Re: end singleton lists with a period?

2008-04-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Well, as these lists are not sentences none of them should end with a period. Trevor - Original Message - From: Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:55 PM Subject: GDP: end singleton lists with a

Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

2008-04-18 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 18.04.2008 um 00:19 schrieb Graham Percival: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:05:28 +0200 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 17.04.2008 um 23:55 schrieb Graham Percival: OK, silly question, but I simply cannot make up my mind. If we have a single entry in a list in the @seealso section,

Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

2008-04-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/4/18 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: • Normally without a period, because it isn't a complete sentence. That's interesting: in French, as in most latin-derived languages, such noun sentences are actually regarded as complete sentences (and are very commonly used in literature); however

Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

2008-04-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:40:47 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/18 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ___ Normally without a period, because it isn't a complete sentence. That's interesting: in French, as in most latin-derived languages, such noun sentences are

Re: New behaviour with --output= option ?!

2008-04-18 Thread Simon Bailey
hi luc, On Apr 16, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Luc wrote: new behaviour with version 2.11.44 (windows xp) IIRC, when invoking lilypond, the option --output=folder directed all output files to the specific folder. Now this has changed: If I run lilypond --output=myOutput C: \myFile.ly and there is

Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

2008-04-18 Thread Nicholas WASTELL
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:05:28 +0200 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it isn't a complete sentence, I would vote against a period. It's non-standard to put periods in a list of bulleted items • Normally without a period, because it isn't a complete sentence. • Also non-standard

Re: New behaviour with --output= option ?!

2008-04-18 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 18.04.2008 um 10:21 schrieb Simon Bailey: hi luc, On Apr 16, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Luc wrote: new behaviour with version 2.11.44 (windows xp) IIRC, when invoking lilypond, the option --output=folder directed all output files to the specific folder. Now this has changed: If I run

two problems

2008-04-18 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I encountered two problems when using Lilypond on Windows. First, the 2.11.44 documentation tarball seems have problms. I don't know how to build bz2 file using Windows, my way is to unpack the files to a doc folder using Winrar. But the tarball (from the time I began to learn Lily)

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 80

2008-04-18 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Graham wrote: OK, silly question, but I simply cannot make up my mind. If we have a single entry in a list in the @seealso section, should it end with a period or not? For example, in this: --- See also Music Glossary: chord. Snippets: Simultaneous --- +++ I like consistency,

Re: New behaviour with --output= option ?!

2008-04-18 Thread Luc
Thanks to all Baileys! I am pretty sure, I got an error with earlier releases when trying to output to a nonexisting folder - but be it as it is (or was)! what counts is to have a stable behaviour from now on. for me personnally I will just produce default output and maybe in another step

Difficulty printing chords

2008-04-18 Thread Aaron Morse
Hello all - I was just wondering if anyone knows what's up with this. First off, I'm running 2.10.33 on Windows XP. What I have is a file that goes something like this: \version 2.10.33 \header { title = Title composer = Me } music = \relative c'' { a bunch of music here } my chords =

Re: Difficulty printing chords

2008-04-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 18. April 2008 schrieb Aaron Morse: \score { \new Staff [the two lesser-than symbols here, it isn't letting me post them] \echords \new Voice = zemusic { \emusic } \new Lyrics \lyricsto zemusic { a bunch of lyrics } [the two greater-than symbols here,

duration as a thick line

2008-04-18 Thread padovani
Hi, I'm re-writing a score that I wrote on Finale, and don't know how to make thick lines to show the sustaining duration of a note... I send a small image file to show what am I meaning. Thanks for any help, sugestion. José H. inline: line.png___

Re: duration as a thick line

2008-04-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One solution is to use the feature for clusters: \relative c'{ f \makeClusters{ f2. f1 } } /Mats padovani wrote: Hi, I'm re-writing a score that I wrote on Finale, and don't know how to make thick lines to show the sustaining duration of a note... I send a small image file to show what am

Re: New behaviour with --output= option ?!

2008-04-18 Thread James E. Bailey
Yeah, I've noticed that with other software (like wget), when the manpage gives an option as --option=setting, it's usually better for me to just replace the = with a space. Baileys are awesome! Am 18.04.2008 um 15:02 schrieb Luc: Thanks to all Baileys! I am pretty sure, I got an error

How to generate notes in a scale

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I'm currently trying to get improved MIDI output. I have a scheme function that processes articulations like staccato, tenuto, etc., working now. But for turns and trills, I need to generate the notes around a note in the current key. Has anyone written a scheme function to