Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/13 Tim Roberts t...@probo.com: Amen.  There are people who tell me they can do data entry in Finale quite efficiently using a MIDI keyboard, but for me, from a standard computer keyboard, entering LilyPond data

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Ben, the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but they are expecting strings to process. So if you redefine the markup-command: --snip-- #(define-markup-command (oldStyleNum layout props str) (string-or-symbol?) Old-style numerals (if (symbol? str)(set! str

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: I think this is a matter of default settings and easily adjustable. It probably is (not sure about the PDF background, though); I was just testifying about the first-look appearance, with default colors. Ctrl+H or

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/14 Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: I think this is a matter of default settings and easily adjustable. It probably is (not sure about the PDF background, though); Attached. :-) -- Francisco Vila.

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl wrote: Please let me know the things you miss most! Note that F2 is only (roughly) one year old and really written from scratch, the first commit is of Nov 11, 2012. I intend to keep developing and adding new features. I think

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread James
Hello, 2012/3/14 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl wrote: Please let me know the things you miss most! Note that F2 is only (roughly) one year old and really written from scratch, the first commit is of Nov 11, 2012. I

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, Thanks go to Valentin for taking the time for a consise first review :-) Here are some answers to questions and additions. Also note that F2 is only one year old and should be developed further, I think it has a very solid code foundation right now with Python and Qt4. :) Op Tue, 13 Mar

Re:Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread vic hug
Hello, while beeing a newbie at both Sibelius and Lilypond, and already embracing the magical freedom superiority of the latest, i recently had to make a transcript from a manuscript, and for that i used Sibelius, because i needed to produce sibelius files. This way i could enter the text by

Re: difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info writes: Sorry for the late reply I'm really over-busy these times. The documentation is usually well written but I find myself browsing many pages before finding something, even if it's something I know it exists and I already used. For instance

Re: articulate.ly with rall not working?

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au writes: Looks like there's been a semantic change in Lilypond. It used to be you could \set tempoWholesPerMinute = 60 or similar anywhere in the Lilypond input and the result would be a tempo change at that point. It looks as if now there's a

Add more space between arbitrary groups of notes

2012-03-14 Thread Svetlana
Hello all, I make scores where two lyrics lines share the same notes but have different note groupings. Here is an example. \version 2.14.2 melody = \relative c'' { \cadenzaOn \phrasingSlurUp \slurDown g2 (a4 \(bes!) a2\) a8 ([g] f4) g1 (\(g4. f8 e4 d\) d8 \([e] f4\) e2 \(f g1\) d4

Beam Length Query

2012-03-14 Thread Piaras Hoban
Hi all, I think it's a tribute to the lilypond documentation that it's a rare instance when I can't find the answer to my questions there; however, this is one of those rare instances :) I'm trying to find a way in which to extend a beam horizontally so that it spans the full duration

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl wrote: And did you notice the magnifying glass? Ctrl+Click in the Music View! Very cool! May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? cheers, Janek ___

Re: Add more space between arbitrary groups of notes

2012-03-14 Thread James
Hello, On 14 March 2012 08:07, Svetlana eurid...@yandex.ru wrote: Hello all, I have three wishes that I can't accomplish: 1) I'd like be able to add more space between notes where s1 doesn't help. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00379.html This might help. I

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schreef: Very cool! May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? What is a nice magnifier size and scale depends on the screen size. I use Frescobaldi on an Asus EEEPC with 1024*600 :) So I think

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:18:47 +0100 Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl schreef: - no more integrated file browser (the documents frame isn't half as useful) A filebrowser would certainly be nice. Currently I just use Ctrl+O :) and also the Sessions menu. Replying to self: Frescobaldi

Beam Length Query

2012-03-14 Thread grammerfest
Hi all, I think it's a tribute to the lilypond documentation that in 2/3 years of Lilypond usage this is my first time feeling the need to post a question here. I'm trying to find a way in which to extend a beam horizontally so that it spans the full duration of a note. I suppose that in an

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Keith OHara
James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words/blog5.php/2011/07/11/ the-year-s-over-and-done I digress a bit in the text, but the point is the 3/8 bar. In Finale, I'm quite sure you would have to spend(waste) time adjusting the horizontal position of

midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I was doing some fairly complicated things. I took time to reduce it to a minimal example today. It's still present in 2.15.33 as shown by the example below.

Re: articulate.ly with rall not working?

2012-03-14 Thread Malte Meyn
On 13.03.2012 03:52, Peter Chubb wrote: Thomas == Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: Thomas \version 2.14.2 \include articulate.ly Thomas \score { \unfoldRepeats \articulate \relative c' { c8-. d-. Thomas e-. f-. g-.-rall f-. e-. d-. c-. d-. e-. f-. g-. Thomas

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
vic hug xelnagazch...@hotmail.com writes: while beeing a newbie at both Sibelius and Lilypond, and already embracing the magical freedom superiority of the latest, i recently had to make a transcript from a manuscript, and for that i used Sibelius, because i needed to produce sibelius files.

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I was doing some fairly complicated things.  I took time to reduce it to a

Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2

2012-03-14 Thread Peter Gentry
I have found that page-turn-breaking does not do all that I need. When there are many movements not all the page turns are convenient. When using two-sided there are times when I would like to insert a blank page between movements to reduce page turns to a minimum. So far all attempts to insert

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schreef: Very cool! May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? What is a nice magnifier size and scale depends on the screen size. xdpyinfo [...]

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:13:05 -0500 Father Gordon Gilbert fatherg...@gmail.com schreef: Yes, changing a note and recompiling did the trick, thanks! I had done a convert-ly and recompiled, and I suppose that's why it pointed down to where the changes were listed. Indeed changes a convert-ly

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Neil Puttock
On 14 March 2012 03:01, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Off topic, LilyPond now places the dots equally-spaced from the noteheads, in that particular example. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2200 Previously, LilyPond put them all in one column because that was

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a known problem? I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I was doing some fairly complicated

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Shane Brandes
Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use a font that has old style figures? Shane On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Ben, the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but they are expecting strings to process. So if you redefine

Re: Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2

2012-03-14 Thread Patrick Karl
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:21:28 - From: Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2 Message-ID: 95B3725ABDE2433BB4E51D0C33B05BE2@PeterVista Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have found

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema hans.aik...@aikebah.net wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com  wrote: Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikemahans.aik...@aikebah.net wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.comwrote: Is this a known problem? I don't see any prior

separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread Stjepan Horvat
Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i include my score into my design file

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
On 3/14/2012 6:16 PM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Stjepan Horvat zvanste...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 18:37, Hans Aikema wrote: On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikemahans.aik...@aikebah.net wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.comwrote: Is this a

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Keith OHara
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:13 -0700, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: What happens if I want the old behaviour? Do I have to move the Dot_column_engraver back to the Staff context and forgo the improvements in more complicated situations? Yes. But, somebody made a suggestion on the

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/14/12 1:28 PM, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:13 -0700, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: What happens if I want the old behaviour? Do I have to move the Dot_column_engraver back to the Staff context and forgo the improvements in more

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Hans Aikema hans.aik...@aikebah.net wrote: On 14-3-2012 18:37, Hans Aikema wrote: On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikemahans.aik...@aikebah.net  wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 19:16, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 21:07, Michael Ellis wrote: Thanks very much for digging into it. I confirmed that LilyPondTool's player doesn't have the problem on OS X. QMidi also seems ok. It's kind of wild that there are no reports when I search for QuickTime midi instrument change delay etc. Guess most

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:43 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schreef: Very cool! May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? What is a nice

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how I would go about implementing the suggested workaround for my application.  I run into the problem primarily when transcribing individual choral parts for my section.  It's nice in the midi output

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks, Wilbert, I had figured it was something like that, but I am too far from geeky to be able to implement something that complicated. I certainly do make use of it, though! I have another problem now, however. When I upgraded Lily to the latest (2.15.33) and began to use Fresco again to

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:47 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: On 14 March 2012 03:01, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Off topic, LilyPond now places the dots equally-spaced from the noteheads, in that particular example.