Re: paying for Han-Wen's development work

2005-08-19 Thread Pedro Kröger
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason why I am skeptical of donations, is that I myself have > never felt inclined to donate for open source software. I afraid you are wrong on this one. You have donated countless hours of work for free software. This is priceless. In *your*

PDF bloated?

2005-08-19 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, when I ran lily 2.5.?, it produced a PDF of 50 kB. Now, I upgraded (which forced me to update almost every package on my system), and it produces a PDF of 510 kB. Granted, it looks nicer. But it's 10x bigger! Any ideas why this is so? Ciao, Dscho

Python scripts on Windows native version

2005-08-19 Thread John Mandereau
When I tried to answer Aaron Morse question about midi2ly, I tested Lily 2.6.3 on MS-WinXP and tried to run midi2ly. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00416.html for details about how I managed (or rather didn't manage) it. Although midi2ly can't work because the midi

Re: Resource list: wiki started

2005-08-19 Thread John Mandereau
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > looks good! Though its a pity that there is no embedded LilyPond... Yes it is... LilyPond is embedded in the Mediawiki engine (see http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex#Music), but it seems to be 2.0.0, which was out on September 2003! (I couldn't get Lily output

Re: 2.6.3 crashes

2005-08-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 22.02, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The thing is, 2.6.2 worked for me as well, and now that I'm having the > problems with 2.6.3 I tried reverting and that's having the same > problem now. So my guess is it's something s

Re: Resource list: wiki started

2005-08-19 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 19 août 2005 à 14:53 -0500, Stephen a écrit : > John, > > This is excellent. I want to let you know about the Lilypond page in the > Wikipedia: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond > > Stephen Thank you, but I already know it :-) I've updated the link "LilyPond Wiki", becau

Re: Lily really got me on my knees

2005-08-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, when I looked at http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto, and saw the song example, I nearly fell of my chair. Did anybody actually listen to the snippet? I propose @@ -5,5 +55 @@ \relative c'' { g2 es8( c4.) -e8 e d c c2 +f8. f16 es8. d16 c2 }

Re: 2.6.3 crashes

2005-08-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> I have no clue.. which guile version are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music/isaac/innsbruck2$ guile --version Guile 1.6.4 Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation Guile may be distributed unde

Lily really got me on my knees

2005-08-19 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, when I looked at http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto, and saw the song example, I nearly fell of my chair. Did anybody actually listen to the snippet? I propose @@ -5,5 +55 @@ \relative c'' { g2 es8( c4.) -e8 e d c c2 +f8. f16 es8. d16 c2 } \addlyrics { Ciao, Dscho

Re: Resource list: wiki started

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen
John, This is excellent. I want to let you know about the Lilypond page in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond Stephen - Original Message - From: "John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lily devel" Cc: "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 19,

Re: Resource list: wiki started

2005-08-19 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, looks good! Though its a pity that there is no embedded LilyPond... Ciao, Dscho ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: 2.6.3 crashes

2005-08-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 18.42, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've done the autopackage part; what kind of shuffling would you > >> recommend? > > ES> ~/.local/bin/ could be moved to the front. > > I had to do that to run the package

Resource list: wiki started

2005-08-19 Thread John Mandereau
Hi, I've just started a wiki at http://wikihost.org/wikis/lilypond/ It now contains only a small start page and the famous "resource list". I hope it corresponds to Bruce's initial wishes, doesn't it? (yes, I haven't put the images, I may do it later...) I believe this wiki has bigger chances to s

Re: 2.6.3 crashes

2005-08-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've done the autopackage part; what kind of shuffling would you >> recommend? ES> ~/.local/bin/ could be moved to the front. I had to do that to run the package version at all. ES> Also, you could do lilypond --verbose

Re: paying for Han-Wen's development work

2005-08-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 18-Aug-05, at 4:29 PM, Mark Van den Borre wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. apart from the "involved" people like you, how do you convince people to donate money?[...] Psychologically, it's much easier to part with money, if you get somethin

Re: make error when building

2005-08-19 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Mats Bengtsson a écrit : It's a problem with your teTeX installation. You didn't say what system you use, but my guess is that teTeX has been split into several packages on your particular Linux distribution and that you need to install some more (possibly something with metafont, mf or -dev in

Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/user/music-g...

2005-08-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 18-Aug-05, at 5:21 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Log message: Direction #-1 to #down. actually, in most cases, \down and \up should also work. Hmm, I didn't know that. That might be more lilyesque. I disagree -- we use #3 and #'(

Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/user/music-g...

2005-08-19 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Aug-05, at 5:21 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Log message: Direction #-1 to #down. actually, in most cases, \down and \up should also work. Hmm, I didn't know that. That might be more lilyesque. I disagree -- we use #3 and #'(1 . -2) for many things

Re: paying for Han-Wen's development work

2005-08-19 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Aug-05, at 4:29 PM, Mark Van den Borre wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. apart from the "involved" people like you, how do you convince people to donate money?[...] Psychologically, it's much easier to part with money, if you get something in return. This is no

Resource list: starting a wiki? [Was: Re: Resource list, revised and extended again]

2005-08-19 Thread John Mandereau
à 17:05 +0200, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : > It seems to me that a Wiki might be a good solution here. It seems to me too, as Bruce "Fairchild" wrote: "The need is for a single source of links for information useful to Lilyponders, not cluttered with a morass of sources for composers or musicians."

Re: make error when building

2005-08-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's a problem with your teTeX installation. You didn't say what system you use, but my guess is that teTeX has been split into several packages on your particular Linux distribution and that you need to install some more (possibly something with metafont, mf or -dev in the name). However, why co

Re: Frequent crashes on 2.7

2005-08-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11.22, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have had lots of memory corruption problems in 2.7 for a while now. An > > example: > > > > \version "2.7.6" > > { \stemDown c} > > > > gives output: > > > > GNU LilyPond 2.7.6 > > Processing `crash.l

Re: paying for Han-Wen's development work

2005-08-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mark Van den Borre writes: > Han-Wen needs a stable income for working on LilyPond. > An idea. (Don't mind the numbers) > * contact people at the musicology departments of BE universities > ? get Han-Wen employed at one or more of the 100+ public music schools > in Flanders for a few hours a wee