Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-05 Thread Aaron
And the winner is!! See the attached pdf. thanks Joseph and Ferenc and matts!! Wow I was wondering why I got no hebrew just one mispelling and all is set. Thanks Now I can get down to learning lilypond!!! Thanks Aaron On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 20:32, Joseph Zitt wrote: Aaron wrote: I created

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: % Do you still have problems with the titles? --Yes Exactly what? Tamm, -- I put the hebrew here without \\R etc. Right. \context Lyrics \lyr \apply #(text-augment A B) \lyr % Here you probably want to use \\R{ and } instead. Ok but

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Aaron
I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: here is the file and here is the output: -snip- \version 1.6.10 % Thanks, Han-Wen! % Do you still have problems with the titles? \header { title = Title % languague =

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check out the GUILE 1.6 manual, under SRFI, SRFI-13 Ahh, nice libraries, thanks. Hmm, the documentation seems *MUCH* more comprehensible than last time I checked (half a year or so). That's strange - the doco for the stable version hasn't changed

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: here is the file and here is the output: -snip- \version 1.6.10 % Thanks, Han-Wen! % Do you still have problems with the titles? \header {

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. What is the way to munge the text AFTER Lily's positioning work? what you probably would want is to set the extent of the object Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function text in scm/tex.scm? Or rather, substitute it somehow? I do not

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interpreting music...warning: can't find ascii character: 224 warning: can't find ascii character: 224 I guess this is normal. Is it? Did it work like this previously? Calculating column positions... programming error: No StaffSpacing wishes found

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Aaron
Thanks, I think I am confused then where my lyrics should go. --- A.) \context Lyrics \apply #(text-augment \\R{ }) \lyrics { tra la la } - or --- B. )lyr = \lyrics { %\property LyricsVoice .

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function text in scm/tex.scm? Or rather, substitute it somehow? I do not know which scope it is invoked in... No. scm/tex.scm does not report the width of the text. That is exactly the point. I do not care

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I am confused then where my lyrics should go. It does not matter. You can define lyr = \lyrics { tra la la } and later use \lyr instead of typing \lyrics { tra la la }. But you have to \apply the transformation function sooner or later to some music

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Joseph Zitt
Aaron wrote: I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: here is the file and here is the output: -snip- \version 1.6.10 % Thanks, Han-Wen! % Do you still have problems with the titles? \header { title = Title % languague

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi all and Amelie, I have been using your script and it really works. I have one question, when I want to add -- or ___ between lyrics they don't show up in the final ps or pdf (see attached) notice to notes with no lyrics that is because in the song there are a few places with a few notes per

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Amelie Zapf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. scheme hacking to make it possible to input hebrew and have lilypond insert the hebrew stuff. Most elegant, but more time-consuming to do. But has the potential to do other useful things (eg. underlining) without messing up the alignment. If you

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, I have been using your script and it really works. good. I have one question, when I want to add -- or ___ between lyrics they don't show up in the final ps or pdf (see attached) notice to notes with no lyrics that is because in the song there are a few places with a few notes

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Ferenc, Aaron, all, Most elegant, but more time-consuming to do. But has the potential to do other useful things (eg. underlining) without messing up the alignment. If you promise that what you insert does not change the width of the text (much). It may even be useful for the present

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Amelie Zapf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also notice in the exampe that the lyrics in the first measure are not aligned right. I see that the first syllable is too far to the right and there is no space between the first two syllables? With the present approach, you can not simply add a space

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I tried the $$ etc. but have no idea what file to add it to and in what format. \\$$ ?? Thanks Aaron On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:56, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Amelie Zapf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also notice in the exampe that the lyrics in the first measure are not aligned right. I

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi again I am sorry no -- and no __ I wrote spaceing by mistake.:( Aaron On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 00:02, Amelie Zapf wrote: Hi Aaron, I tried your versions and the spacing is still off. Bear in mind, I didn't say it wouldn't be. The fix I did was getting the -- and __ to appear. The

lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I need to know which way to proceed and who can help me. right now I would need to manually add \\R to every syllable of lyrics I type. ugh Question which is more sensible: 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, all, 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then insert this all into the lyrics section of an already created lilypond file. the quick and dirty fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this could be bundled with

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Han-Wen, all, [CC-ing to ML again] the quick and dirty fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this could be bundled with lilypond? No. Things that are bundled with LilyPond must meet my requirements for coding quality. Quick dirty is not acceptable.

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then insert this all into the lyrics section of an already created lilypond file. the quick and dirty fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this could be

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, all, The following script should do the job: Cheers, Amy #!/usr/bin/perl # revertlyrics.pl v0.1 # Script to print right-to-left languages backwards # in Lilypond # (c) Amelie Zapf 2003 # Licensed under the GNU GPL v2

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Han-Wen, all, Even when it is only a one-liner, it has to be documented, it must comply to GNU coding standards, our coding standards (which forbid Perl and sed), be generally useful, and regularly QA'd. If that is so, the Perl script I sent to the list (I wonder why it hasn't arrived on

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 20:22, Amelie Zapf wrote: Hi Aaron, all, The following script should do the job: Cheers, Amy Thanks and wow but I am not sure if the lyrics files should just be the hebrew text or should it be the complete lyrics section??? A question about the lyrics should I put

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, and wow but I am not sure if the lyrics files should just be the hebrew text or should it be the complete lyrics section??? Just plain text. and, using the example Ferenc got to work: \score { \addlyrics \notes { \clef bass \key d \major \time 3/4 d4.

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, Hi all what is sly??? and where can I get it??? sly enables you to enter the parts side-by-side, measure-by-measure. Much better for error tracking. David Raleigh Arnold developed it, it is to be found on his website. All the best, Amy

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it's not integrated in the Lilypond system, then it will not be maintained by the development team, and should therefore not be integrated in the tarball. okay. Good point. However, what I'm missing on the Lilypond page are links to helper applications such

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Joseph, Amelie Zapf wrote: This is an ex -- am -- ple of how ly -- rics should be enter -- ed. Should -- n't it be en -- tered ? You're en -- tire -- ly right. ;-) Amy ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]