Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-29 Thread John Sellers
Recently my cygwin based lilypond 2.10.33 install starting erroring out on all lilypond LY files. The given error is failed (13568) following a listing of the gs command line description. lilypond is installed correctly, ghostscript seems to be OK, and there are no applications which have

Re: dissonant chords

2008-11-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Nick One other approach you might consider, since examples like this require a lot of hand-tuning, is to add the required accidentals as \markup. The Learning Manual has an example of doing this to engrave b! bes. See left-padding and right-padding in section 4.5.2 Fixing overlapping notation.

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Citeren John Sellers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: confronted with multiple choice, none of which are distinguished from each other in regard as to the best one to pick. If I understood what was said, the 2.11 and later documentation is better than 2.10 and earlier. Why

wrong link in AU 2.11.64

2008-11-29 Thread james
I don't know if it's true in other versions, but in Application Usage, 1.2.2 Requirements, the link to fontconfig points to http:// www.freetype.org, but it should probably point to http:// fontconfig.org/ Unless there is a fontconfig at freetype.org that I just didn't see.

Re: Re: Re: Centered Textspan for Piano music

2008-11-29 Thread stefankaegi
Thank you very much again. Worked all fine. :) Best wishes Stefan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: musicxml2ly

2008-11-29 Thread Laura Conrad
Martin == Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin If we would have a good Lilypond-MusicXML conversion tool (or an Martin additional file export option inside Lilypond) we could convert the Martin complete Mutopia collection to MusicXML. That would sure make a nice

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:50:35AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: are cleared (not immediately but after a variable wait), and then (again after a variable wait sometimes rather long) finally shows the output. The feel is otherwise quick, I usually work with gedit+evince under Linux+Gnome and

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:50:35AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: are cleared (not immediately but after a variable wait), and then (again after a variable wait sometimes rather long) finally shows the output. The feel is otherwise quick, I usually work with gedit+evince

Space between two lines in header

2008-11-29 Thread tarabaz
Hello, I'm a new and enthusiast user of Lilypond. I'm trying to put the composer name and some dates in the composer field in two separate lines, but I find that the vertical spacing between the COMPOSER_NAME and the (1555-1666) is too big. Anyone can explain me how to reduce this space?? Here

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/29 Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using a little home-brewed script that does the following things automatically: I am very interested. Do you run Windows or Linux? -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) http://www.paconet.org ___

Re: custom noteheads

2008-11-29 Thread Tao Cumplido
hi all, well, so far I tried myself to find a solution for this and came to the point where scheme is the only way to do this. My scheme is very limited, especially the connection to the ly:functions is something I don't really get yet. I simply don't know how to apply these functions I guess,

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:40:28AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I'm using a little home-brewed script that does the following things automatically: I did take a short look at kdelily (or was it lilykde ?) and jedit/lilypondtool. I was impressed at first sight,

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 04:21:02PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/29 Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using a little home-brewed script that does the following things automatically: I am very interested. Do you run Windows or Linux? Linux only. I don't know a thing about

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/29 Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's one of the things that should be configurable before I publish the script. The nice thing about an editor like vim running in an xterm window is that I can give command line options to xterm to determine the dimensions and position of the

Re: custom noteheads

2008-11-29 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Tao, 2008/11/29 Tao Cumplido [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Generally I thought I could define a music-function that overrides the stencil of a NoteHead depending on the car of ly:make-duration. So if it's =1 it'll place a custom stencil for half and whole notes and if it's =2 for filled notes. I

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 04:49:08PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/29 Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's one of the things that should be configurable before I publish the script. The nice thing about an editor like vim running in an xterm window is that I can give command

Re: custom noteheads

2008-11-29 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/11/29 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: parallelogram = #(lambda (grob) ; get duration log of NoteHead object (let* ((dur (ly:grob-property grob 'duration-log))) (case dur ; if dur = minim, return parallelogram stencil Of course, this should say `if dur = crotchet/quarter

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi Lilypond, Abcm2ps, Mup users, I'm attaching the shell script I was talking about. It works for Lilypond files, but also for ABC and MUP music score source files. Before using take a look inside the script with your editor and change the settings to match your needs. Comments and bugfixes

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not a very big problem. My script can still be used then, but after startup the user will have to manually position the windows the way he wants them on screen. You may wish to take a look at devilspie.

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilypond, Abcm2ps, Mup users, I'm attaching the shell script I was talking about. It works for Lilypond files, but also for ABC and MUP music score source files. Before using take a look inside the script with your editor and change the settings to match your

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. If I edit the source, everytime I save this is detected by an endless loop in my script, lilypond is called and a new postscript is created. This is detected by gv thanks to the -watch option. Et voila, the score can be seen almost

Re: Space between two lines in header

2008-11-29 Thread tarabaz
Kieren has given me the right solution: \header{ title= MY_TITLE composer = \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \center-column { COMPOSER_NAME \small (1555-1666) } tagline = ##f } Thanks, it works!! :) tarabaz wrote: Hello, I'm a new and enthusiast user of Lilypond. I'm

Re: French viol/lute tablature

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kulp
[moving this thread to user instead of devel] Kim Shrier wrote: I don't like the results but it is a start. The letters should be a little larger and I would like to use the italic version of the font. Kim I made the letters a couple of sizes bigger and italics. You can adjust the

horizontally centering denominator in compound time signatures

2008-11-29 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently trying to implement general compound time signatures like (1+2+3+4)/8 + 2/4 + (2+3)/8 as \compoundMeter #'((1 2 3 4 8) (2 4) (2 3 8)) Now, in my first step, I'm implementing the display of (1+2+3)/8 fractions. My only problem with this

Re: custom noteheads

2008-11-29 Thread Tao Cumplido
Yes. Thanks Neil, you're my man. =) It'd have taken me ages to figure out that I have to use grob-property and 'duration-log. But I already thought that ly:make-duration was wrong. Now I see it it makes sense and it was no problem to insert another custom stencil for whole and half notes.

Re: French viol/lute tablature

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Kim Shrier wrote: I don't like the results but it is a start. The letters should be a little larger and I would like to use the italic version of the font. Kim I made the letters a couple of sizes bigger and italics. You can adjust the size if it's not right.

Re: French viol/lute tablature

2008-11-29 Thread Kim Shrier
On Nov 29, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: Kim Shrier wrote: I don't like the results but it is a start. The letters should be a little larger and I would like to use the italic version of the font. Kim I made the letters a couple of sizes bigger and

Can't generate PDF file in Windows

2008-11-29 Thread Dave Trowbridge
When I select Generate PDF in the right-click menu in Windows explorer, no PDF file is generated, and the log file reads as follows: # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin' Processing `C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/bwv1007_prelude_clarinet.ly'

Re: Can't generate PDF file in Windows

2008-11-29 Thread Dave Trowbridge
Dave Trowbridge dave at davetrowbridge.com writes: When I try it in a command window, this is what I get: C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\binlilypond --pdf bwv1007_prelude_clarinet.ly GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 programming error: cannot find absolute argv0 continuing, cross fingers ERROR: In procedure

LilyPond.app source

2008-11-29 Thread Kim Shrier
I am interested in building LilyPond.app from source and either I am blind or it isn't included in the source distribution. Any enlightenment would be appreciated. Kim Shrier ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: jpedal slowness

2008-11-29 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi Martin, Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to make it work now but having trouble. I'm getting this error message: [: 81: filename.ly: unexpected operator Line 81 has the closing fi (I added a line at the top for the geany editor, so this is probably line 80 in your original