Using IPA lyrics

2009-10-21 Thread Glendan Lawler
Hello, I need some help: I'm trying to put some IPA lyrics to a song, and it's not coming out right. Some of the characters are all the way on top of eachother How can I fix this? It wouldn't let me post my code in the body, so I attached both my code in .txt format, and the output I got

Re: Using IPA lyrics

2009-10-21 Thread David Bobroff
I just tried your *.ly code on my machine and it came out fine. I don't see characters on top of each other. I'm using version 2.13.5. I can't say for sure if there is an issue with IPA and v2.12.2 but it's possible. -David Glendan Lawler wrote: Hello, I need some help: I'm trying to put

Re: Using IPA lyrics

2009-10-21 Thread Robin Bannister
It looks fine here too, with 2.12.1. But I noticed my editor was garbling some IPA. It is set to use DejaVu Sans Mono. If I change your lyrics font override to DejaVu Sans Mono, then Lilpond garbles my output too. Cheers, Robin ___

Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Berlau
Hello, I have done writing done some patterns of my favorite sax players and like to transpose this patterns to any key. I found a solution but I am not sure if this is a elegant method, also maybe it is more useful to make use of the enharmonics to make the sheet more readable. Is there any

re: bad musicxml2ly output

2009-10-21 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I also experienced problems with muscxml2ly. I guess it has to do with full-bar rest, when You have a 58-timesignature. Then I get mostly: \time 5/8 R2.. instead of: \time 5/8 R8*5 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: chordnames tweaking again

2009-10-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/20/09 1:27 PM, fiëé visuëlle fiee.visue...@gmx.net wrote: Hello again, still fiddling with chord names... (1) I use this nice Scheme function by Carl Sorensen to get fis and des names instead of f# and db. I don't understand enough Scheme to avoid ees - do you? I assume you want

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:02:59PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=777 Since you're somewhat interested in the area, could you compare the scripts?

Re: Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/21 Peter Berlau pber...@gmx.de: Hello, I have done writing done some patterns of my favorite sax players and like to transpose this patterns to any key. I found a solution but I am not sure if this is a elegant method, also maybe it is more useful to make use of the enharmonics to

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Neil Puttock wrote: Apart from the lack of Scheme indentation, I've only noticed two cases where your script differs: single-line comments aren't indented to the same level as their surrounding environment, Changed that in my latest version. And I now leave

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Neil Puttock wrote: Be able to re-indent a complete score with a mouseclick from inside the Frescobaldi screen would be great ! ( Just like indent-ly has been integrated into frescobaldi.) Or is it already possible ? Alt-l s a does this rather nicely. I can't make

e-books

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, Any e-book owners around here? I was wondering if e-books can be of any use for lilyponders, now or in the future. For example: to read and search in the documentation, to view PDF scores ? -- Martin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Figured Bass - Alignment

2009-10-21 Thread grisu_76
Neil, it works wunderfully, the problem is gone! - Thanks! for illustration, I made some output to show the differences: _default: as it is programmed in 2.12 _fontsize_0: with the changed font-size in the translation-functions _definition_changed: with you suggestion to solve the

Re: Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Peter Berlau wrote: I have done writing done some patterns of my favorite sax players and like to transpose this patterns to any key. I found a solution but I am not sure if this is a elegant method, also maybe it is more useful to make use of the enharmonics to

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread -Eluze
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I think it does a nice job, but comments are welcome. it does! a few remarks: - it would be nice to have an option to replace the file directly instead of having to copy/paste the resulting file - scheme code is not handled (or indented uniformly) - if within

Re: e-books

2009-10-21 Thread Federico Bruni
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, Any e-book owners around here? I was wondering if e-books can be of any use for lilyponders, now or in the future. For example: to read and search in the documentation, to view PDF scores ? what does you mean with ebook owners? maybe ebook readers (such as

Re: problem with accidental / accidental-style

2009-10-21 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello List, hello Mats, many thanks for Your reply! On the first view Your proposed solution seemed to work for what I wanted. But then I must recognize, that other accidentals were missing. There was no chance, to get more information unless to look at both: Your proposed url and the

Re: Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi Tim, I have corrected the range to be playable for saxophone. I do step chromatic because, however, I faster memorize patterns if I exercise in that way. After that I vary intervalls as Dick Grooves practice templates ;-) My saxophone hero is Sonny Rollins, I also like Dexter Gordon and Jerry

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0700, -Eluze wrote: Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I think it does a nice job, but comments are welcome. - it would be nice to have an option to replace the file directly instead of having to copy/paste the resulting file Definitely! - scheme code is not

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote: The default for lilypond files is two-space indents. Is that official and written in the docs, or just common practice ? Lilypond itself does not write lilypond files, it just reads them. So it

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote: - it would be nice to have an option to replace the file directly instead of having to copy/paste the resulting file Definitely! Done in latest version. Use -m (--modify) Be careful: This version overwrites the original file without making a

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:49:33PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Be careful: This version overwrites the original file without making a backup ( infile.ly~ )first. Maybe I should add that in the next version. Yes, that would be good. What about a version that read from standard input and

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/21 Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: Can you point me to an example ? I don't know what texidoc strings are. Here's an example from the regression tests:

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/21 Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl: I can't make this work. I have tried Alt and/or Ctrl + l, L, I or i (In case you made a typo). But I can only make all or selected lines move to the right, which is not what I mean or need when I have messed up the indentation in a larger

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: What about a version that read from standard input and wrote to standard input? I'm thinking about the documentation -- we could automatically format all lilypond input syntax. On unix a lot of tools default to input coming from one or more file(s) whose names are