Re: GDP: renaming Program {usage, reference}

2007-11-09 Thread ian_hulin
I hope this contribution isn't too late, but here goes. I'm commenting here before I have a look closely at the PDFs and possibly get bogged down in detail. Isn't the purpose of the Internals Reference to show Lilypond users how to customize/interpreter the compiler to produce source code which

lilypond-book poet and composer cut off

2007-11-09 Thread René Brandenburger
Hi, after upgrading from an earlier version to 2.11.34, composer and poet get cut off, see the p in the attached png. Is there a tweak or workaround available or should it be considered a bug? Using 2.11.34 on ubuntu gutsy. thanks in advance rene --- 8 --- lily-snippet: --- 8 ---

Roman numeral chord notation in lilypond

2007-11-09 Thread Patrick Taylor Ramsey
Hello, all. I'm a bit flummoxed; I've been searching for the last hour and a half for a way to typeset roman numeral chord notation (ii, V65/V, N6) under a staff in lilypond and found nothing, except for a lone message dating from 2003 stating that said notation wasn't yet supported. Is this

Re: Newbie question about variable durations

2007-11-09 Thread Rune Zedeler
(going back on list) Ben Fagin skrev: I've revised my implementation to set up variables using the make-pitch function instead of variables and it works now. Thank you! Now that I think about it, you do not have to use make-pitch. You can extract the pitch information from a note, like this:

page breaks related to header size

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Scott
2.11.34 In this example there is clearly room for another system on the first page. Removing anything from the header will allow another system to move to the first page. Whatever is removed from the header clearly doesn't take as much vertical space as one system. I have worked for

LSR - lilypond docs

2007-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
LSR finally has tags, so it's time to describe how LSR and the lilypond docs are linked. I seem to be incredibly bad at describing this, so bear with me. I've described it to the devel team at least three times, and they're a lot more familiar with our source tree than anybody else. But let's

GDP: the snippets vs. texinfo

2007-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
OK, it's finally time for the big fight! In managing the docs, I need to weigh multiple contradictory demands. PDF vs. HTML: pdf readers generally prefer to have consecutive documentation, with few links. HTML readers generally prefer to have links everywhere. Stable docs vs. wiki: some

Re: page breaks related to header size

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Scott
Michael David Crawford wrote: Paul Scott wrote: 2.11.34 In this example there is clearly room for another system on the first page. Removing anything from the header will allow another system to move to the first page. Whatever is removed from the header clearly doesn't take as much