Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread David Sumbler
I need to get the whole of a piece (originally 5 pages) onto 1 or 2 sheets of A4. It doesn't matter how small the print is - at the same time, I don't want to waste space. I have got a usable result, but it isn't quite what I was hoping for: ny .ly file produces 4 pages, so by printing from

Re: Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, I need to get the whole of a piece (originally 5 pages) onto 1 or 2 sheets of A4. It doesn't matter how small the print is - at the same time, I don't want to waste space. Have you tried \paper { page-count = 2 } ? Hope this helps! Kieren.

Noobie question. Simple fix needed

2010-05-16 Thread zxxz
Hello all, How can I fix http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/01_.ly 01_.ly in order to have http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/test.jpg test.jpg as result? http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/test.jpg Thanks a lot! Giovanni -- View this message in context:

Re: Noobie question. Simple fix needed

2010-05-16 Thread Federico Bruni
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:54 -0700, zxxz wrote: Hello all, How can I fix http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/01_.ly 01_.ly in order to have http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/test.jpg test.jpg as result? http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/test.jpg Thanks a lot! Giovanni Ciao

noobie question. percussion instruments

2010-05-16 Thread Roberto Morales
Dear list I am new in Lilypond and got the following problem defining my percussion instruments. According to the manual I did the following this example works fine \version 2.12.3 #(define mibataca '( (acousticbassdrum diamond #f -4) (hiwoodblock default #f 1) (lowoodblock default #f 3)

Re: noobie question. percussion instruments

2010-05-16 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/5/16 Roberto Morales roberto...@prodigy.net.mx: Dear list I am new in Lilypond and got the following problem defining my percussion instruments. According to the  manual I did the following this example works fine [...] but, when add cymbals to the same instrument they never got

Re: Noobie question. Simple fix needed

2010-05-16 Thread Jan Kohnert
Hi, zxxz schrieb: Weird name, isn't it? ;) How can I fix http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/01_.ly 01_.ly in order to have http://old.nabble.com/file/p28574688/test.jpg test.jpg as result? Just put a note in the upper stuff (or use s4 if you don't want to see anything up there) --

Re: Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Payne
Why not just change the page size to something larger than A4 in the paper section (don't change anything else) and then just use the reducing capabilities of the printer driver to shrink the output to A4. I have one score that occupies 17 pages when the ly file is set to output to A4. I

Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread Jonathan Townes
I'm encountering problems with midi2ly. I receive the error below when running midi2ly on midi files exported from Reaper, a DAW. I receive no error when converting midi files created by Lilypond or Anvil Studio, a midi only program. Any insight or suggestions for exporting midi would be greatly

Re: Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
It's a known problem for windows. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=834 The info about different midi programs is interesting, though, and might help somebody fix it. If you can duplicate the problem using a very simply score (1 staff, 1 note, with 2 or 3 different programs),

Re: Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread Graham Percival
Yes, and that's why I asked you to create tiny midi files with the different programs, and to upload them to that particular bug report. If the files only contain one note, it'll be easier to examine them for differences (if necessary, byte-by-byte). - Graham On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:15:51PM

vertical spacing problem

2010-05-16 Thread Marek Klein
Hi, I have problem with the attached vocal score and I couldn't reproduce it with tiny example... I get 2-paged layout http://gregoriana.sk/gg/wp-content/uploads/lasso-qui_manducat2v1.pdf with the next to last row commented out (\markup), There seems to be lot of space at the bottom of the second

musicxml2ly, midi2ly etc. broken ?

2010-05-16 Thread flup2
Hello, Since a few versions (in the development branch, now 2.13.21), I get that kind of message while running converters included in Lilypond. This is the message shown when running midi2ly from the Terminal under Mac OS X - Could not find platform independent libraries

Re: vertical spacing problem

2010-05-16 Thread -Eluze
Marek Klein wrote: Hi, I have problem with the attached vocal score and I couldn't reproduce it with tiny example... i added 2 more options, maybe these could help: \paper { % page-count = 2 ragged-bottom = ##f ragged-last-bottom = ##f } -- View this message in context:

Re: Midi2ly Error

2010-05-16 Thread -Eluze
Jonathan Townes-2 wrote: I'm encountering problems with midi2ly. I receive the error below when running midi2ly on midi files exported from Reaper, a DAW. I receive no error when converting midi files created by Lilypond or Anvil Studio, a midi only program. Any insight or suggestions for

Re: noobie question. percussion instruments

2010-05-16 Thread Roberto Morales
Hi XavierThanks for your observation in my mistyping, but I still got the same mistake and compilation still looks cleanProcessing `test.ly'Parsing...Interpreting music...Preprocessing graphical objects...Finding the ideal number of pages...Fitting music on 1 page...Drawing systems...Layout output

Re: noobie question. percussion instruments

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Chubb
Roberto == Roberto Morales roberto...@prodigy.net.mx writes: Roberto Hi Xavier Thanks for your observation in my mistyping, but I Roberto still got the same mistake and compilation still looks clean Roberto #(define platillos '( (chinesecymbal triangle AFICS #f -3 ) Roberto (crashcymbal

Re: noobie question. percussion instruments

2010-05-16 Thread Roberto Morales
Correct!! thank you very much Peter r- On May 16, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: Roberto == Roberto Morales roberto...@prodigy.net.mx writes: Roberto Hi Xavier Thanks for your observation in my mistyping, but I Roberto still got the same mistake and compilation still looks clean

3 part fugue

2010-05-16 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm learning counterpoint. The 3 part fugue below is on 2 staves. I used both and new voice, but my teacher still said the result is not good. Why? Regards Haipeng \version 2.13.21 % automatically converted from 2.xml str = \change Staff = rh stl = \change Staff = lh \header {

Re: 3 part fugue

2010-05-16 Thread James Bailey
On 17.05.2010, at 06:55, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I'm learning counterpoint. The 3 part fugue below is on 2 staves. I used both and new voice, but my teacher still said the result is not good. Why? Hello, you probably want to add \voiceOne to the one part and \voiceTwo to