Re: changing the midi instrument; broken

2006-08-27 Thread Paul Scott
Juergen Reuter wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Some further clarifications below. ... However, as Erik says below, if you want to store the lyrics into a variable, you have to do mylyrics = \lyricmode { Here is my ly -- rics } and then \lyricsto ... \mylyrics Still remain

Manual feature-complete

2006-08-27 Thread Graham Percival
As far as I know, the LilyPond manual is basically ready for a stable release. It is currently missing: - info about the new user-friendly midi tempo. - anything about Joe's page breaking stuff. - anything that gets added to the NEWS file after today. I'm not planning on doing any major work on

Re: changing the midi instrument; broken

2006-08-27 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Some further clarifications below. ... However, as Erik says below, if you want to store the lyrics into a variable, you have to do mylyrics = \lyricmode { Here is my ly -- rics } and then \lyricsto ... \mylyrics Still remains the question why at a

Re: lilypond ChangeLog Documentation/user/examples....

2006-08-27 Thread Graham Percival
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: we can hvae something like #(set-tempo "4" 70) or maybe tempo = #70 But not \midi{ tempo = 4. 60 } ? I'll leave this issue for other people to work out; when it's been finalized, I'll update the manual. IMO the tempo should be set inside the \midi{} in

Re: JPedal and LilyPond-generated PDF

2006-08-27 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I've got to know: "Its a bug in the font renderer in JPedal not handling subroutines generated by Ghostscript correctly. We have only seen it in Ghostscript files so the work aroud would be to use another PDF tool. " :-( Well, I've found that the Type1 subroutines are actually not found by J

Re: changing the midi instrument; broken

2006-08-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Some further clarifications below. Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 27 August 2006 07:26, Graham Percival wrote: Ted Walther wrote: > The documentation of lyrics has got me befuddled on the notion of > contexts, as I haven't seen anywhere it clearly says what I can do in >

Re: Proposed patch: configure version number checking

2006-08-27 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Aug 26, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:Please take a look a the mailing list archives for bug-lilypondand lilypond-devel to see what kind of different situations thatthe previous version number checks failed on, before proposingyet another change.Well, what evidence do you have that I d

Re: JPedal and LilyPond-generated PDF

2006-08-27 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I don't think so, because embedding Georgia also works well. However, I've created a webpage to show the problems: http://www.organum.hu/91.0.html Two interesting things I found: - the Emmentaler-20 is originally an OTF file. - GhostScript gives the following warning message: /Unicode /Decodin

Re: GUB success.

2006-08-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: Strangely, this didn't happen when building in 32-bit mode. The problem seems to be that Apple's implementation of ranlib assumes 32-bit architecture for some optimizations, so the lib doesn't work with platforms where sizeof(char*)>4. I don't know what to do about this.

Re: lilypond ChangeLog Documentation/user/examples....

2006-08-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: I'm sure that there's some reason why "\tempo x = y" is a horrible construct and must be replaced, but \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment y x) } looks unnecessarily complicated. If that's the way it's going to be, I'll documen

Re: GUB success.

2006-08-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:51, Erik Sandberg wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 01:07, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Erik Sandberg wrote: > - I could temporarily fix the above problem, but now there's a failure in > the compilation of odcctools: > *** Stage: compile (odcctools) > [...] > gcc -Wa

Re: changing the midi instrument; broken

2006-08-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 27 August 2006 07:26, Graham Percival wrote: > Ted Walther wrote: > > The documentation of lyrics has got me befuddled on the notion of > > contexts, as I haven't seen anywhere it clearly says what I can do in > > lyricsmode that I can't do in lyricsto, although the documentation does > >