Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-13 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 13.06.2018 03:57, Harold Hausman wrote: I have upgraded. The latest version I could find was 2.19.80 (http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/), where did you get 2.19.81 from? Due to a website problem, 2.19.81 is only available from

Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-12 Thread Karlin High
On 6/12/2018 8:57 PM, Harold Hausman wrote: I am actually a LISP programmer by trade, so this sounds like good news to me. Where can I find documentation for things like `Beam.positions`? Here are a few possible starting points.

Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-12 Thread Harold Hausman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Hi Harold, > > Welcome to the Pond. > Andrew, thank you, and thank you for this informative reply. I learned a lot. > Lilypond does a pretty good job (actually, not just pretty good, but amazing) > left to it's own devices, but music

Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Harold, Welcome to the Pond. Lilypond does a pretty good job (actually, not just pretty good, but amazing) left to it's own devices, but music scoring is so rich that there are situations where you may need to help it out a bit. The virtue of lilypond is that there are tweaks and adjustments

RE: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-09 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Harold, I get the same warning. Note the “\lh b16” in the error message and the “weird” beaming produced to the b16. That is the meaning of the warning. Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Harold Hausman Sent: Saturday,

What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

2018-06-09 Thread Harold Hausman
Hello, First, thanks for Lilypond. It's patently amazing and I am super-grateful for it. This code: - https://gist.github.com/harold/0b945bdfea789d05a92c6b2fe29b35ee Produces this output when compiling: $ lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 Processing `test.ly' Parsing...