lilypond in gentoo portage

2004-12-02 Thread Némo
All is in the title. Thanks to Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gentoo portage have lilypond-2.4.2 and 2.5.2 ebuild in portage :o) Strange thing, the stable ebuild is 2.0.3... Both comes with a depedency for media-fonts/ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8 (still masked too). Maybe a need for more testing.

Re: lyricSkip?

2004-12-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 02 December 2004 19.54, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 18.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >>You certainly increase my confusion! Isn't the point that people want to > >>use \lyricsto to match music to lyrics, but at the same time be able > >>to

stanzas, refren advise

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Could someone look at my file (and compile it) please and advice me how > to solve stanzas of this kind of scores: Hi, this question belongs in the lilypond-user list. Thanks! -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

stanzas, refren advise

2004-12-02 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Could someone look at my file (and compile it) please and advice me how to solve stanzas of this kind of scores: The first 8 measures are sung only once. In the 9th measure, a Repeat bar is opened and there are 3 repeats (3 stanzas) from the repeat bar till the end of score. Now, I made 3 stanza

pango, first try

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hi Werner (not sure whether this should be moved to lilypond-hackers, but here goes.. ) I had a look at using Pango for typesetting text. See the attached program. I am wondering: are the number codes (printed as c XXX) really unicode codes? When I convert \'all as utf-8, I get

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I mentioned one in my original email. I haven't investigated deeply, > but spent a few minutes to find missing example files that are linked > from within the manual, and came up with the following list: > > In input/test/: > > chords-without-melody.ly > lyric-hyphen-r

Re: lyricSkip?

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 18.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You certainly increase my confusion! Isn't the point that people want to use \lyricsto to match music to lyrics, but at the same time be able to tell LilyPond that "Now there shouldn't be any lyrics for 10 bars, then yo

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I mentioned one in my original email. I haven't investigated deeply, but spent a few minutes to find missing example files that are linked from within the manual, and came up with the following list: In input/test/: chords-without-melody.ly lyric-hyphen-retain.ly lyrics-melisma-faster.ly lyrics-mel

Re: lyricSkip?

2004-12-02 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 02 December 2004 18.45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > You certainly increase my confusion! Isn't the point that people want to > use \lyricsto to match music to lyrics, but at the same time be able > to tell LilyPond that "Now there shouldn't be any lyrics for 10 bars, > then you should start

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > So far, the arguments in favor of the "tip & trick" page have > > basically been "information is hard to find in the manual," which IMO > > suggests that we should improve the way how information can be looked > > up. > > Another reason

Re: lyricSkip?

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You certainly increase my confusion! Isn't the point that people want to use \lyricsto to match music to lyrics, but at the same time be able to tell LilyPond that "Now there shouldn't be any lyrics for 10 bars, then you should start the matching again". An underline is perfectly useful to skip a s

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: So far, the arguments in favor of the "tip & trick" page have basically been "information is hard to find in the manual," which IMO suggests that we should improve the way how information can be looked up. Another reason for my original complaint was that several of the pre

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You could actually take Laura's original example to produce such a thing. Here's a slightly modified version: \version "2.2" mybassline = \notes { \time 3/4 \clef bass \key a \minor a,2< }>> | <4 <6> }>> | < }>> | <4 <3> }>> < }>> | d2< }>> | c2r4 | } \score{ <<

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Of course, viewing these examples as a part of the documentation, > means additional support work. One possible way out would be to > actually integrate all the useful examples into the main manual, > but also collect all "interesting" examples from the manual into > a

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think we have to realize that there is no single form of documentation that suites all needs. We already now have the Tutorial which contains material from the Notatation manual but presented in another way. The set of examples in the Tips and Tricks and in the Regression Tests documents is anoth

pango

2004-12-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hi, I've looked at the documentation of Pango, but I'm still a bit mystified. I can get a OT font into pango, with PangoOTInfo *pango_ot_info_get (FT_Face face); in the end, I need to run pango_shape() to convert a UTF8 string to a PangoGlyphString. Should I try to get a PangoF

Re: lilypond-devel Digest, Vol 25, Issue 2

2004-12-02 Thread Bret Whissel
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Of course, if you know what you're looking for -like Mats, I suppose- > then the tips & tricks collection is an easy document. However, I > think we need to focus on novice users which are not sure what they > are looking for exactly. Also, doesn't a broken up document (li

Searching help [was Example massacre]

2004-12-02 Thread Némo
Luise Marion Frenkel wrote: I am an sporadic Lilypond user, who tries to keep up to date with the syntax changes reading the user and devel lists. I have to type many different sorts of music, and usually no template fits me well. I find it very difficult to find the answers for my questions in

Re: guile-gnome

2004-12-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Erik Sandberg writes: >> > no code for module (gnome gtk) >> >> The guile-gnome modules were not found. > I am having exactly the same problems as Pedro with this stuff, but I can't > fix it... "lilypond --verbose -f 'gnome' foo.ly" output ends with this: > # > (if (pair? toplevel-scores) > no

Re: Example massacre

2004-12-02 Thread Luise Marion Frenkel
I am an sporadic Lilypond user, who tries to keep up to date with the syntax changes reading the user and devel lists. I have to type many different sorts of music, and usually no template fits me well. I find it very difficult to find the answers for my questions in the manual. When the Tips

Re: Boosting internalization

2004-12-02 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:20:26 +0100 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Could the translations, with instructions how to update, be > included > > > > in Program > > > > Reference? This would boost the internationalization. > > > > > > I think this is ma