Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

2022-10-14 Thread Nicholas Bailey
That's what to do. XP EULA which they made you agree to: "3. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this EULA. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own

Re: MIDI Position Markers

2021-07-18 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
Sorry about that post guys. It was to a student about a completely different thing! I've just got a new mouse and it seems I've not got the hang of using it yet! On Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:37:34 BST Dr Nicholas Bailey wrote: > Also looking good. Well-formed user stories. > > Hel

Re: MIDI Position Markers

2021-07-15 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
Also looking good. Well-formed user stories. Helping each other is fine. You are going to have to allocate a %effort though (sorry to be such an authoritarian, but as I explained it's not a group project). For this exercise, concentrate on the ideas when allocating effort. It's beautifully

Re: music symbols in LibreOffice

2020-07-27 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
On Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:10:55 BST Dick Kampman wrote: > I an writing text in LibreOffice about metronome-markings. So, I have > for instance to replace "...quarternote=60..." by "... symbol>=60...", etc. Like ♩=72? > > Can I use the Lilypond extension in LibreOffice to achieve such purposes?

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

2020-04-01 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
Off topic, so I've not bothered the list with it. But you might be interested... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/ 200806144_Perception_of_onset_asynchronies_Acoustic_Piano_versus_Synchronized_complex_versus_pure_tones

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

2020-03-30 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 11:00:56 BST Peter Gentry wrote: > I appreciate this is off topic but in these times of social isolation does > anyone have any tips. Clearly latency is the main issue - I wonder could > this be reduced by say hosting a Zoom meeting on a private router - maybe > only one

Re: New option for OOoLilyPond: PDF to SVG

2019-10-30 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:35:34 GMT Klaus Blum wrote: > For Mac, I don't have any idea. My knowledge about Macs is exactly zero. > > > Am I still missing something? Do you have any more thoughts, ideas, > recommendations, experiences, ... ? I don't know either, but the thing about MacOS

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

2018-06-01 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On Friday, 25 May 2018 22:09:31 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: > On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote: > > On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: > >> What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and > >> Lily? >

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

2018-05-25 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: > What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and Lily? > > My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to > log into one of their machines. I run Lily/Frescobaldi at home and it > would

Re: Apple stealing "Lily"

2017-05-05 Thread Nicholas Bailey
That's right. My PhD supervisor was a consultant for one of the Apples (don't remember which one :) ) Apple was only allowed to use Apple Corps trademark and branding if they didn't participate in the "Music" (i.e. recording) industry. Hmmm... On Friday, 5 May 2017 08:50:39 BST Robert Schmaus

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2017-01-10 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On Saturday, 7 January 2017 10:20:17 GMT Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Unfortunately I ran into this very issue, changing from Debian > > stable (in the Linux Mint Debian Edition incarnation) to vanilla > > Debian testing. I did this because the PyQt5 packages in stable are > > too old to run current

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

2017-01-05 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch) AFAIK. It's because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop in Testing in the hope that by the time I get around to releasing anything, it will be compatible with Stable :) Stable released rather infrequently, but I use

Re: Spare SSD anybody?

2016-06-07 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 12:36:02 BST David Kastrup wrote: > Alexander Kobel writes: > ... > > Sure, it would be nice to keep in mind. I'm not really sure what the > expected lifetime of the disk I have is. Maybe I just need to keep > making backups in sane intervals and

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-25 Thread Dr Nicholas Bailey
On Friday 18 Mar 2011 08:14:48 Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: Let's say, i love J. S. Bach very much (well, let's say), as much as my father and grandfather (etc). So, can i really be sure that i understand his music as good as my grandfather?.. I mean that every Beethoven's symphony contains a

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-13 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's right, but it's really important to store temp files in /tmp: it's not so bad on my lab machines because they are all Linux and we run our own file server, but if you walk downstairs to the undergraduate clusters that run Windows/Novell,

Re: Lilypond store?

2006-07-05 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jul 2006, at 2:09 pm, Stewart Holmes wrote: Yes. Harsh this may sound, but how much of the music on Mutopia would you be satisfied to print out, and use yourself? From a quick browse through various sections, I have to say that a large

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15 Jan 2006, at 4:45 pm, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi Lilypond folks, I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing

Re: A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ray! And a happy new year to you too! I found a similar problem with understanding when and how tweaking properties can be used, so I know what you mean. I've got no excuse: the manual even tells you what to look up, how and in which order, but

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jan 2006, at 9:31 pm, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Keep in mind that every 10 minutes we save you on doing system administration, typically takes us 8 hours of debugging, fiddling with cross-compilers and testing. Add to that that Windows by far

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Jan 2006, at 10:57 am, fiëé visuëlle wrote: There's already LilyPad for MacOS X (http://edbaskerville.com/software/lilypad/), LilyPond's own simple GUI (at least on MacOS X) and jEdit's LilyPond mode (http://lily4jedit.sourceforge.net/).

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-04 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4 Jan 2006, at 4:33 pm, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Wouldn't it be better to have \followrests mean that the rest takes its pitch from the next note in the part? Rests are cues and the ideal pitch for a rest if there is more than one part is

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-03 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On 3 Jan 2006, at 10:42 am, Maarten Storm wrote: You could do \override Rest #'staff-position = #x where x is a number indicating the position on the staff. Positive above the middle line, negative under it. You can find a good example in the regression tests. Ah, I see, you put it in

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-03 Thread Nicholas Bailey
On 3 Jan 2006, at 10:42 am, Maarten Storm wrote: You could do \override Rest #'staff-position = #x where x is a number indicating the position on the staff. Positive above the middle line, negative under it. You can find a good example in the regression tests. Ah, I see, you put it in the

Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

2006-01-01 Thread Nicholas Bailey
Hello! I'm trying to typeset a piece of polyphonic keyboard music by the English composer John Bull with version 2.4 and 2.6 (two different platforms), and I've noticed the positioning of the rests doesn't look too good. I understand that you can place a rest using a note followed by \rest,