Re: LSR mirrors? (was:Re: LSR is not available)

2011-05-30 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On May 27, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > The LSR is undoubtedly a great source of tips for LilyPond Users. > I'd like to thank Sebastiano Vigna and the University of Milan for > developing such a good idea and hosting it. > > Sometimes —unfortunately— the LSR c

Re: orchestral template, please comment

2010-10-23 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>> >>> My concern is that LSR search does not, at the moment, find the snippets >>> that go with these two erroneous headers, "Adding a laissezVibrer tie to >>> only one note of a chord" and "Schleifer articulation mark" >>> Sorry, I'm co

Re: LSR search broken

2008-10-19 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: Seb The LSR search mechanism seems to be broken at the moment, in that many (all?) of the preview titles and text returned following a search are one out from the real results of the search. For example, a search for "slash" returns thre

[LSR] A tableture for clarinet

2008-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Every day a new nice problem. :) The above snippete fiddles with PostScript, directly. The result is not convertible by convert: --- ERROR: /invalidfileaccess in --.libfile-- Operand stack: (/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf// emmentaler-11.otf) Font (/usr/lo

Dash working

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
You can now search for #, of course escaped as \#. E.g., \#UP searches for #UP. This means also that # is no longer special, so if the text contains A#B you cannot find it searching for A or for B--A#B is now a token. Let me know if this seems to work and if you'd like other non- alphabeti

Another problem with LSR

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I didn't realize this before, but the output filename is rather unpredictable. Apparently it can be name.eps or name-1.eps. (For instance, "Creating music with Scheme (music box)" creates no name.eps, just name-1.eps). This is of course a nuisance when converting to png. Any suggestion? C

[LSR] Forcing fixed distance between staves

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
The above snippet does not generate output (no .eps file is created). This was causing a number of problems. LSR now will keep people from inserting snippets that do not produce output. If there are cases in which this is not desirable, let me know. The snippet about is now non- approved and

LSR up

2008-09-11 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Hi guys! I've finally been able to remotely replace the hard disk of my server (it's 1600 km away, and it broke down on Aug 13, when EVERYTHING is severely shut down in Italy). It moved to a read-only state because of a bad block on the file system journal. I'm very sorry for the nuisance

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Sebastiano, I know. I'm trying to fight with a prejudice that dates back to the Romans. It's difficult :). Ha!! Seriously... is one-indexing the LSR code (which is clearly zero- indexed) difficult for some reason? In all the programming

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Sebastiano, I don't know of any problem with the search function. I still find it odd -- and a bit disconcerting -- that the page says (e.g.) "0-13 of 14 results"... ;-) I know. I'm trying to fight with a prejudice that dates back

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: Oh, I was just trying to avoid spamming you with reports... :-) It's OK. over the past few weeks, here are the few problems I can remember having (randomly) encountered: - several problems with the database/Java/Velocity engine/whatever

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Eluze Weehaeli wrote: Thanks, nice to hear that the system is fine - any chance to get an automatic update in a regular interval?! I've probably be unclear. The index update happens every night. A software misconfiguration was preventing that to happen. Ciao,

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490 Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - the snippet repository but you will not find this snippet Using Br

Re: poco ff

2007-02-05 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Alternatively, you could have searched for "dynamics" in the table of contents and directly found 8.1.8 New dynamic marks. ...or you could have searched the manual with LSR--the first hit for "new dynamic marks" is the one. :) Ciao

Re: Searchable Lilypond manual [Was: Re: Downloading documentation]

2007-01-21 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jan 21, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Graham Percival wrote: It takes a lot of time (and bandwidth!) to load? Also, I assume that this search is more intelligent than just finding the first appearance of your string; it attempts to rank the results. Yes. For instance, ranking is by proximity, an

Searchable Lilypond manual [Was: Re: Downloading documentation]

2007-01-20 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Sebastiano Vigna wrote: I've enriched LSR with an indexed version of the manual, but I can't seem to find a "canonical" way to download the manual (a tar? a zip?), and wget on the site gets into infinite recursion

Downloading documentation

2007-01-20 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I've enriched LSR with an indexed version of the manual, but I can't seem to find a "canonical" way to download the manual (a tar? a zip?), and wget on the site gets into infinite recursion (probably because of a wrong link). Would it be possible to have a downloadable documentation tar?

RE: LSR Execution? Failure

2006-06-30 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:34 -0500, Fairchild wrote: > Is there a way to post ly and pdf files to LSR, bypassing execution by LSR? Well, no and I don't think it would be the right place. Moreover, scheme lilypond code tends to be highly version-dependent and cause major headaches when LSR must be r

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 17:05 -0500, Fairchild wrote: > Back to LSR posting. > > Since my AllAbout was not acceptable, tried a smaller thing thought to be > version insensitive. LSR didn't like the \version "2.4.6" line, so deleted The current version is 2.8.4, now it's also state in the "Contribu

Moving to 2.8.4--a nightmare?

2006-06-25 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Hi guys. Back from under my stone, I revved up LSR to work with 2.8. So I decided to rev up also my scores. It's being very, very difficult. I have insisted in the past and will insist again on this--if Lilypond continues to be such a moving target, it will never be a format of choice for storing

Lilypond and stability [Was: K460 does not compile under 2.6.0]

2005-07-11 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 20:07 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: > realised - you can write your own repeat unfold! I'm no Scheme expert, > but I managed to write this quick hack: Scheme hacks are not portable across versions, and certainly not fixed by convert-ly (I just removed a snippet from LSR becaus

LSR under 2.6.0

2005-07-09 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
LSR is now happily running Lilypond 2.6.0. So snippets can (and must) now use the new syntax. -- Ciao, seba ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-us

RE: Argument transfer?

2005-07-05 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 11:34 -0500, Fairchild wrote: > Haven't used LSR much, but initial impression is that it good for browsing > but not reliable/maintained: see 'Caesura ("railtracks") with fermata' and > 'Changing the appearance of a slur from solid to dotted or dashed'. Haven't > noted any \v

LSR more or less running

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
OK, after one day of efforts it is more or less working. There is an important question: have snippets that we incorporated in LSR been updated? For instance, Transposing_and_naming_instrument_groups.ly does not compile with 2.5.31, but it does after a convert-ly, giving Calculating line breaks..

Painfully making my way...

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
...into LSR being working again. For some reason, lilypond refuses to compile any snippet from the manual. For instance, lily-1260486893.ly from the manual (the first example about notes) lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.5.31 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing gr

Re: Problems with K460

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:55 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If you suspect a bug, please send the email to bug-lilypond instead > (which I have now done). > I forgot about the list. I'll reroute my additional messages. Of course it's a bug: it's a *regression* bug. It compiled perfectly with 2.4.

Problems with K460

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I've downloaded lily 2.5.31 for Fedora Core 4 (I had the crazy idea of upgrading the box running LSR--tell me I'm stupid, please). K460 (downloadable from vigna.dsi.unimi.it/music.php) stopped compliling cleanly--I get programming error: moving backwards in time continuing, cross fingers and afte

Making staff lines invisible

2005-05-08 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I've digged for a long time in the docs, and I'm not able to find an answer. How can I typeset a staff *without* the lines? I want just notes & rests to appear... I couldn't find out the engraver which is responsible for writing down the lines. -- Ciao, seb

Re: Drum Scoring

2005-04-26 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 20:06 +0100, Jennifer Clark wrote: > is the writing of drum music; the latest score I did had the transcribed > drums set out note for note (as it were), but I was sure this was not > the best way to present music to a drummer. So I asked one of the good This is indeed an

Bootstraping LSR: search for volunteers

2005-02-12 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Dear Lilypond users, the LSR idea (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/) got quite a lot of hurrays and support from everybody, but no one has still put in a snippet 8^). I guess people is too busy to stop working and say "oh, let's add this idea." In any case, I'm looking for volunteers that would like to a

Sorry guys...

2005-02-01 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
...I forgot to set the Insert authorisation for the database... the result was just "Authorisation denied". Now the DB is open. -- Ciao, seba ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu

Re: Introducing the LIlypond Snippet Repository

2005-01-30 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 09:46 +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > BTW, the LilyPond version number used for the snippet should also be > given, as soon as in the search results (or even as a search option). > That's somehow one of the goals (again, I plan to add lots of stuff, but only if people like t

Introducing the LIlypond Snippet Repository

2005-01-29 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
*** The Lilypond Snippet Repository *** I would like to invite the user community of Lilypond (and developers, if they think it's useful) to join a project: to build a consistent searchable set of Lilypond snippets that solve common problems. In the last weeks I've realised that Lilypond has all

Changing mailman list default?

2005-01-26 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
It seems like (at least for this list, maybe also for lilypond-bug) it is preferred that discussion about a posting here is made on the list. In that case, it would be a good idea to configure MailMan so that it sets the Reply-To: header to the mailing list (it is one of the main configuration op

Re: Fermata sign on the last bar division not printed

2005-01-26 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:31 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Please send ordinary usage question to the lilypond-user mailing list > and reserve bug-lilypond for obvious bugs. > > To answer your question, did you read > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Rehearsal-marks

Spaced score

2005-01-23 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
It is my understanding that overriding shortest-duration-space like this \context PianoStaff << \time 3/8 #(set-accidental-style 'piano) \override PianoStaff.SpacingSpanner #'shortest-duration-space = #10.0 \context Staff = upper { ...

Horizontal beams & reduced beams

2005-01-22 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
To get horizontal beams (I know, they're usually horrible, but essential in drum scores) the manual suggest to set beam damping to 10. I tried even 10, but still they are not really horizontal. Rune Zedeler proposed in 2002 on this list a hack to that purpose, but know it causes Scheme

Acciaccature in drum scores

2005-01-21 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
There are other problems, beside rest positioning, in drum scores. To position an acciaccatura, you need to name the node. The problem is that the name of the drumkit pieces do not indicate a defined position in the score, as they might be changed so things like \acciaccatura tommh8 sn4 for writ

Positioning rests in drum scores

2005-01-20 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Apparently, rests cannot be positioned using notes in drum scores. This does not compile: \version "2.4.3" \score { \new DrumStaff << \context DrumVoice = "1" { s1 } \drummode { << { sn4\rest sn sn sn } >> } >> } Is there any suggested workaround? I'm e

Drums & midi not working properly

2005-01-18 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I know, this should submitted to lilypond-bugs, but I had no chance in subscribing up to now. The following source \score { \new DrumStaff << \context DrumVoice = "1" { s1 } \context DrumVoice = "2" { s1 } \drummode { << { r4 sn r sn } \\ { bd r

Re: Beam subdivision and fingering in tablatures

2005-01-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:56 +0100, Erik Sandberg wrote: > You can always use stemLeftBeamCount etc. Now I got it: to get that kind of effect, you must use BOTH stemLeftBeamCount AND stemRightBeamCount on the last note of the group, as in sn32 sn sn \set DrumVoice.stemRightBeamCount = #1 sn \se

Beam subdivision and fingering in tablatures

2005-01-17 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
Two questions (I posed one in lilypond-devel, not realising it was the wrong place): 1) Is there any way of forcing a beam subdivision at a certain point? I am typesetting drum scores, and whem I have things like sn32[ sn sn sn sn sn sn sn] I would like to force a one-line beam between the first