Re: What is the correct way(TM) to set a Rezitationston?

2016-05-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 21:01:55 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Rudi, > > This seems very interesting to me. What period is this notation from? I > myself have never seen it before. Do you have further examples? Is it > important for your purposes to have the solid line? There are many forms

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 May 2016 at 08:43:12 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > My situation is this: I have two \score sections and at the end of the > first I want to alert the reader that the next staff will have a time > signature change. Lilypond does this for me perfectly within a score but > between two

Re: Rhythmic shorthand for notes?

2016-05-18 Thread Julian Lam
Thanks Kieren, I ended up using Malte's snippet, although I will keep yours handy as well. [image: Inline image 1] Thanks, *Julian Lam* Co-Founder & Core Maintainer | NodeBB Inc. | https://nodebb.org *NodeBB Inc.* 36 King Street East, Suite 400 Toronto, Ontario M5C 3B2 On Wed, May 18, 2016

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-18 Thread Knute Snortum
Well, that seems to work the same as leaving the s16 off. That is, the staff lines don't extend over the new time signature. I've attached a PNG where the top time signature is engraved incorrectly and the bottom time signature is correct. --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Wed, May 18, 2016 at

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I don't exactly know *why* you have this specific behaviour but I'm >> nearly sure that it is related to the fact that this calls your >> system version of Ghostscript instead of the one included in >> LilyPond, and that doesn't match. > > Maybe reconsider native PDF generation for LilyPond?

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:31:19 (-0400), Paul wrote: > > But I've now got it working. I noticed that I now have a ~/bin > directory with "lilypond" and other shell scripts in it. And > everything works fine when I do: > > $ ~/bin/lilypond test.ly > > or just > > $ lilypond test.ly Those are

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 18 May 2016 13:13:45 +0200 Urs Liska wrote: > I don't exactly know *why* you have this specific behaviour but I'm > nearly sure that it is related to the fact that this calls your system > version of Ghostscript instead of the one included in LilyPond, and that >

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.05.2016 um 17:11 schrieb Paul: > Hi all, > I've installed the latest lilypond dev version 2.19.42 on ubuntu 16.04 > following the instructions on the lilypond website: > http://lilypond.org/unix.html > > namely with: > $ sh lilypond-2.19.42-1.linux-64.sh > > But when I cd to my home

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Paul
On 05/18/2016 12:08 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: On Windows machines, this typically happens when the PDF file can't be written to - often because it's open in Adobe reader. Could something be locking test.pdf, or could there be a permissions problem on the directory? Thanks, I tried changing

Re: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Paul" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 4:11 PM Subject: Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu Hi all, I've installed the latest lilypond dev version 2.19.42 on ubuntu 16.04 following

Re: Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Knute, Using s16*0 solves most of the problem. =) Hope that helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Extending the staff for time signature changes between scores

2016-05-18 Thread Knute Snortum
My situation is this: I have two \score sections and at the end of the first I want to alert the reader that the next staff will have a time signature change. Lilypond does this for me perfectly within a score but between two scores it gets problematic. Consider this code: %%% Start code

Troubleshooting installing dev version of lilypond on ubuntu

2016-05-18 Thread Paul
Hi all, I've installed the latest lilypond dev version 2.19.42 on ubuntu 16.04 following the instructions on the lilypond website: http://lilypond.org/unix.html namely with: $ sh lilypond-2.19.42-1.linux-64.sh But when I cd to my home directory and run $ lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond test.ly I

Re: Dorico announced

2016-05-18 Thread Michael Rivers
I don't think consumers first looking at a name will go to a blog on the internet to find out how to pronounce it. Dorico is going to be pronounced like Dorito a lot in the beginning. At least everyone knows what a lily pond is and how to say it. In any case, the name is probably not very

Re: Whitespace in LilyPond source files

2016-05-18 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 18 May 2016, at 11:03, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Hi Werner, > > On 18 May 2016 at 13:49, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> Please file a feature request in our bug database. I believe it >> should be rather straightforward to extend the set of allowed

Re: Whitespace in LilyPond source files

2016-05-18 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 18 May 2016 20:03:54 +1000 Andrew Bernard wrote: > This > means that for every whitespace lexeme in a source file a lexer has to > do 8 or 9 or 10 comparisons for spaces, probably more if you make a > full list of all the Unicode space objects. You make

Re: Rhythmic shorthand for notes?

2016-05-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Julian, Here’s an option slightly less opaque (but also slightly less general) than the LSR snippet to which you were directed: \version "2.19.37" threedots = \tweak stencil #ly:text-interface::print \tweak text \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.staccato" \hspace #-0.4 \musicglyph

Re: Rhythmic shorthand for notes?

2016-05-18 Thread Julian Lam
Thanks everybody for the succinct answers! Playing around with \draw-dotted-line should be fun. Have a good day, all. - Julian ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Dorico announced

2016-05-18 Thread johnlink
Michael Rivers wrote: > Hmm...not a fan of the name Dorico. It sounds a little too close to Dorito to > me. The accent is on the first syllable, not the second, so "Dorico" does not sound at all like "Dorito". John Link

Re: Whitespace in LilyPond source files

2016-05-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Werner, On 18 May 2016 at 13:49, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Please file a feature request in our bug database. I believe it > should be rather straightforward to extend the set of allowed > whitespace in lilypond's lexer. A very easy thing to do in the code I am sure. But why

Re: \fromproperty as instrument name

2016-05-18 Thread Menu Jacques
Hello David and Harm, Thanks for your most useful help, and a nice day! JM > Le 19 avr. 2016 à 10:39, Thomas Morley a écrit : > > 2016-04-19 9:58 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : >> Menu Jacques writes: >> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> I’d