Re: [PATCH] page-number-format

2006-07-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Guido Amoruso schreef: Hi, here is a patch to choose the format of page numbers, setting a \paper variable "page-number-format" to "arabic" (default), "roman", "Roman" (see LaTeX) or to a "int->string" closure. If it if accepted, I will definitely backport it to 2.8: which is the preferred proc

Re: [PATCH] paper size

2006-07-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Guido Amoruso schreef: Hi, setting non standard page dimensions (with paper-width, paper-height) works in the ps output, but does not in the pdf or png, because of the "-sPAPERSIZE" option passed to the "gs" command. I've made a patch to invoke gs with "-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS" and "dDEVICEHEIGHTPOI

Updating translators

2006-07-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
Hi, The attached patch makes it possible for translators to listen to stream events directly. 1. Stream events are now probs, with 'class as the only immutable property. 2. Music::send_to_context now sends two stream events for each music event: One old-style OldMusicEvent, and one MusicEvent. T

Re: Problem with \partial

2006-07-07 Thread Graham Percival
Juergen Reuter wrote: For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes. Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" somewhere within a piece. If lily nevertheless accepts it within a

Re: Problem with \partial

2006-07-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 07 July 2006 16:34, Graham Percival wrote: > Juergen Reuter wrote: > > For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the > > last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes. > > Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" some

Re: Problem with \partial

2006-07-07 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Graham Percival wrote: In my example, I _did_ state \noTimeSignature c4 c c c | d d d d \partial 4 d | c c c c ... and some contemporary music may want to change the number of beats in a bar without changing the notated time signature. Whatever we think of that practice

Re: Problem with partial

2006-07-07 Thread Juergen Reuter
Ah, ok; I understand. Still, I think that using \partial in this situation is kind of abuse that accidentally works. I guess the real problem here is that lily models repeat signs as bar lines; but I am also wondering how a repeat sign should actually look like, if it does not coincide with