new website: initial comments

2009-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
Here's a very rough initial draft of our new website: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Any comments or offers of help? At the moment, I'm looking for overall design issues, like you should have a `blarg' section on the main menu or I can't find the current

Re: MIDI export: \partial measure and volta repeats

2009-06-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:09:18AM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/6/18 Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com: Unfortunately, I can't make it working: it says that \tag... is unexpected string. \include english.ly \include tablature.ly We have not this file. More to the point,

Re: Compiling on MAC OS X 10.5.7

2009-06-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:08:11AM +0700, Simon Mackenzie wrote: On 19/06/2009, at 8:37 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On 18.06.2009, at 16:05, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Has any one had any success compiling Lilypond 2.12.2 on a MAC OS X 10.5.7 system? What are the errors reported by the compiler?

Re: Indent

2009-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:41:02PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:17:56PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I use LilyPondTool for jEdit, which has auto-indenting. There are others, of course, and IIUC some that are only available for linux. These editor apply

Re: musicxml2ly problem

2009-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:45:30PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2009 15:30:48 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: [...] The created ly-file contains nothing but the version command (\version 2.12.2). I'm using Python 2.6.2 on Mac

Re: musicxml2ly problem

2009-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
to /usr/bin/env python. I can't find any python files in this path. What do I have to change where and how (Mac OS X)? Sorry for being stupid. Thanks for your help! Cheers Patrick Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:20:27 -0700 Von: Graham Percival gra

Re: G_8 not complete in a small eps file

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:15PM +0200, Alexandros Droseltis wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:23 -0700, -Eluze wrote: Alexandros Droseltis-3 wrote: [I am using GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 and I am a new user.] In the result, the 8 under the clef is cut. I could not find how I could

Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:10:24AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: There is advice in Learning Manual 2.1.3 to surround braces with whitespace: The braces should be surrounded by a space unless they are at the beginning or end of a line to avoid ambiguities. However, I've just added a

Re: G_8 not complete in a small eps file

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:15:15PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: Note to other people who answer such emails: let's not suggest that new users try the devel releases. yes, i am one of those people who answer such emails, and i suggested to use a newer version! anything

Re: G_8 not complete in a small eps file

2009-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:11:17PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: That's why I suggest that normal users stick to the stable version. when i suggested to use a newer version i did not mean it has to be an unstable version All 2.13 releases are unstable. In version

Re: Different colours in a single word

2009-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
Use \concat. See the docs for details. Cheers, - Graham On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Jayaratna wrote: Dear all, I need to print in red colour the first letter in a word, but the following: \markup {\roman \with-color #(x11-color red) M \with-color #(x11-color black)

Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

2009-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:55:25AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: Is there anywhere in the documentation that states where whitespace *is* required? No, but that would be nice. It should go somewhere in NR 3. If you could come up with anything -- frankly, even just a stub with a FIXME: find out

Re: Redundant snippet in 2.13

2009-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:35:37PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/6/9 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Thanks!  Trevor worked on the beaming rules recently, and I think that was one of the fixes.  I've removed it from LSR. All those poor users who haven't upgraded to 2.13

Re: Lilypond sensitivity to whitespace

2009-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:55:25AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: Is there anywhere in the documentation that states where whitespace *is* required? No, but that would be nice. It should go somewhere in NR 3

Re: Redundant snippet in 2.13

2009-06-09 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks! Trevor worked on the beaming rules recently, and I think that was one of the fixes. I've removed it from LSR. Cheers, - Graham On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:58:52PM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: The snippet Automatic beams two per two in 4/4 or 2/2 time signature

Re: Preview?

2009-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:59:25PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/6/6 Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org: Back in the olden days (lilypond 2.0 or so) there used to be a command line option --preview which would produce a .png file of the first line of the piece. does not lilypond

Re: Problems with Piano Staff Template

2009-06-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:51:59AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm having trouble getting the LSR database to come up, and when I opened the template in my source code it said at the top not to edit this file. Yes; it should only be changed in LSR. Also I still can't pull from git:

Re: emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Percival
lilypond-book c:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/work/latex projekte/ jazzguitar/lbooktest1.tely Umm, doesn't lilypond still die on directories with spaces on windows? Cheers, - Graham PS if anybody complains that it should be able to handle spaces on windows, then yes, it should be.

Re: emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:12:22AM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: Umm, doesn't lilypond still die on directories with spaces on windows? I wouldn't know. I limit my windows exposure to work-related incidents. Hence, anything windows-related is quickly ignored by me. I even limit

trailing spaces

2009-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: I've looked again more closely at your original patch. The reason it fails to apply is that line 45 in the existing version of /input/lsr/non-default-tuplet-numbers.ly has no trailing space (actually it's just a single blank

Re: Line lengths in NR [was Petrucci-like spacing?]

2009-05-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 04:15:51AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: When I edit files from git I make sure there are no trailing spaces by setting my editor to remove them automatically. I have no idea what to do. I find it

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:10:32AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On May 23, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Graham Percival wrote: My goal is not to insult you into feeling bad; my goal is to insult you into HELPING US FIX THINGS. Learn scheme. Join the Frogs. Contribute to lilypond. If everybody sits

Re: Users versus developers (was: Tempo mark alignment)

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:57:20PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On May 23, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Unfortunately, Tim's point is at odds with the philosophy of free software - which can be pretty succinctly stated as he who writes the software makes the rules. Ummm.

Re: Compilation Errors using Emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:38:22PM +0200, weiss nicht wrote: I have a latex document like this, named guitarbook.ly: Try naming it guitarbook.lytex I have no clue how emacs stuff works, but the convention is to name lilypond-book files as .lytex (see the docs), so perhaps the authors of the

Re: Tempo mark alignment

2009-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:37:19AM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: I wanted to report this too, then I saw issues 684, 700 and now 712 reporting this, so I didn't. But since there are 3 unfixed issues reporting the same thing and since the first one is open for 8 months now, I allowed

Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?

2009-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 04:39:45PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Nearly all the examples are in relative mode, meaning they have a \relative c' {} (or some other octave) around them. It was a conscious choice to do so. This convention is explained in Learning Manual 2.1.4 How to

Re: lilypond via web interface: security considerations

2009-05-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 02:47:54PM -0400, Mike Blackstock wrote: Of course, 'security' is relative - nothing will stop a commited hacker who's targeted your system, so I'm a bit mystified by some of the other responses here. That's not true -- The only reason that computer security is a joke

Re: lilypond via web interface: security considerations

2009-05-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:41:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Alex wrote: This is what -dsafe does. However, this disallows many useful tweaks, and also doesn't stop a particular snippet from using massive CPU resources

Re: Special markups

2009-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:35:00AM +0200, Helge Kruse wrote: For me each is confusing as the other, since I don't understand scheme. Is there any Scheme in a nutshell, probably especially for Lilypond? You mean in addition to LM appendix B. Scheme tutorial, or instead of LM appendix B. Scheme

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I've played several orchestral pieces where the violin parts include glissandi ranging over several strings. Mahler Symphony no. 4 comes to my mind, for example. I'm still uncertain on exactly how to play it, though, but

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 5/20/09 9:20 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Oh, come on! There's no theoretical maximum frequency of a violin string[1]. Just start on the G string and slide up. ;) In case anybody is wondering

Re: missing glissando features (bugs?)

2009-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:48:58AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I've always thought that pushing against the fingerboard created a fixed end to the string, while just touching the string created a node. Perhaps the pulling the string towards the arm technique creates enough force that it

Re: lilypond via web interface: security considerations

2009-05-18 Thread Graham Percival
#(system 'rm -rf /') or something like that. Search the mailist archives on this list and the -devel list for a discussion. In summary: 1) somebody could wipe out anything that the web interface software can touch. 3) somebody could read anything that the web interface software can read. 2)

Re: need help with custom volta text

2009-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:19:45PM +, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I'm having difficulty applying the example http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Repeats# Volta-text-markup-using-repeatCommands In my score, I need the first bracket to say safety and the second to say

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:46:39AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: First, I think that the information above should be put into 1.1.1 Writing Pitches as examples under Relative octave entry. There should be three separate items/examples: When relative blocks are nested, the innermost

Re: Aligning a D.S. al Fine at the end of a piece.

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:46:52PM +0200, Marek Klein wrote: 2009/5/13 Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com: The problem seems to be that I'm aligning to notes, whereas the D.S. al Fine should be aligned to the bar. Is that possible? If not, is there a prettier way than just attaching it to an

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:13:41AM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: That looks like what I need, but I don't quite understand it -- probably because I don't properly understand contexts -- the in documentation, all the index entries for contexts take me to sections that assume I already know what they

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:59:12AM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: In the case of every question I have asked, I have not only scoured the manuals -- not just the learning manual -- but also searched the snippets repository and the web in general for anything that might give me a clue. Did you, or did

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:11:53PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: The lilypond documentation really isn't the kind of documentation that you can go to when you want to know how to do something. It's designed to teach you how to use the software. That's a beautiful quote. Valentin, could you

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Graham's quite cuddly when you get to know him - like a hedgehog you just have to be very careful how you cuddle him :-) Aww, you're making me blush. :) The difficulty is that steep learning curve. Any decent lilypond piece

Re: Newbie Question -- verse and chorus

2009-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:32:29PM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/5/11 James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: The lilypond documentation really isn't the kind of documentation that you can go to when you want to know how to do something. It's designed to teach you how to use the

Re: Allowing empty space at bottom of page

2009-05-07 Thread Graham Percival
Take a look at the \bookpart command, added in 2.12. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:37:42PM +0100, David Jarvie wrote: I'm doing a score which has more than one movement, and I want to start each movement on a new page. I'm using manual page breaks all the time, and one movement

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:24:36PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/28/09 4:42 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: After running the script on the directory with all the snippets in it, I run this command to find snippets that didn't compile: Cool! I still think that

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:37:12AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This probably also indicates a need to change the convert-ly rule for \octave. If it doesn't work for \octaves, it also wouldn't work for \octaveAdjustFunction, or some

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I'm not certain this is necessary. OK, it might be good to use word-matching for \octave rather than string matching \octave*, but that's no unique to this occurrance. (no, I don't know the proper regex

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:16:33PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/4/26 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: This is easily solved; the python script that copies from input/new/ to input/lsr/ should add a This snippet only works in 2.13; that way, the LSR editor can easily see

Re: adding to the LSR

2009-04-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:24:46AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I've just finished a preliminary run through all of the snippets. I downloaded the tarball of the entire repo and ran them through the convert-ly script, then did a looping script that ran lilypond on each updated snippet

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:36:11PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/25/09 1:31 PM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the docs, the LSR editor must be

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:41:26AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: Graham Percival wrote: If you have an idea for a general clarification that the syntax is pitch duration other

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:06:07PM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: after some days of struggling with lilypond's internals, I have created a file tablature.ly Fantastic work! This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping would happen. Not from a tab-specific viewpoint, but from a general getting

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:31:14PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:13 AM Eh?!?! You want to tell people to put articulation and dynamic marks after the duration, before they've been told how to do articulations and dynamics? Remember

Re: crankiness

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0100, Gerard McConnell wrote: The current person responsible for LSR also happens to be the most active patch-reviewer. Do you *really* want me to ask him to stop working on patches (i.e. new features, bug fixes, etc) and waste his time playing web-2.0

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:56AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com: Graham Percival wrote: 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; this isn't your

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:10:11PM -0700, Chip wrote: I didn't want to print something in the titles, I wanted to print something in the footer. Am I being nitpicky here? To me those are two different sections of a page. \markup is \markup. Look at the first example on

music expression explanation

2009-04-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: Graham Percival wrote: If you have an idea for a general clarification that the syntax is pitch duration other, then I'm all for it. If it's a simple you need to put the ' before the duration, then I'd probably reject it as being

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Chip wrote: Engraved on Apr 22, 2009 with Lilypond 2.12.2 (http://lilypond.org/) Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. - Graham

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 19:45 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. As Chip didn't find

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:48:53AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I volunteered to help with this a while back but I never got word that I'd been made an editor. Hmm. Valentin? I'll be glad to try to fix this but I'm not completely sure I understand the problem. 1. Log in to LSR as an

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should appear in both Text and Titles, but currently they're only in one list

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B) Is it needed in 2.12 (i.e. has 2.12 introduced new features such that the snippet become

Re: simple page break command in lilypond-book?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
Try searching the mailist archives. This was the first one I found: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-07/msg00196.html - Graham On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:54:03PM +0100, Dominic Neumann wrote: Hi, is there a simple way to create a page break in a song that is build with

Re: one other thing - documentation

2009-04-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:54:55PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: On 20 Apr 2009, at 14:34, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: You could make these conventions explicit - I had to learn about them by trial and error. cis'4 is a valid command; cis4' is not. there is a perverse logic to this, which

Re: Changing TimeSignature style from top-level?

2009-04-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:29:08PM +0200, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: Now I want to change the TimeSignature style to numeric for all these files. Is it possible to do this from the included file, so that I do not have to paste \numericTimeSignature or \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style =

Re: one other thing - documentation

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:34:56PM +, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: The Command Summary which is part of Notation Reference (Appendix C, Cheat Sheet, page 545 ff.) could be extracted and made part of the short Guides. Once I learned it was there, I found it in Notation Reference, printed

Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

2009-04-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:31:26AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/17/09 7:26 AM, Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk wrote: I'll comment on the bits I feel qualified on: the documentation bits. It's taken me while following the threads on lilypond-devel and lilypond-user to work out

LilyPond Report back from the dead

2009-04-19 Thread Graham Percival
In case you missed it, the LilyPond Report is back: http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-14 Yes, I know that Valentin already posted it here, but I think some people might have missed it. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Dashed, variable-thickness slurs

2009-04-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 08:29:45AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/19/09 1:16 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I think it's been a great learning process for everybody involved, but I personally would work on either personal stuff (I want it!), popular-requested

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:57:03PM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: Graham, list, On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Are you?  The best way to get this started is to join the Frogs, our team of bugfixers.  After fixing a few bugs, you'll

Re: Embedding TeX/LaTeX in .ly files?

2009-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Greg Novak wrote: Is it possible to embed Latex commands into text within .ly files? No. If you were desperate, you could render the latex as an .eps file and then include that image, but that's it. Embedding .ly files into LaTeX, on the other hand, is

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:57:12AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: I wonder why I (and, as I can imagine, 99% of users out there) have always to put \unfoldRepeats in a different \score block just for correct MIDI output, thus having to put in a variable all the \score content and use it in both

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:25:01PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: Fortunately, there's a simple way for both of us to be happy: the status pro. *facepalms* I cannot believe I just wrote that. Cheers, - Graham I'm a writer! Percival ___ lilypond

Re: Feat. request: autobehaviour of \unfoldRepeats

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:08:32AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: I *never* put \unfoldRepeats. If you want real music, listen to musicians. Uhm... so, why don't we abolish \midi output? Because you cut out the relevant part of the quote. \midi is useful

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:54:22AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I know that it is not possible to implement this only with scheme and lily code but I am sure it is possible in C++. Yes, some simple lines of C++ were required. Attached is a sample file to show how the definition of

Re: Real-world usage of Lilypond

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:56:16AM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: I was wondering if perhaps 'we' were able to help him, by: - Engraving songs for publishing, making them 'as good as possible'; - Extending Lilypond to (more easily?) accomodate engraving of church music. Two examples that I

Re: Real World Usage

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:29:53AM -0700, sdfgsdhdshd wrote: Kieren MacMillan wrote: My point is, I would be very surprised if the list you have of things Lilypond can't do actually contains *anything* Lilypond can't do. I see no difference between the two following sentences 1)

Re: LilyPond midi extension

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:37:39PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: carl, On 9 Apr 2009, at 15:27, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: The way to get a single patch from multiple commits is to use git rebase. git rebase -i origin/master will give you the opportunity to convert your 3 commits into a

Re: LilyPond midi extension

2009-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:39:14PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: #(ly:set-option 'midi-extension midi) i couldn't find this in the documentation -- shouldn't it be in there somewhere? Patches accepted. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:42:43AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: This looks like a syntactic nightmare. You are suggesting c4 c 4 - c4 c4 c4 i.e. making white space syntactically significant. Honestly, this would be OK with me. How many users are aware that `c 4' is the same

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

2009-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:27:36PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: PS: besides, what's with you guys and this c4 obsession; have you been playing terrorist video games lately or what? :-) Interesting. I've no idea what you are talking about, but I conclude that you like to play terrorist

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:51:36PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: It would be trivial, but as the md5sums would be autogenerated, so it does not buy any protection against anything. I wouldn't say that. It would provide notification of a botched download (if anybody checks it), or notification

Re: download versie 2.12

2009-03-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:14:43AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I wouldn't say that.  It would provide notification of a botched download (if anybody checks it), or notification of a very sophisicated man

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:57:22AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Which brings me to another question: why a version of midi2ly is packaged with lilypond and still I have to use convert-ly ? Shouldn't always midi2ly (and the other xxx2ly converters) be made compatible with the lilypond

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:21:49AM +, Daniel Hulme wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:06:22PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:08:40PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: GIT from git.sv.gnu.org git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git This does

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:38:08PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 3cbf99092d5f4e77a0cae01edf7be...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes You'll be pleased to know the revert will not be required at all in 2.13.1 to obtain this beaming. It works fine now.

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:56:53AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 3/27/09 7:24 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Well, this is utterly ridiculous IMNSHO. I would suggest to * fix the main lilypond repo so that git clone just works, or * ask on

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:31:21PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: Let's say remote master has changed in the meantime, and you want to create a new patch rebased on current master: cd lilypond git checkout master git pull git checkout mybranch git rebase master git format-patch master

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:15:21PM -0700, Kees van den Doel wrote: There are still plenty of problems, for example the Persian accidentals don't align well when you change the font size (apart from that they don't look that nice). Hopefully they will be integrated in 2.13 at some point.

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:08:40PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: GIT from git.sv.gnu.org git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git This does not set up easy pulling or pushing in the future, and generally assumes that people know how to use git. It also downloads all branches, which in

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:37:10PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: Although apropos of nothing, what's the difference between the instructions in the AU (and on the web-site) on getting the source code, and the instructions in the CG? Nothing; they come from exactly the same source. The version

Re: an LM update

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/3/23 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: I have git version 1.5.6.3 and both git-format-patch and git[nohyphen]format-patch do work. James, what's the output of git --version? From your patch I see it is 1.6.2.1 ;

Re: empty png files in documentation

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
Eventually, but don't hold your breath. :) Valentin, could you add this to the tracker? To be really fixed it'll require looking at the build system and/or revamping the whole example/ stuff. I favor the latter, but only as part of the grand website redesign, which looks like it'll be pushed

Re: How do you run/open Lilypond?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:13:45PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 24-03-2009 om 09:55 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jonathan Kulp: Check the third question/answer on this page: http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=FAQ Why do we have to send a mail to point to

Re: Text/markup attached to bracket

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:15:13PM +, Stuart Pullinger wrote: Seems that I can't create exactly what I drew by hacking other bracket/spanner types in Lilypond. I need some sort of bracket that can start and stop on the same note and support nesting. Nah; you just need multiple voices. And

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:37:55AM -0600, Domain Admin wrote: If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to export Lilypond data.  I know there were rumors of such a thing floating around for a while, but I got tired of waiting and searching, so I just started to cobble

Re: \compressFullBarRests does not seem to work in lilypond-2.10.33-1

2009-03-23 Thread Graham Percival
Wasn't this added during 2.11? Please download 2.12.2 and try again. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:16:58PM +, Arno Rog wrote: L.S. Fresh install of lilypond-2.10.33-1.mingw.exe on WinXP. \compressFullBarRests generates error: unknown escaped string:

Re: \compressFullBarRests does not seem to work in lilypond-2.10.33-1

2009-03-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:21:12PM +, Arno Rog wrote: Arno Rog arno.rog at gmail.com writes: Fresh install of lilypond-2.10.33-1.mingw.exe on WinXP. \compressFullBarRests generates error: unknown escaped string: `\compressFullBarRests' Sorry, please disregard! Downloaded

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2009-03-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:40:24AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Does Sibelius support musicXML? I'm wondering if it might be faster in the long run to help Reinhold with musicXML2ly. I asked my student with Sibelius to send me his counterpoint project as a musicXML

Re: TrillSpanner edge-text

2009-03-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:01:58AM -0400, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: Has edge-text changed since that example was written against 2.10? Yes; please see the News document for 2.12. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Text/markup attached to bracket

2009-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:30:21PM +, Stuart Pullinger wrote: Could anyone point me towards a snippet/documentation which could help me to attach markup to a bracket? I'd like to mark up a score with melodic intervals and potentially add other markup such as drawing commands. A mockup

Re: Text/markup attached to bracket

2009-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
. /Mats Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:30:21PM +, Stuart Pullinger wrote: Could anyone point me towards a snippet/documentation which could help me to attach markup to a bracket? I'd like to mark up a score with melodic intervals and potentially add other markup

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