Re: Chordmode Needs Work

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Scott
with Sibelius. Why can't Lilypond have the same intuitive chord markup language utilized by Sibelius? Is there a good reason I can't simply type C:7#9? How about c:7.9+ or c:9+' ? They both work in 2.9 and probably work in 2.8. They do both give C7/#9 Is the slash a problem? Paul Scott

Re: Chordmode Needs Work

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Scott
S L Raymond wrote: Paul Scott wrote: S L Raymond wrote: I'm still frustrated with chord name entry. Since I upgraded to 2.6, I lost the ability to place a 7#9 chord in a lead sheet. This is a common chord in jazz! What's the solution? I checked the regression tests page, and there's

Re: Replys

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Scott
lists I've been on follow the same practice as the LilyPond ones. All other lists I'm on don't. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Replys

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Scott
.) I believe the Reply to List feature now exists for Thunderbird and will be available when some other problems are fixed. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: missing something like \afterAcciaccatura

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Scott
help me, please? Can you just use \afterGrace with your own slur if necessary or is the way slurs are handled the problem? I often use \grace in place of \acciaccatura since it is easier to type and takes up less space in my code. Paul Scott

Re: before-title-space with piece only

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Scott
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.8.0 Should I expect before-title-space to work between the end a system and a header consistently only of piece? I'm not sure to understand the question, but here is an answer :) It seems that the rule for spacing systems

Re: Joined triplets?

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
the notes contained in the braces. This doesn't seem to be true but seems the most obvious to me. IOW I don't see why I should have to do: \times 2/3 { a8[ b c] } or \grace{ a16[ b] } which I often (if not always) have to do. Paul Scott

Re: Joined triplets?

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 6-Apr-06, at 6:03 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On 6-Apr-06, at 12:46 PM, Stewart Holmes wrote: \times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } \times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } \times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } \times 2/3 { des,8 ees f } These triplets are all joined together

Re: PDF file sizes on windows. Feedback wanted

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Scott
/~hanwen/cygcheck.exe Don't have permission to D/L the above. * download http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/checksum.py The above D/L's fine. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Scott
16, in ? import optparse File /usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py, line 72, in ? try: File /usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py, line 49, in ? import locale, copy, os, re, struct, sys ImportError: No module named struct Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user

bar number positions

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Scott
this, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
. Also why doesn't installing a new version just overwrite the previous version or use a different version subdirectory as I believe it did at one time? All this information should be easily accessible from the web page instead, in my opinion. Agreed. Paul Scott

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Could you please add some documentation on how to install and uninstall. Currently, the only available documentation is included in the package as --help text and the information on how to uninstall, which is printed at the end of the installation

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Could you please add some documentation on how to install and uninstall. Currently, the only available documentation is included in the package as --help text and the information on how to uninstall, which is printed at the end

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Could you please add some documentation on how to install and uninstall. Currently, the only available documentation is included in the package as --help text and the information on how to uninstall, which is printed

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Ok. It would be good if an uninstall hint showed up when we get: Director /usr/local/lilypond/ already exists. Remove old lilypond installations before installing this one. Good point. I've added this for the next release. Great! Thanks. I have

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Ok. It would be good if an uninstall hint showed up when we get: Director /usr/local/lilypond/ already exists. Remove old lilypond installations before installing this one. Good point. I've added this for the next release. Great

\glissando placement

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
-- \times 2/3 { r8[ e c] \glissando } Easy enough to work around but does it make sense? Thanks, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \glissando placement

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: It certainly makes sense, since the glissando should be attached to the note, not to the triplet, right? Right. The exact same syntax makes sense for polyphony but not for strictly sequential music. Paul /Mats Paul Scott wrote: 2.9.1 on Debian sid

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you put something within double quotes, LilyPond will treat it as a single character string. In my opinion, this makes perfect sense. How else would you for example be able to print the text \flat in you needed it? Ok. Then is there any way shorter than \line{ ... } to

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 07.11, Paul Scott wrote: \version 2.8.0 This doesn't work: { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } } These work: { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } [EMAIL PROTECTED] { c''1^\markup{ \line{ B \flat } } } I needed something to work in \column. I first tried

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Do the angle bracket delimiters still work in \column which is the point of all this? No! The current syntax is described in the manual. I don't see what the point should be. The manual describes the syntax as args (list of markups). Where is list of markup defined?

before-title-space with piece only

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
2.8.0 Should I expect before-title-space to work between the end a system and a header consistently only of piece? TIA, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Thies Albrecht wrote: Hi folks! Paul Scott schrieb: 3. 9/4 time will cause a half note to cross a bar line which I don't believe Lily will do. You original suggests 14/4. That's exactly what I experienced if you're talking about line breaks at that bar line. Perhaps a short hint should

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 9:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Would it not be helpful if Lily gave an error when the wrong number of beats are in a bar This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 15-Mar-06, at 9:53 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c | Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem

Re: line breaks

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Scott
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 15. M�rz 2006, 11:31 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Paul Scott: So it could be reasonable to give an error when the number of beats/bar is exceeded (when not in a cadenza). Dir you read my post regarding Renaissance Music and the example in 3.5.1? Yes. See my next

Re: line breaks

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Scott
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Re: line breaks

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Scott
jango wrote: thanks a lot. 1. probaly I do misunderstand it :) I am an expert in music, just trying to engrave some pieces, and that's tough in the beginning :D though I read the manual :D btw, is it bad, that I change \relative keys several times in one voice? 2. the original music piece

Re: stuck with alto\bass notes

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Scott
|| \time 9/4 b4\( c2 d2\) d4 d4 c2\( b2\) a2\( b4 c4\) } altoMusic = \relative c'' { I don't have 2.6 installed but with 2.7.38 adding a 'g2' here produced the expected results. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing

Lilypond lists very slow getting to me!

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Scott
Are there known problems with the Lilypond lists? I am just now getting a couple of posts that people sent two days ago and nothing after 2-26. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: What's up with this list

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Scott
much what I've been getting. I just sent a query to Han-Wen and Jan. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: So I would have to change that compile flag from CVS to build a version for this machine? just wait for the next GUB My AMD K7 machine just crashed and I installed GUB 2.7.36 on my K6-2 (not the K6 in the previous part

Re: combining files

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Scott
bears388 wrote: Dear Paul, It appears to make no difference where the \header goes. It doesn't combine either way. But thanks, anyway. I have a working example of what you are asking for. Some double angle brackets may be necessary: \book { \score { \set Score.skipBars = ##t

Re: combining files

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
} etc., etc } } \score { \header { piece = A minor } etc. etc } } I believe for some reason the \header follows the music when it's in the \score block. \score { { etc., etc } \header { piece = C major } } Paul Scott

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: what kind of machine is this (CPU)? i386 - AMD K6 Have you ever run a prepackaged 2.7 binary successfully? Haven't run Lily on this box before. K6 is a very old chip which doesn't support SSE2 (which I suspect is used in the GMP library

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Looks like I may have the wrong kernel installed. I'll take it from here. I hope you didn't waste too much of your time on this. no, that won't help. we were compiling libgmp with -march=pentiumpro, which uses non-K6 instructions. So I

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: So I would have to change that compile flag from CVS to build a version for this machine? just wait for the next GUB Thank you!! Paul ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: This is a different machine (i386) with a new installation of Debian sid that has not run Lily yet. ldd -v `which lilypond` gives: not a dynamic executable. I'm looking for the output of the binary which will be in /usr/local/lilypond/usr

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I may be just missing some package. The best I could do on this machine was to install 2.6.3 to get some of the packages correct. There were no error message in the install. TIA for any ideas, do

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I'm looking for the output of the binary which will be in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond preferably with LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting done by /usr/local/bin/lilypond ok. ldd looks fine. what kind of machine

Re: illegal instruction in GUB 2.7.33-1

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: This is a different machine (i386) with a new installation of Debian sid that has not run Lily yet. ldd -v `which lilypond` gives: not a dynamic executable. I'm looking for the output

Re: raggedbottom

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott wrote: You didn't tell us what version you are running. I believe there have been times when raggedbottom hasn't been correct. I just tested a 3 line example (with 'raggedbottom = ##t' in the paper block) with 2.7.33 and it worked perfectly. I have also

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
tell us what version you are using and send a small sample that shows the behavior. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Key Signatures

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
case. 3. You must spell the key words in the \header correctly. This works: \header{ title = Major Minor Scales piece = G major } { \key g \major g a b c' d' e' fis' g' g' fis' e' d' c' b a g } HTH, Paul Thanks, Michael. - Original Message - From: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: raggedbottom

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Scott
results. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

2.7.30-1, 2.7.31-2 Lilypond script error?

2006-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
have D/L'd it is a script which at least has a double / which seems wrong but even when I correct that I get the same error. This is all on two different machines both running Debian sid. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

slurs, endings and invisible 2.7.31

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Scott
With 2.7.31 from CVS on Debian sid I am trying to slur into a 2nd ending from an invisible note with the attached code. In one variation the slur doesn't happen. In the other a note is hidden that shouldn't be. Thanks for any ideas, Paul Scott \version 2.7.31 \relative c'' { \repeat

Re: \score

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I finally read that section as well as the section on multiple movements. From the examples I *might* infer that only piece and opus can be changed in a new score. That is correct. If it isn't clear, I'll look at making it more clear

Re: \score

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 22-Jan-06, at 11:40 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Add to the current text in 10.1.13 Creating titles: Here is a demonstration of the fields available. Note that you may use any Text markup http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text- markup.html#Text

Re: \score

2006-01-22 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Can more than header parts than piece be changed now? Read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles to find the answer. I finally read that section as well as the section on multiple

Re: \score

2006-01-22 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 22-Jan-06, at 10:10 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating- titles.html#Creating-titles to find the answer. I finally read that section as well as the section on multiple

Re: using \include for fret diagrams

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Scott
in the frets.ly file will just replace the text '\include frets.ly' Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Besides the several editors commonly used by LilyPond people mentioned on this list there are several nice shareware editors which really are text editors like EditPad. Several nice text editors for Windows? Can you name some of the others

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-12 Thread Paul Scott
by LilyPond people mentioned on this list there are several nice shareware editors which really are text editors like EditPad. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond 2.7.27-1 doesn't install and work

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Scott
not able to solve the last problem: lilypond fails to generate the pdf file... Is it possible to solve these problems? Are you saying it doesn't install after making the above corrections or it installs but doesn't work correctly? Paul Scott

Re: Install 2.7.27 on Linux

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
moment, and nothig - at least not lilypond - was installed). As was noted by someone, the sh archive erroneously uses tar -xzf iso. tar -xjf for extraction. This will be adressed in the next release Changing the z to a j just gave a corrupted file message. Paul Scott

chord name vertical spacing in 2.7.2x

2006-01-07 Thread Paul Scott
With at least 2.7.25 through current CVS a minor (:m only one I tested) chord name takes more vertical space than a simple chordname. Change one of the a chord names in the attached to see this. Paul Scott \version 2.7.12 \include minorspacenotes.ly #(set-global-staff-size 24) \score

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Scott
Windows you may need Cygwin or something. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \score

2006-01-02 Thread Paul Scott
| } \header{ piece = Second movement } \layout{} \midi{\tempo 4=120 } } Can more than header parts than piece be changed now? Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2006-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
a rather old fashioned feel and while useful aren't particularly interesting. That's an interesting observation, given that LISP is probably older than all of the languages you mention :) Fortran was invented in 1954. The implementation of LISP began in Fall 1958. Paul Scott

Re: Roadmap to lily code

2006-01-01 Thread Paul Scott
Trevor Bača wrote: On 1/1/06, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Art Hixson wrote: Over the years I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of Fortran, Cobol, assembly for a variety of machines, Forth, Rexx, Modula, Python. While Modula

Re: autopackage 2.7.19 website link broken

2005-12-16 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kröger wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The change just made it to the website. The text and link point to 2.7.19.1 but the actual version at http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/autopackage/ is 2.7.19 so the link doesn't work. my mistake, I just corrected

Re: autopackage 2.7.19

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kröger wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the web site behind or is 2.7.14.1 the latest safe version? the web is behind, I just updated it. Any reason I shouldn't install 2.7.19 for testing purposes? none I can think of. Thanks. 2.7.19 may have

Re: autopackage 2.7.19 website link broken

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Pedro Kröger wrote: Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the web site behind or is 2.7.14.1 the latest safe version? the web is behind, I just updated it. The change just made it to the website. The text and link point to 2.7.19.1 but the actual version at http

autopackage 2.7.19

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Scott
I see that the autopackage for 2.7.19 exists but the web site only show 2.7.14.1. Is the web site behind or is 2.7.14.1 the latest safe version? Any reason I shouldn't install 2.7.19 for testing purposes? Thanks, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user

Newer development version for x86?

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Scott
Will there be a newer development version for x86 soon? Thanks, Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Lily 2.7.12 autopackages fail on my Debian sid

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Scott
primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path I was using 2.7.10. I will now try 2.7.11 Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lily 2.7.12 autopackages fail on my Debian sid, also 2.7.11

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: On my Debian sid system (completely up to date) the upgrade autopackage for any x86 for 2.7.12 fails looking for the correct version of Guile The install version fails with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/stfrancis$ lilypond-2.7.12 --ps cityofgodE.ly GNU LilyPond 2.7.12 ERROR

Re: Lily 2.7.12 autopackages fail on my Debian sid

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Scott
Gianluca D. wrote: Alle 13:05, domenica 9 ottobre 2005, Paul Scott ha scritto: On my Debian sid system (completely up to date) the upgrade autopackage for any x86 for 2.7.12 fails looking for the correct version of Guile The install version fails with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/stfrancis

Re: Lily 2.7.12 autopackages fail on my Debian sid

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Gianluca D. wrote: Alle 13:05, domenica 9 ottobre 2005, Paul Scott ha scritto: The install version fails with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/stfrancis$ lilypond-2.7.12 --ps cityofgodE.ly GNU LilyPond 2.7.12 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file

Re: glib for 2.7.9 for x86?

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: This should be fixed in 2.7.10 from http://lilypond.org/download/autopackage Thanks. Downloading it now. Works great, thanks! I'm also glad to know where the other autopackages are! Paul

Re: glib for 2.7.9 for x86?

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Both the x86 2.7.9 full install and the upgrade die looking for glib on Debian sid. 2.6.3.1 installs fine. I'm not sure if this got through. 2.7.9 for x86 seems to still be broken for Debian sid. Paul Scott ___ lilypond

x86 2.7.9 won't install

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Scott
Both the x86 2.7.9 full install and the upgrade die looking for glib on Debian sid. 2.6.3.1 installs fine. -- Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Already have music in score

2005-08-05 Thread Paul Scott
with another pair of {}. \score { { \context Voice... \context Lyrics... } } Or maybe since the lyrics probably go with the voice. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: etf2ly.exe doesn't work on Win98

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
didn't think ETF was the same as MUS. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Full bar rest representation

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
should normally be capitalized - they are centered that way. There are many numerical possibilities but I do: R4*5 R4*7 R4*12 R8*7 and I do R4*3 instead of R2. Except for the reversal of the numbers these are closer to what they represent. Paul Scott

Re: missing term in Icking glossary

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Scott
. the interpretation of sfz , and ^ also depend on the composer/era. IOW I don't care what you call it. I just want to be able to engrave the musical symbol. We could discuss how to interpret it for a long time but that's not really the job of the LilyPond docs. Paul Scott

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Scott
- what's the minimum? Jay This is why some lists insist on inline posting. Top-posting is very confusing. I don't know what Jay fixed. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Scott
though I now have at the end \score { There needs to be some music right here. \layout { } \midi { \tempo 4=60 } } Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Piano + two verses?

2005-07-24 Thread Paul Scott
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Re: doesn't count triplets beginning on offbeat

2005-07-23 Thread Paul Scott
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: It's the braces that I missed thanks. You're welcome. As for the suggestion re; a8 I believed and the results seem to indicate that the default mode is- whatever value was last entered remains until changed- That is correct. I would think that less

Re: need plain PS (not PDF) output

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
in Illustrator), not PDF. However, I can't determine where to put the --ps flag, and when I try to run from the command line, I get errors (can't find /users/hanwen/...lib, etc.). I have never run Lily on a Mac but everywhere else I do: lilypond --ps music.ly Paul Scott

Re: Beams, slurs and Chords

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
that's what you were asking about. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Beams, slurs and Chords

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
Hans de Rijck wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for your answer. I see what you mean, and it certainly looks good, but it will be almost impossible to generate this from the input. You mean the published input? Anyway I believe this: { f''8.\p( e''16 f''8 c'' f' 8 e'' g' 2) } \\ c''4. does

Re: doesn't count triplets beginning on offbeat

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Scott
] } \times 2/3 { es [ ges bes ] } a ~ \time 5/8 a 8 \times 2/3 { ges [ f es ] } \times 2/3 { c [d c ] } \time 4/4 \times 2/3 { es [ ges f ] } c' 4 bes 8. bes 16 bes 4 Paul Scott But in the measure of 5/4 the triplets are beamed correctly but not labeled as triplets and the barline is before

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Scott
for odd/even pages? I often need to put the music I print in (three-hole) binders. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Scott
in the manual or the mailing list archives. I'm using LilyPond 2.4.5, though I'm planning to upgrade to 2.6.1 soon. \repeat percent 4 { music } Look up repeats in the doc's. I didn't see a complete description in my quick look right now but the above works. Paul Scott

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Paul Scott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/stfrancis$ lilypond-book-2.6.0 --output=out --psfonts oilbook.tex lilypond-book-bin-2.6.0 (GNU LilyPond) 2.6.0 Reading oilbook.tex... Dissecting... Writing snippets... Processing... (snip) Compiling oilbook.tex... Writing

Re: problem installing lilypond

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Scott
just downloaded, compiled it just to please the installer. I rebooted, just in case some config file nnede to be read. Where do I go from here? Did you choose Install or upgrade. I just had this problem trying to upgrade whereas it worked fine when I chose Install. Paul Scott

Re: problem installing lilypond

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Scott
shelagh wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:40:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: shelagh wrote: I tried to install lilypond 2.6.1 with the auto installer as my distribution doesn't package the latest version. My problem is that when the installer gets to the ghostscript search it says I don't

Re: opening files with Notepad

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Scott
David Tweet wrote: That's weird, I just opened wtk-1-fugue2.ly http://wtk-1-fugue2.ly/ (one of the examples from the website) in Notepad and it seems like the newline character is getting printed as an empty rectangle(???). That's because the files on the website are *nix text files. Their

Re: opening files with Notepad

2005-07-12 Thread Paul Scott
EditPad Lite which knows how to convert line termination between DOS and *nix (and Mac). Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
, in get_latex_textwidth tempfile.tempdir = '' NameError: global name 'tempfile' is not defined I just hit that one. It is known. That same python bug is also in the Linux version. It may be fixed in 2.6.1 and/or 2.7.0 Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user

Re: Cygwin install of 2.6?

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Rob Vlasaty wrote: I installed 2.6.0 for Cygwin on my Windows XP this morning.nbsp; Lilypond says that it can not find my files when I try to run it. My other response did not address your first question. Others will probably pick this up faster and better since I have not run Lily under

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
' is not defined # A known python bug just reported several times. It might be fixed in 2.6.1 and/or 2.7.0. How can I get 2.6.1 for x86? Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: problems with (new) lilypond-book

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Scott
Nicholas Haggin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a known bug that is fixed in the CVS; the Python script which is lilypond-book is missing import tempfile near the beginning. If you are feeling courageous :) you can make the change yourself; just add

Re: LP 2.6 on Win98 -- question on Ghostview on PS file size

2005-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
the file, dragged and dropped its icon onto the LilyPond icon; this produced an (extremely large -- 684 K) .PS file. Yes, these ps files are ridiculously large for a file with one simple scale. Paul Scott ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: 2.6 autopackage on Debian sid!!

2005-07-02 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I was just able to find a single menu item pointing to /usr/bin/lilypond under Multimedia/Jack and More. Was this created by the autopackage installer? Probably not. Even if this pointed to lilypond-2.6.0 what sense does it make

Re: pdf files

2005-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
Sacha Standen wrote: Thanks Mats The problem is, Lilypond 2.6 on my system only seems to generate PS files and not PDFs. To clarify what I'm doing, in case anyone else out there knows about Lilypond on Windows: Having written my text file, I then drag it onto the Lilypond icon, which then

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