Re: lilypond ChangeLog Documentation/user/advanced-...

2006-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On 10-Jun-06, at 3:17 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival schreef: + +LilyPond has fonts in different design sizes. The music fonts for +smaller sizes are chubbier, while the text fonts are relatively wider. not true anymore. Standard text fonts (TTF, Type1) don't support this.

Re: (doc) Music functions on articulations

2006-06-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Nicolas: The better application of this feature is \tag. Actually, I can't find other useful applications (other than \tag variations). Does this feature allow different Tie characteristics (e.g., dotted and solid) within the same chord? If so, it solves a problem that (synchronicitou

handwritten music font

2006-06-10 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
hi all, please excuse my lousy english. i would like to design a handwritten music font for lilypond based on "the art of music copying" by clinton roemer. would a modyfied feta-bolletjes.mf make sense to you to have a look at it? regards, johnny -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70%

Re: lilypond ChangeLog Documentation/user/advanced-...

2006-06-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival schreef: + +LilyPond has fonts in different design sizes. The music fonts for +smaller sizes are chubbier, while the text fonts are relatively wider. not true anymore. Standard text fonts (TTF, Type1) don't support this. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-06-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Cameron Horsburgh schreef: exits with this error: Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculating line breaks... [2] Drawing systems... ERROR: In procedure <: ERROR: Wrong type: #f Any idea what's going wrong? thanks, fixed in CVS. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4a

Re: (doc) Music functions on articulations

2006-06-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Nicolas Sceaux schreef: # Generic music functions may now also be used on articulations and chord elements you can write a music function and do this will run myMusicFunction on the ArticulationEvent for -. Could somebody (not on the devel team) write a non-trivial (but ideally still shor

Re: paper size and global font size: simplify input

2006-06-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival schreef: A few months ago, we discussed being able to set these items in the normal lilypond way, ie \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4") paper-size = "a4" % proposed new method } #(set-global-staff-size 14) \paper { global-staff-size = #14 % proposed new method } I'

Re: (doc) Music functions on articulations

2006-06-10 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9-Jun-06, at 3:29 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> Graham Percival schreef: >>> # Generic music functions may now also be used on articulations and >>> chord elements >> >> you can write a music function and do >> >> >> >> this will run myMusicFu

\book again

2006-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
I know that identifiers must be at the toplevel of a .ly file, but do book-wide \context{} changes also need to be at toplevel? I couldn't find a way to define them inside a \book -- lilypond complained whether I used \paper{} or \layout{}. identifier = { c'4 } \layout { \context { \V

\paper vs. \layout again

2006-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
OK, I'm finally cleaning up our screwed-up docs on spacing and \book. I have a few questions, some of them fairly basic. (further evidence of just how bad our docs are) - In the 2.9.7 docs (currently online), in 10.4.2 Paper formatting we have a list of \paper variables. Can any of those b

Re: How to set text-direction

2006-06-10 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:16:40PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Cameron Horsburgh schreef: > >%%% > >version "2.9.4" > > > > > > >gives me an error: > > > > > > 2.9.5 > > Hmm. I'm still trying to get the right to left text direction working for the docs. Using 2.9.7 I s