Re: Can't run test on lilypond

2002-09-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html I've downloaded and installed lilypond, and am having some difficulty in performing the first test (foo.ly). The bash shell which opens up by clicking on the cygwin icon responds to the command lilypond --help

Re: tex takes a long time

2002-09-01 Thread Jule Slootbeek
well i tried reinstalling lilypond and all it's packages, and i still get the same problem, ly2dvi hangs in the line: [localhost:~/Documents/lilypond] jslootbe% ly2dvi -p test.ly Running LilyPond... GNU LilyPond 1.6.0 Now processing: `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...[1] Preprocessing

Re: lilypond mandolin tablature?

2002-09-01 Thread Karl Berry
The above example shows you how to set the TabStaff to four strings, tuned as you asked. Thank you very much for this. However, I can't get it to work :(. For starters, I told you the wrong notation for the tuning. Mandolin tuning, like violin, is GDAE from the G below middle C (top

Re: lilypond mandolin tablature?

2002-09-01 Thread Rune Zedeler
Karl Berry wrote: 1) Everything is shifted down by one line -- the first note is printed a line space below the real bottom line, the second note is printed on the bottom line instead of the second-to-bottom line, and so on. Yes, this is a bug. I have fixed it in cvs - it should appear

spelling bug

2002-09-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
First line here: http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Grace-notes.html#Grace%20notes reads Grace notes are ornaments are written out ornaments I guess it should be Grace notes are ornaments that are written out or perhaps Grace notes are written out ornaments --

[Gwg2@aol.com] Re: Can't run test on lilypond

2002-09-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
---BeginMessage--- Many thanks for your advice. I now have lilypond installed on my computer. Only, when I run ly2dvi -p foo on the file foo.ly I get the following error message: Analyzing foo.tex... Running LaTex... Running ps2pdf... error: ps2pdf: command exited with value 32512 Traceback (most

Re: lilypond mandolin tablature?

2002-09-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (bare in mind that I never used tablature in Lilypond, and that my input might be incorrect) \context TabStaff \outputproperty #(make-type-checker 'staff-symbol-interface) #'line-count = #4 looks ok. \outputproperty

Re: How to create smaller paper sizes

2002-09-01 Thread Laurie Savage
Mats, Thanks - I think I'll be using a guillotine and guesswork! Laurie On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: It turns out that ly2dvi makes its own interpretation of the pagesize paper variable, so you have to add some line in ly2dvi as well. Unless you use ly2dvi -P, you will get

lilypond bar numbers, string choosing?

2002-09-01 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for all the help -- if anyone is interested in the bass line of Bach's bourree in e minor transposed for mandolin, let me know :). I do have two more questions, one minor, one major, so to speak: 1) is it really true that bar numbers cannot printed on every bar (so says node `Bar

Re[2]: lilypond mandolin tablature?

2002-09-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HWN that would be HWN \property TabStaff . stringTunings = #'(-20 - 15 -10 -5) Is the space between `TabStaff' and `stringTunings' intentional? no. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen

website suggestion

2002-09-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
Hi I often thought it's a bit anoying what the title is on most of the website. If one searches one gets something like: http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Searchbrut_query=graceq=site%3Awww.lilypond.org+-wiki+grace where most pages are called either GNU LilyPond or LilyPond internals.

FW: D7#9

2002-09-01 Thread Jonathan Rosanowski
Sorry I should have mentioned the C7maj7b9 was in the manual, and I'm using v1.6.0 under windows. The D7maj7#9 chord displays using the jazz chords. -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rosanowski Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 1:25 p.m. To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: D7#9 I'd like to