RE: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Nothing could be simpler! > > BTW, the new website does look rather funky! > If I have any criticism, it took me a little while to find the online tech > documentation from the new front screen :( > Apart from that, it looks like an awesome amount of work has gone into

Re: Lilypond 1.8 config. and make

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"R. D. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cc, flup: lilypond-devel] > Tonight I began to install Lilypond 1.8 from sources, but had to hack > the configure file a bit. Why, what errors did you get? We may want to fix this. > For some reason, I had to replace the last > two instances of "$PYTH

Custos problems

2003-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
I'm still using 1.7.29, not having upgraded to 1.8 yet. convert-ly doesn't seem to be converting my 1.6 custos, which was: \property Score.breakAlignOrder = #'( instrument-name left-edge ambitus span-bar breathing-sign staff-bar clef key-signature time_signature custos ) \property Staf

Re: dch problem

2003-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laura> Attempting to build a .deb for 1.8.0, I ran dch as instructed on the Laura> page: , and got: Laura> bash-2.05a$ dch -p -v 1.8.0-0.local.1 "Local build." Laura> parsec

Re[2]: new website online

2003-08-14 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Jeremy wrote: > > HJJ> Did you like my suggestions? > > "The Art of Music Printing" is a bit pompous, because it self-promotes > the product with a touch of arrogance ... but other than that, I > personally liked your suggestions very much, and they reflected my > personal tho

Re: debian build fails again

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad writes: > debuild -B gives: > > dh_installdocs AUTHORS.txt NEWS.txt README.txt \ > DEDICATION THANKS \ > README.mandrake > cp: cannot stat `AUTHORS.txt': No such file or directory > dh_installdocs: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 > debuild:

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
I don't know if this has been commented on already (I haven't processed all those emails yet), but could we split up the tutorial pages? It takes much too long to load, even going from a local copy. And since most tutorial readers are newbies, we should treat them as gently as possible. :) Chee

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:51:56 +0200 > # pick out something from our TODO list. Read it by running > >grep TODO `find` > > on the source archive. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lilypond$ grep TODO `find` > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long You're running it in th

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Stefaan Himpe
> And since most tutorial readers are newbies, we should treat them as gently as possible. :) Hi, Please allow a newbie to comment on this. I actually prefer to have a one-page-contains-it-all version, because it is easier to have your browser search for certain keywords when you are struggling

Re: dch problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad writes: > I solved this problem by re-upping debian/changelog, which had a line > at the top: > > <<< changelog > lilypond1.7 (1.7.30cvs-0.local.1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Local build. > > -- Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 3 Aug 2003 09:20:09 -0400 > > Since I'm su

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:41:05 +0200 (CEST) Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Juergen Reuter wrote: > > Of course, the "Tutorial (start here)" should *not* point to the > > combined tutorial / user manual page, but *only* to the tutorial. > > Otherwise, the title of the

Re[2]: Um ... new website frontpage

2003-08-14 Thread Juergen Reuter
Webster's Third New International Dictionary (a mostly American English dictionary, as far as I understand): esthetic var of AESTHETIC Greetings, Juergen ___ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Custos problems

2003-08-14 Thread Juergen Reuter
Sorry for replying so late! I was (and actually still am) on vacation. On 10 Aug 2003, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "Laura" == Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Laura> I'm still using 1.7.29, not having upgraded to 1.8 yet. > > Most of this went away when I did get 1.8. > Your

RE: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Little
> Han-Wen said: > To combat the learning curve, I think that it would be better to write > a simple program etc... It does seem that a lot of people have difficulty in getting pass the first hurdle, i.e. running Lilypond on the test file. Like a lot of things, if you can get a simple thing working

Re[2]: Um ... new website frontpage

2003-08-14 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Juergen Reuter wrote: > > Webster's Third New International Dictionary (a mostly American English > dictionary, as far as I understand): > > esthetic var of AESTHETIC > > Greetings, > Juergen Letters ae were even as a glued character Æ (æ) in Oxford English Dictionary (online

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:51:56 +0200 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added a note to > > http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/ > > there's a README in CVS now. (from that pge) # pick out something from our TODO list. Read it by running grep TODO `find` on the so

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Julian Squires
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:35:52AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lilypond$ grep TODO `find` > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lilypond$ Try $ find | xargs grep TODO instead. Cheers. -- Julian Squires __

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Simon G. P. Bailey
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 14:35, Graham Percival wrote: > # pick out something from our TODO list. Read it by running > >grep TODO `find` > > on the source archive. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lilypond$ grep TODO `find` > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lily

Re: Custos problems

2003-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laura> I'm still using 1.7.29, not having upgraded to 1.8 yet. Most of this went away when I did get 1.8. Laura> convert-ly doesn't seem to be converting my 1.6 custos, which was: This doesn't matter, since the old version see

Re: Lilypond 1.8 config. and make

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"R. D. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't recall what they were exactly, but I can happily tell you that > after moving the lilypond-1.8.0 directory to a different name, then > untarring lilypond-1.8.0 again, running configure with the right > options again for kpathsea, everything appea

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Juergen Reuter
Of course, the "Tutorial (start here)" should *not* point to the combined tutorial / user manual page, but *only* to the tutorial. Otherwise, the title of the link should be considered wrong. I fixed the link in cvs to point to the tutorial index, to be consistent with the user manual link. Is t

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Correct, and like Jan said: then you're doing emacs all over again. > But an app that accepts drag and drop, I'm sure that it is easy for > someone familiar with windows. Hmm. What if that app is emacs? You drop a .ly file onto emacs icon, emacs st

Re: Windows shell script ...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Jackson
Jeremy wrote: >> Is the smouldering hot weather, crushing heat, and suffocating >> humidity, or has my brain turned to mush. It works, but it still has >> one flaw: it won't work with paths that contain spaces. *UGGH* In >> between two fainting fits, I've not been able to figure out a way >> to dea

dch problem

2003-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
Attempting to build a .deb for 1.8.0, I ran dch as instructed on the page: , and got: bash-2.05a$ dch -p -v 1.8.0-0.local.1 "Local build." parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at changelog line 1 dch: fatal error at line 179:

Re: New website (my redesign, work in progress)

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:04:41 -0400 Tyler Eaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://tylere.ath.cx > > Comments? Criticisms? Flames? The top looks great, apart from the LilyPond capitalization thing. I'm no so keen of the picture. As a cellist I have no objection to the Sarabande of Bach's second

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Juergen Reuter wrote: > > Of course, the "Tutorial (start here)" should *not* point to the > combined tutorial / user manual page, but *only* to the tutorial. > Otherwise, the title of the link should be considered wrong. > ... but, to respect the wish for one big page, may

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know. The last time I installed the windows version is almost > two years ago. > > Jan? Yes, Chris is right. The LilyPond icon is an old concept. > > I would be happy > > to write such a document, but I'm not sure yet how it would integrat

RE: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > Flippin' eck! > I don't know how I missed it. I was probably visually drawn to the menu at > the top of the front page, so missed the stuff at the bottom! I changed it a little, so it stands out a teeny little better. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTE

debian build fails again

2003-08-14 Thread Laura Conrad
debuild -B gives: dh_installdocs AUTHORS.txt NEWS.txt README.txt \ DEDICATION THANKS \ README.mandrake cp: cannot stat `AUTHORS.txt': No such file or directory dh_installdocs: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 debuild: fatal error at line 456: dpkg-buildpa

New website (my redesign, work in progress)

2003-08-14 Thread Tyler Eaves
Hi folks! After seeing a request from Hans earlier today for someone to jazz up the website a bit, I decided to dive right in. http://tylere.ath.cx Here's my personal todo list. 1. Create a logo. Done (See how you like it! I'm quite pleased. See a full size version at http://tylere.ath.cx/lily

RE: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Flippin' eck! I don't know how I missed it. I was probably visually drawn to the menu at the top of the front page, so missed the stuff at the bottom! :D Cheers, Ralph -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2003 15:05 To: Ralph Little Cc

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:36:29 +0200 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:51:56 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/lilypond$ grep TODO `find` > > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long > > You're running it in the build directory. Try: >

Windows shell script ...

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy
Is the smouldering hot weather, crushing heat, and suffocating humidity, or has my brain turned to mush. It works, but it still has one flaw: it won't work with paths that contain spaces. *UGGH* In between two fainting fits, I've not been able to figure out a way to deal with this. The rest of it

Re[2]: Um ... new website frontpage

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy
GP> That might be... although I double-checked it using http://www.m-w.com/ , which GP> I'm pretty certain is an American dictionary. http://www.bartleby.com/61/11/E0221100.html ___ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/m

Re: Windows shell script ...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson wrote: > copy C:\cygwin\tmp\*.pdf %1.pdf > > With this command, my PDF file is mangled in the process of copying: > only the first few lines are copied over. Found a solution to this problem now, after a quick google. If you specify copy /B C:\cygwin\tmp\*.pdf %1.pdf then the fi

Re: New website

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ralph Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the new website does look rather funky! > If I have any criticism, it took me a little while to find the online tech > documentation from the new front screen :( Where did you expect to find a link named how to where? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[

Re: new website online

2003-08-14 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Dear LilyPond fans, > > The new website for LilyPond.org is now on-line, at > > http://lilypond.org/newweb/ > > (it will probably be moved to http://lilypond.org/ shortly) > > Come and gawk in awe in the new website, which has cool navigation, > u