new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
Yo. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html - no, I don't think that Advertizing is a good name. Suggestions are desired. This chapter (or tab) is aimed at people who don't know if they want to use lilypond or not. We stick enticements (and some warnings) in here.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Graham Percival wrote: Yo. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html - no, I don't think that Advertizing is a good name. Suggestions are desired. This chapter (or tab) is aimed at people who don't know if they want to use lilypond or not. We stick enticements (and

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chipc...@wiegand.org wrote: - Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment  I'm not planning on changing the sections.  If you think  something's missing, let me know. I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on

pianoStaff with TimeSig, centered dynamics and centered pedal

2009-06-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I want to create a pianoStaff with TimeSig, centered dynamics and centered pedal. My problem is: I would like to have the TimeSignature on the same vertical position as the dynamis. How can I achieve it? Here is the snippet: \version 2.12.1. \layout { % Definiert den

Re: Looking for Time signature tweak - Thanks to David, Kieren and Reinhold

2009-06-28 Thread Villum Sejersen
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Reinhold, This is essentially what \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit does, except that with the single-digit style the number is automatically extracted from the time signature... Wow... never seen that in the docs before!? Very cool.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. Does this mean not enough content on the page, or the margins, padding, etc. are too tall/wide? If it's the latter, at what resolution are you viewing the site (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.)? This

piece title on every page but first - how?

2009-06-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Greetings. I've been playing with various ways to get every page of my score to have the title of my piece, somewhere on the top of the page. I do NOT want it duplicated on page one, and I don't want to use the header's instrument field - that would cause first page duplication and I do want

Re: Looking for Time signature tweak

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/6/27 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Since I haven't found anything in the documentation and in the LSR, I created a sample snippet and posted it to the LSR: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=609 Can this snippet be added to the documentation about time signatures

Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the *center* of the parent notehead? I engineered a solution to exactly this question in a thread from September 2006 between me and Markus Schneider ... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-09/msg00088.html ... and, in

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Trevor Bača
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Trevor Bača trevorb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the *center* of the parent notehead? I engineered a solution to exactly this question in a thread from September 2006 between me and Markus Schneider ...

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Trevor Bača wrote: Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the *center* of the parent notehead? Here's something interesting from Michael Lauer from a month ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00573.html - Mark

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chipc...@wiegand.org wrote: - Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment I'm not planning on changing the sections. If you think something's missing, let me know. I think there is obviously far too much

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Nick Hasser
Graham Percival wrote: Yo. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html There is also an OpenBSD port, which probably should be included on the Unix list. It is currently at 2.10.33, though. Nick ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:06:40PM -0500, Trevor Bača wrote: Could we change to   #!/usr/bin/env python to avoid problems with the script calling old versions of Python on a system that might have newer versions coinstalled?) That's been a bloody request for the past two years.

Re: titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:58:22AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Tom Cloyd wrote: More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” in Notation Reference. That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot find it anywhere else. It's section 3.2.1

Re: titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:58:22AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Tom Cloyd wrote: More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” in Notation Reference. That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot find it anywhere else. Argh, thinko.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51:04AM -0700, chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chipc...@wiegand.org wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. Does this mean not enough content on

lsr item 391: Lyrics above the staff they are assigned to

2009-06-28 Thread James E. Bailey
In the process of answering someone's question, I stumbled across this. It works, but shouldn't alignAboveContext be used to do this instead? I can prepare a minimal snippet and even post it to the lsr. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=391 James E. Bailey

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-28 Thread -Eluze
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: There already is an example in the manual showing the use of *. I think that is probably sufficient. Yes, but it uses a for ... in ... do syntax that only works in BASH, there is a similar syntax in batch processing for windows: for %x in (*.ly) DO convert-ly -e

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51:04AM -0700, chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chipc...@wiegand.org wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. Does this mean

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so much that it's hard to find the information one is looking for. I

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On this page http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine and these day web-developers say that 1024x768 is the new 800x600.

Adjusting initial LH barline

2009-06-28 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I'm trying to update Arbeau's Pavane at Mutopia.org. I've got it almost ready, except for two things. The drum part in the original is on a separate staff above the system containing words and tunes. There is *no* connecting line between the main

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:09:06PM -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: On this page http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine and

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham (et al), Much of the site certainly doesn't work for hand held devices. Hmm, that's a problem. Are there any particularly bad pages, or just overall bad? Any suggestions to fix it? At the very least, we should have a media=handheld stylesheet, in order to host mobile devices

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of /batch/ system. When we used it years ago we meant as opposed to interactive. You submitted your batch job with job control and all the jobs got ran in batches with all the other jobs that were ready when the operator got

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of /batch/ system. I've never been overly fond of that first sentence; could you suggest a replacement? Cheers, - Graham

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 04:33:52PM -0700, chip wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Hmm... are you trying to say that you prefer two-column pages to one-column pages? I agree that the two-column pages work quite well, so perhaps we should make all (or almost all) pages use this.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Nick Hasser wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Yo. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html There is also an OpenBSD port, which probably should be included on the Unix list. It is currently at 2.10.33, though. I'm not including

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so much that it's hard to find the information one