Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:55:50 -0700 Michael David Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when Apple bought NeXT from Steve Jobs, the Cocoa framework that became Mac OS X knew nothing of types and creator codes. Now the Mac is borked in the same way windows is. Yes and no. The underlying OS

Re: How to Import MIDI and ETF files in LilyPond

2008-05-16 Thread Luc
under windows xp I get errors too with midi2ly when the filename contains spaces like in yours - see yourself: C:\midi2ly C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user1\Anwendungsdaten\Bach-Brandenbu rg 3 - 1- Oktav Seite1.mid Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-16 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Why always speaking about broken OS-es and softwares? We want to make LilyPond better, don't we? LilyPond generates .midi files, which are not usable for many applications. If LilyPond generated .mid files, it would work on every application (except LilyPondTool :-), which I think unfortunately

Re: How to Import MIDI and ETF files in LilyPond

2008-05-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Luc wrote: under windows xp I get errors too with midi2ly when the filename contains spaces like in yours - see yourself: C:\midi2ly C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user1\Anwendungsdaten\Bach-Brandenbu rg 3 - 1- Oktav Seite1.mid Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: How to Import MIDI and ETF files in LilyPond

2008-05-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00673.html /Mats Matthew wrote: Please help me. I have tried to import in LilyPond some files in MIDI or ETF format. I've used command line; when I write the command, an error message is displayed; sometimes I'm told that the

Re: How to Import MIDI and ETF files in LilyPond

2008-05-16 Thread Luc
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: Isn't it easier to use the folder where the file is placed, as the working directory: cd C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user1\Anwendungsdaten\ then there should be no need to move the files around. You still might have to rename the file to avoid the spaces in

Re: *.mid vs *.midi

2008-05-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 May 2008, at 08:23, Graham Percival wrote: OSX *isn't* stupid, but it pretends to be. I have no clue what the Aqua people were up to. :( The underlying UNIX does not care about file extensions: it is the Finder program that does. On UFS (UNIX file system), the meta-data is stored

Re: change measure's width

2008-05-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
The change suggested by Graham will space out the notes more, but if the note length is increased in this way fewer notes are fitted into the measure, which is probably not what you want. To avoid this, you can internally change the length of the measure like this: c4 c c c \set

Re: Custom lyric extender

2008-05-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
The lyric extender is actually drawn as a long thin box with rounded corners. AFAIK there is no easy way to replace this with any other sort of symbol, but maybe someone can prove me wrong. Trevor - Original Message - From: Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Lyric braces?

2008-05-16 Thread Tim Litwiller
It looks like the attachment didn't come thru - so my example doesn't make a lot of sense. If you want to see the example let me know and I'll put it on a web server after work tonite. Timothy C Litwiller wrote: Timothy C Litwiller wrote: This isn't perfect but may be a place for you to

re: *.midi vs. *.mid

2008-05-16 Thread hhpmusic
Hi, I'm using Windows Xp, and I can give a suggestion to those who use Xp. In fact, Windows Media Player can open .midi file automatically. If you hope to change its extension manually, please open any folders and press Alt-T to bring up the tools menu. Then choose Folder options, ctrl-tab