Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Polesky
Bert, I don't know to what extent my particular system affects the following issues, but here are some questions and comments. QUESTIONS: 1) What does Use complex parser mean? 2) What effect does Enable experimental features have? 2) my PDF file path has contains spaces, but I don't want to

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Mark Polesky wrote: Bert, I don't know to what extent my particular system affects the following issues, but here are some questions and comments. QUESTIONS: 1) What does Use complex parser mean? If you use this, you will get an almost real LilyPond parser, that will find errors like c.8

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Francisco Vila
I have installed it and here are my comments. I am under Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid I previously had installed the plugin from the list in plugin manager, is the plugin manager aware of the new plugin installed by other means? Or, what has to happen for the updated plugin to appear in the list so

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Or, what has to happen for the updated plugin to appear in the list so I could easily give instructions to new users? While it is in testing phase I would not like to upload to the plugin manager. So you can only install manually. My procedure of installation has been to copy and

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Articulations are applied to the wrong note unless the cursor is just next to the note name. Could you provide an example please? Use ^ for cursor position. Thanks. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/18 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu: Articulations are applied to the wrong note unless the cursor is just next to the note name. Could you provide an example please? Use ^ for cursor position. Thanks. For example let's apply an accent. Here [space] is a plain

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/17 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: Hmm... No, this doesn't help. I have a 450-pages score with a somewhat complex piano part (cross-staff voices, internal polyphony etc) and I can't check every system one by one. The very reason why I have given up using your trick is because

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hey Valentin, Nicely done! Definitely LSR-worthy… Best regards, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

blank pages

2008-12-18 Thread james
I'm wondering how I can force lilypond to have blank pages. I see the blank-page-force, but I don't understand how to get it. For example: \paper { blank-page-force = ##t } \markup { page one } \pageBreak \pageBreak \markup { page four } ___

Re: blank pages

2008-12-18 Thread james
Ha, I found a solution, empty markups: \markup { page one } \pageBreak \markup {} \pageBreak \markup {} \pageBreak \markup { page four } Am 18.12.2008 um 13:35 schrieb james: I'm wondering how I can force lilypond to have blank pages. I see the blank-page-force, but I don't understand how to

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/18 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Nicely done! Definitely LSR-worthy… Will do. Here's a better version, that also demonstrates a slight bug (the cross-staff slur doesn't work well) %%% one = { \repeat unfold 4 { a4 b c' d'} \break

Re: blank pages

2008-12-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Ha, I found a solution, empty markups: Nice… As per a suggestion by someone (Nicholas?) a while ago, perhaps you should use \markup \null instead? Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/18 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu: Most popup windows do not have a suitable default width. Which? Did I say most? no, I meant one or two and not your fault. Sorry! Document Setup Wizard - insufficient height Page layout - this dialog is excessively tall for my

Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
Hi Could people please have a look at the PDF at the following link. Note the positioning of the sixth and seventh chord in this dummy music sheet and compare their placement with that of the subsequent chords on the sheet. Is this normal behavior or a potential bug in the positioning routines for

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Simon, Is this normal behavior or a potential bug in the positioning routines for chord placement? Looks to me like skylining is doing its best! =) There's probably a way to \override ChordNames so that it's exempt from skylining, but I don't know how — hopefully someone else has the

flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly thicker and change its relative possition to the notehead or is there a better way. is there some sort of

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/18 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu: The menu has 8 entries, first 4 are localized, how could be 5-8 as well? Those menu items that are localized in LilyPondTool_es.properties, will be appear localized only if this file is copied to the jedit application

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/18 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: 2008/12/18 Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca: Nicely done! Definitely LSR-worthy… Will do. Here's a better version, that also demonstrates a slight bug (the cross-staff slur doesn't work well) If ever there were an LSR

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/18 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: 2008/12/18 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu: The menu has 8 entries, first 4 are localized, how could be 5-8 as well? Those menu items that are localized in LilyPondTool_es.properties, will be appear localized only if this

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/18/08 9:41 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Simon, Is this normal behavior or a potential bug in the positioning routines for chord placement? Looks to me like skylining is doing its best! =) There's probably a way to \override ChordNames so that

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Rob, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning robcann...@eircom.net: hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly thicker and change its relative possition to the

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, For me, it's the lyrics context that should not use skylining. We should keep everything (dynamics, notes, etc) out of the lyrics line. Excellent point — I wholeheartedly concur! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/18 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: If ever there were an LSR snippet deserving of the tag `really cool', this is it. :) Actually, I'm considering creating a badly needed tag for this :-) It's a bit of a shame it doesn't work with explicitly instantiated voices though. ??? It does

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Rob, hi thanks for the response, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning robcann...@eircom.net: hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Rob, hi thanks for the response, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning robcann...@eircom.net: hello, i would like to replace ties between notes with a line connecting note heads. i'm not sure how to go about this. should i try and flatten the curve of the tie, make it slightly

The Drummer's Gigsaw: CHA-CHA-CHA patterns.

2008-12-18 Thread Philippe Hezaine
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Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/18 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: 2008/12/18 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: If ever there were an LSR snippet deserving of the tag `really cool', this is it. :) Actually, I'm considering creating a badly needed tag for this :-) Heheh. I've tried implementing Kieren's

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/18 Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com: I've tried implementing Kieren's suggestion for keepAliveTogether, but can't get my head round the problem of each VerticalAxisGroup having no concept of another above or below. IIRC Joe has mentioned that he was (remotely) planning to do something

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/18 Rob Canning i...@robcanning.info: strange this doesnt seem to make any difference here - no doubt i have it in the wrong place in the code or some such - i tried it in a few places but no luck Apart from my useless typing, if it still doesn't work you must be using a version before

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Canning
ok so i have flattened the tie with: \override Tie #'details #'height-limit = #0 next i want to make sure all the ties start emerging from the actual note so there is no vertical offset i looked here for other tweekables: /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/define-grobs.scm

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testin g

2008-12-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Unfortunately yes unless we find a way to make it automatic. Original message From: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com Sent: 18 Dec 2008 09:07 -08:00 To: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) lilypondt...@organum.hu Cc: lilypond lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: New LilyPondTool version

Re: New LilyPondTool version available for testing

2008-12-18 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, I installed the new lilypondtool and the new version of jedit (r16) on two different pcs. I have the following problems: - the file LilyHelp.jar was only in the version which could be installed via the plugin manager. I have manualy installed afterwards the new version. The help version

Re: flatten ties ~ proportional notation.

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Rob, 2008/12/18 Rob Canning robcann...@eircom.net: ok so i have flattened the tie with: \override Tie #'details #'height-limit = #0 next i want to make sure all the ties start emerging from the actual note so there is no vertical offset i looked here for other tweekables:

trouble installing

2008-12-18 Thread steve berthiaume
hello, i'm trying to install lilypond on puppylinux 3.01, and i'm having a problem with extracting the files: # sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh LilyPond installer for version 2.10.33 release 1. Use --help for help You're about to install lilypond in /usr/local/lilypond/ A script in

Re: trouble installing

2008-12-18 Thread Jonathan Kulp
steve berthiaume wrote: hello, i'm trying to install lilypond on puppylinux 3.01, and i'm having a problem with extracting the files: # sh lilypond-2.10.33-1.linux-x86.sh LilyPond installer for version 2.10.33 release 1. Use --help for help You're about to install lilypond in

Re: suppressing bar numbers at rehearsal marks?

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mark Polesky wrote: The reason for printing the bar numbers makes sense if the rehearsal numbers come every 30 bars or so -- long stretches of music would be without bar numbers, which is unacceptable. Certainly, but I still don't see the point of using boxed/circled

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Simon J Mackenzie
The idea of having to manually tweek each lead sheet is not what I had in mind. Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening automagically? Simon On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:32:11 -0500, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca said: Hi Carl, For me, it's the lyrics context that

Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

2008-12-18 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Carl, For me, it's the lyrics context that should not use skylining. We should keep everything (dynamics, notes, etc) out of the lyrics line. Excellent point — I wholeheartedly concur! Kieren. For

Re: workaround: keeping piano staves alive together in a RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2008-12-18 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Would there be a way to move to the \RemoveEmptyEngraver to the PianoStaff context in these cases? I can imagine people wanting the ability to do the same thing with various StaffGroups from time to time ... maybe that will have to wait for a more formal solution in the future. Andrew On Thu,