Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Snyder
and underlined. It probably doesn't matter that much, though. Either way, it's a great improvement over the current page! +1 (to both the solid preference and the positive review of both options) Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Snyder
- for example, has been very valuable), but I think it's unrealistic to expect potential users to adopt this mindset overnight, without anyone personally helping them in the process. Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com

Re: new website non-git help

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Snyder
/documetation/documentation/ -Chris -- Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
) but it's still difficult to explain. Also, I'm never sure how to promote LilyPond to technical illiterates who are used to a point-and-click interface. I usually end up giving LilyPond a glowing review, but cautioning that it requires a very different mindset than Finale/Sibelius. Chris Snyder Adoro

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
selection more evident (perhaps a darker green background with white text?). Thanks for all your hard work on the new site. It really does look quite stunning, and is clear and easy to use as well. Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com

Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Snyder
anything if I want to take the time. I'm convinced that no commercial product can come close. -Chris -- Chris Snyder Adoro Music Publishing 1-616-828-4436 x800 http://www.adoromusicpub.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Overlong extender

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Snyder
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Can you give a bit more context? After paring down to just this, I'm having a little difficulty understand how this problem arises in the actual music. The extender is so long because there's no text after it, simply adding another syllable solves that problem. So, I

Re: [Frescobaldi] ANN: Frescobaldi 0.7.8 released

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Frescobaldi 0.7.8 has been released. [...] For Ubuntu users: Frescobaldi 0.7.8 has been posted to the Frescobaldi PPA: https://launchpad.net/~frescobaldi/+archive/ppa The build of the Intrepid packages has completed. The Jaunty builds will have to wait until some

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Snyder
Till wrote: Wow, this looks great, I tried also to compile some time ago but was not willing to install all the compiling stuff for kde, since I have gnome. But some kde4 libraries I can afford. Did you include all the correct dependences? I will try it in the near future. Thanks Fun btw

Re: Slurs in lyrics

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Snyder
) } /Mats Chris Snyder wrote: I'm engraving a piece where I'd like to put dotted slurs directly in the lyrics to instruct the singers to carry the note. I know there are other ways to indicate this (such as dotted slurs over the notes, which is what I've settled with currently), but I'd like

Slurs in lyrics

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Snyder
I'm engraving a piece where I'd like to put dotted slurs directly in the lyrics to instruct the singers to carry the note. I know there are other ways to indicate this (such as dotted slurs over the notes, which is what I've settled with currently), but I'd like to put the slurs over the lyrics if

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Snyder
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: How does IE deal with pngalpha images today? According to the top Google hit I came across for png alpha ie, IE7 does support PNG alpha (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/alpha.html). -Chris ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Snyder
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: According to google analytics on lilypond.org - 25% uses IE of which 65% uses IE7. So, 8.75% use IE6. Given that the fallback in IE6 is still usable (albeit ugly) and that that percentage will only continue to drop, it sounds to me like now is as good a time as any to

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Snyder
Tom Cloyd wrote: Major lesson: the Unix/Linix command processor (or whatever - genie?) is disinterested in the fact that I'm already in the dir containing the referenced file. I have to tell it explicitly. Coming from Windows, I find this extremely confusing, nonsensical, etc., but I now

Re: doc work

2008-08-15 Thread Chris Snyder
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I would agree with Mats on this one. When I was first starting with Lilypond and the template didn't have a MIDI block, I couldn't make it work b/c I couldn't figure out *where* to stick the MIDI block. i was VERY grateful to find a template that already had a working

Automatic accidentals across staves

2008-08-15 Thread Chris Snyder
I'd like to modify the automatic accidental behavior for an organ piece I'm engraving. The staves are set up such that there is a PianoStaff, containing two Staffs, for the manuals, and an additional Staff for pedal. No matter what I do, I can't get the pedal staff to follow the automatic

Re: \textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Snyder
Carl Sorensen wrote: If you'd like to propose additions to the docs, we'd appreciate it if you'd tell us where the addition should go. Also, in a case like this, a simple example that shows the behavior being described can help understand possibly-confusing wording. If you could work up a

Re: Score with large empty section at the top

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Snyder
Dominic Neumann wrote: I think it is standard behaviour. I remember there was a command to let LilyPond display all the spaces it uses and its names. But I don´t remember the command and couldn´t find it by searching ... Take a look at Notation Reference 4.6.1: Displaying spacing. -Chris

Re: \textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Snyder
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Your proposed text shows that you don't quite understand how \textLengthOn works from a LilyPond point of view. Your terminology is not quite right, so we'll need to change the text a bit before we put it in the manual. I hope you'll not mind that. Please feel free to

Re: \textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

2008-08-13 Thread Chris Snyder
Trevor Daniels wrote: The action of \textLengthOn can be better understood as extending the length of the moment in time at which it occurs. All notes which occur at a later musical moment will be displaced to the end of the text, whichever staff or voice they are in, in order to remain

\textLengthOn - choosing which note to lengthen

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Snyder
on: http://temp.mvpsoft.com/ly/TextLength.ly http://temp.mvpsoft.com/ly/TextLength.png Thanks in advance. -Chris Snyder ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: use the feta font in GIMP

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Snyder
about the choice of tools. GIMP is not well-suited for working with vector images (such as PDFs). You'd probably be better off using a desktop publishing program, Scribus being an open-source option. -- Chris Snyder Credo Music Publishing +1 616-828-4436 http://www.credomusicpub.com

Finding note coordinates in output

2005-11-09 Thread Chris Snyder
Is there a way to find out what the coordinates are of notes in scores generated by Lilypond? For instance, is there a way to get the data needed to generate an image map to go with a PNG file and allow notes to be clicked on? Thanks in advance.