Associating

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Associating an text editor for lilypond .ly extention in Windows XPhere's what I did, on windows xp1. I went to My Computer - Tools - Folder options2. In Folder Options I clicked  the File Types tab3. Then I clicked the New button it then opens a  create new file extention box4. next type in

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:41:53 -0300 Ricardo Kirkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1- How do you tell lilypond to typeset all brackets of equal lenghts > (or at least not each bracket out of two on a different lenght). I don't know what you mean by this. Could you give an example? > 2- How do you p

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-18 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Dimanche, sep 14, 2003, at 22:28 America/New_York, Graham Percival wrote: I don't know if this works in OSX or not, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't; have you tried timidity++? That's what I use to check my scores on Linux. Timidity++ is perfect, Graham. Thanks for hooking me up.

Newbie question

2003-09-18 Thread Ricardo Kirkner
Hi!   I am really new to lilypond. I wanted to try it out, because I am trying to become independent on any music notation program. I thought maybe MusicXML could help me out, but it was too verbose to be of any practical use when transcribing music manually. Therefore I got lilypond. But no

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I didn't give any thought to it. What do you precisely need? How should be printed in ChordNames ? Han-Wen (chord agnostic) Believe me, I was a chord agnostic for years. At least as far as theory and voice leading are concerned. Guitars have a nice way of saving one

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahh. Thanks. Although that didn't answer my question, because I didn't > ask it very well. > > c:3.6 is, hands down, the way to do it. I was following the process in > the manual, though, so I was defining the chorus (as chorus, how > original) and using it in the sc

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Ahh. Thanks. Although that didn't answer my question, because I didn't ask it very well. c:3.6 is, hands down, the way to do it. I was following the process in the manual, though, so I was defining the chorus (as chorus, how original) and using it in the score block as \chorus in both the Voice

inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I hope I haven't missed list discussion of this in the recent past. I'm > afraid Alaska has been frustrating me a bit, but that's another story. > > I'm trying to set a keyboard part for music I have to play tomorrow > night (isn't it always that way?). For voice lead

inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
I hope I haven't missed list discussion of this in the recent past. I'm afraid Alaska has been frustrating me a bit, but that's another story. I'm trying to set a keyboard part for music I have to play tomorrow night (isn't it always that way?). For voice leading, I really need an Aminor chord

RE: Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Jozsa Marton
With notepad (and some other Win apps) quotation marks can be used to save new file with an extension other than TXT: "song.ly" ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Webfingers writes: > Sorry about that I just figured it out, my notepad was saving it > like test.lt.TXT Ah. That may be a problem if we advise to use notepad. Maybe we should add a note about that in the document? Thanks for pointing this out. > I just re associated it and its working thanks

Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Sorry about that I just figured it out, my notepad was saving it like test.lt.TXT I just re associated it and its working thanks William ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

parenthesized grace note

2003-09-18 Thread plutek
anyone have a method for putting parentheses around a grace note (other than building the whole thing with \markup)? specifically, i wish to have a parenthesized small notehead beside the main note of a trill, to indicate the trill note. yes, i have seen the discussion about placing an accidental

Can you help with this

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Im using windows xp, im going to join mailing list now, any help would be great thanks here is the error I keep getting   warning can't find file: 'test'   ly2dvi: warning: no LilyPond output for 'test' Running latex... Running dvips...ly2dvi: error: 'dvips' failed ly2dvi: error: The error

Re: Stanza numbers

2003-09-18 Thread Rob V
Apparently, I was wrong about the spacing of the stanza numbers. Today, I noticed that setting the break-align-symbol property to first-note or next-note always aligned the first verse stanza number to the right. The second verse could be centered by using the other property that was not used

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did you know there is now a Debian branch called "experimental" that might be perfect for this? No, I didn't. Where can I find info about it? I saw it discussed on Debian User list. I have deleted most messages. You could sear

Re: "free notation" with lilypond ?

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To fool LilyPond into thinking that a note has another duration than what's actually printed, you could say c4*2 (a quarter note that lasts for half a bar) or e2*1/2 (a half note with a quarter note duration). You may also want to look at the possibilities to select other note heads, see the exampl

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Loading lilypond-mode (source)... File mode specification error: (invalid-read-syntax "#") After reinstalling 1.8.1 from Debian unstable emacs works correctly. Which version of Debian are you running? "full" unstable or "mixed" un

"free notation" with lilypond ?

2003-09-18 Thread Samuel Hornus
Hi, I am currently rewriting (with LaTeX) the "book" by Pierre-Yves Hasselin about the "Understanding and realization of ancient "chording" (I don't know the english word)" The version I have was written on a typewriter, with music notations drawn by hand. my version is pretty old (late '70 I w

Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.7

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
Debian Sid packages of Lilypond 1.9.7 are available from my website: http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ They're also apt-gettable adding the following line to sources.list: deb http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./ And running the commands: apt-get update apt-get install lilypond (or apt

Beaming and barlines

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hello, > > I have the following music: > \score { > \notes { > \time 3/4 > ... > a'4 b' c''8 \bar ":|:" d''8 > ... > } > } > > How can I avoid that the c and d are beamed together? > I could of course use > \property Voice.aut

Re: Lines of music

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK. > > You can use "Integrating HTML and music" with lilypond-book: you get both > eps and png images. The length of the png image is slightly > different from that you specify with the option linewidth. > > Anyway, it is not clear if the option eps is supported in "I

Bug in 1.8 ?

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In both 1.7.23 under Mandrake and in 1.8 on XP a portion of documentation > (which processed fine under 1.6) fails. > > The following fragment is a cell in a table showing various clefs. > The error message I get is from LaTeX: > > ! Und

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have cleaned up my .emacs and looked at all the documentation I can > find.and after installing Pedro's 1.9.6 debs I get the following when > loading an ly file into emacs > > Loading lilypond-mode (source)... > File mode specification error: (invalid-

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did you know there is now a Debian branch called "experimental" that > might be perfect for this? No, I didn't. Where can I find info about it? > 1.9.6 didn't solve my emacs problem but there may be another reason. that's too bad. Check my another email

Re: Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Adrian Peakman
Mats, this is bizarre:- That appeared to work (see output). So I ran ly2dvi -p example-1.ly and it worked! The only change I've made to the computer since yesterday was install IE 6 SP1 and associated security patches (Was using IE 5.0). Thanks for your help. Best wishes, Adrian $ ly2dvi

Re: cross-barline AND cross-linebreak beams

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Upgrade to version 1.8.1 or newer and read the manual, http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Beaming.html especially about the property allowBeamBreak It's a good habit to always specify what LilyPond version you use when sending a question to the mailing list. Mats [

Re: Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that LaTeX can process the file without problems, so for some strange reason, ly2dvi isn't able to call latex correctly. Could you please run ly2dvi -p --debug example-1.ly and send a copy of the output. /Mats Adrian Peakman wrote: OS: W2k Pro SP4 I installed cygwin using the instruct

Re: [Józsa Márton] RE: Beams == Melismata?

2003-09-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, the lyric alignment code was contributed by Glen Prideaux, > who since disappeared off the face of the earth. This probably means that someone else should step forward and maintain and/or replace the lyric alignment code, right? Anyway, it

Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Adrian Peakman
OS: W2k Pro SP4 I installed cygwin using the instructions on the lilypond website, but the lilypond examples don't produce PDF files Can anyone help? Thanks, Adrian > Thanks, Mats, for your speedy reply. > > It's that Latex appears to be having indigestion on Lilypond's output. > The fi