Re: How to enlarge the size of accidentals in a figured bass ?

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 00:08 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 10:04 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: [...] > >> > for particular values? > >> > > >> > >> > >> It's a Duration object. > > > > Hmm, that's the LilyPond type, but

Re: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Am 19.04.2017 um 05:00 schrieb Andrew Bernard: >> it is a very longstanding tradition that open source projects are > very modest in numbering releases, compared to commercial companies, > > As a contrary example: the version numbers that Mozilla

Re: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 19.04.2017 um 05:00 schrieb Andrew Bernard: it is a very longstanding tradition that open source projects are very modest in numbering releases, compared to commercial companies, As a contrary example: the version numbers that Mozilla uses nowadays seem completely ludicrous. By the way,

Re: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 19.04.2017 um 18:06 schrieb David Kastrup: Now I think one condition would be a solution to the Guile v2 problem (be it even forking 1.8 or similar) and fixing the critical issues currently present. That does not call for more than LilyPond 2.20. Oh, sorry, I confused that. Best, Simon

Re: how to get markup formatting to survive a font-name change

2017-04-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Abraham Lee wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:03 PM Kieren MacMillan < > kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> In the snippet, below, the font-name override kills the \italic as set in >> the \header. >> Is

Re: how to get markup formatting to survive a font-name change

2017-04-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Abraham, > The \paper block should look like this (and this should be below any > #(set-global-staff-size ...) because that resets the "fonts" variable and you > need to add to it): > > % > > \paper { > #(add-pango-fonts fonts 'minion "Minion Pro" (/ staff-height pt 20)) >

RE: how to get markup formatting to survive a font-name change

2017-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Abraham, I have wanted to know how to do this for the longest time! Thanks. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello David, > LilyPond 3 could be a rework of the optimization engine doing away with > the hard pure/unpure distinction. Not sure I understand this, can you tell us more? Thanks! JM ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Page frames/watermarks

2017-04-19 Thread Psalle
On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: Hello all, I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm

Re: Page frames/watermarks

2017-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 09:29:19 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 09:53 +0200, Psalle wrote: > > On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a

Re: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 13:00:51 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hello Miroslaw, > > Welcome to the lilypond community. I think the OP has been with us a while. To quote: "4. So, please, make solution and describe it in manual." and "6. So, please, describe or make solution: moving lyrics with

Re: how to get markup formatting to survive a font-name change

2017-04-19 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:03 PM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > In the snippet, below, the font-name override kills the \italic as set in > the \header. > Is there any way to avoid that [without having to hack the title into two > separate

how to get markup formatting to survive a font-name change

2017-04-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, In the snippet, below, the font-name override kills the \italic as set in the \header. Is there any way to avoid that [without having to hack the title into two separate functions/parameters]? Thanks, Kieren. %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.19.59" \paper { bookTitleMarkup = ##f

RE: What does everyone want? (2)

2017-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, Obviously I am generalising in my comment. The OP appeared to be criticising lilypond on the basis of a small absolute value of the major release number - if it is possible to understand what he is saying at all anyway. Andrew -Original Message- From: Simon Albrecht

Re: Page frames/watermarks

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 09:53 +0200, Psalle wrote: > On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > >> lilypond, which led me to search too for