Re: Lilyjazz font and Score.markFormatter problem with Lily 2.23.6

2022-04-01 Thread Tim McNamara
> What I’d like is to have the chord names such Em7 in the lilyjazz font too, > though. Note that I use a very outdated Lilypond version because it works for me just fine; the updates make for changes in input that I just don’t have the time or energy to learn. I am a part time hobbyist

Re: What is happening on the email thing? CONTENTS DELETED

2021-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
Interesting. This has not happened for me. > On Jun 24, 2021, at 1:47 PM, darki...@jesusgod-pope666.info wrote: > > Why are so many contents being deleted on the email list, like it seems to > grow wilder and wilder... > > What is going on? Are people getting censored or have it been hacked

Re: Jazz chords above slash notation

2021-03-25 Thread Tim McNamara
Are you thinking of this as a polychord (one chord above another, rather than a chord over a bass note as is usually with a “slash” chord)? Here is a snippet intended to be used as an \include, if I recall correctly, to denote poly chords in \chordmode I haven’t had occasion to use it in

Re: Multi-measure rests with alternating time signatures

2020-11-21 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 21, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > I don’t think that solves the OP’s problem, as I understand it to be… I think > the OP wants a compressed visual representation of a whole bunch of 4/4+3/4 > two-measure chunks, without actually seeing them written out. As far

Re: Markup Between Systems

2020-10-14 Thread Tim McNamara
I do something like that with notes for arrangements on lead sheets; this is the basic “skeleton” of my .ly file for these. Perhaps that might work for you? I separate the \score block at the bottom from the musical statements because that’s how I was shown to do it way back when. I don’t

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 22, 2020, at 10:20 AM, Partitura Organum wrote: > > Karsten […] mentioned the lilypond-files: "OpenLilyLib is licensed under the > GPL. Thus, the copyleft effect forces that all Lilypond files which include > OpenLilyLib files, have also to be distributed under the terms of the GPL.".

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 22, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Karsten Reincke wrote: > On 22.09.20 14:58, Tim McNamara wrote: >>> On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:30 AM, Karsten Reincke >>> <mailto:k.rein...@fodina.de> wrote: >>> Dear Carl; >>> >>> here is my explanation using the m

Re: Future of openLilyLib

2020-09-22 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:30 AM, Karsten Reincke wrote: > Dear Carl; > > here is my explanation using the method of showing an analogy: > You are conflating the GPL as applied to functional software versus the rights of the user for the content produced through the use of that functional

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-23 Thread Tim McNamara
You know, the human race managed this pretty successfully for a few hundred years before computers... seems like this might be overthinking it. > On May 23, 2020, at 6:30 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 23 May 2020 at 23:35:10 (+0200), Hans Åberg wrote: On 23 May 2020, at 23:00,

Re: registering a composition

2020-05-21 Thread Tim McNamara
> On May 21, 2020, at 3:34 AM, Valentin Villenave > wrote: > > On 5/21/20, Francesco Petrogalli wrote: >> I have written it with lilypond, but it hasn't been performed yet. I >> wanted to secure the copyright before performing it. Given that there >> is no performing artist yet, there is

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

2019-12-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Dec 28, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Davide Liessi wrote: > > Il giorno sab 28 dic 2019 alle ore 20:01 Tim McNamara > ha scritto: >> I downloaded the .dmg and installed on Catalina 10.15.1. The app crashes on >> launch each time. I have a log file for this wh

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina (fonts)

2019-11-17 Thread Tim McNamara
The default Catalina shell is zsh. You can use bash but you may have to set it to that.

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-16 Thread Tim McNamara
Thank you, Hans, for making this work! > On Nov 16, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Hans Åberg wrote: > > Great! The other LilyPond programs are also in /opt/lilypond/bin/ would you > need them. > > >> On 16 Nov 2019, at 15:32, Mario Bolognani wrote: >> >> On a second attempt, following your very

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-14 Thread Tim McNamara
Frescobaldi itself does not generate sheet music. You need to install Lilypond also. In my experience with Catalina, Hans Aberg's .mkpg installs with a double click and works fine(except for convert-ly, apparently). Frescobaldi 3 does not work out of the box on the Mac; there are a half a

Re: Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

2019-11-13 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > You can get an installable LilyPond package created by Hans Aberg here: > > https://www.et.byu.edu/~sorensen/lilypond-devel-2.19.83_2.mpkg > > There is a 64-bit Frescobaldi installer for Version 2.20: > >

Re: transpose for baritone sax

2019-09-26 Thread Tim McNamara
Read up on \transpose which should do what you want, combined with octaves. > On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:33 PM, Francesco Petrogalli > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have written a part using the orchestral pitch (real note) of an > instrument, the baritone sax (and other instruments, like trumpets, > alto,

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jun 9, 2019, at 6:32 PM, John Helly wrote: > > Aloha. > > With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten > this guitar and vocal piece to score reasonably. However, I'm now stuck > trying to get the guitar chords to appear over each measure of the > verses and

Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac

2019-01-09 Thread Tim McNamara
That's what I was wondering. Might be helpful to make from source rather than using the precompiled binary. The MacOS update to 14.2 might have broken something- different version of some library or other- but building anew might resolve it, at the risk of dependency hell. > On Jan 9, 2019,

Re: parenthesized chord symbols

2018-12-02 Thread Tim McNamara
Here is something I have used for years with good results. Someone on the list created this off the cuff. I have not tried it with 2.19.x. No doubt it could be improved, but it is short and simple. \version "2.18.0" #(define (left-parenthesis-ignatzek-chord-names in-pitches bass inversion

Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

2018-11-09 Thread Tim McNamara
There’ve been many discussions about how to manage funding and contributing especially for those of us who cannot contribute to the coding. The Lilypond project doesn’t have any administration or central organization to be responsible for soliciting, collecting, accounting for and distributing

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

2018-04-24 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 23, 2018, at 1:13 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 11:40:46 (-0400), Arle Lommel wrote: >> I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond >> from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while

Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

2018-04-23 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Arle Lommel wrote: > > I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond > from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while for it > to respond. Normally this is something like a 40–60

Re: Lead sheet with variables

2018-01-23 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:23 AM, JH Austin wrote: > > I tried to modify the Lead Sheet example by using a variable: > --- > \version "2.19.40" > > \music = \relative c'' { >a4 e c8 e r4 >b2 c4( d) > } > \score { > << > \chords { c2 g:sus4 f e } >

Re: PDF woes

2018-01-18 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Travis Weller wrote: > I'm using the default editor which is included in the MacOS build of > lilypond. I'm not using Frescobaldi. > > And yes, I've checked that I'm using preview mode. The links are there. I can > see them when I mouse

Re: fondu fails on newer OS X versions

2018-01-12 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 12:03 PM, padovani wrote: > > Hello, > > it seems that I'm having the mentioned fondu issue while running LilyPond > 2.19.80 on OSX 10.11.6 - El Capitan. > [http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/fondu-problems-on-El-Capitan-td189203.html] >

Re: Next round on frescobaldi dependencies

2017-12-31 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 31, 2017, at 5:30 AM, bb wrote: > > I think you cannot install different versions of frescobaldi or parallel from > different sources. You might simply remove the repository version, try again > and see what happens. > > Concerning the description on

Re: Vintage Jazz Chords post in 2011 - Howto get it to display on Fresco?

2017-12-27 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 25, 2017, at 5:41 PM, James Harkins wrote: >> > I pasted this into Frescabaldi... >> >> you have to paste it to where lilypond can find it. That is not necessarily >> the font directory of lilypond, but I think that is not a wrong place. >> lilypond does not have

Re: OT: Apple stealing "Lily"

2017-05-06 Thread Tim McNamara
> On May 6, 2017, at 3:47 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Robert Schmaus writes: > >>> Please cool down and stop overreacting. >> >> >> Well your statement, which - very possibly without any bad intention - >> turned around the historical facts, so

Re: Apple stealing "Lily"

2017-05-02 Thread Tim McNamara
Thank you for your good sense, Andrew. > On May 2, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Come on guys. Lilypond is not named Lily, the app is not developed by Apple, > Apple is not stealing anything, and it has nothing to do with music engraving. > > Lilypond

Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

2016-12-06 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >(b.2) I would actually like to know how to change the behaviour, > so that my favourite text editor opens rather than LilyPond.app. Wait, is all you want to do is to be able to assign *.ly files to open with a

Re: New LilyPond website

2016-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > If however you are discussing expanding the mindshare of lilypond in the > music publishing world, then I hardly think the cosmetic appearance of a > website is the most influential factor. That's a very shallow

Re: Guitar harmonics indicators

2016-05-20 Thread Tim McNamara
Bear in mind, though, that fairly few guitarists are used to seeing guitar written as if for piano. Johnny Smith advocated that, because it allows the guitar to be written as it sounds, but he was almost unique. 99% of the relatively few guitarists who can sight read expect to see treble

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-29 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 29, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Henry Law wrote: > > I've searched the archives and the web generally; all that I have found on > this subject leads me to believe that the facility I need is not there, which > is perplexing since it's not particularly esoteric. Can

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Reading your admonition to "don't use top-posting," I tried to >> locate the command in Outlook 2013 that sets this option as default. > > What about this? > > http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:37 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > The whole reason I began this thread was to ask if there may be some > simple way we could post the code of conduct/guidelines/policy for the > mailing list so that people could be made aware of it. Nobody has >

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-25 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 Apr 2016, at 13:39, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: >> >> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: >> &g

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Greetings All, > > In a recent post David Wright asks of a user: > > > Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code. > > He also asked me to do that. The reality is that the world,

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-17 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Apr 17, 2016, at 3:16 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Noeck writes: > >> These two are often similar but not always. >> IMHO, it would make sense to consider both and have 3 categories: >> - warning: user, please look at this >> - error: this is severe,

Re: Transpose down a perfect fifth

2016-04-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Ryan Michael wrote: > > Hello . I have a score that I would the entirety of to be transposed down a > perfect fifth. > I tried > > \Transpose c f,{ > > E4 e f g g f e d c c d e e4. D8 d2 r2 > } Out of curiosity,

Re: creating chords like F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { }

2016-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:24 AM, Eby Mani <eby...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Here it is. > >> On Sat, 12/3/16, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: >> >> If you could point to an >> existing example ou

Re: creating chords like F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { }

2016-03-12 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:25 AM, Eby Mani wrote: > > How do i create chords like - B flat(G) or F/A(D/F#) with \chordmode { } ?. It would help if you would explain what you are trying to do a bit more fully. What is the chord "B flat(G)"? Or "F/A(D/F#)"? If I saw that on a

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2016-01-17 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jan 17, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Carl-Henrik Buschmann > wrote: > > A properly formatet complex chord stacks alterations in parenthesis. Hemmm, that is a matter of individual preferences. As a jazz musician I find parentheses in chords add to the visual clutter and add no

Re: ChordNames: Brandt & Roemer exceptions

2015-11-29 Thread Tim McNamara
Oh, don't give me credit for that! It was sent to me by another list member a few years back as the pop-chords.ly file. > On Nov 29, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> > wrote: > > p.s. Thanks to Tim McNamara for the root-namer Scheme

Re: Chord names

2015-11-26 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: > > Hi all, > >>> LilyPond's chord-naming names actually played chord notes, >>> not anticipated chords. > > I, for one, am grateful there are overrides, so I can easily label chords > with a chord name

Re: Repeat with alternatives

2015-10-01 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:22 AM, s.p.korzil...@gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Sir / Madam, > > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that > “\repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in > “\alternative”. However, this seems to work only for

Re: Chords and what they mean

2015-09-20 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Sep 20, 2015, at 2:58 AM, BB wrote: > > On 20.09.2015 03:30, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: >> ... >> >> > I suppose that this is because some people (and Lilypond) think that >> > C:sus2 is equally as valid or usual interpretation of "sus", and >> >> May

Re: LilyJAZZ

2015-08-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 23, 2015, at 6:56 AM, BB bb-543...@telecolumbus.net wrote: snip Does anybody sucessful use LilyJAZZ? Yes, I have been using it for over a year with excellent results, although there are some quirks. For example, it kills bar numbering. It also interferes with \improvisationOn and

Re: LilyJAZZ

2015-08-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Aug 23, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: On Aug 23, 2015, at 6:56 AM, BB bb-543...@telecolumbus.net wrote: snip Does anybody sucessful use LilyJAZZ? Yes, I have been using it for over a year with excellent results, although there are some quirks

Re: [Frescobaldi] ANN: Frescobaldi 2.18.1

2015-05-28 Thread Tim McNamara
Thank you, Davide! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Help please with alternate jazz chord naming system

2015-03-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:35 PM, Peter Teeson peter.tee...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Tim: On 2015-03-09, at 2:53 PM, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net mailto:tim...@bitstream.net wrote: There is also the pop-chords.ly http://pop-chords.ly/ file that can be used for chord names and I am working

Re: Help please with alternate jazz chord naming system

2015-03-09 Thread Tim McNamara
There is also the pop-chords.ly file that can be used for chord names and I am working on modifying the same file to follow the Roemer chord name conventions which I will make available when done. It appears that the OP would like Real Book style chord names; the pop-chords.ly file is easily

Re: Naming convention brainstorming

2015-01-31 Thread Tim McNamara
Iteration mode? On Jan 31, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi all, for quite some time now I've been using a concept that is very useful, but finally I'd like to give it an authoritative name to be used in different places. I'm talking about the working,

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:32 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:18:52 -0600 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote: I have repeatedly run into difficulties getting Lilypond to properly render sus7 chord names in \chordmode. It comes up with silly things

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-26 Thread Tim McNamara
This has perhaps become off-topic and I don’t wish to prolong that; however, I have to take issue with the idea that “sus” could somehow apply to the 7th. It can’t. Suspensions specifically apply to replacing the 3rd with either the 4th or the 2nd (the latter being rare except in folk music

sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-25 Thread Tim McNamara
I have repeatedly run into difficulties getting Lilypond to properly render sus7 chord names in \chordmode. It comes up with silly things like G7sus4 3” and the like. What is the correct syntax to get a simple “Gsus7” to print? I’ve tried every combination I can think of. (By the way, I

Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

2015-01-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-26 2:18 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: I have repeatedly run into difficulties getting Lilypond to properly render sus7 chord names in \chordmode. It comes up with silly things like G7sus4 3

Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

2014-11-18 Thread Tim McNamara
Why not install the Frescobaldi.app bundle instead, which is installed like any Mac app? On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:18 AM, signorpantofola signorpantof...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Philippe, thanks for your post. Hopefully I can finally install frescobaldi on my computer (10.10.1). Unfortunately,

Re: Install Lilyjazz on Mac.

2014-09-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Éric waf...@gmail.com wrote: Dears, In order to install and use LiliJazz on my Mac, I try to locate these files, but I cannot find them. INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond /current/scm

Re: Lilypond notation for Bm7b5

2014-07-25 Thread Tim McNamara
b1:min7.5- On Jul 25, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Guptila de Silva gupt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How do I write Bm7b5 in Lilypond notation? I can get the fretboard diagram show up but cannot work out how to get the chord name in this format. Many thanks. Guptila --

Re: Mac testers needed for Frescobaldi! (again)

2014-06-18 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FrescobaldiLilyPondMac users, some months ago I published a DMG disk image containing an experimental Frescobaldi.app bundle. Some packaging problems were reported ([1]): - lack of MIDI support (PortMIDI was

\bar partially broken for just me or everyone?

2014-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
Since updating to 2.18.2 and using JazzLILY I notice that when I compile scores with \bar “|:” or \bar “:|” the repeat signs are not printed. The opening repeat is omitted and the closing repeat is omitted and the end barline is also missing (if the repeat happens at the end of a line,

Re: \bar partially broken for just me or everyone?

2014-06-01 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 1, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature (see documentation; Changes for 2.18 and Notation Reference). \bar .|: and \bar :|. should do what you want. Huh! Thanks, it took me a couple minutes to see the logic to that change.

Re: [Frescobaldi] Mac testers needed for Frescobaldi!

2014-05-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 19, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser mar...@marnen.org wrote: Hear, hear! Is the standalone Mac app ready for real use yet? I thought it wasn’t. So far so good for me, I use it for all my Lilypond editing these days. The only problem I have run into is that running convert-ly

Re: convert-ly question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 16, 2014, at 1:54 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having to cd into the directory and invoking convert-ly -e *.ly There doesn’t seem to be a recursive option

Re: convert-ly question

2014-05-17 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 17, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Malte Meyn lilyp...@maltemeyn.de wrote: On 17.05.2014 18:20, Tim McNamara wrote: On May 16, 2014, at 1:54 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having

convert-ly question

2014-05-16 Thread Tim McNamara
Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having to cd into the directory and invoking convert-ly -e *.ly There doesn’t seem to be a recursive option. Since I’ve got .ly files in 158 different directories it’d be really nice to be able to batch update them with

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 13, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser mar...@marnen.org wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: @Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 14, 2014, at 12:56 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: On May 13, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser mar...@marnen.org wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: @Marnen: can you confirm

Re: Frescobaldi/Mac question

2014-05-13 Thread Tim McNamara
An interesting thing is that I already am using David’s .app bundle- from which my error message was generated- but it is trying to use the Python installed via MacPorts instead of the Python that’s part of the default Mac OS installation. On May 13, 2014, at 8:52 AM, MarcM m...@mouries.net

Re: Frescobaldi/Mac question

2014-05-13 Thread Tim McNamara
Also interesting is that I can run convert-ly from Terminal using the command line and successfully update .ly files to 2.18.0. The issue lies within Frescobaldi rather than Lilypond, as far as I can tell. On May 13, 2014, at 8:52 AM, MarcM m...@mouries.net wrote: you may want to try this

Frescobaldi/Mac question

2014-05-12 Thread Tim McNamara
Running convert-ly results in: Traceback (most recent call last): File /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py2app/apptemplate/lib/site.py, line 22, in module import os zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

Re: Canonical[ish] place to get pop-chords.ly or jazz-chords.ly? Also, chords advice?

2014-05-10 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif r...@mit.edu wrote: Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9. Hooray! Still wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif r...@mit.edu wrote: I see many references to this on the mailing list,

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-10 Thread Tim McNamara
the elisp files are in the precompiled tarball and just to point at them? That make install is a red herring. On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:44:31 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote [...snip...] (setq path /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr

Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

2014-05-09 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 9, 2014, at 12:43 PM, rif r...@mit.edu wrote: The documentation seems spotty and inadequate compared to when I tried this a few years ago. I feel hopelessly lost. I found http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support. This tells me I need to do a

Diatonic transposition within a key

2014-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
I’ve been hunting around (without success) for a method to transpose a melody up or down an interval diatonically. It’s easy to transpose into a new key to deal with transposing instruments, but I want to shift a melody up a third within the original key to create a harmony line. Does

Re: Diatonic transposition within a key

2014-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 28, 2014, at 6:38 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: I’ve been hunting around (without success) for a method to transpose a melody up or down an interval diatonically. It’s easy to transpose into a new key to deal with transposing

Re: Diatonic transposition within a key

2014-04-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 28, 2014, at 7:26 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: Can I put \modalTranspose inside the existing \transpose? Or should it go outside? Or will the two hopelessly disagree? My head hurts trying to figure this sort of thing out

Re: Mac testers needed for Frescobaldi!

2014-04-23 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Thomas Scharkowski t.scharkow...@t-online.de wrote: Original-Nachricht The application bundle works fine for me on 10.9.2 running it from the disk image. I notice the same behavior with this bundle and my regular installation: After

Re: more leadsheet questions

2014-03-20 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 20, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Martin Tarenskeen m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl wrote: Hi, Trying to (re-)typeset some Real Book leadsheets is a good learning experience for me :-) I have another question now: How can I make something like: \chords { c1:m | c:m | c:m | cm } look

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 15, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-15 5:52 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: That produces a new full-screen window with the music in it, floating over the window with the .ly file in it. If you drag the Music View window over

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
Updating proceeded normally and double-clicking a .ly file in the Finder launches Frescobaldi and loads the file, so that bug seems squashed. Unfortunately now I no longer have the side-by-side view of the .ly file and the .pdf file. I can’t for the life of me figure out how that happened or

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-02-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 14, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Tim, 2014-02-14 23:35 GMT+01:00 Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net: Unfortunately now I no longer have the side-by-side view of the .ly file and the .pdf file. I can’t for the life of me figure out how

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

2014-01-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:54 AM, Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net wrote: Davide Liessi-2 wrote Frescobaldi/MacPorts users: can you please report how does Frescobaldi behave on your system? Here is what should happen (and happens on my 10.6 machine and on a 10.8 machine I can access

Re: What should be the default B7 chord?

2014-01-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 11, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: There has been a difference of opinion on why the default B7 guitar chord shape should be. I'm making a poll to determine what the users would prefer. Would you like the first chord in the attachment (barred on fret 2)

Re: Start creating with Finale 2014 today

2014-01-07 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francois Planiol alicuota...@gmail.com wrote: Own the future engraving music... who will believe this crap? :-o Lots of people. It’s not a conscious belief, more of an unconscious one. That’s the goal of marketing. It’s too bad that Finale output tends to look

Re: Frescobaldi 2.0.13

2014-01-01 Thread Tim McNamara
The MacPorts installation includes Cairo +quartz +x11, the +quartz of which is incompatible with Pango. Apparently the +quartz backend for Cairo is broken. Pango is a dependency for xpn, which I would like to install, but Pango refuses to install with Cairo +quartz. Is the +quartz necessary

Re: Alternative notation for guitar 7th chords

2013-12-21 Thread Tim McNamara
The easiest thing is using the pop-chords.ly alternatives to the default chordname style, using \include. I think it is available in the snippet repository. Or you can write your own chordname exceptions, the procedure for which should be in the Notation reference. On Dec 21, 2013, at

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Phil Burfitt phil.burf...@talktalk.net wrote: From: Janek Warchol janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:55 PM Hi, a couple of thoughts: 2013/12/4 Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com: I find this path tortuous. People double-click

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: 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: 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: [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: 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] 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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