Re: Doc update for section 7.5

2006-04-16 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-Apr-06, at 1:58 PM, Erlend Aasland wrote: Since I happen to play guitar, I've cooked up some updates for the tablature section in the docs (section 7.5.2 and 7.5.3). Please see the attached patch. (Warning: I'm no expert in writing english documentation...) Thanks! I changed a few se

Re: Bug in the new PS code

2006-04-16 Thread David Feuer
On 4/16/06, Erlend Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > The two dash functions (draw_dashed_{line,slur}) set the dash pattern with > setdash, but they forget to reset it (so the output looks a bit weird after > the first dashed line has been drawn). The attached patch will fix this, b

Best way to format nested lists

2006-04-16 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, I'm trying to document the recently added feature whereby System Staff Delimiters may be nested to an arbitrary depth. I've figured out how the feature works, but I'm trying to work out the best way to format the code. For example the example given puts the relevant line in one long lin

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (quite a few hours ago...) on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 at 10:55:43 -0400 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > p.s.: In moving from LilyPond 2.6.3 to 2.9.2, I find that spooling > postscript crashes my HP LaserJet 8150DN. Haven't finished > figuring out why yet... I'll get there... It ap

Bug in the new PS code

2006-04-16 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hi David,The two dash functions (draw_dashed_{line,slur}) set the dash pattern with setdash, but they forget to reset it (so the output looks a bit weird after the first dashed line has been drawn). The attached patch will fix this, but I'd like you to approve it before I apply it. It just throws i

Doc update for section 7.5

2006-04-16 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hi GrahamSince I happen to play guitar, I've cooked up some updates for the tablature section in the docs (section 7.5.2 and 7.5.3). Please see the attached patch. (Warning: I'm no expert in writing english documentation...) Regards,  Erlend tab-doc.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 at 13:46:16 +0200 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > +(display "\n%%BeginDefaults > > +%%PageMedia: a4 > > +%%EndDefaults\n" port) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but was "BeginDefaults" not the method of choice > to say: if no other va

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread David Feuer
On 4/16/06, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And BTW, Lily's PostScript code's main purpose is to produce something > which Ghostscript turns into a PDF. So, the PostScript does not have to > adher strictly to the specs, but to what Ghostscript understands. Next month, if all goes

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, John Hawkinson wrote: > +(display "\n%%BeginDefaults > +%%PageMedia: a4 > +%%EndDefaults\n" port) Correct me if I'm wrong, but was "BeginDefaults" not the method of choice to say: if no other value is given, please take A4 instead of that awkward Letter format? IO

Re: 2D vector code

2006-04-16 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, David Feuer wrote: > As I said, I'm not going to be working on any LilyPond this month, but I > think the best of those is vector-2d, which has the problems of being > too long and too easily confused with Scheme vectors. Whatever. Well, maybe when you come back, ther

Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
Hello. As you may have noted from email to lilypond-user, I'm in the midst of preparing some patches to improve lilypond's handling of custom paper sizes. In reviewing recent code changes, I'm puzzled by some changes in rev 1.152 of framework-ps.scm, under this log entry: revision 1.152