Re: what is "stretchability" exactly?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Joe Neeman wrote: >> NR 4.1.2 "Page formatting" defines stretchability as "the >> ease with which the stretchable space increases when a >> page is stretched." Can anyone provide a more technical >> quantified explanation? > > We space systems by simulating ideal springs (more or > less). Stretch

Re: Doc: NR 1: Use @co...@var{...}} for variables. (issue2217046)

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: > Technically, the doc policy (or at least custom) is to > have a blank newline before the @end itemize / @end > enumerate, but I don't know if that has any effect on > anything. I just always do it that way because previous > material did it that way, and I was never curiou

Re: what is "stretchability" exactly?

2010-09-28 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > NR 4.1.2 "Page formatting" defines stretchability as "the > ease with which the stretchable space increases when a page > is stretched." Can anyone provide a more technical > quantified explanation? We space systems by simulating ideal spr

Passing the result of an ApplyOutputEvent to a music-function

2010-09-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, I've asked this question on -user but I suspect it got lost in the flow. (Besides, it *might* belong on -devel since I'm actually trying to implement a missing feature, see for instance http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-08/msg00903.html ). What I'm trying t

Re: MetronomeMark #'break-align-symbols sometimes fails

2010-09-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: > On 26 September 2010 12:09, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > >> MetronomeMark #'break-align-symbols seems to fail with everything >> (clef, left-edge, staff-bar, ...) except key-signature and >> time-signature > > I'm afraid this is partly due to the

Re: Figured bass inside a staff collides with articulations...

2010-09-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > So, what I need is really the figures inside the staff as described in the > second example of: > http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/notation/figured- > bass.html#displaying-figured-bass Wow, I didn't even know you could do th

Re: Doc: NR 1: Use @co...@var{...}} for variables. (issue2217046)

2010-09-28 Thread percival . music . ca
LGTM, go ahead an push. Technically, the doc policy (or at least custom) is to have a blank newline before the @end itemize / @end enumerate, but I don't know if that has any effect on anything. I just always do it that way because previous material did it that way, and I was never curious enoug

what is "stretchability" exactly?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Polesky
NR 4.1.2 "Page formatting" defines stretchability as "the ease with which the stretchable space increases when a page is stretched." Can anyone provide a more technical quantified explanation? What is one stretchability unit? How will I know which value to use? Is there a max value? I see the de

Re: Figured bass inside a staff collides with articulations...

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Shann
Unfortunately the suggested text gives the figures shifted up if one of the notes is very high, as originally noted by Reinhold. I would love to see a fix for this too, I am thinking of allowing over the note bass figures in the Denemo output. Richard Shann On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 12:00 -0400, lily