Re: Cross Staff Beaming

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Cross Staff Beaming To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com, lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 7:45 AM Jonathan Wilkes wrote:    I'm trying to do some

Re: wrong type argument

2009-08-11 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Alexander, I have to thank You for Your help. After, after I've put \override Accidental #'avoid-slur = #'inside in the parts parts, You've recomended, the strange error message has disappeared, I don't know why. The transposing error has nothing to do with microtonality. The score shows

Re: French accents

2009-08-11 Thread Damian leGassick
to do café = c a f option-e e être = option-i e t r e d hth On 4 Aug 2009, at 04:25, Graham Norton wrote: Dear All, iMac TeXShop MACROS give another way of inserting non-standard characters into LilyPond lyrics without using unicodes explicitly (my version of TeXShop will not allow me

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:04:32AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: On the page http://lilypond.org/~graham/Contact.html, definitely we should give the links for subscribing to the mailing lists: They were there already, but not particularly obviously. Improved. I'd also add the links to the

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 07:12:21PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: The Spanish forum is a Yahoo! group. Group page http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/lilypond-es/ Thanks, added. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:14:51PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/8/1 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: There's also http://www.lilypondforum.de/ (German) http://groups.google.com/group/lilypond-brasil (Portuguese) http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:37:06AM -0700, Matthieu Jacquot wrote: If you need one more publisher to fill the empty space in the production page, you could add my http://theshadylanepublishing.com website , it is very very small so I don't know if it will be fine. Thanks, added! I used the

new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
Hi folks. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Most of the people who have been working on the website, including me, are fed up with it. I'm ready to shovel this out the door just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mind to be introducing a major change to our users' experience, but

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/10/09 2:25 PM, Patrick Schmidt p.l.schm...@gmx.de wrote: Where did I go wrong? You forgot that tabStaff needs tabVoice, and both of your constructs used Voice contexts, instead of tabVoice contexts. The first, ... \\ ... , implicitly creates Voice contexts. The second explicitly

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
I've finally gotten around to looking at the new web site, and I have to say I'm very impressed. Great work! A couple of comments about the site: On Text-input.html, the pop music example is missing a hyphen and an extender line in the first measure (though perhaps this was intentional to

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
I should've read your email before I sent my previous message... Graham Percival wrote: Most of the people who have been working on the website, including me, are fed up with it. I'm ready to shovel this out the door just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mind to be

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. August 2009 16:55:52 schrieb Chris Snyder: Make sure you check out the alternate CSS style #2. This has fancy gradient-shaded menu bars, which could be a great hit. It's /much/ easier to see which item you have selected. If

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Nitpick: I don't think mailist is a word. I prefer mailing list (it's what you'll find in dictionaries, wikipedia, etc). If you like the shorter form, I'd prefer mail list or mail-list, or perhaps maillist (but less so). http://lilypond.org/~graham/Contact.html - Mark

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote: This snippet should help you out: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=167 Interesting. And how to remove clef and meter? And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? Thanks Piero. - Piero Faustini Main Software used: - LyX 1.6.2

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: And how to remove clef and meter? \layout{ \context { \Staff \remove Clef_engraver \remove Time_signature_engraver } } And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? \layout{ \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Graham Percival-3 wrote: hey, that's life in open-source projects! If you feel at all enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping. Graham, I would like to help but definitely not now (and I don't know how: I'm a zero in css, html, programming etc.) Just a pair of

adding footnote calls

2009-08-11 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I would like to write comments on a score, and specifically, I would like to add something like a circled 1, a circled 2, or a small letter, etc. in various places, so that later I can write: (1) this note ... (2) this group of notes differs from ... I am looking for something like an

staves with example notes, ancient and modern

2009-08-11 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I would like to reproduce the first two staves of the section Note values on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation, with the label on the left. That is, I am trying to make Modern ... staff ... notation (possibly with the note names) White notation ... staff

\cadenzaOn question

2009-08-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Because of a question on the german forum, I thought I'd ask here. Is the music in a cadenza supposed to take up no time? Consider the following: \version 2.12.1 \relative c'{ \time 2/4 \set Score.skipBars = ##t c4 d { R2^G.P. } \new Staff { \cadenzaOn e4 f e d

Re: staves with example notes, ancient and modern

2009-08-11 Thread James E. Bailey
On 11.08.2009, at 20:49, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, I would like to reproduce the first two staves of the section Note values on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation, with the label on the left. That is, I am trying to make Modern ... staff ... notation

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: MonAmiPierrot wrote: And how to remove clef and meter? \layout{ \context { \Staff \remove Clef_engraver \remove Time_signature_engraver } } And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? \layout{ \context {

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: Anyway there's still too much white space up and down (respectively, the equivalent of 1-2 and 3-4 inter-stafflines space) so that the example doesn't fit. I don't want to manipulate the outuput of all my examples: I want it to be done already by lilypond: is there a

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: But I guess you're on Windows. Anyone else? Is it that evident? :( - Piero Faustini Main Software used: - LyX 1.6.2 on WinXP sp3; EndNote JabRef - MikTex - LaTeX class: Koma book - Lilypond 2.12 for example excerpts - BibLaTeX for bibliographies -- View

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: But I guess you're on Windows. Anyone else? Is it that evident? :( It's in your e-mail signature. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/8/11 MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com: - the b/w image behind the lilypond is just too flat and boring. I would put something much more elaborated, maybe with text. Otherwise, I would switch to as it was before, just with the shaded green/white example, which is just perfect. I'm

Re:new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I have a few minor comments about the new website: 1. On the examples page, under the Jesu, Meine Freude, it says (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). 2. On the examples page, under Modern Music, one of the f's is shifted down for some reason in the

Re: beaming in 6/8

2009-08-11 Thread Imre Polik
It's been quite some time I've checked this, but now it seems to work. This bug was related to beaming in 6/8 measures. Thanks all for fixing it. Now I can release BWV 910 to Mutopia. And one more thing: the new Lilypondtool is awesome. Point-and-click is what I was waiting for. Not to mention

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Hi folks. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Most of the people who have been working on the website, including me, are fed up with it.  I'm ready to shovel this out the door just to get rid of it... not particularly

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca wrote: - I think the freedom propaganda should be moved elsewhere. I think we are primarily trying to compete on quality of output. I think the

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread David Fedoruk
The documentation for Lilypond has one problem; it is, as the program is itself, under development. It is screamingly frustrating for us non-programmer users. However, that said, it is changing because it is not nearly finished, it is required to print many different kinds of music. The Learning

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:18:16PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: 1. On the examples page, under the Jesu, Meine Freude, it says (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). Thanks, fixed. 2. On the examples page, under Modern Music, one of the f's is shifted down

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:37:19PM -0700, David Fedoruk wrote: The documentation for Lilypond has one problem; it is, as the program is itself, under development. It is screamingly frustrating for us non-programmer users. Yes, but nothing forces people to upgrade. The documentation for

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:49:41AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: Hi folks. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Make sure you check out the alternate CSS style #2. This has fancy gradient-shaded menu bars, which could be a great hit. It's /much/ easier to see which item you have selected. If you

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:18:05AM -0400, Chris Snyder wrote: On Text-input.html, the pop music example is missing a hyphen and an extender line in the first measure (though perhaps this was intentional to simplify things?) I'd rather avoid those. Of course, I'd also like to get different

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Subject: Re: new website, draft 7 To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009,

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
David Fedoruk wrote: ... I agree with everything you've said. I used to hate LilyPond; now I'm a developer... I've experienced some pull-your-hair-out aggravating confusions, but I've stuck with it. Yes, it's a work- in-progress. Yes, it comes with no warranty. But it can be rewarding to be a

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.cawrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:18:16PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: 1. On the examples page, under the Jesu, Meine Freude, it says (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). Thanks,

new website non-git help

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:38:34PM +0100, Gerard McConnell wrote: I have to say I'm very grateful for the work that's been done on Lilypond, so I'd certainly like to help in some way. Without getting into git or programming, how could I help? Popular question; here's a few things! 1) The

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/11/09 1:49 PM, MonAmiPierrot pierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote: then I entered the \clef bass and used only the note a, to produce a perfectly middle-positioned rhythmical examples, then I tried to put the output in the LaTeX environment of my dissertation. Is there a reason why you

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:26:37PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I've fixed it and pushed. Thanks! I also had to modify the makefile in the examples dir--explanation in the commit message. Ah, I see. I set it up so that I could run make generate-examples from the main dir. It doesn't matter,

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:32:33AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: - the top note in the download page should be bigger, blood red, blinking and should grab the user by the face and oblige him to read it. It's just too important. And it should not say please, but just If you do not know what is

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.cawrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:26:37PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I've fixed it and pushed. Thanks! I also had to modify the makefile in the examples dir--explanation in the commit message. Ah, I see. I set

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: - The colors in the secondary menu bar don't make sense to me. The colors in the top bar are used to indicate which item is selected. it's impossible to tell at first glance which submenu item you have chosen. This would be

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:41:06PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: When I looked at my commit in gitk I didn't see the whole commit message. Did you see it? I did that one-line message, then went down a couple of lines and used # comment lines to further explain the Makefile change. *head smack*

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.cawrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:41:06PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: When I looked at my commit in gitk I didn't see the whole commit message. Did you see it? I did that one-line message, then went down a couple of

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:55:52AM -0400, Chris Snyder wrote: Graham Percival wrote: hey, that's life in open-source projects! If you feel at all enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping. I'd like to help, though I realize it's quite late in the game for me to get up

Re: new website non-git help

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca wrote: http://lilypond.org/~graham/Features.html (I've made the links clearer) - are we missing any worthwhile info?  (like those bulleted lists  of features?) Could we add a link in the first paragraph to the