Re: Lilypond-book and TeXshop on Mac: Newbie questions

2012-04-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:49 PM, flup2 wrote: One of the best way to use lilypond-book with TeXShop is to use a dedicated engine. Nicola Vitacolonna, a lilypond and LaTeX user, made a very interesting one. You can find it here :

Re: Swung eighths syntax?

2012-05-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 6, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project (github.com/mostawesomedude/lye) where one of the main formats is a strict subset of Lilypond syntax. I want to introduce swung eighths, but don't know what syntax Lilypond plans to adopt for it. What's the

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2012, at 1:46 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Let me first tell you that a _separate_ and unannounced mail copy of something _also_ sent to a mailing list is considered quite rude since it more often than not forces the recipient to answer the same mail twice. This in unfortunately more

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Barnes wrote: Wouldn't your time be more wisely spent trying to get corporate sponsors? I see a lot more success stories in the open source world where a corporation donates developers to projects the company have an interest in. Hmm. OpenOffice for

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 28, 2012, at 9:29 AM, James Harkins wrote: Related: I can't say I read the list very closely, so somehow I overlooked the fact before that David K.'s livelihood comes from working on Lilypond. I had assumed Lilypond was almost completely a volunteer effort (like SuperCollider, for

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 28, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Hannes Kuhnert wrote: Tim McNamara schrieb: Sending money directly to developers instead of to a central Lilypond account cuts a lot of costs and eliminates much of the need for organizational bureaucracy (e.g., an accounting department). On the other hand

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

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

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-05-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 29, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Tim Slattery wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: I was thinking about simplification like being able to put in a coda with \coda or a segno with \segno instead of things like \mark \markup { \musicglyph

Re: Multiple tensions in Chord Mode

2012-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Louis Guillaume If I may start with a bit of humble philosophy, when I see a flat 9 especially, I almost always conclude that the tonality will include a sharp 9 as well, simply because of the dissonance

Re: Autochange snippet broken?

2012-06-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 2, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:28 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I actually would write the whole snippet as autochange = #(define-music-function (parser location ref music) ((ly:pitch?) ly:music?) (let ((mus

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Jeff Barnes wrote: From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support for things we desperately need: reflection, automatic memory management and

Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages [was: Re: Appreciation / Financial support]

2012-06-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 05/06/12 08:53, David Kastrup wrote: I would doubt that this would have been the fault of Scheme. More likely a problem of the Scheme/LilyPond interface choices, but those choices don't go away when replacing Scheme. No, it

Re: Possible multiple bugs, any way around?

2012-06-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 7, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Sami sami.ami...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. I have witnessed a weird behaviour, You seem to have posted this about ten times in a couple of different ways. It takes time to let people generate responses. ___

Re: Possible multiple bugs, any way around?

2012-06-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 7, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Sami wrote: Normally, \bar |: at the very beginning is redundant and should be left out. Music with no \bar |: anywhere is always understood to go back to the beginnining. Typically yes, true, but it is much better vsually to define both the start and the

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 10, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: As great as Lilypond's output is, there is a long way to go in terms of simplification and usability (the syntax needs to be simplified dramatically; a lot

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote: Music notation is complex. Any ASCII representation of music notation likewise has to be complex. Hmm, it would be more accurate to say music notation *can* be complex. It can also be very simple. I use Lilypond for creating jazz lead

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Let me respond as a musician rather than as a programmer, because I am the first and I am not the second. A lot of the syntax of Lilypond makes little sense except

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:15 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I think that this could simplify the syntax by creating a standard skeleton for .ly files going from most global to most specific: \version information \paper information \form information (number of bars, repeat locations,

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: It'd be nice if someone else (i.e., not me) figured out a user-friendly way for people to donate money to the Lilypond devs without having

Re: transpose chords?

2012-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:58 PM, MING TSANG wrote: Hi, lily user: I use \transpose g d on a melody song. The transpose is fine, but I notice the chord is not transposed. How to do transpose of chord together with transpose of melody? The same way that you do it with the melody, but you

Lilypond syntax

2012-07-27 Thread Tim McNamara
Some weeks back there was some discussion of the Lilypond syntax, I made some suggestions and was asked to write up a sample .ly file with the ideas I had in mind. Basically my notion was to separate content (notes and chords) from form (number of bars, repeats, codas, rehearsal marks, etc.)

Re: parenthesize chord

2012-10-11 Thread Tim McNamara
Here's a hack to parenthesize chords in \chordmode that was sent to me by a kind person here on the list. It can't parenthesize a single chord but will do two or more. #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion context) (markup #:line (( (ignatzek-chord-names

Re: A whole lot of e-mails

2012-10-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: Fellow Lilyponders: I recently joined this list serve. Since then I have received not only other members inquiries but also multiple responses to each of their inquiries. Is this the usual practice? Well, yes. The Reply-To

Re: A whole lot of e-mails

2012-10-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:38:13PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: Well, yes. The Reply-To header is set so that replies go to the sender rather than the list, so one must reply all to include the list which results

Re: Advocating non-free softwares

2013-03-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:47 AM, James Harkins wrote: Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net writes: David, thank you so, so much! Oh, I thought enough bytes had been spilt on this subject already. IMO, this entire discussion is the result of misreading François's comment. It's working well

Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'

2013-03-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 8, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Tim Slattery wrote: Mike Blackstock blackstock.m...@gmail.com wrote: This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain music from so-called copyrighted scores: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244 Excellent article, even

Re: Frescobaldi install (was: final score)

2013-03-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 9, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: El 04/03/2013 13:18, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com escribió: In GNU/Linux it is a small nightmare to install. In Windows it is a matter of next-next-next-done. I must say it's not so hard in Ubuntu 12.10, all needed libraries

Re: Frescobaldi install (was: final score)

2013-03-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 10, 2013, at 4:45 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: My last attempt to install it on my Mac to run in an X11 window resulted in literally hundreds of things being downloaded by MacPorts- dependencies

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: BUT: Even if all this may be quite an ambitious task, I just started off to see what's possible and how Lilypond behaves in a jazz context. Fortunately, the results look quite encouraging. :) This is very intriguing as a jazz player and

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de wrote: Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to read in certain lighting conditions (I

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus robert.schm...@web.de wrote: Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-19 Thread Tim McNamara
There are a couple of peculiar side effects. I find that using this turns off the bar count engraver and it also defeats \improvisationOn resulting in regular notes instead of parallelogram note heads. The easy workaround is to use \jazzOff before \improvisationOn. The appearance of the

Re: Another happy lilypond user

2013-03-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi On 24/03/13 14:55, David Kastrup wrote: Well, I am somewhat unhappy with that focus on the pricing of Finale as my own work is being funded by LilyPond users who are typically paying somewhat more to substantially more than the Finale

Re: Another happy lilypond user

2013-03-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 24, 2013, at 11:13 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Marek Klein ma...@gregoriana.sk writes: Hello, what about having Donate button which would simply link to Sponsoring page? That would probably work. And maybe we should start the Sponsoring page with a This might not be as easy as

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-03-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: I should add that the underlying motivation here is licensing clarity for some of Urs and Janek's work on useful toolboxes for Lilypond. It's clearly desirable that these kits be copylefted as far as any

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-03-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 29, 2013, at 4:42 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 03/28/2013 08:28 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: My understanding is always been that the GPL applies to the software used to produce a file, not to the file itself. I think (at least in this case) you mean process, not produce. I

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-04-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 04/02/2013 07:33 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: If I do not copy the actual file into my .ly file but only have the \include statement, I have not violated copyright. It would be up to any subsequent user to obtain the copyrighted Bob

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-04-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 04/02/2013 11:57 PM, Anthonys Lists wrote: On 02/04/2013 22:47, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Indeed, and a consequence of distributing a covered work under GPL-incompatible terms is that you lose

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-04-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 04/02/2013 11:38 PM, Anthonys Lists wrote: On 02/04/2013 22:01, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: (Function names and APIs are generally considered to be uncopyrightable.) However, I think the consensus

Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

2013-04-02 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 2, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 04/03/2013 01:45 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: Is that in fact correct? The quibbles here is what constitutes derivation. If you write a program that calls a library during its function

Re: \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails

2013-04-22 Thread Tim McNamara
I almost never use open strings even with first position chords when playing jazz. There are a few Jim Hall-ish situations that are exceptions to this. On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Peter Crighton petecrigh...@googlemail.com wrote: 2013/4/22 Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com: 2013/4/22 David

Re: the question of triplets

2013-04-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 26, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Ok. I understand how triplets work. I've played them often enough lol! but in lily pond according to the manual it says it's written in a fraction. That's the part I don't get. I'm very horrible at math so is there a way to comprehend

Re: slur across bar

2013-04-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 29, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek carsonm...@ca.rr.com wrote: Hello: In the following, I want to place a slur from the bes16 across the bar to the aes8. \version 2.16.2 { \key des \major \time 4/4 bes2-3 a4~ a8. bes16 | aes8. bes16 ( aes16. ) bes32 (

Re: pizz and arco: a question

2013-05-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 12, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. in braille music, I see the word pizz and i know until I see arco I have to pluc the string. In lily pond I don't want to put \pizz over every single note especially since with the \repeat volta 2 {music} I want to

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.10

2013-05-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Struggling through with installing this on a Mac, how the heck does one get Poppler to work? Jeez, after installing nearly a GB of dependencies, everything seems to work but Poppler. Qt libraries (qt-mac-opensource-4.8.4.dmg) Python 2.7.4 for OS X 10.6 sip-4.14.6 (which seems to be part of the

Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
LilyPond automatically moves the coda glyph \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } to the beginning of the next line, if it is put at the end of a line with a manual \break. This is highly annoying. How does one stop it from happening?

Re: Turning off obnoxious coda behavior

2013-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 17, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jim Long wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: LilyPond automatically moves the coda glyph \mark \markup { \musicglyph #scripts.coda } to the beginning of the next line, if it is put at the end of a line with a manual

Re: Tie and beam across line break

2013-05-28 Thread Tim McNamara
Ties and slurs cross bar lines automatically. I have never seen LilyPnd behave differently in that regard; ties and slurs that cross \repeat volta into a second or greater \alternative need a specific cue to happen correctly (\repeatTie IIRC). IMHO beams should never cross bar lines- it looks

Re: emacs lilypond-mode installation

2013-05-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 28, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Kevin Barry wrote: Dear LilyPond users, A friend recently persuaded me to try emacs for text editing (LaTeX + LilyPond), however I can't quite understand the instructions for installing lilypond-mode, as outlined here:

Re: LilyPond blog! who wants to join?

2013-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Janek, This is great! Thanks, Kieren. p.s. LilyPonderings That one gets my vote. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-06-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 27, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Paul Morris wrote: flup2 wrote I don't install it like a Unix program. I just expand the archive in the Applications folder. That way, the path to frescobaldi binary looks like: /Applications/frescobaldi/frescobaldi (the first frescobaldi is the folder name, the

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-06-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 5, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings, On 6/06/13 10:13 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: Installing Frescobaldi remains one of the singularly frustrating interludes of my computing life. I cannot figure out how anyone gets a damned thing done using Linux/BSD with all

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-06-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:59 PM, flup2 wrote: Hello, While reading your error message, it seems that the python version used is the one included in OS X (/Library/Frameworks...), not the one installed by macports (/opt/local...) To be sure that the problem lies there, here are a few steps:

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2013-06-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:35 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Yes, but Mac OS X Darwin does not use apt as far as I know, only Debian and Debian derived systems such as Ubuntu and Mint. As a result of this thread, I have decided the need is there for a macports bundle for frescobaldi, one that

Re: Editors

2013-06-25 Thread Tim McNamara
:10 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote: In the Mac version of Lilypond, is there a way to: - prevent the application from creating a new file each time it is run You don't have to double click LilyPond. In fact it is not really meant

Re: Running Lilypond from Fraise

2013-06-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 27, 2013, at 6:51 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2013-06-27 at 11:56 Alexander Deubelbeiss wrote: From: Philippe de Rochambeau phi...@free.fr could someone please explain how to run Lilypond from Fraise? In my experience Lilypond does not interact usefully

Re: tablet

2013-07-31 Thread Tim McNamara
I use my iPad with unRealBook to organize lead sheets produced by LilyPond for all my gigs. With the Retina display it works fine for lead sheets but might be too small for orchestral or even piano music. Rumor has it that Apple is planning a 13 iPad, but then rumor has all sorts of things

Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

2013-08-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: I'm not that surprised. During the last few years I became something nerd-like. After beeing a Mac-User for a long time, I now only use Ubuntu or Debian and all its related tools for my everyday work. So for me using

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:22 AM, Christian Andersson christian.ld.anders...@gmail.com wrote: This issue with running Frescobaldi on MacOS X must be one of the most long-running among threads of this list. Why can't some of you Mac users please take your responsibility for the community, and see

Re: frescobaldi on mac

2013-08-16 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/16 Christian Andersson christian.ld.anders...@gmail.com: This issue with running Frescobaldi on MacOS X must be one of the most long-running among threads of this list. Why can't some of you Mac users please take

Re: explicit 7 on a half diminished 7

2013-08-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Derek Klinge schilke...@gmail.com wrote: For the life of me I cannot figure this out. I would like the following example to explicitly include the 7. Is there a way to change the way it handles half diminished 7ths? EXAMPLE \chords { c4:7.9- c:7.9-/g

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scale Matcher website built with LilyPond

2013-08-24 Thread Tim McNamara
I think posting announcements to some of the rec.music.makers.* Usenet groups would make sense, as well as other fora for musicians (especially jazz musicians since they are likely to be interested in the chord-scale relationship more than a lot of other musical styles). I'll scatter a few

Re: mea máxima culpa

2013-09-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:14 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Patrick or Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com writes: From: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com To: Patrick or Cynthia Karl pck...@mac.com [deleting billions of lines] From: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com Patrick or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-09-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 11, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Jacques Menu jacques.m...@tvtmail.ch wrote: Building python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 fails on Mac OS X 10.8.4, though, you'll find the trace below. The choice of Poppler is highly problematic on the Mac for some reason. I wonder if it is possible to rejigger this to

Re: Help with Chordname

2013-09-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Steve Noland st...@thenolands.us wrote: I am trying to typeset a score for jazz orchestra. I am having problems with some of the jazz chordnames engraving correctly. Specifically, a Dm7(b5) chord (D minor 7, flat 5) engraves as a Dº, or D diminished. What

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/9 Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 12:53:35AM +0200, Thomas Morley wrote: 2013/10/9 Jim Long lilyp...@umpquanet.com: \override ChordName #'font-name = #lilyjazzchord Hi Jim,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Portfile for Frescobaldi on Mac

2013-10-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 30, 2013, at 4:54 AM, Jean-Alexis Montignies j...@montignies.info wrote: Warning! Don’t try to do update on Mavericks (MacOS 10.9) as QT is currently not compiling. If installed before upgrading to 10.9, Frescobaldi continues to work. Thanks for the heads-up. It may be

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
' f'2 | \override NoteHead #'style = #'slash \override Stem #'transparent = ##t bf'4 bf'4 bf'4 bf'4 | \revert NoteHead #'style \revert Stem #'transparent } On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:58:26AM +, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/3/2011 6:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:58 AM, David Bobroff wrote: On 3/3/2011 6:23 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: I have not been able to locate a way to do jazz style multiple bar repeats like these for writing out chord progressions for solos. Can anyone point me to the place in the documentation (assuming

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Colin Hall wrote: For the record I've attached a complete source file to demonstrate how I do chop marks. I like how those render and will have other uses for them. Thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-03 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: There is a number in the middle of the bar which indicates how many bars to repeat, with a heavy horizontal bar on either side of the number. Would this do the sort of thing you're looking for? You ask for a multi

Re: How to do jazz-style bar repeats

2011-03-04 Thread Tim McNamara
marks. You can replace the r4 with an appropriate rest for other durations. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Colin Hall wrote: For the record I've attached a complete source file to demonstrate how I do chop marks

Re: Compile for Mac

2011-03-13 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 13, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2011-03-13 um 00:51 schrieb Bernardo Barros: 2011/3/12 Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net: MacPorts is a project independent from Apple, but uses the compiler etc installed with Xcode. What you can download and install from

Re: Can't get the layout right

2011-03-24 Thread Tim McNamara
Without actual music we can't compile your score to see the problem. I think your problem may be in that you have two \paper blocks and your indent is wrong if you really don't want the first staff indented. Try consolidating your paper block and changing the indent: \paper {

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Tim McNamara
My first thought is that it's the 21st century and you don't need an uncooperative music publisher any more. Especially one using software that results in mediocre looking engraved music. On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: Good question. I suspect I will be having a

Re: problem with OS X 10.6.7 and Lily-PDFs

2011-04-05 Thread Tim McNamara
Has the cause of the problem been identified? Is some part of Lilypond out of compliance with an Apple API or did Apple's update screw something up? I guess my question is whether the onus of fixing the problem is on Apple or Lilypond. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4472 On Apr 5, 2011, at

Re: release candidate planning

2011-04-05 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Graham Percival wrote: A few notes about Critical problems: - bad output, or even being completely unusable, on operating systems released in 2010 or 2011, do *not count*. Errr... huh? Given that most users are going to be

Re: Self-Publishing (was Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?)

2011-04-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 10, 2011, at 11:05 AM, PMA wrote: My thanks to all for your suggestions! The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000. Am sniffing out reputable vendors. Meanwhile, I've begun to explore other (no-printer) options for

Re: MAC help

2011-04-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote: I'm helping a friend install on Mac OS X 10.6.6 but I know nothing about the Mac. I found this in the archive: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00246.html Is that the right approach for her? No. That's not

OS X update for problems with OpenType fonts in 10.6.7

2011-04-26 Thread Tim McNamara
This may fix the issues with Lilypond and 10.6.7; I haven't tested it yet. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4605 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hello fellow pond-dwellers, I'd like to print chords like c/e as chord names with E as a small index to C or even stacked with a small E below a normal-sized C, without the slash. How can I achieve that? I didn't find anything

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2011-06-24 um 19:21 schrieb Carl Sorensen: Perhaps I misunderstand the slash-notation (inversion): I use it to define the bass string to pick on the guitar. That's the way I use it as well. But I'm totally familiar with this

Re: chord names with lowered bass

2011-06-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:59 PM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sunday, June 26, 2011 07:11:37 PM Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: That's the way I use it as well. But I'm totally familiar with this being C/E. That's the only layout I've ever seen

Re: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

2011-07-05 Thread Tim McNamara
You can check on this by using the Activity Monitor (in the Finder, Go menu Utilities Activity Monitor). If you sort alphabetically you can easily find Lilypond and see whether it is demanding a lot of CPU cycles, hogging memory and/or spawning a lot of subprocesses that are slowing things

Re: Lilypond making my Macbook Pro run slow

2011-07-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Marc Mouries wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: Marc- I traced the problem to improperly set permissions for the binary executable LilyEditor in LilyEditor.app Contents MacOS LilyEditor. Your application

Overriding shifting of coda when \break is used?

2011-08-06 Thread Tim McNamara
By default Lilypond moves a coda placed at the end of a line to the beginning of the next line of \break is used. I consider this bad behavior- the rehearsal marks should stay put where I place them rather than having that placement changed by the application (I have no idea why Lilypond is

Re: Overriding shifting of coda when \break is used?

2011-08-06 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 6, 2011, at 11:30 AM, James Lowe wrote: Hello, From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org [lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org] on behalf of Tim McNamara [tim...@bitstream.net] Sent: 06 August 2011 17:17

Re: New Binary for LilyPond on MacOSX 10.7 available

2011-08-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 9, 2011, at 6:02 AM, James Lowe wrote: Well don't reply to me directly when they come from the lists then! The way the list is set up increases the likelihood that replies will go to individuals rather than to the list. This has been discussed before and there was vehement

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-18 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: (I would be amused to know if they'd actually realize if someone did send print/PDF generated by Lilypond...) I asked them that question, right after reading the mail that started this thread. not that I seriously plan to participate, but

Re: Lilypond lobbying?

2011-08-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: I am very surprised that so many of the LilyPond users are composers! I was quite sure that Lily is mostly suited for engravers and editors. I write songs (jazz) but would not consider myself a composer as such. Just once in

Re: Empty music sheet generator in LilyPond

2011-09-09 Thread Tim McNamara
Reinhold, that is absolutely outstanding. So many options with the great preview, a couple of which are perfect for my needs. Thank you! Tim ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols

2011-09-25 Thread Tim McNamara
Look for the pop-chords.ly file which has a lot of these modifications already. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Extending Lilypond's chord vocabulary PLUS Help on command definition

2011-11-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: Hi Jim everyone, I'm currently preparing a macro file jazz-chords.ily which contains (my version of) common jazz chord notation. I will share that file as soon as it is in a usable state. However, right now, I just worked out how to

Re: Chords: How to show chords without suffixes

2011-11-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 11, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, How could i show chords without suffixes. I found this line in scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm (ignatzek-format-chord-name root prefixes main-name alterations add-steps suffixes bass-note

Re: Chords: How to show chords without suffixes

2011-11-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hi, No this isn't what i wanted..I wouldent be asking if there were a anwser online..:) What i wanted is: \chordmode { c1:7 a1:min d1:min g1:sus4 } That will give me: CA D G Thank you..

Re: Placing text next to notes

2011-12-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kraft wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/11 16:22, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: Le Dec 1, 2011 à 4:05 PM, Tim McNamara a écrit : On Dec 1, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Daniel Kraft wrote: I have the following problem: I would like

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line like: \include /Users/peter/Documents/asdf.ly I

Re: Where to put user ly files on OSX?

2011-12-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Peter Jaques wrote: Thanks Hans. You didn't quite understand my question, I think. I understand that I *can* put files practically anywhere. The problem is that I then have to use a really long include line

Re: Taking the old website down

2011-12-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:25 PM, James wrote: Alberto 2011/12/20 Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt: On 12/20/11 18:59 , Graham Percival wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:13:42PM +, Alberto Simões wrote: As a suggestion, please delete the web page that answers to:

Re: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)

2012-01-22 Thread Tim McNamara
Sometimes it happens that a non-programer user reports some issue or makes some request and gets metaphorically punched by a developer. This occurs in all open-source projects. Some developers are much tetchier than the Lilypond developers (such as the GNU Emacs developers. Whoa. Their

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