Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread Till Rettig
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed das) Tupel is normally a vector and as a musical term seems to be as common as tuplet. For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole etc. the neologism would have to be die Tupole, but I

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-26 Thread michał poręba
It seems to be a big problem for all of as. I am wanna-be polish translator and I have to admit that in my mother language people use tuplet, but only those who know Finale. None of encyclopedias, none of dictionaries I have mention that word. So what should I do? What should we do? Shell we use

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/9/21, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In German the word is Tupel vs. Duole, Triole, Pentole etc. I never really heard Tupel in musical context, only mathemathically. My musical lexicon doesn't know it - but my favourite online dictionary doesn't know tuplet either. Yeah, I may be

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed das) Tupel is normally a vector and as a musical term seems to be as common as tuplet. For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole etc. the neologism would have to be die Tupole, but I

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Eyolf Østrem
2007/9/21, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I may be spreading unsubstantiated rumours here, but the term seems definitely to have shown up first in English (rather than FR or DE) and I *think* it actually originated in an early version of the Finale user manual (God help us). I've

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-24 um 14:24 schrieb Valentin Villenave: In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: since the terms we use are triolet == meaning triplet quartolet quintolet etc... We created the n-olet which is a

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2007/9/24, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word: since the terms we use are triolet == meaning triplet quartolet quintolet etc... In Spanish there is a generic term

RE: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Trevor Daniels
On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The word tuplet is certainly used in Coda Music Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted 1999, to mean triplets, quintuplets, and so on. (I used this before I discovered LP, and still have a copy). Don't know if this was the first

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Knoop
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/9/22, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The word tuplet is certainly used in Coda Music Technology's Finale PrintMusic2000 manual, copyrighted 1999, to mean triplets, quintuplets, and so on. (I used this before I discovered LP, and still have a copy). Don't

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-21 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/19/07, fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such *things*

Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-19 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-09-17 um 17:00 schrieb Valentin Villenave: Trevor: there can be *no* name for such hideous rhythms... :) We may use rythmes irrationnels (one h, two ns), or monnayages, but generally speaking the terms we use for such *things* are so rude I can't consider posting any of them here...

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin, Hi Charlotte, I just happened to glance at the first of your links about 'tuplets' and wondered if this is the right name for it? I have always understood 'tuplets' to refer to the use of 'simple' time in a compound time signature

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-17 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/17/07, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin, Hi Charlotte, I just happened to glance at the first of your links about 'tuplets' and wondered if this is the right name for it? I have always understood 'tuplets' to

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: There was a discussion involving these terms a few months ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-12/msg00468.html Somebody, IIRC, proposed to create a \triplet keyword to make triplets creation easier (of course, like many user ideas in opensource

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/17, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now it has at least made it into the LSR. See http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=328 Oh yes! I didn't realize. I do remember, however, that you posted this same code on the list, and that I preciously copy/pasted it in a functions.ly file I

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, This week's new episodes: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/tuplets_eng.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/languages_eng.png As usual, the source files are in the folder http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/sources/ Hope you guys

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-16 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:11:47PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: This week's new episodes: [...] Hope you guys will like it! Yup. I love it, and I've some silly ideas regarding Lily, Clippy and Dust Puppy in my mind, to add more action ;-) (If you don't know about Dust Puppy and Clippy, see

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello Hugo, hello Francisco, hello everybody; The source files for the two little things I showed you yesterday are available in http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/sources/ (don't try to look at the svg files directly in Firefox, it lacks anti-aliasing.) Don't forget the

GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly too, for what it's worth). It's intended for: -beginners, -advanced users, -power users, -super power

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave skrev: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly too, for what it's worth). LOL :-) -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Karl Hammar
Vallentin wrote: ... http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png ... Valentin (who can't sleep at night after reading the mailinglist -- and sucks at Inkscape :) I liked thoose wery much. (I just can't wait 'til dr.No

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Valentin Villenave writes: Forget about GDP. http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png Hah, LOL. Can't wait for tomorrow's adventures ;-) How about featuring this comics from the web page? Jan. -- Jan

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Wow!!! I want to have more of this!!! Good work! 2007/9/12, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png Seriously, this is GREAT! More! More! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png They're great! If you draw more, we'll definitely add them as an appendix to the Learning Manual. Peter pointed out the direct fifth in the

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/12, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter pointed out the direct fifth in the counterpoint; I'll point out that the name should be Pond, Lily Pond -- use a comma, not a semicolon. Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wanted it to sound like the dramatically intense two seconds pause that the

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Valentin: the name should be Pond, Lily Pond -- use a comma, not a semicolon. Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wanted it to sound like the dramatically intense two seconds pause that the actors use in the movies: Bond. ... ...James Bond :) Use an emdash (The name is Pond — Lily Pond.) or ellipsis