Re: an LM update

2009-02-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
James We discussed this last October, and I agreed to make the change in 2.13, but then the suggestion was made (by Mats): Better yet, why can't the shorthand automatically do the right thing? i.e., {} \\ {} should be translated automagically into {} \new Voice {} I'd rather

MIDI not played by LilypondTool

2009-02-28 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello, I'm using the latest versions of both Lilypond and LilypondTool (which I find extremely useful) on WinXP sp3 with jEdit, but nowthe play MIDI function doesn't work, and the player tells me Error loading MIDI. The reason could be it tries to load a .MIDI file and not a .MID one, which is

Re: MIDI not played by LilypondTool

2009-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/28 MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com: How can I tell LilypondTool to look for .MID files or, if I can't, how can I tell Lilypond to write a .MIDI file? thanks Bonjour MonAmi, :) you have two solutions: add an argument to LilyPond invokation (I believe it's -dmidi-extension midi)

Questions before starting big piece. Pushing myself...

2009-02-28 Thread aliteralmind
For the first time, I'm stretching myself beyond just melodies. I have some old six-plus part acapella arrangements that I handwrote, and want to put into LilyPond. I'm scared. Let's just say that off the bat. :' ) I'm going to start fooling around now, but I have some questions so I design

Re: Questions before starting big piece. Pushing myself...

2009-02-28 Thread James E. Bailey
El 28.02.2009, a las 23:25, aliteralmind escribió: For the first time, I'm stretching myself beyond just melodies. I have some old six-plus part acapella arrangements that I handwrote, and want to put into LilyPond. I'm scared. Let's just say that off the bat. :' ) Why be scared, it's

Parenthesizing chord names

2009-02-28 Thread Tim McNamara
A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For example in Easy Living the turnaround over the last two bars of the second ending is (using

Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-02-28 Thread David Stocker
Ralph, If you haven't already tried it, have a look at this short, sweet walkthrough for setting up lilypond-mode for emacs: http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.html I did this under Windows XP and (with some figuring and a little luck) got it working on both my XP machines. I assume that