Re: Converting ETF to LY

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The best description I know of is in the following email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00416.html /Mats P B wrote: I have tried invoking ETF2LY from the command line, as the manual SAYS TO DO. However... it doesn't do anything. I'm on a WinXP system. If it

Re: Lyrics with repeats

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I recommend to read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/More-stanzas.html#More-stanzas for a better solution. /Mats Carl-Peter Krause wrote: Hello, I like to create a sheet with a song beginning with the refrain and two verses having a repeat block. To

Re: HELP ABOUT SLUR OFFSET

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
MX wrote: Hi all, bonjour à tous. 1. How can I ajust the position of the beginning of the slur in the picture attached ? I tried to override the control-points property of the slur object but I couldn't find rules to use it and I just want to push sligtly the beginning of the slur, not

Re: Spacing between score and tab

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hans wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you temporarily change your setting of transparent from ##t to ##f, you will realize what happens. Actually, to get rid of the beams, I would propose to use |\autoBeamOff| |instead of just making the transparent, see |8.6.2 Setting automatic beam

Re: Upgrading lilypond prompts each time new problems with lilypond-book

2005-10-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What operating system do you use? Does the command create any files at all in the directory out/ ? /Mats Wolfgang Mechsner wrote: I am sorry, but after upgrading Lilypond always I get a new problem with lilypond-book. The newest one (2.6.3.1.): ### lilypond-book --psfon ts

Re: HELP ABOUT SLUR OFFSET

2005-10-17 Thread Edward Neeman
--- MX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, bonjour à tous. 1. How can I ajust the position of the beginning of the slur in the picture attached ? I tried to override the control-points property of the slur object but I couldn't find rules to use it and I just want to push sligtly the

Re: Upgrading lilypond prompts each time new problems with lilypond-book

2005-10-17 Thread Laura Conrad
MB == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB What operating system do you use? MB Does the command create any files at all in the directory out/ ? There was a lilypond-book bug in 2.6.3. Someone claimed it was fixed in cvs 15 minutes after the release. It's on my list to check

Re: Fink's Lilypond 2.6.3 and tex backend

2005-10-17 Thread Henrik Frisk
Christian Ebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Julien Salort on Sunday, October 09, 2005: I'm using lilypond on Mac OS X 10.4.2 installed by fink (Package manager version: 0.24.10, Distribution version: 0.8.0.rsync). It works great to output Postscript. However, I can't use the tex

Beams across bars across systems

2005-10-17 Thread Bart Diels
L.S., As a Lilypond newbie I encounter problems with the following. In a certain part of my piece the melody line typically exists of an alternation of quaver rests and quavers. All quavers that belong to one phrase are linked by beams. Those beams usually go across bar lines. As many phrases do

Beams across bars across systems

2005-10-17 Thread Bart Diels
L.S., As a Lilypond newbie I encounter problems with the following. In a certain part of the piece I am trying to encode, the melody line typically exists of an alternation of quaver rests and quavers. All quavers that belong to one phrase are linked by beams. Those beams usually go across bar

Re: Instrument names at beginning of staves

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel Johnson
liang seng wrote: Hi, I would like to know how to lengthen the horizontal distance between instrument names at the beginning of staves from the left part of the staves? The instrument names overlap the braces generated by GrandStaff. I tried inserting spaces after the instrument names like so

Re: newer Debian release soon?

2005-10-17 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi, Will there be a newer Debian release soon? I am suspecting Ghostscript might be holding things up. Is a personal build from source hard or achieveable... again, Ghostscript dependencies might be an issue. Anyone know about this? Thanks in advance, Sterling MacNay

Slur or beam in tablature

2005-10-17 Thread Hans
Hello list, Is it possible, in tablature, to make a slur or beam between two notes, one of which is a single note, the other in a chord? In the score this is done by a slur, but I use two voices there, so the g# is not in a chord there: score voice 1: e'' d'' 4 g'8(gis') e'' 4. score voice

Re: Completing the Lilypond puzzle

2005-10-17 Thread A. Deubelbeiss
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:16:25 + From: lars prins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Completing the Lilypond puzzle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I tried this: pages = { % 4 pages with 6 systems each

Re: Beams across bars across systems

2005-10-17 Thread Edward Neeman
Hi Bart, you want the allowBeamBreak set to true: \set allowBeamBreak = ##t Cheers, Edward --- Bart Diels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.S., As a Lilypond newbie I encounter problems with the following. In a certain part of the piece I am trying to encode, the melody line typically

Shortened volta span autopackage

2005-10-17 Thread Shelagh Manton
Hello, I was hoping somebody would point me to the place in the documentation where it shows how to shorten a volta bracket. I've seen it, but can't find it again.. Shelagh Also, could someone explain how the autopackager decides whether to update what you have already on your computer. I

Re: Favorite editor

2005-10-17 Thread D Josiah Boothby
The best editor for LilyPond seems to be jEdit (www.jedit.org) with its LilyPond plugin. (Of course, the best editor at all is either emacs or vi ;-)) I don't really like neither of them. On MacOS X there's also LilyPad - not as mighty, but very comfortable. jEdit with LilyTool would be