Re: 6/4 rests

2004-01-02 Thread Arvid Grøtting
John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4. Try R4*6 for a single rest which fills the measure. Or simply R1. -- Arvid ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Finalizing my score

2004-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I prefer the 'padding' property in these situations. When you move extra-offset, the object is moved after all the layout has been determined. The padding property is taken into account much earlier in the layout calculations so LilyPond can use the information that the object was moved to

Re: compiling under OSX

2004-01-02 Thread Terje Tjervaag
On 01/01/04 18:46 -0500, John Scherk wrote: I have got past the problems with flex and successfully compiled everything in the lily directory. But there are problems in the python directory: If you don't have particular reasons for compiling Lilypond yourself, may I suggest you try the Fink

Re: 6/4 rests

2004-01-02 Thread Russ Ross
r1. (or r4*6) will give you a dotted whole rest, R1. (or R4*6) will give you a whole measure rest (no dot) and both will be the right duration. - Russ On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:07:54PM -0700, John Williams wrote: r1 is a rest of length 1 (= 4/4), but you want 6/4. Try R4*6 for a single

Re: PDF bitmap problem

2004-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You need some extra flags to the dvips command, see the lilypond-book manual: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Invoking-lilypond-book.html#Invoking%20lilypond-book /Mats Tim Walters wrote: First of all, let me say how much I love Lilypond. I downloaded it a

Re: 6/4 rests

2004-01-02 Thread Aaron
Well I learned a thing or two. R1 doesn't work. R4*6 works for 6/4 But what I feel should be happening is that there should be a way of notation a whole bar rest no matter what the time signiture. R1 should mean that but it is based on 4/4 doesn't lily know what the time sig. is?? Lily checks

Re: Finalizing my score

2004-01-02 Thread Atte André Jensen
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I prefer the 'padding' property in these situations. snip I know and agree, but in this case (metronome mark) I find it's often necessary to move the text in the horizontal direction also. You could use a mix of padding (for vertical) and extra-offset (for horizontal), but

Re: PDF bitmap problem

2004-01-02 Thread Tim Walters
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 04:35 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You need some extra flags to the dvips command, see the lilypond-book manual: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ Invoking-lilypond-book.html#Invoking%20lilypond-book Thanks!

Re: which grob for dots?

2004-01-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the section on Durations in the reference manual, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Durations.html#Durations you'll find a link to the Dots graphical object. You can also find a complete list of all graphical objects at the documentation web page if you click at

Re: which grob for dots?

2004-01-02 Thread Atte André Jensen
Mats Bengtsson wrote: In the section on Durations in the reference manual, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Durations.html#Durations you'll find a link to the Dots graphical object. Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for! Why do you want to move

Customizing jazz chord names

2004-01-02 Thread Nick Busigin
I am interested in changing the naming of jazz chords for some lead sheets we are working on.For example, I'd like to use the following construct to print out chord names above a melody: \context ChordNames \chords { a2:min7 fis:min7.5- g:9+ e:m5-.7 } but with over-rides for a few of

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Re: 6/4 rests

2004-01-02 Thread John Williams
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Aaron wrote: Well I learned a thing or two. R1 doesn't work. R4*6 works for 6/4 But what I feel should be happening is that there should be a way of notation a whole bar rest no matter what the time signiture. R1 should mean that but it is based on 4/4 doesn't lily

Moving fingerings

2004-01-02 Thread Austin W
I got a little 32nd note run, and its got some fingering numbers and a slur. The slur is cutting through some of the numbers. How do I move these numbers? Up preferably, so they ride the arc. The last 5 notes in this run are grouped in five 32nds to an8th note, so when i make it fit in the last

I'm stumped - code check plz

2004-01-02 Thread chip
I have checked this over and over and can't find the error. Could someone be kind enough to run the following code and see if they can determine the problem? The error message is like this: 43:2: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/8: (repeated twice) also this one: Multi_measure_rest::get_rods (): I