Re: GDP: summary and directions, 11 Sep ( Trevor Ba?a )

2007-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jay Hamilton wrote: That would then leave the following separate books: * Learning Manual (4 or 5 chapters) * Notation Reference (25 chapters) * Page Layout (handful of chapters) * Program Usage (6 chapters) * Program Reference (15 chapters) I don't see the point of splitting

GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly too, for what it's worth). It's intended for: -beginners, -advanced users, -power users, -super power

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Rune Zedeler
Valentin Villenave skrev: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly too, for what it's worth). LOL :-) -Rune ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

bizarre log file extension when the submitted file is not a .ly file

2007-09-12 Thread Luc
Hi When I submit a file with an other extension than .ly lilypond - under windows XP - creates all ouput files (i.e. .ps, .pdf, .midi) in the expected way - exept the log which's name is built by appending .log to the full name of the submitted file - e.g. submitting xx.txt I get the log

Re: Volta with text snippet needs font correcting

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/11, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Isn't this one of the purposes of the snippet: By default the volta brackets seem to use the dynamics font, which has letters for p, r, f, s, z, m etc., while all other letters look different. Thus one needs to set the font of the volta bracket

Re: Volta with text snippet needs font correcting

2007-09-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It should be possible to modify the .ly code so that both \score blocks are shown. I don't know how the PNG is generated in LSR, but if nothing else works, you can try to add a \book{...} around both score blocks (or simply merge the two into a single \score, which first shows the default, then

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Karl Hammar
Vallentin wrote: ... http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png ... Valentin (who can't sleep at night after reading the mailinglist -- and sucks at Inkscape :) I liked thoose wery much. (I just can't wait 'til dr.No

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Valentin Villenave writes: Forget about GDP. http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png Hah, LOL. Can't wait for tomorrow's adventures ;-) How about featuring this comics from the web page? Jan. -- Jan

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Wow!!! I want to have more of this!!! Good work! 2007/9/12, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everybody, hello Graham, hello John; Forget about GDP. Now. Here's *my* latest greatest Documentation project: the SDPE! (Smallest Documentation Project Ever -- it works with Silly

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png Seriously, this is GREAT! More! More! -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Logo for Lilypond

2007-09-12 Thread Rune Zedeler
After we dropped the Cello-Woman, we haven't really had a logo. I suggest to use Valentin's happy LilyPond-note as a logo. I could start arguing a lot, but hope that it won't be nessesary. The note is just brilliant. Comments? http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/music_expression.png http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/polyphony_eng.png They're great! If you draw more, we'll definitely add them as an appendix to the Learning Manual. Peter pointed out the direct fifth in the

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/12, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter pointed out the direct fifth in the counterpoint; I'll point out that the name should be Pond, Lily Pond -- use a comma, not a semicolon. Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wanted it to sound like the dramatically intense two seconds pause that the

Re: GDP for kids :)

2007-09-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Valentin: the name should be Pond, Lily Pond -- use a comma, not a semicolon. Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wanted it to sound like the dramatically intense two seconds pause that the actors use in the movies: Bond. ... ...James Bond :) Use an emdash (The name is Pond — Lily Pond.) or ellipsis

Re: Guitar tabs and fret diagram

2007-09-12 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Helge Kruse wrote: Hello, writing a piece for guitar I include tabs. At some difficult I want additionally write a fret diagram to show, how to set the fingers. Maybe most guitar players think that's overkill, but the player should see as fast as possible how to set the left hand

Re: How to make different horizontal spacing for each staff?

2007-09-12 Thread Vít Reichel
Hello Mats, thanks for your reply but this is not what I want. I need in general 2 independently spaced staves in a system that have a common barline at the end of every system. I know this is technically not clean but for this modern piece it would be the best possible solution. Thanks Vít