Re: Right justifying text between systems

2022-02-08 Thread Remy CLAVERIE
Hi Alaisdair,What about : \markup\fill-line{ \null \fontsize #2 \italic "Au Rondeau puis au premier"} ??Rémyenvoyé : 8 février 2022 à 08:04de : Alasdair McAndrew à : lilypond-user@gnu.orgobjet : Right justifying text between systemsHello,I'm typesetting some French late baroque music, which

Re: Dal segno?

2022-02-08 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Alasdair, Am 06.02.22 um 11:06 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew: When I search on "da capo", "dal segno" I get a huge amount of explanatory material in the Lilypond glossary, but I can't find examples of their use, or a description of their symbols.  I'm sure it's there somewhere ... but so far I

Re: Right justifying text between systems

2022-02-08 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Dear Rémy, Many thanks - that works perfectly. I didn't know about "null", which makes "fill-line" work just the way I want. Alasdair On Tuesday 08 February 2022 19:53:18 (+11:00), Remy CLAVERIE wrote: Hi Alaisdair, What about : \markup\fill-line{ \null \fontsize #2 \italic "Au

Re: Right justifying text between systems

2022-02-08 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2022-02-07 11:04 pm, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: \markup {\hspace #70 \fontsize #2 {\italic {Au Rondeau puis au premier}}} For right-alignment, you should use \fill-line: \markup \fill-line { \null \italic "Lorem ipsum..." } I could do this by adding the text as a markup to one

Re: Right justifying text between systems

2022-02-08 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Thank you very much: the use of "\fill-line" and "\null" works perfectly. I was in fact trying to see how to use fill-line, and I didn't know about "null". I'll explore the padding as well, but right at the moment even without it, it seems that fill-line is working very well. Again - thank

Right justifying text between systems

2022-02-08 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Hello, I'm typesetting some French late baroque music, which starts with the three movements Rondeau I, Rondeau II, Bourree I. After Rondeau II I need to include the text direction to repeat Rondeau I. In order to try to get the "feel" of the original, I want to have this text right

Optional syntax highlighting now added to LilyPond's HTML documentation

2022-02-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, The change to add syntax highlighting in the HTML version of the LilyPond documentation, discussed at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-01/msg00012.html on the lilypond-user list and in various lilypond-devel and GitLab threads, has now landed in the source tree and

LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.22.1 version. This release also marks a transition towards Guile 2.2: The binaries

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello developers, Thanks a lot for those excellent news!. I’ve switched to 2.23.6/guile 2.2 on MacOS and will report about my experience. JM > On 8 Feb 2022, at 14:07, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion > wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. This is

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I can report a change in what I see. This code does not produce an error in 2.20 but does in 2.23.6: startParenthesis = { \once \override ParenthesesItem.stencils = #(lambda (grob) (let ((par-list (parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-stencils

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Hans Aikema
Hi Guy, When you would do what you should always do for these cases (when running into syntax errors when changing from an older version of lilypond to the current) - run convert-ly of the new release on your code to upgrade outdated syntax - it should automatically update your outdated

Re: Installing Alternate Music Fonts with Frescobaldi and Homebrew Installation on M1 Mac

2022-02-08 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Jesse, I cannot say anything for sure (lacking a mac to try this on), but theoretically you just need to find the folder homebrew installs the packages to (according to the internet /usr/local/Cellar), find the folder for lilypond and and put the fonts into share/lilypond/current/fonts/

Setting relative pitch as a global declaration?

2022-02-08 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I'm sorry about all these damn-fool queries of mine; I promise to go back under my rock soon. Anyway: In the current 18th century suite I'm typesetting (for two treble instruments without bass), there is a separate variable (containing the notes) for each part of each movement. Then there are

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion
Am Mittwoch, dem 09.02.2022 um 00:15 +0330 schrieb Omid Mo'menzadeh: > Thanks for the amazing work. > I get a bunch "Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories" warnings > using Guile 2.2, that I don't get with Lilypond compiled with Guile 1.8. > This might be a packaging issue, but since I'm

Installing Alternate Music Fonts with Frescobaldi and Homebrew Installation on M1 Mac

2022-02-08 Thread Jesse Wiener
Hi all, Apologies if this has been covered. I couldn't find anything about it in the archives. I have an M1 mac running Monterey. I use Frescobaldi and my LilyPond install was done with Homebrew. It all works wonderfully well. My question is: Is there some way to install alternate music fonts

Re: Installing Alternate Music Fonts with Frescobaldi and Homebrew Installation on M1 Mac

2022-02-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/02/2022 à 00:03, Jesse Wiener a écrit : Hi all, Apologies if this has been covered. I couldn't find anything about it in the archives. I have an M1 mac running Monterey. I use Frescobaldi and my LilyPond install was done with Homebrew. It all works wonderfully well. My question is:

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I tried the Guile 2.2 version on a Windows 10 box where I don't have any admin rights, and even with the simplest input file, I get the following error message: C:\Nobackup\lilypond-2.23.6\bin\lilypond.exe test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.23.6 (running Guile 2.2) ;;;

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hello developers, Thanks a lot for the transition towards Guile 2.2. I've switched to 2.23.6/guile 2.2 on Windows 10. The only issue I have currently encountered is when the filename is in Chines, for example "中文.ly", then lilypond could not generate PDF file. It could generate corrected

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 08/02/2022 à 20:02, Guy Stalnaker a écrit : I can report a change in what I see. This code does not produce an error in 2.20 but does in 2.23.6: startParenthesis = {   \once \override ParenthesesItem.stencils = #(lambda (grob)                                                 (let

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread David Kastrup
Guy Stalnaker writes: > I can report a change in what I see. This code does not produce an error in > 2.20 but does in 2.23.6: > > > startParenthesis = { > \once \override ParenthesesItem.stencils = #(lambda (grob) > (let ((par-list >

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Guy Stalnaker
I apologize for clogging up the list -- this is the first time (so far as I can remember) that I've had a version update trigger an error like this, and thus had never needed to use convert.ly. I have done so, and as Hans says ParenthesesItem.stencils is now Parentheses.stencils. I'll try and be

Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

2022-02-08 Thread Omid Mo'menzadeh
Thanks for the amazing work. I get a bunch "Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories" warnings using Guile 2.2, that I don't get with Lilypond compiled with Guile 1.8. This might be a packaging issue, but since I'm using both on the same system, I thought I'd share. The run-time is also