Re: feature request: Hairpin.hairpinFullLength

2006-04-11 Thread Trevor Bača
On 4/11/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (this'll probably get lost while HWN is away, but anyway...) > > From the docs, > "A hairpin starts at the left edge of the beginning note and ends on > the right edge of the ending note." > > tupletFullLength (boolean) > If set, t

\espressivo direction

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
Since \espressivo is a hack of cresc/decr, it should be below the staff by default (currently it is not). How would I change scm/script.scm to fix this? ("espressivo" . ((avoid-slur . around) (quantize-position . #t) (script-stencil . (feta . ("espr" . "espr"))) (s

Re: Doc updates from NEWS files

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> > ** [2.6] Newly created staves and lyric lines, can be put in any > > vertical order, by setting alignBelowContext or alignAboveContext > > properties in the newly created context. An example of the use of this > > is in input/regression/alignment-order.ly. [It's hard to say if this > > needs to

Re: Doc updates from NEWS files

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Apr-06, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: The List ** [2.6] Newly created staves and lyric lines, can be put in any vertical order, by setting alignBelowContext or alignAboveContext properties in the newly created context. An example of the use of this is in input/regression/

feature request: Hairpin.hairpinFullLength

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
(this'll probably get lost while HWN is away, but anyway...) From the docs, "A hairpin starts at the left edge of the beginning note and ends on the right edge of the ending note." tupletFullLength (boolean) If set, the tuplet is printed up to the start of the next note. Could we

Doc updates from NEWS files

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Howdy folks, I've been going through the NEWS files to see if there's anything that still needs documenting. I've come up with a couple of draft lists and discussed them with Graham Percival, and I now have a list of things we agree need to go in. We've already documented some but we don't have th

Re: lilypond-devel Digest, Vol 41, Issue 35

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Van den Borre
> From: Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: State of the docs, April 2006 > To: lily-devel > I'm getting burnt out from trying to do all the documentation. In > addition, in a fit of insanity I agreed to be the new Bug Meister. Don't burn yourself by doing too much, my friend! > INST

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: > > On 11-Apr-06, at 2:51 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > >> Graham Percival wrote: >>> This link still works >>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/ >> That link works, but the link to the User Manual doesn't. Has Han-Wen >> taken it with him? > > Eh? The link fro

make foo-clean

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
We have a bunch of "make clean"; what's the right sequence of commands to get the cleanest possible CVS tree? Currently I'm doing make web-clean make clean make cvs-clean Is that correct? Should distclean be in there? Would it be possible to have a single "make all-clean" command? Cheers,

Re: State of the docs, April 2006

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> INSTRUMENT-SPECIFIC NOTATION > Lilypond knowledge required: moderate knowledge in a specific area > Estimated time: variable Since I've done a lot of worker on choral music already, I'd be happy to work on that particular area. Geoff ___ lilypond-de

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Apr-06, at 2:51 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Graham Percival wrote: This link still works http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/ That link works, but the link to the User Manual doesn't. Has Han-Wen taken it with him? Eh? The link from that page to the User Manual certainly work

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Graham Percival wrote: > > On 11-Apr-06, at 2:22 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > >> The 2.9 manual seems to have disappeared off the web--the link just >> points back to the doc index. If somebody's borrowed it, could you >> please put it back? > > This link still works > http://lilypond.org/doc/

Re: al niente / de niente: circle size, hairpin alignment, al-niente-hairpin alignment

2006-04-11 Thread Trevor Bača
On 4/11/06, Erlend Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/11/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> Thanks for the proofs. FWIW I think the very last one -- at 50% of a > >> single staffspace -- is perfect. The distinction between 52.5% and 50% > >> is particularly fine, but

State of the docs, April 2006

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
Hi all, I'm getting burnt out from trying to do all the documentation. In addition, in a fit of insanity I agreed to be the new Bug Meister. To give me time to do the Bug stuff, we need more people working on the docs. I also have major doc changes that I've wanted to make for almost a yea

Re: Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Apr-06, at 2:22 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: The 2.9 manual seems to have disappeared off the web--the link just points back to the doc index. If somebody's borrowed it, could you please put it back? This link still works http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/ but it's for the 2.9.

Where are the docs?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, The 2.9 manual seems to have disappeared off the web--the link just points back to the doc index. If somebody's borrowed it, could you please put it back? Cam ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:31, Geoff Horton wrote: > > I don't know if that information helps at all, but at least it provides > > some sort of motivation for the behaviour. In any case, I would vote for > > changing it too. > > But what if a person wants to refer to a Scheme variable (as in the > poi

Re: C++ vs. Scheme

2006-04-11 Thread David Feuer
On 4/4/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The choice for GUILE is mostly historical, and I'm all for switching to > Mz, but I fear that such a move involves a tremendous amount of work, > due to API differences. > > You're welcome to give an Mz port a try, if you think it's feasible

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> Probably the best thing would be to make real options for the > variables people actually want to set often. I can't argue with that in principle, but the more I read on this list, the more I realize that Lily is used for many different styles and to many different ends. Determining who the "peo

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread David Feuer
On 4/11/06, Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what if a person wants to refer to a Scheme variable (as in the > point-and-click example)? I agree it's far from ideal, but I think > switching to auto-quoting arguments would break more than it solves. Probably the best thing would be to

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> Without having looked at the code, I'd say that the reason is that the > argument gets parsed as a scheme value. So if you say -dpaper-size=HELLO, > that is equivalent to having > #(set-default-paper-size HELLO) > in your file. But of course you want something like > #(set-default-paper-size "HEL

Re: al niente / de niente: circle size, hairpin alignment, al-niente-hairpin alignment

2006-04-11 Thread Erlend Aasland
On 4/11/06, Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for the proofs. FWIW I think the very last one -- at 50% of a>> single staffspace -- is perfect. The distinction between 52.5% and 50%>> is particularly fine, but I vote for 50%. I actually would vote for 55%.I agree with Marcus that

Re: Some code for polygons

2006-04-11 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > I currently have very little time to work on Lily related stuff. That's a pity. > I have a daytime job, two small twin girls and just bought a house :-) Congratulations! Ciao, Dscho ___ lilypon

Re: Some code for polygons

2006-04-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Feuer writes: > I've written code to do rounded polygons /properly/ in both PostScript > and SVG. The SVG was a bit tricky because SVG doesn't have > PostScript's arct. I would greatly appreciate some help changing the > code in lookup.cc to match my new drawing procedures. That's great.

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Apr-06, at 12:45 AM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hmm. I've nailed down the syntax, but the -d flag seems to be able to take a whole range of parameters, and I'm not sure if we really need to list this as a specific instance. I already considered this. :) I think it's worth it. We alread

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:19, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > Joe Neeman wrote: > >> ERROR: Unbound variable: a5 > > > > -dpaper-size=\"letter\" works for me. But it seems as though > > -dpaper-size=letter would be the better way. Is there a reason it doesn't > > work this way? > > Good question. Using the

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the process of writing up some of the previously undocumented > features in the NEWS files. I'm having a bit of trouble with this comment: > > ** > The default paper size may now be set from the command line using > -dpaper-size. > *

Re: Setting page size from the command line

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Joe Neeman wrote: >> ERROR: Unbound variable: a5 > -dpaper-size=\"letter\" works for me. But it seems as though > -dpaper-size=letter would be the better way. Is there a reason it doesn't > work this way? > Good question. Using the quotes isn't that obvious, and escaping them even less so. I'l