Re: RESOLVED letter size, paper height

2009-09-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Raleigh Arnold wrote Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:02 PM I found that without paper-height, the page was too long as displayed by gv or xpdf. Is #(set-paper-size letter) correct? If so, it doesn't work without stating the paper-height. I think this is a bug in ghostscript, not

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Torsten Anders
On 10.09.2009, at 09:03, Hans Aberg wrote: It seems to be that that staff indicates the Pythagorean tuning, with accidentals to indicate offsets relative that. Right? This uniform structure of the Helmholtz-Ellis and Sagittal notation makes it possible to not only notate just intonation

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Sep 2009, at 10:26, Torsten Anders wrote: [Your mail does not cc to the list - added: seems relevant.] t is part of the font distribution itself at http://music.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/pdfs/HE-font-2009.zip I also found http://www.newmusicbox.org/72/HelmholtzEllisLegend.pdf It seems to

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Sep 2009, at 10:57, Torsten Anders wrote: On 10.09.2009, at 09:03, Hans Aberg wrote: It seems to be that that staff indicates the Pythagorean tuning, with accidentals to indicate offsets relative that. Right? This uniform structure of the Helmholtz-Ellis and Sagittal notation makes

Looking for meaning of no-gs-load-fonts

2009-09-10 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello. LM 3.6 Alternative methods of mixing text and music - Inserting LilyPond output into other programs says To produce a useful ‘EPS’ file, use lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly I am trying to understand what -dno-gs-load-fonts does, and what's

Re: Looking for meaning of no-gs-load-fonts

2009-09-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/9/10 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com:  git grep no-gs-load-fonts gives no results apart from this page of Docs Sorry. I've just realized that gs-load-fonts does appear in the sources and this option is the same with a prefixed no- -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Hans, I understand you point about only 2 step sizes and your interested to extend the number of steps available. I assume this approach is particularly suitable for music that is primarily melodic (which is the case for Persian and Turkish), and if you disregard ornamental pitch

irregular bar

2009-09-10 Thread stefanozanobini
I need, for a 17th century piece, a bar that is constantly 2+2+2+3+3. I would like to have dashed bar lines in the middle of each bar and a normal | at the bar end. Is it possible to have it automatically? Thanks stezano ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Hans, On 10.09.2009, at 10:13, Hans Aberg wrote: [...] I tend to think that ETs and Pythagorean tuning, quarter-comma meantone, and other diatonic pitch systems would be best notated by departing from them, and then adding intermediate pitch accidentals relative that. A completely

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Sep 2009, at 11:45, Torsten Anders wrote: I understand you point about only 2 step sizes and your interested to extend the number of steps available. I assume this approach is particularly suitable for music that is primarily melodic (which is the case for Persian and Turkish), and

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Hans Aberg
On 10 Sep 2009, at 12:14, Torsten Anders wrote: [...] I tend to think that ETs and Pythagorean tuning, quarter- comma meantone, and other diatonic pitch systems would be best notated by departing from them, and then adding intermediate pitch accidentals relative that. A completely

Re: irregular bar

2009-09-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stezano, I need, for a 17th century piece, a bar that is constantly 2+2+2+3+3. I would like to have dashed bar lines in the middle of each bar and a normal | at the bar end. Is it possible to have it automatically? Try something like thebarlines = \repeat unfold 42 { s2*3 \bar dashed

Re: RESOLVED letter size, paper height

2009-09-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:02:28 -0400 David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com wrote: I am using the tarball 2.12.2 on a debian stable system. I found that without paper-height, the page was too long as displayed by gv or xpdf. Is #(set-paper-size letter) correct? If so, it doesn't work

Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 18:27:04 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: Hi all, I'm having problems to build documentation (without compiling LilyPond) on MacOS X 10.4.11. My www-out directory only contains the file dummy.dep. For error messages see attached file. You might also want to take a

help with jedit

2009-09-10 Thread Freeman Gilmore
When I open jedit I get an I/O Error and a lot of boxes in the window. encoding UTF-8 another line says UTF-8, Cp1252 I guess I need lots of help with setup? Thanks, fg ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

test

2009-09-10 Thread Freeman Gilmore
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Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:06:13PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 18:27:04 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: I'm having problems to build documentation (without compiling LilyPond) on MacOS X 10.4.11. My www-out directory only contains the file dummy.dep. For

Re: Editing Process

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Thu, 9/10/09, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca Subject: Re: Editing Process To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 9:04 PM Hi Jonathan, Any

Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 21:32:26 schrieb Graham Percival: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:06:13PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 18:27:04 schrieb Patrick Schmidt: I'm having problems to build

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: Now, there is only a minor flaw now: the distance between a note and the related accidentals is rather big. In fact, accidentals are more close to the preceding note than the note they belong to. I'm way out of my depth here, but it looks like markup is appending

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-10 Thread Kees van den Doel
Don't forget to mention this publication where the Persian microtonal accidentals were introduced, which are the only ones that are standardized (and still absent in lilypond): Vaziri, A. N., Dastur-e Tàr, Tehran, 1913. Kees - Original Message - From: Joseph Wakeling

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff subclass context?

2009-09-10 Thread Dan Eble
On 2009-09-09, at 08:59 , Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Dan, Neil, et al.: Does the following help? SoloVoice is a kind of Voice. UpperVoice and LowerVoice are kinds of SoloVoice. That's [relatively] self-evident. What isn't crystal clear — either in my mind, or (IMO) in the documentation