Re: starting Fescobaldi

2009-04-23 Thread Simon Bailey
tom, Tom Cloyd wrote: Sorry if this is not precisely the right place to ask this question - it's at least rather close, and I cannot find anywhere else to go. Just now trying out the Frescobaldi editor (http://frescobaldi.org/index.html). Installed it from tar ball. And then... Well, after

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Chip wrote: Thanks for the link, I got this bit of code from his work - -- tagline = \markup { Engraved on \simple #(strftime %b %d, %Y (localtime (current-time))) with \with-url #http://lilypond.org/web/; {

Re: Lilypond can't compile

2009-04-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/4/23 Sávio M. Ramos savio.deb...@gmail.com: Hi, Lilypond can't compile, the error message: Compilation started at Wed Apr 22 21:26:17 xpdf /home/asd/a_asd/zz_varios/musica/savio/bach.pdf Error: Couldn't open file '/home/asd/a_asd/zz_varios/musica/savio/bach.pdf'

suppress time signatures?

2009-04-23 Thread Gerard McConnell
Hello, I would like to use Lilypond to write sight-reading exercises for my piano students. The exercises are generally 8 bars long, on a single system, with a final barline at the end of each line. Each new line requires a time signature. How do I suppress the time signature which is

Re: suppress time signatures?

2009-04-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/4/23 Gerard McConnell gerry...@indigo.ie: Hello, I would like to use Lilypond to write sight-reading exercises for my piano students.   The exercises are generally 8 bars long, on a single system, with a final barline at the end of each line.   Each new line requires a time signature.

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Chip wrote: Engraved on Apr 22, 2009 with Lilypond 2.12.2 (http://lilypond.org/) Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. - Graham

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 19:45 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. As Chip didn't find it: Maybe someone should fix the docs? /me runs Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen

Re: flats as sharps and sharp as flats

2009-04-23 Thread PálBenkő
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: Hi Stefan, Is it possible to define another function, that shows an written dis as an es and vice versa? The \transpose function already does this! Simply use the enharmonic transposition: \version 2.12.2 sharpMusic =

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 19:45 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. As Chip didn't find

Re: suppress time signatures?

2009-04-23 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op donderdag 23 april 2009, schreef Gerard McConnell: How do I suppress the time signature which is inserted automatically at the end of a line? Instead of \break, you can also write new \score { } sections for each line. This way you get independent snippets/pieces of music. \layout {

Re: suppress time signatures?

2009-04-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/4/23 Wilbert Berendsen lily...@xs4all.nl: Op donderdag 23 april 2009, schreef Gerard McConnell: How do I suppress the time signature which is inserted automatically at the end of a line? Instead of \break, you can also write new \score  {  } sections for each line. This way you get

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 19:45 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already in there. As

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:48:53AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I volunteered to help with this a while back but I never got word that I'd been made an editor. Hmm. Valentin? I'll be glad to try to fix this but I'm not completely sure I understand the problem. 1. Log in to LSR as an

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should appear in both Text and Titles, but currently they're only in one list. Somebody should fix this. Ok I found the snippets in the database,

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: 1. Log in to LSR as an editor. (I remember the discussion now; this isn't your fault) 2. Find the tags section for each snippet. 3. Click on the drop-down menus, and select the relevant tags. 4. There is no #4. Is save #4? Thanks for the rundown, Graham. As

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should appear in both Text and Titles, but currently they're only in one list.

Again : notes for toms and floortoms

2009-04-23 Thread lucifree
Hi all, This tip works very well for drums with something like sn sn \tomNoteHeads tomh tommh toml \normalNoteHeads bd bd But I wanted to relaunch this thread since there is still an opened question : how to make the stencil always associated to some notes ? For example i'd like to put

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 9:31 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:56:05AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I will admit that outputting the version number appears in the Text list, rather than the titles. In fact, both snippets should

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B) Is it needed in 2.12 (i.e. has 2.12 introduced new features such that the snippet become

simple page break command in lilypond-book?

2009-04-23 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, is there a simple way to create a page break in a song that is build with lilypond-book? \pageBreak doesn´t work there. Dominic ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B) Is it needed in 2.12 (i.e. has 2.12 introduced new features such that the

Re: Again : notes for toms and floortoms

2009-04-23 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, I wrote a function some time ago which solves the first problem but unfortunately not the second. Still the function is more a dirty workaround and involves modifying it on your own so that it works with your own drumStyle tables. But it's a start and maybe some more experienced schemer

default beat groupings

2009-04-23 Thread James E. Bailey
Did the default beat groupings change? I thought I remembered that in 3/4, three eighth-note triplets followed by an eighth note and an eighth rest would not beam the eighth note to the triplets. In 2.12.2 it does. Is this new? Am I remembering poorly? James E. Bailey

Re: Again : notes for toms and floortoms

2009-04-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi L, how to make the stencil always associated to some notes? I believe there is a tip (in the docs or LSR) which shows how to colour a notehead based on its pitch -- it should be easy to modify that code/method to do what you're asking. Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: Vertical Spacing question

2009-04-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/4/22 Carl D. Sorensen : I think you want to set system-count. Maybe you could play with systems-per-page max-systems-per-page min-systems-per-page ragged-last-bottom might do the trick too. - Mark

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/23/09 12:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: And we really (IMO) need to be doing it as part of moving to a 2.12 LSR. We should also be evaluating: A) Does it run in 2.12? B) Is

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: On 4/23/09 12:04 PM, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: I notice there's a TODO in the Contrib Guide about making multiple versions of LP coexist on the same system. This is something I would need to do to test these snippets, since I'm always runnning the

Re: Again : notes for toms and floortoms

2009-04-23 Thread Tao Cumplido
Thanks for this tip Kieren. This looks like it could work. When I get time I'll see if I can modify the example. Regards, Tao Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:23:38 -0400 Von: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca An: lucifree lucif...@free.fr CC:

Re: simple page break command in lilypond-book?

2009-04-23 Thread Graham Percival
Try searching the mailist archives. This was the first one I found: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-07/msg00196.html - Graham On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:54:03PM +0100, Dominic Neumann wrote: Hi, is there a simple way to create a page break in a song that is build with

Re: default beat groupings

2009-04-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message e63f953e-546a-4485-9e8d-3876f89d6...@googlemail.com, James E. Bailey derhindem...@googlemail.com writes Did the default beat groupings change? I thought I remembered that in 3/4, three eighth-note triplets followed by an eighth note and an eighth rest would not beam the eighth note to

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Chip
Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 23-04-2009 om 19:45 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: Maybe this should be added to the docs somewhere? Maybe you should learn to read the docs? It's already

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, I didn't want to print something in the titles, I wanted to print something in the footer. Am I being nitpicky here? To me those are two different sections of a page. [...] I did find that code and it doesn't do what I was asking for. That puts the date in a text block, my request