Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter it does not exactly overwhelm. I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote exactly what one is replying

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-31 Thread Urs Liska
We'll think about this (and some more, when I'm back and we're ready with our current job ...). OK, Janek? Best Urs Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com schrieb: 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)

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 05/29/2012 04:22 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: The real issue is: Why is that warning supposed to be there in the first place? Shouldn't you be looking for a way to fix the underlying problem instead? Cheers, Reinhold Good point. The situation is this: the \sustainOn command is often

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Eluze
Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I could hide using s but the stem direction would have to be manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot of extra work just to avoid a warning. (Unless there is a better way

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I could hide using s but the stem direction would have to be manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot of extra work just to avoid a warning.

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread Peter O'Doherty
On 05/31/2012 12:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Eluzeelu...@gmail.com writes: Am 31.05.2012 11:19, schrieb Peter O'Doherty: I could make a fake second voice in the second measure here which I could hide using s but the stem direction would have to be manually adjusted too. This seems like a lot

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
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? (...) From: Thomas Morley [mailto:thomasmorle...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday 30 May 2012 23:40 Hi Philip, how about this setup? It adds the

Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances and I want them to match. Cheers, Philip

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances and I want

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
From: Marek Klein [mailto:ma...@gregoriana.sk] Sent: Thursday 31 May 2012 13:08 To: Philip Thomas Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph? Hello, 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted)

Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Thomas
From: Marek Klein [mailto:ma...@gregoriana.sk] Hello, 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary text hyphens. I would like to add

position of footer

2012-05-31 Thread Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger
Dear list, being on the list for only a few days has given me so many new ideas and input for improving my scores, that I like to send out my thanks for that first!!! Now to my latest question: I tweaked the footers in my files with: %% Einführung der Variable not-last-page #(define

Re: position of footer

2012-05-31 Thread -Eluze
Kai-48 wrote: being on the list for only a few days has given me so many new ideas and input for improving my scores, that I like to send out my thanks for that first!!! welcome! Now to my latest question: I tweaked the footers in my files with: In the PDF the footer on the last

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

2012-05-31 Thread Stjepan Horvat
What do you think about talking out the score in lilypond style..so you wouldnt have to switch eyes between screen and sheet..for example..: c 8 f 16 c 4 . ( d 8 d d | and than a script to fix it: c8 f16 c4. ( d8 d d | but i think that voice recognition is not well suported on linux..i think

besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: $which-side' the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side added-text) (integer? string?)

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry Prosser wrote: besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: $which-side' the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter it does not exactly overwhelm. I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote exactly what one is replying to. #1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}.

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Collett
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 are some people who really like functional

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb 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. There’s a smiley. The LuaTeX team called

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built internally too: almost every C++ data structure is

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:18 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: You can't separate the two.  Developers grow from users.  Look at the TeX/LaTeX and Emacs communities: how much of the changes happen in the binary, how much in the interpretative layers?  Where did most developers get their

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm fiee.visue...@gmail.com writes: Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb 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

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com writes: On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry Prosser wrote: besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser location which-side added-text) (integer? string?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text (markup

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser ge...@chalkblue.co.uk writes: besideCN is used to display capo settings along with guitar chord names, but with 2.15.39 I get error message 'Unbound variable: $which-side' the last working score I have was compiled with 2.15.13 besideCN = #(define-music-function (parser

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
Choan ... if you are scheme-illiterate, what does that make me ? Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why .. G On 31 May 2012 18:03, Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/31/12 12:09 , Gerry

[OT] was Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Just a quick name-dropping reminiscence here… =) I don't think that the last bugs category can be closed while Donald Knuth is alive In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference in San Francisco. Much to my surprise, at one of the other sessions I

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread Gerry Prosser
David ... thanks, and yes indeed. And I run convert-ly on every new score I create with denemo, so there really is no excuse for not engaging brain on this occasion 8-) Thanks for all the gentle admonishments from around the community . G On 31 May 2012 19:30, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org

Re: [OT] was Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi all, Just a quick name-dropping reminiscence here… =) I don't think that the last bugs category can be closed while Donald Knuth is alive In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference in San

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser ge...@chalkblue.co.uk writes: David ... thanks, and yes indeed. And I run convert-ly on every new score I create with denemo, so there really is no excuse for not engaging brain on this occasion 8-) Thanks for all the gentle admonishments from around the community . Well,

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-31 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: We'll think about this (and some more, when I'm back and we're ready with our current job ...). OK, Janek? ok ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Gerry Prosser ge...@chalkblue.co.uk writes: Choan ... if you are scheme-illiterate, what does that make me ?  Removing the dollars certainly seems to work - thank you! Hopefully someone cleverer than us will be along shortly to explain why .. G Actually, I was not able to explain the

Re: [OT] was Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, He seems like a wonderful man. Yup. The TeX version numbering alone is sufficient proof! Hermann Zapf was also amazing. One of my heroes! K. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Layout of staff systems and text blocks

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/31 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: Hi Harm, Once again you have been incredibly kind and helpful. Since writing to the forum yesterday, I had been experimenting with an added Dynamics context to act as a kind of skyhook for the Background Notes. That succeeded in placing the

Re: [OT] was Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org I don't think that the last bugs category can be closed while Donald Knuth is alive In January 2009, I presented one of my mathematical papers at a conference in San Francisco.

how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread info
Hi- please direct me to.. I can't find how to underline a single word in the lyrics I'd settle for italic if that's the only possibility but I couldn't find either in manual or repository. using stable version thanks jay ___

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi- please direct me to.. I can't find how to underline a single word in the lyrics I'd settle for italic if that's the only possibility but I couldn't find either in manual or repository.

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hi Kieren- Yes that helps- but it isn't anywhere in the manual that I can find and even knowing what the snippet is called Formatting lyrics syllables doesn't produce a find and I had done a search through the pdf manual for underline and it showed different ways to use \underline but none of them

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Sorry but it's not in the v2.14 pdf manual. I looked there first - twice. I looked there after you wrote- I just did a search for \italic in that section and there's plenty of uses but none in lyric, a search for \markup {\italic also came up with nothing- the snippet you provided me a link to