Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:58 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/3/2011 6:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able to locate a way to do jazz style multiple bar repeats like these for writing out chord progressions for solos. Can anyone point me to the place in the documentation (assuming

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Colin Hall wrote: For the record I've attached a complete source file to demonstrate how I do chop marks. I like how those render and will have other uses for them. Thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: There is a number in the middle of the bar which indicates how many bars to repeat, with a heavy horizontal bar on either side of the number. Would this do the sort of thing you're looking for? You ask for a multi

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-02-07 Thread Tim McNamara
is better then the third of it, when it is possible. And it's even easier to take. This is why I love open source, people really can contribute :-D. @ Tim McNamara Could you specify what you mean with fourth fingering? As I see it, as far as I've seen the pdf, the fourth fingering is doubling

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-02-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 06.02.2011 18:32, schrieb Tim McNamara: There is a fourth note, double one of the notes in the triad, in the dim fingerings that is not in the score. IME the fingering should match the score in cases where there is a score. I think

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-02-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 5, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: I've put together a proposed set of dim and dim7 fretboards. You can download it at https://sites.google.com/site/cdslilypond/docs/display-dim-fretboards.pdf?a ttredirects=0d=1 or view it at

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2011/2/1 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net Jazz guitarist and Lilypond user here. I would call that a G(no 3rd) I'd say that it's a Gsus chord. It means basically the same: a chord with no third. Usually the third is replaced by a fourth

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: Hello, I want to write down guitar chords and frets with extra voicings, say a G chord with an extra Fifth on the B string, 3rd fret, or Em chord with an extra G on the treble e string. As these extra notes belong to the chords, you

Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

2011-02-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: to be more precisely: no power chords, no slash chords. Just for example an extra fifth to the g major chord (which may be redundant but gives another voicing). When the fret diagram for the G chord is 320003 (not lilypond syntax, but

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-01-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:45 AM, bart deruyter wrote: I can only speak for guitarists, because I am a guitarist, classical guitarist, and I'll definatly stick to the correct naming for the correct chords, and I am now going to create my own version of this predefined guitar diagrams list. If

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-01-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: There is a discussion on -bug about the display of chords for jazz musicians, essentially asking for simplification in the interests of readability. Following on Bart's suggestion, is it feasible to create alternate display modes tied to a

Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

2011-01-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 29, 2011, at 1:02 PM, bart deruyter wrote: I've noticed something strange in the predefined chord diagrams for guitar. While writing on my book for teaching guitar, I noticed the chord C# diminished is weird to say at the least. The fret diagram is very wrong I'm afraid :

Re: Pentatonic Diatonic Transposition?

2011-01-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or something like

Bug in 2.13.x?

2011-01-07 Thread Tim McNamara
copyright = Tim McNamara 2010, All Rights Reserved } harmonies = \chordmode { r8 % 1 bes2:min7 ges2:7 des1:maj7 bes2:min7 ges2:7 des1:maj7 % 5 bes2:min7 ges2:7 bes2:min7 ees2:7 ees2:min7 aes2:7 des1:maj7 % 9 ces1:min6 ges1:maj7 ces1:min6 ges1:maj7 % 13 ces1:min6 ges1:maj7 aes1:7 des1:maj7

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: On 4 January 2011 14:47, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Sure, since all of my .ly files fail to compile with 2.12.3 that's easy. Here's a whole file that fails for me. There's no melody notated as of yet, which simplifies things

Re: Bug in 2.13.x?

2011-01-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Neil's fix with pop-chords.ly corrected the problem. Thanks, Neil! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 4, 2011, at 12:11 AM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 4, 2011, at 12:11 AM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:09 AM, -Eluze wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) \paper { indent = 0.0 ragged-last = ##f \header { title = Lilypond Test composer = McNamara meter = Swing Ballad } it compiles without errors

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but this compiled just fine for me on my osx 10.6.5 on an intel iMac: Hmm, well doesn't seem to be a bug. That was my main question. Thanks, guys!

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, James Bailey wrote: I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but this compiled just fine for me on my osx 10.6.5 on an intel iMac: Hmm, well

Re: Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2011-01-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:00 AM, James Bailey wrote: On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: Is this a bug? Interpreting music... /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm:208:9: In procedure chord-name-pop-markup

Bug in 2.13.44-1?

2010-12-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Is this a bug? Interpreting music... /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm:208:9: In procedure chord-name-pop-markup in expression (name-root root lowercase-root?):

Re: Odd output

2010-12-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Isn't there a missing to pair with the ? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: vimLilypond learning curve_jazzchord font_bars per line? 3 questions

2010-12-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:06 AM, LazyLew wrote: I have some simple questions - can't find it in the manuals so far, because there's so much there. - is it easy to adapt fonts for chords? I like 'em bold, the way you often see in jazz sheets. On a Mac anything with changing fonts seems to

Fwd: Problem with ragged-last and verse numbers

2010-12-01 Thread Tim McNamara
Begin forwarded message: Hello all! I am having trouble making the last line stretch to the end. Also, I would like to have numbers for all the verses not just for the first part. Here is my file: \version 2.13.35 \include gregorian.ly \header { subtitle = Veni Creator Spiritus %

Re: question on \transpose

2010-11-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 21, 2010, at 12:41 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Yes, (1) \transpose f des {music} works. I use english.ly so (2) \transpose f dflat {music} also works. I was told D-flat is equivalent to B-flat minor; but in term of key signature print D- flat has 5 flats while B-flat minor has 5 sharps.

Re: question on \transpose

2010-11-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 20, 2010, at 2:33 PM, MING TSANG wrote: How can I specifiy key minor or key major in transpose? Is it possible \transpose from f major to b flat minor? How to code in \transpose? I don't believe this is possible in Lilypond, at least using the \transposition command. If it is

Re: OooLilyPond problem

2010-11-12 Thread Tim McNamara
There has been a significant fork which may affect this particular Lilypond project. Many/possibly most of the OOo developers quit the OOo project and have started LibreOffice in protest against the parent company that was paying for OOo development. I don't know the details but they are

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker fuz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys! Greetings, As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be nice to add a --svg switch to the program, so that you can write lilypond --svg

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:06:27AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker fuz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys! As we have a good support for SVG

Re: Feature request

2010-10-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Hmm. This is prompting a rather harsh reaction from me which will predictably draw all kinds of flames. I am always bemused by the recurrent user-dismissive

Re: Triple b or # - do they exist?

2010-10-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Éditions IN NOMINE wrote: last night in a discussion someone claimed that there is a triple bbb in real music, he said it was in a Chopin piece but could not say which. I think I am fairly educated in music but never heard of a triple bbb or ###. Do you know

Re: Problems with segnos and codas

2010-10-05 Thread Tim McNamara
While this doesn't solve the problem (somebody else seems to have done that), it'd sure be nice if using marks for segno and coda would be a lot more user friendly- like g1\segno g1\coda perhaps as one can with g1\fermata, although both coda and segno are probably more properly

Re: EmacsPointAndClick: inconsistency for \box-type markup?

2010-10-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 2, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote: Dear all, I am new to this list and have just started using Lilypond. I am deeply impressed with the quality of the output and the wealth of documentation - thank you! I am a physicist by profession with a background in software

OS X fonts (was Re: Global Font Change?)

2010-08-28 Thread Tim McNamara
Using lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x was suggested as a way to look at the fonts Lilypond has available. Doing this from the command line on my Mac (10.4.11 FWIW), I got: [tim ~]$ lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x GNU LilyPond 2.12.3 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR:

/noBeam

2010-07-30 Thread Tim McNamara
In the following snippet, Lilypond puts beams over the last three 8th notes and it looks clunky: \times 2/3 { d4 e4 d4 } b4 g'8 f8 e8 d8 c'8\staccato r8 r2 I want the c'8 to not be beamed with the other two 8th notes in the last measure. When I use \noBeam \times 2/3 { d4 e4 d4 } b4 g'8

Re: Emacs lily mode

2010-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great. Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already and it's pretty useful to me- but of course there is always room for improvement. What are you thinking that you'd like to see? I'd like

Re: Emacs lily mode WAS: [announcement] Elysium - LilyPond IDE for Eclipse

2010-07-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 3, 2010, at 5:20 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 01-07-2010 om 18:44 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Bernardo Barros: Is the Emacs mode being actively also developed? If so, is there a project/repository somewhere? That depends. We've had our emacs mode sitting in the

Re: displaying triplet in 3/4 time

2010-06-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 21, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Ole Schmidt wrote: Hi, While engraving I came across the problem to display a simple triplet which consists of a quarter and an eighth note and it seems to be difficult. The default beaming is odd and using brackets leads to an error warning. Do I completely

Re: Creating chord names like C7/F#7

2010-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 9, 2010, at 3:07 AM, snozpacker wrote: For a certain polytonal piece, I need to display chord names of the form C7/F#7. That is, I need to be able to have an entire chord after the slash, not just the root. I already know how to modify the main part of the chord using

Re: ragged-bottom doesn't work in \layout?

2010-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 9, 2010, at 3:06 AM, snozpacker wrote: Can I set ragged-bottom and ragged-last-bottom in the \layout block? Right now they're in the \paper block, but if I move it to the \layout block, they don't seem to have an effect. Why? I think it just belongs to the \paper block for the

Re: Suppress .ps generation

2010-06-06 Thread Tim McNamara
Put #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t) in your .ly files and the .ps file will be automatically deleted. Much simpler that doing it from the command line. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Need clear instructions on adding a coda

2010-04-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:04 PM, dflo404 wrote: My apologies if this has been covered, but I have been unable to find clear instructions on how to add a coda. I'm still learning Lilypond, so I'm still trying to understand the breakdown of a lilypond file. Let me explain what I want exactly:

Re: lilypond index - François-Xavier Jean

2010-03-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 31, 2010, at 4:51 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: I have no idea how to help other than this. Is there a Norwegian Lilypond mailing list? Not that I know of. But considering François-Xavier also speaks French

Re: lilypond index - François-Xavier Jean

2010-03-30 Thread Tim McNamara
Norwegian. Per Google: Good evening, I have created an index. I want it available on the Norwegian LilyPond list. Maybe they can help me? Sincerely, Jean Francois-Xavier French composer and painter I have no idea how to help other than this. Is there a Norwegian Lilypond mailing list?

Re: Enhancement request

2010-03-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 20, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: On 3/19/10 8:40 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote: According to the documentation for 2.12.3 There is no support for chords where the same note occurs with different accidentals in the

Re: weblily: security risk

2010-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Weblily wrote: PS: I am currently preparing an article about weblily.net for the LilyPond Report. Maybe this can be a starting point for discussing ideas about how weblily.net might become a useful tool for the LilyPond community. One thing that springs to

Re: Tuplets with different note lenghts in bagpipe music

2010-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Erden Oguz wrote: Hello, due to the real rhythmic expression of tuplets as played in Strathspeys in bagpipe music, I am trying to write down tuplets with different note lengths: \times 2/3 { f16 [e16 c4] } Unfortunately, the last note, the crotchet is not

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Patrick McCarty wrote: On 2010-02-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I don't see any non-ASCII characters in my file. Oh, I take that back now that I scrutinize closer... I have © in the input file. Well, that's easy to get rid of. And doing so eliminates the glyph

Dumb Emacs lilypond-mode question

2010-02-27 Thread Tim McNamara
I've had lilypond-mode working in Emacs for a year now, using Carbon Emacs on Mac OS X 10.4. Works great, kuds to whomever wrote the mode. I just built the latest Emacs 23.1 to give it a try; it initially didn't work with Lilypond at all until I remembered I had to add the lilypond-mode

Programming error message

2010-02-26 Thread Tim McNamara
Here's the programming error I mentioned in my other post. It is repeated about seven or eight times: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument continuing, cross fingers programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. Skipping glyph U+, file

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 26, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Here's the programming error I mentioned in my other post. It is repeated about seven or eight times: programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid

Re: Programming error message

2010-02-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: Also, which LilyPond version are you using? I've been working on a lot of Pango/text issues lately, so some

Re: A weird chord

2010-02-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 20, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Brett McCoy wrote: I am typesetting a lead sheet and it has a very strange chord -- G7b9#9. I confirmed that this chord is correct (freakin jazz people ;-P ), but can't figure out how to get the chord name to display. Using g:7.9-.9+ only results in g7#9 since

Re: 3 problems with LilyPond 2.12.3.1

2010-02-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: 2. I'm trying to engrave a song which uses numerals as its sole lyrics. Enclose them in quotes. That works, thanks - albeit it's a bit of a pain, since the music I have uses individual number as words in the lyric, so the complete

Re: Alternatives in the *middle* of a volta

2010-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Peter Chubb wrote: Is there a sane way to do this? Thinking as a player, I'd rather see this as a coda ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Alternatives in the *middle* of a volta

2010-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 14, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: Tim == Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Tim On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Peter Chubb wrote: Is there a sane way to do this? Tim Thinking as a player, I'd rather see this as a coda It's only one bar in the middle. I'd like to get

Re: Solution for including a file only once

2010-02-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: My proposed solution behaves as though you had written { \include MyFile.ly } rather than the desired \include MyFile.ly Lots of simple debugging code works fine, but in the usual case where MyFile.ly is full of variable

Re: How to represent a harmonic minor scale as a chord?

2010-02-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Gavin Johnson wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the docs* and trying things like: e1:m.6- or e1:m.maj7 but not really found anyway to represent a harmonic minor scale as a chord. The output I'm looking for would be something like Em(maj7). e1:min7+

Re: How to include a file just once?

2010-01-21 Thread Tim McNamara
'delete-intermediate-files #t) \paper { indent = 0.0 ragged-last = ##f } \header { title = Recycling Day subtitle = Concert Pitch composer = McNamara meter = Up-Tempo Swing or Bebop copyright = Tim McNamara, All Rights Reserved } \include ../../pop-chords.ly \include ../../paren

Re: LilyPond 2.13.10 (OSX) Font Issues

2010-01-20 Thread Tim McNamara
Fonts are an issue with almost all Linux/Unix applications ported into OS X using the Aqua interface. OpenOffice.org doesn't use fonts correctly either (somewhat of a bigger issue in an office suite); NeoOffice corrects this by putting a Java container around OO.o at the cost of

Re: exotic chord

2010-01-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 18, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Wafaic wrote: Sorry, I tried it, \chords { a:m7.5- } but I did not get what I hope. I have someting like this same appearence: Aº , except that the little º looks like this: ø Is there another solution? With regards, Eric Too lazy to fix the top-posting- see

Re: programming error

2010-01-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 3, 2010, at 3:33 PM, C.Flothow wrote: When trying to prepare an example for this list (concerning the missing paragraph Ancient and Modern from One Source) I came across the following problem: \version 2.12.2 {\time2/2 \times 1/2{\relative c''{g1 g \time 3/2 f fis2 g1 a2

Re: GUI

2009-12-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:49 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Robert Ley robert...@gmail.com writes: Also, please remember that some of us, me included, have little experience writing command lines, so when you put, as part of the first information on command line use: Create a directory to

Re: GUI

2009-12-18 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca writes: Of course there is nothing really wrong with the current website. Most people will want to just download lilypond and try it out; who has time to read all the crap on a product's website? Once

Re: Lilypond not working on internal disk on Mac

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Robert Ley wrote: The hard disc format is determined by the type of processor you have in the machine: GUID format for Intel chips, MacOS Extended for PPC chips. I have a G4 [PPC] chip, so both Ext. and Int. are formatted with MacOS Extended. The EXTERNAL

Re: GUI

2009-12-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kees van den Doel kvand...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Valentin Villenave No. The alternate input page is extremely easy to find.

Re: No Work!

2009-12-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:55 AM, John Mandereau wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 20:20 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : Wouldn't it be simplest to set the Reply-To header to the list? Then all replies go to the list by default. No. For good reasons about this, see http://www.unicom.com/pw

Re: GUI (was: Re: No Work!

2009-12-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Kees van den Doel wrote: If lilypond came with a rudimentary GUI I think it would at least octuple the number of people trying it out. Something simple like a window with File/compile menus, a text editor pane, compile messages at bottom, and a score preview.

Re: No Work!

2009-12-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com wrote: Il 15/12/2009 12:22, Philip Potter ha scritto: Please keep all discussion on list - the easiest way to do this is to click Reply All and ensure that

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Sorry, I initially just sent this to Jan and meant to send it to the group. On Nov 12, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 12-11-2009 om 08:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David Kastrup: Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: _Addressing_ the actual problems is

Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

2009-11-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, David Kastrup wrote: For me, this situation is awkward, impeding and dissatisfactory. For others, it is reason to go away. I don't see that anything is gained for chastising me for my impression. That is merely shooting the messenger. Actually, more than the

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Graham Percival wrote: I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. Well, since you reject the majority of what is sent to you, it probably discourages people from trying to contribute. ___

Re: Transpose for pattern sheets

2009-10-21 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Peter Berlau wrote: I have done writing done some patterns of my favorite sax players and like to transpose this patterns to any key. I found a solution but I am not sure if this is a elegant method, also maybe it is more useful to make use of the enharmonics to

Re: Can't get started-no matter how hard I try

2009-10-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:17 AM, David Bobroff wrote: Ami Magori Cohen wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for this software,and for your help. After having read about this wonderful software,I have downloaded it and tried to get started,but i'm stuck!When I open the software,I see a blank page

Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
I am having problems getting LilyPond to properly position coda glyphs. I've included the code to see if others reproduce it. The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28 but LilyPond insists on putting it at the end of bar 29. The /break command seems to be involved (is this a

Fwd: Help with positioning coda glyph

2009-09-16 Thread Tim McNamara
And of course I replied only to myself, since the reply-to header is not set to the mailing list for some reason. Begin forwarded message: From: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net Date: September 16, 2009 9:17:03 AM CDT To: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net Subject: Re: Help with positioning

Re: NR typo: Minor-major seventh chord

2009-09-07 Thread Tim McNamara
Andrew Tucker wrote: In NR B.2 Common chord modifiers, I think the line with: Minor-major seventh Minor triad, major seventh maj7.5- - should change to: maj7.3- (both text and chord) Clearly maj7.5- is *not* a minor-major seventh chord so that's a good catch. The syntax that seems most

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http

Re: chord durations

2009-09-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this is how I post

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is fundamentally based upon

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference

Re: chord durations

2009-08-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, adding a dot to a chord duration prolongs it by 50%. g4., for instance, is 1.5 beats or three 8th notes. g4.. is 1.75 beats, I believe. Which would translate into seven 16th notes. But what is g4...? Here, with 3 dots. Two dots

Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Sorry but as a first time user to lilypond and music in general this section in the tutorial was about as clear as mud to me. Not wanting to offend anyone just stating how I felt the fist time I read this section in the learning tutorial.

Re: Rhythm

2009-08-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi there, I cannot figure out how to encode a 16th note rhythm. When counting by mouth I would say: 1and 2and 3and 4and when all notes are taking part. In lilypond I would write: g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g g16 g g g. But how do I: 1ad

Re: Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for your reply. I think I understand now. Inside the \improvisationOn section I don't have to reuse the real chord name. A placeholder might be sufficient? So instead of writing g1:sus I can just use g1. All I want in

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Graham Percival wrote: I'm not certain if the question was clear, so let's do this again and put it to a vote. These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. Which is easier to see? http://lilypond.org/~graham/solid.png

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: So again my question is, how can I assign a new value to a variable so I can make all this happen and keep my global declarations / assignments to an absolute minimum and meet my goal of ensuring good clarity in my lilypond code for

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Simon Mackenzie wrote: Here is my scenario If I create a variable at the top scope how do I reassign its value in a subsequent scope eg. aVariable = \markup { \bold bananas } \book { \bookpart { \aVariable % bananas

Re: Decreasing font size of chord name root note

2009-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Akira wrote: Please look at - http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/Lilypondakira/ Lilypond#5367578175183729026 Root name of chord (/F, /D) is so large that I can't recognize what is chord name or what is root note, so I want to decrease font size of chord name root

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 1, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Nick Payne wrote: The best introduction to Lilypond that I have seen is at http://www.eugenecormier.com/pdfs/lilypond-guide.pdf. It's what I used when getting started with Lilypond. By comparison, the manuals are a bit daunting. Wow. There is some stuff in

Fwd: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 25, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Paul Scott wrote: What I commented on is still the current online docs for the developmental version: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/ Here is the entire text from 2.2.1 for lilypond-mode for Emacs: *** 2.2.1 Emacs mode Emacs

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:12 PM, David Fedoruk wrote: In my discussion with my jazz professional, we looked at complex chords, in fact we deliberately looked for complex ones to find out how they were expressed. We found, quite amazingly that the more complex the chord got the more

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Paul Scott wrote: David Stocker wrote: Paul, Are you using Linux or Windows XP? After you install LilyPond, you'll have all the files you need for lilypond-mode to work right there in your installation directory. You'll just need to tell Emacs where to

Re: 2.13.3 docs emacs mode documentation AU 2.2.1 out of date?

2009-07-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Paul Scott wrote: I am still concerned why AU 2.2.1 doesn't seem to make sense. Sorry to be pig-ignorant here, but what the frak is AU 2.2.1? Obviously it's some kind of abbreviation for documentation, but unfortunately I've not seen the whole name spelled

Re: guitar guide-mark

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Buhr wrote: When writing the fingering for guitar, there is a notation used to indicate a guide finger in left-hand shifting. The fingering mark looks like -3, but the - is rotated up about 30 degrees, which means to silently slide the 3rd finger from

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:42 PM, David Fedoruk wrote: I did, as I mentioned earlier, visit my local music store and looked at their selection of fake books. I found what was the first legally published one in its new format. I was dissa pointed. That's not very specific. By chance were you

Re: website draft 6

2009-07-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Graham Percival wrote: For example, nobody is working on Introductions-Features. I'll have a go at this in the next few days. The basics are already there and seem to me to just need a little polishing, maybe a few slightly different headings. But it's

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:02 AM, John Mandereau wrote: 2009/7/11 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: How about something like Drupal? Or do you not want to make editing the Web site that direct? It's not in the culture of Lily authors and most current contributors, and they are too busy

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