Several midifiles together

2006-04-29 Thread philippe hezaine
Hi version 2.8.1-4 (Fedora 4) After reading in the list, I have built a template for put several midifiles in one file .mid (see below) Is it possible, in a similar way, ie. with the identifiers upperun, upperdeux ... and then score, to make a template for the layout ? (with indent for the

Re: New User

2006-04-29 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 2006-04-28 um 21:12 schrieb Stan Mulder: Here's what I do, and I use Linux: I use a graphical program to input the general notation. Then I export that info to a Lilypond music file. Then I can tweak the music with a text editor until I get it they

Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, has anyone created a block diagram of LilyPond, which would show data flow, relationship between various modules, etc? It would be great help for obtaining global idea what LilyPond's about. Tomas Valusek ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: can not get --help info from out/convert.ly

2006-04-29 Thread dax2
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:09:32 +0200 dax2 wrote: Hey -- I think I saw this on the list but my search through all mails does not give any hits. Why do I get this error -- I cannot figure out. Same happens with lilypond-book.py. When I rerun the script, the empty convert-ly.1 satisfies

Re: Several midifiles together

2006-04-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. After reading in the list, I have built a template for put several midifiles in one file .mid I was once looking for a tool to concatenate the files that lilypond generates from several \score blocks. What you propose is *not* that. You just put everything in a single \score, and of

Re: can not get --help info from out/convert.ly

2006-04-29 Thread dax2
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:09:32 +0200 dax2 wrote: import lilylib as ly ImportError: No module named lilylib neptun:/usr/local/src/lilypond-2.9.2 # I forgot to mention that I made local make install in the directory containing lilylib, so that I now have

Re: Voicing problems

2006-04-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. Any help would be most appreciated! I've made some change to your file [see attachment], most notably to make explicit use of the Voice context. Best, Gilles \version 2.6.3 global = { \clef G_8 \key d \minor } preludemelody = \relative c' { % \global %

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread andrea valle
I was thinking the same. It would be extremely useful. Best -a- On 29 Apr 2006, at 12:30, Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, has anyone created a block diagram of LilyPond, which would show data flow, relationship between various modules, etc? It would be great help for obtaining global idea

Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
Which frontends do yo all use for lilypond? Here's the ones I've tried out so far, with my experiences - some bad, some good: 1. NoteEdit. I like the way one can just input bare, basic notation, and the configurability. I've also come to like the way the keyboard input works, at least after I

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Stan Mulder
I've tried them all except for Jedit and have settled on Noteedit. It gets me started, then I manually edit the .ly file. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Several midifiles together

2006-04-29 Thread philippe hezaine
Hi. After reading in the list, I have built a template for put several midifiles in one file .mid I was once looking for a tool to concatenate the files that lilypond generates from several \score blocks. What you propose is *not* that. You just put everything in a single \score, and of

Re: Several midifiles together

2006-04-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. (Please, tell me if it run for you) When you provide a code snippet, you should make sure that it contains valid syntax, so that one doesn't have to fiddle to make it compile. Hmm... Of course, it run for me. It's a valid syntax. As it is, it's not! [...etc (lines 15, 18, 22),

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What target group do you have in mind? Unless you are a programmer, I don't really see how it would help an ordinary music typesetter. /Mats Quoting Tomas Valusek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, has anyone created a block diagram of LilyPond, which would show data flow, relationship between

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: What target group do you have in mind? Unless you are a programmer, I don't really see how it would help an ordinary music typesetter. I disagree. Even though I am a programmer I know this would help with things like the set v.s. override question. Paul Scott

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Giroir
Eyolf Ostrem wrote: Which frontends do yo all use for lilypond? Here's the ones I've tried out so far, with my experiences - some bad, some good: 2. Rosegarden. I had hopes for this program, but most of them have been thrashed. The keyboard input mode is hopeless, with the fixed positions,

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
3. Jedit + LilyPond plugin Looks very promising, but apparently there's something wrong with my java setup, because if I try to do anything more than the most basic text input, I get errors and nothing happens. You might try to look at the LilyPond+jEdit tutorial at

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Franz Fellner
Hi 3. Jedit + LilyPond plugin Looks very promising, but apparently there's something wrong with my java setup, because if I try to do anything more than the most basic text input, I get errors and nothing happens. To get this work properly i had to use jre-1.5.0 instead of the (standard)

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
On Sat 29 April 2006 19:03, Franz Fellner wrote: Hi 3. Jedit + LilyPond plugin Looks very promising, but apparently there's something wrong with my java setup, because if I try to do anything more than the most basic text input, I get errors and nothing happens. To get this work

Re: Several midifiles together

2006-04-29 Thread philippe hezaine
Hi. (Please, tell me if it run for you) When you provide a code snippet, you should make sure that it contains valid syntax, so that one doesn't have to fiddle to make it compile. Hmm... Of course, it run for me. It's a valid syntax. As it is, it's not! [...etc (lines 15, 18, 22), ...

Re: how to override default font size for markup?

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just do \override TextScript #'font-size = #-1 To learn more about this and other properties that can be set, goto the section on Text Scripts in the on-line manual. At the bottom of the page, click on TextScript and at the bottom of the next page click on font-interface. The general

Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The manual includes a direct example of how to change the minimum vertical spacing allocated to a Staff. To specify a fixed vertical space for the Staff, just use the same syntax but with the property called Y-extent instead of minumum-Y-extent. Here is a full example, which shows both

Error message

2006-04-29 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I'm using 2.6.1 I'm getting an odd error message. The file appears to parse and process correctly. Then after Lilypond has computed the line and page breaks I get the messages ERROR: In procedure ly_scm2double: ERROR: Wrong type argument: (-8) The file then appears not to have written to the

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Geoff Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \define-music-function {\foo \x \y} { c8 \x d8 \y } ... { \foo e16 {f g} } = { c8 e16 d8 {f16 g16} } The usefulness of this kind of function is disputed among developers, so it might not become part of the official lilypond distribution. I am not a

Re: Syllables not centered under notes after volta

2006-04-29 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello Eyolf! It looks like a bug. Why would it be left-aligned after all? But it appears that Lilypond didn't like this structure of creating 2 voices contexts, namely stollen and abgesang, and then, in the score block, creating another voice context (called one) comprising them. So, if you

Re: Error message

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would recommend to upgrade to the new stable version 2.8. If you search the mailing list archives of bug-lilypond, you might be lucky to find something related but don't expect anyone to come up with a fix for such an old version of the program. /Mats Quoting Vivian Barty-Taylor [EMAIL

Re: Boxes and bars

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting c.m.bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, I sent a message to the list a couple of days ago and never heard anything back, I'm just wondering if the message actually went through, because it seems like people here are good at responding :) That's easy check, just look in the mailing

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Laura Conrad
EO == Eyolf Ostrem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EO Which frontends do yo all use for lilypond? Here's the ones I've tried out so EO far, with my experiences - some bad, some good: I have most often used ABC for the initial note entry, and then edit the abc2ly lilypond output if it needs

Re: can not get --help info from out/convert.ly

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Johnson
I forgot to mention that I made local make install in the directory containing lilylib, so that I now have /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.9.2/python/lilylib.py /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.9.2/python/lilylib.pyc even if Lilypond-2.9.2 has not been built yet. Greetings/Donald See the

Re: Muted (Stopped) notes in Tablature

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The following hack seems to work: \override TabNoteHead #'stencil = #ly:note-head::print \override TabNoteHead #'glyph-name = #2cross \override TabNoteHead #'style = #'special \override TabNoteHead #'stem-attachment = #ly:note-head::calc-stem-attachment) /Mats Quoting Christopher Giroir

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread andrea valle
As I have never contributed to docs, I'm always a bit embarassed in giving advices. So, first many thanks to all. In any case: I found absolutely necessary to have in lily docs many diagrams as possibile. Lily is a complex program, where user can operate at different level. A schema showing

Re: how to tweak measure padding (global setting)

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you think LilyPond does something wrong, please send the message to the bug-lilypond mailing list. Regarding your attempts to set the space-alist: - Why not start from the default setting and just replace the entries in the list that you want to change? The default is \override

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-29 Thread Geoff Horton
Using the techniques currently available in LilyPond, Erik's example is easily implemented as: foo = #(define-music-function (parser location x y) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{ c8 $x d8 $y #}) { \foo e16 { f g }} As you see, you don't really need any Scheme competence to do it. I question

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-04-29 Thread Geoff Horton
What target group do you have in mind? Unless you are a programmer, I don't really see how it would help an ordinary music typesetter. Well, it could help those of us who'd like to help out more with development but don't have a clear conception of how stuff fits together. Geoff

Re: how to tweak measure padding (global setting)

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry, I pressed Send too quickly. Quoting Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you think LilyPond does something wrong, please send the message to the bug-lilypond mailing list. Regarding your attempts to set the space-alist: - Why not start from the default setting and just replace the

Re: more programming errors

2006-04-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Actually, I think the programmer who did the error was you! The error message probably refers to the fact that the space-alist entry doesn't have all the necessary information that it usually has. Of course the formulation reveals that whoever wrote it didn't expect too many users to modify

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-29 Thread David Feuer
On 4/29/06, Geoff Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I question that. I think it looks easy to you because you already know how it all works and fits together. I do agree that adding some more examples to the manual would help greatly. Agreed. LilyPond is a domain-specific language. It is

Re: Which frontend?

2006-04-29 Thread Stefan Hackl
Hello, I also tried several possibilities for input. I came to Noteedit and emacs. Noteedit helps me entering the notes and creates a basic output file for lilypond. Try the newest SVN Version of Noteedit, lilypond export was improved and very soon a direct-printing option will be available