Re: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

before the space. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fwd: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

just by looking at the command - I don't want bash behaving randomly too! (Hint - the behaviour in cp is dependent upon, not least, whether the target already exists and whether it's a file or directory. Every other copy command I've ever used behaves consistently ... :-( Cheers, Wol -- Anthony

Combining marks

about with something I don't understand :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

printer, and Acrobat (the ONLY application to do it) insists the printer has American Letter paper. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

In message 50b55f67-a1ed-4f05-96bd-82b00b260...@googlemail.com, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com writes Am 07.02.2009 um 18:53 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: It's probably not helped by the fact that I have an A4 document, printing on an A4 printer, and Acrobat (the ONLY application

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

In message 20090207193803.ga2...@istic.org, Daniel Hulme s...@istic.org writes On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I just don't know where or why Acrobat is finding this American Letter stuff (oh - I've got a Hickey Pouse WinPrinter - a laserjet 1000 series

Re: printed page does not match the .pdf file

!) I've found it IMPOSSIBLE to get the pdf to print cleanly on a sheet of paper, full size, properly centred. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Installing Lilly pad

, but the -X.Y.Z looks strange - surely that should have the relevant numbers in there. How does the Xandros installer install software? You should just be able to get into that and install lily from there. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

a hefty hit in other areas to avoid that third page, and often do have to accept it in nasty tweaks to force the music to fit.) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

, concert/military band = whatever suits the player. But as a perfect example of lilypond following a different tradition to me - 90% of the parts I play have the instrument name LEFT justified on the part. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: template

it would normally be Bf, but might be G or Ef too). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: using Ramdisk

a see through filesystem over the mountpoint - any writes will go to the unionfs, while any reads, if they can't be found in the unionfs will look in the directory under the mount. So if you can mount the unionfs in ram, that's probably your best bet. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth

Re: using Ramdisk

access. Disable this by opening /etc/fstab, look for you root filesystem, and change where it says 'defaults' to 'defaults,noatime', then reboot and enjoy faster computing. WARNING! I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be careful. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: Linux question

. And on an old pc, you might be better with something like Enlightenment. I'd guess that, for you, Ubuntu with Enlightenment (or BlackBox) is best. The default Gnome will be familiar to you from Windows, and you can play with the other two if Gnome is a bit heavy on the system. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W

Re: Repeat volta: how many times to repeat?

, identical in content but different in mime-type - typically text and html. Usually I'll get an html mail with an *empty* text alternative. I'm guessing that message may be text with an empty html alternative, seeing as I seemed to read it okay ... Trevor Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: mBreak function

I twigged - the ?parser? thought it was a volta, so it complained I'd told it there were two voltae but I'd given it three. Left me well puzzled for a short while ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: unusual Alto Clef

at the same time probably isn't incompatible :-) At the end of the day, it's just another font, isn't it? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: unusual Alto Clef

stuff (naturally, seeing as I'm a trombonist :-) and I've met exactly this clef (up a third, of course) on many occasions. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

a single input file though. If you specify multiple input files to process then lilypond will fork off into different jobs to get the work done. -Anthony ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

system, it WILL be a bit faster. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: trouble with slur

else? -Anthony ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: a script / tool for transposing a lilypond staff / source file by a given interval and output result as a new file

trombonist :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Obviously, I can't (easily) tweak the placing of things like Allegro if it's going to be inserted into lots of parts (nor do I want the hassle). But, to give a current example, my trombone part

Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts

clef) right where I want to put an Andante. The end effect is that the Andante has trampled all over the notes with the result that neither is really legible. What do I do here? Regards, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond

Re: overlaying as a tool for annotating entry points in orchestral parts (was Re: tempo for both conductor's score and parts)

... As a trombonist, my parts normally have Horn or Baritone cues, and the intent is that if those parts are missing, I can play them instead. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:56:11AM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: It's not in the manual, and I can't search the LSR because it's down ... I want time signatures of Common and Cut Common in my music. I know they're

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

our needs that well. Note I'm not complaining - that's just the way Free Software works ... Regards, Maarten Regards, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Time signatures (Common, Cut Common)

of 4/4 What do I need to reset it to to give me common time later in the piece? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Slur Problem....

it a little bit downward if you like since I'm not sure how high you would like it to be. -Anthony ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

acciaccatura grace note coming right before an end volta repeat bracket

appreciated. Thanks in advance! Anthony ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: acciaccatura grace note coming right before an end volta repeat bracket

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just insert the slur the same way as if the acciaccatura note was an ordinary note: \relative c'{ \afterGrace c( { \once \override Stem #'stroke-style = #grace d8) } } /Mats Thanks Matt, but that's not what I

Re: git question

making changes to the repository. Use the public git address. The following command should work: git clone git://repo.or.cz/orchestrallily.git You may have to remove that already created orchestralilly folder, however. Anthony ___ lilypond-user

Sustain in midi output of Piano Centered Dynamics Template

noticed it wasn't working. :) - Anthony ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re:vim

Hi Stefan. ~ means your home directory. In a Linux shell, typing cd ~ will take you to your home directory (which is something like /home/yourusername or something; I used Ubuntu). You can look there for the .vim folder. In Windows XP the home directory is usually C:\Documents and

Re: How to make the copyright notice appear with the tagline

Thanks to all that responded! The short of it was that I did need to upgrade and reposition the \header block in order to make the titles appear. Perhaps by the copyright being outside and before the \score block the program knows what it is just in time when I needed it. The long of it was

Re:How to make the copyright notice appear with the tagline

Thanks for the upgrade suggestion. I have upgraded to 2.11.43, but the tagline and copyright notice still do not appear on the bottom of the first page. Perhaps the header needs to be in a different place now that I'm in 2.11? Francisco, I noticed in your snippet that the \header block is

How to make the copyright notice appear with the tagline

Hi again, all, I know that the copyright notice will appear in the footer of the first page, and the LilyPond tagline will appear in the footer of the last page. But what about if the piece were only one page long? I decided to customize oddFooterMarkup in my ly file: \version 2.10.25

re: vim compiles always in root directory

I ran into a similar issue when I was writing this musical some time back. My workaround was basically this: 1) In the directory that I have the music in (let's say it was /path/to) I put in a startvim script and a render script. 2) The startvim script just called vim. 3) The render script had

Battle of the beginning of a measure: Rehearsal marks vs. Manual volta brackets

Hi all, I have no knowledge as to how LilyPond does the spacing for this specific situation, but I seem to have a war going on between the rehearsal mark (marking the second line as a Coda) and the Volta bracket. % --- original file --- % \version 2.10.25#(define-markup-command (jumptext

Re: Battle of the beginning of a measure: Rehearsal marks vs. Manual volta brackets

Thank you for the insight. I'm thinking of submitting my oldschooljumps.ly definitions to the LSR. Maybe someone would find it useful (maybe more useful than my earlier tweak ^_^). Romel - Original Message - From: Neil Puttock To: Romel Anthony Bismonte Cc: lilypond-user

Re: Dashed slurs indicating optional slurs between lyric lines

Heh, I could have sworn that I read through that section of the manual three times without realizing that it was the solution I was looking for! I used the suggested style in my current project, being careful to keep the line-thickness property override. By the way, I saw in the Program

Dashed slurs indicating optional slurs between lyric lines

After tooling around a bit in LilyPond, I think I may have developed something potentially useful for someone out there. And wouldn't you know, I got to it because I needed it myself! ^_^ In the songbook we use at church, the verses to the song are stacked on top of each other if the melody

voltaOnThisStaff property in the master file's \layout block

I found the following fix in the LSR, which puts volta brackets above the chord names: \version 2.10.0 \score { \new ChordNames \with { voltaOnThisStaff = ##t } \chordmode { c1 c } \new Staff \with { voltaOnThisStaff = ##f } { \repeat volta 2 { c'1 } \alternative { c' } } }

Polyphony and (disappearing) lyrics

I came into this question right at the end of typesetting a piece. Here's the (minimal) code: \version 2.10.25 \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \score { \new Voice=twinkle \relative c' { c c g' g { a4 a g2 } \\ { f4 f e2 }

Re: BRICK WALL

I don't know how much help my suggestion is, but I've run into a similar situation. Could it be that the paper is the wrong size? Or, more importantly in the same line of reasoning, could the line width be too long for the given page size? One time I was trying to get my music onto 6 by 9

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \line

A system is a single line of a set of staves that are grouped together. OK, maybe that isn't the best explanation, but maybe an illustration is better: Grand Piano |||||| Guitar |||||| Flute |||||| GPno

Re: Aligning relative to page

Thanks for all the suggestions. Everything that I read on the mailing list sends me back to the LilyPond user manual, and every time that happens, I understand it a little bit more. The document is pretty cryptic in places, but then again, so are most important documents. I mean, I think

Trying to create a custom markup command

I liked the idea of a segue so much, that I decided that I should write a custom markup command for it: #(define-markup-command (segue layout props tosong) (string?) (interpret-markup layout props (markup #:small #:column segue to #:italic tosong) ) ) The usage (as I

Re: Trying to create a custom markup command

c1_\segue #Something Else Only `c1-\segue' works, IIRC. Writing something which works with `_' and `^' is a bit more difficult; however, I've added an example some time ago to the docs. Werner I tried `c1-\segue #Something Else'. This didn't work, either. The log file says that

Re: Trying to create a custom markup command

Ah, all right! Now I'm pointed in the right direction. Thanks, again, guys. Maybe I shouldn't code or read the manual when my mind is telling me that I should sleep. It sure is clear what I did wrong now that I see my code in the light of day! But hey, a bug, right? That's pretty exciting;

Re: Custom Volta repeats

Thanks to all the people who gave suggestions. I thought about volta brackets a good deal this afternoon while considering all the suggestions, and it dawned on me that the collision between volta spanners isn't happening where I thought it was happening. I first thought that the collision was

Aligning relative to page

I was wondering what kind of contexts of control I have over \markup stuff outside \score stuff. Specifically, this is what I would like to accomplish. \version 2.10.25 \score { \new Voice \relative c'' { g4 g g a | c b a g | e d e g | e1 } } \markup {

Custom Volta repeats

Hi, I am new to Lilypond, and I am having success so far in notating my music. I have run into an issue with repeated music: \score {\new Voice \relative c' {c4 d e g\repeat volta 2 { a g c b |a g e d}\repeat volta 4 { g f

Re: gracenote producing wrong clef

much all man pages should list known problems. For amusement, however, if you have access to a Unix/linux system, try man mutt (or search the web for it). It has an amusing twist to standard practice :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: producing archival scores

, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: producing archival scores

an industry perspective... As I understand XSLT it is designed to convert from one valid XML representation to another valid XML representation. As such, XSLT is probably useless. Can you write a DTD for lilypond? Without it, I don't think you can use XSLT. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: Notes are going octaves down [solved]

) ~ f4 r r8 e4.^-^+( \glissando f1) ~ } \alternative { { f2 r8 e4.^-^+( \glissando } { f2) r8 e4.^-^+( \glissando } } f1) ~ f4 r r8 e4.^-^+( \glissando f1) ~ f4 r r8 ef4.^-^+( \glissando f1) ~ f4. f8 r4 d8.- df16- r8 d4.--- ef8.- e16- f8.- gf16- ~ gf1 } -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: Bends and falls

where I found out how it actually worked ... Cheers, Wol Akakie wrote: In editing jazz, what symbols can I use for bends (on a single note) and falls (after a note). delI've looked at bendAfter, but not made it work/del. I'm new to Lilypond. -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rehearsal mark formatter

, even if they're not all documented (and I think they are documented). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: How to start Lilypond

in notepad (or indeed, any other app eg .doc in Word). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new to lily pond... freezing during compiling

problems with apostrophes and quotes. If the example has these in it, make sure they are plain ones, and haven't been fancified by TeX or whatever. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: [fr: barres de notes dans un triolet] Rhythmic slashes, are just too [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard to do

!!! :-) When it's done, I might post a cut-down version on -devel for use as a manual example. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: remove time signature

list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Reorganizing the contents of the \paper block

it with an empty \paper block :-) Just as we have a \mid block to trigger midi output, we could have a \paper block to trigger paper output. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: problems with german umlauts

! (Not unless you use something like UTF-8, that is ...) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: problems with german umlauts

Yen symbol here), and is usually seen in signs saying things like Ye olde coffee shoppe. (Which is why ye is NOT an archaic *pronounciation* of the, it's a corruption of an old *spelling* of the.) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ps and pdf question

either get a slightly smaller image than I should, or my top and left margins are slightly too big. (I don't normally give a monkeys about this, but other people might...) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: ps and pdf question

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And IME (and I stress IME) pdf doesn't do what it says on the tin, anyway! In other words, it does NOT print accurately. I would LIKE to be able to print an A4 pdf on a sheet of A4 paper

Re: Syntax-colored lilypond email

) you will cause havoc to other people! My mailer, for example, defaults to plain text. I regularly get blank emails because somebody else's mailer has screwed up their mime types. And I gather it's quite common for anti-spam filters to be hostile to html... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony, Daniel Tonda has just began translating the first chapter into Spanish, but he needs some help with Linux, which I can't provide. He says things about OpenOffice and ooLilyPond that I don't understand. Coud you perhaps

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

:-) speak Gaelic. (I've simplified some 1500 years of history here, but it's a complicated mess :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Hiding empty staves

... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

told, not what it thinks you wanted). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hiding empty staves

think? For consistency, I'd say Add periods (full stops) for dotted or double-dotted notes. Seeing as the base language of the manual seems to be American anyway ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

) uses a single hooked needle. No need to get crotchety over it ... :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond and editors

faster if you compiled everything to native machine code (using gcj, for instance)? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lilypond and editors

designed to sabotage the Sun JVM - they've done it so often to other stuff it would be unusual if they haven't done it to Sun's JVM too ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: lilypond and editors

, the left :-) hand. If an editor's way of thinking doesn't match your way of thinking, it will simply get in the way and frustrate you every time you try and do anything slightly out of the ordinary. It just doesn't fit like a glove. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Page breaker question: obeying explicit \breaks

context. Question is, can it be done easily? And if so, how? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Music for the Martians?

simply say merge all HanWen's changes into my tree - there is NO master tree. Makes life so much easier as the number of developers starts rising. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Page breaker question: obeying explicit \breaks

it should automatically try to place page breaks when there is a long rest. I was aware of the tags feature - but that can get messy if the same voice can be printed four or five different ways ... Hadn't thought of the \mypagebreaks trick - nice :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

by Lilypond has no copyright obligations to the Lilypond project. And, as a gnu project, what you do with the program is none of the developers' business. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-user mailing list

RE: Stacking lyrics above dynamics?

Following up on that, is there any way of altering which way round other marks go? I certainly haven't hit the lyrics/dynamics problems (apart from Pennsylvania I haven't used lyrics :-), but the problem I have is accents and slurs. Lily seems to prefer to put accents above slurs, while most

RE: correct barnumber after repeat volta

Most music I've seen simply counts the number of physical bars on the page, ignoring voltae (ie an 8-bar phrase with with two two-bar alternatives is counted as 10 (6+2+2) bars long). However, I have seen it counted as being 8 bars long (the second alternate was ignored for bar-numbering

RE: Midstring markup

3. From what I can make out, lilypond's markup language can only handle WORDS, not TEXT (as has been evidenced by people complaining that lilypond strips out any attempts at spacing. It's all very well having to place each word individually, but what do you then do if you want to change the

RE: \transpose weird staffs

A point to bear in mind - and I had exactly this trouble when I first started using lilypond ... \transpose changes the pitch of the notes as internally represented within lilypond. As such, I tend to think of it as a device for inputting from and outputting to paper. \transposition (as far as I

RE: How to generate a counter for repeated bars

Can I just add a little comment (I'm not asking anybody to look at the code, just saying if you do ... ) I regularly see repeated bars or percent bars without numbers and with numbers. I see repeated bars followed by percent bars, with or without numbers. Note that the numbers always count from

RE: Finally I found out about \myStaffSize 20

Sounds like a good idea for one of those all abouts. All About Fonts. It would need a bit more digging, though, before it could be documented in detail. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Henrik Frisk Sent: 17 August 2006

RE: triangle chord notation (bit of toppic: why c != b sharp)

Actually, that bit about all instruments are tuned in a mathematical way is just plain wrong :-) Think about it ... apart from the open strings, how do you guarantee that an a# is a b-flat on a violin? Or any other violin-like stringed instrument, for that matter? I play the trombone, and I

RE: help on invoking lilypond-book

I thought the Ghostscript people were dropping the AFPL !!! Anyways, if things haven't changed from the historic setup, they're not actually parallel versions - the GPL is the old version. It always used to be the case that the ghostscript writers released under the AFPL, but that this licence

RE: Useful expressions

One I've met now and then Tempo Primo - original tempo. Not sure whether that means starting tempo, or the most recent marked tempo - I think I've met both interpretations. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org] On Behalf Of Stewart Holmes

RE: LP printing problems

I'm guessing you're in America. What size is your output pdf? A4? If it is and you tell the printer to print unscaled, then you're losing the bottom 2/3 of the page. First way round that is to tell acrobat to scale page to fit printer. Second way is to look at the relevant section of the manual

RE: Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me

PROTECTED] Sent: 24 July 2006 08:57 To: Anthony Youngman Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me Anthony Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, it's now doing what I want. Adding between-system-padding fixed it and reduced next-padding. So I'm satisfied

RE: Standard sheet music in (US)

Somethning else to look at ... a ?week? ago on the list, somebody had a similar problem which turned out to be a bug in the call to gs. He set a custom paper size, but when lily called gs it wasn't passing his custom size, it was telling gs to produce an A4 pdf. This *could* be the same bug.

Re: Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, looking at 11.3.4, is it possible that it could be \overrideProperty, not \outputProperty? Right. \overrideProperty is a music function, and thus cannot be used

Can't set next-padding - it's ignoring me

Well it was ... then I copied the example in the manual and it blows up on me ... I'm trying to globally over-ride the next-padding property to squeeze more systems on a page (ie get the entire piece on one page and not have an orphan system on page 2). There's an example in the manual about

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

... and I think your answer to is it possible is yes, just is it worth it? Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Erik Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 July 2006 19:08 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: Anthony Youngman Subject: Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using grep ...) I've got an on-off thing about writing a DATABASIC compiler (never mind) and have come across a tool called Antlr. It is a compiler-compiler and generates lexers, parsers and treeparsers. IF someone wants to put the

RE: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

on it. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: Erik Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 July 2006 13:55 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Cc: Anthony Youngman Subject: Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:59, Anthony Youngman wrote: Something I thought

RE: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

If your new system is powerful enough (and no, I haven't any experience of this but I'm planning to do something like this myself :-) Experiment with UML (User Mode Linux) and Gentoo. There's a good chance that if you get a minimal gentoo system running, then tell it to install the packages you

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