Re: Absolute Beginner Question: Error messages

2005-01-07 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E9mo?=
Jim Griffith wrote: Hello list, This is the most basic of questions. I have little if any experience with Unix (I barely recall command line DOS) but I am a quick learner. I have successfully (I believe) installed Lilypond on my Mac G5 running X11. The installation was via Fink. I followed the

Re: How to suppress metronome marks?

2005-01-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Your attempt to do \once \override MetronomeMark #'transparent = ##t was almost right. The only reason that it didn't work is that the property setting is done at the Voice level by default. Since the metronome marks are created at the Score level, you have to say \once \override

Re: [newbie] no page breaks

2005-01-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You probably have some error in the rhythm, so that the bars don't match. I recommend to always insert bar checks (read in the documentation) where you expect to have a bar line. Then, LilyPond should produce a warning that tells exactly where you have the error. /Mats martin granger wrote: Hi,

Re: How to suppress metronome marks?

2005-01-07 Thread Graham King
Gilles, thanks for your suggestion. I failed to describe the context of the question adequately - the tempo change is in the middle of a movement. Nevertheless your answer solved another of my problems! Meanwhile, Mats Bengtsson contributed the following, which solved my problem. Thanks Mats,

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2005-01-07 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
(1) I can't figure out how it looks like, just because I have Lily 2.2... (2) I've used a trick that doesn't have anything to do with figured bass, something like : e2-\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth 2.5 9 moveto 4 0.5 rlineto stroke} which draws a line from the bass note to another point

Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9f=2E_=3A_Figured_bass_questions?=

2005-01-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I forward these questions to the developers list, reformulated into the following question: Why isn't it allowed to include a text markup in figured bass? I think such an obvious feature would handle all the problems described below. /Mats Gilles wrote: (1) I can't figure out how it looks like,

shapeNoteStyles

2005-01-07 Thread Sean Reed
hi, using the \set shapeNoteStyles and the \aikenHeads \sacredHarpHeads give me errors and warnings, even when using the examples from the documentation with 2.5.0 and MacOsX 10.3.7. is this not yet functional? i get error: unknown escaped string: `\aikenHeads' and with the cross: Interpreting

Re: shapeNoteStyles

2005-01-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This feature was introduced in version 2.5.2, see the ChangeLog (which is linked from www.lilypond.org). /Mats Sean Reed wrote: hi, using the \set shapeNoteStyles and the \aikenHeads \sacredHarpHeads give me errors and warnings, even when using the examples from the documentation with 2.5.0

global \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down)

2005-01-07 Thread Albert Einstein
What command set command: \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) global for all notes? Albert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Absolute Beginner Question: Error messages

2005-01-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jan-05, at 8:59 PM, Jim Griffith wrote: This is the most basic of questions. I have little if any experience with Unix (I barely recall command line DOS) but I am a quick learner. I have successfully  (I believe) installed Lilypond on my Mac G5 running X11. The installation was via Fink.

Re: global \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down)

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 07 January 2005 22.22, Albert Einstein wrote: What command set command: \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) global for all notes? I'm not sure exactly what you want to achieve, but it might be something like this: \set Score.fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) This

Re: Absolute Beginner Question: Error messages

2005-01-07 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 1/7/05 2:36 PM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6-Jan-05, at 8:59 PM, Jim Griffith wrote: This is the most basic of questions. I have little if any experience with Unix (I barely recall command line DOS) but I am a quick learner. I have successfully  (I believe) installed