Re: lilypond on FreeBSD.

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Gebhart
I have tetex 2.01. This sort of strangness makes me suspicious. Only I would never know unless you told me. I deinstalled tetex, recompiled and installed it. I ran texconfig with better, but still awful results afterward. My dvi file would come up but the notes looked like stems with 2

assistance please

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Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Pedro Kroger wrote: how about apt-get install lilypond=1.9.5-1 ? When I run your version ly2dvi reports that I am running 1.7.20. When I install from unstable it reports 1.8.1. I have partially tracked this down. I have both: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root25850

Piano scores with other instruments

2003-09-16 Thread Luise Marion Frenkel
Hi, I am not used with english musical notation, but I hope to make myself comprehensible enough. I just wanted to know if it is possible to make scores where some staff lines are in smaller fonts than the others. It is very common in chamber music with piano that the pianist scores also have

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Scott wrote: Pedro Kroger wrote: how about apt-get install lilypond=1.9.5-1 ? When I run your version ly2dvi reports that I am running 1.7.20. When I install from unstable it reports 1.8.1. I have partially tracked this down. I have both:

Re: Piano scores with other instruments

2003-09-16 Thread Pedro Kroger
Luise, I just wanted to know if it is possible to make scores where some staff lines are in smaller fonts than the others. It is very common in chamber music with piano that the pianist scores also have the notes from the other instruments, but smaller. Try the tips and tricks document and

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-16 Thread Terje Tjervaag
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:14:46 -0400 Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course there are a bazillion software sequencers, but none of them meet the need. They're either bloated GUI tools, non-OS X, or pre-alpha dreamware. All I need is a MIDI renderer that respects tempo instructions, so that

Stanza numbers

2003-09-16 Thread Fodor Bertalan
When I compile the stanza numbers example from the manual: \score { \addlyrics \notes \relative c'' \context Voice = duet { \time 3/4 g2 e4 a2 f4 g2. } \lyrics \context Lyrics \context LyricsVoice = duet-1 { \property LyricsVoice . stanza = Bert

Re: lilypond on FreeBSD.

2003-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that your xdvi is setup to use fairly low resolution fonts, (406 dpi). Either you could use 'texconfig mode' to change the setup to ljfour or some other 600dpi mode. If you want the agfafzz mode for your printer but still want higher resolution in xdvi, change manually in the file

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's several years since I looked at the MIDI generation last time, but as far as I can remember, the tempo indication is set only in channel 0 if you use the \tempo command within the \midi{...} section but is set in the channel corresponding to the stave if you use the \tempo command within the

make follow-voice lines transparent?

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Lutek
greetings! in a piece of music using follow-voice between staves, is it possible to make SOME of the follow-voice lines transparent or non-existant? (i'm referring to the straight lines which connect the notes on one staff to the following notes on the other staff) thanks! -p

Re: html and lilypond book

2003-09-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I have attached an example file. To remember that the file should be run through lilypond-book, I use the naming convention .htmly. Just run lilypond-book test.htmly and view the resulting generated file test.html in your browser. If you move the file to some other directory, don't forget to move

Question about this list

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Is this the correct place to ask for help compiling lilypond, or is this list only for the user point of view? Thanks, Alberto Simões -- Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho ___

Question about this list

2003-09-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this the correct place to ask for help compiling lilypond, or is this list only for the user point of view? go ahead. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ Lilypond-user

Help compiling lilypond needed...

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Hi.. I've tried compiling lilypond getting a lot of problems. This is a commented log of my try to install lilypond. Maybe it can be useful to help me install it (already have manuals printed... but without the software it is hard to write music :-). My linux box is an old Slackware 8.0 updated

Where are Major chord triangles?

2003-09-16 Thread Fodor Bertalan
Lily 1.8.1: Compiling the examples from the manual at maj7 chords I get no triangles but 'M' characters (in typewriter font). I don't understand why, because I made everything default. I think it is some kind of font substitution problem, but other symbols (Bb, dim, #5) work well.

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know whether this suggests a packaging problem or something messed up on my system but I thought it would be good for you to know about this. ly2dvi doesn't exist in 1.9.5 - it's been renamed lilypond. Does that suggest that

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does that suggest that Pedro's deb's install an incorrect lilypond-mode.el and startup? yep. Fixed in CVS. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ Lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Han-Wen Nienhuys ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does that suggest that Pedro's deb's install an incorrect lilypond-mode.el and startup? yep. Fixed in CVS. thanks for that, it will save me some time in the next build :-) Scott, could you wait until 1.9.6 or would

Metronome mark not showing up.

2003-09-16 Thread Darren Nelsen
I'm using Lilypond 1.8.1 on RedHat 9. I'm very pleased with it overall. I have an orchestral score that includes all the parts files. In the score ly file, in my paper { } section, I'm putting a metronome marking like so, but it's not showing up. Am I doing something wrong? (The midi marking

Re: make follow-voice lines transparent?

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Lutek
sorry to bother the list with this i found how to do it. -p Peter Lutek wrote: greetings! in a piece of music using follow-voice between staves, is it possible to make SOME of the follow-voice lines transparent or non-existant? (i'm referring to the straight lines which connect the notes

Quarter-tones

2003-09-16 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi everyone! I checked the Lily-documentation but couldn't find anything about it: quater-tones. Is it possible to make a 'Tartini one quarter sharp' or a backward flat (as described in Kurt Stone's 'Music notation in the 20th century', page 68-69, paragraph 3)? If it isn't possible, is or

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.5

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Han-Wen Nienhuys ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does that suggest that Pedro's deb's install an incorrect lilypond-mode.el and startup? yep. Fixed in CVS. thanks for that, it will save me some time in the next build :-) Scott,

Beams == Melismata?

2003-09-16 Thread Jozsa Marton
Why beams mean melismata? It is very strange for me that setting \property Staff.automaticMelismata = ##t \autoBeamOff c-[ d e-] will mean a melisma for the lyrics, but I think only c-( d e-) (i.e. slurs) should mean that. ___ Lilypond-user

Re: Quarter-tones

2003-09-16 Thread plutek
AFAIK this is not yet available. i highly endorse your request for inclusion of this much-needed feature! perhaps, in the meantime, someone has a work-around?? best- -p Hi everyone! I checked the Lily-documentation but couldn't find anything about it: quater-tones. Is it possible to make

Re: Quarter-tones

2003-09-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK this is not yet available. i highly endorse your request for inclusion of this much-needed feature! perhaps, in the meantime, someone has a work-around?? The need hasn't really arised yet, although I do remember someone hacking around, substituting double

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-16 Thread Lucas Gonze
Sorry to say that I tried moving the tempo command around and had no luck. It's possible that I missed whichever magic location is required, though, since my test file is from a template that I don't fully understand. I will try again with simpler Lilypond source. Actually, it's good news to

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-16 Thread Richard Schoeller
What I've found in regard to \tempo is that it either works in the \score block that is generating the midi or if it is referenced in every single staff. If you want the tempo to change in the middle of the piece you have to use the latter approach. I do this by having each staff include one or