Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Anna Langley
At this point I need to put my hand up as a lilypond user and a renaissance lutenist! I am also alive and read most of the music I play from these upside down systems (i.e. Italian Tablature)! And I am far from alone in doing so. Why would I and others do this? Because we can then play

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
Anna Langley wrote: snip very interresting letter I am also alive and read most of the music I play from these upside down systems (i.e. Italian Tablature)! Yes. But currently the notational stuff is not what we are discussing. Ofcourse we should add properties to turn the Tab upside down -

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:35:30 Laura Conrad wrote: Anna == Anna Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anna I would suggest that one could look at the program Tab by Wayne Anna Cripps from Dartmouth College for some inspiration in a flexible Anna system for typesetting tablature.

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:46:30 Rune Zedeler wrote: Currently we are discussing how the syntax and semantics for ENTERING (not DISPLAYING) string information - in particular which string is the first and which is the last. Again, I wish more people would back me up on the main issue: The

nothing but the stems

2002-08-21 Thread Al Arduengo
Hello all, I finally got lilypond to compile correctly and everything *seems* to be ok except for one item. I compiled the Romanze Op 28 sample provided on the web page and other than some warnings about clashing note columns, it appeared to work fine. However, when I view the ps, pdf outputs

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Paul Argentoff
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:43:36PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree with the proposition that the lute is a living instrument. It is dead as a doornail, [..] Tab is a fatal poison to an instrument, [..] [..] which is mind-numbing to composers and

no heads issue...

2002-08-21 Thread Al Arduengo
Alas I have discovered that the reason I saw no heads to notes or dynamic markings appears to be related to my machine. I tried xpdf, acroread and gv to view the pdf and ps formatted files with no luck. Then, on a whim, I looked at them on my Windows box and voilla! All looks fine. Now I have

Re: nothing but the stems

2002-08-21 Thread Jrmie Lumbroso
AA However, when I view the ps, pdf outputs I see everything *except* AA the heads of the notes. Seems like that nasty font bug to me (and of course I could be wrong). So I take it that font paths aren't properly pointed out for the program. I'm not quite sure how to solve this — personally I

no heads issue...

2002-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alas I have discovered that the reason I saw no heads to notes or dynamic markings appears to be related to my machine. I tried xpdf, acroread and gv to view the pdf and ps formatted files with no luck. Then, on a whim, I looked at them on my Windows box and

Re: lilypond 1.6.0 released.

2002-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[cc-ing mailing list] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings: Building LilyPond 1.6.0 fails here: `/home/dlphilp/lilypond-1.6.0/ly/generate-documentation.ly'

Re: tab

2002-08-21 Thread Rune Zedeler
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Thanks much. The scholarly poster is right that there are historical instances of putting the first string at the bottom, but English renaissance lute tablature and all modern tabs have the first string at the top so the low notes will be on the bottom. *No one