Re: LilyPondTool-2.12-r1 for download

2008-12-31 Thread Bertalan Fodor
What does it complain about? Original message From: Stan Sanderson physinfo...@ameritech.net Sent: 31 Dec 2008 03:04 +00:00 To: Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: LilyPondTool-2.12-r1 for download Bert- Thanks for

Re: TAB question

2008-12-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Johan Vromans wrote Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:20 PM While on the topics of TABs, \relative c' { \new TabStaff { \new TabVoice { c4 d c e8 e | c4 d e2 | } } } Shouldn't the 'e2' be rendered without a stem? It would seem so, but what do people who know

Re: TAB question

2008-12-31 Thread Johan Vromans
Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: Shouldn't the 'e2' be rendered without a stem? It would seem so, but what do people who know about tabs think? AFIK there are two kinds of TABs. The simple kind just has numbers to indiciate string positions. This is used in ASCII TABs. Notes do

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Andrew, I've downloaded Your very useful plugin. It is grat, but in my opinon is one important feature missing; as far as I see, the enharmonic spelling of a note can't changed immediatels with this tool. This would be very helpful, because an es can also be a dis, even in c-major. Good

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/31 chip c...@wiegand.org: Thanks. One more question - what do you use for your .pdf reader? I've tried close to a dozen different readers and only one has a reload option, but it lacks a status bar at the bottom of the window (therefore no line numbers when mousing over the notes). On

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op maandag 29 december 2008, schreef Andrew Hawryluk: I believe that this is the first time that MIDI input is available across all three major platforms (but correct me if I'm wrong). I think you're right: Rumor does this, also quite nice, since 2003, but

Re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Laura Conrad wrote: (This is in Ubuntu 8.10 linux.) I can use midi-input-mode in emacs to enter lilypond notes with my left hand, and the durations on the numeric keypad with my right hand. I can set up qsynth with jackd so that I get audio for the notes I play on the MIDI keyboard. But if I

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/12/31 chip c...@wiegand.org: Thanks. One more question - what do you use for your .pdf reader? I've tried close to a dozen different readers and only one has a reload option, but it lacks a status bar at the bottom of the window (therefore no line numbers when

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Laura Conrad
Grammostola == Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Grammostola So, do you use a midi keyboard for score editing with Grammostola Lilypond? What is a cheap midi keyboard which works Grammostola well on Linux? I have an M-Audio Keystation 49B. It's a USB keyboard,

Tab notation and note lengths

2008-12-31 Thread Ian Hulin
I've just read Johan's reply on another thread about tabs and note stems, which prompted me to ask. How do differentiate between crotchets (quarter-note) and minims (half-note) lengths in tab and also their dotted versions? Should lily use a white-font-on-black-black background for the

Re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread lasconic
Another way is to use MuseScore : http://www.musescore.org Lilypond output is quite beta for the moment, but to get the pitches it should be ok I guess. MIDI input is working on windows and linux. You can even use a prerelease for ubuntu : http://prereleases.musescore.org/linux/ M Watts

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/31 M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com: Sumatra is a GPLed pdf reader for windows http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ It's fast and lightweight, and is also available as part of the PortableApps.com flashdrive bundle. Does it take the PDF file as exclusive ownership? In case not,

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear David, thanks for Your answer. So, it should be possible to do this within jedit, with a macro. 2008/12/31 David Picón Álvarez da...@miradoiro.com: I doubt such resolution is possible given that MIDI notes are given in a numeric form, meaning n semitones over the baseline. As far as I can

re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Phillips
M Watts wrote: Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ A moment with Google and we find this updated URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/ I searched for hans lub midi.

Re: LilyPondTool-2.12-r1 for download

2008-12-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/31 Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu: After stabilization and update for LilyPond 2.12 I released the latest version of LilyPondTool Great! By the way, I noticed that too: whilst I always save all my files in UTF-8, LPT tries to override that and specifies UTF-8Y instead. When I

Fragment with broken/torn/shredded staff lines

2008-12-31 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello all, I need to produce a lot of small excerpts for a musicological thesis, and I'm wondering if there's a way to draw a torn, broken end (and/or beginning) of a staff, as if the paper had been shredded leaving each of its 5 lines an irregular length, (or even just not a vertical aligned

change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, in contemporary music sometimes unusual Clefs are temporarily used within a piece (for example for string instruments clefs where notes indicate the contact point of the bow between fingerboard and bridge). I guess for designing custom clefs one has to define a custom font but I wonder

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread chip
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/12/31 M Watts zwy648...@gmail.com: Sumatra is a GPLed pdf reader for windows http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ It's fast and lightweight, and is also available as part of the PortableApps.com flashdrive bundle. Does it take the PDF file as

Re: LilyPondTool-2.12-r1 for download

2008-12-31 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/12/31 Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu: After stabilization and update for LilyPond 2.12 I released the latest version of LilyPondTool Great! By the way, I noticed that too: whilst I always save all my files in UTF-8, LPT

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/31/08 8:35 AM, chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: No it does not take exclusive ownership - it does have the refresh option. but the deal breaker for me is that it does not have the status bar at the bottom of the window. When I cursor over a note there is nothing to show what line of code

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/31 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Why not LilyPondTool for Jedit? I use it and it's _very_ convenient but the whole thing has a few problems: jEdit sometimes exits unexpectedly. No other program I use in Linux does that, except f-spot. jEdit is heavy to load and very resource

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Tim Slattery
chip c...@wiegand.org wrote: When I installed lily on xp it put the shortcut on the desktop, how would I run it from the 'other' directory? right now all the files, 8 of them each time I drop the .ly file onto the lily icon, are written to the desktop. Do I move the shortcut icon into the new

Re: change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Notation Reference 5.4.6 Visibility of objects may give you the clues you need. Perhaps setting the clef's stencil to #f will be the easiest. Trevor - Original Message - From: Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@mh-freiburg.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Re: change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread Trevor Daniels
Alternatively, Notation Reference 5.5.3 Modifying stencils, might be even closer to what you want. Trevor - Original Message - From: Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@mh-freiburg.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:56 AM Subject: change temporarily to custom

Re: LilyPondTool-2.12-r1 for download

2008-12-31 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Yes, it's my fault. Stan Sanderson írta: On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/12/31 Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu: After stabilization and update for LilyPond 2.12 I released the latest version of LilyPondTool Great! By the way, I noticed that too: whilst

Re: ANN: MIDI input plugin for jEdit

2008-12-31 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
I suppose that one could write a function that searches for the pitch preceding the caret in the text area and modifies it enharmonically. By assigning a keyboard shortcut you would then have the ability to enter ees from the MIDI keyboard and change it to dis by pressing CTRL-something. This is

Re: change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
- Original Message - From: Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@mh-freiburg.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:56 AM Subject: change temporarily to custom clef Hi, in contemporary music sometimes unusual Clefs are temporarily used within a piece (for

Re: [LilyKDE] Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 0.7 released, a new LilyPond music editor

2008-12-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op zondag 28 december 2008, schreef Grammostola Rosea: What am I missing? :( Please look at the versions of the packages (e.g. using aptitude). python-sip4 and python-sip4-dev: 4,7,7 python-qt4 and python-qt4-dev: 4.4.3 libqt4-core/gui etc. 4.4.3 python-kde4

percussion staff rest positions?

2008-12-31 Thread corallina
I have been using the c4\rest method when I need to position a rest on at a particular location when I tried it on the percussion staff it gives an error. I tried something like this bd4\rest. Also I should mention that I am using a custom percussion stave so I would like all rests to line

orchestral template problem - just a question about it

2008-12-31 Thread corallina
I was interested in the orchestral template that was posted by Hu Haipeng and after minor fixes to get it to compile was wondering can someone address these questions. lilypond takes the input file and shoves it all into a single page which is blah. I would like to fiddle with the template but am

Re: midi keyboard input

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Dave Phillips wrote: M Watts wrote: Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ A moment with Google and we find this updated URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/ I searched

Re: change temporarily to custom clef

2008-12-31 Thread M Watts
Trevor Daniels wrote: Alternatively, Notation Reference 5.5.3 Modifying stencils, might be even closer to what you want. Trevor - Original Message - From: Orm Finnendahl o.finnend...@mh-freiburg.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:56 AM Subject: change

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Francisco Vila írta: 2008/12/31 Carl D. Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Why not LilyPondTool for Jedit? I use it and it's _very_ convenient but the whole thing has a few problems: jEdit sometimes exits unexpectedly. No other program I use in Linux does that, except f-spot. jEdit is

RE: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread Nick Payne
jEdit with LilyPondTool and the jPedal PDF viewer. Click on a note in the viewer and it takes you to the note in the source ly file. You don't have to close the PDF in the viewer in order to rebuild it, and when you click in the jPedal Window after LP has generated the new PDF, it automatically

Re: save generated files to a separate directory

2008-12-31 Thread chip
Nick Payne wrote: jEdit with LilyPondTool and the jPedal PDF viewer. Click on a note in the viewer and it takes you to the note in the source ly file. You don't have to close the PDF in the viewer in order to rebuild it, and when you click in the jPedal Window after LP has generated the new PDF,