Re: Variable argument type to music function

2008-12-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/11/08 8:24 PM, "Patrick McCarty" wrote: > Hi Carl, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:04:32PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> I'm trying to allow predefine fret diagrams to use the verbose style as well >> as the terse style. >> >> I'd like to pass a diagram-definition to a music functio

Re: Variable argument type to music function

2008-12-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Carl, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:04:32PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > I'm trying to allow predefine fret diagrams to use the verbose style as well > as the terse style. > > I'd like to pass a diagram-definition to a music function that can be either > a list or a string. If it's a list, I

Variable argument type to music function

2008-12-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
I'm trying to allow predefine fret diagrams to use the verbose style as well as the terse style. I'd like to pass a diagram-definition to a music function that can be either a list or a string. If it's a list, I'll treat the definition as a verbose definition. If it's a string, I'll treat it as

Re: options for break-align-symbols?

2008-12-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Mark, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:02:56PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > Is there a list of options for break-align-symbols? > I can't find it in the docs... I don't believe so. But here are all of the options I could find: bar-line clef key-signature left-edge staff-bar time-signature HTH, P

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:53:21PM -, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008, "Carl D. Sorensen" said: > > > LilyPond *is* strictly an ASCII/UTF-8 based input format. There is *no* > > facility for changing fonts used for input. > > DEFENSIVE you completely misunderst

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/11/08 3:53 PM, "dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008, "Carl D. Sorensen" said: > > >>> // preface, 4 row german tab, glyphs detailed... >>> // hidden time signature common (often ommited, but used) >>> // ? hidden key signature c (tab lacks key sigs) >>> >>> {1 {

options for break-align-symbols?

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Is there a list of options for break-align-symbols? I can't find it in the docs... - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: The ideal (in my opinion) would be to put tablature information right in with the music input huh? the tablature _IS_ the music information. No way we should be asking the user to do any translation from tab glyphs to pitch. Too many errors, too much time, an

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 11.12.2008 (22:00), Valentin Villenave wrote: > Both sides are equally important, because it's the feature count that > makes users *and devs* stick with Lily. I don't know about the devs -- you're probably right that to them, new features are more interesting -- but THIS user sticks with LilyP

Re: GOP pre-planning: goals

2008-12-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/11 John Mandereau : > - make the wiki ready to be linked from lilypond.org: this mainly means > updating contents and upgrading MediaWiki > > - complete the translation infrastructure, i.e. internationalize the > examples page, bits of automatically generated documentation (e.g. > markup co

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-11 Thread demery
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008, "Carl D. Sorensen" said: >> // preface, 4 row german tab, glyphs detailed... >> // hidden time signature common (often ommited, but used) >> // ? hidden key signature c (tab lacks key sigs) >> >> {1 {5,d,n,J}} >> {2 {n}} >> {2 {4}} >> {5 {d,n,J}} >> {5 {4,h,A}} >

Re: GOP pre-planning: goals

2008-12-11 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/12/11 11:08 -0800, Graham Percival wrote: > Grand Organization Project, by the way. > > > I have the following goals. Can anybody think of anything to add? - make the wiki ready to be linked from lilypond.org: this mainly means updating contents and upgrading MediaWiki - complete the t

Re: A naive question about permissions in buildscripts/

2008-12-11 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 07:58 +0100, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > > Then I suggest a new directory `auxscripts'. It would simplify > > > maintainance. Simplifying maintenance is a good point: buildscripts has become a mess, it contains a mix of scripts and Python modules, some of them are us

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > New features are way sexier than bug fixes. Yes. And you know I like people to be happy :) > Earth to Valentin: there's approximately half a dozen people in > the world for whom it's remotely economically feasible to work on > bounties, and they're perfectly capabl

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:00:41PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Both sides are equally important, because it's the feature count that > makes users *and devs* stick with Lily. New features are way sexier than bug fixes. > > Once somebody has been doing small bugfixes for a few weeks, > > th

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > No, I'm not "missing" it. Adding support for accordions or > rewriting the slur code to avoid collisions between phrasing and > normal slurs will take hours and hours, even for experienced > developers. Fixing a "programming error" warning when the > lilypond outpu

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Valentin Villenave wrote: You're missing one thing IMHO: feature requests (and, possibly bounties). We have quite a few of these, and this requires super-skilled and super-dedicated frogs, possibly working as a team (like the awesome work that has been done recently on harp pedals). As for boun

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:41:55PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > > The idea behind Frogs is simple: each person will fix an average > > of one bug per week. You can either fix an existing bug, or > > You're missing one thing IMHO: feature requests (and, possibl

Re: GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > LilyPond Frogs > > No, this isn't my new name for the French translation team. :) Oh, I thought it was. > The idea behind Frogs is simple: each person will fix an average > of one bug per week. You can either fix an existing bug, or > report a new bug and fix it.

Re: GOP pre-planning: newsletter

2008-12-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > I am now going to shock you by being direct, non-excited, and > possibly less than completely polite. I humbly beg forgiveness > for this astonishing lapse in my character, and hope that it does > not stain my reputation forever. Honestly? Your reputation is already

Re: GOP pre-planning: goals

2008-12-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/11 Graham Percival : > - bugfixing with the Frogs I have one word to say: croak! Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Making the lilypond documentation ready for 2.12

2008-12-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > 2) About the current CSS design: Patrick sent a patch a while ago, which was > never applied. Plus, there are the suggestions to rename the "<<< Back to > Documentation index" to something more meaningfull (e.g. "[To Documentation > Ov

GOP pre-planning: web with texi2html

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
Question for people who like CSS, especially those involved in the texi2html stuff: is it feasible/desirable to create portions of the lilypond website with texi2html? For example, consider the typography essay. We currently have two different ones. My initial thought was to simply delete the ma

GOP pre-planning: Frog bugfixing

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
LilyPond Frogs No, this isn't my new name for the French translation team. :) "Frogs" will be a team of bug-fixers (because frogs eat bugs, and you often find them in Ponds of Lilies). We've gotten relatively good about new bug reports -- maybe 1/3 of new reports result in a patch within a week

GOP pre-planning: goals

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
Grand Organization Project, by the way. I have the following goals. Can anybody think of anything to add? As with GDP, I'll start scaling back the goals once I know how much manpower we have available, but I'd like to get everything "on paper" at the beginning. NEWS - have a bi-weekly newslett

GOP pre-planning: newsletter

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2008/12/1 Graham Percival : > > > - have a bi-weekly newsletter (this will hopefully continue after > > Aug) > > The LilyReport *will* be back. (we can name it otherwise if you > prefer). I have one issue ready-to-release and

Re: Making the lilypond documentation ready for 2.12

2008-12-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> 2.11.65 is so much better than 2.10.33 that it's ridiculous. For Graham> the past year we've been telling everybody to use/read 2.11.x Graham> instead of 2.10, but that only reaches people on -user. It's past

Re: Making the lilypond documentation ready for 2.12

2008-12-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:57:46PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > 3) How about other issues with the new docs? In particular, my list of issues > has not been updated for quite a while: > http://wiki.kainhofer.com/lilypond/texi2html_issues > Are these problems still there, which are showstoppe

Re: Full measure rests

2008-12-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/12/9 Carl D. Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This following discussion comes from the -user list. Reinhold appears to > have identified a case where current LilyPond behavior doesn't match Read's > conventions. > > This leads to two questions: > > 1) Should LilyPond be adjusted to match Read'

Making the lilypond documentation ready for 2.12

2008-12-11 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1) Each morning I build the current docs from git master on my server and also run a linkchecker (linklint) on the result: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/linkdoc/ As you can see, there are lots of broken links, some due to the fact that the IR or th

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-11 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/10/08 5:45 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > German tabs origins are, like all the forms, obscured by time. > > It is reputed to have been invented by Conrad Pauman, mid fifteenth > century, as a way to record music for short-necked lutes having 5 courses. > The nota

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Breed wrote Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:01 AM I can demonstrate the bug with that file though. Here's an example: \version "2.11.65" \include "arabic.ly" melody = \relative { \key re \bayati do re mi fa sol la si do } \score { \new Staff \melody \layout { } \midi { } } It fa

Re: (attn doc team) Re: Diatonic notation system

2008-12-11 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Dec 2008, at 04:47, Graham Breed wrote: Yes, but nobody agrees on what that intermediate pitch *is* do they? And Arab pop music really does use equally tempered synthesizers however much the purists may object. It may in fact be even more complicated: the intermediate pitch (or absence