choir music

2000-09-22 Thread David Ondreka
How am I supposed to start a score with a single staff (but several lyrics verses) and then later switch to a 4voices/2staffs setting? I tried \score{ < \context Staff = single { ... } \context ChoirStaff = choir < ... > > \paper{ \translator{\HaraKiriStaffContext} } } whi

Re: message passing...

2000-09-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> ... > Sure. First of all, what I perceive as multiple assignment operators > need to go, even if message passing isn't implemented. Recently, I > tried to write a context: > > \paper { >\translator { > \VoiceContext > \name CueVoice >

texinfo question

2000-09-22 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
How can I know where the "header" of texinfo files ends? In latex I can search for \begin{document}. Can I assume all texinfo documents (that people will feed to mudela-book) has a line containing @node Top? And optionally a @titlepage before that? (The only texinfo sources I have read are the

Re: [Gnu-music-discuss] Inheritance?

2000-09-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > } > > To print them. Now I'm faced with the following situation: I need to > repeat these hundred measures, and each vone should be moved one fifth > down, each vtwo should be moved one fifth up. Presently, everything in >

message passing...

2000-09-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > (I would also > suggest that not overloading \translator would improve user > comprehension.) do you have suggestions for better naming? Would it be better to overload \context, or should I add \contextdefinition? > Then another mechanism, such as message passing, co

[patch] hyphens at start of line

2000-09-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think the attached patch fixes the issues regarding the hyphens > overprinting syllables at the start of a new line. However, I don't > pretend to be an expert on either C++ or Lilypond's internals, so I > can't be sure. Do let me know if I've made a stupid assumption

Re: [Gnu-music-discuss] Re: Tie issues...

2000-09-22 Thread Christian Mondrup
Peter Chubb wrote: > > > "Werner" == Werner Icking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:06:01 -0400 > >> From: David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Bach used a flat sign, not a natural, to change a fis to f. Do you want > >> to go back to that? > > Bach d

RE: latex units

2000-09-22 Thread Arjen Bax
Aloha, On Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:39 PM, Tom Cato Amundsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Does anyone know how to find out how big 1em and 1ex are in 10, 11 > and 12pt fonts in latex? > em = approximately the width of an "M" in the current font > ex = approximately the height o

Re: [Gnu-music-discuss] variable binding...

2000-09-22 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The remark is all the more puzzling since \property is dynamically > scoped: by doing a staff-switch, you can change the \property value > that a voice sees. > Here's a small example of what I seem often find desirable to do, but can't: