ly:set-option png backend broken?

2023-12-09 Thread Stefano Antonelli
Hello list, If I add this line to my ly file: #(ly:set-option 'backend 'png) on 2.20.0 (linux), I get this warning: warning: program option -dprint-pages not supported by backend `png' on 2.24.3 (wine and linux), same file, I get this failure:

lilypond "preprocessor"?

2023-12-09 Thread Stefano Antonelli
Hello list, The issue I'm facing is that I might have a song.ly that contains: \header { % author and stuff } \theMusic = new DrumStaff { % the music } ly2video can't work with this file. It needs to see a \score block so it can add unfold repeats, layout, and midi. ly2video actually

Lilypond on Linux/Fedora 39 error after system update.

2023-12-09 Thread Laurie Savage
Hi, I was editing a lead sheet for my combo and it compiled fine. I closed Frescobaldi, accepted Fedora's nags to update and went to bed. I opened Frescobaldi this morning and get this error message on any file I try to compile. /usr/share/lilypond/2.25.4/ly/init.ly:64:2 <0>: error: Guile

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

2023-12-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 08:14:32 (+1100), Kevin Pye wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, at 23:45, Michael Werner wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye wrote: > >> What silly mistake am I making here? > > > > Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the > >

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

2023-12-09 Thread Kevin Pye
Thank you, Unfortunately, in this case (the real score from which the example was extracted) I need the words to be repeated so I can unfold them for midi output. I'll just have to do the unfold manually. Kevin. On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, at 23:45, Michael Werner wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Fri, Dec

Re: Video generation from multiple pages

2023-12-09 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sat, 2023-12-09 at 17:34 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > The line breaks come out before the rest of the measure does. I > > would > > expect the first line break print to appear after the third > > ly2videoBar. > > Are you relying on the order in which after-line-breaking callbacks > are

Re: Video generation from multiple pages

2023-12-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
 > The line breaks come out before the rest of the measure does. I would > expect the first line break print to appear after the third > ly2videoBar. Are you relying on the order in which after-line-breaking callbacks are run? You shouldn't, as the order is completely undefined and has no

Re: Video generation from multiple pages

2023-12-09 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 22:55 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Yes, but it was not called for System specifically until > > commit 782f5528e014cc3c7f705298a83f777306541e89 > Author: Jean Abou Samra > Date: Mon Mar 21 21:21:28 2022 +0100 > > Also call

Re: right enharmonic spelling

2023-12-09 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear David, thanks for your reply. But would also a solution with regex be possible? David Kastrup schrieb am Sa., 9. Dez. 2023, 13:49: > Stefan Thomas writes: > > > Dear community, > > I'm using a lot frescobaldi with MIDI input. I would like to know is how > > could I achieve automatically

Re: clefs, time signatures, and key signatures

2023-12-09 Thread Jakob Pedersen
For what it's worth, I think the original suggestion (with the top-left clef adjusted by -4.4%) is the better of the two. I do understand that there's an argument to be made against adjusting clefs that aren't /too/ bad, but the adjusted versions of the treble clefs /are/ better imo. With

Re: right enharmonic spelling

2023-12-09 Thread David Kastrup
Stefan Thomas writes: > Dear community, > I'm using a lot frescobaldi with MIDI input. I would like to know is how > could I achieve automatically the right enharmonic spelling. e.g. when I > want to get bis instead of c'? If I remember correctly, the MIDI entry box allowed you to set the key

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Werner
Hi Kevin, On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye wrote: > What silly mistake am I making here? > Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the same repeat structure as the music, there's one detail in

right enharmonic spelling

2023-12-09 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I'm using a lot frescobaldi with MIDI input. I would like to know is how could I achieve automatically the right enharmonic spelling. e.g. when I want to get bis instead of c'? Maybee one could usw a python Script with python.ly?

Re: clefs, time signatures, and key signatures

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Gerdau
> Thanks, but I would like to know whether you prefer the top > (alto-based) or bottom (treble-based) image on > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2188 Top (alto-based) is 6 days ago and bottom (treble-based) is 4 days ago as of today? Of those two I prefer bottom as