Re: Issue with autochange, staves and rests

2014-01-08 Thread muggle
OK, now I'm just being thick :( R1*12/8 \autochange {\relative {r4. e,16 f g a b c d e f g a b c d r f r a}} should do the trick. Sorry if I've wasted your time. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Issue-with-autochange-staves-and-rests-tp157475p157476.htm

Issue with autochange, staves and rests

2014-01-08 Thread muggle
I get a funny-looking score with my code: \version "2.16.2" \header{ title = "title" subsubtitle = "composer" } up = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 12/8 R1*12/8 r4. \autochange {\relative {e,16 f g a b c d e f g a b c d r f r a}} } down = \relative c { \clef bass

Re: Autochange not working

2014-01-08 Thread muggle
Doh! I mean: \autochange { \relative{c4 c, c, c' c' c, c, c, c' c' c' c'}} ...and it works. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Autochange-not-working-tp157471p157474.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Autochange not working

2014-01-08 Thread muggle
So it should be something like this: \relative{\autochange {c4 c, c, c' c' c, c, c, c' c' c' c'}} ? It doesn't seem to make much difference... -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Autochange-not-working-tp157471p157473.html Sent from the User mailing list ar

Re: Autochange not working

2014-01-08 Thread Eluze
muggle wrote > Here is my code: > [...] > > where all notes appear in the bass clef. Is there a way to specify which > notes go where? For example, if I want all notes above A (it's 3 semitones > below middle C) to be printed on the treble clef, is there a command to do > this? in NR "Changing s

Autochange not working

2014-01-08 Thread muggle
Here is my code: \version "2.16.2" \header{ title = \markup{"title"} subsubtitle = \markup{"subtitle"} } up = \relative c'' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 \autochange {c4 c, c, c' c' c, c, c, c' c' c' c'} } down = \relative c { \clef bass \key c \major \t

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 08/01/14 21:13, David Kastrup wrote: > >> At the current point of time, due to a discussion about version >> control on the Emacs developer list, I am working on git blame which >> is ridiculously slow. For the file src/xdisp.c, it takes about 2 >> minutes on

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 07/01/14 14:51, Urs Liska wrote: I don't think it would be advisable to encourage any _new_ user to learn SVN or CVS (if it isn't for a specific project of interest), but for your use case this is surely a valid question. One way in which svn can still be useful is in cases where you want th

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 08/01/14 21:13, David Kastrup wrote: Actually, that seems like a mischaracterization to me. It's the single file logs which aren't cheaper than the multi-file logs. You could be right. In any case, the Facebook devs are claiming wins for all change-related commands, including status, diff

Re: Giving Thanks (and Preachin' the Gospel)

2014-01-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
Great to hear this! J 2014/1/4 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi all, > > Trying this again without the images… =( > > Kieren. > > > On Jan 4, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Just wanted to let you know two things. >> >> 1. I was a guest lecturer at the Michigan State Un

Re: Professional Engraving

2014-01-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014/1/8 Alex Loomis : > This isn't directly related to LilyPond, but I have a question for people on > the mailing list. it seems like several people on this mailing list get > payed to engrave music. How did you get started with those jobs? I met Urs on this mailing list -> http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 08/01/14 19:40, Yann wrote: >> With hg, each clone of a repository IS a complete repository itself. So your >> "working copy" is a repository itself (the main folder just contains a hidden >> .hg folder with all the history data). I feel this is an advantage o

Re: Guitar Tab

2014-01-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/8/14 11:01 AM, "Patrick Thomas" wrote: >Is it possible to write guitar tab by itself without an accompanying >'normal' stave. Yes. Please see the third example in the Notation Reference, Section 2.4.1 Default tablatures. http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-no

RE: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:22 PM > To: Daniel Rosen > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: Re: Musical theater headers > > Hi Daniel, > > Maybe start here: > > \version "2.18.0" > > \hea

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 08/01/14 19:40, Yann wrote: With hg, each clone of a repository IS a complete repository itself. So your "working copy" is a repository itself (the main folder just contains a hidden .hg folder with all the history data). I feel this is an advantage over svn when working locally, as your data

Re: LSR and convert-ly/updating

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Yann writes: > I remember seeing somewhere that the snippets on the LSR were written for > Lilypond 2.14. > > Should I update them with convert-ly when using them ? Yes. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://l

LSR and convert-ly/updating

2014-01-08 Thread Yann
Hello all :) I remember seeing somewhere that the snippets on the LSR were written for Lilypond 2.14. Should I update them with convert-ly when using them ? By the way, thanks to all the contributors for the recent release of 2.18 !! :D Yann ___ lilyp

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Yann
Hello :) I used to work with svn some years ago (I learned it for programming at first). I mostly then used GUIs with it (TortoiseSVN on windows and kdesvn on linux). Then I moved to Mercurial (hg) after comparing between different softwares. One of the main reason I chose it over git was the ava

Re: Guitar Tab

2014-01-08 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 08/gen/2014 19:02 "Patrick Thomas" ha scritto: > > Is it possible to write guitar tab by itself without an accompanying 'normal' stave. > Sure: \new TabStaff { music } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-08 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 8 January 2014 17:19, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 2014-01-06 um 19:20 schrieb Sven Axelsson : > >> As for usability and aesthetics, the GUIs included with the git >> distribution are pretty terrible, but there are several other alternatives. >> As a Mac user, I prefer GitX for it's simpli

Re: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Daniel, Maybe start here: \version "2.18.0" \header { piece = "Piece" number = "1" instrument = "Instrument" date = "01/01/0101" composer = "Composer" } \paper { scoreTitleMarkup = \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 5) \column { \fill-line { \bold \fromproperty

RE: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Scott [mailto:waterho...@ultrasw.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:09 PM > To: Daniel Rosen > Cc: Kieren MacMillan; Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: Re: Musical theater headers > > I use \markup\fill-line{ "left" "center" "right" } > > for w

Re: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:43:29PM +, Daniel Rosen wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:26 AM > > To: Daniel Rosen > > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > > Subject: Re: Musical theater head

Guitar Tab

2014-01-08 Thread Patrick Thomas
Is it possible to write guitar tab by itself without an accompanying 'normal' stave. Patrick Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Rosen > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 12:43 PM > To: 'Kieren MacMillan' > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: RE: Musical theater headers > > I've been trying to do that for the past half-hour or so, and it's not working > the way I want it to.

RE: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> -Original Message- > From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:26 AM > To: Daniel Rosen > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List > Subject: Re: Musical theater headers > > Hi Daniel, > > > I'm engraving pit parts for a new musical > >

RE: umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> From: gagig...@gmail.com [mailto:gagig...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gagi > Petrovic > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:35 AM > To: Daniel Rosen > Cc: LilyPond Users > Subject: RE: umlaut > > Thanks for the replies guys. But like i said: it's jEdit that messes it up in > its pdf viewer (not v

baseline-referenced text/markups?

2014-01-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, What would be involved in changing the “reference point” of markups to be the baseline (instead of whatever the heck it is now)? The many unfortunate things demonstrated in the following “default”** snippet keep me up at night (figuratively *and* literally): \version "2.17" \layout

RE: umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Thanks for the replies guys. But like i said: it's jEdit that messes it up in its pdf viewer (not visible in the attachment, my bad). So there is no real problem. Cheers, Gagi On Jan 8, 2014 4:03 PM, "Daniel Rosen" wrote: > > From: Gagi Petrovic [mailto:m...@gagipetrovic.nl] > > Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Version control tools (was: Survey: Git (G)UIs)

2014-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-01-07 um 19:27 schrieb Urs Liska : > As a follow-up question I'd be interested in whether people use other version > control systems beside Git. If you use more than one, a short comparison > would be of general interest I think. Hi Urs, I’m using everything that I need to fetch some p

Re: Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Daniel, > I’m engraving pit parts for a new musical Welcome to the club! =) > and one of the arrangers has given me this note: “To follow convention, the > song number should be in large type in a box in the top-right corner of the > first page of the song. Players expect this and it will

Re: Survey: Git (G)UIs

2014-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-01-06 um 19:20 schrieb Sven Axelsson : > As for usability and aesthetics, the GUIs included with the git distribution > are pretty terrible, but there are several other alternatives. As a Mac user, > I prefer GitX for it's simplicity and unobtrusiveness. Atlassian's SourceTree > is als

Musical theater headers

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
I'm engraving pit parts for a new musical, and one of the arrangers has given me this note: "To follow convention, the song number should be in large type in a box in the top-right corner of the first page of the song. Players expect this and it will help them to locate the song quickly." He ref

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 16:02, schrieb Alex Loomis: Another vote for this. It would also make logistics easier. OK, it's a good idea. We can have any number of parallel approaches of course. Just one thing: I think peer review is a _very_ valuable tool when it comes to editing music. It may be diffe

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Alex Loomis
Another vote for this. It would also make logistics easier. On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > It might actually be interesting _not_ to collaborate, and see what > differences occur. This might also be true for Lilypond.

RE: umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Rosen
> From: Gagi Petrovic [mailto:m...@gagipetrovic.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 9:36 AM > To: LilyPond Users > Subject: umlaut > > Hi group, is this umlaut supposed to be like this?? What exactly do you think should be different about it? (It looks normal to me.) DR ___

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Marc Sabatella
I run git on on my Windows machine and it works well.  I don't always "get" git, but give me a workflow to follow and I can follow it.  Offline, I volunteered to do MuseScore using a pre-release of  2.0.  It can save files in a text format, unless there are custom graphics (eg, SVG files) that n

Re: umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 15:36, schrieb Gagi Petrovic: Hi group, is this umlaut supposed to be like this?? Take a look at this header code and the attached output. \version "2.16.1" \header{ title = "o ó ö" } \relative c' {c1} I don't see what you mean. The image looks exactly like I'd expect fro

Re: umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Okay, i just noticed it's just jEdit that makes the umlait look really weird. Sorry, disregard this message please. On 8 January 2014 15:36, Gagi Petrovic wrote: > Hi group, is this umlaut supposed to be like this?? > > Take a look at this header code and the attached output. > > > \version "2.

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 15:35, schrieb Marc Sabatella: I run git on on my Windows machine and it works well. I don't always "get" git, but give me a workflow to follow and I can follow it. Perfect! Offline, I volunteered to do MuseScore using a pre-release of 2.0. It can save files in a text form

umlaut

2014-01-08 Thread Gagi Petrovic
Hi group, is this umlaut supposed to be like this?? Take a look at this header code and the attached output. \version "2.16.1" \header{ title = "o ó ö" } \relative c' {c1} Should i report it as a bug? All the best, Gagi <>___ lilypond-user mail

Re: indent vs reformat

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 09:44, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: Hi, It's not quite clear to me what the difference is between "indent" and "reformat" using python-ly ? a) it's the same as using the respective commands inside Frescobaldi. b) Indent only takes care of the indent levels of the code lines. Ref

Re: transposition: entering parts in absolute pitch

2014-01-08 Thread Tom Yates
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Tom Yates writes: On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: You use \transposition to state the relation of printed to played music, regardless of whether you are entering in concert pitch or printed pitch. You use \transpose to change the printed pi

Re: transposition: entering parts in absolute pitch

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Tom Yates writes: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Which version of LilyPond are you using? In 2.17.13 the behavior >> was changed and is much simpler now. I am describing how this works >> now: > > GNU LilyPond 2.17.26, which is apparently handy! i'm sorry for not > including t

Re: transposition: entering parts in absolute pitch

2014-01-08 Thread Tom Yates
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Which version of LilyPond are you using? In 2.17.13 the behavior was changed and is much simpler now. I am describing how this works now: GNU LilyPond 2.17.26, which is apparently handy! i'm sorry for not including that information earlier. You u

Re: transposition: entering parts in absolute pitch

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Tom Yates writes: > I apologise if this is a FAQ; I've gone back a few months in the > archives and can't find anything that seems relevant, and I want to > get my head straight before I do any more work on my arrangement. > > I'm arranging something for brass band, which means dealing with 22 >

transposition: entering parts in absolute pitch

2014-01-08 Thread Tom Yates
I apologise if this is a FAQ; I've gone back a few months in the archives and can't find anything that seems relevant, and I want to get my head straight before I do any more work on my arrangement. I'm arranging something for brass band, which means dealing with 22 lines in a variety of trans

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > It might actually be interesting _not_ to collaborate, and see what > differences occur. This might also be true for Lilypond. > I was thinking something similar. It might be interesting to see how different people interpret or beautify the

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "Alex Loomis" Cc: "Janek Warchoł" ; "lilypond-user" Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Engraving challenges Am 08.01.2014 02:52, schrieb Alex Loomis: I'm interested and have access to both LillyPond (of course) and S

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
p.s. Never mind — found this part of the thread! =) Sorry for the noise. Kieren. On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote: > Hi, > > I just recognized that this snippet does not work as-is in 2.18.0 (and 2.17.x > for x large enough), but gives -inf.0 as X-offsets if no punctuation p

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-08 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alexander, > it's among my default includes. Could you please share the snippet you use? I tried and got a bunch of “infinite offset” errors… =\ Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 02:52, schrieb Alex Loomis: I'm interested and have access to both LillyPond (of course) and Sibelius. Great, so you can work together with Phil Holmes on Sibelius (at least for the proof-reading stages - we'll have to see if there _are_ possibilities to collaborate on Sibelius

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 11:26, schrieb Phil Holmes: - Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" ; "Janek Warchoł" Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 4:15 PM Subject: Engraving challenges Hi all, recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that of competing pr

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Noeck
Hi Simon, I just listed the reasons why I use git in general. And I like having one system for all version control use cases. You are right, the advantages apply more to software than to scores. > > - easy branching > what for when working with scores? Rarely in scores. But I use branches fo

Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

2014-01-08 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 01/08/2014 04:10 AM, Alex Loomis wrote: Shouldn't this be the default output? Looking at hand-engraved examples, such as this lied , words tend to be centered ignor

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.01.2014 11:24, schrieb Simon Bailey: hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:20 AM, mailto:k...@aspodata.se>> wrote: Joram: > Simon Bailey: > > so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? > > I always use git, event git-svn for svn repos. > Comparing to CVS

Re: [Frescobaldi] Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-08 Thread Peter Bjuhr
Hi Martin, thanks for the report. It's very good for the development with some feedback! On 01/08/2014 08:49 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Frescobaldi's musicxml export is still in an early stage of development so I will not try to mail a list with all things that fail or don't work yet.

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Simon Bailey wrote: > don't get me wrong, i'm really trying to find a reason to like git. but > nothing seems different to SVN so far, except for the fact that i have to > commit TWICE... > just to clarify: i'm trying to find a reason for using git for my workflo

Re: Engraving challenges

2014-01-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" ; "Janek Warchoł" Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 4:15 PM Subject: Engraving challenges Hi all, recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that of competing programs (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/ht

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:20 AM, wrote: > Joram: > > Simon Bailey: > > > so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? > > > > I always use git, event git-svn for svn repos. > > Comparing to CVS and SVN, I see these advantages: > > > > - easy branching > what for when working wit

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Eluze
Fulvio Turra wrote > Yes, it works now! I just replaced the hspace#7 with a #3 and it's > perfect! > Do you think the difference between the two numbers may be because I use > Frescobaldi to edit the files? it's a matter of preference to compile, Frescobaldi uses the LilyPond version you've insta

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Fulvio Turra
Sorry Eluze, I'm just a beginner with Lilypond. Yes, it works now! I just replaced the hspace#7 with a #3 and it's perfect! Do you think the difference between the two numbers may be because I use Frescobaldi to edit the files? Thanks a lot, once again :) Fulvio 2014/1/8 Eluze > Fulvio Turra wr

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Eluze
Fulvio Turra wrote > Hi Eluze, thanks for your suggestion. > I inserted \hspace #-7 before \column: in the attachment you can see the > result. *before the column* means before the specs for the column: \set TabStaff.instrumentName = \markup { \hspace #7 \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \c

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Fulvio Turra
Hi Eluze, thanks for your suggestion. I inserted \hspace #-7 before \column: in the attachment you can see the result. I also tried to tweak a bit the other numbers with no success. Fulvio 2014/1/8 Eluze > Fulvio Turra wrote > > It works, but there's too much space between the string names and

Re: Is it possible to invert the two-sided option?

2014-01-08 Thread David Kastrup
Alex Loomis writes: > In books, recto (odd) pages have larger left margin and versos have larger > right margins. No. You are confusing the binding allotment (which depends on the position of the sheets in the binding and thus is page-dependent) with the inner margin, which is the actually visi

Re: Version control tools

2014-01-08 Thread karl
Joram: > Simon Bailey: > > so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? > > I always use git, event git-svn for svn repos. > Comparing to CVS and SVN, I see these advantages: > > - easy branching > - I am a heavy user of git rebase > - being able to commit, branch, diff etc. without

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Eluze
Fulvio Turra wrote > It works, but there's too much space between the string names and the tab. > ... > Is there a way to move the string names a bit to the right? you can add \hspace #7 before the column Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Open-str

indent vs reformat

2014-01-08 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Hi, It's not quite clear to me what the difference is between "indent" and "reformat" using python-ly ? -- MT ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Open string tunings for guitar

2014-01-08 Thread Fulvio Turra
Hi Alex, thanks for your kind response. It works, but there's too much space between the string names and the tab. I attach a .ly file for you to see the result. Is there a way to move the string names a bit to the right? Thanks again. Fulvio 2014/1/8 Alex Loomis > The Frescobaldi website say

ANN python-ly 0.2 released

2014-01-08 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, python-ly 0.2 has been released. The python-ly is in development and provides the 'ly' module for python programs and the 'ly' commandline tool that can parse and manipulate LilyPond source files. Url: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ly/ Main changes in 0.2: - new commands abs2rel