Tie/slur bug in 2.9.11?

2006-07-16 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
When I try the following: \version 2.9.11 erga = {\once \override NoteHead #'style = #'diamond a} para = { \parenthesize a} { a ~ \erga ~ \erga a( \erga) \erga( a) a ~ \para ~ \para a( \para) \para( a) } I get: GNU LilyPond 2.9.11 Processing `greg.ly' Parsing... greg.ly:7:10: error: syntax

wikitex bug?

2006-04-05 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
hi there, I'm experiencing problems with lilypond working with wikitex (or the other way round ;-) ) it seems --no-pdf and --no-ps aren't available anymore, so I deleted this from wikitex.php, but I get the following: WikiTeX: lilypond reported a failure, namely: terminate called after

Re: More than one book?

2006-03-30 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
is there a way to name them specifically from inside the file? somthing like piano = {...} cello = {...} alto = {...} \book{ \filename complete_score \new Staff \alto \new Staff \cello \new Staff \piano } \book{

Pedals in 2.7.28

2006-01-21 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Hi all, it seems pedal signs are much closer to the line in 2.7.28, not avoiding collisions with stems, etc. Probably a bug, cheers, John ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: parallel versus series scoring

2006-01-19 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
coding of OOo interferring with the music? Jay John Wiedenhoeft wrote: Well, I don't know if Lilypond provides something like this. What I do sometimes is using a spreadsheet editor (OOo Calc, Excel) with one cell per bar. With this method, you are not limited to one dimension, but have

Re: Hebrew, UTF-8, etc.

2006-01-18 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
You could also use Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/). Its lightweight, but yet very powerful (syntax highlighting etc.) Cheers, John ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: parallel versus series scoring

2006-01-18 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Well, I don't know if Lilypond provides something like this. What I do sometimes is using a spreadsheet editor (OOo Calc, Excel) with one cell per bar. With this method, you are not limited to one dimension, but have two, as in a real score. You can stack simultaneous bars under each other. You

Re: Grand Unified Binaries: 2.7.27 release 3 available

2006-01-14 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Am Freitag, den 13.01.2006, 10:30 -0800 schrieb Graham Percival: On 13-Jan-06, at 3:21 AM, John Wiedenhoeft wrote: It should also work if you're a normal user. ~/bin/ is in the PATH in most distributions, isn't it? I thought so. But obviously its not the case on my system. Where can I

Re: Grand Unified Binaries: 2.7.27 release 3 available

2006-01-13 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
It should also work if you're a normal user. ~/bin/ is in the PATH in most distributions, isn't it? I thought so. But obviously its not the case on my system. Where can I see which paths are in and which not? Regards, John ___ lilypond-user

Ligature brackets missing

2006-01-13 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Hi all, using LP 2.7.27, ligature brackets don't show up in the pdf anymore. Here is an excerpt of the log (it's going on that way): 57v-1_voce_jhesus_amabili.ly:44:44: warning: Ignoring grob for slur. avoid-slur not set? c4.(~ \[c16

Re: Grand Unified Binaries: 2.7.27 release 3 available

2006-01-13 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Am Freitag, den 13.01.2006, 11:12 +0100 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: sh ~/Dokumente/Software/Linux/lilypond-2.7.27-3.linux.sh okay, I got it: sudo sh /path/to/my/downloaded/files/lilypond-2.7.27-3.linux.sh with this command you get an installation that works the exspected way (i.e. simply type

Re: Tabulature?

2006-01-12 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2006, 10:22 +0200 schrieb Balu Stefan: I've searched the archives but I couldn't find any good info source... I have this question: I there any way I can implement a tab stave in lilyopond? I am not sure that's the calling for it but I will explain... When you

Install 2.7.27 on Linux

2006-01-09 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Hi all, could anybody please explain how to install LP 2.7.27 on linux? I was perfectly happy with the autopackage, this shell-script seems not to work on my system (I tried right click = execute in shell, a shell opened, but vanished the next moment, and nothig - at least not lilypond - was

Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

2005-11-22 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Well,actually TeXnicCenter IS the best GUI for LaTeX under Windows, and MikTeX is definitely the best distribution. But: I don't know how lilypond-book can be used with that. In former releases, LilyPond was based upon cygwin, which was hard to communicate with if you use DOS commands (what you do

Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

2005-11-22 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Bernard Hurley schrieb: Does LyX work with windows? Maybe with cygwin? I don't think so. But you could look it up - I think, there must be a package list somewhere. If so I have some scripts for integrating LyX with Lily. It's all a bit experimental at the moment, so I am a bit wary of

Re: Newbie needs help with LaTeX/lilypond integration

2005-11-21 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Ross M. Donaldson schrieb: Hello! I am an undergraduate student wrting a musicology paper (an undergraduate thesis). I've decided to write my paper in LaTeX in order to have a better product (as well as to facilitate certain formatting concerns). I was thrilled to discover the existence of

Latest version in Ubuntu

2005-11-12 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Hi all, I finally switched to Ubuntu Linux (best OS ever!), and I would like to use the latest Lilypond version there. I know it is provided at http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lilypond/, but synaptic doesn't recognise the 2.6.3-9 version (I have 2.2.6-2 now). Since it works

Re: windows user of lilybook (wanted for help)

2005-11-12 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
If you don't mind, I would have a better suggestion: lilypond-book is ugly to setup, and takes a lot of compilation time. But in MikTeX, there is a program called pdfcrop which cuts the white spaces away from a pdf file. Make pdf scores with lilypond, use pdfcrop for producing snippets, and

Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?

2005-10-28 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think there must be a source of that program somewhere (it's command line based, pretty simple, but pretty effective). Be sure you include \header{ copyright = tagline = } in

Re: I still can't use Chinese Title and Lyrics

2005-10-22 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
布滋道 wrote: *It's bother me for a long time.* *The error log (xiao-haizi-guai-guai.log) is shown below.* *But, I do have the font SimSun in c:\windows\fonts.* ** *What Can I do?* ** ** *xiao-haizi-guai-guai.log*

White space above Staff

2005-10-22 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Dear all, in order to include notation into PDF documents (without having to run lilypond-book everytime, and to create floating environments), I create a normal score and use pdfcrop to cut the white borders away. Left, right and bottom space is cut away correctly, but above the staff there

Re: Context menu

2005-04-17 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Mats, many thanks for your help: using MikTeX actually was the problem (I didn't think it would have been). Now all works fine, I even managed to set up TeXnicCenter for lilypond-book, which was one of my wishes since long time. Formerly I didn't succeed, because I always tried to call latex

Context menu

2005-04-16 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Dear all, I'd like to add the lilypond-book precompiler to the context menu of .lytex-files, in order to convert them to a .tex-file with a single right-click, something like: lilypond-book %1 Of course, the problem is that you cant call a cygwin command as if it where a windows shell command.

Re: Context menu

2005-04-16 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Thanks for the answer. I did the following: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c '/usr/bin/lilypond-book %1' which seemed to work pretty good. But when I tried to run TeX on the resulting file, I got the following error: ! I can't find file `lily-1609059631.tex'. l.14 \input lily-1609059631.tex

Re: Context menu

2005-04-16 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
how sad... I tried to use lilypond-book as proposed by the manual (with typing into the cygwin bash etc.), even using the manual's example and putting the .lytex file into my home directory. still, lilyponddefs.tex and the font's weren't found, though they are were they're supposed to be. Could

latex-book - Was: Extra verses

2005-03-12 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
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} ... \end{document} Do you mean lilypond-book, or is this another way of writing musicological