Re: little bar at the beginning of a one-staff-system

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
rafael, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Rafael Arndt rafaelar...@web.de wrote: 2014/1/9 Rafael Arndt rafaelar...@web.de There is a tiny estatical detail I would like to change, but found out nowhere how to do it: I would like to have a bar at the beginning of the system here: ...SNIP...

openLilyLib Engraving Challenges

2014-01-10 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, the first Engraving Challenge is ready to take off. I have subscribed everybody who has so far declared interest in participating to the openlilylib-user mailing list. If I should have forgotten someone please tell me privately. Everybody else is invited to have a look at the entry

Wish for short version function

2014-01-10 Thread Noeck
Hi all, I have a wish for a scheme function integrated in LilyPond: A function that returns the short form of the version used: e.g. 2.18 (and not 2.18.0) I don’t know if that already exists, I couldn’t find it anywhere. The reason why I want this function is below. It would be very easy to

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-10 Thread Peter Bjuhr
On 01/10/2014 07:37 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, j...@post.cz wrote: Hi, I am new to this forum and also new to Lilypond Frescobaldi. Still learning the basics... I would like to ask for some help with xml import/export since I am not able to get it to work. First

Re: shapeII strange behaviour

2014-01-10 Thread Urs Liska
Interesting behaviour! I suggest you also open an issue at the snippets repo so the problem doesn't get lost. Urs Am Donnerstag, den 09.01.2014, 21:54 +0100 schrieb Simon Bailey: hi all, when running the following file (sorry, this is as minimal as i can get it): \version 2.18.0

MEI

2014-01-10 Thread Urs Liska
I think this is important also for us: http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/mei-plug-in-released-for-sibelius/ MEI is an important initiative for standardizing the encoding of music, with particular interest in encoding every aspect of a composition and its sources. I think this will be an

midi swing patch version

2014-01-10 Thread rosea grammostola
Hi, I wanted to test the swing patch, do I need version 2.16 for that? 2.14 doesnt seems to work https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/attachmentText?id=687aid=6870029001name=swingtest.lytoken=ndOkZOHxPedrruWZArMs5tLny80%3A1389347237994 Starting lilypond 2.14.2 [swingtest.ly]... Processing

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-10 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On 01/10/2014 07:37 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Lilypond assumes 4/4 by default when time signature is given, but you version of Frescobaldi's musicxml importer doesn't. (has been fixed in development by now) I meant Lilypond assumes 4/4 default when *no* time signature is given ...

Re: Moving Ottava Text

2014-01-10 Thread Eluze
Nick Baskin wrote Eluze, Apologies for being unclear! I've attached a minimal example that I hope will demonstrate what I mean. Notice how the 8va text collides with the beam; I would like to move the 8va text to the left to avoid this collision, and cannot figure out how to do so. Changing

Re: Wish for short version function

2014-01-10 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de writes: Hi all, I have a wish for a scheme function integrated in LilyPond: A function that returns the short form of the version used: e.g. 2.18 (and not 2.18.0) I don’t know if that already exists, I couldn’t find it anywhere. The reason why I want this

Re: midi swing patch version

2014-01-10 Thread David Kastrup
rosea grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I wanted to test the swing patch, do I need version 2.16 for that? 2.14 doesnt seems to work

Re: midi swing patch version

2014-01-10 Thread rosea grammostola
yep, works with 2.16, thx On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:26 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: rosea grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I wanted to test the swing patch, do I need version 2.16 for that? 2.14 doesnt seems to work

Re: Wish for short version function

2014-01-10 Thread Noeck
Hi David, Am 10.01.2014 10:15, schrieb David Kastrup: guile (format LilyPond ~:@{~a.~a~} (ly:version)) LilyPond 2.19 That does not really require a command of its own. That is indeed quite short and usable. I am still a stranger to scheme. I suppose it does something like in python

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: Frescobaldi musicxml export

2014-01-10 Thread janb
Thank you! The problem was indeed the missing time signature. I thought there must have been something broken with my installation of the software because it was just a very simple score... So now it works. The fact is that I am still not able to export//import more complex scores but it is

Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Noeck
Hi, I can change fonts like this: \paper { myStaffSize = #19.0 fonts = #(make-pango-font-tree Linux Libertine O Linux Biolinum O Ubuntu Mono (/ myStaffSize 20)) } But that way I always need to specify the staff size. However, I would like to

Re: Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
hiya, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: But that way I always need to specify the staff size. However, I would like to put this in a style sheet and set the staff size later in a file. Is that possible? Or is it possible to read in the global staff size? Or

Re: Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Noeck
Thanks Simon, that works. I still have to specify the staff size before the include (I can live with that). The interesting thing is this: If I have a set-global-staff-size after the include, not the font size is wrong but the choice of fonts is reverted and I have the default fonts again.

RE: Errors running lilypond-book

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:11 PM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Errors running lilypond-book Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com writes: I'm trying to follow the tutorial at

RE: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Eluze [mailto:elu...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 2:31 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automatic octaves instead of this (broken) snippet you could use dak's most elegant and short proposal:

Re: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Daniel, Does this work? \version 2.18.0 \version 2.18.0 myoctavate = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) #{ \context Bottom $music \transpose c c' \relative $music #}) \relative { \myoctavate { a b c d } e f g a } %% Instead of \myoctavate \relative { a b c d e f

RE: Markedly different-looking ties

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Richard Shann [mailto:rich...@rshann.plus.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:49 PM To: Urs Liska Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Markedly different-looking ties Have a look here: http://lilypondblog.org/2013/07/lilypond-tie-crusade/ Ah,

RE: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:42 AM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Eluze; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Automatic octaves Hi Daniel, Does this work? \version 2.18.0 \version 2.18.0

Re: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com writes: -Original Message- From: Eluze [mailto:elu...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 2:31 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automatic octaves instead of this (broken) snippet you could use dak's most elegant and short proposal:

RE: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:31 AM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Eluze; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automatic octaves You could use dak's most elegant make-relative macro... myoctavate = #(define-music-function

Re: Changing fonts

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Bailey
joram, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de wrote: that works. I still have to specify the staff size before the include (I can live with that). The interesting thing is this: If I have a set-global-staff-size after the include, not the font size is wrong but the

Re: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com writes: -Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:31 AM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Eluze; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automatic octaves You could use dak's most elegant make-relative macro...

Re: little bar at the beginning of a one-staff-system

2014-01-10 Thread Rafael Arndt
Am 10/01/14 09:47, schrieb Simon Bailey: rafael, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Rafael Arndt rafaelar...@web.de wrote: 2014/1/9 Rafael Arndt rafaelar...@web.de There is a tiny estatical detail I would like to change, but found out nowhere how to do it: I would like to have a bar at the

Re: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Eluze
Am 10.01.2014 16:53, schrieb Daniel Rosen: The other thing about the broken snippet, though, is that it allowed the user to choose both the direction of octavation and the number of octaves. Is there any way for this kind of functionality to be added here? E.g. \relative { \myoctavate #-1 {

2.18 test.ly produce no pdf

2014-01-10 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
After installing version 2.18 on Windows 7 (64bit) I was not able to produce test.pdf. It did however produce test.ps I had to revert to 2.16 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: create custom context definitions using a scheme function

2014-01-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
*Awesome!!* I don't know when i'll have time to finish the thing i need this for, but it will be very awesome when done. Many thanks!! Janek 2014/1/10 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2014/1/9 David Kastrup

Re: 2.18 test.ly produce no pdf

2014-01-10 Thread Noeck
Am 10.01.2014 19:34, schrieb Tom van der Hoeven: After installing version 2.18 on Windows 7 (64bit) I was not able to produce test.pdf. It did however produce test.ps I had to revert to 2.16 Hi Tom, I am sorry to hear, that the upgrade didn’t work properly for you. Could you write a bit

RE: Markedly different-looking ties

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Richard Shann [mailto:rich...@rshann.plus.com] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:51 PM To: Daniel Rosen Subject: Re: Markedly different-looking ties On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:44 +, Daniel Rosen wrote: -Original Message- From: Richard Shann

RE: Automatic octaves

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:19 PM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Eluze; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automatic octaves Daniel Rosen drose...@gmail.com writes: -Original Message- From: David Kastrup

Re: 2.18 test.ly produce no pdf

2014-01-10 Thread Tom van der Hoeven
Here you are test.ly \version 2.16.0 % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions. \header{ title = A scale in LilyPond subtitle = For more information on using LilyPond, please see http://lilypond.org/introduction.html; } \relative c' { c d e f g a b c }

Beam severing

2014-01-10 Thread Shane Brandes
Working on the Godowsky challenge posed by Urs, I came up with this really unpleasant workaround to splitting the beams as in the original. Can anyone make this work without having to resort to adding a second voice? Shane \version 2.18.0 \relative c'' {{ \once \override Beam #'positions =

midiInstrument not rendered for some values

2014-01-10 Thread Bric
trying random instruments from the list of instruments on this page: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments here are the values for which my timidity (version 2.13.2) creates an audible track (a few picked at random): cello xylophone pan flute

Re: MEI

2014-01-10 Thread Kevin Tough
From a Fringe Coder, I like Vim (text editor). I like to code with minimal but descriptive syntax(ie. Visual Basic). XML code for web-applications I find bloated and working with it is ugly. If MusicXML is guided by the right people and does become/is a definitive standard that can support the

Re: MEI

2014-01-10 Thread Philip Rhoades
Kevin, On 2014-01-11 17:40, Kevin Tough wrote: From a Fringe Coder, I like Vim (text editor). The choice of champions! I like to code with minimal but descriptive syntax(ie. Visual Basic). Basic will cause brain damage - try Ruby! XML code for web-applications I find bloated and