Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hans Aberg wrote: On 14 Aug 2005, at 23:20, Graham Percival wrote: I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the error: Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' Parsing...unnamed port:

Re: character encoding problem with windows

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you read the NEWS for LilyPond 2.6? Also, did you try the convert-ly program to update your input files to the new version? /Mats Jay Anderson wrote: I'm trying to update a piece that I typeset with the 2.4.0 cygwin build. I decided to upgrade to the newest native windows version but

Re: Auto-beaming in asymmetrical time signatures

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Aug 2005, at 01:41, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Apparently one just adds a few more override-auto-beam-setting: \time 7/16 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 2 16) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 7 16) 4 16) Sorry for bothering you with so simple matters. Can one

Re: alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Developers, it would be nice to get some clarification on the alignment of different markups! For some strange reason, the following seems to work. \layout{raggedright=##t} { c'^\markup{foo \hspace #0.0 } c'^\markup{bag \hspace #0.0 } } It's not at all clear to me how the alignment is handled

elegy source in version 2.4.5

2005-08-15 Thread Allar Õunapuu
Hello I got message from one list-subscriber, that Elegy has been discussed here. I'm not proffessional guitar-music publisher, but making my own copies of music for my own use. I like the clearity of Lilypond. In version 2.4.5 the title font is ugliest I have seen. So I was urged to use

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Aug 2005, at 09:45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Hans Aberg wrote: On 14 Aug 2005, at 23:20, Graham Percival wrote: I have already seen it. The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the error: Processing

Re: sponsoring better tied chords?

2005-08-15 Thread VSD
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:27:34 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution that you propose can relatively easily be added, but I think it is a poor man's substitute for the real thing, which is automatic formatting. agreed. I think that it should be possible to automate

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Aug 2005, at 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . The lines \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right \mark D.S. al Fine generate the error: Processing `/Users/foo/Music/LilyPond/RachenitsaB.ly' Parsing...unnamed port: In expression ^Òself-alignment-X:

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Aug 2005, at 01:09, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: You have a setup, different from the one I am used to. On the Bison list, people are recommended trying out the latest beta, so one gets to know that it works. Beta, or pre-alpha? 2.7 is currently in pre-alpha stage; expect it to be

2 Questions: marking sections and automatic beaming

2005-08-15 Thread Mark Gibbens
I'm new to music publishing on linux, and have just transcribed a tune with Lilypond for the first time. Here's the piece I'm working on: http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.ly http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.pdf The automatic beaming seems not to be working well in the

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hello, Laura: For those who just want to see the pdf's and not read the whole thread, I've posted links to them on my blog http://www.laymusic.org/blosxom-static/publishing. Thanks! That is quite a helpful investigation... Surprisingly, Finale makes quite a

Re: elegy source in version 2.4.5

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks for your work to prepare this example. Unfortunately, it seems that you have happened to use a LilyPond version where the the Debian package is wrong. The ugly title font you noticed was just one symptom of it. It you look carefully at http://allarpuu.active.ee/elegy.pdf you will see that

Re: 2 Questions: marking sections and automatic beaming

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mark Gibbens wrote: I'm new to music publishing on linux, and have just transcribed a tune with Lilypond for the first time. Here's the piece I'm working on: http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.ly http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.pdf The automatic beaming seems not to be

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How do I get it printed under the barline? First of all, note that \mark is handled at the score level, so you can only use it to print things above or below the full system, not above/below each stave. So, if you want to printed below the system, just set the 'direction' property: \override

Re: 2 Questions: marking sections and automatic beaming

2005-08-15 Thread mark
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:14:31 +0100, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read about rehearsal marks in the documentation. Thanks - read that and tried. Rehearsal marks seem to get me almost all the way there, but they seem a little inconsistent (unless I've made another error somewhere).

Re: 2 Questions: marking sections and automatic beaming

2005-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You never mentioned what LilyPond version you use, even though I can see from your PDF file that you use version 2.2, which is fairly old by now. I would recommend to upgrade to the latest stable version, 2.6.x, which is available at www.lilypond.org for almost all platforms. Normally, a \mark

Re: 2 Questions: marking sections and automatic beaming

2005-08-15 Thread mark
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:16:39 +0100, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You never mentioned what LilyPond version you use ... I would recommend to upgrade to the latest stable version, 2.6.x I'm using Ubuntu Linux, so I installed LilyPond using apt-get. I'll remove it, go straight to the

Re: Markup over last barline

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15 Aug 2005, at 16:19, Mats Bengtsson wrote: How do I get it printed under the barline? First of all, note that \mark is handled at the score level, so you can only use it to print things above or below the full system, not above/below each stave. So, if you want to printed below the

Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-15 Thread Mark Gibbens
If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be grateful for tips. I've tried the .package binary, but it appears not to be happy with the version of Ghostview I've got (gnome-gv 1:2.8.4-0ubuntu2, gv 1:3.6.1-2). I do try and stick to the packages as much as

Re: Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-15 Thread Laura Conrad
MG == Mark Gibbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MG If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be MG grateful for tips. I'm on Debian Unstable; I'm not sure how different that is from Ubuntu, but you're welcome to what I know. MG I've tried the .package

Re: Can't easily install LilyPond 2.6.x on Ubuntu

2005-08-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 15 August 2005 21.21, Mark Gibbens wrote: If anyone's successfully installed LilyPondon 2.6.x on Ubuntu, I'd be grateful for tips. I've tried the .package binary, but it appears not to be happy with the version of Ghostview I've got (gnome-gv 1:2.8.4-0ubuntu2, gv 1:3.6.1-2). I do

Re: character encoding problem with windows

2005-08-15 Thread Rob Vlasaty
Jay, The special characters show up fine in both the Windows Native, and Cygwin build of 2.6.0. Have you saved your files in UTF-8 format? Even if you use convert-ly like Mats suggested, you still need to go trough and manually convert each Tr\\'{e}s to Tregrave;s when going from 2.4.0 to

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-15 Thread Bec and John Silva
Hi,I just wanted to second Kieren's comment. I've compared outputs from different programs, like that thread linked to by others, and I've learned many things about engraving as a result (along with examining my own older hand-engraved editions). As I've been entering my own scores into Lilypond

Re: sponsoring better tied chords?

2005-08-15 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all: we only would need 6 more contributors. Anyone else? If the fix includes the tie problem I mentioned earlier (i.e., ties between two close notes on the same line/space are too tall), I'm in for 100. Cheers, Kieren. ___

Re: unsolicited praise =)

2005-08-15 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Han-Wen: ah, this is a bug. I fixed this in CVS. I mention an inconsistency in the app and it's fixed less than a day later... Why, that perfectly reflects my ten-year hel... I mean experience with Finale-Sibelius-Igor-etc. =) Thanks! Kieren.

(semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

2005-08-15 Thread Graham Percival
After a few hours of frustration, I've succeeded in making tabloid-sized music booklets (ie print music on a tabloid sheet, fold in half, and you get a booklet with letter-sized pages). In case anybody else is interested in this (either immediately or when they're searching the archives and/or