Re: Melisma line

2018-10-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:34:37 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: > On 2018-09-24 at 01:02, David Wright wrote: > > That's adds a lot of complexity. I prefer a simpler approach: > > > > %% > > \version "2.18.2" > > > > A = \relative g' { g2 g( g g) g g g g } > > n = \lyricmode { "" } > > >

Re: lyluatex failing to start LilyPond

2018-10-03 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 10/3/18 7:09 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: lualatex lyluatest.ly --shell-escape That's the wrong order. Options come before the file name. -- ✝✝ Br. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) St. Anselm’s Abbey 4501 South Dakota Ave, NE Washington, DC, 20017 202-269-2300 (c)

lyluatex failing to start LilyPond

2018-10-03 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi All, I'm having trouble getting lyluatex to find lilypond. Even specifying the program location and running lualatex with --shell-escape results in "LilyPond could not be started". The OS is Fedora 28 and the lilypond version is the one provided by the package manager (currently 2.19.82) and

Re: Including a score fragment in LaTeX document

2018-10-03 Thread Kevin Barry
Sorry to hijack this, but is there a place to ask for help with lyluatex? I am having trouble with it (in short, even specifying the program location and running lualatex with --escape-shell results in a failure to start lilypond.) I don't see that there is a mailing list or anything. I presume

Re: Including a score fragment in LaTeX document

2018-10-03 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.10.2018 um 00:44 schrieb Kevin Barry: Sorry to hijack this, but is there a place to ask for help with lyluatex? I am having trouble with it (in short, even specifying the program location and running lualatex with --escape-shell results in a failure to start lilypond.) I don't see that

Re: slash to indicate repeated chord?

2018-10-03 Thread DrTechDaddy
Robin Bannister-2 wrote > Well there was a suggestion in 2012 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00417.html > I don't know if anything came of this. Thanks. It took me a while to get around to it, but I tried the Scheme solution from Francisco Vila(?) and it worked.

Re: Including a score fragment in LaTeX document

2018-10-03 Thread Francesco Napoleoni
> However, I would suggest you have a look at the lyluatex package Actually I am aware of lyluatex but I haven’t tried it yet, lately I have been very busy. Surely I’ll give it a try. Thanks again ciao Francesco Napoleoni ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> It was an observation, not a proposal. >>> Speaking only for myself, I can perfectly life without the >>> comma-syntax in definitions and their calls. >> >> It feels weird in definitions. Don't remember whether

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread David Kastrup
Maarten Deen writes: > On 2018-10-03 10:13, David Kastrup wrote: >> Maarten Deen writes: > >>> But the solution offered by Kieren did not work in 2.16.2 (didn't test >>> other versions). >> >> 2.16.2 is, like, really old. Released more than 5 years ago. If you >> are doing typesetting of new

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2018-10-03 10:13, David Kastrup wrote: Maarten Deen writes: But the solution offered by Kieren did not work in 2.16.2 (didn't test other versions). 2.16.2 is, like, really old. Released more than 5 years ago. If you are doing typesetting of new scores, there is really not much of a

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread David Kastrup
Maarten Deen writes: > On 2018-10-02 22:56, David Kastrup wrote: >> Kieren MacMillan writes: >> >>> Hi Harm, >>> val = "foo" << \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 c'4 \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val2 \val4 } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val4 \val2 } >>

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2018-10-02 22:56, David Kastrup wrote: Kieren MacMillan writes: Hi Harm, val = "foo" << \new Staff \repeat unfold 4 c'4 \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val2 \val4 } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \val4 \val4 \val2 } Your proposal would make it impossible. Thanks for the examples.

Re: Why no numbers allowed in variables?

2018-10-03 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2018-10-02 18:31, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Maarten, Why are there no numbers allowed in variable names? \version "2.18.2" "part1" = { c''4 4 4 4 } \score { \new Staff \"part1" } As for why you need the quotes… well, I’ll leave the explanation up to more knowledgeable people than I.