Re: [frogs] Da Capos, Codas and Segnos

2010-02-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
se up. Turning pages in a performance is, for bandsmen, usually impractical and often downright impossible. Wasting a line when I'm trying to cram everything on a sheet of A5 is just not acceptable :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: [frogs] Da Capos, Codas and Segnos

2010-02-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ne. Most marches I play that are in this form are A B A, where B is the Trio. But you still need to mark the Trio as such - I use the same tricks for Trio as for Coda. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-d

Re: development on windows

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
I am concerned :-) You might be best putting a readme on the desktop telling people how to do this (and any other stuff which is dependent on the host system configuration). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypon

Re: How about using Gerrit instead of Rietveld?

2009-11-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
wn for 5th November. It's probably worth taking a look... http://lwn.net/Articles/359489/ Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
anted must be preserved, true ... but it DOESN'T SAY YOU CAN CHANGE THEM! If the GPL doesn't give you the right to change those rights (which it doesn't), then you can't change them. Therefore they MUST be preserved, but it's copyright law that says you can't change

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
uot;. That would then permit mixing incompatible GPLs - *provided* the programs came *as* *source*. After all, that's the "four freedoms" they really want to defend, isn't it? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-21 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
3 library, which would add additional restrictions. such as allowing it to be distributed under v3? (Yes I know I'm being a pedant! But that's why I think demanding contributors use v2 *only* is a bad idea. You're saying they can't grant *more* *freedom* (if that's what they

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <4ab53f73.1080...@webdrake.net>, Joseph Wakeling writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Aarrgghh. The snippets are not public domain, unless the author put them there. The *music* may be public domain, but the *arrangement* is copyright whoever wrote the lilypond code (unless yo

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
from LSR are public domain, not FDL. Aarrgghh. The snippets are not public domain, unless the author put them there. The *music* may be public domain, but the *arrangement* is copyright whoever wrote the lilypond code (unless you make the argument that the snippet is too small to qualify for co

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ed by the copyright owner. Changing from v2+ to v2-only is such a forbidden change (taking away the recipient's right to change licence). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Grand PartCombine Rewrite Project

2009-09-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
o learn. Just be warned, I do tend to get a grand vision, get a good grip of the detail of what needs to be done, then need a shove to actually get it done. I'm very good for bouncing ideas off, just not so good at actually getting them implemented. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Han-Wen Nienhuys writes On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: So your idea is basically postponing the problem to a time, where we might not be able to solve it properly any more? Nope. My idea is basically saying "let's face reality. Some p

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <200909140059.35325.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold Kainhofer writes Am Montag, 14. September 2009 00:00:28 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: DON'T track "whether they support switching the licence". Because if they do, they will (presumably already) have switched

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
are (1) finding time, and (2) I'll need a fair bit of hand-holding to start off with, I expect. I'm very much a procedurally trained programmer (C, Fortran, *decent* BASICs). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk _

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
(*) If I _was_ going to try and force my 'favourite license' on people I'd be jumping up and down trying to get everyone to go with the AGPL. But I'm not. So I won't. Sorry. It's just that v2+ kept on coming up despite other emails saying it was not a good ide

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <200909140024.50780.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold Kainhofer writes Am Sonntag, 13. September 2009 23:22:04 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: If it hasn't been done, it sounds like it would be a good idea to try and combine the voice combining and part combining code with

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , James E. Bailey writes On 13.09.2009, at 17:59, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Using partcombine, I think it's doing its job properly. But the result is a mass of "a2", "Solo I", "Solo II" which I don't want. I'd like both parts print

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
code, probably in a LICENSING subdirectory, along with copies of all the emails contributors send confirming their license. That way you can track how and when people change licensing. (And you're not adding yet ANOTHER dependency, namely Google Docs, that people have to have if they'

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
same. Okay, I'm trying to find time to investigate this for myself, but if somebody else is already looking at this sort of thing, I'll just throw this into the mix for them... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
onumentally stupid, but it wasn't arguing about paranoia. It was trying to apply YOUR choice of licence to SOMEONE ELSE'S CODE. That's ALWAYS a stupid idea. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___

Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian

2009-09-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <200909101742.10364.reinh...@kainhofer.com>, Reinhold Kainhofer writes Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 17:12:42 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: In message <4aa8fadd.5050...@webdrake.net>, Joseph Wakeling writes >Now, future policies -- I would suggest new contributio

Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian

2009-09-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ode. Yup. Basically, any code more significant than bug-fixes, for which the author can reasonably claim copyright, then copyright should be claimed (or explicitly disclaimed). Note that if all this goes OK, we should then be OK to unilaterally upgrade to GPLv

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
2+. Unless you track down every substantial contributor (git helps in that regard), LilyPond can't switch to GPL v2+. Why? Is there a GNU requirement? - My cursory reading of v3 did not find anything like that. Where does this idea come from? It's nothing to do with GNU. It's

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
c" wording so that it's compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. You are aware the GFDL as it stands is not recognised as a Free licence? I'm not sure where you'll find that wording - probably on the Debian website, and almost certainly i

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ing is self-defeating because no sane distributor would dare take advantage of the "or latest" clause. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Lilypond Syntax Development and 3.0

2009-07-27 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
though iirc it's not actually used in lily itself, but it would be good to take that as a start. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ic pressure and adopted the French ess, some 100 or 150 years after most of the rest of the publishing industry. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ve speakers actually decide for English :-) As a native English speaker (that's English, not American), I'd say that two spaces are wrong, too. (That said, I know the docs use American, not English, as their main language :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@

Re: updating GPL to version 3?

2009-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
go for it you can ignore sorting out the copyright of all patches after "today", whenever that date was, because you know they're licenced okay already. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ li

Re: texi2html web page, second attempt

2009-06-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
se a search never finds it, and I can't just scan the "document" from top to bottom. (At least, I can, if like lily you provide an "all in one page" option, but in that case I might as well have the pdf, anyways :-) Cheers, Wol --

Re: development on windows

2009-06-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
Eclipse is (iirc) written in Java, but that doesn't mean it's only meant for Java development (emacs is written in lisp, but it's certainly not used just for lisp development!) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: stable/2.12 and tagging of tarballs

2009-06-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
r code. Fortunately, here, the user code is not going to be broken by a lily upgrade, but I expect that has (and will) happen. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.o

Re: [PATCH] should it be @code{\\addInstrumentDefinition} ?

2009-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
index.htm If you read the standard definition of ascii, I think you'll find 0x07 is *defined* as "bell". It's the character that, when printed to an old-fashioned teletype, is supposed to ring the bell. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: GUB on kainhofer: still cross/gcc

2009-06-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <1244195981.25811.178.ca...@heerbeest>, Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes Op donderdag 04-06-2009 om 10:46 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Anthony W. Youngman: >I think that's a pretty usual setup (most people I know have a 32bit version >of Linux installed on their laptop

Re: GUB on kainhofer: still cross/gcc

2009-06-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
memory above 4Gb. If you can then run 32-bit apps over a 64-bit OS, that'll often be the best combination, as the binaries are smaller, are more likely to run from cache, etc etc. So, in short, if you have less than 4Gb ram, you should probably stay 32-bit. Even if you have more, is the

Re: Fwd: [Savannah-announce] Savannah outage

2009-05-29 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
law, I was planning on reloading my git repository about now :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: DOCS: include a sample "Makefile"?

2009-05-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <4a0d9dd6.4070...@gmail.com>, Jonathan Kulp writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: parts: for LILYFILE in Parts/*.ly ; do $(LILY_CMD) "$$LILYFILE" ; done mv *.pdf $(OUTDIR)/ It works exactly as it did with the GNU wildcard, except that multiple files can&

Re: DOCS: include a sample "Makefile"?

2009-05-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
hink it is "wait", that says to wait and collect status from all the jobs you've just spawned, so the mv wouldn't run until all the LILY_CMD commands had completed. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: DOCS: include a sample "Makefile"?

2009-05-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
quot; as my wildcard for the files I actually wanted make to run on. That's an alternative to creating a new .ily extension, though that is a good idea - it would make it a lot harder to run lily on a file that wasn't meant to be done stand-alone :-) Cheers, Wol -- Antho

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
. -inf.0) \mark \markup { \bold $marktext } #}) Ahhh ... This is the revised version I was advised to use when the other version broke. So it is valid 2.12, and I don't see any problem in leaving it. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: PDF Problem

2009-05-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
to help everyone so they might as well help nobody. I don't mean to be rude, but think about it from the point of view of the person RECEIVING these requests for help. They're not paid to be on call 24/7. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk __

Re: PDF Problem

2009-05-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
you going to fix it for us? If not, don't expect us to fix the screen for you! Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Carl D. Sorensen writes > > > >On 5/9/09 4:21 PM, "Anthony W. Youngman" >wrote: >> So - is there a function that combines stencils? Or where can I find the >> code for \default (I did look ...) so I can try and write a defaultPlus >> functi

Re: tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Carl D. Sorensen writes On 5/9/09 4:21 PM, "Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: So - is there a function that combines stencils? Or where can I find the code for \default (I did look ...) so I can try and write a defaultPlus function that takes a string argument ... I fou

tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
find the code for \default (I did look ...) so I can try and write a defaultPlus function that takes a string argument ... I found the LSR example that combines the rehearsal mark with segnos, codas etc but that looks an awful palaver... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.c

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ern, but often will choke on something a bit older. I could never get liveCDs to work on my system. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: CG Information on Snippet Handling

2009-04-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
everyone! That's one of the few things that I really don't trust his judgement about! Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
; in Latin; the human race is `Homo sapiens sapiens', etc., etc. I can beat that :-) And for a very small bird it's got a very long name ... Troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes. Otherwise known as Jenny Wren Werner Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youn

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090409143812.ga4...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes Oh sweet $DIETY yes. I /hate/ it when people fix bugs in my code. It's like, guys, I'm perfect, duh! Like, I added those "bugs" for a reason! Is that like abstaining from $CHOCOLATE? Cheers, Wol --

Re: tab characters in the source code

2009-04-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
y-print to my standard, modify, pretty-print to lily's standard, submit". Han-Wen (being trained to avoid tabs during daytime) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
o.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia A university is a non-profit organisation only in the sense that it spends everything it gets ... Luca Turin. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
mation is important. Of course, I barely qualify as a musician, so don't feel any obligation to follow my suggestions. :-) Carl Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes On Sun, Apr 5, 2009, "Anthony W. Youngman" said: Okay, we've got more feedback (isn't this fun :-). welcome to electronic commiteedom :-) 1.64 Concert pitch The convention (standardised by ISO 16) that A above middle C re

Concert Pitch (a second try)

2009-04-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
#x27;s fundamental should NOT be mentioned, and it should be notated as "in C" only if required to avoid confusion. The intentional side-effect of this convention is that, for all instruments in the same family, they share the same f

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes On Sat, Apr 4, 2009, "Anthony W. Youngman" said: Okay, I think I can modify this to a definitive version now ... sorry for my tactless reply earlier, I should have checked the present text rather than assume you were quoting it. 1.

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes Ow! Sorry, reading this was painful (I play the trombone, as many of you know :-) Replying to myself ... Just in case anyone didn't realise (and I certainly didn't make myself clear :-) these are

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <7ca3d5a30904031519ya3b89hb87cf8f81a544...@mail.gmail.com>, Neil Puttock writes 2009/4/3 Anthony W. Youngman : In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes Ow! Sorry, reading this was painful (I play the trombone, as many of you know :-) Replying to myself ... Just in case

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
) an Eb instrument (equivalent to an F recorder). I'd love to have the description completely accurate. I'll alter my bit to say "for a brass instrument the fundamental is etc etc etc". Seeing as you understand woodwind, would you do the same for the woodwin

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes Ow! Sorry, reading this was painful (I play the trombone, as many of you know :-) Replying to myself ... Just in case anyone didn't realise (and I certainly didn't make myself clear :-) these are my revised versions that I think should r

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
tuning slide. This actually physically changes the fundamental to an F so it now really is an "F French Horn". That's not to say that some players don't bother and play the F part with the instrument still in Bb. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.c

Re: Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us writes On Fri, Apr 3, 2009, "Anthony W. Youngman" said: Sorry, reading this was painful agreed. 1.64 concert pitch Ensembles must agree on a temperament and a pitch standard if they are to be tuned agreeably. Equal temperament is usual fo

Music Glossary - 1.64 Concert Pitch (2.12.2)

2009-04-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
-- - If anybody can improve on those entries I'm all ears, otherwise can somebody update the glossary? For the most part, I've just been far more pedantic, but the existing bit about the trombone is, I'm sorry, just plain wrong! Cheers, Wol --

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
forcing copyright. So you can use those works without fear of suit. That's very different from Public Domain, and the US government could conceivably sue in a foreign (to the US) court. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: Shouldn't the ambitus engraver prefer his key signature?

2009-02-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
example c-flat and b-natural are NOT the same pitch except on the piano), it makes sense to take the lowest (or highest, as appropriate) note - b over c. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailin

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Hans Aberg writes On 6 Feb 2009, at 23:00, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was surprised recently to discover how FEW rules it takes to pronounce English words. Given that the average person has a 20,000 word vocabulary, it apparently only takes about 30 or 40 rules for a computer

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
other language group in the Union (and yes, I DID check on Wikipedia - Spain+Portugal+Italy outnumber all the other groupings). I can imagine the row as they try to define a standard spelling/grammar/pronounciation :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk _

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
sed. I take Graham's point that KNOWING which words you're supposed to apply rule 1 to may be a challenge :-) That's the downside of English being such a promiscuous language... :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090207083104.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:00:04PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <20090204160623.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes being surrounded by nothing but ESL people now (and trying to teach them better

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
sh, but are not properly anglicised. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

2009-01-31 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ge a good player can play. And (3) can give you some very unusual results... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Learning manual addition (Section 5.1.2)

2009-01-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
e music you don't have to ask yourself "was the original in (in your example) B or A?". You know your variable is in C. /Mats Cheers, Wol Trevor Daniels wrote: Thanks Anthony - I'll add it as you suggest. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Anthony W. You

Learning manual addition (Section 5.1.2)

2009-01-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
eem to have trouble knowing how to cope. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
27;t permitted... (I think a user typed CON into our program as data - only snag is the program used that data as a file name and promptly fell over ...) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel maili

Re: contributor/user split in docs

2009-01-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
then wondered why my tmpfs partition crashed out at 100% full :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: feature req: volta bar numbering options

2009-01-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ee, with Lily, that practical is best. If, as conductor (which I'm not), I want to refer to a bar, then I want that number to be unique, not duplicated across voltae. And, for practical purposes, what other use do bar numbers have? None, to my mind ... Cheer

Re: feature req: volta bar numbering options

2009-01-01 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
know, but with about ONE exception, all the music I see follows lily's current behaviour. So while I'm quite happy with what lily does now, I do agree making it a configurable option could be useful :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: GOP: new website

2008-12-29 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
of html as a result. Nope. If you want users to be able to print the essay, provide it in a form optimised for printing. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http:

Re: \bigger and \larger: that's one too many

2008-10-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
can remember the set of choices without consulting the manual, how can one remember which of \teeny or \tiny is smaller? (The Wiktionary editors consider them synonyms.) And how definitive is Wiktionary? As an *English* (as opposed to *American*) speaker, I would have automatically assumed t

Re: texinfo.tex and translated docs snippets status

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
th curly quotes? It's quite easy to cut-n-paste from pdf into a lily file, and then lily will choke on the pasted code ... (and some of us don't work on line, and some of this html manuals are the work of the devil ... :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthon

Re: barline number size

2007-05-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
s you're actively looking for them". They're unnecessary clutter, and a distraction if you're actually using the music AS MUSIC (ie playing). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: whiteout on stems?

2007-04-20 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
nd sentence be "... is only guarenteed for staff lines, since **stem lines** are in a different layer." ? Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: deleting invisible files in git

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
this possible failure. So once you've succeeded in dumping these duff entries, all you've actually done is remove their line in the git directory :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-devel mailing lis

Re: bar counters

2007-01-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
| c r g r | c r g r | c\f r g r | \tag #'tuba \barCounterOff Alternatively, you could add an option whereby you tell \barCounterOn what number to start counting at. Yep. This seems to be an easier solution since it moves the logic from lilypond to the user. Ch

Re: page-turning using correct page numbers

2007-01-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
page should be page 1 (this would give what you want, yes?). I have other things I want to do first, but I should manage it before 2.12. Yup, perfect :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-devel mailing list li

Re: bar counters

2007-01-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
hereby you tell \barCounterOn what number to start counting at. Werner Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: `:' vs `.' in doc files

2007-01-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
..". However, I'd suspect that usage is considered archaic. Unless you've been taught English grammar, you are unlikely to understand the usage of : and ;, and most kids nowadays are not taught grammar :-( Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Documentation - 8.2.4 Bar numbers

2006-06-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
means relegating the current showcased example to a "see also", then so be it. I know there's a conflict between a simple example and a good example, but when the simple example sets a bad example (which imho this does), then I'd rather have a good example. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony

Re: Documentation - Section 9 Changing Defaults

2006-06-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
s a documentation update and I was using the version before that (which was why I said it might have changed). It's great that you're sending feedback about the docs, but please check the most recent version before sending problem reports! - Graham I'll download the update, and s

Re: Feature request (?): Horizontal spacing

2005-03-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
n you're printing a part you want to try and put a page break by a multi-rest bar. I've not actually met that many but it's really infuriating when you have say four bars rest, two bars to play and then a tricky page turn (or a turn, a couple of bars and a long rest). Cheers, Wol

Re: easier LilyPond tutorial?

2005-03-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
basic instructions. Again, to me, that's basic computer literacy, but yes I understand it being beyond doze people. At the end of the day, the best way to learn is to have a guru handy nearby. Absent that, I personally find that worked examples are best. And one thing that lily lacks is a d

Re: lilypond-devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 21

2005-01-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
p written/photocopied-$DEITY-knows-how-often copy, I have to use the same conventions as the original ... :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them wi

Another convert-ly "bug"

2005-01-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
it because it wasn't needed, but never mind. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to

Documentation (was: Help! \mark, and lesson in Scheme)

2005-01-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erlend Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hello Anthony On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:10:36 +0000, Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... (And I want to create a "format-mark-barnumber" markFormatter too.) I agree with this. Many

Help! \mark, and lesson in Scheme

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
looking for examples. And I have yet to find ONE. Of the thirty or so pieces I've played since then, if they had an H, it was followed either by an I or the end of the piece. And while I haven't looked especially, I think the use of bar numbers outnumbers the use of numbers as a rehear

Re: bugs - 2.4.2 docu

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes That's as far as I've got so far :-) Thanks, all fixed in CVS. Found another one ... section 5.16.1 "This style is _in particular useful_ when" Presumably it should be _particularly

Re: a better convert-ly

2005-01-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
ome pretty neat abilities, such as remembering all your whitespacing :-) It would, actually, probably be one of the best tools to use, and it's Open Source (written in Java :-( Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell

bugs - 2.4.2 docu

2005-01-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the space isn't missing! And page 107, section 5.11.7. The example of "one ambitus per staff" to my mind is not one ambitus at all. It's two ambits almost on top of each other - one ambitus would just be ef'-g'' without the a' and b'. That's as

Re: battle-plan for 2.5 development

2004-11-21 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
", because they don't have one. Windows users should use jEdit. The appropriate syntax highlighting is default in jEdit. Actually, from choice I use PFE (Programmer's File Editor) :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how m

Re: Boxed bar numbers used as rehearsal marks

2004-11-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
;currentBarNumber) c1 \bar "||" \mark \default c1 c1 \mark \default c1 \bar "|." } } -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much

Re: battle-plan for 2.5 development

2004-11-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
uses to talk to it and I can no longer post. The result is, I've just dropped off the radar because although there is also a website, I almost never go there. (Not many other people do, either, I don't think.) A working email list is a damn sight better than a web forum, imnsho. Che

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