about custom percussion staves?

In the Notation manual 2.5 custom percussion staves, I have used the example shown. But havent been able to find out what the third column is supposed to do. ie. #f or #t doesn't seem to do much? Although the pedalhihat line seems to code for the + above. I would like to know where to look

vim syntax coloring curiousity

greetings I use vim in a terminal for editing, very occasionally something else like abiword I noticed recently and probably in the past that certain lilypond files were not opening with the syntax coloring. I am including a sample file here that demonstrates the behavior. If the comment lines

chords and set Staff.midiInstrument

greetings, I searched the archives and someone posted the same question without reply. fake book type lead sheet with chords. the melody can be modified to use any instrument but the chords seem to only use a piano sound. I would like to change the midi instrument if possible I have tried set

re: chords and midiInstrument

thank you Johan that works nicely. set ChordNames.midiInstrument by way of explanation - with piano for the chords it almost drowns out the melody line in midi playback ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

guitar tablature and fingering

Although I have used lilypond for awhile for scores, I am just learning to use the tabulature. The sample score I am inserting is working for the most part but I would like to suppress the fingering on the note staff if possible. Also my eyes need some assist hence the large staff size thanks

latest windows binary on win xp pro

http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/mingw/lilypond-2.7.28-1.mingw.exeI downloaded this build and had the same problem on win xp pro sp2 first a copy failed message during the install, then a pop up message about guile.exe Later I installed it without any problems whatsoever on win2000 pro

devl version 2.7.27-4 windows - install problem details

I tried to reinstall the devl version for windows again and looked closely at the detailed messages. The problem seems to occur during the installation with a copy operation for gs.exe which fails. Soon after guile.exe is called and the error message pop up appears guile.exe has encountered a

2.7.27-4 development windows question/problem

Installed lilypond-2.7.27-4.mingw.exe and also the -3 version afterwards on a new systemwith winxp pro sp2. The install went along a bit then failed with a message aboutguile.exe I have installed the cygwin versions in the past but never liked the cygwin process for selecting components (mainly