Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Wright writes: >> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play >> anything. David> It "hung" here for the exact length of the MIDI file (about 4 seconds David> for the output from your attached .ly file, 46 seconds for tenor.midi

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stan" == Stanton Sanderson writes: Stan> For what it's worth, I am a Mac user- for many years I have been using Stan> qsynth as a front end for fluidsynth, with sound fonts from various Stan> sources. I’d hate to be without it! So if I tell my mac user to install fluidsynth, w

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Chubb writes: >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> Here's a test file that reproduces the Laura> problem: Laura> I have used both timidity and aplaymidi on Linux. 'timidity La

I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Here's a test file that reproduces the problem: \version "2.22.0" \score { \relative c' { \time 3/2 d1 d2 d1 d2 d2 \bar "|." } \midi{\context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 2) } } } This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS us

Re: [Discuss] rsync issue

2022-12-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "John" ==writes: John> Hi, folks. My home linux server has been acting up, and John> after 14 years, it may not be long for this world. So I John> thought I'd ask y'all what you might suggest as a John> replacement. John> I got the current one from

Re: [Discuss] Laptop as a remote access device?

2022-09-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Dale" == Dale R Worley writes: Dale> I'm looking into buying a laptop that's solely a remote access device, Dale> that is, a portable way to use ssh/X windows server to connect to a Dale> workstation that's at home. Does anyone have advice? It seems to me Dale> the requir

Re: [Discuss] html issue

2022-06-05 Thread Laura Conrad
> "John" == John Abreau writes: John> Just noticed this uread thread in my inbox. John> The issue is firefox, and I imagine, other web browsers, won't follow John> file:// urls from a web page; such urls work when entered directly at the John> address bar, but be ignored when

[Discuss] Annoying network problem

2022-03-24 Thread Laura Conrad
I have an intermittent but quite frequent problem with my network. Symptoms include: Backups via deja-dup to google drive which are supposed to take place nightly, a couple of times a week don't finish. When I come back to my computer after an absense of hours, the

Re: [Discuss] Abolish DST

2021-11-23 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stuart" == Stuart Conner writes: Stuart> Having said that, UTC does make sense for computers and internet Stuart> coordination, but I’m personally not ready for one world time (and Stuart> government to follow). I can imagine world government leading to world time, but I don't

Re: [Discuss] Abolish DST (was This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered)

2021-11-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Kent" == Kent Borg writes: Kent> On 11/22/21 8:12 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Sundial clocks are the answer. Kent> I like them. But still have to pick what to calibrate to. Kent> I have mused with the idea of Somerville Solar Time, referenced to the Kent> Prospect Hil

Re: [Discuss] kindle files

2021-05-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Rich" == Rich Pieri writes: Rich> Calibre can do most of this but not with DRM-encumbered files without Rich> some extra plugins which I'm not going to explain because DMCA Rich> considerations. Calibre is perfectly happy to transfer and store DRM encumbered files. It just can

Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

2021-01-05 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Kieren" == Kieren MacMillan writes: >> What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width: >> \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t >> \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0) Kieren> Why not Kieren> \omit BarLine Kieren> ??

Re: Repeats with bar-engraver removed

2021-01-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "J" == J Stasko writes: J> I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the bar-engraver, J> which I turned off for chant music, is responsible for engraving the J> repeats: when I turn it back on, then the repeats appear, but since the J> music is chant, it runs of

Re: Syntax for ligature brackets

2020-07-23 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Bannister writes: Robin> Laura Conrad wrote: >> I'm not saying this is wrong, and I'm certainly not saying it >> should be changed. But it would help me remember when I haven't >> transcribed a

Syntax for ligature brackets

2020-07-23 Thread Laura Conrad
All the other features that join two or more notes start after the first note, e.g. a slur is: a( b) and a beam is: a[b] But a ligature bracket is: \[a b\] I'm not saying this is wrong, and I'm certainly not saying it should be changed. But it would help me remember when I have

Re: [Discuss] desktop problem

2020-05-08 Thread Laura Conrad
> "dan" == dan moylan writes: dan> basically the mouse behaves as if i were punching the left dan> hand button randomly. whatever -- it's bizarre. dnf dan> upgrade didn't change anything. dan> any suggestions? I would guess the mouse might be transmitting the code for punc

[Discuss] Cambridge Municipal Broadband

2020-02-23 Thread Laura Conrad
On Monday (February 24), the Cambridge City Council will consider a resolution directing the City Manager to to produce a Request For Proposal for the municipal broadband feasibility study that was called for by the City's Broadband Task Force in August 2016. The text of the resolution is at

Re: [Discuss] audio -- timidity

2020-01-17 Thread Laura Conrad
> "dan" == dan moylan writes: dan> i'm running fedora 31 on a lenevo thinkpad. dan> a release or two ago, i had trouble getting any sound out of dan> timidity playing my midi files. one day, after doing a dnf dan> update, it suddenly started to work as expected. dan> no

Re: [Discuss] mouse behavior

2019-02-25 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Rosenstrauch writes: David> The second issue is probably due to *clicking* the map wheel David> when you're over a link, rather than rolling the wheel when David> you're over it. Well, I don't believe I'm clicking any more than I did a year ago, and I'm gettin

[Discuss] mouse behavior

2019-02-24 Thread Laura Conrad
Last fall I upgraded both my laptop and my desktop to ubuntu 18.4 (actually Mint) from ubuntu 16.4. In both cases I'm using xfce as my desktop environment. Ever since, I have no idea what using my mouse is going to actually do. The specific problems are: When I move a window by dragging wi

Re: [Spam] Re: Status and future of abc2ly

2018-12-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Andrew" == Andrew Bernard writes: Andrew> I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I Andrew> can't imagine there is any user base using it in earnest, or Andrew> even at all, else there would be lots of complaints. Or Andrew> perhaps I was doing something wron

Re: [Discuss] Backing up evernote

2018-11-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jerry" == Jerry Feldman writes: Jerry> I have two desires Jerry> 1. Backup on my system (or Dropbox or drive) to preserve the notes. Jerry> 2. Viable replacement for evernote that supports Android and Linux. Does google Keep not do everything you need? You would need to expor

Re: [Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

2018-06-20 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kramer writes: David> - I got a Linode server, and tried to set up a mail server for it and David> failed. I reached out for help here and it didn't work out. The David> directions for setting up postfix/dovecot/procmail/spamassassin/certs David> was incredi

[Discuss] disappearing memory

2017-01-03 Thread Laura Conrad
My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content. But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had more than that. I looked at the sales slip, and it has 8G. I ran memtest, and it

Re: Photoscore

2016-11-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jacques" == Jacques Menu Muzhic writes: Jacques> Oups, totally forgot I had tested it two years ago, my Jacques> fault. So use a different email to get another free trial. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097

Re: [Discuss] Need help/consulting with apache/SSL/owncloud/mail

2016-08-07 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kramer writes: David> I've been trying to migrate mail and other things to a Linode server David> (Ubuntu 14.04, ssh access). It... hasn't been going well. I gave up on mail on my linode (except for mailman) and just put all the mail on . -- L

[Discuss] Report on moving web hosting

2016-05-18 Thread Laura Conrad
I just wrote a blog entry about my move from two wordpress sites at DreamHost to a drupal site on Linode and a wordpress site on wordpress.com. I'd be interested in comments, suggestions... -- Laura (ma

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett writes: Daniel> On April 10, 2016, Laura Conrad wrote: >> Couldn't you just give him an account on some linode you're already >> maintaining? Or whatever other web host you're using already.

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett writes: Daniel> Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand in Daniel> HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered for his Daniel> site. However, he has no server to host the site. I'm thinking of Daniel> gi

Re: [Discuss] How to write .htaccess rules

2016-04-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "John" == John Hall writes: John> You also might want to search for http 301 error, which may be John> appropriate as well and may not use mod rewrite. Thanks. This is what I ended up doing -- there's a php file that catches some url's that need special translation and then just s

[Discuss] How to write .htaccess rules

2016-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
Can someone point me to a good explanation of this? I've found some that look understandable, but my rule still doesn't work. My problem is that I rewrote a wordpress site into drupal, and I would like old links to some pages on the old wordpress site to translate to the equivalent page on the n

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-19 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Albrecht writes: Simon> On 19.10.2015 18:01, Laura Conrad wrote: >> The problem is >> when entering long note values, which are common in early 16th century >> music, I have to leave the keypad to type \brev

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> What it does do is trying to track the current "tonality". David> That's an interesting idea but requires an editing mode that David> will _propagate_ corrections in order to work nicely. Of David> course, the same will be needed in o

Re: Emacs lilypond-mode

2015-10-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Huh. I just committed midi-kbd.el to ELPA, the official David> Emacs package archive. That sounded like it would be something I wanted to try, so I listed the packages available and went to install it. But it said it depended on emacs25. S

Re: LilyPond-mode in Emacs

2015-10-16 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> That means that without additional care, XEmacs+LilyPond will fall David> victim to bitrot. David> However, that's preferable to LilyPond-mode falling victim to David> bitrot on all platforms. David> Is that ok with people? Fine

[Discuss] Meeting: Creating Better Broadband in Cambridge

2015-10-01 Thread Laura Conrad
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Location: City Hall 795 Massachusetts Ave Sullivan Chamber Cambridge -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) <

[Discuss] no longer stumped

2015-07-03 Thread Laura Conrad
That is, I'm still not sure exactly what fixed the problem (Lenovo bios couldn't find OS after rebuild of /boot partition), but it was some combination of: rebuilding the /boot partition several ways booting off the hard drive from the systemrescuecd running grub-install on both /d

Re: [Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

2015-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Bogstad writes: Bill> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad Bill> wrote: Bill> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu Bill> installed Bill> on it. There is a 500M

Re: [Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

2015-06-26 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Dan" == Dan Ritter writes: Dan> Can you boot from a rescue USB or disc? Sounds like you need to Dan> re-install a boot-loader (LILO or GRUB, most likely) Yes, I can do either of those. boot-repair is supposed to reinstall grub, and thinks it has, but not so I can boot. I should

[Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

2015-06-26 Thread Laura Conrad
My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot directory that looks normal to me. I rebooted it a couple of days ago because of a new ker

Re: point-and-click from PDF viewer to lilypond editor

2015-06-08 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Federico" == Federico Bruni writes: Federico> Does anybody here use point-and-click from an external PDF viewer Federico> (either Evince or Xpdf) to the lilypond editor? I've been using point-and-click between Xpdf and emacs for years. I've thought of switching to evince, especia

Re: converting an old finale file

2015-05-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stefan" == Stefan Thomas writes: Stefan> I have 2 very old finale-filee of two of my pieces and I'm Stefan> searching for someone, who could convert it to musicxml. Is Stefan> there someone around, who could do it for me? Finale does give you a free trial. I think all you ne

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1328798] Re: Setting default printer does not work

2015-01-20 Thread Laura Conrad
Affects me on 14.04LTS. In my case, I can set lpoptions on a per-user basis, but if there's no ~/.cups/lpoptions, although the one printer I have specified is checked as default, and the ooption to set it as default printer is greyed out, if I say "lpstat", it tells me "lpq: Error - no default des

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1328798] Re: Setting default printer does not work

2015-01-20 Thread Laura Conrad
Affects me on 14.04LTS. In my case, I can set lpoptions on a per-user basis, but if there's no ~/.cups/lpoptions, although the one printer I have specified is checked as default, and the ooption to set it as default printer is greyed out, if I say "lpstat", it tells me "lpq: Error - no default des

[Bug 1328798] Re: Setting default printer does not work

2015-01-20 Thread Laura Conrad
Affects me on 14.04LTS. In my case, I can set lpoptions on a per-user basis, but if there's no ~/.cups/lpoptions, although the one printer I have specified is checked as default, and the ooption to set it as default printer is greyed out, if I say "lpstat", it tells me "lpq: Error - no default des

Re: [Discuss] vz outgoing mail

2014-10-02 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett writes: Daniel> My Verizon problem, which is still ongoing, appears to be a Daniel> bit different. After some investigation, I've found that Daniel> Verizon's SMTP server, smtp.verizon.net, is rejecting my Daniel> authentication credentials, even

Re: [Discuss] Verizon getting out of being regulated by coercing customers to switch from copper to FIOS

2014-07-25 Thread Laura Conrad
> "MBR" == MBR writes: MBR> Apparently I'm not Verizon's only victim. Verizon's coercing MBR> customers all over the country to give up their regulated MBR> copper line service and replace it with unregulated FIOS. And their policy of not repairing copper extends to places lik

Re: [Discuss] color laser printer

2014-06-10 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Dan" == Daniel Barrett writes: Dan> I've owned two Brother mono lasers in my life and hated both. One Dan> curled the paper terribly and made loud gronking noises that sounded Dan> like the internals were being eaten by robots. Brother replaced it Dan> under warranty and a

[Discuss] Ubuntu won't talk to my router over the wire

2014-05-25 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm having an odd networking problem. My desktop computer has been wired to the D-Link router for several years now, and all of a sudden the other day I rebooted, and it wouldn't get an IP address. When I told it what IP address to get, it didn't get the DNS. At this point I was running LUBUN

Re: [Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

2014-05-07 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> I'm having trouble. You'll be happy to know that once I got the right hardware, installing lubuntu on the new UEFI hardware was no harder than installing it on any other system. But why they use the dis

Re: [Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

2014-05-02 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Metro writes: Tom> Laura Conrad wrote: >> Does anyone run linux...as a guest in a Windows 8.1 VPN? Tom> I'm confused. Either "VPN" was a typo, or I'm unfamiliar with what it Tom> means in the

[Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

2014-05-01 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm having trouble. I think my current roadblock means I need to buy some (cheap) hardware (1), but I'm wondering if instead of the dual boot I've always used before, a VPN solution wouldn't make more sense in this day and age. Does anyone run linux (preferably an Ubuntu variant, but I'm not big

Re: How to connect Midi keyboard to Lilypond?

2013-09-26 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> It's been some time since I last tried, but the basic answer David> I arrived at for myself was "don't bother". The tools are David> not good enough right now to save time. For me, MIDI input does save time. I cheat and use the numeric

Re: [Discuss] Printer recommendations sought

2013-09-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Bill" == Bill Horne writes: Bill> I'm seeking performance data and recommendations for mid-range Bill> laser printers. I don't know whether this needs to be said in this era, but get a networked one. It's a lot easier to let another computer use it than if it's a 'shared' printer

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

2013-08-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Betsy" == Betsy Schwartz writes: Betsy> I wonder where the other end of his piece of cable is? Presumably at the cable box on the side of the building. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

2013-08-17 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Bill" == Bill Bogstad writes: >> My neighbor just plugs the coax from the previous cable >> subscription into his TV and he says it's better than any of the >> antennas he's tried. Bill> Are you sure that's not just because the cable company Bill> (Comcast?) didn't bo

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

2013-08-16 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Bill" == Bill Bogstad writes: Bill> Any advice on cord cutting or good HDTV antennas? Don't literally cut the cord. My neighbor just plugs the coax from the previous cable subscription into his TV and he says it's better than any of the antennas he's tried. -- Laura (mailto:lcon.

Re: [Discuss] Cable Modem Woes / Looking to Compare Notes

2013-04-25 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Rick" == Rick Umali writes: Rick> However, the outages continue to happen. Now Comcast has Rick> suggested we replace the cable modem. We're hopeful this makes Rick> our Internet stay alive. Rick> Has anyone had any similar experiences? My big fear is that Rick> replac

crash of musicxml2ly

2013-04-24 Thread Laura Conrad
I attempted to run musicxml2ly on the file using the command "musicxml2ly -z --nd --nrp --npl --no-beaming *.zip" and musicxml2ly 2.16.1 crashes with the terminal output: musicxml2ly -z --nd --nrp --npl --no-beaming

Re: [Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

2013-03-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Tom" == Tom Metro writes: Tom> John Dvorak on last weekend's This Week in Tech (twit.tv) says Tom> he keeps a 1 TB portable drive (hopefully encrypted) in his car Tom> as a pseudo-off-site backup. Tom> Although way more likely to be damaged along with your house, Tom>

Re: [Discuss] Google Reader Retiring

2013-03-15 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Gordon" == Gordon Marx writes: >> On 3/13/13 20:09 , Chris O'Connell wrote: >>> Now I'm in a pickle. I use Google Reader on ALL of my >>> devices... Anyone know of any substitutions? Gordon> Digg and feedly are both allegedly working on direct clones Gordon> of Googl

Re: [Discuss] The Windows tax

2013-03-07 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Brendan" == Brendan Kidwell writes: Brendan> I wonder how many people buy a Chromebook and don't even look at the Brendan> Google Play store before erasing the whole thing and putting a free OS Brendan> on it. Linus has one, but he has been looking at Chrome OS while decidi

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-07 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Matthew" == Matthew Collett writes: Matthew> shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the Matthew> numbers though (outside the left of the staff). >> >> I don't. Is there a workaround? Matthew> As I said in a message posted very shortly after the one

Re: Repeating stanza numbers

2013-03-06 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Matthew" == Matthew Collett writes: Matthew> On 27/01/2012, at 6:27 am, Matie Holtzhausen wrote: >>> \set Staff.vocalName >>> \set Staff.shortVocalName >>> >>> similar to instrumentName >> >> Thanks, but I was hoping to use multiple verses in the same staff:

Re: [Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

2013-02-23 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kramer writes: David> One other suggestion I saw was to boot an older version of David> the kernel. I have 4 different versions of initrd.img and David> the other files. Oddly, there's only the recent kernel in the David> grub boot menu (regular and recove

documentation for 2.16 searches 2.17 site

2013-02-12 Thread Laura Conrad
When I hit the "Documentation" tab on the web site, I see a page labeled "Manuals for LilyPond 2.16.2". However, when I do a search, for instance for "italic lyrics", I get a search of the 2.17 documentation. That is, the text in the google search box says "site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.17 italic lyri

Re: [Discuss] [Slightly OT] Streaming video services?

2012-11-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Scott" == Scott Ehrlich writes: Scott> Who likes which service, and why? I use Netflix quite a lot. For a while, I was just getting the DVD's without the streaming, and I did miss the streaming. Obviously, there are problems: They're missing things (even on the DVD side) that t

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

2012-11-05 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Martin writes: Derek> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:14:32PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: >> >>>>> "Rich" == Rich Pieri writes: >> Rich> I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capabl

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

2012-11-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Rich" == Rich Pieri writes: Rich> I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you Rich> realize. So how do we tell? -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org, twitter: @serpentplayer) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ h

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stjepan" == Stjepan Horvat writes: Stjepan> did you put the put the textedit-url.sh in your $PATH.. Stjepan> sudo cp ./textedit-url.sh /usr/bin/ Stjepan> sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/textedit-url.sh $ ls -l ~/bin/textedit-url.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 lconrad lconrad 1385 Oct 9 10:40 /home/l

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stjepan" == Stjepan Horvat writes: Stjepan> you can make log file with touch ~/textedit_url.log . Stjepan> and your textedit-url.sh has to be in your $PATH.. It is. I touched the log file, and it now exists, but is empty, even after running evince and getting the red error box as

Re: evince handling textedit://

2012-10-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mark" == Mark Knoop writes: Mark> Thanks for prompting me to update this. Gnome 3 no longer uses the Mark> gconf key, it's now actually a little easier. I've put the info and Mark> necessary files here: Mark> https://github.com/markk/textedit-ly Mark> Let me know if t

Re: [Discuss] Yet Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

2012-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kramer writes: David> Any comparisons of HP vs Lenovo, or specific models that have David> worked or not worked with Linux would be great. I don't have any experience with HP laptops, but I've been buying HP desktops for my last two machines, and the sound is unrel

Re: Syntactical question [was: Re: Call for help with bar lines]

2012-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Marc" == Marc Hohl writes: >> I hope that the new interface both makes more sense than the old one, >> and still allows me to set barless music without ugly gaps where the bar >> lines aren't. Marc> Hmmm - with the new interface, nonexistent bar lines are not Marc> supp

Re: Syntactical question [was: Re: Call for help with bar lines]

2012-09-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: >> \bar "" inserts an empty stencil, so the padding around the >> (invisible) bar line is preserved. David> Yes, I understood that. But what do we need that for? For the Renaissance music I transcribe, the composers weren't thinking in bar lin

How to print a timesig.C22 character in the context of a grob

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
I have managed to modify the compound time snippet to print a neomensural time signature like "C3". Now I want one with the 2/2 C style instead of the 4/4 style. My code (don't laugh too hard, I just fiddled until it worked) looks like: settime = { #(define ((compound-time one two num) grob)

Re: xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Laura Conrad writes: >> My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either >> a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager >> prob

xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

2012-09-18 Thread Laura Conrad
My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an ubuntu package manager problem. (If anyone tells you ubuntu has 32-bit executables installing seamlessly on a 64-bit system, they haven't tested it much.) But if someone knows

Re: lilypondfile

2012-08-30 Thread Laura Conrad
> "pabuhr" == pabuhr writes: pabuhr> I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates pabuhr> a file that is unusable (go figure), and "convert" generates pabuhr> a low quality image (maybe one of the many parameters can pabuhr> fix this). "convert -density' somet

Re: [Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Daniel" == Daniel C writes: Daniel> I don't see why you couldn't use Skype (or other videoconferencing Daniel> tool of your choice) to connect with a customer service center and Daniel> show them your ID, though. Daniel> Unless they're being *really* evil and screencapping

Re: Sibelius and LilyPond parallels

2012-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> I found it interesting that its text input form does not even David> enter this story. I find that quite often this is what makes David> a major difference to people (meaning that it is an important David> factor for either choosing,

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Fragments may use the David> `papersize=STRING' David> Where STRING is a paper size defined in `scm/paper.scm' i.e. David> `a5', `quarto', `11x17' etc. David> Values not defined in `scm/paper.scm' will be ignored,

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Fragments may use the David> `papersize=STRING' David> Where STRING is a paper size defined in `scm/paper.scm' i.e. David> `a5', `quarto', `11x17' etc. David> Values not defined in `scm/paper.scm' will be ignored,

Re: Import - convert

2012-08-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jakub" == Jakub Pavlík writes: Jakub> Oh, blind me. Using etf2ly you can import from Finale Jakub> directly... You used to be able to. Have you done it with a recent lilypond version? I think the method that's encouraged for people with recent finale and recent lilypond is to

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line Laura> length of the music to be much less than the actual width of Laura> the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it Laura&g

Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line Laura> length of the music to be much less than the actual width of Laura> the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it Laura&g

lilypond-book via dvi and ps no longer seems to work

2012-08-04 Thread Laura Conrad
The manual says: To produce PDF output via LaTeX/dvips/ps2pdf, you should do lilypond-book yourfile.lytex latex yourfile.tex dvips -Ppdf yourfile.dvi ps2pdf yourfile.ps This no longer seems to work. When I do this o

landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

2012-08-03 Thread Laura Conrad
When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line length of the music to be much less than the actual width of the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it puts the footers.) If you run: lilypond-book --pdf test.lytex pdflatex test.tex you can see this. If you com

Re: [Discuss] HDTV's as a computer monitor

2012-07-21 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Doug" == Doug writes: Doug> Can it be done? Should it be done? I saw a 36" Sony WEGA Doug> HDTV 1080i available on Craigs list. My 28" Hanns-G probably Doug> roasted a capacitor somewhere and now the screen washes out Doug> for large sections. BIG is good, but computer

Re: [Discuss] 802.11N confusion

2012-07-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Tom" == Tom Metro writes: Tom> David Kramer wrote: >> So I'm shopping for a new Wireless router to replace my WRT54G... >> My needs are simple enough; Wireless N, 4 or more ports, would be >> nice if it was DD-WRT compatible. Recommendations welcome. Tom> I pity the

Re: [Discuss] XBMC ported to Android

2012-07-16 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Tom" == Tom Metro writes: Tom> As it sits right now, XBMC doesn't run on Google TV. I tried Tom> running it on both the Logitech Revue and first generation Tom> Sony Internet TV. I got a refurb Logitech Revue a couple of months ago because I was tired of how much better

Re: [Discuss] installation problem

2012-07-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "dan" == dan moylan writes: dan> i put xubuntu 12.04/xfce on my asus and was quite pleased -- dan> no problems -- think i'll stay with it until i see something dan> better. dan> however, when i installed it on my acer aspire, i must have dan> screwed up somehow. when

Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

2012-06-25 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Shirley" == Shirley Márquez Dúlcey writes: Shirley> On 6/25/2012 10:49 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: >> Since having laser printers in general, I have trouble understanding why >> anyone bothers with inkjets. Shirley> Photos. Affordab

Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet? (Resolved)

2012-06-25 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> I got the attached message from Comcast. I guess we have Mailman configured to delete attached mail. So here it is in plain text. I wrote them at 1 AM last night: Laura> Since about 1 this afternoon, I&#x

Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet? (Resolved)

2012-06-25 Thread Laura Conrad
I got the attached message from Comcast. Probably the same one I would have gotten if I'd just said, "The internet is broken." I ignored the part about clearing caches, but I did turn my router and cable modem off and then on again, and that fixed the problem. If it happens again, I'll turn the

Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

2012-06-25 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jerry" == Jerry Feldman writes: Jerry> I'm seeing some Brother Color Lasers for under $300 Jerry> (HL-3045CN and HL-3075CW). I also saw on a quick check Jerry> yesterday a Brother network color laser with a duplexer for Jerry> under $300 (HL-4150 refurbished). I have a B

Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

2012-06-24 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Metro writes: Tom> Laura Conrad wrote: >> ...http seems to have gone on vacation. Tom> Perhaps their transparent proxy has failed. Tom> Try accessing a site hat uses HTTPS. If it works, then that's Tom>

Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

2012-06-24 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Tony" == Tony Koker writes: Tony>Maybe log into comcast (http://customer.comcast.com) and Tony> check service status (maybe with your phone). I'm not longer Tony> on comcast, or I'd have given it a peak myself. I can't find service status. As Tom suggested, I used

Re: [Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

2012-06-24 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Tony" == Tony Koker writes: Tony>    Not sure about the services that are working for you, Tony> whether they use DNS or not, but this sounds like a problem Tony> I've had in the past when the DNS for the ISP isn't working. I'm not using the Comcast DNS, because when it broke

[Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

2012-06-24 Thread Laura Conrad
I can send mail and read mail and news and do rsync's and pings, so there can't be anything wrong with the physical connection. But for the last two hours, I haven't been able to use any browser to get to any new webpage. I'm pretty sure the ones that are still displaying are in my cache. In ot

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