lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Roman V. Isaev
Why lilypond on windows is VERY slow?! It takes almost 30 seconds to complete something that compiles in less than a second on Fedora Core 4... I'm shocked. For some reasons I can't use Fedora at home and it's very annoying to wait so much for a little correction :( I thought lilypond is

Re: Book creation

2005-09-12 Thread Karl Hammar
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: Tweaking endpoints of spanners?

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Joe Neeman wrote: Is is possible to tweak spanners by adjusting the endpoints individually? For example, if I have a glissando from bes to b, it gets obscured by the staff line. I'm looking for something like \once \override Glissando #'endpoint1-extra-offset = #'(0 . 1) The same question

Resume writing to a staff later

2005-09-12 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, I'm in the process of switching more and more of my typesetting jobs from Mup to Lilypond, but I have some trouble getting used to the way Lilypond wants me to write every full staff and then combine them in a score. I would rather write a few measures for every staff and then the next

Re: alternatives and partial measures

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I managed to do it using the \partial command in the following way: \version 2.7.6 \score{ \relative c'' { \repeat volta 2 { \time 6/8 \partial 8 c8 c4. c4. | } \alternative { { \partial 8*5 c4. c4 } { c4. c4 } } \bar || \partial 8 c8 | c2.

Re: compiling times?

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition to the other hints you have already received, I have added some comments below. Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I'm xp celeron 512ram I am still trying to put together a more complicated score of 7 different instruments including piano. I took and modified the example in

Re: Tweaking endpoints of spanners?

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Joe Neeman wrote: Is is possible to tweak spanners by adjusting the endpoints individually? For example, if I have a glissando from bes to b, it gets obscured by the staff line. I'm looking for something like \once \override Glissando #'endpoint1-extra-offset = #'(0 . 1) I don't think

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Roman V. Isaev wrote: Why lilypond on windows is VERY slow?! It takes almost 30 seconds to complete something that compiles in less than a second on Fedora Core 4... I'm shocked. For some reasons I can't use Fedora at home and it's very annoying to wait so much for a little correction

Re: Resume writing to a staff later

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: I'm in the process of switching more and more of my typesetting jobs from Mup to Lilypond, good! but I have some trouble getting used to the way Lilypond wants me to write every full staff and then combine them in a score. I would rather write a few measures for

Re: Resume writing to a staff later

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I guess it's mostly a matter of getting used to it. However, you can do something like sopranoBlockI = {c d e f | g a d b} altoBlockI = { a b c d | a b c d } ... \ = { d e f g } ... \score{ \context Voice = soprano {\sopranoBlockI sopranoBlockII ... } \context Voice = alto {\altoBlockI

Re: compiling times?

2005-09-12 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Mats- It was not until I actually could get an error log that I could start to fix the file. However you have brought up a couple of things. Last -first by changing the \score to new Staff from context I am now able to get midi and pdf files to look at what it going on. I am getting something

Re: compiling times?

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Mats- It was not until I actually could get an error log that I could start to fix the file. However you have brought up a couple of things. Last -first by changing the \score to new Staff from context I am now able to get midi and pdf files to look at

Re: putting number on top of each other

2005-09-12 Thread lfanele
Am 11.09.2005 um 21:22 schrieb Henrik Frisk: hi list, back again with some problems: is there a way to put numbers on top of each other. i need this for the funktionssbezeichnung (sorry, i just know the german word). right now i'm using a mixture of \super and \override TextScript

Re: putting number on top of each other

2005-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
sorry, i wasn't really exact: i just realize my english is seriously lacking some basic music- specific expressions. maybe this picture makes cleare what I'm trying to do (this has been done with the \column command): Why don't you include also the .ly code you used for your example, with

Re: putting number on top of each other

2005-09-12 Thread Henrik Frisk
hi list, back again with some problems: is there a way to put numbers on top of each other. i need this for the funktionssbezeichnung (sorry, i just know the german word). right now i'm using a mixture of \super and \override TextScript #'extra-offset tweaking (picture attached), which

glib for 2.7.9 for x86?

2005-09-12 Thread lilypond-user-bounces+archive=mail-archive . com
Both the x86 2.7.9 full install and the upgrade die looking for glib on Debian sid. 2.6.3.1 installs fine. -- Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

repeating articulation

2005-09-12 Thread Frédéric Bron
Is there a way to do the following? 1. from this point, add -. to all notes 2. series of notes 3. from this point, normal behavior (i.e. no articulation by default) Same question for all articulations or combination of articulations. this would quicken the entry of long series of notes with

Release 2.6.3 for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-12 Thread Hermansdorfer, Mark
Hi, I think LilyPond is a great application and look forward to learning more about it as I use it. I recently installed Fedore Core 4. I downloaded LilyPond version 2.6.3, i386 RPM and tried to install it. There was a problem. The version of Ghostscript that is supplied with Fedora

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 09/12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Why lilypond on windows is VERY slow?! It takes almost 30 seconds to complete something that compiles in less than a second on Fedora Core 4... I'm shocked. For some reasons I can't use Fedora at home and it's very annoying to wait so much for

Debian Sarge, LilyPond 2.4.0, errors...

2005-09-12 Thread Johan Witters
Hello, Maybe this is a newbie question, but... After upgrading to Sarge and LilyPond 2.4.0, I get errors on this test.ly file: melody = \notes {c e g b} \score { \melody } The errors I get are: $ lilypond test.ly lilypond:

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Roman V. Isaev wrote: Well, I have it both ways. It's slow if I use cygwin, it's slow if I run it from cmd.exe prompt or drag a .ly file on its icon. That's not the question. My question is whether you're using the Native 2.6 binary (available from lilypond.org/web/install/ for the

Re: Debian Sarge, LilyPond 2.4.0, errors...

2005-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
On 12-Sep-05, at 9:22 AM, Johan Witters wrote: After upgrading to Sarge and LilyPond 2.4.0, I get errors on this test.ly file: melody = \notes {c e g b} 2.4.0 no longer uses \notes. See the NEWS files. Cheers, - Graham ___

Re: repeating articulation

2005-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Sep-05, at 12:34 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: Is there a way to do the following? 1. from this point, add -. to all notes 2. series of notes 3. from this point, normal behavior (i.e. no articulation by default) See the tips and tricks; there's an example that does this. Actually, I

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 09/12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Well, I have it both ways. It's slow if I use cygwin, it's slow if I run it from cmd.exe prompt or drag a .ly file on its icon. That's not the question. My question is whether you're using the Native 2.6 binary (available from lilypond.org/web/install/

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Roman V. Isaev wrote: On 09/12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Well, I have it both ways. It's slow if I use cygwin, it's slow if I run it from cmd.exe prompt or drag a .ly file on its icon. That's not the question. My question is whether you're using the Native 2.6 binary (available from

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 09/12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Well, I have it both ways. It's slow if I use cygwin, it's slow if I run it from cmd.exe prompt or drag a .ly file on its icon. That's not the question. My question is whether you're using the Native 2.6 binary (available from lilypond.org/web/install/ for

Re: Release 2.6.3 for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
On the download page, under the heading for version 2.6, the Fedora4 binaries are listed first. In the third text column (under Go here), you are given the links to Download LilyPond, documentation, Ghostscript, compatibility libraries. I would suspect that these links will give you what you

Re: lilypond speed

2005-09-12 Thread Bertalan Fodor
On some configuration I found that initializing fontconfig can take very much time, even if there are not many fonts. Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

VersionTracker issues

2005-09-12 Thread Will Oram
MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com) is also receiving listings for 2.7.x versions. They, too, should be told not to accept them. Will Hi all, I'm maintaining a listing for Mac LilyPond on VersionTracker. The idea was to only list stable versions on that site, but somebody keeps on

Re: glib for 2.7.9 for x86?

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Both the x86 2.7.9 full install and the upgrade die looking for glib on Debian sid. 2.6.3.1 installs fine. I'm not sure if this got through. 2.7.9 for x86 seems to still be broken for Debian sid. Paul Scott ___

Re: glib for 2.7.9 for x86?

2005-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Both the x86 2.7.9 full install and the upgrade die looking for glib on Debian sid. 2.6.3.1 installs fine. I'm not sure if this got through. Yes, it got through, but I haven't got time ATM to do anything about it. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL

Fw: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-12 Thread Trent Johnston
Hello everyone, Firstly the required out the way: Platform: Windows XP Lilypond Version: 2.7.8 I have been using the new version(s) of Lilypond for a while and I find the us of PDF file a little annoying especially when fine tuning a score. You have to remember to close out of the

PDF Viewing / Updating a score

2005-09-12 Thread Trent J
Hello everyone, Firstly the required out the way: Platform: Windows XP Lilypond Version: 2.7.8 I have been using the new version(s) of Lilypond for a while and I find the us of PDF file a little annoying especially when fine tuning a score. You have to remember to close out of the current

Re: Release 2.6.3 for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Mark, for best results, reply all, so that the community can either benefit from the input here, or help. Because I'm not a Fedora user, I can't tell you from experience how to do most of what you're trying to do. Have you tried installing all of the binaries from the download pages? It could

tieWaitForNote

2005-09-12 Thread Martin Bergande
Dear all, using LilyPond 2.4.4 I tried to \set tieWaitForNote = ##t but the program seems not know this command and supposes typing errors. Can anybody give me a hint how to solve this problem? Thanks for answering in advance, Martin -- GMX DSL = Maximale Leistung zum minimalen Preis! 2000 MB