Re: lilypond/Documentation/user examples.itely

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On 7-Jan-05, at 9:15 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Juergen Reuter wrote: Another requested feature at that time was the cue notes problem: You want to print cue notes only when extracting parts, but not when printing the whole score. Hence, just tag all cue notes and filter them

Re: lilypond/Documentation/user examples.itely

2005-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
This isn't to demonstrate \tag. If I wanted to do that, I'd add it to the Notation chapter. Example templates isn't the place to demonstrate such things. No, the reason is that I have a pathological dislike of having anything in the individual instrument files that doesn't need to be there. Sur

Re: lilypond/Documentation/user examples.itely

2005-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Jan-05, at 3:36 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote: Also, if there would be a command-line option to select/unselect certain tags, there would be a clear advantage to use tags for extracting parts. E.g., lilypond -usetag viola quartet.ly could extract the viola part. This approach would result in the n

Re: lilypond/Documentation/user examples.itely

2005-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Jan-05, at 9:15 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Juergen Reuter wrote: Another requested feature at that time was the cue notes problem: You want to print cue notes only when extracting parts, but not when printing the whole score. Hence, just tag all cue notes and filter them out when printing the w

Re: bugs - 2.4.2 docu

2005-01-08 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jan-05, at 4:15 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Page 101, section 5.11.1, in the only real paragraph in the section - "You should use \addlyrics unless you need to fancy things," - we seem to have a missing verb or something. Don't you mean "we seem have a missing verb or something"? :) Page

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > OK. I just had a change of plans: I'm going to retain the classic > font selection scheme, but for the non-tex backends, the selection > scheme does not produce a PFA font name, but rather a > PangoFontDescription as a string. For lilypond-book, I'm going to > implem

Re: [PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Erlend Aasland
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:46:22 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [please keep discussion on the ML] Sorry 'bout that... > Add an Y-offset-callback that returns the correct amount. It might > need additional glue, because Staff_symbol_referencer::staff_space() > isn't callable from

Re: [PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Erlend Aasland
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:23:30 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The beam hack is acceptable (we do similar things for grace notes.) > The extra-offset isn't; Hmm, ok... When extra-offset is set to zero, fret numbers are placed above the strings. Some tabs use this style, but the ma

Re: [PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[please keep discussion on the ML] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:23:30 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The beam hack is acceptable (we do similar things for grace notes.) > > The extra-offset isn't; > Hmm, ok... When extra-offset is set to zero, fret num

Re: [PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi again, > > I've synced against latest cvs and made one patch that includes a > ChangeLog entry. Hope this looks ok. Two of the changes are kind of > hacks: the beaming and extra-offset stuff should be computed instead > of being hard-coded. The beam hack is acceptab

Re: precise input location

2005-01-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe bison has builtin support for handling locations (check out > the bison manual under Locations). Maybe you could run some experiments > whether it's usable for us. Right, thanks. ___ lilypond-d

Re: [PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hello and thanks for your reply, On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:10:41 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry that I haven't looked at your patches yet; Oh, thats ok, not to worry... > Could you send them as one big -u diff (including ChangeLog entry) Shure, I'll send one later toda

[PATCH] Tablatures and beams

2005-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I noticed that beams in TabStaff context are much bigger than beams in > normal staffs. A little grep'ing shows that ly/engraver-init.ly sets > StaffSymbol.staff-space to 1.5, which in turn seems to increase the > beaming size. I've made a workaround to this

Re: precise input location

2005-01-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Right now, parser.yy sets the input location of music expressions > > directly (using set_spot()). This method is flawed, since the parser > > occasionally has to look ahead for parsing correctly, thus putting the > >

Re: a better convert-ly

2005-01-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes As for the more difficult things ; they are -as said- more difficult. IMO, the proper attitude is to be glad that more difficult hacks are possible, and accept that automatic language conversion can not always deal with th

Re: precise input location

2005-01-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Right now, parser.yy sets the input location of music expressions > directly (using set_spot()). This method is flawed, since the parser > occasionally has to look ahead for parsing correctly, thus putting the > origin property in the wrong spot. If