beginner stanza help

2014-09-09 Thread Steven Arntson
I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What am I doing wrong? text = \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"1. " here are | %m1 the words | %m2 } \lyricmode { \set stanza = #"2. " here are | %m1 more words

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-09 Thread Steven Arntson
Colin Campbell writes: > On 14-09-09 06:35 PM, Steven Arntson wrote: >> I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What >> am I doing wrong? >> >> text = \lyricmode { >>\set stanza = #"1. " >> here are

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-09 Thread Steven Arntson
le variable, to keep my \score simple. Is it typical to break up a lyric into several variables, and then reassemble them all in the \score block? Part of my confusion stems from uncertainty regarding large form---how to break things into variables and reassemble them in \score. I have no sense of

Re: beginner stanza help

2014-09-10 Thread Steven Arntson
Simon Albrecht writes: > Am 10.09.2014 um 02:35 schrieb Steven Arntson: >> I'm trying to get stanzas to work for a song that has two verses. What >> am I doing wrong? >> >> text = \lyricmode { >>\set stanza = #"1. " >> here are

Re: Just a thank you

2014-12-30 Thread Steven Arntson
gt; can do. Thanks for letting me participate! > > Cheers, Guentzel Ditto! -steven arntson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

beginner score error

2015-03-20 Thread Steven Arntson
melody } \new Lyrics = \lyricsto mel \text \new ChordNames = "chordsymbols" \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> >> \layout { \context {} } \midi {} } Thank you, steve

Re: beginner score error

2015-03-20 Thread Steven Arntson
That solved it---thank you! tisimst writes: > Steven, > > The lyrics line should read "\new Lyrics \lyricsto mel \text", without > the "=". > > - Abraham > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Steven Arntson [via Lilypond] < > [hidden email]&g

Re: LilyPond editing environments

2015-05-10 Thread Steven Arntson
mentation/usage/text-editor-support#emacs-mode -steven arntson Urs Liska writes: > I know I could collect this information myself, but I prefer having it > 1st-hand and current this way. > > I will be presenting LilyPond to the MEI community at the Music > Encoding Conference in Flor

frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

2014-04-27 Thread Steven Arntson
egration of the windows--text entry, music display, lilypond messages, and MIDI playback. I wonder if that could be done with a dedicated Emacs instance. I think I'm right that one can transpose scores in Frescobaldi? And maybe not in Arrange Mode. That could be a dec

Re: frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

2014-04-27 Thread Steven Arntson
Urs Liska writes: > Am 27.04.2014 20:15, schrieb Steven Arntson: >> I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user >> of Lilypond, >> transitioning away from Musescore. I've >> been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it so

Re: frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

2014-04-28 Thread Steven Arntson
James Harkins writes: > Steven Arntson stevenarntson.com> writes: > >> I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user of > Lilypond, >> transitioning away from Musescore. I've >> been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it

Re: editor tips in Usage manual?

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Arntson
27;. Following up on emacs, which I'm experimenting with right now. My own use case: The ability to split the screen vertically as David explains (C-x 3) is proving very useful to me for piano scores. I put one measure per line in my lilypond files, so the lines are (generally) short. I arra

split system

2014-05-11 Thread Steven Arntson
ination of \stopStaff and \startStaff, but I can't get it working. Am I barking up the right tree? Thank you! Steven Arntson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: split system

2014-05-12 Thread Steven Arntson
> c4 \coda c c c \bar "|." > } > } > \new Staff { > \relative c { > \clef bass > \relative c { > c c c c > } > } > } >>> > } > > Knute Snortum > (via Gmail) > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven Arntson > wrote: > >

install question

2014-08-15 Thread Steven Arntson
I've noticed that I don't have the most recent stable version of Lilypond, and would like to install 2.18.2 to see if some issues I'm having are resolved. The instructions on lilypond.org suggest installing with: sh lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh When I type this, though, I'm told, You are about

Re: install question

2014-08-16 Thread Steven Arntson
n /usr/local: > > sudo sh lilypond-version.sh > > sh lilypond.sh --help > shows all the options available > > Il 16/ago/2014 07:14 "Steven Arntson" ha > scritto: > > I've noticed that I don't have the most recent stable version of > Lilypond,

texinfo manual?

2014-08-17 Thread Steven Arntson
y new install? Thank you! steven arntson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: texinfo manual?

2014-08-18 Thread Steven Arntson
missing now is the manual in texinfo format (I think). I >> use Emacs to enter my lilypond docs, and I used to have a bunch of >> manuals that I could open with C-h i. I think they were in texinfo >> format. Now they're gone... >> >> Thank you! >> steven arnts

Re: texinfo manual?

2014-08-18 Thread Steven Arntson
hare/info > directory? Having always downloaded and installed lilypond this way, I > have never noticed whether the --documentation flag was neded to > obtain the .info files. I do hope this works. > > Hwaen Ch'uqi > > > > On 8/18/14, Steven Arntson wrote: >> "

Re: texinfo manual?

2014-08-19 Thread Steven Arntson
"Hwaen Ch'uqi" writes: > Greetings, > > I have never used `C-u C-h i', and my emacs is currently down, so I > canot exactly replicate your situation. However, one thing I have > consistently had to do with these installations is to manualy update > the dir file in the /usr/share/info directory;

Re: texinfo manual?

2014-08-29 Thread Steven Arntson
"Hwaen Ch'uqi" writes: > Gretings, > > Have you found a remedy for the problem of broken images in LilyPond's > texinfo manuals? If not, I believe I have found the answer, though at > a slight cost of self-guilt. The images are broken because, as the > manuals are now in a different directory, th