Re: Difficulty in jedit with LilyPondTools

2011-04-09 Thread bruys .
Hello Michael, I know next to nothing about JEdit, except that it installed on my (Windows) system without any difficulty. No-one else has replied, so I thought I'd mention that a few more details are probably required before anyone can help. It would appear that JEdit is not finding a necessary

Re: Difficulty in jedit with LilyPondTools

2011-04-09 Thread Nick Payne
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com wrote: I just started using JEdit and the LilypondTools provided as a plug-in for that editor. Everytime I use it though, I keep getting the follwoing error: java.io IOException:error=2, No such file or directory - Any help

Spacing broken tie away from key signature

2011-04-09 Thread Nick Payne
When a tie is broken across staves, the second part of the tie defaults to starting right at the key signature. How can I move it slightly away? Setting extra-spacing-width for the KeySignature moves the first note further away but doesn't move the starting point of the broken tie. I also

Re: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord

2011-04-09 Thread -Eluze
bruys . wrote: Hello Again, Part 2: If I put each part into a separate voice context, the ties are in the right direction, but otherwise it's a real mess. i tried another approach starting from your original code: since the tie of the d'' goes thru the fis'' it looks a bit funny if

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Music Teacher
I feel this is quite the point. Mutopia is a very nice project, no doubt. But a repository only with ly-files would be also very helpful, in conjonction (does it exist?) with a lily-fonction to translate notes names from one language t another (I got used to netherland notes names, and i dislike

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread steve
Unfortunately, there is an obvious error in Bach Goldberg Aria bar 18 that I have seen propagated to several other versions that have used this as source. Not good. -steve 2011/4/8 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com 2011/4/8 steve st...@linuxsuite.org: Howdy!   Hope this

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Music Teacher
Out of topic??? Tis lilypond and the thread is mutopia, what that??? 2011/4/8, st...@linuxsuite.org st...@linuxsuite.org: Unfortunately, there is an obvious error in Bach Goldberg Aria bar 18 that I have seen propagated to several other versions that have used this as source. Not good.

Re: Installing custom font for Lilypond

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 09.04.2011 04:50, schrieb Aleksandr Andreev: Hello folks, Basically, I'm trying to create a library of Lilypond scores with some of my collaborators and I'd like to automate the process. I've installed Lilypond on my server and I've allowed each user to drop Lilypond source files via a Perl

Re: programming error: cannot align on self: empty element

2011-04-09 Thread madMuze
\tempo 4 = 72 \override Score.MetronomeMark #'stencil = ##f Nick, I've been using: tpoMidi = #(define-music-function (parser location bUnit rayt) (number? number?) #{ \once \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \set Score.tempoWholesPerMinute =

Re:status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, one thing I missed last time we were discussing the future of Mutopia, was to thank Chris for his wonderful work in recent years. I wanted to write a post to this group, but remembered that friends, which I wanted to draw to Lilypond are also interested in my reflections. So I posted them

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Bernardo Barros
2011/4/9 Hajo Dezelski dl1...@googlemail.com: - The depositary should be locate on one site. - Contributors should be responsible for their files - Contributers should identify themselves by real names - Contributers should be able with the help of software to produce from their ly-file a

Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Back in the olden days, lilypond-book only set the music, and left the titling to the publishing program. I produced a book of Drinking Songs in LaTeX, with the titles in hge, an Old English font derived from the Hershey font. I now want to do an updated version of this book. I would like the

swing rhythm in midi output?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Mouries
Is possible to write regular eight notes and set settings in midi output to generate a swing rhythm like? inline: SwingRhythm.gif -Marc___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-04-09 um 17:32 schrieb Laura Conrad: 1. How to tell lilypond how to use a particular font for titles. \header{ title = \markup{\override #'(font-name . Old English) Your Title} } It would be preferable to have a variable that I could set for all my files, so that saying:

Is pagination quadratic?

2011-04-09 Thread Victor Eijkhout
The other day I had the brilliant idea of writing some python code to generate the lilypond input for exercises. After all, generating the lilypond code for all triads, all scales, whatnot, is pretty simple. So now I have this exercise study that generates close to 2000 scales like \relative c

how to set a partial measure after the beginning of a piece?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Mouries
I checked the doc here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms and it says: partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece. If you use it after the beginning, some odd warnings may occur. Any pointer about how to achieve this?

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Henning == Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Henning Am 2011-04-09 um 17:32 schrieb Laura Conrad: 1. How to tell lilypond how to use a particular font for titles. Henning \header{ Henning title = \markup{\override #'(font-name . Old English) Your Title} Thanks.

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Victor Eijkhout
(sorry for breaking the thread. is there an easy way to follow up to a message in the digest?) Is this project dead? Sadly yes it is, in practice. I hope everyone knows about the Werner Icking Music Archive? http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php Public domain, pdf files, and the

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Laura == Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org writes: Laura This is on lilypond 2.13.58. On 2.12.3, it seems to work Laura fine. I guess I should report this to bugs. I take it back. 2.12.13 has different bugs. It works fine with Georgia, but doesn't seem to see the fonts I installed,

Re: swing rhythm in midi output?

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Ellis
One way would be to write a music function that produces converts straight-eighths to swing values. Here's an outline of what's needed. Perhaps someone has already solved this. You should be able to find some code in LSR that can be modified to do what you want. Changing durations is trivial,

Re: how to set a partial measure after the beginning of a piece?

2011-04-09 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, 2011/4/9 Marc Mouries m...@mouries.net I checked the doc here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms and it says: partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece. If you use it after the beginning, some odd warnings may

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Phil Holmes
Laura, See below - Original Message - From: Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org I'm sure it does. But right now there's still a problem. When I put the title markup into my file, and run lilypond on it, lilypond is fine, but then when it tries to convert the .ps file to .pdf,

First page completed; tweaking questions

2011-04-09 Thread Ivan Kuznetsov
I have my first page of music notated with lilypond here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61572029@N04/5603253711/ CONCERNING area's marked in red A1 and A2: Sometimes I require one note to have two stems indicating that the note belongs to two voices. A2 worked out as I intended but for A1,

Re: Old English font for titles

2011-04-09 Thread Laura Conrad
Phil == Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: Laura ghostscript says: Laura `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 Laura -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 Laura -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite Laura -sOutputFile=./five.pdf -c.setpdfwrite

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Music Teacher
I think theres place enough for icking, mutopia and imslp. The nice with mutopia is that you get 100% the source for the music you search, so you can rearrange pages turns and much more. Love it, Francois 2011/4/9, Victor Eijkhout vic...@eijkhout.net: (sorry for breaking the thread. is there an

Re: how to set a partial measure after the beginning of a piece?

2011-04-09 Thread Mark Polesky
Marc Mouries wrote: checked the doc here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms and it says: partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece.  If you use it after the beginning, some odd warnings may occur. Any pointer about

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. [...] I hope everyone knows about the Werner Icking Music Archive? http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php Public domain, pdf files, and the maintainer encourages contributors to include source (and sound or at least midi) files. Most of my music

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Music Teacher alicuota...@gmail.com wrote: I think theres place enough for icking, mutopia and imslp. The nice with mutopia is that you get 100% the source for the music you search, so you can rearrange pages turns and much more. Love it, Of course. There are

Re: status of mutopia project

2011-04-09 Thread Nick Payne
On 10/04/11 01:29, Bernardo Barros wrote: If its possible to download all the material (it is?) would be very simple to set up a mercurial repository at google code or bitbucket, if you do not like git. I while ago I downloaded the complete Mutopia contents to my local hard drive from the ftp

First page completed; tweaking questions

2011-04-09 Thread ivan . k . kuznetsov
I have my first page of music notated with lilypond here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61572029@N04/5603253711/ CONCERNING area's marked in red A1 and A2: Sometimes I require one note to have two stems indicating that the note belongs to two voices. A2 worked out as I intended but for A1,

Re: First page completed; tweaking questions

2011-04-09 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:08 PM, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: I have my first page of music notated with lilypond here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61572029@N04/5603253711/ CONCERNING area's marked in red A1 and A2: Sometimes I require one note to have two stems indicating

Re: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord

2011-04-09 Thread bruys .
Hello Eluze, This is quite exciting. You have produced a decent result. Your method promises the ability to tweak away to get the exact result required (but see below). It looks like you have shown that the part of the manual that I quoted is misleading, it seems that setting control-points will

Lyrics - vertical alignments

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Dykes
I have a score (attached) that has the lyrics placed rather high, that is not centered between the staves. I have looked into the manual a lot, and still have yet to come up with a solution. Help please. Thanks in advance. -- In Christ, Michael D \version 2.12.3 \include english.ly \include

Re: Lyrics - vertical alignments

2011-04-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/9/11 9:48 PM, Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com wrote: I have a score (attached) that has the lyrics placed rather high, that is not centered between the staves. I have looked into the manual a lot, and still have yet to come up with a solution. Help please. Thanks in advance.

how does beforebreak work?

2011-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
We have a problem. The only full-time doc writer/editor isn't certain how breakbefore works, and I'm not certain that he completely understands the \book{} and \bookparts{} input file structure either. This has resulted in a much-needed rewrite for Notation 3 Spacing being delayed by literally

Re: Lyrics - vertical alignments

2011-04-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/9/11 10:27 PM, Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry. I re-wrote and re-compiled the file, with a newer version (2.13.58) and the lyrics are farther down, but still not centered b/t the staves. Thanks. It is attached. Please keep the replies on list, so they can be of

Re: Lyrics - vertical alignments

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Dykes
I have read this - well most of this section before, but when I try it I still get the same results. Perhaps someone could help me out a little, please? On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 4/9/11 10:27 PM, Michael Dykes thedoctor81...@gmail.com wrote: