Re: How to increase space between chord names and the fret diagram?

2006-12-04 Thread Stephen Torri
Thank you very much for giving me an example. Now I understand completely what you had in mind. Stephen On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:58 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: That's not exactly what I had in mind. Since the default value of minimum-Y-extent in Lyrics is (-1.2 . 2.4) (see the program

Re: LilyPond 2.4.6 for cygwin?

2006-12-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Scharkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bug report, please. I get: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Thanks, but that's not enough for me to reproduce it. How do you ivoke lilypond? What does cygcheck /usr/bin/lilypond say? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: DynamicLineSpanner padding

2006-12-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Trevor Bača trevorbaca at gmail.com writes: (I personally think that at least dynamics should exhibit baseline alignment by default, but at least there's an easy workaround with definitions like those above.) Any text that aligns horisontally, should align on the baseline. For latin scripts

Re: LilyPond 2.4.6 for cygwin?

2006-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since the error message complains about feta20.afm, it has nothing directly to do with ec-fonts-mftraced. Rather, I suspect that you have teTeX 3 installed, which is a bit more picky about where font related files are located, compared to earlier teTeX versions, see

Re: Two questions about note heads

2006-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The basic principle is the same as is described in the section on Polymetric notation. For example, you can do: \version 2.10.0 mynotehead = \markup{\musicglyph #scripts.turn } \score { \relative c''{ a \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override

Re: Tutorial

2006-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you read How LilyPond files work in the Tutorial, you will learn that if you have something like \relative b' { \set Staff.instrumentName = 2 \key c \major \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() d2 c b r a4 b c a g2 r b4 c d b a b c a b c d b a b c a d2 c b r a4 b c a g2 r \bar || }

Lilypond 2.8.8 for cygwin (was: Lilypond 24.6 cygwin)

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
I invoke Lilypond from the cygwin bash. cygcheck /usr/bin/lilypond: -- C:/cygwin/usr/bin/lilypond - Cannot open -- cygcheck /bin/lilypond: -- C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.dll

Re: Tutorial

2006-12-04 Thread Manuel
Thanks very much for your help, Mats! Typesetting music with LilyPond is fun. I can't do it right, but it is still fun. (And actually it wasn't fun with other, commercial programs). It is perhaps difficult for a poor musician with no knowledge whatsoever of a command-line way of working to

Re: Tutorial

2006-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Manuel wrote: As of now, there are three things between me and happiness, at least concerning the first half of my first work with LilyPond, so I can show it to people like a newborn child: ... - I need to put the page numbering in the center. I looked in page formatting and elsewhere in

Customizing the footer with information from the current score -- possible?

2006-12-04 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Hi, I have several multi-score \books that I want to typeset, and ideally I'd like to do this from within Lilypond (and not with lilypond-book) to take advantage of the new line/page breaking (and to keep my tool-chain as short as possible). Now, I know how to include a full header for each

Re: proportional notation screws up score

2006-12-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: On 12/3/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: 2. There is a bug with proportional not dealing with skips correctly. Proportional notation handles notes and rests correctly. But proportional notation freaks out with skips. I noticed this

Re: Lilypond and TextMate

2006-12-04 Thread bbarros
what do I do with this file? 2006/11/29, Jacob Rus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Christian Hitz wrote: Hi Jacob, I used your Lilypond bundle for TextMate. While working an a few songs, I made some refinements to the bundle. See the attached patch. Thanks for your work. Christian Thanks. I've

String numbers

2006-12-04 Thread Luc
Hi Following the description in the snippet tablature.ly in the regressiion tests of Lilypond 2.10.0 I would expect string numbers in all the 4 chords! Am I mistaken? Thanks Luc ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: changing the appearance of noteheads

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 11/23/06, Martijn Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much! I already tried, but it doesn't work somehow. Are there any known bugs? Probably I just do something stupid. In the layout block I inserted this code: \context{ \Staff \override NoteCollision

Re: changing the appearance of noteheads

2006-12-04 Thread Martijn Vromans
Thanks very much! This really IS a major advantage for some of my scores! Thanks! Martijn 2006/12/4, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/23/06, Martijn Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much! I already tried, but it doesn't work somehow. Are there any known bugs? Probably I

uniform-stretching

2006-12-04 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as expected. If I understand this property correctly, it should stretch out bars according to their time-signature regardless of skips or rests within. This fails (e.g. the first measure should be much wider than the second,

Extracting parts from a .ly file?

2006-12-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello users, does anybody have a Python or Perl script to extract parts from a .ly file and save them into a different file? For example: I have several files with: soprano = { music } alto = { music } etc. and would like to get each part in a different file (soprano.ly, alto.ly, etc.ly) .

GUI Interface for MAC OS X

2006-12-04 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
Does anyone know a good GUI interface for MAC OS X? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: NoteEdit?

2006-12-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mike Blackstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen very little mention of NoteEdit and I'm wondering, is the project dead in the water? http://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter

Re: uniform-stretching

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as expected. If I understand this property correctly, it should stretch out bars according to their time-signature regardless of skips or rests within. This fails (e.g.

Re: uniform-stretching

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as expected. If I understand this property correctly, it should stretch out bars according to their time-signature

Re: proportional notation screws up score

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/3/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: 2. There is a bug with proportional not dealing with skips correctly. Proportional notation handles notes and rests correctly. But proportional notation freaks out with skips. I noticed this some time ago but haven't

Re: GUI Interface for MAC OS X

2006-12-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-12-04 um 20:25 schrieb Ezequiel Sierra: Does anyone know a good GUI interface for MAC OS X? MacOS X *is* a GUI interface for BSD Unix. :-) If you're looking for a LilyPond GUI interface: - LilyPad http://edbaskerville.com/software/lilypad/ (very simplistic; author is sleeping,

Re: Lilypond and TextMate

2006-12-04 Thread Jacob Rus
bbarros wrote: what do I do with this file? Just grab the newest Lilypond bundle out of TextMate's subversion repository, or grab the GetBundle bundle from http://validcode.net/stuff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: GUI Interface for MAC OS X

2006-12-04 Thread Franz Fellner
hi Does anyone know a good GUI interface for MAC OS X? I'm sure canorus will become one: http://canorus.berlios.de At the moment it is still a little bit spartanic (under heavy development), but the code and the application-design look really promising. Greez Franz

Re: uniform-stretching

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as expected. If I understand this property correctly, it should

Complex piano score

2006-12-04 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Greetings - This is not about a bug or a specific problem; rather, it's a request for advice. I'm running LilyPond 2.10 under WinXP SP2. I'm transcribing a complex piano score with a lot of markup and one to four voices. Each voice is silent for up to many measures at times. I would like to be

Re: Complex piano score

2006-12-04 Thread Graham Percival
Palmer, Ralph wrote: It looks like there are multiple strategies for producing such a score. Do any of you have a favorite strategy you'd be willing to share? I've looked at the LilyPond examples and the User Manual, but nothing appropriate jumps out at me. I have no experience at producing

using an older tex file

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Gran
Hi, I have a tex document that I created with version 2.7.40 (I think) and haven't updated it in a while, but want to now, don't have that version installed, installed the new version, and can't get it to ouptu successfully. I've attached the windows output and the beginning of the doc. Can

Re: a2 paper

2006-12-04 Thread Graham Percival
James Bailey wrote: I was wondering if you ever got this to work and what OS you're using. I've been able to successfully edit paper.scm and got it to work on Windows, unfortunately, my primary platform is Mac OSX, and I can't get it to work there. Please keep lilypond emails on the mailist.

Re: a2 paper

2006-12-04 Thread James E. Bailey
I edit the file successfully. The same file that works on windows, on macintosh generates a PDF that's rotated landscape. I am editing the paper.scm inside the lilypond app. Here's what happens. I compile the file in lilypond, and the pdf that is generated is my new paper size, but the paper

odd choral score problem

2006-12-04 Thread James E. Bailey
So, I'm creating a choral score and having some difficulties. First of all, I put everything in separate files because it's just easier for me to find errors that way, so posting music would be a bit difficult, I'll explain everything as well as I can. I have SopranoMusic defined in its own

Re: Measure-initial spaces confuse propotional spacing

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor Bača escreveu: \new Score \with { \override SpacingSpanner #'uniform-stretching = ##t \override SpacingSpanner #'strict-note-spacing = ##t proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) try adding \override

Re: Complex piano score

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Palmer, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - This is not about a bug or a specific problem; rather, it's a request for advice. I'm running LilyPond 2.10 under WinXP SP2. I'm transcribing a complex piano score with a lot of markup and one to four voices. Each voice is silent

Re: uniform-stretching

2006-12-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/06, Orm Finnendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried the uniform-stretching property but couldn't get it to work as

Re: svg backend

2006-12-04 Thread Julian Peterson
Howdy. I sent this a few days ago, but haven't gotten a response. I have found several emails in the mailing lists reporting similar problems, but haven't found a solution. Is this an error with lilypond or with my understanding? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks... JP Julian

Re: odd choral score problem

2006-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Impossible to say without seeing your .ly files. Could you please try to reduce your example to a few lines of code that illustrates the problem (it may very well happent that you find the problem yourself during that process). /Mats James E. Bailey wrote: So, I'm creating a choral score

Re: NoteEdit?

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel Tonda
I've tried canorus but it does not seem to be stable enough, plus it lacks basic functionality yet. Noteedit (2.8), seems to be the latest and exports old lilypond-code but with the convert-ly script there's no problem. Daniel Tonda C. 2006/12/4, Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mike