Re: Library versions

2005-12-11 Thread Pedro Kröger
Don Blaheta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible that when configuring lilypond you don't require the super-duper latest version of all the libraries unless there's actually some feature there that you need? I don't think so. Which certainly sets an awfully high bar for contributing to

suspended chords

2005-12-11 Thread David Wynn
Why, when I specify something like 'a:sus' in chordmode, and have lilypond print the chords, it only prints 'A' instead of 'Asus'? Is there a simple way to get lily to actually print the 'sus' on the page? David Wynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: triplets

2005-12-11 Thread Frédéric Bron
Why isn't this the default? Would it be possible to add those rules to auto-beam.scm? Frédéric Mats Bengtsson wrote: A better solution is to tell LilyPond to automatically beam the triplets this way, see 8.6.2 Setting automatic beam behavior for more details. For Jutta's example, just add

Re: Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

2005-12-11 Thread Gilles
Hi. 2) I've noticed lyrics misalignments before, but they seem worse recently; this piece is a good example. Actually, as I look at it I think the lyrics syllables are horizontally centred with each other, but left-aligned with the note head. That's not how I thought it was supposed

Re: Including style files

2005-12-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:14 am, Simon wrote: Hi, I'm a beginner at lilypond and I am getting confused trying to do something which seems to be a very natural and frequently occuring task to me, but for which I cannot find proper documentation and/or examples on the web and in the

Ossia up?

2005-12-11 Thread Fairchild
Title: Ossia up? The ly file below creates a single bar (ossia) below the main staff line. How to position it above? - Bruce \version 2.4.6 \score { \relative c'' { | e1 { d } \context Ossia { b } | e } %end relative \layout {

help on unreadable text (cygwin)

2005-12-11 Thread Riccardo Cohen
Hi, I just downloaded lilypond for windows, it takes about 15sec to launch, and then displays quick dos window that closes immediatly. But it works !). So I tried the cygwin version, and it is much quicker, and the script lily-wins opens the pdf automatically which is great. Unfortunately,

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 11 December 2005 07.33, Don Blaheta wrote: It all started with wanting to just move over a few pieces of text, but finally I sat down and worked my way through the labyrinth of figuring out how the system works. The problem is that there are a lot of high-level concepts, like grob

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: Each syntactic thing you can do for actual music entry---i.e. most of what you type inside \score other than managing contexts---is interpreted as a musical expression, much as 3+4 might be interpreted as a mathematical expression. As each expression is read in, it is

coda placement problem

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Teh
I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol. The closest I've come to what I want is reproduced below. g2 c,2 | \mark \markup { \small \musicglyph #scripts.coda } % mark jump point r8 g'8 af8[ g8] ef4 d4 | c1~ | c1 \once \override Score.RehearsalMark

Re: coda placement problem

2005-12-11 Thread D Josiah Boothby
have you tried overriding with #'padding instead of #'extra-offset? josiah On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Kenneth Teh wrote: I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol. The closest I've come to what I want is reproduced below. g2 c,2 | \mark \markup { \small \musicglyph #scripts.coda } %

Re: help on unreadable text (cygwin)

2005-12-11 Thread Frédéric Bron
I have already sent a font problem with lilypond on cygwin (2.6.4) but nobody could answer: on cygwin, by default, the font is sans serif and not roman. If I apply what's in the doc to be roman, then \italic does not work anymore. There is also the problem you mention: on cygwin, the version