Re: MIDI and transposing instruments

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Chubb
> "bernie" == bernie arai writes: bernie> i'm trying my hand at finally using the midi output of bernie> lilypond to audition my scores (instead of relying on my bernie> horrid piano playing). after a bit of messing around, and a bernie> while looking through the docs, i'm a bit stumped as t

MIDI and transposing instruments

2009-06-04 Thread bernie arai
i'm trying my hand at finally using the midi output of lilypond to audition my scores (instead of relying on my horrid piano playing). after a bit of messing around, and a while looking through the docs, i'm a bit stumped as to what to try next. i've defined instruments for example: tenorsax

Re: question re: changing color of notes and lyrics

2009-06-04 Thread Stephen Corey
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:11:37 +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > Those are ledger lines. > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/music-glossary/ > ledger-line#ledger-line > > Am 04.06.2009 um 19:07 schrieb Stephen Corey: > >> Hello Lilypond gurus, >> >> I have a template that I use on voc

Re: question re: changing color of notes and lyrics

2009-06-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Those are ledger lines. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/music-glossary/ ledger-line#ledger-line Am 04.06.2009 um 19:07 schrieb Stephen Corey: Hello Lilypond gurus, I have a template that I use on vocal songs where there is an echo. The echoed part has greyed out notes/sta

Re: Question from a mac user

2009-06-04 Thread James E. Bailey
Yes, this is a known issue. Please see the instructions on the download page at http://lilypond.org/web/install Am 05.06.2009 um 03:15 schrieb sam: When I install the software and open the app, none of the menu items display. Has anyone else run into this and how can I fix it? __

Re: Question from a mac user

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Thornock
What's your exact OS? On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM, sam wrote: > When I install the software and open the app, none of the menu items display. > Has anyone else run into this and how can I fix it? > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-us

Question from a mac user

2009-06-04 Thread sam
When I install the software and open the app, none of the menu items display. Has anyone else run into this and how can I fix it? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Grace note immediately after key change

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Nick Payne wrote: With multiple voices, if I have a grace note in one voice immediately after a key change, the output gets garbled unless I put dummy grace notes in the other voices. Is this expected? With the following example, I get the This is a known issue, mentioned just below the section

question re: changing color of notes and lyrics

2009-06-04 Thread Stephen Corey
Hello Lilypond gurus, I have a template that I use on vocal songs where there is an echo. The echoed part has greyed out notes/staff and lyrics of another color. I've figured out how to change most of the properties of the music but still can't figure out the name of the line running through

error with eps backend

2009-06-04 Thread fiëé visuëlle
This is a normal LilyPond run (in German): hraban$ lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.12.2 »test.ly« wird verarbeitet Analysieren... Interpretation der Musik... Vorverarbeitung der grafischen Elemente... Ideale Seitenanzahl wird gefunden... Musik wird auf eine Seite angepasst... Systeme erstellen...

Hairpin after-line-breaking -- how?

2009-06-04 Thread Zoltan Selyem
Hi all, I want the hairpin to end on the first note of a new line. I tried this: \version "2.12.2" \paper{ ragged-right=##t } \relative g'{ \override Score.Hairpin #'after-line-breaking = ##t g2\< a4 a4 | \break b2.\! r4 } But it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Zolt

Re: Again : notes for toms and floortoms

2009-06-04 Thread tao_lilyponduser
It's been some time but now I finally managed to make a working function. The suggestion from Kieren was a good starting point but had to be modified much more than I had expected at first. Well, here is a short example. I haven't done much testing yet so if something doesn't work as it should,

{Spam?} Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords (bit OT)

2009-06-04 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Atte André Jensen wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Yes, this is what is needed. But I have a reference for chord naming at http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory17.htm#namechords If this is wrong, then corrections would be appreciated. That look pretty good, I disagree here and there (some sma

Grace note immediately after key change

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Payne
With multiple voices, if I have a grace note in one voice immediately after a key change, the output gets garbled unless I put dummy grace notes in the other voices. Is this expected? With the following example, I get the attached output, with the key signature doubled, the coda not over the preced

Can't get LilyPond to work.

2009-06-04 Thread Steven Pape
I have downloaded LilyPond and cannot get it to work. Every time I hit the "LilyPond" button, no matter what the data is in the LilyPond box I get an error box: soffice The system cannot find the path specified. Is there anything I can do to make LilyPond work? I am running Open Office in Wind