Re: transposing cues

2014-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 04:33:38AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com writes: 2.19.3: When transposing parts that use cueDuring or quoteDuring how can I get the cues or quotes to be transposed? I thought this worked easily in a fairly recent version. In

Understanding Lilypond language

2014-04-06 Thread Harald Christiansen
Hello, Is there a manual for the lilypond language itself ? I don't get it ... is it a programming language ... a macro expander ... all of the above ? I cannot build a mental model of how it works. For example, let's take variables. I take the notation reference, I look at the index and I see

Re: Question about FretBoards context

2014-04-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Thanks Fedrico, but still I don't get it. The FretBoards reference page says ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/fretboards) : This context creates the following layout object(s): FretBoard, etc. So ? Should I consider this as a bug ?

Re: Understanding Lilypond language

2014-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Harald Christiansen haraldch...@gmail.com writes: Hello, Is there a manual for the lilypond language itself ? I don't get it ... is it a programming language ... a macro expander ... all of the above ? It is a dynamically typed language. Not much programming in the language itself, but a

Re: Question about FretBoards context

2014-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Fedrico, but still I don't get it. The FretBoards reference page says ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/fretboards) : This context creates the following layout object(s): FretBoard, etc. So ?

Re: transposing cues

2014-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com writes: Now how can I write a clarinet part that goes back and forth between Bb and A and get the cues transposed correcly? URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#index-transposition_002c-instrument Second example. --

Re: Question about FretBoards context

2014-04-06 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-04-06 11:00 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Should you consider _what_ a bug? At least it'd I awoken you ;) There is a context called FretBoards that tends to work with grobs called FretBoard. Apparently this confuses you more than a context called Voice that tends to work

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-06 Thread Karol Majewski
Thanks Harm. In SpanBar-Dynamics conflict I still prefer whiteout over DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = ##f. The only problem is that sometimes whiteout box does not cover the whole barline width. Function I'm asking for would allow to control the width of whiteout box. BTW, In documentation

Re: python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Cc: Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org; Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net; Br. Samuel Springuel rpspring...@gmail.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org; Julien Rioux julien.ri...@gmail.com Sent:

Re: python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
Doesn't Julien have GUB with python 2.6 ready for testing? I If I install lilypond on my Fedora 20 system using the version from the official Fedora repo (2.18.2) it will use the Python2 version that is shipped with Fedora (Python 2.7.5) and I never experienced problems with that.

Re: python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:44:19AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: Doesn't Julien have GUB with python 2.6 ready for testing? I should be able to test GUB with Julien's Python 2.6 later this week. I'd just like to check the process. I click the Merge pull request at

Re: python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

2014-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
There _is_ a lilypond organization on github already, created and owned by Janek. We can easily fork the necessary repositories there and give all persons the necessary push access. As to the merge question: As Graham sais you shouldn't merge the request. Rather add the respective fork as a

Re: Extra naturals in accidental-style teaching?

2014-04-06 Thread Ariel Barton
Thank you! I think that what I want is not the forget style, but to have Lilypond typeset everything in C major/A minor. I'd still sort of like to print the true key signature; do you know if there's a way to print the D major keysignature while it's in C? (\key d \major \key c \major produces an

Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Joachim Jablon
Hello everyone, I've asked a question on StackOverflow about Lilypond files and Python, and someone suggested that I ask the lilypond community directly. For the long version, you can see the question here :

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Joachim Jablon ewjoac...@gmail.com writes: Hello everyone, I've asked a question on StackOverflow about Lilypond files and Python, and someone suggested that I ask the lilypond community directly. For the long version, you can see the question here :

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:t.dani...@treda.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:24 PM To: Daniel Rosen; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals Daniel, you wrote Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:44 PM I would like the

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Joachim Jablon
Le 06/04/2014 14:44, David Kastrup a écrit : Manipulating LilyPond files is not trivial, and your description is not at all useful for figuring out what remove some parts is even remotely supposed to mean. You might want to do your removal operation while still in MusicXML using some standard

Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Joachim Jablon
Hello everyone, I've asked a question on StackOverflow about Lilypond files and Python, and someone suggested that I ask the lilypond community directly. For the long version, you can see the question here :

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
It's not fully clear what you mean yet, but it sounds that you might be _much_ better off when you simply create different .ly files with scores just displaying the voices you want. Urs Joachim Jablon ewjoac...@gmail.com schrieb am 06.04.2014: Le 06/04/2014 14:44, David Kastrup a écrit :

RE: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:t.dani...@treda.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:24 PM To: Daniel Rosen; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals Daniel, you wrote Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:44 PM I would like the

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Function I'm asking for would allow to control the width of whiteout box. Just to note [again] that I would much prefer a whiteout function that followed the glyph outline (with a padding or margin parameter), rather than a rectangle. And, of course, I’m happy to chip in bounty money

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-06 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 06.04.2014 16:38, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, Function I'm asking for would allow to control the width of whiteout box. Just to note [again] that I would much prefer a whiteout function that followed the glyph outline (with a padding or margin parameter), rather than a rectangle.

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Joachim Jablon
Le 06/04/2014 15:56, Urs Liska a écrit : It's not fully clear what you mean yet, but it sounds that you might be _much_ better off when you simply create different .ly files with scores just displaying the voices you want. Urs Yes, that's where I'm headed for, but it must be in a completely

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread David Kastrup
Joachim Jablon ewjoac...@gmail.com writes: Le 06/04/2014 15:56, Urs Liska a écrit : It's not fully clear what you mean yet, but it sounds that you might be _much_ better off when you simply create different .ly files with scores just displaying the voices you want. Urs Yes, that's where

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.04.2014 17:19, schrieb Joachim Jablon: Le 06/04/2014 15:56, Urs Liska a écrit : It's not fully clear what you mean yet, but it sounds that you might be _much_ better off when you simply create different .ly files with scores just displaying the voices you want. Urs Yes, that's where

Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Daniel, you wrote April 06, 2014 3:21 PM I've tried this based on the page you linked me to above, but it's not working. What am I missing here? \version 2.19.3 { R1 | \override Score.MetronomeMark.break-align-symbols = #'(key-signature) \tempo Tempo as' bes' } I'm afraid I've

Re: Hyphen in a lyrics word

2014-04-06 Thread Noeck
The problem is you can't please all the people all the time. Some want disappearing hyphens. Hi Phil, I don’t want to make this thread much longer as I got the answer I needed, but here I have to disagree. It might depend on the language, but I am not speaking of hyphens due to hyphenation

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread brentboylan
If I understand what you are after, you want to produce an audio file for each part (SATB) that individuals can use to practice at home with. I have been preparing a lilypond file to do the same thing for the choir I direct. It is evolving even now, but one of the key components came from using

ly2video on Ubuntu

2014-04-06 Thread David B. Stocker
Hi all, Has anyone had success getting ly2video to work on recent versions of Ubuntu or Debian? I'm using ly2video 0.4.1 on UbuntuStudio 13.10 and seem to be running into issue #32: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video/issues/32 I'm messing around with changing the ly2video.py script

Re: transposing cues

2014-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 08:49:50AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com writes: Now how can I write a clarinet part that goes back and forth between Bb and A and get the cues transposed correcly?

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-06 Thread Jim Long
If it's of any use to you, I've created fully indexed and searchable PDF portfolios of the complete documentation sets Nick: I've often wondered, what are some of the things one can do with these doc sets that one can't do with the bare PDF files? I suspect I never do those things, whatever

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/04/14 07:10, Jim Long wrote: If it's of any use to you, I've created fully indexed and searchable PDF portfolios of the complete documentation sets I've often wondered, what are some of the things one can do with these doc sets that one can't do with the bare PDF files? I suspect I never

Re: Issue with downloaded manuals

2014-04-06 Thread brentboylan
Thanks for providing this document. In many ways the results are better than searching on the lilypond website as I can find the things that interest me faster. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Issue-with-downloaded-manuals-tp161245p161312.html Sent from

Re: Getting rid of initial brace on piano score

2014-04-06 Thread Harald Christiansen
This is what I used to disable it entirely, maybe it gives you an idea: \set PianoStaff.systemStartDelimiter = #'SystemStartBar On 4/04/2014 02:26, Peter Toye wrote: Getting rid of initial brace on piano score I want to get rid of the brace on the first line of a piano score, but keep it for

Re: Understanding Lilypond language

2014-04-06 Thread Harald Christiansen
Hello David, Many thanks for your reply. :-) I was giving the variable example as a kind of difficulty I have. I appreciate the fish you are giving to me but I want to learn how to fish :-) For example you say Because \layout { ... } is not a music expression but rather an output definition.

Re: Whiteout box function by Thomas Morley / need help

2014-04-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-04-06 11:39 GMT+02:00 Karol Majewski karo...@wp.pl: Thanks Harm. In SpanBar-Dynamics conflict I still prefer whiteout over DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = ##f. The only problem is that sometimes whiteout box does not cover the whole barline width. Function I'm asking for would

Re: Extra naturals in accidental-style teaching?

2014-04-06 Thread Paul Morris
Ariel Barton wrote I think that what I want is not the forget style, but to have Lilypond typeset everything in C major/A minor. I'd still sort of like to print the true key signature; do you know if there's a way to print the D major keysignature while it's in C? See the following which

Re: Import, edit and export a Lilypond file using Python

2014-04-06 Thread Joachim Jablon
Le 06/04/2014 20:33, brentboylan a écrit : If I understand what you are after, you want to produce an audio file for each part (SATB) that individuals can use to practice at home with. I have been preparing a lilypond file to do the same thing for the choir I direct. Wow, thanks a lot for

Re: Understanding Lilypond language

2014-04-06 Thread Paul Morris
Harald Christiansen wrote For example you say Because \layout { ... } is not a music expression but rather an output definition. Different type. and then later on: There are no typed variables. In my mind these two do not work together ... for me there is some understanding missing.

Re: MetronomeMark aligned to accidentals

2014-04-06 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi all, On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.ukwrote: Maybe someone else will have a better solution. Well, here's something rough which appears to do the trick. The basic idea is that the function locates a PaperColumn that is related to both our MetronomeMark

Re; Pdf of Manuals

2014-04-06 Thread info
I was interested in this too but when i go to download it I get an image in my browser that i needed to download Adobe Reader 9x while I have 10x already and I got nowhere so How does one get around this problem? Thanks Jay ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Re; Pdf of Manuals

2014-04-06 Thread brentboylan
When you try to open it in Adobe Reader (at least in XI) it will tell you to download a Flash plugin to properly view the documents. Do this (it doesn't take long) and then open the file again. You'll see all the documents in a row across the page. Search in all the docs at once from the search

Re: Re; Pdf of Manuals

2014-04-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/04/14 10:16, i...@soundand.com wrote: I was interested in this too but when i go to download it I get an image in my browser that i needed to download Adobe Reader 9x while I have 10x already and I got nowhere so How does one get around this problem? Sounds like your browser is trying