Re: How to get text width in Scheme?

2008-09-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/19 Risto Vääräniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can someone tell me how I can get the text width inside scheme? I think you might be interested in using ly:stencil-extent (not sure though) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: v2.11.58-2 guile17 error ppc

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry about this. Let me do a clean rebuild. Can someone verify if this is a problem on other platforms too? The GNU/Linux build has never been broken as far as I could see, and the Win32 build works fine since you've rebuild it with a compatible

Re: Re: Joining Stems

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I forward this to the bug mailing list, since it's yet another bug related to the bounding box of snippets! Thanks, added as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=505 and http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=679 Cheers, Valentin

Re: different tempi

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/9 John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If LSR was up, I'd add there too; maybe we can add it to input/new if it's worthwhile. Added as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=506 (both Reinhold's example and yours). Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/10 Eluze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it is a pity the snippet repository is still not working!!! It is now, and the snippet is: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=507 Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Stanza font

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Something like \override StanzaNumber #'font-name = #FPL Neu should work. Added as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=509 and tagged as really simple :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Bug in Cluster spanner?

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/29 V!ctor Adán [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Lilyponders, I'm using ramp-style Cluster spanners and I'm getting unexpected output. Hi Victor, these two issues have been added to our tracker as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=680 and

Re: Stanza font

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Eluze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So simple that you overlooked the typo indendently which of course should spell independently... Thanks, corrected. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Francisco Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Again it doesn't. Wednesday 13:18 UTC Now it does again (30 minutes later). Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: LSR up

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/11 Sebastiano Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Let me know if there are unsolved issues I forgot about! Hi Seba, I know you're still away, but we're experiencing some downtimes with the LSR again (specifically the php frontend, the ERW interface seems more accessible). Just to let you know that

Re: strict-grace-spacing Obscures Accidentals

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 musicologist1964 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas how to fix this? Any advice would be much appreciated. Unfortunately, there still are a number of bugs with grace notes, and I have given up using any \grace or \acciaccatura command (but someone else may have another idea). Here's how I

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

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, it let me get a good look at it. All in all, so far I prefer Patrick's except for unvisited links. OK, two Patricks in one discussion... You just lost me guys :-) I like the default theme's blue-grey colors *very* much, it feels both calm

Re: Re: Joining Stems

2008-09-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/17 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I forward this to the bug mailing list, since it's yet another bug related to the bounding box of snippets! Actually it is not a bug, since extra-offset is meant not to be taken into account. (Yeah, this is me pretending to know things -- in fact

Re: Website harmony teaching

2008-09-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/15 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- Forwarded message -- From: Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM Subject: Fwd: Website harmony teaching To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can Lilypond be of help for a set up of Java music notation on a website to

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? This is already reported on the bug list: gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Henning Plumeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should this be posted at gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel? Gosh, this deserves to be dealt with ASAP, indeed. I have posted a report on the devel list, and the official issue in our tracker is http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=668

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm rebuilding mingw with last known GUILE version to work. Note that it does work on Wine. I haven't tested it on Wine (I'm on 64bits), but in a virtual machine. Does your current build include the recent mingw fix from Ludovic? If so, you can

Re: 2.11.58-1: Unable to find file ice-9/boot-9.scm in load path

2008-09-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/14 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't tested it on Wine (I'm on 64bits), but in a virtual machine. The new build works fine here. That did the trick! Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Printing first and every n bar numbers

2008-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/12 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin Are these worth a snippet (or two?) for Rhythms? Isn't it a duplicate of http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=91 ? The alternative is Neil's music function: #(define ((first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible n) barnum) (or

Re: creating header properties on the fly

2008-09-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/12 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any mechanism — built-in or Scheme-tastic — which would let me do this? I could be wrong, but I think this is already possible (I've been using such a trick for several months). Cheers, Valentin

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

2008-09-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/9 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It did cross my mind, but \center-align-in doesn't really trip off the tongue, does it? \center-in? Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

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

2008-09-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/17 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - change the current behaviour of \center-align to match \hcenter; keep \hcenter for backwards compatibility, or remove it Hi Neil, well, I've been spending a couple hours wondering why oh why were the titles in my scores all messed up since a couple

Re: LilyPondTool question

2008-09-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/6 Gilles THIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then, maybe after running LP, suddenly it disappears and I can't figure out how to recover it. Perhaps it's something simple, but I haven't figured it out. If somebody knows what I'm missing, I'd be grateful for your tips. Thanks. Perhaops you

Re: LilyPondTool on XP

2008-09-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/9/4 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the plugin options for SideKick plugin options you can set the autocompletion characters. Yeah, more specifically: Plugins menu Plugin Options... Sidekick/General Accept characters for completion popup : delete the first

Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

2008-08-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/31 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, it is only recommended if you want to use lilypond-book in conjunction with latex to produce a document. In that case, it's pretty obvious to anybody that you need a tex distribution anyway. However, for the 99% of the users who don't use

Re: LSR status

2008-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/30 Damian leGassick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: surely if a snippet deserves/needs to be in LSR it should be incorporated into the next revision of the docs? Actually, the docs only include a selection of the most relevant snippets. The LSR is not only meant for pedagogical purposes, but also

Re: lilypond as an web-based application?

2008-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/30 Dominic Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin has already started such a project. I don´t know how good it works. Probably it´s only a starting point: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/ Glad to see you remember :-) Actually, I think a few of us are convinced LilyPond's can have

Re: lilypond as an web-based application?

2008-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/30 Ivo Bouwmans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: An interesting site if you know a melody but can't find its name! Yes, there's also http://www.melodyhound.com/ (don't know if it's related). Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

2008-08-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/29 Chris Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to the top Google hit I came across for png alpha ie, IE7 does support PNG alpha (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/alpha.html). IE6 is still widely used though (30 to 60% of the users depending on the stats I've found). That said, IIRC at worse

Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/23 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are right, nimblex looks great,it would be a good thing, if there could be included Lilypond! Hi Stefan, hi everybody, the Nimblex guys seem to be ready to include LilyPond in their distribution if we can help them doing so; they'd like

Re: LSR status

2008-08-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/25 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Kieren, However, if the Lilypond community is depending on *any* resource as heavily as it appears to be (or want to be) relying on the LSR, that resource needs to maintain ~ 99% uptime. If the current LSR hosting situation is unable to

Re: question about installation

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Luc Dejans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Last week I downloaded and runned LilyPond 2.10 for Windows. My computer runs Windows Vista. Greetings Luc, don't worry, nobody's perfect :) [Hey Trevor, you're not alone anymore :-) ] While trying to install LilyPond on Cygwin, I didn't get the same

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

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Maarten Deen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, that's exactly what I need (and no, I had no idea to look there). I expect it will be overwritten when I do an upgrade? Just to make a mental note to edit it again when I do. If you modify the titling-init source file, it will be overwritten.

Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

2008-08-24 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/24 Alastair Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches of the archives haven't turned up anything useful. Is there any way of converting lilypond files into music xml? If not, are there any plans for such a tool? This is registered

Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/23 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are right, nimblex looks great,it would be a good thing, if there could be included Lilypond! Well, I sent them a nice mail, let's wait and see what they can say about it :) Cheers, Valentin ___

Re: SLopUF: Sumatra and issue 635 (pdf locking)

2008-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/23 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have no previous knowledge about the issue, other than to say that on mac osx 10.4 and earlier, the file would be overwritten, but it wouldn't update automatically in acrobat or apple's pdf reader, preview. One workaround I found was to open the

Re: convert from absolute to relative

2008-08-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/22 Gilles THIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \displayLilyMusic \skipMusic \notes Pleeease remember to add it to the LSR when it's up again :) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: live cd-with lilypond

2008-08-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/22 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm searching for a live Cd with lilypond. I know, there is Musix, but it has a very old version. And UBUNTU Studio, as far as I know, is not a live CD, or is it? I'm afraid the best way is to build it yourself... I built a Lilypond live-CD in June

Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

2008-08-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/20 Tom Cloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Such a comment is NOT appropriate when dealing with someone who want to join the community of Linux users, and, say use Lilypond, but isn't about to read the code. Can't, in fact. The quality of the Lilypond documentation, and the clarity of the syntax

Re: Lyrics independent of notes

2008-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/12 Martin Klejch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: %% the Lyrics independent of notes example (chapter 7.3.7.5 of the manual) %% gives errors: warning: Lyric syllable does not have note. Use \lyricsto %% or associatedVoice ... I'm not sure this is a bug. Can anyone who has already used such

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/18 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That seems trivial -- surely everybody knows this already -- so let's discuss a specific example. I'll pick on Valentin since he won't mind... and also since he's almost a complete opposite of me. Please do not think of me as a yes-man :-) (If

Re: 1.5.2 Multiple voices= Single-staff polyphony

2008-08-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/18 David Stocker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good job. I'm copying this to the list simply to let folks know I'm happy to look over English documentation for correct grammar. If anyone feels that he needs another pair of eyes to look over revisions to the documentation, then please feel free to

Re: percussion beaters

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/11 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unfortunately I can't reach the link anymore! I would like to add the example to the documentation of percussion instruments! Yes, we're experiencing major problems with the LSR. However, this snippet should be available using

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

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/14 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, for the people that have (mis-)used \center-align for a single markup, they won't even notice the change, since it produces the same output in that case, even though they will have an unnecessary pair of curly braces in their code after the

Re: percussion beaters

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/14 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but how can I open this file? Where do I find it? I don't have the source-code of the documentation and I don't know how to compile it. Oh, I forgot you weren't using the source code... As Mats said, the snippet is already in the percu-related

Re: Harp Pedals?

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/8 Dewdman42 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't seem to find anything in the Lilypond manual about creating harp pedal symbols. I would think this issue has been covered a lot by users of Lilypond. how do I do it, or something like it:

Re: it's all up to you users

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/14 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that's almost it, but it should be Fozzy Force after Fozzy Bear. Fuzzy Force makes a nice sequel to Grumpy Graham... next time we'll have to find something that begins with an E :-) Cheers, Valentin

Re: Harp Pedals?

2008-08-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/14 Carl D. Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin, you made my day. To have somebody asking _me_ questions about LilyPond programming is a first. I've been the one asking everybody else questions. Thanks! Well, had I known it would make your day, I'd have spent less time looking at

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/13 Nicholas Wastell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My point is that if he doesn't like the newbie stuff in -user, he should just keep away. The newbie stuff has to go somewhere; Graham wouldn't be upset by it and the list would be a more welcoming place. I no longer post my queries on here,

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

2008-08-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/13 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a solution, I present Mats's proposals for renaming: Proposal #1 is undoubtedly the one; however, considering it's already a big deal to rename some commands; making an *already existing* command mean something *else* than what it currently means

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
/blog/index.php?/archives/541-10-golden-rules-for-starting-with-open-source.html (I learned a lot from this page in my days). Regards, Valentin Villenave. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/12 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree only because it gives the appearance of a hostile atmosphere on the lilypond user's list which I know is not the truth. A one line RTFM answer is not good communication. Except for very rare cases (some questions about MacOS10.5, I think),

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/13 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then you need to RTFML. Especially things from me. :) - Graham Nah, I decided to skip all these months ago -- actually from the day you referred to me as a Callifornia Valley Girl :-) As a matter of fact, I've even configured a mail filter which

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/11 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then why not call it human? For example: Guide and Reference. Abbreviations are evil, because they are always clear and unambigous for someone who uses them or used them recently, but they confuse newcomers, take time and mental energy

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/11 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My point is that lilypond-user reading users won't get used to it. Many of them are newcomers and beginners. They don't usually follow the conversations on the list. Referring to NRx.x is still okay when you're talking to devs and doc

Re: GDP NR talking about IR

2008-08-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/11 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not at all, but it is probably more productive for you to concentrate on the sections of the manuals in development which have been completed By the way, Robin, I hope you know that the very latest PDF version is always available on

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or perhaps remove some that show tweaks that are no longer needed. Yes, I suspect some snippets may now look much simpler thanks to Reinhold's implementation :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: Arlignment of Bars

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It looks better in version 2.11. For version 2.10, it helps to replace the \layout section by \override SpacingSpanner #'average-spacing-wishes = ##f Thanks, updated and tagged as version-specific. Cheers, Valentin

Re: Partially changing the vertical position of lyrics

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See for example http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-12/msg00266.html ... and now in the LSR as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Forcing note ... tail orientation

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I force the note... erm... tail to go up or down, instead of the automatic orientation based on the note position in the stave? In LilyPond, this is called a Stem. You can use \stemUp or \stemDown and then go back to the automatic behavior

Re: Forcing note ... tail orientation

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, I was missing the correct word, and that didn't help me searching the documentation. We do have a glossary, but as far as I can see Portuguese is still missing... http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/music-glossary/stem.html

Re: Forcing note ... tail orientation

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Hugo Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll take this oportunity to invite all portuguese native speakers to sign in in our brazillian lilypond list. One of the efforts we are doing is to start a translation team... LOL, I've just sent privately a link to your forum :-) Cheers, Valentin

Re: Comments on Learning Manual 3 -- Fundamental concepts

2008-08-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This must be a Frenchism; I winced when I saw it in some of Valentin's text.itely changes. Why on earth remove the parentheses? They help clarify the structure of the sentence. Actually, this is a Johnism (I don't know why he keeps asking us to

Re: lily to openoffice

2008-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/8 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Search the mailing list archives. For example, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-05/msg00111.html shows one simple change that's needed. There's also a piece of information on

Re: strange tempo 2

2008-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/8 Neil Puttock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/8/7 David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does Rheinhold's work allow for the kind of thing I want; a quarter tied to a dotted quarter = number? Yes, since tempoText can take any \markup commands. This means we'll have to rewrite quite a bunch of

Re: Arlignment of Bars

2008-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/8 Michael Menge [EMAIL PROTECTED]: that was what i was looking for. ... and has now been added to the LSR as http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=502 (Gee, the first bar looks awful) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: markup dynamics wrong size

2008-08-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/8 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because it isn't tagged with docs. I think there's still a lot of snippets that could/should be included in the Snippet Lists, but: Hem, IIRC *I* had initially tagged quite a lot of snippets that *you* made me un-tag :-) I think the documentation

Re: Downloading

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/6 Dolores Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a Mac computer OS 10 version 8. Can I download lilypond? Greetings, There are several versions of MacOS 10; if you're running 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger), LilyPond should work without any problems. If you're running the latest 10.5

Re: GDP: NR 2.4 Fretted string instruments, first draft

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/4 Andrew Hawryluk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valentin, in the snippet Stem and beam behavior in tablature (#494) can you replace \override Beam #'damping = #10 with \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 It's updated now (I guess Neil was faster than me) :-) Cheers, Valentin

Re: color notehead according to absolute pitch

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/4 Kenny Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a means by which I can color the notes based on its absolute pitch --- not its pitch class? If anyone can come up with a nice solution, this should definitely be added to the LSR... Cheers, Valentin

Re: Expert question on named contexts

2008-08-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/6 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since I have only used LilyPond for 11 years, I have some remaining questions on how it works. Greetings Mats, Hehehe... As soon as I can find a couple minutes to work on the LilyPond Report again, I guess this will make the Quote of the Week :-)

Re: adding graphics with external program

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anyone lucky using inkscape with files generated by LP? [untested] Has anyone tried to produce svg files within LilyPond, using the hack desribed on http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=334 ? Alternatively you may want to try the other way around : produce

Re: Double \time change

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 Werner LEMBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was rather talking about a movement in the Trio for Violin, Klarinet, and Piano (`Contrasts') which contains a chain of five time signatures (IIRC) to indicate a complicated Hungarian folk music rhythm pattern. Aren't there plus signs between the

Re: Tie control-points delete another tie

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One of the whole goals of GDP was to make this easy -- you don't need to find a doc editor who knows anything about tweaking ties (or whatever else might be the issue in question); it just takes **one user** to make a snippet, submit it to LSR, and

Re: adding graphics with external program

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 Hugo Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How to find out the ps code, after drawing in Inkscape? You can save your drawing as PostScript file (under Inkscape), then open it with a text editor and copy the code. You will probably have to add a scale command (or modify its value if it's already

Re: Double \time change - Solution found! (with another question)

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would just create a fake time signature that looks like what I want, then just remove the engraver for all of the other time signatures. ... or use \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f (easier and revertible) Cheers, Valentin

Re: WikiLily - a lilipond wiki

2008-07-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/30 Mike Blackstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thx - I didn't know that about lilypond and I'll try some system commands just to make sure. I hope you know about the --jail mode Graham was referring to, that has been specially developed by Sebastiano Vigna for the LSR; if not, you may want to

Re: I know you've heard this before

2008-07-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/27 Bertalan Fodor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: would like to put that on the homepage, because it seems many users think it doesn't run or useless. The BIG downside, as always, is the lack of a decent (meaning free) Java implementation on OSX; as such, I can't run LPT on 10.3.9, because Java 1.4

Re: Tie control-points delete another tie

2008-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/24 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But you were right originally, this is either a bug or LilyPond is overly sensitive. Greetings Trevor, I've re-re-read the whole discussion a few times, but I can't manage to understand the issue clearly enough to make a proper bug-report (been

Re: broken octaves

2008-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/26 Jay Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've rewritten it from scratch below where it uses the lengths of the input notes and works with chords. It still has problems (dynamics doubled, tuplets or nested structures don't work), but I'll try to explain it. Great! LSR, anyone? :-) Cheers,

Re: Tie control-points delete another tie

2008-07-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/27 Carl Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've made a short snippet here that shows what appears to me to be the central issue: Great! Indeed, I can see I hadn't understood well the nature of the problem. I have added your report (quasi verbatim) as

Re: clefs not shown

2008-07-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/25 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Valentine, as far as I can remember, I removed the bar-engraver for a special reason, I think it was for pedagogical purposes and it was a longer example. Yes, but what can lead you to remove Bar_engraver rather than using \cadenzaOn? Cheers,

Re: 'cyclic chain in pure-Y-offset callbacks' warning message

2008-07-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/21 Joe Neeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible, by any chance, to avoid this message? If you add \override RehearsalMark #'Y-offset = #0 \override MetronomeMark #'Y-offset = #0 then it kills the programming errors but it also messes up the formatting for some reason I don't

Re: LilyPond

2008-07-21 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/21 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm Carl from France. Greetings Carl from France :-) You might be interested in knowing that there's a special mailing-list for French-speaking LilyPonders; you can learn more about it (and subscribe) at

'cyclic chain in pure-Y-offset callbacks' warning message

2008-07-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, when compiling the following minimal snippet, I keep having a warning message that goes: 'programming error: cyclic chain in pure-Y-offset callbacks' Is it possible, by any chance, to avoid this message? \layout { \context { \type Engraver_group \name

Re: clefs not shown

2008-07-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/17 Stefan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why are the clefs not shown in the below quoted example? Greetings Stefan, A month ago you reported this bug, that has been added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=640 May I ask why you needed to remove the Bar_engraver? Was it

Re: adding a location to the lilypond path

2008-07-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/18 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm just curious if it's possible to add a location to my lilypond path. Hi James, you might want to call LilyPond with the --include or -I=/whatever/your/dir/is option, as explained in

Re: COntrol Point Tie

2008-07-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/20 PT.Guitar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: for example i wanna tie these notes above How about: \tieUp ? Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \tag can't follow \lyricsto

2008-07-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/16 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the mode switching commands (like lyricsto) are a bit erratic. Sometimes, the parser needs to look ahead to determine what to do next, and then it can happen that the next token is read in the wrong mode. This may lead to interactions like the

Re: Slur ending repeated

2008-07-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/13 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For the record, this is not a bug... you are asking for a new feature. Hi Kieren, can you help me adding this as an Enhancement request to the tracker, by writing a minimal snippet and description? Cheers, Valentin

Re: \tag can't follow \lyricsto

2008-07-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/16 Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can conditionnaly insert music using a music function. Awesome! Can you (or Roman) write a LSR snippet with this great function? Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: nopc -- Proposed Predefines

2008-07-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/14 Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Two good points. So why do we need \pointAndClickOn? John Mandereau (whom I've just met with) has just given me an example of a case where one would need a \pointAndClickOn: suppose you have a default stylesheet file, called e.g. layout.ly, that you

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/9 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I still find it odd -- and a bit disconcerting -- that the page says (e.g.) 0-13 of 14 results... ;-) I mentioned it a while back: http://valentin.villenave.info/The-LilyPond-Report-5#outil_sommaire_3 Cheers, Valentin

Re: slash

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/7 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think I have seen some clever solution on the mailing list, that redefined the function that draws the stem, in order to automatically get it correctly placed. I don't remember if it was a slash or a cross or something else that was placed on the

Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/7 Sebastiano Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guys, please post this kind of problems. There was simply a wrong update so that the index wasn't rebuilt since days. So new snippets were showing up in the browsing list (because they are picked from the database in that case) but not in a search.

Re: sustainOn

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/8 James E. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I vote, as a pianist, for sustainDown/sustainUp. Who's with me? Oh, please don't make it a with me question... Understanding your point of view and sharing or not doesn't make anyone with or without you. Actually, it is as a pianist too that I

Re: sustainOn

2008-07-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/9 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. No, no, absolutely no. That's a long-term support nightmare. I can't stop you from adding it to LSR, but such snippets will *never* be accepted with the docs tag. Nor are they meant to be -- and I wasn't offering to add them myself. The Free

LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

2008-07-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1id=490 Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or repeat - the snippet repository but you will not find this snippet Using Browse you can find it after scrolling through several

Re: Bus error in 2.11.50 on OS X

2008-07-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/7/6 Mark Pim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To solve a spacing problem I wanted to update to 2.11.50 (which I realise is the development release but I understand you're quite close to a 2.12 release?), anyways every file now fails with a bus error, even the standard test file included with the

2nd alternative Volta bracket isn't printed after a line break

2008-07-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings, I've been discussing with Michael Pozhidaev about the way volta brackets are printed when a line break occurs in an alternative situation. In the following snippet, the 2nd bracket is not printed after the line break: \relative c'' { \time 2/4 \repeat volta 2 { d4 d }

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