Re: improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Yann yann@free.fr writes: About this, I also like the fact in LaTeX that once I find the package that does what I want, I can read the associated doc and use it. Most of the time it is as simple as load this package, specify options and use some new commands if provided. What I mean is

Re: Bug in the manuals ?

2013-12-11 Thread Federico Bruni
Hi Yann The english pages has the html extension. The URL without extension will return the page of your browser language. See the link Automatic language selection in the footer of manuals. No bug :-) Il 11/dic/2013 00:48 Yann yann@free.fr ha scritto: Hello again, I never reported it

Re: on marketing

2013-12-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 21:06 -0800, SoundsFromSound wrote: not having a ton of windows open on launch every time, would really make Denemo Please report a bug if it happens every time, even though you closed them and quit the program cleanly. Richard

Re: on marketing

2013-12-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 15:53 -0500, Carl Peterson wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: only some people are interested in everything, many want just their own bits of interest. Denemo is

Re: Bug in the manuals ?

2013-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: I never reported it before, but I come across this when using the manuals : -by default, I land on the French page http://lilypond.org/manuals.fr.html (in Firefox, or from Frescobaldi 1.2) -Then I load a manual (notation reference, or learning :

instrument name collision in grouped staves

2013-12-11 Thread Eluze
when an empty staff is removed the instrument names of the remaining staff groups and staffs can collapse in the same line http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n155576/test14.png \new StaffGroup \with { % piano with 3 staffs instrumentName=

Re: Bug in the manuals ?

2013-12-11 Thread Yann
See the link Automatic language selection in the footer of manuals. No bug :-) I think it _is_ a bug if the table-of-contents entries of the French documentation lead anywhere but to the French chapters. The automatic language selection should not come into play when navigating _inside_

Re: survey on multiple development versions

2013-12-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi 2013/12/10 Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org: I recently e-mailed the development list about multiple concurrent development versions and I’d like to ask users, especially those currently using the development version, to take the time to respond to a question regarding the proposal.

lilypond promotional stuff

2013-12-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Okay, it seems that there is interest in collaborating on engraving comparisons and other promotional materials: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/msg00323.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg00313.html Unfortunately, due to

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file?

2013-12-11 Thread Jan Rosseel
That's a good suggestion, but it fails on my scores: Interpreting music...C:/Program Files (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/event-listener.ly:145:35: In procedure ly:duration-length in expression (ly:duration-length (ly:event-property event #)): C:/Program Files

Re: Bug in the manuals ?

2013-12-11 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/12/11 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org The english pages has the html extension. The URL without extension will return the page of your browser language. See the link Automatic language selection in the footer of manuals. No bug :-) I think it _is_ a bug if the table-of-contents

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file?

2013-12-11 Thread Urs Liska
I repeat my (corrected) suggestion which could be a workaround at least. If you can use Frescobaldi from Git you can pull and checkout the accounting branch (not statistics) of my Frescobaldi fork on https://github.com/uliska/frescobaldi. (Ah no, you don't necessarily need Git, you can also

place variable definition

2013-12-11 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
I am working on a piece containing several parts. Each part is in a partn.lyp file. A part can have multiple versions. So I work with variables and tags. In the master file I include the partn.lyp files. The partn.lyp files contain definitions like partname = Part N music = \relative c'' { a b

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file?

2013-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com writes: That's a good suggestion, but it fails on my scores: Interpreting music...C:/Program Files (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/event-listener.ly:145:35: In procedure ly:duration-length in expression (ly:duration-length (ly:event-property event

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file?

2013-12-11 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com writes: That's a good suggestion, but it fails on my scores: Interpreting music...C:/Program Files (x86)/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/event-listener.ly:145:35: In procedure ly:duration-length in expression

Re:improving LilyPond useability

2013-12-11 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
I just thought I'd add my thoughts to the pile (I'm responding to more than one thread of ideas; apologies for that). Re text editors/lilypond environments and people's first experience with LilyPond: when I first tried LilyPond (on the advice of a friend who had never used it) I tried it using

RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-11 Thread Jan Rosseel
From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com writes: That's a good suggestion, but it fails on my scores: Interpreting music...C:/Program Files

Re:How to count the number of notes in a .ly file? (David Kastrup)

2013-12-11 Thread Jan Rosseel
(Sorry for the repost - I promise I will not reply anymore from the digest) David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com writes: That's a good suggestion, but it fails on my scores: Interpreting music...C:/Program Files

Re:How to count the number of notes in a .ly file? (David Kastrup)

2013-12-11 Thread Jan Rosseel
From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org I repeat my (corrected) suggestion which could be a workaround at least. If you can use Frescobaldi from Git you can pull and checkout the accounting branch (not statistics) of my Frescobaldi fork on https://github.com/uliska/frescobaldi. (Ah no, you

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-11 Thread Anthonys Lists
On 05/12/2013 02:09, Tim McNamara wrote: Powerful software and simple software are usually mutually exclusive. Compare Word, Pages and LaTeX, for example. Pages is more elegant but can do a small fraction of what Word can do. Word can't do a lot of things that LaTeX can. Word is aimed at

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102

2013-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, So interesting that this came up on the list this week… I was brainstorming an orchestration teaching tool, where one could find the distribution of notes in an instrument across an entire score, to show students where [good] composers tend to have their instruments play. How hard

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wol, imho [Word] STILL hasn't caught up with the dedicated word processing programs for professionals (such as WordPerfect) which were around in the 80s - thirty years ago! Depends on your definition of “caught up”, I suppose. ;) In terms of the number of people who use it, there’s no

Re: How to count the number of notes in a .ly file? (David Kastrup)

2013-12-11 Thread Mike Solomon
On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com wrote: From: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org I repeat my (corrected) suggestion which could be a workaround at least. If you can use Frescobaldi from Git you can pull and checkout the accounting branch (not statistics) of my