Re: Font questions about absolute

2019-05-11 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-05-11 12:53 pm, Reggie wrote: Aaron wow yes I understand the maths perfectly that's my area. Thank you your answer is perfect. But as I understand the Gould engraving book and other font "normal" standards, how does one handle font size then regardless of staff size and paperr? For

Re: Font questions about absolute

2019-05-11 Thread Reggie
Aaron Hill wrote > On 2019-05-11 10:52 am, Reggie wrote: >> Is there any easy way to quickly see or convert absolutely font to #3 >> or #5 >> and so on? In frescobaldi like a function() or something. Thank you for >> any >> help. > > Within \markup, you can use \abs-fontsize to get a specific

Re: Font questions about absolute

2019-05-11 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-05-11 10:52 am, Reggie wrote: Is there any easy way to quickly see or convert absolutely font to #3 or #5 and so on? In frescobaldi like a function() or something. Thank you for any help. Within \markup, you can use \abs-fontsize to get a specific size that will not scale based on

Font questions about absolute

2019-05-11 Thread Reggie
Hello everyone. I understand you always have the option to use absolute font for markup, tempo, and other markings for fonts. However is there a chart or cheat "sheet" showing the conversion or what the current font is without always refercing the documentation internals? For example, if I'm in

lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread Svetlana
Hello all! I try to combine latex text and lilypond scores. Lot of documentation read, but there remain two issues, I can't solve. 1) Is there any way to control vertical space between systems while using lilypond-book? In lilypond file I have ragged-bottom = ##f and some stretchability,

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread James
Svetlana 2012/3/21 Svetlana eurid...@yandex.ru: Hello all! I try to combine latex text and lilypond scores. Lot of documentation read, but there remain two issues, I can't solve. 1) Is there any way to control vertical space between systems while using lilypond-book? Maybe I have missed

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread David Kastrup
Svetlana eurid...@yandex.ru writes: Hello all! I try to combine latex text and lilypond scores. Lot of documentation read, but there remain two issues, I can't solve. 1) Is there any way to control vertical space between systems while using lilypond-book? In lilypond file I have

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/21 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Svetlana eurid...@yandex.ru writes: Hello all! I try to combine latex text and lilypond scores. Lot of documentation read, but there remain two issues, I can't solve. 1) Is there any way to control vertical space between systems while using

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/3/21 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Svetlana eurid...@yandex.ru writes: Hello all! I try to combine latex text and lilypond scores. Lot of documentation read, but there remain two issues, I can't solve. 1) Is there any way to control

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/21 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: It should just inform lilypond-book of things like spacing between systems and forced breaks, and lilypond-book could in turn tell LaTeX what is wanted. Yes but { c,,1 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' } \layout { system-count

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread Svetlana
Hi, David! 21.03.2012, 14:17, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Not enough documentation reading, I guess.  Check out URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/usage/latex for description and applications of the \betweenLilyPondSystem macro. -- David Kastrup Well, it's always not enough

Re: lilypond-book - vertical space and font questions

2012-03-21 Thread Svetlana
Hi, James! Maybe I have missed something but I cannot see any of the other spacing in your \paper {} block I use them in my real scores, things like { system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 26) (minimum-distance . 13) (padding . 1) (stretchability . 5))

Re: Font questions

2009-11-27 Thread Ian Hulin
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Ah-ha! I solved the e-acute problem! I had used an accented e from my chat program (XChat2 for Windoze), and that was what was strange. I took a letter from OpenOffice for that and now it's correct. On Windows you should be able to use a Ctrl+Alt+e shortcut in

Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi all, Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s). I'm having trouble with his name, which requires an e (accent aigu), and I'm getting a couple of strange characters in the output. Also, in the vers in the

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Using Lily 2.13.0, with jEdit LilyPondTool -- I *think* with UTF-8 (how can I be sure?) UtilitiesGlobal optionsEncodings default character encoding should be UTF-8 then the accented characters will be rendered correctly

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Federico Bruni brunol...@gmx.com wrote: UtilitiesGlobal optionsEncodings default character encoding should be UTF-8 Alternatively, the encoding of the current file is always displayed at the bottom right (you should see something like: lilypond, lilypond,

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s). [...] Also, in the vers in the original Wendat language, the common way to depict one certain sound is with an 8, but Lily won't

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Use quotes: \addlyrics { 8 } Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi all, Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s). I'm having trouble with his name, which requires an e (accent aigu), and I'm getting a couple of

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks so far, Bertalan, But I'm still getting errors. When I put 8 as a syllable on its own, it prints fine, but when I put it in the middle of a syllable with some other letters, it throws a completely irrelevant error. So I put this in my lyrics -- 8 -- as a syllable on its own and it's

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Thanks so far, Bertalan, But I'm still getting errors. When I put 8 as a syllable on its own, it prints fine, but when I put it in the middle of a syllable with some other letters, it throws a completely irrelevant error. You have to write it as \lyricmode {

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks Alexander, But now how about my e-acute in Brebeuf? I'm in UTF-8, and it's not showing up. Also, how do you put those U+0222 type characters into the .ly file? Gordon+ On 26/11/2009, Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote: Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Thanks so far, Bertalan, But

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander Kobel
Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: Thanks Alexander, But now how about my e-acute in Brebeuf? I'm in UTF-8, and it's not showing up. Hunh. Now, that's strange. Are you really sure about the correct encoding? If in doubt, send the file along; e-acute is no problem at all and should be contained

Re: Font questions

2009-11-26 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Ah-ha! I solved the e-acute problem! I had used an accented e from my chat program (XChat2 for Windoze), and that was what was strange. I took a letter from OpenOffice for that and now it's correct. And I just solved the '8' character problem. I looked all over in my OpenOffice characters, and

Midi and Font Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Br. Athanasius Pelletier O.F.M.I.
I am trying to get lilypond to output midi and .pdf but right now it only outputs midi and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Is there also a way to make the midi play faster without adding any symbols to the score? And also I am also doing something wrong with the fonts, because it is still

Re: Midi and Font Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Federico Bruni
Br. Athanasius Pelletier O.F.M.I. wrote: I am trying to get lilypond to output midi and .pdf but right now it only outputs midi and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Is there also a way to make the midi play faster without adding any symbols to the score? You should move \layout block

Re: Font questions

2005-03-20 Thread Hans Forbrich
Thanks David. That font set looks interesting. I'm working on some of Mussorgsky's songs and for the lyrics, I'm looking at doing the Cyrillic with the IPA underneath. I'll have to dig in whether it solves my needs. On questions 1 2, I should have mentioned these are unicode music symbols

Font questions

2005-03-19 Thread Hans Forbrich
Just wondering whether 1) Lilypond supports the Unicode music symbols? regular: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf byzantine: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D000.pdf 2) Whether Lilypond does, or perhaps will, support the Unicode encoding for these symbols? 3)

Re: Font questions

2005-03-19 Thread David Rogers
(Sorry - sent private only at first) Hans Forbrich wrote: With the advances in 2.5, are we be able to use fonts capable of handling Cyrillic or IPA characters? If yes, does anyone know of a decent source for those? One useful Unicode font I have found for IPA, roman with good diacritics, (and