Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello David, hello Urs, thank you very much for these improvements! I have a tiny addition: PhrasingSlurs --snip-- shapePhrasingSlur = #(define-music-function (parser location offsets) (list?) #{ \once \override PhrasingSlur #'control-points = #(shape-curve offsets

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Jan-Peter, thanks for this. I had already inserted phrasingSlurs into the function, but somehow they slipped through the net during some update ... Best Urs Am 10.05.2012 09:59, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello David, hello Urs, thank you very much for these improvements! I have a tiny

function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, I'm sorry that I once more have a basic Scheme question. [ Any suggestion for a reading to find my way into Scheme? I think I have some programming experience (although without any formal IT tuition), mainly from object pascal, but also a little bit with other languages. But when it

help needed for new church hymnbook / hulp gevraagd voor nieuw liedboek

2012-05-10 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
(Nederlandse tekst hieronder) Dear LilyPond-users, We (a conglomerate of three Dutch publishers) are in the process of creating a new Dutch church hymnary (Liedboek), containing roughly 1100 entities (songs/psalms/texts/etc). The music engraving is done using LilyPond. We are looking for 3 or

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: So now the question: How can I write a function that produces a toplevel expression? No such thing. I want to be able to write: \debugCurvesOn or #(debug-curves-on) (or something similar) which should then expand to \layout { \context {

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thank you for the reply Am 10.05.2012 12:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de writes: So now the question: How can I write a function that produces a toplevel expression? No such thing. :-( I want to be able to write: \debugCurvesOn or #(debug-curves-on)

Re: [ANN] Schumann - Album for the Young. Version 1. (in French or German)

2012-05-10 Thread Phil Hézaine
Le 09/05/2012 19:44, Phil Hézaine a écrit : Hi all, This publication comes in 2 forms: a version with FINGERING a version without FINGERING so the pianists, whichever they are students or professors, will use it at their convenience, at least let's hope so. You should also be noted that

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: I wanted to be able to write \liedScore Stimme Klavier or \liedScore Voice Piano and get back the respective \score block with the parameters substituted. But from your answers to the other part of the question I now know that this isn't possible. You

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Urs, On 10.05.2012 12:40, Urs Liska wrote: Hi David, thank you for the reply Am 10.05.2012 12:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de writes: So now the question: How can I write a function that produces a toplevel expression? No such thing. :-( an _ugly_ way is to

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Carl, I'm pretty sure he wants to use the *baseline* of the characters to align relative to the staff line. Ah, OK. Looking at the examples he's provided I see that that's exactly what he wants. So you can't use tab-note-head::print, since it centers the *total extent* of the

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hello Jan-Peter, thank you for the ideas, that I have partly understood. Am 10.05.2012 13:35, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Urs, On 10.05.2012 12:40, Urs Liska wrote: Hi David, thank you for the reply Am 10.05.2012 12:05, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liskali...@ursliska.de writes: So

Re: help needed for new church hymnbook / hulp gevraagd voor nieuw liedboek

2012-05-10 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 5/10/12 5:58 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: The music engraving is done using LilyPond. What format is the source material in? Hand-written scores? How will this material be provided to those who are selected to join the engraving team? -- Dossy Shiobara | He realized the

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Choan Gálvez
Hi, On 5/10/12 14:33 , David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Carl, I'm pretty sure he wants to use the *baseline* of the characters to align relative to the staff line. Ah, OK. Looking at the examples he's provided I see that that's exactly what he wants. So you can't use

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Choan, This looks very nice and it's _exactly_ what I had in mind :) Glad to hear it! But that's my opinion, I'm not the OP -- Christopher Webster is. Oops--seems I got lost... -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Christopher Webster
This looks very nice and it's _exactly_ what I had in mind :) But that's my opinion, I'm not the OP -- Christopher Webster is. Best. ... and said Christopher Webster is at work just now, and trying to concentrate reasonably conscientiously on it! But I promise to try this when I'm home

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread joannesmith
Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. I will probably end up sticking with Lilypond for all the reasons you mentioned. It really does seem like the best option ... I just need to hang in there long enough to get a good grip on it and be patient with

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread joannesmith
Ok, one more thing ... most of the responses were probably not private emails??!! I'm still learning this forum as well. Thanks for your patience! joannesmith wrote: Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. -- View this message in context:

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2012 16:36, schrieb joannesmith: Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. I will probably end up sticking with Lilypond for all the reasons you mentioned. It really does seem like the best option ... I just need to hang in there long enough

changing lyrics font

2012-05-10 Thread Kai
Hi Everybody, is there a possibility to change the lyric font? I would like to add lyrics in hebrew and found out, how to include utf-8 in the lyrics. For better readability I need a hebrew font other then the standard. For \markup texts that works just fine. But in the \lyricmode it doesn't.

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread ArnoldTheresius
joannesmith wrote: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making them all look nice. A friend

changing lyric font

2012-05-10 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Hi Everybody, is there a possibility to change the lyric font? I would like to add lyrics in hebrew and found out, how to include utf-8 in the lyrics. For better readability I need a hebrew font other then the standard. For \markup texts that works just fine. But in the \lyricmode it doesn't.

Mediawiki

2012-05-10 Thread Lucas Gonze
Hi Lilypond-user, I stumbled across a Mediawiki plugin that enables music, among other multimedia. Music would be written in Lilypond. http://wikitex.org/ Quote from there: After you place special tags in your wiki article, WikiTeX goes to work; in a nutshell, music \relative c' {

Re: pngtopnm missing?

2012-05-10 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm sorry I still can't answer your exact question, but I can give some pointers. pngtopnm is a standard image file format converter on unix boxes, and so I guess Lily assumes it's there for some of its operations, and it isn't on Windows. Hence the error message. In my experiments, using

RE: pngtopnm missing?

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Crossen
Thanks, Phil. I'll give that a try. From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:04 To: Chris Crossen; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: pngtopnm missing? I'm sorry I still can't answer your exact question, but I can give some pointers. pngtopnm is a

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread David Kastrup
Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: ... thanks to Davids remarkable parser refinements. (I was not amused in the first place, rewriting/updating my scores accordingly, but IMO these changes are a major step forward for lilypond!) convert-ly should have provided rather good coverage of the

Re: changing lyric font

2012-05-10 Thread Svetlana
Hi! Just use \override LyricText #'font-name = #Your font inside \lyricmode before your lyrics. Here is the link to some documentation with examples, scroll down to Changing stanza fonts: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Vocal-music Best wishes! Svetlana.

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi David, Am 10.05.2012 um 19:02 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: ... thanks to Davids remarkable parser refinements. (I was not amused in the first place, rewriting/updating my scores accordingly, but IMO these changes are a major step forward

Re: Clickable table of contents

2012-05-10 Thread Svetlana
Hi! I have similar task of making a mostly notes and a few of text in my book and here is my solution. 1) Process lilypond files with eps backend (lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly) - this gives pdfs (along with eps) for every SINGLE page of your scores.

Re: pngtopnm missing?

2012-05-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Phil Holmes writes: I'm sorry I still can't answer your exact question, but I can give some pointers. pngtopnm is a standard image file format converter on unix boxes, and so I guess Lily assumes it's there for some of its operations, and it isn't on Windows. Hence the error message.

Re: function that inserts a toplevel expression

2012-05-10 Thread David Kastrup
Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: Am 10.05.2012 um 19:02 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: ... thanks to Davids remarkable parser refinements. (I was not amused in the first place, rewriting/updating my scores accordingly, but IMO these

Re: Mediawiki

2012-05-10 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 09/05/2012 17:49, Lucas Gonze ha scritto: Hi Lilypond-user, I stumbled across a Mediawiki plugin that enables music, among other multimedia. Music would be written in Lilypond. http://wikitex.org/ If you search in the archives, you'll find a lot of discussion about mediawiki

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Christopher Webster
I think it looks absolutely splendid. Thank you all very much. /Christopher/. On 2012-05-10 16:11, Choan Gálvez wrote: \new TabStaff \with { tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format \override TabNoteHead #'whiteout = ##f } { \override TabNoteHead #'font-shape =

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, I thought a while about your function. I'd like to suggest some changes. In the attached file you can see: - Elimination of `function' as argument of shape-curve and introducing it as local variable. - A new condition added in shape-curve at the siblings-variable: ly:spanner? - In the

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/11 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi David, I thought a while about your function. I'd like to suggest some changes. In the attached file you can see: - Elimination of `function' as argument of shape-curve and introducing it as local variable. - A new condition added

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/5/11 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: Hi David, I thought a while about your function. I'd like to suggest some changes. In the attached file you can see: - Elimination of

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2012/5/11 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: I don't have 2.14.2 up to test, but this all should work there provided you add the # before the string? So: \shape #Slur #'( ... I tested what's needed to make it work with 2.14.2 (therefor the 2.14.2-version-number in the