Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Laura Conrad wrote: Mats> You have to add the following to your file (it should Mats> probably be there by default): Mats> \layout{ Mats> ... Mats> \context{ Mats>\PianoStaff Mats>\accepts "FiguredBass" Mats> } Mats> } Thanks, that works. I agree that it sho

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-15 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> Laura Conrad wrote: >>> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >> Mats> If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the Mats> \score{...} block, it will be

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Laura Conrad wrote: "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the Mats> \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. This is true if you aren't using a \context PianoStaff. When I put that in to ge

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the Mats> \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. This is true if you aren't using a \context PianoStaff. When I put that in to get the curly brackets, it all

Re: figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you place the \figures{...} before the bass part in the \score{...} block, it will be printed above it. However, you may also want to use \override BassFigureAlignment #'stacking-dir = #UP /Mats anders stenberg wrote: Hi! Any easy way to get figures on top of Bass part in figuredbass no

figured bass lay out problem

2006-09-14 Thread anders stenberg
Hi! Any easy way to get figures on top of Bass part in figuredbass not below as seems to be default? using Lily 2.8.4 Anders Stenberg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Separation of content and lay out [WAS]: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread dax2
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:46:27 +0200 Mats wrote: > > I would claim that this idea clearly has influenced the design > of LilyPond from the first version. You can set parameters to > determine the layout in the \layout{...} block. > However, there will always be special cases where the automatic > l

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Mehl wrote: continued from preious email that yahoo sent accidently before I finished :( If a structural wish list was allowed however here is what I would want. 1. A real separation of content and formatting. This means that a lilypond file would have no formatting in it at

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Mehl wrote: Ok I am now getting both unconfused and confused. But both paper and layout deal with layout. Up to version 2.2, page layout and score layout was all lumped together into \paper{...}. Now, there's more structure to it. The intuitive notion is that \paper{...} only deals wi

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jun-05, at 11:08 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: 1. A real separation of content and formatting. This means that a lilypond file would have no formatting in it at all. A seperate style sheet would be the place for this. The advantage is that if you have style tweaks for multiple docs only one

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Also, to get a nice overview of the changes from version 2.2 to 2.4, please read the NEWS file for version 2.4: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html Also, it may be worth to look at the printouts from convert-ly -s /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2005

Re: lay out

2005-06-06 Thread Aaron Mehl
continued from preious email that yahoo sent accidently before I finished :( > If a structural wish list was allowed however here > is > what I would want. > > 1. A real separation of content and formatting. This means that a lilypond file would have no formatting in it at all. A seperat

Re: lay out

2005-06-06 Thread Aaron Mehl
Well, I did some testing and lilypond doesn't like nesting but it produces output in some instances. What I get from this and the more pictures thread is that some rules and I mean rules would help the beginner. ie this is how you build a vocal score, a piano score etc. would ease the entry to

Re: lay out

2005-06-06 Thread Aaron Mehl
Ok I am now getting both unconfused and confused. But both paper and layout deal with layout. I see that structure in lilypond is not a documentation structure. ie a programmers structure. If I were to build a document I would have formatting for the page or the entire document and formatting

Re: lay out

2005-06-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Graham Percival wrote: > > On 4-Jun-05, at 4:31 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: > > > So am I able to generalize from this that layout > > replaces paper (you said not and the docs still say > > that paper is still in?) > > There is currently a \paper{} and \layout{}. I really don't

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
> I don't know. I don't write music with lyrics. > Let's look at the > docs... Instrument-specific notation -> Vocal music. Why not look a lyrics which is what I did and I got the following: And I couldn't figure out where to put it because I go an x =y situation again. Remember you know where

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 4:31 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: So am I able to generalize from this that layout replaces paper (you said not and the docs still say that paper is still in?) There is currently a \paper{} and \layout{}. I really don't want to talk about anything that happened before 2.4, because I

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi Graham and list, I did as you said and did a convert-ly on the file. it basically replaced paper with layout and removed the notes block but I see a second set of brackets. -- \version "2.2.0" \header{ title = "Zachrenu" poet = "

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 12:47 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: So in the 2.4 series lilypond I was eventually able to create my own template. Still I was never exactly sure why it worked and others I tried didn't... Why can't you use your 2.4 scores in 2.5? You might need to update them with convert-ly, but the

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Well this seems to imply: "forget being able to build a lilypond file from scratch, you must start from a template or all is lost." Infact for the majority of my Lilypond experience I relied on templates for creating scores. What this did was limit my ability to make a score do exactly what I wan

Re: lay out

2005-06-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 02 June 2005 05:56 pm, Erik Ronström wrote: > | I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined > | and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond > | much and mean much easier to the newbie. > > I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing ab

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Aaron Mehl
BTW, for those late to this thread, my intention is not to bash either lilypond or the docs. Rather I am taking upon myself to write the section file structure. I however need to understand it. By that I mean not from a programmers standpoint but the end user. So that once I can setup from scr

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Erik Ronström
| I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined | and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond | much and mean much easier to the newbie. I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing about lilypond: the lack of a (obvious-to-the-user) uniform structur

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Erik Ronström
| I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined | and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond | much and mean much easier to the newbie. I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing about lilypond: the lack of a (obvious-to-the-user) uniform structur

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Aaron Mehl
--- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me it's the opposite. I find it much harder to > see > the structure if you only have a long \score{...} > where > I have to scroll several pages from beginning to > end. Well if I take docbook as an example a book can have multiple sections

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Mehl wrote: Ok here is where I am confused. There is a structure for files which makes a file valid. Then there is a grammar which must also be followed for the lanuguage of lilypond. I get the feeling after reading the docs that the structure of lilypond is loose. What I mean is that

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Aaron Mehl
Ok here is where I am confused. There is a structure for files which makes a file valid. Then there is a grammar which must also be followed for the lanuguage of lilypond. I get the feeling after reading the docs that the structure of lilypond is loose. What I mean is that it appear (if I am no

Re: lay out

2005-06-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
(Graham, or someone else, we should really try to make sure that all commands and reserved words available in LilyPond are listed in the Index. \layout is one of those missing. Doing such an exercise would also help identifying what information is missing from the manual today.) Part of an answer

lay out

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, In a previous email I asked if layout replaced paper. I was told to look at outputs, which I did. The paper output section details \paper{} but I see no mention of \layout {} where in the docs is \layout discussed? Thanks Aaron __ Do Yo