[bug] Wierd spacing and MetronomeMark in lilypond-book

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've managed to get the MetronomeMark to separate the stem from the > notehead: > | > | > | > > O > > In addition, there's a huge space underneath the first staff line. Is > the MetronomeMark #'padding property being applied underneath > the staff line? (instea

Change in scripts

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi, > > I'm wandering if I can change the definition of "program_name" in the > files in scripts/*.py from for instance: > > program_name = 'midi2ly' > > to > > program_name = sys.argv[0] > > It will not change the behavior of the programs whatsoever, but it'll >

notation.itely: pipe example fails to build

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This example fails to build, but AFAIK the actual pipeSymbol > stuff is fine. If I delete everything before the pipeSymbol (including > the { ), it works. But if I leave anything in front of it like #(set! > or > \paper {}, it fails. I can't figure out how to fix thi

Re: Double scripts and slurs

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On 3-Sep-04, at 12:12 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Judging from scm/script/scm, LilyPond appears to try to place the > >> accent underneath the slur. My recollection is that the accent (the > >> -> > >> kind) goes above the slur.

manual style take 2 (period before example, @cindex)

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > @end lilypond > > That's correct according to the style guidelines at the beginning of > Documentation/user/lilypond.tely, but I think it would look better with > a period after "notes". Can I change the manual style to fit that? We changed the manual from having pu

Manual: "bugs" section

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Some notation elements have a little "bugs" section, like this one for > micro tones: > --- > There are no generally accepted standards for denoting three quarter > flats, so LilyPond's symbol does not conform to any standard. > --- > > IMO this isn't really a bug. A

Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/user/example...

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > ... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIXME: Unknown clef type `neomensural_c2' > > + > > ... > > Arrrgh! This should probably be "neo_mensural_c2" according to > scm/clef.scm: > > ("neo_mensural_c2" . ("clefs-neo_mensural_c" -2 0)) > > Or, rather, scm/clef.scm should sa

Re: manual style

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The Oxford English Grammar (1996) by Sidney Greenbaum suggests to use generic > singulars they, them, their: I second this. > you would write > > "If you want to do foo, you should write bar in your LilyPond score". > IMO, it makes the text awkward, since almost eve

manual needs help with ancient notation

2004-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi guys, the examples in Documentation/user/notation.itely in the > "Ancient notation" section need a lot of work. Ancient notation is > another weakness of mine; I have no idea what's changed between when > these examples were written and current LilyPond. Could so

Re: entering music without \time

2004-09-08 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14.05, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hm. > Here is a first trial. > After the music has been parsed, there is no distinction between *2/3 > and *4/6, so > > 3 6 > --- is ok whereas === is n

notation.itely: pipe example fails to build

2004-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
This example fails to build, but AFAIK the actual pipeSymbol stuff is fine. If I delete everything before the pipeSymbol (including the { ), it works. But if I leave anything in front of it like #(set! or \paper {}, it fails. I can't figure out how to fix this -- or rather, I can figure out ho

Re: Double scripts and slurs

2004-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Sep-04, at 12:12 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Judging from scm/script/scm, LilyPond appears to try to place the accent underneath the slur. My recollection is that the accent (the -> kind) goes above the slur. Comments? Yes: please check in multiple reputable scores

[bug] time signatures don't do numbers for 4/4 and 2/2

2004-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
% time signatures don't do numbers for 4/4 and 2/2 \version "2.3.14" { \time 4/4 c'1 \time 2/2 c'1 \override TimeSignature #'style = #'() \time 4/4 c'1 \time 2/2 c'1 \override TimeSignature #'style = #'numbered \time 4/4 c'1 \time 2/2 c'1 } ___ lilypond-

Re: manual needs help with ancient notation

2004-09-08 Thread Juergen Reuter
Hi, Graham! > ... > programming error: Grob `NoteHead' has no interface for property > `delta-pitch' > Continuing; crossing fingers > ... These errors are annoying, but harmless. Ancient notation uses a couple of internal variables that need to survive different stages of compiling. It curr

Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/user/example...

2004-09-08 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Graham Percival wrote: > ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIXME: Unknown clef type `neomensural_c2' > + > ... Arrrgh! This should probably be "neo_mensural_c2" according to scm/clef.scm: ("neo_mensural_c2" . ("clefs-neo_mensural_c" -2 0)) Or, rather, scm/clef.scm should say:

manual needs help with ancient notation

2004-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
Hi guys, the examples in Documentation/user/notation.itely in the "Ancient notation" section need a lot of work. Ancient notation is another weakness of mine; I have no idea what's changed between when these examples were written and current LilyPond. Could somebody with a clue have a look at

Re: manual style

2004-09-08 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote: > But, why not write directly to the LilyPond user ("you") and not to the > person who reads about a composer/user who uses LilyPond: > > [...] I would prefer this, because then even us hermaphrodites are not offended, and even if some aliens

Re: manual style

2004-09-08 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Yeh, I object, but only 'cause I'm a bloke! ;) More seriously, I've not seen many pronoun references, and I think that it is generally better to avoid them altogether if at all possible with direct command-like phrases. I must admit to some surprise that there is such a standard that determine

Re: manual style

2004-09-08 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:34:51 -0400 Carl Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 20:21, Graham Percival wrote: > > > - Current English academic[1] writing style is to use the feminine > > pronoun as a gender-neutral pronoun. "A composer might want to do > foo, > > so she sho

Re: entering music without \time

2004-09-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 03 September 2004 23.41, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: >> what I've started to look at is something like that: >> >> \tupletify { c8 c8*2/3 c c c8 c8*4/5 c16*4/5 c c4*2/6} >> ==> >> { c8 \tuplet 2/3 { c8 c c } c8 \tuplet 4/5 { c8 c16 c } \tuplet 2/6

Re: manual style

2004-09-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> - I've arbitrarily picked the number 3 for spaces when indenting. I prefer two spaces for indentation, at least for examples in the documentation. Expect that lilypond.info is displayed on terminal windows which have a width of 80 characters only; the less indentation the better are the chances