Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. I guess I don't quite understand what you were asking; I can't see why \tag wouldn't work. Using \tag requires that all the variables are defined, and the variables that need (not) to be processed must get a tag. leadWords = \lyricmode { Some

Re: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Roman Stawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Take a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=493 Nice! Is there a way to get rid of the warning: no such internal option: target? This lets you have constructs such as \ifTargetIn #'(foo) { ... } A limitation is that it works on

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Hajo Dezelski
No, I switched from Finale (7 Years) to Lilypond, but I use Lilypond only to write the score to have a basis to work with the music. And here is a problem : I can only export to midi not xml . So I export it to Finale (Human Playback from Robert Piéchaud) or Harmony Assistant (via Midi) and

Re: installation on ToutouLinux 03.01.4

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Charlie Ledocq wrote: ... I did there: lilypond Welcome_to_lilypond.ly and got the following return: # lilypond Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly lilypond: Symbol `scm_i_freelist' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 Segmentation fault # pwd

e: Scheme question: symbol to music

2008-11-13 Thread Roman Stawski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Stawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Take a look at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=493 Nice! Is there a way to get rid of the warning: no such internal option: target? I asked Nicolas Sceaux the same question when he helped me set this up. Apparently,

Re: Vertical spacing between the lyrics of two different verses

2008-11-13 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/13 Dmytro O. Redchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \new Lyrics = upperlyr with { \new Lyrics = lowerlyr with { Do you mean \new Lyrics = upperlyr \with { \new Lyrics = lowerlyr \with { -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) http://www.paconet.org

Re: installation on ToutouLinux 03.01.4

2008-11-13 Thread Charlie Ledocq
Hi Mats! Mats Bengtsson a écrit : ... GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 Segmentation fault # pwd /usr/share/lilypond/2.10.33/ly # It is the result after an installation trial from the Slack file proposed at http://lilypond.org/web/install/ I could uninstall it with the Package Manager present on

opstarten

2008-11-13 Thread gerard Teerds
Ik heb Lilypond geinstalleerd op mijn computer Bij het aanklikken van de snelkoppeling krijg ik een bericht welke ik moet verplaatsen naar mijn bureaublad en daarna verslepen naar de snelkoppeling om programma te runnen. Dit werkt niet of ik doe iets verkeerd. Kunt U mij helpen Groeten GT

download page links

2008-11-13 Thread Bailey James E.
I just noticed that the first use and User help links take new users to the 2.10 documentation. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: opstarten

2008-11-13 Thread Maarten Deen
gerard Teerds wrote: Ik heb Lilypond geinstalleerd op mijn computer Bij het aanklikken van de snelkoppeling krijg ik een bericht welke ik moet verplaatsen naar mijn bureaublad en daarna verslepen naar de snelkoppeling om programma te runnen. Dit werkt niet of ik doe iets verkeerd. Kunt U mij

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan The slowness is certainly not inherently due to Vista as LilyPond has always run fine under Vista here. The slowness issue was discussed at some length back in March 08 on both -user and -bug when it was determined that it was due to font building. This is almost certainly is cause of

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor, perhaps it's the other way around, that you don't suffer from the problems, since you already have a working cache file. Have you tried removing all your cache files (of course, keeping a back-up in a safe place) and trying the latest installation? /Mats Trevor Daniels wrote:

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor, perhaps it's the other way around, that you don't suffer from the problems, since you already have a working cache file. Have you tried removing all your cache files (of course, keeping a back-up in a safe place) and trying the latest installation? /Mats Trevor Daniels wrote:

Re: download page links

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bailey James E. wrote: I just noticed that the first use and User help links take new users to the 2.10 documentation. I think it makes sense to point to the stable version, waiting for 2.12. After all, the 2.11 documentation does not apply 100% to the stable version. Of course, we could

Re: installation on ToutouLinux 03.01.4

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Charlie Ledocq wrote: 8633802d5539e6aedf8f7f924ada4057 (check it by running the command md5sum lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh) I got the same sum! Doing sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh returns the following: ... tail: short write I actually suspect that this line is the best

fontconfig caches

2008-11-13 Thread Bailey James E.
Since there's so much talk of fontconfig caches, I thought I'd ask a question. On my lilypond build, the fontconfig cache is recreated in the working directory. So, for ~/lilypond\ project\ 1/test.ly when I compile that file, I'll get the fontconfig directory structure in ~/ lilypond\

8ths on one line, smaller than regular notes, indicating play as fast as you can

2008-11-13 Thread August Lilleaas
I have no idea what this particular kind of notation is called. Here's an image that has an example of the kind of notation I'm looking for. http://img.skitch.com/20081113-mqfri72ahrsgi431gj87gpef1p.png What is this kind of notation called, and if it's possible in lilypond, how is it done

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats, when I first obtained my laptop, c. March 08, I did a LilyPond installation with the then current 2.11 version on a clean system. So there were no lilypond font caches present. The performance was fine then and has been fine ever since. soon after, I tried various ways to cause the

dotted brevis

2008-11-13 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond users, how can I get a dotted brevis with lilypond? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: dotted brevis

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Popular question this week! See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-11/msg00245.html /Mats Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Lilypond users, how can I get a dotted brevis with lilypond?

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Trevor, I wouldnt look in the first place at problems of Lilypond. I presume that it is a problem of Vista which has too many processes running in the background. You will find, that nearly all programs run slower on this OS. And even when you only need 10 seconds it is too much compared to what

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The slowness is certainly not inherently due to Vista as LilyPond has always run fine under Vista here. The slowness issue was discussed at some length back in March 08 on both -user and -bug when it was determined that

Re: fontconfig caches

2008-11-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Look at /etc/fontconfig ; the default locations may be distribution dependent. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Bailey James E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since there's so much talk of fontconfig caches, I thought I'd ask a question. On my lilypond build, the fontconfig cache is recreated in the

half diminished chord

2008-11-13 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, in the below quoted example the symbol for the half diminished chord is, in my opinion, not printed correctly. How can I get the right one? \version 2.11.59 \header { title =Beautiful love composer = Victor Young } melodie = { \key d \minor \time 4/4 \partial 2. d'4 e' f'

Re: 8ths on one line, smaller than regular notes, indicating play as fast as you can

2008-11-13 Thread Bailey James E.
those are grace notes, with some cross-staff beaming Am 13.11.2008 um 13:16 schrieb August Lilleaas: I have no idea what this particular kind of notation is called. Here's an image that has an example of the kind of notation I'm looking for. http://img.skitch.com/20081113

Re: fontconfig caches

2008-11-13 Thread Bailey James E.
what am I looking for? I don't have /etc/fontconfig. BTW, I'm using osx 10.5 and I build lilypond from sources. Am 13.11.2008 um 15:01 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: Look at /etc/fontconfig ; the default locations may be distribution dependent. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Bailey James E.

Slides (Was Problems with em dash)

2008-11-13 Thread Nick Payne
Well I've got what I want - to indicate move of a finger along the fretboard without lifting it - by creating a music function to modify a glissando with padding on the left and right: slide = #(define-music-function (parser location padleft padright) (number? number?) #{

Finding the relative coordinates of the NoteHead/NoteColumn grob to which a glissando is going

2008-11-13 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey lilypond users, I am using my own stencil for a glissando object and would like to feed it the exact X and Y extent it must traverse from its parent note grob to the grob at which it ends. ly:grob-property grob X-extent and ly:grob-object grob X-extent give me the Boolean #f on both

Re: half diminished chord

2008-11-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/13/08 4:46 AM, Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lilypond-users, in the below quoted example the symbol for the half diminished chord is, in my opinion, not printed correctly. How can I get the right one? What do you want to have for the chord symbol? Carl

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor is correct. Every instance of lilypond slowness was caused by fontconfig caches. The problem is that there are a bazillion of windows versions; I'm not talking about XP vs. Vista but rather

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Perhaps it's worth investigating if it's a problem that has come back in the most recent development versions or if the solution in version 2.11.43-2 only helped for some users. Could any of you seeing this problem try to install version 2.11.43-2 from

Re: installation on ToutouLinux 03.01.4

2008-11-13 Thread Charlie Ledocq
Hi Mats, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : Could you please try to run the following commands tail -c+4591 ../lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh lilynd-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.tar.bz2 tar jtvf lily/lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.tar.bz2 filelist.txt In the resulting filelist.txt file, you should

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
This is quite simply untrue. When running a native program like LilyPond the operating system plays a minimal part in the execution time. It is true that the various extra facilities to do with display eye candy, security, etc in the later Windows OS's take more cpu power, but performance is

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
The problem is that the problem is often hard to diagnose and reproduce without having the afflicted machine at hand. In general, my takeaway from it is that shipping software on top of Windows is a religious experience. You can never be sure that it works, so you have to pray a lot.

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Perhaps it's worth investigating if it's a problem that has come back in the most recent development versions or if the solution in version 2.11.43-2 only helped for some users. Could any of you seeing this problem try to install version 2.11.43-2 from

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Could any of you seeing this problem try to install version 2.11.43-2 from http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/mingw/lilypond-2.11.43-2.mingw.exe and see if it has the same problems. It's probably a good idea to remove all files related to the font cache

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 13.11.2008 (22:03), Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Any Vim users here ? I'm using Vim for editing Lilypond files on a Linux Fedora 9 system. I have syntax highlighting, which is great. How do I enable automatic indentation to make things even easier ? set autoindent set

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:03:02PM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Any Vim users here ? I'm using Vim for editing Lilypond files on a Linux Fedora 9 system. I have syntax highlighting, which is great. How do I enable automatic indentation to make things even easier ? :set

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Eyolf Østrem wrote: On 13.11.2008 (22:03), Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi Lilyponders, Any Vim users here ? I'm using Vim for editing Lilypond files on a Linux Fedora 9 system. I have syntax highlighting, which is great. How do I enable automatic indentation to make things even easier ?

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, folks, but why does this email on Vim show up on the thread about Lilypond being excessively slow on Vista? (My email app is set to sort incoming mail by thread.) This has happened on a couple of other threads

Re: Automatic Indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Thanks for your help. I have now set up Vim with Lilypond syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. Good. I have also started a new thread this time. I didn't realize that just changing the subject line wasn't enough. -- Martin ___

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Frédéric Bron
by the way, do you know how to change the default indentation in lilypond files from 2 spaces to 1 tabulation? Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Automatic indentation in Vim

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:39:28PM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote: by the way, do you know how to change the default indentation in lilypond files from 2 spaces to 1 tabulation? Yes. Edit the file ftplugin/lilypond.vim (in the ~/.vimfiles directory; copy it from /usr/share/lilypond/*/vim if you

Re: Slides (Was Problems with em dash)

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Nick, 2008/11/13 Nick Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To do the same for the lower voice which contains chords at the point where I want these indications, I'll guess have to create a hidden voice or voices to which to attach the glissando. As an alternative, you could use \tweak to set the

Re: half diminished chord

2008-11-13 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/13/08 4:46 AM, Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lilypond-users, in the below quoted example the symbol for the half diminished chord is, in my opinion, not printed correctly. How can I get the right one? This is described in the documentation. See the Notation Reference

beaming macro - fantastic!

2008-11-13 Thread Chip
I don't know who wrote the little macro for changing the default beaming behavior, but it's a fantastic time saver! Thankyou for sharing it in the Snippet Library. :) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org