Re: convert-ly doesn't catch `make-pango-font-tree`

2023-04-09 Thread Joram Berger
Yes, I regularly use this snippet to set the document fonts. I think I learned it from Abraham Lee. IIRC, Frescobaldi also pasted it with the menu entry Tools > Document fonts … What is the new and correct command? What Frescobaldi gives me? \paper { #(define fonts (set-global-fonts #

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Joram Berger
Hi Lukas, once again, I am no expert on ancient notation. So I don't know whether the length of the stems in your renaissance style are required to be exactly as long as they are now. They roughly end in the middle of a staff space for notes on this position and on a staff line for notes on a staf

Re: Possible tweaks to the appearance of the website

2015-01-05 Thread Joram Berger
> http://clairnote.org / lilypond-web-demo2/ Hi Paul, I like your changes to the website. Especially the flatter gradient in the top menu is more modern. I would even have preferred the removal of the background image and the small icon next to LilyPond. Others see that differently. Two small su

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Joram Berger
> Well, it's also in the market for dinosaur tools, namely text-based > batch processing tools. If dinosaur means that they will die out as time passes, I don't agree. Considering the recent emphasis on web-techniques, I feel like some people actually start liking text-based approaches due to th

Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-20 Thread Joram Berger
Am 20.01.2014 18:02, schrieb Alex Loomis: > I'm still getting a lot of warnings, but it works beautifully! > > The word silence is in roman, but commenting out the line > > \override-lines #'(font-name . "Century Schoolbook L") > > makes it italic. I assume this is because you need to specify

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
works for me now. Joram ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.01.2014 14:04, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > >> For me it now looks heavily distorted (wrong aspect ratio) > > Which browser? Firefox 26, Chromium and Konqueror 4.8.5 - also after reload. > On the other hand, the uncropped SVG image > > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/archive

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
For me it now looks heavily distorted (wrong aspect ratio) Joram Am 13.01.2014 12:26, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > >> Attached are a source version, without the font change for the time >> sig which crashes SVG creation, and the SVG output. > > Thanks! Looks great. I've updated the Wikipedia pa

Re: fixing German's Wikipedia entry of LilyPond

2014-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, this is another thing, but how about adding a nice standard notation example to the wikipedia entry? (like http://lilypond.org/ly-examples/bach-bwv610.png) This Stockhausen is very impressive if you want to know that you can tweak most everything to your needs. And it is now really close to t

Re: Double G clef, tenor G clef, varpercussion clef and varC clef (issue 47840043)

2014-01-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 06.01.2014 12:17, schrieb lemzw...@googlemail.com: > I've now had some time to check the glyphs. Here my comments. > > 1. Please make all corners round in `clefs.varC' and `clefs.tenorG'. > > 2. In `clefs.tenorG', I'm not sure that the left `slanted' end of the > top horizontal bar should rea

Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?

2013-03-24 Thread Joram Berger
Am 24.03.2013 12:34, schrieb David Kastrup: > Werner LEMBERG writes: > The axis names are #X and #Y so I am not in favor. >>> >>> What about changing axis names as well? >> >> I'm all for it. > > Not really easy. We have in C++ macros X Y LEFT RIGHT etc, and making > them lowercase would h

Re: Allows slurs to break at barlines. (issue 7424049)

2013-03-20 Thread Joram Berger
Am 20.03.2013 19:10, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > But there are millions of TeX users who are used to \phantom. And I > believe that a lot of Lilypond users are TeX users also. This means > that those users are already acquainted with this command and can > easily deduce what it does. I think knowi

Re: R shorthand

2013-03-19 Thread Joram Berger
Even while I am a bit sceptical whether the syntax for R should differ from r, I see your point. Rather than R14 for a 14 measure rest, I would suggest to keep the syntax close to the one before: R*14 (This way I would almost be convinced ;) ) Could the duration be optional this way, keeping the

Re: bar line interface / repat structure considerations

2013-03-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, I would like to add some thoughts to that: 1.) What I use (and what is probably the most frequent case) are: a) \repeat {} and \alternative { {} {} } % repeats b) \bar "||" % new section c) \bar "|." % end of staff The first is syntactical the others are bar lines. Syntactical elements

LilyPond logo

2013-02-12 Thread Joram Berger
>> Is >> http://lilypond.org/website/pictures/double-lily-modified3.png >> available at higher resolution (or even as a vector graphic) anywhere? Hi! Wouldn't it be a good idea to invent a new/derived LilyPond logo as vector graphic and perhaps a bit more schematic/abstract (like logos typicall

Re: Accidental placement

2013-01-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.01.2013 19:31, schrieb m...@mikesolomon.org: > … It is possible to do accidental configuration > "scoring" with a priority queue, very much how we do slurs. But I have > no clue how much this would slow the program down. It is only an issue for chords with more than 2 accidentals, which sho

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-14 Thread Joram Berger
I summarize the open issues, concerning the German translation (point 3 is could be also concerns the English documentation). Am 13.11.2012 21:15, schrieb Joram Berger: > Hi, > > recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that > could be wrong – at l

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 14.11.2012 00:15, schrieb Trevor Daniels: > > Joram Berger wrote Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:15 PM > >> recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that >> could be wrong – at least I don't understand why it is documented like that: >>

Re: Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Am 13.11.2012 23:59, schrieb Keith OHara: > Joram Berger gmx.de> writes: > >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling- > durations >> It is: >> % Scale music by *2 >> Should it be? >> [ ... ] % Divide duration

Possible errors in the documentation

2012-11-13 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, recently, I noticed some spots in the documentation, where I think that could be wrong – at least I don't understand why it is documented like that: 1) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations It is: % Scale music by *2 Should it be? % Scale m

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-11-12 Thread Joram Berger
Some comments from my usage experience. Am 12.11.2012 12:27, schrieb David Kastrup: > Francisco Vila writes: ... >> The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new >> users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming >> language. Every syntax is more or less compl

Re: easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 07.11.2012 00:10, schrieb David Kastrup: > Joram Berger writes: > >> Am 06.11.2012 22:10, schrieb David Kastrup: >>> Joram Berger writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: >>&g

Re: easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Am 06.11.2012 22:10, schrieb David Kastrup: > Joram Berger writes: > >> Hi, >> >> here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: >> >> Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily and for the >> opposite feature [ and ] represent much

easier \noBeam syntax

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, here is another (probably not so well thought) idea: Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily and for the opposite feature [ and ] represent much more convenient solutions. Possible solution: use X or ; (or any other reasonable token as a \noBeam equivalent. Again, this is jus

integration of chordmode in normal music

2012-11-06 Thread Joram Berger
Dear developers, how about integrating the chordmode into normal music syntax? Reasoning: chords are music, too. And with <…> chords are already possible in the music input. Many modifiers like duration, alteration, etc. are also possible with chords. So they are similar in many ways. A solution

In figured bass, _ direction indicator does not work

2012-11-05 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, concerning bug #1594: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1594 Could "s" be used as an empty figure instead of "_"? That would be consistent with the usual mode where "s" an invisible space/rest. That would free the "_" to be used for the common task to put something below it.

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
Am 04.11.2012 00:17, schrieb David Kastrup: > Joram Berger writes: >> Would it be an idea to add … "français" as aliases to "italiano"? >> >> According to my knowledge in French, the note names are the same and >> bémol/dièse also fits with the Ita

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
Am 04.11.2012 01:36, schrieb David Kastrup: > Eluze writes: >> do you really want to add /francais/? > > It's not likely more scary to the French than "espanol" is to the > Spanish. Basically there are two options making sense to me: native > language name in utf-8, or English language name ("fr

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
> janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: > > Ah, so \language "español" will do the same as \language "espanol"? > That's nice. > > http://codereview.appspot.com/__6811060/ As far as I see, there is no language "french" or "français". Would it be an idea to add "french", "francais" and "français" as aliases

Re: Add alias in Spanish for espanol note names language (issue 6811060)

2012-11-03 Thread Joram Berger
> janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: > > Ah, so \language "español" will do the same as \language "espanol"? > That's nice. > > http://codereview.appspot.com/__6811060/ As far as I see, there is no language "french" or "français". Would it be an idea to add "french", "francais" and "français" as aliases

Re: svg output

2012-10-23 Thread Joram Berger
Am 23.10.2012 09:08, Federico Bruni: > 2012/10/23 Joram Berger : >> Even though things are perhaps a little bit different, I would suggest >> to include svg (or the whole backend-options) into formats, if possible. >> Because thats essentially what the user wants: get the ou

svg output

2012-10-22 Thread Joram Berger
Hi, could the lilypond options to specify the output file format be unified? Currently, depending on the format, there are different options: --pdf or --formats=pdf (and ps and png) -dbackend=svg (eps, scm, …) Even though things are perhaps a little bit different, I would suggest to include svg

Forced accidentals and octave check

2012-10-22 Thread Joram Berger
Dear developers, is there a reason that the forced accidental must not be written before the octavation? It took me some time to figure out which order does compile. (a) This works: cis'!=' (b) This doesn't: cis!'=' However, I would consider (b) more logical as the exclamation mark forces the

Re: How to proceed

2012-10-17 Thread Joram Berger
Am 16.10.2012 02:44, schrieb David Kastrup: > Most of the things that would count as simplifications are so because > they drop details used for distinguishing things told to the computer. > Where those distinctions are distinctions between non-sensical > directions and potentially useful directio

Re: How to proceed

2012-10-15 Thread Joram Berger
Am 15.10.2012 22:14, schrieb Janek Warchoł: > dear Werner, > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> we've now had zillions of e-mails without coming to a concensus. >> David has shown extreme patience in discussing all aspects, and I want >> to have at least *some* outcome.

Filled with enthusiasm for Lilypond

2012-10-15 Thread Joram Berger
Dear Lilypond developers, I joined this list to thank you all for your amazing work! In 2002, I was searching for a free music typesetting program. From the first moment, when I found Lilypond I liked how Lilypond cares about beautiful scores and how well thought the basic syntax is. Since then I