Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-28 Thread M Watts
Peter Chubb wrote: I'm using the current 2.12.2 version of lilypond. The attached file yields, programming error: vertical alignment called before line-breaking and no lines on the staff. If I remove the \bar |. the output is correct. \version 2.12.2 recscore= \context StaffGroup

Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Chubb
M == M Watts M writes: M Peter Chubb wrote: I'm using the current 2.12.2 version of lilypond. The attached file yields, programming error: vertical alignment called before line-breaking and no lines on the staff. If I remove the \bar |. the output is correct. M For me, with 2.12.2 on

Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Peter Chubb wrote Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:44 AM That's right. I want no lines on the stave for the RhythmicStaff, but I do want lines for the Staff context, and no StaffGroup bracket. Peter Have you tried setting 'line-count of StaffSymbol to 0 rather than removing

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:57:22AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Which brings me to another question: why a version of midi2ly is packaged with lilypond and still I have to use convert-ly ? Shouldn't always midi2ly (and the other xxx2ly converters) be made compatible with the lilypond

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-28 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:06:22PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:08:40PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: GIT from git.sv.gnu.org git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git This does not set up easy pulling or pushing in the future, and generally assumes

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:21:49AM +, Daniel Hulme wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:06:22PM +0800, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:08:40PM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: GIT from git.sv.gnu.org git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git This does not

Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, I've recently obtained a Compaq laptop with Windoze XP Home on one partition, and Ubuntu 8.10 on the other. I've successfully configured jEdit with the LilyPondTool plugin on the Windoze side, but I've just installed jEdit 4.3pre13 (from the distro) on the Ubuntu side. Now I've

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Laura Conrad
Graham == Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Graham Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert Graham apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so Graham they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I might support that if we were

Re: Bug? Lines disappear with rhythmic staff

2009-03-28 Thread M Watts
Trevor Daniels wrote: Peter Chubb wrote Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:44 AM That's right. I want no lines on the stave for the RhythmicStaff, but I do want lines for the Staff context, and no StaffGroup bracket. The OP didn't say so -- one is not a mind reader ;) Peter Have you tried

Re: lilypond-book setup for windows

2009-03-28 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, thanks for the input. After some hours of working with latex and several editors on windows and mac I decided to take the easy road: OpenOffice with the OOoLilypond Macro. It works not always as I thought, but with time I will find some workarounds. Three reasons for the decision: 1.

Re: Canorus -- help found

2009-03-28 Thread M Watts
M Watts addr...@hidden wrote: / / /Try their website/ /https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page/ That's where I started, of course. I downloaded the program from there, but I can't find anything like a user guide or tutorial. And the User's guide choice on the Help menu is grayed

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Kees Serier
Neil Puttock schreef: 2009/3/23 Kees Serier a.ser...@hccnet.nl: I changed the two e:m chords for the following: \repeat percent 2 {e:m} What happens is that in the second measure, instead of the percent sign, there is nothing (in the MIDI file no chord is played on that measure)

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread istlota
As it turns out, midi2ly is bundled inside of the MAC OS lilypond.app file. The trick is knowing how to access it. Here is a link to instructions on how to access midi2ly on a MAC: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Setup-for-MacOS-X

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 10:45, Graham Percival wrote: Frankly, I think we should just remove every *2ly convert apart from musicXML2ly. Nobody wants to work on them, so they just get gradually more and more broken over time. I think they should be there for the hope of somebody coming by in the

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:08, Laura Conrad wrote: I might support that if we were setting the example by having an ly2musicXML, but we aren't. Normally one only provide converters to ones own source code format, so people get stuck with it: a form of competition limiting. Hans

Re: Using midi2ly

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 191e48a7-f2c8-41cf-8b6e-b6ebec40d...@math.su.se, Hans Aberg hab...@math.su.se writes On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:08, Laura Conrad wrote: I might support that if we were setting the example by having an ly2musicXML, but we aren't. Normally one only provide converters to ones own source

Re: [SOLVED] Re: (simulating) a spanner with multiple stops

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Thornock
Thanks Wilbert, this looks quite useful. I could see it inconvenient if one wants both a textspanner in this way AND a decresc. But usable anyway. This puts me to wondering though: If dynamic spanners can be chained like this, how hard would it be to get textspanners to behave the same way?

cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
Not sure if this belongs here or on -devel ... But I've just looked in the log file and found this in there. V 2.12.2 on Windows (same on V 2.11.59 - I've just upgraded to make sure it isn't a known/fixed thingy). Bearing in mind I don't know what no-spacing-rods is, it's an error internal

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 73a00026c6f3454c9cf5c090b12d0...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a piece of music in 3/4 which has bars like { d4. c8 b8. a16 } Lilypond

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/28 Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk: Not sure if this belongs here or on -devel ... But I've just looked in the log file and found this in there. V 2.12.2 on Windows (same on V 2.11.59 - I've just upgraded to make sure it isn't a known/fixed thingy). Bearing in mind

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 9nk9hhd$hkzjf...@thewolery.demon.co.uk, Anthony W. Youngman lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk writes Not sure if this belongs here or on -devel ... Oops - just found my code that's doing it - but I copied it from somewhere and don't understand what it's doing or why ... tempoMark =

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

2009-03-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Anthony, Oops - just found my code that's doing it - but I copied it from somewhere and don't understand what it's doing or why ... tempoMark = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?) #{ \once \override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #left

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 27.03.2009 um 00:04 schrieb istlota: As it turns out, midi2ly is bundled inside of the MAC OS lilypond.app file. The trick is knowing how to access it. Here is a link to instructions on how to access midi2ly on a MAC: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/26 Kees Serier a.ser...@hccnet.nl: I have placed the \layout { ... } at several places in the ly files, and replaced the two e:m chords with one \repeat percent 2 {e:m} But nothing happens, I get no errors, and still 2 Em chords. Any ideas? It won't work unless each chord is the

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Anthony W. Youngman Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:50 PM In message 73a00026c6f3454c9cf5c090b12d0...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes Carl, you wrote Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:43 AM On 2/23/09 12:52 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I have a piece of music in

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 18:00, James E. Bailey wrote: Additionally, since midi2ly, like convert-ly, lilypond-book, and lilysong are python scripts, at least on OSX 10.4, in addition to installing a newer version of python, the first line of those files needs to be changed to: #!/usr/bin/env

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.03.2009 um 18:50 schrieb Hans Aberg: On 28 Mar 2009, at 18:00, James E. Bailey wrote: Additionally, since midi2ly, like convert-ly, lilypond-book, and lilysong are python scripts, at least on OSX 10.4, in addition to installing a newer version of python, the first line of those

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Robin Bannister
Neil Puttock wrote: it's possible to duplicate its code in Scheme: Or its appearance in markup ;-) simile = \markup { \combine \translate #'(0.3 . 1.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \combine \translate #'(1.7 . 0.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t \rotate #90 \translate#'(0 . 2) \beam #2 #-1 #0.5

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 19:59, James E. Bailey wrote: Additionally, since midi2ly, like convert-ly, lilypond-book, and lilysong are python scripts, at least on OSX 10.4, in addition to installing a newer version of python, the first line of those files needs to be changed to: #!/usr/bin/env

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 28.03.2009 um 20:14 schrieb Hans Aberg: On 28 Mar 2009, at 19:59, James E. Bailey wrote: Additionally, since midi2ly, like convert-ly, lilypond-book, and lilysong are python scripts, at least on OSX 10.4, in addition to installing a newer version of python, the first line of those

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 20:27, James E. Bailey wrote: I haven't used that editor for a long time - I used the same setup on 10.4. Once one have done the UNIX setup chores, it is very convenient to run from Terminal. Very true, but a user new to lilypond and using OSX 10.4 won't know anything

Re: Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, I've recently obtained a Compaq laptop with Windoze XP Home on one partition, and Ubuntu 8.10 on the other. I've successfully configured jEdit with the LilyPondTool plugin on the Windoze side, but I've just installed jEdit 4.3pre13 (from the distro) on

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 3cbf99092d5f4e77a0cae01edf7be...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes Anthony W. Youngman Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:50 PM In message 73a00026c6f3454c9cf5c090b12d0...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes Just tried to do this (2.12.2)

invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-28 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I want to get invisible slurs in tablature... how? This is my score: \header { title = BLUE BOSSA composer = K. Dorham } global = { \key c \minor \time 4/4 \partial 4 \override TabStaff.Stem #'transparent = ##t %% Makes stems transparent \override TabStaff.Beam #'transparent =

Re: cannot find property type-check for `no-spacing-rods'

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message blu0-smtp263ca4a0baec066965c6ca94...@phx.gbl, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes That looks like my old (pre-recent-MetronomeMark improvements) function/macro for making tempo indications... And the error makes it look like it might be a bug in lily anyway, but I

Re: Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Bertalan said I should install 4.3pre16, so I tried that, but I couldn't see a version for Ubuntu, so I picked the Java version, and although it said it installed it, I couldn't find any change in the version when I fired it up. Still 4.3pre13. Anybody any ideas how to install the latest on

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 28, 2009, at 12:00 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 27.03.2009 um 00:04 schrieb istlota: As it turns out, midi2ly is bundled inside of the MAC OS lilypond.app file. The trick is knowing how to access it. Here is a link to instructions on how to access midi2ly on a MAC:

RE: Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Nick Payne
If you install the beta of Ubuntu 9.04 it has jEdit 4.3pre16 in the distribution. You can upgrade to 9.04 (assuming you have a treasonably fast internet connection) by opening a terminal window and entering sudo update-manager -d (without the quotes). Nick From:

Re: Help with jEdit

2009-03-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Bertalan said I should install 4.3pre16, so I tried that, but I couldn't see a version for Ubuntu, so I picked the Java version, and although it said it installed it, I couldn't find any change in the version when I fired it up. Still 4.3pre13. Anybody any ideas

Strange Change Staff behavior

2009-03-28 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello. I am having a strange behavior with Change Staff. It is not easy to explain as it is quite strange. Basically, I am having a voice defined to be drawn on the lower staff, and it is appearing in the upper staff. As it is not easy to explain, I am sending the lilypond file in attach. What

Re: midi2ly on Mac OS X

2009-03-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Mar 2009, at 22:32, Tim McNamara wrote: cd /applications That's odd, usually that would be: cd /Applications OS X's HFS+ filesystem is capitalization-challenged. cd / applications works as does cd /Applications. This is the case on Mac OS X 10.4, but I'm not sure under 10.5 - I

Re: repeat percent and chords

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/28 Robin Bannister r...@dataway.ch: Neil Puttock wrote: it's possible to duplicate its code in Scheme: Or its appearance in markup   ;-) simile = \markup {  \combine \translate #'(0.3 . 1.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t  \combine \translate #'(1.7 . 0.5) \draw-circle #0.2 #0 ##t  

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Hi, I want to get invisible slurs in tablature... how? Simply \override Slur #'transparent in the same way as you've done for the other objects in your TabStaff context. Why aren't you using ties though

Re: invisible slurs in tablature

2009-03-28 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Hi, I want to get invisible slurs in tablature... how? Simply \override Slur #'transparent in the same way as you've done for the other objects in your TabStaff context. Why aren't you using ties though

Re: Strange Change Staff behavior

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/28 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt: Hello. I am having a strange behavior with Change Staff. It is not easy to explain as it is quite strange. Basically, I am having a voice defined to be drawn on the lower staff, and it is appearing in the upper staff. [copying to

Re: Strange Change Staff behavior

2009-03-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/3/28 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: I think you've uncovered a bug related to \change Staff here; if you remove the \change Staff = lower, the file compiles fine.  Until it's fixed you'll have to place the cross-staff notes in one of the lower voices. Here's a snippet which may be a

Re: Strange Change Staff behavior

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Sorensen
Alberto Simões albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt writes: Hello. I am having a strange behavior with Change Staff. It is not easy to explain as it is quite strange. Basically, I am having a voice defined to be drawn on the lower staff, and it is appearing in the upper staff. As it is not

Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

2009-03-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:38:08PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 3cbf99092d5f4e77a0cae01edf7be...@trevorlaptop, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes You'll be pleased to know the revert will not be required at all in 2.13.1 to obtain this beaming. It works fine now.