Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME - top-system top-system top-title top-markup between-title markup-markup after-titlemarkup-system between-system system-system bef

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread James
Hello, On 12/10/2010 10:13, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME - top-system top-system top-title top-markup between-title markup-markup after-title markup-system between-system system-system before-title system-mar

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
James writes: > Hello, > > On 12/10/2010 10:13, Alexander Kobel wrote: >> On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: >>> CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME >>> - >>> top-system top-system >>> top-title top-markup >>> between-title markup-markup >>> after-title markup-system >>> bet

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
On Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:54 David Kastrup wrote: > James writes: > >>> top-system top-system > >>> top-title top-markup > >>> between-title markup-markup > >>> after-title markup-system > >>> between-system system-system > >>> before-title system-markup > >>> bottom-system system-bottom > >>> betwee

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread James
Hello, On 12/10/2010 12:54, David Kastrup wrote: James writes: Hello, On 12/10/2010 10:13, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME - top-system top-system top-title top-markup between-title markup-markup after-titl

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, > I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to really > get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh you mean the > stuff with the notes in...we call that a 'score' where I come from. The entire music engraving world -- not just Lilypond, bu

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-12 14:27, James wrote: On 12/10/2010 12:54, David Kastrup wrote: James writes: Why do we have 'top-system' but 'system-bottom' and not instead, 'bottom-system'? Because there is no system after the bottom? ? I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code develope

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
James wrote Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:27 PM On 12/10/2010 12:54, David Kastrup wrote: James writes: Hello, On 12/10/2010 10:13, Alexander Kobel wrote: On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME - top-system top-system top-title top-mar

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Kobel writes: > On 2010-10-09 17:46, Mark Polesky wrote: >> CURRENT NAME PROPOSED NAME >> - >> top-system top-system >> top-title top-markup >> between-title markup-markup >> after-titlemarkup-sys

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Polesky
David Kastrup wrote: > The main problem I see with that naming scheme is that it > does not reflect score sheet design, but the current > implementation. > > [...] > > So the proposed scheme ties something presented as document > spacing parameters into internal details of their > implementation.

Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Holmes
wrote in message news:0016e6435382308cfc04925d9...@google.com... On 2010/10/11 18:18:37, dak wrote: python/convertrules.py:2992: _ ("\\RemoveEmpty*StaffContext -> \*Staff \\RemoveEmptyStaves")) Any particular reason that \*Staff does not get the backslash doubled as well? The reason was that

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Polesky writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> The main problem I see with that naming scheme is that it >> does not reflect score sheet design, but the current >> implementation. >> >> [...] >> >> So the proposed scheme ties something presented as document >> spacing parameters into internal de

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > >I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code > >developer), > > I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musician. > System and score are not synonomous. A system is a "line" > of music which includes the

Re: What is the beef with \longa stems?

2010-10-12 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:01 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > why are longas treated specially? Though I don't know how to answer that question, I suspect the answer might help solve http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=826 Yours Pondly, Valentin _

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/10/10 00:55, Graham Percival wrote: >> Why not push it as one patch? It seems like all of those pieces need >> > to be accomplished in order to have a fully-buildable release (i.e. if the >> > variable names in lilypond don't match the variable names in the docs, >> > make doc will fail. >

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi James, > >> I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to really >> get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh you mean the >> stuff with the notes in...we call that a 'score' where I come from. > The en

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, "Wols Lists" wrote: > On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> Hi James, >> >>> I still think a *user* (not programmer or code developer) is going to really >>> get frustrated when they don't know what a system is i.e... 'oh you mean the >>> stuff with the notes in.

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/10/10 22:05, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: >>> I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code >>> developer), >> I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musician. >> System and score are not synonomous. A syste

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-13 00:20, Wols Lists wrote: On 12/10/10 14:02, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi James, [...] If Lilypond users are confused because they don't have an understanding of that basic and universal terminology, they should read (1) some engraving books, and (2) the Lilypond introductory doc

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:23:49PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, "Wols Lists" wrote: > > > For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a > > computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the > > man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memor

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote: Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously. But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-) "Stave" or "staff"?! Are these identical? I tho

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/10 4:27 PM, "Wols Lists" wrote: > On 12/10/10 22:05, Graham Percival wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: I'll stop if I am really showing my ignorance (I am not a code developer), >>> I'm afraid you're showing your ignorance as a musici

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45:33AM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote: > >Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of > >music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously. > >But that all depends on how you understa

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/10 4:51 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:45:33AM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: >> On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote: >>> Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of >>> music, and a system as a group of linked staves played sim

RE: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread James Lowe
Hello It's OK, I am not offended. I am sure that none of it was meant maliciously. So don't fret, I am sure I'll be showing my ignorance again in the future on these lists. =8 ) As I said to Trevor earlier, the conductor of my orchestra (and wind band) gives me a score to play not a system, w

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival Yes, but I see some weaknesses in our docs. - Glossary: staff should link to system - Glossary: both staff and system could benefit from images - Learning: add some link(s) to Glossary: system. Currently we have none! gperc...@futoi:~/src/lilypond/Documentation/learning$ git

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/10/10 23:44, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:23:49PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, "Wols Lists" wrote: >> >>> For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a >>> computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the >>> man-i

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/10/10 23:45, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote: >> Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of >> music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously. >> But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-)

lilypond-book safe mode

2010-10-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hello lilypond developers, please would you consider to accept the patch attached in http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1281 for the next release? We would like to add direct support for lilypond inside LyX but for security reasons we need that people can't use lilypond code in a

Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:17:44PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > wrote in message > news:0016e6435382308cfc04925d9...@google.com... > >On 2010/10/11 18:18:37, dak wrote: > >>python/convertrules.py:2992: _ ("\\RemoveEmpty*StaffContext -> \*Staff > >>\\RemoveEmptyStaves")) > >>Any particular reason th

Re: lilypond-book safe mode

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:30:32AM +, Pavel Sanda wrote: > please would you consider to accept the patch attached in > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1281 > for the next release? Unfortunately our development resources are so stretched that I cannot make any guarantees. H

Re: lilypond-book safe mode

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/10 9:30 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:30:32AM +, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> please would you consider to accept the patch attached in >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1281 >> for the next release? > > Unfortunately our development resou

Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/12/10 9:28 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:17:44PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: >> wrote in message >> news:0016e6435382308cfc04925d9...@google.com... >>> On 2010/10/11 18:18:37, dak wrote: python/convertrules.py:2992: _ ("\\RemoveEmpty*StaffContext -> \*Staf

Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:58:42PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > it is "staff" and "staves", according to the GDP rules: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-09/msg00240.html Thanks! James, could you send me a patch for the CG? > Of course, Neil considered that a US bias

systems (was: names of vertical spacing dimensions)

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:20:04AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham Percival > > >I would recommend adding this to Learning 2 Tutorial. Maybe > >somewhere in 2.3 Multiple notes at once; maybe somewhere in > >2.5 Final touches. I'll let somebody else think about it in more > >detail and p

system (was: names of vertical spacing dimensions)

2010-10-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:18:37PM -0400, James Lowe wrote: > As an instrument player (as opposed to a singer or 'vocalist') > who has neither conducted or composed anything more than a few > 'dittys' I can see how this would be the case where I have never > come across the term system. For the re