Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi Mats, 2008/10/2 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you read the warning about the font you need, in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Entering-lyrics#Entering-lyrics Yes, I have seen it. I'm using the standard Century Schoolbook font from LP distribution and

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting the manual: The lyric tie is implemented with the Unicode character U+203F, so be sure to have a font (Like DejaVuLGC) installed that includes this glyph. Note that Pango (the font handling library used in LilyPond) may pick different symbols from different fonts, so even if the rest

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 02.10.2008 (07:18), Werner LEMBERG wrote: Not only is texinfo the worst beast I've ever worked with, You are exaggerating. The LaTeX kernel stuff is worse IMHO. bibtex also comes to mind. But luckily, I've never had to work in any of those directly. Eyolf -- Why are we importing

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/10/2 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that Pango (the font handling library used in LilyPond) may pick different symbols from different fonts, so even if the rest of the text is typeset using the standard Century Schoolbook font, the lyric tie is typically taken from a separate

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/2 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way to tell Pango, which font to use for this lyric tie? If I have both Arial Unicode and DejaVuLGC installed and would like to specify that DejaVuLGC was used. I don't know if this will help, but I've added a link to NR 1.8.3 Fonts in

house chord style - global?

2008-10-02 Thread plutek-infinity
greetings! i have implemented some changes to chord markup symbols, using the method shown at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page#Customizing-chord-names --- i've got this in a house-style.ly, which i \include at the beginning of each lilypond file: %

Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, after six months of hard work (and a significant hair loss as far as Graham is concerned :-) I'd like to declare that I officially don't feel competetent enough to find anything more on my own to improve the 1.8 section of the Notation Reference, aka Text. (and, yes, the

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 02/10/2008, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to tell Pango, which font to use for this lyric tie? If I have both Arial Unicode and DejaVuLGC installed and would like to specify that DejaVuLGC was used. Alright, I installed the same font that worked in the other

Re: Lyric tie glyph not found (directory separator problem?)

2008-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/2 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I even uninstalled LP an reinstalled it several times rebooting in between. I'm slowly running out of ideas. Does anyone have any pointers that might help? If you think a verbose log file might help solving this, I'll be happy to send you one.

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Tomas Valusek
Jonathan Kulp napsal(a): After much revision, addition, and general fussing about with it, I'm happy to post the official version of what we're calling lily2image, a script for converting lilypond source files to cropped image files in many different formats suitable for insertion into

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Josh Parmenter
If you are familiar with scripting, and have Windows, use it as a template. But my guess is you will need to find different utilities to do the conversion and cropping. This is pretty straight-forward to do, since most of these utilities run just fine on linux and mac (though most scripts

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan Kulp
If you have the skills to translate it to Windows that'd be great. I don't know the first thing about Windows so I can't do it myself. I'd really appreciate it if someone could make a Windows version of lily2image :) Jon Tomas Valusek wrote: Jonathan Kulp napsal(a): After much revision,

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tomas Valusek wrote: Jonathan Kulp napsal(a): After much revision, addition, and general fussing about with it, I'm happy to post the official version of what we're calling lily2image, a script for converting lilypond source files to cropped image files in many different formats suitable

Re: house chord style - global?

2008-10-02 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 10/2/08 9:59 AM, plutek-infinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i also wish to have chord symbols only notated when they change. normally, to implement that and the chord symbol modifications, i must put this in any \chords blocks which occur in any ly files: \set chordNameExceptions =

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Kurt, On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Kurt Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And while I'm thinking about it, you could deal with the line-height issue by setting it to 1.125, without any units. ( See Eric Meyer's excellent article about this issue:

stem direction \longa

2008-10-02 Thread Alan Fabian
Hi, the \stemUp command does not work for \longa in my score. Any solutions? Thank you, Alan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: png cropping

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan Kulp
I've actually tried to do this. I booted into the Windows partition of my machine and installed Cygwin and the netpbm package, but I had trouble finding the netpbm stuff from the Cygwin bash shell. The shell seemed very isolated from the rest of the machine, as I couldn't access any of the