Re: Problem getting started (SuSE 9.2)

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Wallis
Jan, Many thanks for your suggestions. On Tuesday 30 August 2005 20:08, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Matt Wallis writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/home2/Music/Scores lilypond test GNU LilyPond 2.6.3 ERROR: In procedure hash-fold: ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 3: ((#primitive-procedure

Re: can't quite find grandstaff in chamber piece instructions

2005-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
All the examples in the Tips and Tricks and Regression Test documents should be available in your installation. Perhaps in /usr/share/doc/lilypond/include/test/ and /usr/share/doc/lilypond/include/regression respectively. At least, they can be found below lilypond-1.x.xx/input/ if you download

Re: Possible tie bug?

2005-08-31 Thread Henrik Frisk
I know that improved ties are part of the 2.7 release, and I'm sure they are great. If they're not bugs, perhaps someone could help me understand these things I've brought up. Thanks! I have noticed the same thing. Don't know what to do about it except for adjusting it manually using

Re: accidentals in ornaments

2005-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Use text markup commands. For example d32^\markup\center-align{\natural \musicglyph #scripts.reverseturn \natural } /Mats David Fedoruk wrote: Hi: In this segment in the third bar there should be natural signs both above and below the reverse turn. How do I typeset that? --- code

Re: Problem getting started (SuSE 9.2)

2005-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Matt Wallis writes:     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00481.html As suggested here, I installed guile 1.6.7, but this did not fix the problem. Hmm, that is quite odd. I tried this, but now have a new error: libguile.so.16: cannot open shared object file:

2.7.8 binary OSX encounters errors

2005-08-31 Thread Henrik Frisk
Processing a lilypond file with 2.7.8 on OSX results in the following (verbose) output: Layout output to

Re: More Centred Dynamics

2005-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Will Oram wrote: (Sorry if this gets reposted; I seem to be having a nasty habit lately of sending lilypond e-mails from my nonregistered e-mail address!) I tried Mats' template for centred piano dynamics but found it to be off-balance. Maybe I will try later with greater tweaking.

Re: Wrong characters with jEdit

2005-08-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For LilyPond version 2.4, at least some of these characters will work if you save using ISO 8859-1 encoding. However, I recommend to upgrade to LilyPond version 2.6, which uses UTF-8 encoding and can handle all such special characters without any problems. /Mats Oddmund Åvik wrote: Is

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-08-31 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/31/05, Werner LEMBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just type-set a piece using version 2.7.7 and this piece also had some ties in it. In this example I thought the new behavior was a bit odd as I have two ties in a row but they are longer note values and should they not appear at

Re: 'Can't Change Staff'

2005-08-31 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/31/05, Will Oram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I'm posting to the list a lot with my questions; I'm trying out a lot of tricky notation snippets that, if successful, will produce free scores that truly show the kickass things lily can do. So...bear with me. lily 2.7.8, OS X 10.4 I

Re: Wrong characters with jEdit

2005-08-31 Thread Oddmund Åvik
Mats Bengtsson skreiv: However, I recommend to upgrade to LilyPond version 2.6, which uses UTF-8 encoding and can handle all such special characters without any problems. Tusen takk -- thank you very much! I will do that. /Oddmund ___

non critical error

2005-08-31 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
Hi, I do not understand why this file gives that error yet it compiles well.. Error log:= # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `F:/ScoreLibrary/Okonsar, Mehmet (1961)/Kaleidoscopes/01-PianoSolo' Processing `F:/ScoreLibrary/Okonsar, Mehmet

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-08-31 Thread Steve D
Trevor Baca wrote: I agree. Although I have no idea how to verbally state a better rule ... maybe something like consecutive ties between like pitches should appear at like vertical positions ... ? --- --- To me that seems like it would be a good default behavior. In addition, although I am

More Centred Dynamics

2005-08-31 Thread Will Oram
I tried Mats' template for centred piano dynamics but found it to be off-balance. Maybe I will try later with greater tweaking. Also, do the dynamics in this template apply themselves to MIDI, or is it functional only in layout? In the meantime, I have reverted back to the example given in

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-08-31 Thread Steve D
- Original Message - From: Walter Hofmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New slur/tie behaviour I agree, I don't recall seeing a printed edition where the ties or slurs begin and end on the same staff space if the note is in a space, or on the line that the note occupies (which

Re: 2.7.8 binary OSX encounters errors

2005-08-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Henrik Frisk wrote: Processing a lilypond file with 2.7.8 on OSX results in the following (verbose) output: Layout output to

Re: can't quite find grandstaff in chamber piece instructions

2005-08-31 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Ah, that's a whole different issue as I'm running this at the moment under xp even thought I was introduced to lilypond using linux. So /maybe/ I can find those files /if/ MS lets me. Probably easier to go to website download. Jay Mats Bengtsson wrote: All the examples in the Tips and

Re: non critical error

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 31-Aug-05, at 8:21 AM, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: C:/Program Files/Music/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/2.7.7/ly/english.ly:6:0: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING pitchnamesEnglish = #`( This is the wrong kind of '. You've got a ` but it should be a ' Cheers, - Graham

Re: 2.7.8 binary OSX encounters errors

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 31-Aug-05, at 12:21 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Henrik Frisk wrote: The same file compiles on 2.7.7 I'll have a look at this problem once I become clairvoyant. In other words, please post a small example file which produces this behavior in 2.7.8 but compiles cleanly on 2.7.7.

Re: Missaligned staffs in PDF output from lilypond 2.7.7

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Graham Percival wrote: On 30-Aug-05, at 4:40 PM, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: I'm having trouble with the alignment and line breaking (\break) with lilypond-book. Have you read http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00419.html ? This sounds like the same problem.

Re: 'Can't Change Staff'

2005-08-31 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/31/05, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/05, Will Oram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I'm posting to the list a lot with my questions; I'm trying out a lot of tricky notation snippets that, if successful, will produce free scores that truly show the kickass things lily can

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 33, Issue 90

2005-08-31 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi y'all! I've downloaded the lilypond package in order to upgrade my version (currently 2.5.29). I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on a P-5 (fairly good horsepower -- I forget exactly what) with oodles and oodles of ram. Can someone explain step-by-step (I'm no geek -- just a very satisfied user of

Re: Can Span_bar_engraver only print at linebreaks?

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Aug-05, at 11:31 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: \score { \new Staff { c'1 c' c' } \new Staff { c'1 c' c' } \layout{ \context { \Score \consists Span_bar_engraver \override SpanBar #'break-visibility = #center-invisible }} } Thanks! The more I learn about advanced tweaking with

Re: Compound time signatures

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 25-Aug-05, at 6:33 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Henrik Frisk wrote: Here's an expanded version of the compound-time.ly example in the Tips and Tricks section. It allows for different combinations of divisions such as 3/16 + 3/8 (provided that smaller divisions than 16ths are not used) and

Re: Compound time signatures

2005-08-31 Thread Pedro Kröger
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does let* work? I mean, how would I modify (define hmoveDivOne (if (equal? divone 16) 0.6 0.0)) to use let* instead of define? (simple replacement produced an error) In this case let* isn't necessary. let is used to define

lilypond on freebsd

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Percival
On 31-Aug-05, at 4:56 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I've downloaded the lilypond package in order to upgrade my version (currently 2.5.29). I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on a P-5 (fairly good horsepower -- I forget exactly what) with oodles and oodles of ram. If you mean the precompiled lilypond

Re: non critical error

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31-Aug-05, at 8:21 AM, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: C:/Program Files/Music/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/2.7.7/ly/english.ly:6:0: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING pitchnamesEnglish = #`( This is the wrong kind of '. You've got a ` but it should

Re: Wrong characters with jEdit

2005-08-31 Thread stk
Mats Bengtsson wrote: However, I recommend to upgrade to LilyPond version 2.6, which uses UTF-8 encoding and can handle all such special characters without any problems. The only unicode characters I ever need are in fact, on rare occasions, some Latin-1 character (à é è ç ö ü etc.) in a song