Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-23 Thread Rob Canning
Hello, We hope to include Lilypond in our debian based Puredyne distribution https://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne but at the moment we have found that lilypond pulls texlive as a dependency, which is way too big for the CD ISO so when we release a live dvd version lilypond will be present

Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-23 Thread Rob Canning
exlive-base Recommends: lilypond (>= ${source:Version}) Conflicts: lilypond (<< 2.2.2-2) Description: LilyPond music typesetter (data files) / Mats Bengtsson wrote: Rob Canning wrote: but at the moment we have found that lilypond pulls texlive as a dependency How come? This used to be t

debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-25 Thread Rob Canning
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 23. August 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Rob Canning wrote: but at the moment we have found that lilypond pulls texlive as a dependency How come? This used to be true a very long time ago, but

Re: Lilypond's debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-29 Thread Rob Canning
Rob Canning wrote: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >> Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Rob Canning: >>> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>>> At least the Debian and Kubuntu packages of lilypond-data >>>> have the following requirement: Pre-Depends: tetex-bin |

Re: Lilypond's debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-30 Thread Rob Canning
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Rob Canning: >> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>> At least the Debian and Kubuntu packages of lilypond-data have >>> the following requirement: Pre-Depends: tetex-bin | >>> texlive-base >>> &

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-30 Thread Rob Canning
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 21:54 +0100, Rob Canning wrote: > >> does this mean all this is needed is a modification to the debian >> controlfile? >> this would be great as if texlive-base is not a dep then lilypond should >> be small en

proportional notation (a la earle brown etc.) was: Re: uniform-stretching

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i've just been looking at the threads on proportional notation (time-space notation) and found these: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg35955.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg35775.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg26884.

point and click brings up two emacs instances

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i have this problem using point and click: when i click on the pdf two instances of emacs start - this is nice but one is plenty :) any clues? i am running GNU/Linux pure:dyne (distro based on Debian lenny) GNU LilyPond 2.11.63 xpdf version 3.02 GNU Emacs 22.2.1 i have this in .xpdfr

manipulating .ly with bash - echo drops \

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i have generated a lilypond file and would like to be able to manipulate the file with bash scripts. first thing i would like to do is insert some additional stuff one line under the 'version "2.10" line. the script i have is below - the problem is the echo "$line" bit drops all the

Re: manipulating .ly with bash - echo drops \

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Canning
Rob Canning wrote: hello, i have generated a lilypond file and would like to be able to manipulate the file with bash scripts. first thing i would like to do is insert some additional stuff one line under the 'version "2.10" line. the script i have is below - the problem is

Re: manipulating .ly with bash - echo drops \

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Canning
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Rob Canning wrote: first thing i would like to do is insert some additional stuff one line under the 'version "2.10" line. Ah. I overlooked this part. The script I put in the other email won't put the text in the right place like you want.

Re: another newbie download problem

2008-12-08 Thread Rob Canning
Pierre Russell Straddler wrote: preface: I just got a "top posting" error message, which I've never seen before. I apologise for this breech of protocol and etiquette Hi there I tried to download Lilypond from the lilypond site. When I "do what I am told" (i.e. "open with text editor

change all noteheads

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i would like all my noteheads to appear as filled noteheads like a crotchet/quaver notehead from the documentation i found things like this that sort of do the job but i dont know where to find the list of available options - scripts.* is there a scripts.filled-normal for example? head

How to remove first score indentation?

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i found this old thread http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.lilypond.general/2003-03/msg00099.html but that wasnt much use i tried this \paper { indent = 0\cm} but that didnt work either. is there an easy way to do this? i would have thought so. thanks rob c _

How to remove first score indentation?

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i found this old thread http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.lilypond.general/2003-03/msg00099.html but that wasnt much use i tried this \paper { indent = 0\cm} but that didnt work either. is there an easy way to do this? i would have thought so. thanks rob c ___

Re: How to remove first score indentation?

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:00:06PM +, Rob Canning wrote: i tried this \paper { indent = 0\cm} but that didnt work either. Works here. Please read LM 3.1 in the 2.11 docs to learn more about the lilypond file structure. yeah i know i need to rtfm - just

Re: change all noteheads

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
Mark Polesky wrote: Rob Canning wrote: i would like all my noteheads to appear as filled noteheads like a crotchet/quaver notehead Rob, try this: \override Score.NoteHead #'duration-log = #2 - Mark works a treat thanks mark

Re: change all noteheads

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 12/9/08 6:03 AM, "Rob Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, i would like all my noteheads to appear as filled noteheads like a crotchet/quaver notehead from the documentation i found things like this that sort of do the job but i dont know w

Re: How to remove first score indentation?

2008-12-09 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Rob, 2008/12/9 Rob Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: yeah i know i need to rtfm - just cant seem to make sense of if in this context. if anyone fancies having a look to see what stooopid thing i'm doing... http://pastebin.com/m4e37b419 the indent code is aro

x y position on page of multiple fragments

2008-12-10 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i am trying to do a new version of a piece i originally made in finale its a grid type mobile structure type score what i need is someone to point me at the documentation that would help me make multiple musical fragments and then distribute them on a single page in a number of configurat

Re: MediaWiki-Extension for Lilypond

2008-12-13 Thread Rob Canning
lilypond -d safe foo.ly works here. Cheers, - Graham i guess the lilypond mediawiki extension is broken? in my wiki page i get the error *LilyPond error:* //usr/local//lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond: unrecognized option: `--safe' /same problem with the below line i guess. $cmd = $wgLil

Re: x y position on page of multiple fragments

2008-12-13 Thread Rob Canning
thank you all for your various suggestions i will have a detailed look at it all later cheers rob Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Rob, i am trying to do a new version of a piece i originally made in finale its a grid type mobile structure type score what i need is someone to point me at the documen

Re: MediaWiki-Extension for Lilypond

2008-12-13 Thread Rob Canning
Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:55:30PM +, Rob Canning wrote: lilypond -d safe foo.ly works here. i guess the lilypond mediawiki extension is broken? in my wiki page i get the error /same problem with the below line i guess. $cmd = $wgLilypond

Re: MediaWiki-Extension for Lilypond

2008-12-13 Thread Rob Canning
Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:55:30PM +, Rob Canning wrote: lilypond -d safe foo.ly works here. i guess the lilypond mediawiki extension is broken? in my wiki page i get the error /same problem with the below line i guess. $cmd = $wgLilypond

flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly thicker and change its relative possition to the notehead or is there a better way. is there some sort of glob

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Rob, hi thanks for the response, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning : hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly thicker and chang

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Rob, hi thanks for the response, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning : hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly thicker and chang

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
-grobs.scm and tried : \override Tie #'Y-offset = #0 and \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration = #'((0 . 0)) and \override Tie #'note-head-gap = #0 amongst others obviously i am not tweeking in the right place... clues ? thanks rob 2008/12/18 Rob Canning : hello,

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-19 Thread Rob Canning
This is the easiest way to do it, assuming you don't have any tied chords: \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((notehead (ly:grob-parent grob X)) (y-off (* 2 (ly:grob-property notehead 'Y-offset (list (cons y-off 0 thanks neil

Re: Linux question

2008-12-19 Thread Rob Canning
Ralph Palmer wrote: Hi - I realize this is marginally on topic, and I apologize if it causes anyone distress. i think this is on topic as many users might be interested in GNU/Linux environments which are lilypond friendly - so i post back to list too :) I'm currently a Windows XP user. I wo

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-21 Thread Rob Canning
Brett Duncan wrote: Rob Canning wrote: i was trying to do it with sed with a line like this: sed 's/~/\\glissando/' header-inserted > ties-fixed; but ran into trouble with all the ^ sybols and so on - I tried this myself and it seems to work fine once add the 'g' fl

override minumum and maximum barlength

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Canning
hi i am still working on a piece using proprtional notation - i now have it looking the way i want except for the minimum barlength being too short - i would like it so even 16th notes are given plenty of space and all greater values are relative and proportional to that. not sure how to ac

Re: override minumum and maximum barlength

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Canning
Rob Canning wrote: hi i am still working on a piece using proprtional notation - i now have it looking the way i want except for the minimum barlength being too short - i would like it so even 16th notes are given plenty of space and all greater values are relative and proportional to that

Re: override minumum and maximum barlength

2009-01-15 Thread Rob Canning
i am still working on a piece using proprtional notation - i now have it looking the way i want except for the minimum barlength being too short - i would like it so even 16th notes are given plenty of space and all greater values are relative and proportional to that. not sure how to ac

scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-28 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i am just starting looking at scheme and have been looking at the examples linked from here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-music-functions#Overview-of-music-functions i have something specific in mind and cant see anything quite like it in the ex

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-29 Thread Rob Canning
Andrew Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:35:16PM +, Rob Canning wrote: i have been doing this kind of thing before using a combination of puredata and sed but that was really ugly and the regular expressions were getting out of control! i would really appreciate any help learning

Re: Why can't I post here using email

2009-01-29 Thread Rob Canning
M Watts wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: I use Thunderbird and post to the list all the time without problems. Me too -- it just works. I take it the OP's problem is solved, because his message got through! maybe this is a stupid question but are you replying to all? on the mail you sent me it d

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
#!/usr/bin/perl sub InsertNotes { my ($num, $form, @notes) = @_; my ($output, @temp); while (@notes) { (@temp[0..$num-1], @notes) = @notes; $output .= sprintf $form, (@temp); } return $output; } my @list = qw"a b c d a b c d a f cis d aes b c d g b c d a bes c dis c

incorrect auto bar and auto beaming ?

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i have a score which specifies: \time 4/4 {tomfl16-> toml16 tomml16 tommh16 tomh4.:32\laissezVibrer r8 tomfl16 toml8:16 tomml16 tomh16 tommh8 tomfl16 toml8 tommh8 tomml16 tomh16 r4 tomfl16-> toml16 tommh16 tomh16 tomml4.:32\laissezVibrer r8 tomfl16 toml8:16 tomh16 tomml16 tommh8 tomfl

grace notes cause extra bar to contain them

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Canning
hi, not sure whats going on here... if i isolate and render only one of the two staves then everything is fine but if i parse the .ly that contains two staves an extra bar gets created that contains the grace notes. i cant figure out why... here is the .ly http://pastebin.com/m672b44fd see firs

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-02-02 Thread Rob Canning
Andrew Wilson wrote: 2009/1/31 Rob Canning : #!/usr/bin/perl sub InsertNotes { my ($num, $form, @notes) = @_; my ($output, @temp); while (@notes) { (@temp[0..$num-1], @notes) = @notes; $output .= sprintf $form, (@temp); } return $output; } my @list = qw"a b c d a b c

auto cross stave piano notes

2009-02-07 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i have a string of notes for piano (one voice) spanning 5octaves that needs dividing between the two staves is there a way to set a threshold pitch and say any pitch below that threshold will go to the bottom piano stave and anything above it will go to the top piano stave? i can se

appending text files to end of score

2009-02-17 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i want to insert a couple of pages at the end of the score that include my lilypond source code - is there a way to do this? would be nice to distribute the code.ly with the score - also the GPL licence etc. i realise it can be done with a markup but i would rather not include a copy of

Re: appending text files to end of score

2009-02-17 Thread Rob Canning
lls off the bottom of one page. anyway for it to auto page break and continue the text on the next page? thanks rob > El 17.02.2009, a las 18:31, Rob Canning escribió: > >> hello, >> >> i want to insert a couple of pages at the end of the score that >> include my >&

auto ottavation

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Canning
hello, is there anything i can \set or \override or anything in order for lilypond to automaticaly take care of ottavation? i would like to be able to set an upper and lower threshold and then when these are exceeded lilypond will automagicaly take care of the ottavas? thanks rob -- r

debian and lilypond 2.12

2009-05-09 Thread Rob Canning
hi, we really need to get 2.12 into debian asap it seems that the maintainer is too busy with other stuff at the moment as it seems that all threads re this on debian maintainer page have gone dead. perhaps someone else can do a non-maintainer upload? i'm not sure about the ettiquette or debian p

Re: nested variables in scheme

2010-12-16 Thread Rob Canning
David Kastrup said : > r...@goto10.org writes: > > > beza #0.4 > > > > feeding into something like this: (which doesn't work) > > > > beza = #(define-music-function (parser location thickness) (number?) > >#{ > > \bezier #'( 0.1 1.0 0.15 1.0 $number ) > > #}) > > What happens if you write

Re: nested variables in scheme

2010-12-16 Thread Rob Canning
jakob lund said : > 2010/12/16 Rob Canning : > > David Kastrup said : > >> r...@goto10.org writes: > >> > >> > beza #0.4 > >> > > >> > feeding into something like this: (which doesn't work) > >>

Re: A quick way to change 50 lilypond files

2010-12-21 Thread rob canning
hsweet wrote: Search/Replace in an editor is fine for one or 2 files. + I never remember regex syntax so this way it's written down : ) +I just wanted to avoid having to do this manually for >50 files. This does them all at once. 50 or 500. i find sed handy for this kind of batch text mani

ghostscript and ly 2.12.2 broken? vserver architecture misidentification with uname -m

2011-02-10 Thread Rob Canning
hello! suddenly i have a problem which appeared yesterday - perhaps something upgraded ghostscript (Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31)) and now there is a problem on lilypond 2.12.2: Layout output to `test.ps'... Converting to `./test.pdf'... `gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHE

scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i am trying to get scheme to automate artificial harmonics so i dont need to specify the pitch of the note written up the perfect fourth i am running in to the problem of scheme not evaluating the variable once put inside the (i get errors regarding /lilyvartmpc /) where lies the error

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering here. The onl

Re: scheme artificial harmonic (transposition within chord)

2011-02-16 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: On 15 February 2011 14:25, Rob Canning wrote: where lies the error or is there a better way to do this - am slightly suprised there is not a build in function for this... maybe there is? There are several parser limitations you're encountering here. The onl