Re: book-predicate

2012-02-28 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Again: Thank you, David! So now (with upcoming 2.15.31 or 2.16) one can write functions like: --snip-- bookif = #(define-scheme-function (parser location book pred)(ly:book? procedure?) (if (pred parser location)(collect-bookpart-for-book parser book) )) --snip-- to conditionally add

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread -Eluze
Jonghyun Kim wrote: Thanks Tim for the advise, Can I try to this? I can define all of notes as numbers: ... 48 = c3 49 = c#3 50 = d3 51 = d#3 52 = e3 ...etc And replace the note names to numbers: { 48 50 52 49 51 } Then I get engraved score: c3 d3 e3 c#3 d#3 At

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Jonghyun Kim
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:38 AM, -Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: Jonghyun Kim wrote: Thanks Tim for the advise, Can I try to this? I can define all of notes as numbers: ... 48 = c3 49 = c#3 50 = d3 51 = d#3 52 = e3 ...etc And replace the note names to numbers:

Re: time signature question

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Thornock
Can I just say to Kieren: This is awesome (your brief replies below, I mean). You're a great example. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, if you think a bounty is exaggerated I thought nothing of the sort. In short, it was a

Re: Mac info.plist problem . Issue 2338

2012-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Stan Sanderson stans...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Stan Sanderson stans...@gmail.com wrote: On Mac OS X x86, LilyPond 2.15.30-1 would not run after expansion. A problem was reported with the Info.plist file. Upon examining the file (via: View Package Contents) I found a

Re: 2.14.2 will not work

2012-02-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:25 AM, bogimobile at me.com bogimob...@me.com wrote: I started wirh Lilypond three months ago, found it appealing, and hav worked with it on a small scale. i have made a few transcriptions, and felt quite

lilybin editor

2012-02-28 Thread MING TSANG
I have been trying to access http://lily.sytes.net/  and I got 502 Bad Gateway What happen? And I try http://www.lilybin.com.  The result is the same 502 Bad Gateway. Blessing in+, Ming. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Incipit troubles in 2.14

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan Waler
Hi all, the solution having been best practice for Incipits so far seems not to work anymore in 2.14. Lilypond just stops running after writing a message like Creating Systems to the logfile. In addition, it seems that the incipit section has been skipped in the current documentation (at

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
No programming language I know of can commandeer a *number* as the *name* for something *else*. PMA Jonghyun Kim wrote: Thanks Tim for the advise, Can I try to this? I can define all of notes as numbers: ... 48 = c3 49 = c#3 50 = d3 51 = d#3 52 = e3 ...etc And replace the note names to

Re: APIs, hooks, servers and realtime integration

2012-02-28 Thread James
Steve, On 28 February 2012 08:08, Steve Bennett stev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   I'm exploring possibilities for a web-based music creation and manipulation tool, and considering LilyPond for rendering the music (is there an alternative? :)). From what I can see in the documentation, it's

Email problem?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
Three Cc's of mine to the User list -- one last night and two more early this morning -- have not yet appeared among my received List emails. Did they get through at all? Thanks, PMA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Simple chord/lyrics sheets?

2012-02-28 Thread John Hartnup
Hi. I'm new to LilyPond, but I'm familiar with the TeX-like compilation model. I'm looking for a way to produce chord sheets of the kind used by several of the communities I play with. These are very much akin to a lead sheet -- with bar lines, time signatures, chord names above, repeat marks,

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
No programming language I know of can commandeer a *number* as the *name* for something *else*. PMA Jonghyun Kim wrote: Thanks Tim for the advise, Can I try to this? I can define all of notes as numbers: ... 48 = c3 49 = c#3 50 = d3 51 = d#3 52 = e3 ...etc And replace the note names to

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
You can calculate them any way you want. But you must then tell LilyPond what the note names *are*. Jonghyun Kim wrote: Thanks Ole for good info. I will test it. Really there is no way to write pitches with midi numbers in Lilypond? I need this way for composing music that calculate half-step

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jonghyun Kim agitato...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ole for good info. I will test it. Really there is no way to write pitches with midi numbers in Lilypond? I need this way for composing music that calculate half-step intervales... You are using the wrong

Re: Email problem?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
Nevermind, I just now got one. Apologies for the fuss. PMA wrote: Three Cc's of mine to the User list -- one last night and two more early this morning -- have not yet appeared among my received List emails. Did they get through at all? Thanks, PMA

Re: Simple chord/lyrics sheets?

2012-02-28 Thread James
Hello, On 28 February 2012 12:11, John Hartnup john.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm new to LilyPond, but I'm familiar with the TeX-like compilation model. I'm looking for a way to produce chord sheets of the kind used by several of the communities I play with. These are very much akin to a

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread -Eluze
lilypond-7 wrote: Most times, placing a clef change before a bar line is appropriate. When combined with repeated sections though, sometimes it is clearer to place a clef change after the bar line. I read through the LSR for everything 'clef' but didn't find anything on this topic.

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, Most times, placing a clef change before a bar line is appropriate. When combined with repeated sections though, sometimes it is clearer to place a clef change after the bar line. I read through the LSR for everything 'clef' but didn't find anything on this topic. You can do an

Re: Incipit troubles in 2.14

2012-02-28 Thread James
Hello, On 28 February 2012 09:06, Stefan Waler ste...@waler.at wrote: Hi all, the solution having been best practice for Incipits so far seems not to work anymore in 2.14. Lilypond just stops running after writing a message like Creating Systems to the logfile. In addition, it seems that

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: No programming language I know of can commandeer a *number* as the *name* for something *else*. Try FORTH. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: time signature question

2012-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Neil Thornock neilthorn...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, if you think a bounty is exaggerated I thought nothing of the sort. In short, it was a five-minute job because of work I did I had no doubt

Re: Mac info.plist problem . Issue 2338

2012-02-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:49 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Stan Sanderson stans...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Stan Sanderson stans...@gmail.com wrote: On Mac OS X x86, LilyPond 2.15.30-1 would not run after expansion. A problem was reported with the Info.plist

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Jonghyun Kim
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Brett McCoy idragos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jonghyun Kim agitato...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ole for good info. I will test it. Really there is no way to write pitches with midi numbers in Lilypond? I need this way for

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Jonghyun Kim wrote: Write pitches in a new language! It's the answer that I wished. No, it's not. What he showed you will take notes written in standard notation and print them out in another way. There is no way to get LilyPond to READ that alternate notation. The value 32 always refers to

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jonghyun Kim agitato...@gmail.com wrote: You are using the wrong software if you want to input notes as MIDI pitch numbers, IMHO. There are software packages that are designed for that (commercial and open source). Lilypond is a music typesetting system, not a

Re: time signature question

2012-02-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Neil, Can I just say to Kieren: This is awesome (your brief replies below, I mean). You're a great example. Aw, gee, thanks! =) Best regards, Kieren. p.s. I note you're at BYU… One of my [Lilypond-engraved] choral pieces will get its world premiere on March 24 in Sandy, UT

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Jonghyun Kim wrote: My favorite software was OpenMusic(an opensource composition tool by ircam), and I turned to Linux, so I had to find an alternative. I thought Lilypond is the one. If you know, please suggest me an alternative to OpenMusic on Linux. I think Lilypond can be an alternative

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Jonghyun Kim
In both midi sequencers(muse2 and rosegarden), can I calculate the pitch and the other one? Ie: 48 + 50 = 98 It means: c + d = ?(i dont konw exactly..) I wanna calculate by half step also quartertones. Ie: 48.5 + 50 = 98.25 It means: c semi-sharp + d = ? Could you understand me? 2012년 2월

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Brett McCoy
2012/2/28 Jonghyun Kim agitato...@gmail.com: In both midi sequencers(muse2 and rosegarden), can I calculate the pitch and the other one? Ie: 48 + 50 = 98 It means: c + d = ?(i dont konw exactly..) I wanna calculate by half step also quartertones. Ie: 48.5 + 50 = 98.25 It means: c

Re: time signature question

2012-02-28 Thread James
Kieren, On 28 February 2012 18:27, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Neil, Can I just say to Kieren: This is awesome (your brief replies below, I mean). You're a great example. Aw, gee, thanks!  =) Best regards, Kieren. p.s. I note you're at BYU… One of my

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
Yes, I've known Forth quite well. But this thread propelled me to bet on hyperbole. David Kastrup wrote: PMApeterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: No programming language I know of can commandeer a *number* as the *name* for something *else*. Try FORTH.

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Jonghyun Kim wrote: In both midi sequencers(muse2 and rosegarden), can I calculate the pitch and the other one? Ie: 48 + 50 = 98 It means: c + d = ?(i dont konw exactly..) See, that's not music. No one in the real world thinks about adding two notes that way. It's not meaningful. Those

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Jonghyun Kim agitato...@gmail.com writes: In both midi sequencers(muse2 and rosegarden), can I calculate the pitch and the other one?  Ie: 48 + 50 = 98  It means: c + d = ?(i dont konw exactly..) What does it even _mean_ to add pitches? I wanna calculate by half step also quartertones. 

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: Jonghyun Kim wrote: Write pitches in a new language! It's the answer that I wished. No, it's not. What he showed you will take notes written in standard notation and print them out in another way. There is no way to get LilyPond to READ that alternate

printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Bryn Hughes
Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a question that I hope is not too ignorant. I've

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Bryn Hughes wrote: Overall, I'd say that the rendering on Windows looks much better, though it'd be nice to have full control of formatting as well. There _are_ some minor differences in the pdf output on various platforms, but in this case my

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread -Eluze
David Nalesnik-2 wrote: Hi, Most times, placing a clef change before a bar line is appropriate. When combined with repeated sections though, sometimes it is clearer to place a clef change after the bar line. I read through the LSR for everything 'clef' but didn't find anything

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
Just in case: if it's the audio itself you're after (not necessarily also printed score), then you might possibly consider Csound, which can accept raw-number pitches -- as cycles per second or as fractional (in decimal or duodecimal) octaves. Csound is emphatically *not* user-friendly, though

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Eluze, 2012/2/28 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: David Nalesnik-2 wrote: You can do an override of Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders and get the result you want. (See http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/internals/breakalignment for more information.) HTH, thanks,

Re: Issue 1781 in lilypond: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) cannot run LilyPond

2012-02-28 Thread Colin Hall
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:57:06PM +, Nick Goddard wrote: On 28 Feb 2012, at 12:22, Colin Hall colingh...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Issue 1781 in lilypond: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) cannot run LilyPond Comment #22 on issue 1781 by nfgodd...@gmail.com: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) cannot

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread -Eluze
harm6 wrote: Hi Eluze, 2012/2/28 -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: David Nalesnik-2 wrote: You can do an override of Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders and get the result you want. (See http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/internals/breakalignment for more

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-28 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Phil, 2012/2/28 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi Phil, in the LSR-tarball I found the directory correction-wanted, shall I fix these files too? (I'd think, some of them should be deleted) I didn't look in the other directories. It seems they contain only sorted

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 29/02/12 06:42, Bryn Hughes wrote: Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
I've got to urge separating whatever it is that this guy is trying to do from the issue whether its result will or won't be music (temptation notwithstanding). Cheers! PMA Tim Roberts wrote: Jonghyun Kim wrote: In both midi sequencers(muse2 and rosegarden), can I calculate the pitch and the

Re: Note names in Midi Note Numbers?

2012-02-28 Thread PMA
P.S. If you must be adding things, how about adding intervals, say, instead of pitches? PMA wrote: Just in case: if it's the audio itself you're after (not necessarily also printed score), then you might possibly consider Csound, which can accept raw-number pitches -- as cycles per

Re: time signature question

2012-02-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Could we add it here? http://lilypond.org/productions.html All of my scores since 2003 have been happily Lily-pounded. =) Here are some recent highlights (compositions only, as the arrangements would be far too numerous). Feel free to put up there whatever you deem worthy. If you

Re: Placing clef change *after* bar line

2012-02-28 Thread lilypond
Thanks to everyone who provided suggestions! The BreakAlignment override worked a treat. Jim Cheers, Robin HTH, David hth Eluze Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread David Bobroff
On 2/28/2012 7:42 PM, Bryn Hughes wrote: Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a