text at the end of a multimeasure rest

2021-01-04 Thread Josiah Boothby
I think I used to know how to do this but I can't find any evidence of it, but I'd like to do something that looks roughly like the following, where the text ("fine" or "D.C. al fine") are printed below the line: |: /— 4 —/ :|: /— 4 —/ fine :| |: /— 4 —/ :|: /— 4 —/ D.C. al fine :| ...while separ

Re: text at the end of a multimeasure rest

2021-01-05 Thread Josiah Boothby
s Paul. > > There were missing brackets: > > At least mismatched. It should have been: > > R1*4 \endMarkDown \mark \markup{D.S. al Fine) > > Without parentheses. > > Happy New Year, > > Paul > > > > R1*4 \endMarkDown \mark \markup {(D.S. al Fine)} >

multi-line markup inside a single box

2021-12-07 Thread Josiah Boothby
Maybe I'm missing something obvious (it's 1:30 in the morning...it's not unlikely!), but I'm trying to include a small two-line markup inside a single box. The thing that seems obvious is producing two boxed lines, which is not what I'm aiming for and is too visually cluttered for me to accept as a

adjusting stem length in metronome mark?

2021-12-12 Thread Josiah Boothby
I used to know how to do this, I think, but...how do I adjust the stem length in a metronome mark? Seems like I should be able to do something like \override MetronomeMark.stem-length = xyz but that *specifically* doesn't appear to be available. Something involving .add-stem-length perhaps? —J

Re: optical recognition for input

2022-01-17 Thread Josiah Boothby
On 1/17/22 15:34, James B. Wilkinson wrote: Yes, I was using 12 because that seemed to be the one Oracle's website wanted to send me. I'll back up to 11. I did look in the expanded src tree and found a blue million *.java files. I assume that the build process needs to compile all of them. Won

Cautionary clef collision with rest

2020-05-31 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'm struggling to increase the padding for a cautionary clef in a slightly crowded line, since it's colliding with rests when there are notes on other lines. Attached is an image of the score I'm working with as I'm struggling to come up with a concise test snippet that doesn't have other problems.

Re: Cautionary clef collision with rest

2020-05-31 Thread Josiah Boothby
R2.*3 > \clef G > g4 r r g r r > \once\override Staff.Clef.X-extent = #'(-5 . 5) > \clef F > } > > and properly set the extent. > HTH. > Cheers, > Pierre > > Le lun. 1 juin 2020 à 07:32, Josiah Boothby a écrit : >> >> I'm struggling

numbering a series of exercises

2015-03-08 Thread Josiah Boothby
Hello all, I'm trying to do something that I suspect is easily done with scheme, but I have no idea how: I'd like to create a list of exercises that are automatically numbered. I'm currently using instrumentName for the numbers, to get something that looks something like this: 1. ===

Re: numbering a series of exercises

2015-03-08 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 02:20:51 +0100 Noeck wrote: > Hi Josiah, > > is this what you want? > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2010-10/msg00144.html That got me on the right track, thank you! What I ended up with is a bit simpler: #(define sequence-number 0) #(set! sequence-number (

Re: Strings as variable names

2016-01-06 Thread Josiah Boothby
Sorry to delve into this a bit late, but an earlier point in this ongoing thread is relevant to work currently on my desk :) On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:20:28 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > > flute_phrase01 = > > flute_phrase02 = > > > > or similar. > > When would you ever want to do that? Actually,

Re: font selection

2012-12-17 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:52:18 + Gerard McConnell wrote: > Hello, > A Microsoft security update prevents me from using Lilypond's > OpenType Century Schoolbook L. This baffles me, but as someone who hasn't used Windows much in the last few years, I have no idea how to help you with this bit.

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-08 Thread Josiah Boothby
> > I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for > > Century Schoolbook. So far, Linux Libertine[1] has been my go-to replacement font, especially when I want to be more economical with horizontal space. It's not the most beautiful font in the world, but it does look good on pape

Re: Quick Frescobaldi question

2013-05-15 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > 2013/5/7 SoundsFromSound >> >> Hello all, >> >> I was just playing around in Frescobaldi tonight and I noticed that since >> updating to v2.0.9, my menu items are now "text" and not icons*. >> >> See included images please: can anyone tell

Re: wiki or blog with lilypond

2010-11-06 Thread Josiah Boothby
> Wordpress: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scorerender/ I tried this recently. ScoreRender appears to be sporadically maintained and does not appear to be compatible with modern versions of either Lilypond or Wordpress. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: ubuntu lyx lilypond latex

2011-09-13 Thread Josiah Boothby
When I experimented with this, it seemed that LyX required a sufficiently recent minimum version of Lilypond. If the version of Ubuntu you're using has an outdated version of Lilypond, LyX won't use it. Make sure you have lilypond version 2.14.x or greater as well as Lyx 2.0.x. --Josiah 2011/9/1

musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread Josiah Boothby
A composer recently gave me a messy part he'd prepared with Sibelius, and I asked him for a musicxml file on the off chance that it might work in Lilypond and I could clean it up. With Lilypond 2.15.36 (Slackware 13.37, x86), I get the error below along with no output file. I tried the prebuilt lil

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-10 Thread Josiah Boothby
>> I'm a bit surprised you have musicxml from Sibelius.  As far as I was >> aware, it doesn't export into _any_ useful interchange format, including >> musicxml. > > Googling suggests there is an expensive 3rd party program. Googling also suggests that Sibelius is confident of their MusicXML outpu

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-11 Thread Josiah Boothby
> That is a python error, a bug in the musicxml2ly script. > children is a list and index is a number but the number is higher than the > list has items. > Can't tell more from just that exception. > > Nils Nils, would you like to see the file? I shouldn't put it out on the internet where all can

Re: musicxml2ly from sibelius

2012-04-13 Thread Josiah Boothby
Thank you, Mattias, for showing me this workaround! > You could also try to import the musicxml file into MuseScore: MuseScore is > available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It does not only read musicxml, but > midi as well. Plus: it exports in lilypond-format! > > I've had success in reading a music

Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

2012-04-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
> can anybody tell me if I can use the 'Old Style Figure' subset of an > OpenType font in markups? I may be mistaken, but I don't believe there is currently a way to do this. Perhaps post to the Bugs list as a feature request? —Josiah ___ lilypond-user

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-27 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 21:31, Helge Kruse wrote: > Thanks to all for the answer. I wasn't aware of the transposed notation > praxis for this instrument. So I think it will be best to write the actual > notes as they should appear on the sheet. This can make discussions with the > performers easie

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-27 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:44, Timothy Reeves wrote: > I've played horn for a while (albeit for only a third of a century not a > full half century ;) and I would say that while you *may* write it with no > key signature and accidentals where needed, it is not expected by modern > players, who ar

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-27 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:07, Jonas Olson wrote: > On the valveless horn you change crooks to give the instrument a > transposition that matches the music. That way, the music is always > notated in C major (assuming major mode), just like how music sounding > in B♭ major, played on a B♭ clarinet

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-27 Thread Josiah Boothby
>>> That would be hilarious. I would pay you twenty-five cents to arrange >>> the horn parts to, say, Tristan und Isolde so that each new fingering >>> is notated as a crook change. I'd pay fifty cents if it was actually >>> legible. >> Wagner sometimes got close to this. Look at the first horn pa

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-30 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:50, Tim Reeves wrote: > Holst First Suite for Military Band (in E flat) (1909) - written for four > horns in E flat - those were common in early twentieth century bands - horn > parts have no sharps or flats in key signature - nowadays the player would > get a part that

Re: Notation of french horn

2012-04-30 Thread Josiah Boothby
> Vaughn Williams's Sea Symphony (finished in 1909) gives the horns no key > signature. In his second symphony (finished in 1914), he gives no key signature to the horns or trumpets (both in F), but does give a key signature to the cornets. ___ lilypon

Re: how to stretch the bar width?

2012-05-13 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything in the > archives.  Guess I'm using the wrong keywords. > > I'm writing a legenda for tablature and I'm using \markup over each bar to > explain the notation. > As you

Re: how to stretch the bar width?

2012-05-13 Thread Josiah Boothby
Just tested my example. Didn't work. Not even a little bit. The suggestion given in the other thread is certainly the better way. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-11 Thread Josiah Boothby
it's already pretty easy separate the formal and musical elements -- and in ways that are suggested and supported in the official documentation. -- Josiah Boothby josi...@gmail.com http://josiahboothby.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tunefl and other web services

2012-07-11 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:03:45 -0700 David Rogers wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > > > > PS concerning the girl, she's pretty indeed, but some of the > > /priests/ using Lily might have a problem with that :) > > > I'm not a priest. However, I still don't like the picture. I don't > mean t

Re: Frescobaldi- python-poppler-qt4

2012-08-19 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Ole Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Frescobaldi from source on my mac, running Mac OS 10.6.8 > How can I install python-poppler-qt4 (for pdf-viewing)? > > When I follow the instructions I get the following error: > > ja?~/Public/python-poppler-qt4-0.16

Re: Compress Full Bar Rests

2012-09-14 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:58:05 + (UTC) Hugh Resnick wrote: > > I'm not top posting. > > Jan N. himself requested that I send this question to the forum after > becoming frustrated with it last night and tweeting about it. I > cannot see what I am doing incorrectly that would prevent > \compres

Re: Compress Full Bar Rests

2012-09-15 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:24:30 +0200 Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hugh Resnick writes: > > >> Consider lumping your measures together, so: s1*3 instead of s1 s1 > >> s1 > >> > >> —Josiah > > > > Perfect. Thank you so much. > > I'd like to ask some more silly questions here > > * why is this [*3

Re: Help with musicxml2ly

2012-09-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, TaoCG wrote: > pls-2 wrote >> Hi, >> >> can you replicate the error in a tiny example and post the .xml-file? >> >> Right now I can only guess. Is there a pickup measure? Are there multiple >> voices? >> >> patrick > > Unfortunately no. It's a very complex piece wh

musica ficta with an additional accidental

2012-12-15 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'd like to write a suggested/editorial accidental above a note that already has an accidental to the left of the notehead, and would ideally like the alteration to transpose when the voice is transposed. Example: A C-sharp with a suggested natural, transposed down a whole step should be a B-natu

Re: [Lilypond] half-stopped horn

2010-01-23 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:54:44 -0200 Ezequiel Birman wrote: > Hello. > > I found your post in lylypond user list of 25 Sep 2004 regarding horn > notation and the half stopped glyph. > > I am facing the same problem. I've tried inserting an eps file with > the $\oplus$ glyph, but I can't get it ri

Re: [Lilypond] half-stopped horn

2010-01-23 Thread Josiah Boothby
> Something like c2^"⊕" should do the trick; it works in my little test > sample (using 2.12.3) without needing any tweaking. In case it's necessary (or at least useful), the circled-plus character appears to be coded as 2295 in UTF-16. ___ lilypond-us

Re: film score example

2013-11-29 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:45:33 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > > > Would you like to sponsor this? For $20 i could add special > > accidentals to LilyPond font and adjust \flat, \sharp and \natural > > commands to use them (and maybe others like \semiflat, if i'll have > > t

text accidentals [was Re: film score example]

2013-11-29 Thread Josiah Boothby
To clarify: > >> > Would you like to sponsor this? For $20 i could add special > >> > accidentals to LilyPond font and adjust \flat, \sharp and > >> > \natural commands to use them (and maybe others like \semiflat, > >> > if i'll have time). > >> > >> Why not use the Unicode charpoints, like B♭,

Re: smallCaps and accented letters

2013-12-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
> I noticed in a score that I've recently typeset that smallCaps doesn't > support accented characters (which is indeed written in the manual). ... > For now, is there a workaround? I don't remember how I found this (possibly through searching through the mailing list archives, because that's how

Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

2014-01-16 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:05:50 +0100 Alexander Kobel wrote: > I was about to ask in that direction. If for a font "ff" leads to > collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it > recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Or, stated > differently: Should I consider i

Re: Variables as variables

2014-01-20 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:00:59 +0100 Johan Vromans wrote: > Now I want to re-use bbb with a different value of aaa. Like a real > variable as known from other programming languages. > > aaa = { c4 d e f } > bbb = { a4 a a a \aaa b4 b b b } > \score { \bbb }% a4 a a a c4 d e f b4 b b b >

sectional titles above tempo markings?

2009-05-19 Thread Josiah Boothby
Hello, Using 2.12.2, I'm wondering if I can include some sort of sectional titling information above a tempo marking, ideally also with a markup below the tempo indication, something like: Henry in the Store Superfast (4=198) (muted) [staff with music] Thank you, Josiah __

Re: sectional titles above tempo markings?

2009-05-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
I get an error with \vspace: error: unknown escaped string: `\vspace' Are we both using 2.12? Thanks, Josiah On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi Josiah, > >> Using 2.12.2, I'm wondering if I can include some sort of sectional >> titling information above a tempo ma

Re: sectional titles above tempo markings?

2009-05-22 Thread Josiah Boothby
>  \tempo 4 = 69 \tempo \markup \dir-column >  { >    \concat { "Tenderly, with some rubato (" \fontsize #-2 \general-align #Y > #DOWN \note #"4" #1 " = ca. 66-72)" } >    "VARIATION I" >    \vspace #0 >    \combine \fontsize #2 "PART ONE" \lower #0.7 \override #'(thickness . 1.5) > \draw-line #'

scheme function for transposition

2009-05-31 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'm confused trying to use scheme to create a function. I've tried several things, but the current function (dysfunction?) and application looks something like this: % code snippet \version "2.12.2" firstNotes = \relative c' { c4 d e f } first = #(define-music-function (parser location trans)

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
> I think you have to declare two variables: > #(define-music-function (parser location trans notes) (ly:music? ly:music?) > #{ >  \transpose c $trans { $notes } > #}) The problem appears to be that \transpose is expecting a notename, not a variable, so this has the same problem, and doubled. Tha

Re: scheme function for transposition

2009-06-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
> The only solution i know is to use the scheme equivalent of \transpose : >    ly:music-transpose > But it is a bit harder... > > > > firstNotes = \relative c' { c4 d e f } > > first = #(define-music-function (parser location trans)(ly:music?) > (let* ( >   (trans-note (ca

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-06 Thread Josiah Boothby
On 4/5/07, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, hello Jason, I would like to add my 2 cents here: though LilyPond syntax evolves indeed very quickly, you'll always be able to find the version of LilyPond which was in use when you first typed your score, on http://lilypo

Re: stereo pan

2006-04-07 Thread josiah boothby
if you used tags or \book to create two separate midi files, could you either tell timidity to play one with the left channel and the other with the right? or would you have to take a further step and combine them into a third, stereo midi file? On 4/7/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: missing something like afterAcciaccatura

2006-04-09 Thread josiah boothby
I seem to recall a question like mine coming up recently, but I can't figure out how to apply the answers here: is there a way do this with scheme so that this much typing could be avoided? Josiah On 4/9/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have to set the corresponding property ma

Re: Old-style F clef?

2006-04-12 Thread josiah boothby
I also seem to recall that having custom graphics made is possible and is not a terribly expensive sponsorship. You would have to inquire as to the price and likelihood of implementation, though, if this is something that interests you. Josiah On 4/11/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

2006-04-12 Thread josiah boothby
Honestly, I think this is the problem: > I am afraid to lose the lilypond-snapshot 2.4.1 and remain with no > working lilypond, which has become essential to me. My advice would be to uninstall this with apt-get, and try the GUB installer. Deleting the binaries doesn't uninstall the program. Jos

Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

2006-04-12 Thread josiah boothby
so, for instance /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin if the new is in /usr/local/bin and the old is in /usr/bin? but with the old binaries deleted, is the old installation still salvageable? On 4/12/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting josiah boothby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: &g

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
It would be much easier to help you if we knew what operating system (Windows, OSX, or what Linux or BSD) you've tried to install Lilypond in. It would also help if we knew what installer you used. Josiah On 4/13/06, K. Vellinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mr/Mrs, > > Something went wrong w

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
...it would also be useful to know what the problem seems to be. Josiah On 4/13/06, josiah boothby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be much easier to help you if we knew what operating system > (Windows, OSX, or what Linux or BSD) you've tried to install Lilypond > in. I

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
ing OS 10.4.6. > I don't know what type of installer is used. > . . . > I can't open the programm. Just empty documents. > > K. Vellinga > Op 13-apr-2006, om 19:22 heeft josiah boothby het volgende geschreven: > > > ...it would also be useful to know what the

Re: Slurs in 2.8

2006-04-20 Thread Josiah Boothby
On 4/20/06, Artur Rataj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone on this list any idea why the slurs are as I described? Try sending this to the bugs list. You might also try providing a visual example of what it looks like (you can create a .png, for instance). Also, please include version and ope

Re: multi \transpose in old crook- trumpet parts - a solution

2006-04-20 Thread Josiah Boothby
> Thanks. I just looked at > > 8.2.8 Different editions from one source > > When I have time I'll figure \tag out. Right now looking the doc above > it isn't obvious how I would apply this to make transposition any easier > than it already is for me. I know that if I can understand object

Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

2006-04-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
On 4/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously: > >For those who are having trouble getting Lilypond files to work with > >Illustrator or other graphics programs, I would be curious to know if the > >following works as I just tried it on my system and the file opens fine. > >

Re: UTF-8 encoding problems

2006-04-23 Thread Josiah Boothby
IOn 4/22/06, Graydon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:15:35PM -0700, jimmy2 scripsit: > > Here is an example, e with accent aigue: é. It appears as it is > > supposed to in my usual editors (pico, nedit). On the other hand, in > > a working example with German accents which

Re: Score identifier not working in book block

2006-04-23 Thread Josiah Boothby
just a hunch, try putting a space between \relative c' and the bracket, so: \relative c' { what you have is \relative c'{ --josiah On 4/23/06, Michael Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > > > The music needs to be in an explicit {}. > > \book { > > { > > \mysco

Re: Which frontend?

2006-05-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
I use an unoriginal combination of xterm, emacs, and xpdf. When I'm working on a longer project, I can set up xpdf so that it's always visible and is updated after I've run lilypond: $ emacs -nw whatever.ly (C-a C-s C-z to save and hide the editor) $ lilypond whatever.ly $ xpdf -z 100 -remote m

Re: Which frontend?

2006-05-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
$ emacs -nw whatever.ly (C-a C-s C-z to save and hide the editor) excuse me, that's C-x C-s to save and C-z to hide. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Kile and Lilypond-Book Howto

2006-05-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
On 5/1/06, Lothar Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... For lilypond-book projects, I > have set Kile up to make things easy. ... How did you set up Kile? I tried to configure it to produce output with lilypond, but gave up after two hours in frustration. A small Howto would be really great!

Re: Kile and Lilypond-Book Howto

2006-05-01 Thread Josiah Boothby
If anyone can figure out how to set up context highlighting, that would probably be the only thing missing to this. It's not necessary, but I know that some people like to have it. Josiah ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists

emacs lilypond-mode, GUB?

2006-05-02 Thread Josiah Boothby
when installing with the GUB, how do I use the emacs mode? Based on the instructions from the compilation guide, I tried creating a folder in my .emacs folder called site-lisp (so ~/.emacs/site-lisp) and copied all of the files from /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ into it, and crea

Re: blank paper - removing the clef 2.8.4 Solved?

2006-06-05 Thread Josiah Boothby
Additionally, there is an entry for blank staff paper in the LSR. On 6/4/06, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Scott wrote: > Why doesn't this remove the clef sign? 2.8.4, 2.8.3 > > #(set-global-staff-size 24) > > \layout{ indent = 0\in } > emptymusic = { > \repeat unfold 9 % Change t

Re: cues in multimeasure rest

2004-09-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
http://students.washington.edu/josiah/lilypond/cuetest-page1.png with a couple extra things to sort out (rehearsal mark and markup overlapping with the slur), this is one way to do it: \version "2.2.6" \header { title = "cuetest" } cueOn = \notes { \set Staff.fontSize = #-2

debian question

2004-09-21 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'd like to try version 2.3.x, but don't want to lose 2.2.6. Anyone know how I can do this? Josiah ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: horn notation question

2004-09-26 Thread Josiah Boothby
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:22 am, D Josiah Boothby wrote: > > No, this is not about bass clef :) > > How do I make a half-stop sign? For those non-hornists, this is a > > circle with a plus symbol inside. > > Try $\\oplus$ or $\\bigoplus$. They are

Re: deb for latest

2005-06-01 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Aaron, I am inferring from your last few questions to this list that you got 2.5.26 working. If my guess is correct, how did you install the new version of ghostscript? Josiah On Mon, 30 May 2005, Aaron Mehl wrote: Well that was my exact proble finding a ghoscript new enough. I also prefe

compilation question

2005-06-02 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I'm installing 2.5.27 in my home directory. I have already compiled ghostscript 8.15 in my home directory, but when I try compiling lilypond, I can't figure out how to find $HOME/bin/gs. I tried --with-gs=$HOME/bin/gs, and looking through config.make doesn't offer me any clues. It is probably

2.5.27 header fonts

2005-06-02 Thread D Josiah Boothby
How would I change the font in the header? And is it possible to use Palatino (or URW Palladio, as it may be called)? Where would I look to find this? Currently I'm doing it by overriding the font in individual text markups, but this feels slow: \header { title = \markup { \override #'(f

more on 2.5.27 fonts

2005-06-02 Thread D Josiah Boothby
How do I find out which fonts are available? I recall seeing a post about Pango needing to be able to use the fonts, but I don't know where to look. The font selection tools I have (xfontsel/gtkfontsel, using Debian) enable me to find a lot of fonts, but very few of them seem to be recognized b

Re: help with 2.4.5 in Debian

2005-06-07 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I have not used Ferenc's packages, but have been using the 2.4.5 that is in Debian Sid (I'm a little mystified as to why it didn't make it into the Sarge release) without problems. Correction: the only problem that I had was that when I originally tried the Sid packages, the ec-fonts-mftraced

Re: Jazz standard, four bars a line with equal size

2005-06-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I want to have four bars at a line and also every bar must have exactle the same size. Because this makes it much easyer to read. Because than all the bar line a on one line (vertical) Actually, although jazz charts are written 4-bars to a line, and it does make it easier to read -- because ea

2.6 fonts questions

2005-06-27 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Using the autopackage version of lily 2.6 on Debian sarge, I was playing around with font selection, and was getting almost nowhere. The documentation on the website says the following: > By setting the object properties described below, you can select a font from the > preconfigured font fami

Re: Feature request - contemporary trill indications

2005-06-30 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Jamie Bullock wrote: Hi! Is there any chance that someone could write a lilypond engraver for contemporary trill notation? By this I mean the use of the usual trill sign, with a small, stemless notehead in brackets after the main note, indicating the 'auxilliary note'

Re: Denemo-Rosegarden-WinXP

2005-08-09 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I doubt it, but you would have to go to those projects' websites to find out for certain. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ http://denemo.sourceforge.net/ -Josiah Mehmet Okonsar wrote: does anybody have heard of a windows build of Denemo and /or Rosegarden? Is there a way to have them running

Re: force natural sign

2005-08-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
You might look in the documentation under the heading "Cautionary accidentals," which happens to be section 6.1.3. Josiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, is there a way to put a natural sign manually? in this example the natural sign is left out at the b, but i want to make sure the reader u

evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. An example .ly file: \version "2.6.0" \score { \relative c' { \time 3/4 d2. \time 7/8 e2.. \time 2/4 f2 \time 3/8 es4. \time 5/8 ges4 f4. \time 4/8 e2 \time

Re: evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Graham Percival wrote: On 16-Aug-05, at 8:03 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. Please file a bug report with evince, then. (?) Looking more carefully I don't kn

pdf display (was Re: evince doesn't display 3's)

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
For the sake of completeness, I set the default version of ghostscript to gs-gpl, ran the file through lilypond again, then viewed the file with all of the pdf viewers that are on my system (which I believe to be all of the pdf viewers available through the standard debian repositories). Acrob

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Will Oram wrote: Many orchestral scores have tempo changes and rehearsal marks appear twice: once at the top (above the wind section) and once above the string section. It's easy to get lilypond to print \mark once at the top; can it be told to print it multiple times as described above? Usu

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
f << \global \Music >> >> >> } Will Oram wrote: I use global blocks for many things. I tried applying them towards rehearsal marks before writing in and got nothing. You sure you're not using plain \markup for rehearsal marks? Best, Will On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:4

alternatives and partial measures

2005-09-11 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Using the autopackage 2.7.6, in a Debian environment. I'm trying to create alternative repeats that start and end inside of measures, such as: \version "2.7.6" \score{ \relative c'' { \repeat volta 2 { \time 6/8 \partial 8 c8 c4. c4. } \alternative { { c4. c

Re: Release 2.6.3 for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On the download page, under the heading for version 2.6, the Fedora4 binaries are listed first. In the third text column (under "Go here"), you are given the links to "Download LilyPond, documentation, Ghostscript, compatibility libraries". I would suspect that these links will give you what yo

Re: Release 2.6.3 for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
pto.so.5) and libssl (libssl.so.5) to make it practical to revert to the earlier versions. Any ideas on how to resolve these conflicts? Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: D Josiah Boothby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:49 PM To: Hermansdorfer, Mark Cc: lil

Re: Templates repository

2005-09-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Further, there are a number of templates in the manual. But, as Mats points out, there is absolutely no reason not to submit more snippets -- whether they are templates or not -- to the LSR. Josiah Mats Bengtsson wrote: I don't really see any clear distinction between templates and the exampl

Re: Footnotes

2005-09-18 Thread D Josiah Boothby
The easiest solution would probably be to use lilypond-book. If my memory serves correctly that you're using 2.7, see chapter 12 in the manual for more details. There's also a template in section 3.8. I haven't used lilypond-book since 2.4, so things may have changed, and it's possible that the

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-19 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Unless you're interested in installing from source, which shouldn't be a problem if you're using the ghostscript packages from Sid, by far the easiest thing you can do is install with autopackage. It works, quite nicely. You can install it to your home directory. Unfortunately, there are not yet

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
> > by far the easiest thing you can do is install with autopackage. It works, > > quite > > nicely. You can install it to your home directory. > > > > Unfortunately, there are not yet any 2.6 or 2.7 packages for Debian. > > So, if I understand correctly, at the moment the only way to get 2.6 o

templates (WAS Re: midi don't ties...)

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
you might try the lilypond snippet repository: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ josiah On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:30 +0200, Peter Mogensen wrote: > Alexandre Reche e Silva wrote: > > PS: I'm an old newbie in Lily and would like to know > > whether is a kind of template to orchestral music > > (woods, brass

subject headers (WAS Re: templates)

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
As a small note, and a little off topic, more users will benefit more from these discussions if the subject tag indicates what is being discussed. Josiah On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:37 +0200, Peter Mogensen wrote: > Trent Johnston wrote: > > It's been on the list for a while... the windows native v

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-21 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:38 +0200, Roland Goretzki wrote: > Autopackage seems to be quite easy, I think. > But during the install process I got the message, that I have to have a > newer version of guile. > And now there is a problem with installing guile 1.6.7. > > But this is not for this list.

Re: half-dot

2005-09-21 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 00:42 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > David Bobroff wrote: > > I think this music was prepared with either Sibelius or Finale but I'm > > not sure which (one clue; when slurs/ties pass through time signatures > > they 'white out' as they cross them). I used to use Finale but

Re: Ties in second endings

2005-09-22 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:33 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Ties are not normally continued into second endings, but a standard > > trick is to add a tie from an invisible note. One way is to make > > the invisible note a grace note. In that way, it doesn't destroy > > the rhythm. > > Uh, oh, u

top-line tempo text markings

2005-09-22 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I recall a thread on this subject a few months ago, but I have not been able to find it in the archives. I'm trying to create a tempo marking -- something like "Andante" -- that only shows in the top line of a score, but when parts are extracted, shows on all of the parts. Similar to a rehearsal

cosponsoring ties into alternate endings

2005-09-23 Thread D Josiah Boothby
would fundable.org be a viable option? from the faq, the segment on how much it costs: http://www.fundable.org/help#howmuch apparently, the price is dependent upon paypal. i am on the morning end of an all-nighter, so it is entirely possible that i'm missing something. josiah ___

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