Re: No string for pitch #Pitch

2009-11-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:21 AM Jesús Guillermo Andrade gandr...@usermail.com writes: So far, I've been able list most chord shapes, but I keep getting errors in the form of: advertencia: No string for pitch #Pitch gis' (given frets ()) What does these mean? I

Re: Indent only one system, replace long extender with dashes

2009-11-18 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, Frederick, my e-mail from yesterday night was rejected; some server on it's way is currently blacklisted by SpamCop. Hope it works this time, Alexander P.S.: Still no idea about indenting the system, other than starting a new score at this place... :-( Alexander Kobel wrote:

Re: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MonAmiPierrot wrote: I also would like to be given the possibility to put the blank space between different examples from the same musical context For big gaps you can use \stopStaff and \startStaff and put suitable spacer rests in between. For small gaps you could try misusing the

RE: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Piero Faustini
thanks, very useful.But for \stopStaff and \startStaff it won't work at the beginning, with a s invisible pause. Is there some invisible symbol I can use too cause some spacing? This would be useful also if I don't use partial measures at the beginning. Cheers,Piero From: r...@dataway.ch

Re: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Alexander Kobel
MonAmiPierrot wrote: [...] So, I need to put a small blank space (blank blank, without the staff) just after theclef/key/time symbols, just to give the Idea that the key/time environment beginnes earlier, and this is just an excerpt. Hi, Piero, I guess you want something like \once

Re: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Bannister
MonAmiPierrot wrote: But for \stopStaff and \startStaff it won't work at the beginning with a s invisible pause. It seems OK to me (with 2.12.1) but maybe you want it effective even earlier. For that (and the \partial question) you could try using | \grace s1 to get the music

RE: small blank space just after clef/time signs for example

2009-11-18 Thread Piero Faustini
It seems OK to me (with 2.12.1) but maybe you want it effective even earlier. For that (and the \partial question) you could try using | \grace s1 to get the music started. (Lilypond may not like this.) , it seems not, at least for MIDI.

Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Pierre RUEL
Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced .txt code and music. I have a huge .ly file of more than 400 A4 pages and the .log

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread David Bobroff
I think that the likely problem is that you should change: do''2 reb''2 to: do'' reb''2 You have specified a chord and the time values for chords takes place after the chord. -David Pierre RUEL wrote: Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread David Kastrup
Pierre RUEL ru@vtx.ch writes: Hello, I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced .txt code and music. I have a huge .ly file

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread James E. Bailey
On 18.11.2009, at 18:36, David Kastrup wrote: Pierre RUEL ru@vtx.ch writes: Hello, … and the analysis of the soft says: syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH do''2 reb''2 Could anybody explain what is that guilty STRING ?

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:36 PM Pierre RUEL ru@vtx.ch writes: and the analysis of the soft says: syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting or DRUM_PITCH or MUSIC_FUNCTION or NOTENAME_PITCH do''2 reb''2 Could anybody explain what is that guilty STRING ?

Are these results possible with LilyPond?

2009-11-18 Thread Benedikt Hager
Hello all! For the transcription of Beethoven sketches I need some features beyond the mainstream, that perhaps are represented best by a scan of a handwritten transcription. I don't know if it's possible to attach images in the mailinglist, so I loaded it in my public Dropbox folder:

Re: Are these results possible with LilyPond?

2009-11-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Benedikt, The LSR is your friend! =) A: Bracketed clefs, time signatures and key signatures at the beginning of a staf or piece. B, D, E: Bracketed elements of almost any kind within a staf. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=564 C, F: Struck through elements of any kind You

Re: Beginner's questions

2009-11-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Pierre RUEL ru@vtx.ch wrote: I'm just beginning with Lilypond (after some years of practice with other notation softwares). In fact I've produced some PC programmed music and wan't to use Lilypond as an interface between VBA produced .txt code and music.

TextSpanner terminates too early

2009-11-18 Thread Nick Payne
Following example shows a problem I have in a score with multiple voices where I want the TextSpanner for a barre to be two bars long. Because the actual notes in the two bars are split between the voices, I have the \stopTextSpan on the silent eighth note at the end of bar two in voiceOne,

Re: TextSpanner terminates too early

2009-11-18 Thread Trevor Bača
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.netwrote: Following example shows a problem I have in a score with multiple voices where I want the TextSpanner for a barre to be two bars long. Because the actual notes in the two bars are split between the voices, I have the

Re: TextSpanner terminates too early

2009-11-18 Thread Nick Payne
Trevor Bača wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net mailto:nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Following example shows a problem I have in a score with multiple voices where I want the TextSpanner for a barre to be two bars long. Because the

Re: TextSpanner terminates too early

2009-11-18 Thread Trevor Bača
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.netwrote: Trevor Bača wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.netmailto: nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: Following example shows a problem I have in a score with multiple

Problems with jail mode

2009-11-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hi, I set up a separate filesystem, running lilypond in jail mode. My problem is that the last step, the PDF creation fails: gs -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c

Re: Are these results possible with LilyPond?

2009-11-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 20:01:23 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Benedikt, The LSR is your friend! =) The URL is http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ A: Bracketed clefs, time signatures and key signatures at the beginning of a staf or piece. B, D, E: Bracketed elements of almost any kind

Re: Problems with jail mode

2009-11-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/11/18 Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu: that is, in a separate chroot, this creates the PDF. Doesn't jail mode *have* to be executed as sudo in a chroot environment? Quoting the AU: As we already mentioned, it must be also run with superuser privileges (which, of course, it will lose

Re: Problems with jail mode

2009-11-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Yes, i already do that. The ps file is created, only ghostscript tells this cryptic message. Strace didn't help to find out. Original message From: Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com Sent: 18 Nov 2009 23:33 -08:00 To: Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu Cc: lilypond-user

Re: Problems with jail mode

2009-11-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Bertalan Fodor lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: Yes, i already do that. The ps file is created, only ghostscript tells this cryptic message. Strace didn't help to find out. Interesting. What if you don't invoke lilypond using sudo, but su? Does this still