Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-21 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 10/20/08 4:33 PM, "Joseph Wakeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No nastiness felt from this end, your response was not entirely > unexpected -- after all, as you say, you've put in a lot of effort to > generate this tool as it is. I'm very grateful for that, and a friendly > prod to put m

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Neil Puttock wrote: > 2008/10/20 Joseph Wakeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Very nice! A couple of comments: first (I guess you know this) the >> bracketed (3+3+2) etc. markup should surely not affect the horizontal >> music spacing as it does. Is there anything that can be done? > > \with-dimen

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: > It's not markup. I've changed the way the time signature is > displayed. The parenthesis is part of the time signature. Sorry, that was my bad phrasing (again). I understood perfectly well what it was -- if it wasn't part of the time signature, the spacing wouldn't have

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/10/20 Joseph Wakeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Very nice! A couple of comments: first (I guess you know this) the > bracketed (3+3+2) etc. markup should surely not affect the horizontal > music spacing as it does. Is there anything that can be done? \with-dimensions #''(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0) for

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:04:50PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > Mao, I added the comments just before sending the file, and forgot > > that scheme used a different symbol for comments. > > > > The attached file fixes this. > > Very nice! A couple of comments: first

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: > Mao, I added the comments just before sending the file, and forgot > that scheme used a different symbol for comments. > > The attached file fixes this. Very nice! A couple of comments: first (I guess you know this) the bracketed (3+3+2) etc. markup should surely not aff

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:18:17PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > I am pleased to re-announce that I am an idiot. Please ignore the > > previous message about "elegant" compound time signatures; the > > attached file is *much* better. > > I'm afraid I get horrible horr

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Jonathan Kulp
If you delete the % comments from the scheme bit it runs without errors. The markups are nice but they make the notes slide over to the right. Jon Hans Aberg wrote: On 20 Oct 2008, at 15:00, Graham Percival wrote: I am pleased to re-announce that I am an idiot. Ahem... Please ignore

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Hans Aberg
On 20 Oct 2008, at 15:00, Graham Percival wrote: I am pleased to re-announce that I am an idiot. Ahem... Please ignore the previous message about "elegant" compound time signatures; the attached file is *much* better. - arbitrary time signatures, with arbitrary compound-ness. - more aesthe

Re: truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: > I am pleased to re-announce that I am an idiot. Please ignore the > previous message about "elegant" compound time signatures; the > attached file is *much* better. I'm afraid I get horrible horrible errors with the files you attached :-( The resulting output has no time

truly elegant compound time signatures

2008-10-20 Thread Graham Percival
Dear all, I am pleased to re-announce that I am an idiot. Please ignore the previous message about "elegant" compound time signatures; the attached file is *much* better. - arbitrary time signatures, with arbitrary compound-ness. - more aesthetically pleasing graphical display, including less