Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Dec 2011, at 02:58, huzzam wrote: I'm fairly new to lilypond, and am starting to write my own ly files to include. I want to put them somewhere that will be accessible easily from any score (user defaults). The only place I've so far been able to find to put them is inside the lilypond

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Peter Jaques
Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line like: \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly unlike the factory files, which only require: \include

Re: restNumberThreshold

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/12/6 Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com: On 6 December 2011 22:33, David Bobroff bobr...@centrum.is wrote: I want to adjust the restNumberThreshold value so that single full measure rests get a 1 above them.  Obviously, I found a reference to the thing that needs an \override, but I

Re: mark text (not markup) to fill Rest bars?

2011-12-07 Thread Rutger Hofman
On 12/06/2011 03:10 AM, Keith OHara wrote: Rutger Hofmanrutgerat cs.vu.nl writes: Thanks, this works well for multimeasure rests. But I would also like the same mark to work for another staff that has music in it. With these overrides, that looks weird: the markup is stretched over an empty

Re: oddHeaderMarkup not on first page

2011-12-07 Thread James
Nick/Xavier, On 6 December 2011 22:52, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: On 07/12/11 09:14, James wrote: oddHeaderMarkup = \markup { \fill-line { \override #'(font-name . Palatino italic) \abs-fontsize #8 The Unwilling Waltz } } oddHeaderMarkup = \markup {

Re: LilyPond and Python

2011-12-07 Thread James
Hilary, On 6 December 2011 22:30, Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk wrote: After severe problems (which seemed to include a version conflict) with a Python hack, I uninstalled Python and LilyPond, then reinstalled first Python and then LilyPond without its bundled Python (largely to see

Re: Part combine problems

2011-12-07 Thread James
Nels, On 7 December 2011 04:04, Nels Drue Daily dailymusici...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting an error message when compiling my music: (UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1022-1023: unexpected end of data) What does that mean? Without some context or an example

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Dec 2011, at 10:22, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line like: \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly unlike

space between systems

2011-12-07 Thread Werner
Hello, in NR 4.4 I find some hints about vertical spacing of staves within a system. But unfortunately I don't find no hint about the spacing between systems. I want to get just more space between systems. How to do that? Thanks Werner ___

RE: space between systems

2011-12-07 Thread Phil Holmes
-Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+mail=philholmes@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+mail=philholmes@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Werner Sent: 07 December 2011 12:35 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: space between systems Hello, in NR 4.4 I find some

Re: space between systems

2011-12-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Le Dec 7, 2011 à 1:35 PM, Werner a écrit : Hello, in NR 4.4 I find some hints about vertical spacing of staves within a system. But unfortunately I don't find no hint about the spacing between systems. I want to get just more space between systems. How to do that? Thanks Werner

Set global staff size as command line option

2011-12-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, Is it possible to set global staff size as command line option? Like it is possible to specify paper size with lilypond -dpaper-size=\letter\ myfile.ly I'd like a similar command line option for #(set-global-staff-size 14) . Is there a way to achieve this with current version? Anyway, I

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Ellis
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote: On 7 Dec 2011, at 10:22, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Dec 2011, at 15:49, Michael Ellis wrote: I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line like: \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly unlike the factory files, which only require: \include english.ly

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line like: \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly I

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 7 December 2011 02:58, huzzam clari...@huzzam.com wrote: Hi-- I'm fairly new to lilypond, and am starting to write my own ly files to include. I want to put them somewhere that will be accessible easily from any score (user defaults). The only place I've so far been able to find to put

Re: Part combine problems

2011-12-07 Thread James
Adding LilyPond User to thread. On 7 December 2011 14:36, Nels Daily dailymusici...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using 2.14.2. When I try it in a small example I don't get errors. It usually only happens in context of a large piece. I'm writing an orchestral work and trying to use the partcombiner in

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line

Repeating last note/chord

2011-12-07 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello I think I've read this somewhere, or saw an example somwehere. Suppose I want to typeset c e8 c e c e c e | Is there any way to tell I want to reuse last chord? c e8 x x x | ? And, if so, how, and working in what lilypond versions? Thank you Kindest regards, Alberto -- Alberto

Re: Repeating last note/chord

2011-12-07 Thread Alberto Simões
Thanks for Caio Barros for pointing me to http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/single-voice#chord-repetition Cheers On 07/12/2011 16:32, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I think I've read this somewhere, or saw an example somwehere. Suppose I want to typeset c e8 c e c e c e |

Re: Set global staff size as command line option

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/12/7 Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com: Hi, Is it possible to set global staff size as command line option? Like it is possible to specify paper size with  lilypond -dpaper-size=\letter\  myfile.ly I'd like a similar command line option for #(set-global-staff-size 14) . Is there a

Re: Set global staff size as command line option

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/12/7 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: It is a way but the problem I find is that the file won't compile with that commandline option. Oh sorry, I meant the file won't compile _without_ that commandline option. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: Set global staff size as command line option

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/12/7 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com:  lilypond -e '(define-public size 40)' a.ly And of course there were more typos. It is not a.ly but example.ly in my example above. Sorry! -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Peter Jaques
Thanks for the responses, everyone. I have been using the lilypond application (lilypond.app on Mac OSX), not the command line, so didn't know about any options. Does anyone know if there is a way to pass options to lilypond from lilypond.app? Otherwise I guess I'll have to dive all the way into

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 7:20 am, Peter Jaques wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to pass options to lilypond from lilypond.app? Otherwise I guess I'll have to dive all the way into getting a new editor set up and everything... Wow, I haven't used Vim since 1999! ;) I've been using TeXShop

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Dec 2011, at 19:20, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks for the responses, everyone. I have been using the lilypond application (lilypond.app on Mac OSX), not the command line, so didn't know about any options. Does anyone know if there is a way to pass options to lilypond from

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Dec 2011, at 20:38, Matthew Collett wrote: It does seem odd that LilyPond currently has no standard paths for installation-specific includes: I would have expected at least one system-wide one (somewhere in /usr/local or /usr/share on a generic UNIX, ... It should be in /usr/local/ --

Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread Craig
Hi, I am working on a large score (choral symphony). When I include my tuba part I am getting a segmentation fault. What does this mean? Wouldn't segmentation have to do with a memory issue? Craig Bakalian ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Le Dec 7, 2011 à 9:12 PM, Craig a écrit : Hi, I am working on a large score (choral symphony). When I include my tuba part I am getting a segmentation fault. What does this mean? Wouldn't segmentation have to do with a memory issue? Craig Bakalian Hey Craig, A segfault usually

Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
Hi there, For my wedding (in three days), I decided to try and typeset all the songs for the service in Lilypond, so that everything is in style. Unfortunately, this one song is rather more complex and the others, and I'm failing to come up with the right incantations to make Lilypond do what I

Re: Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread Tim Roberts
Craig wrote: I am working on a large score (choral symphony). When I include my tuba part I am getting a segmentation fault. What does this mean? Wouldn't segmentation have to do with a memory issue? Well, the term is a leftover from the earliest days of Unix, when it ran on machines that

Re: Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread Craig
Hi Mike, I have found the spot in the tuba part that makes the segmentation fault. And, yes, if I delete or comment out to make the tuba part smaller, lily will write a pdf. Now that I have found the measure, what do I do? I cannot make this project smaller. I would have to send the entire

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Craig
Hi Mike, I have found out what it is. It has to do with the midi output. If I remove the \midi {} from my project there are not segmentation faults. So this has to be a memory allocation issue inside the lily machine. Craig Bakalian On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 21:16 +0100, m...@apollinemike.com

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 9:28 am, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: Here's what I've currently got: \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = women \new Voice = S { \voiceOne \global \repeat volta 2 \Sa \Sb } \new Voice = A { \voiceTwo \global \A }

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Le Dec 7, 2011 à 9:48 PM, Craig a écrit : Hi Mike, I have found out what it is. It has to do with the midi output. If I remove the \midi {} from my project there are not segmentation faults. So this has to be a memory allocation issue inside the lily machine. Craig Bakalian On

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 21:48, Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz wrote: Try:    \new Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womena \womenc }    \new Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womenb } Assuming the variables with the notes and words are correctly defined, I think the only change needed is to the \lyricsto

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread jakob lund
this \voiceOne \global \Sa \Sb means that those three parts overlap, as you say... I'm guessing what you want is \new Staff = women \new Voice \global \new Voice = S {\Sa \Sb } } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womena \womenc } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S {

Re: Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread David Kastrup
Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net writes: Hi Mike, I have found the spot in the tuba part that makes the segmentation fault. And, yes, if I delete or comment out to make the tuba part smaller, lily will write a pdf. Now that I have found the measure, what do I do? I cannot make this

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 22:19, jakob lund jakob.be...@gmail.com wrote:  \voiceOne \global \Sa \Sb means that those three parts overlap, as you say... I'm guessing what you want is   \new Staff = women     \new Voice \global     \new Voice = S {\Sa \Sb }     }     \context Lyrics

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
(adding back the list...) On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 23:05, Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz wrote: Use '\new Lyrics' instead of '\context Lyrics', or give them distinct names (e.g. '\context Lyrics = line1', '\context Lyrics = line2').  As it is your second set of Lyrics is trying to

Re: Wiring up a complex song

2011-12-07 Thread Matthew Collett
On 8/12/2011, at 10:45 am, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: This is an improvement, at least: \score { \new ChoirStaff \new Staff = women \new Voice \global \new Voice = S {\Sa \Sb } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womena \womenc } \context Lyrics \lyricsto S { \womenb } }

Re: Segmentation Fault

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/12/7 Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net: Hi Mike, I have found the spot in the tuba part that makes the segmentation fault.  And, yes, if I delete or comment out to make the tuba part smaller, lily will write a pdf. Now that I have found the measure, what do I do?  I cannot make this

duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-07 Thread Paolo Prete
Hi, I need to create a function that accepts some_pitch and some_duration as arguments and prints the following three notes: 1) some_pitch with some_duration 2) some_pitch with some_duration*2 3) some_pitch with some_duration*3 Should I use ly:duration as type of the argument two? I

Re: center NoteColumn

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi David, 2011/12/7 David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com Hi Harm, (...) It would be nice to tap into the mechanism for centering full-measure rests to use in your function, but I don't have any idea how this could be done. that would be very nice, but I can't even find, where it is

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/7/11 1:48 PM, Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Mike, I have found out what it is. It has to do with the midi output. If I remove the \midi {} from my project there are not segmentation faults. So this has to be a memory allocation issue inside the lily machine. So now how could

bug or feature with the extent of NoteColumn with 2.15.20 ?

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, trying to compile a function manipulating the NoteColumn with 2.15.20 I noticed some differences to 2.14.2 So I wrote a test-function to display the grob-length: \version 2.14.2 %\version 2.15.20 #(define (x-length-of-grob grob) (let* ((sys (ly:grob-system grob)) (grob-length

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Craig
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 23:52 +, Carl Sorensen wrote: If you come to the list with very little information and no code available, and ask us what's wrong, we can't possibly tell you. We don't have any idea. This is the main issue with reporting such bugs with lilypond. Let's say I start

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/7/11 5:05 PM, Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 23:52 +, Carl Sorensen wrote: If you come to the list with very little information and no code available, and ask us what's wrong, we can't possibly tell you. We don't have any idea. This is the main

glissando stems

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, there was a discussion on lily-devel to implement glissando stems: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-06/msg00810.html but finally it was rejected. Han-Wen's suggestion from http://codereview.appspot.com/4661061/#ps1 (reply #16) is beyond my knowledge. My own work-around

Unable to find file lily.scm in load path

2011-12-07 Thread Nick Payne
I was using Lilypond with no problems yesterday (2.15.20 on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64). I noticed 2.15.21 on lilypond.org this morning, so I downloaded the Linux 64 version, ran uninstall-lilypond, and installed 2.15.21. On any attempt to run Lilypond I got: GNU LilyPond 2.15.21 ERROR: In procedure

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:05:35PM -0500, Craig wrote: This is the main issue with reporting such bugs with lilypond. Let's say I start reducing this problematic file, I reduce the project down to a single file, and then the bug goes away. Then you did a bad job of reducing it. When

Re: Unable to find file lily.scm in load path

2011-12-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 08/12/11 12:06, Nick Payne wrote: I was using Lilypond with no problems yesterday (2.15.20 on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64). I noticed 2.15.21 on lilypond.org this morning, so I downloaded the Linux 64 version, ran uninstall-lilypond, and installed 2.15.21. On any attempt to run Lilypond I got: GNU

Re: duration and pitch in a function

2011-12-07 Thread David Kastrup
Paolo Prete p4olo_pr...@yahoo.it writes: I need to create a function that accepts some_pitch and some_duration as arguments and prints the following three notes: 1) some_pitch with some_duration 2) some_pitch with some_duration*2 3) some_pitch with some_duration*3 Should I use

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread David Kastrup
Craig craigbakal...@verizon.net writes: On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 23:52 +, Carl Sorensen wrote: If you come to the list with very little information and no code available, and ask us what's wrong, we can't possibly tell you. We don't have any idea. This is the main issue with reporting

Re: glissando stems

2011-12-07 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Le Dec 8, 2011 à 1:30 AM, Thomas Morley a écrit : Hi, there was a discussion on lily-devel to implement glissando stems: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-06/msg00810.html but finally it was rejected. Han-Wen's suggestion from

Re: Unable to find file lily.scm in load path

2011-12-07 Thread David Kastrup
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: I was using Lilypond with no problems yesterday (2.15.20 on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64). I noticed 2.15.21 on lilypond.org this morning, so I downloaded the Linux 64 version, ran uninstall-lilypond, and installed 2.15.21. On any attempt to run Lilypond I

Re: Segmentation Fault (Midi News Flash)

2011-12-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Craig wrote: This is the main issue with reporting such bugs with lilypond. Let's say I start reducing this problematic file, I reduce the project down to a single file, and then the bug goes away. I spend hours trying to reduce the project to its point of seg fault.