Re: Build error. MergeFonts: Can't find font: feta11.pfb

In Gentoo it was discovered that there is a buggy version of t1utils which segfaults and causes this exact error. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Invoking "t1asm parmesan-noteheads14.pt1 parmesan-noteheads14.pfb"... >> mf2pt1:

Vertical edges on TextSpanners?

I was recently typesetting a Gershwin song with a very short (2-note) ottava bracket, which needed the octavation text 8va bassa ad lib. This text is too long for the bracket, so I considered reducing text size and using column markup; but the Staff.octavation property takes text, not markup, and

Re: Feature sponsor request for \paper block

Hmm. realized I'd forgotten to CC the list. How hard/costly would it be to add 4 more properties? called: firstHeaderMarkup firstFooterMarkup lastHeaderMarkup lastFooterMarkup %%% BEGIN LILYPOND CODE %%% \version 2.9.16 % NOTE: first-page and last-page are defined in ly/titling-init.ly

Re: Changing polyphonic per-voice rest position

Bruce Bertrand wrote: I'm trying to change the vertical position of rests in a polyphonic staff. I found this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-01/msg5.html which says to use \override Rest #'staff-position = #x with in the voice context. That works quite

Re: Easy Note Heads and colors

Unfortunately I couldn't find any more info about brew-ez-stencil -- even grepping the source didn't turn up anything useful. (?!) Try looking at brew_ez_stencil in lily/easy-notation.cc. The relevant block is as follows: SCM idx = scm_from_int (pit-get_notename ()); SCM names =

Re: Insane Springs? Am I coo coo?

Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: programming error: insane spring found, setting to unit continuing, cross fingers I get this when I have set system-count. As an experiment, try taking system-count out if you have it set, and see if you still get this error.

Re: neomensural time signature

Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get the neomensural timesignatures into my score. does anybody have a clue on ow to get the glyphs into a text markup so I can use it for 3/1 and 2/1 measures? -- Orm PS: I use lilypond 2.8.0 Have you looked into \compressMusic? That way you

Re: Lyrics and centering

Kieren MacMillan wrote: I think you might be mistaken regarding the traditional engraving convention -- my copy of The Essential Dictionary of Musical Notation says Another help in reading a melisma is the proper alignment of the lyric. The word or syllable, instead of being

Re: Quote within markup

Palmer, Ralph wrote: e'''2 r2 ^\markup { \center-align { \line { (to aud.): A TRIO. }}} Why not use curly quotes? They look more professional and are not interpreted as special characters by the parser. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Quote within markup

Palmer, Ralph wrote: Hi, Daniel Johnson - I'm using jEdit. The default font looks like Times New Roman; at least, it's seriffed. Character encoding is set to UTF-8. I cannot find any place to 1) set the font (typeface); 2) find an insert symbol utility; or 3) find a place to set curly quotes

Re: One staff in ChoirStaff

IMAI Yuji wrote: Hi, lists. I can't get bracket of ChiorStaff when only one staff in ChoirStaff as following. \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff { c'4 d' e' f' } } Any sugestion for this purpose? Thanks. % The following is untested \score { \new Staff { c'4 d' e'

Re: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

Anthony Youngman wrote: 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

Re: segno, coda, etc. below rehearsal mark

Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Youngman wrote: Read the documentation on rehearsal marks. One of the default styles is to use the barnumber. \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-barnumbers Incidentally, this will also probably get round the problem of keeping track - I guess

Re: shape notes

Monk Panteleimon wrote: Dear Lilypond users, Somehow the SacredHarpHeads have gotten very small in 2.8. The regular notehead (the one called #f in property-init.ly) is normally sized, of course, so one can't simply globally adjust notehead size or one ends up with big fat sol noteheads. Is

Re: barline problem

Dewdman42 wrote: Oh that is very interesting. I have not heard of these utilities ps2ps or pdf2pdf. I'll google them and try it. Thanks. Kieren MacMillan wrote: Have you passed a Lilypond-outputted PDF (or the PS) through ps2ps (or pdf2pdf, etc.)? ps2ps + ps2pdf results in a file

Re: Angle of (de)crescendo

Kieren MacMillan wrote: In v2.9, there is! ;-) In the NEWS section of the documentation for v2.9, there is the following example -- it demonstrates rotation of Hairpin and markup (which require two different methods): { \override Hairpin #'rotation = #'(20 -1 0) g4\^\markup {

Re: dotted phrasing slurs

Monk Panteleimon wrote: Dear friends, How can I make a dotted phrasing slur? I have tried \phrasingSlurDotted and also several wild guesses beginning with \once \override Slur... Using \slurDotted before a phrasing slur makes the next non-phrasing slur to be dotted. I looked in the user

Re: Inital barnumber?

Graham Percival wrote: On 23-May-06, at 2:29 PM, Christian Conkle wrote: I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a musicological document with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar numbering

Setting up vocal scores with uniformly-spaced staves

Hello all -- I set a lot of SATB choral music, and I strive to have all my ChoirStaffs have the same distance from the text. This can be a challenge when the alto part goes low or the tenor part goes high. I used to set each Staff's minimum-Y-extent to ##f and Y-extent to a number-pair,

Re: Staff: vertical spacing, reduce chord name distance

Thomas Scharkowski wrote: IIRC in previous versions I could reduce the distance between a staff and chord symbols by this command: \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 1) In 2.8.1 this is: \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-4 . 1) or did I get something wrong?

Re: can not get --help info from out/convert.ly

I forgot to mention that I made local make install in the directory containing lilylib, so that I now have /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.9.2/python/lilylib.py /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.9.2/python/lilylib.pyc even if Lilypond-2.9.2 has not been built yet. Greetings/Donald See the

Re: numbers in variable names

Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Hello, all -- I use a lot of variables, especially when breaking larger works across multiple pieces (and thus .ly files). snip but Lilypond (more likely LaTeX) won't let me. Does anyone know a workaround? I always use Roman numerals. grin

Re: Feature requests

Jacob Cooper wrote: One hangup for me is lilypond's handling of lyrics. I don't care as much how they're entered as how they're output. Right now, it looks like syllables are aligned so that the left edge of the longest syllable (in polyphonic choral music) is aligned with the center of the note

Re: 4 voices on 3 staves?

jango wrote: I was trying to do it on my own, but I got lost :) I need to get two voices on the first stave and then 2 additional staves with one voice on each. Can anyone give me an actual code that would perform this task? \version 2.8.0 sopNotes = \relative c'' { c1 } altNotes = \relative

Re: Upgrading from 2.6 to 2.8

Here's how to get Lilypond 2.8.1 installed from source in Gentoo... it isn't hard. This includes installing a patched version of Ghostscript 8.53 (which under Gentoo supports the hl1250 printer driver in addition to the standard drivers). 1. make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY is declared in

RehearsalMark break-visibility

I've been trying to get a rehearsal mark to show up at the end of a staff. (The object is eventually to use markup such as a fermata here.) Here's a stripped-down example: % begin lilypond code % \version 2.8.1 eolMark = { \once\override RehearsalMark #'break-visibility =

Re: RehearsalMark break-visibility SOLVED

Graham Percival wrote: Yes, read the manual, 8.1.3 Text marks: To print the mark at the end of the current line, use \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible I don't know why end-of-line-visible doesn't work, but since it isn't mentioned in the

Re: software for syllable separation

Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hello users! Does anybody know of a program that would make a syllable separation (hyphenation) of text to do something like this: Are you walking alone through the shadows dim? would be automatically converted to: Are you walk-ing a-lone through the

Re: Version differences

Gordon Gilbert wrote: Also, I tried to install jEdit for Windoze on that machine, and was unsuccessful. Does anybody know what I must do for that? I'd rather not have to use the MS text editor if I can help it. Or is there another good editor for Lilypond that I can install easily on

Re: Including style files

Simon wrote: snip However, now I want to change the spacing between the staves, e.g., using \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 3) Of course it doesn't make sense to put that line into the style file. Reading Section 4 Changing Defaults of the lilypond manual I don't see a single

Re: Compiling 2.6.4 for FreeBSD

Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! I have started to work through the instructions in Vol 36, Issue 67, but have gone to the web-site, but can't for the life of me find just the tar.gz file to download. Where the heck is it? Looks like the rest of the instructions will work just fine, but I need

Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hello fellows, Does anybody know why the symbol for a fourth-note rest that looks like an inverted Z does not feature in any font of music notation programs? I'm used to seeing that symbol a lot, especially in hymnbooks. I wonder why it is

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

Fairchild wrote: Where does fc-list live? How to use fc-list? Version 2.4.6, Windows XP, Cygwin. Don't find fc-list in the 2.4.6 package. - Bruce I believe it's part of fontconfig. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: stemless notes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been able to get transparent note stems working. Now I am trying to create to short vertical lines on each side of the stemless notes to indicate that there is a string of words sung on that one note in free time. I tried using the \barOne and \barTwo

Re: what is wrong with this \markup /padding?

Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I think I've copied (retyped) it from the manual. \once \override TextScript #'padding = 2.0 \markup{ \italic Moderato } All I am attemptin is to get the word Moderato higher above the notes of the staff. the response I get is C:/Documents and

Re: Shortened volta span autopackage

Mats Bengtsson wrote: Shelagh Manton wrote: Hello, I was hoping somebody would point me to the place in the documentation where it shows how to shorten a volta bracket. I've seen it, but can't find it again.. The volta will include exactly as many notes as you include in the

Re: Instrument names at beginning of staves

liang seng wrote: Hi, I would like to know how to lengthen the horizontal distance between instrument names at the beginning of staves from the left part of the staves? The instrument names overlap the braces generated by GrandStaff. I tried inserting spaces after the instrument names like so

Re: lilypond

Bohdan Krowicky wrote: These days I'm a composer and I use Sibelius 4 as a composition tool, and the thought of learning a new language is rather daunting. Can Lilypond accept a Midi file and convert it into its own format, and then to its beautiful printed output? Do composers use

Displaying the first bar number

Dear list, Because I am typesetting a fragment of a larger work, I would like to display the bar number on the first line. By default Lilypond does not do so, but begins displaying it on line 2. In ly/engraver-init.ly, we encounter the following line: barNumberVisibility =

Re: Displaying the first bar number

Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2005 22.38, Daniel Johnson wrote: Dear list, Because I am typesetting a fragment of a larger work, I would like to display the bar number on the first line. By default Lilypond does not do so, but begins displaying it on line 2. In ly/engraver

Re: Displaying the first bar number

Score.currentBarNumber = #123 a'1 a' a' } - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Johnson Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:38 PM To: Lilypond User Subject: Displaying the first bar number Dear list, Because I am

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

Ruud van Silfhout wrote: As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question concening the attached piece of music. The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural normally placed before the note? And is this an alternative (standard) notation for

Re: graphics gripe

Aaron Mehl wrote: 1. could someone else try an svg from lilypond and see if it works for them in scribus? If not this might be a bug. 2. is there a way to pass resolution parameters to the backend that is making the png files? Two things I recently found out about SVG: 1. Since every

Re: Sloped Hairpins

Mehmet Okonsar wrote: Does it seem wise to use #'extra-offset on hairpins to get sloped ones? or there may be better solutions? Sloped hairpins are not implemented at this time, but Han-Wen says they can be done as a sponsored feature. ___

SVG backend - resulting files invalid?

Hi all -- I have both Lilypond 2.6.3 and 2.7.7 installed. I've been trying to generate SVG files (using both versions) using the following invocation: lilypond --backend=svg --formats=svg my_file_name.ly my_file_name.ly is a multiple-page valid Lilypond file which worked great using the

Re: SVG backend - resulting files invalid?

Daniel Johnson wrote: - KWord showed correct glyphs for accidentals, but incorrect glyphs for noteheads and clefs; most vertical lines were missing. Upon further inspection, Konqueror has the same problems. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: Cryptical errormessage

If you look here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Multi-measure-rests.html you'll see that adding a fermata to a multi-measure rest (R1 rather than r1) is done with \fermataMarkup instead of \fermata. --Daniel Hans de Rijck wrote: Han-Wen, I've found the

Re: \markup question

Mats Bengtsson wrote: However, I recommend to upgrade to a newer version. I recently saw some mail in this mailing list from a user who mentioned he used 2.6.3 on Gentoo. See Gentoo's bugzilla for a working ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97574 I recommend that you don't use

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you find this added flexibility in LilyPond 2.6 so annoying, then you could use some program that converts a Latin1 coded file into UTF-8 coding and even make a script file that first does the conversion and then calls LilyPond. Unfortunately, I don't know Windows

Re: Is there already a German translation of manual?

Marc Weber wrote: Does engraved mean written by hand all the time? No. When applied to music, engraved simply is the opposite of handwritten. Hence computer-generated files, as well as music created from hand-engraved metal plates, are all referred to as engraved. Moreover it's

Re: Lilypond 2.6.1 on Gentoo: libstdc++

Martin Brodbeck wrote: Daniel Johnson schrieb: Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot. I think the second way is the better one for me :) 2. Remove the autopackage and build lilypond from source; it's not too painful unless you need to build the documentation as well. There's an ebuild here: http

Re: Lilypond 2.6.1 on Gentoo: libstdc++

that part for you. You'll find that Lilypond builds much faster with the CVS Guile. --Daniel Martin Brodbeck wrote: Daniel Johnson schrieb: 1. su to root. 2. Make sure you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY set to /usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf. 3. mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-text/mftrace 4. cp /usr

Re: Lilypond 2.6.1 on Gentoo: libstdc++

Dear Martin -- I think you're going to have to do one of two things: 1. Upgrade to gcc 3.4 (unstable). The following page will be helpful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_GCC_3.4 (Current stable gcc *[3.3.5.20050130-r1]* in portage maxes out at libstdc++.so.5.0.7) *OR* 2. Remove the

Re: opening files with Notepad

Paul Scott wrote: Daniel Ballenger wrote: Try wordpad. I don't think notepad cares about \n (newlines). Thus causing your run-together problem WordPad isn't really a text editor. I don't know how LilyPad is related to EditPad (they look about the same) but there are several good

Re: Compiling Lilypond-2.6.0 On Gentoo

If you are going to be building the documentation on Gentoo (i.e. you have doc in your USE variable) it is almost imperative that you use a version of Guile newer than the latest stable -- use a CVS snapshot of the development branch, and you get Han-Wen's garbage-collection patches. What I wound

Re: Extending beamed stems

knows why me and Daniel are unsuccessful in getting the desired effect? Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. This is a real puzzler, because even though the Beam object implements the grob-interface, only certain grob properties have any effect. Specifically, I tried the following

Re: piano right hand with chorded eigths beneath a half

r4 c4 ~ c2 \\ {r8 g e8 r8 g e8} Use backslashes instead of forward. Also, backslashes separate logical units, so if your second expression consists of more than one note, you'll need to enclose it in curly-braces as I have shown above. --Daniel Sterling Sympatico wrote: Hi again, I am

Re: piano right hand with chorded eigths beneath a half

Daniel Johnson wrote: r4 c4 ~ c2 \\ {r8 g e8 r8 g e8} hmm. On second thought, the tie between the C's probably won't work here. \\ by default generates new voices, and you can't do cross-voice ties. BUT, you can specify voice-names. So the following would (theoretically) work

Re: lilypond errors

Arthur Dyck wrote: I have installed Lilypond and its requirements on my system running Mandrake 10.0. The files were installed using Web Urpmi. I have used KWrite to create the test.ly in your tutorial. When I try to run lilypond test.ly, I get the following error. Can you please tell me

Re: Extending beamed stems

Hmm. This is a real puzzler, because even though the Beam object implements the grob-interface, only certain grob properties have any effect. Specifically, I tried the following on a small test file and they did nothing: \once \override Voice.Beam #'X-extent = #'(0 . 15) \once \override

Re: change page number locations

Sterling Sympatico wrote: Hi, How does one change the side of the page that the page number appears? My 2nd page (the first page to show a page number) will need the page number in the upper right corner, rather than upper left. Thanks for any hints. Sterling MacNay Have a look at

Re: Extending beamed stems

henrikfr wrote: I posted a question a while ago but didn't get any feedback, probably because nobody understood my question ;)... I'll give it another try: I want to extend a beamed stem so that it reaches beyond the beam, without changeing the position or angle of the beam. I want to do it

Re: making 2.5.27 (or should I say not making?)

See this message: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-04/msg00180.html Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi all, After testing 2.5.15 I decieded to install 2.5.27. but it failed on the following: ython2.3 -O2 -finline-functions -g -pipe -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2

Re: compilation error in 2.5.26

What version of teTeX are you using? If it's really ancient you might want to upgrade. (Metafont is part of the teTeX package, which is required for building Lilypond.) The current stable version of teTeX 3.0, but most Linux distributions are shipping 2.0.2 (which is still good enough).

Re: compilation error in 2.5.26

. Luis From: Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Luis Guillermo Agudelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: compilation error in 2.5.26 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:32:56 -0700 What version of teTeX are you using? If it's really ancient you might want to upgrade. (Metafont

Re: Building 2.5.20

I had the same problem. From what I've read, the flex API has changed since 2.5.4a. Here's what I did to fix it: sed -i -e 's:\$\(FLEX\) :\$\(FLEX\) -l :' stepmake/stepmake/c-rules.make The -l flag tells flex to behave like old-school lex. It seems like the configure script should take care

Re: Building 2.5.20

I get an entirely different error, one that was discussed on this list in February if I am reading things correctly. cd ./out-www; texi2dvi --batch lilypond.texi This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) ---! /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file

Re: PDF-generation lily2.5.19

For anyone looking for the Gentoo ebuild for ESP Ghostscript 8.15_rc2 which was discussed yesterday, I am attaching it here. Note that it is not 100% stable, use at your own risk, void where prohibited, etc. --Daniel inherit flag-o-matic eutils gcc DESCRIPTION=ESP Ghostscript -- an enhanced

Re: PDF-generation lily2.5.19 [was] What is final-install target

You'll need ghostscript 8.15 in order to build/run more recent lilypond 2.5 releases. Under Gentoo you can either install ghostscript-afpl, or use a custom-written ESP ghostscript ebuild for 8.15_rc2. I'm at work right now but I have such an ebuild at home if anyone is interested. This build is

Re: PDF-generation lily2.5.19

dax2 wrote: Thank you for offering a special ebuild for ghostscript-afpl. Yes, I am very interested. The ebuild I made is not for AFPL -- there is already one in Portage (app-text/ghostscript-afpl). My ebuild is for ESP Ghostscript 8.15_rc2. One major difference between AFPL and ESP is

Upgrade problems from 2.5.8 to anything higher

Hello all -- I've been trying to keep up with the latest development versions, but I've run into a problem that's keeping me stuck at 2.5.8. First of all, I'm running a fully-up-to-date Gentoo box, with AFPL Ghostscript 8.15. I've been able to use lilypond 2.5.8 just great, and I'm able to

Re: Location of CFF fonts

2005 09:29:31 -0800, Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a great deal of struggle, I finally got 2.5.7 to compile and install yesterday on my Gentoo box, but I've had a few font issues. Have you prepared a set of ebuilds needed ? I would be grateful for posting them. I still have

Re: opus/composer alignment

FYI, this appears to be fixed in 2.5.7 and later. Lilypond especially had problems calculating font metrics when using any font other than the default Computer Modern TeX fonts but it appears that this issue has been dealt with. --d Graham Percival wrote: Thanks for the report, but bug

Gentoo ebuild for Lilypond 2.5.8

I've attached a Gentoo ebuild for Lilypond 2.5.8 which I've just verified compiles just fine. Some notes: - You'll need to create a custom ebuild for =app-text/mftrace-1.1.1. (1.1.2 is the latest.) You can do this by renaming the latest official Gentoo ebuild. - This ebuild requires

Re: How to do custom titles

I do a fair amount of chant settings and arrangements. Using Lilypond 2.5.3, I've managed to define my own page layouts, using /usr/share/lilypond/2.5.3/ly/titling-init.ly as a model; this should work with the 2.4 series also. The following goes at the top of my files (actually I include an

Page numbering

Hello all, I notice that Lilypond now allows for increased customization of page headers/footers, as well as the removal of page numbers. I have also discovered that creating custom headers in Lilypond 2.5.2 eliminates page numbering. My dilemma is that I am working on a music project in

Re: compiling ec-fonts-mftraced

Hello all, I too am a Gentoo user, currently using Lilypond 2.5.2. I had no trouble building ec-fonts-mftraced, but I was unable to build the Lilypond documentation. Both these problems are already entered into Gentoo's bugzilla but no new activity has been entered on the bug in a while. I

Re: compiling ec-fonts-mftraced

As a follow-up to the Gentoo compilation issues, I successfully installed Lilypond 2.5.2 with documentation after upgrading imagemagick to latest and re-installing ec-fonts-mftraced. This is on the x86 platform; further issues may exist on other platforms. --Daniel