Clarification on Staff Spacing

2003-09-23 Thread Will Oram
Reading old archives and documentation, I'm getting the idea that \property Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-12 . 12) increases the space BETWEEN the staves. Instead, I see it increase the space on top and bottom of the system. It's a good tweak to know, but it's not what I'm looking for. Gi

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: (Lily 1.8.1 on Debian unstable) This makes the multimeasure excessively wide and actually steals space from a following MM rest. Paul \score { < \property Score.skipBars = ##t \context Staff = clar

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Added this to the doco: If you want to have a text on the left end of a multi-measure rest, attach the text to a zero-length skip note, i.e. @example s1*0^"Allegro" R1*4 @end example This makes the multimeasure excessively wide and actually steals space from a followi

Re: lilypond 1.9.2 resolution/font issues on OS X 10.2.6/Fink

2003-09-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Mats: Did you also run the command 'texhash'? Not originally. I have now, and this was the response: texhash: Updating /sw/share/lilypond/1.9.2/ls-R... texhash: Updating /sw/share/texmf-local/ls-R... texhash: Updating /sw/var/lib/texmf/ls-R... texhash: Updating /sw/share/texmf/ls-R... texh

Re: quasi glissando

2003-09-23 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:24:34 +0200 > Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I came across a piece with something it calls "quasi >> glissando". It is represented as a glissando line from >> below the staff to a note. Is it possible to produce

Voice.autoBeamSettings fails \revert ?

2003-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Based on my reading of automatic beam behaviour, > http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.9/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Setting-automatic-beam-behavior.html > I think this example should beam sixteenths in groups of four in the > second bar, but instead LilyPond continues to

Dashed barlines

2003-09-23 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi there! I'm currently working on a piece which uses dashed barlines (like normal barlines, but dashed...okay, this sounds stupid...). I couldn't find support for dashed barlines. Is there some way to hack it? Regards, Thorkil ___ Lilypond-user mail

documentation

2003-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, I have been using the docs and find some places to be to > abbreviated. > > The cheat sheet is one. It seems to be geared only to those who know > lilypond already. > I have friends who I am trying to win over to lilypond, but they keep > telling me its to complic

Re: spacer lyric?

2003-09-23 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-02/msg00217.html > for some different solutions to the problem. I wasn't aware of the archive. I start there. Cheers, Mats. -- Thanks, Jeff , | Jeffery B. Rancier | | Softechnics | a METT

Re: oops

2003-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Don't try to copy LilyPond files into the ordinary texmf tree! > > > Ok, I've undone that. And now I'm getting the "I can't find > 'lilyponddefs' " error. > > > > If you just run 'make install' and make sure to source the > > file buildscripts/out/lilypond-prof

Re: oops

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One other question: During 'make all' it appears as though the PFA fonts are being built. Is this true, or do I still need to make/install them after building Lily? Read the ChangeLog from 2003-09-22 /Mats ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: oops

2003-09-23 Thread David Bobroff
> Don't try to copy LilyPond files into the ordinary texmf tree! Ok, I've undone that. And now I'm getting the "I can't find 'lilyponddefs' " error. > If you just run 'make install' and make sure to source the > file buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile to set some environment > variables, every

Re: oops

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Don't try to copy LilyPond files into the ordinary texmf tree! If you just run 'make install' and make sure to source the file buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile to set some environment variables, everything should work out of the box. Most packages, such as the RPM package, put the file lilypond-pr

oops

2003-09-23 Thread David Bobroff
OK folks, I think I managed to break something. I cleaned out o bunch of old LilyPond stuff. I've got a freshly compiled v1.9.9 (ChangeLog 1,1398). LilyPond runs fine but if I run 'lilypond-book' I have a problem. I posted an error that I was getting earlier but I seem to have fixed that. At

Re: spacer lyric?

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-02/msg00217.html for some different solutions to the problem. Mats Ferenc Wagner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes: Is there such a way I can create a 'spacer lyric'? E.g. if I have a four part song, which shares the s

Re: spacer lyric?

2003-09-23 Thread Ferenc Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes: > Is there such a way I can create a 'spacer lyric'? > E.g. if I have a four part song, which shares the same > lyrics 90% of the time, but differs the remaining 10%, I > don't want to print duplicate lyrics 4 times, 90% of the time. This is somethin

Re: lilypond 1.9.2 resolution/font issues on OS X 10.2.6/Fink

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Now that I read your earlier email more carefully, I see that you have tried to download .pfa files. Did you also run the command 'texhash'? What do the following commands return? kpsewhich feta20.pfa kpsexpand \$T1FONTS kpsexpand \$TEXPSHEADERS Mats Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hello, Mats:

Re: Can create .ps but not .dvi

2003-09-23 Thread Philip Nelson
--- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you install from a package or compile LilyPond yourself? > The Suse package. > In the former case, make sure that the directory > /usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6/fonts/type1/ exists and contains files > like feta20.pfa. That directory is not there.

Re: lilypond 1.9.2 resolution/font issues on OS X 10.2.6/Fink

2003-09-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Mats: 'ly2dvi -P' that you use, will give you a Postscript file with bitmapped fonts. I think you want to use 'ly2dvi -p' Yes, I've tried that, but I get the following: ly2dvi: error: `kpsewhich feta20.pfa' failed (1) What is the fix for that? Thanks for the help! Kieren. _

Re: Fwd: lilypond 1.9.2 resolution/font issues on OS X 10.2.6/Fink

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
'ly2dvi -P' that you use, will give you a Postscript file with bitmapped fonts. I think you want to use 'ly2dvi -p', which will give you PDF and Postscript files with vector fonts (Type1 fonts). This should be clear from the documentation in the reference manual. Also, in the latest development ver

Re: Can create .ps but not .dvi

2003-09-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you install from a package or compile LilyPond yourself? In the former case, make sure that the directory /usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6/fonts/type1/ exists and contains files like feta20.pfa. If you compiled yourself, make sure to read what INSTALL.txt has to say about mftrace, PDF files and pfa f

RE: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
That's funky! Thanks, I'll give it a try! Ralph -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 10:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ralph Little; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multi-measure rests again again [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ralph Lit

RE: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, This is exactly the issue that I am having! Same goes for: R1*2_\markup{ Allegro } ..I guess. Regards, Ralph -Original Message- From: Paul Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 10:09 To: Ralph Little Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multi-measure rests a

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ralph Little wrote: > > >Hi > >Looking through the archives, there seems to be a lot of issues relating to > >attaching text markup to MultiMeasure rests. > >One general solutions seems to be along the lines of > > > > > > > >...or somesuch. > > > >I'm running 1.8

Re: Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Scott
Ralph Little wrote: Hi Looking through the archives, there seems to be a lot of issues relating to attaching text markup to MultiMeasure rests. One general solutions seems to be along the lines of ...or somesuch. I'm running 1.8.2 now. What's the recommended way of attaching text to multi-m

Multi-measure rests again again

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi Looking through the archives, there seems to be a lot of issues relating to attaching text markup to MultiMeasure rests. One general solutions seems to be along the lines of ...or somesuch. I'm running 1.8.2 now. What's the recommended way of attaching text to multi-measure rests n

Re: splitting midi channels by voice

2003-09-23 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you haven't found it yet in the archives, I hadn't. Thanks! > a solution was posted in > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-01/msg00088.html > I hope it works also with the current versions of LilyPond. Works like a charm. Guess