Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/madam, I am an entry level keyboard player (Not professional). I hope you can help me to answer my question. Instead of sitting and listening several time to learn and play a music from CD's of own choice, is there any software available in the

Re: Font regression woes

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jukka Akkanen wrote: This doesn't appear to be a Mac OS 10.3 vs 10.4 issue because both exhibit the same behavior. What I see happening with LilyPond 2.7.9 is, fondu generates following four files from '/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman': TimesNewRoman.ttf TimesNewRomanBold.ttf

Re: SUSE 9.3 and fontforge

2005-09-24 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Suzanne Blatt kirjoitti: Hello, I'm trying to build Lilypond 2.5 as the one that came with SUSE 9.3 doesn't work. My problem is fontforge. The 'old' fontforge that came with SUSE has been uninstalled, I found and downloaded the 'new' fontforge from the web but I cannot seem to get the

Re: How to pause a staff with some horizontal whitespage?

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
Peter Mogensen wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Read the NEWS in the documentation for version 2.6. Unless I'm mistaken \stopStaff \startStaff doesn't stop output of notes. Only the staff-lines. To use this, it would require to insert skip-notes in all staffs/voices. I would rather

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 23.34, Daniel Johnson wrote: Ruud van Silfhout wrote: As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question concening the attached piece of music. The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural normally placed before the note?

Re: Wrong type argument in position 1 error

2005-09-24 Thread Kevin Nowaczyk
List, Is there a supported way to automatically notate hammer-ons and pull-offs in tablature? Or do I just need to float h and p characters above ties manually? Kevin --- Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Nowaczyk wrote: Here is the minimum code to reproduce an error I'm

lilypond-book/(La)TeX knowledge required

2005-09-24 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Hi TeXnicians?, I'm (again) working on a version of a hymne book I have been working on before. I is written lilypond and LaTeX. Before I have worked on a version for the people in church, now I have to make a special version for the church choir. I have a TeX variable containing the number of

Re: lilypond-book/(La)TeX knowledge required

2005-09-24 Thread Laura Conrad
RvS == Ruud van Silfhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RvS I'm (again) working on a version of a hymne book I have been working on RvS before. I is written lilypond and LaTeX. RvS Before I have worked on a version for the people in church, now I have RvS to make a special version

Re: Wrong type argument in position 1 error

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kevin Nowaczyk wrote: List, Is there a supported way to automatically notate hammer-ons and pull-offs in tablature? Not that I know of. I'd be delighted to do this as a sponsored feature, though. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Fairchild
Title: Message Maybe this snippet/example would be worthy of enshrinement somewhere in the docs, if only there is a way to get a thin-thick bar line under the fermata at the end of the first line. Suggestions? - Bruce %% \version "2.4.6"\layout{ indent = 0 linewidth = 3.5\in

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread David Rogers
On Sep 24, 2005, at 00:37, Peter Mogensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any software available in the music industry to generate notation and chords and that can be printed in sheet music form ... That is a *very* *very* _*very*_ difficult task to program - if not impossible.

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Rogers wrote: (Unless you have the money to pay several people several years' wages each, to develop suitable technology and write software for it - but I assume if you had that kind of money you'd already have done so. Plus you'd be waiting years for those songs.) :-) The cheaper

RE: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Fairchild
Yes. \bar |. is in the code. Tried several different places, all ignored. -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:44 PM To: Fairchild Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to override bar line? On 24-Sep-05, at

Re: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Sep-05, at 3:08 PM, Fairchild wrote: Maybe this snippet/example would be worthy of enshrinement somewhere in the docs, if only there is a way to get a thin-thick bar line under the fermata at the end of the first line. Suggestions? thin-tick barline? You mean like \bar |. ? -

Re: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Sep-05, at 5:48 PM, Fairchild wrote: Yes. \bar |. is in the code. Tried several different places, all ignored. Ah, I see. Well, this is a perfect example of why you should always make a minimal example -- it's easier to see what the problem is. :) Please construct a minimal

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: The cheaper option is to write the people that recorded the CD and ask them for music. If you give them enough money, they might consider the request. Yes... that's probably the cheapest way in terms of both time and money. But that said, there exists software which