Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: Here's a very rough initial draft of our new website: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html The purple background as used on the documentation page has terrible contrast/clash with the blue of unvisited links on Firefox on Linux making it

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On this page http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine and these day web-developers say that 1024x768 is the new 800x600.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of /batch/ system. When we used it years ago we meant as opposed to interactive. You submitted your batch job with job control and all the jobs got ran in batches with all the other jobs that were ready when the operator got

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: ...oh there was various stuff (I'm sure I don't remember what) elided here... I didn't expect a reference to Nanoha on the -user mailist. (so of course I had to add one myself ;) Thank you for that:) Cheers, - Graham Regards, Patrick

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/7/6 Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com: I also like the layout of gimp.org. Click their menu links too. Nice looking site. Since you're mentioning that, http://www.blender.org/ has a top-menu that is very similar to the new Lily website's

Re: website draft 4, help wanted

2009-07-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Valentin Villenave wrote: Anyway, I think we're living exciting times with regards to LilyPond, and no matter how long it takes I do believe we're making history right here :-) That's exciting!!! And I believe true. And I believe that although there is much credit to go around, we should

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: I'll volunteer for css and/or proofreading. I also don't have a job or girlfriend;) I'll be in Peru much of August though and looking for a job after that. Put me to work. (Although I'll have to confess, as far as css goes, the current new stuff is looking great

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-07-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
David Fedoruk wrote: The original BerkLee Real Fake book is no longer available, nor are some of the others. These fake books have to have thousands of clearances to be ablel to put these books together as they are and be able to be legally sold. Ironically, their The Real Book was a

Re: Speed-up compiling

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Michael Kppler wrote: Hi all, I'm "suffering" from enormous compiling durations on large files. With "large" I mean a file with about 250 measures and seven staves per system. The last time I compiled the file completely (without using showLastLength) I did it overnight, since after one and

Re: publish to website

2009-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Gerard McConnell wrote: AFAIK to put an image on a web-page, I need a bitmap, not a .pdf.I can't find any reference to .png in any of thedocs. So far I've been using alt-printScreen and Paint to produce .png files. While this sort of works, I'm not getting the best output that

Re: publish to website

2009-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick Horgan wrote: Gerard McConnell wrote: AFAIK to put an image on a web-page, I need a bitmap, not a .pdf.I can't find any reference to .png in any of thedocs. So far I've been using alt-printScreen and Paint to produce .png files. While this sort of works

Re: staff lines blurred on my website

2009-08-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
It's a matter of not enough dots to have dots in all the right places. o o o o Imagine three lines have to be shown by turning on the dots above. The top and the bottom row line right up with rows

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-12 Thread Patrick Horgan
Definitely like alternative style 1 ( the green ) better. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote: Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation? Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar. No, the style of music makes no difference. But LilyPond is intended for engraving music which is

Re: chord durations

2009-09-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tim McNamara wrote: I am a guitarist. If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html Christian's trying to do something

Re: Lilypond - chord progression

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Horgan
Christian Henning wrote: Hi all, thanks for the replies. I could fix all of my problems. I'm using multipliers now which I find easier to use and to read. Thanks to Brett Duncan. This now finishes my first project using lilypond. I like it and will continue using it. Great stuff! Christian

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just out of curiosity, (since I don't play, nor read, drum music), I compiled this with lilypond version 2.13.4 on ubuntu. It built the output, but with many complaints like: GNU LilyPond 2.13.4 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... [8] Preprocessing graphical objects...

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Philippe Hezaine wrote: elision done here... Hi, There is an error in the typesetting. The author writes cymr8 sn8 Write it: cymr sn8 Cheers. Thanks! one quick global search and replace and the code compiles cleanly and gives a good output. Patrick

Re: title on a separate page (Susan Dittmar)

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Frederick, using 2.13.4, with your version of the title on a separate page, I get 434 instances of: programming error: note head has no event cause continuing, cross fingers and 217 instances of: programming error: these accidentals do not have a pitch continuing, cross fingers It follows a

Re: indent-ly

2009-10-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: What about a version that read from standard input and wrote to standard input? I'm thinking about the documentation -- we could automatically format all lilypond input syntax. On unix a lot of tools default to input coming from one or more file(s) whose names are

Just a quick TAB question

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick Horgan
Soon to do my first guitar tab piece in lily and was wondering if there's any way to automagically print out the TAB key, i.e. the thing that explains to the reader/player what all the TAB symbols mean? Most TAB pieces have one, and since there's a number of /families/ of guitar TAB notation

Re: Just a quick TAB question

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick Horgan
Carl Sorensen wrote: On 10/27/09 12:53 PM, "Patrick Horgan" phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Soon to do my first guitar tab piece in lily and was wondering if there's any way to automagically print out the TAB key, i.e. the thing that explains to the reader/player what a

Re: Inline score inside markup - bugs in music alignment

2009-10-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote: ...elision by Patrick ... I am so sorry that I did not study computer science so that I would understand scheme coding, but to my greatest misfortune it is above my capabiblities. I am alone to be blamed for this, but this is the reason that I am looking for someone to

Re: Inline score inside markup - bugs in music alignment

2009-10-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't feel bad. I have a Masters in Computer Science and I don't understand Scheme at all in spite of having an AI class that used Scheme about a million years ago. sarcasm

I need some pointers

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
I've committed to making a key for guitar tablature that will show little snippets of tab along with descriptions. How do I do that? Any pointers greatly appreciated;) I understand TAB quite well, and vocal music on lilypond well, as well, but well, don't understand how TAB on lilypond that

Re: first bar width

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Federico Bruni wrote: I'm writing a blank sheet to be used for hand writing (see attached file). The problem is that the first bar of each line is too large compared with the other bars. I guess this is due to a default padding value of some property.. I don't know which.. You'd want some

I hope you like this off-topic post

2009-12-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just quickly, because many will miss this, on gamedev network there's a cool little orchestration tutorial. http://www.gamedev.net/reference/music/features/brfOrchGuide/ Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

What's wrong with this syntax?

2008-06-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
\set Staff.melismaBusyProperties = #'(melismaBusy) a4 bes2 a4 bes1 \melisma ~ bes ~ bes ~ \melismaEnd bes Lilypond complains about the ~ after the \melisma, but I want the tie there. Help!!! Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Phrasing marks are awesome!

2008-06-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
I just found out that if you use phrasing marks, you don't have to put in time extenders in your lyrics! It makes it so easy! I wrote all the time extenders, then learned about phrasing marks, and now I get to take all the time extenders back out! Can I write a section for the tutorial that

Is my approach sane?)

2008-06-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
I've long wanted the mutopia O Magnum Mysterium transcribed by Jeff Covey with apparently much help from jcn to build with any current version of lilypond. With the help of the excellent new documentation and several of the people here I have it working fairly well. I want it to print the

O Magnum Mysterium is done

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick Horgan
If anyone would like a copy of the .ly pond for O Magnum Mysterium drop me a note and I'll email you a copy. But--if you get a copy and print it please check for problems and if you see anything that could be improved, let me know:) It prints a choral score in one pdf, another pdf with the

Is there anyway to control individual filenames? I'm losing data

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick Horgan
For example, from O Magnum Mysterium I get 5 midi files, one for the choral rendition, then one for each voice. They are named: O_Magnum_Mysterium.midi soprano O_Magnum_Mysterium-1.midi alto O_Magnum_Mysterium-2.midi tenor O_Magnum_Mysterium-3.midi bass Then the second book,

Is it possible to have different ragged-bottom's/book?

2008-06-25 Thread Patrick Horgan
I have several books in the same file and the ragged-bottom setting in the paper is good for some not for others. Is it possible to override the setting per book? patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: \repeat with upbeat (partial) and alternatives

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: In my experience, it's fairly uncommon in printed music to have this kind of different durations in the two alternatives, so I don't think that it's common enough to deserve a specific example in the manual. You may want to submit it to the LSR, though. It's not

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: oops, baseline-skip and word-space should also be fixed absolutely, and not based on the ones from props. Do you mean like: #(define-markup-command (abs-fontsize layout props size arg) (number? markup?) (let* ((ref-size (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'text-font-size 12))

O Magnum Mysterium

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
I think that I've sent a copy of my .ly file to everyone that requested one. If I missed you let me know. It's de Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium. The file generates choir, individual parts, choir with piano reduction, and midi files for choir and for each part. Patrick

Re: Markup in absolute font size?

2008-06-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Actually I was thinking about computing the new word-space and baseline-skip based on the one defined on the paper block (ie the default one) multiplied by the magnification. Then, when using \abs-fontsize is like making a new start, getting rid off previous font-size,

Re: Analysis Bracket Up

2008-06-30 Thread Patrick Horgan
Here's a small sample built from the beginning of your code: \version 2.10.10 bracketUp = { \override Staff.HorizontalBracket #'direction = #UP } bracketRevert = { \revert Staff.HorizontalBracket #'direction } voiceone = \relative c'' { \set Staff.midiInstrument = harpsichord

imslp back up

2008-07-02 Thread Patrick Horgan
It seems the International Music Score Library Project http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Open_Letter_%28Reopening%29 with legal support from the free as in beer community has risen from the ashes. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list

I don't know if anyone else cares, but

2008-07-05 Thread Patrick Horgan
I've been working with one of the guile developers, because the development (git) version of guile, when used with gcc 4.3 or newer wouldn't build lilypond (or a lot of other stuff). Yesterday we figured it out and now you'll be able to use the development version of guile with the development

Re: LSR search is broken

2008-07-09 Thread Patrick Horgan
It's not a matter even of using 0 or 1 indexing, it's the user interface that's in question. In computer software most things are 0 indexed, but reported to users as if they are counted by ones. People count, computers index. Thanks Patrick ___

Re: LSR search is broken

2008-07-09 Thread Patrick Horgan
Sebastiano Vigna wrote: One-indexing is brain damaged. See EWD831: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html Ciao, I've read it, and while interesting, it doesn't bear much on the issue.  It's obfuscatory rather than explicative.  I've also done the

I love editor arguments:)

2008-07-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
I believe the truth is more along the lines of duckling imprinting--you know that ducklings imprint on whatever moves first and think that that thing, duck, dog or person, is mommy. We do the same with whatever editor we learned well enough to work with first. For me it was vi. I've

Still confused about context vs. new

2008-07-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
I see many examples with \context, or \new used in the same place. I've read LM 3.1.1 for example which tells me that if I don't create explicitly a \new Staff or \new Voice, they will be created automatically, and goes on to refer to that as the implicit creation of contexts. I often see

Re: (OT) MEAWS user study

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
Has anyone tried the violin part as a vocal sight singing training tool? Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Loop-the-Loop Ties

2008-08-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a working copy of his link to the music. Patrick Good morning list. Apologies for the cryptic subject header, but what I need to do is difficult to express in words. In short, I need to show two notes tied, where the tie forms a circle in the middle,

Re: timing, lyrics, chords, melody

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, Trying to make my first lilypond song and put let it be on score but I can't make the timing of the lyrics fit with the melody... : Try this: \version 2.11.53 melody = \relative c' { \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 \partial 4 g8 a c4 c d a c c d e

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: If you look at the latest docs using texi2html, this has already been dealt with: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/texi2html-out/Documentation/index.html Cheers, - Graham And quite nicely too. Is that default output totexi2html or did you have to tweak options or

Re: SLopUF: linear LM

2008-08-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Robin Bannister wrote: And it has nice Easter Eggs to keep you on your toes: e.g. the green bit in 2.1.3 is in a different language; Viennese, I think. I don't think that's on purpose--the same section of the same page on the usual web site is in English. Quite cool though--I would have

Re: Arlignment of Bars

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote ... elision ... One possible trick is to typeset each score line as a separate stave and remove the initial connecting bar line that you normally see in a multi-stave score, as well as the time signature on all but the top line. Here's an example: ... elision ... What

Re: Expert question on named contexts

2008-08-09 Thread Patrick Horgan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Perhaps we should have a nice scheme hack that will print out the context hierarchy at any point. Speaking of nice scheme hacks. I had come across a way to have the output pdf show all the measurements and where they came from. I guess I'm just not creative enough

Re: Augmentation dot problem in 2.11.55

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jay Anderson wrote: Strange I'm seeing the same problem with this example. I've tested on Ubuntu 8.04 which should have the same install as fedora and on osx 10.4 PPC. I'm not sure what would be causing this if the same install produces normal output for some people and not for others. Are

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick Horgan
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: I must note however that I strongly disagree with the approach you must read the manual first. Honestly, when you buy an house-hold appliance you first read the manual? I doubt. For making the first cup of coffee you won't read the manual. Later, when you

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick Horgan
Ralph Palmer wrote: Anyone else remember Booker T. and the . . . ? In any case, it might make sense to use at least some of the acronyms judiciously. There is a wide variety of users on this list, and many of the discussions are, while not exclusive, at least aimed at a particular audience.

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
David Bobroff wrote: ... much cool stuff elided... who use it, the better. If we start kicking people in the teeth for every stupid question or, more importantly, for the *first* stupid question, I suspect LilyPond will have a smaller set of users. Well, how many questions do we have to wait?

Re: it's all up to you users

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: ...elisions galore... As I said, I've tried polite recruitment. Take a look at the email archives; probably about six, twelve, and eighteen months ago. It seems to have worked for doc writers, but it hasn't worked for finding (and keeping) -user support

Incorrect entry in Appendix E LilyPond command index in the Notational Reference

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick Horgan
There's an incorrect entry in Appendix E LilyPond command index in the Notational Reference. \displayLilyMusic is in there twice, once pointing to the entry for \displayMusic ||

Re: it's all up to you users

2008-08-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: [1] Personally, I'd go for the Fuzziness Force, devoted to making confused people feel warm and fuzzy. But I suspect that other people aren't as fond of fuzzy things as I am... and besides, people would start calling you the FF or FFers, and this whole thing started with

Re: Score with large empty section at the top

2008-08-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Dominic Neumann wrote: Hi Maarten, I think it is standard behaviour. I remember there was a command to let LilyPond display all the spaces it uses and its names. But I don´t remember the command and couldn´t find it by searching ... it's annotate-spacing and used in the \paper as in this

Re: doc work

2008-08-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: I would offer that was a result of faulty MIDI documentation, not faulty templates. Kieren. I agree. I was surprised, not unpleasantly to have midi files appear, and learned how to do them by example, But /still/ would prefer the templates to not have them. (Unless

Re: combine chords, lyrics and melody - resending now that I've subscribed...

2008-08-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
ayryq wrote: I believe you can, I was going to clip your stuff, build it on my machine, and build an example for you, but this example won't actually build on my machine. Just as a hint, in the work I did for O Magnum Mysterium, I combined several thing like this: sopranoTotal =

Re: doc work

2008-08-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: The last time I checked Mutopia, I was shocked by the (low) quality of the coding. =( I personally would never suggest that anyone use any Mutopia file I've seen as an example/template. How about the O Magnum Mysterium that I just re-did and contributed back to

Re: Proposed syntax change: renaming of \center-align markup command

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Neil Puttock wrote: As for \hcenter and \column, should I leave these as duplicates of \center-align and \left-column (which would help minimize user complaints), or remove them? As a compromise, how about leaving them in for now, but marking in the documentation as duplicates of

Re: Proposed syntax change: renaming of \center-align markup command

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Patrick Horgan wrote: As a compromise, how about leaving them in for now, but marking in the documentation as duplicates of \center-align or \left-column and /deprecated--users should migrate to the new syntax as the older will eventually go away/. No! A fairly

Re: Template: String Quartet (score-only), first draft

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Violin I" } Unfortunate that the midi is by default commented out or else you could also do: \new Staff \with {instrumentName= "Violin I" midiInstrument="violin"} and get the midi to sound right. I

Re: Lilypond Ubuntu Help

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Ah. It never occurred to me to try to allow for anything but the standard lilypond filename.ly command. That's a good idea. I don't use anything but the standard command very often, though, so I won't lose any sleep over it. I *was* prepared to lose sleep over the fact

Re: Template: String Quartet (score-only), first draft

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Patrick, Unfortunate that the midi is by default commented out or else you could also do: \new Staff \with { instrumentName= Violin I midiInstrument=violin } and get the midi to sound right. Why can't this be done with the MIDI commented out? Works fine for me

Re: Reading the maillists, mutopia and the docs

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: I think Mutopia is a rather unfortunate resource: with a few notable exceptions, the examples there actually detract from the good image Lilypond has cultured in other places. I agree. They're begging for people to pull stuff down, fix it, and recontribute. If there's

Re: Lilypond Ubuntu Help

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Nice! Thanks for this, Patrick! It works just right. Now I have to look at it to figure out *why* it works the way it does ;-) I haven't used that sort of construct before... Jonathan Patrick Horgan wrote: Instead of basename you could use the built

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tom Cloyd wrote: The only thing here that's looks like it might be the shortcut script is "lilypond". My user acct. owns it, and it's marked executable, but... try changing directory (cd ~/tomc/bin) to the tomc/bin directory, and typing ./lilypond --version and pressing enter. If

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Chris Snyder wrote: This isn't as big of a deal with single-user systems, but it still is a good way to make sure that users are aware that they're not executing system-supplied software. Au contraire! If some bad guy on the internet has managed to hack any account sufficiently to install a

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick McCarty wrote: I have tried adding these lines to ~/.bashrc in the past, too, but it hasn't worked for me. Instead I put this is my ~/.bash_profile Ah, one of my favorite pet peeves. .bash_profile is run if it's a login shell, and .bashrc if it's a non-login shell! I put all the

Re: Template: String Quartet (score-only), first draft

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Kieren MacMillan wrote: One thing I'd look into is whether or not the repeated \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 110 4) } can be centralized, either through a variable, or via a global command (e.g., at the top of the file). Thanks! I had that because all

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
Tom Cloyd wrote: I will certainly say this about the Lilipad documentation: Other than possibly Gimp, I haven't seen anything else in the Linux application program world that compares to it. I've found it usable, helpful, and to the point. A fine achievement, without doubt. Definitely better

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
Gilles Sadowski wrote: 3. Using the lilypond program (on Linux) amounts to learn the following 2 commands: $ lilypond myfyle.ly $ xpdf myfile.pdf That certainly should not scare away people motivated by the nice printed scores which this software produces. [Of course, assuming

News

2008-08-20 Thread Patrick Horgan
If you haven't seen it, the News link on the 2.11 documentation page tells you all the changes for 2.11. It's pretty cool, and has a link at the bottom to the 2.10 changes. Funny thing: my spell checker suggests that setEasyHead should be sleepyHead. I wonder if that market would make all

Re: MusicXML conversion

2008-08-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
I was looking up cadenza and the second video on this page made it all clear.  You should all see it. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Putting 'instrument' on the left side of the page

2008-08-24 Thread Patrick Horgan
Maarten Deen wrote: Lilypond has as standard setting that the instrument is put centered below the title, subtitle, etc. But I'm used to the first page having the intrument set at the left side of the page (where Poet is placed) and only for subsequent pages the instrument is set top

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: commit 7f595671928233af9d1c76c5cb400f2010c65b72 Author: hanwen hanwen Date: Mon Sep 5 14:12:00 2005 + (make-ps-images): use png16m again, for sake of IE users. How does IE deal with pngalpha images today? They support it in IE7 and forward. Patrick

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Patrick Horgan
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: According to google analytics on lilypond.org - 25% uses IE of which 65% uses IE7. Why that means 8.75% of the people could potentially think png sucks.  For my web site I use png on the theory that if people are still using ie6 they should upgrade.  For a

Re: LH fingering not working

2008-09-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
James E. Bailey wrote: That is very well covered in LM 5, so I can understand why it wouldn't be duplicated. That was my concern about the policy in the LM to never cover anything that was previously covered...it means that you (the reader) have to have integrated the content of previous

Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
b wrote: Hi list. I'm a beginner in lilypond (and sheet music). Just started typing in a piece. Everything is fine - except for the last couple of measures. I've been all around searching all documentation and this list. However, I still have some problems. I'd be thankful if any of you

Re: emacs-mode

2008-09-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The tex backend for LilyPond hasn't been supported for several years now. Don't expect it to work! It would make sense then to remove the option. Patrick /Mats James E. Bailey wrote: Well, now that lilypond can compile a file in emacs, I've been looking around,

Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

2008-09-15 Thread Patrick Horgan
Mark Polesky wrote: Nice work, Kieren. I forgot about#'height-limit. I also forgot to include an image file (something I'm trying to do more). Here it is: Mark, yours is much better than the original lilypond solution, but, particularly in the first measure, the original pdf breathed

Re: Vertical spacing between Staff and Lyrics

2008-09-16 Thread Patrick Horgan
Johan Vromans wrote: ...much elided... http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/ltx01.png http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/ltx02.png The second one looks quite similar to a lilypond score when rendered with: \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } It would certainly be your friend doing something

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: This is an old thread but I found it in my email box and thought I'd respond because I've recently written a script to handle this sort of thing. I share with some trepidation since last time I shared a script, someone pointed out to me that there was already a lilypond

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I now added Patrick's design as an alternative stylesheet in git and triggered a rebuild of the docs on kainhofer.com. This way we can evaluate at the same time all the designs we get and then decide which we should use (or which aspects of which design should

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Might as well throw in Jakob Nielson's Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Josh Parmenter wrote: You can set the tagline to in the \header block. Ah, but I specifically asked for a way to do it without editing the file so the script to do it via command line argument. This just doesn't make the cut grin; NEXT! Patrick

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: I'm guessing that one of the netpbm tools will handle transparency, it's just a matter of figuring out which one. Didn't this come up on a recent thread? I seem to remember trying it out on something and getting a transparent background. When I get some time later I'll

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Here's a modified version of Jonathan's unix/linux script that supports arguments which are: -t or --transparency : output format forced to png and you get transparency -r=N or --resolution==N : (example -r=72) set resolution -f=FORMAT or --format=FORMAT : (example -f=jpeg) set

Re: png cropping

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Horgan
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Jon, 2008/9/17 Jonathan Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm guessing that one of the netpbm tools will handle transparency, it's just a matter of figuring out which one. Didn't this come up on a recent thread? I seem to remember trying it out on something and

Bad image with one of the snippets

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
In snippet no. 433 the Rehearsal Marks don't have the alignment you might expect. Grabbing down the snippet and compiling it with the current lilypond works fine and produces the desired result, but in the image in the snippet, the alignment of the rehearsal marks never move. It made it quite

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
ther are found. I also check for the existence of pnmtojpeg and abort the script if not found with a message that the netpbm utilities have to be installed to use the script. Now the script is much larger because of all the checking. Patrick Jon script attached this time... Patrick

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Alright, this is probably my last version. It now checks the input for format against all the available conversions (found by looking for all the programs in the filesystem that start with ppmto and pnmto) and if you didn't pick one, gives you all the choices! Enter desired output format

Re: png cropping

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Hi Patrick, I've been running your script trying to use the command-line arguments, and something's happening with the format argument. I specify it with an argument, but then I still get prompted for format. I might not be doing the flag right. I've tried it with

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Horgan
Andrew Hawryluk wrote: I just learned that there are a lot of Monet Waterlilies to choose from, so maybe this will be helpful to anyone on the list with graphics skills: With any of the newer browsers you can use pngs with alpha, and take any image and give it much transparency to the point

Re: png cropping

2008-09-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
assistant - Patrick Horgan # #*# # Change log # # 1.1.1 Added -a, -V and much comments # 1.1 Added checking of return codes so we could # abort if something failed. # 1.0 Initi

Re: png cropping

2008-09-19 Thread Patrick Horgan
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Thanks for trying it out, Josh! Glad to hear it worked for you on OSX. Patrick has been dealing with the flags, and I don't really understand how to do them, so my very dirty solution would be simply to comment out the last bit of the script that opens the file :). I

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-21 Thread Patrick Horgan
but still serious enough (as Valentin already wrote), and I second Patrick Horgan comment on links color: maybe we could make links a bit more blue? And note that the other Patrick reported that his style was supposed to produce underlined links, (and did on his machine). Has anyone looked into w

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