Re: Engraved 'look'

2006-03-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Leo Trottier wrote: Apologies if this has already been debated/discussed extensively, but ... ... in my experience with (beautiful) Barenreiter editions a quality that I feel most striking is the 'old-fashioned' look -- there are seldom razor sharp staff-lines (as tend to be produced by laser

Re: [OT] More mail problems!

2006-03-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Are these in the order you received them? Gilles wrote: Now I get postings in 2, 3, 4, 5 and up to 6 copies! The duplication happens on lists.gnu.org as shown here below [In the following excerpts, the same mail id (1FDfSF-0006PI-0B) has produced 6 different messages]: --- Copy 1 ---

bug mailing list

2006-03-04 Thread Andrzej Kopec
Is is there any problem with bug-lilypond mailing list? I posted a few messages during last days, but with no response. BTW, is there place where lilypond bugs are listed? /ak/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

NaN?

2006-03-04 Thread Andrzej Kopec
what means this output from lily: ... Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][33][35] programming error: Inf or NaN encountered continuing, cross fingers programming error: Inf or NaN encountered continuing, cross fingers programming

Fw: [almost OT] Music score with RTL lyrics

2006-03-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
This ongoing discussion on the unicode list might be of interest for some of you, especially the remark how to use the maqaf character instead of a hyphen between Hebrew syllables. Werner ---BeginMessage--- Andreas Prilop wrote: What happens with the five special glyphs used normally

Re: Page Formatting in 2.7.36-1

2006-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 2-Mar-06, at 10:31 AM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: Has anybody else experienced problems with Page formatting. Settings set in the \paper block don't seem to do anything. They work here. Are you sure your lilypond code is correct? Please send a minimal example which demonstrates this

Re: Force Line Ending

2006-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 1-Mar-06, at 5:14 PM, Carrick Patterson wrote: Is there a way within a \markup block with \wordwrap applied to force a text line ending? I'd like to be able to do: \markup { \wordwrap {CHAPTER ONE [?line ending?] Text of the chapter.} } } You can use two newline characters if you use

Re: What's up with this list

2006-03-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Yesterday (Feb 28) there was hardly anything coming through, and today (Mar 1) I got a the same message several times. What's going on? Buggy mailing-list software, rouge hackers, etc... Earlier this week, many messages had been arriving in ad-havok fasion. That's pretty much what

kick xpdf in lilypond-mod.el

2006-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm trying to get a tighter integration between emacs-snapshot and xpdf by starting up xpdf in server mode (with the -remote switch, one for each *.ly buffer) and kicking the current document rather than restarting a new xpdf process. Can someone give an advice how to integrate that

How to embed conditional non-music code

2006-03-04 Thread Alan Stern
How can I make a non-music part of my .ly file conditional? For example, suppose I want to add something like between-system-padding = 0.3 \in to the \paper{} section, but only if the Scheme variable partNum is equal to 0. There doesn't seem to be any way to do it. The #{ ... #} syntax

Re: Engraved 'look'

2006-03-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Darius Blasband writes: Softening corners is ok. But imperfections are not warm. They are just that: imperfections. Adding imperfections of any temperature to a printout could be an interesting thing to try. It is probably not specific to music prints, it could also be used for text. Maybe

Re: color constants?

2006-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Mar-06, at 5:08 PM, Trevor Bača wrote: Is there a complete list of color constants available in settings such as Umm, appendix C.3 ? Try searching for color in the table of contents. :P I'll admit that it's not in the index yet. Fixed in CVS. Cheers, - Graham

Re: lilypond and LaTeX. Music glyph in a sentence.

2006-03-04 Thread ezebirman
Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 27 February 2006 20.26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear fellows: I'm working on an essay where a sentence like the following is needed The first segment has a duration of 110 dotted quarter and blah, blah... where dotted quarter should be

Re: macosx command line lilypond-book

2006-03-04 Thread David Rogers
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:08:45 -0600, Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Han-Wen Nienhuys: Graham Percival wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? Back in the .dmg package days, there were a few scripts (and a README). The lilypond.sh script contained python

Re: Engraved 'look'

2006-03-04 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Darius Blasband wrote: As much as I think that old scores must be used as source of inspiration for balance, aesthetics, etc., I think that reproducing their defects for the sake of old-fashioned look would be odd. Softening corners is ok. But imperfections are not warm. They are just that:

Re: macosx command line lilypond-book

2006-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Feb-06, at 2:21 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Don Blaheta wrote: All the above are small scripts that I got from the old .dmg packages. I'm not certain how to get these for recent 2.7 releases, nor where they'll be for 2.8, since now we just have a .zip. Aha! On my other machine I

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-03-04 Thread Henrik Frisk
I would really appreciate it if the fonts where included in the output. As I have not been successful in getting the fonts to load in They are. The problem is that most SVG renderers (including Inkscape and Firefox) don't handle the font tag, which means that they don't

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-03-04 Thread Henrik Frisk
[lilypond svg] I would really appreciate it if the fonts where included in the output. As I have not been successful in getting the fonts to load in They are. The problem is that most SVG renderers (including Inkscape and Firefox) don't handle the font tag, which means that they

Re: macosx command line lilypond-book

2006-03-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 27-Feb-06, at 2:21 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Don Blaheta wrote: All the above are small scripts that I got from the old .dmg packages. I'm not certain how to get these for recent 2.7 releases, nor where they'll be for 2.8, since now we just have a .zip. Aha!

Re: point and click

2006-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 02. März 2006, 23:40 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: which version ? 2.7.36., which comes with guile 1.8.0 (in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin) The problem was solved in the meantime by setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH. I made a wrapper script for lilypond to keep my guile 1.6 usable. -- Orm

lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, it seems an old bug concerning lilypond-mode in emacs-snapshot is still lurking in lilypond-mode.el: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil I found a report on the net dating from last July that it has been fixed in lilypond-cvs, but the lilypond-install.sh of 2.7.32 still got it and using the

Re: more text-interspersing issues

2006-03-04 Thread Carrick Patterson
After painful experimentation I have found that this works (note that the material after \justify has to be enclosed in curly brackets): \markup{ \override #'(line-width . 110) \justify{The first exercise is to be done with very short bow movements of about one inch. The tapping or

Re: color constants?

2006-03-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/4/06, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3-Mar-06, at 5:08 PM, Trevor Bača wrote: Is there a complete list of color constants available in settings such as Umm, appendix C.3 ? Try searching for color in the table of

Re: point and click

2006-03-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
which version ? Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, point and click doesn't seem to work as expected. After setting up xpdfrc, EDITOR (and, to be sure LYEDITOR), and clicking into the score, I get the following error in emacs: ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file

Re: Aligning lyrics to an invisible Voice

2006-03-04 Thread Martial
One suggestions, %-- \version 2.6.4 upper = \transpose c c' { \time 3/4 c4 e g | c e g | c e g } lower = \transpose c c { \time 3/4 c2. | c | c } %Change here Invisible = { \hideNotes \time 3/4 c4 c c | c4. c8 c4 | c2. |}

Re: bug mailing list

2006-03-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Andrzej Kopec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, is there place where lilypond bugs are listed? I maintain a CVS archive of known bugs, here: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ Usually there's a more readable, but less up-to-date, listing here (it's generated from the

moving rest vertically

2006-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, trying to input my first complete piece with lilypond (Bach's Prelude #20 from the WTC I), I stumbled across a rather trivial problem: A 32nd rest in a polyphonic 2nd voice collides with a note in the first voice. Can someone give me a hint how to move that rest down by 1 or 2 staff lines? I

mail delay

2006-03-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, can anybody confirm that mail takes about 2 days to get to the list? Is there a way to accelerate this somehow? -- Orm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Example of two-pass vertical spacing tweaking

2006-03-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Hi, Here is an example showing how to use the two-pass vertical spacing feature. (It cannot be added to LSR, which uses version 2.6). nicolas \version 2.7.36 %{ For the first pass, use the write-tweak option: $ lilypond -d write-tweaks file.ly This will write the file-page-layout.ly tweak

How to 'unset something

2006-03-04 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
I'm sure this is easy but I can't even begin to figure out a way to search it in the manual I used \setEasyHeads for many of my students pieces but I would like to stop that function mid-way through the piece or even just a few measures into it. What is the command for that? Thank you. Jay

Re: macosx command line lilypond-book

2006-03-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? Back in the .dmg package days, there were a few scripts (and a README). The lilypond.sh script contained python $INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py \ $INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/ $@ There was also a

Re: macosx command line lilypond-book

2006-03-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 28-Feb-06, at 2:47 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: They are installed. They're in LilyPond.app/Contents/Resource/usr/bin/ Could you double-check this? There's no ./usr in my 2.7.36-1.zip package. Sorry, you're right of course. It's LilyPond.app/Contents/Resource/bin/

Re: Aligning lyrics to an invisible Voice

2006-03-04 Thread Martial
One suggestions, %-- \version 2.6.4 upper = \transpose c c' { \time 3/4 c4 e g | c e g | c e g } lower = \transpose c c { \time 3/4 c2. | c | c } %Change here Invisible = { \hideNotes \time 3/4 c4 c c | c4. c8 c4 | c2. |}

Re: color constants?

2006-03-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/4/06, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3-Mar-06, at 5:08 PM, Trevor Bača wrote: Is there a complete list of color constants available in settings such as Umm, appendix C.3 ? Try searching for color in the table of contents. :P I'll admit that it's not in the index

Re: Engraved 'look'

2006-03-04 Thread Aaron VonderHaar
Sounds like a job for an image filter. ps2pnm music.ps gimp -i -b ' (let* ((image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE music001.pnm music001.pnm))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image (plug-in-blur RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable) (gimp-file-save

Re: stems in the treble clef

2006-03-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Annette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that when I do the examples in the tutorial, the stems in the treble clef go up in your examples and yet when I do them, the stems go down. The only time I can make them go up is when I did that example of deciding where to draw the beam.