Re: instrument name misalignment

2009-07-06 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I have several instances where instrument names are too high, much higher than the staff center line. It happens with both full and short names, but only when a volta bracket is over the first measure. If this rings a bell and merits further discussion, I can provide examples. Without

Re: Compiling with GUILE and PANGO

2009-07-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On zo, 2009-07-05 at 16:58 +, Michael wrote: I'm trying to compile lilypond-2.12.2 on ALT Linux 4.1 system with Guile 1.8 and receive the following error (as result of ./configure): ERROR: Please install required programs: guile-config = 1.8.0 (installed: 1.6.8) guile-config 1.8 is

Re: lilypond 2.13 download

2009-07-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On za, 2009-07-04 at 11:41 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I can't download lilypond 2.13.x from the Lilypond website. When I go to http://lilypond.org/web/install/#2.13 I see version 0.0.0 and documentation version 0.0.0-0, and if I point my mouse on any of the downloadlinks I see

Re: Dutch download page (was: lilypond 2.13 download)

2009-07-06 Thread John Mandereau
Hi guys, Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 09:37 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : This is also true of the site built from git, so it's not a webserver issue. There has never been any file named nl/install/index.html in the web site source tree, and make does not generate any file named

[dal segno / da capo] - Kopf Kopf

2009-07-06 Thread Werner
Hello, I was looking for quite a long time till I found \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } 1.: In german this symbol is often called Kopf so this should be mentioned in the glossary. 2.: There could be an example for a dal segno al Ø-Ø in the NR. 3.: I have some questions about

Re: [dal segno / da capo] - Kopf Kopf

2009-07-06 Thread Werner
Werner mey.wer at web.de writes: It would be nice to have a possibility to put ^\mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } and _\mark \markup { \italic \bold {{d.s. }}} to the same \bar || After the barline could be a \break The d.s. should appear at the end of the first line (beneath),

Re: [dal segno / da capo] - Kopf Kopf

2009-07-06 Thread David Stocker
Werner, You may achieve some of what you're looking for with these variables that I've been meaning to add to the LSR. You can play around with them and change some them to suit your purpose. I've had good luck with putting them in parts and having them display only once in the score, above

Re: [dal segno / da capo] - Kopf Kopf

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
For starters, have a look at these snippets in the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=coda+segno Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: instrument name misalignment

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Shaw
You're right of course; I just thought it was worth asking on the off chance that someone would know right away what I was talking about and I could save myself the hour or so it would take to construct a minimal example. In the course of doing that I've found one further necessary condition for

Re: instrument name misalignment

2009-07-06 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Montag, 6. Juli 2009 14:58:30 schrieb Alan Shaw: You're right of course; I just thought it was worth asking on the off chance that someone would know right away what I was talking about and I could save myself the hour or so it would take to construct a minimal example. In the course of

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On vr, 2009-07-03 at 14:41 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: Here it is: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html#Home Okay, so this is starting to be really great. Now, I know you have not been spending too much work on the slick looks side of things, but do we have

removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Buhr
The following is a left-hand octave-exercise for guitar. It has no tempo. I do not want the natural symbols to appear in the exercise. I used Staff.extraNatural = ##f is an attempt to eliminate the naturals as per the instructions on page 6 of the Notation Reference manual, but that did not help.

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/6 Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl: Just by accident I looked upon Valentin's page, if only we would be able to steel the header images/gradient and possibly put nicely rounded tabs into the bottom of that header gradient [CSS stealing suggestion: http://tinto-taal.nl ] and also

Re: removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, The following is a left-hand octave-exercise for guitar. It has no tempo. I do not want the natural symbols to appear in the exercise. I used Staff.extraNatural = ##f is an attempt to eliminate the naturals as per the instructions on page 6 of the Notation Reference manual, but

unfoldRepeats for midi - a little hack.

2009-07-06 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Here is a possible solution for the problem you get when you put all your \repeat volta structure in a separate variable (often named global) and then you want unfold all your music (for MIDI output for example). . The globalizeMusic.ly (see joined files ) proposes a function \globalizeMusic

Re: removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Buhr wrote: Is there a way to remove all the natural symbols? #(set-accidental-style 'forget) Also, is there a way to increase the font size of the 8 in the treble_8 clef? \override Staff.OctavateEight #'font-size = #2 HTH - Mark

Re: removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Kieren MacMillan wrote Monday, July 06, 2009 3:50 PM Also, is there a way to increase the font size of the 8 in the treble_8 clef? Override the Clef stencil, and build the markup yourself -- I don't know any other way. See the docs (especially the LSR) for examples of overriding grob

Re: removing naturals

2009-07-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Trevor (et al.), There is an easier way. The octavation symbol is a separate grob Cool! Yay, Lilypond!! [This will definitely be a setting I adjust in my main \include \init_Lilypond.ily file: I've always found it too small, but have been too busy to tweak it.] Thanks, Kieren.

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/6 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: 2009/7/6 Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl: Just by accident I looked upon Valentin's page, if only we would be able to steel the header images/gradient and possibly put nicely rounded tabs into the bottom of that header gradient [CSS

Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Amiable
Hi, New user to Lilypond; a convert from Finale2009. My use of music notation is for transposition, mainly. I can't afford an A clarinet at present, so I need to tranpose A clarinet parts for my Bb clarinet. When I follow the manual, I don't get good results. Example: A clarinet part

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/6 Amiable buffet1150...@verizon.net: Hi,  New user to Lilypond; a convert from Finale2009.   My use of music notation is for transposition, mainly.   I can't afford an A clarinet at present, so I need to tranpose A clarinet parts for my Bb clarinet.   When I follow the manual, I don't

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/6 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: What I'd do is to enclose the section in B major into \transpose cis des { } thus gaining 5 extra flats in the key. ... which leads to two new problems: octave changes and relative doesn't work. The fragment is short and you can fix all pitches

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread James E. Bailey
On 06.07.2009, at 18:06, Amiable wrote: Hi, New user to Lilypond; a convert from Finale2009. My use of music notation is for transposition, mainly. I can't afford an A clarinet at present, so I need to tranpose A clarinet parts for my Bb clarinet. When I follow the manual, I

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/6 James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: On 06.07.2009, at 18:06, Amiable wrote: Hi,  New user to Lilypond; a convert from Finale2009.   My use of music notation is for transposition, mainly.   I can't afford an A clarinet at present, so I need to tranpose A clarinet parts for

AAA accordion notation in LilyPond?

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Sharkis
I'm a very new LilyPond user and I play accordion. I've been asked by my small band to do some arrangements. I can write lead sheets off the top of my head, but since our keyboardist needs help with reading music, it would be unfair for me to teach him to read treble and bass clef and use

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Werner
Thanks for the hints. But there is not yet a solution. While lilypond is intelligent enough, to print the \mark -segno and coda symbols only once *above* if they are places in several voices/staves of a system/StaffGroup at the same position, I'm really missing a similar possibility for placing

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Francisco Vilapaconet@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/6 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: 2009/7/6 Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl: Just by accident I looked upon Valentin's page, if only we would be able to steel the header images/gradient and

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Hans Aberg
On 6 Jul 2009, at 18:49, Francisco Vila wrote: I'm assuming the middle section should be in b-flat major instead of a-sharp major? if you wrap the b-major section with \transpose ais' a' { \relative { \key b \major ... } } This effectively transposes the music, I'd rather say

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizenjanneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On vr, 2009-07-03 at 14:41 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: Here it is: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html#Home Okay, so this is starting to be really great. Now, I know you have not

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Bannister
Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 (The \mark command makes a RehearsalMark.) Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Polesky
Patrick McCarty wrote: What's really awesome about tinto-taal.nl is that the rounded corners are implemented with SVG images! I also like the layout of gimp.org. Click their menu links too. Nice looking site. - Mark ___ lilypond-user

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/7/6 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: I also like the layout of gimp.org. Click their menu links too. Nice looking site. Since you're mentioning that, http://www.blender.org/ has a top-menu that is very similar to the new Lily website's draft. Regards, Valentin

Reuse \header definitions: Is it possible?

2009-07-06 Thread Ariel David Moya Sequeira
Good evening! I'm currently typesetting a string quartet. So far, I have all separate parts already programmed, but I want to put all of them in a single PDF file. I was thinking about using a single \header definition for all the separate parts, so the same title, subtitle, composer and arranger

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread ArnoWaschk
Hans Aberg wrote: On 6 Jul 2009, at 18:49, Francisco Vila wrote: I'm assuming the middle section should be in b-flat major instead of a-sharp major? if you wrap the b-major section with \transpose ais' a' { \relative { \key b \major ... } } This effectively transposes

Re: Reuse \header definitions: Is it possible?

2009-07-06 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Is there a way to reuse a \header definition? Yes; you put all your header items in a file which you then include wherever you need them: In file header.inc.ly: ---CUT--- title = ... subtitle = ... composer = ... % etc. ---CUT--- And, in other files: ---CUT--- \header { \include

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread Werner
Hello Robin and David. Robin Bannister rcb at dataway.ch writes: Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 This hint would solve my problem if David Stocker dstocker at thenotesetter.com writes: There is a fix somewhere on the list to get more than one

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Hans Aberg
On 6 Jul 2009, at 23:15, ArnoWaschk wrote: Let me try: The part is written A and should be transposed to be in Bb. So the normal thing would be \transpose bes a { % part in A. } To get a 12-equal enharmonic equivalent transposition, one these should be replaced with the enharmonic

Re: Transpose Command

2009-07-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/6 ArnoWaschk hamama...@gmx.de: Hans Aberg wrote: On 6 Jul 2009, at 18:49, Francisco Vila wrote: I'm assuming the middle section should be in b-flat major instead of a-sharp major? if you wrap the b-major section with \transpose ais' a' {  \relative {   \key b \major   ...  }

Re: \mark beneath instead of above

2009-07-06 Thread James E. Bailey
On 06.07.2009, at 23:39, Werner wrote: Hello Robin and David. Robin Bannister rcb at dataway.ch writes: Have a look at LSR 402: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=402 This hint would solve my problem if David Stocker dstocker at thenotesetter.com writes: There is a fix somewhere on

Re: Dutch download page (was: lilypond 2.13 download)

2009-07-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:56:19PM +0200, John Mandereau wrote: Hi guys, Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 09:37 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : This is also true of the site built from git, so it's not a webserver issue. There has never been any file named nl/install/index.html in the web

Re: instrument name misalignment

2009-07-06 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=789 Cheers, - Graham On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:22:26PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 6. Juli 2009 14:58:30 schrieb Alan Shaw: You're right of course; I just thought it was worth asking on the off chance that