Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-23 Thread Ben Luo
On 24/08/2011 08:00, Urs Liska wrote: Hello list, I have just put a new tutorial online. You can read it at http://www.ursliska.de/73.0.html It is meant for intermediate beginners who want to go for some more complex tasks and are as confused with LilyPond as I was not long ago. I'd give it

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/8/24 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! >> I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. > > Well, what would you call it if you are practicing musician using > Lilypond for putting down y

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! > I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. Well, what would you call it if you are practicing musician using Lilypond for putting down your own arrangements and work scores

Re: dynamic padding struggles

2011-08-23 Thread Keith OHara
Kieren MacMillan sympatico.ca> writes: > Can anyone explain why the following snippet > doesn't do what I want [...] I can't; I would have thought that would work. It seems the default way of computing the Y-offset both handles the 'staff-padding that we want, and insists that dynamics be a di

Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

2011-08-23 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:26, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Ellis > wrote: >> Count me in for US$100 toward the project.  Not sure how much programming > > I offered a $100 bounty a couple of years ago on this idea and it still > stands. Count me in for €200.

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Janek, > I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! > I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. I compose at the piano (with pencil/pen and manuscript paper), then engrave the final score and parts in Lilypond. I choose Lilypond because

Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-23 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-08-23 06:00 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Hello list, I have just put a new tutorial online. You can read it at http://www.ursliska.de/73.0.html It is meant for intermediate beginners who want to go for some more complex tasks and are as confused with LilyPond as I was not long ago. I'd give it

Re: New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-23 Thread Trevor Bača
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > ** > Hello list, > > I have just put a new tutorial online. You can read it at > http://www.ursliska.de/73.0.html > > It is meant for intermediate beginners who want to go for some more complex > tasks and are as confused with LilyPond as I was

Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

2011-08-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: > Count me in for US$100 toward the project.  Not sure how much programming I offered a $100 bounty a couple of years ago on this idea and it still stands. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-us

New LilyPond tutorial

2011-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I have just put a new tutorial online. You can read it at http://www.ursliska.de/73.0.html It is meant for intermediate beginners who want to go for some more complex tasks and are as confused with LilyPond as I was not long ago. I'd give it a version number of 0.8. So any constru

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! > I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. I write songs (jazz) but would not consider myself a composer as such. Just once in

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. cheers, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Ellis
Count me in for US$100 toward the project. Not sure how much programming time I can offer in addition, but I'll certainly be more than willing to test the XML output with Finale 2010 as I have a full copy. FWIW, If this is done well I think it will open LilyPond to more new users than you would

Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

2011-08-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Pierre, > What kind of funding would be possible I offer C$100 to the MusicXML project. If [Jan: hint hint!] my C$100 goes to creating a function (e.g., \displayLilystreamXML) which simply converts the raw Lilypond music stream (i.e., what we see with \displayMusic) as an XML blob, I'm happ

Re: Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Thanks Mike, > > and just for the archive (in case anyone stumbles over it): > > #'bracket-visibility decides whether or not a given TupletBracket is to be > printed or not. > If it isn't printed then #'bracket-visibility will set #'stencil = ##f.

Re: Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks Mike, and just for the archive (in case anyone stumbles over it): #'bracket-visibility decides whether or not a given TupletBracket is to be printed or not. If it isn't printed then #'bracket-visibility will set #'stencil = ##f. Best Urs Am 23.08.2011 16:38, schrieb Mike Solomon: On

Re: Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Solomon
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Marc, > > thanks for the thoughts. > Unfortunately it obviously works differently. > if it set > #'transparent = ##t > then the TupletBrackets uses its space. > But with > #'bracket-visibility = ##f > it doesn't. > > And no, the TupletNumb

Re: Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Marc, thanks for the thoughts. Unfortunately it obviously works differently. if it set #'transparent = ##t then the TupletBrackets uses its space. But with #'bracket-visibility = ##f it doesn't. And no, the TupletNumber doesn't need the TupletBracket at all. But from this comparison

Re: Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 23.08.2011 15:32, schrieb Urs Liska: Hi list, can you tell me the difference between \override TupletBracket #'bracket-visibility = ##f and \override TupletBracket #'stencil = ##f ? AFAIK, the former makes the TupletBrackets invisible, but they are still there and are taken into account by o

Difference between bracket-visibility and -stencil

2011-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi list, can you tell me the difference between \override TupletBracket #'bracket-visibility = ##f and \override TupletBracket #'stencil = ##f ? I know that bracket-visibility is more flexible but if I just want to turn off the brackets both commands are equivalent, isn't it? Best Urs _

scheme system stdout and markup predicates

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello List, I am using the scheme system command (on linux) to generate barcodes to include in the PDF: --snip-- \version "2.14.2" % use barcode command to produce temporary eps and include it #(define-markup-command (barcode layout props type str size nums)(string-or-symbol? string? number-p

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.08.2011 13:20, schrieb Francois Planiol: @ Janek, Keyboard entry? For many people it's a disadvantage. Certainly entering notes on a virtual staff paper has some advantages. Indeed, buuut, ... For the rest you will mostly need the piano-paper way first, in most cases. That's what I al

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Francois Planiol
@ Janek, >>> Keyboard entry? >> >> For many people it's a disadvantage. >> Certainly entering notes on a virtual staff paper has some advantages. Indeed, buuut, When I started with notation, I used hb-engraver. Entering notes in a notes-entry "shell" on-the-staff, Dynamics in a dyn-shell, lyrics

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Janek Warchoł writes: >> Keyboard entry? > > For many people it's a disadvantage. > Certainly entering notes on a virtual staff paper has some advantages. One big advantage, as I understand it, is the ease of which a GUI lets users compose so-called "Finale-music"; it appears that you can typical