Making accidentals invisible/or progress on Sagittal notations

2011-12-12 Thread Joey Di Nardo
Hi all, I've been following (through google) the current progress of microtonal notation in LilyPond, and as of September of 2009, there still seemed to be large amounts of trouble with microtonal notation in general, and the website that David Keenan had at bigpond: http://users.bigpond.net.au/

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
> > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:21:30 +1100 > From: Nick Payne > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: how to make a songbook > Message-ID: <4ee6705a.5050...@internode.on.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > On 13/12/11 03:10, Christian McConnell

Re: Stanza number placing question

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Zoltan, 2011/12/11 Zoltan Selyem : > > Hi all, > > When the lyrics begin with a stanza number, the number doesn't take up > space in the score (as it can be seen in the attached example). > > When the stanza number is in the middle of a line, the number does > take up space, moving the notes ap

Re: glissando stems

2011-12-12 Thread James
Hello, On 8 December 2011 22:28, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi Mike, > > 2011/12/8 m...@apollinemike.com : >> Le Dec 8, 2011 à 1:30 AM, Thomas Morley a écrit : >> >> I worked on this for a long time.  It is near impossible to get stems to >> link up to glissandos and automate direction of stems @ th

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Payne
On 13/12/11 03:10, Christian McConnell wrote: The solution is simple: use vector graphics. Added bonus: with an svg, you can tweak the details (spacing, etc.) in Inkscape, really easily. I do that, then save as an eps, and then put it into Scribus. It's a few steps, to be sure, but I love the

Re: Footnotes documentation

2011-12-12 Thread James
George, On 10 December 2011 17:45, George_ wrote: > > > pkx166h-2 wrote: >> >> George, >> >> On 30 November 2011 22:16, George Xu wrote: >> >>> Oops, sorry. 2.14.2. I guess that explains why \auto-footnote doesn't >>> work, but it doesn't help much... ... > I agree, the 2.15 docs seem to have it

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Christian McConnell
The solution is simple: use vector graphics. Added bonus: with an svg, you can tweak the details (spacing, etc.) in Inkscape, really easily. I do that, then save as an eps, and then put it into Scribus. It's a few steps, to be sure, but I love the results. Chris McConnell Message: 4 Date: Mo

Re: Repeats in MIDI output

2011-12-12 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 12/12/2011 10:42 AM, Peter Gentry wrote: > Apologies if this is a trivial question - I have spent some time > searching the manuals without success. > I have a four movement trio which outputs the score correctly but the > MIDI output does not process any of the repeats Volta percent tremolo > e

Re: Repeats in MIDI output

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Peter, try here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/repeats-in-midi.html Best, Robert On Mon, Dec 12, 2011, at 03:42 PM, Peter Gentry wrote: > Apologies if this is a trivial question - I have spent some time > searching the manuals without success. > I have a four movement

Repeats in MIDI output

2011-12-12 Thread Peter Gentry
Apologies if this is a trivial question - I have spent some time searching the manuals without success. I have a four movement trio which outputs the score correctly but the MIDI output does not process any of the repeats Volta percent tremolo etc. I have noted the unfold directive but does this

Re: Release news, development news, state of the world

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:06:56AM -0700, Colin Campbell wrote: > FWIW, I've found that GUB on x86-64 Oneiric will choke building > cross-compiled components, with error messages saying "unable to > identify extension of x", where x is the x.o form of a tool. This > points, according to GCC, to m

Re: Release news, development news, state of the world

2011-12-12 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-12-12 04:16 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival writes: STABLE RELEASE Almost everybody wants stable releases more frequently. They attract positive attention, they get updated docs and bugfixes and new features into the hands of users, etc. We had the first two release candidate

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
On 12 December 2011 06:49, Graham Percival wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > > OOoh!  What should I be looking for?  So far in the OOo document the > > display looks fine.  Even at fairly high magnitude.  My son also made > > a cryptic comment abou

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the > display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made > a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a > lost cause

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 109, Issue 44

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
> -- > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:49:46 +0100 > From: David Kastrup > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: how to make a songbook > Message-ID: <87iplmcmid@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Father Gordon Gilbert writes: > >> Good n

Re: how to make a songbook

2011-12-12 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
> -- > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:49:46 +0100 > From: David Kastrup > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: how to make a songbook > Message-ID: <87iplmcmid@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Father Gordon Gilbert writes: > >> Good n

Re: duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-12 Thread David Kastrup
Jan-Peter Voigt writes: > Hello David, > thank you for this detailed answer! > Well, I don't agree in doing an awkward thing, using 2.14. Duration arguments in Lilypond 2.14 are awkward without you being at fault. There is a reason even a very simple command like \skip had to be implemented in

Re: duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-12 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello David, thank you for this detailed answer! Well, I don't agree in doing an awkward thing, using 2.14. But I probably should not name shortcuts extensions. When I am working on a collection of pieces to be printed, I am using current *stable* version. While I'm working on them, I sometimes