RE: Predefined command maintainer

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:11 PM > To: Carl D. Sorensen > Cc: lily-devel > Subject: Predefined command maintainer > > > I'd like to get a volunteer for Predefined Commands > Maintainer. I estimate it'll take 5 hou

RE: predifined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:11 PM > To: Carl D. Sorensen > Cc: lily-devel > Subject: Predefined command maintainer > > On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:23:09 -0600 > "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Are t

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
This looks right to me, and since nobody has come up with any better names, let's go with bracketed/quoted/bare. Unless we want to call the first one "curly text". ;) Cheers, - Graham On Fri, 23 May 2008 21:19:56 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, in summary, might we

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 21:19:56 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other commands are more selective. For example, text for > ottava brackets can only be entered as quoted text. I consider this a bug. I can see the difficulties for lyric mode, but IMO all other text should take \m

Predefined command maintainer

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:23:09 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are these really so important to the notation that we need > > predefined commands for them? How often do people want to > > change the default Alterations/Plus placement? These might > > be better just shown wi

Re: predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:23:09 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other Up/Down commands use Neutral for the \revert. > > Granted, in this case you generally don't have lilypond > > choosing which direction to place these objects, but I think > > it's still worth following t

texi2html status

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
What's the status of the texi2html output? 1) Are there any remaining bugs or missing features in texi2html that we'd like to see? Patrick is planning on making a release soon, and it would be silly if we discovered an important problem right after a release: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/te

RE: predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> -Original Message- > From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:42 PM > To: Carl D. Sorensen; lily-devel > Subject: Re: predefined commands for figured bass > > > bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp = { > \revert Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction

RE: predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:00 PM > To: Carl D. Sorensen > Cc: lily-devel > Subject: Re: predefined commands for figured bass > > On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:12:49 -0600 > "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Searching for string that contain a "-" doesn't work in the LSR...

2008-05-23 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On May 23, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are several lilypond commands that contain a hyphen, but the LSR currently does not allow searching for them. Apparently, "-" is not allowed in the search string: http://lsr.dsi.unimi

Searching for string that contain a "-" doesn't work in the LSR...

2008-05-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are several lilypond commands that contain a hyphen, but the LSR currently does not allow searching for them. Apparently, "-" is not allowed in the search string: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=on-the-fly Would it be hard to allow also h

Re: predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:12:49 -0600 "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some proposed predefined commands for Figured Bass: > > bassFigureStaffAlignmentDown = { > \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN > } > > bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp = { > \

Re: predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp = { \revert Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction } I wonder if using \revert is better than setting 'direction to #UP? If the default value of 'direction is ever changed this command would need to be changed too. But if 'direction is explicitly set

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
So, in summary, might we have something like this? Entering text Text may be entered in three ways: o delimited by curly brackets, let's call this "bracketed text" o delimited by double quotes, let's call this "quoted text" o delimited by spaces, let's call this "bare text" but there are restr

predefined commands for figured bass

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Here are some proposed predefined commands for Figured Bass: bassFigureStaffAlignmentDown = { \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN } bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp = { \revert Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction } bassFigureStackingUp = { \override St

proposed predefined for ChordNames context

2008-05-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
I would like to propose the following predefined commands for the ChordNames context: hideRepeatedChordNames = { \set chordChanges = ##t } showRepeatedChordNames = { \set chordChanges = ##f } Here is an example of their use. hideRepeatedChordNames = { \set chordChanges = ##t } showRepeated

Re: Glossary: Spanish additions

2008-05-23 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/5/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You may want to discuss these modifications with other Spanish people, >> like the original author of Spanish glossary David Gonz__lez, or on a >> Spanish mailing list or forum; besides this, you may directly apply >> modifications in Git to the Spa

Re: Glossary: Spanish additions

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:48:36 +0200 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/05/23, Graham Percival wrote: > > But please don't modify the glossary yourself; that will make my job > > harder when I merge the next update. > > Speaking of, do you mind if I go on applying technical changes

Re: Glossary: Spanish additions

2008-05-23 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/05/23, Graham Percival wrote: > But please don't modify the glossary yourself; that will make my job > harder when I merge the next update. Speaking of, do you mind if I go on applying technical changes to the documentation directly in Git? I think this makes you less work, as Git does a

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/05/23, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > > > *as far as I know*, anything in lilypond that accepts "blah blah" > > also accepts \markup. > > > This is almost true. However, I seem to recall a few exceptions. For > example, you > cannot use a \markup expression as the va

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, it's the grob that is created when you write > c4-"foo" or c4-\markup{foo} IIRC, a TextScript is also much more than that. By the way, I'm unsure "script" is anywhere near more reassuring than "string". Both look equally unfamiliar to me...

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: *as far as I know*, anything in lilypond that accepts "blah blah" also accepts \markup. This is almost true. However, I seem to recall a few exceptions. For example, you cannot use a \markup expression as the value when you set a property in \lyricmode. /Mats

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 09:40:21 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> or even textual annotation which > >> can be applied to a note with either '-' or '\markup? > > > > In current GDP terminology, these are "Text scripts". > >

Re: Glossary: Spanish additions

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 09:32:25 +0200 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/05/21, Francisco Vila wrote: > > Hello. I don't know who is responsible nowadays for the music > > glossary; here is a list of proposed modifications for the Spanish > > part of it. Thanks! > > You may want to

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/23 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> or even textual annotation which >> can be applied to a note with either '-' or '\markup? > > In current GDP terminology, these are "Text scripts". Which is not necessarily sensible, since TextScript is already a grob. > Fundamentally, all text i

Re: Glossary: Spanish additions

2008-05-23 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/05/21, Francisco Vila wrote: > Hello. I don't know who is responsible nowadays for the music > glossary; here is a list of proposed modifications for the Spanish > part of it. Thanks! You may want to discuss these modifications with other Spanish people, like the original author of Spanish

Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:12:43 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival wrote May 22, 2008 11:39 AM > > Failing all else, I suppose we /could/ use the terms "markup text" > > and "quoted text". I mean, there are more uses for these terms > > (whatever we end up calling th

Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

2008-05-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote May 22, 2008 11:39 AM On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:46:15 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Valentin Villenave wrote May 22, 2008 9:03 AM > "Markup expressions may also be enclosed in double quotes "...". > Such expressions are treated as text strings and may not c