several "easy" questions...

2001-11-13 Thread Jeff Maxson
...or at least ones that most likely have been figured out... 1. How do I edit the "lily was here" at the bottom of the page? 2. How do I make sure that the first line is not indented? I've used LaTeX in the past, and figured the \noindent command should go somewhere, but can't seem to figure

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > used for the Gnu mailing lists, compared to, e.g., > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/ > > which also provides free text search. The only > > disadvantage of the www.mail-archive.com archive > > is that it lags behind some days. > > > > I hereby

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > He probably used Quoted-Printable as the transfer > encoding, just as you did in your email. This is > another disadvantage of the mail archive software > used for the Gnu mailing lists, compared to, e.g., > http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/ > which a

Re: Documentation, and troubles compiling

2001-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
... > > > I don't know anything about Flex. Should I learn it? > > > > No, the only thing you need do is just, please, follow the INSTALL > > instructions. > As I said above: this involves going back to 2.95.3, which > I'm unwilling to do. > > > > Or is there a possibility that you

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> PS: I used the source from the mail archive > (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/lilypond-user/2001-November/000447.html) > and on that page something funny happens with equal signs (=3D) and opening > braces ({), extra newlines and texts "3D" and "20" are added. That does > not seem to happen in ot

Re: trouble compiling lilypond-1.5.21

2001-11-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Hello! > > I'm trying to get lilypond up and running on my linux box (Ive installed and > used an old version on a previos linux machine). I've installed guile V1.4 > without incedent, but when I try compiling lilypond I get some undefined > symbols which I assume should be coming from libgu

Re: Documentation, and troubles compiling

2001-11-13 Thread Alan McConnell
I apologize for being late with this response. I have been spending a bit of time analyzing the gcc 3.0 issue, and collecting opinions of colleagues. In the opinion of people that I know and trust in the Linux community, gcc 3.0 is much stricter than either 2.95.3 or the "Red Hat gcc"(which is b

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
Many thanks for the help - I am all set now. 8) ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread David Boersma
Hello, A bit more text to my previous mail: ly2dvi first calls lilypond which exports (la)tex code which is then processed by LaTeX. So in all quoted text strings in your Lilypond code you should be aware of the latex special symbols (#, $, %, ~, &, _, ^, \, {, } or hash/pound, dollar, percent,

trouble compiling lilypond-1.5.21

2001-11-13 Thread Sheldon White
Hello! I'm trying to get lilypond up and running on my linux box (Ive installed and used an old version on a previos linux machine). I've installed guile V1.4 without incedent, but when I try compiling lilypond I get some undefined symbols which I assume should be coming from libguile: /expor

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread David Boersma
Hello, > Analyzing Devienne_1.tex... > Running LaTeX... > error: latex: command exited with value 256 I could reproduce this error. When I changed the title "Devienne #1" into "Devienne \#1" it went away. The resulting dvi file (and postscript) looked like playable music. David. _

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 11:58, Cole Tuininga wrote: > On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 11:37, David Boersma wrote: > > Hello Cole, > > > > AFAIK the recommended way to get postscript output is a twostep process: > > > > ly2dvi Devienne_1.ly > > dvips Devienne_1.dvi -o Devienne_1.ps > > Thanks for the sugges

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 11:37, David Boersma wrote: > Hello Cole, > > AFAIK the recommended way to get postscript output is a twostep process: > > ly2dvi Devienne_1.ly > dvips Devienne_1.dvi -o Devienne_1.ps Thanks for the suggestions - however, the ly2dvi does not seem to be happy with my format

Re: Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread David Boersma
Hello Cole, > marked mf. However, when I render it with: > > lilypond -f ps Devienne_1.ly AFAIK the recommended way to get postscript output is a twostep process: ly2dvi Devienne_1.ly dvips Devienne_1.dvi -o Devienne_1.ps (the "-o file.ps" is usually not necessary but with some implementatio

Problem rendering initial dynamics?

2001-11-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
First of all, I'm a complete lilypond newbie (just started using last night) but I was hoping that perhaps somebody could point out what I'm doing wrong here. I've attached a .ly file. Note that the first note is intended to be marked mf. However, when I render it with: lilypond -f ps Devienn

Re: Descant Issue

2001-11-13 Thread David Boersma
Hi David, did you already try replacing > \context Lyrics \DesText and > \context Lyrics \text by something like \context Lyrics = "Desc" \DesText and \context Lyrics = "Treb" \DesText respectively? David Boersma _

Descant Issue

2001-11-13 Thread david wynn
I'm a new lilypond user. I ran across some hand-written music recently, and wanted to typeset it. Only I've run into a rather frustrating problem. This is a song with both regular lyrics and a descant. I've been trying to set up the music so that the music shows (starting from the top) guit