Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Chris, > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty > simple. > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there. > By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, Well, 16.04 is a long term support (LTS) release which companies seem to like. But there is nothing wrong therefore with 17.10. I find it to be really stable and trouble free, and superior in may ways - else why would they release it?. Still cant get Frescobaldi 3 running on it, but I

Frescobaldi 3 build on Ubuntu 17.10

2017-12-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi All, Attempting to get to the bottom of the Frescobaldi dependency merry-go-round, I end up - having carefully checked everything - with the old crash after the splash screen core dump. Altogether miserable. I remember trying to debug the source code for this a while ago and came to grief

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Chris, Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty simple. I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there. By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very stable and the 19 series have so many good features it seems a pity to

Re: Optional trill or putting parentheses around \trill

2017-12-09 Thread Mike Dean
Worked wonderfully! Thanks! (Wasn't sure if I could follow the /parenthesize command with /trill...) Mike Dean On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Mike > > LSR 421. > > Andrew > > ___ lilypond-user

Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:18:49PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: > I am attaching a .png file of the "before vs. after" type. Oops... forgot to attach the image! Here goes. Thanks, CJ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

cross-staff stems in a piano part

2017-12-09 Thread Chris Jones
I am attaching a .png file of the "before vs. after" type. The top version is what I achieved with the following "simple example": | \version "2.18.2" | | global = { | \key g \major | \time 4/4 | } | | right = \relative c'' { | \global | <> <> <> <>

Re: Optional trill or putting parentheses around \trill

2017-12-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Mike LSR 421. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Optional trill or putting parentheses around \trill

2017-12-09 Thread Mike Dean
Not sure there is an easy way to do it... (I don't think I looked in the correct place in the LSR...) Mike Dean ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Album update featuring LilyPond

2017-12-09 Thread Christopher R. Maden
I posted an update to my Kickstarter last night, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crism/shower-chanteys/posts/2067099>, explaining how I use LilyPond to make guide tracks for vocal recording. I’m also planning to release a songbook with the arrangements from the album, once they’re all

Tie Crusade: The Revenge

2017-12-09 Thread Robert Murdoch
Salutations, Ties for notes between the bottom two staff lines (e.g. treble F4, bass A2, alto G3) and between the top two staff lines (e.g. treble E5, bass G3, alto F4) appear to be positioned incorrectly by default. They begin and end between the notes instead of slightly above or below

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 09:11:58 (-0500), Ben wrote: > On 12/9/2017 9:03 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > >>However, weren't you one of those who "enjoyed" the fun of a > >>major version update? ;-) > > > >Yes, I was. But I think I know how to avoid that ‘fun’ in future: > >having a separate home

Re: Python dependencies: plea for help

2017-12-09 Thread bb
Absolutely agree! Am 09.12.2017 um 15:26 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 09.12.2017 15:07, bb wrote: >> Problems arises if you install from source and especially vedrsion >> 3.0.0. I sent some reports about that troubles to the frescobaldi >> mailing list. >> >> As Ralph Palmer writes, setting up a

Re: Python dependencies: plea for help

2017-12-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.12.2017 15:07, bb wrote: Problems arises if you install from source and especially vedrsion 3.0.0. I sent some reports about that troubles to the frescobaldi mailing list. As Ralph Palmer writes, setting up a new frescobaldi version always needs uninstall of the old version. Only

Re: Fast lilypond input - does midi keyboard help?

2017-12-09 Thread deviskra
Hello! If you write monophonic melodies with varying rhythm and navigate through your PC keyboard well, there wouldn't be any advantage, likely. Yet, rhythmic MIDI input in general is very inaccurate, for me. Instead, it's possible to start with writing your parts rhythmically, without paying

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Ben
On 12/9/2017 9:03 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: However, weren't you one of those who "enjoyed" the fun of a major version update? ;-) Yes, I was. But I think I know how to avoid that ‘fun’ in future: having a separate home partition now, I’d just overwrite the old version and install the new

Re: Python dependencies: plea for help

2017-12-09 Thread bb
Installing frescobaldi from the distribution repository was no problem at all. Problems arises if you install from source and especially vedrsion 3.0.0. I sent some reports about that troubles to the frescobaldi mailing list. As Ralph Palmer writes, setting up a new frescobaldi version always

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.12.2017 09:22, Urs Liska wrote: Until now I’ve stuck to my resolve to not open that can of potential problems coming with less stable Ubuntu versions. How much of a risk is there? In general or specifically for LilyPond? Frescobaldi has the discussed issue,*compiling* LilyPond is pretty

Re: Frescobaldi 3,.0 CRAHES

2017-12-09 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hi Vincenzo, > > I haven’t been able to get any version of Frescobaldi working under Ubuntu > 16.04, sadly. I made several attempts at fixing it, and there’s some > information here:

Re: Frescobaldi 3,.0 CRAHES

2017-12-09 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
What does "installed blindly" mean? ubuntu studio? The actual version is 17.10, eventaully based in ubuntu 17.10. I used that as well and tried hard to get frescobaldi 3.0.0 installed, but never succeeded. That is true for other ubuntu blends based on versions older than 18.2. May be it

Re: Python dependencies: plea for help

2017-12-09 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
There is not remarked which fresobaldi version you try to install? With frescobaldi 3.0.0 I found that python-poppler-qt5 does notb work, python3-poppler-qt5 is needed!! I did not get frescobaldi 3.0.0 on Linux mint 17 (did not try 16), tried tons of library versions. In general I found the

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
I am just jumping into that thread and have not read the rest of the conversation. I did not get to run frescobaldi 3.0.0 on my Linux mate 17.04, python-ly did not work which version ever i tried. I installed Linux mint 18.2 Sonja 64 bit a couple of weeks ago and gave frescobaldi 3.0.0

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Noeck
> Until now I’ve stuck to my resolve to not open that can of potential > problems coming with less stable Ubuntu versions. How much of a risk is > there? Hi Simon, I had small issues (like this Frescobaldi one, not working switch user, some missing icons for non-gnome applications) with almost

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Dezember 2017 09:17:21 MEZ schrieb Simon Albrecht : >On 09.12.2017 00:56, Noeck wrote: >>> I'm not too familiar with Ubuntu's update path, but is it possible >for >>> you to upgrade to 17.04 - maybe the poppler issue has been resolved >in >>> later releases? Just

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.12.2017 00:56, Noeck wrote: I'm not too familiar with Ubuntu's update path, but is it possible for you to upgrade to 17.04 - maybe the poppler issue has been resolved in later releases? Just an idea for testing. If you're not wanting to leave your older-but-stable OS, I totally understand.