Re: Ukulele string tunings

2012-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
, strings need to get reversed. It would appear that this had been wrong in any version of the file. I seem to remember, however, that LilyPond is not overly skilled dealing with non-increasing string pitches, so the standard ukulele would likely not be fabulously supported either. -- David Kastrup

Re: Ukulele string tunings

2012-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com writes: On 5/12/12 16:08 , David Kastrup wrote: Choan Gálvezchoan.gal...@gmail.com writes: Current tunings for tenor and baritone ukulele are string reversed. From `ly/string-tunings-init.ly`: %% ukulele tunings \makeDefaultStringTuning #'ukulele

Re: Dashed Stem

2012-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
) (let helper ((lst '()) (next 0) (on on) (off off)) (if ( next len) (helper (cons next lst) (+ next on) off on) (reverse! lst (list len) will do. No idea whether this should have an even number of elements always or not. -- David Kastrup

Re: Ukulele string tunings

2012-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com writes: On 5/12/12 16:51 , David Kastrup wrote: Choan Gálvezchoan.gal...@gmail.com writes: On 5/12/12 16:08 , David Kastrup wrote: Choan Gálvezchoan.gal...@gmail.com writes: In addition, I'd say those two tunings are weirly named -- from the same

Re: Tab stems won't show up when using TabVoice

2012-05-13 Thread David Kastrup
{ \tabFullNotation } is likely sufficient. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de writes: On 14.05.2012 12:34, David Kastrup wrote: Jan-Peter Voigtjp.vo...@gmx.de writes: Hello Harm and list, Could you try _not_ posting in HTML? This mail had both a plain text as well as an HTML-specified part, and both rendered awfully here. If you

Re: Fwd: Middle voices and rests

2012-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
be worth mentioning that something like c''4 \\ \tweak #'X-offset #1.3 \tweak #'font-size #-2 c'\rest will work (as of 2.15.20 or so, the time compulsory EventChord wrapping was canned). That's somewhat more straightforward. -- David Kastrup

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: If you found define-music-function code much easier to handle you may want to express your thankfulness to David Kastrup and his great parser-work. http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24 Well, let's be fair: I've not really changed

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
=-\rightHandFinger 1 Seems a bit simpler. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
-command (drop-next-line layout props m) (markup-list?) (interpret-markup layout props #{ \markup \lower #3 \line #m #})) instead. Note the spelling: markup commands usually don't use CamelCaps by convention but rather dashed-names. -- David Kastrup

Re: Notating same part in two different mixtures of clefs

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
, the music is here indeed being parsed twice, once for every call of \music. So the tag solution is likely to be faster. I have come to find the redefinition of variables a _very_ useful concept. Sure, but redefining them after they have already been used is not all that helpful. -- David Kastrup

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
interchangeably be specified in either LilyPond or Scheme syntax. Argument ambiguities are resolved by actually running predicates on several interpretations of the argument. Now _this_ is actually a nice case for supporting future developments financially. -- David Kastrup

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: creates a post-event rather than a full music event. So here is quite a bit of potential for creating a smoother experience. Now of course one can streamline the user interface a bit by making individual commands for individual letters: \version 2.15.36

Re: Testimonial

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
measures, this limits the compass of followup errors. My compliments to the long-timers on this list for your patience. [Checking] Oh. We are on the general list rather than the developers'. That explains it. All the best, -- David Kastrup

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
to guess more than that. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Letters as Left hand fingering

2012-05-17 Thread David Kastrup
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: On 16/05/12 17:43, David Kastrup wrote: Nick Paynenick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: 2012/5/15 Pierre Perol-Schneiderpierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: Hi Group, Sometimes I need to put a letter in front of a number as a fingering

Re: status of release 2.16.0

2012-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
on the website. If no critical bugs are found is announced on the LilyPond website, and that's accurate. We don't announce every critical bug, and Graham is on vacation schedule anyway. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
to be expected and subsequently suppressed. If the warning is not encountered, a warning about the missing warning will be shown. The message should be translated with `(_ ...)' and changing parameters given after the format string. -- David Kastrup

Re: Full bar tremolo with accidentals fails

2012-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
I can detect is not reporting this to the lilypond-bug list, but it would seem like you can easily fix that. An assertion failed should not be triggerable with unadorned user code not touching the Scheme layer. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user

Re: Full bar tremolo with accidentals fails

2012-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LilyPond wins LoMuS 2012!

2012-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
linkable notice in the web? I just found URL:http://concours.afim-asso.org/2012/index.php. It is not really easy to find, and it not exactly containing an impressive amount of information. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Manual volta placement and invisible barline kills previous barline

2012-05-21 Thread David Kastrup
, even when I add a manual single barline at the end of bar 4. (See Example B below.) URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-numbers does explain break-visibility. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: contemporary accidental style

2012-05-21 Thread David Kastrup
). \accidentalStyle neo-modern does not match your requirements? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
-command Footnotes have gotten a new interface. The documentation for this URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes, while reasonably complete and correct, is currently being rewritten in order to better match LilyPond's standards. -- David Kastrup

Re: Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:23 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Hi, with regard to the latest development release (and 7th stable release candidate), I wanted to point out a new feature that came in as a side-effect of reimplementing

Re: Get the positions of a beam (or other grob with positions)

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
be convincingly consistent, so I have not done anything of the sort yet. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
that the documentation for \tweak leaves a lot to be improved as well, but it might make sense discussing concrete proposals on the respective issue (just now marked as Fixed by Colin, but that does not mean one can't make further improvements). -- David Kastrup

Re: Get the positions of a beam (or other grob with positions)

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
and Arpeggio, as \offsetPositions PianoStaff Arpeggio #'(... If you don't like the string, you could use string-or-pair? as predicate, and then use either Arpeggio or #'(PianoStaff . Arpeggio) That's currently the best sort of deal you can get from the parser. -- David Kastrup

Re: Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: 2012/5/23 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: Very nice!  Great work, David.  A minor thing: In the given link I can see   \tweak

Re: How to catch the current height of a StaffGroup?

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
point of time, you cannot do better. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Directed \tweak commands in 2.15.39

2012-05-23 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:10 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Honestly?  Our documentation was created in lots of little bits from different contributors at different times.  If we hope to bring it into a reasonably more consistent state

Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz (was: Slides from LilyPond talk at Chemnitzer Linuxtage are up)

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For those who are interested in my talk about LilyPond at the recent event in Chemnitz, the slides are at URL:http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/vortraege/900. Since my talks tend to do more than just reading off the slides, the impression may be rather

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: tor 2012-05-24 klockan 11:28 +0200 skrev David Kastrup: I mention funding problems for my work at the end of the talk. It turns out that this month has dropped so far in one-time monetary contributions compared to the rather slow uptake of regular

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: When donating, is there any mechanism in place by which funds will be donated only if some target level is reached by all donations together

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
, but I think depending on individual users to support you is not going to work out the way you want. If this upsets you, read the GPL again. Please read URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney. And after that, read the GPL again. -- David Kastrup

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: Some messages seem to drop out and never reach me, but I understand the following was written by David Kastrup: You propose a system with a guarantee that I will not get any payment at all unless a minimum is met, meaning that I have to finance the whole

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
that has a chance of getting recovered. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
written yet. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: Just curious. If there wasn't a free as in beer version of a GPL software package, wouldn't one logically expect a fork? How does GNU

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
appealing to those who have a fortune, namely that of being able to feel excited about a project like LilyPond. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: David Kastrup wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: But most forward thinking publishing companies Forward thinking? Are we talking about the music publishing industry? would give the source code back. After all, their core business

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-25 Thread David Kastrup
of playing errors and uneven timing: the consequences are local. Of course, this is purely hypothetical for now, but it seems like a good plan for somebody (TM) to implement. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: How to cancel voice so ties are right direction

2012-05-25 Thread David Kastrup
{ } } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Full bar tremolo with accidentals fails

2012-05-25 Thread David Kastrup
/maintain.html#Standard-Mailing-Lists -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Adjusting line-spacing for markup column

2012-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
#'(baseline-skip . 2.2) \column{ \line{Bla Bla Bla Bla} \line{Ble Ble Ble Ble} \line{Blo Blo Blo Blo} } } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Volta + rehearsal mark?

2012-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
street as well. But upgrading LilyPond is not all that hard. And one _can_ downgrade a source manually more often than not, a course that is not feasible with closed file formats that are not human-readable. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
have no problems with mind-reading fingers. They leave me perfectly well in charge. In fact, more so than I would be without them. It would be more worrisome if we had mind-writing computers. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: how to enter notes quickly (midi keyboard available)

2012-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
entry? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tuplet bracket starts too late after shorter-rest

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Manual volta placement and invisible barline kills previous barline

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
, but that does not mean that they should. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
in the course of giving footnotes a reasonably nice interface. If you take a look at the actual number of code lines for the actual feature commit, it's that's all?: commit 0b716515bfd610a04bbe4289f171f3cd80a0fc14 Author: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org Date: Tue May 15 19:11:03 2012 +0200 Give

Re: Appreciation / financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
one day. Or even a secretary of resolute character and determination. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
. No user can be expected to recompile. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
in the board of such an organisation since I would be set to profit from the board's decisions. I am checking out the options I have as a private person, but I am not exactly optimistic here. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
to verify that you are in the list. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread David Kastrup
Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: On May 28, 2012, at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote: As great as Lilypond's output is, there is a long way to go in terms of simplification and usability (the syntax needs to be simplified dramatically; a lot of the code users have to write is pretty

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:17 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: It would be nice to have fewer incompatible modes, and simpler ways of extending them. And the C++ must go with regard to how LilyPond can be extended.  If parts of LilyPond require

Re: Turning off key-change cancellation naturals

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
-size-change = ##t   \relative c''{   \cadenzaOn   \key d \major   d d d d   \bar |.   \skip 32   \set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f   \key c \major Does not help against c\major, and frankly: how would you even detect a change to c \major without anything being printed? -- David

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 114, Issue 130

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
a chance with full disclosure before I had to quit for good. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 114, Issue 130

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: The amazing thing is rather that in the last three months, my finances have not taken a further dive and this looks like it _could_ end up sustainable. That's good news! I

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
that there are a few people who don't want to see LilyPond go in this direction. We don't make the best of our potential for selling LilyPond out. But we should not run into trap of making money a metric for the success of LilyPond or its contributors. -- David Kastrup

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: We're missing consensus. I think that if there were a SponsorshipMeister, not unlike the BugMeister, we could do really cool stuff like this. Besides the monetary aid, this brings huge recognition to the community and gets

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
is an incomprehensible nightmare of technoblurb. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:01 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Bad input tends to let LilyPond segfault.  You need C++ for that: it is not possible in Scheme alone.  Take a look at listener.cc, one of our simplest C++ classes with things like

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Nils l...@nilsgey.de writes: On Tue, 29 May 2012 19:08:51 +0200 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: While the scheme integration have been a big leap forward in terms

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
where Scheme is a good fit, and not tack on a Scheme layer as an afterthought. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
to be aware of the scripting language. You mean, use Goops? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: There are two separate discussions here: - how do we offer to average user a way to extend the program. I agree that C++ is not the way to go - how do we offer developers

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
, but the occasional big thing that would not get done at all otherwise makes up for it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-29 Thread David Kastrup
on .ps export from the LilyPond front end, but that does not mean that when he tweaks some noteheads, you can reimport those tweaks into into the original LilyPond source. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
or space, I don't care is nicer, but it is procedural, not functional, and thus the simple path from #1 to #(begin ...) is not there: you'd need to start with something like #{ return 1 #} minimally and/or distinguish between statements and expressions. -- David Kastrup

Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
in? Can I use music functions? What note language should I be using? Should the voicing be reflected in ad-hoc voices? Should I be using anonymous parallel voices? What kind of context mods should I be using? Uh, we better form a committee for that kind of question. -- David Kastrup

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: Lua with separate statements with semicolon or newline or space, I don't care is nicer, but it is procedural, not functional, And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-30 Thread David Kastrup
version known as exTeX that is still under development. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote: Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter it does not exactly overwhelm. I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote exactly what one is replying

Re: suppress warnings

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
. The Piano_pedal_engraver works at Staff level by default. Voice switches should not faze it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Henning Hraban Ramm fiee.visue...@gmail.com writes: Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb David Kastrup: Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net writes: Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, that was called NTS (new typsetting system); I would not call Karel Skoupy

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
the earlier behavior of $xxx inside of #{ ... #} had nothing to do with Scheme) is a bit of endorsement for the change: its intent was to reduce the amount of clue required for writing working code. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
= \new ChordNames \chordmode {   \besideCN #LEFT Capo1 d1 fis2:m7 b2:m e1:m7 a } any clues, anyone, please ? convert-ly -ed is used for upgrading the syntax of files written for an earlier version of LilyPond to the present. -- David Kastrup

Re: [OT] was Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
and with few swift strokes drawing perfectly shaped letters with the discussed details and features. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
find me pointing to it frequently. With this particular syntax change, remove everything that looks like a mistake will tend to work as well, as someone else noted in a parallel answer, and that actually was the motivation for the change. -- David Kastrup

Re: besideCN seems to have stopped working

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
behavior. If you feel like you understand the rationale behind it, you are a cleverer person than I am. I preferred dumbing down LilyPond to a level where I don't feel guilty when explaining it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
, greatly simplify a full-blown conversion to a different extension language if it was still deemed desirable. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
compiling software and writing C++ is a bit of a discontinuity, and the minimum amount of C++ you need to learn before starting to be able to work on LilyPond at all appears larger to me than the minimal amount of Scheme. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user

Re: Workflow/Toolchain for final final touches

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
on PostScript would require a tool such as Tailor (I am not even sure that it ever left the NeXtStep platform). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
to deal with brushes and paints. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
is more like €1150. Even the subset of the subset of the subset that is reading this mailing list, vocal and opinionated or not, is making a difference for me, and certainly also for LilyPond. And a large part of this difference _is_ by being vocal and opinionated on this list. -- David Kastrup

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
with LilyPond. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond to xml -singing voice festival

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: fresco wrote: David Kastrup wrote: fresco tuxs...@googlemail.com writes: But when I try to insert: \include festival.ly #(set! song:*debug* #f) \festival #bach-präl.xml { \tempo 4 = 100 } into another file (see text below), I get error

Re: Autochange snippet broken?

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Autochange snippet broken?

2012-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: Hi everybody, (lots of awesome talks on -user these days!) I'm wondering what has gone wrong with this: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=724 a.k.a. Autochange with a different pitch (for the search

Re: Editorial ties in scheme

2012-06-02 Thread David Kastrup
Mike lilyp...@lapsley.ukshells.co.uk writes: PS: list server *seems* to be swallowing posts: apologies if this appears several times. So far four times. Or maybe I am too impatient. Maybe. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-02 Thread David Kastrup
that does not pose much of a risk of blowing the transfer limits of some zero-cost site if it is _that_ important to people. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
between two notes. Is it good output? (I think it's been engraved in Finale) If so, how can I get it in LilyPond? Your description does not match the image, so it is hard to tell what you want. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
. The violin works of Bach offer interesting voicings. A rather prominent (and mostly monophonic but still multivoice) example is the first motion from the violin solo partita 3: the voicing made very explicit in the autograph can be straightforwardly mapped to different strings. -- David Kastrup

Re: stem across voices

2012-06-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: voicing is an important and advanced skill for most instruments: guitar, violin, pianoforte (much more so than with plucked keyboards like harpsichord and spinett), accordion: the important thing is to lend each _voice_ a consistent character (loudness

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