Re: transcribe notes

2012-06-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:58:37PM +0200, Philip Thomas wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch wrote: I should mention that I'm no programmer. (And I wouldn't be offended by a polite thanks, but no thanks.) I'm afraid that my first reaction is

Re: transcribe notes

2012-06-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:49:16AM +0200, Philip Thomas wrote: If that's correct, I guess your initial thanks, but no thanks is directed more to the possibility of my becoming a more serious contributor, Yes. I'm inclined to try to knock together a draft expanded cheatsheet on my own

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:22:55AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Any simplification of lilypond syntax must mean a removal of features. With all due respect, that is IMHO incorrect. Lilypond's syntax could be simplified through pursuing

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

2012-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org The important border is that between LilyPond and Scheme.  Here is where empowerment of the user happens.  Or not. Can you explain a little about how that empowerment happens? Users can

Re: Lilypond source code indenter and formatter

2012-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:44:00AM +0100, Colin Hall wrote: Is anyone on the list aware of a tool that takes a valid Lilypond score as input and produces as output the same .ly file but with the formatting and layout standardized? Yes and no. Various editors can do this.

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:30:01AM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/6/1 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: And lilynet is a good place for experimental / unofficial stuff. Well, http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/Special:RecentChanges -snip problems- I am sorry, I don't really want

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 04:38:24PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Now i've found http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-12/msg00124.html and it looks like the discussion happened when i was absent. As per GOP 6, it was a private email discussion so no archives are available. So,

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:05:02PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: David's right. However, i think it would be ok to add a monthly donations progress bar on the sponsoring subpage (http://www.lilypond.org/sponsoring.html), under David's name. What do you think? To me this would be more like

Re: Beaming regression 2.15.39 compared to 2.14.2

2012-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:19:29PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On 24 mai 2012, at 12:04, Urs Liska wrote: A regression is something that doesn't work in a later version and that has _deliberately_ worked in a previous version. I.e. something that has once been fixed to work in

Re: status of release 2.16.0

2012-05-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: there is a long-ish explanation about the release process in our latest LilyPond Report: http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-26#the_road_to_2_16 Can we get a news item for this? and maybe a (general) email to the

Re: Source management tools for lilypond projects

2012-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:36:35PM +0200, Christian Andersson wrote: Now, sit down and await all flames from proponents of all the other tools! Saving different versions of files to floppy disks and writing a label in a thick pen was good enough for us in 1986. Especially when we re-used a

Re: mention canceled releases on website? (was: status of release 2.16.0)

2012-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:53:05AM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Neil Thornock neilthorn...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure why nothing was mentioned on the website. I'm not happy with this practice, either. I eagerly await your patch. If it looks ok I'll tell you

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 05:01:40PM +0200, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Is it possible to suppress specific (expected) warnings? No, unfortunately. - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:07:03AM -0700, fresco wrote: fresco wrote: David Kastrup wrote: fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: But when I try to insert: \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival #bach-präl.xml { \tempo 4 = 100 } Basically, the problem is

Re: musicxml2ly

2012-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:33:09AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I did not see a reaction to this question, so I try again. What happened with this musicxml2ly bug ? First chords were printed below the staff, then I think it was fixed, and now the chords are below the staff again.

Re: Where in the mauals ...

2012-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:38:52PM -0400, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: I've been scouring the manuals for how to make some notes within a piece smaller than the surrounding ones. Where on earth do I find that reference? Learning manual, Size of objects ?

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:59:34AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from:

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:15:39PM -0800, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: This port provides a minimal framework compatible with the FreeBSD ports system which permits any ports-enabled BSD system to use standard BSD management tools (portupgrade, pkg_delete, etc.) to build, package, install,

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00:43PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Forgive me, I don't mean to be evasive. The official FreeBSD ports tree includes only 2.14.2 at present (as the print/lilypond port). Given that a call for testers was made recently, I

Re: Status of Lilypond for MacOS X

2012-03-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:00:33PM +, Colin Hall wrote: There is a known critical issue with Lilypond for MacOS X version 2.14.2. I'd use different terminology. The lilypond osx download page clearly says MacOS X 10.7 Lion is not yet supported.. As such, any failure to run on 10.7 is

lilypond 2.15.33 kind-of a release candidate

2012-03-09 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond 2.15.30 is out; this is not a actual release candidate but it can be considered as an unofficial candidate. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development.

Re: Fatal Error on Launching 2.15.31

2012-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 02:34:56PM -0600, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote: It's an error since version 2.15.30, in the bug-reports, but not acted upon (why? it's so easy?) I don't know. Why didn't you send a patch? - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:07:09AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: I just downloaded the LSR.tarball from today and ran a last successful test. I'd like to send it to Sebastiano. Please do. Shall we postpone the change of the description for increasing-spacing-between-staves.ly? No; if there's

Re: Conversion to MIDI ?

2012-03-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:48:41AM -0500, PMA wrote: Oh dear. Thanks. I'll sound out the Debian forum re what's maybe in development along these lines. This is an active research topic. It's similar to computer recognition of handwriting or speech recognition. Best place to look is google

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Bryn Hughes wrote: Overall, I'd say that the rendering on Windows looks much better, though it'd be nice to have full control of formatting as well. There _are_ some minor differences in the pdf output on various platforms, but in this case my

Re: Is there an equivalent of #define ... #ifndef ... #endif in lilypond?

2012-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:45:43AM -0800, Michael Hendry wrote: Is there a simple guide to the application of patches? - I'm looking for a step-by-step Delia Smith-style recipe as opposed to a more relaxed Jamie Oliver one, which might not be correct in every detail! There is no simple

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:37:12PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: Hi David, 2012/2/21 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: You just did not try hard enough.  It was a really obscure bug in the lexer.  I'll commit a fix to staging once make check goes through. not sure I understand. David's trying

Re: Printing bar numbers for partial measures

2012-02-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:40:46PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com writes: And I have a life besides that (with work, duties, etc.). My entire time is not dedicated to LilyPond. But you expect others to have their entire time dedicated to LilyPond and

Re: LSR updates: was: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:27:31PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: So if it is not too much work to collect triplets of version #, before, after convert-ly, after correct change, it might be a nice base for looking how to improve the convertrules file. David, are you volunteering to produce

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:40:49AM -, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:06:18AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: Unfortunately nobody has organized updating LSR to 2.14, so there will be more and more cases

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:03:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:40:49AM -, Phil Holmes wrote: Since nobody is willing to either update the files himself, or organize other people to do them

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:25:33PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca You have impressive email filters. I think you'll find that one of the volunteers here has been doing a full LSR import whenever it's needed. Oh. It's

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:09:21PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: Hi Phil, 2012/2/18 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net: I'd approach this from a different direction.  First of all - have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/updating-lsr-to-a-new-version huh, I'd

Re: polychords: a working solution

2012-02-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:06:18AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: Following the link to 7.2 Adding and editing snippets I read: If the new snippet uses new features that are not available in the current LSR version, the snippet should be added to ‘Documentation/snippets/new’ and a reference

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:14:49PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: If one can put together a good roadmap. But in this case, the let's put up a front for collecting money for David angle is insufficient. There is a considerable amount of planned work to do by different people. Agreed. I suggest

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:30:12PM +, Graham Percival wrote: 2) set up a kickstarter to perfect that score, where perfect means work on lilypond such that good output is produced with only semantic information. No tweaks, no workarounds, etc. Naturally, once a particular score (+ lilypond

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:00:21AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: Do you know of any famous pieces of music without freely accessible scores? I have only one shot now, but it isn't perfect: Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings was composed in 1936 but the composer died not-so-long-ago (1981).

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:29:00PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: So I looked into the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I could see this funding Americans to work on lilypond programming while living in America. I could see this potentially funding

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:11:26PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 2/8/12 11:01 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I can not see this funding non-Americans working outside of America. If you look at the links, many of the successful grants either invite or require

verifying \chordmode neglects point-and-click (fixed)

2012-02-04 Thread Graham Percival
Some kind of error with chordmode was fixed. Can somebody check this works? http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1022 - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

user vs. user (was: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)

2012-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:50:13AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com: why I never *demand* developers to fix an issue, even if it is one that is really annoying my ego in almost every score I typeset. One thing comes to my mind: you are talking

Re: user vs. user (was: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?)(was: Re: music font)

2012-01-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:27:56PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: Of course, a 96-hour reponse rate isn't precisely fantastic, but it's a start. Well - TBH time isn't of the essence as a general rule. Whether a bug gets added to the tracker in one day or 3 rarely affects the overall

Re: Undress While Playing - Thank you Lilypond ;)

2012-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:05:03AM +0100, Nils wrote: Are you serious? This was the most harmless picture you can imagine. I find nothing objectionable about it, but we should bear in mind that cultural norms vary quite a bit; Europeans are generally much more accepting of nudity than North

Re: Undress While Playing - Thank you Lilypond ;)

2012-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:36:27AM +0100, Nils wrote: P.S. And many of the new visitors were from this list. I guess this would be the clergy :) Next time I will aim for the doubled increase by not using grown women but boys. That final remark? *Not* appropriate for this mailing list. -

Re: Bug squad - updated list

2012-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:15:45PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: -Eluze elu...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Bug squad - updated list i believe i've set up my email client correctly but i seem not to get

Re: Auto-beaming in tuplets?

2011-12-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 04:18:04PM +0100, Rutger Hofman wrote: This is fixed in the latest development version. Is it strongly disadvised to upgrade to that for 'stable' usage? Yes. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: instrument name or \markup question

2011-12-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:21:46PM +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: We can raise a new issue. But I'm not sure I will be able to submit a patch soon. (And I'm not up-to-date on what shall be done before submitting patches nowadays.) 366-word summary here:

Re: mailing list fot italian users

2011-12-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:05:42PM +0100, Federico Bruni wrote: But I can't find a place which explains how to create a new mailing list on gnu.org I create it, if there's enough demand. How many people want an italian list? Cheers, - Graham ___

Re: Taking the old website down

2011-12-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:06:14PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: Cloned the lilypond git repository: git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git To try to understand where http://lilypond.org/web/install/ is comming from, I grepped for whetted your appetite and whetted (not that a usual word) and I

mentor needed (was: Taking the old website down)

2011-12-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:19:49PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: On 12/21/11 13:56 , Graham Percival wrote: I highly recommend that you read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/summary-for-experienced-developers http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor

Re: Minor typo in documentation

2011-12-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:59:39PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/12/21 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt:  EXAMPLES=$BUILD_DIR/Documentation/web/ly-examples/  EXAMPLES=$BUILD_DIR/Documentation/ly-examples/ inside Documentation/ I see three cases of this. Should all three

Re: Taking the old website down

2011-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:13:42PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: As a suggestion, please delete the web page that answers to: http://lilypond.org/web/install/ or add a redirect there. This has been in the tracker for over a year. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1163

Re: Problems with lilypond and lion?

2011-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: LilyPond 2.15.22 works in the OS X 10.7.2 GUI. From Terminal, I use a script ~/bin/lilypond: exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond $@ On OS X 10.7 /usr/local/bin/ is in the path, so one can put the

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a lost cause if

Re: Release news, development news, state of the world

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:06:56AM -0700, Colin Campbell wrote: FWIW, I've found that GUB on x86-64 Oneiric will choke building cross-compiled components, with error messages saying unable to identify extension of x, where x is the x.o form of a tool. This points, according to GCC, to

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:05:35PM -0500, Craig wrote: This is the main issue with reporting such bugs with lilypond. Let's say I start reducing this problematic file, I reduce the project down to a single file, and then the bug goes away. Then you did a bad job of reducing it. When

Re: Staff spacing snippet

2011-12-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:39:48AM -0800, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: the manual that came with my 2.14.2 distribution, is there a newer one out? It appears the HTML manual online is also 2.12. All manuals are online. If you look at the v2.12 manual, you'll see 2.12.3. If you look at the

Re: Staff spacing snippet

2011-12-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:54:20AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:39:48AM -0800, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: the manual that came with my 2.14.2 distribution, is there a newer one out? It appears the HTML manual

Re: ERROR: Wrong type (expecting pair): ()

2011-11-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Shevek wrote: Aha, line numbers are indeed progress. However, the line numbers for the error are in some lilypond library file, so that's unhelpful in tracking down the problem. Here's the relevant part of the compile messages:

Re: ERROR: Wrong type (expecting pair): ()

2011-11-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:24:42PM -0800, Shevek wrote: Out of 5000+ lines of code with no idea where to start? That's looking for a needle in a haystack. I was hoping someone might be able to suggest the sort of thing that can cause this error, so I at least know what color the needle is or

Re: Cheat Sheet

2011-11-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:30:15AM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 09.11.2011 17:31, schrieb David Kastrup: Trevor Danielst.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: This is a popular misconception, but it is wrong, as you can see by introducing various accidentals. I was merely quoting the manual, so if you

Re: Call for help

2011-11-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:50:24PM -0500, Ralph Palmer wrote: I haven't read all the contributor/issues documentation yet, so I don't know what the daily time commitment is. 20 minutes. Absolutely no more. I highly encourage the use of a kitchen timer. (sure, you could use a computer

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:46:58PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling distances with *15/16 and stuff like that? Okay, the syntax I am using in my example: #'base

Re: metrical structure

2011-10-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:29:48AM -0200, luis jure wrote: on 2011-10-31 at 09:02 Christ van Willegen wrote: Perhaps using lyrics would stack up all the dots? this seems to be a good idea, indeed. it never occurred to me becuase i never used lyrics, and i never paid any attention at how

Re: metrical structure

2011-10-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:54:12PM -0200, luis jure wrote: on 2011-10-31 at 13:18 Graham Percival wrote: Why not use a grid? It's in the Editorial chapter of Notation. from the description (Vertical lines can be drawn between staves synchronized with the notes) and the examples, it's

Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter

2011-10-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I can tell, the only tool to notate unmetered music is the \cadenzaOn,\cadenzaOff pair of tags. Am I right about this, or are there other ways? Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling

Re: segfault in 2.14.2 debian package

2011-10-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Also, I had v2.14.2 already installed in my home directory. IIRC, apt upgrade removed the lilypond package in my home. Is it possible? No, it is not possible that apt would touch anything in your home directory. Cheers, -

Re: King Arthur

2011-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:32:48AM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: I have a question. Many publish on Mutopia. Others on CPDL (Choralwiki). Others on IMSLP. Some have their own source repo, e.g. nenuvar by N.Sceaux. Now, I have The Fairy Queen in LP (not by me) and before submitting it I have

Re: .bin files in Lilypond

2011-10-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: 2011/10/10 Frits Verhaeghe verhaeghe.fr...@telenet.be: As a new user of Lilypond, I received from another user some .bin-files. How can I open this .bin-files? Those .bin files were produced by lilypond? That's very strange if

Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

2011-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:35:55PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com writes: Steve Downes st...@kingswayelec.co.uk writes: I am finding finding my way round the manuals a bit convoluted at present merging info from one section into a script styled on

Re: maxosx support for 10.4 to 10.7, test binaries

2011-09-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:52:47PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2011-09-26 um 07:31 schrieb Graham Percival: There are darwin-ppc and darwin-x86 binaries here: http://lilypond.org/~graham/ 10.5.8 here, too. Your binary*, Thanks for the reminder; I've removed those binaries since

maxosx support for 10.4 to 10.7, test binaries

2011-09-25 Thread Graham Percival
There are darwin-ppc and darwin-x86 binaries here: http://lilypond.org/~graham/ There is one report that the x86 version fails to work on 10.5.8, which seems odd since I would have expected more complaints if that was the case. If you have a mac, could you check those binaries? Make sure you

Re: preprocessing an included file with system command

2011-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:30:55PM -0400, Michael Ellis wrote: Note: what I'm actually trying to do with the preprocessing, as opposed to the trivial example above, is something that cannot be done easily with a music function. I know about the --evaluate command line option but that's also

Re: High-level users?

2011-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 03:24:18PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: For what it's worth, i really *really* think that LilyPond and MuseScore should be integrated. What does that mean? - better lilypond export for musescore: go ahead and send patches there. - lilypond import for musescore: go

Re: building faillure

2011-09-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:08:26AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: $(outdir)/general-scheme.o: $(outdir)/version.hh $(outdir)/lily-guile.o: $(outdir)/version.hh $(outdir)/lily-version.o: $(outdir)/version.hh ... Graham: git grep version.hh gives: lily/general-scheme.cc:#include version.hh

Re: 2.14 will not wrap past 2nd staff - bug or bad input?

2011-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 07:52:26PM -0400, Albert Finney wrote: Lilypond 2.14 PDF puts all of the music on 2 staves, even through it should be 3-4 pages. It wraps the first staff (like word wrap is on, as an analogy). But the second staff, word wrap is off and all of the music just runs off

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 08:33:11AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. Well, what would you call it if you

Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 07:40:50PM -0600, Colin Campbell wrote: Very nicely done, indeed, Urs! Thanks for putting this together. Graham, would this be something to be linked from LM? The normal thing to would be to add a link to the wiki. Cheers, - Graham

Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:42:23AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2011/8/24 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: The normal thing to would be to add a link to the wiki. Which is down at the moment, if i'm not mistaken? Could be. If so

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:01:32PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: My question is: what can we do, as a community, to overcome this type of hurdle? There is a lot we could do to spread the word. - send release announcements to more places. I've only ever announced things to

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext (?)

2011-08-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 02:21:11PM -0700, harm6 wrote: Xavier Scheuer wrote: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext has been replaced by \Staff \RemoveEmptyStave in version 2.13.something. I didn't found \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in the docs, but there is a definition in engraver-init.ly (version

Re: creating images for web pages

2011-08-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:20:43PM -0400, ed stuckems wrote: I'm trying to create images of lilypond output to be included in web pages. I've been able to do it but the process is extremely labour intensive and I've got to believe there's a more efficient way. Can someone please comment on

Re: Changing to Gonville font

2011-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 02:59:22PM +, James Lowe wrote: Hello )The UNIX-y nerds (including those comfortable with Linux and MacOS )command lines) will understand that the mv command is used to rename )things. Meanwhile, the GUI users will understand “rename” better than )“move.”

Re: Lilypond with the Command Line

2011-08-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:31:21PM -0400, cte...@wesleyan.edu wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to compile a lilypond source file on the command line but pass arguments on the command line. For example let's say the source file by default prints as a treble clef. Could you pass a command

Re: rendering png without page

2011-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:08:14PM +, James Lowe wrote: Pushed as eed7b5f33c8e40860924c414b0feae8e0393f39d lilypond can most definitely accept backslashes: \ to split long lines. Note that a backslash \ is not the same as a forward slash: / which *cannot* be used to split lines.

Re: rendering png without page

2011-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:57:41AM +, James Lowe wrote: )OK but this is a frequently asked question related to exporting scores part )as image and it would be useful to put a reference to this command in the )doc. Do we have any other examples already in the doc that references a

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:32:15AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: On 05/07/11 06:26, Graham Percival wrote: Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :) Actually, right-hand fingering requires whitespace

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:16:27PM +0800, James Harkins wrote: I find this remark a bit baffling. This is already an extract out of 120 lines of lilypond code. I did my best to tin-ify it, and I'm quite startled to hear that this already very short example is somehow not tiny enough. We have

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:38:22PM +0800, James Harkins wrote: Sorry for posting a too-complex example. But I'd also add, from the perspective of a relatively new user, tiny example seems to be defined a bit like pornography... hard to say exactly what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Re: Odd-looking tie on a chord

2011-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:55:37PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, To me the sentence A tiny example is an example from which nothing can be removed. explains it all Can't whitespace be removed without affecting the outcome? ;) Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 06:18:04AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: But this path wasn't valid. The index.html file was actually installed to file:///usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/index.html Ouch. Why not the canonical location

Re: Convert-ly and related files

2011-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:18:56AM -0400, K. Kellogg-Smith wrote: For example, is there a list of obsolete LY codes and commands and the last version after which those codes and commands were no longer supported (for example, the articulation pairs “cr, rc” and “decr, rced”)? I’ve looked into

Re: Convert-ly and related files

2011-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 04:05:48PM -0400, K. Kellogg-Smith wrote: On 6/29/2011 12:07 PM, Graham Percival wrote: convert-ly -s failing that, just read the source code. Hence my query -- what I'm looking for would be a more inclusive list of obsolete LY commands. ... In so doing it obvious

Re: how to create baroque ornaments

2011-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:14:06PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 6/27/11 3:26 PM, Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sce...@free.fr wrote: For instance: \include side-ornementations.ily { \parc bes'4. \parb c''!8 \para d''4. \pralla c'' \pralla e''8 \bar } This is beautiful code,

Re: Texinfo manual.

2011-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:34:45PM +0200, Michel Villeneuve wrote: Did you try install lilypond with the --doc option ? sh lilypond-2.14.1-1.linux-x86.sh --doc woah, I had no idea that existed! James: please add a Help In the shell, type: sh lilypond-51234.sh --help to the Unix

Bug Squad: 40-minute-a-week volunteer needed

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
Hi guys, In order to respond to bug reports in a prompt and efficient manner, we are seeking 1 person who is willing to work for 20 minutes, two times a week. Ideally this would be: 20 minutes on Wednesday 20 minutes on Saturday but if necessary we could reshuffle the days. This job is

Re: Position of slur between two notes in different chords

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:37:43AM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: c (@1 d' (@2 f)@1 c')@2 This syntax already works? It looks like a great idea, but I got an error here. No, it's just a demonstration of what would be possible. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Position of slur between two notes in different chords

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:53:09PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: Yes, this construct seems clear. However, the problem is: should we do this now or maybe do GLISS first? There's no maybe. We're not introducing any major new syntax like this right now. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Bug Squad: 40-minute-a-week volunteer needed

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 08:40:55AM -0500, Derek Klinge wrote: I don't have any experience with bug tracking or anything like that, but am willing to help out. I am an experienced Linux user, and have regular access to e-mail and such. Great! You're scheduled for: 20 minutes

Re: Position of slur between two notes in different chords

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:05:10PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: IIRC, we start GLISS after GOP, so this will not be decided until 2012 i'm afraid. We'll start GLISS when I have time to manage it. That isn't necessarily after GOP. I'm optimistic that by late August I can delegate enough mundane

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