html errors in navigation bar for snippets

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
On this page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/index scroll down to the Staff notation of the navigation bar, and hover over some links. There are some errors here. For example, all of the following links point to "Nesting-staves" * Non-traditional key signatures * Pr

Re: reducing ps file size (please comment)

2009-04-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: > Short version: I made some changes to output-ps.scm > that can safely reduce the file size of ps files. In > a simple experiment, I was able to reduce non-binary > ps-code by up to 10%. I also don't know if anyone > cares! (: See the attachment

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > I don't think that it requires programming. It probably requires > identifying a readily available tool that fixes code up properly. I think > it's more a finding job than a creating job. Could we work with this? http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Pret

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:18 -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > > On 4/7/09 4:17 PM, "dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us" > wrote: > > > > > > As to LY not accepting tabs, thats a shame, tabs should be treated as > > white space, along with and other now-disused > > characters from the days of telet

Re: reducing ps file size (please comment)

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
By the way, something similar could be done with framework-ps.scm, although you'd only save something like 35 bytes of file size. - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-d

reducing ps file size (please comment)

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
Short version: I made some changes to output-ps.scm that can safely reduce the file size of ps files. In a simple experiment, I was able to reduce non-binary ps-code by up to 10%. I also don't know if anyone cares! (: See the attachment. - Mark Long version (sorry this is so long): LilyPond gen

[PATCH] Fix #670 - Chained trills

2009-04-07 Thread Neil Puttock
Hello, This patch fixes a few issues with trill spanners and allows them to be chained together without requiring explicit \stopTrillSpan commands. Please review it here: http://codereview.appspot.com/32142/show Regards, Neil ___ lilypond-devel mail

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/7/09 4:17 PM, "dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us" wrote: > > As to LY not accepting tabs, thats a shame, tabs should be treated as > white space, along with and other now-disused > characters from the days of teletypes which sometimes find their way into > ascii files from odd unix and dos s

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/7/09 4:46 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > > >> Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > >> What version of LilyPond did you get output-ps.scm from? In >> order to make a patch, I need both the before and after files. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=scm/output-p > s.

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
> Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > What version of LilyPond did you get output-ps.scm from? In > order to make a patch, I need both the before and after files. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=scm/output-ps.scm;hb=HEAD (about 20 minutes ago) > An automated way to do th

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/7/09 4:23 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> LilyPond programming standards call for no tabs in the files. >> >> If you convert all the tabs to an appropriate number of spaces to get the >> indentation right, please submit a patch so we can fix this. > > Here's outpu

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > LilyPond programming standards call for no tabs in the files. > > If you convert all the tabs to an appropriate number of spaces to get the > indentation right, please submit a patch so we can fix this. Here's output-ps.scm with spaces instead of tabs. Is there a way to

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread demery
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, Patrick McCarty said: >> Is there an easy way to address this? use a programming editor. tabs were invented at a time when fixed-width was the norm, high-speed printers and teletypes had no other way to put ink on paper. back then, the tab stops were 8 chars apart. Progr

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
LilyPond programming standards call for no tabs in the files. If you convert all the tabs to an appropriate number of spaces to get the indentation right, please submit a patch so we can fix this. Thanks, Carl On 4/7/09 1:32 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > > > I was fiddling around with output

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Apr 2009, at 18:37, > wrote: it is transposed twice in opposite directions: first by the composer who writes the sheet music actually, the composer usually scribbles all the music in score at pitch and leaves part copying (with appropraite transpositions) to a specialist who has a g

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > I was fiddling around with output-ps.scm (specifically > the grob-cause procedure on line 159) and was getting > frustrated with the poor indentation displaying in my > editor when I realized that this was being caused by > tab characters in

tab characters in the source code

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
I was fiddling around with output-ps.scm (specifically the grob-cause procedure on line 159) and was getting frustrated with the poor indentation displaying in my editor when I realized that this was being caused by tab characters in the source. Is there an easy way to address this? I don't know

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Ian Hulin
Bravo, Peter, I say go with this, it is pitched just right for the intended audience. You've got a note-reference "Bes" in there which will need to be marked as translatable. Cheers, Ian Hulin Peter Chubb wrote: I reckon it'd be better to split the whole thing into three entries. Whether a

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread demery
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, Peter Chubb said: > Here's my rough try at the three entries: kudos Mr Chubb, trust the son of a son of a scoundrel... I like em all, but as usual, i do have a couple of quibbles. > Notes like a, b, c etc., describe a relationship between themselves, > not an absolute pi

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread demery
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, "Anthony W. Youngman" said: >>So do we care what reference concert pitch uses? Does it matter if it's >>A=440, or A=445, or A=450? > > It does matter that the reference is accurate. it also matters that the 'Standard' is not always observed; especially for the music of Moz

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread demery
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, Hans Aberg said: > On 7 Apr 2009, at 08:18, Peter Chubb wrote: > it is transposed twice in opposite > directions: first by the composer who writes the sheet music actually, the composer usually scribbles all the music in score at pitch and leaves part copying (with appro

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <87skkl7zry.wl%pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au>, Peter Chubb writes I reckon it'd be better to split the whole thing into three entries. Whether an instrument transposes or not has nothing to do with concert pitch. I'm reasonably happy with this, and am happy to wait for Kurt to chime in

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Hans Aberg
On 7 Apr 2009, at 08:18, Peter Chubb wrote: Here's my rough try at the three entries: Concert Pitch: Notes like a, b, c etc., describe a relationship between themselves, not an absolute pitch. The nature of the relationship is the so-called temperament (q.v.). To be in tune, a group instrumen

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
I've found this thread interesting and informative, but a glossary to a manual is meant to provide simple definitions and/or translations of technical terms for novices or users unaccustomed to the language in which the manual is written. It is not meant to be an encylopaedia. So, for me, t

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Carl D. Sorensen writes I'm going to step in here, perhaps where wise men fear to tread. The LilyPond music glossary isn't intended to be a definitive music dictionary, is it? So do we care what reference concert pitch uses? Does it matter if it's A=440, or A=445, or A=450? It