System Start Delimiter to f or transparent

2006-12-24 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
can a staff be removed from the system start delimiter... I mean the left hand barline running through all staves be stopped for one particular staff.. (difficult question) -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___

Re: combined tenuto + accent

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks for the report, entered as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=186 Please note that this is a feature request which is much harder to implement than it may initially appear; it may be a while until this new feature is added. Cheers, - Graham yota moteuchi wrote: Hi,

Re: newbie questions

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: 1) in measure number 4 of the score, the beam in the 3rd quarter note of the right hand is slightly slanted *upwards*, not downwards as it should be; Agree! This seems to be related to how widely spaced the music is, as can be seen in the following small example:

Re: newbie questions

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: 2) from measure 4 to 5, in the right hand a note with an accidental is tied across the line break, the accidental in the following note (beginning m. 5) collides with the tie; You may find something useful if you search the mailing list archives, the problem looks

Re: newbie questions

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: 3) at the end of m. 6 there's again a note tied to the following measure across the line break, but since there's a clef change in the left hand, the tie ends before the line. I cannot recall having seen exactly this problem mentioned earlier. Here's a minimal example:

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Hello Werner, Am 23/12/2006 um 07:46 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: I am a professional musician and an experienced music teacher. I would even be willing to write a first chapter of a User's Guide for the Very Beginner. Please go on! Either send patches or, in case you aren't satisfied with

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Fine! I have now written the following, and am posting it here for general criticism. I like it! Thanks for your work. This is indeed a kind of a first-time starter which I would not be able to write. Graham, do you have some time to include something like this into the manual.

Re: empty page template suggestion

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Martijn Vromans wrote: Since I notate pianomusic with 2 or more staves, it's rather practical to remove the clef and set the indentation to zero. Here it is as I use it. It's only a slight modification. Excuse me for the bad indentation, but this is not copied well into my e-mail. Thanks,

Re: point-n-click again

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Laura Conrad wrote: David == David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David (server-start) David ...in my .emacs file. Now I can open a *.ly file and click on a note in David the PDF without opening a new instance of Emacs. It does *not* however David go to the correct

Re: two-pass line/page breaking and lilypond-book -- example/docs?

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Arvid Grøtting wrote: I was browsing through the 2.11.2 docs today looking for documentation for two-pass line/page breaking. Unfortunately, all I found was a reference to a regression test that I didn't quite understand. I understand even less about the two-pass stuff. What I'd like to do

Re: Getting involved

2006-12-24 Thread Till Rettig
Thank you Jan. So I tried now to get the diff with git (this is how I understand the command below. It seems there is quite a lot of addition, especially at the windows installation pages. Is there a way of applying them automatically to the already translated files so they would at least be

Re: Two notes per syllable and two syllables per note

2006-12-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 23 December 2006 07:42, Eduardo Vieira wrote: In the two syllables for one note you have 3 ways of doing it (And the manual is *very clear in the first two ones, just check it in the section of entering lyrics):

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 24 December 2006 08:01, Manuel wrote: Chapter One. Open a new LilyPond window and write this inside: { c' d' e' f' g' a' b' c' ' } Save the file and then select Typeset file from the Compile menu. What OS are you on? I open a Kwrite window and type lilypond music.ly in

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Pierre, I'm glad you liked it. English is not my mother language, as you can see. So, thank you very much for all spelling corrections! As far as I can see, they are all quite right. Am 24/12/2006 um 18:01 schrieb Pierre Abbat: What OS are you on? I open a Kwrite window and type

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Here it is again. I ran it through a spell check in TexEdit and found even more mistakes, now corrected. All of them? Manuel LilyPond's Beginners Guide for the Very Beginner Chapter One. Open a new LilyPond window and write this inside: { c' d' e' f' g' a' b' c' ' }

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:39, Manuel wrote: I work with Mac OS X. I don't know what Kwrite is (what is your OS?) I have assumed - perhaps erroneously - than for all OS's it was possible to just open a new LilyPond window. I select new from the File menu or press command-n and that's it...

Re: Two-Pass Vertical Spacing

2006-12-24 Thread Joe Neeman
This is almost certainly because the height-estimation routines are overestimating the height of the systems prior to page breaking on the second pass. Can you try it (perhaps just the first couple of pages) with annotate-spacing = ##t to check? If the Y-extent-estimate interval is much larger

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Christopher A. LaFond
Manuel wrote: Add full stops for dotted or double doted notes: g4. stop may not seem obvious to all. In America, we use the word period; I don't know what is used in other English speaking countries. My recommendation is Add full stops (periods) for dotted or double dotted notes: --

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Johan, Thank you! I have now corrected wether to whether (how did this escape the TexEdit spell check?). I don't understand the this or that correction, I meant it in the sense of something or other. Would you explain, please? Is the expression is very probably in bad english or are you

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 49, Issue 102

2006-12-24 Thread Will Oram
On Dec 24, 2006, at 1.04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two-Pass Vertical Spacing To: William Oram [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 This is almost

Re: Polyphony doubleslurs to chord

2006-12-24 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
{ c8 [ d8 ] } \\ { fis,4 } ( a c ) i want to have a double slur from the c8 and fis,4 to the chord a c i have doubleslurs ##t but it only gives one slur ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

2006-12-24 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Manuel wrote: Here is the whole thing again, including Jay's suggestions and other corrections Manuel LilyPond's Beginners Guide for the Very Beginner Just a quibble, but in English we'd be more likely to say Complete Beginner or maybe Absolute Beginner or even Complete and

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

2006-12-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 24 December 2006 14:16, Manuel wrote: I have no knowledge whatsoever about Linux, so maybe Pierre, or you, or any Linux user could complete the text where I put the ... as well as any other necessary instructions for invoking a lp compilation. It depends on your desktop. GNOME and

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Am 25/12/2006 um 01:24 schrieb Pierre Abbat: On Sunday 24 December 2006 14:16, Manuel wrote: I have no knowledge whatsoever about Linux, so maybe Pierre, or you, or any Linux user could complete the text where I put the ... as well as any other necessary instructions for invoking a lp

Re: osx intel broken?

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
James Bailey wrote: wow, just as I was praising the appearance of a ppc version, I'm a little confused, I downloaded both 2.10 and 2.11 for intel macintosh, and after unpacking the archives, they appear to be PPC programs that won't run on my new iMac. I know I've used this software on this

Re: Very Beginner's Guide

2006-12-24 Thread Manuel
Thank you, Bonnie. I'll change the text with your corrections as soon as I have slept a couple of hours (it has been a long and beautiful day). But I do think you are right: I should stick with instructions for Mac OS X and not get into all those Linux and Windows things I don't know.

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-24 Thread Joe Neeman
On 12/21/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: BTW, in this case it may be good to register the fraction as its own argument type, so \tuplets and \tuplet are generic music functions, both with signature (tuplet-fraction? music?) it would be cool if we could