Help on handling both rests and notes in one engraver

2009-05-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Over the past few months, several people have asked for a "N.C." notation to be part of the ChordNames context. It occurred to me that using r to generate a "N.C." would be logically consistent -- the music gets a rest, the chord name gets a "N.C.". And if a user wants to put space in without gen

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Concur with graham that it's all subjective and flame material. I prefer Fedora, because I like being on the bleeding edge and hurting myself. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Hey everyone... > > I'm thinking about finally running the > (windows->linux me) procedure, and I

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:28:59AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Graham Percival > wrote: > > > > Frankly, my preferred solution is just to document that you can > > still use the command-line version perfectly well, and newbies > > should use jEdit, and then maoi

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > > Frankly, my preferred solution is just to document that you can > still use the command-line version perfectly well, and newbies > should use jEdit, and then maoing **delete** the GUI from the OSX > version.  I'm not convinced we should bo

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
On May 8, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Neil Tiffin wrote: 1. Well I have offered, with the caveat that it is not trivial to understand the non-standard build system. No one was willing to walk me through how it works or point me to some

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Dewdman42
Thanks everyone for the responses. If the shipped lilypond binary is intel, then I don't care about building it myself and I don't want to hassle with it. And I agree that using vim or Simultron is better anyway. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lily-on-OSX-Leopard%2C

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Ivo Bouwmans
Hallo all, Carl schreef / wrote / skribis: I should have included a link: http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/ And Ivo, I apologize for misspelling your name. Sorry! No problem - thanks for stepping in! Those of you who use my LilyPondScript file on Leopard: please visit the page ment

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/8/09 9:28 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:44:48AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> On 5/6/09 2:43 PM, "Dewdman42" wrote: >> >>> I have downloaded the latest binaries of lilypond, they appear to be PPC >>> binaries that will run only in command line mode on th

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: Dunno what version Ubuntu has, but Debian's at texi2html 1.78 and fontforge 20080429 and 20090408 (unstable). That's the same texi2html version as Ubuntu has. autogen.sh always complains that the version is too old. I'm much more advanced now and am considering som

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:56:26AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> [1] I consider the "package system" to be the package manager >> software -- which I admit is (virtually) identical in Debian and >> Ubuntu -- plus the community of package maintainers. Debian's >> package

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Neil Tiffin wrote: > 1. Well I have offered, with the caveat that it is not trivial to > understand the non-standard build system. No one was willing to walk me > through how it works or point me to some documentation explains the > build system. Doc

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:44:48AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > On 5/6/09 2:43 PM, "Dewdman42" wrote: > > > I have downloaded the latest binaries of lilypond, they appear to be PPC > > binaries that will run only in command line mode on the Rosetta emulator. > > Yes, that is correct. Car

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: Not really. Ubuntu is debian, minus a working package system[1], minus a decent initial install[2], plus hordes of newbies[3]. [1] I consider the "package system" to be the package manager software -- which I admit is (virtually) identical in Debian and Ubuntu -- plus th

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> > Have you checked out Ivo Boumann's pages? He has great instructions for using > LilyPond as a clickable app with TeXShop and Smultron, or a drag and drop with > Terminal. I should have included a link: http://ivo.bouwmans.name/lilypondleopard/ And Ivo, I apologize for misspelling your nam

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
1. Well I have offered, with the caveat that it is not trivial to understand the non-standard build system. No one was willing to walk me through how it works or point me to some documentation explains the build system. 2. I have an intel native GUI version downloaded from the internet t

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/6/09 2:43 PM, "Dewdman42" wrote: > > > What is the current status of Lilypond running on OSX leopard (intel)? > > I have downloaded the latest binaries of lilypond, they appear to be PPC > binaries that will run only in command line mode on the Rosetta emulator. Yes, that is correct.

Re: Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:43:40PM -0700, Dewdman42 wrote: > > What is the current status of Lilypond running on OSX leopard (intel)? GUI's not working. Search the mailist for details, including workarounds. > I have downloaded the latest binaries of lilypond, they appear to be PPC > binaries

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:11:40PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <20090508110915.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival > writes >> >> New users: ubuntu, because it's shiny. >> > And Ubuntu is a debian derivative, so they're just one choice anyway :-) Not really. Ubuntu is debian, minu

Lily on OSX Leopard, problems running own build

2009-05-08 Thread Dewdman42
What is the current status of Lilypond running on OSX leopard (intel)? I have downloaded the latest binaries of lilypond, they appear to be PPC binaries that will run only in command line mode on the Rosetta emulator. I followed the helpful page from Nicolas Sceaux to try to build it myself fr

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090508110915.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:03:12AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I'm thinking about finally running the (windows->linux me) procedure, and I'm wondering what distros you developers prefer to use (and why). Developers: debian, becau

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:03:12AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > I'm thinking about finally running the > (windows->linux me) procedure, and I'm > wondering what distros you developers > prefer to use (and why). Developers: debian, because it's the only sane choice. New users: ubuntu, because

linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Mark Polesky
Hey everyone... I'm thinking about finally running the (windows->linux me) procedure, and I'm wondering what distros you developers prefer to use (and why). - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org