strange position of tuplet number

2008-09-13 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear lilypond-users, in the below quoted example the positions of the tuplet numbers are very strange. Is it possible, to have the tuplet numbers automatically near to the beams? \version 2.11.49 re = { \change Staff = rechts } li = { \change Staff = links } rechts = { \clef bass s 4. } links =

moving individual bar numbers / 'padding' beginning of bar?

2008-09-13 Thread jo.clarinet
The piece of music I'm arranging (Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture, arranged for recorder orchestra - I've started by 'LilyPonding' the contrabass part, as that is the most straightforward for a first try) is coming on well. The contrabass part is now completely playable, but there are a couple of

Recalcitrant midi instruments

2008-09-13 Thread T Högvall
I'm a greenhorn, trying out Lilypond, first by writing small piano pieces, now attempting a woodwind quartet. Starting from the string q. template, making a few small adjustments, I get a working, compiling ly file, with piano voices then, of course, as they are the midi instrument default.

Re: moving individual bar numbers / 'padding' beginning of bar?

2008-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
jo.clarinet wrote: do padding of some sort - either to get just the relevant bar numbers moved up a little (but NOT the rest of them) Follow the reference to BarNumber in the Notation Reference [1] index. This talks mostly about moving sideways (using self-alignment-X). But you probably

Re: editor for windows

2008-09-13 Thread Maarten Deen
Lewis Overton wrote: 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? My favourite is Crimson Editor, a good editor which supports block selections and language

Re: editor for windows

2008-09-13 Thread Renaud Flavigny
VIM for Windows is an excellent and very powerful test editor. Your could download from http://www.vim.org/ Regards Renaud Lewis Overton a écrit : 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

Re: Recalcitrant midi instruments

2008-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
T Högvall wrote: I did attempt to put in the real instruments then, by including lines like \set Staff.midiInstrument = #clarinet in the score section ... What am I missing? Either A or B. A: In the score section you have put your \set command between one \new Staff block and the next.

Re: editor for windows

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Renaud Flavigny wrote: VIM for Windows is an excellent and very powerful test editor. Your could download from http://www.vim.org/ I completely agree. However, new Vim users might like to instead try Cream, which is essentially just Vim patched so that

Re: editor for windows

2008-09-13 Thread Ledocq
Hi, I have no experience of others editor than the one ...delivered with windows, and Jedit which I find very fine together with plugin lilypond-tool (see below) http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download I believe Java runtime must be also installed. A plugin (lilypond-tool) can be added

[LSR] Forcing fixed distance between staves

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
The above snippet does not generate output (no .eps file is created). This was causing a number of problems. LSR now will keep people from inserting snippets that do not produce output. If there are cases in which this is not desirable, let me know. The snippet about is now non- approved

Another problem with LSR

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I didn't realize this before, but the output filename is rather unpredictable. Apparently it can be name.eps or name-1.eps. (For instance, Creating music with Scheme (music box) creates no name.eps, just name-1.eps). This is of course a nuisance when converting to png. Any suggestion?

Re: [LSR] Forcing fixed distance between staves

2008-09-13 Thread James E. Bailey
looks like it's missing a \score {} block for the second staff group On 13.09.2008, at 14:35, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: The above snippet does not generate output (no .eps file is created). This was causing a number of problems. LSR now will keep people from inserting snippets that do not

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Reinhold, You might try to comment out (or at least reduce) these 10% of reserved space and see if you run into any staff collisions (which I don't think should happen, but then I haven't dug deep enought for this staff!). I removed the additional security space completely for testing,

Re: [LSR] Forcing fixed distance between staves

2008-09-13 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/9/13 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: looks like it's missing a \score {} block for the second staff group Hmm, you're right; thanks for pointing it out. :) When this snippet was added, it worked fine outside LSR, so I assumed it was version specific. Seba, I've tweaked the snippet so

Dash working

2008-09-13 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
You can now search for #, of course escaped as \#. E.g., \#UP searches for #UP. This means also that # is no longer special, so if the text contains A#B you cannot find it searching for A or for B--A#B is now a token. Let me know if this seems to work and if you'd like other non-

Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-13 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi, (please quote messages above the answers, and reply to the list) Wilbert wrote: Which editor are you using to type in? Michael replied: Version 2.6.5 Regards, Michael Phillips This must be the LilyPond version. It's a quite old version. You could upgrade to 2.10 or even the latest

Newby questions

2008-09-13 Thread tim
I've just installed Lilypond in the past week. Starting from the vocal music template in the manual, I've printed a couple songs, which my wife and I will sing from at church tomorrow. The results are beautiful! There are some things I don't understand. I invoke the program from the command

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

2008-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Daryna Baikadamova wrote: Now I have another problem. Suppose I want to insert tempo to the conductors score at specific places (not only at the beginning of the score), and I want these tempo marks (e.g. Allegretto crotchet

Re: Newby questions

2008-09-13 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-09-13 um 16:55 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are some things I don't understand. I invoke the program from the command line: lilypond --pdf filename.ly On my WInXP machine, this works fine. The program spits out some status lines, and the *.ps and *.pdf files appear. On my Win

Re: Newby questions

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:55:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] \new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 } \new Lyrics = sopranosb { s2 } [...] My question is about the \new Lyrics command. What's the {s1} referring to? It uses sopransob to find the right set of lyrics. When I had four

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Michael, On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Michael Käppler wrote: I removed the additional security space completely for testing, but nothing happens. What am I missing? layout-page-layout.scm is attached. I tried the same thing as you with the same results. After considering

Re: Newby questions

2008-09-13 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 13 september 2008, schreef fiëé visuëlle: \lyricsto someVoiceName \new Lyrics \lyricmode{ your ly -- rics } In fact, this can be written even more simple: \new Lyrics \lyricsto someVoiceName { your ly -- rics } \lyricsto automagically switches the input mode to lyricmode. best

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

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:25:33PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: 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

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

2008-09-13 Thread James E. Bailey
On 13.09.2008, at 16:55, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Obviously, I can't (easily) tweak the placing of things like Allegro if it's going to be inserted into lots of parts (nor do I want the hassle). But, to give a current example, my trombone part has a top f (in lily terms, an f' in bass

Re: note entry suddenly stops

2008-09-13 Thread Robin Bannister
Michae Phillips wrote: Is there a reason why entering notes in a score is suddenly stopped? Well, I had a hunch and followed it up. Lilypad handles up to 3 bytes and no more. [1] Maybe you are using Lilypad and your file has become too large for it. By way of explanation: When you

Re: editor for windows

2008-09-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor
JEdit with LilyPondTool plugin, of course :-) Most newer Windows OEM distributions already contain Java. If not, install it from www.java.com Then install jEdit 4.3pre15 (Windows version) from www.jedit.org Then start jEdit, and from PluginsPlugin Manager Install LilyPondTool. If LilyPond is

Re: overlaying as a tool for annotating entry points in orchestral parts (was Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts)

2008-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daryna Baikadamova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Now I dream up another application:  For orchestral parts with long multi-bar rests, it is often difficult for the player to count exactly when the rests end.  So would it be possible to include a small section of the

Re: moving individual bar numbers / 'padding' beginning of bar?

2008-09-13 Thread jo.clarinet
Robin Bannister wrote: jo.clarinet wrote: do padding of some sort - either to get just the relevant bar numbers moved up a little (but NOT the rest of them) To change this for just one bar number, you say (in the previous bar) \once \override Score.BarNumber #'padding = #1.0

Re: overlaying as a tool for annotating entry points in orchestral parts (was Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts)

2008-09-13 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 13. September 2008 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daryna Baikadamova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Now I dream up another application:  For orchestral parts with long multi-bar rests, it is often difficult for

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

2008-09-13 Thread James E. Bailey
On 13.09.2008, at 21:39, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 13.09.2008, at 16:55, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Obviously, I can't (easily) tweak the placing of things like Allegro if it's going to be inserted into lots of

clef after line break in unmetered music

2008-09-13 Thread Steven van Roode
I encounter the following problem: In a piece of unmeterd music (like psalm tones or recited text) I want to decide the place of the line breaks. I use \remove Time_signature_engraver \remove Bar_engraver to get rid of the time signature and the bars. Now, a line break with \break results in

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

2008-09-13 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/13 01:36 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: #rgb is the official CSS color shortcut for #rrggbb, see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#color-units Ah, I'll be less ignorant when I go to bed tonight, as we say in French :-) And yet, a font specification sneaked into the .css

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

2008-09-13 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 17:32 -0600, Andrew Hawryluk a écrit : 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. Thanks, I applied these changes. It looks

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:33:52PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_K=E4ppler_ wrote: 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

piano pedal vertical alignment question

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Polesky
When using \sustainOn and \sustainOff to make piano pedal marks, the Ped. glyph and the * glyph (which has less height) are drawn with the tops vertically aligned. Is there a way to align them at the baseline without manual overrides on each \sustainOff? If any developers are reading, I propose

2.11.58-1: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2008-09-13 Thread Rembrandt Wolpert
Trying to use lilypond-book with 2.11.58-1 I get the following error. Reading March.tex... Dissecting... Writing snippets... Processing... Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 2.11.58 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path the operating

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

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the new Lilypond documentation we are looking for a good screen design (i.e. a mockup image of how the page should look like. You don't need to implement it!). I'm planning on ironing out some font-size scaling

Re: different tempi

2008-09-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I wrote: Thanks. This is a good start for fixing the appearance manually. I still think that a kind of `second pass', as described in another mail, is the right solution to go. I've just found another problem: Bar numbers no longer appear automatically. I fear this is a tricky one :-( The