Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Ben Luo
Totally agree Wasil. A beautiful sheet, the syntax is only very small part. Lilypond make other default setting great. We just focus on music and syntax. These are the key of music. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Wasil Sergejczyk szelga@gmail.comwrote: There is a chance, but only when

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 30 mai 2012, at 03:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: While the scheme integration have been a big leap

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread mike
On 29 mai 2012, at 23:56, Lucas Gonze wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Nils l...@nilsgey.de wrote: AFAIK musescore dropped Lilypond export support because of a lack of interest and in favour of musicXML (whatever that means, I read it somewhere on the musescore twitter account or

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com writes: That said, people have been writing rather critical things of Scheme. I'll just say that I 3 Scheme! One thing that it has going for it is that it is reasonably well-delimited, so passing in and out of it using # is trivial (for a suitable

Flag becomes separated from stem

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Payne
I have a couple of scores where I occasionally override Stem #'X-extent of a note in order to force more space around the note to prevent elements colliding. This gave no problems with version 2.14, but I notice with the current development version that doing this with a flagged note causes

Re: Flag becomes separated from stem

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I have a couple of scores where I occasionally override Stem #'X-extent of a note in order to force more space around the note to prevent elements colliding. This gave no problems with version 2.14, but I notice with the current development

add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread -Eluze
is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly the code I found for this is something like #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) (if (not (book-last-page? layout props)) (interpret-markup layout props arg) empty-stencil)) this gives more flexibility in defining

Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Thomas
Dear fellow users, I am setting an SATB choral piece that runs to 9 systems, which include several repeated passages, plus a larger-than-usual header (it contains the text of the piece and a translation) and two other largish text blocks (Background Notes plus Pronunciation Guide). The Header,

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread Kai Lautenschläger
... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 30.05.2012 um 15:11 schrieb -Eluze elu...@gmail.com: is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly [...] this gives more flexibility in defining header-/ yes! I would appriciate that very much. Kai ___

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke at gnu.org writes: Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this sponsoring project? What are we missing? Somebody who was willing to run a Kickstarter project and make it happen. The people who put the project together choose their tools,

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen carl.d.soren...@gmail.com writes: Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke at gnu.org writes: Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this sponsoring project? What are we missing? Somebody who was willing to run a Kickstarter project and make it happen. It is not

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:16 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: I know I'm rehashing old ground, but I think that these projects stand to mutually benefit from each other if and only if they evolve in natural directions given their goals. ...  In general, the idea of LilyPond is to build a

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Bernardo Barros
On 05/30/2012 02:10 AM, David Kastrup wrote: C++ does not blend at all, and Python with its indentation matters would be horrors on top of horrors. Lua with separate statements with semicolon or newline or space, I don't care is nicer, but it is procedural, not functional, and thus the simple

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:  There are also a few advantages [of using MuseScore]: a) MusicXML export means the results are usable in a variety of notation   programs making use of an open standard. Indeed, having MusicXML exprort can give Lily more

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:31:49 +0200 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: musescore lands sponsoring? Message-ID: 87fwahu1lm@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain Carl Sorensen carl.d.soren...@gmail.com writes: Jan

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Payne
On 31/05/12 00:09, Kai Lautenschläger wrote: ... von unterwegs gesendet! Am 30.05.2012 um 15:11 schrieb -Eluzeelu...@gmail.com: is it feasible to add not-last-page in titling-init.ly [...] this gives more flexibility in defining header-/ yes! I would appriciate that very much. I would

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 30.05.2012 00:02, schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2012-05-29 um 20:07 schrieb David Kastrup: If it is for easy user scripting: Lua. Flexible, easy to learn, especially designed for that purpose. Yup. And fast. And easily mappable to a different language like LilyPond. String or symbol?

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Bernardo Barros
On 05/30/2012 09:14 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: Not sure about the user base, but it is growing fast. it seems some very motivated guy started a implementation of TeX in Haskell. It says it already does math formulas and footnotes. Maybe he is just crazy. https://github.com/luispedro/hex He

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 21:09 schrieb Marc Hohl: Lua does not have such a large user base. More like a fan base. Python, in contrast, is solidly mainstream. I dream of a chimera of LuaTeX and LilyPond, that would be ideal for my not-only-musical typesetting needs... +1 (Well I know: patches

Re: re-attacked glissandi

2012-05-30 Thread padovani
I have already sent this to Bernardo, but maybe it could be helpful to somebody else... (just did not wrote the markups and the TextSpanner that are in the original version) josé \version 2.15.38 olosbhead = { \once \override NoteHead #'stem-attachment = #'(1 . -0.05) \once

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 21:35 schrieb Bernardo Barros: On 05/30/2012 09:14 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: Not sure about the user base, but it is growing fast. it seems some very motivated guy started a implementation of TeX in Haskell. It says it already does math formulas and footnotes. Maybe he is

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: Lua with separate statements with semicolon or newline or space, I don't care is nicer, but it is procedural, not functional, And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There

Re: add not-last-page in titling-init.ly

2012-05-30 Thread -Eluze
Nick Payne-3 wrote: #(define (not-last-page layout props arg) (if (and (chain-assoc-get 'page:is-bookpart-last-page props #f) (chain-assoc-get 'page:is-last-bookpart props #f)) empty-stencil (interpret-markup layout props arg)))

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, that was called NTS (new typsetting system); I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic. they stopped after implementing TeX compatibility (alias OTS = old ts. system). I heard it

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/30 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: (...) The problem: How do I get the Background Notes to sit happily where I want them on page 3? (...) Hi Philip, how about this setup? It adds the Background Notes to the footer of page three. % \version 2.15.39

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-30 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 26 May 2012 03:28, Klaus Föhl klaus.fo...@uni-giessen.de wrote: Hello, I like the lilypond notation using \relative being concise and readable. Entering on a computer keyboard is fairly quick, but still it feels that playing a melody line would be so much quicker. In particular if one