Trademark?

2006-12-14 Thread Matthijs Frankena
Hello, In transposing a song with a text by Walt Whitman, I notice that Lilypond converts the "TM" in the last name of the poet to a trademark sign (small fontsize, superscript). Any idea how to avoid this? It does not happen when the name is set in lower case, but I try to follow the origin

Re: barline problem

2006-06-13 Thread Matthijs Frankena
Hello, I've noticed that Adobe Reader 7.0.7 shows head and stem of a quarter note as two separate items - a small notch at the point where the stem is attached to the head. As the notch stays the same size on the screen, even when zooming in to 6400%, I doubt it is really there. I have yet to

Re: Direction of repeat tie

2006-05-30 Thread Matthijs Frankena
> Please read the documentation for ties.  (hint: predefined commands) > >- Graham %% Code snippet begins: \score{ \relative c'' { \tieDotted c ~ c e f f e  d c \bar "||:" \break \repeat "volta" 2 { c\mark \markup { Repeat } b a c e c d e( } \alternative {

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-30 Thread Matthijs Frankena
At 22:54 29-5-2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you add a \bar "||:", you will get the desired double bar line before the line break and start repeat after the line break.   /Mats Thanks Mats, this is exactly what was needed. I have not been able to find this in the manual, though. Anything I overl

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-27 Thread Matthijs Frankena
At 19:00 26-5-2006, Stephen wrote: The double bar-line followed by a repeat bar-line is significant for many. Every 32-bar song form of the Twentieth Century needs a double bar-line after the 4-bar intro and/or a double bar-line after the 16-bar verse, followed by a 32-bar chorus with repeats and

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-26 Thread Matthijs Frankena
Hello, With regard to the questions I posed a few days ago: - the first question has been solved with \hspace (something I thought I had already tried out, but apparently not correctly). The code now says: poet = \markup { \hspace #10 \center-align { "Words by" "MORE OF THAT POET" } }   

brace mismatch in init.ly

2004-11-25 Thread Matthijs Frankena
Hello, Having finally installed Fedora Core 2 and everything to get going with Lilypond, I run into the following: -- $ lilypond DeinHerz.ly GNU LilyPond 2.4.1 Processing `DeinHerz.ly' Ontleden... /usr/share/lilypond/2.4.1/ly/init.ly:28:5: fout: syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting