Re: OO and MIDI support

2007-11-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 05 October 2007, Hans Aberg wrote: On 5 Oct 2007, at 01:20, Graham Percival wrote: Midi support in lilypond is quite limited, and this is not likely to change in the near future. Might it possible to handle this by OO (object orientation)? The idea is that if objects can be

Re: Scheme code for extracting LilyPond header properties?

2007-11-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, John Zaitseff wrote: Dear Nicolas / LilyPonders, I store a field in the header, lastupdated, in the form 09-Oct-2007; the \parsed-date function converts that to something like 9 October, 2007: % \parsed-date DATE - convert a DD-MMM- property to a fully

Re: SVG output sponsorship

2007-08-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Eduardo Vieira wrote: Citando Vivian Barty-Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using various bits of graphics in this piece which aren't natively supported by Lilypond. Although I could add them all as EPS markups, the amount of time I would spend adjusting the

Re: SVG output sponsorship

2007-08-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: Thanks for that suggestion. Do you know where I can get the gnome backend, or do I just need to download the earlier version of Lilypond? IIRC, it's a compile-time option which by default is off (i.e., you need to recompile lily

Re: SVG output sponsorship

2007-08-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 12 August 2007, Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: It seems to me that having reliable (bug-free) SVG output would be a big plus for Lilypond. At the present time, I have been unable to fix all the font problems (not sure whether this is Lilypond or Inkscape which is giving me trouble.) To

Re: Fonts in SVG output

2007-08-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Benjamin Esham wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm having some issues with Lilypond 2.10.x's SVG export. I seem to have fixed most (all?) of my font problems. I now have another problem, however. In order to submit one of LilyPond's SVGs to e.g. the Wikimedia Commons,

Re: \times vs \tuplet (Was: Constructive Criticism and a Question)

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 15 January 2007 10:25, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/1/14, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin Villenave wrote: Tuplets are made with the minimalistic \t keyword. Comments: - If Erik's proposal to handle fractions such as 2/3 as a new argument type is

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Note also that the tupletSequence function would be implemented entirely in Scheme . . . I'm not very fluent in Scheme, so this is a naive question. I presume that ratios like 3:2 (or 2/3) could be made into some kind of

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 05 January 2007 22:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . The { m1 m2 m3 } syntax is used for repeat alternatives already, and the meaning is very clear: Each music expression between the outer { } is a separate argument. Note also that the tupletSequence function would be

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . \tupletSequence 2/3 {{c d e} {f g a} {b c d}} would just be a shorthand for \tuplet 2/3 {c d e} \tuplet 2/3 {f g a} \tuplet 2/3 {b c d} That would add a big semantic burden to the meaning of { and }. Currently {{c d e} {f g

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 22:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... in irregular, tuplet-intensive music it may be sensible to create a music function for sequences of tuplets. In addition, it's IMHO a more lilypondesque solution than tupletSpannerDuration, once we support fractions as music

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 01 January 2007 20:57, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Might it be possible to use \tuplet 3:2 {x x x} for the usual operation, and if we want to have many tuplets of the same kind, to use \tuplet 3:2 { {x x x} {y y y} {z z z} } Might resolve the

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 28 December 2006 11:13, Brett Duncan wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from a programmer's point of view where

Re: Any way to turn off warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns?

2006-12-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:12, Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, So my question is: is there any way to turn off the clashing note column warnings? I think this is the one place where one of Lily's warnings truly is completely harmless and I feel safe turning it off. More importantly, I really

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 23 December 2006 03:10, Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Might it be possible to use \tuplet 3:2 {x x x} for the usual operation, and if we want to have many tuplets of the same kind, to use \tuplet 3:2 { {x x x} {y y y} {z z z} } Might resolve the clarity problems. Doesn't look

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 25 December 2006 07:05, Joe Neeman wrote: On 12/21/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 25 December 2006 06:32, David Fedoruk wrote: Hello: I've been watching this discussion or debate. There are two ways to look at this problem. The first is from a programmer's point of view where the programmer is experienced with some computer languages, these days its upper level

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: ... hmm, what about allowing \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e} \tuplet { f e d} Again, I definitely vote against! We already now have too many optional constructs in the syntax, which causes more confusion than it helps.

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:51, Graham Percival wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Jonathan Henkelman escreveu: I think Eriks point is actually well founded. The discussion started with my discussion of trying to trim down the grammer complexity. Adding syntax is not really in that

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 15:25, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Werner LEMBERG wrote: \tuplet 3:2 {...} One minor detail is that the name isn't exactly appropriate when you do \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) \times 2/3 {c8 d e f e d e f g f e d } Well, in that case

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:55, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both with signature (tuplet-fraction? music?) it would be cool

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 21 December 2006 15:01, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:55, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:57, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Werner LEMBERG escreveu: I suppose you could add the command \times 3:2 {a b c} to do exactly the same as \times 2/3 {a b c} [...] If at all, then \tuplet 3:2 {...} I don't mind changing \times to \tuplet, and agree that

Re: How to use ^markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-17 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 16 December 2006 23:40, Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Thanks for the later answer, that is what i'm using and it works. For the Lilypond code with the Scheme code, I just want to execute the Lilypond code, so I should write : (define-music-function (variables) (let ((music #{

Re: How to use ^markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 15 December 2006 22:07, Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Then, well, who can help me?? Frédéric 2006/12/15, Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm certainly not any expert in Scheme coding for LilyPond. Please always keep the discussion on the mailing list, for the benefit of yourself

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:53, Bertalan Fodor wrote: Certainly not. Actually the java code is compiled to machine code at runtime. This is slower than precompiling, but the compiled code can run faster than its precompiled counterpart, because the runtime machine will have information

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 09 December 2006 10:27, Bertalan Fodor wrote: Well, what is extremely important: development time is so little in Java and with JEdit (compared to any alternatives), that I won't change this platform. The price is that it will remain slow if you don't have much memory in the

Re: feature request: read standard input

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 03:24, Ed Stauff wrote: It sure would be helpful to have an option for reading the standard input, so I can pipe the output of a program that generates LilyPond code directly into LilyPond.exe. try: lilypond - -- Erik

Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, . . . one problem is that this [giving the syntax of each keyword] would still just tell a small part of the full syntax. I think it would give a big part of the full syntax, even if not the whole picture. It would

Re: Music for the Martians?

2006-11-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 23 November 2006 20:29, Arjan Bos wrote: On 23 nov 2006, at 3:10, Graham Percival wrote: I think this is referring to people with 6-fingers. Typing e8_1 means first finger; typing e8_1 prints 1 as a TextScript. But what are martians and why are they playing my music?

Re: which language for programming

2006-11-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:31, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Doug Wellington wrote: Why can't you communicate with others using VB and/or AppleScript? I would submit that it's easier to create a graphical application with VB than just about any other programming language. If you want to

Re: Midi problem

2006-11-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:37, Lasse Rempe wrote: First of all --- thanks for the help on the hairpintobarline question; my reply on that message doesn't seem to have gone through. I thought I had installed the most current LilyPond version, but clearly not :doh:. I've now installed

Re: which language for programming

2006-11-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 15:53, Bob Kline wrote: Ed Ardzinski wrote: If Lilypond is written in C++ (and I do see some hints of C type syntax when I use Lilypond) this *might* be a factor to consider. But... C and C++ are fairly complex languages and have steep learning curves. If you

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 09:20, Arvid Grøtting wrote: Joseph Haig josephhaig at gmail.com writes: Note the second comment: It will be a long time before this beautiful process can be replicated by computers. Erm ... It took Henle three years, from the video was made in 1997 until they

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-11-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 20 November 2006 18:40, Bob Kline wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: The problem above, is that { } have different meanings in different places: Usually { } means sequential music, but the { } after \score are special: it starts with a _single_ music expression, followed by optional

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-11-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 17 November 2006 22:28, Bob Kline wrote: Andrew Longland-Meech wrote: Thank you. I've got it now, even though it seems a bit illogical to put one bit of layout in \layout and the other in with the notes, when they both do a similar job!! On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:53 -0800,

Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 16 November 2006 00:49, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote: 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then he could use 4c8 instead, or does lilypond have any special meaning for prepended digits? hm

Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:50, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hello, Is it possible to indicate pitches in the format c4 instead of c'? And if not, does anybody know of any plans to create this possibility? If you really need this, I'd recommend you to use sed or similar tool as a preprocessing

Re: Pitch/ octave notation

2006-11-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:25, Mads Sejersen wrote: 2006/11/14, Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:50, Peter O'Doherty wrote: If you really need this, I'd recommend you to use sed or similar tool as a preprocessing step for your score. It should be fairly

Re: LilyPondTool 2.10 demo

2006-11-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 13 November 2006 23:37, Bertalan Fodor wrote: For a flash demo of the new LilyPondTool release please look at http://www.organum.hu/fileadmin/lilypondtool/parser.html It demonstrates some of the most exciting features (instant errorchecking, instant help, instant point-and-click)

Re: beam breaking in tuplets

2006-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 November 2006 09:25, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Victor Eijkhout wrote: So, if you want a limited scope, you can explicitly create a short-lived context. Here's an example that uses smaller note heads for one measure: \relative c'{ c d e f \new Voice {\tiny g f e d } c d e d c1 }

Re: beam breaking in tuplets

2006-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 November 2006 12:59, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 09:25, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Mats, do you think it would be useful with an operator \newClone to clone the current context? E.g. \new Staff \with {\consists Foo_engraver bar=#'baz

Re: Is Lilypond right for this need?

2006-11-01 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:21, Cliff Pruitt wrote: Thanks for the advice. The suggestions would be great if I were more proficient at writing out music in general. I think what I'm trying to figure out is the best way to approximate the correct phrases quickly without taking the time to

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:19, Valentin Villenave wrote: Hello César ; Just a few words. As a matter of fact, I've switched to linux in the mean time I've switched to Lilypond... But we can't ask everyone to do so, and therefore I agree it indeed lacks a decent user interface ;

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:41, Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, it would be nice to be able to correct some things using mouse (most notably, slur shapes, system distances, markup positioning etc.) Shaping slurs using mouse is quite easy, but doing the same in .ly file is quite cumbersome.

Re: Polyphonic Tablature

2006-10-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 23 October 2006 12:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson escreveu: Daniel Tonda wrote: Just revised the code I proposed and you're right. I wasn't aware that by using one could remove the \simultaneous. Less typing indeed. Right! \simultaneous{...} is completely

Re: \mark \default in 2.9.24

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 16 October 2006 12:17, Paul Scott wrote: This: \version 2.9.24 { c1 \mark \default } nMark = \mark \default gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/test$ lilypond nmark.ly GNU LilyPond 2.9.24 Processing `nmark.ly' Parsing...#Prob: Music C++: Music((origin . #location

Re: I would like to buy this enhancement (highly motivated buyer)

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:22, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Mats. My motivation for this is that I am currently writing some lesson material that reference full scores and would like to make a nice word processor document that flows, with illustrations embedded

Re: Making notes in Scheme?

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:59, Marcus Macauley wrote: Nicolas Sceaux wrote: And because it's possible to manually type notes within a music function in Scheme, e.g.: function = #(define-music-function (parser location var1) (integer?) #{ c'4 d' e' #}) It seems like it should

Re: OOoLilyPond question

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 23:40, David Bobroff wrote: Samuel Hartmann wrote: Hi David, So this error occurs in fragment mode if a \score {} block is included. Feature or bug? Feature; lilypond-book does the same. with fragment, you let lilypond-book place a \score block around your

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:55, Ted Walther wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:34:33AM -0500, David Greene wrote: If you want to do something more generic (something you can apply on any existing ly score), then you may want to consider using music streams. Music streams are a new concept

Re: Swing Midi

2006-09-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 15 September 2006 00:47, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: David Greene wrote: Hi everyone, I searched the archives and found a few discussions about generating swing-feel MIDI from straight eighths Lily source but the most recent was from 2004. I was thinking about writing a Scheme

Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto with \partcombine. What exactly do you want to do? If you want to align one lyric line to one voice, and another

Re: functions in \with

2006-08-29 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 28 August 2006 13:55, Trevor Daniels wrote: I'm happily creating and using music functions but so far my attempts to define functions that can be used in \with or \context clauses have failed. The suggested technique of making a void function using (make-music 'SequentialMusic 'void

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:39, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Steve D wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:55:05AM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: it's easiest to add a property so you can do c e \tweak #'forbid-tie = ##t g bes cost: 65 EUR. Werner LEMBERG then asked: Just wondering what

Re: Sponsored feature request--partially-tied chords

2006-08-25 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: With my last patch (which I sent a few weeks ago but without response -- was it lost?), 'articulations is converted to a stream event list when music is converted to event. Also, music_cause is eliminated. Should I

Re: \tagsOn, \tagsOff

2006-08-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 18 August 2006 22:39, Kieren MacMillan wrote: [ v2.9.14 ] Hello, all -- No, this isn't Karate Kid 5! ;-) This is a continuation of the thread setting up a very complex choral layout, with a possible feature request... I have a different suggestion which might solve your problem

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:04, Anthony Youngman wrote: Might be an idea to look at Antlr then ... I don't know how effective it would be, but part of the purpose behind the v3 rewrite is to increase the number of languages that Antlr can generate. If you can define the grammar in Antlr it

Re: Evolutionary User Strategery

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
Please always CC to the list. On 7/12/06, Ian Hawthorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 0.02c The lilypond language is still evolving. Recent changes in syntax have improved usablity. However at some point the improvements to be gained by further tinkering with the syntax will be outweighed by

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:00, Colin Wilding wrote: This is an important dilemma for many users, I think - we want to have all the fixes and features in each new version, but find it frustrating when music produced in earlier versions needs time-consuming manual editing to upgrade. Can I

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 12:59, Anthony Youngman wrote: Something I thought of (having seen the comment about convert-ly using grep ...) It's not using grep, but it relies heavily on regexps (so it can somewhat fairly be compared to sed). I've got an on-off thing about writing a DATABASIC

Re: Evolutionary User Strategy - A Compromise

2006-07-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 17:22, Anthony Youngman wrote: I don't really understand grammars etc (which is why my DATABASIC thing is on/off :-). But from my experience with Antlr, I don't see why you should lose stuff. Your PEG article mentions ASTs. I don't see that converting a .ly file

Re: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

2006-07-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 10 July 2006 15:14, Laura Conrad wrote: My problem is that I have several major projects that are in lilypond 2.0. Even where convert-ly performs flawlessly (which it doesn't for a number of features, like multi-verse vocal music), By the way, there are plans to drop the

Re: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

2006-07-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On 7/11/06, Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik By the way, there are plans to drop the old-lyric-combine Erik compatibility altogether, so in order to upgrade to the next Erik stable version, you'll have to rewrite all your

Re: tetex 2.5 and lilypond 2.0

2006-07-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:13, Laura Conrad wrote: Erik == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik On 7/11/06, Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik == Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik By the way, there are plans to drop the old-lyric-combine Erik

Re: Evolutionary User Strategery

2006-07-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On 7/9/06, Fairchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New scores could use new features and not have to work around the bugs of earlier versions. Older scores that have been carefully tuned, compensating for earlier bugs, would continue to produce the intended result without having to be overhauled.

Re: Evolutionary User Strategery

2006-07-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On 7/10/06, Fairchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik - Thanks for contributing to this thread. It is attempting to deal with an important unresolved issue: seamless evolutionary transitioning of ly files. Your suggested solution requires n versions residing entirely in the user's machine,

Re: Evolutionary User Strategery

2006-07-09 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 08 July 2006 18:58, Fairchild wrote: The 3.0 processor could note the 2.4 version flag and treat the ly file in the 2.4 way, maintaining upward compatibility without a need for convert-ly. In what way would that be different from installing two different versions of lily? If you

Re: Chords with ()

2006-07-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 08 July 2006 19:16, Ezequiel Sierra wrote: Any help with this? On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Ezequiel Sierra wrote: Does anybody can help me with this issue? On Jul 5, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Ezequiel Sierra wrote: What is the problem here? http://www.ezequielsierra.com/1.txt

Re: Chords with ()

2006-07-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 07:19, Ezequiel Sierra wrote: How can i set it to all the chords? not just one? You could probably do something like: (untested) #(define (parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (make-markup #'line (list (

Re: Lilypond store?

2006-07-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 15:09, Stewart Holmes wrote: Yes. Harsh this may sound, but how much of the music on Mutopia would you be satisfied to print out, and use yourself? From a quick browse through various sections, I have to say that a large amount of the music on there is fairly poorly

Re: 'Slanted' fractions

2006-07-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 03 July 2006 16:48, Stewart Holmes wrote: I'm trying to do some guitar barring, which involves using the fraction 1/2. The markup /fraction gives me a fraction with one number vertically above the other. I'd quite like it so that the 1 is in the top left, the 2 in the bottom right,

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:41, Paul Scott wrote: Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something that would break

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 June 2006 03:21, Paul Scott wrote: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something that would break this? This is now fixed in CVS. Thanks! -- Erik

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 June 2006 12:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott schreef: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something that would break this? Erik has done some work on the parser, which

Re: music definition change in 2.9.9 or thereabouts?

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 00:07, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 12:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott schreef: This used to work in 2.8: \version 2.9.9 KeyG = \key g \major { \KeyG a'' b'' g'' a'' } Have any keywords been added or something

Re: barline problem

2006-06-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:25, Stephen wrote: - Original Message - From: Dewdman42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:55 PM Subject: Re: barline problem Which gets us to the crux of the problem. Finale and lilypond use all of the

Re: barline problem

2006-06-14 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:25, Stephen wrote: Your right, Lilypond does not produce PDF files, ghostscript does. So the only thing Lilypond could do is add additional hinting in the PostScript file as Hans has already suggested. And as you've already pointed out, what matters is how the

Re: old-style pedals working, but brackets not? [MINIMAL EXAMPLE]

2006-06-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:00, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, all -- I was able to reproduce the behaviour I'm seeing in the attached minimal example -- any help on the solution would be appreciated. FYI, this is probably not a minimal example. Usually you can shrink problematic examples down

Re: Recent user trying to find out how to mix music and text.

2006-06-03 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 03 June 2006 10:51, Roderick Camelia wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm a recent user of Lilypond and currently writing a music theory book for popular music. I've downloaded the Lilypond system since I'm needing a way to print musical examples among the text. I've gotten as far as being

Re: Object hierarchy in LilyPond?

2006-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 08 May 2006 19:30, Arjan Bos wrote: On 6 mei 2006, at 21:20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:06, Tomas Valusek wrote: Or the context hierarchy or which engravers are included in each context or which objects are created

Re: Object hierarchy in LilyPond?

2006-05-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 08:11, Simon Dahlbacka wrote: On 5/10/06, Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 19:30, Arjan Bos wrote: On 6 mei 2006, at 21:20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:06, Tomas Valusek

Re: Object hierarchy in LilyPond?

2006-05-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:06, Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out an overall object hierarchy of LilyPond. The only way I've discovered so far is to traverse programmers guide and follow links. But this is very tedious, since if I want to get something done in non-default

Re: Contexts (Was Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused)

2006-05-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 04 May 2006 06:21, Arjan Bos wrote: Erik, That's a great document! I've read about half of it now and it does a very good job to explain to me how LilyPond works. And seeing the date on the title page, I think I have to congratulate you on your Masters Degree! Well Done! Thanks!

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Rick Hansen (aka RickH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Macro pre-processors should generate source code, and stream it in, period. I just want to output strings into the input stream dynamically, that goes beyond \include files and offers concat, replacement of tokens, and some rudimentary

Re: Block diagram of LilyPond

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 29 April 2006 12:30, Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, has anyone created a block diagram of LilyPond, which would show data flow, relationship between various modules, etc? It would be great help for obtaining global idea what LilyPond's about. I have a created one in my master

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-05-01 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agreed. LilyPond is a domain-specific language. It is rather odd that it is necessary to break out into a different language to do a great many things. 2) Scheme *is* part of LilyPond language, using #, and scheme macro and other

Re: Contexts (Was Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused)

2006-04-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Tomas Valusek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, When I first read the manual I didn't see any clear explanation of the difference, the docs could be more clear on that point. But when I realized that one was for grobs and the other for context, it became much clearer, for me it

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 26-Apr-06, at 10:36 PM, Michael Brennan wrote: David Feuer wrote: On 4/19/06, Erik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, which is visible for end-users: the \tweak

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:56, Werner LEMBERG wrote: \set: set the value of a context property \override: set the value of a layout object property I've always wondered why it isn't possible to unify them... In 2.8 there's an essential difference between grob and context properties, which

Re: Macro pre-processing?

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 07 April 2006 00:50, Geoff Horton wrote: Just read sections 11.1.3 and 11.1.6 in the manual. That's far more complicated than I want, and even further more complicated than a musician who's not a computer programmer is going to want to deal with--please note that those sections are

Re: Undocumented \with syntax?

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 07.50, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: \new Voice=Soprano \with { \consists Ambitus_engraver } { myNotesGoHere } ... The above example gets a compiler error, saying that the \with was unexpected Try using \context iso. \new. -- Erik

Re: HELP: Guitar Diagrams (chords)

2006-03-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01.37, Jannik Jeppesen wrote: Hi... I feel, I need to ask these questions again since they have not been answered, and I cant figure this out myself I want to make a page with only guitar diagrams like this cc7 dd7dmdm7 ee7emem7 g

Re: unmetered music question

2006-03-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 10.53, Eddy-14 wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you don't want any time signature printed, you can do \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f What if I don't want a time signature in a part of a piece, and I want it back in another part ? Setting it

Re: Chord symbol placement

2006-03-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 12 March 2006 19.53, Edward Ardzinski wrote: I am trying to write a lead sheet, and in a couple days feel like I've got good progress. However, I cannot get the chord symbols to be placed above the staff if I specify a key signature. I'm sure this is possible? It's definitely

Re: How to embed conditional non-music code

2006-03-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I make a non-music part of my .ly file conditional? For example, suppose I want to add something like between-system-padding = 0.3 \in did you try something like this? between-system-padding = #(if (eq? partNum 0) (* 0.3 inch-multiplier)

Re: How to 'unset something

2006-03-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure this is easy but I can't even begin to figure out a way to search it in the manual I used \setEasyHeads for many of my students pieces but I would like to stop that function mid-way through the piece or even just a few

Re: How to 'unset something

2006-03-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 05 March 2006 03.04, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: See the file ly/property-init.ly for hints (the command is defined there). First finding this file was nearly impossible the website docs are misleading. It's not on the web, it's in your local installation of

Re: bug mailing list

2006-03-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Andrzej Kopec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, is there place where lilypond bugs are listed? I maintain a CVS archive of known bugs, here: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/ Usually there's a more readable, but less up-to-date, listing here (it's generated from the

Re: stems in the treble clef

2006-03-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Annette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that when I do the examples in the tutorial, the stems in the treble clef go up in your examples and yet when I do them, the stems go down. The only time I can make them go up is when I did that example of deciding where to draw the beam.

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