Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks for that clarification. So this isn't a 'selling point' for LilyPond anymore ... Urs Am 09.04.2013 18:59, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de To: Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:26 PM Subject: Cropped

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Urs Liska: I never used Sibelius, and the last version of Finale I actually worked with was 2001. Therefore I'd like to ask here before writing something inappropriately negative about them ;-) Is it possible to output cropped output in .png or .pdf format from

Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

2013-04-09 Thread Urs Liska
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:50:59 +0100 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius Am

Color-coding \voiceXXX contents?

2013-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Is it possible to hook into the \voiceXXX commands to (optionally) color-code them? This could be helpful when dealing with complex polyphonic situations. In my experience it is often enough to assign the right voice to get the spacing right, and it would be nice if the eye would be assisted

Re: Frescobaldi/LilyPond timelapse video

2013-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.04.2013 22:18, schrieb Federico Bruni: 2013/4/10 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com mailto:paconet@gmail.com I wanted to share this screencast with you. Duration: 1'29'' at 25x speed. http://lilypond.es/lilypond/timelapse-screencast/timelapse-aquaplane.webm also

Re: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 10.04.2013, 12:28 +0200 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: %{ 5 %} a,4 ( a4 ) ( b4 ) d4 | I like that. It's tedious to type manually, but a computer program doesn't know that word :-) Indeed, but i find it unreadable, especially if it was placed at every line. Really?

Re: warning in midi

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net schrieb: - Original Message - From: Eluze elu...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: Re: warning in midi MING TSANG wrote Here is the full code. The error log is copy below. hi Ming that's too

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com schrieb: 2013/4/14 Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com Just starting to try out Lilypond, and finding a few problems in getting to work at all. The OS is Windows 7, if that makes any difference. which version of lilypond? 1) Double-clicking on a .ly file

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com schrieb: 2013/4/14 Peter Toye lilyp...@ptoye.com Just starting to try out Lilypond, and finding a few problems in getting to work at all. The OS is Windows 7, if that makes any difference. which version of lilypond? 1) Double-clicking on a .ly file

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.04.2013 19:27, schrieb Peter Toye: Re: Newbie problems - BTW, I recommend using Frescobaldi instead of Lilypad: http://frescobaldi.org/download Is this the right place to be recommending a rival product? I'll have a look. Thanks. It's not a rival product.

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 14.04.2013 19:27, schrieb Peter Toye: Re: Newbie problems - Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com schrieb: I think that you have to associate the .ly extension with Lilypad. That would seem to be the case. It's the sort of thing I'd expect the installation routine to

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-14 Thread Urs Liska
, but then it should be clearly documented. Urs -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Urs Liska To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 7:34 PM Subject: Re: Newbie problems Am 14.04.2013 19:27, schrieb Peter Toye

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.04.2013 10:34, schrieb Peter Toye: Re: Newbie problems Urs, I realise that now! Thanks. Not at all! I think it's one of our tasks on this list to keep new users from giving up on LilyPond ;-) Urs Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com http://www.ptoye.com

Re: Newbie problems

2013-04-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.04.2013 11:56, schrieb Peter Toye: Re: Newbie problems Urs, Now downloaded it, but it won't work properly - I get: Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.16.2 [Warlock1.ly]... Could not start lilypond-windows.exe. Please check path and permissions. when I try to engrave. Is this the place to

Re: Barcheck problems in extremely simple file

2013-04-15 Thread Urs Liska
R does indicate that the symbol to be used is independent from that actual duration, but you still have to supply the length of it. I know that may be somewhat confusing. If you don't specify a duration for the first note LilyPond will implicitly use a quarter note (i.e. c will be treated as

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.04.2013 14:07, schrieb Richard Shann: On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 10:29 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: BTW we're preparing the release of a LilyPond toolbox library (where \displayControlPoints will be included of course), and I'd love to include this new one there too. I've been trying to track

Re: how offsets and alignment works: an explanation

2013-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Does placing it in a separate \layout block help? Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net schrieb: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 16:59 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 09:41 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, [...] When I recently cut-and-pasted the code from the email, I had this

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 10:19 +0200 schrieb Wilbert Berendsen: Op Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:48:10 +0100 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net schreef: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:44 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Thanks. I'm wondering whether a similar feature could be easily implemented

Re: Scheme education

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Stjepan Horvat: Thanks guys for your anwsers..yes and i want practical experience..after i write my first lilypond function.. I still don't feel ready..i must learn more.. I am the type of a guy who wants to script everything that is done more

Re: Scheme education

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska: Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Stjepan Horvat: Thanks guys for your anwsers..yes and i want practical experience..after i write my first lilypond function.. I still don't feel ready..i must learn more.. I am

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 10:43 +0200 schrieb Wilbert Berendsen: Op Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:31:13 +0200 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de schreef: What I intended to post on your issue tracker (already one day before Richard started posting his progress :-) ) is: Use Clickdrag to correct pitches

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 11:50 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: If not, would it be possible to highlight a changed note (or other item) with a color? That can be done. But recompilation is better. Easy recompilation is nice, but automatic

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 12:16 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 11:50 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: If not, would it be possible to highlight a changed note (or other item

Re: Scheme education

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 19.04.2013 19:35, schrieb Jim Long: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:32:19AM +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Stjepan Horvat: Thanks guys for your anwsers..yes and i want practical experience..after i write my first lilypond function.. I still don't feel

Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, today I finished the first draft of a paper on a plain text file based toolchain for writing (about) music. The target audience are people who regularely author such documents but aren't converted yet to 'our' approach to authoring. The text doesn't provide material to 'getting started'

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Colin, thanks for your valuable comments! Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 11:50 +0100 schrieb Colin Hall: Urs Liska writes: Hi, today I finished the first draft of a paper on a plain text file based toolchain for writing (about) music. ... Your paper reads well

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 13:05 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Colin Hall colingh...@gmail.com writes: Here is a piece of opinion from me, so you know my position. Users of WYSIWYG engraving software accept the shortcomings because it is quick and effective. Users of text-based approaches

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 12:13 +0100 schrieb Graham Percival: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 01:05:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Colin Hall colingh...@gmail.com writes: Here is a piece of opinion from me, so you know my position. Users of WYSIWYG engraving software accept the

Re: Font Issue; characters not printed.

2013-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Maybe you have an issue with your PDF viewer? I can see all 's' and don't notice any issue with 'z'. I assume 'fl' and 'Th' should be ligatures? I can't tell if 'fl' is a ligature ore not, but the 'Th' definitely isn't. What OS are you using? AFAIK LilyPond doesn't use kerning on Windows, so it

Re: Font Issue; characters not printed.

2013-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
telling us your OS? Urs Thanks. On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Maybe you have an issue with your PDF viewer? I can see all 's' and don't notice any issue with 'z'. I assume 'fl' and 'Th' should be ligatures? I

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
to that discussion. To those who offered more and concrete assistance: I will be very happy about it, but maybe it's more efficient to wait for my next version. I will then also accept pull requests. Best for now Urs Am Freitag, den 19.04.2013, 23:17 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi, today I finished

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 10:28 +0200 schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, 2013/4/22 Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de: I'm in a hurry to prepare the material for the oral presentation. Good luck! If a recording will be available, i'd gladly watch it. No, surely not in that context. I will leave

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 11:41 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: [...] MusicXML [...] indeed. ;) I'd actually say it is crucial to have that in order to get LilyPond a foot in the publishing world. We can't expect publishing houses to easily

Conditionally color all tweaked objects

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, is it possible somehow to hook into the engraving process and color all grobs that have been manually tweaked? In my library I have a 'draft mode'. All my functions or shorthands that tweak the positioning have a counterpart in draft mode. The draft mode functions basically call the normal

Re: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff?

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.04.2013 17:54, schrieb Peter Toye: How to get dynamics centred on a piano staff? Newbie alert I'm trying to engrave some piano music where the dynamics don't belong to either of the staffs, but refer to both staffs. If I put them in on the RH staff, they're a bit high. Also, I have to

Finale and Sibelius files

2013-04-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, could somebody be so kind and send me Finale and/or Sibelius files with the equivalent of this LilyPond file: { c' } ? Thank you Urs ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Finale and Sibelius files

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
that later on my mac. The file size for finale files probably has some kind of minimum for all the layout settings. But who knows? It is 6 bytes in lilypond vs. nearly 50kb of arbitrary binary data in finale. Best, Jan-Peter Am 22.04.2013 22:09, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi, could somebody

Re: Finale and Sibelius files

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 10:09 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:09 PM Subject: Finale and Sibelius files could

Re: Conditionally color all tweaked objects

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 19:03 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Hi, is it possible somehow to hook into the engraving process and color all grobs that have been manually tweaked? In my library I have a 'draft mode'. All my functions or shorthands

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, please let me take most of your comment as acknowledged and allow me one further inquiry: Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 12:30 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 11:41 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:43 + schrieb Klaus Föhl: Janek Warchoł wrote: Many thanks for this report! You made me realize that i didn't promote LilyPond actively enough. We have unique features to offer and people in the music industry should know about us. As the Lilypond

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:45 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Selling LilyPond with vaporware MusicXML makes only sense if we want to hook people on LilyPond with the promise that they can take their scores into other products eventually. Yes, of course. And that promise only makes

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/4/23 Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net: On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 22:11 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: what would be the nicest syntax using that

Re: Setting X-offset and Y-offset graphically.

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.04.2013 17:37, schrieb David Nalesnik: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 23.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Richard Shann: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:16 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: [...] But of course

Re: MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska: Hm, this seems not to be the first time my phone censors my reply text :-( What I had written is somewhat like: Christopher R. Maden cr...@maden.org schrieb: I am comfortable with LilyPond, but not quite an expert

Re: MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 21:43 +0300 schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: On 23 avr. 2013, at 21:21, Christopher R. Maden cr...@maden.org wrote: I am comfortable with LilyPond, but not quite an expert. I am an expert in XML and XSLT, and it sounds like it would be of benefit to LilyPond

\shape question

2013-04-24 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, just a quick (and urgent) question: \shape Slur #'((0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)) should be correct syntax? Or am I blind? At least LilyPond 2.17.16 hits me error: wrong type for argument 2. Expecting symbol list or music, found ((0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0) (0 . 0)) \shape Slur

Re: \shape question

2013-04-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 24.04.2013, 11:05 +0200 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hi Urs, the order of the arguments changed in 2.17: \shape #'((0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)) Slur should work. The second argument now also may be music, so that you can use in a tweak fashion: c-\shape #'((0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 .

Re: \shape question

2013-04-24 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 24.04.2013, 11:05 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Hi all, just a quick (and urgent) question: \shape Slur #'((0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)(0 . 0)) should be correct syntax? Or am I blind? At least LilyPond 2.17.16 hits me error

Lobbying paper follow-up

2013-04-24 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, trying to catch up on all the stuff written lately. Obviously I somewhat lack the overview, so I try to do my best to do everybody justice (knowing it won't work out ...) ### Structure/Outline of the paper Am Montag, den 22.04.2013, 10:09 -0400 schrieb Carl Peterson:

Re: MusicXML

2013-04-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 25.04.2013, 03:14 -0400 schrieb Paul Morris: On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 AM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Python is a great tool for XML creation. There is also http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html. The advantage of doing it in Scheme is that you are building it

Re: Lobbying paper follow-up

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25.04.2013 14:44, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/4/25 Urs Liskau...@openlilylib.org: Do you know of someone having actually recovered from a text file suffering from a disk crash - and not having spent more work than starting again from scratch? Myself, to sme extent. Am 25.04.2013 16:48,

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.04.2013 08:14, schrieb Evan Driscoll: (I couldn't find something that presented version control the way I wanted to show it, so I wrote a description. In the unlikely event you want to steal portions of it, feel free; I can drop a creative commons license on

Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.04.2013 14:31, schrieb Denis Bitouzé: Hi, looks very nice though I currently have no time to read it carefully. Just two remarks: 1. A table of contents would be nice. This is on my todo-list. It's not a regular table of contents but one for a subpart of the whole document (which

MusicXML project platform

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, in order not to let this discussion go asleep again, I set up a GitHub project https://github.com/openlilylib/ly2xml https://github.com/openlilylib/ly2xml/wiki I hope this may become a place to organize ideas and eventually start producing code. As a start I put together a few pages

Re: MusicXML project platform

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.04.2013 16:39, schrieb Paul Morris: On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: in order not to let this discussion go asleep again, I set up a GitHub project Hi Urs, Good idea. I added the following which I dug up. As well as the link to SXML support in Guile

Re: MusicXML project platform

2013-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
lack perspective - thanks for any clarifications. Thanks, Curt On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.04.2013 16:39, schrieb Paul Morris: On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: in order not to let this discussion go

repeated time signatures

2013-04-29 Thread Urs Liska
The NR (1.2.3 Displaying Rhythms) states that time signatures are printed at the beginning of a piece and whenever the time signature changes. But if I write music = { \time 3/4 R2.*4 \time 3/4 R2. } the time signature is printed a second time although it doesn't change (to my

Re: change of plans for this final project

2013-04-29 Thread Urs Liska
Am 29.04.2013 16:17, schrieb Francisco Vila: El 29/04/2013 14:03, Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com mailto:drose...@gmail.com escribió: I have, but the entire concept of instrument transposition is sort of confusing to me in the first place, as a singer and pianist. If I had my way, the

Re: repeated time signatures

2013-04-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, Am 29.04.2013 16:15, schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The NR (1.2.3 Displaying Rhythms) states that time signatures are printed at the beginning of a piece and whenever

Re: repeated time signatures

2013-04-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 30.04.2013, 13:56 -0400 schrieb Carl Peterson: I could be wrong, but I would think that the primary motivation for specifying the same time signature a second time is to have it displayed a second time? Considering it one day later I think you may be right. The only time I

Re: Templates combined?

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am Freitag, den 03.05.2013, 06:56 + schrieb Nandi: Hello everyone, I'm trying to do a SATB vocal score with a harp accompaniment, and I'd like to combine the following two templates: Single staff template with notes, lyrics, chords and frets + Vocal ensemble template, so that I can

Re: Templates combined?

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
readable. HTH Urs Am Freitag, den 03.05.2013, 08:11 + schrieb Nandi: Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org writes: As I don't quite see what you exactly want to achieve, I suggest you - decide which of the templates is better as a start, - try to figure out which music variables you would

Re: Templates combined?

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
Hm, as far as I know (and my mail reader tells) I attached a plain .ly file ... But you'll find the content of that file at the end of this message (in the hope mail transfer protocols and readers won't mess it up ...) Urs Am Freitag, den 03.05.2013, 09:20 + schrieb Nandi: Urs Liska ul

Re: Templates combined?

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
schrieb Urs Liska: Hm, as far as I know (and my mail reader tells) I attached a plain .ly file ... But you'll find the content of that file at the end of this message (in the hope mail transfer protocols and readers won't mess it up ...) Urs Am Freitag, den 03.05.2013, 09:20 + schrieb

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.05.2013 13:59, schrieb James Harkins: On May 3, 2013 7:29 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi, How should one use mdash; in a markup block? If you're on a Mac, it's option+shift plus the - key: --- Don't know on

Re: multi measure rests

2013-05-03 Thread Urs Liska
A MultiMeasureRest for one measure always _looks_ like a whole note rest, no matter how long its real duration is. Maybe it's this what you mix up? Best Urs Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com schrieb: Ok. I see there a dotted hole note, but a dotted whole note or in this case whole rest is

Re: mdash in markup?

2013-05-05 Thread Urs Liska
I don't see any point in arguing if a given documentation is technically correct or complete. Sometimes even correct documentation can be misleading or at least miss to draw attention to important points. I feel that this is the case here too. An improvement of the documentation will

Re: Change Lyrics fontsize globaly

2013-05-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 06.05.2013, 07:32 +0300 schrieb Andreas Stenberg: Hi! Is there a easy way to change the fontsize of lyrics globaly. Put \override LyricText #'font-size = #1.25 in a 'style sheet' file that you can include in all your files. HTH Urs I'm working on projects with several

Re: Measure numbers in cadenza

2013-05-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am Montag, den 06.05.2013, 23:18 +0200 schrieb Noeck: Am 06.05.2013 15:34, schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: Hey all, I'm writing a piece of entirely unmetered music and using \cadenzaOn for that. I'm manually placing barlines from time to time in order to allow for line breaks and to

Re: repeated time signatures

2013-05-07 Thread Urs Liska
Montag, den 29.04.2013, 09:15 -0500 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The NR (1.2.3 Displaying Rhythms) states that time signatures are printed at the beginning of a piece and whenever the time

Re: repeated time signatures

2013-05-07 Thread Urs Liska
07.05.2013, 07:38 -0500 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi David, unfortunately your engraver does _not_ work as expected (and as I had stated): Obviously the 'previous

Re: scheme function help

2013-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2013 11:23, schrieb Peter Gentry: ... David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Well, I definitely proud myself on facilitating one of the fastest PTF times for active projects (PTF = posting to flamewar). Peter peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk writes: David you have not been flamed your work

\include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I want to implement a way to compile a score from a given music expression. THe idea is to have a huge score edited in small chunks and being able to only compile the tiny chunk one works on currently. First I tried several things to compile a book within the function but didn't succeed.

Re: \include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 11:38 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Hi, I want to implement a way to compile a score from a given music expression. THe idea is to have a huge score edited in small chunks and being able to only compile the tiny

Re: \include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 13:21 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 11:38 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: ... What I didn't

Re: \include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 14:36 +0100 schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:25 AM Subject: \include problem in Scheme function Hi, I want to implement a way to compile

Re: \include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 09:00 -0500 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: ## BUT: One (hopefully last) issue still drives me

Re: \include problem in Scheme function

2013-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.05.2013 16:16, schrieb David Nalesnik: Urs, On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2013, 09:00 -0500 schrieb David Nalesnik: Hi Urs, You've got one two many left parentheses

Re: Cross-staff tie

2013-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2013 13:33, schrieb Eluze: \new Staff=A { c'1( \change Staff=B c')} \new Staff=B { \clef bass R1 R } What Eluze wants to say is a) you can't do this with a tie but you have to use a slur instead b) musically it is probably one voice. I can't judge from the small example if this

Re: Not working snippet

2013-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2013 15:15, schrieb Alberto Simões: Hello The snippet in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/__Snippet?id=748 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=748 doesn't seem to work -- referenced from

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2013 16:36, schrieb Alberto Simões: On 10/05/13 15:27, David Kastrup wrote: Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt writes: For those interested in the \shape usage, this is what I was working in: http://www.musica-liturgica.net/viewfull.pl/375 I'd probably not let the

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.05.2013 11:15, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/5/11 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com ... Quite frankly, if we didn't have \shape, i'd say that LilyPond was incapable of handling Fried project :( I think I missed this project, all I can

Re: many users don't know about \shape

2013-05-12 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.05.2013 13:35, schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warcho? janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/5/11 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warcho? janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: my experience (particularly with Fried

Re: getting error already have slur in my compilation

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 14.05.2013, 08:30 +0200 schrieb Helge Kruse: You opened a slur in line 92: c8( In line 93 you try to open a new slur without closing the previous one: cis8( Close the first or check if it's the wrong location to start the slur. Hi Sarah, probably Helge told you how to

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, considering all the messages on this thread: Would there be a Mac user with sufficient knowledge out there to assist Wilbert and prepare either a simple installer or at least a reliable and comprehensive installation guide, not just now but also for upcoming releases? It seems that there

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 14.05.2013, 22:14 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: Derek cu...@shmerek.com writes: Sorry David, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Never mind, it was just an attempt at a bad joke. I found it really funny. Especially with this appendix :-)

Re: stylesheet structure

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am Sonntag, den 12.05.2013, 21:51 -0400 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, I'm working on putting together some house style stylesheets, and wanted to see if I had the best structure… As one example, I'm tweaking up a Henle piano score stylesheet (e.g. Beethoven Piano Sonatas Urtext,

Best practice for parts with varying number of staves

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, I'm facing the mountain of a huge orchestral score, and I think it's a good idea to get a few things right before starting to climb. Lacking experience with this type of score I will probably have to ask a few times ... Some parts vary the number of staves along the way (for example the

Re: Best practice for parts with varying number of staves

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 15.05.2013, 09:48 +0100 schrieb Richard Shann: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: c) I could initially create the score with all possible staves and just let \RemoveEmptyStaves do its job (well, that's what it is intended for ...) - But that would

Re: stylesheet structure

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 15.05.2013, 06:03 -0400 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I don't know if it's the _best_ and _most flexible_ structure, but it definitely looks like a _good_ and _flexible_ structure. I probably can't ask for any more at this stage. ;) Exactly. You should take that

Re: Best practice for parts with varying number of staves

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am Mittwoch, den 15.05.2013, 06:06 -0400 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, How would you approach this scenario? I'm working on a mechanism involving \quoteDuring and \RemoveEmptyStaves which should handle this scenario perfectly. Right now, I'm testing it with a choral work which

Absolute positioning of staves and measures

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, is it possible at all to create a layout with absolute positioning of the score structure? I.e. I would like to be able to position the staves absolutely and set an absolute width of each measure. It would be enough to have a score with one staff or rhythmic staff alone. The idea is to

Re: Absolute positioning of staves and measures

2013-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
= { \textLengthOn s1^\markup { | \hspace #15 | } s1^\markup { \hspace #15 | } s1^\markup { \hspace #15 | } s1^\markup { \hspace #25 | } } music = { \repeat unfold 16 c'4 } \score { \new Dynamics \spacing \new Staff \music } Cheers, Carl On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Urs

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-16 Thread Urs Liska
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 05:42 -0700, ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br wrote: I think i have all i need now, it will just take some time to digest. About the \include, can i just add my chromatic.ly language files and other templates to this directory, instead of having a copy with every musical file

Re: cannot shift position of voice in polyphony

2013-05-18 Thread Urs Liska
To clarify: Your original command does _not_ shift a note but (as the name tells) a note column. When you don't specify different voices both notes are in the same column and are shifted _together_. HTH Urs Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com schrieb: 2013/5/18 Tom

Re: breaking at non-bar moments

2013-05-19 Thread Urs Liska
Add a dummy voice with repeated 's16 \bar '? Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca schrieb: Hello all, Further to this dead-end: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00147.html Other than manually inserting \bar every sixteenth note, how could one set up a

Re: breaking at non-bar moments

2013-05-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.05.2013 01:38, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, Add a dummy voice with repeated 's16 \bar '? So, like I said… manually inserting \bar every sixteenth note. ;) Well, I considered that semi-manual, so I thought to write it (taking into account that you'd probably know that anyway) ...

Re: merging files

2013-05-20 Thread Urs Liska
Of course we don't know in detail how yyour files are organized. But copy paste is surely not a good solution. You should create a new file that \include-s the existing movement files. HTH Urs Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com schrieb: Hello: A piano sonata has three movements

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 24.05.2013 23:17, schrieb Sarah k Alawami: Ok. yeah I'm trying to create a lot less work for my self especially now because if I get this job out of town I will be gone for 3 months and I want to do this as a gift. The variables and the systems idea will I think make it easier. why o why

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