Auto beaming in unmetered music

2009-03-16 Thread Benedict Singer
Hi all, I'm writing some un-metered music, using \cadenzaOn and putting in \bar "|" where I want barlines. However, the music is a lot of 8th and 16th notes, and I'd like them beamed into quarter note groups at all times, i.e. 2 consecutive 8ths beam together, and 4 consecutive 16ths beam

Fwd: Help migrating a script from lilypond 2.10 to 2.12

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Allan Spagnol Comar Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:47 PM Subject: Re: Help migrating a script from lilypond 2.10 to 2.12 To: "Carl D. Sorensen" fair is fair, when I return home I will reinstall the 2.12 and re run it. bye, On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:

Fwd: Help migrating a script from lilypond 2.10 to 2.12

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Allan Spagnol Comar Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Help migrating a script from lilypond 2.10 to 2.12 To: "Carl D. Sorensen" Hi guys, sorry for the late answer. No I haven tried to run the convertly script. I am attaching a sample

Re: stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, But ragged-right = ##f with two separate \score{} works and gives quick result. It "works" in the sense that it looks good... But it is still musically wrong -- for example, MIDI output would not be as desired/expected. GrandStaff with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext also works, but it's

Re: stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread melkiy
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Hi, > >> My rescuer, who didn't answer to the common mail-list for some >> reason, gave me the answer: >> >> in layout block, should be: >> ragged-right = ##f > > Unfortunately, your "rescuer" gave you an incorrect answer -- really, > you should put both

Re: an LM update

2009-03-16 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 3/16/09 11:52 AM, "James E. Bailey" wrote: > > > On 16.03.2009, at 16:43, Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> c) Can we just make the change so that more people aren't confused by >>> the issue. (I've answered another question related to this in the >>> last >>> week) >> >> Yes, please do. C

Re: Vim with LP syntax coloring on Mac OSX

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:07:14PM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote: > Jonathan Kulp wrote: >> I'm having trouble getting vim to do Lilypond syntax coloring on OSX. >> I have it all working fine on my Linux machines but I'm doing something >> wrong on the Macs. > > Does anybody know a good vim version

\remove has removed clefs-

2009-03-16 Thread Jay Hamilton
version 2.10.25 included in \context { \Staff \remove "Bar_engraver" \remove "Time_signature_engraver" \override Stem #'transparent = ##t this has the effect of removing all the clefs from everywhere except the very first system of the piece. How can I stop this? I think I understand that i

Re: Vim with LP syntax coloring on Mac OSX

2009-03-16 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Helge Kruse wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm having trouble getting vim to do Lilypond syntax coloring on OSX. I have it all working fine on my Linux machines but I'm doing something wrong on the Macs. Does anybody know a good vim version for windows (including coloring, syntax help, etc.)?

Re: Dynamic voices in polyphonic music - how?

2009-03-16 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Florian Hollerweger wrote: Hi list, My name's Florian, I am a Lilypond newbie, and currently one of my strategies to get beyond that stage is to use Lilypond to redo a small piano piece I wrote a while ago in Sibelius (a pdf is available at http://flo.mur.at/muteandcontinue-piano.pdf) The m

Dynamic voices in polyphonic music - how?

2009-03-16 Thread Florian Hollerweger
Hi list, My name's Florian, I am a Lilypond newbie, and currently one of my strategies to get beyond that stage is to use Lilypond to redo a small piano piece I wrote a while ago in Sibelius (a pdf is available at http://flo.mur.at/muteandcontinue-piano.pdf) The main question this brings up

Re: Lilypond on Ubuntu

2009-03-16 Thread David Stocker
To clarify, a decent location for the documentation files would be /home/yourusername/lilypond-documentation where "yourusername" is the special name of your particular home folder and "lilypond-documentation" is the name of the folder where you extract the documentation tarball. Leave out the

Re: Lilypond on Ubuntu

2009-03-16 Thread David Stocker
Hi Craig, I too have a Compaq Presario 2100 running Ubuntu 8.04. You'll want to browse to http://lilypond.org/web/install/ and download the binary package for "Any x86". You'll also probably want to grab the Documentation and burn it to the same CD. Once you have it on CD, just copy the files

Lilypond on Ubuntu

2009-03-16 Thread Craig Bakalian
Hi, I am confused about the installation procedure for getting Lilypond on Ubuntu. I just bought a laptop at a yard sale for 30 USD. It is a compaq presario 2100. Ubuntu cannot drive the modem so I cannot download directly to the laptop. So, I will download to an iMac and bur

Re: Vim with LP syntax coloring on Mac OSX

2009-03-16 Thread Helge Kruse
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm having trouble getting vim to do Lilypond syntax coloring on OSX. I have it all working fine on my Linux machines but I'm doing something wrong on the Macs. Does anybody know a good vim version for windows (including coloring, syntax help, etc.)? Helge

Re: an LM update

2009-03-16 Thread James E. Bailey
On 16.03.2009, at 16:43, Graham Percival wrote: c) Can we just make the change so that more people aren't confused by the issue. (I've answered another question related to this in the last week) Yes, please do. Carl can help you get started as a Frog; we desperately need more people writ

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:37:50PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> > - \cresc, \dim, \decr, \decresc produce a text without spanner, applies >> > only once to the previous note, no need to finish with \! or \endcresc, >> > this could be implemented with a \markup comma

Re: an LM update

2009-03-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:31:54AM +0100, James E. Bailey wrote: > I realise it's only been a week since this was last discussed, but: > a) no one who can say whether or not this can be implemented has > responded (ever) Yes, this can be implemented. I have no clue how complicated this may be,

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-03-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:37:50PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > - \cresc, \dim, \decr, \decresc produce a text without spanner, applies > > only once to the previous note, no need to finish with \! or \endcresc, > > this could be implemented with a \markup command > > I don't like the idea o

Re: stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread David Stocker
Additionally, use \break to manually break lines in order to achieve an optimal layout. Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, My rescuer, who didn't answer to the common mail-list for some reason, gave me the answer: in layout block, should be: ragged-right = ##f Unfortunately, your "rescuer"

Re: Persian fonts

2009-03-16 Thread patrick duka
In fact it's very simple (only my lack of experience in handling fonts files made it difficult): at first when lilypond's console was showing error messages, it said clearly waht paths it was going through to locate the .ly file, there were several paths, so i guess you can just put a copy of it i

Re: stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, My rescuer, who didn't answer to the common mail-list for some reason, gave me the answer: in layout block, should be: ragged-right = ##f Unfortunately, your "rescuer" gave you an incorrect answer -- really, you should put both the solo music (Staff) and the choral music (Choi

Re: stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread melkiy
My rescuer, who didn't answer to the common mail-list for some reason, gave me the answer: in layout block, should be: ragged-right = ##f -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/stretching-horizontally-tp22537019p22537736.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing lis

stretching horizontally

2009-03-16 Thread melkiy
I have one line of solo and then ChoirStaff with 2 staves. I don't want the first line to be a two-starves line with many rests in other voices. So, i created two \score: \score { \new Staff << \new Voice = "Soloi" { ... one line of solo Music ... } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Soloi" {

Re: some questions

2009-03-16 Thread James E. Bailey
On 16.03.2009, at 10:45, Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/3/16 James E. Bailey : 3) Is there a way to get a half of a box around a fingering? I vaguely remember a three-legged box in the markup commands, but I don't see it anymore. Any tips for where to look? Search for the word Three in LSR

Re: Spliting lyrics on beamed notes

2009-03-16 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 15 maart 2009, schreef Alberto Simões: > By default Lilypond is considering that beamed notes are used for the > same syllable. While that is used in many cases (most, in fact), I am > dealing with a specific music where I want a different syllable for each > note. > > How can I force thi

Re: some questions

2009-03-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/16 James E. Bailey : > > 3) Is there a way to get a half of a box around a fingering? I vaguely > remember a three-legged box in the markup commands, but I don't see it > anymore. Any tips for where to look? Search for the word Three in LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=330 -- Fra

some questions

2009-03-16 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm guessing it's a bad time to ask questions, I haven't seen much response, but I thought I'd ask again. 1) I know it's difficult to imagine that a user (i.e., not someone who can fix a bug) has properly set up his system for convert-ly on osx 10.4, but convert-ly on osx 10.4 does not work