Re: fermata not shown at playing parts

2010-07-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:10:35PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 7/16/10 9:49 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: The docs already say to use \fermata ! But in the Expressive Marks section there is no text outside of an example that describes using fermata

Re: Re: fermata not shown at playing parts

2010-07-16 Thread Graham Percival
The docs already say to use \fermata ! - Graham On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:18:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Then you should add this to the doc in case of confusion to other people. Regards Haipeng

Re: OT: Discussion with developer on documentation

2010-07-16 Thread Graham Percival
. :) Cheers, - Graham Percival On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Arle Lommel wrote: Apologies for a question not directly related to Lilypond, but is there anyone who works with the documentation for Lilypond on this list with whom I could interact privately? I am working on a totally

Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition

2010-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should expect such problems from an unstable development version. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I

Re: Downloading the Git repository

2010-07-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 09:03:22PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: Fixed (it will be updated within an hour). Keep in mind that the old site is not really maintained and the new site will be going live pretty soon, so it's not worth fixing too many old links. Yeah, but it means that any

Re: [doc] Notation 1.8.2: file .eps not found?

2010-07-13 Thread Graham Percival
Please post bug reports on the bug-lilypond list. - Graham On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:05:10PM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: Hi, I've found a small error in documentation. In Notation 1.8.2, section Graphic notation inside markup:

Re: polymetric help

2010-07-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 05:58:54PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: If you look in the Reference, section 5.1.4, BTW, the preferred term is Notation, since that matches the section name in the new website: http://lilypond.org/website/notation.html If you go back a section to 5.1.3 you'll see an

Re: \open next to notehead

2010-07-01 Thread Graham Percival
There was recently discussion about how to do this with \thumb. The solution might have been added to LSR; if not, look through the mailing list archives. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: When using \open to indicate an open

new website 24-hour test

2010-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
We’re testing our new website! For the next 24 hours, the new website will be the default website; after that, we will switch back to the old website while we examine feedback and make improvements to the new website. Please send feedback to lilypond-user; you can find more information on our

Re: new website 24-hour test

2010-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: What means Help wanted: obvious css issue to be dealt with. :(? I found it at http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html (Didn't search all pages for more occurrences.) In this case, it means that if you have a browser window less than

bug backlog finished; please re-report anything missing

2010-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
We have now caught up on our backlog of bugs. If you are aware of any problems that are not fixed in 2.13.26 and have not been added to our tracker, then unfortunately the report has been lost. Please report the bug again by following the guidelines here:

Re: fyi - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase

2010-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: PS: do we have/want a special place in the new website for    original/new compositions made with/in LilyPond? What, like: http://lilypond.org/website/productions.html ? it's in the maoing introduction. PPS:

Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

2010-06-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Urs Liska lilyp...@ursliska.de wrote: I will have to somehow convert a LilyPond score to Finale :-( You _might_ be able to save some time by producing a midi file from lilypond, importing the midi into finale, and then correcting pitches, rhythms, dynamics, and

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext erases previous setting

2010-06-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 03:17:34PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote in message news:201002051826.56687.reinh...@kainhofer.com... On Friday 05 February 2010 18:05:52 you wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com

Re: multi-tempi

2010-06-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Hans Roels wrote: The conclusion of this thread was that this kind of multi-tempo score is impossible to realize in Lilypond. All the examples in the thread are polymetric and have a common beat (a quarter or eigth). Has anything changed since 2008

Re: Consistent gs problem PS-PDF 2.13.24

2010-06-16 Thread Graham Percival
Updated 2.13.24-2 for linux-64 and mingw: http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Please test and let me know if they're better. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

seeking more Bug Squad members

2010-06-16 Thread Graham Percival
I'm looking for volunteers to join the Bug Squad. The workload is 15 minutes per week. We currently have 3 victims. That means that the response time for bugs could be around 100 hours. I'd like it to be 24 hours, since that's a nice round number. Much rounder than 100. To reach the goal of

Re: Presentation: Publisher-grade LilyPond in Ottawa

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Boris Shingarov b...@shingarov.com wrote: This is not what we are saying in our presentation and/or paper. What we are saying is: We attempted a publication of a major critical edition through a major publishing house, using software from a volunteer

Re: Percussion stick signs

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:34:51AM -0300, luis jure wrote: el 2010-06-15 a las 09:23 Stefan Thomas escribió: this a great. I think this should be mentioned in the documentation for percussion instruments! +1 Add it to LSR first. Cheers, - Graham

bounties

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op dinsdag 15-06-2010 om 16:50 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Graham Percival: That has been attempted before... hmm, 2007? Han-Wen tried to work on lilypond full-time, but there just wasn't enough people offering

Re: invisible rest that takes no horizontal space

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:59:45PM +0200, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: \skip and s consume score time, but both print some horizontal space. How can I insert an invisible rest that does not take horizontal space? I searched the manuals and snippet repository, but no clue... My first instinct

Re: Consistent gs problem PS-PDF 2.13.24

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
Ghostscript was bumped to something.70, and a bunch of extra patches we apply to ghostscript changed. We'll look into it. Cheers, - Graham On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:46:42AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: I just downloaded and installed 2.13.24 - linux 64-bit running on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. After

Re: Presentation: quot;Publisher-grade LilyPondquot; in Ottawa

2010-06-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Boris Shingarov b...@shingarov.com wrote: And for those who cannot make it or are too lazy to travel to Canada, will your presentation or paper be available online? The slides are now online at http://www.shingarov.com/lily Are you seriously going to submit

Re: Presentation: quot;Publisher-grade LilyPondquot; in Ottawa

2010-06-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Boris Shingarov b...@shingarov.com wrote: And for those who cannot make it or are too lazy to travel to Canada, will your presentation or paper be available online? The slides

Re: Presentation: quot;Publisher-grade LilyPondquot; in Ottawa

2010-06-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 07:42:24PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/6/11 Boris Shingarov b...@shingarov.com: The slides are now online at http://www.shingarov.com/lily I also found the last slides a bit too pessimistic... But anyway, it's nice that people talk about LilyPond ; if we

two-week Report warning

2010-06-11 Thread Graham Percival
It's time to start thinking about the next LilyPond Report, our community newsletter. If you have any news about lilypond or its community that you want to share, get in touch with us. If you want to make sure we mention something, get in touch. If you want to contribute any articles, get in

Re: Woodwind diagrams in lilypond w/ changes from M Watts I Hulin

2010-06-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:41:34PM -0300, josé henrique padovani wrote: Em 09/06/10 21:23, Carl Sorensen escreveu: Unfortunately, it doesn't include the complete files, so it would be fairly difficult for a user who is not familiar with git or patch to make it work. Could you please give some

Re: Suppress .ps generation

2010-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 07:25:09PM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: When I run the command: lilypond foo.ly, it generates a foo.ps as well as foo.pdf. Is there a way to suppress the creation of the foo.ps file? Yes. You might want to read the output of --help, or else look in the manual. Cheers, -

Re: Suppress .ps generation

2010-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Johnny Ferguson wrote: looking through the man page, it seems you're pointing to the -f option. I take it that the default settings are --formats=pdf,ps No, I'm not. Look at -d. - Graham ___ lilypond-user

Re: Suppress .ps generation

2010-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:05:28PM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: From the man page: -d, --define-default=SYM[=VAL] set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t). Use -dhelp for help. How to use this? That's impressive. You managed to quote the: Use

Re: Quotes and apostrophes in PDF documentation

2010-06-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:19:02PM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: For example, the entry in the 2.13 changes documentation on preserving intermediate files: This has now been fixed; the version in the 2.13.24 docs should be good. As far as I know, all other manuals did this properly to begin with.

Re: Kieren MacMillan, Bounty Hunter

2010-06-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:10:00PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: If you have an issue that you are willing to sponsor, please send me (off-list) an email containing: 2. the amount you're personally willing to pay to see the fix/addition; In particular, could this figure be in US$ or euro?

Re: Kieren MacMillan, Bounty Hunter

2010-06-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:26:28PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: In particular, could this figure be in US$ or euro? The local currency stays meaningful to the sponsor, whereas the converted one doesn't. e.g., if I offer US$100 when the CDN$ is at parity, I'll have to pay $200 if it

Re: Quotes and apostrophes in PDF documentation

2010-06-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:19:02PM +1000, Nick Payne wrote: In the PDF version of the documentation, some of the code samples in the text have typesetters quotes or apostrophes, which means they fail if copied and pasted into lilypond source. For example, the entry in the 2.13 changes

Re: Conditional compiles

2010-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:16 PM, phil.burf...@talktalk.net wrote: Is there a way to compile different parts of a lilypond source file without needing to edit source. Yes. You might want to read the manual, and/or search the mailing list archives. Cheers, - Graham

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: My score looks quite nice on 17 systems spread over 5 pages -- I would like:  Page 1: title + 3  Pages 2-4: 4 systems  Page 5: 2 systems Other than manually inserting breaks, what can I do to get Lilypond

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: For the record, I just added \pageBreaks where I want them... and Lilypond outputted 25 pages: it added 20 blank pages and scattered them amongst the 5 with actual music. MAO!!!  =( Stick the \pageBreak

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: MAO MAO-ING MAO, can we please resolve these spacing issues ASAP? At the risk of making a crude masturbation joke, if I could wave a magic wand to fix stuff, I'd be waving my wand all day and night. Sorry

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:01:54AM -0700, Jay Hamilton wrote: Thank you that worked it's not exactly that way in the example of the docs- Should that be changed? I haven't followed the discussion at all, but if you have a suggestion, please see:

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:14:30PM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: I assume you already defined page-count = #5? There's a known issue (at least it's been on the mailing lists, no clue whether it's in the bug tracker and/or some known issues section in the docs) as follows: If page-count is

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:23:40PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: If you compile LilyPond yourself, you might try the following patch: ~~~ ... + compute_line_heights (); ROTFLMAO! That email is epic p0wnage. Given Kieren's problems trying to compile lilypond... given his

Re: spacing/breaking issue [time-sensitive]

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:59:20PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Graham, Since none of those are in the tracker as a Critical issue, none of them are show-stoppers for 2.14. May I say that http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=884 being labelled as medium causes me to

Re: page-based header functions

2010-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:37:36PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: \footer { \if-page #'first { FIRST PAGE FOOTER } } Questions: 1. Can this be done entirely in Scheme? [Intuition: YES.] Check out the definition of \on-the-fly and things like #last-page and #part-first-page. IIRC these

Re: SustainPedal padding?

2010-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote:  \override Staff.SustainPedal #'padding = #-2 has any effect at all.  I can guess what it's trying to do, but doesn't seem to do anything.  Anyone any thoughts? This might be something that used to work before 2.11

Re: Contributing to the LSR

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: How long should I expect it to take before snippets I add to the LSR are visible? IIRC, adding a snippet should be visible on LSR instantly. It will take 2 or 3 weeks before a doc-tagged snippet in LSR makes its way into the

Re: Contributing to the LSR

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:59:52PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: How long should I expect it to take before snippets I add to the LSR are visible? IIRC, adding a snippet should be visible on LSR

Re: I just discovered the LilyPond Tool GUI Front end

2010-05-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:37:23PM +, Charles Cave wrote: I stumbled upon the Lilypond Tool project on Source Forge because it was mentioned in a post on this forum. I am surprised this program hasnt been mentioned more frequently on this forum as it appears to be make Lilypond file

Re: Change appearance of the SpanBar

2010-05-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:23:32PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: I'll suggest a corrected version of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=125 #'glyph was maybe correct in some earlier versions but it is no more in 2.12 and following... And maybe we could mention the snippet in the NR I'll

Re: GUB and mipsel architecture

2010-05-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 08:45:37AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: I'm wondering if it is worth having a mipsel package on lilypond.org (when 2.14 comes out, maybe). I'd be happy to do it, if I can. A chance to help and learn something new. This should be discussed on -devel rather than -user.

Re: Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
It's a known problem for windows. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=834 The info about different midi programs is interesting, though, and might help somebody fix it. If you can duplicate the problem using a very simply score (1 staff, 1 note, with 2 or 3 different programs),

Re: Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
-0700, Jonathan Townes wrote: Graham, It must be something in the header of the files, because I don't see much difference in looking at the event lists of midi files created in Lilypond and other problems. -Jonathan On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca

Re: Acciaccaturas under slurs

2010-05-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:35:22PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote: a4( \acciaccatura b8 c4 d) Known problem; you can't do this. How can I persuade Lilypond to print a slur correctly from the A to the D? You can kind-of fake it with a phrasing slur. \( \) This runs into problems if you want an

Re: Text cresc *without dashed line* and Y-offset

2010-05-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:57:22PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: But I feel also sad that this issue (about something very simple, common) is still unsolved (2 years after). Heh, you think that's bad? From 4 years ago: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=11 (image on comment 9:

Re: first barnumber

2010-05-12 Thread Graham Percival
the manual. But: I've read the manual and I've searched for it without success. It was my fault not to search in the snippet repository. So, thanks again, Stefan 2010/5/11 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer

Re: first barnumber

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:44PM +0200, Stefan Thomas wrote: is it possible to force lilypond to show the number of the first bar? Yes. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: first barnumber

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/5/11 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Yes. I assumed that Stefan's question was not only is it possible to... but that it also included the implicit question and how?. Then he should have asked how can I make

Re: Website easier editing

2010-05-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:54:39PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: I think it's fine the way it is now. Perhaps I wouldn't place Denemo above LilyPondTool, although it does make sense to regroup LPT with Frescobaldi. (Actually, what I *would* do is emphasize LPT, perhaps with a big

Website easier editing

2010-05-07 Thread Graham Percival
Hi all, Colin Campbell has been working with me on the Introduction of the new website. However, we're still debating what to do with the Easier editing page: http://lilypond.org/website/easier-editing.html In particular, should we: 1) list all programs that help or produce lilypond input

Re: Accidental not properly notated in score

2010-05-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Patrick McCarty pnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com wrote: Now a bit more seriously: Does anyone receive each other's messages? I haven't received the messages that I haven't received. For the past day

Re: One score per track of a midi file?

2010-05-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Bill Moorier doctorb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a list of known defects of midi2ly somewhere?  If any of it is low-hanging stuff, I might be able to contribute some time to make it better. Not really; it's been basically unsupported for 5 years or so; nobody's

Re: \cresc question

2010-04-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:46:41AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: I'm trying to this with Lilypond 2.13.19: \relative c' { c1\mf | d\cresc | e | f\ff } Nothing special I would say. But after compiling the cresc. is placed below the e in the third bar instead of below the d in the

Re: [PATCH] Re: syntax change for \cresc

2010-04-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:35:02AM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: But then I was informed of Graham's #(make-dynamic-extra ...) function, which I use now and which has no drawback at all (to what I know). – the dynamic is considered as a dynamic (in MIDI output too); – the dynamic is

Re: Writing Orchestral Parts

2010-04-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Armenta josharme...@gmail.com wrote: New lilypond user, finally got rid of finale (thank god). My question is kind of dumb but I'm really confused about this. I have a large ensemble score finished (Brass Choir, Organ and Chorus) and I need to extract

Re: Expressive Notation Package (ENP)

2010-04-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Kuuskankare, M (2009) ENP: a system for contemporary music notation. Contemporary Music Review 28(2): 221--235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494460903322505 That's not new -- or rather, that's just the latest version. There's

Re: Expressive Notation Package (ENP)

2010-04-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Bernardo Barros wrote: I wonder why not just work with Lilypond, or even modify Lilypond if necessary to atend contemporary notation. It's easier to humans to understad and it's already working ok :-) Maybe it has to do with

Re: Fretboard documentation

2010-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
with it. - - Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: Trevor Skeggs t.ske...@talktalk.net Cc: bug-lilyp...@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Error using Fretboard in English Is this a report of a problem in the docs

Re: Spacing miserable failure

2010-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:25:07PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Jacob Rau wrote: Ah. You got it. Does anyone know of a more updated repo for Ubuntu? The version I've got is 2.12.2, the latest available through Ubuntu's software source. Blaah...this is making me wonder if I should use a

Re: Vertical Spacing

2010-04-22 Thread Graham Percival
http://lilypond.org/website/help-us.html It's under Simple tasks; follow the right link, then see small additions. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:26:22PM -0600, Walter Hofmeister wrote: Hi Xavier, That was kind of my point. I had looked at that page in the manual and

Re: Vertical Spacing

2010-04-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 02:42:16AM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: I agree with you, there are no ready-to-use examples where they should. The notation manual is written in a reference style (not tutorial-style) and the tutorial does not cover these complexities. So we still have to find an

Re: error message from PDF viewer

2010-04-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 07:25:29PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: OK. Here is a tiny example (attached). Thanks! This looks like a great report. Bug squad, could somebody add this to the tracker? Cheers, - Graham 1. I use Lilypond 2.13.18 on Fedora 12 to compile 2. I start Evince from my

Re: error message from PDF viewer

2010-04-18 Thread Graham Percival
We don't want to see any copyrighted file; quite apart from the legal issue, that would be too long. Please create a tiny example: http://lilypond.org/website/tiny-examples.html Cheers, - Graham On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 06:34:26PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Hi, When I load a PDF file I

Re: Bookpart without page break?

2010-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
(sorry, forgot to send to list) It's there. gperc...@gperciva-desktop:~/src/lilypond/Documentation/notation$ git grep print-all-headers input.itely:@funindex print-all-headers input.itely: print-all-headers = ##t spacing.itely:@item print-all-headers spacing.itely:@funindex print-all-headers

Re: Bookpart without page break?

2010-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 01:04:38AM +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: 2010/4/17 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: No, the header blocks need to go at the end of the score blocks, after the music. More precisely, a score block must start with a music expression; everything else can be

Re: EPS file expression

2010-04-15 Thread Graham Percival
(sorry, forgot to send to the list) Yes, the eps file must be in the same directory as the ly file. Double-check that you have the right filename, and if you're on certain operating systems, double-check that you have the correct capitalization. (in particular, watch out for eps vs. EPS)

Re: \musicglyph

2010-04-14 Thread Graham Percival
Notation Appendix A.6 The Feta font This is given on the doc page about \musicglyph. Why was it difficult to find? - Graham On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Where can I find in the Manual a complete list of the expressions I can use

Re: Special metronome marks

2010-04-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:22:09AM +0200, Carsten Steger wrote: Xaiver, Graham, On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2010 12:19, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: An example of this is in LSR. Try searching for jazz tempo

Re: Dividing (or multiplying) note lengths?

2010-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:02:07PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: No, I suppose someone changed the snippet's setting to a full snippet (i.e. notice that the height is not the height of a full page, wasting lot of vertical space). By default, only the first systems is extracted, unless the

Re: using Feta font in a research project/HTML5 canvas?

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:50:43PM +, Geoff Chirgwin wrote: Since our first implementation is in HTML5, we needed a lightweight way to render music notation to the HTML5 canvas entirely client-side in the browser. Since we know of no existing software that does this, we've started writing

Re: \partial after \cadenzaOff

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:59:30PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Werner wrote: I got problems with \partial after \cadenzaOff, which is ignored for three of four voices. In the DOC i found: The \partial command is intended to be used only at the beginning of a piece. If you use it after

Re: Special metronome marks

2010-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
An example of this is in LSR. Try searching for jazz tempo or something ilke that. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Carsten Steger carsten.ste...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm trying to create a metronome mark in LilyPond like the one in the attached file, which indicates that

Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

2010-04-01 Thread Graham Percival
Neeman - Spacing guru Dmytro O. Redchuk - Bugs James Lowe - Doc gopher Colin Campbell - Ditto Marc Hohl - Bug nuker Graham Percival - me -- This email is best viewed with a fixed-width font in a screen size of 80x25 characters. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

2010-04-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Nils Gey wrote: It seems the real joke is Release Early, Release Often in the same sentence as lilypond. Yeah, well, screw you too. In the past 5 months, we've had an average of one release every 2 weeks. Are you seriously complaining that we should

Re: Major version: LilyPond 2.14.0 released!

2010-04-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:57:07AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Freitag, 2. April 2010 01:11:29 schrieb Graham Percival: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Nils Gey wrote: It seems the real joke is Release Early, Release Often in the same sentence as lilypond

Re: Publishing a book with lilypond

2010-03-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Rodolfo Zitellini wrote: Does anyone have tips on pagination, layout, margins, etc... for a real printed book? Use lilypond-book. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Consistent page layout

2010-03-30 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:37:32PM -0400, Fibonacci Prower wrote: 1- The text Da capo al Fine, which appears right at the end - or at least should, is displayed as Da capo al Fin. This, of course, is because the whole line does not fit in the page. How can I move it to the left so that it

Re: Consistent page layout

2010-03-30 Thread Graham Percival
block and as part of the global define with an explicit Score. and neither worked for me. Your mileage may vary. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: Graham Percival gra...@percival

Re: Converting from a really old version - how far can I jump?

2010-03-27 Thread Graham Percival
You might want to try reading the documentation about upgrading from older versions. In 2.13, this is in the Usage manual. Cheers, - Graham On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Ed Ardzinski ed_ardzin...@hotmail.com wrote: I've been chided before about still using 2.6.5, and I still find that I

Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

2010-03-26 Thread Graham Percival
There's a difference between #'1.5 and #1.5} This is a user error, not a documentation problem. - Graham On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: In the PDF documentation for 2.12.3 and the online documentation for 2.13.16 it gives the syntax for reducing

Re: Score spacing

2010-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
Fix your rhythmic errors. Add some bar checks to see where you have an incorrect duration. - Graham On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:16:31PM +, Josh wrote: Hello, I've read over the manual but with my latest score I'm having trouble with the spacing. When I compile the score it puts

documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
Here's the current situation with the documentation. 1. we have a number of users who know a lot about lilypond, but are not familiar with git + compiling + our doc policies. 2. we have a doc editor on Windows who knows about git+compiling+doc policies, but knows relatively little about

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:54:52PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Graham, and think you might be able to help with category 3 Check... ok. Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=989 in particular, see if you can suggest an example for the NR to take care of

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
wrote: I should be able to handle some git committing / compile checking, and stuff like that if others can do the worst of the typing. Jon On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Here's the current situation

Re: documentation help seriously needed

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
--- this to avoid repeated toe-stepping-apon by repeated changes, deletions and additions. --hsm On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: No, that's fine -- we already have somebody to handle the git+compile+doc policy stuff.  So far I have no indication

Re: scanning music

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:22:41PM +, Hernâni Mouta wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to scan music with Lilypond. No, it is not. - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Sudden cannot allocate memory error

2010-03-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:19 PM, aa...@daltons.ca wrote: I have had no problems whatsoever up until today.  Lilypond-book compiles the first madrigal fine, but when it goes to do a second (order doesn't seem to matter), I get the above error. You could try altering the LILYPOND_GC_YIELD

Re: lilypond-book question

2010-03-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:16:34PM -0700, Kees van den Doel wrote: How am I supposed to use lilypond-book on windows? By reading the documentation? 1) include it in your PATH. 2) write a proper lilypond-book file that has a hope of compiling. I recommend using the template provided. - Graham

Re: REHEARSAL MARK BUG?

2010-03-15 Thread Graham Percival
This is intended behavior, following standard engraving practice. To change this, read the manual. - Graham On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:48:50AM +0800, Seng Hin Yew wrote: Good Day All, I'm using the rehearsal format \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters So the

Re: Line breaks and text positioning

2010-03-11 Thread Graham Percival
Read the Learning Manual, Less tweaks with longer processing or something like that. It's at the end of the manual. In the 2.13 docs, this section might have moved to Usage. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:34:51PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: There is what looks like a problem in how

Re: Partials and upbeats

2010-03-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 3/10/10 10:04 AM, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: If I now modify the file to move the \partial to the first Staff/Voice, I get the following error: warning: barcheck failed at: -1/4 R4 | % 1 IIRC I

weblily: security risk

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
over your server to other people, you might not like the consequences. - Graham Percival ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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