problem with running midi2ly.py

2004-12-16 Thread HT Yeh
Hi, I ran into the following problem when trying to convert a midi file into .ly file. I ran the following command in the Cygwin shell window: midi2ly my.mid (return) Got this message - Traceback: File /usr/bin/midi2ly, line 43, in ? import midi ImportError: dlopen, Win32

a (simple?) question

2004-12-16 Thread r . orfei
As a lilypond rookie, I have a question to submit to this list: I entered my music, tested it, and it (almost) sounds the way it should. Now, how do I choose a different midi voice for my staves? I saw a Staff.instrumentMidi thing somewhere but its syntax is unclear to me. Can anybody submit a

Fedora Core 3 - installing lilypond

2004-12-16 Thread Albert Einstein
I need strict instructions about installing lilypond 2.4 or 2.5 on Fedora Core 3. Does the installation is possible only with internet connection ? I don't know what command apply to this rpm file ? Albert ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL

Re: a (simple?) question

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Dec-04, at 11:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a Staff.instrumentMidi thing somewhere but its syntax is unclear to me. Sorry. That was fixed in the unstable docs, but they're still relevant to 2.4. (under docs 6.3)

Re: Another Lilypond Story

2004-12-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 16 December 2004 22.10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Lilypond to write The Legend of the Toad, which will be commercially available mid January in a recording by Roby Lakatos, and for which a demo which can be downloaded from http://www.thelegendofthetoad.com as well as the

Re: Problem running configure with 2.4.2 (ec-fonts-mftraced)

2004-12-16 Thread Luis G.
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi I installed the file ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm as root, but im getting the same error...: ERROR: Please install required programs:=20 package ec-fonts-mftraced :-/ Luis. On Sunday 12 December 2004 06:55, Luis G. L=C3pez wrote: I am

Re: Another Lilypond Story

2004-12-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:16 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 22.10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Lilypond to write The Legend of the Toad, which will be commercially available mid January in a recording by Roby Lakatos, and for which a demo which can be

Re: Help with \lyricsto and polyphony

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Maurits Lamers wrote: Even easier is the use of \context Voice = a { music } \context Voice = b { music } because it makes it easier to assign the correct lyrics to. This works perfectly with version 2.2.5. This is

Re: Importing into Finale

2004-12-16 Thread Joshua Kwan
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I cannot tell the future, but LilyPond already has several GUI front ends, and can import finale using etf2ly. Last time I tried using etf2ly it did not work on a Finale file generated by Finale 2005. If someone wants to fix that, I can provide the file privately. --

Followup: I am a Lily confused about .ly file structure

2004-12-16 Thread John Sellers
Note that NOTHING has meaning without a context, and many of the examples in the Lilypond documentation describe things without explicitly stating what general context the code fragment applies. I do NOT mean 'context' as used in Lilypond, but the context that constrains the possible meaning

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think it's time for you to start reading the section of the manual called Changing Defaults. Among others, you will learn that a \context{...} declaration specifies/changes the definition of a single context. So, you cannot change the definition of two different contexts in the same

Re: Problem running configure with 2.4.2 (ec-fonts-mftraced)

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You didn't say what the command printenv TEXMF returns, which I think is the most critical issue. /Mats Herman Grootaers wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 10:55, you wrote: First of all, run the command 'texhash' as root to make sure that the TeX file name database is up to date (it should be

Re: Help with \lyricsto and polyphony

2004-12-16 Thread Alexandre B
Le Samedi 11 Décembre 2004 03:15, Joshua Kwan a écrit : Hello fellow Lilypond users, I'm encountering a problem giving lyrics to polyphonic voices. The soprano line for a song I'm scoring contains: { d4 bf c2 d4 bf c } \\ { bf4 f f2 bf4 f f } r4 { f' bf, c f, f' } \\

Re: PianoStaff label moving downwards

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the mailing list archives for bug-lilypond you will find an email entitled Instrument name placement, Was: Bug in SustainPedal ? from November 25, that probably is related to your problems. (The mailing list archive seems to be down for the moment, but that's probably just a temporary problem).

Re: Building Lily

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This means that the run-time library file libkpathsea.so.4 is not installed in a directory where the loader searches by default, on your machine. I'm a bit surprised that you have a dynamic library for kpathsea, most installations of teTeX come only with a libkpathsea.a library file, which is

Re: Building Lily

2004-12-16 Thread LinuxChiq
./configure //ok make // too many errors, gave up make install // too many errors, gave up and most interesting: linux:/home/trinity/lilypond/src/lilypond-2.4.2 # buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh -bash: buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh: Permission denied linux:/home/trinity/lilypond/src/lilypond-2.4.2 #

Re: installing on fc2 (again)

2004-12-16 Thread andrea valle
Thanks Mats, here you have it. Best -a- _ For your security, this mail has been scanned and protected by Inflex test.ly Description: Binary data On 13 Dec 2004, at 16:57, Mats Bengtsson wrote: What input file did you use? If

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bar numbers are typeset at the score level, not for each stave, so just replace \Staff with \Score. /Mats D Josiah Boothby wrote: I've got the same problem, though with Pedro Kroeger's lilypond-snapshot (version 2.4.2). Here's a small example: A .png can be found at the following url:

Re: Help with \lyricsto and polyphony

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits Lamers
Even easier is the use of \context Voice = a { music } \context Voice = b { music } because it makes it easier to assign the correct lyrics to. This works perfectly with version 2.2.5. If examples are needed, please let me know. greets Maurits Op 13-dec-04 om 15:17 heeft Ferenc

Re: [UPDATED] Help with \lyricsto and polyphony, and reusing lyrics

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The mailing list is open even when you are not subscribed and normally, people press Reply all when answering emails on the list, so the reply also reaches you even if you are not subscribed (however, you were unlucky since there was an answer to your question only addressed to the list, see the

report problems in installing on windows xp

2004-12-16 Thread HT Yeh
Hi, I am following installing procedures at http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html#installing When I click test.ly, there is no test.log, but there is a test.txt showing the following. Also acobe reader complains that can't find test.pdf Please let me know if I can take any step to

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Could you please send a full example file that fails to work for you, I've never had any problems with the \remove ... solution. /Mats Anna Choma wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Assuming that you use version 2.2.x (please always tell, when you ask a question on the list, otherwise you might get an

Re: invoking midi2ly and using sustainup and sustaindown

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ridwan Sami wrote: i'm kind of new at this lilypond thing and i'm having two problems first off, i'm not even sure if i'm doing this right but i have lilypond installed thru cygwin on a windows xp and i am typing into the bash shell: $ midi2ly wee.mid and getting Traceback (most recent call

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
When I tried your file, I got a syntax error. From your email, I got the impression that the file was processed without problems but that the bar numbers didn't vanish. The only problem with your file is that you had copied a solution written for an older version of LilyPond without updating the

Re: Problem running configure with 2.4.2 (ec-fonts-mftraced)

2004-12-16 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Monday 13 December 2004 10:55, you wrote: First of all, run the command 'texhash' as root to make sure that the TeX file name database is up to date (it should be done by the installation scripts, but you never know). Secondly, I see from the output you get when running lilypond -V, that

Re: Followup: I am a Lily confused about .ly file structure

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Basically, I agree with what you are saying. At the same time, it's impossible to write a manual that describes every feature on a level that is directly understandable to a person who has never heard about the program. So, clearly we have to assume some basic understanding of the general

I am a Lily confused about .ly file structure

2004-12-16 Thread John Sellers
I have gotten my feet wet with LilyPond, but I'm going nuts every time want do do something new. Unfortunately almost everything is lifted out of context as an isolated, clearly explained example, or embedded in a small complete file which is almost certainly different in structure from the

Re: installing on fc2 (again)

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What input file did you use? If you took it from the web page, make sure that it's written for the version of LilyPond that you use and also that your web browser didn't add any strange characters to it. /Mats andrea valle wrote: Sorry to bother you again. Please is there anyone working on

[UPDATED] Help with \lyricsto and polyphony, and reusing lyrics

2004-12-16 Thread Joshua Kwan
[ Note: I sent an earlier message which I'm not sure made it because I was not yet subscribed to the list, so if you're seeing this for the second time I apologize. I've updated some stuff in the message since I upgraded Lilypond in the meantime to 2.4.2. The problem remains in the new version

Re: Building Lily

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
LinuxChiq wrote: ./configure //ok make // too many errors, gave up make install // too many errors, gave up and most interesting: linux:/home/trinity/lilypond/src/lilypond-2.4.2 # buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh -bash: buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh: Permission denied Use buildscripts/out/clean-fonts ! I

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread Anna Choma
Mats Bengtsson wrote: When I tried your file, I got a syntax error. From your email, I got the impression that the file was processed without problems but that the bar numbers didn't vanish. No, I've got syntax error too. That's my \paper block: \paper { paperheight = 21.0 \cm

Re: Removing bar numbers

2004-12-16 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I've got the same problem, though with Pedro Kroeger's lilypond-snapshot (version 2.4.2). Here's a small example: A .png can be found at the following url: http://students.washington.edu/josiah/music/barnumbers.png \version 2.4.2 \header { title = bar number test } \score { { \time 3/2

Re: Help with \lyricsto and polyphony

2004-12-16 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Maurits Lamers wrote: Even easier is the use of \context Voice = a { music } \context Voice = b { music } because it makes it easier to assign the correct lyrics to. This works perfectly with version 2.2.5. This is really great.

Re: installing on fc2 (again)

2004-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hmm, it seems that your file is coded in UTF-8 Unicode, which unfortunately cannot be handled by LilyPond yet. If you use a text editor that saves the file using Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) character encoding, everything will work much better. /Mats andrea valle wrote: Thanks Mats, here you have it.

problems in xp

2004-12-16 Thread Charles Gran
Hi I'm trying out Lilyponmd using Cygwin under XP(sp2). Didn't work: -Charles Gran === GNU LilyPond 2.4.2 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... test.ly:4:15: error: unknown escaped string: `\notes': \score { \notes { c4-( c4-) } } test.ly:4:14: error: syntax error, unexpected

Re: Another Lilypond Story

2004-12-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Great music with great musicians. I especially liked hearing the cimbalom in such musical context. The music is beatiful. It is pleasure for me to be together on this list with musicians of this talent. To include the score is a great idea also, it is very good to hear what a difference there

Another Lilypond Story

2004-12-16 Thread darius
I used Lilypond to write The Legend of the Toad, which will be commercially available mid January in a recording by Roby Lakatos, and for which a demo which can be downloaded from http://www.thelegendofthetoad.com as well as the Lilypond-engraved scores. (This does not mean that the music is