Re: GDP: LSR and @commonprop

2007-12-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:42:58 +0100 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm... I'd rather not specify an exact indent=XX number. If > > possible I'd rather have lilypond-book modified -- I think that > > [quote,texinfo] should only apply the [quote] to the actual > > lilypond code, not t

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:57:17 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graham Percival wrote: The more complicated this change is, the more years it will take before it is done. With that in consideration, I believe that simply replacing \times with

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:57:17 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > The more complicated this change is, the more years it will take before it > > is done. With that in consideration, I believe that simply replacing > > \times > > with > > \tuplet > > is

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:07:45 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paco Vila wrote: if "times" can be read as "multiplied by" this is no longer true with tuplet. I believe that was discussed which is why I asked my question. The more comp

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Paul Scott escreveu: Would it be unreasonable to simply add \tuplet as code/macro that would call or use \times? That way those of us who are not confused by \times can use it and those who prefer \tuplet can use that. That would not work; functions cannot ta

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:07:45 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paco Vila wrote: > > if "times" can be read as "multiplied by" this is no longer true with > > tuplet. > > > > > I believe that was discussed which is why I asked my question. The more complicated this change is, the

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott escreveu: > Would it be unreasonable to simply add \tuplet as code/macro that would > call or use \times? That way those of us who are not confused by \times > can use it and those who prefer \tuplet can use that. > That would not work; functions cannot take rational (eg. 2/3) argume

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Paco Vila wrote: El Sat, 08 de Dec de 2007, a las 06:52:18PM +0100, John Mandereau dijo: I second this; there has been a huge thread on lilypond-user, and besides all different wishes that can hardly be satisified, I seem to remember there was some general consensus about changing "\times" to

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paco Vila
El Sat, 08 de Dec de 2007, a las 06:52:18PM +0100, John Mandereau dijo: > > I second this; there has been a huge thread on lilypond-user, and > besides all different wishes that can hardly be satisified, I seem to > remember there was some general consensus about changing "\times" to > "\tuplet".

Re: MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Just as Rune, I'm not a native English speaker, but what about renaming at least the section title to something like "Full Measure Rests". The name of the LilyPond graphical object isn't that critical. Are we talking about documentation or code? Paul /Mats Quoting R

Re: MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

2007-12-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just as Rune, I'm not a native English speaker, but what about renaming at least the section title to something like "Full Measure Rests". The name of the LilyPond graphical object isn't that critical. /Mats Quoting Rune Zedeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Paul Scott skrev: What about renaming Mu

Re: MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

2007-12-09 Thread Rune Zedeler
Paul Scott skrev: What about renaming MultiMeasureRest to MeasureRest? In English the first has the clear meaning of more than one measure while the second fairly clearly means one measure rest. I am quite bad in english, so I really do not know. Even if the wordings are equally bad I would st

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
John Mandereau wrote: Le samedi 08 décembre 2007 à 14:26 +0100, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : Proposal: deprecate \times, use \tuplet instead. Good idea! Given that the previous discussion began with an email from you in 2005, I find your approval unsurprising. :) He

Re: MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Rune Zedeler wrote: Now that we are into renamings... We get lots of questions from confused users who are unable to find out how to typeset a centered whole measure rest. What about renaming MultiMeasureRest to MeasureRest? In English the first has the clear meaning of more than one measure w

MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

2007-12-09 Thread Rune Zedeler
Now that we are into renamings... We get lots of questions from confused users who are unable to find out how to typeset a centered whole measure rest. What about renaming MultiMeasureRest to MeasureRest? -Rune ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypo

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/12/9, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes. Thank you very much Graham for bringing this up; I remember > having wondered, a year ago, why the heck this thread was obviously > ignored by the development team though we had such a large consensus. Patches appreciated. Don't forget con

Re: Ancient notation: spacing, ligatures, bar lines: some ideas...

2007-12-09 Thread Till Rettig
Sure, I will do that. Valentin Villenave schrieb: 2007/12/7, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, I meant to append a file demonstrating the spacing. Here it comes. Hi Till, thank you very much for all this work; we do need a few people to care about Ancient notation :) I have st

Re: \times vs. \tuplet

2007-12-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/8, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I second this; there has been a huge thread on lilypond-user, and > besides all different wishes that can hardly be satisified, I seem to > remember there was some general consensus about changing "\times" to > "\tuplet". Yes. Thank you very much G

Re: Ancient notation: spacing, ligatures, bar lines: some ideas...

2007-12-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/7, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, I meant to append a file demonstrating the spacing. Here it comes. Hi Till, thank you very much for all this work; we do need a few people to care about Ancient notation :) I have started adding your snippet and your explanations to the LSR, b

Re: Table of contents broken?

2007-12-09 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 schrieb Nicolas Sceaux: > Le 8 déc. 07 à 23:41, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > > -) How do I make the TOC not appear at the very bottom of the page > > (I'm using > > \pageBreak immediately after \table-of-contents)? > > You can add a \markup \null line just before the

Re: markup on spacing reduces spacing?

2007-12-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/12/6, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Still, a TextScript should not influence the spacing in any way as long as > \emptyText is specified (which it is by default). Also, as Reinhold points \emptyText only switches off collision resolution (or: it used to; Joe's skyline hacks may have

Re: Table of contents broken?

2007-12-09 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 22:23:00 Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Le 9 déc. 07 à 12:13, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : > > Le 9 déc. 07 à 11:58, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : > >> Le 8 déc. 07 à 23:41, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > >>> I'm trying to use \table-of-contents in a large mass (a full score > >>> with 17 > >>>

Re: GDP: LSR and @commonprop

2007-12-09 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 08 décembre 2007 à 16:05 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > I could kiss you!! Yes, that's exactly what I wanted!!! > > *ahem* On the cheek. In traditional French greeting style. :-) > Hmm... I'd rather not specify an exact indent=XX number. If possible > I'd rather have lilypo

Re: Does anybody use x11-color ?

2007-12-09 Thread Till Rettig
Whow, I guess I just should stop fumbling around. :-[ I didn't realize that filled-box is really filled (because it said something about rounded corners, and I just thought maybe the naming is wrong. Well, I couldn't have done this with scheme anyways... That's what I was looking for! Till Re

Re: Table of contents broken?

2007-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 déc. 07 à 12:13, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 9 déc. 07 à 11:58, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 8 déc. 07 à 23:41, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : I'm trying to use \table-of-contents in a large mass (a full score with 17 instruments/voices and 7 pieces). Now, I have several problems: -)

Re: Table of contents broken?

2007-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 9 déc. 07 à 11:58, Nicolas Sceaux a écrit : Le 8 déc. 07 à 23:41, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : I'm trying to use \table-of-contents in a large mass (a full score with 17 instruments/voices and 7 pieces). Now, I have several problems: -) All items added with \tocItem appear in the same

Re: Table of contents broken?

2007-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 8 déc. 07 à 23:41, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : I'm trying to use \table-of-contents in a large mass (a full score with 17 instruments/voices and 7 pieces). Now, I have several problems: -) All items added with \tocItem appear in the same line (i.e. printed one above the other) There