Re: Notation Reference doc addition: Techniques Specific to Lyrics

2013-03-09 Thread David Kastrup
Guy Stalnaker writes: > Add to this page after the section for Divisi lyrics at the bottom: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics > > The following is based on this page for Temporary polyphonic passages. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documenta

Re: doc-addition: the full lilypond command line withoptions+redirections

2010-08-18 Thread -Eluze
nd. I will reluctantly agree to adding something like this >> at the bottom of some section: > > Done > > Trevor > > > > ___ > lilypond-devel mailing list > lilypond-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > > -- View this message in

Re: doc-addition: the full lilypond command line withoptions+redirections

2010-08-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 13, 2010 7:28 AM On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:05:38PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: The lilypond executable may be called as follows from the command line. lilypond [option]... file...[[1]>file.log] [2>file.txt] 1> and 2> (and, for the matter, &> ) have nothin

Re: doc-addition: the full lilypond command line with options+redirections

2010-08-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:05:38PM -0700, -Eluze wrote: > > The lilypond executable may be called as follows from the command line. > > lilypond [option]... file...[[1]>file.log] [2>file.txt] 1> and 2> (and, for the matter, &> ) have nothing to do with lilypond. I will reluctantly agree to add

doc-addition: the full lilypond command line with options+redirections

2010-08-12 Thread -Eluze
that direct their output to that file? if you feel this is overloading the simple invocation used before this could be added at the very end of this section. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/doc-addition%3A-the-full-lilypond-command-line-with-options%2Bredirections-tp29423

Re: doc-addition for -o / --output

2010-08-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Eluze wrote Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:54 PM if you specify a folder name as output option the output will be directed to that folder and the name of the file is preserved so i suggest the following change/addition - or similar - in the application usage manual: 1.2 Command-line usage Comm

Re: doc-addition for -o / --output

2010-08-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:49:24PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Eluze wrote Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:54 PM > >> if you specify a folder name as output option the output will be >> directed to >> that folder and the name of the file is preserved > I don't know, but I'm reluctant to cement th

Re: doc-addition for -o / --output

2010-08-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Eluze wrote Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:54 PM happenstance or intention? I don't know, but I'm reluctant to cement this change into the docs until someone confirms it is working as intended. Looks useful though. Thanks for pointing it out. if you specify a folder name as output option the o

doc-addition for -o / --output

2010-08-10 Thread -Eluze
lilypond -o,--output=FILE or FOLDER Set the default output file to FILE. The appropriate suffix will be added (e.g. .pdf for pdf) if a folder of that name exists, output will be directed to FOLDER (keeping the file name) thanks! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/doc

Re: doc-addition for -I / --include

2010-08-09 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thanks Eluze. Edited in and pushed to git. Trevor - Original Message - From: "-Eluze" To: Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:43 PM Subject: doc-addition for -I / --include in AU, chapter 1.2 Command-line usage, Invoking Lilypond http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documenta

doc-addition for -I / --include

2010-08-09 Thread -Eluze
http://old.nabble.com/doc-addition-for--I-include-tp29389836p29389836.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Doc addition: glossary, meter

2008-08-06 Thread Peter Chubb
In the glossary of the online-documentation for 2.11, section `meter' there are two additions it'd be worth making. 1. The UK spelling is `metre' 2. The `meter' (or metre) header line for hymn music refers to the the arrangement of syllables into lines for the corresponding lyrics. Metre

doc addition: glossary, `stringendo'

2008-08-06 Thread Peter Chubb
In the glossary, please add `stringendo'. It means, Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax. (webster). It should probably cross-reference accelerando. As I understand it, accelerando means a gradual speeding up; stringendo a more rapid one. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu

Re: Doc addition - make-pango-font-tree

2008-02-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
On 07/02/2008, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 2008/2/7, Mats Bengtsson : > > Keeping the description at a cookbook level, as you propose, is one > > alternative. Probably the worst one. :-) But a good conversation starter, I hope. > > Another alternative is to describe more clearly what the different

Re: Doc addition - make-pango-font-tree

2008-02-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/2/7, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Keeping the description at a cookbook level, as you propose, is one > alternative. > Another alternative is to describe more clearly what the different > parameters > actually mean. So, the e-mail message that Risto cites is a bit on the obtuse side

Re: Doc addition - make-pango-font-tree

2008-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Risto Vääräniemi wrote: Should the Section 1.8.2 Text markup - Font selection have a text describing how the make-pango-font-tree parameters should be used. Something like: If the set-global-staff-size is used for changing the global staff size, the \myStaffSize should be set to the same

Doc addition - make-pango-font-tree

2008-02-07 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear All, In 2006 Eyolf made a extensive study about the combined effect of the set-global-staff-size and the Pango font definitions in make-pango-font-tree [1]. It seems that this manual section has not been yet updated. I was struggling with the same thing yesterday and because I've got no inter

Re: Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-17 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
...in which case it would seem to be almost completely useless. (If it needs to be restated after every use, then one may as well just end the spanner manually.) Oh yes it can be useful : begin code % \version "2.11.34" music = { c'1 \tag #'oboe \endSpanners d'1 \< \tag #'

Re: Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-17 Thread Mark Knoop
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The only "documentation" of \endSpanners available in the LilyPond > distribution today is the regression test example called > music-function-end-spanners.ly > > A quick look at the implementation reveals that the \endSpanner function > takes one argument, which is a music

Re: Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-16 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: I describe the behavior below and then suggest a small doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text Spanners" at the end of this mail. Thanks, added. I didn't include any changes from Maximilian; if you want to clarify anything, please send another doc addition. C

Re: Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
ners", immediately before the "see also"? %%% BEGIN DOC ADDITION %%% The music function \endSpanners terminates spanners and hairpins after exactly one note. \new Staff { \endSpanners c'2 \startTextSpan c'2 c'2 \< c'2 } When using \endSpanners

Re: Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-16 Thread Maximilian Albert
Trevor Bača wrote: So that's a brief explanation of the function. Could you please insert the following at the very bottom of 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners", immediately before the "see also"? %%% BEGIN DOC ADDITION %%% The music function \endSpanners terminates sp

Doc addition to 8.1.2 "Text and line spanners" ... concerning \endSpanners

2007-10-16 Thread Trevor Bača
with trill spanners. I haven't, unfortunately, been able to produce a definitive answer to Risto's question; *but*, I did discover a new spanner-related music function that has somehow escaped announcement and documentation. I describe the behavior below and then suggest a small doc add

Re: Doc addition for 11.1.2 "Page formatting"

2007-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Bača wrote: Could I suggest the following verbatim change to 11.1.2 "Page formatting"? Thanks, added. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Doc addition for 11.1.2 "Page formatting"

2007-04-03 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi Graham, Could I suggest the following verbatim change to 11.1.2 "Page formatting"? There are three small changes: 1. The introduction of a "Commonly tweaked properties" section to introduce ly/paper-defaults.ly and ly/titling-init.ly. 2. The move of the "Example" section immediately followi

Re: doc addition

2007-01-20 Thread Graham Percival
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Created as a plugin for the jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) text editor LilyPondTool is the most feature-rich text-based tool for editing LilyPond scores. Its features include a Document Wizard with lyrics support to set up documents easier, and embedded PDF viewer with advance

Re: doc addition

2007-01-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Ok :-) Let's make 2nd try: Created as a plugin for the jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) text editor LilyPondTool is the most feature-rich text-based tool for editing LilyPond scores. Its features include a Document Wizard with lyrics support to set up documents easier, and embedded PDF viewer with a

Re: doc addition

2007-01-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bertalan Fodor escreveu: > In section 13.6 Editor support I propose the following modifications. > > -- > > - Because LilyPondTool has the most most features and generally (at > least on Windows platforms) it requires almost no configuration, I would > list it as the first. > - Remove

doc addition

2007-01-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor
In section 13.6 Editor support I propose the following modifications. -- - Because LilyPondTool has the most most features and generally (at least on Windows platforms) it requires almost no configuration, I would list it as the first. - Remove the jEdit part and write the followi

Re: Doc addition

2007-01-02 Thread Graham Percival
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: An addition for the manual in section 10.3.1 "Creating MIDI Files" after the second sentence Thanks, that's perfect. Added to git. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.or

Doc addition

2007-01-02 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
An addition for the manual in section 10.3.1 "Creating MIDI Files" after the second sentence [The tempo is specified using the \tempo command. In this example the tempo of quarter notes is set to 72 beats per minute.] The tempo specification can not take dotted note lengths as an argumen

Re: Doc addition

2006-12-30 Thread Graham Percival
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Here's a small addition for the docs. It is intended to go in Section 8.2.3 (Rehearsal marks) after the sentence "You may use Thanks, added. - Graham ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.or

Doc addition

2006-12-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Here's a small addition for the docs. It is intended to go in Section 8.2.3 (Rehearsal marks) after the sentence "You may use format-mark-barnumbers, format-mark-box-barnumbers, and format-mark-circle-barnumbers to get bar numbers instead of incremented numbers or letters." Given the overlap of su

Re: Fwd: doc addition re. font sizes

2006-12-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival escreveu: >>> parameters to >>> make-pango-font-tree really mean. I guess we all have just started >>> from an >>> example and tried to play around with it to try to figure it out. >> >> Yes. This is quite hazy, and also quite important, so I definitely >> think it should be include

Re: Fwd: doc addition re. font sizes

2006-12-24 Thread Graham Percival
Eyolf Ostrem wrote: On Thu 21 December 2006 08:56, Mats Bengtsson wrote: See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-12/msg00351.html for example. Yes, that's an important bit of information to add; I cursed quite a lot before I figured that one out... http://lilypond.org/web/

Re: Fwd: doc addition re. font sizes

2006-12-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Eyolf Ostrem wrote: Note that if you also change the default font family for the entire document, as described in 8.1.7 Font selection, some extra steps are needed. Could you check the current manual about this tidbit? I confess that I don't understand the font stu

Re: Fwd: doc addition re. font sizes

2006-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
Eyolf Ostrem wrote: I sent this to the lilypond-devel list, but it doesn't seem to have come through. Thanks! However... (see below) 10.5.1 Setting global staff size: To set the global staff size, use set-global-staff-size. #(set-global-staff-size 14) This sets the global default si

Re: Doc addition

2006-08-19 Thread Graham Percival
Markus Schneider wrote: in "9.1.2 Setting automatic beam behavior" I'd like to propose a doc addition regarding automatic beam behaviour for 'unusual' time signatures. (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-automatic- beam-behavior.html#Settin

Doc addition

2006-08-07 Thread Markus Schneider
Hello all, in "9.1.2 Setting automatic beam behavior" I'd like to propose a doc addition regarding automatic beam behaviour for 'unusual' time signatures. (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-automatic- beam-behavior.html#Setting-automatic-be

Re: Doc addition

2006-08-04 Thread Graham Percival
Markus Schneider wrote: This also applies partially to "6.4.5 Bar lines" in the current doc. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond.html#Bar-lines Could you link to the single-node version of this page? Loading it is much faster than loading the all-in-one page. :) A vis

Re: Doc addition

2006-08-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Markus Schneider wrote: In the program reference regarding the bar-line-interface http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals.html#bar-line-interface there is one type of bar lines missing: "||:" Thanks! I have added it to the documentation. This also applies par

Doc addition

2006-08-03 Thread Markus Schneider
In the program reference regarding the bar-line-interface http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals.html#bar-line-interface there is one type of bar lines missing: "||:" This also applies partially to "6.4.5 Bar lines" in the current doc. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Docu

Re: doc addition: lilypond-book and ties/slurs/... continuing past the end of fragment

2006-06-01 Thread Graham Percival
On 31-May-06, at 9:15 AM, Vaclav Smilauer wrote: I suggest adding the following to "13.2 Integrating LaTeX and music", as Thanks, added! I didn't include the example graphic, due to technical difficulties in generating the image inside the texinfo manual. However, I think it's clear enoug

doc addition: lilypond-book and ties/slurs/... continuing past the end of fragment

2006-05-31 Thread Vaclav Smilauer
I suggest adding the following to "13.2 Integrating LaTeX and music", as an extra feature. It would be useful for HTML and texinfo as well, but this works for LaTeX only. Best regards, Vaclav Smilauer --- Sometimes, it is useful to display music elements as if they continued after the end of th

Re: Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-May-06, at 4:49 AM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Okay, here's an updated version of my suggested entry. The horizontal location of rehearsal marks can be adjusted by setting break-align-symbol: Thanks, added to CVS. - Graham ___ lilypond-deve

Re: Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:22:48PM +1000, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Okay, here's an updated version of my suggested entry. ** The horizontal location of rehearsal marks can be adjusted by setting break-align-symbol: \relative { c1 \key cis \major \clef alto \overrid

Re: Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Cameron Horsburgh schreef: I've had a look at the note in the 2.8 News file about the new rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol. > It seems to say everything that's needed, but I'm wondering if we need > a list of possible values. The example shows key-signature and clef---where can I find the others? Che

Doc addition: Rehearsal Mark Alignment

2006-05-22 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
I've had a look at the note in the 2.8 News file about the new rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol. It seems to say everything that's needed, but I'm wondering if we need a list of possible values. The example shows key-signature and clef---where can I find the others? I've also noticed that the explanati