documentation for 2.16 searches 2.17 site

2013-02-12 Thread Laura Conrad
When I hit the Documentation tab on the web site, I see a page labeled Manuals for LilyPond 2.16.2. However, when I do a search, for instance for italic lyrics, I get a search of the 2.17 documentation. That is, the text in the google search box says site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.17 italic lyrics.

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-13 Thread Laura Conrad
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David Fragments may use the David `papersize=STRING' David Where STRING is a paper size defined in `scm/paper.scm' i.e. David `a5', `quarto', `11x17' etc. David Values not defined in `scm/paper.scm' will be ignored,

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line Laura length of the music to be much less than the actual width of Laura the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it Laura puts the footers.) I

lilypond-book via dvi and ps no longer seems to work

2012-08-04 Thread Laura Conrad
The manual http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/usage/invoking-lilypond_002dbook says: To produce PDF output via LaTeX/dvips/ps2pdf, you should do lilypond-book yourfile.lytex latex yourfile.tex dvips -Ppdf yourfile.dvi ps2pdf yourfile.ps This no longer seems to work. When I do this on

landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-03 Thread Laura Conrad
When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line length of the music to be much less than the actual width of the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it puts the footers.) If you run: lilypond-book --pdf test.lytex pdflatex test.tex you can see this. If you

Ligatures and ambits don't mix

2011-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached test file bombs with a segmentation fault in lilypond 2.14.1. If you comment out either the ambitus_engraver or the stuff about the ligature engravers, it compiles as expected. test.ly Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer)

Re: Ligatures and ambits don't mix

2011-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
Dmytro == Dmytro O Redchuk brownian@gmail.com writes: Dmytro On Mon 27 Jun 2011, 10:58 Laura Conrad wrote: The attached test file bombs with a segmentation fault in lilypond 2.14.1. If you comment out either the ambitus_engraver or the stuff about

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 8 March 2011 18:05, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Does anyone know a way to tell lily that an empty barline shouldn't have space, but there should still be some space around the barlines that are being printed

Re: How to tell lilypond some barlines have width

2011-03-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 9 March 2011 16:02, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Unfortunately, it creates a new one.  In some cases, such as the attached small example, when I use this BarType I get a lot of errors: programming error

Re: lilypond-book crashes on missing .ly file

2011-03-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Colin == Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca writes: I believe this was also true in 2.12, so it isn't a regression. Colin Many of lilypond's scripts and modules will produce a python Colin traceback on an ABEND, Laura. Do you mean that you would Colin expect lilypond-book to

lilypond-book crashes on missing .ly file

2011-03-04 Thread Laura Conrad
Run the attached lilypond-book bookcrash.lytex in a directory that does not include a file named missing.ly. bookcrash.lytex Description: Binary data With lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.13.51, on ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I get the correct error message: lilypond-book: error: file not found:

Re: full-measure rests don't seem to reserve adequate space

2010-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Neil == Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com writes: Neil On 11 August 2010 22:01, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: The attached file should have 4 full-measure rests, but in fact looks to the casual user like there are only three. A workaround is to make sure

full-measure rests don't seem to reserve adequate space

2010-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached file should have 4 full-measure rests, but in fact looks to the casual user like there are only three. A workaround is to make sure that the full-measure rests aren't at the beginning of the line. I have reproduced this problem in both 2.12.3 and 2.13.29. test.ly Description:

Re: abc2ly produces bad output

2010-03-21 Thread Laura Conrad
Reinhold == Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: When these problems are fixed, the beaming is wrong (it needs a \partial 8 at the start). Reinhold Yes, \partial is not yet supported by abc2ly... I work around that by adding %%LY voices \partial 8 before the ABC

Re: transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-11-01 Thread Laura Conrad
James == James E Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com writes: James The easiest solution I can think of is to put them in the same Voice James context. If you have : James voicedefault = \context Voice = tset {…} James and James bassusnotes = \context Voice = tset {…}

Re: transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-10-31 Thread Laura Conrad
Valentin == Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com writes: The attached lilypond file, which I would expect to produce baroque noteheads (i.e., square notes for the breves) produces whole notes with bars around them for breves. Valentin Hm. I can't understand exactly

transposing baroque noteheads modernizes them

2009-10-06 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached lilypond file, which I would expect to produce baroque noteheads (i.e., square notes for the breves) produces whole notes with bars around them for breves. If you uncomment the \override NoteHead#'style = #'baroque which is outside the \transpose section, you get the noteheads

Re: Point and Click on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-19 Thread Laura Conrad
Craig == Craig Bakalian cbakal...@copper.net writes: Craig Point and click is not running properly on Ubuntu's Craig Document Viewer. I hit that problem, and concluded that it was the Ubuntu lilypond package that was broken; when I installed Lilypond directly from the GUB, it went away.

file crashes musicxml2ly

2009-02-11 Thread Laura Conrad
http://www.cmme.org/data/music/BrusBRIV922/Isaac-MissaPaschalis-a4-01Kyrie.cmme.xml produces the following: Reading MusicXML from Isaac-MissaPaschalis-a4-01Kyrie.cmme.xml ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/newlily/lilypond/usr/bin/musicxml2ly, line 2944, in ? main() File

abc2ly crash

2008-10-17 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached abc file crashes abc2ly in 2.11.62. This is a regression from 2.10.33. test-2.10.62.abc Description: Binary data -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Thus, for instance, the Liberal party (to which

documentation bug: lilypond-book

2008-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
I think this has been discussed before; it has to do with unicode and web browsers texinfo and such, but it still isn't possible to guess right the first time what to run: From the documentation page for running lilypond-book,

lilypond-book fails to unindent after instrument name

2008-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached lilypond file has a Staff.instrumentName set. If you run lilypond on it, the first line is indented to allow the instrument name to be printed to the left of the staff, but subsequent lines are back to the left margin, and are longer than the first one. If I include this file in

Re: lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-09-01 Thread Laura Conrad
Tapio == Tapio Tuovila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run lilypond-book --pdf sonate.lytex, I get: Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file Note that this is the wrong version of lilypond -- 2.10.33 is

Re: lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-09-01 Thread Laura Conrad
James == James E Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, my path is set correctly. When I run lilypond, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/bigaglia/amin/bmin$ lilypond --version GNU LilyPond 2.11.57 James what do you get when you run echo $PATH or which lilypond-book?

lilypond-book in 2.11.57

2008-08-31 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm doing my first big project on 2.11, and I've gotten to the stage where I want to print several movements of a sonata as one pdf document. My 2.10 makefile doesnt' work, because lilypond-book no longer has a --psfonts option. So I looked at the documentation

Re: Issue 518 in lilypond: \oldaddlyrics broken

2007-12-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Hanwenn == codesite-noreply [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hanwenn Issue 518: \oldaddlyrics broken Hanwenn Convert manually to use \lyricsto Is that better than \addlyrics? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway,

Re: oldaddlyrics

2007-12-03 Thread Laura Conrad
Rune == Rune Zedeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rune Citat Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So is the bug that \convert-ly produces broken code, or is the bug that the \oldaddlyrics command is broken? Rune The latter. Rune \oldaddlyrics is broken. (if it's the

moving the bar line engraver to the staff level breaks \partial

2007-05-12 Thread Laura Conrad
It looks like \partial is hard-coded to work at the score level, and fails to work right when the bar line engraver is moved to the staff level. The whole idea of the bar line engraver working on score level by default seems to me to make transcription unnecessarily difficult, and problems like

Staff lines not drawn when line breaking algorithm fails

2007-03-14 Thread Laura Conrad
If the line-breaking algorithm fails to find a good place to break a line, so that notes fall off the right edge of the page, the staff lines are not drawn, making it difficult to read the notes that *are* printed. This makes debugging note entry for rhythmically complex polyphony more difficult

Re: Convert-ly doesn't convert some ancient-font stuff

2007-02-14 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Laura Conrad wrote: This is two bugs, but the file is pretty simple. If you really want two different files, I'll split it. Graham Are those exhaustive lists of things that convert-ly should do? It's an exhaustive

Convert-ly doesn't convert some ancient-font stuff

2007-02-12 Thread Laura Conrad
This is two bugs, but the file is pretty simple. If you really want two different files, I'll split it. Bug 1: Somewhere between 2.0 and 2.8, the clef names got hyphenated instead of having underscores. Convert-ly doesn't know about this, so a statement: \clef petrucci_c1 should be

unknown clef error message out of date.

2007-02-10 Thread Laura Conrad
When I attempt to use a clef that isn't supported, I get: warning: unknown clef type `mensural-f3' warning: see scm/clef.scm for supported clefs But the current name of the file that defines the clefs seems to be scm/parser-clef.scm. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,

Re: unknown clef error message out of date.

2007-02-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Laura Conrad wrote: When I attempt to use a clef that isn't supported, I get: warning: unknown clef type `mensural-f3' warning: see scm/clef.scm for supported clefs But the current name of the file

Re: abc2ly

2007-01-08 Thread Laura Conrad
Han-Wen == Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Han-Wen Laura is the only one using abc2ly on a regular basis. The ABC standard Han-Wen is so convoluted that it's hard to work out what's valid and invalid ABC. Correction: Laura is the only regular contributor to this list who

Re: Convert-ly crashes

2006-12-20 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham I puzzled over what priority to give this -- I mean, who's going to be Graham converting things that old Most of us who were using lilypond that long ago. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617)

elision produces bad postscript in lilypond-book

2006-12-12 Thread Laura Conrad
I reported this previously as a problem with explicit utf8 characters, but it's also true in both 2.10.1 and 2.11.1 when the ~ sign is used in lyric mode to indicate an elision. The attached lytex file produces postscript that can't be read by gv or converted to pdf by ps2pdf, when I attempt to

Re: FiguredBass Extender Lines wrong position - 2.9.26

2006-10-24 Thread Laura Conrad
Paul == Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul When using continuation lines, common figures are always put in the Paul same vertical position. I know this is what the documentation says, but if you actually use the program, it has nothing to do with whether you're using

abc2ly not updated for current midi tempo specification

2006-10-16 Thread Laura Conrad
I have submitted a patch which does this, which is still in the changelog, but the actual patch disappeared somehow. I can submit it again if it would help. The line is question should be: midi_specs=string.join([\n\t\t\context {\n\t\t \Score tempoWholesPerMinute =

Re: programming error: Improbable offset for stencil:

2006-05-18 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC The attached lilypond file gives a bunch of errors of the form: LC programming error: Improbable offset for stencil: -1073741857.60 staff space LC Setting to zero. LC continuing, cross fingers LC and then comes up

2.8 lilypond-book not handling geometry package very well

2006-05-16 Thread Laura Conrad
Specifically, for all values of the width parameter I've tried, it seems to be sending the attached file off the right edge of the page. It was subtle at width=7; it's really obvious at width=3. test.lytex Description: Binary data cantus.ly Description: Binary data Makefile Description:

Re: help! line won't break!

2006-05-14 Thread Laura Conrad
JC == Jim Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC I'm nearly at the end of my piece, and also my wits. JC I am getting the message JC warning: can't find line breaking that satisfies constraints JC and indeed, it refuses to break, running the rest of the piece JC off of the

Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii

2006-05-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Geoff == Geoff Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nobody in the USA uses Old Roman or even learns it in grade school. Geoff Nobody is a little strong. I knew about it :) I didn't know there was an extreme version where there was no subtraction at all, but the Elizabethan music

Re: lilypond-book output hangs ps2pdf

2006-04-14 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC ps2pdf seems to be hanging on the postscript output from LC lilypond-book. The directory in which this is happening is LC http://serpent.laymusic.org/~newlily/music/gibbons/may. I investigated this further, and it turns out

Re: 2.8.1 pdf file size

2006-04-05 Thread Laura Conrad
GP == Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Put this at the top of your input file: #(ly:set-option (quote no-point-and-click)) Should this be given more prominent play in the manual? I think we've had several questions on it of late, and you kind of have to know

lilypond-book output hangs ps2pdf

2006-03-29 Thread Laura Conrad
ps2pdf seems to be hanging on the postscript output from lilypond-book. The directory in which this is happening is http://serpent.laymusic.org/~newlily/music/gibbons/may. The offending postscript file is allparts.ps, which is produced by saying make allparts.ps from allparts.lytex and a bunch

programming error: Improbable offset for stencil:

2006-03-28 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached lilypond file gives a bunch of errors of the form: programming error: Improbable offset for stencil: -1073741857.60 staff space Setting to zero. continuing, cross fingers and then comes up with a pdf file where the first system is illegible.

PDF files are almost 2 orders of magnitude bigger on 2.7 than on 2.6

2006-02-24 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached small lilypond file (but as far as I know, all lilypond files) compiles on both 2.6 and 2.7 (this morning's CVS). However, the pdf files are very different sizes: -rw-r--r-- 1 newlily newlily 13035 Feb 24 14:40 test-2.6.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 newlily newlily 665766 Feb 24 14:38

Re: PDF files are almost 2 orders of magnitude bigger on 2.7 than on 2.6

2006-02-24 Thread Laura Conrad
LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC In addition, the friend who drew my attention to this problem found LC that neither the 2.6 nor the 2.7 pdf files would display correctly LC with Acrobat 3.0 on Mac OS 9. Is this a known problem? It turns out that if you create

[Laura Conrad] abc2ly -b writes bad lilypond for '' construct

2006-02-19 Thread Laura Conrad
I just checked this problem in lilypond 2.7.35, and it is still trying to beam the dotted quarter note and the eighth note together. However, the output is more acceptable, as the eighth note has what looks like half a beam attached to it, instead of looking like a quarter note, as it does in

abc2ly chord parsing problem

2006-01-23 Thread Laura Conrad
The following ABC notes: [ B2 E2 ] translate correctly into the lilypond: b'2e'2 However, if you leave out the spaces between the brackets and the notes: [B2 E2] you get the following incorrect lilypond: b'2[e'2 ] -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,

Re: abc2ly chord parsing problem

2006-01-23 Thread Laura Conrad
Sorry, this is in lilypond 2.6.6. LC == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LC The following (correct) ABC notes: LC [ B2 E2 ] LC translate correctly into the lilypond: LC b'2e'2 LC However, if you leave out the spaces between the brackets