Re: Synthesizer-related font

2019-11-19 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:26:58 +, "Urs Liska" wrote: > This was just shared on Facebook, and I want to forward it here since - > while not related to music engraving directly - it may be useful to > people on this list. > >

Re: SMuFL Bravura

2019-04-01 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 09:17:26 +0200, Malte Meyn wrote: > SMuFL integration and using Metafont for glyph creation don’t > contradict, do they? They do, in so far that with limited resources you cannot do both. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: SMuFL Bravura

2019-04-01 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 11:37:42 +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Now to learn Metafont then. Shouldn't be too hard - As a retired TeXnician I have deep respect for TeX and MetaFont. Nevertheless I think the right way now is to go for widely accepted standards where possible. So I'd rather see decent

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:52:21 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > https://github.com/openlilylib/oll-core/wiki Call me stupid, but shouldn't this be on the OpenLilyLib web site instead / as well ? I find it logical to start looking for information on OpenLilyLib on the OpenLilyLib web site.

Re: Openlilylib edition engraver guide

2019-03-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:47:59 +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Can we add Stefano Troncaro's excellent introductory material about the > edition engraver to the github wiki for the project? It is a great guide... Unfortunately I get stuck at one of the first lines: "Assuming OpenLilyLib is

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-01-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:21:43 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Are these observations specific to that new GUB build, or would the > downloaded release behave the same? AFAICS the release download (2.18.2-1) behaves the same. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Please test new lilypond installers

2019-01-29 Thread Johan Vromans
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 help says it will install into PREFIX/lilypond, but it also tries to install

Re: postscript printers for lilypond

2019-01-27 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:32:05 -0600, Karlin High wrote: > and PostScript compatibility requirements I'm still wondering why this is a hard requirement. AFAIK, drivers like ghostscript produce excellent prints on all sorts of printers. ___

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi Kieren, I would suggest to split it in two phases. Phase 1 would be to parse the input, and collect the syllables and durations in a structure similar to (e.g. JSON): [ { "chords" : [ "C", "D", "E" ], "phrases" : [ "Aw", "ay in the ", "manger" ] }, ...next

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 09:19:25 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Yes! It would be very interesting to eventually include multiple > different formats in the framework. The ChordPro reference implementation currently supports * chords above lyrics * chords under lyrics * chords within lyrics *

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:08:05 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > In the last meaure of second line the chords could be done like > E/E E/BE/Gis E/E > Af -- fen -- ban -- de > (No ligature, every syllable with it's own chord-symbol) > > In a leadsheet I'd then expect > E/E E/B E/Gis E/E >

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:27:13 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > And yet many, many people I know use it (or LibreOffice). ;) Libre/Open Office has a nifty plugin called ChordTransposer that makes it possible to type in chords easily and obtain the right alignment for the chords (and, as the name

Re: [Lyric+Chords project] required engravers

2018-12-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:49:33 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > (2) short syllables, both with chords > > This is an issue even in Microsoft Word, Interesting to encounter MSWord as apparent trendsetter... It is about the worst tool for producing lead sheets. The approach seen in many

Re: Multiple tempos at the same time and midi playback?

2018-12-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:30:16 +0100, Yakir Arbib wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply! Unfortunately since the example is in an > image, and not a text, When you click on the image, you see the lilypond source. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:33:51 +0100, Jean Louis Thiry wrote: > ...to use the excellent TablEdit My objection would be that this is non-free software, and available for Windows/Mac only. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

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

2018-12-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:21:44 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > It sounds reasonable to drop the current abc2ly implementation. However, > I think we shouldn't do this without somehow including abc2xml in the > distribution and (probably) create a wrapper script abc2ly that > transparently replaces

Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-10 Thread Johan Vromans
The abc2ly tool supports version v1.6 of the ABC standard, which is 21 years old. The current version of the ABC standard is v2.1 (which is also quite old, 2011, nevertheless it is the most recent). Is the abc2ly program still under active support/development? If so, are there any plans to

Re: Generate staff-less chord and lyrics sheet

2018-12-08 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 21:15:43 +0100, Annette Kusma wrote: > The output should look something like this: > > C F C > Mary had a little lamb > F G C > Its fleece was white as snow > > I could simply write my sheet in some office programme, Instead of

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-22 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:21:08 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: > Patents are entirely concerned with inventions, that is novel, useful, > and non-obvious solutions to specific problems that result either in an > actual product or a practical process. That's the theory... Practice is different,

Re: Re-sizing score on the fly

2018-08-07 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 18:25:53 +1000, Don Gingrich wrote: > Then the multiplier would reside in the included files, the > variable would be in the score file, and by including > the correct file I could have either type of score. Why not set the staff size in the included file, just like the paper

Re: Software playing lilypond's music sheets

2018-07-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Wow! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \pushToTag and \appendToTag help

2018-04-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:25:17 +0200, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > I'm not 100% sure having understood how to use \pushToTag but the > following are the examples I personally would put in the manual. I find your examples very enlightening.

Re: The search for an API

2018-04-11 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:07:10 -0700, Mason Hock wrote: > Is this the sort of thing you're looking for? > > http://projectabjad.org/ When looking for an API that makes detailed handling of scores possible, yes. However, I got the idea that OP was looking for an easy way to

Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

2018-02-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Cute. Really cute. I did a lot of typing on an old Underwood when I was a kid and it looks very familiar. But IIRC the period and comma looked much heavier (maybe because my (lack of) typing skills at the time). What I also recall is that on a dual-colour typewriter (typically black/red) you

Re: Frescobaldi

2017-12-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:36:42 -0500, Tim Slattery wrote: > I've been setting vocal pieces with German lyrics, and trying to use > Tools| Special Characters to find things like a and u with Umlauts, > and the double-s character that looks like a Beta. I would strongly advise

Re: [OT] Linux Users

2017-11-18 Thread Johan Vromans
I only use Linux (mostly Fedora). I use LilyPond with Frescobaldi, Denemo, Emacs, LibreOffice and a lot of homegrown tools. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: midi \breathe

2017-10-18 Thread Johan Vromans
In sitations like this, I use tags. Something similar to this: music = { ... \tag #'midiOnly { c8. r16 } \tag #'scoreOnly { c4 } ... } \score { \articulate \removeWithTag #'midiOnly \music \layout {} } \score { \articulate \removeWithTag #'scoreOnly

Re: Tables with borders (chords structure)

2017-09-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:33:56 +0200, Sylvain Brunerie wrote: > I want to generate a table showing the chords structure of a song or > instrumental tune in a simple way, What you are looking for are the so-called "jazz grilles". > and I can't find how to do that using

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.94beta - Quick note Lilypond entry using MIDI for Linux

2017-07-07 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 11:23:49 +1000, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > I’ve put version 0.941beta up which fixes the issue of custom layouts not > working and adds a Denemo layout option. Thanks. One thing: When I run lq, I still have to (manually) connnect its 'Virtual RawMIDI '

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.94beta - Quick note Lilypond entry using MIDI for Linux

2017-06-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:42:07 +0200 (CEST), Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > OK. I found my keyboard there. Maybe /dev/input/by-id only lists USB > keyboards - just guessing? So it seems... My laptop only reports the camera in /dev/input/by-id .

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.94beta - Quick note Lilypond entry using MIDI for Linux

2017-06-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:27:24 +1000, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > I’m pleased to announce LilyQuick 0.94beta. The main new feature is that > it counts rhythms as you go and automatically enters bar checks. Also, > some settings have been made reachable from within LilyQuick

Re: Circular dependencies - Deadlock

2017-06-22 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:39:08 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > I don't really see this as calling for changes. If you want to create > utility files to be included at most once, you can try working with > guards like it is customary for C/C++ include files. I think we're shifting

Re: Circular dependencies - Deadlock

2017-06-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:57:59 -0500 (CDT), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > This may be a problem if there's any possibility of an include being > conditional. Then, someone could write a non-infinite recursive include > deliberately, and be disappointed when Lilypond breaks it. Instead of

Re: OpenLilyLib (Was: Re: lilypond export)

2017-06-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:44:24 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Johan, > > > When I visit https://openliliylib.org/ I get a page with text but > > nothing to click on. No links (except for the generic links (github > > Clicking on the GitHub link will take you

OpenLilyLib (Was: Re: lilypond export)

2017-06-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:01:19 +0200, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > It is designed as an openlilylib-plugin so you should clone it next to > oll-core (if you want to try it) It comes with one example file that > shows the core commands. Which reminds me... When I visit

Re: FYI: OpenScore

2017-06-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Please note that I am just relaying this message. I'm not affiliated with this project in any way. On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:12:41 +0200, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > Quote: "OpenScore wants to digitise and liberate all public domain sheet > music, including t

FYI: OpenScore

2017-06-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Quote: "OpenScore wants to digitise and liberate all public domain sheet music, including the great classics of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. Our community aims to transfer history’s most influential pieces from paper into interactive scores which you can listen to, edit and share. Together, we can

Re: Multiple voices and rest position

2017-06-01 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 31 May 2017 23:31:53 +0200, Robert Blackstone wrote: > write b8 \rest instead of r b8. Nifty... Thanks Robert and Trevor. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Multiple voices and rest position

2017-05-31 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, In the attached example, I would like the 8th rest symbol at the same level as the 8th notes. See the right side of the attached image. How can I obtain this? -- Johan \version "2.19.59" \header { title = "Largo" tagline = ##f } global = { \key d \major \time 4/4 } upper =

Re: Chords in LilyPond

2017-05-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:24:52 +1000, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > Does anyone actually use MIDI from the chord performer? I do. Although the voicing of the chords is not what a normal player would do, it is okay for checking scores and practising. -- Johan

Re: Calling in for sickness

2017-05-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi David, This is serious business. Take care and take your time. Recovering your health is priority #1. Everything else follows. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 174, Issue 51

2017-05-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 14 May 2017 13:57:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Well, let's make sure we're starting from the same source: > ... > The attached shows that the file claims to be encoding="UTF-8" > In emacs, the Copyright shows as \302\251 so I think you've > missed the

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 174, Issue 51

2017-05-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 14 May 2017 13:45:22 +, Ian Ring wrote: > If your MusicXML contains a literal copyright character, it's invalid > XML. Find-and-replace that to or change it into (c) and you'll be > good to go. Not quite. Provided the Copyright symbol is encoded in the same

Re: XML to .ly and Lilypond, again

2017-05-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 14 May 2017 16:06:47 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: > But can that be? Shouldn't MusicXML allow arbitrary regular Unicode > characters? Yes, but the file should be encoded using a single encoding. In this case, some parts of the file are UTF-8 encoded while other parts

Re: XML to .ly and Lilypond, again

2017-05-12 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 12 May 2017 11:14:53 +0200, Leszek Wroński wrote: > I looked at the file using > a Hex viewer and I see nothing wrong with it. The strings like "Finale ..." and some other parts of the file are multy-byte (UTF-16) encoded while the rest of the file is single-byte, so

Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

2017-04-26 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:21:06 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > My problem: when writing scores to be used in our choir I often make > mistakes. If I could listen to the music instead of reading the notes I > might find errors faster. Personally, I use Denemo for this

Re: Page frames/watermarks

2017-04-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:53:39 +0200, Psalle wrote: > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > >> lilypond, > > Thread starting at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html > Thanks! So it seems there's no easy

Re: Fonts in the title (that is, to have better apostrophes and commas)

2017-04-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:44:20 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Alt + Yikes... 1981 calling. I thought most systems nowadays support a compose key? Unix/Linux systems have done so since 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key > It’s great that you’re interested

Re: Separate Emmentaler/Fonts

2017-04-11 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:09:41 +0200, "N. Andrew Walsh" wrote: > thanks for the link. I only needed the font for specific glyphs (sharp > signs and the like), which I presume are individual glyphs that would > still work within a body of regular text, yes? Would Bravura

Re: What can Premusic do that others can't?

2017-03-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Am 20.03.2017 um 22:48 schrieb have@anti.capital: > I have invented the perfect plaintext file format for premusic. I think the bottom line is that all text-based music notation systems have shortcomings when it comes to readability, writability, maintainability etc. From all imperfect systems

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

2017-03-08 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:48:59 +1100, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > Sorry missed that one. The alsa_seq driver is the one that works, > couldn't tell you why :) Indeed, now it all works (except that qsynth is not terminated when lq exits). The driver setting is very problematic

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

2017-03-04 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 16:58:14 +1100, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > I installed Fedora on to a spare partition and LilyQuick worked! A bit > annoying :-) I thought it might have to do with SELinux permissions, > but it appears not. > > Could you try typing > > sudo cat

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

2017-02-25 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:33:11 +1100, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > Maybe your keyboard is interpreting F8 as something else rather than > the function key proper. It seems that lq isn't intercepting keystrokes at all. After uncommenting line 341 nothing is printed: $ sudo

Re: [ANN] LilyQuick 0.9beta - fast accurate Lilypond MIDI note entry for Linux

2017-02-24 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 23:49:19 +1100, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > I’m pleased to announce LilyQuick, a greatly improved descendant of > Finale’s Speedy Note Entry. Sounds very interesting... It compiles and build flawlessly on Fedora 25, both with system lua and the

Re: Your favourite/most efficient methods of inputting scores (piano)?

2017-02-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:35:40 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Specify the duration at the beginning of each line, even if it's not > technically necessary. This makes it more obvious on first sight, and it > helps avoid errors if you should change anything later. I've been doing

Re: Chord diagrams

2017-02-20 Thread Johan Vromans
> \storePredefinedDiagram #default-fret-table \chordmode {c/g} > #guitar-tuning > #"3-4;3-3;2-2;o;1-1;o;" I'd like to see someone playing this as shown :) . (Try swapping the 3rd and 4th fingers) ___

Re: New LilyPond website

2017-02-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:51:05 +0100, Michael Gerdau wrote: > The new page is about 1.3 MB while the original one is about 170 kB > Factor of 7.x This is due to CSS/JS overhead and happens only once. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: New LilyPond website

2017-02-10 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:32:18 -0800, "H. S. Teoh" wrote: > I don't speak for anyone else, but I'm perfectly OK with using > Javascript -- as long as it's not *required* for the website to be > usable at all. And all necessary javascript is loaded from the site itself, not

Re: New LilyPond website

2017-02-09 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:44:58 +0100 (CET), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > What I want is the explicit command line that I > have to call to convert the input data in the git repository to the > output html, where to expect the output files, etc., so that I can > actually try to generate

Re: midi not rendering tied notes

2017-01-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:24:40 -0600, David Wright wrote: > ( ) is a slur, not a tie. Try: > > e'8 g~ g g~ g e~ e a | Shouldn't slurred notes of the same pitch sound as tied? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-12-11 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:54:16 +0100, Michael Gerdau wrote: > I'm fine with using javascript on any site as long as I who generally > and deliberately disables javascript can still use that site. I'd like to add: There is good value in javascript for web sites. However, an

Re: Makefile and shell loop

2016-12-09 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:30:32 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote: > where $(CPU_CORES) is treated as a string, instead of being executed in > the shell: It seems you are using GNU make, so you can write CPU_CORES = $(shell cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m1 "cpu cores" | sed s/".*:

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:38:32 +0100 (CET), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > As David K. pointed out, > it must be viewable and navigatable by blind people. As I wrote, there are some aspects that need to be solved. I just do not reject a potential valuable approach beforehand. >

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:45:12 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Additionally there has been *very strict* opposition to anything other > than statically served sites for lilypond.org in the past. Not all of > the reasons are bullet-proof but most are, and you will not get consent >

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-28 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:25:24 -0500, John Roper wrote: > Hi, my name is John Roper and I am a freelance developer who does web > design among other things. I use LilyPond occasionally and I felt that the > website needed a little bit of a sprucing up. I decided to see what

Re: Photoscore

2016-11-28 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:27:05 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > The point (and a partially understandable one) is that publishers don't > want to get prepress files but files they can edit in the future, even > if the original person is not available anymore. Basically they want

Re: Photoscore

2016-11-28 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:48:59 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > The big houses more or less *exclusively* use Sibelius and Finale in > parallel, with a very low share still using SCORE and an actually tiny > share using Amadeus. > > Breitkopf just last year decided to quit any

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

2016-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:40:50 +0100 Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 15.11.2016 um 10:00 schrieb Johan Vromans: > > and was suprised to find marks A B H J U V W instead of A B H J K T > > U . > > that's because the \set is at the same point in t

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

2016-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:19:17 +0100 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> writes: > > > At least I would be surprised by the result... > > Is that an argument for or against documenting it? It's just that I tried the (e

Re: Setting the number for \mark \default

2016-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:57:08 +0100 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I would find it useful if the following example: > > \relative c'' { > c1 \mark \default > c1 \mark \default > c1 \mark #8 > c1 \mark \default > c1 \mark \default > } > > was extended to also

Re: Skyfonts

2016-11-07 Thread Johan Vromans
> It is possible to extract fonts from a PDF file, it's pretty common these > days but you'd have a few options. This link discusses them. Usually PDF producing tools include only a subset of the font data in de PDF (only the glyphs that are actually used). So extracting will (again, usually)

Re: Lilypond reading pdf's

2016-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:46:14 +0100 Richard Shann wrote: > I think you linked to the wrong video here, either Oops -- Sorry! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Lilypond reading pdf's

2016-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:15:53 +0200 Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > In conclusion, since you can typeset a ly file as fast as you read the > music, it is far more interesting to do that than to go through a scanning > process. To chime in on this: I use Denemo

Re: Lilypond reading pdf's

2016-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:21:32 +0100 "Phil Holmes" wrote: > It's possible, though not necessarily easy nor free. I gave Audiveris a try some time ago. It has a nice UI that allows solving scanning problems before the recognition phase. I don't know if it is still under

Re: Lilypond reading pdf's

2016-08-30 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:35:50 +0200 Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: > If I’m not mistaken, SharpEye has been renamed to PhotoScore Ultimate > some time ago. A trial version can still be found on http://www.visiv.co.uk/installsharpeye2.exe It runs under Wine as well.

Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

2016-08-27 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:13:50 +0200 Federico Bruni wrote: > ... or rather strings in a scheme file? Here's a scary example: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/www/about.scm This approach, at least this example, is totally missing

Proposed fixes to NR A.2 Common Chord Modifiers

2016-08-19 Thread Johan Vromans
As of 2.19.28, chord modifier 5 is interpreted to mean a power chord. This is not yet reflected in the NR. I propose the following changes. Type "Major", modifier "nothing" and example "c1" with lily code \chords { c1 } \chordmode { c1 } Type "Minor", modifier "m". These changes are

Proposed fix to NR A.1 Chord Name Chart

2016-08-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Appendix A.1 of the Notation Reference contains examples of chords and chords names as used by LilyPond. The list contains a duplicate: , CΔ9, which occurs at measures 32 and 36. Does anyone has a good suggestion for another chord to be put in the list? Otherwise I'll submit a patch to remove

Re: Evince/Adobe printing adds margins and scales down the score

2016-08-18 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:36:26 +0200 Federico Bruni wrote: > > Does it really to this even when you disable rescaling in the print > > options? > > I'm now using a different printer from yesterday and no, it doesn't > help if I disable rescaling. Most likely evince prints

Re: MusicXML2Ly: Problem with minor chords

2016-08-17 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup wrote: > ... the change to let > c:5 exclude the third was introduced as late as version 2.19.28). Does that mean that there are no (regression)tests for musicxml2ly? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: MusicXML2Ly: Problem with minor chords

2016-08-17 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:15:02 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > Well, musicxml2ly.py presumably also generates a \version header, and > running convert-ly on the resulting file possibly fixes a number of > those problems (even though it complicates the rules, the change to let > c:5

Re: MusicXML2Ly: Problem with minor chords

2016-08-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > is translated into > > d:m5 > > and apparently not understood -- lilypond renders it as a major D chord > without warning. The code in musicxml2ly.py does, indeed, generate :m5 for minor. Surprisingly, the NR, A.2 Commo

MusicXML2Ly: Problem with minor chords

2016-08-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, In the attached XML, the minor D chord D minor is translated into d:m5 and apparently not understood -- lilypond renders it as a major D chord without warning. Dm(maj7) becomes d:maj7m5. A similar thing happens to half-diminished

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:33:44 -0500 David Wright wrote: > My contention there was that the volta construction can produce the > correct score and the correct midi when applied correctly (ie to all > the voices). How do you think I produced correct scores and MIDI for

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:39:39 -0500 David Wright wrote: > I'm sorry, but your wishlist has nothing to do with the statement > "Specifying the structure of a score in \global is wonderful, it just > doesn't work with midi." There is something called the principle of

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:22:14 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > That's not really surprising. The "repeats are shown" just by changing > the bar line type, ... That is the explanation of the current behaviour. What I want to say is that it would be nice if instead it would be like the

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-15 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:45:51 -0500 David Wright wrote: > This is true, they are not. In fact, I don't quite understand what > you mean by "applying" \global "to the music parts". All the Voices > are just Voices, aren't they? > > Anyway, the repeat structure has to be

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:58:10 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" wrote: > % Score for midi only > \score { > << > \new Staff << \global \fluteIPart >> For midi, \unfoldRepeats is necessary. Last time I tried, the repeats (in \global) were

Re: rehearsal marks: separate from content encoding and display above strings

2016-08-12 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:21:22 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" wrote: > global = { > \tempo "Allegro" 4 = 120 > s1*16 > \mark "A" > s1*16 > \tempo "Largo" 4 = 45 > s1*16 > \mark "B" >

Frescobaldi MusicXML import

2016-08-09 Thread Johan Vromans
With MusicXML, import could you please add --no-stem-directions to the settings? Maybe even better (and easier) if MusicXML2ly had a power option to "Ignore everything that LilyPond can do better". -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: LilyPond logo?

2016-08-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:11:26 +0200 Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Plus pdf Bij far: Number 9, provided the lily lines are a bit thinner, and the leaves individually drawn. Printers today have resolutions of 600dpi and higher so no need for such a thick lines.

Re: LilyPond logo?

2016-08-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 01:38:58 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Looks promising! Can you adjust the `packman' to have a softer gap? > > > > “softer”? shorter? narrower? Sorry, I don’t know what you mean ... > > Something similar to the waterlily logo at > > >

Re: LilyPond logo?

2016-08-05 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 14:01:26 +0200 Malte Meyn wrote: > But maybe less is more and two flower layers are enough; so here is a > combination of logo3 and logo4 (only two flower layers -> less detail, > only one pad but with gap -> more typical). Yes, simplicity is better.

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:19:16 +0200 Simon Albrecht wrote: > Or even, as the docs suggest, a font where you can change font-shape to > small caps. Again, smallcaps is totally different from caps. The fact that a smallcaps A with umlaut has long been used instead of a real

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:18:22 +0200 Simon Albrecht wrote: > The issue is that caps and smallCaps are exactly the same to LilyPond, > which is in itself nonsense. Exactly. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: \caps with Umlaut

2016-07-21 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:01:49 +0200 Jonathan Scholbach wrote: > And that was > when I found out, that \caps, as well as \smallCaps, "does not support > accented character" (quoted from > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/font) - the ä - is > printed as a

Re: realtimeMIDI2LilyPond / realtimeMIDI2MusicXML

2016-07-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:11:26 +0100 Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 13:35 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > > As for real-time recording, rumor can do that. > > I can't find anything called "rumor" doing obvious searches - can

Re: realtimeMIDI2LilyPond / realtimeMIDI2MusicXML

2016-07-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:24:49 +0100 Richard Shann wrote: > Entering rhythms is still a bit of a bore, Yes, but often you can copy/paste parts that have similar rhythms, and then fill in the correct notes. ___ lilypond-user

Re: realtimeMIDI2LilyPond / realtimeMIDI2MusicXML

2016-07-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:01 +0200 bart deruyter wrote: > frescobaldi does step-recording, I just tried it, works fine here :-) I got used to midi input with Denemo, where you can put in the rhythm (durations) first, and then the notes. Frescobaldi only does the latter.

Re: Easier way to do double-quotes in lyrics?

2016-07-11 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:34:28 -0400 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > For those using Mac OS but not Frescobaldi, you can always just use > option- and option-shift- with [ and ] to get typographer’s quotes (in > any application). For Linux users with a compose key, it is:

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