Re: Enhancement: command line option to transpose N halftones up or down

2015-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.03.2015 um 17:43 schrieb Michael Schuerig: On Monday 16 March 2015 11:26:30 David Nalesnik wrote: Am 16.03.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Michael Schuerig: I've only been using LilyPond for a rather short time, so far mostly for engraving short snippets transposed into several keys for practicing.

Re: Enhancement: command line option to transpose N halftones up or down

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 16 March 2015 11:26:30 David Nalesnik wrote: > Am 16.03.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > > I've only been using LilyPond for a rather short time, so far mostly > for engraving short snippets transposed into several keys for > practicing. Of course, the transpose command works ni

Re: Make defining new contexts simpler with better \alias functionality

2015-03-16 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-03-16 11:05 AM, Paul Morris wrote: I have this on my list of things to work on, but I don't know when I'll be able to get to it (and there are some other LilyPond items that I'd like to work on first). So can someone add a tracker issue for this? (I'd add it myself but I don't have thos

Re: Make defining new contexts simpler with better \alias functionality

2015-03-16 Thread Paul Morris
I have this on my list of things to work on, but I don't know when I'll be able to get to it (and there are some other LilyPond items that I'd like to work on first). So can someone add a tracker issue for this? (I'd add it myself but I don't have those privileges.) Here's a suggested title: "E

Re: Enhancement: command line option to transpose N halftones up or down

2015-03-16 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Michael, > > Am 16.03.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > > I've only been using LilyPond for a rather short time, so far mostly for >> engraving short snippets transposed into several keys for practicing. Of >> course, the transpose command works nicely for this. >> >> However, it made

Re: Enhancement: command line option to transpose N halftones up or down

2015-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Michael, I think this question is more appropriate for the -user list. Since I usually call lily from inside frescobaldi, my solution to this has been defining a variable for the resulting pitch: \version "2.18" newTonic = des music = \relative { c' } \score { \transpose c \newTonic

Is the Dutch LilyPond Forum/email list defunct?

2015-03-16 Thread James
Hello, I notice on the page http://lilypond.org/contact.html That the URL for the Dutch 'forum' is not working. http://www.lilypondforum.nl/ I'd like to remove this link if the URL is really no longer available. Regards James ___ bug-lilypond mail

Enhancement: command line option to transpose N halftones up or down

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Schuerig
I've only been using LilyPond for a rather short time, so far mostly for engraving short snippets transposed into several keys for practicing. Of course, the transpose command works nicely for this. However, it made me think of how transposing could be even nicer and now I'm wishing for a comma

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, >> Couldn't the language of the environment be used here? I get help and >> log messages in German on my system why not the tagline? > I think this should be specified per file I am fine either way. But I care more about the default tagline here for the first impression. Mutopia has its

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.03.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Hello, in my stylesheets, I usually include germanTagline = \markup { \italic The \italic here is my personal preference, of course. But if the appearance of the tagline is generated through a dedicated markup function, it’s most easy to adapt

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.03.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Noeck: Hi, I hope you agree that it’s worthwhile to make all these thoughts and that it would be good to have such functionality in an easy-to-use way. I do agree very much. It might seem like a minor thing, but I remember when I used LilyPond for the first tim

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread Noeck
Hi, > I hope you agree that it’s worthwhile to make all these thoughts and > that it would be good to have such functionality in an easy-to-use way. I do agree very much. It might seem like a minor thing, but I remember when I used LilyPond for the first time many years ago, my first reaction was

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 16.03.2015 um 10:22 schrieb David Kastrup: Simon Albrecht writes: Thanks for elaborating, Harm. That’s some elegant coding with which I couldn’t have come up :-) Am 15.03.2015 um 19:22 schrieb Thomas Morley: [snip] \version "2.19.16" %% Please note, \language has to be declared before '

Re: Enhancement: automatically translate tagline

2015-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > Thanks for elaborating, Harm. That’s some elegant coding with which I > couldn’t have come up :-) > > Am 15.03.2015 um 19:22 schrieb Thomas Morley: > > [snip] >> >> \version "2.19.16" >> >> %% Please note, \language has to be declared before 'used-language' >> %% is done