Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread jo.clarinet
Neil Puttock wrote: 2008/9/11 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jo Have a look at the Known issues in section 1.2.5.2 Bar numbers in the 2.11 Notation Reference - it is not possible to print a 1 on the first bar. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=504 ...or if you want 1 and

apologies

2008-09-12 Thread jo.clarinet
Please disregard my previous post - I've done it (noticed one thing I needed to change on what I had written)! That's made my day - hooray!!! :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/apologies-tp19450006p19450006.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at

Re: Shifted fermata over/below rests

2008-09-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/9/11 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Related question: Why do you only get one fermata when you do the following: b4^\fermata_\fermata I dont know why. I (still?) use 2.11.42, and this code: \relative b' { b4^\fermata_\fermata b\rest \fermata b2\rest \fermata r1 \fermata } gives me (as

Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jo Have a look at the Known issues in section 1.2.5.2 Bar numbers in the 2.11 Notation Reference - it is not possible to print a 1 on the first bar. http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg39763.html You have read this thread :-)

Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread James E. Bailey
On 12.09.2008, at 08:01, jo.clarinet wrote: I don't actually want/need the first bar numbered - just 5, 10 etc. I think the problem here is I simply don't understand what each bit of the process means, whereas the other LilyPond commands I've encountered so far seem more straightforward.

Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dmytro O. Redchuk 2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jo Have a look at the Known issues in section 1.2.5.2 Bar numbers in the 2.11 Notation Reference - it is not possible to print a 1 on the first bar. http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg39763.html You have read

Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes. But if you read it more carefully you will notice this sets the number 1 I've posted smth like this that time: { \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1) \bar \repeat unfold 4 { c4 c c c } } over the

emacs-mode

2008-09-12 Thread James E. Bailey
Well, now that lilypond can compile a file in emacs, I've been looking around, getting myself acquainted with the various options. Apparently, the 2tex option calls lilypond as lilypond -b tex filename.ly The version of lilypond that I have installed says that should be -f tex (assuming

Re: fermata over rest, tempo positioning, solo/tutti

2008-09-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Dmytro O. Redchuk Friday, September 12, 2008 9:06 AM 2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes. But if you read it more carefully you will notice this sets the number 1 I've posted smth like this that time: { \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1)

Re: position of text in timeSig

2008-09-12 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
I need the TimeSig, becauses I have written a larger, so called french score Ah yes, i remember now the snippet in the LSR. Sorry ! in the below quoted example the position of the rit is ver high. So you just have to change all -\markup by ^\markup in tempotakt and replace the value of

note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-12 Thread Michae Phillips
Is there a reason why entering notes in a score is suddenly stopped? I have never encountered this before. I am 16-bars from the end of a Bach concerto with all the other parts entered (I cut and pasted these from input files - is that perhaps the problem?) Thanks, Michael

Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-12 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op vrijdag 12 september 2008, schreef Michae Phillips: Is there a reason why entering notes in a score is suddenly stopped? I have never encountered this before. I am 16-bars from the end of a Bach concerto with all the other parts entered (I cut and pasted these from input files - is that

Re: LSR up

2008-09-12 Thread Ralph Palmer
Wonderful! I'm grateful for your efforts. I've missed the LSR a number of times. Peace, Ralph On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Sebastiano Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've finally been able to remotely replace the hard disk of my server (it's 1600 km away, and it broke down on Aug 13, when

Re: LSR up

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Ralph Palmer: Wonderful! I'm grateful for your efforts. I've missed the LSR a number of times. Just another ME TOO! You don't really realize how much you depend on such a great utility until its not there any

Restart of a whole system on the same line

2008-09-12 Thread Jan van Dijk
Hi, I like to stop a system after one bar, have some white space added and start the system again (including the systemStartDelimiter, the clef and the key signature). I haven't been able to create this with the \stopStaff and \startStaff commands. Jan van Dijk.

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X Tiger?

2008-09-12 Thread Kurt Kroon
On 2008/09/10 4:11 AM, John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/09/09 21:31 -0700, Kurt Kroon wrote: I'm getting an error when I try to update a file to v.2.11.57 on Mac OS X Tiger, running on a G4 PowerBook. (The file works fine in v.2.10.33, though I need to do some more tweaks to

creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I'd like to be able to say, e.g. \header { title = My Really Cool Composition alternateTitle = MRCC } and then at some point use \fromproperty #'header:alternateTitle Is there any mechanism — built-in or Scheme-tastic

Printing first and every n bar numbers

2008-09-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Are these worth a snippet (or two?) for Rhythms? \relative c'' { % Print the first and every fifth bar numbers \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1) \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-visible \bar c1 \set Score.barNumberVisibility =

Re: Printing first and every n bar numbers

2008-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin Are these worth a snippet (or two?) for Rhythms? Isn't it a duplicate of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=91 ? The alternative is Neil's music function: #(define ((first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible n) barnum) (or

Re: creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/12 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any mechanism — built-in or Scheme-tastic — which would let me do this? I could be wrong, but I think this is already possible (I've been using such a trick for several months). Cheers, Valentin

Re: creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Valentin Villenave wrote: I could be wrong, but I think this is already possible (I've been using such a trick for several months). WOW! I was *sure* that I tried this a few months ago, and got nowhere — now, it definitely works. This is very cool, and should be documented — currently,

Re: Printing first and every n bar numbers

2008-09-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Villenave Friday, September 12, 2008 2:24 PM 2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin Are these worth a snippet (or two?) for Rhythms? Isn't it a duplicate of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=91 ? Not quite. Both the snippets I sent did the same thing, ie, print

Re: creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all, I'd like to be able to say, e.g. \header { title = My Really Cool Composition alternateTitle = MRCC } and then at some point

Re: creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Valentin Villenave wrote: I could be wrong, but I think this is already possible (I've been using such a trick for several months). WOW! I was *sure* that I tried this a few months

Re: LSR up

2008-09-12 Thread Mike Blackstock
Thanks for pointing out the potential tomcat problem - I run tomcat as well and hadn't thought of a possible root compromise. (I'm least surprised about the never-ending security vigilance - just keeping on top of security is at least one full-time job, which nobody ever wants to pay for

Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi all, I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry for that) I don't really understand why Lily puts each system on one page though there is really enough free space on the first page. Any hints?

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Michael Käppler: Hi all, I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry for that) I don't really understand why

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Reinhold, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Lilypond wastes 10% of the vertical space on each page. You have 98 left, but lilypond reserves a little less than 20 units for possible rounding errors when calculating the staff spacings (yes, I

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X Tiger?

2008-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:14:30 -0700 Kurt Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my Python installation to version 2.5.2 (via MacPython), but I'm still getting that error. (I even renamed my dev install, just in case Mac OS X didn't like the space I used to have in the name.) So is

position of instrument

2008-09-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, in the below quoted example the position Trompete in B should be higher than con sord.. How can I change it? changeInstrument = #(define-music-function (parser location string) (string?) (make-music 'TextScriptEvent 'direction UP

Re: size of bass clef

2008-09-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear James, thanks for Your help. But what can I do, if I only want to change the size of the bassclef and if I have an instrument like piano, where the clefs are changing constantly? 2008/9/10 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10.09.2008, at 18:05, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear

dayly summary

2008-09-12 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond users, since a couple of day I don't get the dayly summary of the user-group any more. Is it a problem I share with others? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Automatic accidentals

2008-09-12 Thread Steven Weber
I'm typesetting some harp music, and I'd really like to be able to setup the automatic accidentals to be kind of a mix of modern and forget - I want accidentals on every measure like modern, but I want the cautionary cancellation to appear the first time the non-accidental note appears (regardless

Re: size of bass clef

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Stefan Thomas: Dear James, thanks for Your help. But what can I do, if I only want to change the size of the bassclef and if I have an instrument like piano, where the clefs are changing constantly? use

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-12 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 10 septembre 2008 à 11:49 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Am Samstag, 6. September 2008 schrieb Andrew Hawryluk: Here's my initial design submission for the docs - it's just a gentle modification of the CSS file: Cool! I applied it, and made some changes, see

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X Tiger?

2008-09-12 Thread David Fedoruk
Hello: I recall that one of the pages in the Lilypond documentation specifically for Mac OS X suggested a second way to set environmental variables via Property LIst. I created that suggested Property List but the path for Python began /System/Library (I cut and pasted it from the example.

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X Tiger?

2008-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
That's not the issue. The issue is that convert-ly calls /usr/bin/python which is 2.3.5 for you (and me). Cheers, - Graham On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:55:38 -0700 David Fedoruk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I recall that one of the pages in the Lilypond documentation specifically for Mac

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-12 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Andrew, feel free to suggest a new color for the footer :-) Cheers, John You could change the footer from #e8ffe8 to #e7efe3 and the border from #c0ffc0 to #ccd3cc. It looks like the padding/spacing in the footer could be improved but for now I'm more curious to see Patrick's design (and

Re: centering instrument name between staves

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 13. September 2008 schrieb David Bobroff: I'm trying to center an instrument name between two staves in a StaffGroup. I looked for something in the docs and the LSR that was similar and didn't find what I was looking for. The closest

Re: centering instrument name between staves

2008-09-12 Thread Jan van Dijk
Op Saturday 13 September 2008 01:45:28 schreef David Bobroff: I'm trying to center an instrument name between two staves in a StaffGroup. I looked for something in the docs and the LSR that was similar and didn't find what I was looking for. The closest thing is a piano staff. I tried

Re: centering instrument name between staves

2008-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan (et al.): Excellent suggestion. However, I wouldn't recommend using \set StaffGroup.instrumentName = \markup { Piano \hspace #1 } since this means that the actual instrument name has a space in it — this is mixing content with presentation. Rather, I recommend adjusting the

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:11:20 -0700 Patrick McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew has been the only one to submit a design so far, but how are we going to decide which design to use if 10 more people submit designs? What a horrible problem to have. :) - find any common issues amongst the

editor for windows

2008-09-12 Thread Lewis Overton
I use a Mac and an external editor ... BUT ... I have a friend with a Windows system. He asked me to recommend an editor to use with Lilypond files. Any recommendations? Lewy ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org