Bug in

2013-05-13 Thread Peter Toye
> I'm not top posting. Lilypond crashes out when I use the "%e" format in a header (I'm allergic to leading zeroes). This is under Windows 7 Home Premium. Postings on the Lilypond mailing list indicate that this is specific to Windows - and it works OK on Linux. I'm not in a position to test thi

Enhancement request: stretched text in text spanners

2013-05-15 Thread Peter Toye
I want to put text like rallen---tan---do into some music. I've noticed that the mailing list also had someone who wanted to put cres---cendo similarly. The current text spanner cannot do this, and various people have suggested workarounds. The main problem is that with a simple text spann

Documentation error in PDF files

2018-02-17 Thread Peter Toye
The indexes in the PDF versions of the learning and notation manuals (and maybe others) do not have the alphabetical "jump to" headers, which makes scrolling a pain. They're in the HTML versions, so I can only assume this is a bug in the translation from the info format. Best regards, Peter

Documentation suggestion

2018-02-18 Thread Peter Toye
> I'm not top posting (is this needed for small patches??? the Contributors > manual is ambiguous). In Notation Manual, section 1.1.2 Changing multiple pitches in the subsection "Octave checks" at the end, above "see also" add a new paragraph: Another way of ensuring that a note is at the corre

Documentation suggestion: indexing from PDF sidebar

2018-02-20 Thread Peter Toye
> I'm not top posting (is this needed for small patches??? the Contributors > manual is ambiguous). Following the discussion starting at http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Two-suggestions-for-documentation-td209937.html can I suggest that the PDF version of the documentation includes alphab

Re: Documentation error in PDF files

2018-02-25 Thread Peter Toye
James, Thank you. As I've said elsewhere, I'd do it myself if I know how to! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, February 25, 2018, 11:32:58 AM, James Lowe wrote: > Hello Peter, > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:26:05 +

Possible bug(s) with vertical alignment on Dynamics staff

2018-08-31 Thread Peter Toye
I'm trying to align dynamics with markup text in a Dynamics staff and have found several issues: 1. Just inserting the text by attaching it to a silent note using "^" or "_" works as expected. See examples 1 & 2 2. Trying "-" is the same as "_". This isn't documented, and probably shouldn't be

Possible bug(s) with vertical alignment on Dynamics staff

2018-08-31 Thread Peter Toye
Please ignore previous mail - forgot to add the scores! I'm trying to align dynamics with markup text in a Dynamics staff and have found several issues: 1. Just inserting the text by attaching it to a silent note using "^" or "_" works as expected. See examples 1 & 2 2. Trying "-" is the same

Re: Possible bug(s) with vertical alignment on Dynamics staff

2018-08-31 Thread Peter Toye
ive/html/lilypond-user/2018-08/msg00412.html) > Am 31.08.18 um 13:36 schrieb Peter Toye: >> 1. Just inserting the text by attaching it to a silent note using "^" or "_" >> works as expected. See examples 1 & 2 > I suppose that’s not one of your “possi

Re: Feature request: paper variable for odd-only or even-only pagination

2018-09-11 Thread Peter Toye
Simon, I would certainly vote for it! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 11:03:04 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hello everybody, > this is a suggestion by Urs from a user list > thread on 2018-08-30: for > putting

Re: Feature request: paper variable for odd-only or even-only pagination

2018-09-12 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Urs and others, - Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 7:05:56 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Aaron, > I fully agree with Simon's description but want > to add one more question > to it: > Am 12.09.2018 um 02:06 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> On 11.09.2018 16:32, Aaron Hill wro

Re: Feature request: paper variable for odd-only or even-only pagination

2018-09-12 Thread Peter Toye
Hi Aaron, - Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 10:54:38 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: > P.S. My Italian is rather lacking, so I only > just realized I have been > saying "primo/secondo" as opposed to > "prima/seconda". Is this a case of > grammatical gender, or have I been usin

Hairpin end misplaced

2019-10-31 Thread Peter Toye
In the following example I want the hairpin to show that the first two notes have a diminuendo, but the third note should be at the same dynamic as the second (see the 1st line). In the first line when space is short the hairpin continues to the next note. It works OK in the 1st line where ther

Sourcefoge search doesn't seem to work

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Toye
I want to check if a known problem with layout-set-staff-size is already on the issue list. SO I put layout-set-staff-size in the search box and am told: Showing 25 results of 1996 which is too many to search through. Also, I rather doubt that there are 1996 issues involving layout-set-staff-s

Re: Sourcefoge search doesn't seem to work

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Toye
Aaron, Trevor Thanks. Now why can't search engines agree on a common syntax? Or at least a help file telling you what their syntax is? Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Saturday, November 9, 2019, 4:33:53 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: > You probably

Midi block gives errors with bar number checks

2019-11-26 Thread Peter Toye
The following MWE gives bar number check errors. If you comment out the midi block they go away. Bizarre, but a definite bug IMHO. Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com \version "2.19.52" \language "english" \score { \new Staff { \repeat volta 2 { c''1 1 }

Re: Midi block gives errors with bar number checks

2019-11-26 Thread Peter Toye
s, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 5:21:07 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 11/26/19, 9:24 AM, "Peter Toye" > wrote: > The following MWE gives bar number check > errors. If you comment out the midi block the

Re: Midi block gives errors with bar number checks

2019-11-26 Thread Peter Toye
Carl, I've just found the MIDI "beat clock" - 24 per crotchet. Still no bar numbers though! Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 5:21:07 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 11/26/19, 9:24 AM, &qu

Re: Midi block gives errors with bar number checks

2019-11-27 Thread Peter Toye
documentation as you suggest. I'll try to work something up - I already have one documentation issue that I promised to help with. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 7:12:47 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: From: Pe

top-markup-spacing does not work with markuplist

2019-12-02 Thread Peter Toye
It seems that there is no way of ensuring that there is space between the page header and text which is part of a \markuplist. The following (almost) MWE shows this. Thanks to Harm (Thomas Morley) for the example. Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com \version "2.19.52" \l

Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Toye
As an occasional and fairly new Lilypond user I've found that the documentation is occasionally obscure or misleading. I've made a few suggestions below. I've used the 2.19.83 documentation as the baseline. Have a great 2020. Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com 1. There is

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Toye
19 um 17:11 Uhr schrieb > Peter Toye : >> As an occasional and fairly new Lilypond user I've found that the >> documentation is occasionally obscure or misleading. I've made a few >> suggestions below. >> I've used the 2.19.83 documentation as the baseli

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Toye
Monday, December 30, 2019, 6:39:39 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes: >> As an occasional and fairly new Lilypond user I've found that the >> documentation is occasionally obscure or misleading. I've made a few >> suggestions below. >> I

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Toye
Monday, December 30, 2019, 8:33:30 PM, Trevor wrote: Peter Toye wrote 30/12/2019 16:11:43 Subject: Documentation suggestions. 2. Neither LM nor NR mention that the default language for entering pitches is English. This might be confusing to non-English newbie engravers. I suggest adding to

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Toye
Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 1:28:35 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 12/30/19, 11:58 AM, "Peter Toye" > wrote: > Monday, December 30, 2019, 6:39:39 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Peter Toye writes: > > >> 2. Neither LM nor NR mentio

Re: accidentals after mid-measure break

2020-01-03 Thread Peter Toye
As a performer, I think it's definitely very confusing. The slightly amended version below would leave me wondering what note I was meant to be playing for the second crotchet (quarter-note). \version "2.21.0" \relative { \partial 2 c'2 d e fis \bar "" \break fis g1 fis2~ \bar "" \break

Re: Documentation suggestions.

2020-02-04 Thread Peter Toye
I'm posting this here, as no-one on the devel list has answered, although most of the discussion went on in that list. Peter === I've now consolidated the various replies to my original suggestions - sorry it's been so long. Unfortunately I spent far too muc

Missing dot

2021-02-15 Thread Peter Toye
The following minimal criminal loses the dots at the end of the G in the final chord. It seems the \hideNotes also hides the dot in the 2nd voice. I'd like to get it back please. \version "2.22.0" \language "english" { \clef "treble" << { g'2( a'2 \hideNotes g'2.) } \\

Re: Missing dot

2021-04-01 Thread Peter Toye
Dear Jean, It seems to have been there for 10 years! Thanks for the workaround. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Thursday, April 1, 2021, 10:50:06 AM, you wrote: > Le 15/02/2021 à 12:50, Peter Toye a écrit : >> The followin

Re: Missing dot

2021-04-02 Thread Peter Toye
{ f'1~ 2. } >> } Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Thursday, April 1, 2021, 10:50:06 AM, you wrote: > Le 15/02/2021 à 12:50, Peter Toye a écrit : >> The following minimal criminal loses the dots at the end of the

A documentation suggestion for glissandoMap

2021-09-18 Thread Peter Toye
I've found by experiment that there's something missing from NR 1.3.3 Glissando in the paragraph about glissandoMap.  This seems to imply that you need an entry for each note in a chord. But it's possible to leave out a gliss line entirely simply by omitting the relevant entry which is useful if

Re: A documentation suggestion for glissandoMap

2021-09-24 Thread Peter Toye
Merci Jean, Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Thursday, September 23, 2021, 11:18:58 PM, you wrote: > Le 18/09/2021 à 17:44, Peter Toye a écrit : >> I've found by experiment that there's something missing from NR 1.3.3

A suggestion for Dynamic staves

2021-09-30 Thread Peter Toye
It does not seem to be possible to change the size of a Dynamic staff. Admittedly, at first sight there's no need to, but it means that the font size of text and the Y-size of graphics like hairpins does not change. This is a bit of a nuisance - any chance of getting \magnifyStaff to apply to Dy

Re: A suggestion for Dynamic staves

2021-09-30 Thread Peter Toye
7     { %      \override DynamicText.font-size = #-3       s4\f 4 4\> 4       4 4 4 4\!     }   >> }   Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Thursday, September 30, 2021, 4:09:12 PM, you wrote: > Le 30/09/2021 à 11:17, Peter Toye a écr

Re: A suggestion for Dynamic staves

2021-10-01 Thread Peter Toye
e.com - Friday, October 1, 2021, 5:46:03 PM, you wrote: > On 9/30/21, 10:32 AM, "Peter Toye" wrote: >     Oddly, Frescobaldi doesn't recognise \magnifyMusiceither wher I've put it > or within the brackets. > You haven't matched the required structur

Re: A suggestion for Dynamic staves

2021-10-14 Thread Peter Toye
r. See the attached. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Friday, October 1, 2021, 5:46:03 PM, you wrote: > On 9/30/21, 10:32 AM, "Peter Toye" wrote: >     Oddly, Frescobaldi doesn't recognise \magnifyMusiceither wher I'