list of prebuilt binaries (doc: PU section 1.1)

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
I came up with this list from looking at the download directory. Is this correct? Does mingw mean "windows"? What's the deal with MacOS / darwin-* ? MacOS darwin-ppc darwin-x86 freebsd-64 freebsd-x86 linux-64 linux-arm linux-ppc linux-x86 mingw _

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: Sure, I'd be happy to. (And if winds up being too complicated, then that's certainly OK; just keep me in check!) Go nuts. :) My only concern is the vertical space of the printed music on the page. For the lilypond input, do whatever you want. Overrides, scheme, Turing

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/30/07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/30/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > Graham Percival escreveu: > > > > > > > > >> ... hmm, I might see a use for that. We could have one really fancy > > >> example, *without* input code, in th

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/30/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Graham Percival escreveu: > > > > > >> ... hmm, I might see a use for that. We could have one really fancy > >> example, *without* input code, in the "root" node of each section. > >> > > > > I concur with this. S

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Graham Percival escreveu: ... hmm, I might see a use for that. We could have one really fancy example, *without* input code, in the "root" node of each section. I concur with this. Some 'real' examples also help give users an idea what some features (eg. fatTe

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival escreveu: > ... hmm, I might see a use for that. We could have one really fancy > example, *without* input code, in the "root" node of each section. I concur with this. Some 'real' examples also help give users an idea what some features (eg. fatText) could be used for. -- Han-

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/30/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor Bača wrote: > > The second example was infinitely easier: we just needed something to > > show a text script complicated enough to require a markup (which is > > almost everything). The indication, is, of course, Debussy's famous > > m

doc value of regtests: none

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: About the reg tests: allow me to quote my official mentor GP: when I became the new LSR guy, the first assignment he gave me was to add to the LSR any of the regression tests that might be useful. From: Graham Perc

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: The second example was infinitely easier: we just needed something to show a text script complicated enough to require a markup (which is almost everything). The indication, is, of course, Debussy's famous marking at the beginning of Des pas sur la neige. Let's ignore the \f

Re: Typo: Documentation/user/advanced-notation.itely

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, fixed in git. Cheers, - Graham Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: Hi Graham, According to the working example that comes just before, please apply: @@ -2221,11 +2221,11 @@ can be used to adjust note durations. } @end lilypond @refbugs -The @code{\featherDuration} command only works w

RE: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realisticmusical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> -Original Message- > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2007/8/30, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The first example -- the one for \fatText -- was quite difficult to > > come up with. I looked at the existing \fatText last night > and thought > > "what poss

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2007/8/31, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There's a few other places in the manual where they're used. Yes, they could of course be used in more places. I'm sure that both of you know why they aren't yet. :) Let me guess... Everyone tried to help but

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/31, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Great! I noticed the glissando link indeed, but never had the curiosity to look at the source file. > There's a few other places in the manual where they're used. Yes, they > could of course be used in more places. I'm sure that both of you know >

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Valentin Villenave wrote: Leaving the feature page aside, what I often tried to figure out was: how to better integrate the LSR with the manual. I can't put links to the manual in the snippets descriptions (since the links are likely to be broken soon); neither can I put links to the LSR snippets

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/30, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [I'm a little hesitant to speak on this issue because I think my > opinions differ a bit from the rest of the team. So fair warning, > subjective opinion coming up. I personally *love* and adore the > manual. I use it every day. I read it more often t

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/30/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/8/30, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The first example -- the one for \fatText -- was quite difficult to > > come up with. I looked at the existing \fatText last night and thought > > "what possible musical context is there for

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/8/30, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The first example -- the one for \fatText -- was quite difficult to > come up with. I looked at the existing \fatText last night and thought > "what possible musical context is there for making text open up a gap > in the middle of a score; where on ea

Re: For future 2.14 doc discussion -- increasingly realistic musical examples

2007-08-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/8/30, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I tried to make the point visually this morning by mocking up 8.1.1 > "Text scripts" in LaTeX. I don't think I got all the settings right to > match the docs, but at least here I can kinda give a little bit by > contributing an example (instead of just

Typo: Documentation/user/advanced-notation.itely

2007-08-30 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Hi Graham, According to the working example that comes just before, please apply: @@ -2221,11 +2221,11 @@ can be used to adjust note durations. } @end lilypond @refbugs -The @code{\featherDuration} command only works with very short +The @code{\featherDurations} command only works with very

Re: Correction to the tutorial

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
Good catch. Actually, we should rephrase the initial text (lines 1283 and 1284) to avoid naming a specific version, because convert-ly updates the \version in the example but not in the intro text. And that intro text is really awkward, anyway. I can't believe I wrote it. Cheers, - Graham

Re: lilypond-book macros/variables

2007-08-30 Thread v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello Mats, thanks for your reply. I didn't know about m4 or cpp. Will take a look. victor. On 8/29/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any text editor, it's trivial to automatically replace all occurences > of > something like > \lilystart > by > \begin[staffsize=12]{lilypond}

Correction to the tutorial

2007-08-30 Thread Till Rettig
Hi, I think we should change the version number in the tutorial text for 2.11 from 2.10.1 also to 2.11.23 as done in the example. It is in line 1284. After all this manual is for 2.11.x isn't it? Greetings Till ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilyp

Re: some more patches updating the German translation

2007-08-30 Thread Till Rettig
John Mandereau wrote: Le mardi 28 août 2007 à 22:52 +0300, Till Rettig a écrit : I don't know all the reasons, but there is clearly one: your patches don't include all the changes you made to German translations, for example adding "documentlanguage: de" to working.itely. This is strange,

Re: > I'm not top posting.

2007-08-30 Thread Till Rettig
Hi Henrik, this sounds really good! At the moment it is only me translating and I was quite busy with other things lately so the process is somewhat slowed down. That to say I am on my way on chapter 7, everything afterwards is not touched yet. I have also elaborated a glossary with German-En

Re: color in the manual (was: Tip: lyrics with polyphony / stem directions (without specifically instantiated voices))

2007-08-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Anybody feel like writing a wordy explanation about polyphony? I think I can handle that. =) Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: color in the manual

2007-08-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: I'm not overly enthusiastic about adding color to the manual: I'm not certain how it will look in a printed pdf (many people print the docs) or in the info files. We obviously need to use color in the doc section about color, and the red staff-lines in Ancient notation

color in the manual (was: Tip: lyrics with polyphony / stem directions (without specifically instantiated voices))

2007-08-30 Thread Graham Percival
I'm not overly enthusiastic about adding color to the manual: I'm not certain how it will look in a printed pdf (many people print the docs) or in the info files. We obviously need to use color in the doc section about color, and the red staff-lines in Ancient notation will show up as black an