short Musikmesse minutes

2014-03-19 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, This year a short visit to the Musikmesse only. Learning about the BEST EDITION 2014 award only after the event (and would have had to miss that one anyway). Congratulations nevertheless to Urs and Janek and all else involved. Missing out on the MusicXML meeting as well, but I noted it

lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-19 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Recently I was talking with a person who also prepares music editions. We were sitting there later in the night over a beer or two, and then to illustrate a point I first had to fetch a choral piece on paper set in lilypond and then also to resort to the laptop. On paper: lyrics

Re: lyrics hyphens question

2014-03-19 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello and thanks for the files so far regarding magnetic snap. I remember that for forcing a hyphen there was == suggested. Anything having happened since? Somehow my table neighbour presumed that unhyphened multi-syllable words would be more difficult to decipher. Regards Klaus

Re: SMuFL

2013-08-12 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, When changing font in text processing, you switch to a different font, and most time that's it. Relative placement is taken care of by the provided font metrics. In music notation there is a font, but at least within Lilipond objects like staves are draws not using glyphs from fonts but

reporting on Lilypond 2.17.17 and MacOS 10.4

2013-05-06 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Dusting off my Mac-mini after the winter: Regarding version 2.17.17 for x86 the situation is unchanged: Double-clicking on the icon yields an error message. Running the lilypond binary directly does world. Viewing resources of the icon, then following Resources/Content/bin/ then dragging

Re: MusicXML follow-up

2013-04-25 Thread Klaus Föhl
Urs Liska wrote: But then I have to say: I'm sorry, but this applies only if you happen to have a publisher who accepts printable pdfs. If the publisher insists on finishing the score himself (and does so only with commercial products) You may have a choice: Finale or Sibelius. you're out of

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Klaus Föhl
Vaughan McAlley writes: (As an aside, I’ve lately been learning Tex by publishing my mother’s autobiography. The book should look great. If I want to create a version for e-readers, it looks like I have to get to ePub via HTML format. It seems a shame, because the Tex source probably contains

Re: Extension:Score

2013-04-24 Thread Klaus Föhl
Carlo Stemberger schrieb: Il 23/04/2013 17:49, Klaus Föhl ha scritto: Hello, Just snooping around and discovering that this markup: score\relative c' { f d f a d f e d cis a cis e a g f e }/score now [works on|has been enabled for] mediawiki i.e. en.wikipedia.org Commands like

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Föhl
Janek Warchoł wrote: Many thanks for this report! You made me realize that i didn't promote LilyPond actively enough. We have unique features to offer and people in the music industry should know about us. As the Lilypond name was mentioned a few times in that said meeting, my impression was

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Föhl
David Kastrup writes: Likely at best halfways. For example, no header is contained in the hypothetical music output stream. Things like \transpose don't make it into the music output stream but rather just its results. Which may be enough for some workflows, but not necessary all. It does

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Föhl
David Kastrup wrote: Klaus Föhl address@hidden writes: Cross-referencing to that Frankfurt meeting: one problem described to have happened at one point was that midi had turned staccato into brief note -rest -brief note. Well, that's the fault of the Midi backend. The music stream still has

Extension:Score

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Just snooping around and discovering that this markup: score\relative c' { f d f a d f e d cis a cis e a g f e }/score now [works on|has been enabled for] mediawiki i.e. en.wikipedia.org Cheers Klaus ___ lilypond-user mailing list

some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Dear all, Earlier this month I was at Musikmesse. As I had some time to spare (a music sheet house was absent) I attended a scorio-sponsored/organised workshop on MusicXML. I declared myself as an [evening] choir conductor and LP user. After a few introductions Michael Good was collecting

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Urs Liska tippte: I think the quality of output is less a selling point compared to the 'big players' than the organizational potential inherent in the text format. As I learned the other week (maybe more in Musikmesse thread), publishing houses have invested quite some effort in music looking

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Urs Liska edited: My target audience are people who are involved in writing scores and text about music (maybe with a slight personal bias on people who prepare editions), but who still use word processors and wysiwyg notation programs. So you mostly cannot count on familiarity with TeX or

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' paper, I shall turn my ballpen-on-paper notes from Frankfurt into Bytes... ... my comments, clarifications {} ... organised by scorio { it took some locals to get that done } workshop (open to the public) entitled Beyond PDF -

Re: lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Alexander Kobel wrote: I think Klaus did not ask for forcing the hyphen to be visible, or forcing it to be hidden, but instead choose the letters depending on whether the hyphen appears or not in that place (with automatic deduction how cramped the space is). Correct. Nevertheless if a forced

Re: lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Olivier Biot wrote: If no hyphen is needed, then write lecker. Otherwise write lek-ker. A manually written hyphen as in lek-ker looks different to lek -- ker, and then there is the alignment difference when writing lecker _ On a side note, I didn't know this German hyphenation variant. This

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-08 Thread Klaus Föhl
Thomas Morley address@hidden writes: 2013/3/7 David Kastrup address@hidden: Please take a look at Issue 3229: Patch: Make \relative { ... } interpret the first pitch as an absolute one To be absolutely clear, am I right that this patch will not affect the use of \relative with a given

lecker lek-ker in old German lyrics

2013-03-08 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Some German lyrics from before the times of Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung feature ck between two syllables. Without Hyphen it is lecker, with hyphen it is lek-ker. Using lec -- ker or lek -- ker ( on purpose not le -- cker) the hyphen may or may not appear. Is there anything beyond trial

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Klaus Föhl
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: I put quite some effort in supporting Gonville as an external font, as at the time it took 5+ hours to build it and we did not want to ship a font binary-only. Which is very much appreciated. As a user on Linux I do indeed change between feta and gonville, easy

one item on my wish list

2012-12-12 Thread Klaus Föhl
Dear all, There is Christmas around the corner, and the recent report from Noeck on showcasing Lilypond at a teacher training reminds me on the outward visibility. And on the topic of music integration in wiki environments. For the mediawiki software (known from its wikipedia use) there exists

Re: documentation download?

2012-10-12 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, I do see two issues here 1) Bundling all files into a doc tarball, bzipped. Not a problem for me as I am familiar with tar etc. and not only zip. And I also prefer to have the documentation available locally when offline. 2) Hiding away the desired information in yet one more web page.

Re: collisions - bug or no bug?

2012-08-25 Thread Klaus Föhl
Minimal code 1: notes g and a collide \version 2.15.42 \new Staff { \new Voice \voiceOne c'' } { \new Voice \voiceOne g' } { \new Voice \voiceTwo a' } Well, yes. You've told them to collide, so they do and the text output warns you. Ok, so no bug. I see your comment below,

collisions - bug or no bug?

2012-08-24 Thread Klaus Föhl
bottom-posting Hello, Minimal code 1: notes g and a collide \version 2.15.42 \new Staff { \new Voice \voiceOne c'' } { \new Voice \voiceOne g' } { \new Voice \voiceTwo a' } Minimal code 2: fermata prints on top on note \version 2.15.42 \new Staff { \new Voice \voiceOne d'1 }

user interaction with notation software

2012-08-06 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, The other week I was talking with a couple of music people. Talking to Person A about upcoming concert programme, showing some choir musicsheets I typeset with Lilypond after A had groaned about sometimesless-than-perfect computer output. Person A was amazed about the clarity, well

Re: Workflow/Toolchain for final final touches

2012-06-01 Thread Klaus Föhl
When converted to pdf (or ps? or svg?) can I load the whole score in Inkscape (I don't think so, I have tried it) or some other postscript or vector editor so that I can do this kind of stuff? Hello Nils, While I have only started to explore with a mini example, I have been using pdf2svg to

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-26 Thread Klaus Föhl
midi2ly, obviously. It sucks royally for human-created input. Look up Viterbi decoders and/or hidden Markov chains for a plan how to do better. So far I have mentally broken down the task into two main chunks: 1) establish the maths function/relation recording time versus music piece time 2)

how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-25 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, I like the lilypond notation using \relative being concise and readable. Entering on a computer keyboard is fairly quick, but still it feels that playing a melody line would be so much quicker. In particular if one does not have a typing c4 d e f g1 style but c4 d4. e8 f8. g16 c,1 What

how to signal and tweak page-long mostly empty snippets?

2012-05-02 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Sometimes when browsing LSR snippets I come across full page snippets, consisting mainly of empty space. While I do understand that -sometimes- one may need a whole page to demonstrate a specific feature, most times it looks like an oversight. 1) What makes some snippets being short and

Re: v 2.15.36 on Mac OS

2012-04-11 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Still the same error with Mac x86 OSX 10.4.11 as in the previous 2.15.35 package. Klaus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

gonville music font results in different text fonts on Linux and Mac

2012-04-03 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, I've experimentally changed my lilypond installations from feta to gonville, and while the music grobs are changed in both cases I find that on Linux debian squeeze 2.12.3 the text font remains New Century Schoolbook, while on Mac OS X 2.14.2 the text font is changed to a

Re: 2.15.35 report

2012-03-29 Thread Klaus Föhl
Mac OS X 10.4.11 x86 on double-clicking Lilypond icon same error in 2.15.35 as in previous versions like 2.15.34 (and same hardware as before). Klaus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

How to group whole notes/semibreves in one system?

2012-03-29 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, One staff line with tenor and bass voices, discerned by stem direction. Now there comes a whole note/semibreve and the bass splits into bass one and bass two. How to show the middle note is bass one and not tenor two? \arpeggioBracket d a\arpeggio looks about right visually to group the

Errors with MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.32-1 and OSX 10.4.11

2012-03-09 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Unpacking lilypond-2.15.32-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 ok. Application icon ok. Double-clicking on App icon gives error. See Console log below. Looks very much like issue 2271, but maybe separate number due to x86 binary. Computer restart, also left-clicking a ly-file and choosing version 32

Re: Fatal Error on Launching 2.15.31

2012-03-05 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Unpacking MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.31-1 on MacMini Intel Core Duo does not run, only standard Applications icon. Adding the missing /string after the character sequence including spaces to Info.plist as noted in bug 2338. After reboot the Lilypond icon shows up. Double-clicking on the

Errors with MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.31-1 and OSX 10.4.11

2012-03-05 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.31-1 unpacked and installed on Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 MacMini Intel Core Duo. Adding the missing /string to a line including spaces in Info.plist, after reboot proper Lilypond icon shows up. As per issue 2338. Double-clicking on icon gives Error, no

Re: Errors with MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.31-1 and OSX 10.4.11

2012-03-05 Thread Klaus Föhl
P.S. console log is very much similar to issue 2271 reported there for PPC. Regards Klaus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Roadblock MacOSX 10.4 for release of LilyPond 2.16

2012-02-06 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Had to stop on Friday before 2.15.28 came through. Hence was testing 2.15.27 on Intel Mac OS 10.4.11, double-clicking on program icon after unpacking. Traceback looks similar to the previous PPC error messages. Will download version 28 now, and then try command line as well. Best regards

Re: Roadblock MacOSX 10.4 for release of LilyPond 2.16

2012-02-03 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, Working (also) with a MacMini Intel Core Duo under 10.4.x and would like to be able to use 2.16 as well. If it were a question of UI, would be quite happy to use the tool unix-style from the terminal. Best regards Klaus P.S. would it help if I test MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.27-1

bug? one notehead only for natural and flat

2012-01-26 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, While still using Version 12 as provided by debian, I came across a bug that a-natural and a-flat share a common notehead. Is this still present in 2.14 or 2.15 ? Minimal example: \version 2.12.3 \new Staff \new Voice { \voiceOne as8 } \new Voice { \voiceTwo a8 } Best regards

final bar line only to have a SpanBar

2012-01-12 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, When using ChoirStaff, bar lines do not span which is intentional. Short example: \version 2.12.3 \new ChoirStaff \new Staff { c'1 c'1 \bar |. } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { some Text } \new Staff { c'1 c'1 } But one often finds that the final bar line (only) is spanning all staff

Re: final bar line only to have a SpanBar

2012-01-12 Thread Klaus Föhl
There is a snippet implementing SemiChoirStaff. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=299 First problem (my problem) snippets via LSR are not available when offline. Main catch: once you found your way to SpanBar in the documentation, you have pretty much solved the problem anyway. Even with

Re: White Notation used by Charpentier

2011-12-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello all, Thank you for the implementation hints. If anyone wants to know more about this notation, croches blanches is a good search term. And Charpentier also uses the single digit time signature 3 in such music. \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit to implement. Cheers

White Notation used by Charpentier

2011-12-21 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, These days I have seen Charpentier music using some white notation for shorter durations, in a nutshell minima noteheads with quaver flags. Wikipedia file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elevatio.png is showing an(other) example. What is the proper naming (I have been told white notation

shared stem for different rhythms in voice-two notation

2011-09-13 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, tiny example: \relative c' f2. \\ c2. { c2 g4 } question: the c2 is noted without a stem, it does however touch the stem of the c2. note. Is this mirror-image ok notationwise? I am asking because an older music sheet shows a situation similar to c2. and c2 as separate notes.

Re: shared stem for different rhythms in voice-two notation

2011-09-13 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, \new Staff \new Voice { \voiceOne f'2. } \new Voice { \voiceTwo c'2. } \new Voice { \voiceFour c'2 ( g4 ) } One needs both \new Voice and \voiceFour to make it work. \relative c' f2. \\ c2. \new Voice { \voiceFour c2( g4) } In reality the music is longer, hence I only

Re: bar line through text in Mensurstriche layout

2011-03-10 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, I tried to produce a tiny example and did not succeed to get bar lines to cut through text. Then I pulled out my (old) file with the issue, but version 2.12.3 works ok in that respect. So it may be a 2.10 issue, addressed and solved in the meantime. Thank you folks. My conclusion: fine

bar line through text in Mensurstriche layout

2011-03-09 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, With lyrics and ChoirStaff a long word may overlap into an adjacent bar and this looks visually ok. Now I want to set a piece with Mensurstriche which essentially is StaffGroup and in some tightly spaced staff lines the overlapping words have the bar line cutting through them. Is there an