Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread wjm
Greetings Jan, You wrote:- +++ After a lot of fiddling around I came up with this schema:- That reads much like http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/tree/mutopia/Coriolan?id=60fdc53305e8628dad96b4ebea177bc6ee8d95cd what are we missing? +++ I

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread Shevek
I do all of my composing in Lilypond, and have completed numerous large ensemble projects of significant length. I'd estimate I've written around 20,000 lines of Lilypond and Scheme code in the last two years. My preferred file structure continues to evolve, but it is basically the following:

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Morris
dak wrote So in case you are using 2.17.16 or newer, it would be nice if you checked that this first pitch like absolute rule works even when starting with an f sharp. I gave this a try in 2.17.18 with the test code below, and first pitch like absolute still works even with a default scale

concatenating/converting string variables ?

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Malcolm
excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title. I have this in the preamble date = #(strftime %d-%m-%Y (localtime (current-time))) What I want to do is somehow add/concatenate this to a text

Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

2013-05-17 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Paul, Am 17.05.2013 09:45, schrieb Paul Malcolm: excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title. I have this in the preamble date = #(strftime %d-%m-%Y (localtime (current-time))) What I want to

Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

2013-05-17 Thread Nick Payne
On 17/05/13 17:45, Paul Malcolm wrote: excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title. I have this in the preamble date = #(strftime %d-%m-%Y (localtime (current-time))) What I want to do is somehow

Re: OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-17 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Aleksandr Andreev aleksandr.andr...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 2:42 AM Subject: OpenType support in Windows I recently tested LilyPond on Windows 8 (Enterprise Development Test version running on VirtualBox). It appears

Re: OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-17 Thread Phil Holmes
-- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org To: d...@gnu.org Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 6:58 AM Subject: Re: OpenType support in Windows I recently tested LilyPond on Windows 8 (Enterprise Development Test version running on

How to use swing.scm in a .ly file

2013-05-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, Thinking this should be simple to do I've now spent over an hour trying to figure out how to use the functions in swing.scm ( https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/attachmentText?id=687aid=6870029000name=swing.scmtoken=r8ZwHdiYCou-OG0e72qA0tUNAv0%3A1351867728273). I have copied the .scm

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread Sven Axelsson
I guess you all have looked at the scores by Nicolas Sceaux at http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/ already? They are very well structured. On 17 May 2013 09:18, Shevek s...@saultobin.com wrote: I do all of my composing in Lilypond, and have completed numerous large ensemble projects of significant

Re: How to use swing.scm in a .ly file

2013-05-17 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Guy, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com wrote: All, Thinking this should be simple to do I've now spent over an hour trying to figure out how to use the functions in swing.scm (

lilypond not recognized

2013-05-17 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
After solving a mysterious hardware problem I finally got my Windows 7 box up and running again. I installed LilyPond 2.16.2-1 but it won't run from the CLI. I get: 'lilypond' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I have, in fact, edited the

Re: OpenType support in Windows

2013-05-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
We urgently need a developer working on Windows who is sufficiently familiar with GNU stuff, in particular with Pango and Harfbuzz. Behdad Esfahbod, the developer of Harfbuzz, is willing to help provided we have someone who can test and debug patches. I'd be happy to test patches once I

Re: How to use swing.scm in a .ly file

2013-05-17 Thread Guy Stalnaker
David, Much thanks. Adding 'swing.scm' to the init variable was easy to do once, of course, you told me what to do. Regards, Guy On 05/17/2013 08:57 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Guy, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com wrote: All, Thinking this should be

Re: concatenating/converting string variables ?

2013-05-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 17 May 2013, at 11:47 , Nick Payne wrote: On 17/05/13 17:45, Paul Malcolm wrote: excuse me, just a trivial question, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I want to add the date variable to one element of text in my title. I have this in the preamble date = #(strftime %d-%m-%Y

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread Wim van Dommelen
On 17 May 2013, at 03:26 , wjm wrote: After a lot of fiddling around I came up with this schema:- I use a similar approach. This approach is well-facilitated in Frescobaldi, using the point- and-click correlation between the output pane and the relevant input

Re: How to get multiple text spanners at the same height?

2013-05-17 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Jim, On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:19:25PM +0100, Peter Toye wrote: I found the cres--cen--do conversation - it seems that there's a general need for a new form of text spanner which can spread out the text. At the

Re: lilypond not recognized

2013-05-17 Thread Tim Slattery
bobr...@centrum.is bobr...@centrum.is wrote: After solving a mysterious hardware problem I finally got my Windows 7 box up and running again. I installed LilyPond 2.16.2-1 but it won't run from the CLI. I get: 'lilypond' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable

Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
LilyPond automatically moves the coda glyph \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } to the beginning of the next line, if it is put at the end of a line with a manual \break. This is highly annoying. How does one stop it from happening?

Re: lilypond not recognized

2013-05-17 Thread Tim Roberts
bobr...@centrum.is bobr...@centrum.is wrote: After solving a mysterious hardware problem I finally got my Windows 7 box up and running again. I installed LilyPond 2.16.2-1 but it won't run from the CLI. I get: 'lilypond' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable

Re: Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Jim Long
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: LilyPond automatically moves the coda glyph \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } to the beginning of the next line, if it is put at the end of a line with a manual \break. This is highly annoying. How does one

Re: lilypond not recognized

2013-05-17 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - From: Tim Slattery slatter...@bls.gov To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:30:59 PM Subject: Re: lilypond not recognized bobr...@centrum.is bobr...@centrum.is wrote: After solving a mysterious hardware problem I finally got my Windows 7 box up

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-17 Thread ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br
This makes it easier to input and read, and then when using your music on a traditional staff, you can just set these variables to an empty music expression, and they will have no effect on the music. extendStaffUp = {} That way you only have to make the change in one place instead of

Re: lilypond not recognized

2013-05-17 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 5:16:06 PM Subject: Re: lilypond not recognized bobr...@centrum.is bobr...@centrum.is wrote: After solving a mysterious hardware problem I finally got my Windows 7 box up and

Re: Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 17, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jim Long wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: LilyPond automatically moves the coda glyph \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } to the beginning of the next line, if it is put at the end of a line with a manual

Re: Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Jim Long
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:03:54PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On May 17, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jim Long wrote: Precede it with \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = begin-of-line-invisible Thank you! I admit that I have no understanding of why this would keep the

Re: Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, I admit that I have no understanding of why this would keep the coda glyph at the end of the line. http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#using-break_002dvisibility Hope this helps! Kieren. ___

cygwin+lilypond

2013-05-17 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
I posted my problem regarding not being able to run LilyPond from a CLI. The problem was solved when I realized there was a typo in the PATH Environment variable. It works now...mostly. I can run Lily just fine in Windows from cmd but from a cygwin bash shell it's a different story. I can

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Morris
Ok, I took a look at your examples, thanks. I see what you're after now, basically *automatic* instead of manual handling of: 1. external ledgers (dashed ledgers work like extending the staff) 2. internal ledgers (some notes get two, some get one) You might be able to get this by writing a

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Morris
Here's more explanation of the dodecaPitchNames snippet: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=619 This part: #(ly:parser-set-note-names parser dodecaPitchNames) Calls dodecaPitchNames, which as I understand it, basically takes something like this as its input (the default pitchnames list):

Re: cygwin+lilypond

2013-05-17 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
And now it's working. I don't understand what made it start. -David - Original Message - From: bobr...@centrum.is To: lilly pond discuss discuss lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:41:19 PM Subject: cygwin+lilypond I posted my problem regarding not being able to run

Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

2013-05-17 Thread ericoschm...@yahoo.com.br
Well.. i may still think in a way to get that compatibility. But for now, i think i will use the chromatic names with dodecapitch thing, and keep the tritones to be manually corrected whenever I need the traditional staff. Hopefully never hahah! I think it is easier than keep in mind all the

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread Sarah k Alawami
lol. try nigh impossible if you have absolutely no knowledge of the terminal. I tried frescoboldi in the windows environment and it sucked. I think for this arrangement for now I'll have alto2.ly, alto1.ly, soprano2ly, soprano 1-1.ly and soprano1.ly then the piano part.ly or what ever it

An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread wjm
A bit of my LP background - - - Several years ago I was asked by a local church-choir director to prepare a couple of pieces for use by other church-groups. He knew that I had used computers for preparing teaching and publication graphics of one sort or another, and that I had done a little

Re: An idea for a systematic development of a large score.

2013-05-17 Thread SoundsFromSound
Jan: When I click that link, I see this: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n146067/Coriolan.jpg What am I supposed to see there? Are there examples or something? Thanks, Ben Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote wjm writes: After a lot of fiddling around I came up with this schema:-