Re: new website, draft 7

2009-07-31 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/7/30 Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com: -  background: url(background-image.png) no-repeat 0 0; +  background: white url(background-image.png) no-repeat 0 0; I added #fff instead so that we'll save one byte.  :-) Great :-) Stupid me, one byte, didn't mention... :-) Thanks! -Patrick

First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
I made my first lilypond score for more than one instrument, and I thought I'd give some comments on some of the things that were really difficult from a beginner's perspective. I think it would be helpful to have a section in the LM on migrating from Finale/Sibelius, or a separate document, if

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread James E. Bailey
On 31.07.2009, at 21:18, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I made my first lilypond score for more than one instrument, and I thought I'd give some comments on some of the things that were really difficult from a beginner's perspective. I think it would be helpful to have a section in the LM on

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/7/31 Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: cross-staff tremolos - when doing a \repeat tremolo 4 { c16 d }, you can't put a \change inside the brackets, so I had to use an \autochange to get cross-staff tremolos. This isn't true. As long as you bear in mind that there can only be two

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-07-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
A complete nitpick: we should be thanking webdev.nl somewhere for hosting lilypond.org On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Hi all, http://lilypond.org/~graham/index.html -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-07-31 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, added. I'm not certain it looks good where it is right now (bottom-right of every page), but at least we won't forget about it, and we can move it elsewhere later. Cheers, - Graham On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:49:15PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: A complete nitpick: we should be

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: slurs - I had a lot of cannot end slur problems early on, evidently because I was trying to end a slur in a different voice (which isn't a problem in Finale). This seems to be a sufficiently common misunderstanding. Jonathan:

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com Subject: Re: First Lilypond Score To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 12:42 AM 2009/7/31 Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com:

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.cawrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: slurs - I had a lot of cannot end slur problems early on, evidently because I was trying to end a slur in a different voice (which isn't a

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Mark Polesky
Jonathan Kulp wrote: +...@warning{in polyphonic music, a slur must be terminated in +the same voice it began} Though I wonder if this is still a little misleading, because the real problem happens when the user is forced to split a voice into different music blocks, and doesn't know to ID the

Re: First Lilypond Score

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Subject: Re: First Lilypond Score To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:26