Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

2005-07-28 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:36 AM Subject: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 32, Issue 52 Also can we have notes (ex. a quarter or a eight note ..) as a denominator. Like 3 / {here a quarter note} all put above the

Re: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Jul-05, at 6:18 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote: The reason I use it from time to time (maybe I'm a guru, but the problem is definitely not a guru problem) is that if you move the barline engraver from the score context to the staff context, you need it to get any bars at all. OK, then perhaps

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Jul-05, at 12:12 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: What is FONTCONFIG_FILE set to ? echo $FONTCONFIG_FILE should give you the value. Usually, I invoke LilyPond from inside Vim; this is a bit of a hack, though, and sometimes not all of

Re: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bodo wrote: Hi, Thanks for this awesome program. I'm new to this, so excuse me if this is obvious, but extensive search of the docs and mailing list has not yet come up with anything, so: I'm trying to engrave little up- or downwards pointing arrows over noteheads. The reason for this is to

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Laura Conrad wrote: there must be a lot of stuff that nobody can compile without major manual labor. At what point is this volume of stuff going to feed into design decisions? When either 1. the number of future (potential) users is smaller than the number of current users. 2. the current

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 26-Jul-05, at 12:12 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: What is FONTCONFIG_FILE set to ? echo $FONTCONFIG_FILE should give you the value. Usually, I invoke LilyPond from inside Vim; this is a bit of a hack, though,

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
YES! That's problem/issue/solution thanks- I did get it to work after that correction. Hooray. Jay Bec and John wrote: Hi Jim, I just tried the Notes only template and got an error that I commonly get when I copy and paste from the Lilypond manual - it doesn't like the ’ character that

What is the proper way of printing the current date? Also bug report

2005-07-28 Thread Sven Axelsson
I have been using #(use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) today = #(date-string (current-date) ~B ~d, ~Y) to get the current date so I can include that in the tagline of my music. This does cause the message WARNING: #f: imported module (srfi srfi-19) overrides core binding `current-time' in the log, but

Re: (OT) vim, osx, text encoding (was: magic diacritic markup?)

2005-07-28 Thread Trevor Baca
Are you using 10.4? (see below) Yes, 10.4.2. What do these values give you: :set encoding? Entered in command mode? Yes, command mode. E519: Option not supported: encoding? (same result for :set encoding) OK, that's just odd. vim definitely takes an encoding and for unicode

RE: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-07-28 Thread Fairchild
Tucano - If Han-Wen's suggestion doesn't do what you want, send a graphic. I'd like to see if PostScript code will do it. - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Han-Wen Nienhuys Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:53 AM

Re: What is the proper way of printing the current date? Also bug report

2005-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sven Axelsson wrote: I have been using #(use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) today = #(date-string (current-date) ~B ~d, ~Y) to get the current date so I can include that in the tagline of my music. This does cause the message WARNING: #f: imported module (srfi srfi-19) overrides core binding

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2005-07-28 Thread Sean Reed
hi, i changed the duration of a note in a score today and got this error and a file that failed to compile: Layout output to `ariaTbAddVox1.ps'... Converting to `ariaTbAddVox1.pdf'...sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable `gs -q -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sPAPERSIZE=a4

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2005-07-28 Thread Sean Reed
sorry... forgot: on osx 10.4.2 with ly 2.7.0-1 -sean On 28.07.2005, at 18:36, Sean Reed wrote: hi, i changed the duration of a note in a score today and got this error and a file that failed to compile: Layout output to `ariaTbAddVox1.ps'... Converting to `ariaTbAddVox1.pdf'...sh: fork:

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Scott
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: YES! That's problem/issue/solution thanks- I did get it to work after that correction. Hooray. Jay Bec and John wrote: Hi Jim, I just tried the Notes only template and got an error that I commonly get when I copy and paste from the Lilypond manual -

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 16.59, Laura Conrad wrote: ES == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm willing to believe there is no automated way to convert every possible \addlyrics to an equivalent \lyricsto. I don't believe that the most common cases couldn't be handled.

Re: Positioning of Fret Diagrams and Chord Names

2005-07-28 Thread VSD
use #'extra-offset or #'padding. (as an alternative you could also add an invisible voice and attach the fret diagrams to the invisible notes in that voice) to add chord names, use ChordNames instead of a 2nd markup. See section Printing Chord Names in the manual. use extra-offset to

RE: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-07-28 Thread Fairchild
Tucano - Here is a way using \markup. Is the arrow OK? % \version 2.4.6 \paper { raggedright = ##t } pOn = \override TextScript #'font-name = #msam10 pOff = \revert TextScript #'font-name up = \markup { \hspace #-0.35 \char #24 \hspace #-2 \char #22 } dp = \markup {

RE: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Fairchild
Title: Message I, too, havecopied code fromdocumentation that caused incomprehensible errors messages eventually tracked to the wrong single quote character. Very annoying. I've thought it unique to my technique. Can the documentation be fixed? Or, better,can Lily be fixed to

Re: (OT) vim, osx, text encoding (was: magic diacritic markup?)

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 28-Jul-05, at 4:20 AM, Trevor Baca wrote: E519: Option not supported: encoding? (same result for :set encoding) OK, that's just odd. vim definitely takes an encoding and for unicode what you're looking for is encoding=utf-8. Maybe your previous version of vim wasn't compiled with the

Re: Bad sourcefont [WAS:]What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread dax2
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:08:33 -0500 Fairchild wrote: Or, better, can Lily be fixed to accept all single quote characters interchangeably? That is not a good idea IMHO. Single quotes beyond the standard ' are not widespread common heritage. 0x92 did not show up as a single quote in my

RE: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-07-28 Thread Fairchild
Bodo - Don't know why it doesn't work for you. Maybe if you post the error message file, someone will help. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Bodo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:10 PM To: 'Fairchild' Subject: AW: how to engrave

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Fairchild wrote: be fixed to accept all single quote characters interchangeably? no. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: songbook questions

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-Jul-05, at 12:55 PM, fiëé visuëlle wrote: I'd like to prepare some song sheets where the text of second and more verses is simply set in one or two columns below the staffs. For one-column verses, simply use the \book command with \markup. See 10.1.12 Multiple movements I'm not

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread dax2
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:03:59 -0400 Bec wrote: I just tried the Notes only template and got an error that I commonly get when I copy and paste from the Lilypond manual - it doesn't like the ’ character that is in the manual. I have to manually delete them and reinsert ' . Then it

Re: missing term in Icking glossary

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jul-05, at 4:15 AM, M. den Teuling wrote: Christian Mondrup suggested to me to report a missing term in the gossary : tenuto. I had the term myself forgotten even in Dutch, and so I really missed it. Its opposite staccato is present. If there is a term (in Dutch or English or

Re: Force a bar number to appear

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Jul-05, at 8:24 AM, Phillip Kirlin wrote: My apologies if this is a simple question to answer, but I recently upgraded to 2.6.1, and some of my 2.4.x files have their bar numbers disappearing, even when run through convert-ly. This looks like a bug. scm/output-lib.scm contains this

RE: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Fairchild
Overwhelming and convincing argument. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:13 PM To: Fairchild Cc: 'Bec and John'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: What's the least input

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Bec and John
Hi Dax2,I use the PDF manual rather than the web browser.The archive is a great idea. If I may recommend, it'd be nice if you could browse by topic - as the archive grows it'll be unreasonable to just go through a long list (it's already very long).- JohnOh! Now I can see what example was used

Re: missing term in Icking glossary

2005-07-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Graham Percival wrote: On 14-Jul-05, at 4:15 AM, M. den Teuling wrote: Christian Mondrup suggested to me to report a missing term in the gossary : tenuto. I had the term myself forgotten even in Dutch, and so I really missed it. Its opposite staccato is present. The opposite of staccato

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Percival
On 28-Jul-05, at 2:21 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Hrm? I'm missing something here... I'm still manually doing # ln -s ~/usr/pkg/lilypond/share/lilypond/VERSION/fonts/type1 ~/.fonts There should be no need to do that in either the fink or

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
D-- John I did use text mode cut and paste from the pdf and that's where the problem came from. AND I need to check out the archive too. Thanks Jay Bec and John wrote: Hi Dax2, I use the PDF manual rather than the web browser. The archive is a great idea. If I may recommend, it'd be nice

Changing the font for all text in a document

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Esham
In LilyPond 2.6.x, is it possible to select a certain font to be used for all text? I looked at the font selection section of the manual, but didn't really see a way to change the font for everything in the document. Can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks! -- Benjamin D. Esham

Re: Is there already a German translation of manual?

2005-07-28 Thread Marc Weber
That's great. May I suggest you start with the web site? That potentially has a much bigger audience than the documentation. I've started. Till now I've finished 1 switch/tour.html. There are some words I don't know how to translate correctly. Does engraved mean written by hand all the time?

Re: Is there already a German translation of manual?

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Johnson
Marc Weber wrote: Does engraved mean written by hand all the time? No. When applied to music, engraved simply is the opposite of handwritten. Hence computer-generated files, as well as music created from hand-engraved metal plates, are all referred to as engraved. Moreover it's