Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-07-11 4:50 GMT+02:00 tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: Schneidy wrote I did that, but I let it unfinished for a couple of weeks now... see = http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyJAZZ-in-v2-18-td162423.html#a162444 Pierre Yes! Thank you, Pierre, for your good work! I had fun making some

Re: lilypondforum.nl

2014-07-11 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 10/lug/2014 19:22 Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl ha scritto: On the risk of getting off-topic: IMHO having too many discussion platforms may work counter-productive. I personally stopped participating in Stack Overflow c.s. when I only got 'wrong forum' responses. We are talking

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2014-07-10 19:25 GMT+02:00 tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess that

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
tisimst tisi...@gmail.com writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess that could be nice, but it

Re: List defect?

2014-07-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Some people already reported they were not receiving some posts at all. With me, some posts pop up another time two days or so after they were originally sent (including my own). Do any of you know what might be

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 08:20, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2014-07-11 4:50 GMT+02:00 tisimst tisi...@gmail.com: Schneidy wrote I did that, but I let it unfinished for a couple of weeks now... see = http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyJAZZ-in-v2-18-td162423.html#a162444 Pierre Yes! Thank you, Pierre,

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: tisimst tisi...@gmail.com writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions) and provide the fonts independently. I think the salient point is to provide the

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions) and provide the fonts independently. I

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_ to switch fonts (e.g. Abraham's functions)

Re: [SPAM] Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to integrate into LilyPond the _possibility_

Re: [SPAM] Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least hassles (and maybe discussion) would be to

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 09:29, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: I think the cleanest way with the least

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:29, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:20, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 11.07.2014 09:10, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes:

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread James
On 11/07/14 08:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: tisimst tisi...@gmail.com writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music fonts available

Re: Follow-up question to alternate music fonts

2014-07-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.07.2014 10:16, schrieb James: On 11/07/14 08:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup: tisimst tisi...@gmail.com writes: All, Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form (i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can

Changing how a font style is requested

2014-07-11 Thread Alexander Kobel
Dear all, I like to use the Romande ADF font family [1] in one of my scores. I do the usual rule-of-three with \paper { ... (make-pango-font-tree Romande ADF No2 Std Romande ADF Std monospace (/ myStaffSize 20)) ... } (If you wonder, No2 is condensed, and

Re: lilypondforum.nl

2014-07-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: We are talking about a forum in a language other than english, I don't see any overlap with this mailing list. If I understand what you mean... I'm just afraid that interesting topics posted in one list will escapes the others. Well, let's see... A

Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Abel Cheung
Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine methods? I have a score that behave like the one below: - When both voices have identical rests, use partcombineUnisonoOnce - Use partcombineApart for everything else In the snippet below, the second line represents what I

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread Noeck
Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? Using Abrahams proposed tools? Are they public? Or did you do that with your own magic? I would also be interested to test these features. I have clear preferences when I look at the fonts you compared here. It is also

Re: List defect?

2014-07-11 Thread PMA
Simon Albrecht wrote: Hello, now there definitely seems to be something wrong with mail delivery on the list. Agreed. I had reported similar trouble with other forums' email, but now only LilyPond's hasn't returned to normal. Pete ___

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:52:13 +0100 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Hi list, With notation like \version 2.18.0 \chordmode { c/g } I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added below the root of the chord. With the notation \new ChordNames {

Re: Chord Symbols with inversions

2014-07-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:52:13 +0100 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com wrote: Hi list, With notation like \version 2.18.0 \chordmode { c/g } I can get chord names with /G at the end to indicate a G added below the root of the chord. With the notation \new ChordNames {

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
2014-07-11 13:56 GMT+02:00 Abel Cheung abelche...@gmail.com: Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine methods? I have a score that behave like the one below: - When both voices have identical rests, use partcombineUnisonoOnce - Use partcombineApart for everything

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of optical spacing for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Abel Cheung
Yes, this is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot! On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-11 13:56 GMT+02:00 Abel Cheung abelche...@gmail.com: Does anybody have experience about overriding existing partcombine methods? I have a score that behave

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com wrote: Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org

Re: Alternative partcombine strategy possible?

2014-07-11 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 11 July 2014 15:08, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this will help you: https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/editorial-tools/merge-rests-engraver Hi Janek, Could this definition of Merge Rests Engraver (latest by Jay Anderson) be included directly in

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com writes: Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should have this option, but haven't studied the problem enough to know how

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Abraham Lee tisi...@gmail.com writes: Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this. I've often thought that LilyPond should

Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar | is, of course ignored in this position. Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time signature, if any). Incidentally, the documentation is slightly misleading on this point:

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine | #'(| | |) does the trick. Richard On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar | is, of course ignored in this position.

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread James
On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine | #'(| | |) does the trick. Richard So do we need to improve the documentation? If so, what do you suggest?

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems are equidistant, but, at least to me, I feel like it's not balanced and it makes the notehead spacing a little awkward... I'd still rather see the default behavior. But we all

Re: Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

2014-07-11 Thread tisimst
Noeck wrote Hi Urs, it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores? Using Abrahams proposed tools? Are they public? Or did you do that with your own magic? I would also be interested to test these features. I have clear preferences when I look at the fonts you compared

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, James wrote: On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine | #'(| | |) does the trick. Richard So do we need to improve the documentation? If so, what do you suggest?

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems are equidistant, but, at least to me, I feel like it's not balanced and it makes the notehead

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-07-11 21:14 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com: On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, James wrote: On 11/07/14 18:00, Richard Shann wrote: It is somewhat embarrassing to reply to one's own question but: \defineBarLine | #'(| | |) does the trick. Richard So do we

Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

2014-07-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:18 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 16:07 11/07/2014 +0006, Abraham Lee wrote: Maybe just me, but I don't really like the look of that. I see the stems are

Re: Barline at beginning of lines of music.

2014-07-11 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 11.07.2014 18:49, schrieb Richard Shann: For chord charts a barline is wanted at the start of each line of music - \bar | is, of course ignored in this position. Can anyone suggest how to force printing a barline here (after the time signature, if any). Incidentally, the documentation is