Re: Precise locating rendered items

2011-06-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:06:55AM +0200, Jacek Gajek wrote: My idea is to allow user to place notes by clicking on a prerendered image by lily. All I need is to determine where did the user clicked. Use point-and-click, read the Usage manual. Use pdf display, I recommend the poppler library.

Re: Breaking up project into smaller files

2011-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:35:48AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Jesse Engle explain. Here is a link to program input and output: http://www.pastie.org/2115133 I can't test this without a fair bit of work to get rid of all the numbers on the left of the code,

Re: Slurs across system breaks are not good

2011-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:21:19AM -0700, MusFelix wrote: I see that there are some older messages complaining about the way Lilypond handles slurs going across system breaks. I thought I would add my voice, since this is a very common thing occurrence, and the fact that it is handled so

Re: markup for partial measures

2011-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:57:38PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Can someone explain why this was changed? (And I really would like to continue using \partial or some other simple command!) Search the mailing list archives for the discussion which prompted the change in the first place. It

Re: Dynamic + text aligned: BEST solution?

2011-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:44:30AM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Please stop capitalizing patch.  If you're referring to issue 1264, the patch broke the build, and in any case it's postponed until GLISS

Re: Dynamic + text aligned: BEST solution?

2011-06-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:30:25PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: The following snippets are providing different solutions (some with important drawbacks) to this issue/request (useful in many cases!): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=393 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=739 but there

Re: convert-ly log file

2011-06-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:20:07PM -0400, K. Kellogg-Smith wrote: convert-ly -e filename logfile.txt). DOS creates the log file okay, but the file is empty after the conversion is made. You've redirected stdout, but the convert-ly messages are probably going to stderr. In a typical unix

Re: list of changes in minor versions

2011-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:27:40PM -0400, Marc Mouries wrote: I just saw that version 2.15.2 was released. Is there a page somewhere listing the list of bug fixed? Yes, the git changelog. Nobody has offered to write a less-detailed summary of changes for releases. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Music running off the page

2011-06-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 06:18:04PM -0400, Michael Dykes wrote: I have an attached piece of music, and some of the measures are, for lack of a better term, running off the page. Any help will be appreciated. Use bar checks | and you'll find the problem. Cheers, - Graham

Re: Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

2011-06-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:01:18AM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: I am working on a piece now where I need certain events to transmogrify into other events. Specifically, whole-measure rests need to turn into multi-measure rests, and given the way that the piece is algorithmically

Re: Rebroadcasting events from a single timestep

2011-06-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:50:27PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: If only it were that easy... I have also tweaked the rest engraver to do automatic rest grouping. For example, if in my file I have \time 4/4 d4 r8. r8 r16 r8 r2 r4 r2 What will be printed is d4 r4 r2 r1 That sounds

Re: fretted-string-harmonics-in-tablature snippet

2011-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:44:27AM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: BTW, who will be applying the patch (i don't have puch ability)? I can apply patches for you, after they've gone through the patch review process. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user

Re: Extract numbers of quarternotes per page

2011-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:10:44PM +, Michael B. wrote: I would like to extract during compilation, the number of quarter notes (or beat) that are inside every pages lilypond just printed. Something vaguely similar was added to 2.15.0:

Re: 2.14 linux download page error

2011-06-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:41:57AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: The compiling a file example on the right-hand side of the download page (http://lilypond.org/unix.html) has a version number in the sample ly file of 2.15.0. Should be 2.14.0. Please send such messages to bug-lilypond. Bug Squad:

Re: Openoffice import?

2011-06-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:15:47AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: But I can't find a way to get into _scalable_ images in OpenOffice from there. Anybody with a good idea? I'm certain that you've already looked into this, but just in case...

Re: Notation convention: dotted notes, duplet or else?

2011-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:22:16AM +0100, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On May 31, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: \time 3/4 % proposal 1: dotted notes c4. c4. | I would never do this unless there was a longer section of hemiolas. I'd be sorely tempted to change to \time

Re: LSR mirrors? (was:Re: LSR is not available)

2011-05-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:48:41PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: This raised a question in my mind: do we have some mirrors of the LSR? No, but an SQL dump is available, as is some (possibly old) source code. Grabbing a copy of those wouldn't hurt. If you're interested, also try to run it

Re: blocked here

2011-05-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 07:55:56AM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Is there any way to prevent the web from blockade? There are various technical measures that you can take, but these require knowledge and software which some governments may declare to be illegal. Internet censorship is

Re: looking to contract with someone to add meta-data to svg export

2011-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:34:25PM -0600, Michael Geary wrote: I'm not a C/C++ coder, and mucking about in the Lilypond source isn't really an option for me, but i am in a position to hire someone to do that, and/or make a financial contribution to the project. Is anyone here interested in

Re: Artificial-looking clef in a CueVoice?

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:36:37PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: A good starting point for new features are always the corresponding regtest files. In this case, the files are input/regression/cue-clef*.ly (cue-clef.ly is the basic file, the other are there for various features, like

Re: Artificial-looking clef in a CueVoice?

2011-05-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 05:03:24PM +0200, Bernhard Ott wrote: Sorry, obviously I wasn't clear about that, you are perfectly right: a wonderful feature like that *should* be in the reference ASAP. To me typesetting cue notes for orchestral parts is a pain, and \cueDuringWithClef makes is a lot

Re: nobody has ready Learning 3.1 ??? (was: how does beforebreak work?)

2011-05-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:12:17AM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: I don't know what breakbefore is. I have used book and bookparts many times wth success. May I be of any help? Yes, definitely. James' original investigation had something like 4 examples, 3 of which were simply incorrect

nobody has ready Learning 3.1 ??? (was: how does beforebreak work?)

2011-05-05 Thread Graham Percival
On 4/10/11, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: We have a problem. The only full-time doc writer/editor isn't certain how breakbefore works, and I'm not certain that he completely understands the \book{} and \bookparts{} input file structure either. This has resulted in a much

LilyPond Paris meeting, 18 or 19 May

2011-04-30 Thread Graham Percival
To anybody in the city of lights / pour tout le monde en Paris, Anybody want to meet in Paris? I'll be there on May 18 and 19. I'm thinking about having an offline meeting (or meet-up as they're sometimes called). My schedule is flexible, so if day jobs are a problem, we could meet in the

Re: Completion_heads_engraver produces duplicate ties

2011-04-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: bug-lilyp...@gnu.org. I believe you'll have to join the list. If you post with the gmane interface, you don't need to join. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:44:15PM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: 1. Notation Reference section on articulate.ly - in the page footer, in rather small font (which I have missed until just now) is a link: suggestions for the documentation, which takes me to Documentation suggestions.

Re: documentation suggestion [Was: Using the articulate.ly script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to]

2011-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:54:24AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Il giorno ven, 15/04/2011 alle 10.25 -0600, Tom Cloyd ha scritto: I think that we may add a 4th point in the list in CG 5.2 saying something like: 5. You must be subscribed in order to post via email to the `lilypond-dev

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:44:15PM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: 1. Notation Reference section on articulate.ly - in the page footer, in rather small font (which I have missed until just now) is a link: suggestions for the documentation, which takes me to Documentation suggestions.

Re: suggestion for articulate

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54:53PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: 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

Re: getting a TextSpanner 'text

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:25:32AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 4/14/11 1:47 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: produces the following (with linebreaks and indents added). I'm really confused about the multiple bound-details, the multiple left/right inside each bound

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

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:18:58AM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: OK - I visited the Lilypond website and tried to figure out how to post to some documentation discussion list I thought existed. That left me confused and without options, so I'm back here. The best I can do is offer a

Re: proposed addition to Notation Reference 3.5.4

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: Attached is a patch that includes this. Thanks, pushed. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: getting repeats to play in midi

2011-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:26:06PM -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: But here's the problem which I keep running into. I'm reluctantly willing to join the documentation list, but while there's plenty of references to it, I have yet to see any link which takes me to a subscription process. Why not make

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: 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: 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: 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: status of release

2011-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:21:17AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Graham Percival writes: http://lilypond.org/bug-reports http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples Why are these in plural; I would prefer: /bug-report, /tiny-example ? Because I thought that the phrase Tiny examples

how does beforebreak work?

2011-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
We have a problem. The only full-time doc writer/editor isn't certain how breakbefore works, and I'm not certain that he completely understands the \book{} and \bookparts{} input file structure either. This has resulted in a much-needed rewrite for Notation 3 Spacing being delayed by literally

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:46:34AM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Yes, there's a short one on the main Vivi page: http://percival-music.ca/vivi.html Erm, I'm pretty sure you don't care about video encoding

status of release (was: status of mutopia project)

2011-04-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:02:01PM +, Keith OHara wrote: A recent stable LilyPond version would also help. I converted the scores I was working on from 2.12 to 2.13, to avoid difficulties with \partcombine, but then 2.13 kept changing so I've abandoned the 2.13 versions and now have

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-04-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:58:39AM -0300, Pato Press wrote: And, if you want to, I have a not so good violin made in Blender, nearly with all it's pieces. I have never completely finish it. In case anybody is wondering about this, the blender model is absolutely awesome, and it's now part

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-04-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:16:10PM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: Any preview movies that can be put up anywhere? Yes, there's a short one on the main Vivi page: http://percival-music.ca/vivi.html and a longer one on the conference webpage: http://percival-music.ca/smc2011.html I still

Re: midi bug in 2.13.58

2011-04-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:43:24AM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Lilypond 2.13.58 still has bug on mid output. Because the max number of Yes, I saw your email to bug-lilypond. Please continue to report bugs to that address, not the user list. Cheers, - Graham

release candidate planning

2011-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
Jan has just fixed the 1 reported Critical bug in release candidate 5 (a bug wherein the midi output ignored rests). Unless I hear otherwise, I'll go ahead with release candidate 6 in 24 hours. Are there any other known Critical problems? I'd really like RC 6 or 7 to be the last one. Users:

Re: release candidate planning

2011-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:10:41PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Graham Percival wrote: A few notes about Critical problems: - bad output, or even being completely unusable, on operating systems released in 2010 or 2011, do

Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

2011-03-31 Thread Graham Percival
Colin Campbell - Ditto Marc Hohl - Bug nuker Graham Percival - me -- This email is best viewed with a fixed-width font in a screen size of 80x25 characters. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

2011-03-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Nice one, Graham! Did you forget to mention newly implemented automatic display of one-ee-and-a-two-ee-and-a under 16th notes for ease in counting? Jon On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:58:39AM -0300, Pato Press wrote: And, if you want to, I have a not so good violin made in Blender, nearly with all it's pieces. I have never completely finish it. I make it just to start learning how to use Blender. but if you want it, I can sent it to

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:46:21AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I'll do it if I have to to get it merged, but i was hoping it wouldn't be necessary. The GPLv3 states under 5 Conveying modified source versions I don't see articulate.ly as a

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:28:57PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Where is it documented? NR 1.6 Staff - Hiding staves \RemoveEmptyStaffContext has been removed from the index as it should but RemoveEmptyStaves has not been added. Yes it has. staff.itely, line 718: @funindex \RemoveEmptyStaves

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:48:08PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 03/22/2011 02:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext has been removed from the index as it should but RemoveEmptyStaves has not been added. Yes it has. staff.itely, line 718: @funindex \RemoveEmptyStaves

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:08:18PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:46:21AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: The GPLv3 states under 5 Conveying modified source versions I don't see articulate.ly as a modified source

Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:57:22PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Does that make sense since most commands have backslashes? Maybe there should be a sub alphabetical sort under '\' Patches appreciated: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=855 Cheers, - Graham

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:03:55PM +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: On Sun 20 Mar 2011, 18:27 Graham Percival wrote: On an objective level, it's allowed many people to create music. On a subjective level, listening (and watching) Vocaloid music has brought me more pleasure than *any

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:24:42AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Not likely to work well. It is not even clear that Peter can release/distribute it under GPL version 2.0 unless it will work unmodified with a version of Lilypond released under GPL version 2.0. If it doesn't, the question is

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote: I'm glad that articulate is finally somewhat included officially into LilyPond, since I asked for it 9 months ago So what? I have been pointing out that it would be easy to add for 2 years. And on the more general topic of useful

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:23:12PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: The suggestion that a .ly file would somehow be a derivative work of lilypond is ridiculous. Depends on how interlocked and crossdependent it is with internals of Lilypond

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:35:37AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Trevor, Of course, we can't know about good stuff that vanished and has not been rediscovered :) Have you ever heard Mozart's son's piano music? There are some pieces (especially the Mazurkas) which are clearly

Re: Help with changing notehead glyph

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:01:47PM +, James Lowe wrote: I am trying to use one of the note glyphs as listed in the NR section http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#special- notehead-glyphs IIRC most of those are from Ancient music, so if you look through that

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:50:04PM +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: Can't imagine how many issues they could fix instead of that waste of time... That goes for *anything* we do for entertainment -- including academic music / musicology / history / lilypond work / etc. Any one of us could have

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:26:40AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Rather, I'm railing against the following [possibly inevitable, but still disheartening] reality: In the 1940s, a barometer of popular taste was Frank Sinatra ... In the 1960s, the barometer was Bob Dylan (who can write great

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:14:48AM +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote: On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 18:08 Kieren MacMillan wrote: Unfortunately, lower barrier of entry almost always means more crap to sift through. The more crap -- the lower criteria barrier for what is `crap'?. The more crap will

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote: Just adding articulate.ly in ly/ and giving one example in the docs is probably not what you expect ... Why not? That's certainly how I'd start going about this. I haven't looked at it, so I might notice some problem with that

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On 3/18/11, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Graham, Has that happened with books? Have stories become total crap over the past 10/50/200 years? Actually, yes: no author made a million dollars writing a Harlequin Romance novel in the 1500s. :) Hmm. I'll admit that

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On 3/18/11, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Yes, the Sieve of Time is a powerful arbiter of taste. =) IMO, it is the *only* arbiter of (general population) taste. While the *only* arbiter of your personal taste is you. There must be examples in both directions, of

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:54:12PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: The attached patch includes and documents the Articulate script. Looks pretty good, but I'd like to have a rietveld issue for easier commenting. +and in the @code{\score} section do + +@example +\unfoldRepeats \articulate +

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:16:35PM -0400, Shane Brandes wrote: I suppose since I have spent so much of my life attempting to master keyboard instruments and having watch so many students progress in their own studies that it seems to me that one cold never hope to replicate a human at an

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:15:46AM -0400, Marc Mouries wrote: This is intellectually interesting but the question is not who deserves to create good music? but rather who wants to listen to music made by someone that does not practice? and who wants to listen to music played by a computer?

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: But I also believe that it will be a great while longer before *watching* a robot (or audio speaker) will be as compelling as watching a human performer. BS. Watching musical robots is *incredibly* interesting, and way way

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:08:53AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi David, The whole point is that a computer, left to its own devices, would never think of playing the violin or chess. It would sit in a corner and rust. With all due respect, I don't even think that's the point -- for

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:38:48PM -0400, Marc Mouries wrote: On 3/17/2011 11:31 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Art conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus should be played by human. should be? Hmm. Art conveys emotions, and thus sheet music should be engraved

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:56:05AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: But let's stay on-topic: Keep up the good work with your articulate script. Any chance articulate will be an integrated, built-in functionality in Lilypond in the future ? I estimate it would take about 5 hours from a Frog.

Re: New version of articulate available

2011-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:20:38PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: 2011/3/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: I estimate it would take about 5 hours from a Frog.  I've been estimating this for the past few years, but nobody's even attempted to tackle it yet. It is a feature

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:42:45AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This is F*G great! Especially the Bach BWV 1006 - I could have sworn it really was a kid playing. 

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:47:59PM +, James Lowe wrote: If this works for me then I think it would be really helpful to have in the CG simply because if I can do it, then anyone who had a modicum of building code experience can do it and won't have to hunt about the message boards. Ok,

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 04:24:44PM +, James Lowe wrote: Hmm...on my rural internet connection this may be an issue, however I assume I can download this stuff (say to a usb stick) and then use good old fashioned 'sneaker' net method to get the binaries on. I ask this in case Apple require

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:35:25AM -0700, Colin Campbell wrote: For the sake of clarity: are we saying that new contributors who run linux natively, as I do at home, or in a VM, as I do in the office, should also be encouraged to run lilydev? No, people running linux can certainly stick with

Re: Accessing the name of the input file from inside LilyPond

2011-03-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:33:43PM +0100, Mike Solomon wrote: I'm trying to find a way to access the name of input file (i.e. foo.ly) from inside LilyPond. I know that this information is stashed in the parser (and thus accessible from music functions), but I would like to use it in a markup.

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:24:12PM +, Neil Puttock wrote: On 10 March 2011 22:08, Tim Sheasby t...@sheafpublishing.co.za wrote: Using lilydev on a Virtual Box ubuntu machine – how do I compile a Mac binary? Via GUB: http://lilypond.org/gub/ It's not for the faint of heart, but

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:53:16AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi Graham, Vivi is WAY COOL. I really like the way you start with a physical model of the instrument. Thanks! Yes, although software like Vocaloid is neat (and the user community is incredible!), I always feel a bit let down

Re: License for lilypond transcriptions of public domain resources

2011-03-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 04:05:06PM +0100, Voyageur Galactique wrote: 1/ What license would you personnaly chose and why ? I would use whatever was recommended by http://www.mutopiaproject.org/index.html since they have the most experience in this area. 2/ What license am I allowed to chose for

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:01:23AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/3/3 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca:  \time 4 = 72 Meanwhile, there is a mistake in the example code (in your mail and on the website) - there should be \tempo 4 = 96 instead of \time 4 = 72. Oops! Thanks, fixed

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Michael Ellis wrote: I've been thinking for a while about broaching the subject of LilyPond's midi output on this forum -- I feel that this is one area where Lily is rather behind the curve compared to her commercial sisters. I wonder if some of your

Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:54:31AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2011/3/4 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Well, playing on a $1000 (or even $1,000,000) violin is just a matter of getting a recording of somebody tapping on such an instrument.  Such recordings (I only need 12

Re: Learning Scheme

2011-03-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:14:54PM +0200, Tim Sheasby wrote: Wanting to get more involved in LilyPond. Would like to learn Scheme. What is the best tutorial to get going? Thanks Have you tried looking in our Contributor's Guide?

[OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

2011-03-03 Thread Graham Percival
Hi all, My PhD research has swept me into the direction of automatic music performance. In particular, generating realistic-sounding audio from sheet music. In particular, going from a .ly file with a single staff of violin music to a wav file that sounds like it was performed by a violinist

Re: mezzo staccato

2011-02-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:20:53AM +, James Lowe wrote: Hiapeng, In my theory book, a mezzo staccato is a line plus staccato. But I don't know whether c4-.-- does this correctly. This works, as does c4-_ If the notes are tied I just used something like c4-.( c4-. c4-.) And

Re: MF fonts

2011-02-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 05:38:46PM +0200, Tim Sheasby wrote: Added narrow versions of Mi to mf source file. Having problems getting the dependencies set up so I can compile it in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Have been using MacPorts to accomplish this but it fails when I try to install FontForge.

Re: Grace notes in multiple voices {} \\ {}

2011-02-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 08:25:59AM -0800, MusFelix wrote: I still get an error with your example: error: syntax error, unexpected DIGIT 4( 8-.) The left and right angled brackets and everything between them are not showing up due to the HTML. What code do I need to use to get

Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:47:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer. Why is LilyPond called LilyPond? It's on the old webpages, and one of the things I've had in the back of my mind that we might want to integrate into the new docs+web.

TextSpanner listener text scheme

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
Where does TextSpanner hide its text? I'm trying to extract the text (i.e. II or IV) from a TextSpanner. I've realized that it isn't part of the text-spanner-event (sob), but as far as I can tell, it's not in the TextSpanner context either! What am I missing? example attached and inline (it's

Re: TextSpanner listener text scheme

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:59:31PM -0800, -Eluze wrote: Graham Percival-3 wrote: Where does TextSpanner hide its text? I'm trying to extract the i found it int the Voice context: Woah, thanks! That works! Thank you so much! I'm even more puzzled, because I didn't need that for any

99 bottles of beer on the wall

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
Wow. Brilliant work here: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lilypond-1351.html (I was doing a google search for lilypond music function, because I couldn't remember the exact syntax, and this popped up) Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Interaction with the score

2011-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
://lilypond.org/text-input Graham Percival made a targeted exercises program for students: http://percival-music.ca/research.html , http://percival-music.ca/tempo/ Thanks for the plug, but the lilypond use in the rhythm tapping exercises (including tempo) was completely non-interactive. The exercises

Re: Changelog

2011-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:55:59AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com writes:   I'm wondering whether there's a complete changelog for every devel version. ... I don't like to download the complete git site, since it's too big ! The whole history of

Re: args in Scheme

2011-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:49:03AM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: I don't know whether this limitation is eliminated now, so could you tell me whether the following prints correctly? I believe it is correct. With 2.13.47, I see: Allegro ( [half note symbol] = [quarter note symbol] =

Re: can't compile

2011-02-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 2/15/11, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: On 15/02/11 09:28, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: I'm almost near the end of my second work (still about 80-100 bars not written). The day before yesterday, when I was at bar 362, Lily could still compile it within 2 hours. ... I commented

Re: Cross staff slur help

2011-02-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:23:20PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org So that's probably a case for f4*1/4 in the input. Sorry - I don't understand. What does this mean? draw an f crotchet (i.e. no beams), but consider that note to be a

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 2/7/11, rathcof...@comcast.net rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: LilyPond processes text statements produces the music notation in a PDF file. Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to text? This is an active area of research; look for music OCR or score OCR on

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