Re: tie-configuration question

2005-09-05 Thread Henrik Frisk
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cis, d2.~ \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration = #'((0 . -1) (2 . 1)) I don't understand the problem: if I change the 2 to 4, the tie moves up (2.7.8 cvs). Well it doesn't in 2.7.7, and since I can't use 2.7.8 because of

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-05 Thread stk
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Werner LEMBERG wrote: You are mixing up Unicode with one of its possible representations, UTF-8. A Unicode character is a number between 0x0 and 0x10; UTF-8 represents such code points as multi-byte sequences of varying length, where the range 0x00-0x7F is identical

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

2005-09-05 Thread stk
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unicode only provides a way of specifying character codes for a wide variety of symbols in the interior of a text file. But without font files containing the order of 64K symbols, the current fragmented font-file

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: IIRC, I've sent an algorithm to the list a few years ago whether ties should go up or down, depending on the vertical structure of a chord. Maybe you can dig it out, and perhaps it helps in providing some constraints. IIRC, it was the algorithm that was present before I

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

2005-09-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's impressive. For Windows users -- suppose that the right environment variable has been set to signal to LilyPond the presence of various Windows font directories. Then is Pango actually able to do that sort of font substitution if the specified font name in

How can I avoid Latin1 and use UTF-8?

2005-09-05 Thread Hans Aberg
Was: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? On 5 Sep 2005, at 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I didn't know unicode was broader than UTF-8. Formally, one assigns to abstract characters different non-negative integers, called in Unicode lingo code points. In order to get this

syntax error

2005-09-05 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi folks! I'm using 2.5.29 (and still a bit new to it I must admit). I've been editing this .ly file and compiling it just fine when all of a sudden, wishing to print a copy, I noticed my /paper was wrong -- I need letter instead of A4. Now all along, the compile message would say:

Note head in brackets

2005-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Mechsner
Note head in brackets - I do not find a solution in the documentation. Thanks for a hint! Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Mechsner Goebenstr. 3 49076 Osnabrück Telefon: 05 41 / 2 05 20 90 Mobil: 01 79 / 9 09 66 84 URL: www.wolfgang-mechsner.de Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: syntax error

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Watson
Gordon Gilbert gord at angel.eicat.ca writes: Then I changed something else (and I can't seem to restore it with undo in xemacs) and it now gives me: Gloria4Part.ly:20:10: error: syntax error, unexpected DIGIT \version 2.5.29 error: failed files: Gloria4Part.ly \header

Re: tie behavior (was: New slur/tie behaviour)

2005-09-05 Thread Steve D
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, regarding general default tie rules or behavior: Well, AFAIK engraving conventions are: * outer ties point outward * double directions for seconds * direction otherwise determined by vertical position. --- --- Piano is my instrument, and as a

Re: Installing lilypond 2.6.3

2005-09-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 02 September 2005 23.32, Jobst Harders wrote: This kind of questions should go to the lilypond-user mailing list. Hi, I would like to install Lilypond 2.6.3. on my system using SuSE 9.1. Is it a good idea to use the package download from your site? yes. And if so, what are the

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Well, AFAIK engraving conventions are: * outer ties point outward * double directions for seconds * direction otherwise determined by vertical position. This is correct, but doesn't work in cluster-like chords. Here are my rules again for reference: sequentially from top to

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

2005-09-05 Thread Aaron Mehl
Sorry for coming in at the end of the thread. I was wondering if on linux there is a way to get jedit to support hebrew with lilypond. I have been looking for that golden editor which is good for lilypond and good for hebrew. So far I remain with gvim, although emacs and jedit seem to have many

Syntax Error in compiling

2005-09-05 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi again! Thanks to Andrew for showing me where the error was -- and SO SIMPLE!! Can someone please explain how to read the error messages when lilypond fails to compile a file? For example, the bit the program quoted was *after* the error -- is this standard? Blessings, Fr. Gordon

Re: Syntax Error in compiling

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Watson
Gordon Gilbert gord at angel.eicat.ca writes: Hi again! Thanks to Andrew for showing me where the error was -- and SO SIMPLE!! Can someone please explain how to read the error messages when lilypond fails to compile a file? For example, the bit the program quoted was *after* the

Book creation

2005-09-05 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi all! I have composed a Missa Brevis (short Mass) setting with several distinct pieces. In the past I have simply printed each piece out on separate pages. However, I would like to put them all together in a book, with title page, contents (with one-bar snippets if that's not too

Re: typos in manual 2.6

2005-09-05 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Sep-05, at 1:08 AM, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: section: 7.3.7 p.133 Ambitus there should be around Ambitus_engraver section: 8.2.2 p.175 Metronome marks there shouldn't bearound #1 Thanks for your comments! It doesn't matter if you write Ambitus_engraver or Ambitus_engraver I've

Re: syntax error

2005-09-05 Thread stk
Fr. Gordon Gilbert wrote: I'm using 2.5.29 . . . I need letter instead of A4 . . . Parsing... warning: Must use #(set-paper-size .. ) within \paper { ... } . . . my #(set-paper-size) was withing \layout . . . So I moved that to the top of the file within a \paper block. The first time I

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

2005-09-05 Thread stk
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Windows users . . . is Pango actually able to do that sort of font substitution if the specified font name in a .LY file is that of a TTF font located in a Windows directory? Yes. !!! I yield. You just made a

Staff.keySignature

2005-09-05 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
Can anyone please explain to me shortly how to manage the arguments of the Staff.keySignature function.. Which args to be set to which values to get which accidental on which scale step ?:) \set Staff.keySignature = #'(((1 . 2) . 1) ((0 . 3) . -1)) thanks! Best Regards, Mehmet Okonsar,