Re: 30 day webathon for kickstarter support (issue 6068045)

2012-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
I heart this response. =) K. On 2012-Apr-26, at 03:54, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:07 AM The Birmingham Amateur Theatre is presenting Penzance Pirates, starring our documentation editor Trevor Daniels as the talking lion![1] [1] this is

Re: GSoC

2012-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek, i'd vote for having Extenders added by default, without the need to write them explicitly in ly code. Yes, but with an \autoExtendersOff option! :) Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: LoMus 2012

2012-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mike, Congratulations! (To everyone!!) Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Developing for LilyPond

2012-05-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Speaking of ugly slurs and slur controls… ;) Is there any easy way to get back the Slur #'attachment property we used to have? Cheers, Kieren. On 2012-May-23, at 16:51, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: I find that

Re: assistants for GOP and GLISS

2012-05-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, This is something I can [finally] commit to doing!! =) I'm swamped for the next two weeks, but if you can use me after June 15, count me in. Best, Kieren. It would be useful if there were a few people interested in helping prepare discussions for GOP and GLISS. This would

Re: lilypond wikipedia

2009-04-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham (et al.), Programmers are made, not born. True. We're not genetically superior to non-programmers. Speak for yourself! ;-) When you stop learning, you're dead. More to the point: when you're dead, you stop learning. Just my (muck-raking) 2¢. Kieren.

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext question...

2009-04-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Arno, is there a way to tell lilypond in a bigger score to keep - while generally using \removeemptystaffcontext - certain staffs unhidden, no matter whether they actualy contain music or not? The LSR contains a snippet which makes a MultiMeasureRest an interesting object:

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, first I want to suggest this: move the section '3.2 Titles and headers' found in the NOTATION Reference to the LM. Why? Because the NR should be about Notation, and headers/footers/titles are not notation. Interesting... I'm curious to see what others' opinions are. Although it

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Any suggestions for the name? Perhaps Headings, headers, and footers Or even Titles, Headings, and Headers/Footers ? Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Titles, Headings, and Headers/Footers I don't see an immediate difference between titles and headings. The latter includes the former AFAIK. Since Heading and Header are extremely similar, explicitly including the word title decreases the likelihood of miscommunication and

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Then I suggest Titles, Headings, Headers, Footers or something similar to avoid the nasty `/'. Headings (Titles) and Margin Text (Headers and Footers) ?? Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Headings (Titles) and Margin Text (Headers and Footers) If I read `margin' I only think of left and right margins. So Lilypond's top-margin and bottom-margin properties make no sense? ;) It's clear in the typographic world (including HTML/CSS, etc.) that the margin extends around the

Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

2009-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
I'm beginning to suspect that we should just explain this better in the tutorial Didn't you just recently say that this should NOT be in LM? ... after all, the command is \header. That is, one must admit, a confusing command... none of the items are actually put in a header (as most

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, The \tempoMark example should be completely rewritten to use \tempo (i.e., MetronomeMark) instead of overriding RehearsalMark -- e.g., the first entry should read mpdolce = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0) #:line(#:dynamic mp #:text #:italic dolce

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jon (et al), Now there's also a tempoMark function defined in NR 6.1.2, Interfaces for programmers. My instinct is to leave this one alone--it is not obsolete, since the predefined \tempo command does not take a $padding argument like this bit of scheme does, right? IMO, we [in the

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Jon, Yes! I'll change this one accordingly. Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Top posting is often superior to bottom-posting. [Sorry... the web email interface I'm forced to use while my MacBook is in for repairs clearly messed up the last post, so I'm forced to used gmane. =\] Hello, all! I'm trying to come up with a Scheme function to generate string harmonics

RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, Thanks for the help. Tricky without another voice, since there's only one stem for all the noteheads. You can change the length of a stem by overriding 'length, but you'd need to be careful about stem direction because negative values will be required, and you won't be able to

RE: creating a stringHarmonic function

2009-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hey Graham, No help on the technical issues, but as a string player, I generally see harmonics as only two notes (the bottom two). The first time I saw three notes was in a Stravinski orchestral part, and it took me a moment to figure out what it was. Could you also invent a two-note

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-05-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Earlier (on -user), I wrote: Last month, there was a quick exchange about hiding accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/ msg00949.html I am running into the same issue right now, and I see why others have been

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-05-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
The saga continues... =) I've hacked the Tie callback to try to adjust the Accidental property. Coloring the Accidental works fine: % \version 2.12.2 #(define (tie-callback tiegrob) (let* ( ; have we been split? (orig (ly:grob-original tiegrob)) ; if yes, get the

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-05-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joe, Not really =\ the code that places a tied accidental after a line break isn't accessible from scheme (it lives in lily/accidental.cc, in the print function). Ah... here's a patch (to be applied with git am) that implements a new property, 'hide-tied-accidental-after-break, in

adjusting a system's NonMusicalPaperColumn Y-offset by a relative distance

2009-06-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I often resort to explicitly moving systems, using the function staffAdjust = #(define-music-function (parser location adj) (pair?) #{ \overrideProperty #Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn

Re: adjusting a system's NonMusicalPaperColumn Y-offset by a relative distance

2009-06-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, I'd like to help but I can't get your function to work. I get: warning: type check for `line-break-system-details' failed; value `(10 . 10)' must be of type `list' Can you include a working example? \version 2.13 staffAdjust = #(define-music-function (parser location adj)

Re: adjusting a system's NonMusicalPaperColumn Y-offset by a relative distance

2009-06-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, This is an excellent question, but I'm afraid I've reached the point where I'm going in circles. I think you'll have to ask someone else! But I'm very interested in seeing the solution. Thanks for the attempt! For now I may just riff on adjusting absolute values of some other NMPC

Re: texi2html web page, second attempt

2009-06-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, 3) Ok, so why do I want to use texinfo so much? - makes pdfs+info. I personally *never* use those formats, but I know that some people still use them. IMO, if we're going to support those formats for the manuals, we should support them for the information that's on the website.

Re: accessing absolute pitch data from within \relative?

2009-06-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, I want to retrieve absolute pitch data from within a \relative block but I can't figure it out. Here's my work so far. Probably there's a much easier way. If so, let me know! How's this? \version 2.12.2 #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) relativeMusic = \relative { c' d e f g

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-06-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joe, What I would *really* love are high-level commands to set intra-piece (section) system-count and page-count options. For example, I'd like to say that in an ABA form piece, the B section must be on two pages (whereas the leading A and trailing A' sections can be auto-flowed by

fixing MetronomeMark

2009-06-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi devs! The two MetronomeMark behaviours I would like to fix (or $pon$or for fixing) are: 1. The break-alignment situation (q.v., http://code.google.com/p/ lilypond/issues/detail?id=684can=1q=metronomemark). Any recent movement/news on this issue? Can this be fixed in Scheme or only C++?

anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Like many Lilyponders, I break down my code into variables, e.g. global (for time signature changes, etc.), notes, dynamics, etc. The main irritation with this (IMO) is that each variable requires a complete set of skips in order to keep the timing accurate. Would it be

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, Have you tried using the \tag command? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different- editions-from-one-source#Using-tags Certainly I've used \tag for filtering content, but I don't understand how \tag could help with the problem I'm describing... could you

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-07-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Jay's \addTo twist gave me a (naive) thought... If \addTo simply constructed (e.g., appended to) an ordered list of moment-event (moment-grob?) pairs, couldn't the parser simply grab the one(s) it needed at any given moment? Yaay! For one, it would simply change my life :-)

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner (et al,), Please use two spaces after a full stop in documentation strings for consistence. Since this is incorrect typographical practice, and Lilypond prides itself on beautiful typography, I'm surprised this is the standard in the docs — why/how was this decision made?

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, It really depends. IIRC, the Chicaco manual of style recommended this. The view at CMOS is that there is no reason for two spaces after a period in published work. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/OneSpaceorTwo/ OneSpaceorTwo03.html Also see page 28 of Robert

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, To cite the texinfo info pages: Thanks for the reference — for subsequent thread-followers, I also recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spaced_sentences Indeed, I just see that @frenchspacing is only used for French and Japanese (the latter only partially). It should

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl (et al.), Two spaces after a full stop allows the emacs sentence detection code to work properly. @frenchspacing eliminates the extra space after the full stop at the end of the sentence. Then it's settled — excellent! Thanks, Kieren.

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, I could ask him for references tomorrow if you want. Like most religious beliefs, your father's bible (whatever reference it may be) will never convince me that my bible (Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style) is anything except mao's own truth. =) PPS like

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, Oh, in case anybody was wondering: my father is pure native British, educated at Oxford, and considers the 1978 Fowler's Modern English second revised edition (printed in Oxford) to be the definitive guide to English writing. There's no American influence here! So what does Fowler's

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, @nonfrenchspacing does _not_, I repeat _not_, cause a larger space to appear by _default_ at sentence endings. However, when TeX does line justification, it will (if necessary) stretch the space after sentence endings more than the interword space when @nonfrenchspacing is being

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Well, the TeX book says: Excellent reference — thanks! so there _is_ extra natural space for a space factor of 2000 and larger. Perhaps the best compromise, then, would be to set the space factor at 1999 — that way, the single-spacers (a.k.a. star-bellied Sneeches) would be

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello Joe (et al.), Are there development builds for download anywhere? +1 [OS X 10.4 Intel] (It's not that I'm afraid of building Lilypond, it's just that spending three days installing the prerequisites is currently low on my list of priorities.) I've spent about two days trying, and

Re: between-system-space, foot-separation?????????

2009-07-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, If I try to tune the layout to put music exactly on one sheet Have you tried \paper { page-count = 1 } ? I usually find this [plus the appropriate ragged-bottom and ragged- last-bottom settings] works for me. Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: anchors in the music stream?

2009-08-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, Reminds me of the GOTO command in BASIC! ;-) An *extremely* underrated and powerful command. ;-p One alternative way to achieve the same thing is to simply do a global = { \time 4/4 s4*4*10 \time 3/4 s4*3*5 \time 7/4 s4*7 { \time 4/4 \bar |. } \anchoredStuff } Nope: that

conditionally eliminating lyric extender

2009-08-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I want to [automagically] conditionally eliminate lyric extenders when (1) the end of the syllable which has the extender is after [i.e., to the right of] the melisma's last note; and, (2) the distance to the following syllable is less than the minimum extender length

Re: conditionally eliminating lyric extender

2009-08-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, I'm not sure I understand the need for this. I would not normally use a lyric extender unless the syllable had an extended duration over several notes or was sung to a long note. This occurs far less frequently than a 2-note melisma. Do you attach lyric extenders unconditionally to

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jay (et al.): Attached is a patch which adds SmallStaff to engraver-init.ly. Everywhere that \accepts Staff was used I just added \accepts SmallStaff. Let me know if this looks good. Just a small point: has anyone confirmed that -3 is a standard magstep? 1. When looking at hand-engraved

Re: \context for named Staff

2009-08-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, From my point of view the main use for smallStaff (or whatever it gets called) is for ossia staves. Except IIRC ossia staves and solo/cue staves are usually of different sizes, yes? Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Widening one measure so that dynamics don't overlap

2009-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Reinhold, Grr, it doesn't work so well, though: This will not work in the first measure of a line or immediately after a time signature change! Something like this would work anywhere, yes? \version 2.13.3 \paper { line-width = 9\cm } makeSpace = { \once \override Score.BarLine

Re: LilyPond talks earlier this year at IRCAM and Musikhochschule Stuttgart

2009-08-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, I wanted to take a minute to provide feedback on two LilyPond-oriented presentations I was able to make earlier this year. Congratulations, and thanks from the community! Off-line, I'd be very interested in seeing a (tran)script of your presentation(s): I'm scheduled to give some

RE: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, \\ is quite more convenient than explicit voices and thus an important idiom that makes Lilypond friendlier to the user. Yes, but as previously discussed, the confusion it (ultimately) causes is a poor trade-off. The whole problem would be solved if \\ Did The Right Thing, i.e. {

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, This change would help, but I don't think it would solve the whole problem. You'd still have an implied name for the second context, so it doesn't work in more than one staff Probably true... I'll have to examine the ramifications. or when there are lyrics to assign. What do

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karl, or when there are lyrics to assign. What do you mean here? Do you mean lyrics to assign to the *second voice* (since the first voice assignment would be automagic)? Try: \version 2.13.0 \score { \new Staff { \time 4/4 \relative g' { g4 g \\ d g2 } } \addlyrics{ a b

\smallCaps is a copy of \caps [?!]

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, 1. Can anyone explain the logic behind the decision to make \smallCaps and \caps do the same thing? 2. Is there another [apparently undocumented] \uppercase command? Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor, I now think teaching the \new Voice method at the start gives a better and sounder grounding. I've always thought so... Does this mean you don't need me to immediately rework how \\ voicifies? Would that still be a good thing regardless of how the docs are written? Cheers,

shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Let's say I want to create a new subclass of the Staff context called MyStaff, and the only thing it does is override the InstrumentName settings. Do I really have to include all the \consists from engraver- init.ly? i.e., do I really have to use \context { \type

Re: \smallCaps is a copy of \caps [?!]

2009-09-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nicolas, \caps used to change the font shape to caps, which is available in eg ccm, but not in CenturySchoolBook. So when the later was the default font, \caps had no effect. A hackish \smallCaps was developped, which change lower case letters to smaller upper case letters. So at some

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dan, Neil, et al.: Does the following help? SoloVoice is a kind of Voice. UpperVoice and LowerVoice are kinds of SoloVoice. That's [relatively] self-evident. What isn't crystal clear — either in my mind, or (IMO) in the documentation — is why the following wouldn't work (or, perhaps

defining an \uppercase markup function

2009-09-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I'm trying to define an \uppercase markup function... so far, I've got [modelled on an existing snippet] #(define-markup-command (uppercase paper props str) (string?) Return the string characters in UPPERCASE. Syntax: \\uppercase # \string\ (interpret-markup paper

.ily extension

2009-09-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, 1. Has the 'Pond made a final decision on the standard file extension for non-compilable (i.e., include only) Lilypond files? 2. If so, when will the [Mac OS X] version actually open said files? (e.g., right now it won't recognize or open .ily files) Thanks, Kieren.

Re: .ily extension

2009-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Thanks for the info! Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dan, it looks like \Voice starts you off with a copy of the previously defined Voice settings. If \Voice is absent, you start from scratch. The context settings are saved by name. If you do not change the name, the modified settings replace the previous settings of the \Voice

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Reinhold, Wol, et al: I've been thinking about implementing something like that myself (basically controlling combined/split voices via context properties, overriding the bad choices the partcombiner makes). What say we make a serious effort at rewriting the partcombiner from the

Re: Grand PartCombine Rewrite Project

2009-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi John, This is a very exciting project! I think so, too! =) Have you considered using music streams introduced by Erik Sandberg -- see his master thesis on http://lilypond.org/web/about/pubs ? It was in the back of my mind... but I have to admit I don't (yet) know the tech well

Grand PartCombine Rewrite Project

2009-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I've decided this is going to be my pet project during this, my Autumn of Lilypond. I've started a separate thread here, and would like to get moving on the project as soon as possible. [n.b. I am not intending to cross- post to -user after this announcement email.] 1. Team

Re: Grand PartCombine Rewrite Project

2009-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Han-Wen, This subject has come up before, and solutions were proposed before. I recommend you vet through the mailing list older comments since the last rewrite. That's definitely part of my plan! Ouch. The traditional role is that the 'lead' (you, that is?) be the programmer.

vertical spacing problems with Lyrics

2009-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Is there a fix yet for the problem [2.13.4-1] that between-system- padding etc. doesn't work with Lyrics (because they're nonspaceable)? It's killing me with the lead sheets I'm trying to put out. =( Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel

Re: vertical spacing problems with Lyrics

2009-10-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joe, between-system-padding doesn't work for anything any more; it has been removed. OK. For Lyrics spacing, you have (for spacing within a system) Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-spacing %% spacing to the staff that the lyrics is attached to Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup

Re: Engraving essay questions and RFC

2009-10-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, Hi everyone, I'm working on the LilyPond essay That's great! Thanks. I'm definitely going to use whatever version you have by October 31st in my upcoming lecture series (3-5 November). - LilyPond’s stems are often shorter than any of the references, especially RH mm. 31.

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Although I greatly prefer the Feta font to Gonville, I'm very much enjoying this thread — kudos to Simon and Jan for all their hard and considered work! it doesn't seem surprising to me that one answer doesn't satisfy everybody's tastes! Agreed — this is one of the great(est)

Re: convert-ly rules for the vertical layout changes

2009-10-29 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Reinhold (et al), Unfortunately, I don't have the time now to investigate better defaults myself, but with these defaults, the scores simply look terrible. +1 Another problem I've found (but have yet to minimally-exemplify) is that a manual \pageBreak will often [always?] lead to a

Re: chord names in piano staff

2009-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Guten tag, Henrik: In addition to the [correct] answer already given, I thought you should know that r1 | r1 | r1 | r1 | \break should be R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 (i.e., uppercase R). Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel

problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I'm trying to get a local build system in place (in order to edit the docs), and can't seem to get past some install errors — specifically sudo port install tetex leads [eventually] to --- Extracting teTeX --- Configuring teTeX --- Building teTeX Error: Target

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi John (et al), can't you grab and install last TeXlive release? (2008, 2009 beta, or 2009 in case it's out) I [apparently] installed texlive. Now, after doing the ./autogen stuff and modifying configure.make, I do sudo make and get chmod 755 out/lilypond-invoke-editor

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, - why modify configure.make ?! that shouldn't be necessary. I tried make, and had problems — specifically, mkdir -p ./out echo 2.13.8 out/VERSION /bin/sh: line 1: out/VERSION: Permission denied make: *** [out/VERSION] Error 1 On

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, I'll bet you a double-double and 20 timbits[1] that this is because of sudo make, or running sudo at some point when downloading the source? Once you do sudo make clean; sudo make distclean, all the out/ and out-www/ directories should be gone, and you shouldn't have this problem

Re: developers developers developers

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham (et al), For the record, **I have never recommended that somebody use lilypond**. When meeting a technically-oriented composer Ah! That's your problem right there... I recommend Lilypond all the time, but primarily to AESTHETICALLY-oriented composers. In my experience, most

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham, To clarify, my bet was that your permission problems were caused by sudo make. See above when I said ... you shouldn't have THIS problem any more... (emphasis added) Point. Come on, man. It's 2pm, I have to teach for 3 hours, and I haven't had breakfast yet. I need those timbits.

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi John, Which Make avatar and version do you use? I don't know what a make avatar is... but when I type make --v it outputs GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi John, Ahem *cough* GNU Make 3.81 (which I have on my GNU/Linux system) was released in 2006. I guess we should then require this version for building LilyPond, shouldn't we? You're kidding, right? A 0.01 version difference is stopping me from being able to turn my [huge, but quickly

Re: problem installing build requirements [Mac OS X 10.4.11]

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
John (and Graham), Thanks for all your help, but after 5+ hours of working on this, I've decided to give up — once I get Mac OS X 10.6 installed (whenever that is), I'll give the build system install another try. Regards, Kieren. ___

Re: developers developers developers

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
for those working on a mac, XCode and BBEdit have grep-like facilities as well as project-wide search capabilities that report results in a list that is itself a navigation tool for the hits. +1 TextWrangler (BBEdit Jr., freeware) also has this wonderful feature. Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images

2009-11-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, I think everybody has seriously underestimated both the amount, and importance, of these basic maintenance tasks. Are there any basic ‘maintenance’ tasks that can be done without needing to build Lilypond/docs? e.g., I can fix indentation in TextWrangler, and then send the

Re: Issue #768 - chord repetition shortcut: patch for review

2009-11-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Could it be an option to make c e g4*8 do the obvious thing? Or even { c e g4 }*8 ? That would be so much more natural. The first already does something, but not something which I would call useful. I use it all the time, actually. The second bombs out. In contrast, q feels rather

Re: Issue #768 - chord repetition shortcut: patch for review

2009-11-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, In fact, I was quite surprised at what c e g4*4 does currently. Makes no sense to me. Can't imagine what it would be good for. I use it all the time to write piano music which looks like it has multiple voices, but without all the complexity of actually writing multiple voice

Re: Issue #768 - chord repetition shortcut: patch for review

2009-11-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Why couldn't you write c e g4 s4*3 or similar? I might be able to... but with your suggested fix of the * symbol, R1*8 would end up as R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 and potentially not compress. This unwanted behaviour along with the loss of (e.g.) c e g4 q8-. q8- ~ q2

Re: Issue #768 - chord repetition shortcut: patch for review

2009-11-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, OTOH, something like { c e g8-. c e g-^ }*2 is not doable with the q approach. Of course it is: \repeat unfold 2 { c e g8-. q-^ } Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make define-builtin-markup{, -list}-command #:category #:properties keywords

2009-11-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
And this year's Good Will Generator Award goes to… I don't think that I can contribute much more to your amusement. Wow. I've [fortunately] never witnessed such mindless negative energy on a mailing list to which I've been subscribed. ___

Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament

2009-11-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Remember Rune. I feel deeply shocked by your last sentence. Given his prior behavior on the list(s) — how rude and completely lacking in social filters he clearly is — I had honestly thought that nothing

Re: 2 songs on one page

2010-01-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Patrick (et al.), for people who haven't used the LSR (lilypond snippet repository) before, if you click on the pretty pictures of things you want to do, they turn into lilypond code for you to learn from:) It's all automagic. Your post brings up a good point: each LSR snippet page should

Re: How to do this correctly?

2010-01-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Two possibilities: Side by side (works also for ottavation) This is the traditional way (q.v., instrument ranges in orchestration texts). For what it's worth... Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: new smaller installers to test

2010-02-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Could we get a few tests for various OSes? http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Mac OS X 10.6 is aok. It also seemed that first compile was almost instantaneous, as compared with earlier upgrades -- is this a change, or am I imagining things? Cheers, Kieren.

Re: [frogs] Da Capos, Codas and Segnos

2010-02-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I've been lurking a bit on this thread, but felt I should comment. I personally think we need a more general structure than \repeat will ever be able to reasonably offer. Essentially, we need to be able to say that a single movement/piece [of Lilypond code] consists of one or more

Re: [frogs] Da Capos, Codas and Segnos

2010-02-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Excellent points -- in particular: Those goto and function calls should be able to have some basic effects not just on performance, but also on typesetting: ties starting before a branch point (or function return) need to be ended in each branch, the same for slurs and so on.

Re: nice stockhausen excerpt

2010-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
3) This whole thread is stupid and pointless and stupid. Ah... but was it also pointless? um... the second time... ;) Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

partcombine and/or engraver question

2010-03-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I write [and engrave] a lot of choral music. There's one big thing I want to do in Lilypond, and wanted to get some opinions on the matter... In my choral music, there are often large sections of unison and two-part writing, as well as four- and [complex] eight-part writing. That is

Re: new website location

2010-03-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
The spanish word for download is descartes ? Weird, in english that's the name of a famous philosopher. Actually, that's in French... ;) Kieren. You should probably fix your translation in download.itexi, then, since that file uses Descargas. Could you fix those build errors? I

Re: two issues...

2010-03-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Arno, - the default minimum hairpin length seems to be zero , which i cannot imagine to be useful in even very special circumstances According to the docs, it's 2.0 (staff spaces), although I agree that Lilypond rarely seems to enforce this -- for that reason, I set this value to 5 in my

Re: partcombine and/or engraver question

2010-03-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, Well, I'm clueless about how to help with your issue. But congrats on the premiere/recording! Thanks! When the CD is released, I'll be sure to let everyone know where to buy their obligatory 12-or-so copies. ;) Cheers, Kieren. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Kieren MacMillan

Re: partcombine and/or engraver question

2010-03-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin: If you don't have any within a few days, feel free to give me a ping so that I can add it to the tracker. I got one suggestion, but it's far too complex for what we (I) want. Please add this to the tracker. Thanks, Kieren. ___

Re: joining lilypond scores...

2010-03-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Arno, is there some solution available? namespaces, or whatever? I don't think there are namespaces (although that might be an interesting feature request). I would think you have two obvious options: 1. Write a script (e.g., in perl or sed or something) that would add a unique

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