Re: GUI

2009-12-19 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Ley robert...@gmail.com writes: Thanks. I had found most of that. What I had meant is more along the lines of what Tim McNamara said: IMHO here is where we run into the issue of what LilyPond *is.* It's a backend with no face, basically. This is something that most

windows instructions

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Actually, the current installation instructions are almost over-emphasized on the current web page. These steps are the same as for almost any other Windows application so I'm not convinced we need to comment on them. That's

warnings on the website

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Think of a Windows user who wants to try LilyPond. She will click on Download, quickly locate the Windows logo and click on that and probably miss the Note: ... at the top of this intermediate page. Good point; I've added the

download pages

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: At the Windows download page, I would propose to remove all the current information, except the link to the installer, and replace it by the nice introduction with screen-shots. At the bottom of the page, you can add links

Re:score runs off the page

2009-12-19 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
I got two thoughts when I'm outside. 1. Why doesn't Lilypond give a warning when the staves run off the page? This is very important for me, otherwise I must find a visual proofreader for every piece. 2. How about switching back ragged-last-bottom to ##t and change ragged-bottom to ##t too?

Re: GUI

2009-12-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:49 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Robert Ley robert...@gmail.com writes: Also, please remember that some of us, me included, have little experience writing command lines, so when you put, as part of the first information on command line use: Create a directory to

Tacet

2009-12-19 Thread craigbakalian
Hi, I did a google search on lilypond tacet but came up with very little. How do you tacet a part? Specifically, in a first movement the part plays, the second movement is tacet, and the third movement the part plays. It has been a while since my days of playing, but isn't the standard a multi

Run Offs

2009-12-19 Thread craigbakalian
Hi, Isn't this only a problem with 2.13.8? Craig Bakalian ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: flash cards

2009-12-19 Thread Hugh Myers
Right you are! This should take care of that oversight. Either place it in the same directory as cards.ly or in some some place that Lilypond can find--- then try again. --hsm On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Herbert Liechti herbert.liec...@thinx.ch wrote: Hugh Myers schrieb: I have previously

Re: Re:score runs off the page

2009-12-19 Thread Robin Bannister
Hu Haipeng wrote: Why this compilation gets only two pages? Mmm, that's my fault. I commented out the midi generation to save time, and I may have needed global-staff-size 6 in the initial stage while I had done this incorrectly. This size squeezes much more than you need, the second

Re: Tacet

2009-12-19 Thread David Kastrup
craigbakalian craigbakal...@verizon.net writes: Hi, I did a google search on lilypond tacet but came up with very little. How do you tacet a part? Specifically, in a first movement the part plays, the second movement is tacet, and the third movement the part plays. It has been a while

[JT] Thanks for \looksFaster!!!

2009-12-19 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hi masters! Thank you for \looks{Slower,Faster}: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305 Thank you for LilyPond, thank you for your job! ps. Sorry for the noise :-) THANK YOU! -- Dmytro O. Redchuk brownian@gmail.com ___ lilypond-user mailing

which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-19 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, which encoding do I have to choose, to get the german Umlaute (like ä, ö, etc.) properly shown on a windows-machine? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
UTF-8 ought to do it. Jon On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Thomas kontrapunktste...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear community, which encoding do I have to choose, to get the german Umlaute (like ä, ö, etc.) properly shown on a windows-machine?

RE: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-19 Thread James Lowe
alternatively you can look up the table here: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ and then manually put in the value using the '\char ##' function. For example \header { title = \markup {\concat {Bourr \char ##x009 e} } } Which gives Bourrée with an e-acute (x009). The \concat switch means

Re: GUI

2009-12-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A couple of detailed comments on the Learning Manual: - At http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/web/learning#Learning, I find the formulation in Read it: read this manual in the same format as this one. very confusing. Honestly, I don't understand what you mean. If you mean that the

Re: which encoding for umlaute

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Slattery
Jonathan Kulp jonlancek...@gmail.com wrote: UTF-8 ought to do it. Confirmed. I run Lilypond under Vista and I get any diacritical's I need when I save my file in UTF-8 format. Before I figured that out I was using a VERY old text editor that didn't know anything about Unicode. I could show those

Distance from bottom stave to footer

2009-12-19 Thread Nick Payne
The foot-separation variable that can be used in the \paper block doesn't seem to have any effect. It's documented in the 2.13.9 NR as: foot-separation: Distance between the bottom-most music system and the page footer. Default: 4\mm. but in my test below, putting in different values doesn't

Re: Distance from bottom stave to footer

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:09:26AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: The foot-separation variable that can be used in the \paper block doesn't seem to have any effect. It's documented in the 2.13.9 NR as: Yes, we know. The spacing variables have changed. No, the documentation hasn't been updated

Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-19 Thread Hugh Myers
In Segovia's 'Diatonic Major and Minor Scales', under the notes shown for a given scale are marks beginning with a number surrounded by parenthesis followed by a line vaguely parallel to the notes, concluding with an uptick between a given pair of notes. What is this called and how might I

RE: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-19 Thread James Lowe
Here's a link to what is being mentioned here: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/look_inside/1938302/image/137025 -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of Hugh Myers Sent: Sun 20/12/2009 1:17 To: lilypond-user Subject: Need help before I

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-19 Thread Hugh Myers
Thanks James--- my description works a lot better with an illustration! --hsm On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, James Lowe james.l...@datacore.com wrote: Here's a link to what is being mentioned here: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/look_inside/1938302/image/137025 -Original

Re: Distance from bottom stave to footer

2009-12-19 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 21:16 +, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:09:26AM +1100, Nick Payne wrote: The foot-separation variable that can be used in the \paper block doesn't seem to have any effect. It's documented in the 2.13.9 NR as: Yes, we know. The spacing

Re: Need help before I can ask the right question...

2009-12-19 Thread Marc Hohl
Hugh Myers schrieb: In Segovia's 'Diatonic Major and Minor Scales', under the notes shown for a given scale are marks beginning with a number surrounded by parenthesis followed by a line vaguely parallel to the notes, concluding with an uptick between a given pair of notes. What is this called