Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/13/10 2:40 PM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > >> On 10/13/10 8:29 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> >>> Carl Sorensen writes: >>> David Kastrup writes: > > > So my fear is that the new scheme is both strictly logical, and not > useful for

Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

2010-10-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Villenave wrote Wednesday, October 13, 2010 4:03 PM Hi Trevor, here's a minor patch for Vocal music. Nothing too extraordinary so far, I quite like what you've done! I've done about a third of the file, I plan to work on the rest later (though it may have to wait for a while :) G

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 10/13/10 8:29 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > >> Carl Sorensen writes: >> >>> David Kastrup writes: >>> So my fear is that the new scheme is both strictly logical, and not useful for specifying a coherent document layout. >>> >>> But the new sch

Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

2010-10-13 Thread percival . music . ca
On 2010/10/12 06:23:56, dak wrote: mailto:percival.music...@gmail.com writes: Is that not a documentation string rather than a regexp? And the top level meaning is a string meaning, anyway, not a regexp one? Yes, sorry. I now see that all these changes are in the documentation strings; the

Re: unable to find \layout command in doc

2010-10-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:24 PM, James wrote: > \layout { >  interscoreline = 1 > ... > } git grep interscoreline produces nothing obvious -- although notably, there are no lily/ or scm/ files containing the string. I suspect that it was an old property that was never removed. Looking at gitk,

unable to find \layout command in doc

2010-10-13 Thread James
Hello, Can anyone tell me what \layout { interscoreline = 1 ... } Does? This is in a couple of Doc @LilyPond examples However if I try to compile the example with this explicit line commented in or out it does not seem to do anything in 2.13.35 Thank you for your time. James _

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/13/10 8:29 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >>> >> >>> >>> So my fear is that the new scheme is both strictly logical, and not >>> useful for specifying a coherent document layout. >> >> But the new scheme is just a restatement (renamin

Re: What is the beef with \longa stems?

2010-10-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Valentin" == Valentin Villenave writes: Valentin> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:01 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> why are longas treated specially? Valentin> Though I don't know how to answer that question, I suspect Valentin> the answer might help solve Valentin> http://cod

Re: lilypond-book safe mode

2010-10-13 Thread Julien Rioux
On 12/10/2010 11:59 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: This patch *looks* appropriate to me, but I haven't tested it, and I'm not sure exactly how I would test it. Pavel, do you have a test file that can work with the patch so we can demonstrate it works properly? Here's one, try running it through lily

Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

2010-10-13 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > I've just pushed a patch to NR 2.1 Vocal music which provides a first draft > for the last of the blank sections marked TBC ("To Be Completed").  I > believe it's now in a much better shape than it was, even though much of the > chapter is in

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > David Kastrup writes: >> > >> >> So my fear is that the new scheme is both strictly logical, and not >> useful for specifying a coherent document layout. > > But the new scheme is just a restatement (renaming) of the current > scheme. The renaming moves from a document

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
David Kastrup writes: > > > So my fear is that the new scheme is both strictly logical, and not > useful for specifying a coherent document layout. But the new scheme is just a restatement (renaming) of the current scheme. Mark is not trying to *redo* the document layout algorithms; he's tryi

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Mark Polesky writes: > >> David Kastrup wrote: >>> The main problem I see with that naming scheme is that it >>> does not reflect score sheet design, but the current >>> implementation. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> So the proposed scheme ties something presented as document >>>