Guitar Tab Quarter Tone Bends

2015-05-02 Thread Stephen MacNeil
I don't use tab but a friend asked how he could do it. So I came up with this. It allows you to at least print 1/4 3/4 tone bends. Anyway it's just a band aid to the problem. But hey it works. I just did a test nothing more. No real stuff... never will I don't use tab. if you want the file i

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
Paul David: Paul, thank you for your suggestion to use \tag in lyrics so that one lyrics can now be used by both Staff jianpuStaff.please review the .png and .ly files.  I use David's jianpu10a.ly.  I am not quite sure what is the difference between 10 10a though. David: are you working on

Re: Guitar Tab Quarter Tone Bends

2015-05-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 02.05.2015 um 08:39 schrieb Stephen MacNeil: I don't use tab but a friend asked how he could do it. So I came up with this. It allows you to at least print 1/4 3/4 tone bends. Anyway it's just a band aid to the problem. But hey it works. I just did a test nothing more. No real stuff... never

staff margins?

2015-05-02 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Stupid question: I'm looking to specify the margins for the music staff, as separate from the margins for the printable area. This is trivial for most cases (the staff margin is set to zero, or depends on instrument names, for two sides), but for the bottom and top margin I'd like to specify an

Re: staff margins?

2015-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, I can't seem to find a variable that controls that. Anybody mind briefly pointing it out to me? http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables Hope this helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, This looks pretty amazing so far — thanks for the great work! When I try to apply it to a score with edition-engraver tweaks, it doesn’t seem to colour anything tweaked using the EE. It does

Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, As a long time Mint and Ubuntu user, I am taking a look at Fedora 21 for use with lilypond. With lilypond version 2.19.19 I cannot compile any files, with the following error from ghostscript: warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Further to this issue, I can run the gs command from the command line and it correctly produces the PDF output. Warnings are issued from gs about font subsets being embedded due to the large fonts I am using: gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Could you clarify how you are defining \theScore here? Sorry… that was pseudocode. My actual [minimized]

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
Paul David: I download a merge compare program. I compare jianpu10.ly jianpu10a.ly and there is only one line different.Please refer to .png screen capture. Immanuel,Ming. On Saturday, May 2, 2015 6:45 AM, MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com wrote: Paul David: Paul, thank you for your

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Phil Holmes
Looks like the same problem that others are reporting with Fedora. What output do you get (specifically the output concerned with Ghostscript) if you run Lilypond in verbose mode? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Andrew Bernard To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent:

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Not sure it is the same problem. What I think is that Linux Biolinum O is too large, and the end to end system does not deal with it. Running lilypond verbosely: Invoking `gs -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Could you clarify how you are defining \theScore here? Sorry… that was pseudocode. My actual [minimized] score code was: \score { \colorOverride \new Staff \someMusic …. } I’m not sure about others (Jan-Peter?), but for the edition-engraver, I would like to do

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: the function \colorOverride[1] Forgot the footnote. [1} This really ought to be named \colorTweaks instead. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Guitar Tab Quarter Tone Bends

2015-05-02 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Hi Marc Yes, please! Is it based on bend.ily, or did you wrote it from scratch? IIRC, 1/4 bends were possible in bend.ily ... It uses definitions.ily which I believe is based on bend.ily i think. Great work by the way! And yes quarter tones are possibly however It dies if the tab is printed.

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Could you clarify how you are defining \theScore here? Sorry… that was pseudocode. My actual [minimized] score code was: \score { \colorOverride \new Staff \someMusic …. }

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-05-02 17:20 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: [...] OK! Though I am disappointed you don't have a magical way to put scores in variables :) [...] David start snippet \version 2.19.18 m = \new Staff { c''1 } mL = \layout { \context { \Score

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Harm, On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-02 17:20 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: [...] OK! Though I am disappointed you don't have a magical way to put scores in variables :) [...] David start

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
I fixed this issue on my system by reverting to a previous version of fontconfig (see the other post in the list that talks about F22, or my bug report on the bug-list). What version of fontconfig are you using? I found that reverting to 2.11.1 (the latest available on my system is 2.11.93) fixed

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Would you mind trying an extremely small score with the edition-engraver, something like (however you would set it up) \displayMusic { \override NoteHead.font-size = 2 c’’ } I

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-05-02 18:53 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: Hi Harm, On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-02 17:20 GMT+02:00 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com: [...] OK! Though I am disappointed you don't have a magical

Re: Guitar Tab Quarter Tone Bends

2015-05-02 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 02.05.2015 um 15:12 schrieb Stephen MacNeil: Hi Marc Yes, please! Is it based on bend.ily, or did you wrote it from scratch? IIRC, 1/4 bends were possible in bend.ily ... It uses definitions.ily which I believe is based on bend.ily i think. Yes. I wasn't aware of this file being renamed

Re: Guitar Tab Quarter Tone Bends

2015-05-02 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Yes it uses the definitions.ily Thanks for that :) Stephen On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Hi Stephen, thanks for sharing! I see that you worked from scratch and used BendAfter stencil overrides – do you know the solution posted in

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, 2 May 2015, Andrew Bernard wrote: Is this a known issue? Should I stay safely on Mint? I see recent discussion about difficulties with Fedora 22 and ghostscript. I have LilyPond 2.19.19 working on Fedora 21 running without problems, and on Fedora 22 I can't compile any *.ly file

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Aha. So in the console do you see something like No… =) (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (list (make-music 'NoteEvent 'pitch (ly:make-pitch 1

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, 2 May 2015, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: I fixed this issue on my system by reverting to a previous version of fontconfig (see the other post in the list that talks about F22, or my bug report on the bug-list). What version of fontconfig are you using? I found that reverting to 2.11.1 (the

Re: Jianpu Notation

2015-05-02 Thread Paul Morris
On May 1, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Would it be worth defining “flip” functions that call ly:stencil-scale with negative, non-scaling, numbers (i.e. -1) ? IMHO, no. Ok, having looked more into this I think it would be worth it. I just sent an email to the dev

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Aha. So in the console do you see something like No… =) (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'elements (list (make-music 'NoteEvent 'pitch (ly:make-pitch 1 0) 'duration (ly:make-duration 2 That’s it. Kieren.

Re: my favorite bug :-)

2015-05-02 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, this little (simplified) shell script (I have called it ly2pdf) #!/bin/sh INFILE=$1 OUTFILE=${INFILE%.ly}.pdf lilypond --ps -o $$ $INFILE ps2pdf $$.ps $OUTFILE rm -f $$.ps demonstrates the kind of mechanism that LilyPond needs. (But without needing such a script). It fixes the lines.ly

Re: Question about copyrights and licenses on the LSR

2015-05-02 Thread Nathan Ho
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:17 PM, David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm trying get everything organized and altogether legal and what-have-you with respect to my big music/software project the Platonic Music Engine (www.platonicmusicengine.com) which means that I need to

Re: my favorite bug :-)

2015-05-02 Thread Tom Cloyd
Observing all the energy devoted to this critical issue, I have to wonder how many extraordinary symphonies, operas, and cantatas will NOT be written because some folks are too easily distracted by minutia I could live 5 lifetimes, and this issue would never get more than 5 seconds of my

any LilyPonders who'd like to meet in California?

2015-05-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hello, I'll be in San Francisco area for the next three weeks - anyone would like to meet? It would be great :) best, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Question about copyrights and licenses on the LSR

2015-05-02 Thread David Bellows
Hey all, I'm trying get everything organized and altogether legal and what-have-you with respect to my big music/software project the Platonic Music Engine (www.platonicmusicengine.com) which means that I need to make sure all the dependencies I'm using have the appropriate license and copyright

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Out of curiosity, do you get results with color-tweaks2.ly (attached somewhere above)? Same thing: the EE-added tweak gets executed, but doesn’t appear in the log output. Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣

Re: Question about copyrights and licenses on the LSR

2015-05-02 Thread David Bellows
It's all public domain. From http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/html/whatsthis.html: The content of the database is public domain, so you can use it, copy it, modify and redistribute it with no obligation. Ah, thank you very much for pointing that out. That saves me a lot of hassle. Dave On Sat,

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Out of curiosity, do you get results with color-tweaks2.ly (attached somewhere above)? Same thing: the EE-added tweak gets executed, but doesn’t appear in the log output. So it doesn't get colored? Sorry… let me be more clear. I \include-d the edition-engraver, and compiled

Re: Is GridLY the future?

2015-05-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2015-04-28 7:49 GMT+02:00 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: Actually I'm quite convinced that this situation has a notable impact on the overall development activiyt. I don't think so. Have you ever observed the development of Emacs or the Linux kernel, for example by reading the

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
Kieren, On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, This looks pretty amazing so far — thanks for the great work! When I try to apply it to a score with edition-engraver tweaks, it doesn’t seem to colour anything tweaked using the EE.

Re: Suggest a condensed old style or transitional font for lyrics?

2015-05-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
2015-04-30 17:51 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: I've got a handful of others (perfect for this purpose and just beautiful in general) that I'd be willing to recreate from some nice scanned samples if anyone was willing to sponsor the effort. How much sponsoring would you

Re: Color tweaks (edition engraver)

2015-05-02 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, Out of curiosity, do you get results with color-tweaks2.ly (attached somewhere above)? Same thing: the EE-added tweak gets executed, but doesn’t appear in the log output. So it doesn't get

Thumb in fret-diagram

2015-05-02 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Quick question how does one put a thumb in the fret-diagram fingering? apparently it was added 4 years ago but i can't seem to figure it out. I thought I could change mute string but it doesn't go below... that i can figure. My markup is \fret-diagram #6-1;5-3-3;4-3-4;3-2-2;2-1-1;1-o; Also i

Re: Is GridLY the future?

2015-05-02 Thread Urs Liska
Am 03.05.2015 um 06:28 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: The behaviour that discouraged me from working on LilyPond for some time was not obviously unacceptable (i.e. it wasn't some ad hominem attack, nor anything else unanimously condemned by others). Rather, it was the general attitude of some people

Font question.

2015-05-02 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings All, I realize that this may be an obvious question, but could anyone tell me what is the default font used for text in LilyPond? What is the nearest Microsoft equivalent? Hwaen Ch'uqi ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Fedora 21 and lilypond 2.19.19

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Martin, I totally agree. This is actually the first proper bug I have come across myself in lilypond. How does one submit a bug report, and where? And by the way, I do feel my issue is separate from the other recent Fedora ones. Andrew On 3/05/2015 05:36, Martin Tarenskeen

Re: Font question.

2015-05-02 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2015-05-03 2:13 GMT+02:00 Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com: Greetings All, I realize that this may be an obvious question, but could anyone tell me what is the default font used for text in LilyPond? What is the nearest Microsoft equivalent? it's New Century Schoolbook. I don't know

no score displayed

2015-05-02 Thread MING TSANG
Hi, lilyponders, I code first 9 bars of solo + piano - strange : no notes displayed when compile. Please refer to .png and .ly.  I am running v2.19.19I switch v2.18.2  - I encounter the same result. Immanuel,Ming\version 2.19.19 \language english \header { title = 求主教我如何禱告

Re: Is GridLY the future?

2015-05-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The behaviour that discouraged me from working on LilyPond for some time was not obviously unacceptable (i.e. it wasn't some ad hominem attack, nor anything else unanimously condemned by others). Rather, it was the general attitude of some people who sometimes seem to oppose changes only