Re: lilypond-book and latex indenting issue

2016-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 14:08:57 (-0400), Benjamin Strecker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Vaylor Trucks wrote: > > I found the problem. Invoking lilypond-book with --left-padding 0 solved > > the problem. > > > > That is a much better solution. Agreed. To be honest, I

Re: lilypond-book and latex indenting issue

2016-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 17:21:17 (+), Vaylor Trucks wrote: > Vaylor Trucks gmail.com> writes: > > I'm not sure if this is a LaTeX question or a Lilypond question. > > After some digging, the definitely seems to be a Lilypond issue. If I look > in the output directory I specify in invoking

Re: Alla breve notation in Kyrie (2) from Bach's Hohe Messe

2016-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 14:50:03 (+0200), Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > I didn't have the opportunity to look at Bach's handwriting. I have > checked two edited versions. One uses 4/4, the other C (not cut C). > So I gather that's correct. Hold on, are you saying that the second Kyrie of BWV232 is *not*

Re: Long Compile time with version 2.19.44

2016-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 23:17:26 (-0700), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > A long time UNIX user myself (pre 1970’s…), I follow what you are saying, > but you may want to explain to ordinary folks what clearing the caches does > and the command 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ‘, especially since the >

Re: Long Compile time with version 2.19.44

2016-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 19:37:54 (-0700), BGM wrote: > Thanks for you interest, fellas. > > I downgraded lilypond to version 2.19.36-1 and everything works as expected > - that is, it compiles any of my scores normally in just a second or two. > > My problems were all with the latest lilypond

Re: Long Compile time with version 2.19.44

2016-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:15:42 (-0700), BGM wrote: > Well, it seems like it hangs on just starting lilypond. (and, as I've > mentioned, I didn't have this problem with version 2.18) > > As soon as it gets past this line... > So, this line takes 99% of the time in the progressbar: > Starting

Re: PDF author metadata

2016-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 00:52:53 (-0700), Andrew Bernard wrote: > This may be the standard, but it is woefully ambiguous, and text-centric. > In the case of a music composition, is is the composer or the engraver? Is > the ‘document’ the music, or the setting of it? Neither. It's the PDF document

Re: LILYPOND VERSION

2016-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Jul 2016 at 10:21:15 (-0700), rosros wrote: > I would like to recover the value of the lilypond version statement to insert > it in the tagline. > > With "\simple #(lilypond-version)" I can recover the current lilypond > version which is not necessarily the same string. > > Is there a

Re: Installing on Ubuntu Studio

2016-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 08:36:00 (-0300), Marcelo Carneiro de Lima wrote: > Thanks for the reply. When I say "Gui" I mean the same interface I have on > Mac OS, for instance. I mean the possibility to work directly on Lilipond > without Frescobaldi or Denemo, writing code on Lilypond's own text

Re: Create custom Staff type

2016-07-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Jul 2016 at 09:21:00 (-0700), dtsmarin wrote: > Hello, > I want to create a Staff type which will be used for hiding extra staves Ι > don't need. > Since I use every other available type of staves (Group,Grand,Piano etc.) > applying removeemptystaves will also affect other staves that I

Re: Flute Accompaniment

2016-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Sun 26 Jun 2016 at 13:14:42 (-0500), Br. Gabriel-Marie | SSPX wrote: > In my piece I have a piano staff with the music on the bottom staff. > In the upper staff it is supposed to be notes for recorder or flute > accompaniment. In the original the flute notes and its staff are > all a bit

Re: Multiple rhythms in same score

2016-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Jun 2016 at 13:17:02 (+1000), Don Gingrich wrote: > What I think that I want to do may simply be > impossible -- I'll say that at the start. > > When I see full scores for a number of songs published, > it is clear that the reason that various verses are printed > separately is that

Re: Insert text between staves

2016-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 at 16:12:56 (-0500), Br. Gabriel-Marie | SSPX wrote: > Well, I know how to do *that* - that is, I know how to get text > above and below the staves. > > But I want text above and below the scores - sort of like a > subtitle. > > At the end of each page, about 3/4 inch below

Re: Custom / Fine tuning vertical space between piano staff lines

2016-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Jun 2016 at 09:45:51 (+1000), Harald Christiansen wrote: > I got your email and I've tried. > > In my case it either increases the space between the G and F keys within > the PianoStaff (which I don't want) > or does nothing (depending on where I place it) Well it would do. That's

Re: Placement of Chorus for Hymn

2016-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 17:21:54 (-0700), BGM wrote: > You see, I don't want the verses to line up with the chorus. It should go > like this: > > chorusmusic > chorustext > > versemusic > verse1 > verse2 > > So it ought to show as if it were two different pieces, one above the other, > but it

Re: bending: microtone TabNoteHeaded printed if in a chord

2016-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 15:59:04 (-0400), Stephen MacNeil wrote: > Thanks Harm :) > > just a note on your comment > > >>It's not hard to get and use a devel-version ;) > >>I can't recommend to grab the code and patch v2.18.2 with it... > > Well it depends on your operating system! I would say

Re: Placement of Chorus for Hymn

2016-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 14:55:42 (-0700), BGM wrote: > Hi, all, I'm having trouble placing a chorus line. > If I put the chorus in one \score and the verses in another \score, then > they display correctly, but I can't get the midi for both scores as one > file. > > It should have the entire chorus

Re: \accidentalStyle for common choir notation

2016-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 14:53:08 (+0200), Jonathan Scholbach wrote: > At your other point: Well, I agree that the usage of the desired > \accidentalStyle can be a matter of discussion. But it is a very common > practice. And there are good arguments for using it (choirsingers often > orientate -

Re: Cues recursion

2016-06-19 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 00:40:08 (+0200), matpen3@gmail wrote: > I’m preparing parts for a quite complex score, and I’m using the ‘’\add > quote” command for cues. Why aren't you using cues rather than quotes? > Everything is fine until I have to quote a part that contains a cue of the > same

Re: Programming error - cross fingers

2016-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Jun 2016 at 04:04:04 (-0400), Andrew Bernard wrote: [...] > programming error: Grob direction requested while calculation in progress. > continuing, cross fingers > > and the second flageolet does not render. > > While I am sure this is informative to some, since there is no position

Re: Formatting two lyrics contexts without staff

2016-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2016 at 19:31:00 (+0300), Svetlana Lobanova wrote: > Dear lilypond users! > > I want to align syllables of two text lines one under another without any > note staff. Below is a working snippet, which is quite good for my purpose. I > would like to gain some more control on layout:

Re: hairpin length (lilypond-user Digest, Vol 163, Issue 29)

2016-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 23:51:43 (-0400), Joshua Nichols wrote: > ​> ​ > For the opening height: > ​>​ > \override Hairpin.height = 2 > > ​This is great... > > > For the length if it?s too short by default: > > \override Hairpin.minimum-length = 10​ > > This not the answer I'm looking

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 21:32:09 (+), Mike wrote: > Update: I have tried to build the latest tar on my system, but I got the > following errors - interestingly all to do with symlinks: > > 70: extrac07.at:27 extracting symlinks to a read-only dir > extract extract07 read-only

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 12:47:40 (+), Mike wrote: > > > > When you run LP, it will ask gs to convert the file. However, which > > > > version of gs runs, LP's or the system's? Will it be happy running > > > > with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib"? > > > > > > No, same error

Re: background colour

2016-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 11:00:13 (+), Christian wrote: > I am trying to make a reverted score (white music on black background). > The first part works, the second doesn't. > Does anybody know how to make the background black? Displaying the PDF in reverse-video is not sufficient, I assume.

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 07:34:46 (+), Mike wrote: > > When you run LP, it will ask gs to convert the file. However, which > > version of gs runs, LP's or the system's? Will it be happy running > > with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib"? > > No, same error I'm afraid. "No"

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 20:59:17 (+), Mike wrote: > > This sort of error is usually a good sign that you're trying to run a > > locally installed LP with the Linux Distribution versions of, eg, > > GhostScript or Python; not a good idea. > > > > Your full output of the installation process (in

Re: Single slur with two endings (well, kind of) for repeats

2016-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:33:51 (+0100), Alberto Simões wrote: > Suppose something like > > \repeat volta 2 { >c4 c4( > } > \alternative { > {c4) r} > {c2) } %%% this > } > > the second end slur is not typeset. > is there any elegant way to draw it, or i should try to make an >

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
Just a quick note before I go off to do real work... On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 07:49:41 (+), Mike wrote: > > > [~]# bash lilypond_install/lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-64.sh --prefix lilypond > > > > I can't understand this. It looks like root's prompt, not a user's. > > It's just my user's

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 09:54:35 (+), Mike wrote: > > I'll try a hello world now. > > Uhm... Hello world is having trouble with ps->pdf, so far as I can see. > Again, executing that command manually worked fine, and the resulting PDF > looks good. > Should I start a new thread? > > Thanks > >

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 20:30:08 (+), Mike wrote: > > First cd to your home directory. Then issue the command: > > > > bash path/to/lilypond-2.19.42-1.linux-x86.sh --prefix lilypond-2.19.42.1 > > Thank you so much for trying to help, but unfortunately I'm getting the same > errors, after

Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

2016-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 18:38:33 (+), Mike wrote: > > tar: ./usr/lib/libltdl.so: Cannot create symlink to `libltdl.so.7.2.0': > Permission denied > > If it weren't for that "./", I would have interpreted the above as trying to > create a symlink in /usr/lib (where I cannot do it) linking into

Re: Hiding empty staves

2016-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Jun 2016 at 21:14:17 (-0400), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I have a two stave piece using a PianoStaff. In some sections I need to > hide the unused lower stave for a number of bars. Using \RemoveEmptyStaves > or \RemoveAllmptyStaves does nothing. There are only spacer rests in the > staff in

Re: invisible note for expressive marks

2016-05-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 May 2016 at 11:00:11 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > >> \version "2.19.40" > >> { > >> <> \p \< \repeat unfold 3 {c' d' e' f'} <> \! > >> } > >> \addlyrics { \repeat unfold 3 { c d e f } } > >> > >> { > >> s1*0 \p \< \repeat

Re: slur corehack

2016-05-30 Thread David Wright
My last contribution to this thread. On Thu 26 May 2016 at 18:34:44 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > The main thing that is irritating about this exchange > is that you seem invested in maintaining low-quality documentation. > > What is your motivation for that? > > I'm trying to help

Re: slur corehack

2016-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 May 2016 at 00:31:59 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > > I would say that, on the contrary, \tweak and \override are not > > documented. > > > At least, not well enough to be useful for use with slurs. > > > > > > In the case of slurs, searching for "lilypond slurs tweak", the

Re: slur corehack

2016-05-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 May 2016 at 17:15:59 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > > It seems like the state of the art is to tweak each slur individually > > > using \shape to specify displacements from current control points. > > > > \shape is a very nice tool. > > This advantage inherits a

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

2016-05-19 Thread David Wright
I printed and processed the pot of coffee for myself, and thought I might as well put it into these archives. I added the overlooked lyric alignment, changed the hyphenation (most disappears) and removed the indentation. Ragged right closes up the syllables. In any case, I've always printed

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: 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

Whitespace in LilyPond source files

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
After the pause (for want of a better word) in receiving list emails by eggs.gnu.org, I received a number of near-duplicate postings that had been held up. One of them was a posting with the subject line Subject: magnifyStaff bug? which was written before but, like a Beethoven Piano Concerto, was

Re: Page Break in Lilypond-book

2016-05-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 14 May 2016 at 15:34:30 (+0100), Alberto Simões wrote: > It seems that \pageBreak is not honored by Lilypond. > I found an old post [1] that seems to state that it is needed to > enclose each portion in a different \book block (?). > > Can anybody confirm? Or explain the better way to

Re: "unroll code"

2016-05-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 May 2016 at 13:07:31 (+0200), imj-muz...@bluewin.ch wrote: > Would such manipulations be easy in Scheme, using DisplayMusic to output the > result ? It's still rolled up: GNU LilyPond 2.19.36 Processing `rol.ly' Parsing... (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (list (make-music

Re: "unroll code"

2016-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Sat 14 May 2016 at 23:54:17 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Well, despite that I think this is an absolutely terrible hack, exporting to > midi and importing it back produces more or less what you want, with a lot of > editing. Works on 2.19.41 on openSUSE Leap 42.1 linux. > > Still

Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

2016-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 16:45:23 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 10/05/2016 01:05, David Wright wrote: > >On Mon 09 May 2016 at 16:52:44 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > >Reading the manual saves you having to remember everything. > >Read 3.2 Titles and headers. > >

Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

2016-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 May 2016 at 12:45:38 (-0400), Stephen MacNeil wrote: > >>Thank you very much. It's close, but will need a little tweaking. Your > >>example > is right-justified against the left margin, whereas I want it >>starting at > the left margin, and pushing the staff to the right > > remove

Re: Automatically change staff instrument name

2016-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 May 2016 at 13:21:36 (+0200), Davide Liessi wrote: > In the following code, the two short instrument names "A" and "B" of > the second system are put one on top of the other (as I expected). > I can solve the collision manually, e.g. with something similar to the > three commented lines.

Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

2016-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 16:52:44 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/05/16 21:30, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 08 May 2016 at 19:06:27 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > >> Basically, I want to do pretty much what "instrument name" does in a > >> score - I want to

Re: 4 hands piano pieces book

2016-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:35:17 (-0400), Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote: > I have been wwriting A LOT of four-hand music, and I agree in > principle with most of what I have read in this thread. Even so, I > thought to chime in with my approach. I bow to your experience... > In my experience, I have found

Re: \keepWithTag #'A {\keepWithTag #'B \music}

2016-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:28:41 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > [...] use tag groups. > > (1) Thank you David, I didn't see this command (tagGroup) > (2) Very useful and interesting 'command'. If you use tags this is an > almost mandatory

Re: \keepWithTag #'A {\keepWithTag #'B \music}

2016-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sat 07 May 2016 at 10:42:43 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > Dear David thank you for explaining the problem and pointing me out > the documentation where this is discussed. > > Yes, I could organize my code differently but this would be less > clear. Try to have a look to the attached image

Re: 4 hands piano pieces book

2016-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2016 at 19:13:37 (+0200), Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: > Would dynamics parts dedicated to breaks and pageBreaks, stored in variables, > be useful? They might contain only spacer rests and such breaks, and be used > by Piano I and Piano II parts. > > I use this satisfactorily to

Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

2016-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 May 2016 at 19:06:27 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > Basically, I want to do pretty much what "instrument name" does in a > score - I want to put the name of the section in front of the start > of the staff. The problem is, as always, when you use a feature for > what it's not intended

Re: \keepWithTag #'A {\keepWithTag #'B \music}

2016-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 May 2016 at 10:02:20 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I thought that > > \keepWithTag #'(A B) \music > > and > > \keepWithTag #'A {\keepWithTag #'B \music} > > would be equivalent. But according to the following test it doesn't. > > 1 Could you please confirm they are not the

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 May 2016 at 15:08:30 (+), Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 5/5/16 8:13 PM, "Cynthia Karl" wrote: > >> On May 5, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> On 5/4/16 8:00 PM, "Cynthia Karl" wrote: > >>> > >>> In my experience, all are

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 May 2016 at 11:26:17 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > This thread is dying a quick death. I have raised this issue with the > > nonsensical digest attachments several times in the last several years. > > Those threads also died a quick death. I wonder how many get the

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 May 2016 at 00:05:03 (+), Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 5/4/16 8:00 PM, "Cynthia Karl" <pck...@mac.com> wrote: > > > >> Message: 4 > >> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:21:28 -0500 > >> From: David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> &

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 04 May 2016 at 21:00:22 (-0500), Cynthia Karl wrote: > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:21:28 -0500 > > From: David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > > To: Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> > > Subject: Re: attac

Re: problem with Illustrator exported eps using \epsfile

2016-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 May 2016 at 01:14:11 (+0200), Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-05-06 0:34 GMT+02:00 Ryan Michael : > > Forgive me. The error is: > > > > lilypond/current/scm/stencil.scm:779:26: Wrong type argument in position 1: > > #f > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Simon

Re: Multiple place number skip ranges

2016-05-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 May 2016 at 13:57:33 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > David Nalesnik and various others I think have written scheme to allow you to > skip a range of numbers when page numbering, or to give a direct list of page > numbers to be used. I want to be able to specify something like this

Re: implicitly running a lilypond script through a python script before compilation

2016-05-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 May 2016 at 23:04:05 (+), Joseph Chrestien wrote: > > Yes, see this thread in the german forum > > http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=2087.0 > discussed are different possibilities: > > > (1) python from within a lilyfile.ly: > > Yay, it works! I have "Hello world" in the

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Apr 2016 at 01:21:00 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 25/04/16 05:31, David Wright wrote: > > But I see you've now acknowledged (indirectly) that LP can set > > multiple marks at the same point after stating that it can't. > > Are there other things that LP can be p

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Apr 2016 at 13:56:03 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 27/04/2016 01:04, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >On 4/26/16 3:56 PM, "Thomas Morley" <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>2016-04-26 2:21 GMT+02:00 Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk&g

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 10:38:55 (+0200), Malte Meyn wrote: > Am 30.04.2016 um 05:43 schrieb David Wright: > >But it's no surprise that composing directly into LP is only really > >possible in absolute mode. > > It’s not. I’ve always done it in \relative mode using octave chec

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 09:22:14 (+0200), Noeck wrote: > Am 30.04.2016 um 05:43 schrieb David Wright: > > it would be great > > if it could convert into a canonical style, where canonical could be > > defined in ways such as: every note with pitch duration (or > > even pi

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Apr 2016 at 17:52:16 (-0300), Caio Giovaneti de Barros wrote: > > On 4/29/16 7:27 AM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > >>About a year ago, Kieren indicated that he has decided to go completely > >>absolute mode, even to the point > >>of redoing his historic code: > >> >

Re: attachments and digest mode

2016-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Apr 2016 at 17:05:05 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > I will note, however, that the suggestions about using images or > attachments don't seem to work with the list in digest mode. > > Choosing an example from the latest digest, the attachment link yeilds a > 404 error. > >

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-27 Thread David Wright
ple up about the format of emails and people's grammar and > spelling than answer the damn question. > On 27 Apr 2016, "Andrew Bernard" <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Although I started this thread, it was purely because David Wright had > > mentioned the dif

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Apr 2016 at 19:18:01 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 24/04/2016 03:13, David Wright wrote: > >On Sat 23 Apr 2016 at 11:25:05 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > >>On 22/04/16 19:36, David Wright wrote: > >>>On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 15:47:59 (+0100), Anthonys Lists

Re: Python 3, was Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

2016-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Apr 2016 at 10:55:39 (+0200), m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: base64, Size: 4.7K --] [-- text/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code. Cheers,

Re: Python 3, was Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

2016-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Apr 2016 at 10:00:38 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Am 24.04.2016 um 09:56 schrieb David Kastrup: > > Noeck writes: > >>> So how do you define "the default" > >> As written before: What ships with the default installation. > > > > So python3 needs to be invoked using

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

2016-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Apr 2016 at 22:09:55 (+0200), Noeck wrote: > Hi, > > print 'foo' vs. print('foo') is usually the most frequent difference and > writing code for a 'common subset' in most cases requires at least some > from __future__ imports to ensure compatibility. All my programs converted perfectly

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Apr 2016 at 11:25:05 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 22/04/16 19:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 15:47:59 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > >> On 22/04/2016 14:31, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >>> David K wrote: > >>>>>

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 15:47:59 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 22/04/2016 14:31, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > >David K wrote: > >>>Hm? How could you even have a compressed multi-measure rest when there > >>>is anything like an "8-bar phrase" in parallel? > >>>That sounds like a problem that

Re: Multi-measure rests and mark collisions ...

2016-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 16:24:06 (+0100), Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 22/04/2016 14:49, Paul Scott wrote: > >>I assume Wol (like me) has the problem where the compressed rest happens > >>>in the part, not in the full score — but one wants not to have to use > >>>multiple \tag constructs just to

Re: Termination of variable definitions

2016-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Apr 2016 at 19:38:14 (+0100), David Sumbler wrote: > So at the risk of embarrassing myself, I should be grateful if somebody > would explain the following: how does Lilypond recognize the end of a > variable definition? Oversimplifying, there are about four things you can define with a

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Apr 2016 at 13:22:50 (+0200), Stephan Neuhaus wrote: > On 2016-04-18 20:29, David Wright wrote: > >That begs the question. How do you define "clearly malformed input." > >If it is malformed, it can't be clear. > > > >Of course, if you mea

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Apr 2016 at 09:06:47 (+0200), Stephan Neuhaus wrote: > On 2016-04-17 13:51, Urs Liska wrote: > >Am 17.04.2016 um 04:29 schrieb David Wright: > >>I think a better analogy than compilers writing programs would be > >>browsers rendering web pages. Can you im

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Apr 2016 at 03:23:31 (-0500), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Sharon Rosner wrote: > > I’m not saying that lilypond’s behaviour is necessarily wrong. I’m just > > trying to point out, like others have, that the term “fatal error” would > > normally mean that the

Re: 'absolute' pitches do not influence 'relative' ones

2016-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Apr 2016 at 14:59:14 (+0200), Johan Vromans wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:02:30 +0200 > David Kastrup wrote: > > > I recommend taking a look at \resetRelativeOctave instead. If you write > > > > \resetRelativeOctave a'' > > Why is that reset, and not set? You either

Re: Tuplet number direction

2016-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 15 Apr 2016 at 10:23:55 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > "Phil Holmes" writes: > > - Original Message - > > From: "David Kastrup" > > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:04 AM > >> Simon Albrecht writes: > >>> On 15.04.2016

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread David Wright
Please can you quote in a way that's visible in text clients, not just HTML ones. On Sat 16 Apr 2016 at 20:42:45 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I have not used any language of complaint, merely observation and puzzlement. > It was also not I that mentioned it is a regular source of confusion.

Re: lyric on a rest | parenthesis

2016-04-14 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Apr 2016 at 11:20:08 (+0100), Phil Holmes wrote: > From: "mj" > >Is it possible to lyric text on a rest? (it auto-skips, now) > > > >I'm using \addlyrics { \words }, and there is a quarter rest that > >needs a word, just like all the other notes. Is that possible? >

Re: visual structure vs musical structure

2016-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Apr 2016 at 02:34:22 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > How I should structure the lilypond source code in this case where the > visual structure and the musical structure does not match? For the music > structure I would like to create the variable fragment, but for the visual >

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 14:04:21 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 07:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 09:40:30 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: > > [...] > > > style, but something like that with no church rests, numerical time > &g

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 09:40:30 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: [...] > style, but something like that with no church rests, numerical time What are these? Misericords? Cheers, David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Technical question

2016-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 01:43:01 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > tyronicus writes: > > David Kastrup wrote > >> LilyPond will not make use of a graphics card. Indeed, for a single > >> score, LilyPond will not make use of more than a single CPU core. > > > > After Lily

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 22:16:40 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote: > > I was wondering how often the odd half measure beam really leads to > > ambiguity between 3/4 and 6/8 time in properly typeset music. Apart

Re: AutoBeam Behaving Properly?

2016-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Apr 2016 at 13:34:01 (+0200), Martin Neubauer wrote: > On 6 April 2016 at 13:23, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > when I explored the effect of that setting, I wasn't sure the outcome is > > really that desirable > > > > Wait… is your

Re: Scheme function to force any noteEvent to a skipEvent

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 17:47:03 (+), Joseph Chrestien wrote: > Thanks David and Simon for your kind help. I used David's solution and it > works brilliantly. Very nice. I didn't know of this NullVoice context, I'll > take a look at it. My view would be to use David's solution where you have

Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 01:04:40 (+0200), Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-04-04 23:58 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler : > > > > Just a thought - perhaps one day somebody who understands Lilypond well > > might write a section for the docs, starting with the basic > > Well, the full quote: >

Re: Weird error when using skipTypesetting

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 23:30:00 (+0200), Sharon Rosner wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m getting a bunch of "programming error: insane spring distance requested, > ignoring it” etc errors when compiling the following: > > \version "2.19.37" > > music = \relative c' { > c1 d e f \bar "||" > \set

Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 12:46:37 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 03-04-16 22:56, David Kastrup wrote: > >Bernard writes: > >>That does help. I found out \with is a very special statement. > >Not really. \with can be part of other constructs, just like "else" can > >be part

Re: Multiple stanza lines under second section of music

2016-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:53:13 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 19:30 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Henry Law writes: > > > > > 3. On 28/03/16 13:05, Christoph Friedrich wrote: > > >> refrain-empty = \lyricmode { > > >> " " " " " " " " " " " " > > >> } > >

Re: rhythm shift

2016-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Mar 2016 at 23:23:51 (+0100), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > Very sorry David and Robert my example was not at all clear. > > I have a long lilypond source that is shifted of three sixteenth note (the > file has been generated using the midi to lilypond conversion tool). Well, I did wonder

Re: rhythm shift

2016-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Mar 2016 at 01:06:58 (+0100), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > Hello, > Is there any automatic tool to shift some lilypond music of a certain > rhythm amount? For instance consider the following fragment: > > \time 2/4 > r4 a4 ~ | > a4 b4 ~| > b4 r4 > > > How can I shift (convert) it to: >

Re: Use a straight tick (single straight quote) for a breath mark

2016-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Mar 2016 at 10:53:59 (-0400), Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: > I found the snippet that shows how to change symbol for the \breathe > command. See http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=195 > > Can someone tell me how to change the script value to a straight tick, > similar to the straight

Re: difference of code construct

2016-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 16:42:45 (-0400), Benjamin Strecker wrote: > I was a little curious about the difference in the output, but I'm afraid I > can't offer a solution, only some observations after looking at it. > > In my tinkering, it seemed to be associated with the time signature. In > the

Re: Inline images, was Re: Variable slur thickness

2016-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Mar 2016 at 10:19:29 (-0600), Cynthia Karl wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:04:57 -0700 (MST) tisimst > schrieb: > > > > HTH, > > Abraham > > > > P.S. Some of the power users on this list filter inline images, so if you > > wouldn't mind making the image an

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