French viol/lute tablature

2008-11-28 Thread Kim Shrier
I need to typeset some French viol tab and I am looking for some guidance on how to add this capability to lilypond. In looking at the code for guitar tab, I am unsure it I should create a new type of engraver or if I should add some parameters to the existing code. Some of the differences betwe

Re: Proposal for "Getting Help" page for LilyPond web site

2008-11-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:58:39PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > On 11/27/08 7:24 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nobody. Hence my proposal that we have a GWP, probably not before > > Jan. > > I agree. The GWP should be a good thing. Are you planning on changing yo

Re: holdups for 2.12

2008-11-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: If I'm correct about the above, then let's shove 2.12 out the door, get the post-GDP docs as the new "stable" stuff, and fix remaining things in .1 or .2. (I definitely think the 2.13 docs should be backported for the first few months at least) Cheers, - Graham Exactl

holdups for 2.12

2008-11-28 Thread Graham Percival
We now have experienced lilypond contributors thinking about adding a "read the 2.11 docs" to the main web page. That's totally the wrong solution, especially since 2.12 is so (?) close. What are the remaining issues before we release 2.12.0? - nothing in the docs. I don't care if NR 1 isn't fi

Re: Using \lookup to extract glyphs

2008-11-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mats Bengtsson wrote: It would be nice if the argument was the desired height measured in points (or perhaps in staff spaces) instead of the current numerical argument where you need a lot of trial and error. If it was in points, then you could easily relate it to the height of one staff, whi

Re: Using \lookup to extract glyphs

2008-11-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It would be nice if the argument was the desired height measured in points (or perhaps in staff spaces) instead of the current numerical argument where you need a lot of trial and error. If it was in points, then you could easily relate it to the height of one staff, which is 20pt by default.

Re: Using \lookup to extract glyphs

2008-11-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Neil Thanks for this. I can't vouch for the code, but the intention looks good! Trevor - Original Message - From: "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lily-Devel List" Sent: Friday, November 28,