Re: improving docs (was: Break_Align_Order-3)

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:00:18 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: How about some diagrams showing the relationships between the various dimensions and what they apply to? Please make some! :-) I wish I knew enough about

multiple \scores in a lily-book included file?

2003-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
scales.ly: scale= \notes{ blah blah} \score{ \transpose c'{ \scale }} \score{ \transpose g'{ \scale }} \score{ \transpose d'{ \scale }} \score{ \transpose a'{ \scale }} - book1.tex: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[margin=1cm,nohead,nofoot]{geometry} \begin{document} \lilypondfile[26pt]{b

Re: lilypond-book margins yet again

2003-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:16:22 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default in ly2dvi is to use 1cm margins both to the left and the > right, which is much smaller than the default margins for ordinary > documents in LaTeX. If you want the same, just say > \usepackage[margin=1cm]{geo

improving docs (was: Break_Align_Order-3)

2003-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:00:18 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >>How about some diagrams showing the relationships between the > >>various dimensions and what they apply to? > >Please make some! :-) > > > I wish I knew enough about these to do that. You don't

Re: StaffGroup troubles

2003-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:18:29 -0600 >< \context StaffGroup < > \context Staff = up { e'4 d' >\bar "||" >f' e' } > \context Staff = down { \clef bass c4 g e g } > > \context Staff = pedal { \clef bass c2 c2 } > This fragment is missing things like \score{ ... } .

Problematic TeX

2003-03-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The attached file gives an error when ly2dvi is running the TeX > produced by lilypond 1.6.8, but ly2dvi seems to cope with it ok. > However, if I use it in a lilypond-book input file, lilypond-book > crashes. Try this patch: *** scm-hash.cc.~1.22.~ 2003-01-12 23:01

Re: Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about some diagrams showing the relationships between the various dimensions and what they apply to? Yes! Please make some! :-) I wish I knew enough about these to do that. Seriously -- I've tried explaining this a lot of times: it

Re: Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How about some diagrams showing the relationships between the various > dimensions and what they apply to? Yes! Please make some! :-) Seriously -- I've tried explaining this a lot of times: it is very hard for me to write adequate "newbie" documentation, and see wh

StaffGroup troubles

2003-03-14 Thread Joyce Wilson
I'm a new Lilypond user coming from an ABC background, and I'm having problems with StaffGroup. It's my understanding that if I want the two staves in a duet to be connected (other than at the left edge), I need to enclose the two staves in a StaffGroup. I found an example or two which I trie

Re: Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The documentation should be updated. If I may, I'd like to say something about the documentation in general. From an end-user standpoint I'd have to say that the docs are the weakest part of Lilypond. I don't mean to say that they're bad

Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >The documentation should be updated. > > If I may, I'd like to say something about the documentation in general. > >From an end-user standpoint I'd have to say that the docs are the weakest > part of Lilypond. I don't mean to say that they're bad. I'm sure it is > al

Re: Can Lilypond do dotted time signatures

2003-03-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > http://www.arbat.com/erik/screendump.gif >> > > I think it is confusing notation, and should be avoided. This is commonly used in ancient music. I believe we had several requests before for this feature. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PR

Re: Can Lilypond do dotted time signatures

2003-03-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:40:27AM +0100, David Boersma wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Erik Corry wrote: > > > > > Like this one: > > > > > > http://www.arbat.com/erik/screendump.gif > > > > Looks a bit exotic to me... Why wouldn't you use 12/8 in this case? > > I do

Re: Problematic TeX

2003-03-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 14 March 2003 09:55 am, Laura Conrad wrote: > The attached file gives an error when ly2dvi is running the TeX > produced by lilypond 1.6.8, but ly2dvi seems to cope with it ok. > However, if I use it in a lilypond-book input file, lilypond-book > crashes. \usepackage[tmargin=0.5in,lmargi

Re: Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Bobroff wrote: If I may, I'd like to say something about the documentation in general. From an end-user standpoint I'd have to say that the docs are the weakest part of Lilypond. I don't mean to say that they're bad. I'm sure it is all very well documented. What I find problematic is that

Re: Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Bobroff wrote: No spacing entry from BarLine/TimeSignature/KeySignature to `left-edge'/`key-signature'/`left-edge The example is not really complete. You should start from the current default setting and just move the objects that you want to move. Ah, so I was on the right track. I includ

Break_Align_Order-3

2003-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
>> No spacing entry from BarLine/TimeSignature/KeySignature to >> `left-edge'/`key-signature'/`left-edge > >The example is not really complete. You should start from the current >default setting and just move the objects that you want to move. Ah, so I was on the right track. I included all of th

Re: Break_Align_Order

2003-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Bobroff wrote: Mats, Following your advice I checked the internals page and found this: breakAlignOrder (list): Defines the order in which prefatory matter (clefs, key signatures) appears, eg. this puts the key signatures after the bar lines: \property Score.breakAlignOrder =

Break_Align_Order-2

2003-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
By adding "left-edge" as here: \property Score.breakAlignOrder = #'( left-edge span-bar breathing-sign clef staff-bar key time-signature ) Th

Break_Align_Order

2003-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
Mats, Following your advice I checked the internals page and found this: breakAlignOrder (list): Defines the order in which prefatory matter (clefs, key signatures) appears, eg. this puts the key signatures after the bar lines: \property Score.breakAlignOrder = #'(

Problematic TeX

2003-03-14 Thread Laura Conrad
The attached file gives an error when ly2dvi is running the TeX produced by lilypond 1.6.8, but ly2dvi seems to cope with it ok. However, if I use it in a lilypond-book input file, lilypond-book crashes. Here's the lilypond-book error: Interpreting music...warning: can't find or create `FiguredBa

Re: how2

2003-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You are correct that #1 and #3 are supported nicely in the latest 1.7.x versions but unfortunately not in the stable versions. One possible workaround is to attach the text/script to a spacing note in a parallel line of music: but it can be tricky to get the horizontal alignment correct. For #4, t

how2

2003-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
I posted four problems two days ago. I think I have found an answer to two of them: >1) Place text markup (tempos) over block rests. > >2) Make block rests change style at 10 measures. I want a 10-measure rest >to be a single beam rather than two quads and a double. > >3) Place a fermata over a

Re: altering the tempo of a MIDI file

2003-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mostly, MIDI is interpreted by your soundcard (unless you use a software MIDI interpreter like Timidity) and the MIDI "standard" has probably as many interpretations as there are chip manufacturers. One thing to try is to insert the \tempo directives directly within the music of each stave. Try bot

Re: Can Lilypond do dotted time signatures

2003-03-14 Thread Erik Corry
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:40:27AM +0100, David Boersma wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Erik Corry wrote: > > > Like this one: > > > > http://www.arbat.com/erik/screendump.gif > > Looks a bit exotic to me... Why wouldn't you use 12/8 in this case? I don't know, I didn't invent it. I guess it make

Re: Can Lilypond do dotted time signatures

2003-03-14 Thread David Boersma
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Erik Corry wrote: > Like this one: > > http://www.arbat.com/erik/screendump.gif Looks a bit exotic to me... Why wouldn't you use 12/8 in this case? But you can do almost everything with with Lily (though it doesn't and probably won't include a kitchen sink, like mozilla) so

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Can Lilypond do dotted time signatures

2003-03-14 Thread Erik Corry
Like this one: http://www.arbat.com/erik/screendump.gif -- Erik Corry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user