using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Thomas Fehr
Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Lyrics above bars

2009-01-04 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
Hello, 2009/1/3 Hasi hasberg...@yahoo.com The subject titel says it: Can I put lyrics above the bars/notes instead of underneath? Easily. 1. Goto LilyPond documentation page - http://lilypond.org/web/documentation/; 2. Click 'Lilypond Snippet Repository (LSR)'; 3. In the search box enter

Re: stems up?

2009-01-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Ivo Bouwmans wrote Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:54 PM (It is strange, though, that in my original version (see below) the stemUp did not force the stem upwards.) Not really, since the code below also has a \stemDown at the same musical moment in the same Voice. Only one of these can be

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Carl, Le vendredi 02 janvier 2009 à 20:16 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : I've attached a file README-contrib.txt, which is an attempt at what one of you described as Frogging for Dummies. It gives at least a brief introduction to the key issues that I remember as obstacles when I got

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 janv. 09 à 15:15, John Mandereau a écrit : When you're done with this task, each function for which you are responsible should have an internationalizable docstring. By internationalizable, I mean that it will look like (_i This is the docstring.), rather than This is the docstring.

Key signature change with naturals before bar line.

2009-01-04 Thread Lasse Rempe
This question concerns changing the key signature e.g. from a major to a flat major. Lilypond standard behavior seems to be printing the natural signs and the flat signs both after the bar line, but I have also come across the natural signss being noted _before_ the bar line, and the new key

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2009-01-04 Thread fa070232
How to make an easy installation on vista ? I have very little it background. Best regards Edmond.___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-04 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Arne Peters wrote: Why not take the .ps-file generated by Lilypond, and use Ghostview to convert it to an imagefile. This then can be further manipulated with GIMP/Photoshop etc before importing in the textfile. This may not be the most elegant way to do it but should work. No,

Re: Multi-stave TextSpanner line

2009-01-04 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Nick, 2009/1/4 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I have a TextSpanner where I draw a small vertical line at the end of the TextSpanner line. Where the line continues for more than one stave, The small vertical line is being drawn at the end of each stave. I'd prefer that it only get

Re: a floating markup with many \score blocks in it

2009-01-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 04.01.2009 um 15:43 schrieb Francois Planiol: Hello! I need for a kind of Summary of Different way to harmonize a melodie a command of markup, I suppose. If it does exist, i dont find it or how and be very pleased for having help My idea would be something like \markup \floating { %

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2009-01-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 04.01.2009 um 11:11 schrieb fa070232: How to make an easy installation on vista ? I have very little it background. Best regards Edmond. I don't have any experience with windows vista, but the lilypond wiki may help

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 14:50 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : I've now added a ref to Harmonics in References for for fretted strings in NR 2.4.1. I guess you mean 328df0d0d386fb553062680fd3c5be6d47548218 Docs: NR 2.4 Fretted: Add ref to Harmonics (tagged as 2.12.1-1)? Do you think

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2009-01-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
James E. Bailey wrote: Am 04.01.2009 um 11:11 schrieb fa070232: How to make an easy installation on vista ? I have very little it background. Best regards Edmond. I don't have any experience with windows vista, but the lilypond wiki may help

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-04 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: I've cooked up a way of tearing the right side of the staff, which you can take a look at. ... Otherwise, is this about what you're looking for? Thanks Mark, good job but I was looking for something different: I don't want to draw anything, just have my staff end

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Polesky
Piero, This should be closer to what you want, but I need to emphasize that it's not finished yet. It *is* possible to randomize the staff-line tear-lengths; hopefully I'll have time to work on that a little later. But I figured I'd send off what I have so far. For now, only the top 2 variables

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Stefan, 2009/1/3 Stefan Waler ste...@waler.at: Hi, lilypond provides one petrucci style f clef (called petrucci-f). It's not documented yet, but petrucci-f3 is also available. You can also use petrucci-f4, but that's identical to petrucci-f. It would be straightforward to add any other

Staccato in brackets

2009-01-04 Thread Hasi
I need to make staccato signs in brackets. Does anyone know how? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 4960746d.2040...@floetenbau.ch, Thomas Fehr thomas.f...@floetenbau.ch writes Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? Which OS.

frescobaldi automatic indentation

2009-01-04 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, I have frescobaldi now running nicely on my Fedora 10 desktop. I think frescobaldi is brilliant! Just what I was looking for. I have two questions left: Should indentation work automatically? On my system it doesn't. When I go to the tools-indentation-lilypond menu, I see it is grayed out.

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
John I've now added a ref to Harmonics in References for for fretted strings in NR 2.4.1. Do you think this is adequate? Trevor - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday,

Adding lyrics to a piano score.

2009-01-04 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello. I have a Piano score (three voices) organized in the following way: upperA = { ... melody ... } upperB = { ... melody ... } upper = { ... \upperA \\ \upperB } lower = { ... melody ... } and \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff = upper \upper \new Staff = lower

Re: Staccato in brackets

2009-01-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2009 18:56:46 schrieb Hasi: I need to make staccato signs in brackets. Does anyone know how? Yes, the documentation knows a lot ;-) It even has this very example with parenthesized staccato-dots:

a floating markup with many \score blocks in it

2009-01-04 Thread Francois Planiol
Hello! I need for a kind of Summary of Different way to harmonize a melodie a command of markup, I suppose. If it does exist, i dont find it or how and be very pleased for having help My idea would be something like \markup \floating { % to wrap the scores ... \score { ... } % T-S-D \score {

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:58:13AM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 4960746d.2040...@floetenbau.ch, Thomas Fehr thomas.f...@floetenbau.ch writes Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running

Re: Key signature change with naturals before bar line.

2009-01-04 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
2009/1/4 Lasse Rempe l.re...@liverpool.ac.uk This question concerns changing the key signature e.g. from a major to a flat major. Lilypond standard behavior seems to be printing the natural signs and the flat signs both after the bar line, but I have also come across the natural signss

Umlaute

2009-01-04 Thread Hasi
Do any of you know how I can use Umlaute? I'd like to do the following: _\markup { \italic hartnäckig } it just comes out as hartnckig ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread Stefan Waler
Neil Puttock wrote: It's not documented yet, but petrucci-f3 is also available. I should have tried :-) It would be straightforward to add any other variants, assuming there's no need for changes to the glyph. Great! Could you add petrucci-f5 at the next opportunity? Thanks, Stefan

Re: KDE and platforms

2009-01-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 3 januari 2009, schreef 胡海鹏 Hu Haipeng:   I'm about to download Frescobaldi, but I don't know whether Kde is for all platforms or Linux only. I want to speed up my structure construction (to say, a large orchestral score's stave structure--Orchestrallily has many limitations), but

Re: Frescobaldi on Fedora

2009-01-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 3 januari 2009, schreef Martin Tarenskeen: Building and installing went OK. I can see the Frescobaldi message windows and edit a lilypond file. But PDF preview fails: Could not load okularpart. What is okularpart ? It seems that I don't have it ? What am I missing ? Thats the PDF

Re: frescobaldi automatic indentation

2009-01-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 4 januari 2009, schreef Martin Tarenskeen: I have two questions left: Should indentation work automatically? On my system it doesn't. When I go to the tools-indentation-lilypond menu, I see it is grayed out. Something missing on my system ? Yes: I'm sorry I didn't notice earlier: You

Re: Umlaute

2009-01-04 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
2009/1/4 Hasi hasberg...@yahoo.com: Do any of you know how I can use Umlaute? I'd like to do the following: _\markup { \italic hartnäckig } it just comes out as hartnckig On Linux with java version 1.6.0_07, jEdit, LilyPond 2.12.1 and LilypondTool 2.11-r1 there is no problem – Umlaut in

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:43:55PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 14:50 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : I've now added a ref to Harmonics in References for for fretted strings in NR 2.4.1. Do you think this is adequate? It certainly is, but I'm not sure

Re: Umlaute

2009-01-04 Thread Arjan Bos
On 4 jan 2009, at 19:31, Hasi wrote: Do any of you know how I can use Umlaute? I'd like to do the following: _\markup { \italic hartnäckig } it just comes out as hartnckig Hasi, Please save the file with UTF-8 encoding. Most editors offer this option on the save (as) menu. If you need

Re: Umlaute

2009-01-04 Thread Ole Schmidt
doesn't it have to do with the encoding which should be UTF-8 ? ole Am 04.01.2009 um 20:15 schrieb Antanas Budriūnas: 2009/1/4 Hasi hasberg...@yahoo.com: Do any of you know how I can use Umlaute? I'd like to do the following: _\markup { \italic hartnäckig } it just comes out as hartnckig

Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2009-01-04 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op donderdag 1 januari 2009, schreef Wilbert Berendsen: Op woensdag 31 december 2008, schreef Grammostola Rosea: Is there also a possibility to play midi in a quick way? Like it was possible in lilykde in the log? Will be added Very Soon Now (TM). It is added now in SVN. Install Subversion

Re: Adding lyrics to a piano score.

2009-01-04 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, you can define a named voice context here: upper = { \new Voice = melody \upperA \\ \upper B } for whatever reason the \voiceOne property gets lost though, so you have to assign it explicitly to upperA like this: upperA = { \voiceOne ..music.. } to place the lyrics above the staff you

Re: Adding lyrics to a piano score.

2009-01-04 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello, Tao Tao Cumplido wrote: you can define a named voice context here: upper = { \new Voice = melody \upperA \\ \upper B } for whatever reason the \voiceOne property gets lost though, so you have to assign it explicitly to upperA like this: upperA = { \voiceOne ..music.. } to

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-04 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: This should be closer to what you want, but I need to emphasize that it's not finished yet. It *is* possible to randomize the staff-line tear-lengths; Mark, That's GREAT!!! Exactly what I need!!! The randomization is not important, it's just that when we have many

How to not display string numbers in chords

2009-01-04 Thread Grateful Frog
Hello again! I'm once again posting with a newbie question. I'm trying to make a score with both music and tab staffs, as well as chord names a fret diagrams. But NOT string numbers in circles. Can anyone suggest the proper thing to set? Is it an override? My Score section looks like this:

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 11:19 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : No; references is the correct place. If people skip over the references to previous docs, then it's their own fault. We simply /cannot/ add links to everything in all places in the docs; the best we can do is have a

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Lauer
Stefan Waler stefan at waler.at writes: Great! Could you add petrucci-f5 at the next opportunity? Thanks, Stefan You can do it yourself, by putting this line in your .ly file: #(append! supported-clefs '((petrucci-f5 . (clefs.petrucci.f 4 0 I don't think the glyph is really

Re: Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2009-01-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2009 18:13:04 schrieb Mark Polesky: This should be closer to what you want, but I need to emphasize that it's not finished yet. It *is* possible to randomize the staff-line tear-lengths; hopefully I'll have time to work on

Re: rearrange music flow

2009-01-04 Thread Antanas Budriūnas
2009/1/3 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Antanas, On 1/3/09 9:21 AM, Antanas Budri?nas antan...@gmail.com wrote: parallelStaffs = #(define-music-function (parser location firstStaff firstLyrics secondStaff secondLyrics) (ly:music? ly:xxx? ly:music? ly:xxx?) #{

Re: Umlaute

2009-01-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 04.01.2009 um 20:22 schrieb Arjan Bos: On 4 jan 2009, at 19:31, Hasi wrote: Do any of you know how I can use Umlaute? I'd like to do the following: _\markup { \italic hartnäckig } it just comes out as hartnckig Hasi, Please save the file with UTF-8 encoding. Most editors offer this

Re: How to not display string numbers in chords

2009-01-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Grateful Frog wrote: Hello again! I'm once again posting with a newbie question. I'm trying to make a score with both music and tab staffs, as well as chord names a fret diagrams. But NOT string numbers in circles. Can anyone suggest the proper thing to set? Is it an override? My Score

Re: How to not display string numbers in chords

2009-01-04 Thread Grateful Frog
Thanks! That did it perfectly! GF On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.comwrote: Grateful Frog wrote: Hello again! I'm trying to make a score with both music and tab staffs, as well as chord names a fret diagrams. But NOT string numbers in circles. You can

Re: How to not display string numbers in chords

2009-01-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Grateful Frog wrote: Thanks! That did it perfectly! GF Glad to help, but beware that transparent objects still take up space so if later you have layout problems with respect to fingerings and other things, it could have to do with the transparent string numbers. Best, Jon -- Jonathan

Re: How to not display string numbers in chords

2009-01-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
Jonathan Kulp jonlancekulp at gmail.com writes: Grateful Frog wrote: Thanks! That did it perfectly! GF Glad to help, but beware that transparent objects still take up space so if later you have layout problems with respect to fingerings and other things, it could have to do with

Re: a floating markup with many \score blocks in it

2009-01-04 Thread Francois Planiol
Hello Mr Bailey and thanks. By me, the result is: see the first 1/2-page of file. I need to have: see the 2nd 1/2-page (done with oodraw, not with lilypond of course) Thanks again, in advance Francois Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2009 16:39 schrieben Sie: music = \relative c' { c d e f }

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas Working on Lilypond files in a ramdisk (which is not exactly what you

Re: a floating markup with many \score blocks in it

2009-01-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francois The suggestion works as you want it in 2.12.1. What version are you using? You may need to set ragged-right = ##t in 2.10 or early versions of 2.11: \layout { ragged-right = ##t } in every \score block. Trevor - Original Message - From: Francois Planiol

Re: Frescobaldi on Fedora

2009-01-04 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:35:20PM +0100, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op zaterdag 3 januari 2009, schreef Martin Tarenskeen: Building and installing went OK. I can see the Frescobaldi message windows and edit a lilypond file. But PDF preview fails: Could not load okularpart. What is okularpart

Re: Missing petrucci-f clef (and other missing clefs)

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Michael Lauer wrote: I don't know what Petrucci actually used. Obviously, he used the latest stable release of Lilypond...;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: rearrange music flow

2009-01-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/4/09 1:27 PM, Antanas Budri?nas antan...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/3 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Antanas, On 1/3/09 9:21 AM, Antanas Budri?nas antan...@gmail.com wrote: parallelStaffs = #(define-music-function (parser location firstStaff You need to put \lyricsmode {

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas I mucked up part of my previous mail -- it should read: To do this

Re: a floating markup with many \score blocks in it

2009-01-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Francois, By me, the result is: see the first 1/2-page of file. I need to have: see the 2nd 1/2-page (done with oodraw, not with lilypond of course) Look for \startStaff and \stopStaff in the documentation and list archive. HTH! Kieren.

collision between glissando and sharp

2009-01-04 Thread chip
In the following code sample how would I prevent the glissando and sharp sign collision? -- Thanks, Chip \version 2.12.1 \header {} staffNotes = \new Staff { \time 4/4 \key c \major \clef treble \relative c'' { \override Glissando #'thickness = #3 \override Glissando #'style =

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 49613875.9020...@gmail.com, M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com writes Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance by enabling the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab. Whenever you read a file, you system also performs a writing operation, to store the time of last

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:23 +, Anthony W. Youngman a écrit : WARNING! I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be careful. I have used noatime for years without noticeable inconsistency with Git and CVS. Cheers, John

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 5. Januar 2009 00:23:06 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: In message 49613875.9020...@gmail.com, M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com writes Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance by enabling the 'noatime' option in

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/4/09 7:24 AM, Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr wrote: Le 4 janv. 09 à 15:15, John Mandereau a écrit : When you're done with this task, each function for which you are responsible should have an internationalizable docstring. By internationalizable, I mean that it will look

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 09:33 +0100, Thomas Fehr a écrit : I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? I'm not sure a ramdisk will increase

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 17:02 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : I don't understand the significance of the change from _i to _idoc (which I would recommend instead of _doc). What is the difference between the lilypond gettext domain and the lilypond-doc gettext domain. The difference is

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/4/09 5:33 PM, John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com wrote: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 17:02 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : I don't understand the significance of the change from _i to _idoc (which I would recommend instead of _doc). What is the difference between the lilypond

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/4/09 7:15 AM, John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carl, Le vendredi 02 janvier 2009 à 20:16 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : I've attached a file README-contrib.txt, which is an attempt at what one of you described as Frogging for Dummies. It gives at least a brief