Re: install latest stable lilypond 2.14.1 on Fedora

2011-06-18 Thread Richard Schoeller
2.14.0-1 is the default on Fedora 15 now. On 06/18/2011 04:51 PM, Steve Taylor wrote: Hi there, Hope the user group is the right place to ask a question about installing lilypond. I'd like to install lilypond 2.14.1 on Fedora 14 (using Gnome). Following the method on the lilypond website (d

Re: 2 muisc + tablature in 2 staves

2008-12-21 Thread Richard Schoeller
t;> Thanks for all your help! ps. Je suis français, je me suis inscris dans le group fr! ;-) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Richard Schoeller mailto:schoel...@comcast.net>> wrote: You might prefer to use FretBoards context in between the ChordNames and the Staff. That way you w

Re: 2 muisc + tablature in 2 staves

2008-12-21 Thread Richard Schoeller
You might prefer to use FretBoards context in between the ChordNames and the Staff. That way you will have the fret diagrams taken directly from your chord choices rather than having to enter the same information twice. mychords = \chordmode { your chords } << \new ChordNames { \mychords }

Re: FretBoards

2008-12-13 Thread Richard Schoeller
Thanks from me too! It is great how effectively this project turns ideas around. I wish we could do that on my projects at work :-( . Jonathan Kulp wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I have now completed the changes that you requested and pushed them to git. They will show up in the next rele

FretBoards

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Schoeller
Is there any way to build a chord diagram using the verbose syntax and use it FretBoards? I didn't see anything in the docs for this. There are few things that I'd like to try for showing the use of a capo that I can't do with terse. Thanks, Dick Schoeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: How to get "N.C." in a chord line

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Schoeller
This was actually discussed recently... Here is an example from one of my sources. chordletterssectiona = \chordmode { g1 | g1 | c4:6 d4:7 g2 | g1 | c2:6 c4:min6 d4:7 | g1 | g1 | g1 | c4:6 d4:7 g2 | g1 | c2:6 c4:min6 d4:7 | g2. \notemode { <\tweak #'text #"No chord" g>4 } |

Re: Complete Solution: alignment of "segno" over a Repeat Sign?

2006-07-03 Thread Richard Schoeller
OK, I'm not sure why you wouldn't use the following: % this makes it center aligned. \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #0 % this puts it on the following system if there is a break. % if there is no break, it has no effect. \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'b

Re: segno, coda, etc. below rehearsal mark

2006-06-30 Thread Richard Schoeller
I use the following definition. markupSA = \markup { \center-align { { \raise #0.2 \box \bold \huge "A" } { " " } { \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" } } } I then place that in a markup. Then tweak the position (center, move up or down, etc.). On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 21:44 -0700, Pau

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Schoeller
Some things you might want to check out... 1. You really can tweak the margins. 2. In your paper block you can set between-system-padding . I find that setting to 2 or 3 can sometimes compress things enough, even 1. 3. You might want to look at how much padding you have on any rehearsal mark

Re: Codas - STILL can't get it right...

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Schoeller
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upgraded to mingw 2.8.2 ... Firstly, thanks for the tip about page-spacing.ly. This looks exactly like what I want ... except I can't find any docu except the example itself, and cut-n-pasting seems to have no effect :-( (I've

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Schoeller
Josiah, You got to this response before I could. If the problem is swap thrashing, then having 8x the memory to handle a score that is 3x the pages should be plenty. I had already disabled point-and-click. It helped. The idea of using the PS output for proofing and going to PDF only when I hav

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Schoeller
I'd like to weigh in on this one. My experience is totally contrary to the way this discussion has gone. The actual entry and correction of the music is a trivial small part of the time I spend working with Lilypond. I spend much more time in adjusting the tweaks, especially the choice of line br

Re: ugly song help

2006-01-23 Thread Richard Schoeller
Aaron, I just looked this with 2.6.4. The Hebrew lyrics do seem to come out more squished together than the English. I was able to defeat this by using: \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #1 Otherwise, the ordering all seems OK. However, since most of the lyrics are a nigun I migh

Re: Non-latin scripts howto?

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Schoeller
I can't comment on why it works for me and not for you. When it was announced that the Unicode support was in there, I tried it and it worked. As to entering Hebrew in gedit, I use 3 different techniques. If I can find the name of the song or a similar already entered on the web, I copy and past

Re: Non-latin scripts howto?

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Schoeller
pes to the left. This ends up being entirely wrong. They are both out of position and overlap. So... it looks like at least some of the problem is with the rendering engine and some is with inconsistently executed font metrics. Dick On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 09:26 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

Re: Non-latin scripts howto?

2005-11-13 Thread Richard Schoeller
y as well. Mozilla still does it wrong; not quite so badly as it use to, but still wrong. Dick On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 02:09 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Richard Schoeller wrote: > > Gilles, > > > > I've had little luck edit Hebrew (actually Yiddish) in emacs. I do all

Re: Non-latin scripts howto?

2005-11-13 Thread Richard Schoeller
h the word wrap algorithms. And those seem correct as well. I can tell you from experience that nested bidirectional word wrap algorithms can get pretty ugly. Dick On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 02:09 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Richard Schoeller wrote: > > Gilles, > > > >

Re: Non-latin scripts howto?

2005-11-13 Thread Richard Schoeller
Gilles, I've had little luck edit Hebrew (actually Yiddish) in emacs. I do all of the editing of Lilypond except for the right-to-left markup in emacs. Then I use gedit with great success for the Yiddish markup. It seems to keep the directionality things right and saves properly in UTF-8. I am

Re: Hebrew editing lilypond

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Schoeller
Aaron, If you are using Linux then gedit works great in combination with the keyboard switcher applet. It helps if you can either touch type Hebrew or have a Hebrew key caps. Dick who has been messing with Yiddish song titles On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:15 -0700, Aaron Mehl wrote: > Hi all, > > I

Percent repeat questions

2004-12-20 Thread Richard Schoeller
I've been running into some issues with percent repeats and want to see if there are suggestions. If you have a line that is completely percent repeats, then RemoveEmptyStaffContext removes the line. This gets me alot in ensemble scores where the bass and percussion are repetive and the melody pa

Re: who uses Lily ?

2004-12-04 Thread Richard Schoeller
I use it to prepare the music for a klezmer jam group. The music that we play is often only found as a leadsheet in C (usually in a fakebook). Orchestrations, when they are available, are often in conductor score form only. So, I am doing transcriptions, transpositions, breaking into parts and ar

Re: Just started with 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Schoeller
Han-Wen, Responses are interleaved below. Thanks for the quick response. Dick - On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 00:44 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I just converted to 2.4 from 2.2 and am trying to figure out how to > > recover some of the functionality. > > > > 1.

Just started with 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Schoeller
I just converted to 2.4 from 2.2 and am trying to figure out how to recover some of the functionality. 1. In title, etc. in the header block you used to be able to force a newline with . Now you try to use the markup specifiers but they don't work quite as expected. If you use \align-

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext and TabStaff

2004-05-08 Thread Richard Schoeller
You need to include something like \context { \TabStaffContext \remove "Axis_group_engraver" \consistsend "Hara_kiri_engraver" \override Beam #'auto-knee-gap = #'() } BTW, the same problem arises with drum staves. On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 12:43, Stef Epardaud wrote: > Hi, > > I hav

Re: Guitar String Numbers

2004-03-30 Thread Richard Schoeller
The box code does expand the size of the enclosed object. Depending on alignment and placement within the markup, this can move the contents of the box a little. However, the size only changes by the thickness of the lines. I had to go back and look. It's been a while. When you put a circle ar

Re: Cadenza Breaks

2004-03-10 Thread Richard Schoeller
If you insert a \bar "", that will not be visible in the score but will give you a place to hang your \break. On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:32, Will Oram wrote: > I'm not on the lilypond list for the time being, due to the volume of > virus spam I've been getting. If you respond please don't forget to

Re: Hebrew Lyrics

2004-02-04 Thread Richard Schoeller
hen the sentence should render as follows." Needless to say, the fact that the letters are in logical order causes interesting rendering problems. (Can you saw word-wrap? I knew you could.) Dick On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:26, David Rogers wrote: > On 2004/02/03, Richard Schoeller wrote: &

Re: Hebrew Lyrics

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Schoeller
Joerg, All of those characters are in Latin 1. Latin 1 is ASCII plus the western European characters. It has single-byte characters 1-255. UTF-8 contains those characters too, but in UTF-8 those are 2-byte characters. There is no need to use UTF-8 to get them. It would seem to me that making

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-16 Thread Richard Schoeller
What I've found in regard to \tempo is that it either works in the \score block that is generating the midi or if it is referenced in every single staff. If you want the tempo to change in the middle of the piece you have to use the latter approach. I do this by having each staff include one or m

Re: Boxing Text

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Schoeller
Dave, It will box the next molecule. Certainly a quoted string qualifies. More complicated things can too. For example: \markup \box \column << { "string 1" } { "string 2" } >> Will put a box around the whole construct, something like this: +--+ | string 1 | | string 2 | +--+

Re: help required in input/test

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Schoeller
The example in boxed-molecule.ly does not use the new macro (at least in 1.7.22). I'd be interested in examples of how to use that macro. Especially to see if I can wire it into markup. I'd like to draw boxes around parts of a text markup. Dick On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 16:59, Mats Bengtsson wrote

Re: OT: directions, was: Re: hebrew lyrics

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Schoeller
The normal way of representing this is that the order of the words is left to right (matching western music notation) but the order of the letters within a word is right to left. Not very fun to read when your Hebrew skills are as weak as mine 8^). On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:28, Amelie Zapf wrote: