Re: gtksourceview language-specs file

2005-06-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Aaron Mehl writes: after try gvim for hebrew I installed gedit and see it types hebrew out-of-the-box. I thinks that if it had some of the power of emacs/vim for lilypond I would switch to it. I cannot imagine that emacs (perhaps emacs mule) does not do hebrew. Try asking google. Jan. --

Re: gtksourceview language-specs file

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
Of course emacs 'does' hebrew but not bidi and since I knew how to set vim up for this and out of the box emacs didn't let me type hebrew, I didn't bother. I infact am using emacs a lot but I have made a prelininary gtksourceview language-specs file for gedit if anyone is interested. Aaron ---

Re: gtksourceview language-specs file

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
- I cannot imagine that emacs (perhaps emacs mule) does not do hebrew. Try asking google. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Lilypond 2.5.26 under Windows98SE

2005-06-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Kevin Sheedy writes: I just installed the Lilypond standalone for the first time. I can't get it to work. When I run the desktop shortcut, I get a dos prompt with the following: Out of environment space Out of environment space Out of environment space Out of environment space Too many

Windows out of environment space [WAS: Lilypond 2.5.26 under Windows98SE]

2005-06-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: Out of environment space It seems that we need a windows guru to look into this, sorry. It turns out to be a very common problem with Windows, google helps a bit. This is not a LilyPond problem, it is bug in Windows. There is no easy automatic workaround, it needs

Re: deb for latest

2005-06-01 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Aaron, I am inferring from your last few questions to this list that you got 2.5.26 working. If my guess is correct, how did you install the new version of ghostscript? Josiah On Mon, 30 May 2005, Aaron Mehl wrote: Well that was my exact proble finding a ghoscript new enough. I also

Getting crazy with lyrics

2005-06-01 Thread Roman Käppeler
Hi, Sorry for my question, but I am getting crazy with these lyrics you can set at the end of my posting: In bar 4 I have a4 r4 d8 d and d4 r4 f8 f in TenorI and BassI. Both have to sing Hal- la- li, on the 8th and the following 2 in the next bar. At the momoment I reached this by a trick, but

Re: OS X Binary Fonts

2005-06-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Will Oram wrote: I have the OS X lilypond .26 binary, and I've used it a little. It works great, but once again, fonts are causing problems. The main serif font does not display in PS/PDFs made with the binary. Instead, I get a sans-serif font display; it looks like Gill Sans or something.

Re: Native Windows Build 2.5.25

2005-06-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
J L wrote: is there an option to turn PDF point and click off? I makes the file size larger and I mostly don't need it Yes. read our Fine Manual. Python - I think that the Python scripts could be made to run, using a little bit of path work, and adding an option to the installer

Re: Windows out of environment space [WAS: Lilypond 2.5.26 under Windows98SE]

2005-06-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: This is not a LilyPond problem, it is bug in Windows. There is no easy automatic workaround, it needs user intervention, so it seems. Edit the Windows config.sys file and reboot http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q230205/ ok, but it's a problem on w95/98 (probably

ChordName font

2005-06-01 Thread Doug Asherman
Hi: I'm having a little trouble with 2.5.26, and I'm pretty sure it's a misunderstanding on my part. Previously, I've always set the font for chord symbols like so: \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font-family = #'roman } With 2.5.26, I get a sans font for the

ChordName font -- never mind, I see my problem here

2005-06-01 Thread Doug Asherman
If I'm reading it correctly, the roman font is set in font.scm to Century Schoolbook, which explains why I'm getting Century Schoolbook when I specify a roman font. More coffee DOug ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: compilation error in 2.5.26

2005-06-01 Thread Luis Guillermo Agudelo
Thanks Daniel, Unfortunately I am getting a clean output from that command. mf --version Metafont 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea version 3.5.4 Copyright (C) 1997-2004 D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this

Re: compilation error in 2.5.26

2005-06-01 Thread Luis Guillermo Agudelo
Daniel, It finally managed to successfully compile lilypond. Thank you very much for your help. It had to do indeed with the installation of tetex as you pointed out. The problem I believe I had, was the location of some map files. For more detail you can refer to:

Unpitched notehead

2005-06-01 Thread Jamie Bullock
Hi, Is there any way to make lilypond use cross shaped note heads (as in the high-hat percussion notation), within a normal score? Furthermore is there a way to use a cross within a 'circle' to represent longer unpitched durations? I am using version 2.4.5. Thanks, Jamie

Re: gtksourceview language-specs file

2005-06-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I cannot imagine that emacs (perhaps emacs mule) does not do hebrew. Sad but true! Recent Emacs versions don't have right-to-left support (it's delayed to be added after the next release); you have to use the old Mule extensions. Werner ___

Going back to 2.4.5 On Mac OS X

2005-06-01 Thread Walter Hofmeister
I've been testing the 2.5 series a bit and the new self contained packages offered by the Development Team. This is great progress. I have had some font and spacing issues with the 2.5.2x versions that I have tried. The last one tested for me was the latest 2.5.27 package which did seem to solve

Re: missing lilypond-tex-metrics.tex

2005-06-01 Thread joe ferguson
With several decades' of programming behind me, one of the first things I look for in studying a new language is concise descriptions of the syntax of the language and of the structure of well-formed programs. It's also nice to get direction from experienced writers in the language as to

Re: deb for latest

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
Yes I got it working, thanks to Laura Conrads post. There is a .deb for gs and it is called gs-afpl 8.14-3 I need to upgrade another package via apt but after that it went smoothly. Good luck Aaron --- D Josiah Boothby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron, I am inferring from your last few

gtksourceview language file

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
This may be to big for the list if so I will try to send it to one of the maintainers. Here is my language file for gedit. I named it .xml so I could edit in with nxml but for it to work it needs to be renamed and placed in the gtksourceview/language-specs/ I really didn't know what I was doing

Re: missing lilypond-tex-metrics.tex

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
Yes in truth the way programmers document/read documents is add odds with tech writing. Tech writing will choose to repeat thingsor give extra example so as to be as clear and understandable as possible and programmers want things not to be repeated and as concise as possible. I unfortunetly have

Re: Getting crazy with lyrics

2005-06-01 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Roman, I have rewritten your lilypond file slightly, so now it produces at least the music in the order you were looking for. The idea is that you define the structure of the output tyo be produced (i.e. the \score part) separately from the text.I used the \lyricsto command instead of the

Re: Unpitched notehead

2005-06-01 Thread Graham Percival
On 1-Jun-05, at 8:46 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote: Is there any way to make lilypond use cross shaped note heads (as in the high-hat percussion notation), within a normal score? Furthermore is there a way to use a cross within a 'circle' to represent longer unpitched durations? Yes, read the docs

Extend stems beyond beam?

2005-06-01 Thread Henrik Frisk
Having just started using lilypond I came across a problem I can't solve. I am writing for harp and I have a lot of cross staff notes. At a few places I wish to notate a chord with one note in the lower staff and one note in the upper staff. I have figured out how to do this as long as the

less than two visible stems

2005-06-01 Thread Sean Reed
hi, i have a question/request concerning the beaming of rests and notes. my rhythms are often complex, so i like to make the notation easier for the musicians by beaming notes and rests together that occur in the same beat. this works in many scenarios in lilypond, but i get warnings in others.

lay out

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, In a previous email I asked if layout replaced paper. I was told to look at outputs, which I did. The paper output section details \paper{} but I see no mention of \layout {} where in the docs is \layout discussed? Thanks Aaron __ Do

Re: less than two visible stems

2005-06-01 Thread zeroguy
I have a question related to Sean's post, so I thought I'd post it here. This behavior Sean talks about with beaming rests with other notes (I do it often myself, and find those 'warning' messages annoying, and sometimes makes it hard to read the other, 'real' warning and error messages); I was

Re: less than two visible stems

2005-06-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
zeroguy wrote: I have a question related to Sean's post, so I thought I'd post it here. This behavior Sean talks about with beaming rests with other notes (I do it often myself, and find those 'warning' messages annoying, and sometimes makes it hard to read the other, 'real' warning and error

Re: Computer Modern fonts in Windows native

2005-06-01 Thread Rob Vlasaty
On Tue, 31 May 2005 09:29:44 VSD wrote: After some tweaking I was able to see EC and CM fonts by: 1 - copying the folder \cygwin\usr\share\texmf\fonts\type1\ to any folder in the font directory list in fonts.conf Hey, thanks for the idea. I finally got the font to work that I wanted.

Font problem w/X11/Linux/Tetex3 setup

2005-06-01 Thread Doug Asherman
Hi: I'm having a problem running lilypond 2.5.27. My setup is TeTeX 3.0 Slackware Linux current When I compile a lilypond file using the --verbose flag, I see that it seems to be saying it's going to use Century Schoolbook as the text font. When it gets to the point where it produces a PDF, it

Default font

2005-06-01 Thread Basil Crow
LilyPond 2.5.26 for Windows uses Verdana as the default font, but I want to use the serif and sans serifs Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. I've been getting away by hacking lines 355-356 of C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\2.5.26\font.scm to read: (add-pango-fonts n 'roman Minion Pro

Re: Going back to 2.4.5 On Mac OS X

2005-06-01 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 6/1/05 5:23 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Hofmeister wrote: On my system, the self contained package does not quit automatically. After the file is compiled, it switches to viewing the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader. In order to quit, I then have to switch to the