Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 15.02.2013 12:39, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Am 15.02.2013 12:18, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: >>> >>> Am 15.02.2013 11:40, schrieb Urs Liska: >>> You can create an adhoc-book in scheme with

Re: Slur and tie between chords

2013-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
. Don't write it if you don't mean it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Compile twice with different includes

2013-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
list, or a new function call. So (#{ ... #}) only makes sense when #{ ... #} actually returns a _function_, and you want to call that function. But in this case, it does not return anything. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: Markup centered on barline between staves

2013-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
up{ > \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) > \abs-fontsize #10 > \column{ > \halign #-1.3 "D.C." > \concat{ "sin'al " \raise #0.8 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } > } > } > s1 > } > \new staff { c''1 s1} >>> > %%%%

Re: Removing Fingering_engraver

2013-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
the fingering from chorded > notes, or from all notes, but not just from unchorded notes. Remove the Fingering_engraver, _and_ add a dummy engraver listening to fingering events and ignoring them. Then New_fingering_engraver will not feel compelled taking over. -- David Kastrup _

Re: how to place fermata over \breathe?

2013-02-16 Thread David Kastrup
ts.rcomma" > \raise #1 > \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" > } > \breathe > } Doesn't \single\override (aka \tweak) work here? A \tweak has the advantage of not messing with anything else happening at the same time. -- David Kastrup __

Re: Markup centered on barline between staves

2013-02-17 Thread David Kastrup
"sin'al " \raise #0.8 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } >>> } >>> } >>> s1 >>> } >>> \new staff { c''1 s1} >>>>> >>> %%% END LILY CODE SNIPPET >> >> Please test your examples be

Re: Removing Fingering_engraver

2013-02-17 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: > Am 17.02.2013 04:09, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Remove the Fingering_engraver, _and_ add a dummy engraver listening to >> fingering events and ignoring them. Then New_fingering_engraver will >> not feel compelled taking over. >> > > Ok, th

Re: Fwd: Problems with download.linuxaudio.org?

2013-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
be somewhat surprised if the --prefix option worked reliably: I don't think people test it much. > 7. make install First make, then make install. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \slashedGrace forces a downward slur?

2013-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
27;d expect the > slur to be above. > > \version "2.16.1" > \relative c'' { \slurUp d4. \slashedGrace e16 ( d8 b4 d4 ) } \version "2.16.1" \relative c'' { d4. \slashedGrace e16^( d8 b4 d4 ) } works fine here. -- David Kastrup ___

Re: cadenzaOn / Off don't work

2013-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
Sávio Ramos writes: > Hello, > > The command \cadenzaOn \cadenzaOff don't remove stem. Is there a reason they should? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: cadenzaOn / Off don't work

2013-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
They shouldn't. They only affect timing, not the appearance of notes. >> >> To hide stems, use >> >> \override Stem #'stencil = ##f > > /beams/ are removed Hardly. Autobeaming is switched off, so you get only beams for manual beaming. But that

Re: Don't engrave measure symbol, actually now Browser differences

2013-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > I wrote too early. > Now Firefox saves the file and _then_ opens it with gedit. > > Not what I wanted. I have a hard time imagining how to open the text editor on a file that has not been saved. -- D

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread David Kastrup
t people call "great notation program" likely concerns note entry, and that's not something where the LilyPond toolchain really shines. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread David Kastrup
cribes exactly how the finished score will appear, what will happen with the spacing when transposing? Presumably it is ingrained into the file, so how will everything get retrofitted? However, LilyPond indeed has a weakness in as far as it does not really have a "file format&q

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-21 Thread David Kastrup
Hilary Snaden writes: > On 2013-02-21 23:10, David Kastrup wrote: > >> However, LilyPond indeed has a weakness in as far as it does not >> really have a "file format". It is an evolving input language. > > If that's a "weakness", it's one I&

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
\voiceTwo \tromA } > \new Voice { \voiceTwo \tromB } > >> Both with \voiceTwo? Of course this will clash. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
Jim Long writes: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:41:01AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Jim Long writes: >> >> > I will say that the merging of noteheads onto stems is probably >> > the weak spot in my knowledge. >> >> [...] >> >> > T

Re: Horns example from blog

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
akes it clearer. > If you want to achieve that result but want (obviously) to have > separate voices I don't see anything here that would warrant separate voices. Just use \new Voice << \tromboneOne \tromboneTwo >> in order to put both into the sa

Re: FreedomSponsors

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
one by non-specialists. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-book

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
73391.ly" >> Child returned 1 >> >> >> What could I be doing wrong or am I missing something? > > Does the simple example above compile: > > \begin{lilypond} > \relative c' { > c2 e2 \times 2/3 { f8 a b } a2 e4 > } > \end{lilypond} Without li

Re: lilypond-book

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
and now everything, including lilypond-book works as > expected. > > > I am glad this works, but does anyone know how to fix this properly ? It's apparently a consequence of Fedora's directory structure and/or PATH not matched to how they install LilyPond. -- David Kast

Re: FreedomSponsors

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
nge for money. Of course, if you fund a set of six non-LilyPond specific programmers to stay in the same office for a month on issue 34, it will with some probability make progress, but that's not to be had for a "reasonable amount". -- David Kastrup

Re: Ending slur combined with decresc on single note

2013-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
slur outside the brackets didn't work either, > obviously. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to render this > properly? Thanks. Try removing \\ here. I does not appear that the chosen constructs really need separate voices. -- David Kastrup

Re: chord - missing 7

2013-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
u'd likely get better error messages from 2.16.2. There is a missing closing brace or similar. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord - missing 7

2013-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > "Peter Gentry" writes: > >> I tried this solution but got the following result. What went wrong? >> >> Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.16.0 [Untitled]... >> Processing `c:/windows/temp/frescobaldi-pkr1ne/tmp52xhgd/document.ly

Re: Disable beaming for single note

2013-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
' { > c8[] c > } As expected, a one-note beam. Maybe look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/beams#manual-beams> to see how this is done for single notes. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: CPU usage and barchecks

2013-02-24 Thread David Kastrup
lar point of processing. I doubt that you would notice a significant difference if you had 100 bar checks every bar. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord - missing 7

2013-02-25 Thread David Kastrup
SCM - it > is good practice to first look for an error in the user.ly > file. Digging for it using judicious %s to comment out lines until you > find the offending article. > > I will erect a large notice to remind me:) You could just update to a version

Re: Tuplet brackets on subdivided beams

2013-02-25 Thread David Kastrup
concisely as tboff = \omit TupletBracket tbon = \undo \tboff -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: GLISS

2013-02-25 Thread David Kastrup
matic. > Are there ideas which are still worked on? Don't know of any falling under the "still worked on" umbrella. Work happens all the time, and sometimes it makes old wishlist items come into accessible range and/or a new light. -- David Kastrup __

Re: Advocating non-free softwares [WAS: Heads up about Frescobaldi & Ubuntu - Insert Menu Glitch]

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
operating systems fostering this cooperation. If you find you enjoy working with LilyPond and its community, chances are that working with the Free Systems where it is at home will become rewarding to you. Ok, too long. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond

Re: Advocating non-free softwares [WAS: Heads up about Frescobaldi & Ubuntu - Insert Menu Glitch]

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
awareness about it when saying how > fantastic the experience is of using a certain piece of > freedom-denying software. Well, it _is_ good cake. But they would be welcome to the whole bakery. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
solutely fantastic, but some people's aversion to anything which > looks at all technical seems unsurmountable to me (although I'd love > to be proven wrong; after all, I still see "non-technical" airport > staff happily typing cryptic commands into old-school terminals in &

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
rk better > on Linux, that's perfectly fine, but it is completely unreasonable for > you to expect me to censor myself because it happens to work great on > Windows. If people gather that switching to Windows will make themselves get a great working Python, you are not necessarily d

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
oolean and Y is one or more context or property > changes. > > How generic could you make an engraver, which allowed users with > little or no Scheme experience to set up their own "switches"? Isn't that what \applyContext is for,

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
OS. Those who don't care will not actively help Free Software including LilyPond, so it is in LilyPond's best interest to make them care. Which is not necessarily the same as annoying them. But it is also not the same as hiding under a rock. -- David Kastrup __

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
ought LilyPond to them in the first place. Without the GNU project, there would be no LilyPond. We would not have a build platform, we would not have GUILE, we would not have the enthusiasm of its founders. Without Free Software, it is not even conceivable h

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
e music" formula within a lyricmode block I get an > "unexpected LYRICS_STRING" error. Can someone clarify? Do you have a minimal example? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:24 PM >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Daniel Rosen writes: >>

Re: change barline type with time signature change

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
g b \applyContext #(lambda (context) (if cond > (ly:context-mod-apply! context mod))) c a f d c1 > > } > > > I think, for your idea of automatically changing properties in a > context, you will need an engraver. \applyContext is not run "in the music stream" but during ite

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
ed nor tolerant, and when this imbalance and intolerance is tilted against the GNU project and its goals and guidelines, it is not even serving a discernible purpose. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
from yours. And if one is really, really loath to doing that, then erring on the calmer side of recollection might be safer. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:24 AM >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Conversion to 2.17.13 (what I ha

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
yours. > > Done. And it didn't change my opinion that some people in this thread > have crossed the line into inflammatory advocacy. Now that is a summary that I can agree with. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:03 AM >> To: Daniel Rosen >> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics >> >> Phooey. I as

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
ing it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-27 Thread David Kastrup
Adam Spiers writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Adam Spiers writes: >>> I just blogged about this: >>> >>> http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-nothing-from-the-avid-sibelius-saga/ >> >>

Re: StaffGroup and GrandStaff: Barlines not connected in version 2.17.*

2013-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
ression by closing 3203 (in order to preserve the history of it, by merging into the old issue 3192) and reopening the old issue. That should make people less afraid to delay the patch in its current form by further review as it clearly is _not_ f

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
> Can anyone recommend a workaround in the meantime? The following actually works fine for me in 2.17.12: \score { { c'4 c' c' c' } \addlyrics { \footnote #'(-2 . -2) \markup "text" \markup Mu- sic is nice } } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Instrument switching with a new staff - possible?

2013-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
bout GUILE/Scheme outside of LilyPond might extend your horizons and make you realize how you might want to see things done differently or Scheme-accessible in LilyPond. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: #'stencil vs. #'transparent

2013-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Daniel Rosen writes: > I'm typesetting a piece of vocal music, and I want to have a melisma > without a slur being drawn. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#index-melismata> --

Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

2013-02-28 Thread David Kastrup
Adam Spiers writes: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:51 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Adam Spiers writes: >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>>> Adam Spiers writes: >>>>> I just blogged about this: >>>>> >&

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
Zenaan Harkness writes: > On 2/27/13, David Kastrup wrote: >> Kieren MacMillan writes: >> >>> David, >>> >>>> Then it would seem that many of us have forgotten >>>> what brought LilyPond to them in the first place. >>&

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Starting scene of Macbeth. But at any rate, I perceive a shift in >> educational systems to award degrees that have at best a weak >> correlation with being competent in the certified field of expertise. >> T

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Changing Education Paradigms [Re: Advocating non-free softwares]

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
erful stories, are all sad. It's just that > Hollywood will find a way to pervert most beautiful sad stories into a > happy end before we get to see them ;-) An optimist believes that we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist _knows_ it. -- David Kastrup ___

Re: Footnotes to lyrics

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
, sorry for that. > Evidently the - immediately following the first syllable is necessary > but the reason for it is not obvious. It can only be a symbol if it consists of just letters, possibly separated by single - or _. A - at the end makes sure that it is lyrics, and not a specifica

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
. You don't need an explicit ! everywhere if you want every accidental anyway. Look up \accidentalStyle in the manual: you'll likely find a style that matches your requirements. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: a lot of accidentals. how do I notate them?

2013-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
is _not_ how LilyPond works. Instead you write the pitch you want to hear. LilyPond will decide by its own rules when it needs a sharp, a flat, or a natural. What you write as a is _always_ played on a white key, what you write as fis is _always_ played on a black key. -- Davi

Re: Dealing with almost-repetitive stuff

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
you are staying in the same voice, things will come together just fine. Note that << \x \y >> is parallel music while << \x \\ \y >> is a shorthand equivalent to << \context Voice = "1" \with { \voiceOne } \x

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
ive { f } -> f' \relative { g } -> g That makes only sense in relation to c', so why not write it explicitly? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Newbie: Setting music, verses, music, verses

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
kely that nobody answers than you consider it likely that more than one person would try helping. Now let's just consider the case that a single person would be willing to help you. Why should he invest more effort than you? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
oneVoice))) Uh, any reason this is not just split = #(define-music-function (parser location music1 music2) (ly:music? ly:music?) #{ << { \voiceOne $music1 \oneVoice } \context Voice = "2" { \voiceTwo $music2 } >> #}) Why make things more complex than necessary? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
n right now pretty much literally from the Scheme expression back to using an embedded LilyPond expression, so it is quite unlikely that it does something different. Have you even tried it? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: making progress I think. Thanks all.

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
l that helpful to her. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
ctly the same music expression after this change, just written in a different manner. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-03 Thread David Kastrup
_would_ have triggered issue 2263 in case you were using _chord_ _repetition_ in connection with \relative. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2263>, previously http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1110>. Oh, that one had bounties. Don't even r

Re: divisi parts and another general question

2013-03-03 Thread David Kastrup
g \relative on it would have been sufficient. So writing the function without any copying (as the Scheme version did) would only have prevented one way of blowing up on the old repeat chord implementation. Given the amount of friendly words that I lost over the repeatchord feature and its origin

Re: final score

2013-03-04 Thread David Kastrup
Now how to get to line 27 of your file depends on the editor you are using. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: final score

2013-03-04 Thread David Kastrup
regard since it is pretty much our _only_ development platform. Even for people otherwise at home on other operating systems. So it is doubly important that we don't have stumbling blocks requiring experienced users of GNU/Linux there. Now it is true that I likely don't have a good c

Re: Ottava bracket

2013-03-05 Thread David Kastrup
\consists "Ottava_spanner_engraver" } $music #}) \relative c { \clef bass << { 1~ 4 } \\ { r2. \voiceOttava #-1 { \voiceTwo 4 4 } } >> } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
list the same advice, again and again? While it is quite more efficient to condense it in the manual and point to that, pointing every single user to this manual section is going to get old as well. After telling enough people "the problem is actually simple, it is just you who are incompetent", maybe we should think twice about what we have to gain by making LilyPond users feel incompetent. I don't see a compelling technical reason not to cater to this particular naive expectation. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 06.03.2013 09:38, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Marc Hohl writes: >> >>> kudos for this detailed explanation! I wonder if the documentation about >>> bar lines should be enhanced in this way, or is there a place where this >>> inform

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/3/6 David Kastrup : > >> It is orthogonal to us making \bar "|:" and \bar ":|" well-defined by >> letting : automatically imply a thick bar since nothing else makes >> sense. >> >> We don't want t

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
visual variant. I think that if we depart from the notion that the bar name for \bar should always correspond to the WYSIWYG definition of the in-line rendition, and thus separate the logical user interface from the purely visual definition of the resulting look, we will keep the aesthetics of both users and programmers reasonably unoffended. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: tie not working; harmonica midi instrument wanted

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
l have to add > > \layout { > \context { > \Voice > \remove "Slur_performer" > } > } That would not do anything in the \layout block since the \layout block does not have a Slur_performer in Voice anyway. It belongs in the \midi block.

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
lily would offer a better way to _structurize_ music, this > discussion would be rather academic. We'd still need a way to configure the visual appearance. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
alias, whereas for Marc the alias would be \bar "|:" and for me it would be the main interface... -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:24 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Marc Hohl writes: >>> As I mentioned elsewhere, I seldom use the repeat sign explicitely, I >>> try to get along with \repeat volta. Moreover, I find it very annoying >>> to e

General Relativity (was: divisi parts and another general question)

2013-03-06 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Kieren MacMillan writes: > >> I definitely use a lot of chord repetition, and I always (= 99% of the >> time) use \relative. In fact, until only recently, most of my code had >> \relative {} instead of the now-promoted \relative x {} [where x is

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 06.03.2013 21:24, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Marc Hohl writes: >> >>> I am a bit disappointed that the discussion about \bar ":|." >>> rises half a year after the patch went through the revision >>> process. >>

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/3/6 David Kastrup : >> Marc Hohl writes: > [...] >>> The basic idea behind the bar line interface based on Harm's >>> work, and I like the idea of having a 1:1 representation of the >>> bar line stringwise. >> >&g

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
t at first. > I hope that this extension will find its way into the official > lilypond releases... What needs to be done for this? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> [snip snip] >> Ok, here is the deal: I promise to give real thought about a way to >> _define_ repeat structures in such a straightforward manner that a user >> would understand how to

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
ocess. > > I am sorry. But in this case it was triggered by a user (me) who did > not take part in the revision process. But it is still the development > version. Yup. And if one aim is to avoid a flurry of users complaining about \bar "|:" having stopped working, we are stil

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 07.03.2013 10:06, schrieb David Kastrup: >> [...] >> Ok, here is the deal: I promise to give real thought about a way to >> _define_ repeat structures in such a straightforward manner that a user >> would understand how to create repeat stru

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Noeck writes: >> We use "|." for the end bar not because of its _visual_ properties, > If that is the case, I would say \bar "." is more logical. Zounds. Tell you what: I'd consider that an actual improvement. Never though

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 07.03.2013 18:36, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Noeck writes: >> >>>> We use "|." for the end bar not because of its _visual_ properties, >>> If that is the case, I would say \bar "." is more logical. >> Zounds.

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 07.03.2013 18:45, schrieb David Kastrup: >> Marc Hohl writes: >> >>> Am 07.03.2013 18:36, schrieb David Kastrup: >>>> Noeck writes: >>>> >>>>>> We use "|." for the end bar not because of its

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
an autogenerated one on \relative c' { c c } ? Do we want one on \relative c' { \partial 4 c | c c c } ? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bar lines

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 07.03.2013 18:56, schrieb David Kastrup: > >> A piece has one final bar line. A music theory text has thousands of >> fragments without final bar line. > Ok, but this depends on what you write more often – from my rather > selfish point of view,

Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
ntless if it's not enough of an improvement to actually change the documentation extensively and recommend this use. How do people feel about this? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Please take a look at > > Issue 3229: Patch: Make \relative { ... } interpret the first pitch as > an absolute one > > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3229> > > It's clear that this change will require quite a bit more wo

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2013/3/7 David Kastrup : >> >>> Please take a look at >>> >>> Issue 3229: Patch: Make \relative { ... } interpret the first pitch as >>> an absolute one > > To be absolutely clear, am I right that this patch will not af

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:06 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> The idea is that \relative { ... } (namely \relative used without an >> explicit reference pitch) uses the first note inside as the reference >> pitch. That is, if the first note happens to b

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
reimplemented outside of the parser. But at any rate: the change only concerns the choice of reference pitch, so nothing _inside_ of \relative really changes. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
he only thing that works reliably for copy/paste is absolute pitch. Relative pitch is always prone to octave errors. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:06:24PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> The idea is that \relative { ... } (namely \relative used without an >> explicit reference pitch) uses the first note inside as the reference >> pitch. That is, if t

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Colin Hall writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Please take a look at >> >> Issue 3229: Patch: Make \relative { ... } interpret the first pitch as >> an absolute one >> >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3229> >> >>

Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
ative to the previous pitch. The first written pitch after @code{\relative} is in absolute pitch. If @code{\relative} is @emph{immediately} followed by a pitch, this pitch is @emph{only} used as the reference pitch for the following music and not interpreted otherwise." That's

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