getting a TextSpanner 'text

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Percival
How do you get values from a context property? I'm trying to access the left-bound text. I know I can do it like this: (cdr (car (cdr (car (cdr (car (car (ly:context-property context 'TextSpanner))) but that's kind-of ugly. This code: #(define (format-textspan engraver event)

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, please use reply to all button (i.e. send a reply not only to the person who answered, but also to the whole list). This way we can help you better and the conversation would be archived and available for others. Now back to the problem :) 2011/4/14 Tom Cloyd t...@tomcloyd.com Well (sigh),

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Well (sigh), it didn't change a thing. At the first repeat I still get aural chaos. I have posted my entire code at http://pastie.org/1794353, if you have a moment to look at it. I really cannot seem to get my head around this midi repeat thing, and my searches for anything helpful have not

more ossia

2011-04-14 Thread David Bobroff
Thanks, Trevor for tweaking my code so the lyrics line up. I'm still at a loss to understand why that is, but that can wait. In looking at the result of my struggles with ossias I have concluded that I want something a bit different from what I'm getting now. The ossia sections in this

Re: more ossia

2011-04-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: David Bobroff bobr...@centrum.is To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:18 AM Subject: more ossia Thanks, Trevor for tweaking my code so the lyrics line up. I'm still at a loss to understand why that is, but that can wait. In looking

Re: first time

2011-04-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Wood awoo...@comcast.net wrote: *I just asked a question about syntax error NOTENAME_PITCH. I removed the melody = and it works now* Greetings, Andrew Wood - I would strongly recommend that you read the Learning Manual, which can be found at :

Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Phil Holmes
Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \ and / and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR. Can anyone show me how to get

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \ and / and neither work and I can't find an

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread -Eluze
Phil Holmes wrote: Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \ and / and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR.

Re: getting a TextSpanner 'text

2011-04-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/14/11 1:47 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: How do you get values from a context property? I'm trying to access the left-bound text. I know I can do it like this: (cdr (car (cdr (car (cdr (car (car (ly:context-property context 'TextSpanner))) but that's

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 04/14/2011 03:01 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, please use reply to all button (i.e. send a reply not only to the person who answered, but also to the whole list). This way we can help you better and the conversation would be archived and available for others. Now back to the problem :)

Re: Stacked markup problem

2011-04-14 Thread Jesse Engle
I took the time to check out a copy of the development source from the repository and everything compiled and installed fine. The stickings were displayed in the correct order as you said, but now there's an entirely separate problem: the accents are now much lower than they should be. The

Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate script at its homepage http://www.nicta.com.au/people/chubbp/articulate. First, for those who don't know, use of this script produces a more realistic MIDI

Re: Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:53:36AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate script at its homepage. ... However, this can be fixed easily. With my method, I am

Re: Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011-04-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/4/14 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:53:36AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote:    I seem to have made a discovery which I don't see covered in either    Lilypond's Notation Reference or the documentation for the articulate    script at its homepage. ...    

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes

RE: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-14 Thread James Lowe
Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Tom Cloyd )Sent: 14 April 2011 17:07 )To: Lilypond )Subject: Re: getting repeats to play in midi ) ) )On the other hand,

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: I use a Regex to translate the quote mark that Noteworthy creates (\) into the LilyPond quote mark. Would anyone like to guess how many consecutive backslashes I have to use in c# to find the 2 characters \ ? Hmm. I'd guess that

Re: Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Thank you for volunteering! I'd love to do it, but frankly am very hard pressed to accomplish what's already on my schedule. Ha! Once again this file forum comes to my rescue. I'm so pleased to be here, and of all to be able to use and continue learning about Lilypond. What a gift this this

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Cloyd
Thank you very much. I'll get to this this evening. t. On 04/14/2011 11:13 AM, James Lowe wrote: Hello, )-Original Message- )From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org )[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] On )Behalf Of Tom Cloyd )Sent: 14

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Phil, Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric lines: is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''. This looks OK until I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad. I've tried \ and / and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR. I use “ and ” —

Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

2011-04-14 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes

nice praise via twitter

2011-04-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On twitter, http://josiahboothby.org/?page_id=5 writes I love @GNU_LilyPond. Reduced a sloppy, nearly illegible Sibelius-engraved, 5-page part into a neat, legible 2-page part. #fb ref: http://twitter.com/dzdz/status/58437233811783680 Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org | GNU

Re: Stacked markup problem

2011-04-14 Thread -Eluze
Jesse Engle-3 wrote: I took the time to check out a copy of the development source from the repository and everything compiled and installed fine. The stickings were displayed in the correct order as you said, but now there's an entirely separate problem: the accents are now much lower

Re: Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to

2011-04-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/4/14 Tom Cloyd t...@tomcloyd.com: Thank you for volunteering! I'd love to do it, but frankly am very hard pressed to accomplish what's already on my schedule. Ha! Once again this file forum comes to my rescue. I'm so pleased to be here, and of all to be able to use and continue learning

suggestion for articulate

2011-04-14 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following line, and the non-slurred music sounds more natural, while the slurred music still gets more smooth: #(define

Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Chubb
胡海鹏 == 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com writes: 胡海鹏 Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug 胡海鹏 on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an 胡海鹏 improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following line, 胡海鹏 and the non-slurred music sounds more

Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-14 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: 胡海鹏 == 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com writes: 胡海鹏 Hello, Before I make a 16 track midi to show the remaining bug 胡海鹏 on midi output in the recent devel versions, I'll suggest an 胡海鹏 improvement upon articulate.ly. I changed the following

Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Chubb
David == David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: David A fixed ratio seems a mistake to me: like optical scaling of David fonts, the ratio should depend on the length of the note as David well as the speed of the piece. And one does not want to have David chords end early in one voice merely

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Pete == PMA  peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes:    Pete The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer,    Pete it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000.  Am sniffing out    Pete reputable vendors. I