Re: THANK YOU for Lilypond-Book

2008-11-08 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:00:13PM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Just a quick note to say Thanks to whoever's responsible for Lilypond Hear, hear. Wonderful. -- Thanks Joe Mc Cool Snark, currently LEYC 028 37548074, 07802572441

Re: Three newbie questions

2008-11-08 Thread Bertalan Fodor
\set chordRootNamer = #(lambda (x) (-)) or something like that (I'm not sure about the syntax), then \unset chordRootNamer would do the trick. Ok, I wasn't able to make some valid lilypond syntax with this. I asked google and didn't get much help there. What's the error message?

Re: polyphonic chaos, of sorts

2008-11-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Tom The problem in bar 3 is that you omitted the chord brackets .. from the a4. Remember fingering orientation works only for chords, even when there is only a single note. The problem in bar 15 is caused because you have set the various fingering orientations in the (default) Voice

How to prevent \center-column colliding with other markup?

2008-11-08 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, I am trying to add a \center-column'ed text in my markup block. However, that part is not properly aligned (at least in my opinion) and it is partially placed on top of the text that's on its left side. Should I wrap the \center-column part inside some other markup function? I already tried

Re: How to prevent \center-column colliding with other markup?

2008-11-08 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Risto, 2008/11/8 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am trying to add a \center-column'ed text in my markup block. However, that part is not properly aligned (at least in my opinion) and it is partially placed on top of the text that's on its left side. Should I wrap the

Re: Installing new font

2008-11-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I couldn't get it to work properly. I think I got fontconfig to cache the font properly; fc-list contains the line TenorSigns:style=Regular But when put this in my .ly-file: c_\markup { \override #'(font-encoding . TenorSigns) { \char #0 } } What about

Re: Installing new font

2008-11-08 Thread Hugo Flordal
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Hi, I have a metafont font with embellishment symbols (for Scottish tenordrum feathering and flourishing) that I'd like to use in LilyPond. Do you want to contribute? :-) We could integrate them. I would love to, but there is no standard for

proportional notation (a la earle brown etc.) was: Re: uniform-stretching

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i've just been looking at the threads on proportional notation (time-space notation) and found these: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg35955.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg35775.html

point and click brings up two emacs instances

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Canning
hi, i have this problem using point and click: when i click on the pdf two instances of emacs start - this is nice but one is plenty :) any clues? i am running GNU/Linux pure:dyne (distro based on Debian lenny) GNU LilyPond 2.11.63 xpdf version 3.02 GNU Emacs 22.2.1 i have this in

Re: proportional notation (a la earle brown etc.) was: Re:uniform-stretching

2008-11-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Rob There is quite a bit on proportional notation in the 2.11 Reference Manual, but you may have missed it as I don't think this section has been indexed yet. See section 4.5.5 Proportional notation. Trevor - Original Message - From: Rob Canning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user

Re: polyphonic chaos, of sorts

2008-11-08 Thread Tom Cloyd
Trevor, Thanks for the explanation and the fix. All errors are now vanished. Much appreciated. Tom Trevor Daniels wrote: Hi Tom The problem in bar 3 is that you omitted the chord brackets .. from the a4. Remember fingering orientation works only for chords, even when there is only a

polyphonic chaos, of sorts

2008-11-08 Thread Tom Cloyd
Greetings. Things have been going very well for me with Lilypond, until now. However, an interesting problem has arisen. (I'm running ver. 2.11.62, on Kubuntu Linux 8.04.1). In my guitar scores, I like my fingering indications (left hand only) to precede a voice's note(s), directly to the

horizontal shift of notes not working

2008-11-08 Thread Tom Cloyd
I've gotten this to work fine, until now. It's not working at all. In the score code below, measure 15 is the problem. On the third beat, I need to shift either of the top two notes to the right. I've tried to shift both. Neither will budge a bit. In the score below I'm trying to shift the top

Re: THANK YOU for Lilypond-Book

2008-11-08 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 07 November 2008 23:00, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Just a quick note to say Thanks to whoever's responsible for Lilypond Book. The combination of Lilypond with LaTeX is one of the most impressive tools I've ever used. I wish I'd had this when I was working on my doctoral

[ANN] lilypond-kde4, base lilypond package

2008-11-08 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi Daniel and Valentin, and other LilyPond + KDE or LilyKDE users, I just released a basic package for lilypond editing under KDE 4.1+ http://lilykde.googlecode.com/files/lilypond-kde4-0.1.tar.gz It contains - three icons for LilyPond documents, based on oxygen, crystalsvg and one neutral one,

Re: [ANN] lilypond-kde4, base lilypond package

2008-11-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/11/8 Wilbert Berendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just released a basic package for lilypond editing under KDE 4.1+ Hi Wilbert, wonderful! I'll have a look right away. - three icons for LilyPond documents, based on oxygen, crystalsvg and one neutral one, based on the LilyPond note XPM icon,

Re: THANK YOU for Lilypond-Book

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan Kulp
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I used it for tengtr.pdf, on my site. It is too gnarly for my application, and the next version will be done in html rather than latex for conversion to pdf. Lilypond-book is ideal for a counterpoint workbook however. I can hardly wait to link to it. I suggest

Re: [ANN] lilypond-kde4, base lilypond package

2008-11-08 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zaterdag 8 november 2008, schreef Valentin Villenave: I hope you've also had a look at the icon I drew at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-09/msg2.html Yes! I used the same approach. Your oxygen variant is even better, with the shadowed note! :-) best regards,

Lyrics font problem

2008-11-08 Thread 胡海鹏 Hu Haipeng
Hello, Still for my song. The full orchestral score has finished yesterday, but I don't know how to override the font of Lyrics. It seems that LyricText can't accept #'font-name, and though I used #仿宋_GB2312 For the Chinese texts, Lily still says the warning for not knowing how to embed