Re: Distance from bottom stave to footer

2009-12-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/12/09 16:20, Joe Neeman wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 21:16 +, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:09:26AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: The foot-separation variable that can be used in the \paper block doesn't seem to have any effect. It's documented in the 2.13.9

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/12/09 12:17, Hugh Myers wrote: In Segovia's 'Diatonic Major and Minor Scales', under the notes shown for a given scale are marks beginning with a number surrounded by parenthesis followed by a line vaguely parallel to the notes, concluding with an uptick between a given pair of notes. What

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-20 Thread Hugh Myers
Here is what I've pieced together thus far: %% %% %% s1.ly -- first scale from Diatonic Major and Minor Scales by Andres Segovia %% %% \version 2.13.7 \header { title = Diatonic Major and Minor Scales subtitle = Scale 1 composer = Andres Segovia meter = Practice each scale

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Hugh Myers hsmy...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what I've pieced together thus far: Guys, whereever this discussion is going please remember to add something to the LSR if you come up with an interesting piece of code... :) Cheers, Valentin

lilypond 2.12 / 2.13

2009-12-20 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Is there an (easy) way to have both lilypond 2.12.x (stable) and lilypond 2.13.x (devel.) installed and useable on my system ? I'm always curious to try and test the latest features and bugfixes, but for distribution and sharing of lilypond sourcecode it is probably a better idea to use

Re: GUI

2009-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: - At http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/learning#Learning, I find the formulation in Read it: read this manual in the same format as this one. very confusing. I'm trying to explain the difference

Re: lilypond 2.12 / 2.13

2009-12-20 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.comwrote: I don't know about linux, but on macintosh, there's absolutely zero problem, the binaries are all self-contained. It's just a matter of calling the right one. On 20.12.2009, at 17:45, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest version, from previously-latest version). Just to delete files??? Intolerably slow. -- View this message in context:

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Actually, no. It was to uninstall the LATEST version of LilyPond (just re-installing it). aliteralmind wrote: Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest version, from previously-latest version). Just to delete files???

RE: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread James Lowe
Yes I can confirm this too. You beat me to it, I meant to post this yesterday. It seems that each file is being deleted one at a time rather than just removing the Lilypond dir or the 'usr' dir that gets created. You can watch it do this as the uninstaller runs. As the default installer on

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
Are you sure? This problem was fixed recently; numerous people reported that it worked well, and nobody said that it didn't work. What version, exactly, are you using? - Graham On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:20:08PM -0800, aliteralmind wrote: Actually, no. It was to uninstall the LATEST version

RE: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread James Lowe
originally I was going to report this on 2.13.9 and 2.13.8 (I think), but I see that it does the same thing for me on windows 7 for 2.12.3 when I run the uninstaller app (I haven't tried uninstalling from control panel - I have to wait for it to uninstall first to reinstall it 8 ) ) From:

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
Ok, so what's different between your system as Valentin's system? http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=837 Please post additional info in that issue, so that the programmer(s) can easily find it. Cheers, - Graham On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:33:26PM +, James Lowe wrote:

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 21/12/09 02:29, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Hugh Myershsmy...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what I've pieced together thus far: Guys, whereever this discussion is going please remember to add something to the LSR if you come up with an interesting piece

Re: MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Parsing... warning: no music found in score warning: no music found in score Processing time: 1 seconds YES To the developer who wrote this: Cinnamon Rolls. My place. Seven o-clock. -- View this message in context:

Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

2009-12-20 Thread Robin Bannister
Following Trevor's hint http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2008-05/msg00137.html I have had no problems switching between Lilypond versions by renaming, mainly between 2.8.8, 2.10.33 and 2.12.1 (but also 2.13.1). Two days ago I also installed 2.13.9. It runs OK, but now the

The Drummer's Gigsaw : complete update.

2009-12-20 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Hi all, A whole update is available: http://philippe.hezaine.free.fr/spip.php?article46 - README TUTORIELS in pdf. (not completely translated) - All the old patterns + updates are in La Bibliothèque. - 2 drumkits-GM for Hydrogen with Timidity's samples. - A basic drumkit-GM for csDrummer

Adjusting tracking/letterspacing in lyrics

2009-12-20 Thread Joshua Goforth
I'm recreating some christmas music from a book of carols from 1936, and I want to emulate the original font letterspacing (which is wider than normal). I'm not sure at what point under the hood that could be configured, but I know pango supports setting letter_spacing via Text Attribute Markup

Re: horizontal alignment of dynamics attached to skips

2009-12-20 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/12/17 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Is there any way to make lilypond use the same horizontal position for s\p and c\p ??? If you don't care about spanner alignment (i.e., hairpins/dynamic text spans), then it's possible to realign the dynamics by using NoteColumn (you can

Different size staves?

2009-12-20 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I just started using Lilypond and am loving it. But I have a rare use case and am having trouble. I'm trying to set Anglican chant--basically there are several bars of whole and half notes on a grand staff that get matched up with text below. That part is easy, I'll just use a markup section to

Two different languages per verse

2009-12-20 Thread Athanasius Pelletier
I have a song of five verses and I want Latin on the top and English on the bottom for each verse. How can I accomplish that? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Two different languages per verse

2009-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 21. Dezember 2009 schrieb Athanasius Pelletier: I have a song of five verses and I want Latin on the top and English on the bottom for each verse. How can I accomplish that? Uhm... I guess by writing ten verses and adding them all to your voice: verseOneLat=\lyricmode {\set stanza

Re: Different size staves?

2009-12-20 Thread Marc Hohl
Todd O'Bryan schrieb: I just started using Lilypond and am loving it. But I have a rare use case and am having trouble. I'm trying to set Anglican chant--basically there are several bars of whole and half notes on a grand staff that get matched up with text below. That part is easy, I'll just