Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Dear community, I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. I created a style sheet for a certain kind of score that I need regularely, namely classical voice-piano songs. When I reduced the staff size in a way that I get enough music on a page it

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

2013-01-07 Thread Johannes Rohrer
Adam Spiers lilypond-user at adamspiers.org writes: I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, e.g. in f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16 \glissando } \unHideNotes f8) a NoteOn event is generated for the c16. Hopefully I should be able to address this if someone

ChordNames default font

2013-01-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, I find the default choice of font and fontsize for ChordNames extremely ugly. I know, it's a matter of personal taste. But has there ever been a poll/vote among Lilypond users about this? I have a feeling that I am not the only one who *always* uses \override to change this ChordName

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite to explicitely mention Adobe Minion Pro. What I like about it is - the

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/01/13 21:36, Urs Liska wrote: Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite to explicitely mention Adobe Minion Pro.

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 11:48, schrieb Nick Payne: On 07/01/13 21:36, Urs Liska wrote: Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard: Greetings from Australia, So what font is it, actually? You did not mention. I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf... But of course it would have been polite

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. They should be well equipped in terms of language

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. They

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), and if you install Reader on Windows, they are copied to

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), and if you

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 12:14, schrieb David Kastrup: Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/1/7 Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: [...] I don't like Adobe Reader on my system, it takes much too much space. I use evince. [...] A little off-topic. I recently wrote a draw-dashed-line-markup-command. During development I made the experience that evince didn't print all

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. They

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-01-07 um 12:14 schrieb David Kastrup: Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread Brett Duncan
On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few apps other than the usual: Synaptic, Inkscape, LilyPond/Frescobaldi, etc. All I did was install Rumor and poof - these appeared, no other items I can think of that could be the

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de writes: Am 07.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for Century Schoolbook. So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for good free

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au writes: On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few apps other than the usual: Synaptic, Inkscape, LilyPond/Frescobaldi, etc. All I did was install Rumor and poof - these

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

2013-01-07 Thread Adam Spiers
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Johannes Rohrer s...@johannesrohrer.de wrote: Adam Spiers lilypond-user at adamspiers.org writes: I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, e.g. in f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16 \glissando } \unHideNotes f8) a NoteOn event is

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread Noeck
Hi, I also saw that with Frescobaldi under ubuntu (with the default unity desktop). It might be connected to the global menu of unity, because it never occured with the gnome-panel interface, I am using now instead of unity. Cheers, Joram ___

Put-mm

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Gentry
I have searched, Mail Archives, Snippet repositry and the Lilypond home page for this function but cannot find any reference to it - where should I be looking? Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:28:17 -0500 From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Crighton
Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But maybe I’m missing some important issues … I’m not that

Re: Put-mm

2013-01-07 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Peter On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.ukwrote: I have searched, Mail Archives, Snippet repositry and the Lilypond home page for this function but cannot find any reference to it - where should I be looking?

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
OK, I'll try making a new user and see if that fixes it. Thanks! David Kastrup wrote Brett Duncan lt; bdd1967@.net gt; writes: On 7/01/13 6:11 PM, SoundsFromSound wrote: Thank you so much for the reply. I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, very few apps other than the usual:

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
David: I added two new users, one at a time, and tried them all. All accounts show this error in Frescobaldi / LilyPond. One admin account and two regular accounts. Any ideas how I can fix this? It's so bad that every time I click the mouse on any menu options of any menu in Frescobaldi, it

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
Oh and I just found this! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? - composer | sound designer -- View this message in context:

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: David: I added two new users, one at a time, and tried them all. All accounts show this error in Frescobaldi / LilyPond. One admin account and two regular accounts. Ok, that means at least that this is not a problem of your _personal_

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread David Kastrup
SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com writes: Oh and I just found this! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? That's nothing. Try URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195 and this is not the

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Antonio Gervasoni writes: Of course, just typing notes in a keyboard may be faster than inputing them with the mouse but the workflow becomes very slow when you have to make all the necessary tweaks to get a nice result. Also, there are lots of different expressions and commands and some of

Re: Exporting SVG files into Inkscape - font issues

2013-01-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
SoundsFromSound writes: This DOES work in Linux, no problem - beautifully too, Olivier. But Windows, no matter what I do/move what fonts where, it just will NOT open the SVG w/ correct fonts. Grrr. Windows and fonts is a nightmare. I looked into Denemo and GUI fonts for Windows and

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
Got it, sounds good! Thanks David! I'm on it. David Kastrup wrote SoundsFromSound lt; soundsfromsound@ gt; writes: Oh and I just found this! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1058911 I guess it's a bug...from a few months back? That's nothing. Try

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 07.01.2013 15:01, schrieb Peter Crighton: Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But maybe

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread SoundsFromSound
- composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/RUMOR-Midi-utility-Frescobaldi-Menu-Error-tp138931p138987.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing

sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

2013-01-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all! I'm frantically cranking out orchestrations and scores for Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy, which opens this Friday. http://harthouse.ca/robin-hood-the-legendary-musical-comedy/ p.s. This is *by far* the largest project I've ever Lily-pounded! Anyway, it's hardly critical

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/01/13 22:19, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nick Payne wrote: The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), and if you

Re: \hideNotes and MIDI Note_performer

2013-01-07 Thread Johannes Rohrer
Adam Spiers lilypond-user at adamspiers.org writes: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Johannes Rohrer src at johannesrohrer.de wrote: Adam Spiers lilypond-user at adamspiers.org writes: I've noticed that MIDI generation doesn't honour transparent notes, e.g. in f8( \hideNotes \grace { c16

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

2013-01-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Lilypond-User Mailing List lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 4:56 PM Subject: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed Hi all! I'm frantically cranking out orchestrations and scores

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-01-07 um 15:01 schrieb Peter Crighton: Could you explain to me why you think Gentium isn’t suitable for lyrics? I’m using it (Gentium Book Basic) for my lyrics and am quite satisfied with it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiant_records/Sing+it+High+Songbook/Sing+It+High+Sample.pdf But

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

2013-01-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2013-01-07 20:16, Kieren MacMillan wrote: But here's a screenshot of what I'm getting with soloists plus chorus (this is exactly as desired): And here's the result when there are no soloists in the [frenched] system: In this latter situation, I want the straight bar (which is only present

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Crighton
I found Gentium Book Basic to be rather condensed, though, when choosing it several months ago. But you’re right, it might not be that suitable in other settings. I mainly write scores of the type I linked to, though, so at the moment, Gentium Book Basic is perfect for me. I very much like the

new piece, typesetted with lilypond

2013-01-07 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, my newest piece for piano, synthesizer and percussion will be premiered this saturday in the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany Is it possible to make an anouncement at the lilypond-website? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Prallup on lefthand of note: positioning the glyph

2013-01-07 Thread Javier Ruiz
I believe the attached glyph is a prall-up. What is the override(s) needed to allow the script to print inside the staff to the lefthand of the note? Javierattachment: prallup.jpg___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Measure counter

2013-01-07 Thread David G
I'm currently using code based on the snippet in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-measure-counterto create numbers above bars where they are repeated. However this starts with a number 2 above the second bar, and I would like a 1 above the first bar. What's

Re: Prallup on lefthand of note: positioning the glyph

2013-01-07 Thread Shane Brandes
\override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-2.6 . -2.0) just a wild guess on the values. Shane On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Javier Ruiz jav...@ruiz-alma.com wrote: I believe the attached glyph is a prall-up. What is the override(s) needed to allow the script to print inside the staff to the

grace notes break preceding ties in MIDI

2013-01-07 Thread Adam Spiers
Hi all, Can anyone explain the following bug, and offer a work-around? Reproducible on latest git master: \include english.ly %\include articulate.ly \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { % BUG: This first f~ tie will not be honoured in the MIDI output % due to the \grace:

Re: sophisticated SystemStartBar callback needed

2013-01-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, Why do you need the line at all? I've never seen a vocal score anything like that, and I have seen quite a few. With only a very quick scan of my library, I turned up about a dozen that have a bar for the vox — they're mostly musical theatre scores (e.g., Les Miz, Sweeney Todd,

Re: RUMOR Midi utility Frescobaldi - Menu Error?

2013-01-07 Thread martinwguy
On 7 January 2013 13:51, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: I also saw that with Frescobaldi under ubuntu (with the default unity desktop). It might be connected to the global menu of unity, because it never occured with the gnome-panel interface Confirmed. I use gnome and couldn't see it.

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

2013-01-07 Thread Eben Sorkin
How does Fairplay look to you? http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Playfair+Display -e. On Jan 7, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [Vernon Adams and Eben Sorkin are two typographers who are actively designing lots of typefaces, Dave Crossland is a fabulous promoter of free font

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-07 Thread Antonio Gervasoni
Nick Paine writes: If you have a whole passage of tuplets, then... \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) \times 2/3 { your passage of tuplets } no need to repeat the \times 2/3 {} for each tuplet. Werner Lemberg writes: And with a small music function like T =

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
If you have a whole passage of tuplets, then... [...] And with a small music function like [...] Excellent, but I would say that only musicians who are also programmers and with a good knowledge of Scheme might be able to figure out such solutions. I disagree. All the knowledge is

Evince (Was: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?)

2013-01-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: I recently wrote a draw-dashed-line-markup-command. During development I made the experience that evince didn't print all dots in all cases. Adobe did. So I wouldn't want to miss it. Although I use evince all of the time, I never use it

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2013-01-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: That's why I like to differentiate between inputting and tweaking. Inputting is probably much, much faster using the keyboard. [...] I'm still not sure what the ideal way of inputting and tweaking would look like. The nice thing about text-based