RE:Running Lilypond through jEdit in Windows

2005-10-28 Thread anders stenberg
Hi! I did folow the procedure outlined by Bertalan Fodor in vol 35 issue 56. When loading the lilytool 0.2.8-6 all I get is an Error message: Cannot start: java.lang. Unsuported ClassVersionError, Lilytool/lilytool.jar: (Unsuported major.minor version 49.0 ) try uploading to a newer version

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: GNU LilyPond 2.6.4 ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-2, message: can't open the module I've prepared 2.6.4-2, would you like to give that a test? It took me longer than I'd hoped, but as a bonus you should be able to do

Grob Direction error

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Killeen
Hi have just upgraded to 2.7.14 from 2.6.31 (Mac version). I now get the rather drammatic error message programming error: Grob direction requested while calculation in progress. the output looks fine so I am wondering if this is a debug statement in the development version ? cheers Neil

RE:Running Lilypond through jEdit in Windows

2005-10-28 Thread Fodor Bertalan
You need Java 5.0 (aka 1.5) for this version (and now on). I know this is sad for Mac users, but I would not have had enough motivation to work on LilyPondTool if I must stay with 1.4 Bert anders stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: Hi! I did folow the procedure outlined by Bertalan Fodor in

Re: The frust is growing up ... Was: Re: giving up frustrated ... :-(

2005-10-28 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Roland Goretzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list, hello Erik, You wrote: Well, a 2.6.3 .deb is in debian unstable now, so perhaps you can try that. Thank You, I tried, but on my sarge 3.1 there are some difficulties with dependencies, so this is not the way ... :-( Every

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I just tried a clean installation of the new package and lilypond itself works like a charm. However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window to start the interpreter, but it seems that the command doesn't do

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window to start the interpreter, but it seems that the command doesn't do anything at all. That's not much. You did set PYTHONPATH? Try using -v to see what

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: I just tried a clean installation of the new package and lilypond itself works like a charm. Thanks. However, I couldn't manage to run python. For example, I would expect /Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/python2.4.exe in a command window to start the interpreter, but

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music with text that looks like poor MS Word output. Is there any way to get the old Text quality back?

Re: The frust is growing up ... Was: Re: giving up frustrated ... :-(

2005-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The easiest solution for you is probably to compile the program yourself. I'll do it myself on Debian Sarge in the coming days and can send detailed instructions, but it seems that the only thing you need to compile in addition to lilypond is a newer version of fontforge, which can be

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: Well, one reason is that you then would have to set the value of the libdir variable at the top of midi2ly.py in the installation program, since you don't know before then what installation directory was actually used. Moving the dll:s and .py include files into bin\

eps issue

2005-10-28 Thread Martial
L'o Several thread talk about eps, so : I use Lilypond (for windows) recently and I test the \epsfile, with difficulty, but with succes ! syntaxe : \epsfile #my_image.eps * in use : \markup { \epsfile #my_image.eps } There are two format eps : matrix and vectorial. Lilypond use the eps

Music fragments with Lilypond?

2005-10-28 Thread Edwin Vane
Hi, I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new. I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on mac os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to fill

Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?

2005-10-28 Thread Maurits Lamers
Why not writing your complete thesis in Tex ? I used LyX as an editor and that worked as a dream... greets Maurits On 28-okt-05, at 17:50, Edwin Vane wrote: Hi, I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new. I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output

Re: foutmelding

2005-10-28 Thread Michiel Lange
First of all: it helps if you keep your messages in english: more people read it and can answer more quickly :-) First I will translate the situation you described, then try to provide some kind of an answer where someone else may help in getting the problem solved completely: Translation

no TeX in new lily but is there lilypond-book?

2005-10-28 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi, I am still using 2.4.5 in Debian testing but understand that the use of TeX is no longer happening in the 2.6 series of releases. Can the lilypond-book snippets in a document still happen? Just curious. Sterling MacNay ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: no TeX in new lily but is there lilypond-book?

2005-10-28 Thread Pedro Kröger
Sterling Sympatico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am still using 2.4.5 in Debian testing but understand that the use of TeX is no longer happening in the 2.6 series of releases. Can the lilypond-book snippets in a document still happen? yes. 2.6 still have lilypond-book but now it

Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?

2005-10-28 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think there must be a source of that program somewhere (it's command line based, pretty simple, but pretty effective). Be sure you include \header{ copyright = tagline = } in

figured bass questionsproblems

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Janovcik
Dear list, I've been typesetting an early baroque continuo part and came across several problems. I'm using lily 2.7.12 windows native and I'm not wether some of these issues have or haven't been taken care of in later version which are not yet aviable to me... 1. (Possible bug...) Please take a

Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-10-28 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Hello, Does anyone know of an escape sequence enabling the composition of accentuated characters? My system is a non-UTF8 system (ISO-latin-1) and I don't have any way to type an UTF-8 character in my xterms. I can type iso-latin-1, but apparently this is not understood by 2.6.3, whereaas it

Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?

2005-10-28 Thread andrea valle
Of course, with Preview on Mac OSX one can crop pdf. (Moreover, Preview is scriptable, but I've never used apple script) -a- On 28 Oct 2005, at 22:30, John Wiedenhoeft wrote: I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think

figured bass questionsproblems

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Janovcik
Dear list, I've been typesetting an early baroque continuo part and came across several problems. I'm using lily 2.7.12 windows native and I'm not sure wether some of these issues have or haven't been taken care of in later versions which are not yet aviable to me... 1. (Possible bug...) Please

doubling of time signature in 2.6.3 ?

2005-10-28 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Hello- I've fiddled with this for an hour and copied it first directly from the manual (typed it in) then took and copied some from something I made work and then even edited that and I still have these double time signatures- So something is wrong with the manual or I'm really missing

problems with special characters on 2.6

2005-10-28 Thread Ralf und Martina Wimmer
I run LilyPond 2.6 on Windows 2000. By using the characters from the keyboard for the german umlaut (ä, ö, ü) or french accent (é, è) there are no printed signs in the pdf-output and the following character is also ignored. With Lilypond 2.4 and Cygwin on the same OS there is no such mistake. I

Automatic line breaking in Lilypond

2005-10-28 Thread Alex Decker
HeyIs there a way to make a userdefined automated line breaking in Lilypond? I tried this, as said in the manual: \repeat unfold 7 {         s1 \noBreak s1 \noBreak         s1 \noBreak s1 \break }   the real musicBut that gives me an empty line above the line where my music is actually displayed. 

Re: times number on beams crossing staves

2005-10-28 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
At least for the first example you should have time not times- see if that does it Jay Maxime Brugidou wrote: Hello i'm with the 2.6.3 version, i have 2 questions : i wrote : \context Staff= one { \times 4/5 {\stemDown a'16[e' \change Staff=two \stemUp d'' c'']} } \context Staff= two {

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Raphael Manfredi writes: My system is a non-UTF8 system (ISO-latin-1) I do not believe that there is such a thing. Just install a utf-8 aware editor, eg, any reasonably modern emacs, jedit or vim. I can type iso-latin-1 Then try the recode program recode latin1..utf8 foo.ly , but