.50, Jannik Jeppesen wrote: Please keep the discussion on the mailing list. Hi Erik... Thanks for your answer... I have read the unfold, but font understand it... I have made one bare in drum mode, and want to hear it in midi continiously... so it keeps on

Re: is this a bug? (accidentals and atonicKey)

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 07 November 2005 11.19, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: accidentals, at the left hand part at the end of that fragment repeat unexpectedly.. I wasn't able to figure out why? Please look at the end for the left hand part the code is commented. unmeteredOn = { \set

Re: \book usage

2005-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 06 November 2005 02.40, Graham Percival wrote: On 4-Nov-05, at 12:40 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you get two PDF output files, then you still have some \book{...} left in one of the included files! Just remove all of them and you should get all your pieces in a single PDF

Re: setting splitpoint of \autochange

2005-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 06 November 2005 09.58, Rob van den Berg wrote: Is there any way I can set the split point for \autochange to any other note then c' ?? No, but it is easy to do a workaround: If you want to split at f', then do: \transpose f' c' \autochange \transpose c' f' {music} -- Erik

Re: Repeating the midi sound?

2005-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 06 November 2005 20.07, Jannik Jeppesen wrote: Hi is there some code, so i can repeat the midi sound, so it will go on and on til stopped? I don't understand what you mean, but you may want to read about the \repeat unfold command in the manual. And. Is it possible to create 2 midi

Re: piano staff curly brackets too big

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 05 November 2005 09.59, Rob van den Berg wrote: Hi all, When I render a piano staff the curly brackets are too big ... How do I fix this ? It seems to be a bug, and it seems to be fixed in the 2.7 series. -- Erik ___ lilypond-user

Re: Hello! Complicated newbie questions!

2005-11-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 04 November 2005 23.12, Markian Hlynka wrote: 7. Finally (for now), I'm having trouble aligning lyrics to music. I have this: mainvoice = \relative c { \key a \minor \repeat volta 2 { \partial 8*3 e8 a8. [ b16] c2~c8 b16 a gis8. a16 b2 r8

Re: The frust is growing up ... Was: Re: giving up frustrated ... :-(

2005-10-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Roland Goretzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list, hello Erik, You wrote: Well, a 2.6.3 .deb is in debian unstable now, so perhaps you can try that. Thank You, I tried, but on my sarge 3.1 there are some difficulties with dependencies, so this is not the way ... :-( Every

Re: The frust is growing up ... Was: Re: giving up frustrated ... :-(

2005-10-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 27 October 2005 01.59, Roland Goretzki wrote: Hello list,, I wrote: Trying a little example with lilypond example-1.ly results in an error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/noten/2.6.3.1/probe lilypond example-1.ly GNU LilyPond 2.6.3.1 [ ... ]

Re: creating .deb files

2005-10-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 07.21, D Josiah Boothby wrote: i don't know if i should send this here or do lilypond-dev, but i'll send here first. Look at the recent lilypond-devel archives. Two people have independently managed to build debs recently: Gauvain Pocentek (ubuntu) and Thomas

Re: Letter page length too long

2005-10-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01.00, Michael Haynie wrote: OK -- I verified that -sPAPERSIZE=letter is appearing on the gs line, and Acrobat reader reports 8.5x11, as I mentioned previously. Printing A4 on Letter with scaling results in wider margins at the right and left, since a4 is longer

Re: Letter page length too long

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09.02, Graham Percival wrote: On 22-Oct-05, at 9:39 PM, Michael Haynie wrote: I've noticed that Lilypond consistently produces pages that are roughly 1/2 a line too long, with the result that my footer line is cut off. It's not actually lilypond; it's dvips. No,

Re: Percent repeats at line breaks (v2.7.12)

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15.39, Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi everybody! Any idea or hint on how to automatically expand percent repeats once at line breaks. For example \repeat percent 50 {c d e f} should lead to several line breaks. At each new line the repeat should be unfolded

Re: New user question

2005-10-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 14 October 2005 23.01, Kress, Stephen wrote: I do have two questions. I was able to reproduce my source score perfectly (with a couple of tweaks for the way I prefer) except for two things. I like to have every measure numbered under the staff (easy enough) except that I can't find

Re: -o not working as expected

2005-10-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 15 October 2005 08.44, Jason Addison wrote: I'm using 2.7.10. If I'm in ~/mytunes/ and I type: $ lilypond -o set1/tune1 set1/tune1.ly I get the pdf file in ~/mytunes/ and the ps and midi files in ~/mytunes/set1/ I really want the pdf with the other output and source in

Re: LyricOn and LyricOff

2005-10-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01.28, Ian Hawthorn wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: You can use two different voices for the notes, and then use \lyricsto to assign lyrics only to one of the voices: \new Staff \context Voice=song {s1 | b4 b b r | s1 | s1 | } \context Voice=instr {b4

Re: Completing the Lilypond puzzle

2005-10-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 09 October 2005 14.46, lars prins wrote: Lilypond can do everything and lilypond is for everybody. Yet, I don't seem to be part of this equation somehow. I am getting very frustrated to get Lilypond to do the simplest thing, to create a PDF file with 4 pages of empty piano sheet

Re: LyricOn and LyricOff

2005-10-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 01.39, Ian Hawthorn wrote: Suggested feature: Commands (e.g.) `\LOn' and `\LOff' to turn on and off the synchronisation of lyrics and avoid overuse of `_'. For example { \LOff b4 a g a | \LOn b b b r | \LOff a a a r | b d d r } addlyrics { lit -- tle lamb } To

Re: note chart follow-up

2005-10-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21.49, David Bobroff wrote: I found qtree.sty which seems to do pretty much exactly what I need. Now to put feta glyphs on the tree...Any hints...? Hm.. it's outside my area of knowledge, but if I'd get this problem, I would grab an old lily version (=2.4). Then I'd

Re: Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 10 October 2005 09.47, andrew Black wrote: I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part). I have tried c e g*4 but this gives unexpected *. Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests (eg R1*4). Please read the manual. *4 only modifies a duration. You can write c

Re: Combining 2 semibreves

2005-10-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 08 October 2005 17.45, andrew Black wrote: Hi I have 2 voices on the same stave. Sometimes both parts are singing the same note. This is notated to 2 semibreves side by side. Is it possible to combine the two. You can e.g. replace one of them with a skip. However, I think it is

Re: trouble with conversion ly to TeX

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 06 October 2005 07.30, Guy Durrieu wrote: Hello, I recently succeeded (not really easily) in compiling lilypond-2.6.3 on a Sun station (Solaris 10). It seems to work fine, but I have a problem when converting a .ly into a TeX file. the \magfontemmentalerBGmPBBo command is

Re: Tremolo Beamed Stems

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15.33, Kyle Baldwin wrote: I am trying to get a stem of a note in a sequence of 3 notes to be longer. When ever I use the beamed-lengths it will change the stem of the first 2 beams but no the last one. (The one I actully need to change because the tremolo runs

Re: trouble with conversion ly to TeX

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 06 October 2005 09.47, Guy Durrieu wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote : The tex back-end is deprecated and unsupported. The normal operation is to create a .ps file directly. Why do you need tex output? Thanks for your answer. What I find interesting in TeXT/LaTeX based tools

Re: trouble with conversion ly to TeX

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Guy Durrieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Sandberg a écrit : This has to do with the viewer. In gv, you can press 'Reload' after each recompile; this is also done automatically if you wait for a long time. It's possible that there is a ps viewer out there, which automatically updates

Re: ukulele tab

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08.18, borko (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Hi there, I am new to this forum. I have been using Lilypond for about a month now and I have generated some nice pages. I am needing to make some chord diagrams for ukulele now. Here is my problem: since this is a markup

Re: lilypond

2005-10-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 01 October 2005 05.17, Bohdan Krowicky wrote: Hi, I'm impressed by the printed results from your program - I remember 'Score', about a millennium ago which I ran on an XT and that was a script based application. When you were ready to print a score, you had to run the print run

Re: Beginning a piece with tuplets with a grace note or appoggiatura

2005-09-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Trent Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello again, I'm currently typesetting a trio sonata by Locatelli... In one movement the the two flutes are in 12/8 time while the Continuo part is in Common time. This is ok I thought I can set the flute parts in tuplets and fake 12/8

Re: Displaying the first bar number

2005-09-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 29 September 2005 22.38, Daniel Johnson wrote: Dear list, Because I am typesetting a fragment of a larger work, I would like to display the bar number on the first line. By default Lilypond does not do so, but begins displaying it on line 2. In ly/engraver-init.ly, we encounter

Re: How to override bar line?

2005-09-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 23.21, Fairchild wrote: Got it! Still think it is a bug. Here's the workaround. Though your solution happens to work, it's an unsupported tweak. Don't expect it to work with future versions of lily. I did a quick test, and the following seems to be the right

Re: transcription and copyright

2005-09-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 24 September 2005 22.10, John Lapeyre wrote: This question is perhaps tangentially related to the list. I am transcribing music from a recording into lilypond. I wonder what possible legal implications of posting my work on the net might be. Tabs for guitar of contemporary major

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 23.34, Daniel Johnson wrote: Ruud van Silfhout wrote: As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question concening the attached piece of music. The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural normally placed before the note?

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 22 September 2005 11.37, Peter Mogensen wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: why not do something like this? \new DrumStaff { \drummode { \repeat volta 2 { sn4 sn sn sn} \alternative { {sn4 sn sn sn } {\grace s4 sn4 hh2

Re: Co-sponsoring Was: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 01.19, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: IIRC think I have set the price at EUR 110 for #1 + #2 (incl VAT and/or transfer costs, depending on where you live.) Sorry, I'm a bit uncoherent. The point I'm trying to make is that the Grand Unified

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