Common Violin notation doesn't seem to be a part of Lilypond

2011-08-13 Thread John Sellers
(Aside: http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general does a lousy job of submitting text. It doesn't seem to understand how to handle word wrap...a concept that has been around how many years? Come on! Being tied to the 80 characters per line that the submission request f

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-29 Thread John Sellers
Recently my cygwin based lilypond 2.10.33 install starting erroring out on all lilypond LY files. The given error is "failed (13568)" following a listing of the gs command line description. lilypond is installed correctly, ghostscript seems to be OK, and there are no applications which have

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-28 Thread John Sellers
Graham Percival wrote: ... umm, WHAT?! Are you seriously claiming that you couldn't find the "Learning Manual" link? Top-left on the Documentation page? 1) go to lilypond.org 2) click on "documentation" 3) click on "documentation for 2.11" 4) click on "Learning manual" 5) click on "1.2 About

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-27 Thread John Sellers
se kind of needs...so most technical documentation the world over never does successfully do so. Given that nobody on the doc team was an original developer, we most certainly *did* walk the path of newbies. Good wishes, John Sellers If

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-27 Thread John Sellers
..soare you stuck or frustrated?  shoot...I'm game for a long-term constructive dialogbut keep to the point of going forward with this...if you are game. Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 11/21/08 4:56 PM, "John Sellers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have no argu

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-21 Thread John Sellers
ssfully do so. HOWEVER, MAY I POINT OUT DOING SO IS PROBABLY THE MOST PRODUCTIVE THING YOU COULD DO TO LILYPOND TO ASSURE ITS FUTURE GROWTH AND SUCCESS!. Good wishes, John Sellers Federico Grau wrote: I've found the lilypond documentation to be quite good (after having been using it now f

problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread John Sellers
I am in Silicon Valley. I've never met and talked to another lilypond user face to face. It is lonely out here. I've used lilypond off and on for a few years AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REALLY LEARN IT WELL! There are five reasons 1) lack of context 2) lack of context 3) lack of context 4)

2.4.2:chord sheet fine tuning questions

2004-12-30 Thread John Sellers
I am working up a series of chord sheets for myself and I have run into some page turning problems.  It seems very awkward with my limited knowledge to get good control over vertical spacing as well as getting page brakes in the right place.  What is the most systematic way to do this?  Is ther

Chord sheet fine tuning problems

2004-12-30 Thread John Sellers
I am working up a series of chord sheets for myself and I have run into some page turning problems. It seems very awkward with my limited knowledge to get good control over vertical spacing as well as getting page brakes in the right place. What is the most systematic way to do this? Is ther

I am a Lily confused about .ly file structure

2004-12-16 Thread John Sellers
I have gotten my feet wet with LilyPond, but I'm going nuts every time want do do something new. Unfortunately almost everything is lifted out of context as an isolated, clearly explained example, or embedded in a small complete file which is almost certainly different in structure from the st

Followup: I am a Lily confused about .ly file structure

2004-12-16 Thread John Sellers
HE CORRECT CONTEXT OF USE IS SPECIFICALLY CONVEYED TO THE READER BY SOME MECHANISM. So what is that machanism? John Sellers wrote: I have gotten my feet wet with LilyPond, but I'm going nuts every time want do do something new.  [SNIP] (see previous e-mail, just sent to same

proper placing of chordnames re: alternative ending brackets

2004-06-30 Thread John Sellers
What should I do to get the VoltaBracket padding modification to work? Translators are completely beyond my newbee experience. Thanks, John Sellers, fiddle player, violinist, and Former Smalltalker ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h