improving lilypond's typesetting capabilities

2002-08-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Han-wen asked me which printed pieces for piano are short, freely available, and provide good typography. Here in Taiwan I have an edition of Chopin's waltzes (Edition Peters No. 1804; the editor was Herrmann Scholtz). This looks fine for me, and the pieces are relatively short. Another useful

Re: cygwin/bug-lilypond-cygwin.sh

2002-08-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming that you mean that you want comments on > cygwin/bug-lilypond-cygwin.sh. Yes, I was in a riddle mood. > First of all, you introduced some bug in the > makefile: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home.local/matsb/Private/lilypond/cygwin' > G

Re: cygwin/bug-lilypond-cygwin.sh

2002-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> > I just checked in $Subject (we're trying to move all relevant stuff > from Wiki to CVS/tarball, and junk all cruft). Any suggestions? Assuming that you mean that you want comments on cygwin/bug-lilypond-cygwin.sh. First of all, you introduced some bug in the makefile: make[1]: Entering d

cygwin/bug-lilypond-cygwin.sh

2002-08-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I just checked in $Subject (we're trying to move all relevant stuff from Wiki to CVS/tarball, and junk all cruft). Any suggestions? I intend to move most of TroubleshootingWindows to Documentation/windows/installing.texi. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The mus

Re: dynamics for piano

2002-08-15 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > \context PianoStaff < > > > \context Staff = upper \upper > > > \context Dynamics = pedal > > > \context Staff = lower \lower > > > % \context Dynamics = pedal > > > > There is no argument t

Re: collision between dynamics and bar line

2002-08-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does a collision engraver exist which handles collisions between >> dynamics like `mf' and bar lines? > > no. It would be a nice thing, though. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all

Re: dynamics for piano

2002-08-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > \context PianoStaff < > > > \context Staff = upper \upper > > > \context Dynamics = pedal > > > \context Staff = lower \lower > > > % \context Dynamics = pedal > > > > There is no argument to this \context Dyn

collision between dynamics and bar line

2002-08-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Does a collision engraver exist which handles collisions between > dynamics like `mf' and bar lines? no. > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/ __

Re: scheme expressions in \property

2002-08-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> > In an m4 macro I want to do this: > > \property Current.DynamicText > \set #'extra-offset = #'($1 . (+ 2.5 $2)) > > ($1 and $2 are m4's macro arguments), but I get the following warning > message (for $1 = -2 and $2 = 0): > > Interpreting music... > Type check for `extra-offset'

Re: dynamics for piano

2002-08-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > \context PianoStaff < > > \context Staff = upper \upper > > \context Dynamics = pedal > > \context Staff = lower \lower > > % \context Dynamics = pedal > > There is no argument to this \context Dynamics. But why does it work if Dynamics

centered dynamics

2002-08-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
After playing a bit with an extra (middle) staff for dynamics as demonstrated in piano-dynamics.ly I come to the conclusion that it is still not the right solution. Reason for this is that staves are always stacked. If, for example, the left-hand staff contains a high note with a lot of ledger

scheme expressions in \property

2002-08-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In an m4 macro I want to do this: \property Current.DynamicText \set #'extra-offset = #'($1 . (+ 2.5 $2)) ($1 and $2 are m4's macro arguments), but I get the following warning message (for $1 = -2 and $2 = 0): Interpreting music... Type check for `extra-offset' failed; value `(-2 +

collision between dynamics and bar line

2002-08-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Does a collision engraver exist which handles collisions between dynamics like `mf' and bar lines? Werner ___ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: problems with invisible bar line

2002-08-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Yes. The barline is a possible breakpoint, so it takes part in the > > > spacing computations (if there is a breakpoint, it does generate a > > > lot of space). What you're asking for, is that bar-lines (more > > > precisely: breakable columns) are skipped for spaci

problems with cvs

2002-08-15 Thread Graham Percival
OK, I'm trying to do stuff with cvs. I made a ~/devlily/ and did cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lilypond co lilypond from that dir. After that I tried the autogen thing, make web-doc, and it failed. It tried make dist-clean, ./configure again, and then make all. Here's the erro

Re: dynamics for piano

2002-08-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > \context PianoStaff < > \context Staff = upper \upper > \context Dynamics = pedal > \context Staff = lower \lower > % \context Dynamics = pedal There is no argument to this \context Dynamics. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: ITP: LilyPond 1.5.73

2002-08-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed this by adding http://lilypond.org/cygwin as a mirror > and it all seemed to go fine. The examples (-1,-2,-3) compiled correctly and > looked great in acroread. I also tried a couple of the mutopia files, which > seemed fine to my