(doc help: 5 Running lilypond) Scripts in the packages

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
We need to update the docs to tell people how to run the extra scripts (convert-ly, midi2ly, etc) from the packages. Yes, the README tells people, but they don't always read it, and it makes sense to look for that info in the manual. I've got a copy of the OSX binary installer, so I could writ

Re: paying for Han-Wen's development work

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 19-Aug-05, at 4:20 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: If people will give money to support a once-a-day webcomic (which can be quite interesting/funny/touching, but only for about 60 seconds per day), then we should be able to get a non-trivial amount of money for lilypond

Re: lilypond Documentation/user/examples.itely Docu...

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Aug-05, at 4:31 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: no, it means: WTF is a file that doesn't parse doing in the ly/ directory? Well, WTF can't lily parse it? It has been documented (probably as BUG); the problem is that { \override Foo ... } is a music expression.

Re: PDF bloated?

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Aug-05, at 2:50 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Graham Percival wrote: It's the pdf point-and-click stuff. Turn it off to dramatically reduce filesizes. Thank you! It sure is somewhat smaller. Now it is 130kB instead of 50kB. Ideas? Are you sure you turned it

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

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 19-Aug-05, at 2:49 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: I think it's a good idea to continue using #up and #down. This reinforces the general form of \override (engraver.)grob #'property = #value Hmm. There's still a question of style, in lily-library.scm we do (define-pu

Re: absolute pitch for startTrillSpan in a relative environment

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Bobroff wrote: pitch, "fis", but c4 and f are relative to c', thus "c'4" and "f'". Should startTrillSpan be aware of \relative ? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Pitched-tri lls.html#Pitched-trills This behavior is properly documented there. this behavi

Re: absolute pitch for startTrillSpan in a relative environment

2005-08-21 Thread David Bobroff
At 12:32 AM 8/22/2005 +0300, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote: >Does in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html >the code below > >\relative c' >{ >% ly snippet contents follows: > \pitchedTrill c4\startTrillSpan fis f\stopTrillSpan > >% end ly snippet >} > >produce correct

absolute pitch for startTrillSpan in a relative environment

2005-08-21 Thread Heikki Johannes Junes
Does in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html the code below \relative c' { % ly snippet contents follows: \pitchedTrill c4\startTrillSpan fis f\stopTrillSpan % end ly snippet } produce correct octave for fis ? Seems like "\startTrillSpan fis" gives absolute pitc

'make all' failure CVS 1.4054

2005-08-21 Thread David Bobroff
CVS ChangeLog 1.4054 exits like this on 'make all': /lilypond/2.7.7/ly/dynamic-scripts- init.ly][/usr/src/lilypond/share/lilypond/2.7.7/ly/spanners- init.ly][/usr/src/lilypond/share/lilypond/2.7.7/ly/property- init.ly]][/usr/src/lilypond/ly/generate-documentation.ly [/usr/src/lilypond/share/lilypo

Re: lilypond Documentation/user/examples.itely Docu...

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: no, it means: WTF is a file that doesn't parse doing in the ly/ directory? Well, WTF can't lily parse it? It has been documented (probably as BUG); the problem is that { \override Foo ... } is a music expression. You can't put music expressions in \context { \

Re: lilypond Documentation/user/examples.itely Docu...

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Aug-05, at 3:36 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Do you mean "WTF doesn't this just use \voiceOne", or "WTF does bagpipe music have all stems down, slurs up, and ties up" ? no, it means: WTF is a file that doesn't parse doing in the ly/ directory? Well, WTF can't l