Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > Concur with graham that it's all subjective and flame material. > > I prefer Fedora, because I like being on the bleeding edge and hurting > myself. Of the somewhat major distributions, I seem to remember SuSE, Mandriva and Knoppix to have sort of closed development.

Fw: CTAN has a new package: figbas

2009-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
W.r.t the current discussion this might be of interest. Werner --- Begin Message --- This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..

Re: Implement framework for post-fix text (de)cresc spanners

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/7 Reinhold Kainhofer : > 4)  cresc = #(make-music 'CrescendoEvent 'span-direction START 'spanner-text > "cresc.") I favour this version since its the least ambiguous; there's no risk of a user trying to make e.g. a 'CrescendoEvent with 'descrescendo-text. > In particular, the question is

Re: Help on handling both rests and notes in one engraver

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/9 Carl D. Sorensen : > Over the past few months, several people have asked for a "N.C." notation to > be part of the ChordNames context. > > It occurred to me that using r to generate a "N.C." would be logically > consistent -- the music gets a rest, the chord name gets a "N.C.".  And if a >

Re: Help on handling both rests and notes in one engraver

2009-05-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/9/09 1:58 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/5/9 Carl D. Sorensen : >> Over the past few months, several people have asked for a "N.C." notation to >> be part of the ChordNames context. >> >> It occurred to me that using r to generate a "N.C." would be logically >> consistent -- the music

Re: Help on handling both rests and notes in one engraver

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/9 Carl D. Sorensen : > Similar to the  Bass_Figure_engraver, I don't think I want to use > ASSIGN_EVENT_ONCE (), because even if I have polyphonic rests, I just want > one N.C. symbol. << { r4 } { r8 r } >> will result in two no-chord symbols unless you assign it once. > No, I'm proposin

Re: [PATCH] SVG backend improvement

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/7 Patrick McCarty : > Does anyone have any comments about this patch? The SVG source is much easier to read. :) I don't know anything about SVG, so I can only comment on the scheme code: You're compiling the regexp each time the function's called; would it be better to define it outside

Re: Help on handling both rests and notes in one engraver

2009-05-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/9/09 2:44 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/5/9 Carl D. Sorensen : > >> Similar to the  Bass_Figure_engraver, I don't think I want to use >> ASSIGN_EVENT_ONCE (), because even if I have polyphonic rests, I just want >> one N.C. symbol. > > << { r4 } { r8 r } >> > > will result in two no

tempoMark - documentation and use

2009-05-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
I've got a problem with this ... I don't know if it's been dealt with in the documentation but in the 2.12.2 manual section 4.3 (and 12.1.2), this function still uses no-spacing-rods, which 2.12 doesn't support. I was advised to use extra-spacing-width so I'm not affected, but anyone who copie

[PATCH]: Add N.C. to ChordNames when rest is in music

2009-05-09 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Please review this patch that adds N.C. notations to the ChordNames context. Patch set 2 is the current patch set. http://codereview.appspot.com/62076 Thanks, Carl ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l