Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Ami Magori Cohen
Hi, Thank you very much for this software,and for your help. After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page with the title 'Lily Pad'-typing the basic commands didn't produced any notation

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread David Bobroff
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by open the software. I'm going to conclude that you missed a detail about how LilyPond works. It does *not* have an interactive interface like Finale/Sibelius. To use LilyPond you must create/edit a text file which contains the definitions of your music.

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Laura Conrad schrieb: Someone should look at the fonts in abctab2ps, http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/, which I would expect to be licensed under a free license, and to include most of what lilypond would need. A short look at these fonts discovers that some glyphs are just chosen

Spacing between the barlines

2009-10-06 Thread Paul Rijke
Hi All, I've got a question which I need some help with. I transcribe my daughters drum lessons (not being a drummer myself) and I end up with this which compiles great. The only thing I can't seem to change is the distance after a line break. I want this being spread over one page more, so

VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hi, in the followng example the \override does not seem to have any effect. What ist wrong? Thanks Thomas -- \version 2.13.4 \score { \new Staff { c'1 \break c' } \new Staff { c'1 \break c' }

Re: [tablatures] Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical reasons, these should be made possible with lilypond. I agree -- which is why I added a bounty though I

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:17 AM, David Bobroff wrote: Ami Magori Cohen wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for this software,and for your help. After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page

vertical spacing problems with Lyrics

2009-10-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Is there a fix yet for the problem [2.13.4-1] that between-system- padding etc. doesn't work with Lyrics (because they're nonspaceable)? It's killing me with the lead sheets I'm trying to put out. =( Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:57:11AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:17 AM, David Bobroff wrote: Ami Magori Cohen wrote: After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page

Re: using lilypond for leadsheets

2009-10-06 Thread Andrew Tucker
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Peter Berlau wrote: Is there a good starting point, maybe someone do Sheets with Lilypond already and can give me some advice or a template for using Lilypond. Need to transpose to 'C', 'Bb', 'Eb' and have treble and bass keys. I put C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Laura Conrad
Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Marc I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc reasons, these should be made possible with lilypond. Actually, there are good musical reasons, too. In

The Drummer's Gigsaw: CHA-CHA-BASE

2009-10-06 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Hi all, No! No! No! I'm not goadING you (oh! My God!) and the Gigsaw is not a 'Pata cult (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics ) -Hé! may be a good old slingshot though - but still there is a new BASE. You'll find CHA-CHA-CHA BASE here:

Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Laura Conrad schrieb: Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Marc I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc reasons, these should be made possible with lilypond. Actually,

RE: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Amusingly, the command-line tutorial has the most clear instructions. :) Cheers, - Graham LOL Usually I would guess a CL tutorial wou;d be clearer is because to get to the point of wanting to do that sort of thing you aleady get it? When I needed to lear that stuff it was to

Re: title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Frederick, using 2.13.4, with your version of the title on a separate page, I get 434 instances of: programming error: note head has no event cause continuing, cross fingers and 217 instances of: programming error: these accidentals do not have a pitch continuing, cross fingers It follows a

Re: title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/5/09 8:40 PM, Frederick Dennis frederickden...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, I was very interested in the correspondence about a title-page. I noticed that Kieren's solution seemed to ignore the original header information and insert another markup for it while Valentin's solution

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Nick Payne
My suggestion for an absolute beginner to get initially started is http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. A few versions behind by now, but I don't think the basics covered in the guide have changed between 2006 and now. At only 18 pages including front cover, TOC, and

Re: [tablatures] Re: Ancient tablatures

2009-10-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/6/09 12:22 PM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Laura Conrad schrieb: Marc == Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Marc I am not at all familiar with these old tablatures, but they Marc look just amazing, so simply for typographic and aesthetical Marc

Error not indicated

2009-10-06 Thread Nick Payne
If I accidentally omit the spaces in the scheme pair for the tweak offset, no error is indicated in the console output but the tweak doesn't take effect. % \version 2.13.4 \relative c'' { a4-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 1)\f a-\tweak #'extra-offset

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:52:33AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: My suggestion for an absolute beginner to get initially started is http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. A few versions behind by now, but I don't think the basics covered in the guide have changed between 2006

Re: using lilypond for leadsheets

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Berlau
Hello Andrew, thanks for Your help! And I like to thank for all the other answers that helped me very well. Last problem I have, if I like to transpose a pattern to all 12 keys, like to have 12. lines of notes how I should do it best? Sorry for my english! wish you all the very best and thanks

Vertical spacing

2009-10-06 Thread t.scharkow...@t-online.de
Neither the \override nor between-system-padding has any effect in the example below. Sorry, I might have missed something, but found no solution. Could anyone please explain? Thomas LilyPond 2.13.4 on Debian 5.0 -- \version 2.13.4 \paper { between-system-padding = 1.0 \in } music =

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread James E. Bailey
On 06.10.2009, at 23:52, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:52:33AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: My suggestion for an absolute beginner to get initially started is http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. A few versions behind by now, but I don't think the basics