Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

Well that makes sense: yes, Ubuntu of course (although my favorite flavour is Kubuntu). Or Mint. And of course you can just download a live CD and check it out without installing it. Or, if you're using windows, install Linux as a virtual machine using VirtualBox. I do this at work, which

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

The OP is just moving to Linux for the first time. As a user since just about forever of a dozen distros, while I have a good deal of admiration for Arch Linux, the initial installation is difficult for a beginner, and not everybody wants to be a sysadmin. That's why I would still suggest Ubuntu

Re: Changing spacing in a piece?

Hi Alasdair, Welcome to the world of lilypond vertical and horizontal spacing, a perennial topic of varying degrees of difficulty. You may do well top refer to the NR Section 4.4.2 Explicit staff and system positioning. There you will find you can specify the exact positioning for staves. If you

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

I haven't followed the complete thread, but I'm a current happy user of Archlinux, and it runs Lilypond, Frescobaldi fine. Also, I have managed to set up the Midi interface so that I can play the midi output from within Frescobaldi. Arch has particularly fine documentation, and its wiki

Changing spacing in a piece?

I have enlarged the spacing between systems (for readability) with \paper{ system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 15) (padding . 5)) } But there's one part of this score which consists of several lines of just one voice on one staff, and for which this enlarged spacing is unnecessary.

Re: Hello everyone / Instrument-Name-Abbreviation on front of every system

Hi UCas, On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:12 PM, UCas wrote: > ** me ** > > First of all, hello everyone. > I use lilypond for a few years now and until today I found a solution > for most of my problems by myself or by asking @JANieuwenhuizen on > Twitter. ;-) > Today, instead of

Hello everyone / Instrument-Name-Abbreviation on front of every system

** me ** First of all, hello everyone. I use lilypond for a few years now and until today I found a solution for most of my problems by myself or by asking @JANieuwenhuizen on Twitter. ;-) Today, instead of asking him I thought, I could do the thing he recommended a time ago: joining the

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

>> OpenSuSE, I'd recommend to use the Tumbleweed variant. It's a good >> distribution, and a nice feature for developers is that it allows >> easy parallel installation of guile 1 and 2. > > Unfortunately, as always, there are trade-offs. I'm a SuSE guy > myself (back from SuSE 5.4 days iirc the

Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

On 24/12/16 09:11, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 24.12.2016 um 04:06 schrieb Craig Dabelstein: >> Hi Lilyponders, >> >> Just a quick question. I'm taking the plunge and moving to Linux. >> Which distro would you recommend for running Lilypond and Frescobaldi? > > OpenSuSE, I'd recommend to use the

Re: some mentoring available

- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Flaming Hakama by Elaine" Cc: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 2:50 AM Subject: Re: some mentoring available On Tue, Dec 27,

Re: Vertical placement of title, tempo, segno

Andrew Bernard writes: > Hi David, > > Well the NR says: > > "... > This is accomplished with the \tweak command, which has the following > syntax: > > \tweak [layout-object.]grob-property value > > Specifying layout-object is optional. The \tweak command applies to the

Re: Vertical placement of title, tempo, segno

Hi David, Well the NR says: "... This is accomplished with the \tweak command, which has the following syntax: \tweak [layout-object.]grob-property value Specifying layout-object is optional. The \tweak command applies to the music object that immediately follows value in the music stream.

Re: Vertical placement of title, tempo, segno

Andrew Bernard writes: > Hi David, > > All this time and I never knew you could omit the layout-object from the > tweak command. Thank you for pointing this out! > > So Alasdair, you can just say: > > \tweak outside-staff-priority ##f > \mark \markup {\small