Re: [Lilypond-auto] Patchy report

2012-10-08 Thread John Mandereau
Hi, I quote some of the logs below... Il giorno mar, 09/10/2012 alle 00.33 +, grenoui...@lilynet.net ha scritto: > 21:58:01 (UTC) Begin LilyPond compile, previous commit at > c7a3623a056891d48b13fe14fd6ee042ac666822 > 21:58:27 Merged staging, now at: c7a3623a056891d48b13fe14fd6ee042a

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Keith OHara
Martin Tarenskeen zonnet.nl> writes: I am not in favour of allowing different commands \times 2/3 and \tuplet3/2 to do the same job. My voice would go to: just keep \times x/y the wayit is. I can't see what makes 3/2 easier than 2/3. And having the choiceof two commands doing the same job wi

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Trevor Daniels wrote: David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM Thomas Morley writes: [...] So, i believe that LilyPond shouldn't always follow her users' intuition, even if they are professional musicians. In this case, i think that \tuplet 2/3 is bett

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread pkx166h
http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/17001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/17001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode3916 Documentation/notation/changing

Make arguments like Context.GrobName accessible as symbol lists (issue 6635050)

2012-10-08 Thread lemzwerg
LGTM, without testing, and without really understanding the change. However, simplifications and generalizations are always a good thing. http://codereview.appspot.com/6635050/diff/1/Documentation/de/notation/pitches.itely File Documentation/de/notation/pitches.itely (right): http://codereview.

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: >> >> David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM >> >> > Thomas Morley writes: >> > >> >>> In this case, i >> >>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time >> >>>

Patchy report

2012-10-08 Thread grenouille
21:58:01 (UTC) Begin LilyPond compile, previous commit at c7a3623a056891d48b13fe14fd6ee042ac666822 21:58:27 Merged staging, now at:c7a3623a056891d48b13fe14fd6ee042ac666822 21:58:29Success:sudo -u lilybuild ./autogen.sh --noconfigure 21:59:05Success:

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/09/2012 01:12 AM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Absolutely! Inverting the fraction for \tuplet was the original reason for inventing it, IIRC. Woah, really? I thought the whole point was to avoid the confusion between \time and \

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/2012 11:25 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: But once I saw a bigband-part for guitar, notated with changing clefs between bass and treble. Well, it was the real treble, no transposition. That it was the real treble was only understandable from the context. The real stupidity there is surely th

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/10/9 Graham Percival : > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: >> >> David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM >> >> > Thomas Morley writes: >> > >> >>> In this case, i >> >>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time >> >>> o

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/2012 10:44 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: First, we shouldn't mix content and presentation. I think it's a very important rule; one of the best things in LilyPond is that she allows to separate music from its layout. Yes, fair point. But one thing to be careful of particularly as regards

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM > > > Thomas Morley writes: > > > >>> In this case, i > >>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time > >>> of 2), because it corresponds to mat

Re: [GLISS] turn xxx.yyy into ("xxx" "yyy")

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> \override Bottom.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit." >> >> as >> >> \override Bottom.TextSpanner bound-details.left.text = "rit." > > I like this. Voila. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2883> -- David Kastrup

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM > Thomas Morley writes: > >> [...] >>> So, i believe that LilyPond shouldn't always follow her users' >>> intuition, even if they are professional musicians. In this case, i >>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 note

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/8 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> [...] >>> So, i believe that LilyPond shouldn't always follow her users' >>> intuition, even if they are professional musicians. In this case, i >>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time >>> of 2), because it

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread tdanielsmusic
On 2012/10/08 20:04:21, Graham Percival wrote: LGTM Thanks! Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:3901: @itemize technically this would be better as an @enumerate a, but this isn't a big deal. Ah yes, I'd forgotten that. I'll change it in the next patch set, since I have to submit

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > [...] >> So, i believe that LilyPond shouldn't always follow her users' >> intuition, even if they are professional musicians. In this case, i >> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time >> of 2), because it corresponds to mathematical ratio,

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/8 Janek Warchoł : [...] > Joseph mentioned scores in which tuplet style changes all the time. I > think that a proper solution to this problem is to create custom > shortcuts for overriding TupletNumber style - this way you still have > layout separated from score (i.e. one can easily turn

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-10-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 08/09/12 16:10, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> >> I have in the past talked with people from Henle; also, Schirmer has a >> style guide that you can order as a book. > > > How far in the past are we talking about? (Just for clarity.)

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:40 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> Wait, does David suggest to change things so that we won't be able to >> write \paper { indent = 2\cm } ? > > No, he doesn't. > >> Or does the suggested change concern something else? > > Yes, it does. > >> PS David,

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, i had some spare time when commuting, so i've written down a few thoughts on this topic. First, we shouldn't mix content and presentation. I think it's a very important rule; one of the best things in LilyPond is that she allows to separate music from its layout. I think that what Joseph su

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: >> Speaking as a user: >> I never used 3\cm (don't like it), but I know others did (in \paper ). >> So no objection from me, and there will be the workaround. > > Wait, does David suggest to change things so that we

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-08 Thread dak
On 2012/10/08 20:08:20, Graham Percival wrote: The changelog says "Don't update \version when no rule is applied." That's what the existing -d --diff-version-update command does. No, that's what the existing -d --diff-version-update is supposed to do. The problem was that if the last applic

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-08 Thread Julien Rioux
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, wrote: > The changelog says > > "Don't update \version when no rule is applied." > > That's what the existing -d --diff-version-update command does. If this > is intended to be the default behaviour now, then the command-line > option should be removed. No, -d do

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread janek . lilypond
http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode3961 Documentation/notation/changing

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-08 Thread graham
The changelog says "Don't update \version when no rule is applied." That's what the existing -d --diff-version-update command does. If this is intended to be the default behaviour now, then the command-line option should be removed. I would rather keep convert-ly as-is (in terms of this behavio

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > Speaking as a user: > I never used 3\cm (don't like it), but I know others did (in \paper ). > So no objection from me, and there will be the workaround. Wait, does David suggest to change things so that we won't be able to write \paper { in

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread graham
LGTM https://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): https://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode3901 Documentation/notation/

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" To: Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released David Nalesnik writes: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: - This version contains work in progress

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread tdanielsmusic
On 2012/10/08 07:46:09, Keith wrote: Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:4087: -\tweak #'control-points #'((-2 . 3) (-1 . 3.1) (0 . 3.2) (1 . 2.4)) ( <> ) g2( <>) f is the same as g2( f) so any implication that the <> does something different might mislead. They are, of cours

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 1:19 PM > I think this is the best way to characterize it. You might want to rephrase > it > slightly to make it more personal to the reader: > > - > This version contains work in progress. You will have acces

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-08 Thread James
Hello, On 8 October 2012 14:19, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 10/08/2012 01:29 PM, James wrote: >> >> I have the good fortune to play with >> semi-professionals and also teachers who when I queried said [I >> paraphrase], well sure I guess you could technically call them that, >> but 'no on

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/2012 01:29 PM, James wrote: I have the good fortune to play with semi-professionals and also teachers who when I queried said [I paraphrase], well sure I guess you could technically call them that, but 'no one really does' and besides when do you stop calling them their numerically accur

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
James writes: > I have no problem with having more commands in that while 'musos' > might have their terms, I have the good fortune to play with > semi-professionals and also teachers who when I queried said [I > paraphrase], well sure I guess you could technically call them that, > but 'no one r

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik writes: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling > wrote: > >> - >> This version contains work in progress. You will have access to the very >> latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and >> crashes. If

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Negative connotation. But reversed (see below) it is not actually that >> bad. >> >> "it is strongly recommended that only experienced users try working with >> this release. Everyone else is encouraged to use the stable 2.16 >> version ins

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > - > This version contains work in progress. You will have access to the very > latest features, but some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and > crashes. If you require a stable version of Li

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/07/2012 01:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote: I'd rephrase the first two sentences as This version contains work in progress. Only users who are prepared to deal with crashes or unexpected ... +1 I think this is the best way to characterize it. You might want to rephrase it slightly to make

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2012/10/8 David Kastrup : >> Keith OHara writes: >> >>> Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: >>> > I lean towards letting numbers in function arguments just evaluate > to themselves, never mind units. >>> >>> Sensible. >>> +1. However, it should be documented,

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: > Negative connotation. But reversed (see below) it is not actually that > bad. > > "it is strongly recommended that only experienced users try working with > this release. Everyone else is encouraged to use the stable 2.16 > version instead." > > Something like that. Why

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-08 Thread James
Ian, On 6 October 2012 16:40, Ian Hulin wrote: > On 05/10/12 08:10, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 5 October 2012 00:19, Ian Hulin wrote: >>> This is a proposal to move the triplet/tuplet discussion forward. >>> >>> There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the >>> curren

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/8 David Kastrup : > Keith OHara writes: > >> Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: >> >>> > I lean towards letting numbers in function arguments just evaluate >>> > to themselves, never mind units. >> >> Sensible. >> >>> +1. However, it should be documented, together with the work-around. Spe

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/2012 01:03 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Actually, thinking of it, it would actually be quite simple to calculate the displayed fraction with durations from the given durations and the tuplet fraction (except that there is no way to distinguish 3:2 and 4:6). (m*dur1):(n*dur2) = tuplet f

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara writes: > Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: > >> > I lean towards letting numbers in function arguments just evaluate >> > to themselves, never mind units. > > Sensible. > >> +1. However, it should be documented, together with the work-around. > > It was only a couple months ago that

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-08 Thread Keith OHara
Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: > > I lean towards letting numbers in function arguments just evaluate > > to themselves, never mind units. Sensible. > +1. However, it should be documented, together with the work-around. It was only a couple months ago that David allowed 3\cm to be used as

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-08 Thread k-ohara5a5a
http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode4087 Documentation/notation/changing