Re: Alternative to Frescobaldi

2022-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 21:43:25 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > I've just spent another couple of hours clearing out previous attempts > to get Frescobaldi running and attempting to sort out its dependency > hell. > > Is there any alternative to Frescobaldi? An editor (emacs) + LilyPond + PDF

Re: Configuration problems following new installation of Frescobaldi

2022-08-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Aug 2022 at 09:27:03 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > > > > Le 30/08/2022 à 08:56, Michael Hendry a > écrit : > >cite="mid:f07d2e1c-86fb-4b51-8cb9-dff22577c...@gmail.com"> > I stopped using Frescobaldi and > Lilypond at the beginning

Re: Displaying bar numbers for repeats

2022-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:25:28 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/08/2022 04:46, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:33:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I suppose there is a way to do this but the concept is strange. I have > > > never seen any edi

Re: Displaying bar numbers for repeats

2022-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:33:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I suppose there is a way to do this but the concept is strange. I have > never seen any edition do this. Why? Speaking as an organist if I came > across this I would have to spend time working out what in earth the > bracketed number

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 09:32:45 (+0200), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > What I didn't change: Classical convention would probably give the > final bar a length of only 4 (with fermata), not 1. But I wouldn't put > too much stock in this, I know that a crotchet final chord would > probably look

Re: very simple off-topic question regarding command line viewing of postscript files on macOS

2022-08-03 Thread David Wright
On Wed 03 Aug 2022 at 09:22:53 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 3 août 2022 à 01:24, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : > > I'm trying to simplify my workflow. I think I want to generate > > postscript files instead of pdf files when using Lilypond. I already > > know how to do that. But what I

Re: Last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the repeat; how to engrave this?

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:27:53 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > I must be missing something obvious here. > > The last note of a first alternative is a tie to the first note in the > repeat. > > Lilypond 2.22.2 complains: > > La_Bamba.ly:67:40: warning: unterminated tie > r8

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

2022-07-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Jul 2022 at 12:52:17 (+0200), mancunius wrote: > On 22 Jul 2022, at 10:41, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 22/07/2022 à 10:27, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > >> On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote: > >>> Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between > >>> the 2 “O

Re: Undertie in lyrics to show no breath

2022-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 11:34:58 (+0100), mancunius wrote: > Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed between the > 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that no breath should be > taken by the singers - as per the normal choral convention. (cf. the >

Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

2022-07-19 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 21:35:11 (+0200), Silvain Dupertuis wrote: > Le 18.07.22 à 20:33, David Wright a écrit : > > On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 11:28:26 (-0500), DoubleFelix wrote: > > > Actually this is exactly what I'm trying to do. My current setup uses a > > > python

Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

2022-07-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 11:28:26 (-0500), DoubleFelix wrote: > > > Felix, I’m curious what you mean by cropping the file. Sounds to me like > > you are trying to just write a small snippet of music, maybe a few > > measures, and not have the output flooded by whitespace all around the size > > of

Re: Installing Lilypond 2.23.10

2022-07-14 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 17:33:01 (+0100), David Sumbler wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 23:00 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 13/07/2022 à 20:26, David Sumbler a écrit : > > > Thank you for that.  Yes, I should have noticed that the contents > > > of > > > the tar file were not source code.  As

Re: Error with -dbackend=null (Lilypond 2.23.10)

2022-07-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Jul 2022 at 23:08:19 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Paolo Prete writes: > >> On Sunday, July 10, 2022, David Kastrup wrote: > >>> Jean Abou Samra writes: > >>> > Le 10/07/2022 à 17:38, Paolo Prete a écrit : > >>> >> I just used -dno-print-pages as an alternative, and it works. > >>>

Re: grace note (first note) in a measure that follows an end of a repeat volta displays weirdly

2022-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Jul 2022 at 23:56:36 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:43 PM Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2022, at 07:25, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > > However, the first measure that follows a repeat section (without > > > alternatives) there is a slashed grace note that

Re: Error message using AikenHeads with NullVoice

2022-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 11:56:52 (-0600), David F. wrote: > [ … ] > The command to use aikenHeads comes from a separate style file that gets > included for each hymn. But there is an unfortunate interaction between > aikenHeads and NullVoice: Lilypond outputs the following error message: > >

Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

2022-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Jul 2022 at 23:03:14 (+0100), Paul Hodges wrote: > From: Aaron Hill > > On 2022-07-04 1:50 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I see from searching that the issue is with elevated and non elevated > > > permissions. > > > > Where do you see this?  Drag-and-drop is a simple feature

Re: framework-ps.scm error

2022-06-20 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 16:00:04 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > This is not something to do with Unicode characters in filenames, is > it? Or has that been fixed since I last heavily used lilypond? > > Since I see Simplified Chinese in the email, is this a Chinese > localised version of Windows

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 07:39:10 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it in > > my toolbox. > > If I wanted to use the #(set-global-staff-size 19.8), where would I put it? > >

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:24:26 (-0400), JxStarks wrote: > I'm transcribing some hymns for use in my church (because I can make the > text larger), and I've noticed a problem. I like to make the introduction > as \tiny notes, then change to \normalsize for the body of the hymn. When I > first

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 *-tmp-* files

2022-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 May 2022 at 23:54:06 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 31/05/2022 à 17:49, Jacques Menu a écrit : > > I get such temp files: > > > > *jacquesmenu@macmini*: ~/musicformats-git-dev/files/musicxmlfiles > > > ll Anacrusis* > > 600 -rw-r--r--  1 jacquesmenu  staff  303764 May 31 17:42:40

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 *-tmp-* files

2022-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 May 2022 at 17:49:45 (+0200), Jacques Menu wrote: > I get such temp files: > > jacquesmenu@macmini: ~/musicformats-git-dev/files/musicxmlfiles > ll > Anacrusis* > 600 -rw-r--r-- 1 jacquesmenu staff 303764 May 31 17:42:40 2022 > Anacrusis-tmp-5978322 > 8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 jacquesmenu

Re: Any LyX users? Missing prerequisites: lilypond-book->latex

2022-05-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 May 2022 at 20:30:34 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: > [Asked on the lyx mailing list but, so far, no response.] > > I'm running the latest -- and greatest(?) -- release of Pop!_OS, > which is effectively Ubuntu. Specifically, 22.04 LTS ("Jammy"). > > I'm finding myself having a hard

Re: UTF-8 characters in filenames with Lilypond 2.23

2022-05-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 21 May 2022 at 23:36:26 (-0600), David F. wrote: > > On May 21, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 21/05/2022 à 23:20, David F. a écrit : > >> System: Intel-based macOS > >> > >> I make extensive use of UTF-8 characters in the filenames of my Lilypond > >> files. This works

Re: UTF-8 characters in filenames with Lilypond 2.23

2022-05-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 May 2022 at 20:59:18 (-0700), Curt McDowell wrote: > I get that same error if running under Docker, if LANG is set to > en_US.UTF-8, but where en_US.UTF-8 does not exist in the output of > "locale -a". > >./out/bin/lilypond scheme-sandbox /(Lilypond 2.23.0, Guile 2.2.7, >Ubuntu

Re: Attempt to run 2.23.9 convert-ly fails

2022-05-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 May 2022 at 23:10:36 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:35 PM Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > > > ~/Downloads/lilypond-2.23.9/bin/convert-ly > > ../../lp_2.22.2/source/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_arranged_for_Brass_Quintet.ly > > >

Re: Uninstall / reinstall LilyPond 2.23.9 (and, by the way, Frescobaldi)

2022-05-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 23 May 2022 at 14:43:33 (-0700), Ralph Palmer wrote: > > I'm still having trouble. My laptop was worked on recently, and the > technician renamed my root account from rpalmer to ralph. That would be odd indeed: the root account is normally called root. Do you perhaps mean your user

Re: Problems with Frescobaldi and LilyPond

2022-05-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 22 May 2022 at 19:27:08 (-0700), Ralph Palmer wrote: > > I recently had to have my laptop completely re-setup with Ubuntu 22.04. The > outfit that did it renamed my "Home" from rpalmer to ralph. They also > managed to get rid of all my data and program files. I was able to do a > full

Re: LilyPond 2.23.9 released

2022-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 21 May 2022 at 20:52:43 (+0200), Lilypond-User wrote: > On Sat, 2022-05-21 at 11:04 -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > ./lilypond-invoke-editor --help > > lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.23.9 > > Backtrace: > >7 (primitive-load "/Users/kwolcott/Downloads/lilypond-2.2…")

Re: Stanzas with different rhythms

2022-05-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 May 2022 at 20:26:15 (+0200), Helge Kruse wrote: > Although using Lilypond for some years I am a beginner in typsettings > songs. I want to copy an existing sheet and replicate the style as far > as possible. One idea is that the melody shows the rythm for the first > stanza. The

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Apr 2022 at 17:13:47 (+0200), Joram Noeck wrote: > Hi, > > will there be a .sh file like for older releases? > https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/ > > The Download page https://lilypond.org/development.html links to >

Re: installing lilypond-mode for emacs on Linux

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 22:36:54 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > On 4/7/22 16:17, David Kastrup wrote: > > Paul Scott writes: > > > On 4/7/22 15:08, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > Paul Scott writes: > > > > > On 4/7/22 14:15, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > > > Paul Scott writes: > > > > > > > On 4/7/22

Re: Lirics in repeated multi-voice bar

2022-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 10:55:01 (-0600), Carl Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 5:08 AM Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > > In bar 8 and 9 of the attached lilypond snippet, there is a split voice, > > in a repeat block. > > > > The text placement I get (added in the attached .pdf) is doubled, > >

Re: Running 2.23.7 on Linux

2022-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 28 Mar 2022 at 21:10:03 (+0200), Lilypond-User wrote: > Correct, the relocation doesn't follow symlinks, I've opened > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6314 For the time being, > you'll need to create a wrapper shell script that just calls lilypond > with its full path. … or

Re: Problem rendering all scores

2022-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 14:19:59 (-0700), H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:36:45PM +, James.Correa wrote: > >I start to have this problem with lilypond after an update to > >python 3.8 , I am on Manjaro KDE. > >Every time I try to engrave a score I got this message: > >

Re: Mac Monterey 12.3 and Lilypond 2.2.2

2022-03-18 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Mar 2022 at 10:34:08 (+0100), Hans Åberg wrote: > On 17 Mar 2022, at 23:39, Hans Aikema wrote: > > You cannot have both active indeed, but you can install them both (one > > active, one inactive). The recipe to end up with stable, but have current > > development version at hand for

Re: Cannot eliminate layout block in score block?

2022-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 20:14:41 (-0800), Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello Lilypond friends, > > I am working on a polyphone piece of music which employs a ChoirStaff, and > proceeded to make a local layout block in the score a global one. > > The include to make a *global* layout block works just

Re: Snippet only as PDF

2022-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Feb 2022 at 14:16:32 (+0100), Bophead 2000 wrote: > > > I want to produce lilypond snippets to be used within a text – but only in > > > one graphics file format (PDF, EPS or SVG). In the moment I am using a > > > method I copied from the examples in the HTML-manuals putting the > > >

Re: Fatal error messages

2022-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Feb 2022 at 05:35:25 (+), Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > Many thanks - your thought about write access was right on the money. For > reasons I can't determine, the folder in which I'm working had user write > access removed, so its permissions were dr-xr-xr-x instead of drwxr-xr-x as

Re: Fatal error messages

2022-02-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Feb 2022 at 00:40:20 (+), Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > I've been using Lilypond, with Frescobaldi, on Linux happily for ages. > But today, when I tried to compile a few bars in Frescobaldi, I got > the error: > > fatal error: cannot create temp file: my_music_file.midi. 40227fc:

Re: Naming midi files

2022-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Feb 2022 at 21:43:09 (+1100), Mark Probert wrote: > [ ] wrote: > >> It’s not that simple, since in the example all the scores are in the > >> same book. > > > > It is that simple. > > Put the score in one book and the midis separate books and done. > > > My understanding is a \midi{}

Re: Lilypond and Windows XP 32 bits

2022-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 05:05:02 (+), Prunifolia wrote: > I understand amount of work for maintain software for old operating systems. I don't know what hardware you're running Windows XP on, but have you considered just wiping it (after transferring any important data, of course) and

Re: Setting relative pitch as a global declaration?

2022-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Wed 09 Feb 2022 at 18:52:52 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Wed 09 Feb 2022 at 14:24:14 (+), Valentin Petzel wrote: > >> > >> I think Alasdair does not want to specify relative at toplevel, but > >> he has his voices in mult

Re: Setting relative pitch as a global declaration?

2022-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Wed 09 Feb 2022 at 14:24:14 (+), Valentin Petzel wrote: > > I think Alasdair does not want to specify relative at toplevel, but he has > his voices in multiple consecutive parts, and he wants the whole voice to be > relative, instead of each part being separately relative. This can of

Re: \include inside function

2022-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Feb 2022 at 16:09:01 (+0100), Leo Correia de Verdier wrote: > > Is there a way to have an \include inside a function? > In the attached file includeinfunction.ly the commented out line doesn’t work > (probably for some very logical reason, but still unknown to me). Is there a > way to

Re: alternate notes within a part

2022-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Jan 2022 at 01:54:03 (+0100), Valentin Petzel wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Jänner 2022, 01:32:55 CET schrieb David Wright: > > On Sun 09 Jan 2022 at 23:36:41 (+0100), Valentin Petzel wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 9. Jänner 2022, 23:05:15 CET schrieb David Zelinsky: > >

Re: alternate notes within a part

2022-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Jan 2022 at 23:36:41 (+0100), Valentin Petzel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. Jänner 2022, 23:05:15 CET schrieb David Zelinsky: > > I'm engraving a part that can be played either on cello or bassoon, but > > with several differennces for short sections: e.g. a clef change for > > one and not

Re: point-and-click default

2022-01-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Jan 2022 at 22:27:31 (+0100), Valentin Petzel wrote: > May I just fan the fire by saying that on kde this works out of the box? > > That being said, the only really usable pnc implementation is Frescobaldi, as > that one will keep track while you’re editing the file and thus always

Re: CPU stress tests for LilyPond

2021-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Dec 2021 at 09:05:08 (+0100), Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:41 AM Paolo Prete wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 5:56 PM Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 30 Nov 2021, at 16:36, Jacques Menu wrote: > the Carver takes 10.6“ to compile on my MacBook Pro M1 16GB RAM with

Re: CPU stress tests for LilyPond

2021-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Nov 2021 at 16:36:51 (+0100), Jacques Menu wrote: > > Here is what I get for this 102 page score: Using Debian buster 2.18.2, I got a 118 page score, with starts at 2, 26, 57 and 90. The log is attached: several warnings. real0m31.528s user0m31.206s sys 0m0.336s >

Re: Header inside the score context

2021-11-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Nov 2021 at 19:44:59 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > > and then comment or comment out parts of the score that I don't need to > > render. So, for example, if I need to render only section 2, I would > > comment section 3 and section 1 but I have to comment the markup block > > separately

Re: alternate in middle of repeat

2021-11-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Nov 2021 at 12:25:47 (-0800), Kees van den Doel wrote: > I have a \repeat volta 2 { music}, but a few bars inside "music" are > different the second time through. > Is there a way to do something like this: > \repeat volta 2 { A \alternative {{a1}{a2}} B} > Written out fully Aa1BAa2B.

Re: print log content to a pdf

2021-11-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 16:01:43 (-0500), ming tsang wrote: > The following lilypond code > > #(ly:font-config-display-fonts) > > generate a log output. > > Is it possible to generate a pdf by lilypond? $ lilypond your-fontname-generator-code.ly > fontslist $ edit fontslist (because there's

Re: Check if a font is currently installed

2021-11-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 19:12:33 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 6:37 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 17:29:37 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > > > > > > it would be useful to have a functions that checks if a font with a > >

Re: Check if a font is currently installed

2021-11-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Nov 2021 at 17:29:37 (+0100), Paolo Prete wrote: > > it would be useful to have a functions that checks if a font with a > specific font-name is currently installed, so to have the produced score > without visual errors that are not always easy to detect. Would the list produced by

Re: Unusual angular and wavy lines

2021-11-20 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Nov 2021 at 10:45:40 (-0500), Leonid Hrabovsky wrote: > Hi everyone. > I need to draw horizontal lines shown in the attachment - the look is > approximate, for there are sequences of letters, row 1-2 in MT Extra font, > and third as VVV from Times New Roman. These are to be used as >

Re: opus migration

2021-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Nov 2021 at 14:02:03 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Mr. Wright, > > I am not a power user of Lilypond. > I transcribe music for my study and personal performance. > If my incompetence results in inquiries that are sophomoric or inane to your > expertise then your option is to

Re: opus migration

2021-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Nov 2021 at 11:43:54 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > I did not explain the structure of the piece accurately. > It is Opus 13 of Beethoven. > The six sections of the first movement are in separate scores. These are what > are in the "include" > > \version "2.22.1" > \header { >

Re: opus migration

2021-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Nov 2021 at 10:41:22 (-0800), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > A piano piece I am engraving has several sections. Each has different > meters, keys, and number of voices. Each is coded in a separate score for > ease of future editing. > > The entire piece is structured > > \header { >

Re: another question regarding ottava: why does Lilypond change the pitches?

2021-11-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Nov 2021 at 17:18:29 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 4:38 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 02/11/2021 à 00:08, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit : > > > That helps explain it! Thanks! > > > > > > But if I wanted to reproduce precisely what this arranger is doing, I > > >

Re: Licensing and custom lines

2021-10-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 07:30:15 (+), Charlie Boilley wrote: > Dear Lilypond community, > > --- > 1. About GPL licensing, again. > > Sorry to bother you, but I'm confused by this : I think somebody else keeps on discussing this topic. I nearly deleted the thread on that basis alone; in my

Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

2021-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Oct 2021 at 14:59:43 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: > I've mentioned before that I (a) don't read music, and (b) am pretty > much a beginner with LilyPond. > > Before I make TOO many mistakes, and make a royal mess of things, I > thought I'd offer up the three wee songs I've entered thus

Re: Multiple versions of Lilypond?

2021-10-24 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Oct 2021 at 16:33:59 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-10-23 3:58 pm, Kira Garvie wrote: > > What I was told is that there are some features on the back-end of the > > program that turns the Lilypond scores into manipulatable scores > > for the > > company that doesn't play well with

Re: Placing text on multi-voice part

2021-10-24 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Oct 2021 at 12:24:34 (+0200), Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > Op 23-10-2021 om 03:10 schreef David Wright: > > On Fri 22 Oct 2021 at 17:22:16 (+0200), Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > > > > > I get the attached screenshot. > > > > > > But I would expect

Re: Placing text on multi-voice part

2021-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Oct 2021 at 17:22:16 (+0200), Jogchum Reitsma wrote: > I get the attached screenshot. > > But I would expect (and want...) the text snippet "ste"placed on the > three first quarter notes of the bar,  and the following "e" on the > lat quarter. > > The "lei -- son" then should be

Re: How to display adjacent segno and coda symbols?

2021-10-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Oct 2021 at 12:29:18 (+0200), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Am 19.10.21 um 09:55 schrieb Valentin Petzel: > > > > You probably want to play around with stuff like break-visibility. By > > default > > RehearsalMark as end-of-line-invisible, so they are printed at the begin of > > a > >

Re: \transpose question

2021-10-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Oct 2021 at 10:36:37 (+1100), Mark Probert wrote: > > A question on transpose: I understand that "\transpose distinguishes > between enharmonic pitches," however is there anyway to force a > particular behaviour? For example, in the snippet below, when I have a > movement from C to

Re: Book

2021-10-03 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Sep 2021 at 10:41:47 (+1000), Mark Probert wrote: > Knute wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:19 PM Mark Probert wrote: > > > >> impressions-tune = { > >> << > >> \new ChordNames \harmony > >> \new Staff \melody > > > > > Mark, this looks close to something I'm

Re: responses in hymn tunes?

2021-10-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 17:47:55 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote: > I added the repeat voltas to the response, but now I have extra barlines! You might want to read this thread that gives two alternative methods. (Karlin's is the first one.)

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

2021-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 18:43:06 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote: > Actually, I had quite a few spelling errors, I am sorry! Verse two is > supposed to be arouse, so that is also a dash. Carl was right, the correct > term was a dash not a hyphen, and putting it in quotes with on: “on – ” > worked

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

2021-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 18:05:17 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote: > Okay, I tried that, but it bumps the lyrics all over one. In the original > page scan, which I am following, the hyphen falls right under the tied d > 8th note. How do I override the tie to get the hyphen there? You don't want a hyphen

Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Sep 2021 at 23:07:35 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Jean Abou Samra writes: > > Le 12/09/2021 à 02:32, Kira Garvie a écrit : > >> Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the > >> curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know > >> how to do them

Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 19:11:36 (-0700), H. S. Teoh wrote: > I discovered that converting the pdf to ps and back again significantly > reduces the file size. So it's kinda my poor-man's way of compressing > pdfs. Of course, this only works if your pdf doesn't contain any > features incompatible

Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

2021-09-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 21:35:00 (+0200), Valentin Petzel wrote: > From what I see pdftops appears to be intelligent enough to rasterize the > file > only if it does actually contain transparency. If it does it uses a much less > smooth rasterization that is probably not fit for printing, so be

Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

2021-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 13:52:04 (-0700), H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:52:09PM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 10/09/2021 à 19:09, H. S. Teoh a écrit : > > > OK, I attached a contrived .ly file that produces 2 pages of music > > > (the effect is most noticeable when there's

Re: eps file

2021-09-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 08:58:21 (+0200), Valentin Petzel wrote: > > For the relative problem: Note that if you do not save the file Frescobaldi > will save the file to a temporary location. This will change the working > directory to that temporary location. > > So unless you have the directory

Re: eps file

2021-09-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 21:00:40 (+0200), Valentin Petzel wrote: > If analyzed your eps-file and have found that it has some very weird bytes in > the beginning (also containing some null-chars). This makes rendering the > file > a bit of a gamble, and it also means that Lilypond does not find

Re: eps file

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 17:57:18 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > I have replaced all / with //. And here is screen print. No, you used backslashes. But when you do get round to trying forward slashes, don't double them. Anyway, my previous post was overcomplicated. On the basis that your EPS image

Re: eps file

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 14:14:12 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > I must have included the wrong screen print. > Here is the right one. Ah, I can replicate that: $ lily /tmp/ming. /home/david/lilypond-2.23.3-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond -dno-point-and-click --include=/home/david/LilyLib/

Re: eps file

2021-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 07:07:15 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > Hi David Wright and Valentin Petzel: > Thank you both for helping. > I did a (#display version) + move the eps file to a directory does not > contain space on the names. > Here is the screen capture from frecobaldi v

Re: eps file

2021-09-01 Thread David Wright
Europe might be asleep by now, so: On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 19:15:19 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > Hi Valentin, > Thank you for the info. But I have a hard time entering the file path name. > When I ran lilypond through frescobaldi v2.3.3, I got an error - see at the > end of the lily code. I have no

Re: Default accidental style for PianoStaff

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 18:18:04 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 18/08/2021 à 17:23, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > That clarifies things, thanks. > > > > What would you think about changing the documentation to say something > > like, "If this accidental style is applied to a Staff, it will

Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 12:49:36 (+1000), Brent Annable wrote: > Oh just one more thing: how do I get the "love" and the "liest" to join > together as one word, without a space in between? At the moment I have: > > \column { > \line { "See, the love"\undertie"liest""blooming rose," } >

Re: run error Lilypond-book on Windows 10

2021-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Aug 2021 at 18:55:13 (+0100), Archer Endrich wrote: > > However, there was an earlier version in my 2.18.2 Lilypond, so I > renamed that to disable it and added a full path to my 2.22.1 > lilypond-book in my batch file. > [ … ] > > When I run the batch files, Windows keeps asking me

Re: run error Lilypond-book on Windows 10

2021-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Aug 2021 at 12:31:06 (+0100), Archer Endrich wrote: > > I have been using Lilypond for a long time and am in awe of those who > have created Lilypond and who maintain it.  It is the most wonderful > and flexible package, with super high-quality results. I have not > written to the Users

Re: simple question 1 where's the pdf for all the manuals for 2.22? a better response I hope more polite

2021-08-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 03 Aug 2021 at 09:44:33 (+0200), Silvain Dupertuis wrote: > The files you mention do not seem to contain PDF documentation > but only different snippets... It's unclear to me what you mean. I mentioned a website, and I see it contains files such as: [ ]

Re: simple question 1 where's the pdf for all the manuals for 2.22? a better response I hope more polite

2021-08-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Aug 2021 at 18:44:10 (-0600), jh wrote: > Carl - that works fine for the notation but with 2.18 I have all the > information in one huge pdf. This doesn't work at all with 2.22 the > only pdf that seems available is the one you directed to me but going > to the bottom of any other

Re: Server question: SSD or HDD ?

2021-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Jul 2021 at 15:01:58 (+0100), Phil Holmes wrote: > On 29/07/2021 14:55, Mike Blackstock wrote: > > I'm getting a new server for online hosting of lilypond stuff. > > > > I'm not much of a hardware guy... within my hosting budget, I can > > have either a 500 GB SDD, or a 1 TB HDD pn the

Re: error :GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here #

2021-07-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Jul 2021 at 12:12:03 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > > I guess I will wait for #1379 in frecobaldi user list to resolve. I hope you're only waiting to be able to double-click in your file manager, which after all is just a matter of convenience, rather than necessity. I don't know what

Re: error :GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here #

2021-07-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Jul 2021 at 21:03:12 (-0400), ming tsang wrote: > I lost track of the author who updated the snippet id 197 recently. I > adapted to display the UTF-8 character in file path (location) and file > name. > I did some test: > 1. file location path that contains UTF-8 character and no

Re: error :GUILE signaled an error for the expression

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:14:51 -0700 > From: Knute Snortum > To: ming tsang > > I don't think the error is caused by you not having the font, I think it's > that the font doesn't have a glyph (character, sort of) for U+FFFD. I don't > think all of the UTF-8 characters will work in the music

Re: Move chord name down onto staff?

2021-07-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon 12 Jul 2021 at 16:54:03 (-0700), Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Jean Abou Samra > > To: Werner LEMBERG , lilyp...@hillvisions.com > > Cc: m...@archsys.net, lilypond-user@gnu.org > > Bcc: > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:01:32

Re: struggling to get horizontal space on the page exactly proportional to time

2021-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Jul 2021 at 10:50:00 (-0700), Sam Roberts wrote: > Sorry for the delayed response. unsetting the ragged and adding the > terminating thingy (sorry, don't know its name), looks better, thanks! > But it still doesn't get me what I'd call "proportional". > > I'd like the horizontal space

Re: error code 1 - GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here

2021-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Jul 2021 at 19:03:23 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > ming tsang writes: > > > Dear Lilyponders, > > How to resolve the GUILE signaled error? > > The same #( ... ) for other code don't have errors, but line 12 does. > > I am running with frecobaldi v3.1.3 and lilypond v2.23.3 and in

Re: Spontaneous change of console language

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 19:38:18 (-0400), spambot9000 wrote: > On 2021.07.03 05:28 , Hans Aikema wrote: > > On 3 Jul 2021, at 02:57, spambot9000 wrote: > >> My Lilypond console spontaneously changed its language to French at some > >> point, although I did nothing that I know of to instigate this.

Re: Hiding the key signature?

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 13:15:07 (+1000), Mark Probert wrote: > Another newbie question. How do I hide a key engraver after the first > instance? I want it at the top, then not on the following staves, which > is the default behaviour. I'm sure there is a hide.engraver-thing > somewhere... Put

Re: Change size of all notes in one voice with partCombine

2021-06-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jun 2021 at 23:00:47 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le 30/06/2021 16:47, Dinh Hoang Tu dhoan...@gmail.com a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > Hello Jean, Xavier, > > > > > > I

Re: Terminology question

2021-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 18:05:15 (-0700), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > I'll accept the burden. > His plays with dynamic dynamics. Apart from the typo (it's not a sentence), I suppose it might be interesting to know what you would mean by uttering it. > From: David Wright

Re: Terminology question

2021-06-19 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 10:53:40 (-0700), Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > Yes, yet what if the level was dynamic, i.e., changing, then dynamic would > operate as an adjective - stating what kind? When I listen to the TV, the dynamic level varies between programmes and adverts. I think the burden is

Re: midi2ly

2021-06-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Jun 2021 at 17:06:22 (-0700), Kees van den Doel wrote: > Thanks David, I have followed the convert-ly posts but my take-away was > that convert-ly is not usable for Windows users as no solution was offered. > I guess it's the same with this midi2ly. [Please keep the discussion on-list

Re: midi2ly

2021-06-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Jun 2021 at 14:20:52 (-0700), Kees van den Doel wrote: > On windows 10, a fresh install of lilypond. > On Windows "powershell" > > midi2ly -V > brings up a window "how do you want to open this file". > On mintty (another CMD shell) > mintty screen dump > > bash: /cygdrive/d/Program

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