Re: Showing Beats in Complex Music

2011-01-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 1/31/11, Laurentin Lévesque laurent...@sympatico.ca wrote: With my choir we're doing lots of highly syncopated music this year. I am trying to rewrite my voice parts (with the lyrics) while having the beatcounts printed on top of the staff in their proper location with respect to the

Re: Bar line at beginning of piece

2011-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:07:58AM -0800, ornello wrote: \version 2.12.2 { \time 4/4 \grace s \bar || c''4 } but this is not working for multiple staves. I suggest \partial 64 s64 \bar || and I'm pretty certain it'll work if you put it in all staves. Cheers, - Graham

Re: \repeat volta 2 {} doesn't repeat notes in the .MIDI file

2011-01-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 09:19:35PM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: However, in the midi generated only 8 notes are played: C E G E C F A F. I expect a total of 12 notes to be played: C E G E C F A F C F A F. How can I make the repeat effective in the MIDI file as well? Assuming you're looking at

Re: Lilypond web git seems old

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:31:43PM +0800, Ben Luo wrote: Today I checked out lilypond web from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary But it seems old. Is there any latest repo to pull? The website is now built from the main source; the web branch is obsolete. We are

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:22:12AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 21.12.2010 03:17, schrieb Graham Percival: Excellent! How do we move forward and include this font? btw are there any other nice fonts that we could include as well? Somebody produces a patch, for lilypond git and/or GUB

Re: Lilypond web git seems old

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:11:50AM +, James Lowe wrote: [James Lowe] the last update was 17 hours ago (by me). Before that 2 more checkins were made in the last 2 days. So I am not sure what you mean by 'old'. He's talking about the web branch, where the last update was 6 months ago,

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/19 Mike Solomon mike...@ufl.edu: It may be worth it to add this to the issue tracker and get this fixed in one of the first 2.14 bug fixes (if not 2.14 itself) - thoughts? In my opinion this issue is important and

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:49:01PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: Please submit a bug report and let's get it in the tracker. Doubly so if it's a regression. Exactly

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:58:46PM +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: Graham, 2011/1/19 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: If necessary, we can pretend that it's deliberate (after noting it in the Changes document), call it a non-regression, make it non-critical, and have a release

Re: Using lyrics in a markup

2011-01-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:24:11PM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: These functions should be bundled in a snippet, or perhaps included in the lilypond distribution? Start by adding it to LSR. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: global staff-staff spacing fails in 2.13.46

2011-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 05:09:51PM -0800, Keith OHara wrote: Dear docs editors, Patch attached. (I had to wrap long lines of .ly; tried to pick a consistent indentation.) Doc policy is 2-space indents, and in the case where you're wrapping a long line, indent the first wrapped line by 2

Re: global staff-staff spacing fails in 2.13.46

2011-01-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:46:42AM +, Graham Percival wrote: I know that you were working on an old file which doesn't follow this policy, but would you mind making the examples follow this? Never mind; it's fine as it is. Cheers, - Graham

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:58:15PM +, Neil Puttock wrote: On 14 January 2011 21:04, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Sometimes I am inclined to just commit and be done.  After all, this would just omit a warning in working cases, and would fix the totally broken warning message when

Re: Complex time signature

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:39:59AM -0500, Ralph Palmer wrote: I've tried the Learning Manual and the Snippets List. The closest I can come would be something like : 3A A 3A A 2 A +A A + 8A A 8A A 8 Can anyone help me out? I wrote some nice functions which do this a

Re: Complex time signature

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:23:23PM +0100, Éditions IN NOMINE wrote: Well I have used such tricks someone told me to use. For instance : #(define ((double-time-signature glyph a b) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 2.5) #:number

Re: instrumentName in StaffGroup

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:56:22PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: To be honest, I don't understand, why the Instrument_name_engraver is not added to all staff group contexts by default. It is a very simple engraver, so it would not induce much overhead. Sounds good to me. Cheers, -

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: As far as I can see, there is not much more to do than just omit the warning for parallel music when the output is sensible. The extra angles for being allowed (and required) to put the durations inside seem like a reasonably

Re: lilypond-book unwanted space

2011-01-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: \paper { paper-width = 210\mm left-margin = 20\mm right-margin = 30\mm line-width = 100\mm } try: indent = 0\mm as long as you have no instrument names, it should be fine. Cheers, - Graham

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different duration. Because there's no such thing as a chord with notes of different duration. In the case typesetting violin music it would be much

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 09:02:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote: i'd like to know about the rationale behind not supporting chords with notes of different

Release candiate 1 of 2.14 - LilyPond 2.13.46 released!

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond 2.13.46 is out; this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development. http://lilypond.org/development.html

Re: why chords with notes of different duration is not supported?

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Before moving to computer science, I was a cello teacher. And I'm now playing first violin in an orchestra doing, amongst other things, Tchaik's Romeo and Juliet. I also

Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.

2011-01-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:28:29PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote: I've also added a couple paragraphs explaining my understanding of U.S. copyright law and urging users to accept the CC license with commercial restriction in honor of Margaret GreenTree's patient labor while

Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.

2011-01-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:16:44AM -0800, Mike Blackstock wrote: Just to clarify: anything is copyrightable of course That is false. - there's no laws that I'm aware of that prevent people from asserting a copyright; question is, can it/has it a chance of standing up? You are

Re: Completely separating notation from output logic

2011-01-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 05:41:48PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote: Thanks, Carl. I probably should have included some background information. If I had only one piece of music to worry about, I'd do it exactly as you suggest. Problem is I've got 404 Bach Chorales on the Solfege Resources site

Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.

2011-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
copyright, then it is under copyright the instant that it is produced in fixed form. (i.e. as soon as I type each letter of this paragraph, it is under copyright -- even though I am not going to append Copyright (c) 2011 Graham Percival to this email) Given the above, it seems that an important

Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.

2011-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote: Thanks Graham, it's good to get the straight story! I must say there are certainly some confusing aspects to copyright law. First, I must clarify that I cannot give you a straight story. To begin with, I am not a certified

testing lilydev

2011-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
We think that we've finished creating our Ubuntu LilyPond Developer Remix (lilydev; formerly know as lilybuntu). It would be helpful if more people could test the latest version. Begin here: http://lilypond.org/help-us.html and look under advanced tasks. One note: the current iso image

Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.

2011-01-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 10:08:38PM +0100, Phil Hézaine wrote: Moreover, there are chorals which aren't changed from the Public Domain. I've checked some of it against my sources. Well, only a little bit. And i'm not sure of the data integrity of her typesetting. Interesting. Then, why to

Re: Fast lilypond running

2010-12-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:36:50AM +0100, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I found that on weblily.net the processing is surprisingly fast. Is there a known trick to make it so? I mean something like having GUILE loaded in the memory? I don't know about weblily, but you might be

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2010-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:07:28PM -0800, Marc M wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: and does it make the download size much much bigger. How much is much much? Gonville is 3.5 MB, the Jazz font is 10 KB. Downloading

Re: source files of examples featured on the webpage

2010-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:57:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: where can i get the source code of the music fetured here http://lilypond.org/examples.html ? in git. Documentation/web/ly-examples/ No, they're not going to be click-through available. Before complaining, search the mailing

Re: music engraving resources in the internet

2010-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:45:38PM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: 2010/12/19 Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com: while i'm waiting for new Lilybuntu to be finished, i'd like to learn more about music engraving rules. I found lists of books on the No need to wait. You can use it

Re: beautifully reworked wiki page

2010-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:49 PM, James james.l...@datacore.com wrote: Hello, On 17/12/2010 13:09, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: although the German page has a very beautiful Stockhausen excerpt. At what point would this contravene some copyright law? Depends on the legal jurisdiction -- which,

Re: beautifully reworked wiki page

2010-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: In my non-expert (I am not a lawyer) opinion, the current except on the German page would contravene Canadian copyright law. It depends on whether the quote makes sense

Re: beautifully reworked wiki page

2010-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, James james.l...@datacore.com wrote: Well my point was with some of our duller Inspirational Headwords, I am always on the look out for 'interesting' LilyPond files that we could potentially use in the Doc. Invent something from scratch. So thinking if this

Re: Beam settings in 2.13.29

2010-12-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:19:27PM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote: It looks like a 2.14 release blocker to me. I agree. Could we get an issue number? You don't need to have a tiny example or image, but I'd like to see something in the tracker to show that we have more than one critical issue.

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2010-12-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:32:09PM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 14.12.2010 14:23, schrieb Marc Mouries: wow the font is really nice for song books. I also discovered the Gonville fonts and it would be great if those fonts be included into lilypond out of the box and the selection of font made

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2010-12-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:02:11PM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Ok, you're right - but IMHO 1204 is about documenting the new font features, whereas Marc Mouries proposed to include the Jazz font and Gonville into the standard lilypond distribution, which is another issue. Does it make sense to

Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

2010-12-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: and does it make the download size much much bigger. How much is much much? Gonville is 3.5 MB, the Jazz font is 10 KB. Downloading lilypond is 20 MB, so personally, I don't think this would break the much much bigger clause.

Re: virtualization software for windows

2010-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: In my opinion, the absolute ideal alternative is to use Wubi (it would work great with LilyBuntu, btw): Does it work on OSX? - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

virtualization software for windows

2010-12-06 Thread Graham Percival
I'm looking at: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/lilybuntu.html We currently recommend VirtualBox Open Source Edition for lilypond contributors. However, the download page (no longer?) has binaries available for the open-source edition:

Re: virtualization software for windows

2010-12-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM, James james.l...@datacore.com wrote: Graham, Do our windows contributors just use the non-open source edition of virtualbox? I guess I do then (and also for my Mac). Is that a bad thing? The only reason it would be a bad thing is if their license forbids

Re: virtualization software for windows

2010-12-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: The only reason it would be a bad thing is if their license forbids using it to contribute to open-source projects.  I consider

Re: indent.py has vanished?!

2010-12-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 02:33:01PM -0800, -Eluze wrote: howsoever it would be nice to have such a program released by Lilypond! This is a known request. I think it's number 700-something or 900-something in the issue tracker. If you're interested, look for it and read the past discussion.

Re: indent.py has vanished?!

2010-12-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 03:38:17AM -0800, -Eluze wrote: is there a reason why the indenting program indent.py which was available in former versions of lilypond is not included anymore? Err, I don't remember having any indent.py as part of lilypond. What version did you see it in? Cheers, -

Re: Printing barnumber 1 (oh no, not again)

2010-11-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:02:08AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Why don't Horn players get a second date? (...) please, don't post such vulgar jokes here. In my opinion it's a shame for the project. I agree. However, it's one of the best jokes I've ever heard recently, and it was

Re: Trills with accidentals

2010-10-30 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: Not sure what to raise an issue about concerning convert.ly, though. convert-ly prints a NOT_SMART

Re: Trills with accidentals

2010-10-30 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net wrote: - this snippet is some kind of a hack anyway, and IIRC your official policy is that convert-ly must handle pristine LilyPond code, but if you use hacks then you're on your own :-) Hmm, good point. That's not

Re: rhythm marks

2010-10-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 03:57:26PM +0100, James wrote: Yes I thought about that after I sent the links. I have never tried to create a rhythmic staff myself. It does make you wonder though, the point of making the note heads fall above or below the singe line of this staff. Wood blocks?

Re: Help shifting entire tuplet horizontally within a measure

2010-10-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:53:46PM +0200, James Bailey wrote: On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:08 PM, James Lowe wrote: What I don't understand is what the *1/4 and *4 are doing in this context. Is this documented? See 1.2.1 in the Notation Reference, Scaling Durations. I personally wouldn't

Re: how to position \tempo in a non-top staff

2010-10-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote:  \relative    \new Staff { d1 }    \new Staff { \tempo foo d1 } \new Staff \with{ \consists ... } , I assume? You only want to display the metronome mark in this staff, right? Regardless of the location of \tempo, the

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:26:21PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 10/11/10 5:22 PM, Graham Percival wrote: I'm not at all certain that's a good idea. The dynamics won't be present in MIDI (which is probably no great loss), but more importantly, it messes up the semantics for no particularly

Re: problem with LSR 643

2010-10-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:25:57PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: PS: How can I find out who has written that snippet? I don't believe that there is any way. It's just possible that LSR keeps track of snippet authors, but I can't recall seeing anything like that. Cheers, - Graham

Re: orchestral template, please comment

2010-10-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:29:16PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Now approved. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=719 . This will mean deleting snippet 713, since I've renamed this. I always like to check before doing that - anyone any problems with that deletion? If the new one has exactly

Re: Repeating the same clef

2010-10-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: Think this is worth a snippet?  Also possibly a mention in the NR? Since it's a tweak, not in the main Notation, If it's not a snippet, then of course it would be helpful to add to LSR and tag with docs and pitches.

Re: alternative notation for tuplets (idea)?

2010-10-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 04:52:28PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: 2010/10/15 Janek Warchoł lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com: Hi, an idea about tuplets came to my head (and a quick seach suggested that it wasn't discussed before). It _has_ been discussed before. One think I don't like,

Re: Chords below staff

2010-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:24:45PM -0600, Colin Campbell wrote: I found I can move the chord symbols by moving the \chordmode block before the \new Staff. What puzzles me is the c 1*4 syntax; that I can't get to produce anything. In order to get 4 C notes, I had to \repeat unfold 4 { c1 }

Re: Tuxguitar exported code

2010-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:44:12PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I have discovered lilypond, mainly as a way to print excellent sheet music with tabs and staff that has been initially cobbled together in tuxguitar. After spending a little time trying to understand lilypond, I have

Re: Chords below staff

2010-10-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:04:46PM -0600, Colin Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 03:59 +0100, Graham Percival wrote: and you'll see a similar thing. There's a special context called... err... NoteHeadAutoSplit ? nope, that's totally wrong... anyway, that thing automatically splits

Re: job-count

2010-10-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:47:26PM +0200, James Bailey wrote: I was actually doing it to build the snippets in the regression tests, I wanted to build all of them with 10 different processes simultaneously. I didn't time it, but I think it came out much faster. And, I still cannot build

Re: duplicate dynamics on same staff

2010-10-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:32:48PM -0400, James Wilkinson wrote: On 9/23/10 6:00 PM, Vicente Solsona wrote: if the dynamics are the same, it's better to write them just once. thus you: 1) save typing 2) help lilypond so it does't need to waste time guessing obvious things and it can

Re: 2.13.35 tagline links

2010-10-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:43:10AM +0200, James Bailey wrote: Is there a reason that the link in the footer goes to the old website, http://lilypond.org/web/ and not the new website, http://lilypond.org/ ? The reason is that nobody noticed that until now. Bug Squad: please add this as a

Re: Snippets in mailinglist (Was: Re: bad cross-staff slurs)

2010-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:21:49AM +0300, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: On Sun 03 Oct 2010, 14:52 Graham Percival wrote: 2b. if you can't spot the problem, point them at http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html This is rather for bug-lilypond, i'd say. In lilypond-user it is customary to send

Re: Snippets in mailinglist (Was: Re: bad cross-staff slurs)

2010-10-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:37:59PM +0100, James Lowe wrote: 1. Open Email 2. Read Email. Spot problem. Reply Yes. If someone sends an ly file that is umpty-thrumpty lines long let's add one more point: 2b. if you can't spot the problem, point them at http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html

Re: My kingdom for a lilypond server

2010-10-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:31:05AM -0400, Mike Solomon wrote: file with lilypond, and displays the resultant png on a webpage. I imagine that the LSR is not unlike this, and I've found a few internet threads about people who have done this sorta thing, so I imagine that it's not too

Re: 2.13.34

2010-09-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/index Graham, I haven't been following the website changes very closely, but it looks like, in order to reach the development manuals, I have to click 5 links (from

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: So I would conclude - if you need excellent screen display, you'll either need a carefully written PDF viewer, or a screen with a resolution of around 1000 dpi. If anybody is seriously interested in this issue, then why

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen. Graham Percival wrote PS if you want

Re: Optimising output for screen.

2010-09-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Phil Burfitt wrote: Lilypond _prints_ really beautiful scores, but the pdf's quality on screen are poor compared to the other major notation software. I'm using Adobe Reader 8 on Vista at 96dpi resolution and bar lines have varying thickness and often

Alpha test of 2.14 – LilyP ond 2.13.34 released!

2010-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond 2.13.34 is out; this is the first alpha test of the upcoming 2.14 stable release. Users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.12.3 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development [1] [1] http://lilypond.org/development.html One

Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:31:00PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: there is also this (quite hidden undocumented, but working!): \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(modulo-bar-number-visible 2 1 ) Please add it to LSR. Cheers,

Re: safe mode

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:49:08PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: One can run lilypond with the --safe switch (or, in recent versions, -dsafe) to avoid a security risk when compiling .ly files. Is there an equivalent switch for lilypond-book? Other than using --process (which you did already), no.

Re: safe mode

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:39:30PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: On 21/09/2010 5:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:49:08PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: One can run lilypond with the --safe switch (or, in recent versions, -dsafe) to avoid a security risk when compiling .ly

Re: safe mode

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:35:56PM -0400, Julien Rioux wrote: On 21/09/2010 5:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: I think this is a sufficiently esoteric request Well, seeing that such a feature has made it into lilypond, there is some use-case for it. Is the maintainer of lilypond-book reading

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM, aliteralmind aliteralmind-lilyp...@yahoo.com wrote: Phil Holmes mail at philholmes.net writes: Where exactly are they, please? Um.  Learning Manual 5.  Entitled Working on LilyPond projects. I read the learning manual. I didn't find the words best

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:36:21PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: I'm generally normally quite helpful (or try to be). It was just that Graham had given you all the information you needed - you just needed to read it and spend a little while wondering

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:07:28PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, David Kastrup wrote: It is agreed-upon best practice _not_ to use those abbreviations on the general user list. I agree, but: Since many people use these abbreviations, Would it be an an idea to

Re: Too difficult to find how-to-create-a-snippet docs

2010-09-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:55 PM, aliteralmind aliteralmind-lilyp...@yahoo.com wrote: I believe it should be easier to find for a relative newcomer such as myself. Much of the documentation navigation was revamped almost a year ago and is present in the 2.13 devel version. This should be much

Re: Two questions regarding page numbers

2010-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
2010/9/14 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com: PS. I'm totally frustrated with the latest versions of devel, whose spacing is becoming stranger and stranger. This is why I have announced, for EVERY SINGLE devel release, that normal users should NOT be attempting to use the unstable releases.

Re: Two questions regarding page numbers

2010-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: It does, however, give a nice opportunity for interesting release messages/names, eg: ``we proudly present you lilypond 2.13.34 aka the all spacing goes fubar release.  The good news is that 4 bugs were fixed.''

Re: Beamed grace notes across another pair of beamed notes

2010-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:40:48AM -0700, Jebus wrote: http://old.nabble.com/file/p29685494/Screenshot.png I've tried many solutions, but I just can't get it right. I would code this as two separate voices, and change the font size of the lower voice to #-2 or #-3. I don't think that

Re: Details of incremental z changes to Lilypond

2010-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:37:58AM +0100, Reg Ludions wrote: is there a way to see the changes to Lilypond with each incremental development version (the zs in version x.y.z), as against the changes between y versions? I can't seem to locate this in the various versions of the docs - are

Re: Details of incremental z changes to Lilypond

2010-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:08:06PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:37:58AM +0100, Reg Ludions wrote: is there a way to see the changes to Lilypond with each incremental development version (the zs in version x.y.z), as against the changes between y versions? I

Re: List-email Suggestion

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Cameron Horsburgh cammobla...@gmail.com wrote: Please don't do this. We're not going to change anything, and I don't know why people keep on talking about changing the mailing list. If anybody wants to get something special in the subject line, their email client

Re: Meterless typesetting help

2010-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Richie Gress searchfgold67...@live.com wrote: Could I have a little bit of help in doing these things, especially with the rhythms I need? I appreciate it very much... The manuals should provide all the help you need; all those questions are clearly answered in

Re: Where does \override Score.BarNumber ... go

2010-09-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:16:06AM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: But this makes me wonder: I vaguely remember a distinction of \score and \new Score, which I can't find in the docs. The distinction is that \new Score should not be used, and issue 1033 is to remove it entirely from the docs.

Re: [OT] tempo detection experiment (using lilypond!)

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:44:26PM -0400, Mike Blackstock wrote: Hey, it's excellent I think. I say 'I think' cause I'm on a library computer and it's hard to judge the 'travel' of the keys and when they hit the bed so to speak and there's no sound.. Is there suppose to be a metronome sound?

[OT] tempo detection experiment (using lilypond!)

2010-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
Hey guys, As many of you know, I've been working on educational games to help music students practice rhythms and intonation. Well, I'm finally ready to begin tests of aspects of these programs; the first test is to detect the tempo of a student-performed rhythm. I've written an online flash

Re: Temporary staff

2010-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 05:25:16PM +0200, TheBachMan wrote: I use Lilypond for some time now, and I often find my answers in the documentation (very well done), the LSR and on the French mailing-list, very active! A bass line that splits into two with braces and returns on a

LilyPond Report 19

2010-08-09 Thread Graham Percival
The LilyPond Report is back, with its two “grumpy-and-fluffy” editors! This issue contains some conference news, along with the regular release news, snippet of the report, news from the frog pond, and the bug report of the report! Come read LilyPond Report 19 now; comments and contributions are

Re: no line for textspanner

2010-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:01:15PM +0100, James wrote: (seems an awful lot of work to just change a few lines in a snippet though :( ). The idea is if we add a convert-ly rule, then any user files which include the old syntax can be automatically updated. The focus here is on the end-user,

Re: Lilypond performance

2010-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:26:15AM -0700, ornello wrote: In my installation, Lilypond runtime seems to increase exponentially (at least not linearly) with the number of pages to engrave. Is there any option to speed up Lilypond, e.g. by removing time-consuming engravers, such that the

Re: Lilypond performance

2010-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:54:01PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 6 August 2010 22:31, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: There's a section in the Learning manual called speeding up lilypond, or something like that.  This sounds like a good place to look. Are you speaking

Re: Lilypond Architectural Overview Request

2010-08-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:22:05PM -0400, jim.showalter wrote: I have been reviewing the online manuals and am having trouble finding documentation that describes the overall architecture of the Lilypond system. If you're looking at the 2.13 docs, http://lilypond.org/website/development.html

Re: Beam settings in 2.13.29

2010-08-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: p.s. The search function in the 2.13 online doc searches the wrong version. p.s. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1171 - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: In parts but not in the score

2010-07-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:44:42AM -0700, Jayaratna wrote: I am copying a score because I need to make parts: I need to put some texts and other marks on single parts but I would like them not to appear on every line of the score, but just at the top of each group. Any suggestion about how

Re: random music

2010-07-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:14:38PM -0400, Mike Blackstock wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: You might be interested in the second chapter of my Masters thesis, which is about using Strasheela to create Wow, thx. Is it online? http

Re: random music

2010-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: But thinking about this little project I was wondering: Would it be possible to write a lilypond input file, using just pure Lilypond syntax and some Scheme magick, that would produce a different score each time you

Re: random music

2010-07-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:47:26PM -0400, Mike Blackstock wrote: Me too I've long been interested in this; I'd like to be able to generate endless sight-reading exercises/material for guitarists, perhaps in the form of duos with the computer playing one of the parts just to keep things

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