Re: 2 quick questions from a music teacher

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 18 September 2005 20.26, Matthew Thibeault wrote: Hello and thanks for such a fantastic program. I am a music teacher with experience with programs like Sibelius. I am just learning Lilypond in hopes of using it with the students I teach at the School of the Arts in San Francisco. I

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 10.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to use the new support for laissez vibrer in version 2.7.10, to draw these ties? That's #1 in Han-Wen's sponsorable solution (see thread Co-sponsoring Was: Ties in second endings) -- Erik

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Peter Mogensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fairchild wrote: \version 2.4.6 \layout{ raggedright = ##t } \score{ \relative c' { \repeat volta 2 { f g a2 ~ } \alternative { { a4 g2 f4 } { \grace{ \hideNotes a4~ } \unHideNotes a g2. } }}} No... because this won't work when

Re: Viewing Postscript Files in Windows..

2005-09-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 13.38, Trent Johnston wrote: Hi All, A quick update on viewing postscript files in windows... especially gsview... Thanks to the response by Peter Mongensen I was able to view the postscript file he created... this was created with Linux. Debian Sarge+DeMuDi

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 September 2005 16.21, Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi all, I am trying to add lilypond output into scribus, my first choice would have been scribus, but scribus doesn't like lilypond svgs? I don't fully understand what you want, but if it's just that you need to import lilypond's output

Re: calculating durations

2005-09-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 September 2005 20.48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am a new user of LilyPond and I am currently writing a program that transforms scores expressed in a piano-roll-like format into LilyPond scores, for the purpose of typesetting/printing. In the source format, music

Re: calculating durations

2005-09-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 16 September 2005 20.21, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: I'm especially thinking of how to resolve a note like c3 (where 3 means 3 quarter note beats) into Lilypond's c2. Any suggestions? I suppose this problem relates to quantization but in this case, the input

Re: key signatures and other stuff

2005-09-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 16 September 2005 20.59, nirly (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: i'm using lilypond right now jut to make very simple scores by a program i'm making my files are pretty much just a bunch of... { c d e f g } { c e f d } etc... what is the simplest way to add key signatures and time

Re: Change staff within a chord

2005-09-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 September 2005 06.47, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: Did I missed the solution? How can one change staff within a chord? It's not currently possible. You can fake it by manually creating very long stems, or you can pay Han-Wen to implement a good way to do it. -- Erik

Re: Feathered Beams

2005-09-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 September 2005 18.37, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: Can anybody make a definitive implementation of that or should I add this to my list of items to sponsor (which seems to grove alarmingly..)? that feature is listed at http://lilypond-design.com/sponsor/open-features.html -- Erik

Re: \Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15.09, Trent Johnston wrote: Hello all again, I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years now. Usually I get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output better. I've read the manual dozens of times for each version.. but always get

Re: Can't get RemoveEmptyStaffContext to work

2005-09-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 08 September 2005 00.23, Sven Axelsson wrote: It seems as if I can't get \RemoveEmptyStaffContext to work properly. In the example below it doesn't do anything at all. The RemoveEmptyVerticalGroup override does indeed remove the first empty system, but the other two are still

Re: Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 20.18, Hans de Rijck wrote: Right, Thanks Daniel. I didn't need multi-measure rests in the first place, I needed full measure rests. I discovered that for a full measure rest a lowercase 'r' works equally well. \time 5/4 r1*5/4 gives

Re: Installing lilypond 2.6.3

2005-09-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 02 September 2005 23.32, Jobst Harders wrote: This kind of questions should go to the lilypond-user mailing list. Hi, I would like to install Lilypond 2.6.3. on my system using SuSE 9.1. Is it a good idea to use the package download from your site? yes. And if so, what are the

Re: Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 04 September 2005 17.21, Hans de Rijck wrote: Hi, I get an errormessage that I don't understand, the last lines of lilypond --verbose are: 819][822][825][828][831][834][837][840][843][846][849][852][855][858][861][ 8 64][

Re: LilyPond dies on hairpin override

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13.47, Hans de Rijck wrote: Hello. When I use a \override Voice.Hairpin #'extra-offset LilyPond dies in compilation. No errors or warnings. Log says: # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `G:/MusicCvt' Processing `G:/MusicCvt/test.ly' Parsing...

Re: editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 05.41, Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi again, The problem is that I am not entering new music but correcting existing notation, so that there are already 50 measures written and I just corrected measure 4. but maybe it will help, I will give it a try I guess if I just

Re: color every note-head by its note-name

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 07.42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: It requires some Scheme hacking though, and you need to know about the internal representation of Music Expressions. It's probably doable in less than 20 lines of code, including colour codes. Where does

Re: editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10.08, Bertalan Fodor wrote: One good thing would be if the parser were separated: if I call 'lilypond --parse-only', it writes the parsing errors to the standard output. Then it could be used to parse in the editor after some idle time, underlining errors and

Re: tie rewrite

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 19.46, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: hi, results for the Tie rewrite are at http://localhost/lilypond/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html .. which of course should be: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html Looks great! -- Erik

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 14.04, fiëé visuëlle wrote: In the attached example, the acciaccatura in the lower voice doubles the repeat end bar and goes behind that wrong bar. It is a known bug. The workaround is to add dummy grace notes in   all parts, like { \repeat volta 2 { .. }

Re: triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 21.24, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Alas that did not solve the problem in 2.7.4 but it did solve it for 2.6.x so at least I've got a good copy now. Thanks all. Jay BTW there does seem to be disagreement on the list, I am under the impression that Han-Wen

Re: editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 23.47, Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to not have to reparse a file each time I want to view changes? Something where only the newest changes are parsed or the pdf is updated in almost realtime? I am using vim. If you're using 2.7, there is a command

Re: color every note-head by its note-name

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 17.50, Kenneth Lee wrote: Hi, i would like to color the note-head by its note-name on the whole score. For example, to color every C with red and every D with yellow, for example. i have tried \applyoutput but it only work on the note that follows immediately. This

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20.30, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Ahoi! In the attached example, the acciaccatura in the lower voice doubles   the repeat end bar and goes behind that wrog bar. I tested with LilyPond 2.6.3 and 2.7.4 on MacOS X, same result. Must I change something, or is it a bug? It is

Re: Slurs fingering collision

2005-08-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 14 August 2004 20.36, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 02 August 2004 10.18, Bostjan Kuzman wrote: Hello. I was very excited to read that the slur engine has improved in the latest versions of Lilypond. After installing 2.3.8 and trying it out, I could see an improvement

Re: midi bug for latest version when solved? and..

2005-08-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 20 August 2005 20.37, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I think I read that it's known that in version 2.7.4 midi is not produced or that the file is empty. However- I haven't figured out where to go to read that from the lily site, and I was wondering when that will be

Re: Price quote for better tied chords?

2005-08-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 12.58, Bertalan Fodor wrote: I'll also participate with 50 Euros in September, if it solves the bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-07/msg00041.html Strange, that msg never made it into my inbox. In any case, I don't think it's a bug: You're using

Re: unnamed port error

2005-08-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 14.17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i guess this is just some stupid mistake on my behalf: i can't get this code to work, because I always get an Parsing...unnamed port: In expression ’font-shape: unnamed port: Unbound variable: ’font-shape error. i'm not really a

Re: grace notes grumble

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11.36, Aaron Mehl wrote: I forgot to mention the version I am using if it matters:GNU LilyPond 2.7.3 Also I didn't post the source since the lyrics are in hebrew, if it is relevent I can output a png. It's enough for us to see _an_ example that demonstrates it, it

Re: Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 15 August 2005 21.21, Mark Gibbens wrote: If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be grateful for tips. I've tried the .package binary, but it appears not to be happy with the version of Ghostview I've got (gnome-gv 1:2.8.4-0ubuntu2, gv 1:3.6.1-2). I do

Re: Mac OSX and Text Editors

2005-08-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 12 August 2005 15.51, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Stephan Moss wrote: When Lilypond reads the .ly file, what is it looking for in terms of format (line endings, etc)? Line endings are treated like any other white space (spaces and tabs), so you can write your input on a single line if

Re: how to slur grace note with previous note?

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 29 July 2005 02.26, Bodo wrote: Hi, Every piece of documentation about grace notes I have found so far connects the grace note with the normal note that follows it. However, I want to add two grace notes that are sung on the same syllable as the previous note, and hence they should

Re: spacing polyphone bug (was: Recommendation)

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 05.07, Graham Percival wrote: On 8-Aug-05, at 1:41 AM, Klaus Rettinghaus wrote: Now let's talk business: I noticed a little bug, if I may name it this way. If you got two voices in one staff and the upper has a dotted note between two lines, while the lower is

Re: Staff.alignAboveContext and volta brackets

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
-volta.ly in CVS. I marked it popular. -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/bugs/out/index.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 16.59, Laura Conrad wrote: ES == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm willing to believe there is no automated way to convert every possible \addlyrics to an equivalent \lyricsto. I don't believe that the most common cases couldn't be handled

Re: need plain PS (not PDF) output

2005-07-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 22 July 2005 15.57, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hi, everyone! First of all, WOW on the downloadable-installable-executable Mac OS X (and others) version 2.6 -- I can now start telling a LOT more of my colleagues that they should move to Lilypond... =) I need straight PS

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 25 July 2005 17.47, Laura Conrad wrote: ES == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES \addlyrics (2.0) is converted to \oldaddlyrics, which is ES strongly deprecated, and pretty unsupported. It is known that ES it sometimes doesn't work. This seems like a bad

Re: Fermata in the wrong place, wrong me or can't you do this?

2005-07-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 22 July 2005 04.10, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I downloaded 2.6.1 for windows and it does a bunch of stuff much easier and the way the manual says it will more frequently- horray! However- See the example below In Measure 9 the fermata should be over the second d and

Re: FW: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 17 July 2005 17.39, Fairchild wrote: Erik - I would expect whichBar = #| to set the style/type of bar, but not cause lines after every note. I would expect to use \bar to force bar lines at abnormal places. See

Re: FW: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 18 July 2005 18.05, Fairchild wrote: Erik - I understand that whichBar changes the default bar style as expected. The flaky thing is that it causes the bar to be inserted after _every_ note. Can't fathom why this would be wanted often enough to make it a default. Nobody forces

Re: Help to unhidde the a

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 18 July 2005 17.07, Georges Roux wrote: I do that but the a is hidden by beam Please keep the discussions on the thread, i.e. reply to old messages that you refer to, instead of writing new ones. That way it's easier for us to relate your mail to previous communication. upperVoice

Re: FW: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 18 July 2005 19.12, Laura Conrad wrote: ES == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES I don't see why any non-guru would want to set whichBar ES explicitly, so perhaps that documentation should be moved to ES internals. The reason I use it from time to time (maybe

Re: FW: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 17 July 2005 00.07, Fairchild wrote: It sets the BarType OK, but should it cause a bar line to be inserted after every note? AFAICS, whichBar is only used internally to tell the Bar_engraver which barline to typeset during each moment; if it is not set, no barline will be typeset.

Re: Stems up and down

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 11 July 2005 13.34, Georges Roux wrote: Problems with J.S.Bach and polyphony Have one voice, but played as 2 voices I need the stems up for the upper voice and down for the lower voice, as in 2 voices but in one voice ;-) \time 3/4 cis16 a,16_forte a'16 a,16 gis'16 a,16 a'16 a,16

Re: K460 does not compile under 2.6.0

2005-07-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 09 July 2005 21.48, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: I don't want to seem iterative, but my source for K460 (http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/music/K460.ly) does not compile still with 2.6.0. Problems start with the appoggiatura at measure 28. I would like just to know if the answer is won't fix,

Re: LSR

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12.14, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: Another way could be to tag the trick-worty snippets in the LSR somehow. In contrast to non-trick-worthy? For example, I find most of the examples in the current Regression Test very useful as Tips and Tricks as well

Re: Bug in lilypond version 2.6.0 combining \arpeggioBracket and connectArpeggios.

2005-07-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08.30, Dainis Millers wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 04 July 2005 21.55, Dainis Millers wrote: I have the following Lilypond fragment: \context PianoStaff \set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t \context Voice = one { \arpeggioBracket c

Re: aborted (core dumped)?

2005-07-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 19.43, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Hello list, LilyPond 2.4.6 (Win XP, Cygwin) stops processing the attached rossignol.ly, no further error messages. -- aborted (core dumped) -- Can I do anything about it? Commenting out \once \override Voice.Beam #'positions =

Re: Bug in lilypond version 2.6.0 combining \arpeggioBracket and connectArpeggios.

2005-07-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 13.08, Dainis Millers wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08.30, Dainis Millers wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: Could you provide a modified version of my example to illustrate this? I am looking for something like the image at the end of the page

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-07-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 01.39, Fairchild wrote: About a month ago I started this thread with the question: [I]s there a way to pass a parameter into a define from within \score? Several of you responded with answers ranging from impossible to certainly. Actually I was searching for a way to

Re: Feature request - contemporary trill indications

2005-07-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 01 July 2005 11.54, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 13.14, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: If you're willing to pay for the development, I could implement this as a small feature. Hi, Is there somewhere a list of features which you are willing

Re: note and dynamics collisions in lilypond

2005-07-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
? No, but the problem of text collision in general is on the far-future todo. BTW, there's no explicit bug in our bug archive about dynamics colliding with notes; can you send a short .ly example when this occurs? -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive, http

Re: Feature request - contemporary trill indications

2005-06-30 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 30 June 2005 13.14, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: If you're willing to pay for the development, I could implement this as a small feature. Hi, Is there somewhere a list of features which you are willing to implement for a fee? Imagine a potential user who needs a feature that is

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 26 June 2005 10.26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I think we have an unwritten policy here of replying in English as well as the original language on non-English posts, with a summary of the question in English. That sounds reasonable.

Re: Problems with K460

2005-06-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 17 June 2005 13.55, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you suspect a bug, please send the email to bug-lilypond instead (which I have now done). I'm not sure if you have noticed that the bug is visible also in the output. The following example cut out from your score illustrates that the

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 21.32, Bertalan Fodor wrote: That did it! Thank you. I chose method 2 from the above, but will keep this email saved for future reference. But I made a typo, sorry. So correctly: % :encoding=UTF-8: (This method of setting buffer properties is documented in jEdit's

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09.58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Have you looked at the Tips and Tricks document and the Regression Test document in the on-line documentation? They provide exactly what you ask for. Also, all(?) these examples plus more are also available in the LilyPond Snippet

Re: How contexts fit together - doc suggestion

2005-06-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why not make a graphical illustration (or at least pseudo graphical using indents and line breaks) of the hierarchy. As input, you might find it easier to look at the file /ly/engraver-init.ly of your LilyPond installation, instead of browsing

Re: Thick barline connections between staves

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 June 2005 03.34, Ed Baskerville wrote: Thanks for the quick fix--the barline thickness is now consistent. However, now all the barlines look too thick--it's quite noticeable when comparing with professional printed scores as well as previous versions of Lily. Is this also true if

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 June 2005 00.17, Fairchild wrote: This code is effective: \version 2.4.3 Mag = #3 BigOn = \override NoteHead #'font-size = \Mag \score {\relative c'' { c c c c \BigOn c c c c }} This shows what I'd like, but it doesn't

Re: Poor error reporting

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 June 2005 16.21, Sven Axelsson wrote: Has all error reporting been removed from version 2.5? I am trying to produce a book made up of many included files and Lilypond just quits producing no output. How am I supposed to find out what went wrong with no indication of the included

Re: slurDotted broken in 2.5.25

2005-05-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 23 May 2005 21.33, Graham Percival wrote: On 23-May-05, at 12:22 PM, Bertalan Fodor wrote: This bug was also reported some days ago by Heikki. It's added as tie-dotted.ly. Erik Argh. That would explain it. OK, so it's just tieDotted. I took slurDotted from ly/property.ly ; I

Re: Lyrics / staffs/ contexts - which way is best for me

2005-05-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 20 May 2005 21.18, Ruud van Silfhout wrote: Hi Andrew, To set up a score for the SATB part this might look like the score below. I once sent something like this to lily, but it didn't make it to the archive or the documentation. (no pun intended) Perhaps it's something for LSR?

Re: layout question

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Michiel Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list, I have this piece that starts out with a combined Soprano and Alto and separate Piano system. After measure 14 there is a Tenor + Bass system added. After measure 36 the Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass staves are exploded to 4 systems.

Re: Why do chords print below staff?

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 17.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Tricky one! I send a copy to bug-lilypond, both since the difference between \chords and \chordmode is completely undocumented (except for the NEWS file for 2.4) and since I don't realize why the chords end up below the stave. I stripped

Re: cautionary accidentals out of place with kghostview

2005-05-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 15 May 2005 02.30, Robert T Wyatt wrote: MacOS 10.3.9 Normally I use lilypond from the Terminal.app command line so I use Preview to view the PDFs. Today I was using a KDE xterm so I used kghostview to view the PDF. Turns out that cautionary accidentals are shifted to the right when

Re: Strange rest dots behaviour - bug?

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 09 May 2005 13.46, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I can confirm the bug on Cygwin 2.4.3 as well as Erik's observation that it doesn't happen in 2.4.6. Unfortunately, I have no idea on what could have changed between the versions that affects this. Is there a difference between different

Re: Instrument name placement, Was: Bug in SustainPedal ?

2005-05-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
, even if they change the total vertical extent of the Staff. Added to bug cvs as instrument-center-pedal.ly. erik ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond -- Erik Sandberg Maintainer

Re: metronome mark bug?

2005-04-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 03.27, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: from metronome-marking.ly in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.ht ml Here \tempo directives are printed as metronome markings. The marking is left aligned with the time signature, if

Re: Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 23 April 2005 13.31, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People have asked in the past for the ability to enter notes without having to put in the chromatic signs specified in the key signature. This should be possible in plain LilyPond. Maybe

Re: Notes in Key Sig

2005-04-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
Nice! I think something like this really could be useful for many users. Some questions: - Do you have an example input file demonstrating most features (as a tutorial)? - The copyright line is (legally) unclear. Copyright laws are pretty nasty. To be on the safe side, I'd recommend you to look

Re: Interesting numerology

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 21 April 2005 10.35, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Why don't you simply insert a \break where you want the page break and (that's \pageBreak) set \paper{ raggedlastbottom = ##f } so that LilyPond automatically spreads the systems over the available space? This sometimes gives too

Re: Interesting numerology

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 18 April 2005 01.36, Fairchild wrote: The goal of the shtick below is to balance the two printed pages with ten lines on each page. As is and again by changing the fourteenth digit of betweensystemspace from 5 to 6 gets two different results, nine lines on one page and eleven on the

Re: Upgrading

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17.06, Laura Conrad wrote: MB == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB I really recommend you to upgrade to the latest stable version 2.4.x MB as soon as possible, since it has improved significantly compared to MB 2.0. Also, since almost nobody on the

Re: Some questions

2005-04-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:50 -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Change the padding property on one or the other. Yes, but I thought collision should be avoided automatically. It seems that it specifically dynamics that collides with many things... So maybe it's a bug? Yes, text markup can

Re: strange accidentals

2005-04-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 10 April 2005 14.32, Karl Hammar wrote: How do I remove the unwanted explicit flats in the next to last measure in: \version 2.4.2 \relative c'' { \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible \mark #03 \clef treble \key c \minor a2 b | d1

Re: invoking Lilypond from a script

2005-04-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 08 April 2005 19.29, Kris Shaffer wrote: Thanks for making such a great product. I love using Lilypond. I am currently working on an applescript app for Mac OS X that will allow a .ly file to be dragged to a Lilypond icon to create the PDF score without using the command line. My

is lilypond-devel down?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, When I send messages to lilypond-devel, they bounce with this message. Does anyone else experience this? Erik Final-Recipient: rfc822; lilypond-devel@gnu.org Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx10.gnu.org[199.232.76.166] said: 550 unknown     user (in reply to

Re: Extra verses

2005-03-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 04 March 2005 18.05, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I would recommend latex-book. A simple example could look somewhat like: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \begin{document} \lilypondfile{myfile.ly} \begin{enumerate} % Use the automatic numbering, but start after verse 2:

Re: Polyphonic alternating beams with cross-voice slurs

2005-03-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 10 March 2005 20.58, Matthias Kilian wrote: Hi, finally beeing back to LilyPond after nearly a year, I'm restarting at a really weird engraving problem. Erik Sandberg warned be, and he was right. This is what I want: http://dead-parrot.de/chaconne.gif or, if you prefer PDF

Re: Polyphonic alternating beams with cross-voice slurs

2005-03-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 10 March 2005 22.11, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 20.58, Matthias Kilian wrote: I gave bar 235 a try: I thought some more about it. This gives no warnings, but more importantly, it _feels_ better :) (it's cleaner somehow): \relative { {d16( a') s a s a[ s a] s

Re: autobeam adjustment

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 17 February 2005 18.44, Laura Conrad wrote: I've always found the autobeaming baffling. Can someone tell me the magic for telling lily (2.0) that in 6/8 time beams start and end only in the middle of the measure? I have tried some things that look like they should work, like

Re: repeat slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 18 February 2005 21.47, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. How is this different from \lyricmode { \markup { C \majSymbol \super { 7 9 } } except for the \lyricmode and \markup ? (For starters, wouldn't you have to specify another font, since

Re: abc2ly and dance music (was: autobeam adjustment)

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 20 February 2005 15.11, Laura Conrad wrote: ES == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES abc2ly seems to use a weird method of dividing the music into ES bars. Remove the \set Score.defaultBarType = empty, and ES insert a \partial 8 in the beginning of the piece

Re: Lyrics disappeared from midi files in 2.4.0

2005-01-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
Thanks, added to bug cvs (midi-lyrics) On Friday 28 January 2005 12.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Seems like a bug! /Mats Michiel Lange wrote: Recently I have upgraded from lilypond 2.2 to 2.4 After convert-ly and running the files through lilypond it appears that songs with lyrics that

Re: How to tie a flat to g sharp

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 24 January 2005 12.01, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Greetings, I am having a hard time convincing Lilypond to create a tie between enharmonic variants: This is nonstandard practise, and hence not easy to do cleanly (AFAIK). A quickdirty fix could be to create invisible 'a' notes in the

Re: How to tie a flat to g sharp

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 24 January 2005 14.41, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Erik Sandberg writes: On Monday 24 January 2005 12.01, Kilian A. Foth wrote: Greetings, I am having a hard time convincing Lilypond to create a tie between enharmonic variants: This is nonstandard practise, and hence

Re: Rest Collision Bug

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 23 January 2005 03.16, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: There is a rule which is quite obscure now about collision of rests and notes when there are three or four voices on a staff. If there is not enough space between the upper and lower voices for a rest for an inside voice, that rest

Re: Advocating Research on Fingering Practice

2005-01-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 21 January 2005 20.57, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Quoted w/o permission: [quote][i]Originally posted by donaldsauter[/i] [br]Jan de Kloe's article A House Style for Engraving Guitar Music in the most recent Soundboard prompted me to get some more thoughts down on the subject of

Re: Old Music Fingering Example

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23.18, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: The examples in the documentation portray the placing of finger numbers after notes as respectable. If you look at this file, which has left hand fingering well done, you will see that it is not. I don't think you can find a

Re: LilyPond on Debian

2005-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09.15, Karol Langner wrote: Hi all, I'm using the testing version of Debian. The official deb repositories have version 2.2 of LilYPond. Does anyone know of any reliable repositories with a newer version? See: http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/lilypond.html

Re: Vertical spacing isn't working...

2005-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09.27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because I've got the syntax wrong or something. Below is my wrapper .ly file with the details... minimumVerticalExtent only has effect if you have more than one staff (or lyrics/chordnames). You can try passing -f ps to

Re: ? Making separate Title page in 2.4.2 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11.58, anders stenberg wrote: Hello! Could any body give me a hint how to get a separate titlepage for pieces. i.e. Get the header content on a separate page instead of f/ or and on a separat page beginning the output document. I'm working with 2.4.2 on a Cygwin.

Re: opus/composer alignment

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
thanks. I have added the bug to the database. It will not be fixed in the 2.4 series, but as Daniel pointed out it is fixed in 2.5. You can pass -f ps to lilypond, this will make the output slightly different; the composer will be slightly off to the right instead. Erik On Friday 07 January

Re: Beam subdivision and fingering in tablatures

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 17 January 2005 22.25, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: Two questions (I posed one in lilypond-devel, not realising it was the wrong place): 1) Is there any way of forcing a beam subdivision at a certain point? I am typesetting drum scores, and whem I have things like sn32[ sn sn sn sn sn

Re: Bar lines. Was: Lilypond pieces already entered

2005-01-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 13 January 2005 16.35, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Michael Kallas wrote: Barcheck is really great, yes, but I've found some times it fails when it shouldn't. Try for example: \time 4/4 r4 R4*3 | This fails reproduceably in 2.4.2 (or am I coding nonsense here)? As has already

Re: global \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down)

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 07 January 2005 22.22, Albert Einstein wrote: What command set command: \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) global for all notes? I'm not sure exactly what you want to achieve, but it might be something like this: \set Score.fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) This

Re: Product Installation

2005-01-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 19.28, Jerry Starks wrote: Greetings. Is there any way to get an installable CD of Lily Pond (for Windows)? I only have dial-up access to the web on my home computer, and I can't install Lily Pond from the web because my connection times out approximately 2/3 of

Re: Using Lilypond as a Lilypond preprocessor.

2004-12-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Darius Blasband [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I think it might be a good idea for Lilypond to provide a facility which, based on an input file, provides a normalized intermediate file which is itself a valid Lilypond file, with exactly the same semantics as the original one, but where

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