New User Frescobaldi Setup for Mac

2013-10-09 Thread Garrett McGilvray
I have tried thus far unsuccessfully to get Frescobaldi to work on my Mac, and I am wondering if any of you Mac Frescobaldi users could help me. I have followed the instructions from this link: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Frescobaldi-Mac-OS-X-install-guide After all of those instr

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-13 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Hi Carl, On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > The basic answer is that you ideally need two sequential sets of voice > contexts, one for the verse, one for the chorus. So this would be your basic > setup: > > \score { >\new Staff = "top" { > << \new Voice = "sopVerse"

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 13, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > > > To your specific issue, what you would do is use skips to get the notes where > they need to be. For instance, if you were to define variables outside the > score block for the parts, > > sopVerse = { 4 \stemUp d' c'2 \stemNeutral }

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 16, 2013, at 9:05 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > So here is the challenging question: what would be required to have a > hymn typesetter be able to look at the documentation of LilyPond, and > start typesetting hymns with the delivered doc and styles within an > hour? > There are a couple o

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson wrote: > So this would be your basic setup: > > \score { >\new Staff = "top" { > << \new Voice = "sopVerse" { } % voice for verse melody and combined alto > \new Voice = "altoVerse" { } % voice for verse alto lines that > require sepa

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Hi Folks. I thank you all for your continued help. Thomas Morley-2 wrote > don't put \new Lyrics _into_ the Staff. This one line showed me the essence of my error, so I am able to work from there. Now that I look at it, it does look like a newbie error, but I just wasn't seeing it before. Elu

Work around note head bug.

2013-10-27 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Dear users, There is a bug in the Mac version where the Re half-note in \aikenHeads renders as a quarter note in 2.16, and the problem just swaps for the whole note in 2.17. This has been reported to the bug list, but I'm wondering how to work around it in the mean time. Here is a minimal versi

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Frescobaldi included in MacPorts!

2013-11-06 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Note: Apologies to Davide for the double message. I forgot to Reply All the first time. On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Davide Liessi wrote: > Dear users of Frescobaldi and Mac OS X, > > I'm pleased to announce that Frescobaldi and python-poppler-qt4 have > been included in MacPorts! [1] [2] > Th

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-02 Thread Garrett McGilvray
I've laid low because I'm still new enough that I don't have much to contribute unless it is a question, but here I might actually have something to say: > On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:00, David Kastrup wrote: > > Again, I don't think the "no money" aspect should be a primary selling > point. I defini

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-03 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Dec 3, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Garrett McGilvray wrote: > >> The reason that I came back for a second try was not that it was free, since >> I had already paid for "the real thing." I don't remember what made

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-13 Thread Garrett McGilvray
- On Feb 13, 2014, 6:54:10 AM, Davide Liessi wrote: Please try this to upgrade your installation (including py2app) and reinstall frescobaldi(-devel): sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade outdated sudo port uninstall active and name:frescobaldi sudo port install frescobaldi # or fr