Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I neglected to mention that in recent 2.13 versions, the warning messages for invalid character encoding look like this: (process:1375): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() These warnings are generated by Pango. Is this an improvement? Yes,

re: problem with textspan for controlled aleatorism

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I think the snippet of my last example was too large, so probably nobody could see the basic problem that is: How can I have a textspanner that ends with an arrow over a line break? Here is a much shorter snipper to illustrate my problem: \version 2.12.2 \relative c'' { \override

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:36:34AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Perhaps it makes sense to add a UTF-8 checker to lilypond just for that. This would certainly cut down on the number of questions asking how do I write an accented character?. OTOH, it might prompt confusion about how to save

Re: Strange message with autochange

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/2/28 James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: The only problem I have with this is that I don't think that manual staff changes are supposed to work with autochange. That's what I thought too. But with a further look at the doc one can see, under Changing staff automatically

Re: problem with textspan for controlled aleatorism

2010-02-28 Thread Nick Payne
When built with 2.13.13 your example does put an arrow on the TextSpanner at the line break... Nick On 28/02/10 19:55, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I think the snippet of my last example was too large, so probably nobody could see the basic problem that is: How can I have a

Re: re: problem with textspan for controlled aleatorism

2010-02-28 Thread -Eluze
kontrapunktstefan wrote: Dear community, I think the snippet of my last example was too large, so probably nobody could see the basic problem that is: How can I have a textspanner that ends with an arrow over a line break? your example already shows an arrow at the break! you can toggle

Re: Staff reappearance callback?

2010-02-28 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi all, On 27/02/10 22:24, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Samstag, 27. Februar 2010 18:45:26 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Michael, It looks like break-related items of all sorts, including break-visibility, should have more than the 3 categories of before break, after break, and no break. Then

Re: Strange message with autochange

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
On 28.02.2010, at 10:56, Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/2/28 James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: The only problem I have with this is that I don't think that manual staff changes are supposed to work with autochange. … So, according to the doc, it should be possible to mix automatic and

Re: Strange message with autochange

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
On 28.02.2010, at 10:56, Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/2/28 James Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com: The only problem I have with this is that I don't think that manual staff changes are supposed to work with autochange. … So, according to the doc, it should be possible to mix automatic and

Werner Icking Music Archive

2010-02-28 Thread M.E.
Some news I thought to share here. The Werner Icking Music Archive has closed its doors (for good?). http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php -- mke ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Patrick McCarty wrote: On 2010-02-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I don't see any non-ASCII characters in my file. Oh, I take that back now that I scrutinize closer... I have © in the input file. Well, that's easy to get rid of. And doing so eliminates the glyph

A new LilyPond Report...

2010-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everyone, as some of the Elders in our community may remember, a legend says that there was a time, once, where the LilyPond community had a nice and fluffy newsletter called The LilyPond Report. Well, let's make this legend real (again)! (again.) (Again.) As you may remember, a call

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 1.0.2 released

2010-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Wilbert Berendsen lily...@xs4all.nl wrote: Frescobaldi 1.0.2 has been released, fixing issues that arose when using Frescobaldi with KDE 4.4 and SIP 4.10. Greetings Wilbert, here's a (long-ish) review of Fresco 1.0.2:

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2010-02-28, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I neglected to mention that in recent 2.13 versions, the warning messages for invalid character encoding look like this: (process:1375): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() These warnings are generated by

separating music and tablature information

2010-02-28 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Hi all, in order to achieve different guitar tablature editions of the same piece of music I experimented with ghost voices consisting of spacer rests in combination with tablature information. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to use spacer rests in chord constructs such as s

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
It would be very simple to check for invalid UTF-8, since we can use GLib's g_utf_validate() function. In fact, Pango uses this same function in pango_layout_set_text(). Good to know. What if we output a message like this instead: warning: invalid UTF-8 string found at row 3, column 10

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
See the thread here. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ 2009-02/msg00877.html On 28.02.2010, at 22:46, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like: { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } I was trying to make lyrics align with the

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/2/28 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt: Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like:     { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } I was trying to make lyrics align with the top voice of these splits. I tried to use:     { \voiceOne g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Chubb
Alberto == Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt writes: Alberto Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, Alberto like: Alberto { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } Alberto I was trying to make lyrics align with the top voice of these Alberto splits. I tried to

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
No worries. clearly you use this once a year. I just happen to have all my emails easily searchable. If it makes you feel any better, there was a more recent thread about this on the only 3 weeks ago. You're not the only one.

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Feb 28, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: What if we output a message like this instead:  warning: invalid UTF-8 string found at row 3, column 10 I think this would be easier to implement. From the

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/2/28 Peter Chubb lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au: Grahame, this is such a FAQ thaqt we either need to add a section to the LM in `voices and vocals', or modify the `I'm hearing voices' section, or add an explicit `implicit voice instantiation with vocals' section.  Or some other solution?

Re: Strange message with autochange

2010-02-28 Thread George_
I could try that. But would it be possible to request a feature that allows manual and automatic staff changes at the same time? Thanks George James Bailey-4 wrote: The only problem I have with this is that I don't think that manual staff changes are supposed to work with autochange. I

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 1.0.2 released

2010-02-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 28 februari 2010 schreef Valentin: here's a (long-ish) review of Fresco 1.0.2: http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-17#outil_sommaire_4 Very nice! Thanks!! couple little notes: - you can browse locally installed docs with the built-in LilyPond Documentation Browser.

Re: Lilypond-book not working after installing Python 3

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: By the way, I estimate that switching all our scripts to python 3.x would take 40 hours, with an additional 20 hours required to make GUB include python 3.x in the installers. I'm not much of a Pythonist alas, never mind the complexity of teaching myself properly how the

Re: Werner Icking Music Archive

2010-02-28 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:33:22AM -0600, M.E. wrote: Some news I thought to share here. The Werner Icking Music Archive has closed its doors (for good?). http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php Too much traffic. http://www.daimi.au.dk/~reccmo/usage/ I think there're some ongoing

Re: Strange message with autochange

2010-02-28 Thread George_
James Bailey-4 wrote: I'm still not convinced that the autochanger was ever meant to be mixed with the manual changer. It seems that, if anything, the bug is that it's possible to have manual staff changes whilst using the autochanger. I disagree. Once again citing my