Request for Comment - Chordname strategy

2002-10-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After having mostly completed a rewrite of the ChordName to pitch code, it > became apparent to me that the opposite problem (converting a chord > representation to pitches) is much easier. Perhaps a regrouping might be in > order. > > [..] > > Implementation of chord re

Chord Name Fixes

2002-10-27 Thread rerdavies
I said I'd do my best to fix the chords in lilypond a while ago, but personal commitments (and the daunting prospects of having to learn guile and LaTex) prevented me from getting around to it. However, I now have some time on my hands, and a burning desire to produce beuatiful jazz charts on lily.

Request for Comment - Chordname strategy

2002-10-27 Thread rerdavies
I've been quietly mulling over how to undertake a rewrite for the chord name generation for a while. Along the way I've run into a number of nightmare chords (C:5+.5-.9+.9-, for example), and a number of chord-writing conventions that really challenge the current approach being taken for chords in

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > How about an upgrade to autoconf 2.5 ? > There are some bugs in autoconf 2.5 that can't be worked around. We're still waiting for their response to our bugreport. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen __

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think this was already fixed in 1.6.3, can you upgrade to 1.6.6 and see if that fixes the problem? (this refers to the botched spacing) I fixed the problem with rest dots in CVS (1.6 branch). I just upgraded to the most recent cvs version and everything works fine n

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > > > The DVI has mismatched fonts, so my guess is that it is not a recent > > > version of lily. Which version of lily did you use, and can you send > > > the corresponding .ly file? > > > > I used version 1.

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > The DVI has mismatched fonts, so my guess is that it is not a recent > > version of lily. Which version of lily did you use, and can you send > > the corresponding .ly file? > > I used version 1.6.0 I think this was already fixed in 1.6

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: The DVI has mismatched fonts, so my guess is that it is not a recent version of lily. Which version of lily did you use, and can you send the corresponding .ly file? I used version 1.6.0 The source.ly is attached regards Klaus \header { title = "Praise be to God"

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Although I can imagine that this could happen, your example looks fine > > to me, so I think I'm missing something. Can you explain more clearly > > what spacing you think is bad? > > I'll just give you both the dvi of the entire piece, > o

Re: rest-collision

2002-10-27 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Although I can imagine that this could happen, your example looks fine to me, so I think I'm missing something. Can you explain more clearly what spacing you think is bad? I'll just give you both the dvi of the entire piece, one produced with the old code, one with the n