Sessions with Frescobaldi 3.0

2018-01-18 Thread j...@joei.de
Hi, is anybody here using the "sessions"-feature in Frescobaldi 3 on Win? Not only doesn't it restore the last opened manuscript in the manuscript viewer nor does the compiler or the the syntax highlighting work... Could you confirm? Joei. ___

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-01-19 um 00:03 schrieb Travis Weller : > Are you sure we're talking about the same thing? Right out of the box > frescobaldi's "music view" (you know, the one with the cream background that > sits alongside the "code") is most certainly a 72dpi rasterized >

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Travis, I have used Frescobaldi for very complex score work on the Mac for years and the output is razor sharp in the PDF output view. Your experience would therefore tend to indicate there is something wrong with the setup of your Mac. Can you tell us the exact OS release and Mac model?

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Tim, Au contraire, Preview is a remarkably sophisticated program. It can follow links - hover over a note and the link appears as a tooltip - but it appears to be broken currently, as does Adobe Acrobat Pro. Some Mac OS X issue or security setting. Andrew On 19 January 2018 at 05:33, Tim

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Karlin High
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Travis Weller wrote: > The links work with Acrobat... and I'd happily use Acrobat, but as I > mentioned before it is a "known issue" that it won't update the PDF file > when you typeset repeatedly. What other PDF readers for Mac are out

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Travis Weller
>> The link feature from the "Preview" app pointing back to the editor isn't working (it doesn't show an error message, just an >>audio alert sound instead of opening the editor at the correct point) >This has in my experience never worked. The Preview.app apparently has no way to communicate

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Thomas Morley-2 wrote > Meanwhile I think supporting negative string-distance is a bad idea, > because too many detail-problems need adjustments. And using negative > string-distance was not intended as I introduced it. I should have > always gone for (abs ...). But this could be corrected...

GSoC applications: mkvideo

2018-01-18 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Urs Liska >> To: Carlo Stemberger >> Cc: lilypond-user >> Subject: Re: GSoC applications > > Trying to kick off this conversation about the possibility of a GSoC

Re: Text level with the staff

2018-01-18 Thread Ben
On 1/17/2018 8:05 AM, Mark Knoop wrote: At 04:35 on 17 Jan 2018, Vivyan wrote: I mean like this (photoshopped); Hi Vivyan, I just came across some code I had used in a previous project where I needed text

Re: Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.01.2018 um 17:52 schrieb Shane Brandes: Fonts are slightly weird Indeed, I had that experience before (for example when trying to make LilyPond load fonts installed as system fonts. This failed because fontconfig *always* returns (at least it did so when I was trying) *some* font

Re: Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.01.2018 um 17:05 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: When in the .tex file I write   \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro} the font is correctly used, but the "fullname" I get out of the Lua object is "AGaramondPro-Regular". This looks like the PostScript name. Indeed, but it's the output of the

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-01-18 um 17:48 schrieb Travis Weller : > > Any reason not to try Frescobaldi? > > Well, I've checked it out and I'm kind of partial to the default editor > primarily because it uses a much nicer looking vector output. To my eye, > Frescobaldi's output view is

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-18 0:42 GMT+01:00 Karlin High : > A tiny flaw appeared while approaching 1200% magnification: the reversed > fretboard's upper corners don't quite meet squarely. Hi Karlin, many thanks spotting the problem! Cheers, Harm

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-18 17:11 GMT+01:00 Carl Sorensen : > > > On 1/18/18, 6:30 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > > Malte Meyn writes: > > > Am 18.01.2018 um 14:09 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: > >> Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Travis Weller wrote: > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. I can > see them when I mouse

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Karlin High
On 1/18/2018 10:11 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: I believe that we should have some sort of display on the left-hand diagram indicating it's a left-hand diagram. But I don't know what that should be. Perhaps a left-pointing arrow at the top or the side of the fretboard? If it's not text, it

Re: Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread Shane Brandes
Fonts are slightly weird and are encoded with both a name, with or without a style subset name, and a human readable name which can be irritatingly different from the actual name. There can be no spaces in the names which is why the difference in Human readable and the programming name. As far as

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Travis Weller
> Any reason not to try Frescobaldi? Hi Hraban, Well, I've checked it out and I'm kind of partial to the default editor primarily because it uses a much nicer looking vector output. To my eye, Frescobaldi's output view is rasterized at low resolution. I do all my input as text anyway, and don't

Re: odd marcato placement

2018-01-18 Thread Shane Brandes
Awesome! On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:28 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 18.01.2018 um 05:58 schrieb Shane Brandes: >> >> The following code produces what looks to me as an an unanticipated >> result as the second two marcato marks are slightly elevated. I fixed >> it with a

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/18/18, 6:30 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: Malte Meyn writes: > Am 18.01.2018 um 14:09 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: >> Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative string-distance makes the >> whole diagram flip below the

Re: Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> When in the .tex file I write > >   \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro} > > the font is correctly used, but the "fullname" I get out of the Lua > object is "AGaramondPro-Regular". This looks like the PostScript name. > This is also what is shown in the properties of the PDF, but with >

Re: Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 16:45:05 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems getting text font names right. > > From LuaLaTeX I get the information about the currently used font, > and I inject this into a LilyPond file. This works well with "Linux > Libertine O", but it may fail with

Font names convention

2018-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I am having problems getting text font names right. From LuaLaTeX I get the information about the currently used font, and I inject this into a LilyPond file. This works well with "Linux Libertine O", but it may fail with other fonts. When in the .tex file I write   \setmainfont{Adobe

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 22:46:36 (-0600), Travis Weller wrote: > Hi Andrew and Karlin - > > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. I > can see them when

Re: spanners in multi-voice

2018-01-18 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi David, On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:44 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > How about giving an example actually showing the problem you are talking > about? > > -- > David Kastrup > Fair enough. And as it turns out, when I add a \! statement later on in that voice, the error disappears

Re: spanners in multi-voice

2018-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
"N. Andrew Walsh" writes: > Hi List, > > let's say I have the following code: > > \relative c'' { > > %1 > s2 > > | %2 > << >{ a16\cresc d~ d4. } >\\ >{ a8~ a4. } > >> > } > > Is there a way to have multiple measures of this kind of two-voice > structure,

Re: spanners in multi-voice

2018-01-18 Thread Edward Neeman
Hi Andrew, If you use \new Voice instead of the double backslash syntax, the first voice in the << >> brackets continues before and after the simultaneous music. \relative c'' { %1 s2 | %2 << { \voiceOne a16\cresc d~ d4. } \new Voice { \voiceTwo a8~ a4. } >> \oneVoice a4 b\! }

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
Malte Meyn writes: > Am 18.01.2018 um 14:09 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: >> Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative string-distance makes the >> whole diagram flip below the baseline. >> >> Oh dear, another effect (in general): >> capo numbers and other objects

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.01.2018 um 14:09 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative string-distance makes the whole diagram flip below the baseline. Oh dear, another effect (in general): capo numbers and other objects that should be placed in the margin of the diagram. When

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Ah, yes, when in landscape mode, setting a negative string-distance makes the whole diagram flip below the baseline. Oh dear, another effect (in general): capo numbers and other objects that should be placed in the margin of the diagram. When setting a negative string-distance, they flip inside

Re: Text level with the staff

2018-01-18 Thread Edward Neeman
Hello Vivyan, The background of the page is white. If you open the file in a normal PDF viewer (not Frescobaldi) you shouldn't be able to see the whiteout. Here is another solution that doesn't use whiteout: \version "2.19.80" \language "english" \header { title = "XMAS_EVET" tagline = ""

Discuss the alignment of scores in text documents

2018-01-18 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, I have finally managed to check out Jacques Peron's lyluatex package (https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex), and I got my first pull request merged. I'm totally thrilled about this tool and the possibilities for authoring music documents. Essentially it's lilypond-book without the

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 17.01.2018 um 22:59 schrieb Thomas Morley: 2018-01-17 22:36 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : Thomas Morley writes: Should we document it as is or introduce a details.subproperty setting string-distance negative? Left-handed diagrams are peculiar enough

spanners in multi-voice

2018-01-18 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi List, let's say I have the following code: \relative c'' { %1 s2 | %2 << { a16\cresc d~ d4. } \\ { a8~ a4. } >> } Is there a way to have multiple measures of this kind of two-voice structure, and each measure contained within its own pair of << >> brackets, with one of these

Re: odd marcato placement

2018-01-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 18.01.2018 um 05:58 schrieb Shane Brandes: The following code produces what looks to me as an an unanticipated result as the second two marcato marks are slightly elevated. I fixed it with a Script.extra-offset but still wonder if this is some odd edge case. \version "2.18.2" \new Staff

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
I've now created a new issue, encouraged by DAK's assent: #5264 Left-handed fret-diagram nut alignment @Harm: If you're busy, I could well take over this task. I'm just getting acquainted with the git/issue/review process, so such simple

Re: Left-handed fretboard?

2018-01-18 Thread David Kastrup
Torsten Hämmerle writes: > Indeed, Karlin, > > you are perfectly right - thanks for the observation! > This is definitely not a Windows problem, it's an unwanted side effect of > using negative string distances: > The total width (5 times the string distance on a 6

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-01-18 um 05:46 schrieb Travis Weller : > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. Any reason not to try Frescobaldi? Expect a boost in productivity. Only MIDI playback is a problem... The included