Re: surviving staff

2004-05-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 00.29, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Please, pretty please, could somebody comment on this? I'm out of my wits... This is clearly a bug; it's in my local queue of bugs to isolate. I'll reply better once i have isolated the bug. If you want a quick workaround, I guess you

Re: surviving staff

2004-05-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 00.29, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Please, pretty please, could somebody comment on this? I'm out of my wits... Here: \context Staff = choir \context Voice = global \global \context Voice = choir \repeat unfold 2

Re: Slight spanner problem

2004-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23.39, Doug Asherman wrote: I'm not quite sure how to describe this: if it's not clear, please let me know. ... No problems with the words; they're within the bar lines (even though the bar lines aren't visible). But if a line of music ends with a tie and the word it

Re: Slight spanner problem

2004-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 10 May 2004 17.50, Doug Asherman wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 23.39, Doug Asherman wrote: No problems with the words; they're within the bar lines (even though the bar lines aren't visible). But if a line of music ends with a tie and the word it ends on has

Re: Slight spanner problem

2004-05-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23.39, Doug Asherman wrote: I'm not quite sure how to describe this: if it's not clear, please let me know. ... Also, when I'm compiling the source, I get: programming error: round filled box vertical extent smaller than blot; decreasing blot This certainly sounds

Re: Using slurs with polyphony

2004-05-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 23.20, Yuval Harel wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with using slurs where the number of voices changes during the slur. A simple example: g4( \\ e fis g) \\ f This yields:

Re: detailed look on lilypond output

2004-05-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 16 April 2004 23.48, Michael Kiermaier wrote: Hello! Sorry for the very late reply. It is my strong believe that a perfect music typesetter only needs the pure musical information of a music file, without redundancy. For this reason I never was happy with Finale Co., and for the

Re: repeated lyrics in 2.2.0

2004-04-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 21.49, Jos Smeets wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:40:13 +0200 However, that does not do what I mean, assuming I understood you well. I want the repeated part to have different lyrics the second time, so two lines of lyrics (like two stanzas). That is what the example

Re: repeated lyrics in 2.2.0

2004-04-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 29 April 2004 12.42, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Erik, you still don't get the point, namely that it previously has been possible to typeset |: some music:| First repeat text Second repeat text using \repeat fold 2 { } \alternative{{First repeat text }{Second repeat

Re: repeated lyrics in 2.2.0

2004-04-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 18.22, Jos Smeets wrote: In Lilypond 2.0.1 I could handle repeated lyrics as follows: \repeat fold 2 { } \alternative {{Bla bla }{ Pom pom }} After I upgraded to 2.2.0 this stopped working. I cannot find a way to handle this now. Can anyone help? Just dont

Re: \raise bug in 2.2.0??

2004-04-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
Steve, See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html#Text% 20markup Try: d4^\markup { \raise #4.0 \bold RAISEME} d d | Erik ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding decresc breaks barcheck

2004-04-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 05.47, chip wrote: I am working on a piece in 3/4 time and have some note stems with two notes on them, and have added a decresc. to a half note b' gsharp'4 gsharp' e'2 { s4\ s4\!} but now I want to slur from the first set of notes to the second, but when I add

Re: Repeat bars don't connect

2004-04-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 April 2004 19.40, Marcel Bollmann wrote: Hi! Am I doing something wrong? Could this be a bug? Or are repeat bars just not supposed to be at the beginning of a line? (Like I said, the sheet music I'm typesetting has them exactly there.) It's a bug, reported at

Re: Verses with Different Rhythms

2004-04-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 April 2004 21.14, Jean Connelly wrote: Regarding: It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support for exactly this situation with different number of syllables in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property. Unfortunately, as I added verses to the

Re: Scandinavian letters in lyrics and text markup

2004-04-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 18 April 2004 22.22, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: But then, just for the experiment, I deleted that file and pasted your input into Emacs. And the file compiled neatly. I lost the r ing\aa r,though, and that's part of the original problem. Ah, maybe you should use quotes: g\aa r

Re: Scandinavian letters in lyrics and text markup

2004-04-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 17 April 2004 14.21, Oddgeir Finstad wrote: An example .ly file with Scandinavian lyrics would probably be the easiest way out for me. Or maybe a table with instructions of how to type the actual letters? Or some relevant pointers? Thanks in advance. Best regards I have

Re: lyricsto for one part of lyrics

2004-04-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 10 April 2004 18.12, Bertalan Fodor wrote: Hello, I would like to make the first part of the lyrics with lyricsto, but the second part with explicit lyrics length. Can I achieve this? Thanks, Bert This works: \score { \new Staff \context Voice=A \notes { b4 b2 b4 | r4 b2 b4

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23.58, Paul Scott wrote: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find

Re: Colliding Stems

2004-03-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 25 March 2004 07.08, Lyle Raymond wrote: I'm getting a too many clashing notecolumns warning during the rendering of a .ly file. How can I apply a horizontal shift to individual notes? In the following excerpt, I would like to shift the first notes of the upper and lower voices

Re: bugs.ly

2004-03-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
The chord-naming scheme is consistent with Ignatzek's book. If you prefer another system, you're welcome to code support for it. Han-Wen (Getting very tired of yet another chord name request) I'm just curious: Does this book say that \chords c^3 and \chords c should be typeset identically?

absolute-relative converter?

2004-03-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
hi all, I have some old music ly files with notes written in absolute mode. But I like \relative better. Does anyone know if there exists a tool that can convert notes from absolute to relative mode? Erik ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: still: beaming

2004-03-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11.23, Joerg Anders wrote: Hi! I learned a lot about beaming from scm/auto-beam.scm But I'm not quite sure about the begin function. What exactly means: (begin 1 16 3 8) . ,(ly:make-moment 1 8) If I comprehend all right: In a 3/8 measure if there is a 16th note

Re: Repeat bar - accidental order

2004-03-23 Thread Erik Sandberg
I would like to have the repeat bar after the accidentals (isn't this standard notation practice?), I believe this has been fixed just past 2.1.32. There was a short discussion about this but I can't find all of it right now. I see it's *not* fixed in 2.1.33. But it might be in

Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer

2004-03-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
There are two main concepts - 'copyright' and 'public domain'. The copyright (das Recht Kopien, Aenderungen und Ausgaben herzustellen) belongs to a person or to an organization unless that person has assigned it, for example to a publishing copmpany. OR it is passed into the Public Domain

Re: ties vs. slurs

2004-03-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 14 March 2004 22.09, GoochRules! wrote: Greetings, Does lilypond handle f8( f4) and f8~ f4 differently? Is ...~ ... simply a short cut for ...( ...)? What about f8( f1)( f2) vs. f8~ f1~ f2? There is a difference in what it means. f8~f basically means f4, while f8(f) means

Re: final bar lines :||

2004-03-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 05 March 2004 22.51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am learning lyrics but with version: Version: 2.1.0-2 Does that support the /lyricsto command? No, you need one of the later development versions (the \lyricsto was introduced somewhere around 2.1.12, I think). Here is what I

Re: Hey, ya! =))

2004-03-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14.14, Rutger Hofman wrote: According to the headers, this comes from 51.78.92.200 helo=ENTHUSIA. If I do a DNS lookup, I get: 61.78.92.200.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer customer-TEP-78-61.megared.net.mx. Anybody on the list recognizes themselves in this domain

Re: [ot] SPAM/Worm problem

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
MK c) reject every mail containing attachments other than .ly or .png. Hm.. but this will not help once there are worms based on .ly :) * I just received a Bagle.C message apparently from me (well, from my [EMAIL PROTECTED] self) on the closed-post development list. This happened despite

Re: non-relative relative mode?

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 26 February 2004 11.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I assume that you mean \transpose and nothing else. Of course, this is one good approach to avoid having to type all the ' and ,. However, I still recommend you to give the \relative another try. I think most people on this list agree

Re: non-relative relative mode?

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
I can however imagine that some things can be simpler to typeset with absolute mode, e.g. if there is a lot of chords and not so much melodic lines. This can be the case in some piano music. This is EXACTLY what I'm doing. For some reason I have decided to write all chords top-note

Re: Feature request: Melisma

2004-02-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 20 February 2004 07.25, TS Sunhede Fulk wrote: Hey, I'm using 2.01 (Mac OS X) and really like the program. However, one thing bugs me to death: melismata. Before my ancient Powerbook died, I used Opcode's Fermata to typeset music. It handled a melisma by having you attach an

Re: 2.1.15 and beams

2004-01-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 31 January 2004 23.08, Walter Hofmeister wrote: Hello, I just got 2.1.15 working and have noticed that no beams are drawn. Have others noticed this? I checked the NEWS document and didn't notice that anything had changed. The problem exists in 2.1.15 and has been fixed in 2.1.16

Re: transposing instruments

2004-01-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
I would say that it's better to write it the way it's easier to write... i.e., if you are copying from notes that were written as cdef, then write cdef, and if they were written as d e fis g, then write d e fis g. On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23.13, Fodor Bertalan wrote: I have a practical

Re: Debian (Woody) packages for Lilypond 2.1.9

2004-01-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 January 2004 02.11, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Binary packages of LilyPond 2.1.9 for Debian Woody are available at http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/lilypond The previous 2.1.6 conditions apply with respect to the geometry LaTeX package. Does anybody find announcements like this

Re: MIDI repetition

2004-01-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 January 2004 20.55, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: In the other hand, to unfold them makes the paper output to be unfolded too :( There is a dirty trick: 1. Put your notes in their own file (say notes.ly, which puts all the notes of your score into the variable

Re: inline (scoped) definitions?

2004-01-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 15 January 2004 17.58, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Paul: I think as a programmer I agree with David that the macro/definitions are easier to find done the regular way. I would certainly hope that, if my proposal were adopted, it would not eliminate the existing system or

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 2.1.8

2004-01-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 17.05, Paul Scott wrote: Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To be truly honest, I haven't updated the packages dependencies requirements. I'm going to do it ASAP, maybe that will help. Thanks. Lets see what happens. Could you update

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 2.1.8

2004-01-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
Now I'm guessing, but by manually running /usr/bin/lilypond-bin --version you might get a more detailed message about why it fails. What I did was -V for verbose. --version is the same as -v which only prints the version number. I was maybe a bit unclear, what I meant was that since the

Re: NoteEdit and LilyPond-2.x (ver 2)

2004-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 12 January 2004 10.13, Joerg Anders wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-15] José Luis Cruz wrote: I reccomend you take a look at the tutorial avaliable at: I tried it but to tell the truth: I'm despaired: I tried to convert the LilyPond 1.x definition for flat symbol in texts:

Re: NoteEdit and LilyPond-2.x (ver 2)

2004-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 12 January 2004 12.42, Joerg Anders wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Erik Sandberg wrote: What you want is probably flat = \markup { \raise #0.2 \smaller \musicglyph #accidentals--2 } Thank you! Last question: What happend with the wavy lines: g \spanrequest \start text g

Re: Forced # of measures per system?

2004-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 12 January 2004 22.44, Carl Youngblood wrote: Thanks for the help. The only problem I have now is that this causes an empty staff to show up for the \repeat section. How do I get rid of this and still retain the number of measures per system that I want? Put it into an existing

Re: Lyrics question

2004-01-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 09 January 2004 22.12, Carl Youngblood wrote: I'm doing a choral piece that has the same lyrics for all parts for almost all of it, except for a few measures where there is a split. What is the best way to put lyrics on the notes that are split? Is there an easier way than putting

Re: NoteEdit and LilyPond-2.x (ver 2)

2004-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19.51, Joerg Anders wrote: Thank you. But I thought chords remain d2 a2 Only StaffGroup and ChoirStaff have ... parenthesis.(?) The problem is: g'4 e' b' f' a a is different from g'4 e' b' f' a a the 2 'a' are one octave higher. This is an error source

Re: allegro

2003-12-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 11.53, Aaron wrote: I guess I wasn't clear enough. Or maybe that's the only way? Can I set a variable that makes allegro=\tempo 8. = 120? Or as a feature request. Include tempo names and a way to describe them in midi tempos. I realize not everyone cares about

Re: Relative mode

2003-10-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
Twinkle twinkle as a4 a e e fis fis e2 d4 d cis cis b b a2 instead of (current relative mode): a4 a e' e fis fis e2 d4 d cis cis b b a2 or (current absolute mode): a,4 a, e e fis fis e2 d4 d cis cis b, b, a2, /Mats That can't be done already? You can't write \relative a ? I

Very long hyphens in lyrics

2003-10-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, I'm typesetting a piece where the first syllable dam of one word dam - ni is ornamented for 3 bars. I am no expert in vocal music notation, but all my sources notate this by using a sequence of short hyphens (dam - - - - - ni like LyrB below) instead of one very long hyphen (dam

Re: Possible bug

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 22 February 2003 21.50, Beldon Dominello wrote: I have a piece of music which is in 12/8 time. For the sake of clarity, the phrase I am trying to score consists of an eigth note f' tied to a quarter note f' followed by an eigth note g' tied to a dotted quarter g'. This whole

Re: Debian packages

2003-02-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
I've been running 1.6 on stable (Woody), and switching back to 1.4 for things that haven't yet been converted to 1.6. (No, it isn't as simple as running convert-ly.) In both cases, they're unmodified packages. 1.6 is what apt-get gets me, with the line: deb

Re: Ties

2003-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 20.43, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: Is their a way I can force a tie to curve up or down? Try \slurUp and \slurDown Erik ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond question (aligning lyrics)

2003-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 05.45, Jeff Ousley wrote: Hello! I'm trying to quickly come up to speed on lilypond and stumbling quite a bit. I'm putting together a music book for a group I'm in. In working on the first, very short song, I'm running into a problem with the lyrics. The song

Dotted slurs

2002-12-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, Is there a way of getting dotted slurs? In notes I play, it's quite common to make slurs into dotted lines instead of full lines, and it makes about the same difference as a ? does to a pitch. Erik ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: structured small files

2002-12-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 15 December 2002 10.53, neuro wrote: Is this list still working? How do I make a structured .ly like .. If I want some scales exercies, for example, for the piano, from major/minor with no incidentals, then increasing the shart and flat incidentals one by one, may I write the

Re: How to Debug Parse Errors

2002-12-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 21.58, Richard Grubb wrote: I am new to Lilypond. I have 1.6.0 running on MacOSX 10.1.5. I can create .ly files from descriptions in the tutorial and run them through ly2dvi, but have not been able to run the first two examples I saved from the lilypond.org website.

mass skip

2002-11-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, Is there a way of mass converting all the notes of a voice (or staff) to skips? I.e. a way to make fis4_\p g8 g8_\f e16\_mf work like s4_\p s8 s8_\f s16\_mf (I want to copy the scripts of one staff into all the other staves, so I just want to extract those scripts from the staff, which

Re: Adding some header text

2002-11-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12.42, you wrote: Hi, is it possible to add some multiline header text, that is printed on top of the first page. I want to have arragement notes there, in text form, perhaps on the top right corner. If I understood you correctly, this should do the work:

Re: PDF bug or misunderstanding?

2002-10-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
if I take this through the steps to produce a pdf file (lydvi input.ly, dvips input.dvi ps2pdf input.ps) or just do the one-step thing, I end up with a pdf file that has incomplete note-heads. This is using xpdf to view the pdf file -- if I use gv, it views ok. But this isn't really good,

Re: Da Capo

2002-10-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 00.17, you wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: I can not find anywhere in the documentation how to make good-looking da capo texts properly. Most D.C.:s I see in Real Notes use to be placed below the staff, with its text right-aligned to the left of the last \bar

Da Capo

2002-10-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, I can not find anywhere in the documentation how to make good-looking da capo texts properly. Most D.C.:s I see in Real Notes use to be placed below the staff, with its text right-aligned to the left of the last \bar (and it use to be written out in all staves, too). Like: ||

Re: partial measures

2002-07-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
But for some bizarre reason that I've not tracked down yet, the ly2dvi command doesn't work directly. Oh well, just one extra step. How, then, do you invoke ly2dvi? ly2dvi is just a script, and ly2dvi myfile.ly should basically do lilypond myfile.ly;tex myfile.tex (plus some extra handling

Re: partial measures

2002-07-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 00.39, Mark M. Wilson wrote: I'm trying to write an eighth-note pickup to a full measure in 12/8 time. I wrote: \partial 11 e8 but this doesn't work. The syntax reference didn't give an example, and since I'm apparently an idiot, I can't figure out what kind of

Recursive percent repeats

2002-07-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, I have half a bar of music which is repeated 6 times, and I'd like the output to look something like | [music] / | % | % | The intuitive way to do this would be \repeat percent 3 { \repeat percent 2 { [music] } | } but I just get a warning: no one to print a percent and the / in the

Slashes through graces

2002-07-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, What's the value I should set flag-style to in order to get a slash through a grace note? The docs mention how to remove the slash, but I can't figure out the name of the function that actually adds that slash. Erik ___ Lilypond-user mailing

Re: Chords and slurs

2002-06-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 21 June 2002 11.15, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Three layers could be necessary. You could easily have a grace note group with a slur indicating which note its time value was from, inside an actual slur, inside a phrasing slur. Grace notes should always have slur marks, even

Triplet beaming

2002-02-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, I have some music which is reducable to: \notes { \time 4/4 [a8 \times 2/3 {a16 a a]} a2. } I want the beaming to look like ___ | |-|-| | . . . . o (sorry for the low-quality ascii art) How should I do this? I'm using Lily 1.4.9, and keep getting | -| |-| | . . . . o Erik

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