first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple of questions I have not been able to figure out

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly and have a couple

Re: Error Message

2012-11-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/27 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net: I verified that the manual contains no instance of TupletSpannerDuration. copy and paste has a rather fixed meaning that is usually not meant to include read and manually retyped. Aww, c'mon. What's a few [de]capitalisations or an extra char

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/11/27 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder:

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com writes: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder: https://github.com/fxn/scores/blob/master/stevie-wonder/you-and-i.ly Here likely the Github

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/11/27 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com: 2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered...

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Xavier Noria f...@hashref.com writes: Hi! This is the first time I use LilyPond, thanks for the software and the documentation, they are really good! I have transcribed a song by Stevie Wonder:

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: Without an authorization by Stevie Wonder, publishing a version of his work on GitHub is not allowed in most countries of the world, so you should likely make this part of your repository private. Either that, or move to a country which allows such publishing. As an

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.11.2012 10:11, schrieb Xavier Noria: 2. Whole notes and rests are kind of flushed to the left. It's been many years since I did music but if I am not mistaken it was customary to have them centered... is there a way to center them? I'm embarrassed that I don't exactly know when and where,

Re: first-time user, a couple of questions

2012-11-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
You can even find it in _handwritten_ 19th century scores. For example look at the last measure in this Schubert manuscript: http://www.schubert-online.at/activpage/manuskripte.php?werke_id=253werkteile_id=image=MH_00122_D648_052.jpggroesse=100aktion=einzelbildbild_id=51 BTW: nice website!

new user--Glissando question

2012-11-27 Thread Bill Restemeyer
Hello! I'm trying to use LilyPond to score music for Harp and have a question about continuous glissandos. There are measures in this piece (4/4) where each quarter note is the beginning and the end of a glissando (well, except the first). After doing this for a while, this pattern stops and

2.17.7 won't compile

2012-11-27 Thread Bric
I'm getting this error on make: --- begin quote - ! I can't find file `mfplain'. l.27 input mfplain --- end quote --- What is mfplain ? Online searching fails to explain. I'm on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10). Thanks. ___

Re: 2.17.7 won't compile

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Bric b...@flight.us writes: I'm getting this error on make: --- begin quote - ! I can't find file `mfplain'. l.27 input mfplain --- end quote --- What is mfplain ? Online searching fails to explain. $ dpkg -S mfplain texlive-metapost:

Re: 2.17.7 won't compile

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: Bric b...@flight.us writes: What is mfplain ? Online searching fails to explain. $ dpkg -S mfplain While helpful for this user in this specific case, that only works if you already have what you are missing. Try (after apt-file update of course) $ apt-file search

RE: new user--Glissando question

2012-11-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
Since you never have more than two voices of music at once, there's no need for you to have more than one voice within a Staff context. Just put all the music for the each hand in its respective Staff context and use the \change function to switch staves: %%% start \header{ title = glissando

Re: new user--Glissando question

2012-11-27 Thread Eluze
Bill Restemeyer wrote Hello! I'm trying to use LilyPond to score music for Harp and have a question about continuous glissandos. There are measures in this piece (4/4) where each quarter note is the beginning and the end of a glissando (well, except the first). After doing this for a while,

Re: measures per system

2012-11-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On 2012-Nov-26, at 12:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, One of my favourite snippets (thanks David!) is http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=838 I'm glad you like it! Is there a way that this can be coded arbitrarily, e.g. 1. The first 19 measures broken as '(4 5 4 6).

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/11/12 11:52, David Kastrup wrote: #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) (for-each (lambda (sel) (let ((m (sel elts))) (set! (ly:music-property m 'articulations) (cons (make-music

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Probably try something like #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) (for-each (lambda (sel) (let ((m (sel elts))) (set! (ly:music-property m 'articulations)

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/11/27 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: On 27/11/12 11:52, David Kastrup wrote: #(define (text-spanner-start-stop mus) (let ((elts (extract-typed-music mus 'rhythmic-event))) (for-each (lambda (sel) (let ((m (sel elts))) (set!

Re: include header conflicts

2012-11-27 Thread Eluze
David Kastrup wrote You could suck the whole file into one score and get just the music back out again using ly:score-music, something like #(ly:score-music #{ \score { \include xxx.ly } #}) The music will already be scorified (repeat chords expanded, \\ replaced and other things), so

Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

2012-11-27 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/11/12 09:35, Thomas Morley wrote: Although I can confirm your observation, I asked myself: How would I use a TextSpanner to span a repeat-unfold-expression with pure LilyPond-syntax? I couldn't find any reasonable method. The following doesn't work (ofcourse not): \relative c {

Re: include header conflicts

2012-11-27 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: David Kastrup wrote You could suck the whole file into one score and get just the music back out again using ly:score-music, something like #(ly:score-music #{ \score { \include xxx.ly } #}) The music will already be scorified (repeat chords expanded, \\

Re: new user--Glissando question

2012-11-27 Thread Bill Restemeyer
Daniel, Thanks much for the valuable tips. I was able to adapt your method for other parts of the piece also. I promise to follow the rules of Tiny Examples if I need to submit another snippet. :-) Bill On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote: Since you never have more than two

Re: new user--Glissando question

2012-11-27 Thread Daniel Rosen
It's less a question of following rules, and more about making things easier for everyone involved--often by stripping stuff away I'm able to isolate and fix issues myself. :) DR Sent from my iPhone On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Bill Restemeyer reste...@bellatlantic.net wrote: Daniel,

Lilypond-book does not run

2012-11-27 Thread Chris
I have used Lilypond-book (2.14) with Vista. Now I switched to Windows 8 and installed the actual stable lilypond Version (2.16). An actual MikTeX Installation did run (pdfLaTeX works). Lilypond.exe runs well, lilypond-book does not run correctly. To have a simple test I used the example of the

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-11-27 Thread Oscar Dub
It looks like you might be able to use a glissando and override the style to be line, then twiddle the thickness until it looks right? Using this glissando method mentioned, does anybody know of a specific override that would force the glissando line to be flat (i.e. ignore the y position of

Re: Note duration line (contemporary)

2012-11-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Oscar, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Oscar Dub oscar...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like you might be able to use a glissando and override the style to be line, then twiddle the thickness until it looks right? Using this glissando method mentioned, does anybody know of a specific