Re: A quest through the docs

2006-02-28 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > The only line that might need explanation is the line-width. These > commands obvious set values Sure. But sometimes we set values like this: indent = #0 and sometimes we set them like this: \set stanza = "1." or this: \set Score.markFormatter = #format

Re: bar-line-engraver and breakpoints

2006-02-28 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Joe Neeman: > Is there a reason why breaks are on by default and the barline engraver > forbids them whenever there is no bar line? It seems simpler for breaks > to be off by default and to have Paper_column_engraver acknowledge bar > lines by setting the current column to be breakable. Th

Re: A quest through the docs

2006-02-26 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > On 24-Feb-06, at 8:49 PM, Don Blaheta wrote: > > * 10.5.7 should have an example layout block like the following: > > \layout { > > indent = #0 > > line-width = #150 > > raggedlast = ##t > > } > > and explain

lp-book extra lines

2006-02-25 Thread Don Blaheta
When lilypond-book is generating a tex file, it should terminate all its generated lines with a %, e.g. \ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined% \relax% \else% \postLilyPondExample% \fi% }% Otherwise, if it comes exactly at the end of a very full page, it manages to stick an extra bla

Multiple layout blocks

2006-02-25 Thread Don Blaheta
So, having found raggedlast, I then wanted to apply it to only some of the snippets in a document. Unfortunately, I have my \layout block, which is big and otherwise identical between all the snippets, in an include file. And if I add an additional \layout block, it just lays the document out twi

A quest through the docs

2006-02-25 Thread Don Blaheta
I wanted to find out how to, for some snippets in a book, make the last line of the snippet not expand to its maximum width. I went to the table of contents briefly and found nothing, so I turned to the index. Nothing under "last", but I tried to do a browser find on "last", which turned up "ragg

Re: Combining diacriticals

2006-02-22 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Han-Wen Nienhuys: > Don Blaheta wrote: > > I want a character that is æ with an acute accent over it. Right now, I > > appear to have two choices: > > > > 1) Have æ followed by an acute accent (by typing æ and then "COMBINING > > ACUTE ACCENT&

Re: Removing the stem engraver?

2006-02-20 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > Quoting Don Blaheta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > >> Have you considered just making the stems invisible, as a workaround? > >> \override Stem #'transparent = ##t > > > > That's exactly how I work

Re: Removing the stem engraver?

2006-02-15 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > Quoting Don Blaheta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > >> Have you considered just making the stems invisible, as a workaround? > >> \override Stem #'transparent = ##t > > That's exactly how I work around it, bu

Re: Removing the stem engraver?

2006-02-14 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > Have you considered just making the stems invisible, as a workaround? > \override Stem #'transparent = ##t That's exactly how I work around it, but the results aren't exactly the same---slurs are rendered as if the stems were there. (This in turn can be worked around with

Removing the stem engraver?

2006-02-13 Thread Don Blaheta
When I run the following code, I get no syntax errors, but it doesn't work; it gets as far as "Calculated line breaks..." and then lilypond exits abnormally with exit code 246. If I remove any one of the lines marked with a "%---", it runs just fine. So it appears to be some sort of interaction b

Slurs in barless music

2006-02-12 Thread Don Blaheta
This is a problem I've been banging on for a while now, but this time I've been able to narrow it down. It seems that if the Bar_engraver is removed, Lilypond runs into problems rendering that span lines. The following code renders fine: \version "2.7.33" \score { \new Voice \relative c'

Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > It wouldn't make sense to let a user specify a context name > with \new, since then there is no longer any guarantee that > the context really is new, right? Also, if you want to name a > context, then you should use \context. Would it make sense to permit \new Foo = "bar",

Re: OS X linker errors

2006-02-06 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Jan Nieuwenhuizen: > Don Blaheta writes: > > > 5840 T FT_Load_Sfnt_Table > > > 59fc T _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table > > Your version has a leading underscore... So does the version the linker claims to be looking for. :P -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http:/

Re: OS X linker errors

2006-02-05 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Robert T Wyatt: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Don Blaheta writes: > >> "_FT_Load_Sfnt_Table" in, but it's not finding it:> > > > >> ld: Undefined symbols: > >> _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table > >> make[1]: *** [out/lilypond]

OS X linker errors

2006-02-04 Thread Don Blaheta
I solved my previous problem by editing , and everything compiled fine; then the linker is called and I get a raft of errors. It looks like there are conflicts between iconv and two different versions of intl, and I dont know which package it's expecting to find "_FT_Load_Sfnt_Table" in, but it's

Re: Missing isnan, isinf?

2006-02-04 Thread Don Blaheta
Primarily to the Mac OS X crowd: Ok, so I sat down and did some sleuthing work today. The reason the compiler thought isinf and isnan were never defined has to do with the layout of header . A trivial file that triggers the problem is #include using namespace std; int main () { if

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-02-02 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > On 31-Jan-06, at 12:55 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote: > > (I think there's a minor pedagogical point in saying \new Lyrics before > > \lyricsto, since the \new Lyrics really isn't a relevant argument of > > the music function, and because all other contexts start with > > context

Re: Missing isnan, isinf?

2006-02-02 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Johannes Schindelin: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Don Blaheta wrote: > > I can't quite figure out why, because flower/offset.cc includes > > flower/include/offset.hh, which includes flower/include/real.hh, which > > includes /usr/include/math.h, which includes (are

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-01-31 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > On 29-Jan-06, at 10:26 PM, Don Blaheta wrote: > > In 4.4 and 4.5, would it be better to say "A \score must contain > > exactly one music expression (possibly complex)"? Saying it must > > "begin with" a music expression isn&#x

Missing isnan, isinf?

2006-01-31 Thread Don Blaheta
I'm on OS X 10.3.9, with g++ version 3.3, trying to compile lilypond from CVS. Not that I ever got that working in the first place, but it's failing at a different place from the last time I poked around about a month ago: rm -f ./out/offset.dep; DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT="./out/offset.dep ./out/offs

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-01-29 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > I've written some more docs about file structure and writing lilypond > files. I've glossed over some issues in the interest of simplicity. > Before I advertise this on -user, could a few people take a look at the > docs? As I said, I've glossed over some issues --

Re: Guile, Mac OS X

2005-12-19 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Jan Nieuwenhuizen: > Don Blaheta writes: > > It seems I spoke a little early. Although the posted incantation > > satisfies configure that guile is present, it still doesn't seem to be > > configuring correctly. Here is the relevant section of the configure > &

Guile, Mac OS X

2005-12-18 Thread Don Blaheta
It seems I spoke a little early. Although the posted incantation satisfies configure that guile is present, it still doesn't seem to be configuring correctly. Here is the relevant section of the configure output: checking for guile-config... guile-1.6-config checking guile-1.6-config version

Re: Mac OS X and Fink and Pango (oh my)

2005-12-18 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Johannes Schindelin: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Don Blaheta wrote: > > I tried adding ":/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib/" to the end of my > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH, but this was not sufficient... does anyone know how I > > can I make configure find my pango installation? &g

Mac OS X and Fink and Pango (oh my)

2005-12-16 Thread Don Blaheta
I found the installation note on INSTALL.html about fink installations, and it resolved several of the problems I was about to email the list about; but there is still one library that configure is not finding. I think it's because there are a bunch of (incompatible?) versions of pango, depending

Re: Invisible notes, Scheme contexts

2005-12-13 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Don Blaheta: > I'll look at this, but it sounds like it's not going to address my > underlying misunderstanding, which may just be that I don't know how to > convert from a Schemish STRING_IDENTIFIER to a Lilypond LYRIC_STRING or > STRING. And relatedly: how

Re: Invisible notes, Scheme contexts

2005-12-13 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth I: > I've also been having trouble typing in such an id literally; if I > define a music function like > > foo = #(def-music-function (parser location str) (string?) > #{ \context Voice = $str { \override NoteHead #'font-size = #3 } > #}) > > and then include in my c

Re: Problem with slurs, removing stem engraver

2005-12-13 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Michael Welsh Duggan: > If I understand what you are trying to do, I have run into similar > problems. If you are trying to do what I will style (for lack of a > better term), "intermediate" chant notation (i.e., note heads only, > but using contemporary note heads with slurs as opposed to s

Problem with slurs, removing stem engraver

2005-12-12 Thread Don Blaheta
Ok, I found a bug of some sort, and as instructed on every damn page of the manual, I sent a report to bug-lilypond@gnu.org (why not [EMAIL PROTECTED]), which just got rejected because I'm not on that list. I was told to go to some page at gmane.org that took a minute and a half to load, requires

Re: Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

2005-12-12 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > For some reason, LilyPond gets confused by your construct > \new Voice { > \relative { > \time 6/4 > \key f \major > \context Voice = "refrain" { ... > > If you replace \new Voice by \context Voice = refrain in your \score > block, then the alignment of both s

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-12 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Han-Wen Nienhuys: > Don Blaheta wrote: > > When you type something that produces a bit of music, that musical thing > > is normally placed immediately after the thing you typed previously, and > > only for sequential music. Try > > \score { << a b c d

Re: Polyphony lyrics

2005-12-12 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > Probably since the Voice context "1" created for the c, dies directly > after that note, since there are no more events directly following the c. > Then when the g appears, a new Voice context with the same name is > created but since the earlier one with a same name has alr

Re: An overview of the system

2005-12-11 Thread Don Blaheta
tuff mixed in, and I might be getting it wrong to boot. ;) Quoth Erik Sandberg: > On Sunday 11 December 2005 07.33, Don Blaheta wrote: > > A context is an environment into which you enter your music; it can be > > created anonymously (\new) or named (\context). If you create a new >