Re: [PATCH] Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Here's a patch incorporating your suggestions, Carl. Thanks for the help. Jon Carl, when you get a moment would you mind checking the patch I sent last night, and push if it looks ok? I don't think Trevor's going to be around for a while to do doc patches. Thanks,

Re: [PATCH] Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: OK, done. Everything looked great -- you even took out some pre-existing line-ending whitespace. Must be the excellent training I've gotten. ;) One (or maybe all) of you guys--Trevor, Graham, or you--taught me to strip the trailing spaces before creating the patch.

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl, I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a problem. \relative c' { \chordmode { c \relative c'' { c }} This last example won't compile. (It was missing the last curly brace but I added it.) Here's the terminal output: chordmode.ly:1:40: error: syntax error, unexpected

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Chubb
Jonathan == Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com writes: Jonathan Carl, I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a Jonathan problem. \relative c' { \chordmode { c \relative c'' { c }} Jonathan This last example won't compile. (It was missing the last Jonathan curly brace but I

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/18/09 6:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Carl, I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a problem. \relative c' { \chordmode { c \relative c'' { c }} This last example won't compile. (It was missing the last curly brace but I added it.) Here's

[PATCH] Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Here's a patch incorporating your suggestions, Carl. Thanks for the help. Jon On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.eduwrote: On 5/18/09 6:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Carl, I'm working on your suggestions and have come across a

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message c6334c1b.93d6%c_soren...@byu.edu, Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes On 5/15/09 3:06 PM, Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 200905151909580...@1654122929, David Pounder pound...@lineone.net writes I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Chip
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi Jon, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Chip wrote: snip I think this is the issue mentioned in the Known Issues for Chapter 1.1.2 Transpose in the Notation Reference. However, the two sentences included there are very confusing and should be rewritten make the issue more clear. -Patrick Yes, I

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 5:05 AM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: I think this is the issue mentioned in the Known Issues for Chapter 1.1.2 Transpose in the Notation Reference. However, the

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
I'm not sure that the relative mode gets forgotten but that LilyPond follows its own internal rules. I find that LilyPond behaves the way that the manual says it does: it picks the closest pitch. If I write { c2 a2 } it picks the A below that C rather than the A above that C. If I want

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Music inside a \transpose or \chordmode block is absolute, unless a \relative is included inside the the \transpose or \chordmode block. When \relative blocks are nested, the innermost relative block applies. I don't understand why \chordmode (and \chords) changes

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:46:39AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: First, I think that the information above should be put into 1.1.1 Writing Pitches as examples under Relative octave entry. There should be three separate items/examples: When relative blocks are nested, the innermost

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Chip
Tim McNamara wrote: I'm not sure that the relative mode gets forgotten but that LilyPond follows its own internal rules. I find that LilyPond behaves the way that the manual says it does: it picks the closest pitch. If I write { c2 a2 } it picks the A below that C rather than the A above

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 8:43 AM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Music inside a \transpose or \chordmode block is absolute, unless a \relative is included inside the the \transpose or \chordmode block. When \relative blocks are nested, the innermost

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20090515145035.ga3...@nagi, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:46:39AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: First, I think that the information above should be put into 1.1.1 Writing Pitches as examples under Relative octave entry. There should be

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread David Pounder
--- Original Message --- From: Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: 15.5.09, 18:03:43 Subject: Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten? In message 20090515145035.ga3...@nagi, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 15, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Chip wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I'm not sure that the relative mode gets forgotten but that LilyPond follows its own internal rules. I find that LilyPond behaves the way that the manual says it does: it picks the closest pitch. If I write { c2 a2 } it

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 200905151909580...@1654122929, David Pounder pound...@lineone.net writes --- Original Message --- From: Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: 15.5.09, 18:03:43 Subject: Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten? In message

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/15/09 3:06 PM, Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 200905151909580...@1654122929, David Pounder pound...@lineone.net writes I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but you can also run into problems using \repeat inside a \relative block if an

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-15 Thread David Pounder
--- Original Message --- From: Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu To: Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk, lilypond-user@gnu.org lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: 15.5.09, 23:43:07 Subject: Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten? On 5/15/09 3:06 PM, Anthony W

relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Chip
I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute octave marks in small

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Chip
Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute octave

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute

Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?

2009-05-14 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: Chip wrote: I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all