Re: goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Werner LEMBERG writes: > I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input > encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your > changes? The long-time goal (somewhere this Easter :-) is to have LilyPond do proper page layout. For page layout, it is necessary for LilyPo

stippled slurs

2004-04-10 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Hi, Recently I had to typeset a piece of music using stippled/dashed slurs. I found the mechanism to change the style not very nice, nor the dashed line itself. What I miss is that you can't specify the length of the dash and the length of the white space ("dash-fraction and dash-period" ?). It

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > \override Lyrics #'X-extent-callback = #(lambda (grob) > > (lookup-latex-dimension the-dimension-table (ly:get-property grob 'text))) > > I don't fully understand what I shall do. Can you give a real > example, please? Assume that the words `foo', `bar', and

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Han-Wen, Janneke, > > > I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input > encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your > changes? Getting proper support for latin and latin-like languages. We don't know how to handle unicode/Japanes

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Han-Wen, Janneke, I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your changes? Reason for asking is support for Japanese -- I've written some Haiku, and I would like to use lilypond for typesetting them. There is still t

Re: Lily 2.2 on linuxfr !

2004-04-10 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 23:21:56 +0200, Olivier a dit : > Hello, > just here to say that our favourite music engraver is in the news on > linuxfr, just see here : > http://linuxfr.org/2004/04/08/15968.html > NĂ©mo. I had a bad time summarizing all what I had in my head in this short, poorly writt