Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/6 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Having worked for two corporations that have fairly extensive (and stringent) visual identity and branding guidelines (colors, typeface, formatting, etc.), I've learned that there are ways to make an obvious change between two things while still

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net writes: The U.S. has the concept of fair use see 17 U.S.C. § 107 But we want LilyPond to be distributable in more than just the U.S.A. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org schrieb: We need to figure out how we can provide style sheets, similar to how LaTeX makes it possible to define document classes (layout definitions and tools) and packages (raw functionality packaged into coherent interfaces).

Re: LilyPond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/12/6 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Having worked for two corporations that have fairly extensive (and stringent) visual identity and branding guidelines (colors, typeface, formatting, etc.), I've learned that there are ways to make

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: A real example using a template which provides an SATB choir on two staves with lyrics between them and a piano staff with accompaniment is attached. I've been using a similar approach for SLHML choir,

Re: LilyPond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/6 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: A suggestion from my colleague: for a long time he kept confusing LM and NR, and he said that it would be nice if (for example) they had different color schemes so that one will know where to look at things

Re: Extending LilyPond with packages

2013-12-06 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs and all, I really have to document, what I did with my packages and what ideas are behind them. It would need /some/ way to make them a public usable product, meaning, it has to be documented and a little bit restructured, but it has a lot of the mentioned features. So I try to summarize

Re: Images from snippets

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
snippet-icon = 85x85+95+107 Then these lines could produce the corresponding image: lilypond -fpng example.ly convert -crop 85x85+95+107 example.png example-icon.png This seems somewhat inconvenient to me (too manual). But i think we should rather speak about

Re: Images from snippets

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/6 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: snippet-icon = 85x85+95+107 Then these lines could produce the corresponding image: lilypond -fpng example.ly convert -crop 85x85+95+107 example.png example-icon.png This seems somewhat inconvenient to me (too manual). But i think we

Re: Images from snippets

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/12/6 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: snippet-icon = 85x85+95+107 Then these lines could produce the corresponding image: lilypond -fpng example.ly convert -crop 85x85+95+107 example.png example-icon.png This seems somewhat

Re: Images from snippets

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Well, one does not need numbers. One can just use a tag- or tweak- like command on elements that should be included in the icon, and then the bounding rectangle of all those is taken. Possibly always including the staff lines on the given stretch. I considered that, too. My reasoning

Re: Images from snippets

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Well, one does not need numbers. One can just use a tag- or tweak- like command on elements that should be included in the icon, and then the bounding rectangle of all those is taken. Possibly always including the staff lines on the given stretch. I

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 6:34 PM It's not so much about texinfo but... ... but someone who is an experienced web page designer and/or JavaScript programmer/user. The separation between content and presentation is already there due to the very nature

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/12/6 Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net: I did have a very brief look at the home page however * why are you out-sourcing tracking (google analytics)? I suppose that when that was decided upon, there may have been no good free alternatives to Google Analytics. But now there

Re: Extending LilyPond with packages

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Jan-Peter, 2013/12/6 Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de: Hi Urs and all, I really have to document, what I did with my packages and what ideas are behind them. It would need /some/ way to make them a public usable product, meaning, it has to be documented and a little bit restructured, but

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: Janek Warchol janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:36 PM The way many Windows installers work is that they present you as a user with a list of components to select to be installed, of which some will be selected (or not) by

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 11:16 AM * why are you out-sourcing tracking (google analytics)? I suppose that when that was decided upon, there may have been no good free alternatives to Google Analytics. But now there is for example Piwik -

Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Gentry
2013/12/4 Jacques Menu imj-...@bluewin.ch My recent experience creating choir scores for the first time, one of them with difference words a given stanza in a repeated part (see attachments), makes me think it would help to have off-the-shelf *commented* samples of some size and

Re: Extending LilyPond with packages

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Gentry
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:30:19 +0100 From: Janek Warcho? janek.lilyp...@gmail.com I'm very sorry that i don't have time to look closely at LaLily, but from what i see, it's very interesting and a move in the right direction. Probably OrchestralLily

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net writes: What exactly is not easy to implement in Joseph Rushton Wakeling's suggestion of an optional frescobaldi install from lilypond's windows installer? That very much provokes the answer Patches welcome, but of course that might already be too

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
Carl, you might also like to keep in mind Lilypond's search rankings while you redesign. A first page listing would bump up traffic considerable, and shouldn't be hard to achieve given that whoever designed lilypond's homepage hasn't given any thought to SE ranking - there's just no relevant

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/12/6 Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net Carl, you might also like to keep in mind Lilypond's search rankings while you redesign. A first page listing would bump up traffic considerable, and shouldn't be hard to achieve given that whoever designed lilypond's homepage hasn't given any

strip dynamics for Piano music

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Hi, is it possible somehow, to split contents of a music expression into two? I am asking for a piano staff which I would enter as follows: upper = { a4\f g f e\p } lower = { a,1 } Then use it with a Dynamics context between the staffs and put the dynamics there and the rest in the upper staff

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Federico Bruni writes: 2013/12/6 Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net Carl, you might also like to keep in mind Lilypond's search rankings while you redesign. This is really bad, I never checked it. 1. improve SEO I guess I'm glad someone notices and seems to care

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread James Harkins
A side comment, picking up on a comment in the Windows experience thread: I hope the new site will avoid any hooks to Google analytics or other APIs. I'm behind the Great Firewall of China, and I see frequently how Google dependencies cause page loading times to balloon, while the browser waits

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 12:43 PM Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net writes: What exactly is not easy to implement in Joseph Rushton Wakeling's suggestion of an optional frescobaldi install from lilypond's windows installer? That very much

Re: strip dynamics for Piano music

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Hi, is it possible somehow, to split contents of a music expression into two? I am asking for a piano staff which I would enter as follows: upper = { a4\f g f e\p } lower = { a,1 } Then use it with a Dynamics context between the staffs and put the

Re: strip dynamics for Piano music

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Am 06.12.2013 14:48, schrieb David Kastrup: \version 2.17.29 upper = { a4\f g f e\p } lower = { a,1 } \new PianoStaff \new Staff \new Voice \with { \remove Dynamic_engraver } \upper \new Dynamics \upper \new Staff \lower Hi David, it looks good, but it does not work for me

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 14:12, schrieb Federico Bruni: These problems should be recorded in our tracker. So far I've seen 2 issues/feature requests: 1. improve SEO 2. associate a different color scheme to each manual I think although not explicitly stated as a feature request the discussion surely

Re: strip dynamics for Piano music

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Am 06.12.2013 14:48, schrieb David Kastrup: \version 2.17.29 upper = { a4\f g f e\p } lower = { a,1 } \new PianoStaff \new Staff \new Voice \with { \remove Dynamic_engraver } \upper \new Dynamics \upper \new Staff \lower Hi David, it

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska m...@ursliska.de writes: Am 06.12.2013 14:12, schrieb Federico Bruni: These problems should be recorded in our tracker. So far I've seen 2 issues/feature requests: 1. improve SEO 2. associate a different color scheme to each manual I think although not explicitly stated as a

Re: Symmetrical ties in TieColumn

2013-12-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Karol, On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl wrote: Hi, David Your function for offsetting control-points of a TieColumn is very useful to me. Now it would be great if someone could improve it to make it work with ties over the line break. I'm glad that you find

Re: strip dynamics for Piano music

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Thanks David Well, what do you expect if you don't specify the version you are using (by the way: what point is there in using an outdated development version?)? laziness and lack of regular use. Cheers, Joram ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.netwrote: From: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 11:16 AM * why are you out-sourcing tracking (google analytics)? I suppose that when that was decided upon, there may have been no

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:42 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net writes: The U.S. has the concept of fair use see 17 U.S.C. § 107 But we want LilyPond to be distributable in more than just the U.S.A. Indeed. I am not a legal expert by any stretch (I've

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Carl Peterson Here is the question that gets to your question: what are the server-side capabilities of the LilyPond web server? I think one of the issues is that some of these require backend capabilities that may or may not be available. Also, is the code

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: A side comment, picking up on a comment in the Windows experience thread: I hope the new site will avoid any hooks to Google analytics or other APIs. I'm behind the Great Firewall of China, and I see frequently how

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: Our server is provided on a goodwill basis, and so we would not want to use any scripting that might load it. I was thinking that was the case. This would be a script that would append all the request headers to a text

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:42 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net writes: The U.S. has the concept of fair use see 17 U.S.C. § 107 But we want LilyPond to be distributable in more than just the U.S.A.

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Carl Peterson I want to eventually eliminate any image file that does not contribute to content. The first victim of this will be the gradient images used for the header and navigation backgrounds. CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one less

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: So any extension announced after the death of an author should not apply to the works of an author who labored under different assumptions when creating the work. +1 Indeed. That said, if a work is in the public domain, it's

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: So any extension announced after the death of an author should not apply to the works of an author who labored under different assumptions when creating the work. +1 Indeed.

Re: LilyPond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: Carl Peterson I want to eventually eliminate any image file that does not contribute to content. The first victim of this will be the gradient images used for the header and navigation backgrounds. CSS gradients

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:35 PM Our server is provided on a goodwill basis, and so we would not want to use any scripting that might load it. Carl Perterson wrote: CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:47 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: So any extension announced after the death of an author should not apply to the works of an author who

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net; Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com; James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com Cc: Mailinglist lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:59 PM Subject: Re:

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 05/12/13 21:18, Janek Warchoł wrote: as promised, here are engraving comparisons that i hand out to musicians i meet: What Finale version are you using to generate these examples? I hate to say this, but from my point of view (as a Lilypond user and enthusiast) I think that rather than

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: Well, yes, as CPU load. I remain of the view that this is not a good use of time - there are other things that will be of greater value for less effort. Remember, you'll not be doing this by editing HTML, but the

hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Hi, currently \hideNotes does not hide articulations, slurs, ties etc. Is that on purpose? { \hideNotes a-.\cresc b-\! a?( \parenthesize b) | a\ ~ a-1 \tuplet 3/2 {a4 a a\f } a4 \glissando a' } I would suggest to add this to \hideNotes in ly/property-init.ly and the corresponding reverts

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Shane Brandes
Thankfully it does not hide articulations. It seems to be the only way to make cross staff/cross voice slurs in piano/organ scores. I just spent several hours yesterday doing just that to six pages of music. It would be great if there was a simpler way and issue 2411 was resolved. So the invisible

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:21 PM Subject: hideNotes Hi, currently \hideNotes does not hide articulations, slurs, ties etc. Is that on purpose? { \hideNotes a-.\cresc b-\! a?(

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Hi, currently \hideNotes does not hide articulations, slurs, ties etc. Is that on purpose? Yes. \hideNotes is often used for fudging things like cross-voice slurs. If you hide everything _attached_ to the notes, where is the point in using notes at all?

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
Am 06.12.2013 17:29, schrieb Shane Brandes: Thankfully it does not hide articulations. It seems to be the only way to make cross staff/cross voice slurs in piano/organ scores. Ok, if this is needed (and it hides notes (only) as it says), how about a similar \hideVoice command that hides all

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Noeck
… and I use the hiding (transparent = ##t) here, because that way the spacing is preserved (in case you wonder why I write the notes there at all). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: hideNotes

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 17:31, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:21 PM Subject: hideNotes Hi, currently \hideNotes does not hide articulations, slurs, ties etc. Is that on

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Ryan McClure
If you want a real comparison, give two expert users -- one of Finale, one of Lilypond -- the same score and give them an hour to engrave as much as they can, with the goal that every single bar they engrave is perfect. Then compare what they achieve. While I think this is a good idea, I have a

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Ryan McClure
I just did a Google search on a computer that I've never used/logged into before. My account was fresh, and I did these searches without any previous history affecting my results: Music notation software Lilypond came in at 25. Free music notation software It came in at 11. Free music

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 19:53, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling: I disagree, because the faults of default Finale output are not serious faults if they're quick and easy to fix. Some more aspects to this: How reliably can these faults be fixed? What happens to the fixes if you screw up with a tweak.

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Shane Brandes
agreed, but Ryan stated he was in the U.S. I am in the and therefore have had to deal directly with that code of laws, having knowledge of that useful and interesting bit of the law I mentioned it in the hopes of spurring on discovery of what others might know about the current situation across

Re: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 06/12/13 20:02, Urs Liska wrote: Some more aspects to this: How reliably can these faults be fixed? What happens to the fixes if you screw up with a tweak. What if the layout changes because of corrections or a different paper format? How can someone else fix issues in a score? etc. etc.

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: Ryan McClure ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 6:59 PM I just did a Google search on a computer that I've never used/logged into before. My account was fresh, and I did these searches without any previous history affecting my results: Music notation

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: Ryan McClure ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 6:59 PM I just did a Google search on a computer that I've never used/logged into before. My account was fresh, and I did these searches without any previous history affecting my results: Music notation

RE: engraving comparisons and other promotional materials

2013-12-06 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Mr. McClure, On two previous mailings I have extoled the values of Lilypond for the new user (loaded mine this last March), or what might be called its out of the box capabilities. Since installation I have transcribed 20+ piano scores for my own study and use. All of them are crisper than the

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Urs, 2013/12/6 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Urs Liska m...@ursliska.de writes: Am 06.12.2013 14:12, schrieb Federico Bruni: These problems should be recorded in our tracker. So far I've seen 2 issues/feature requests: 1. improve SEO 2. associate a different color scheme to each manual I

Re: Lilypond Website Work

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 21:26, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Urs, 2013/12/6 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Urs Liska m...@ursliska.de writes: I think although not explicitly stated as a feature request the discussion surely yields 3. Clarify first steps/new user experience. I don't think that this is the

Re: Gittip (and Supporting my work on LilyPond financially)

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 12/02/2013 02:03 AM, Paul Morris wrote: I have been keeping my eye on Gittip. It's basically a tool that lets individuals make ongoing weekly payments to other individuals (or organizations) to support whatever work they do. It happens that more often than not this is volunteer work on

lilypond.org Pondings

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I always was subconciously aware of the fact that there are quite few and repeated Pondings on the lilypond.org entry page. Now I found them in the LilyPond Git repository and noticed that there really are _only three_ different items! Come on, it's not possible that the LilyPond

Re: lilypond.org Pondings

2013-12-06 Thread SoundsFromSound
Urs Liska wrote Hi, I always was subconciously aware of the fact that there are quite few and repeated Pondings on the lilypond.org entry page. Now I found them in the LilyPond Git repository and noticed that there really are _only three_ different items! Come on, it's not possible

Re: lilypond.org Pondings

2013-12-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 22:51, schrieb SoundsFromSound: Urs Liska wrote Hi, What is the official definition of a ponding? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-04/msg00533.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/6 Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net: What exactly is not easy to implement in Joseph Rushton Wakeling's suggestion of an optional frescobaldi install from lilypond's windows installer? Well, i'm not familiar with this area, but keep in mind that one has to find a free, open-source

Re: lilypond.org Pondings

2013-12-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Come on, it's not possible that the LilyPond community has so little to offer in terms of projects. Step out of the dark and tell the world what we do! Tomorrow, MSU's Home For the Holidays spectacular will include around over 330 musicians singing over 25 minutes of

Reducing horizontal spacing

2013-12-06 Thread David Bolton
My goal is to reduce the horizontal spacing so that I fit four measures per system instead of two. Unfortunately I can't work out where the override statement is supposed to go. I've tried mimicking the locations shown in the documentation but they all give errors for my score.

Re: Reducing horizontal spacing

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/7 David Bolton davidkbol...@gmail.com: My goal is to reduce the horizontal spacing so that I fit four measures per system instead of two. Unfortunately I can't work out where the override statement is supposed to go. I've tried mimicking the locations shown in the documentation but