Re: GrandStaff Name

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Aug-05, at 10:17 PM, Will Oram wrote: ...but got nothing in the output. It looks more or less like the snippet, says I. Note the \layout. And please don't post incomplete snippets -- I had to change your \relative dflat'' and \mlViolinOne/Two, since they weren't defined. Here's an

Re: evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Graham Percival wrote: On 16-Aug-05, at 8:03 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. Please file a bug report with evince, then. (?) Looking more carefully I don't know if -- or how

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just add the engraver handling the rehearsal marks to the Staff contexts where you want the marks (by default, the engraver is only included in the Score context): music = \relative c'{ c d e f \mark \default | g f e d \mark \default | c1 | } \score{ \new StaffGroup \new

Re: Unicode Fingereings

2005-08-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It doesn't work directly since the default fonts and default character encoding for fingerings can only handle numbers and are different than for ordinary text. If you just want them placed above or below the note, I propose to typeset them with a text script instead: c^↑ However, if you want

pdf display (was Re: evince doesn't display 3's)

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
For the sake of completeness, I set the default version of ghostscript to gs-gpl, ran the file through lilypond again, then viewed the file with all of the pdf viewers that are on my system (which I believe to be all of the pdf viewers available through the standard debian repositories).

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Will Oram wrote: Many orchestral scores have tempo changes and rehearsal marks appear twice: once at the top (above the wind section) and once above the string section. It's easy to get lilypond to print \mark once at the top; can it be told to print it multiple times as described above?

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 12:47 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Just add the engraver handling the rehearsal marks to the Staff contexts where you want the marks (by default, the engraver is only included in the Score context): Out of interest, why doesn't it work if you add the engraver to the StaffGroup?

Re: pdf display (was Re: evince doesn't display 3's)

2005-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
D Josiah Boothby wrote: For the sake of completeness, I set the default version of ghostscript to gs-gpl, ran the file through lilypond again, then viewed the file with all of the pdf viewers that are on my system (which I believe to be all of the pdf viewers available through the standard

XEmacs text editing

2005-08-17 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi folks! I remember reading in here about emacs lilypond mode. I have just rejigged xemacs for my text editing, and was wondering if someone could point me to how to set that up, or if the latest, bleeding-edge version of XEmacs for FreeBSD should include that. Thanks Fr. Gordon Gilbert

default font

2005-08-17 Thread lfanele
hi everybody! what is the name of the default font for lilypond? i'm on os 10.4.2 and lilypond 2.6.3. what would be the \layout command to globally set the font-size and - type for lyrics and mark-up (i've seen it in the manual but never really got it to work). as always thanks a lot for

Re: evince doesn't display 3's

2005-08-17 Thread Steve D
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:59:20PM -0700, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On 16-Aug-05, at 8:03 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Using the 2.6.0 autopackage on Debian sarge/sid, Evince (v. 0.3.0) doesn't display the 3's in the time signatures. --- --- I know what you are

Re: default font

2005-08-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As described at the top of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Font-selection.html#Font-selection the default font for most text output in LilyPond is New Century Schoolbook. The same section also includes examples of how to modify the font. However, you may have to

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Will Oram
I use global blocks for many things. I tried applying them towards rehearsal marks before writing in and got nothing. You sure you're not using plain \markup for rehearsal marks? Best, Will On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:45 AM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: Will Oram wrote: Many orchestral scores have

Re: XEmacs text editing

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Memering
Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 12:25 schrieb Gordon Gilbert: Hi folks! I remember reading in here about emacs lilypond mode. I have just rejigged xemacs for my text editing, and was wondering if someone could point me to how to set that up, or if the latest, bleeding-edge version of XEmacs

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Then you might try something like this: \version 2.6.0 global = { \time 4/4 s1*3 } Music = \new Voice { \relative c' { c4 d e f \mark \default | g f e d \mark \default | c1 | }} \score { \new StaffGroup \new Staff \global \Music \new Staff \global \Music \new

LilyPond - Midi?

2005-08-17 Thread Aaron Morse
Perhaps this is explained clearly elsewhere, but I have a question. I have the following file compiling a score of a composition I just wrote: \include horn.ly \include trumpet.ly \include drums.ly \include bass-tbone.ly \header { title = Ea instrument = Trumpet in C, Horn in F,

Re: LilyPond - Midi?

2005-08-17 Thread John Mandereau
Aaron Morse wrote: Perhaps this is explained clearly elsewhere, but I have a question. I have the following file compiling a score of a composition I just wrote: \include horn.ly \include trumpet.ly \include drums.ly \include bass-tbone.ly \header { title = Ea instrument =

Need Help with installation of 2.6.0

2005-08-17 Thread KATHRYN GRACEY
I can't figure out how to install 2.6.0 from the internet or any other wayit's tooo complicated. Do you have anybody who can help me via the telephone, please? Thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Percent repeat sign

2005-08-17 Thread Claus Wilke
Hello, is it possible to directly engrave percent repeat signs? As far as I understand, the percent repeat mechanism always first engraves something (notes, rests, etc.), and then engraves bars with repeat signs. I.e., if I do \repeat percent 4 { r1 } I get one bar with a rest, and then three

Re: Need Help with installation of 2.6.0

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Gibbens
Do you have anybody who can help me via the telephone, please? I'm new round here, but this sounds unlikely :) I can't figure out how to install 2.6.0 from the internet or any other wayit's tooo complicated. It would help if you mention what computer and operating system you're

Re: Percent repeat sign

2005-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Claus Wilke wrote: Hello, is it possible to directly engrave percent repeat signs? As far as I understand, the percent repeat mechanism always first engraves something (notes, rests, etc.), and then engraves bars with repeat signs. I.e., if I do \repeat percent 4 { r1 } I get one bar with a

Price quote for better tied chords?

2005-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
VSD wrote: All, it seems that Lilypond still manages the tied chords poorly, and the ties in chords collide very often. e.g. see: http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png imho this problem should be solved to avoid poor looking spots in the otherwise gorgeously engraved lilypond

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Will Oram
Hmmm, that's odd. When I tried the suggestion below, lily 2.7.5 processed for a moment, stopped quietly (no errors/warnings), and brought up the PDF from the last successful build. Let's go through the process. The following is the minimum code that makes lily stop (although I kept it in

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Will Oram
Ooooh, how aggrevating! Between what I originally had and the reduced score presented here, I must've run lily on two or three intermediate steps to make sure the bug was still appearing. Yet, the version I submitted works for me too. Sounds like a heisenbug. OK, let me start fresh. I can

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 7:09 PM, Will Oram wrote: Hmmm, that's odd. When I tried the suggestion below, lily 2.7.5 processed for a moment, stopped quietly (no errors/warnings), and brought up the PDF from the last successful build. What's your OS / package / etc ? I just tried your example on a

programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name()

2005-08-17 Thread Ishizaki
Hi, on my computer, Lilypond does not compile files which contain japanese chars such that utf-8.ly, sakura-sakura.ly, typography-demo.ly, since v2.5 until current CVS. OS is Vine Linux 3.1 ( redhat clone ). What would be wrong? Below is an output of lilypond --verbose input/sakura-sakura.ly 2

Re: Multiple Rehearsal Marks

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 8:01 PM, Will Oram wrote: OK, let me start fresh. I can confirm that this code does exactly what I have already described. If it works for you, God hates me. :) Well, celebrate -- it crashes for me, too! For some reason, it's the combination of \mark and \midi. Remove the

Rehearsal Marks Bar Lengthening

2005-08-17 Thread Will Oram
Last question for awhile, I swear. :) Under most circumstances \mark can lengthen the measure on which it occurs to incredible lengths. However long the \mark \markup string is, that much empty staff space sits underneath it down the system. Once \mark ends, *then* the content of the measure

Re: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name()

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 8:20 PM, Ishizaki wrote: on my computer, Lilypond does not compile files which contain japanese chars such that utf-8.ly, sakura-sakura.ly, typography-demo.ly, since v2.5 until current CVS. OS is Vine Linux 3.1 ( redhat clone ). Do you have all the extra fonts installed?

Re: Rehearsal Marks Bar Lengthening

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 8:39 PM, Will Oram wrote: Under most circumstances \mark can lengthen the measure on which it occurs to incredible lengths. However long the \mark \markup string is, that much empty staff space sits underneath it down the system. Once \mark ends, *then* the content of the

Re: Rehearsal Marks Bar Lengthening

2005-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On 17-Aug-05, at 10:29 PM, Will Oram wrote: Really? I find it to be one of my more nagging problems, actually -- in past works I've had to replace \mark with \markup in order to circumvent this weirdness. This is a picture of the phenomenon:

Re: Rehearsal Marks Bar Lengthening

2005-08-17 Thread Will Oram
Really? I find it to be one of my more nagging problems, actually -- in past works I've had to replace \mark with \markup in order to circumvent this weirdness. This is a picture of the phenomenon: http://www.foxchange.com/~spamguy/misc/images/longbar.jpg . Since I've never used fatText,