Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
is the best place to report bugs with the new code? I'm assuming that -bug is for mainstream code and problems with experimental versions should be discussed here. -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Possible bug with system-count

2009-07-21 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Joe Neeman joenee...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:08 +1000, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi Joe, You may already be aware of this issue, but I'll report it anyway. I'm currently typesetting a piece that should comfortably fit two systems to a page. For consistency's sake I've

Possible bug with system-count

2009-07-20 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
{ \notes } \new Staff{ \notes } } \layout{ system-count = 2 } } --8- Hope this helps, -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing

Re: MIME of PNGs in bugtracker

2009-07-05 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
the image with 'display'. Or have I misunderstood what you're after? I'm running Iceweasel (Firefox) on Debian Sid, if that helps. -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http

Re: MIME of PNGs in bugtracker

2009-07-05 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2009/7/5 Cameron Horsburgh cammobla...@gmail.com: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: The example PNG images on bug comments have to be downloaded before you can view them, at least on my Ubuntu system. I wonder whether the server could

Re: texi2html web page, second attempt

2009-06-14 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
And for completeness, I'm the guy who uses info! -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: DOC PATCH: additions/corrections to LM and CG

2009-06-03 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
with testing on the project, which I wasn't able to do at the time. However, this weekend I'm going to sit down and convert one of my larger pieces to the Make framework. I'm something of a make newbie, so I'll be trying it out with fairly fresh eyes, and I'll respond with comments. -- Cameron

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:43:24PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: (Obviously, if you give a Bb cornet player a double-Eb Bass, he'll have a lot of difficulty actually playing it... Speak for yourself... ;-) -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
reading documentation in info more than a browser. That I couldn't get images to work was a (very minor) sore point. Thanks for this. -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
to the lilypond node in emacs info and found perfectly good images in perfectly useable docs. Maybe cleverness is overrated. My point is that the recipe worked for me as advertised with no problems whatsoever. -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com

Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-11-04 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:16:10PM -0800, Joe Neeman wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:53 +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: In short, I'm stumped! Any ideas? So I had a look at the file you sent off-list and it turns out that the unevenness is being caused by poor extent-estimates

Re: Support for diatonic accordeon tablature

2007-03-02 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
7) devoted to instrument specific issues. Go to http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding and follow the instructions. Have fun! -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: automatic generation of input/lsr/

2007-02-09 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
LSR snippets, rest assured that they'll be added soon. Cheers, - Graham Is there anything here I should be doing? I'm planning to devote a fair bit of time this weekend getting up to speed on LSR stuff. -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: Reorganizing the contents of the \paper block

2007-02-07 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
be a special case of one of its other uses. If a \score block contains a \midi block the \layout block is needed if PDF output is also desired. -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Is it just me or...

2007-01-16 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
??!!?? -- = Cameron Horsburgh = ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Doc addition

2007-01-02 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
. In this case, break the dotted notes into smaller units. For example, a tempo of 90 dotted quarter notes per minute can be specified as 270 eighth notes per minute tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 270 8) -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: New pages for bugs and doc suggestions

2006-12-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
? -- = Cameron Horsburgh = ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: specifying noteheads within chord using override NoteHead #'style?

2006-12-09 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
. ___ -- = Cameron Horsburgh = ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: skyline vertical spacing

2006-11-26 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
this play with big and small values of between-system-padding and the various staff spacing variables? If it would be useful I'll play around with a few values of the spacing parameters to see how they go, once this is released. -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: draft release announcement

2006-11-01 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
inspiration for LilyPond came ten years ago when two musician friends grew disappointed with the bland and boring look of computer generated scores. *** Also, the comma after 'improvements' should be replaced by a semi-colon. -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: draft release announcement

2006-11-01 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:44:13PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Cameron Horsburgh escreveu: Hmm, I'm still not happy with the first sentence! How about: *** The initial inspiration for LilyPond came ten years ago when two musician friends grew disappointed with the bland and boring look

Re: draft release announcement

2006-10-31 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
be `to read' Of course, these are just my opinions! When does the announcement look likely? -- = Cameron Horsburgh = ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel

Re: Use the Feta font

2006-10-18 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
abd the fonts seem to have the standard font exemption for derivative works. HTH -- = Cameron Horsburgh = ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Link to bug tracker

2006-10-04 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I was wondering if there's a link to the bug tracker at lilypond.org. If there is, I don't seem to be able to find it! Cheers, -- = Cameron Horsburgh

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-06-10 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:16:40PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Cameron Horsburgh schreef: %%% version 2.9.4 gives me an error: 2.9.5 Hmm. I'm still trying to get the right to left text direction working for the docs. Using 2.9.7 I still get an error

Re: Doc updates from NEWS

2006-06-09 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
, even with help from Han-Wen. I'll revisit these again in the next day or two (long weekend in .au -- woohoo!) so look out for some updates. -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza http://web.netcall.com.au

Re: Doc updates from NEWS

2006-06-09 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:01:49PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Cameron Horsburgh wrote: That will just leave a few things from 2.6. I gave up trying to figure out the Grid Lines. The grid lines can't be that complicated. Hmm. Maybe I'm just too simple? ;-) I can have another look

Re: Doc updates from NEWS

2006-06-09 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:58:43PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Do you mean that it should be possible to browse from an arbitrary property and find links back to all objects that implement the interface that includes that property? This is just one example

Re: Staff.instr

2006-06-07 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
. BTW, this would probably be better to send to lilypond-user. -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh

How to set text-direction

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hebrew. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to do it. Any clues? -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh

Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
values] ** -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:10:23PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Cameron Horsburgh schreef: Hi folks, I'm trying to write the documentation for the newish feature whereby the direction of text scripts can be changed. From the 2.8 NEWS: The order of words in \markup commands may now

Re: Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:22:48PM +1000, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Okay, here's an updated version of my suggested entry. ** The horizontal location of rehearsal marks can be adjusted by setting break-align-symbol: \relative { c1 \key cis \major \clef alto

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
-- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:16:40PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Cameron Horsburgh schreef: %%% version 2.9.4 gives me an error: 2.9.5 Still no difference. -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev/random says: Dinner

Cautionary accidentals in Ambitus

2006-05-20 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
. Here's a simple version of my code: \version 2.9.4 \score{ \relative c { \clef bass \key des \major des aes des aes | } \layout{ \context { \Voice \consists Ambitus_engraver } } } -- = Cameron Horsburgh /dev

Best way to format nested lists

2006-04-16 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm trying to document the recently added feature whereby System Staff Delimiters may be nested to an arbitrary depth. I've figured out how the feature works, but I'm trying to work out the best way to format the code. For example the example given puts the relevant line in one long

Re: Doc updates from NEWS files

2006-04-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Howdy folks, I've been going through the NEWS files to see if there's anything that still needs documenting. I've come up with a couple of draft lists and discussed them with Graham Percival, and I now have a list of things we agree need to go in. We've already

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Cameron Horsburgh writes: The 2.9 manual seems to have disappeared off the web--the link just points back to the doc index. If somebody's borrowed it, could you please put it back? It works for me. What link is broken? Jan. The link shows up as 'User manual

\encoding

2006-04-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, The 2.4 series news file tells me that The encoding of a file can be switched with \encoding. The strings for markup texts are translated automatically. Is this still relevant? Cam ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: \encoding

2006-04-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Daniel Johnson wrote: Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi folks, The 2.4 series news file tells me that The encoding of a file can be switched with \encoding. The strings for markup texts are translated automatically. Is this still relevant? Cam With the introduction of UTF-8 support

Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm in the process of writing up some of the previously undocumented features in the NEWS files. I'm having a bit of trouble with this comment: ** The default paper size may now be set from the command line using -dpaper-size. ** I'm having trouble passing paper sizes

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Joe Neeman wrote: ERROR: Unbound variable: a5 -dpaper-size=\letter\ works for me. But it seems as though -dpaper-size=letter would be the better way. Is there a reason it doesn't work this way? Good question. Using the quotes isn't that obvious, and escaping them even less so. I'll

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi folks, I'm in the process of writing up some of the previously undocumented features in the NEWS files. I'm having a bit of trouble with this comment: ** The default paper size may now be set from the command line using -dpaper-size. ** Hmm

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: On 11-Apr-06, at 2:22 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: The 2.9 manual seems to have disappeared off the web--the link just points back to the doc index. If somebody's borrowed it, could you please put it back? This link still works http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: On 11-Apr-06, at 2:51 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This link still works http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/ That link works, but the link to the User Manual doesn't. Has Han-Wen taken it with him? Eh? The link from that page

Doc updates from NEWS files

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Howdy folks, I've been going through the NEWS files to see if there's anything that still needs documenting. I've come up with a couple of draft lists and discussed them with Graham Percival, and I now have a list of things we agree need to go in. We've already documented some but we don't have

Re: doc branching

2006-04-08 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: 4. For the first half of the development cycle, don't include new features in the manual. New things get listed in NEWS, but only there. I favor this solution. At first glance, it might suggest that new features won't get documented well, but it should have the

Re: doc branching

2006-04-08 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: On 8-Apr-06, at 4:01 AM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Graham Percival wrote: manual, I'll be doing them all at once, so I won't miss anything. I think we still have features introduced in 2.2 that haven't made it into the manual (I'll be calling for a volunteer to do

Another thing for the manual

2006-03-25 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, Thought this might be a useful addition. ** Section 8.1.8 New dynamic marks/end of the first paragraph Note that the dynamic font only contains the characters f,m,p,r,s and z. ** Cameron

Addition to manual

2006-03-24 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
The following may be appropriate for inclusion under 'Commonly Tweaked Properties' in Section 6.5.3 'Dynamics': Text style dynamic changes (such as cresc. and dim.) are printed with a dashed line showing their extent. If you don't want to print this line you can use

FAQ for LilyPond

2006-03-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
For the last few weeks I've been toying with the idea of beginning an FAQ for LilyPond. I haven't really done much yet, besides flag a few questions on the LilyPond lists that might be good candidates. Before I start doing anything serious: 1) is there a reason why this hasn't been done

Re: FAQ for LilyPond

2006-03-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: On 19-Mar-06, at 4:57 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: For the last few weeks I've been toying with the idea of beginning an FAQ for LilyPond. I haven't really done much yet, besides flag a few questions on the LilyPond lists that might be good candidates. Before I start

Re: Chapter 10, output formats = global issues

2006-02-23 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: I've just made my long-awaited let's make chapter 10 not suck update. Sorry to do this so late in the release cycle, but my university has a week-long holiday right now. (and all my assignments and midterms were due last week, so it really _is_ a holiday :) This is

Convert-ly problem in 2.7.32

2006-02-07 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, Just downloaded and installed (as root) the GNU/Linux installer for 2.7.32, Debian Sid. I'm running convert-ly over a 2.7.29 ly file (hoping to fix up some of the new syntax changes). I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Work_Folder/music/projects/Things_other_people_have_done/IdaAndDot$

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-01-31 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Graham Percival: On 29-Jan-06, at 10:26 PM, Don Blaheta wrote: In 4.4 and 4.5, would it be better to say A \score must contain exactly one music expression (possibly complex)? Saying it must begin with a music expression

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-01-29 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham Percival wrote: Hi guys, I've written some more docs about file structure and writing lilypond files. I've glossed over some issues in the interest of simplicity. Before I advertise this on -user, could a few people take a look at the

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-01-29 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Hi guys, I've written some more docs about file structure and writing lilypond files. I've glossed over some issues in the interest of simplicity. Before I advertise this on -user, could a few people take a look at the docs? As I said, I've

Binary links in GNU/Linux GUB

2006-01-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I've installed (as root) the GNU/Linux GUB, version 2.7.28. The Lilypond binary is in my PATH, but there seems to be an issue with the other executables: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ convert-ly sample.ly - -bash: convert-ly: command not found

Is there a problem with the new Rehearsal Mark code?

2005-11-26 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I just saw the new Score.rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol feature in the 'News' section of the online docs. I clicked on the image to see the code. The code at the beginning says something like: ... c1 \mark foo \key cis \major... I noticed, however, that image doesn't have a 'foo'

Re: make install fails with Lily 2.7.x

2005-11-19 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply. Cameron Horsburgh writes: install-info --remove --info-dir=/usr/local/info ./out/lilypond.info install-info(./out/lilypond.info): failed to lock dir for editing! File exists try deleting /usr/local/info/dir.lock ? Did you try? Yes, I

Re: make install fails with Lily 2.7.x

2005-11-18 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Thanks for your reply! Cameron Horsburgh writes: install-info --remove --info-dir=/usr/local/info ./out/lilypond.info install-info(./out/lilypond.info): failed to lock dir for editing! File exists try deleting /usr/local/info/dir.lock ? Did you try? Yes, I did

Re: Extra documentation for More Stanzas

2005-11-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: On 6-Nov-05, at 8:37 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: I spent a good hour last night trying to figure out how to add extra verses to the end of a piece I'm writing. It wasn't in the obvious place in the docs, and I was only able to find something similar to what I

Extra documentation for More Stanzas

2005-11-06 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
, which I don't seem to be able to do from within a string. Thoughts, anyone? Anyway, here's an entry and example that might be appropriate for the manual in section 7.3.8. If it's not so appropriate, I'll fire it off to the LSR. Cameron Horsburgh