Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Thomas Morley writes: > >> 2016-08-28 0:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Poly : >>> Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful >>> examples but I still can't make this particular chord work. >>> >>> I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this

Re: Decrescendo on last note.

2016-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
"Evan O'Dorney" writes: > Hi everyone, > > For a change, I'm not posting a question or feature request. Instead, I've > noticed that quite a few Lilypond users have asked how to typeset a hairpin > (typically a decrescendo) on the last note of a piece, extending all the > way to the final barline

Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2016-08-28 0:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Poly : >> Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful >> examples but I still can't make this particular chord work. >> >> I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this: "Am (add4)". That's >> all I w

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Pirotte writes: > Hello Urs, > >> So that explains something. >> You think LilyPond's website and docs are maintained as HTML files? >> Not at all! > > Nope, I never said the doc was written and maintained in 'html' :). You can > follow > the doc link on Guile's web-site, for example, whic

Re: Song layout for overhead projection

2016-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Sat 27 Aug 2016 at 14:18:06 (-0600), David F. wrote: > > I have a song transcribed in lilypond notation. It prints very nicely on one > page, like you might see in a hymnal. How do I print that same song so that > it could be projected on a screen? E.g. printed in landscape, broken up over

Decrescendo on last note.

2016-08-27 Thread Evan O'Dorney
Hi everyone, For a change, I'm not posting a question or feature request. Instead, I've noticed that quite a few Lilypond users have asked how to typeset a hairpin (typically a decrescendo) on the last note of a piece, extending all the way to the final barline. Various solutions have been posted,

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Urs, > ... > >> Still needs to be tied into the translation process and means another > >> technology the translators need to master. > > > >Translators would edit the strings , then run 'make www' > > ... > So that explains something. > You think LilyPond's website and docs are maintaine

Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-08-28 0:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Poly : > Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful > examples but I still can't make this particular chord work. > > I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this: "Am (add4)". That's > all I want to do. > First I'm surprise

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27. August 2016 23:26:31 MESZ, schrieb David Pirotte : > >> > Don't be! You'll get use to it a lot faster then you think! It >> > actually reads almost as if it was English [and *nod* a lot easier >> > then the corresponding html page], here is a simplified example. >The >> > schema is the sam

Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread Benjamin Poly
Thanks for the code you sent me in private Jacques, it's full of useful examples but I still can't make this particular chord work. I want to display a minor chord with a fourth like this: "Am (add4)". That's all I want to do. First I'm surprised that I have to specify the chord (in the variable c

Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread Benjamin Poly
Thanks for your quick reply. I have seen this documentation but I can't make it work. Could you show me exactly what I should write in the chExceptionMusic and chordNames variable ? Le 27/08/2016 23:01, Jacques Menu Muzhic a écrit : > Hello Benjamin, > > The error you get is due to wrong syntax,

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread David Pirotte
> > Don't be! You'll get use to it a lot faster then you think! It > > actually reads almost as if it was English [and *nod* a lot easier > > then the corresponding html page], here is a simplified example. The > > schema is the same for all pages: > > > > import > > utils > > shared > >

Re: question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Benjamin, The error you get is due to wrong syntax, no problem. You can display chords your own way with something like the following, see Customizing chord names in the Notation Reference : % Exception music is chords with markups chExceptionMusic = { 1-\markup { \super {"-7(" {\small

question about minor + fourth

2016-08-27 Thread Benjamin Poly
Hi everyone, I've recently started using lilypond and I like it very much but I find that the software has sometimes complex solutions to simple problems. I want to display the chord notation "Am (add4)" In chord mode I have tried a:m.4 -> causes an error a:m4 -> display a4 sus4 b3 Could somebod

Song layout for overhead projection

2016-08-27 Thread David F.
I have a song transcribed in lilypond notation. It prints very nicely on one page, like you might see in a hymnal. How do I print that same song so that it could be projected on a screen? E.g. printed in landscape, broken up over multiple pages and song verses printed separately and in seque

Re: Advice on building flash drive for Spanish speaker

2016-08-27 Thread Karlin High
On 8/24/2016 1:03 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: > Greetings - > > I'm trying to build a flash drive for a Spanish speaker. I'd like to > include the stable Spanish versions of LilyPond (probably 2.18.2) and > Frescobaldi. The friend lives in Cuba, so I'll probably not be able to > use the 64-bit versi

Re: Dynamic marks and vertical space

2016-08-27 Thread Cynthia Karl
> On Aug 27, 2016, at 02:24:41 +0300,Timofey Misarenkov wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 02:24:41 +0300 > From: Timofey Misarenkov > Subject: Dynamic marks and vertical space > > The sample code below has one flaw: it wastes too much vertical space > due to \ff. In the real case i

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
David Pirotte writes: > Don't be! You'll get use to it a lot faster then you think! It > actually reads almost as if it was English [and *nod* a lot easier > then the corresponding html page], here is a simplified example. The > schema is the same for all pages: > > import > utils >

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread David Pirotte
> > ... or rather strings in a scheme file? Here's a scary example: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/www/about.scm > > > This approach, at least this example, is totally missing CSS/JavaScript > integration that makes (and, unfortunately, often breaks) mo

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:13:50 +0200 Federico Bruni wrote: > ... or rather strings in a scheme file? Here's a scary example: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/www/about.scm This approach, at least this example, is totally missing CSS/JavaScript integration that