Re: seeing attachments

2019-07-20 Thread David Wright
To diagnose this problem, more information will be needed. > > What operating system are you using? > What web browser? > What archive website? Looks like lists.gnu.org, but there are others. > What thread or message contains the non-working attachment link? I reported this problem in

Problem with merging whole measure rests

2019-07-20 Thread David Wright
There seems to be a problem in the merging whole measure rests code. With 2.18.2, I'd been using the 336-based snippet from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wbsoft/lilymusic/master/include/merge-rests.ily for some years, though I changed 0) on the 110th line to 1) in order to get the correct

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 21:40:30 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 21:32, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > > > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > > > > > I saw the discussion about f

Re: fixed vs relative

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Gianmaria Lari writes: > > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml. > > > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided > > to stick to fixed mainly because I find fix

Re: landscape orientation differences between versions

2019-05-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 May 2019 at 15:48:04 (+0200), mu...@gmx.ch wrote: > When I render this code with Lilypond v2.18.2, the PDF appears in > landscape view as expected - be it in Adobe Reader or in the Frescobaldi > score view. > > When I render this code with Lilypnd v2.19.83, the PDF is rendered in > portr

Re: On Frescobaldi

2019-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Apr 2019 at 12:31:54 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Dear Urs, > > On a different tack altogether, with the oll work, you have a usage file > and a module.ily, so two files. In my Frescobaldi 3 on a brand new Ubuntu > 19 installation (the latest release as of last week) it still shows t

Re: SMuFL Bravura

2019-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 09:16:24 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 11:37:42 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > >> Hi Valentin, > >> > >> Thanks so much. Now to learn Metafont then. Shouldn't be too hard - I have &

Re: SMuFL Bravura

2019-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 11:37:42 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Valentin, > > Thanks so much. Now to learn Metafont then. Shouldn't be too hard - I have > been a programmer for more than forty years. [Despite that, I still cannot > come to grips with the lilypond source, and all my lilypond que

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Mar 2019 at 21:45:31 (+0100), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > > > I'm not trained in tonic solfa and don't find any advantage in singing > > by using it. That said, I'm as likely to write "fah" over an entrance > > that's difficult to pitch as writing "IV', but my "fah" relates to > > the ke

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Mar 2019 at 09:52:26 (+0100), Valentin Villenave wrote: > On 3/28/19, Aaron Hill wrote: > > That said, I fully agree with advising folks who intend on moving music > > around more fluidly to avoid \relative since it adds a maintenance chore > > that would otherwise impede the creative pr

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Mar 2019 at 21:19:47 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > > OH! > > >> (Ironically, most of the things I used to use \relative for I now handle > >> with the edition-engraver!) > > That was a typo/brainfart: I meant most of the things I used to use \tag for… > > Sorry! No

Re: Tangled up in Lilypond syntax

2019-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Mar 2019 at 19:19:10 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > > I tend to think of something like \relative to be a lower-level construct, > > intended to be used as close as possible to the pitches in question. Since > > I try to keep things organized in variables where conte

Re: Guile for building lilypond on Ubuntu18.10

2019-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Mar 2019 at 14:01:59 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Are you meaning to insult me with this comment Saul? Does not seem > justified. Well, Saul's original comment was a reply to my post, not yours. It attempted to answer my implied question about the necessary location of guile librarie

Re: Guile for building lilypond on Ubuntu18.10

2019-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Mar 2019 at 11:12:29 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Ubuntu now only supports guile 2 in its own repositories. AFAICT Debian stretch has the same limitation, but the lilypond package has guile-1.8 and its libs bundled within. Each of the lilypond.org versions also has guile included. Th

Re: The Guide to getting Point and Click going with Gvim under Ubuntu 18

2019-03-17 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Mar 2019 at 18:25:45 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi David, > > I made a mistake here - total lack of comprehension on my part. Not taking > the time to study the format of the apparmor profile files, I misunderstood > that the '#" in the '#include' was a comment character that had t

Re: The Guide to getting Point and Click going with Gvim under Ubuntu 18

2019-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Mar 2019 at 00:31:16 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Federico, > > Well, the '#' issue was a simple typo, not a vast conceptual error. > > I developed this on my pristine Ubuntu 18.10 and it all works swimmingly. Then I don't understand why you were altering the line at all. AFAICT

Re: Discussion about Lilypond(for GSoC 2019 project)

2019-03-08 Thread David Wright
". > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 11:59 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 7. März 2019 16:54:33 MEZ schrieb David Wright > > : > > >On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 19:32:27 (+0530), AKSHITA TYAGI wrote: > > >> I mean like there are files in MIDI and for that we can get > &

Re: Discussion about Lilypond(for GSoC 2019 project)

2019-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 19:32:27 (+0530), AKSHITA TYAGI wrote: > I mean like there are files in MIDI and for that we can get notations. > But we can also use those stored notations as input and get real music as > output. > Like we give 2 options- > 1.music to notations (the usual one) > 2.notations

Re: The Guide to getting Point and Click going with Gvim under Ubuntu 18

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 17:04:37 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi David and Federico and All, > > All these commentaries are great. But my aim was to document gvim (and not > even vim) on Ubuntu. I am well aware that there are a dozen editors and > tens of major Linux distros. I was never intendi

Re: The Guide to getting Point and Click going with Gvim under Ubuntu 18

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 10:36:49 (+0100), Federico Bruni wrote: > First review after trying your tutorial in Fedora (for the purpose of > adapting these instructions for the Usage manual). > Fedora doesn't use AppArmor. I don't have SELinux enabled, so I'm not > sure if that might be a problem. A fe

Re: Gvim and lilypond and emacs

2019-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Feb 2019 at 20:11:06 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Current progress. Perhaps I have hit a bug on Debian 9, hence the bonkers > inducing behaviour. Using EDITOR has no effect. But if I set LYEDITOR to > use gvim, it nearly works. This makes no sense to me. > > Here's what I have for LY

Re: Automatic lengthening of Lyrics extenders

2019-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Feb 2019 at 16:40:22 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > > However when there is a long note (e.g. full, or breve or such) the current > > situation leaves room for improvement (to my knowledge). > > For untied notes (like single whole notes), the convention is not to have > extender

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 02:03:47 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > foxfanfare wrote > > That is the reason why I call zathura from within vim. But I understand > > your > > point and where the problem is. As zathura and vim are sharing the same > > terminal, lilypond-invoke-editor message from zathura wil

Re: Applying a markup command to only part of a word

2019-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 21:02:31 (-0500), Mike Stickles wrote: > Right after I sent the question, a workaround occurred to me - using > hspace to "erase" the unwanted space, like this: > > \markup { \larger >     \column { >         \line { For my brethren and com \hspace #-0.7 \underline pan > \hsp

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Feb 2019 at 03:34:09 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > David Wright wrote > > Had you told us why vim is essential, as opposed to gvim? > > Because as far as I know, just configure in .bashrc export EDITOR="gvim" is > enough to get P&C working. You don

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Feb 2019 at 10:51:31 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I didn't take the time to update the thread earlier because of intense > working, but I wanted to write a little more about the issue and the > solution that worked. I hope this could help some people who wants to make a

Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font

2019-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Feb 2019 at 13:22:27 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I was in fact using markup, so this answer is excellent, and I eventually > found \semisharp. But it actually came up when I wanted to use a semisharp > in a text document, and I was surprised to find that although defined as > Unicode

A metacomment on Re: Text spanner shorten-pair

2019-02-13 Thread David Wright
Can I just point out that, whether you top-post or bottom-post, it's nearly impossible to follow the conversation in the plain text version of this post because there's no indication of quoting. On Wed 13 Feb 2019 at 14:33:39 (+), Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > From: Trevor Bača > Date: Wednesd

Re: Getting point-and-click working

2019-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Feb 2019 at 13:43:16 (+), David Sumbler wrote: > Thank you all for your help in this matter. > > Today I have point-and-click working as it should, with AppArmor > apparently doing what it is supposed to do. Great. While reading the following, bear in mind that I run Debian, and ap

Re: Getting point-and-click working

2019-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Feb 2019 at 19:03:02 (+), David Sumbler wrote: > I tried all the suggestions on the page suggested. Nothing helped > except for completely disabling AppArmor for Evince. The links then > work as intended! > > But it would be preferable, probably, not to do that, so I removed the >

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-07 Thread David Wright
This post was written Sat, 2 Feb 2019 13:18:17 -0600 and has been blocked three times already, so it's rather late arriving. On Fri 01 Feb 2019 at 17:33:34 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > foxfanfare wrote > > And again, what is strange is that I have to launch zathura through vim if > > I > > want it

Re: How to fix this divisi please

2019-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Feb 2019 at 08:16:28 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > Valentin Villenave-3 wrote […] > > %% Here’s the layout for _this_ \score only. > > %% (it doesn’t apply to individual parts.) > > \layout { > > \context { > > \Staff > > \name "miniStaff" > > alignAboveCont

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 11:39:20 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Andrew Bernard wrote > > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the who

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > tightly ri

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-02-03 Thread David Wright
[Note that this posting might overtake another one I made yesterday.] On Fri 01 Feb 2019 at 17:33:34 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > foxfanfare wrote > > And again, what is strange is that I have to launch zathura through vim if > > I > > want it to react to the link. If I launch the PDF alone in Zat

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Jan 2019 at 15:16:47 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > OK, I tried > > $ vim --servername foo --remote test.ly > (which gives me the output E247: no registered server named "VIM": Send > failed. Trying to execute locally) And I hope that succeeded in opening the file (but not as a server). J

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Jan 2019 at 04:14:07 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > David Wright wrote > > That doesn't tell me whether you run a DE or just a WM. > > Sorry I thought it was clear as i3 is a WM. I haven't install a desktop > environment, the $DESKTOP_SESSION command returns a

Re: Configuration Point & Click

2019-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 12:50:59 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > I managed now to see the exact position with your correct LYEDITOR synthax. > One problem solved :-) BTW, I thought I had to make the export variables in > my .bash_profile, is there any difference in setting them in the .bashrc > file? F

Re: utf-8 file name in lilypond

2019-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 16:42:22 (+), MING TSANG wrote: > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=197 > > I copy the above snippet and name it test_file-name_info.ly and run with > fracobaldi3.01 + lilypond2.19.82 it produces desired file infomation. > Then I rename the file as test_中文.ly (UTF-8

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 13:56:00 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 10:19:33 (+0100), Knut Petersen wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > Urs Liska provides installers for branch master of lilypond, generated by > > an updated version of our build sy

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 10:19:33 (+0100), Knut Petersen wrote: > Hi everybody > > Urs Liska provides installers for branch master of lilypond, generated by an > updated version of our build system GUB: > >https://cloud.ursliska.de/s/QPINwLqJNeVslCu > > There you'll find > >lilypond-2.21.

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 12:19:11 (+0100), Johan Vromans wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:19:33 +0100, Knut Petersen > wrote: > > > lilypond-2.21.0-1.linux-64.sh > > I tried an install into /opt/lilypond. I do not have access to /opt but the > folder /opt/lilypond is completely mine. > > The he

Re: postscript printers for lilypond

2019-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 28 Jan 2019 at 12:35:31 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > The Epson P800 has nine tanks (oneupmanship!) including a _matte black_ ink > tank, and an eight channel printhead. Resolution is up to 2880 x 1400 dpi, > so I can't see how there could be a problem printing sharp lines. > > Not doubl

Re: Emacs lilypond mode formatting and indenting

2019-01-26 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 11:58:30 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Frescobaldi has a great formatting function that indents all the code very > nicely and nearly flawlessly. > > But since an upgrade to Debian 9 and as the complexity of my current score > increases, F. has slowed down to a molasses li

Re: Clef moves notes why??

2019-01-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jan 2019 at 13:22:53 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > Good evening. I am attempting a worksheet of sorts and would like to hide a > staff for a little while then bring it back with the clef on the right side > of the barline. There's your mistake. You need to put the clef on the left of the barl

BOMs, and Re: vars and multiple scores

2019-01-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 20:50:32 (+0100), Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Mo den 14. Jan 2019 um 20:15 schrieb David Bowen: > >Have you considered the possibility of making each song its own file and > > then using lylualatex to build the songbook. > > Something like that was in my mind at first. (Usin

Re: [OT] Variations in ordinals and building floor numbers (WAS: RE: Flat flared hairpins)

2019-01-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Dec 2018 at 09:32:48 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 12/31/2018 8:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 31/12/18 13:29, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > American English floors: first second third fourth > > > English floors: ground first second third > > I've seen

Re: Combine these segments for same score

2018-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Dec 2018 at 13:17:19 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > David Wright wrote > > On Sun 16 Dec 2018 at 11:05:05 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > >> Urs Liska-3 wrote > >> > one thing you will have to accept is that the segment approach you're > >> > after w

Re: Combine these segments for same score

2018-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Dec 2018 at 11:05:05 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > Urs Liska-3 wrote > > one thing you will have to accept is that the segment approach you're > > after will not save compilation time of the score as a whole. What it can > > do is give you a handle to compile only small chunks or "segments" at

Re: Weirdness with \set associatedVoice

2018-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Dec 2018 at 12:41:16 (+0100), Michael Gerdau wrote: > > I have an issue with \set associatedVoice, namely it appears that there is a > problem with initializing it. I have created a small example (see below) to > show my problem. > > Stanza 1 is what I want it to look like Yes, that'

Re: Combine these segments for same score

2018-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Dec 2018 at 07:38:03 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > Schneidy wrote > > Hi Reggie, > > How about: > > > > \version "2.19.82" > > % current bar number? > > %\include "segment1.ly" > > %\include "segment2.ly" > > %\include "segment3.ly" > > > > %My other files are this code respectively 1 2 3 >

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Dec 2018 at 17:32:59 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I was so disappointed with the complete mess the current abc2ly makes of > Irish tunes from the vast repository at thesession.org that I started > looking into this. The others mentioned that using abc2xml and then using > musixxml2ly

Re: Custom AccidentalStyle

2018-12-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Dec 2018 at 19:05:32 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > In case you should arrive at the point where you really want a custom > accidental style: I have done that before and already posted a (brief) > explanation and full example file to this list. The search engine in > the archive seems t

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-12-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 18:14:20 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > HI Mark, > > Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some > convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to > google for! In my experience, the convention in church music in

Re: how to reference paper variables in a music function

2018-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Nov 2018 at 23:12:20 (-0700), Jeff Olson wrote: > I have a complex Mutopia submission that requires different formatting > for A4 and Letter sized paper (it's too tight on the page to trust > lilypond's spacing algorithms on the same source without paper > specific tweaks). > > So I'd li

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 00:32:34 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even > mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of > myself here! It gives you instant transposition of a semitone. And if y

Re: Attaching images to posts

2018-11-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Nov 2018 at 17:27:23 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > > […] Harm, […] wrote: > >> Am So., 18. Nov. 2018 um 08:36 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard > >> : > >> > In the past I have just made an attachment to the post, > >> > >> Please continue to do so. > >> Speaking only for myself, frequently

Re: Attaching images to posts

2018-11-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Nov 2018 at 10:47:55 (+0100), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 08:36, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > What is the approved and recommend way to attach images for small examples > > to posts in this list? > > > > In the past I have just made an attachment to the post, but it oc

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Nov 2018 at 09:02:44 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 11/9/2018 8:43 AM, Ben wrote: > > Is it better to use *his* local currency, I assume? Or are there > > fees on his end that I can avoid? USD vs. Euro > > I'd say it's better for the receiver if funds are sent in their main > currency.

Re: textedit - how to set tab size for correct column calculation?

2018-11-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 15:05:42 (-0400), Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > On 2018-11-03 2:10 PM, David Baptista wrote: > > c' > > For Lilypond the tab is 8 spaces, thus the c' is on columns 9 and 10 > (one column for each character). Lilypond is not aware of your editor > settings (which change that

Re: textedit - how to set tab size for correct column calculation?

2018-11-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 09:35:54 (+), David Baptista wrote: > I think the main way around this would be to expose a setting (ex tab-size) > to be configured by the user. Ouch. That's just a step backwards. Why fixed every N? Even typewriters could set custom stops as desired. But then you just g

[OT] Re: GrandStaff vertical distance

2018-10-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Oct 2018 at 05:35:45 (+0100), Brian Barker wrote: > At 14:40 17/10/2018 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The # wiki notes that British Telecom used the term "square" for > > hash at one time. > > Surely not? Rather, they presumably used the term "squa

Re: Braille scores

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 20:35:22 (+0200), Jacques Menu wrote: > Hello Hwaen and Aaron, > > Thanks Aaron for the very useful link at www.brailleauthority.org. > What I meant by non confidential examples is exactly that, small scores with > full Braille Music code and the corresponding western, graph

Re: GrandStaff vertical distance

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 15:43:40 (+0200), Thomas Morley wrote: > I'd like to propose the code below. Attached as well. > > It stores the info in a string, which is converted to a nested list > suitable for 'systemStartDelimiterHierarchy'. It can be nested in > arbitrary depth. > > I used the follo

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 =

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

2018-10-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Sep 2018 at 16:49:13 (+0100), peter.gen...@sunscales.myzen.co.uk wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:10:25 -0700 > From: Aaron Hill mailto:lilyp...@hillvisions.com> > > > > An Access Violation has nothing to do with permissions as was stated > > earlier. This error code is specific to v

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

2018-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 15:17:18 (+0100), Peter Gentry wrote: > From: David Wright > Sent: 27 September 2018 14:25 > > On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 14:15:52 (+0200), Anders Eriksson wrote: > > > On 2018-09-27 13:09, Peter Gentry wrote: > > > > > > > > In th

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

2018-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 23:07:53 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Anders, > > That assumes it is a big endian 32 bit int. Is that always correct on > Windows? I guess I am asking is lilypond 32 bit on Windows? Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, … > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 2

Re: Frescobaldi Log Error -1073741819 on Windows10

2018-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 14:15:52 (+0200), Anders Eriksson wrote: > On 2018-09-27 13:09, Peter Gentry wrote: > > > > In the last couple of days both Desktop and Laptop machines have > > stopped compiling files and producing one line in the log. > > > > ** > > > > *Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19

Re: Melisma line

2018-09-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Sep 2018 at 14:35:59 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2018-09-23 1:43 pm, Noeck wrote: > > > > Txt = \lyricmode { Ah Ah __ \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } Ah Ah } > > > > > > > > > > Try using "" or any invisible markup instead of the skips. > > > > That did not work here. But this ugly ha

Re: Cover page

2018-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Sep 2018 at 13:20:34 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi fox, > > > Does this means the PDF is imported in LaTex, a bit like with inDesign? > > Not exactly… It’s included at PDF generation time, a bit like an \include > file in Lilypond. Because both LP and LaTeX are text-sourced, i

Re: Cover page

2018-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Sep 2018 at 09:11:51 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Malte Meyn-3 wrote > > What do you mean by “manager”? What OS are you using? > > Thanks David & Malte for your first comments. What I meant by manager is a > bit like Frescobaldi is to LilyPond to me! I'm still using Windows but > probabl

Re: landscape printing and viewing

2018-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Sep 2018 at 00:55:36 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 09.09.2018 23:13, David Kastrup wrote: > > Kieren MacMillan writes: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > \paper { > > > > #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) > > > > } > > > If I’m not mistaken, the correct incantation is > > > > > > \paper {

Re: Keeping text with a score in a \book

2018-09-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Sep 2018 at 09:13:17 (-0400), Ralph Palmer wrote: > I have lines of text (copyright and source information) that I'm putting > below the tune (on the paper). The most reliable way I found to keep the > text centered was to put it after the \score as a \markup. I'm putting one > to four t

Re: Stem between note and rest?

2018-09-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Sep 2018 at 19:23:29 (+0200), Noeck wrote: > What happens here? What is this stem between the note and the rest? > > \new Staff << > \relative { \voiceOne c'' d e f } > \relative { \voiceTwo e' f r2 } > >> I thought Question One would be what is \voiceOne doing? > It can be solved

Re: landscape printing and viewing

2018-09-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Sep 2018 at 19:17:54 (+0200), Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > I used someting like > > \paper { > #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) > } > > My score is turned 90 degrees and formatted for landscape printing. > This is ok for printing but my viewer (Evince) doesn't turn the page > for viewi

Re: Any way to reset page numbers?

2018-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 17:47:16 (-0400), Larry Kent wrote: > I've looked for this in the documentation without success, so I'm asking > for help. > > Is there any way to override the page numbers? I have a multi-movement > piece that I would like to keep as separate files, but I want to put them >

Re: tuplet error

2018-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 13:58:56 (+1000), Craig Dabelstein wrote: > Hi lilyponders, > > In the following MWE I get this error: *omitting tuplet bracket with > neither left nor right bound* > > The compilation is fine. Anything I should do about this error? Correct this line: \tuplet 3/2 4 { to:

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 21:47:51 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 23 Aug 2018, at 21:12, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 22:55:29 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > >>> On 16 Aug 2018, at 22:35, David Wright wrote: > >>> > >

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 22:18:51 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 19:55:01 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I mean

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 22:55:29 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2018, at 22:35, David Wright wrote: > > > >> There I would expect -I to be put ahead of the program system directories, > >> so those latter can be overridden. I think GCC in the past may h

Re: What are new users to do about LilyPond PDF Documentation?

2018-08-22 Thread David Wright
obably not the best methodology. In any case, the archive.org link was a useful one as it seems to point to the 2.19.81 versions that are good. > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 09:57, David Wright > wrote: > > > > > The bad news: ~155MB download currently. For dial-up, something >

Re: What are new users to do about LilyPond PDF Documentation?

2018-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Aug 2018 at 15:56:12 (-0700), Reggie wrote: > I am using LilyPond 2.19.x and currently there is no way to get a > downloadable PDF manual for either notation or learning because of the > screwy fonts in the examples and whatnot. Is there any fix for this or will > all users have to decide

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 19:55:01 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that > >> > CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even > >> > encrypted) file formats strongly discouraged anyone t

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 10:13:42 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2018, at 02:27, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 22:40:57 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > >>> On 15 Aug 2018, at 21:49, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Wed 15 Aug 2018 a

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 22:40:57 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2018, at 21:49, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 10:07:11 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > >> > >> Also, it seems it adds the directory before the current in the cal

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 10:07:11 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2018, at 00:59, Urs Liska wrote: > > > > Am 15.08.2018 um 00:34 schrieb Hans Åberg: > >>> On 14 Aug 2018, at 21:31, Urs Liska wrote: > >>> > >>> Could someone please test (or tell me directly) whether it makes a > >>> d

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Aug 2018 at 00:58:51 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Am 14.08.2018 um 22:21 schrieb David Wright: > >On Tue 14 Aug 2018 at 21:31:18 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>it seems LilyPond on Windows requires paths passed to the -I command >

Re: Include path syntax on Mac

2018-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Aug 2018 at 21:31:18 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems LilyPond on Windows requires paths passed to the -I command > line option to have a trailing slash while LilyPond on Linux doesn't > seem to care whether there is or not (see > https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/iss

Re: frescobaldi print music

2018-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Aug 2018 at 16:54:24 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > To avoid having one or two staves on last page, I use often page-count. > Unfortunately this often cuts the bottom of the page (the tagline or some > notes). > > Today I tried to understand better the problem, checking the printable a

Re: Barcheck failure warnings for lyrics in parallel mode

2018-08-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 12:30:03 (-0700), Galen Menzel wrote: > Now, although `lyrics_c` is a silly way to write a lyric line, > `lyrics_b` seems reasonable to me. Is there a better way to define a > lyric line in a `parallelMusic` definition so that lilypond doesn’t > complain? And if not, is there

Re: Syntax Completion in Vim

2018-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Jul 2018 at 21:10:34 (-0700), Peter Engelbert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am wondering if anyone knows how to set up vim to be able to do tab > completion (or Ctrl-N completion) for Lilypond syntax. As is, Vim can do tab > completion for variables, contexts and grobs that are defined wi

Re: Format of -dshow-available-fonts output

2018-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Jul 2018 at 18:50:27 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Is it possible that the problem is due to an old fontconfig version > used by LilyPond? my Debian package is 2.13.0, the LilyPond > directory suggests a version 1.9.2 (is that possible?). Can you be a bit more specific about what versioni

Re: a curious midi problem, or not ?

2018-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Jul 2018 at 08:06:19 (+0930), B~M wrote: > Dear All, I have encountered an odd problem (I think) with midi > file generation. The attached file is just one bar of Viola music. > It generates a midi, but the actual viola playing is about 7 seconds, yet > the > midi continues for about 20 s

Re: Lilypond fails after system upgrade.

2018-07-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Jul 2018 at 08:51:23 (+0200), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> On many documents (not all) i get now this error: > >> warning: > >> `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612.00 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792.00 > >> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > >> -sOutputFile=.

Re: Frescobaldi to default window layout

2018-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 09:58:23 (+0200), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I didn't say anything about the value of the choice of the original > settings. Actually I don't remember them anymore (since there's no > real way to get back to them short of installing Frescobaldi on a > fresh computer).

2.19.82 manuals are very small!

2018-06-29 Thread David Wright
The new 2.19.82 manuals make interesting reading, but the diagrams leave something to be desired, namely most of the musical fonts: $ pdffonts lilypond-docs/2.19.81/changes.pdf name type encoding emb sub uni object ID -

Re: \bookparts and scaling

2018-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Jun 2018 at 09:02:12 (-0400), crimsonsunr...@protonmail.com wrote: > Ativo 29 de jun de 2018 06:55, Torsten Hämmerle escreveu: > The documentation, unfortunately, has not been updated yet and still claims > that the distance between lines didn't change: > "*Known issues and warnings* > la

Re: Repeat question

2018-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jun 2018 at 14:10:10 (+0200), Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: > Just found an excellent example of the ‘look at what the compiler does’ > principle. > > Demo file 04b-Glissando.xml contains: > > > > > G > 4 > > 1 > 1 >

Re: Repeat question

2018-06-28 Thread David Wright
computer language > in a complete and consistent manner is quite difficult. Programs are far more complex that a piece of music. It would be tedious but I could write a score in MusicXML that makes no musical sense, but is it productive to then use it as a test? Alternatively, where is the &

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