Re: chords as markups?

2012-09-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
. First of all, `make-XXX-stencil' seems to be completely undocumented. At least I can't find those functions in the reference (except some unsystematic usage here and there). I'm not sure who made them or when they made it into LilyPond, but you're certainly welcome to post a patch

FW: Failing UTRLs in user digest messages

2012-09-08 Thread Peter Gentry
_ From: Peter Gentry [mailto:peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 11:20 AM To: 'Tim Reeves' Subject: RE: Failing UTRLs in user digest messages Tim Yep I loved XP Pro but Vista came with the machine and pennies count. To be honest I don't have many

Re: Time signature in TabStaff

2012-09-08 Thread Peter Crighton
Thank you, that’s great! It’s wonderful that LilyPond is so good already, but keeps getting even better constantly. Every time I run into a problem it is already going to be fixed in one of the next versions, I like that! -- Peter Crighton | Musician Music Engraver based in Mainz/Wiesbaden,

lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Karl Berry
These are not really bugs, all up for interpretation, so I thought I'd write here ... I wanted to give a url about simple Lilypond input to the prototypical naive user (my mom, who is a musician but not a programmer). I start at http://lilypond.org/website/manuals.html. It says: Text input:

Circa in tempo mark

2012-09-08 Thread fras...@libero.it
Hi everyone, is it possible to mark a ca. close to the number of BPM in the tempo mark in a graphically adequate way? Thanks in advance, F. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Circa in tempo mark

2012-09-08 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, fras...@libero.it fras...@libero.it wrote: Hi everyone, is it possible to mark a ca. close to the number of BPM in the tempo mark in a graphically adequate way? You can create a markup for the tempo mark, as shown in one of the snippets here:

Re: lilypond-book or latex doesn't find the necessary files

2012-09-08 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Daniel, I've tried Your script and I've modified a bit (see below). It works nice altough I have to run it 2 times, sometimes. I would like to ask one more question, concernen lilypond-book. Is is possible to include more than one directory in the search path? I have some files in a special

Re: Circa in tempo mark

2012-09-08 Thread fras...@libero.it
It is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! F. Messaggio originale Da: david.nales...@gmail.com Data: 08/09/2012 18.06 A: fras...@libero.itfras...@libero.it Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Ogg: Re: quot;Circaquot; in tempo mark Hi, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, fras...@libero.it

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM I start at http://lilypond.org/website/manuals.html. It says: Text input: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver. Read this first! Ok, I go there (http://lilypond.org/website/text-input.html). And the example looks quite complex,

Re: lilypond-book or latex doesn't find the necessary files

2012-09-08 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm almost certain you can include multiple include paths in the call to lilypond-book. Simply use -I multiple times. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Stefan Thomas To: Daniel E. Moctezuma Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 5:32 PM Subject:

Re: lilypond-book or latex doesn't find the necessary files

2012-09-08 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Phil, thanks, I did it as You proposed and it works fine. 2012/9/8 Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net ** I'm almost certain you can include multiple include paths in the call to lilypond-book. Simply use -I multiple times. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - *From:* Stefan

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:20:09PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM The first example there looks good (and is in fact what I sent her). But then the second example, instead of showing how to typeset other kinds of notation, goes into

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:20:09PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM The first example there looks good (and is in fact what I sent her). But then the second example, instead of showing how

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Karl, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org wrote: Ok, I go there (http://lilypond.org/website/text-input.html). And the example looks quite complex, what with numerous colors, arrows, etc., etc. Not what I want to show my mom. I'd make these examples simpler,

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Karl Berry
than teaching absolute entry only to ditch it a few pages later. I wasn't thinking of a few pages. More like a couple more examples which do nothing more with pitches than the first one days (so not digging a deeper non-\relative hole), but rather show a few other completely basic things,

Re: lilypond manual intro

2012-09-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org wrote: How come i didn't know about them?? Probably for the same reason I didn't: when we go to the web site and simply click the obvious links, the browser shows the version-dependent url. yup. It is surely possible to make