Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Brett Duncan
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from a programmer's point of view where the programmer is experienced with some computer languages, these

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony, Daniel Tonda has just began translating the first chapter into Spanish, but he needs some help with Linux, which I can't provide. He says things about OpenOffice and ooLilyPond that I don't understand. Coud you perhaps

Re: uniform-stretching

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Graham, thanks for the notes. Am 24. Dezember 2006, 05:48 Uhr (-0800) schrieb Graham Percival: \acciacatura s32 Do you mean \acciaccatura ? When complaining about a bug, please include a complete example that we can compile (or in this case, not compile). I can't reproduce the

Re: Linux on my Mac

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 28/12/2006 um 10:02 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: I've been working with Macs since the silver days of system 7, when Jobs was out and Linux was a baby. Since I forgot how a semiconductor works, I can't understand computers. Now in those days someone would come and write: optimize your

Re: Linux on my Mac

2006-12-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Manuel escreveu: I was around in the days of CP/M, although I never used it ... :-) And I wonder what kind of animal was a CP/M I fear that if I install, no, try to install Linux in my Mac, an asteroid will fall on earth. Just put it on a second hard disk. If you've got a Power Mac,

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
John, I very much welcome the chance of discussing some essential matters about teaching and learning, transmitting knowledge and abilities, and other matters. Allow me to go back in time. According with modern anthropological theory, humans learn by imitating gestures. (See Clive Gamble,

Re: Linux on my Mac

2006-12-28 Thread Ben
Well, the sky won't fall if you install linux. I currently run a dual-boot machine with ubuntu (#1 Easiest to use Linux distro for 2 years in a row) and Windows XP (I play computer games). Really, if you run a mac, all you need to know is what type of computer you're running -- there has to be a

thoughts

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I just wanted to add to my recent comments. It might seem that my posts are unadequately critical. Although they are fueled by my frustration using the program I want to make clear that I really appreciate the tremendous and excellent work which has been done so far by the developers! Part

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:21, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Claves/Llaves I suppose one is key and one is clef, but as they are both cognates of clef, which is which? Métrica de compás Armaduras mayores y menores Valores rítmicos Sostenidos y bemoles Some months ago Eudy was

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 28/12/2006 um 16:17 schrieb Pierre Abbat: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:21, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Claves/Llaves I suppose one is key and one is clef, but as they are both cognates of clef, which is which? A clave is a clef, llave is something of an alternative term,

Re: thoughts

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I just wanted to add to my recent comments. It might seem that my posts are unadequately critical. Although they are fueled by my frustration using the program I want to make clear that I really appreciate the tremendous and excellent work which has been done

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread David Bobroff
Pierre Abbat wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:21, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Claves/Llaves I suppose one is key and one is clef, but as they are both cognates of clef, which is which? Métrica de compás Armaduras mayores y menores Valores rítmicos Sostenidos y bemoles Some

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 28/12/2006 um 16:38 schrieb David Bobroff: No se preocupe aún por los naturales/becuadros. Explicaremos esto cuando lleguemos a las armaduras. I say drop naturales. Becuadros is well known, at least to me who learned the French word first, and can't be confused with anything else. I

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Brett Duncan-2 wrote: Here's a different idea: instead of specifying the ratio for a tuplet or set of tuplets, what about specifying the duration of a tuplet, and letting LP determine what number appears over the beam? For example, where we now use \times 2/3 { a8 b c } to get a

Re: thoughts

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 28. Dezember 2006, 17:59 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: numbers and underscores do make things easier to read, but it makes things hard to parse. Consider: c4_\staccato_\markup { bla } does this reference \staccato or \staccato_ ? Underscores make most sense in the middle of

segfault on \acciaccatura

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, don't know if that's the one you already caught. This segfaults on my machine: \version 2.11.2 \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \acciaccatura d16 s16 } } } It doesn't segfault if the skip is changed into a note. --

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread David Rogers
Brett Duncan-2 wrote: Here's a different idea: instead of specifying the ratio for a tuplet or set of tuplets, what about specifying the duration of a tuplet, and letting LP determine what number appears over the beam? ...to which Rick Hansen replied: Given your example of... bf16[d, f

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent tuplet with the number 5 and two sub-tuplets with 3 and 2, followed horizontally by the 12 tuplet. If you

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread David Rogers
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent tuplet with the number 5 and two sub-tuplets with 3 and 2, followed horizontally by

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
David Rogers wrote: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent tuplet with the number 5 and two sub-tuplets with 3 and

Re: segfault on \acciaccatura

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, don't know if that's the one you already caught. This segfaults on my machine: \version 2.11.2 \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \acciaccatura d16 s16 } } } It doesn't segfault if the

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Manuel wrote: Am 28/12/2006 um 16:38 schrieb David Bobroff: No se preocupe aún por los naturales/becuadros. Explicaremos esto cuando lleguemos a las armaduras. I say drop naturales. Becuadros is well known, at least to me who learned the French word first, and can't be confused with

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
David Bobroff wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:21, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Claves/Llaves Professional musicians in Mexico usually refer to Clave de Sol meaning G clef. In popular slang, people refer to the Llave de Sol, meaning G Clef. So as to not alienate

vertical arrow

2006-12-28 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, I'm trying to produce a vertical arrow with arbitrary length at a specified horizontal position above the staff, preferrably with a definable dashed line. I got the arrowhead with the following markup command but don't get the line of the arrow: ^\markup{\arrow-head #1 #-1 ##t} Is that

Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? For God's sake: Como is accentuated only when it is in question form in México, in Argentina it is also accentuated in comparative, let's decide how to

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 00:39 schrieb Daniel Tonda Castillo: Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? For God's sake: Como is accentuated only when it is in question form in México, in Argentina it

FW: Visual Slur Tweaking Tool

2006-12-28 Thread Stewart Holmes
Greetings, I’ve knocked up a tool that allows for some tweaking of the control points of slurs visually; it can be downloaded from HYPERLINK http://www.stewartholmes.com/LilypondBezierTool.jarwww.stewartholmes.com/L ilypondBezierTool.jar. Source files are included. It’s still a bit ugly around

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Manuel wrote: What is ubuntu? You can't not know about Google, or how to use it... http://www.google.com/search?q=Ubuntu ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda
2006/12/28, Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 29/12/2006 um 00:39 schrieb Daniel Tonda Castillo: Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? For God's sake: I don't know how: no sé cómo Like

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 01:42 schrieb Daniel Tonda: 2006/12/28, Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 29/12/2006 um 00:39 schrieb Daniel Tonda Castillo: Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? For

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-28 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 15:13 +0100, Manuel a écrit : [...] See this, I show you, do thus, note the ripples - That's teaching! - but only good teaching if the teacher knows where he is taking you. You're effectively focused on teaching in your tutorial, which is a very good point! A

layout-set-staff-size units

2006-12-28 Thread gnomino
Hello, What are the units of #(layout-set-staff-size)? The documentation (11.2.1) suggests that the units are points, like #(set-global-staff-size), but the results are that note heads end up being more than twice as big. Also, putting the command in a \layout block (as in the doc example)

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-28 Thread Brett Duncan
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: David Rogers wrote: Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 28. Dezember 2006, 11:30 Uhr (-0800) schrieb David Rogers: bf16[d, f ef] \tuplet 4 { { { d16 ef f } { g a } } { bf32a c bf d c bf a g f g ef } } The above would generate a parent

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 28 December 2006 18:39, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? Does that mean the set of notes in a scale, or the set of sharps or flats used to

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Manuel
Am 29/12/2006 um 05:22 schrieb Pierre Abbat: On Thursday 28 December 2006 18:39, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Greetings to all fellow spanish-speaking-LilyPond-users! ¡Decision time! Clave or Llave? Armadura or Armadura tonal or Armadura de clave? Does that mean the set of notes in a

Re: segfault on \acciaccatura

2006-12-28 Thread Graham Percival
Orm Finnendahl wrote: \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \acciaccatura d16 s16 } } } Please test on the next .11 release when it comes out; it the problem persists, please send this to the bugs list. Cheers, - Graham

How to concvert an etf file to a lily-pdf (newbiequestion)

2006-12-28 Thread Samuel Van Ransbeeck
Hello I had some problems with Open Music and a responsible from the ircam helped me by concerting the results from a patchwindow to a pdf usibg lilypond. I want to do that myself now, but i am really new to lilypond and with the instructions in the documentation i don't get results,

Re: Beginner tutorial: The spanish wars

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Please help me with the names of these symbols: AFAIK the symbol / is called in spanish Diagonal The backslash: \ I've seen it referred to as: Diagonal invertida. The symbol | I've seen it referred to as: Barra. ¿Are these terms universal or are they usually called by some other term? Daniel

A contribution to the Wiki

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
I was thinking if I could add a section to the Wiki. I use ubuntu and my main desktop environment is GNOME. I've added a couple of nautilus scripts for the nautilus-actions that do two things basically: 1) Right click on a Lilypond file gives the option to convert the file to the latest

Re: Visual Slur Tweaking Tool

2006-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I’ve knocked up a tool that allows for some tweaking of the control points of slurs visually; it can be downloaded from HYPERLINK http://www.stewartholmes.com/LilypondBezierTool.jar How do I proceed? Normally I say javaws URL but for your application I get an error (I use java se 1.5.0