On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:56:03AM +0100, David Biddiscombe wrote:
OIn the Bible-reference title I want a long dash, without spaces,
between '3' and '14'. I think this should be produced by \char #2014,
but that gives a different symbol. (Similarly, in the previous LilyPond
version, \char
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 05:01:37PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
works - how do you stop stdin? (i used ctrl+z)
Ctrl + d ?
You're both right. CTRL-z is Windows's way of signalling end-of-input;
CTRL-d is likewise for POSIX-compliant systems. You can also do
program file
on both systems,
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:36:21PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
For the record, does he also want you to use the old Novello
backwards eighth-note rest for quarter rests?
I mean, that was also the common practice since Bach — but people
[wisely] decided that a *real* quarter rest is
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:15:35PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
Any comments or offers of help? At the moment, I'm looking for
overall design issues, like you should have a `blarg' section on
the main menu or I can't find the current documentation on this
new website.
The three colours you
Last night I was copying out a part I have to play which is squashed
onto a page too small to be clear. This part needed two functions I've
previously put off writing because I thought they would be really hard.
I tried them last night, sitting down with the NR, and I managed to
churn out two of
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:15:35PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org:
Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't
think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more
confident about it: it was more
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23:13AM -0600, Matt Boersma wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org wrote:
...
The other answer is: yes, I will send in my useful functions. One is for
adding flams to drum notes, and the other is for using a spanner to give
a Fill
This might sound like nitpicking, but since security's concerned, I want
to be absolutely clear.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:08:28PM -0400, Mike Blackstock wrote:
Furthermore, you just limit the number of utilities you put in the
/bin directories; if you don't have the 'rm' command in there,
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:49:44PM -0700, IoD wrote:
When I insert the \midi { } in the \score section of my Lilypond projects,
the only output produced are a .ps file and a .pdf file, no MIDI output. Is
there a known error/bug that could cause this? A common mistake that I could
be making?
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:54:09PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote:
Is it worth defining our own function
replaceOnly(\\octave, ...)
which does
re.sub(\\octave[?a-z,A-Z], ...)
or whatever the regex was?
\\octave\b would work fine. \b matches a word Boundary.
--
It's so hard to see the Sun
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:01:56PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote:
no problems. always glad to help. although i will have to find a decent
git tutorial at some point. ;)
I can recommend http://gitready.com/ Maybe it's not for complete
beginners, but it has a pretty good range of accessibility. It's
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:16:32AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
On the other hand, if I'm doing programming work and commit changes then
find that I have a typo in my commit, it's much cleaner to rebase so that
there is only one patch.
Don't forget that if you want to correct a mistake in
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:36:24PM -0700, northofscotland wrote:
All the parts seem to work perfectly as stand-alone, un-cued but as I added
the cue notes, building up with a series of \include statements at the head
of the file, \cueDuring in the notes and \addQuote before the \score
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:38:30AM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk
wrote:
They vary, but Firefox has a recognised certificate
which identifies the publisher as Mozilla Corporation.
The certificate was issued by
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:06:22PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:08:40PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote:
GIT from git.sv.gnu.org
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
This does not set up easy pulling or pushing in the future, and
generally assumes
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote:
2009/3/23 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com:
I have git version 1.5.6.3 and both git-format-patch and
git[nohyphen]format-patch do work.
James, what's the output of git --version?
From your patch I see it is 1.6.2.1 ;
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:40:42AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote:
On 16.03.2009, at 23:28, Jesper Caprani wrote:
I get this:
Processing `C:/Documents and Settings/Ejer/Skrivebord/test.log'
[...]
It looks at though you have an error in your input file. If you don't
figure it out, Post the
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:07:14PM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:
Jonathan Kulp wrote:
I'm having trouble getting vim to do Lilypond syntax coloring on OSX.
I have it all working fine on my Linux machines but I'm doing something
wrong on the Macs.
Does anybody know a good vim version for
On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:05 AM, James E. Bailey wrote:
On OSX, the lilypond mode for emacs doesn't properly escape
filenames.
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 04:44:41PM -0600, Tim McNamara wrote:
Addendum: I was able to replicate this bheavior in Bash under Terminal.
The problem appears to be how
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Christopher Berg wrote:
Additionally, the output files always get saved to my ~ folder, no
matter where the .ly file was.
The output files are always placed in the file you run Lilypond from.
So, if you are in a terminal, your working directory is
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:13:55AM -0800, RandomLilyPondUser wrote:
Thanks, that worked! I am new at lilypond, so sorry for the basic questions
(I did browse the documentation, btw),
Good for you. Most users find that the quickest way to get started with
Lilypond is to quickly read the
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:25:19PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
My default Debian lenny version, works ok. But how do I install the
newest lilypond on Debian testing?
When I install the sh script, it doesn't work properly.
In what way? Please give any error messages.
When I want to
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter
stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter - a laserjet 1000 series.
Maybe that's why :-(
Maybe, but I've heard of other people having the same
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:26:25PM +, Rob Canning wrote:
hi,
not sure whats going on here...
if i isolate and render only one of the two staves then everything is
fine but if i parse the .ly that contains two staves an extra bar gets
created that contains the grace notes.
It's not the
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:47:41AM -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
I avoid \tag at all costs — and suggest the same to other users, and
warn newbies against it (or don't introduce them to it in the first
place) — because it FORCES THE MIXTURE OF CONTENT AND PRESENTATION,
which is A Bad
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:40:09AM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
*Git help for writers
We often receive reports of typos and minor text updates to
the documentation. It would be great if somebody could create
properly-formatted patches for these corrections.
Technical requirements:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:44:08AM -0800, Pascal wrote:
Here is the problem : i use 'repeat percent' feature but i'd like to
change a note on 2nd and following measures. Not clear ? To avoid
losing your time here is a picture of what a get :
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:15:16AM +0100, james wrote:
Sorry, cut off. How does this apply \times 2/3 { c8 c c} \times 2/3 {c c
c} \times 2/3 {c c c} is 9 repetitions of the note c, expressed as a
tremolo, this should be \repeat tremolo 9 \times 2/3 {c8}
Does it matter? Your example only
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:05:46AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
Comapare it to OGG vs. MP3. From the Open Source point of view it is
recommended not to use MP3 but OGG. But in the real world everyone uses
MP3.
You made two statements there, both of which are untrue. A few years ago
there
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:17:27AM +, Neil Puttock wrote:
I think the best option is to make the kerning settings tweakable.
In fact, there's a TODO in the source suggesting this.
I've just submitted a patch for review; attached is some sample output.
I updated my source and had a play
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:28:26AM -0800, coralline algae wrote:
I use vim in a terminal for editing, very occasionally something else
like abiword
I noticed recently and probably in the past that certain lilypond files were
not opening with the syntax coloring.
I'm using Vim 7.2 here. I
I have just got back from a band rehearsal, and tonight for the first
time I could see what bothers me about Lilypond's percent glyph: the
dots are too far out. I think they should be horizontally closer to the
centre, so that the space between the dot and the oblique stroke is more
like the space
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:03:02PM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
Hi Lilyponders,
Any Vim users here ? I'm using Vim for editing Lilypond files on a Linux
Fedora 9 system. I have syntax highlighting, which is great. How do I
enable automatic indentation to make things even easier ?
:set
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:39:28PM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote:
by the way, do you know how to change the default indentation in
lilypond files from 2 spaces to 1 tabulation?
Yes. Edit the file ftplugin/lilypond.vim (in the ~/.vimfiles directory;
copy it from /usr/share/lilypond/*/vim if you
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 02:15:12PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
The usual cause of this is a broken mailer using alternative. I
sometimes suffer from that, but haven't seen an empty message ...
Not in this case: it's multipart/signed. I guess
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:38:43PM -0700, Roberto Leibman wrote:
\repeat volta 5 {hh8 hh hh hh hh hh hh hh}
I could use repeat percent, or repeat unfold, but then each bar is
spelled out and the song takes 4 pages instead of 2.
As a drummer, normally I'd expect to see percent repeats for
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:22:32AM +, Erik Hagström wrote:
Hi, I'm a new user of lilypond and I'm currently learning to write parts for
drums with this great program.
I got in too late to help with this particular problem, but I wanted to
reply to say how nice it is to see more
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Bailey James E. wrote:
I'm having some difficulty understanding where I'm going wrong. I have:
Well, if what you put in your mail is pasted straight from your file,
it's easy. This line:
Stimme = \relative d' {
StimmeABC = \relative {
c4 c2 c2 {s4
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:56:29PM -0400, Music Site of Larry Jackson wrote:
Hi,
Anyone know how to get the \include language statement to work for
LilyPond v2.10.33 compiling within OOOLilyPond v0.32?
If nobody here answers (which seems likely, as OOoLilypond is a
separately maintained
I'm trying to re-engrave a percussion part I have been given to play and
I get the above message, with a superfluous bar in my output. A minimal
example and Lilypond's resulting message follows. I started with 2.10.33
but updated to git master on Thursday night and the problem persists.
Even if
Thank you for your speedy reply.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:41:44AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
I added one thing to your code and the results are different, without
programming errors and without the superfluous bar. See if you get what
you want with this block:
piece = \drummode {
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:03:53AM -0400, David Stocker wrote:
\paper {
#(set-paper-size concert)
}
This is entirely a matter of preference, but I'd suggest making the
closing brace be at the same indentation level as the line that opens
the block, like so:
\paper {
#(set-paper-size
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:38:36PM +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote:
Do you know why the postscript files produced by lilypond (2.10.33,
cygwin) are not compatible with psbook and psnup?
I don't know. I'm using 2.10.33 on Debian/sid, and I've just tested
running one of my lilypond scores through
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:48:32AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
I have only a couple of non-free apps on my Ubuntu machines, and Acrobat
Reader is one of them because of this problem. :(
As someone else suggested, try kpdf, or use xpdf, which is what I use.
xpdf is not really a modern GUI
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:34:52 +0200
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the meantime, a small basic google search box would mean the world
to many of us -- or at least myself :-)
Presumably these things are done
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:42:59AM -0400, Steven Padalino wrote:
notes in section 1 \\
notes in section 1
Well, there's a problem right there. Did you mean to write this?
{ notes in section 1 }
\\
{ notes in section 1 }
The crucial point is that the \\ goes inside the . If you have
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Renaud Flavigny wrote:
VIM for Windows is an excellent and very powerful test editor. Your
could download from http://www.vim.org/
I completely agree. However, new Vim users might like to instead try
Cream, which is essentially just Vim patched so that
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:55:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
\new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
\new Lyrics = sopranosb { s2 }
[...]
My question is about the \new Lyrics command. What's the {s1}
referring to? It uses sopransob to find the right set of lyrics.
When I had four
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:55:33PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
precisely. [From my engraving classes way back when, I seem to recall
that it's harder for musicians to read systems that are aligned
precisely, since the eye gets confused about which line to be following.]
I can confirm from
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:32:31PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 schrieb James E. Bailey:
Oddly, in the attached code, if the appoggiatura is commented out,
then the stems follow how they're supposed to. Is this a bug or a
super-special feature of graceMusic
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:46:31AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Lambda calculus is the reason that lambda is called like that, but it
is as bad a name as cons/cdr/car. Scheme is a cleaned up version of
LISP, but they left those warts in.
Why is it a bad name? Scheme is a programming
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:31:27PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
If you care about the number of key strokes, why not add a short-hand,
using a music
function:
\version 2.10.0
% Usage \split {upper music} { lower music }
split = #(define-music-function (parser location upper lower )
Looking over NR 1.5.2, I see what appears to be a typo in the fifth
paragraph of the 'Single-staff polyphony' page.
The method exposed creates two new voices when the {...} \\ {...}
construction is found in the code; to temporally add only one additional
voice to an existing one, it is necessary
2.9.1.4, first paragraph: Where matching existing typeset music is not
an issue, you may still want to adjust the beaming behaviour and/or
using compound time signatures.
using - use
--
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone
thinks he is so well supplied
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:50:51AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
In the meantime, the distinction is explained in NR 5.1.2 Creating
contexts, although this section has not yet been reviewed in GDP so maybe
it could be improved. Let me know to what extent it helps you. In any
case I'll bear
(Sorry, forgot GNU lists don't set Reply-To, so sent this to Mr. Hammar
off-list by accident. Reposting to the list for the benefit of the
archives.)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:53:03PM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
Daniel:
Why not? I find myself wanting to go into two (or three) voices and back
Karl Hammar wrote:
Graham:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:03:07 +0100
Mark Knoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given the number of emails on this list about slur, tie, etc problems
arising from using the { ... } \\ { ... } polyphony method,
would it perhaps be a good idea to at least include an example
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