Optional \set command in changing \Score context, v.2.11.63

2008-11-04 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi list, in section 5.1.4 Changing context default settings of the manual it reads The \set keyword is optional within the \layout block, so \context { … fontSize = #-2 } will also work. At least in case of setting skipBars to ##t within \Score context using optional \set I

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/4 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For us who follow the bug mailing list, it's not a problem to answer these questions, but it's a bit annoying for the poor newcomer that she/he has to receive a next time you have a usage question, please use the lilypond-user mailing list instead.

Re: Text markup stacking

2008-11-04 Thread Bailey James E.
Priority. See Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts in 1.3.1 Articulations and ornamentations Am 04.11.2008 um 14:09 schrieb Michael Käppler: Hi guys, following example: \version 2.11.63 \relative c'' { a4^blablablablablabla g f e d1^blablabla } How can I decide whether in case

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/11/4 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To save us all from that, it would be great if there was some enthusiastic person who liked to read half a dozen mailists, who could write weekly or biweekly summaries of

help

2008-11-04 Thread stefano cucuzzella
Hi, sorry, I'm trying to do something with Lilypond but I'm afraid there is no option for that. I want to write music with automatic accidentals EVERY note (even if the notes shouldn't need any accidental), like in Second Viennese School music. Is there something to make the program do it

Re: help

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
You want the dodecaphonic accidental style. It's in 2.11. See the docs on Automatic Accidentals. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:23:18PM +, stefano cucuzzella wrote: Hi, sorry, I'm trying to do something with Lilypond but I'm afraid there is no option for that. I

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/4 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If somebody (not necessarily you) were willing to monitor multiple mailing lists and write a newsletter about them every two weeks or so, then I think that inventing a -beginner list is a great idea. If not, then I don't think that -beginner would

The behavior of a \score block

2008-11-04 Thread Dany
Hello, I've read Lilypond's documentation, and something has been bothering me: what is a \score block? I mean what does it actually do? For instance, what is the difference between entering a \score block and writing \new Score? I haven't found anything about it in the documentation except

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-11-04 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/4/08 3:44 AM, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl, you wrote Monday, October 27, 2008 12:03 AM On 10/26/08 4:44 PM, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl D. Sorensen Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:30 PM In fact, it may be possible to greatly reduce (or even eliminate)

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/4 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To save us all from that, it would be great if there was some enthusiastic person who liked to read half a dozen mailists, who could write weekly or biweekly summaries of anything interesting that happened on those mailists. That way we'd all know

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: You have a point... but I still don't think we want to bring more trafic to -user. I disagree. I'd rather have normal users answering clueless newbie posts rather than you or other people reading bug-lilypond. I agree to say

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-11-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl, you wrote Monday, October 27, 2008 12:03 AM On 10/26/08 4:44 PM, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl D. Sorensen Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:30 PM In fact, it may be possible to greatly reduce (or even eliminate) explicit settings in scm/auto-beam.scm and replace them with

Re: Optional \set command in changing \Score context, v.2.11.63

2008-11-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thies Albrecht wrote Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:36 AM in section 5.1.4 Changing context default settings of the manual it reads The \set keyword is optional within the \layout block, so \context { … fontSize = #-2 } will also work. At least in case of setting skipBars to

Text markup stacking

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi guys, following example: \version 2.11.63 \relative c'' { a4^blablablablablabla g f e d1^blablabla } How can I decide whether in case of a collision markup two is stacked on top of markup one or the other way round? Cheers, Michael ___

Re: The behavior of a \score block

2008-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have read the documentation for version 2.11, since it has been heavily revised and improved compared to the documentation for version 2.10 (and it applies almost completely also to version 2.10 if you happen to use that). In particular, you should find answers to most of your

Re: Output Media

2008-11-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-10-31 um 13:10 schrieb Thermo: Does anyone have a reference or guide to paper quality and paper weights for printing the scores? Has anyone printed to T-Shirts or other media? I mostly typeset songbooklets, and those get printed on default 80g offset/xerox paper; our church

lilypond-book: Output would overwrite input file error

2008-11-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi All, I'm getting to know lilypond-book, both with html and LaTeX source files, running running Ubuntu 8.04 with 2.11.63. As suggested in the manual, I've specifed an output directory ( --output=out). So let's say my source file is ~/Book/filename.lytex and my output directory is

Re: The behavior of a \score block

2008-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/4 Dany [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've read Lilypond's documentation, and something has been bothering me: what is a \score block? I mean what does it actually do? For instance, what is the difference between entering a \score block and writing \new Score? I haven't found anything about it

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Regarding those newbies who are looking for a GUI: Why don't we publish a screenshot or two? Users are looking for screenshots if they evaluate a new application (at least I do), and if we show a shot of a terminal window of a LilyPond session and another of some text editor with a piece of

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only problem is that the screenshot will look very different depending on what your favorite text editor looks like. For Windows, we could certainly show a screenshot using the Lilypad editor, but it's far from the best editor. If you want selling screenshots, see

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-11-04 um 21:10 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: fiëé visuëlle wrote: Regarding those newbies who are looking for a GUI: Why don't we publish a screenshot or two? Users are looking for screenshots if they evaluate a new application (at least I do), and if we show a shot of a terminal

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Dominic Neumann
2008/11/4 fiëé visuëlle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2008-11-04 um 21:10 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: fiëé visuëlle wrote: Regarding those newbies who are looking for a GUI: Why don't we publish a screenshot or two? Users are looking for screenshots if they evaluate a new application (at least I

opening on my web site

2008-11-04 Thread Ben Podgor
Printed my song. It looks wonderful. Put it on my web site. Was unable to open it. Scanned it into computer. Then uploaded scanned copy to my web site. But have a problem with my web site or scanner because the copy is enlarged when viewing. Is there a way that I can get program to open on my

Re: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks for all suggestions and ideas. However, I think that the main answer to my initial question was given by Valentin in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-11/msg00048.html For us who follow the bug mailing list, it's not a problem to answer these questions, but it's a bit

Re: opening on my web site

2008-11-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
are you talking about uploading a .pdf file to your site? I had problems with this once and solved it by specifying binary mode when using ftp to transfer the files to the server. HTH, Jon Ben Podgor wrote: Printed my song. It looks wonderful. Put it on my web site. Was unable to open

Re: opening on my web site

2008-11-04 Thread David Stocker
Are you trying to open the .pdf from the website from within a browser? You'll need a browser plug-in (like Adobe Reader) that can open .pdf from within the browser. Otherwise, you'll have to download the file and open it with whatever standalone program you use to read .pdf files. -Dave Ben

RE: Why do so many newcomers post to bug-lilypond?

2008-11-04 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Regarding those newbies who are looking for a GUI: Why don't we publish a screenshot or two? With regards to the many very-valid-varied comments, maybe should be a gallery of how people do work with LP? I personally use my own editor, and surely see different screen shots than probably

contribute some context defs

2008-11-04 Thread 胡Hu Haipeng
Hello, During some months' work, and getting your kind help, I have made up many defs in a large file which I always include. It contains many defs grm mailinglist and LSR. Now, I'd like to share some context defs with you. I don't know whether they are correct, but I hope these will be of

Re: contribute some context defs

2008-11-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Thanks for sharing your definitions. However, don't forget to tell what LilyPond version you are using, since these definitions are likely to be version dependent. /Mats ??Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, During some months' work, and getting your kind help, I have made up many defs in a large file

Re: contribute some context defs

2008-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/4 胡Hu Haipeng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: During some months' work, and getting your kind help, I have made up many defs in a large file which I always include. It contains many defs grm mailinglist and LSR. Now, I'd like to share some context defs with you. Greetings Haipeng, Nice work! If

Re: Lilypond versus … everything else

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Watts
Cordilow wrote: This isn't a technical question about how to use Lilypond, but rather I'm wondering if other programs are capable of doing all that Lilypond can. It seems like there are quite a lot of things in LilyPond I that I suspect other programs don't even offer. Is this true? For