Starting music at an arbitrary bar

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 TiMidity++ version 2.14.0 When working on a piece it I tend to generate a MIDI file and play it back to assure myself that what I'm writing corresponds to what I'm thinking. Not, I suspect, that unusual. However, as a piece

Re: Starting music at an arbitrary bar

://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/skipping-corrected-music. showFirstLength and showLastLength should do what you want. Yours, Simon Am 14.03.2015 um 22:02 schrieb J Martin Rushton: GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 TiMidity++ version 2.14.0 When working on a piece it I tend to generate a MIDI

Re: PDF portfolio of 2.19.17 docs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just had a look using Evince, the default Document Viewer 3.8.3 under GNOME. When you open it up you get an advertising splash with one page as a thumbnail. Selecting Attachments though brings up a list of the internal documents, each of which

Re: Hymns and justified lyrics

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/15 22:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 13.04.2015 um 01:55 schrieb David B. Stocker: David, Thank you for this. This is exactly what I'm after. It seems like you're a Scheme guy. Is there a learning resource you would recommend to a very

Re: Paper size survey

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erm, the French like adopting and boasting about cutting devices. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Gibbet for an earlier example. There is a discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Precursors about earlier designs. ;-) On

Re: no score displayed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just had a look using Frecobaldi but I'm only running Lilypond 2.18.2. I see the following error messages: - ---%- Processing `/tmp/frescobaldi-zktNnW/tmpH6heg9/tsang.ly' Parsing...

Installing Denemo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Having seen recommendations for Denemo I though I'd try to install it on my CentOS 7 (basically RHEL 7) system. I'm currently running Frescobaldi 2.18 and Lilypond 2.18.2-1. I downloaded both the f20 f21 rpms as well as the tarball. Using yum (the

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/15 21:28, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2015, Sam Bivens wrote: To address something that Martin hinted at--what Linux distros automatically come with Lilypond? I was unaware that that existed. I know: Fedora Jam

Re: procedure vs. function

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/15 21:28, PMA wrote: J Martin Rushton wrote: snip FORTRAN also insists on the distinction (at least officially). In FORTRAN you CALL procedures as a single statement whereas you simply use functions in an expression. If you try

Re: procedure vs. function

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/15 20:41, PMA wrote: PMA wrote: Jacques Menu wrote: Hello, Yes, historically a disctinction was made between the « sub-programs » that return a value and those that don’t, but the Scheme docs seem to use the terms function and

Re: OT: (Web) server administration advice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Option 1) Can you run a VM within your VPS? Some systems work, others throw a fit if you try it. If it does work, then you can build and model your desired main system within the VM. Option 2) A basic development machine like a Raspberry Pi will

Re: Landscape output

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/06/15 16:16, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2015-06-26 16:51, Peter Gentry wrote: Hello My paper block is % --- % set the paper layout for binding % footer has title and page number %

Re: Fwd: [smufl-discuss] SMuFL development moves to the new W3C Music Notation Community Group

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No! You should not use your user page for experimentation. Use your sandbox for that, your user page is for introducing yourself. A serious drawback with Wiki's implementation of Lily is that scores form part of the page, rather than being separate

Re: sharping naturals

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps your approach is causing you problems? I tend to think of Lilypond in the same way that I would regard other markup scripts: LaTeX, DSR, Postscript and HTML come to mind. They are not programming languages like C or FORTRAN, and to expect

Re: LilyPond-aware text editors

im/syntax > (I'm running Mac OSX Snow Leopard) and it show up in the runtime > path, but I still do not get the highlighting. The permissions > match those of other syntax files. I'm stumped. > > On Nov 7, 2015, at 10:28 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: > > Thanks for the link, it wo

Re: LilyPond-aware text editors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the link, it worked like a dream. However, I found the syntax highlighter at /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/vim so changed the set runtimepath line accordingly. On 07/11/15 16:12, John Aten wrote: > In principle, I am a

Re: Fwd: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 59 year old system manager with a background in system programming, down to assembly language. Generally I dislike GUIs, so vi + Lily is "sweet music to my ears", though I do admit to Frescobaldi on occasions. I use it for a little composing, more

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/09/15 22:01, Wols Lists wrote: > On 14/09/15 21:42, Tim Reeves wrote: >> Well, as a hornist, I reckon my instrument of choice is a lot >> closer to a "vague pointing instrument" than to a keyboard >> instrument! Sometimes when I point it this

Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/15 09:08, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015, Paul Scott wrote: > Do yourself a serious favor and learn vi >> >> Or Emacs! > > Oh no .. not a Vi(m) vs Emacs discussion again! Do I see a > connection with the average age

Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/15 03:40, Colin Campbell wrote: > On 15-10-04 06:29 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Karen S. Billings >> wrote: >>> I'm a former Bell Labs engineer, where I used Unix (vi, awk, >>> shell,

Re: SVG files for MediaWiki

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/15 20:03, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> When I create an SVG file with LilyPond and upload it to >> Wikimedia Commons, it renders as a blank image (try uploading >> Tristan.preview.svg at https://tools.wmflabs.org/svgcheck/). >> Can anyone

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound. you'll note of course the irony that you are quoting a page entitled "Number sign" no doubt! > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:17 PM, J Martin Rushton > <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote: Just for the record: "£" is &

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just for the record: "£" is a pound sign, "#" is a hash. Calling the hash sign a pound sign goes way back to the days of ASCII-7 and national ASCII variants. The UK national variant had a pound sign where plain ASCII had a hash. If anyone is

Re: When to Use Pound Signs

ught to invoke the Roman Empire's authority. > -Original Message- From: > lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of J Martin Rushton Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 3:17 PM > To: lilypond-user

Re: incorporating .pdf file into a text

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/12/15 22:21, Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 30. Dezember 2015 22:37:06 MEZ, schrieb J Martin Rushton > <martinrushto...@btinternet.com>: I've just had a bit of a play > with this using LibreOffice 4.3.7.2 under CentOS 7.2 &

Re: incorporating .pdf file into a text

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just had a bit of a play with this using LibreOffice 4.3.7.2 under CentOS 7.2 LibreOffice can't import PDFs directly. I opened a PDF using the document viewer and used print to file. I generated postscript files which did would not load

Re: note names as solmisation printed as markup automagically?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bart, If you are wanting to publish your music to a wider audience I would be very careful about the moveable/fixed do issue. Some time ago I was translating an article from Italian (fixed) to English (generally moveable) with confusing

Re: Install on linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As Jean suggests, use apt-get if you are allowed to, you'll need to be root. If you have to install the package without privilege, then ~/bin seems pretty normal. Many users will have a ~/bin directory with it entered on their $PATH where they

Re: Licence LilyPond Logo?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You might care to have a quick look at https://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#plain-feather-powered-by-ap ache-logo for an idea. Apache are reasonably protective of their logo, but encourage users to 'proudly display “Powered By Apache” assets

Re: Using Google to find documentation (was Re: naturalize pitches)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also works with duckduckgo On 29/03/16 15:56, Knute Snortum wrote: > Something you can do with Google to find documentation is use the > "site:" syntax: > > site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.19 search > terms here > > Or,

Re: Replying to posts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/04/16 13:39, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard > > > wrote: > >> Greetings All, >> >> In a recent post David Wright asks of a user: >> >>> Please

Re: Time signature at end of score.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm also a beginner at Lily, but as a programmer I'm quite certain you have found the problem. Consider the violin stanza: violin = ... { \time 3/4 ... \global ... } "global" has no special meaning, it is just expanded in line, hence: violin =

Re: PDF author metadata

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/16 00:29, Anthony Youngman wrote: > > > On 07/07/16 19:02, David Wright wrote: >> BTW one of the odd "assumptions" made in LP is in that variable >> called poet. What about compositions whose lyrics are prose? > > Of which I guess there

Re: PDF author metadata

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/16 15:09, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> On 10/07/16 00:29, Anthony Youngman wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 07/07/16 19:02, David Wright wrot

Re: PDF author metadata

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/16 23:44, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 10.07.2016 22:20, Wols Lists wrote: >> I was taught fairly early in English lessons that rhyme was not a >> necessary component of poetry; metre, or "bounce" as I sometimes >> describe it, is much more

Re: PDF author metadata

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/16 17:47, David Wright wrote: > > While one might argue that a lot of religious translations might > have been written with a view to intonement, or recitation at > least, and therefore with particular attention paid to the rhythm > of

Re: PDF author metadata

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/16 19:48, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> On 10/07/16 17:47, David Wright wrote: >> >>> >>> While one might argue that a lot of religiou

Re: tuplet slurs

On 09/02/17 18:53, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications always > above the staff, using the following rules. > >. stems up or down, no beam: as usual (i.e., a number and a bracket > at the top, as if using \tupletUp) > >. stems

Re: tuplet slurs

On 11/02/17 00:18, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Werner, > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications always >> above the staff, using the following rules. >> >>. stems up or down, no beam: as usual

Re: tuplet slurs

On 11/02/17 10:42, J Martin Rushton wrote: > On 11/02/17 00:18, David Nalesnik wrote: >> Hi Werner, >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> >>> For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications al

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 22:34, Hans Aikema wrote: > >> On 14 Jan 2017, at 23:32, Hans Aikema <hans.aik...@aikebah.net> wrote: >> >> >>> On 14 Jan 2017, at 23:14, J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Combining voices in American Hymns

On 13/09/16 22:32, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 21:56:04 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: >> On 12/09/16 19:21, Karlin High wrote: >>> On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote: >>>> Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and dow

Re: Combining voices in American Hymns

On 12/09/16 19:21, Karlin High wrote: > On 9/7/2016 11:56 PM, David F. wrote: >> Is there a way to combine two voices and print both stems (up and down) when >> the voices share a note? \partcombine does not appear to do this by default. >> >> American SATB hymns are typically engraved with the

Re: Why the part-combining in American hymnals? (WAS: Beaming, partcombine and pickups)

On 16/09/16 20:52, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Karlin, > >> what exactly causes the attraction to combined voices and >> the disaffection for separated voices? I'm not sure, but I'll try to answer. > > I think that answer is pretty good, and probably partly true. Related would > be the

Re: Why the part-combining in American hymnals? (WAS: Beaming, partcombine and pickups)

On 17/09/16 00:05, Karlin High wrote: > On 9/16/2016 5:26 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> 2) How does the "American" style indicate when the voices cross? > > In short, it follows the "English" style until the cross-condition ceases. > > Here's an

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 19:57, Richard Shann wrote: > On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 18:14 +0000, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to set a melody from a 19thC source as closely as possible to >> the original. Triplets are indicated with a curved bracket rather than >&g

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 20:46, Noeck wrote: > tupletBracketToSlur = { > % Use slur-stencil > \override TupletBracket.stencil = #ly:slur::print > %% Use 'thickness from Slur > \override TupletBracket.thickness = #1.2 > %% 'control-points need to be set > \override TupletBracket.control-points = >

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 21:14, Noeck wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Am 14.01.2017 um 21:51 schrieb J Martin Rushton: >> I'm guessing things aren't that simple, can I mix scheme and LP in the >> same input file? > > Of course. You can put one after the other without problems and you c

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 21:27, Hans Aikema wrote: > > >> Op 14 jan. 2017 om 21:51 heeft J Martin Rushton >> <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> het volgende geschreven: >> >> >> >> I'm guessing things aren't that simple, can I mix scheme and LP in the >

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 21:29, Richard Shann wrote: > > Here's a complete working example: > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8>< > > %% LilyPond file generated by Denemo version 2.0.17 > > %%http://www.gnu.org/software/denemo/ > > \version "2.18.0" > > >

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 21:41, Hans Aikema wrote: > >> On 14 Jan 2017, at 22:33, J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 14/01/17 21:27, Hans Aikema wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Op 14 jan. 2017 om 21:51

Triplets

Hi, I'm trying to set a melody from a 19thC source as closely as possible to the original. Triplets are indicated with a curved bracket rather than the square one Lily uses by default. I've come up with a mechanism: \relative c'' { \tupletUp \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##f

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

On 24/12/16 08:33, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno sab 24 dic 2016 alle 4:31, Andrew Bernard > ha scritto: >> Some like Debian for its high stability, but I find its graphical >> appearance sub-par - this is well known. > > Well, strictly speaking, Debian

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 21:49, Richard Shann wrote: > On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 21:48 +0000, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> >> On 14/01/17 21:29, Richard Shann wrote: >> > >> I suspect the outer processing or else the low version are going to >> waste a lot of time, so I've gon

Re: Triplets

On 14/01/17 22:07, Hans Aikema wrote: > >> On 14 Jan 2017, at 22:49, Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 21:48 +, J Martin Rushton wrote: >>> >>> On 14/01/17 21:29, Richard Shann wrote: >>> >>

Re: Now I post again a proposal... A multilingual GRAPHICAL dictionary;

You could start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols On 25/03/17 22:58, Son_V wrote: > I'm not capable of such a work, that I think should be very useful and is > ABSOLUTELY MISSING. something like > > > > Imagine

Re: Any other Thunderbird users have messages never post? (WAS: Hide slur?)

On 18/10/17 17:38, Karlin High wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Bynow you should have realized that Mails to lilypond-user do not, as a >> rule, get lost and reposting them several times does not help. > > Would that were true for some of us

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 15/11/17 14:59, Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/11/17 01:13, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> Often people refer to boats as 'she', but that's not a part of grammar. > > And the same boat is, so I understand, usually referred to BY THE CREW, > as "he". So your own boat is "he", others are "she". > >

Re: Security problem: lilypond-invoke-editor

On 23/11/17 09:23, David Kastrup wrote: > Knut Petersen writes: > >> 12 years ago a security problem was introduced into lilypond-invoke-editor. >> On 2017/11/15 the problem was reported to the bug-lilypond mailing >> list by Gabriel Corona. > > [...] > >> If you do

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 17/11/17 07:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Some people also think they need to use an apostrophe in dialect words like > "Mader’l" (Bavarian/Austrian diminutive of "Maid/Mädchen"), and that’s also > completely wrong, since "-e(r)l" ("-le" in Suebian, "-li" in Swiss German) is > just

Re: [OT] Linux Users

On 17/11/17 22:59, Brett M. Gilio wrote: > How many Linux users are out there in the Lilypond community? Do any of > you use other type-setting software such as LaTeX or Csound rather than > graphical tools? > > > BMG I use Lilypond+Frescobaldi on CentOS at home and Lilypond on Wikipedia pages.

Re: (OT) New User introduction

(OT) Back in the '60s I had a blind piano teacher. She was a regular attender at the Methodist Church. The Methodist Hymn Book of that period had just under 1,000 hymns, some with alternate tunes. Neatly stacked in one of the pews were a pile of large format books (from memory about A3 size).

Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

On 17/11/17 21:28, Peter Chubb wrote: > For interest, here's a link to a short article written by Poul > Anderson, as if English were purged of almost all non-germanic words, > and still used German-style compounds. > > Very off topic! >

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

On 10/12/17 01:29, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty > simple. > > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there. > By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very stable > and the 19

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote: > On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: >> What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and Lily? >> >> My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to >> log

Re: [VOT] Search for Morgensterns Galgenlieder for choir

On 10/06/18 18:03, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2018-06-10 09:39, Brian Barker wrote: >> At 09:25 10/06/2018 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: >>> On 2018-06-10 08:19, Malte Meyn wrote: The poem is a humourous (is that how you spell it?) explanation for losing them every now and then. >>> >>> You did

(OT) Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 01/06/18 14:43, David Kastrup wrote: > Nicholas Bailey writes: > >> On Friday, 25 May 2018 22:09:31 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: >>> On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: >&g

Embedded Lilypond

I monitor the Dokuwiki* mailing list and today an interesting question came up. A user was trying to set a song with guitar chords over the relevant notes, but proportional text was destroying his formatting. A couple of solutions were proposed: override the proportional text (which needn't

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 01/05/18 10:08, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 1 May 2018, at 11:00, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Hans Åberg writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup wrote: Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school

Re: Intervals enharmony question

On 30/04/18 22:14, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 30 Apr 2018, at 22:50, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Hans Åberg writes: >> On 30 Apr 2018, at 22:23, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: Hans Åberg-2 wrote > I play the flute, and

Re: Intervals enharmony question

> Try . Look how Frans > Brüggen is not just working with his fingers but also with his cheeks > (and deduce what he is doing with his breath) and mouth and recorder > angle. Thankyou signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Large set of parts

On 29/04/18 13:42, Wol's lists wrote: > On 29/04/18 00:00, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote: >>> On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: >>>> It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English >>> >>

Re: Large set of parts

On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote: > On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English > > As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work > "The Fall of Arthur" come to mind. Sort of like "rhyming" the

Multiple staffs

I'm trying to set a composition which starts with a single instrument before bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want to break it up into multiple scores because I want the midi to play through as a single performance. I've tried many ways to do this with little success. The latest attempt

Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

As someone who does most of my work in monospaced fonts, the double space at the end of the sentence is essential. Without it you get the "wall of text" with no obvious breaks. What word processors do is of course down to the whims of the (perpetrator) programmer! On 15/02/18 18:04, Hugh S.

Re: Multiple staffs

On 25/02/18 21:07, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: >>>>>> "J" == J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > > J> to set a composition which starts with a single instrument before > J> bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want t

Re: Multiple staffs

On 24/02/18 23:17, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> I'm trying to set a composition which starts with a single instrument >> before bringing in the whole ensemble. I don't want to break it up into >> multiple

Re: Simple midi player

On 06/03/18 14:00, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > > On 6 March 2018 at 13:31, Ben > wrote: > > On 3/6/2018 1:36 AM, Gianmaria Lari wrote: >> >> On 6 March 2018 at 00:32, Hwaen Ch'uqi >

Re: bookparts (OT)

On 12/03/18 21:47, Noeck wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks a lot to all how replied to my questions! > I got quite discouraged by the first reply but having my questions > (mostly) confirmed helps a lot. > > Summary of the main points: > > - \bookpart is something like a scope for \paper settings > -

Lilypond <-> Sibelius

What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and Lily? My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to log into one of their machines. I run Lily/Frescobaldi at home and it would be useful to be able to let him work at home and take it in to uni, and

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 22/04/18 22:22, David Kastrup wrote: > Martin Tarenskeen writes: > >> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> Martin Tarenskeen writes: >>> > Adobe, Microsoft, Avid...too many to count. > > Clever indeed. > > In an

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 22/04/18 17:43, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> Thanks all for the suggestions. >> >> Ben: I think he is required to use Sibelius at University that appears >> to be all that they have. > &

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 22/04/18 17:46, Ben wrote: > On 4/22/2018 12:06 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> Thanks all for the suggestions. >> >> Ben: I think he is required to use Sibelius at University that appears >> to be all that they have. When he was still at school the same applied.

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

Thanks all for the suggestions. Ben: I think he is required to use Sibelius at University that appears to be all that they have. When he was still at school the same applied. Whilst it would be nice if the uni offered other products, I suspect the learning curve for the staff would be too steep

Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

On 23/04/18 11:36, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > I appreciate that many musicians may not like the cryptic text-based entry > of LilyPond, but: > As universities totally rely on Finale/Sibelius and often don't even know of > LilyPond, it's no wonder LilyPond has a hard time. > In former times,

Re: Configuring home/bin PATH directory

On 13/11/18 08:31, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Keizen Li Qian wrote: > >> Hello,  >> >> I installed 2.18.2 on a drive with a partitioned home directory which >> had an old ~home/bin/lilypond. Somewhere the path had been set to this >> directory so even after convert-ly

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

> lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

On 02/10/18 23:25, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton writes: > >> This discussion is strangely familiar. As one who learnt on FORTRAN IV >> many years ago, I'm used to seeing that: >> >> READ INPUT TAPE 5, 501, IA, IB, IC >> and >> READINPUTTAPE

Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

Procs: 267 Shell: bash 4.2.46 inxi: 3.0.26 ---%< Regardless of the "fatal error" message, 3,000 bars of music were written over 25 pages. I suspect the message refers to the version mismatch. Peak memory usage according to Ganglia was 5.5GiB, no swap space consu

Re: Not Nice Review of the LilyPond

On 02/12/18 11:31, David Kastrup wrote: > J Martin Rushton writes: > >> I'm not sure the single critical paragraph is that unfair. I've turned >> the tables on the reviewer and added my own comments as an amateur who >> came to Lily only a few years ago. > > [...

Re: Not Nice Review of the LilyPond

ence/lily/lily.html > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description

Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

iling list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > The English language documentation is 4.4 MiB, the German is 6.6 Mib. Now I know languages differ in their density, but 50% larger seems to me like a sm

Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

_ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Following the above link using Firefox 60.3.0esr running under CentOS 7.5.1804 (kernel 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64) fails with "weird" symbols. Downloading the file (

Re: Comparison of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico -- would like to add Lilypond

ith user-extensible functionality to a much larger >>> degree than other programs. >>> >>> So a particularly user may set a checkmark "yes, can do" while this does >>> not actually hold for a typical user without asking on the mailing list. >>> >>> -- >&g

Re: Frescobaldi

out about Frescobaldi through this list a few years ago. I discovered today that there is a Google group so, if that is typical, banning all discussion would leave some users at best unsupported, and at worst ignorant. -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 196, Issue 33

lypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > When Joseph posted the link it failed for me exactly as he said, as did http://lilypond.org. Aaron, as you have noticed it is working now. I therefore agree it was probably an issue at

Re: Barcheck with full measure rests

intended or a bug? > And if it is intended I'd like to understand the rationale. > > % > \version "2.21.0" > { R1*3/4 s4 | } > % > > Kind regards, > Michael > -- J Martin Rushton MBCS sig

Re: LP-set songbook released

without moving the page number; a minor thing, > but it bugs me. > > Thanks once again to everyone who made suggestions! > > ~Chris -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LP-set songbook released

On 28/04/2019 21:34, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > On 4/27/19 4:59 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> A very creditable production.  Don't worry about the letter/A4 issue, >> it printed out perfectly on my A4 system.  There is one problem >> though, the tempo marks have al

Re: Template management for LilyPond

r to Dropbox or similar. > > Andrew > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > $HOME/.config/frescobaldi/frescobaldi.conf section [snippets] Contains standard templ

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