Re: [OT] guitar scales

2013-10-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: Hi this is OT because I think that what I'm looking for cannot be done in LilyPond. I'd like to generate some guitar scales, as you can see here: http://archives.mikeerickson.net/guitar-scales/#/scales/A/minor But I'd like to be able to print them

Re: Stand alone guitar chord/scale diagrams

2013-10-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Kevin Tough ke...@toughlife.org writes: Perhaps I had should describe what I am looking for more as a neck diagram for guitar because I want to do more than just a chord shape. I have cut the attached *.jpg from an E-book I use. I would like to be able to make these myself. Color, changing

Combining chord durations

2013-10-21 Thread Johan Vromans
I use a score to produce PDF and MIDI. To obtain a rhythmic pattern in the MIDI, I write the chords as: ees8 ees ees ees ees ees bes bes | c:m c:m c:m c:m aes aes aes aes | ees ees ees ees bes bes bes bes | ees ees ees ees ees ees ees ees | In the printed score, the chord changes are

Re: Combining chord durations

2013-10-21 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Jim Long, on October 21 2013, 11:42, in Re: Combining chord ] The reason your layout gets stretched is roughly because LilyPond's chord-suppression logic for repeated chord markups effectively makes the chord markup transparent rather than eliminating it entirely. Thus even the

Re: Combining chord durations

2013-10-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Does the MIDI output come out correct when you do this? It's ugly, but I think it will work, both visually and aurally: \pata ees - \override ChordName #'stencil = ##t ees8 \override ChordName #'stencil = ##f q q q q q q q Yes, it does. The

Re: Combining chord durations

2013-10-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: But the attached example does work in 2.17.26. Curious. It's too late here to continue experimenting, but your example works with 2.16. My intuition tells me it has something to do with the q. Could it be that it's duration is compile time static, and

Re: Feedback for Frescobaldi's Preview Mode

2013-10-27 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: One thing I would like to add myself is a checkbox to disable/enable the Preview Modes as a whole while keeping their settings. I find it inconvenient to manually have to deselect all boxes when I want to compile without any Preview Options but _with_

Frescobaldi Feature Request: pc position after object

2013-10-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Pointclick jumps to the start of the object that was clicked. I find that 99% of the times I use pointclick, the next thing I do is move the cursor to the end of the object. Would it be possible to automate this behaviour? E.g., add an option to have frescobaldi perform a 'skip to next

Frescobaldi Feature Request: pc position in midi player

2013-10-28 Thread Johan Vromans
This is probably hard to do, but nevertheless... asking is easy :). Would it be possible for frescobaldi to have pointclick adjust the midi player to the correct position (or measure)? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: And now for something completely different.

2013-11-04 Thread Johan Vromans
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: Or zeroline.ly , not true ordinary word but a likely filename. Some filenames make gs crash; expect bug reports on this sooner or later. A pity tiger.ly does not work $ rm -f align.ps $ touch align.ps $ ps2pdf align.ps $ gs align.ps #

Re: Verse-chorus-verse with repeat, multiple ending, pick-up, and varying rhythm

2011-03-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Christopher R. Maden cr...@maden.org writes: URL: http://crism.maden.org/ambletown.pdf Looks nice! 1) Verse pick-ups. There have been several suggestions that cover this. 2) Alternate rhythms. There are a lot of small differences in the rhythms of the verses. You can see this implicit

Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, Given: melody = \relative c' { ... several measures of notes ... } It is possible to extract a section from this melody, e.g. measure 4 or measures 3..15 or something? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: The solution really depends on what you want to do with it. For a piece of music, I want to generate score and midi. Score is no problem. The midi needs to be fold out w.r.t. repeats (unfoldRepeats can do that) but there are also Segno / D.S.

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com writes: Ah, okay. The main problem here is lilypond does not have any native support for D.C./D.S./Fine structures... That's the origin of the problem, although being able to extract pieces of music provides more functionality. Fold out, the piece

Re: Sub-music

2011-06-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: If you just click on the image of the old and new snippet, you'll see the same code, but in the LSR 764, there is a link to a directory where you can download the last version. ( http://gillesth.free.fr/Lilypond/extractMusic/ ) A lot of features have

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-29 Thread Johan Vromans
David Raleigh Arnold d...@openguitar.com writes: ... that is all the more reason to use C/e for the slash bass, and reserve C/E for the rare polychord. As a (former?) jazz- and bigband guitarist I strongly object. Also, there are some score interpretations that use lowercase letters to

Re: lead sheet

2011-07-22 Thread Johan Vromans
zilekym zilekym zile...@gmail.com writes: Hi everybody! I would like to make a lead sheet very schematic and simple. My idea is start from the context Chordnames in order to write every name of the chord placed over each measure over which I want to write as maximum tow chords. My goal is

Re: Separating midi tracks into separate files.

2011-08-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Jeremy Joseph Boor boor...@gmail.com writes: Timidity or no, does anyone have a good way to get a separate sound file for each voice? For my choir I have written a tool that splits and recombines the midi tracks. The master file, generated by LilyPond, has Chords, Lead, High, Middle, Low,

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 1.9.1 (alpha)

2011-10-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: a new alpha release of Frescobaldi 2.0 is available. Thanks for making this available. I must be doing something wrong, sincs all I get is: % python frescobaldi Traceback (most recent call last): File frescobaldi, line 2, in module

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 1.9.1 (alpha)

2011-10-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net writes: Works ok for me. I just ran git pull in the frescobaldi directory to get the latest changes from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1. I downloaded and unpacked the frescobaldi-1.9.1.tar.gz A git cloned frescobaldi gives the same error. -- Johan

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 1.9.1 (alpha)

2011-10-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: It's a bug in Python 2.7.0. Upgrade to 2.7.1 (or 2.6.x :-) Indeed! Upgrading to 2.7.1 fixes this. Thanks for the nice tool. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Conditionally including lyrics

2011-12-02 Thread Johan Vromans
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Has someone an idea how to create a loop which scans for textA, textB, textC etc. and puts a command that acts like \addlyrics for each hit? This is exactly what I do in my LP templates :) I just define highMusic leadMusic highWords highAWords

Re: skipTypesetting oddities

2011-12-17 Thread Johan Vromans
I have a five hundred bar full orchestral score and I need to typeset just bars 111-116 ... Such a 'feature' (incremental or partial typesetting), would be very helpful for the several GUI tools that are currently available. -- Johan ___

Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-21 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: I am afraid that converting to relative mode is more complex than that. Attached a small standalone Perl program that does abs to rel conversion. -- Johan lyabsrel.pl Description: Perl program ___ lilypond-user

Re: An easy way to convert from absolute to \relative?

2011-12-22 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Father Gordon Gilbert, on December 21 2011, 20:51, in Re: An easy way to c] Can you send me that Perl program and some instructions for using it? My dialup connexion doesn't give me any good info to find it at the LY site. Attached. Provided you have Perl installed, in a command

Re: problems with user-defined command line options

2011-12-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: optional-slurs.ly == \version 2.15.23 #(ly:add-option 'no-slurs #f Whether to print a slur or not.) slurSwitch = #(define-music-function (parser location) () (if (eq? #t (ly:get-option 'no-slurs)) #{ \override Slur

Re: Merry Christmas with Frescobaldi 2.0!

2011-12-26 Thread Johan Vromans
Wilbert Berendsen wbs...@xs4all.nl writes: Sincere thanks go to all early testers and translators! And thanks to you for making such a great tool. It's the best lilypond companion I know of (and I tried many!). -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: pdf to .ly?

2012-01-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Rutger Hofman rut...@cs.vu.nl writes: Maybe you could host the source it on Gitorious or Github? Perhaps NIFF belongs there too (fully unpacked and converted to UNIX newlines). I'll consider that. Probably best is to integrate NIFF into NIFF2LY since no other tools (seem to) exist that uses

Re: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly

2010-01-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Domain Admin m...@mjs-svc.com writes: If anyone's interested, I've started work on a Sibelius plug-in to export Lilypond data. I've taken the liberty to enhance this plug-in to take care of bar checks, bar numbers, ties, (start of) slurs, and measure rests.

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Ewald Gutenkunst ewald.gutenku...@web.de writes: Very interesting tool! is there any way to use it on Mac? The first step (the sib plugin) works already well. It's written in ruby, so... -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Kirill sidos...@yandex.ru writes: This new tool I wrote might be of interest to some: http://www.sidorefa.com/sib2ly/ Must I conclude that this, too, requires Sibelius 6 or higher? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Kirill sidos...@yandex.ru writes: Must I conclude that this, too, requires Sibelius 6 or higher? I have no way of testing if it works for Sibelius earlier than 5. However, I see no reason why it shouldn't work with Sibelius 5. I have only tested it with Sibelius 6, though. Try running

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Kirill sidos...@yandex.ru writes: 1) NumStaveLines has apparently been introduced only in Sib6. Using the value of NumStaveLines the interpreter decides whether the staff is a normal staff or a rythmic staff (hence all your staves are RhythmicStaffs). I guess I will have to detect it

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-02 Thread Johan Vromans
Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: However, it seems to me to be less than ideal to have both Kirill's xml-ly converter and the lilypond xml2ly that Reinhold has worked on. Well, though they both have xml in their names, they process a fundamentally different xml. LP's XML converter

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-02 Thread Johan Vromans
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: But maybe it is feasible to translate Kirill's XML into MusicXML using nifty XSLT? Then we have best of at least two worlds. My XSLT-fu is pretty strong -- is this something that people will really use? Do you want an honest answer?

Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

2010-02-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Kirill sidos...@yandex.ru writes: Update for sib2ly released (v1.01, 2 Feb 2010) * Chord symbols now supported. Confirmed. * sib2lydump.plg updated to work with Sibelius 5. Confirmed. I'm very impressed! Johan, When you reported that chords do not work, I misunderstood you at first.

Interesting... Music typesetting with HTML5

2010-05-14 Thread Johan Vromans
http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2010/05/music-notation-with-html5-canvas.html ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

FW: [L Peter Deutsch] Exporting Sibelius data

2010-05-23 Thread Johan Vromans
FYI -- From: sib...@major2nd.com Subject: Exporting Sibelius data Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Dear fellow music hackers, It seems that many of us independently came up with the idea of a Sibelius plug-in that can write out the score data in a form suitable for further

Re: Gummi lightweight editor

2010-11-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: those of you who read the last LilyPond Report know about this patch written by Jan: I don't have the article but I get the impression that it's all about typing LP while simultaneously previewing the results. If so, I have a small tool to uses Emacs

Printing barnumber 1 (oh no, not again)

2010-11-08 Thread Johan Vromans
I have the following snippet: s1*6/8 |%0 \set Score.currentBarNumber = #1 s1*1/8 s1*1/2 g8\p |%1 g4 g8 g4 g8 |%2 a8 a8 a8~ a4 e8 |%3 I want the bar number 1 to show at the second measure. I've tried all the tricks from the snippet repo but didn't succeed. E.g., this prints

Re: Printing barnumber 1 (oh no, not again)

2010-11-10 Thread Johan Vromans
I must admit that this is not quite what I had in mind when I asked my question about printing barnumber 1... For the sake of completeness: there are several web sites around that contain large quantities of jokes like these. Some are sorted by instrument for easy access, e.g.,

Treating a tie as a slur

2010-11-11 Thread Johan Vromans
We all know the difference between a tie and a slur, but some people are lax and some composer software packages don't really care... After automatic conversion of sibelius scores to lilypond I often have ties where a slur is needed, i.e., between notes of different pitch. LilyPond ignores such a

Re: Treating a tie as a slur

2010-11-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: Are you referring to something like http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=461 ? Not quite. I was referring to two really different notes (e.g. a and b). These should not be tied but it would be nice if a ~ b was treated as a ( b )

Re: Treating a tie as a slur

2010-11-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: We all know the difference between a tie and a slur, but some people are lax and some composer software packages don't really care... After automatic conversion of sibelius scores to lilypond I often have ties where a slur is needed, i.e., between

Re: Treating a tie as a slur

2010-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Lilypond would see if that were the case. What, are you implying that LilyPond should decide that ... This seems haphazard to me. Perhaps I misunderstood your comment? I

Re: virtualization software for windows

2010-12-06 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: We currently recommend VirtualBox Open Source Edition for lilypond contributors. However, the download page (no longer?) has binaries available for the open-source edition: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Has it always been this

Re: ways of using Lilypond?

2010-12-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Ludo Beckers lazy...@gmail.com writes: Just wondering, has there ever been a poll about how many Lilypond users work with a certain specific tool. GNU/Emacs with LilyPond mode. Home grown library of templates that I was willing to share but LSR cannot handle a collection of files. I have a

Re: Suppress chord names from MIDI output

2011-01-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Brett McCoy idragos...@gmail.com writes: Is there a way to suppress MIDI output for \ChordName context? When I create a staff with other parts and have chord names at the top, the output always has a piano playing those chords and it's interfering with the rest of the piece, plus I don't need

Re: Using the input-tag music property

2011-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com writes: Attached is some scheme code that's probably too long for a snippet, I don't mind long snippets. Please put it on LSR. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: How to extract only lyrics and chords, step by step

2011-01-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Jürgen Ibelgaufts juri...@gmx.de writes: -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Apostrophe in lyrics

2006-11-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I have lyrics with apostrophes, like in there's and can't. When printed, I get minute marks (primes, Unicode U+2032). How can I obtain a decent apostroph glyph (U+2019), other than by entering the UTF-8 code manually in the .ly source? (For non-typesetting freaks: a minute mark is a straight

Control MIDI channels

2006-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, Is there a way to control which MIDI channel a stave will get? In a 4-vocal + chords score the chords seem to get channel 4, and the vocals get 5, 6, 7, and 8. I want to split out the parts, but my synthesizer can only control tracks 1-5 individually. So it would be nice if I could

Re: Control MIDI channels

2006-11-13 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Mats Bengtsson, on November 13 2006, 12:57, in Re: Control MIDI cha] It seems that the only way you can influence the channel numbers is by the order you specify the different staves/lyric lines/chord names. Can you figure out what ends up on channels 1-3, maybe lyrics? It that's the

Two easy? questions

2006-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I have two questions on a transcription and I'm very interested in hearing your advice. You can find the lilypond source on http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/hole.ly . I'm using lilypond version 2.8.7. 1. Bar 1,: voices Med and Low start with identical text and note duration, but the first

Beaming strategy

2006-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, In a 4/4 score, lilypond beams 8th notes as if it were a 2/2 score: g8 g g g g g g g = g8[ g g g] g[ g g g] Is there some global setting to have 4/4 beaming in groups of two: g8 g g g g g g g = g8[ g] g[ g] g[ g] g[ g] Thanks, -- Johan

Re: Crazy idea: point-and-click for PDF end-users?

2006-11-18 Thread Johan Vromans
Eduardo Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Foxit Reader already gives the ability of annotating PDFs, drawing shapes, etc, even for free. Gratis, not free. http://www.gnu.org/ -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Beaming strategy

2006-11-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, [Quoting John Mandereau, on November 19 2006, 15:07, in Re: Beaming strategy] See Setting automatic beam behavior in the user manual (9.1.2 in 2.10). In this case, you certainly want to add end-beaming rules for eights at 1st and 3rd beats in 4/4 time. Yes, this is what I use now.

Re: Beaming strategy

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Mats Bengtsson, on November 20 2006, 12:01, in Re: Beaming strategy] If you look into printed scores from your bookshelf, I wouldn't be surprised if you found that they mostly use the same typesetting practice as LilyPond does. From my bookshelf, I estimate 2/3 of the books are using

ly:wide-char-utf-8

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, According to the docs (10.1.4): To use a Unicode escape sequence, use #(ly:export (ly:wide-char-utf-8 #x2014)) Stupid question: How can I use this to get a particular unicode character into a string (e.g. lyric)? Thanks for any examples, -- Johan

Re: Beaming strategy

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting John Mandereau, on November 20 2006, 09:40, in Re: Beaming strategy] Johan Vromans wrote: [...] However (as you can see from my other posting) I'm stull puzzled why this is not default behaviour. According to the number of scores I've read, beaming eights into 4-groups in 4/4

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Cesar Penagos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wan to advice you that is an excellent video of the art of manual engraving in You Toube; you have to take a look of this excellent work. You can see it, at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8adEIMzbso Impressive! But did I miss something important?

Re: ly:wide-char-utf-8

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition to the answers you have already received, it should be noted that this instruction in the manual is obsolete for version 2.10. A better way to access a Unicode character by number is \markup \char ##x2014 Hurray! Thanks. -- Johan

Re: ly:wide-char-utf-8

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or maybe rather There´s a ... or whatever apostrophe you prefer. Not this one, this is a acute accent ;-). Otherwise, you can search the mailing list archives, to find out how to get rid of the extra whitespace when concatenating markups. You mean

Re: ly:wide-char-utf-8

2006-11-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Martial [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \addlyrics { \markup {a #(ly:export (ly:wide-char-utf-8 #x2014))b}} Aha! So the trick is to use \markup. I try to typeset the word There's, with a decent apostrophe. This would lead to \markup {There#(ly:export (ly:wide-char-utf-8 #x2019))s} This produces

Re: Manual engraving video

2006-11-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Arvid Grøtting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and of course I dream of etching a LilyPond score into a plate and printing it in some kind of gravure printer ;-) Lilypond produces PostScript (or PDF) which means it has infinite sharpness. It is the reproduction device that controls how the result

SATB vocal score example

2006-11-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, In section D.4.1 of the manual for 2.8.7, there's nice example of a SATB score. In the example, the keyword \global is used in a way I cannot deduce from the docs. In short (please see the doc section for the full example): sopMusic = \relative c'' { ... } altoMusic = \relative c'' {

Re: SATB vocal score example

2006-11-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Geoff Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \global is not a keyword; it's defined at the top of the example, like this: Aaargh! I must have done too much programming lately. Thanks (blushing). -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Converting absolute to relative

2006-11-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I always prefer to write melodies in \relative mode. To import a specific MIDI file I needed to use Rosegarden (midi2ly couldn't cope with it), but Rosegarden exports melodies in absolute mode. Is there an easy way to convert one format into another? (Not very important, but it would be

Re: MIDI help

2006-12-06 Thread Johan Vromans
Frank Herzberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got the correct pdf and a ps output but never a MIDI file. What's wrong? I added the \midi {} command at the end in many different ways but nothing worked. This works: \score { ...your original input... \midi { } \layout

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-09 Thread Johan Vromans
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's like when I go shooting. I use a rifle left-handed because if I try it right-handed (I am right-handed, by the way) I just CANNOT SEE what I'm doing. Probably because you're left-eyed, just like me? This is also a problem when using a photo

Re: different notes in verses

2006-12-13 Thread Johan Vromans
Christopher A. LaFond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to add a note to one verse only (for example, a pick up note to a measure). It would have to have an internal time value of zero, since it only appears once, and could be indicated with parentheses. I, too, have been trying to

Re: midi2ly error

2006-12-16 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Jan Nieuwenhuizen, on December 16 2006, 15:44, in Re: midi2ly error] Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's also in Fedora Core 5. Klaas, if you need a wordk-around just email me. Workaround? Why isn't this fixed in Fedora? It appears that midi2ly miscalculates

Re: Hiding empty staves

2006-12-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Manuel, I don't understand the this or that correction, I meant it in the sense of something or other. Would you explain, please? I think it's bad english, but I'm not a native english speaker as well. So I would go for just this which I'm sure is okay.

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Werner LEMBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS level 2. You can do this manually, saying gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \ -dLanguageLevel=2 \ -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \ foo.ps Ghostscript comes with a tool 'ps2ps' that

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is simple - if I select scale to fit then I'm not getting an exact image, and if I select don't scale, the image is offset down and right by the non-printable margin. If the A4 document that you want to print includes (= leaves empty)

(Slightly off-topic) Anyone use Sibelius?

2007-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, Someone sent me a Sibelius score and I need it printed. Is there anyone on this list that has Sibelius, and is willing and able to produce an A4 PostScript document or A4 PDF from this score? Also, if possible (and not asking too much), a MIDI with the parts in separate tracks so I can

Re: (Slightly off-topic) Anyone use Sibelius?

2007-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyone on this list that has Sibelius, and is willing and able to produce an A4 PostScript document or A4 PDF from this score? Thanks for all that helped! The problem has been solved. ___ lilypond

Re: A-Play is running on www.a-play.dk

2007-02-19 Thread Johan Vromans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It runs on windows 98 to Xp and should run on Linux. Stupid question: what runs? The a-play.dk site provides one link that doesn't work, and when I fixe the link all I get is a requirements/licence page with a non-functional [close] button. Apparently I'm overlooking

Re: A-Play is running on www.a-play.dk

2007-02-20 Thread Johan Vromans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What browser do you use? A-Play is written in Word HTML, which is an XML dialect with html codes. If you use IE 7, which I just tried, you must allow popups in the irritating MS warning. When you do that it works. But a close button? I use Firefox 2.0.0.1 on

Re: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1

2007-03-04 Thread Johan Vromans
luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i wanted to report that i couldn't make the plug-in work with openoffice 2.1 on linux (gentoo). the plug-in installs and opens its window, but it fails to compile any code, with this message: lilypond: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libstdc++.so.6: version

Re: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1

2007-03-05 Thread Johan Vromans
luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lilypond: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libstdc++.so.6: version 'CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by lilypond) The problem is that lilypond is executed in the environment of OpenOffice.org, that has several special presets to use the OOo version of shared

Re: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1

2007-03-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Samuel Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is a problem with lilypond that may be is not binary compatible with your linux distribution. I'm sorry I can not help in this. OOo supplies its own versions of several libraries, and sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to force

Re: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1

2007-03-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Samuel Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can change the template path by *copying* the templates to another path, changeing the path settings in OOoLilyPond configuration dialog. Test whether it is working and after that you can delete the old path. I just changed the BASIC to eliminate

Re: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1

2007-03-07 Thread Johan Vromans
Samuel Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks a lot for your workaround. I think it is a good idea to automatically append the lilypond command to the env command. Or do you see there any problems? In most cases, no. Best solution would be to only remove any OOo library paths from

Re: jazz font?

2007-03-23 Thread Johan Vromans
rif [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But seriously, what would it take to get a jazz font? I would be willing to put in some money and/or elbow grease, although not huge amounts of either right now. FYI: Since it first came out, I was an advocate for the Jazz Font. I still have the 3.5 floppy

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2007-03-24 Thread Johan Vromans
thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Why does lilypond use marketing caps for its function names? This you should ask the author. 2. Why is there a separate lilypond-init file of only 4 or 5 lines? Because it contains site-dependent customisations. This way you can keep lilypond-mode 'clean'

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-05 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For such fixed override/revert pairings you should write \temporary\override in the music function instead of just \override: otherwise any previous \override NoteHead.color = #blue will get overwritten and not get restored afterwards. You mean this will

Re: modular markup and arguments

2013-11-06 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Correct. In stack terms, \revert is a pop while \override is pop, push (each context has its own stack). In contrast, \temporary\override is just push. So a sequence of So we have, for context properties: \setset prop to value \unset

Re: Learn from Finale 2014 (seriously)?

2013-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: But I often have to do things like { \voiceOne d'4 \oneVoice r \voiceOne d' } \new Voice { \voiceTwo d4 s d } For this purpose I once wrote a function: \dual { g'4 \rr4 g' } { d'4 s d' } -- Johan rr =

Re: Learn from Finale 2014 (seriously)?

2013-11-14 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: rr = #(define-music-function (parser location dur) (ly:duration?) #{ \tweak direction #CENTER r$dur #}) would seem saner. Thanks for the suggestion. I needed #{ \tweak #'direction #'CENTER r$dur #}) but it sure looks nice(r). Do you know

Re: LilyPond / Android

2013-11-24 Thread Johan Vromans
Michel Camiré mcam...@cgocable.ca writes: Can we install LilyPond on Android currently ? If not will it be possible soon ? You can run linux (e.g. Ubuntu) *under* Android, and then run LilyPond as familiar. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid -- Johan

Re: LilyPond/Android

2013-11-25 Thread Johan Vromans
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl writes: The option to install and run Linux on a rooted Android device, and then run Lilypond on it sounds interesting in theory. But has someone actually tried this in real life situations? It sounds to me that this requires a certain amount of RAM

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Curt accou...@museworld.com writes: I've written perl scripts that generate lilypond snippets to include in Anki decks for self-study of jazz theory. Share! Share! (both the tools and the decks) Please... -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: How are Anki decks/cards stored, can they be somehow be edited in a collaborative effort? Anki stores in a SQLite database,but the decks/cards can be exported and imported to/from other formats, e.g. CSV. I know there is some work ongoing on

Re: Schikkers List

2013-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com writes: I felt like working on a reversed Frescobaldi: input in the GUI, output text. :-) So what the world needs is a bidirectional Frescobaldi. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Denemo-feedback

2013-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Right now I have a new entry option nearly complete - playing on a MIDI keyboard and then entering the rhythm. By hitting a MIDI keyboard key in the desired rhythm? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Denemo-feedback

2013-12-04 Thread Johan Vromans
Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com writes: At the moment this AI step is the simplest possible, it goes through the durations that you played assigning them to the nearest note lengths using only whole-note 1/256th note and dotted versions of them (no triplet values have been entered

Re: Denemo-feedback

2013-12-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: Am 05.12.2013 10:48, schrieb Richard Shann: I guess you mean the list of durations and the algorithm to choose between them? I think he simply wants to choose from different quantization values before playing. Yes. When I know my piece is only going

Re: Extending LilyPond with packages

2013-12-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org writes: [ a whole lot of very good observations, ideas and suggestions ] Basically a package can provide arbitrary code to be included. It can for example provide - overrides to modify the output appearance (classic stylesheet) - new commands / functionality

Re: promoting LilyPond

2013-12-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: A real example using a template which provides an SATB choir on two staves with lyrics between them and a piano staff with accompaniment is attached. I've been using a similar approach for SLHML choir, with a skeleton template (attached). I haven't

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