Re: Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jozsa Marton writes: With notepad (and some other Win apps) quotation marks can be used to save new file with an extension other than TXT: song.ly Then we should probably mention this problem and workaround in Getting Started. But we'll need to make another/extra page for windows users anyway

Re: parenthesized grace note

2003-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#molecule-hacking.ly Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone have a method for putting parentheses around a grace note (other than building the whole thing with \markup)? specifically, i wish to have a parenthesized

Questions about guitar tablature support

2003-09-19 Thread Stef Epardaud
Hello, First, congrats for all the new features in since 1.6, I am very impressed and my scores look a lot better. Since I'm a good tester for drums and guitar (I do all my music with lilypond) I have a few guitar tab questions: - Hammer/Tap/Pull-off support: in a guitar tab, you can do tapping,

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The simple reason is that the ly2dvi script doesn't know about the legal and ledger paper sizes. I just tried to add the support but ran into a small problem; Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use to convert

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Ricardo Kirkner
Thank you for your quick answer On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:41:53 -0300 Ricardo Kirkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1- How do you tell lilypond to typeset all brackets of equal lenghts (or at least not each bracket out of two on a different lenght). I don't know what you mean by this. Could you

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Laura Conrad
Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Mats in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use to Mats convert .dvi to .ps files) expects ledger paper to be 17inch wide Mats and 11inch

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Pedro Kroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice to have debs of lilypond-unstable for debian stable and testing I gave that a go (see http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/lilypond/index_orig.html) and also tried to contact Anthony with some suggestions to make this process easier, but never

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You will still have support for both, since tabloid+landscape=ledger. /Mats Laura Conrad wrote: Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Mats in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Peter Lutek
yes, AFAIK common usage is tabloid for portrait (11x17) and ledger for landscape (17x11). since portrait is probably more generally useful, i would suggest switching 'ledger' to 'tabloid', and maintaining portrait orientation. of course, having both options available would be even better! :)

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It would be nice to have debs of lilypond-unstable for debian stable and testing I gave that a go (see http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/lilypond/index_orig.html) and also tried to contact Anthony with some suggestions to make this process easier,

No time signature

2003-09-19 Thread Pierre François
I need to typseset a piece with no time signature. I don't find in the manual telling me how to do it. I suspect I have to set \property to something, but WHAT? Thanks -- Pierre François (http://www.romanliturgy.org) Roemer Visscherstraat 46 NL-1054 EZ Amsterdam (Netherlands) + 31 20 616 58 46

Re: No time signature

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:45:58 +0200 Pierre Fran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to typseset a piece with no time signature. I don't find in the manual telling me how to do it. Please see the section on invisible grobs in the manual. I highly recommend bookmarking

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:14:45 -0300 Ricardo Kirkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1- How do you tell lilypond to typeset all brackets of equal lenghts (or at least not each bracket out of two on a different lenght). I don't know what you mean by this. Could you give an example? I that lily

Re: Awkward Slur

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:46:26 -0400 Will Oram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.foxchange.com/~spamguy/misc_pictures/slursegment.jpg What's the best way to fix this? Ideally I'd like to make the slur bulge more and have the right end closer to the c4. I've looked through the

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Hans Forbrich
Your Question 1: Historically it has been considerd a bad idea to keep the bar spacing the same between 'lines', presumably because it is wasy to lose track of which 'line' you are reading. Most music publishers/typesetters I have seen will actually go out their way to ensure the lengths are not

Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.8

2003-09-19 Thread Pedro Kroger
Debian Sid packages of Lilypond 1.9.8 are available from my website: http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ They're also apt-gettable adding the following line to sources.list: deb http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./ And running the commands: apt-get update apt-get install lilypond (or

Awkward Slur

2003-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check out this megaslur using the \translator command: http://www.foxchange.com/~spamguy/misc_pictures/slursegment.jpg What's the best way to fix this? Ideally I'd like to make the slur bulge more and have the right end closer to the c4. I've looked through

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 19 September 2003 05:37 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Rename ledger to ledger-tabloid. Is there some reason for not having ledger-[portrait] and ledger-landscape? You can add them and also legal-tabloid later and not have

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Loading lilypond-mode (source)... File mode specification error: (invalid-read-syntax #) After reinstalling 1.8.1 from Debian unstable emacs works correctly. Which version of Debian are you running? full unstable or mixed unstable? Which version of

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Pedro Kroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: deb-src http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./ OK, I got it. Kinda worked, I put the results on the same page (http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/lilypond). There were some problems though: Imagemagick is needed. autotrace 0.29 is enough. texinfo 4.1 is

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pedro Kroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: deb-src http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./ OK, I got it. Kinda worked, I put the results on the same page (http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/lilypond). There were some problems though: Imagemagick is needed.

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-19 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2003-09-13 on raven, modified by Debian I discovered what is wrong. Actually it's kind of my fault :( There is a python script now that generates the lilypond.words file. The

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Ricardo Kirkner
| some notes | == 1 bracket Ah, I see. In North America, a bracket is normally called a bar. first of all, thank you for correcting my terminology. at least now I can refer to this term correctly :-) Please provide an example and tell us what version you're using. Are you setting the

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Warren Stickney
Ricardo, I used to get these warnings too, but I think I'm correct in saying that they ceased when I started using separate score blocks for paper and midi output. (Lily 1.8.1 under cygwin). I use two global sections, one for paper and one for midi (to give me tempo changes without getting

strange lyrics behaviour

2003-09-19 Thread Ricardo Kirkner
hi: sorry to bother again, but i am having some trouble with the lyrics. I just don't know what it can be happening. when i add lyrics to the first staff, i have no problems. they get added correctly when i want to add lyrics to some other staff, the lyrics are wrongly placed, and i have

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:49:11 +1200 Warren Stickney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use two global sections, one for paper and one for midi (to give me tempo changes without getting warning messages about junking tempo request) as in a typical example below: BTW, now that metronome markings have

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:57:16 -0300 Ricardo Kirkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please provide an example and tell us what version you're using. Are you setting the midiInstrument property instead of instrument? here is a part of my source file Sorry, could you provide a complete example (so