Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

2009-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
be carved out as an independent project. Another less scientific endeavor but probably with a larger user base would be accordion support: input language support of bass/chord/fingering, chord identification, chord typesetting in various styles (European, American, French). -- David Kastrup ___

Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

2009-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
ut that is no longer supported by either lilypond or convert-ly). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

2009-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
people well-acquainted with a particular instrument and/or playing style. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

2009-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:36:12PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Obviously, one wants something like that when converting tunes to >> tabulature. In the course of that, one might also want to be able to >> insert algorithms for thin

Re: Scheme help for lyric align on vowel

2009-01-27 Thread David Kastrup
> Can anybody help me figure out how to do this? As far as I can see, it's > not possible. Definitely impossible. map returns a list with the same number of elements as its input. Why do you need to use map in this manner? -- David Kastrup

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
get sidetracked to a degree where the task for which the tool was built got left on the wayside. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
sponsible for the PDFTeX bug reports concerning output files of more than 2GB size. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
mpressive part is not the absolute size of the PDF file — as you > note, there are many larger PDFs out there — but the size of the > *LILYPOND-GENERATED* PDF. I would not mind having smaller output created. With probably a thousand elements per page, I am not sure tha

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-05 Thread David Kastrup
days, > that the source code has more or less stopped evolving, I can also do > it manually) Since git-archive accepts the formats "tar" as well as "zip", it would seem like a repo server configuration issue (I tried the obvious sf=zip in the above link, and got an e

Shouldn't the ambitus engraver prefer his key signature?

2009-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
t; <> \key c \major <> <> <> <> \key g \major <> <> <> <> \key d \major <> <> <> <> \key a \major <> <> <> <> \key e \major <> <> <> <> \key h \major <> <> <> <> \key fis \major <> <> <> <> } The output looks as follows: <> -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Shouldn't the ambitus engraver prefer his key signature?

2009-02-14 Thread David Kastrup
"Anthony W. Youngman" writes: > In message <863aeipe74@lola.quinscape.zz>, David Kastrup > writes >> >>Hi, >> >>the ambitus engraver seemingly picks the first maximum/minimum in the >>note sequence and stays with it even when the same ab

Re: starting 2.13 soon

2009-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
orturers. > ... yeah, sometimes even *I* can't make up stories weirder than > real life. You have a room in your underwear? Please no puns about wormholes. All the best, -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: starting 2.13 soon

2009-02-24 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:22:30PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >> > Ok, I've just modified the VERSION file with a great fanfare. And >> > by "great fanfare" I mean sitting in my roo

Re: [PATCH] Completion_heads_engraver broken?

2009-02-26 Thread David Kastrup
(shiftamount) here, but -shiftamount since you already tested the sign. Also the comment is misleading: x << -2 is _not_ necessarily zero as the comment proclaims, but rather is unspecified IIRC. It _could_ have worked by chance and/or the whim o

Bug or feature?

2009-03-08 Thread David Kastrup
hordNames { \time 3/4 \partial 4 \mychords } \new FretBoards { \mychords } \new Voice { \notes } \addlyrics { \textlyrics } >> } \score { \fullscore } \score { \transpose c g { \fullscore } } -- David Kastrup _

Debugging/showing internal stuff?

2009-03-08 Thread David Kastrup
ser): #f ABORT: (wrong-type-arg) guile> What gives? What should I rather write here? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Bug or feature?

2009-03-09 Thread David Kastrup
"Carl D. Sorensen" writes: > On 3/8/09 6:10 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > >> >> >> Hi, I have no idea whether or not the following result is user error or >> a misfeature. When typesetting the following, in the transposed variant >>

Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-09 Thread David Kastrup
nstalled tree contains no info files with images. What point is there in complaining that Linux distributions tend to omit the images when there is no working Makefile target that would get them there, and when the instructions that the Makefile gives out don't even work? -- David Kastrup

Re: Debugging/showing internal stuff?

2009-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave writes: > 2009/3/8 David Kastrup : >> >> Hi, using a file debug.ly with the contents >> >> #(top-repl) >> >> I can get an interactive guile prompt. > > Wow, I didn't know you can do that! Where on Earth is such a cool > feat

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
me subdirectory make targets one cannot fathom and/or require running some other unnoticeable dependencies first. It might be nice if some developers made it into a habit to try building from a freshly checked out tree from time to time without reverting to their secret knowledge. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup a écrit : >> John Mandereau writes: >> >>> ..and input/lsr too. I added toplevel info and intall-info target. >>> >> No, you didn't. > Oops, I meant info-install. I don't think that is

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
"Carl D. Sorensen" writes: > On 3/13/09 4:51 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> >> It might be nice if some developers made it into a habit to try >> building from a freshly checked out tree from time to time without >> reverting to their secret kno

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Cameron Horsburgh writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:50:23PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> make && sudo make install > >> >> does not work. > > These work fine for me. They don't make much in the way of > documentation (which is a g

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup a écrit : >> I don't think that is standard usage. install-info would be the norm >> when available. >> > Will fix this, but see below my request. > > >>>> make install bombs out, anyway: >>>>

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> It is a bit disappointing since the info documentation with images is >> essential for really getting moving smoothly with Lilypond, and the >> procedure for producing them is so broke

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
quot; is not a problem, no. It is just inefficient if everyone with a possible interest of improving things has to move through the same bottlenecks before starting. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:50:23PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Anyway, as it stands, there is no documentation in obvious places about >> how to make things run, the build procedures are highly non-standard, >> the targets are non-standard. >&

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-15 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup a écrit : >> John Mandereau writes: >> >>> What does "grep NCSB config.make" (at top of the build tree) does say? >>> >> >> NCSB_SOURCE_FILES = /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/c059036l.pfb &

Re: Debugging/showing internal stuff?

2009-03-15 Thread David Kastrup
'duration > (ly:make-duration 2 0 1 1) > 'pitch > (ly:make-pitch 0 5 0)) I think that some version of this trick should definitely make it into the manual, propably in lilypond-internals? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Op zaterdag 14-03-2009 om 15:31 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David > Kastrup: > >> If compiling Lilypond from source with default >> settings means not getting the full docs, this is what all major >> distributions will distribute > >

Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > 2009/3/16 David Kastrup : > >>> The problems with fixing a build system is that it is a major time >>> sink without any obvious benefits, >> >> Well, one need not replace the innards.  However, adapting the names of >> th

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-03-16 Thread David Kastrup
of Lilypond's strengths that it has a better conceptual grasp of music than, say, MusiXTeX. So it is a bad sign in my opinion when changes in the input are hard to consistently make it to MIDI. Even when one does not want to see MIDI as an output device (an

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> So it would appear to be a problem that fc-match first finds the true >> type fonts installed by Canorus, and then this first match is >> subsequently thrown away by grep -v. >> >> So I think you need to figure o

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > John Mandereau writes: > >> David Kastrup wrote: >>> So it would appear to be a problem that fc-match first finds the true >>> type fonts installed by Canorus, and then this first match is >>> subsequently thrown away by grep -v. &g

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup a écrit : >> Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository. So >> reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it. >> And then it is likely that the version I'll be able to find will be >

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > John Mandereau writes: > >> David Kastrup a écrit : >>> Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository. So >>> reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it. >>> And then it is likely that t

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > If one uses the --sort option, one gets dozens of fonts. The Type1 font > is at the second place and increasingly dissimilar fallbacks follow. > The fontformat= entry does not seem to change anything any which way. > Using foundry=urw in contrast help

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
installed in a preferred setting? Namely: do we actually need the URW fonts and nothing else, or do we need something that the system installation is prepared to call "Century Schoolbook"? If for some reason, only the URW version of those fonts is acceptable, the foundry

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
. I have no idea whether newer versions of Debian packagings of Canorus will mangle the font installation in different ways or install TrueType fonts at all. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
of some of those fonts, system-wide. The Lilypond configure command finds some of those truetype fonts via fc-match in preference of the usual Type1 versions coming with GhostScript. This causes compilation of Lilypond to fail. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
ceptable. However, Werner made it sound like Lilypond should come with its own version of the fonts and use that, in which case it would seem sort of pointless looking for the system-wide installation of those fonts. So while the above patch fixes the symptom for the particular configuration with which I encountered the problem, it may be possible that we are barking up the wrong tree altogether trying to find the right system font. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: linux distro recommendations?

2009-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
losed development. With most of the rest, however, the bleeding edge is readily available as an option, if I am not mistaken. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: PDF Problem

2009-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
orks. I'm a > musician, not a developer. I suppose you are mostly playing solo. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: PDF Problem

2009-05-12 Thread David Kastrup
phrase is not to the point. If you insist on being rude and off-putting (namely a "Complete A-Hole"), you could at least reflect the essence by paraphrasing this "How to address Complete A-Holes if you intend to make them do work for you". -- David Kastrup ___

Re: Using .ily for included lilypond files

2009-05-17 Thread David Kastrup
hile parsing the given expression (and loads internally some .ily file once with the required information if necessary, retaining it for further switches). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Using .ily for included lilypond files

2009-05-17 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > 2009/5/17 David Kastrup : >> \notelanguage "english" { ... } >> >> which switches the parser to english language while parsing the given >> expression (and loads internally some .ily file once with the required >> informa

Re: Using .ily for included lilypond files

2009-05-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Francisco Vila writes: > >> 2009/5/17 David Kastrup : >>> \notelanguage "english" { ... } >>> >>> which switches the parser to english language while parsing the given >>> expression (and loads internally some .il

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-06-01 Thread David Kastrup
uld appear that his approach was foiled by kinks in the current implementation, and the long-term solution should prefer getting rid of kinks rather than adding new ones. Note that I don't have any actual knowledge of the code: it is just that this conversat

Re: unexpected \unfoldRepeats behavior

2009-06-07 Thread David Kastrup
e is no point in offering a half-broken feature and not fix it, claiming that it was a bad idea in the first place. So either the external repeat structure feature should be removed or fixed. Everything else is asking for trouble and problem reports and is causing the

Re: ppppp but no fffff

2009-06-19 Thread David Kastrup
orchestra, frowns, and says "Forte, messieurs les brass, forte!" They play again. The conductor waves them off, frowns more, and says "Forte, I say!". They give everything they can. The conductor stops again, furious, and hisses "Forte, no

Re: updating GPL to version 3?

2009-07-01 Thread David Kastrup
But it avoids stifling the legal situation at some later point of time. > However, I am somewhat naive regarding a lot of this. Copyright and its execution and things like "estoppel" and "dirty hands" have gone completely bonkers.

Re: Adding note color handling to musicxml2ly

2009-07-15 Thread David Kastrup
for non-Unicode string literals. I consider this imprudent. At the very least, I don't think it a good idea to rely on \o to make it through unmolested in all future versions of Python. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [PATCH] autochange.scm: Use averaged chord pitches to determine staff.

2009-07-22 Thread David Kastrup
after considering the signature, so an f flat counts as higher as an e sharp, never mind that its pitch is lower) and not the pitch average. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [PATCH] autochange.scm: Use averaged chord pitches to determinestaff.

2009-07-22 Thread David Kastrup
e. > Initial clef should be chosen based on overall range, But today's available clef choice is much smaller. And quite a few instruments have a fixed clef (which you, if at all, extend using 8va notation). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread David Kastrup
cessary ugliness, differently when using @nonfrenchspacing. Since the interword space tears the flow of reading apart worse than the intersentence space, I consider that a sensible idea. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

2009-07-26 Thread David Kastrup
cters is 3000, so the extra space comes into play. I stand somewhat corrected. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Lilypond Syntax Development and 3.0

2009-07-27 Thread David Kastrup
nt schemes as well that keep track of manual source line breaks, indentation and comments). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: cross-staff versions of \arpeggioArrowUp etc.

2009-07-29 Thread David Kastrup
this limitation, and I think users would > greatly benefit from having these predefined commands. This sounds to me like giving users a low-level manual way to fudge around a bug/design mistake. This sounds like something that should happen automatically in most cases. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Is this possibly a bug?

2009-07-30 Thread David Kastrup
rule never prints any naturals" would appear wrong to me. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: sorting texinfo indices?

2009-08-01 Thread David Kastrup
nfo AFAICT. Not trivial, but you could start with a stock texindex source and go from there. But then that might be quite more versatile than necessary; likely a much simpler program would work for this, and then one might actually be able to use a guile script, employing the original sorting code

Re: Is this possibly a bug?

2009-08-01 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave writes: > 2009/7/30 David Kastrup : >> But if the key signature is, say, G major, then a note f would be >> printed with a natural accidental.  So "this rule never prints any >> naturals" would appear wrong to me. > > While the part you q

Re: Is this possibly a bug?

2009-08-01 Thread David Kastrup
Mark Polesky writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >> Huh? The behavior is unlike `dodecaphonic', but that does not make >> thesecond part right. >> >> "this rule never prints accidentals consistent with the key >> signature"or "

Split ambitus engraver?

2009-08-04 Thread David Kastrup
distance lower). If that is not comprehensible, I can try making a sketch and photographing it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: cross-staff versions of \arpeggioArrowUp etc.

2009-08-04 Thread David Kastrup
iano), so the current dearth of feedback does not mean that doing this well was merely an academic exercise. All the best -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Should Dot_column_engraver be in Voice instead of Staff?

2009-08-05 Thread David Kastrup
Dot_column_engraver may be better suited in the > Voice context than in the Staff context. > > Thoughts? Agree. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Should Dot_column_engraver be in Voice instead of Staff?

2009-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
collisions result' ? I guess this would > require significant surgery to the Dot_column_engraver, no? Likely two engravers, one that does the work per voice, and one that retries and cleans up if the per-voice engraving sucks. -- David Kastrup

Re: alternatives not taken into account in automatic accidentals

2009-08-09 Thread David Kastrup
it > should be so. For \bar "", it is probable sensible behavior. For visible bar lines, I feel hard put to feel the same. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?

2009-08-10 Thread David Kastrup
s been > enlarged so that it covers the staff vertically. One has to keep in mind that Metafont does not permit more than 16 different heights per font (something like that, I don't remember the exact details). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?

2009-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
he possible confusion. With some luck, the warnings go away as well, but I have not tried this myself and am to lazy to check the metafont source. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [PATCH] Implement new handling for margin and line-width settings.

2009-08-12 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 8/12/09 11:15 AM, "Michael Käppler" wrote: > >> Sorry, that wasn't intended. It was late yesterday and I didn't >> notice I pressed the wrong button... ;) > > Glad I'm not the only one who does this. Uh oh. Did yo

Re: patch to fix text color in PDF output

2009-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
and is sabotaging the font rendering engine. If you don't like "jet black", that's something you need to tell your printer driver, not individual documents. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: patch to fix text color in PDF output

2009-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
ack as an alternative, but RGB black appears like a bad choice for printing. Could you specify the details of your "home printer"? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: patch to fix text color in PDF output

2009-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Hawryluk writes: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:11 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Andrew Hawryluk writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Long ago I noticed that the text in our PDF manuals is fully black, >>> which results in rough-looking text

Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?

2009-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
t; without actual content to the glyphs might be possible, where the total outline is determined by overlaying all the bounding boxes? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: patch to fix text color in PDF output

2009-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Hawryluk writes: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:33 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Sure do.  So what driver with what setting converts your PDF to the >> respective printer language? > > Good question. > At home: Samsung ML-2010, SpliX V. 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 9.0

Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?

2009-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
> box and four attached ghost boxes: I fear that too many ghost boxes > would dramatically increase the processing time of lilypond... I think that the two boxes 11 11 222++222 2 11 2 222++222 11 11 should suffice for most pr

Re: Web examples now in master.

2009-08-16 Thread David Kastrup
an "we need words!" It would be a shame if an example with the text text = \lyricmode { My eyes are dim, I can -- not see, I have not brought my specs with me! } would not include a \markup { \eyeglasses } at an appropriate point. -- David Kastrup _

Re: two spaces after "." at EOL?

2009-08-22 Thread David Kastrup
situation? Not needed. Period at newline is considered sentence ending, always. That's how I read the docs. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

What's the deal with info documentation images?

2009-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
For some time, my info files (after make info, sudo make install-info) contain FIXME: images broken in info instead of images as before. What happened? Why? Is there a reason, or a plan to change this again? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond

Re: What's the deal with info documentation images?

2009-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:50:13AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> For some time, my info files (after make info, sudo make install-info) >> contain >> >> FIXME: images broken in info >> >> instead of images as before.

Re: What's the deal with info documentation images?

2009-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:10:53PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:50:13AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> > I believe this only occurs in general.info, correct? via ma

Re: [PATCH] Move ambitus print callback to scheme

2009-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
(define (weird) (append! '(4) '(5))) guile> (weird) (4 5) guile> (weird) (4 5 . #1#) guile> (weird) Backtrace: In standard input: 7: 0* [weird] 4: 1 [append! (4 5 . #1#) (5 . #0#)] standard input:4:17: In procedure last-pair in expression (append! (quote #) (quote #

Re: What's the deal with info documentation images?

2009-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:36:33AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >> > Well, yes. FIXMEs generally aren't impressive. The FIXMEs will >> > definitely be dealt with. The images might be dealt

Re: What's the deal with info documentation images?

2009-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
xing all brokenness. I don't think that an info version of this, the project web page, would serve a useful purpose, so I think it sensible to completely forget about "improving" its info aspect (or even its "standalone HTML documentation" aspect). -- David Kastrup __

Re: [PATCH] Move ambitus print callback to scheme

2009-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 8/28/09 10:56 PM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > >> Carl Sorensen writes: >> >>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:16 PM, "Nicolas Sceaux" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> According to R5RS, it

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-06 Thread David Kastrup
\\, let's take a look at what this actually does, now that we know how voices are instantiated"). But since it can be used with less brain investment (naming something is always a chore), it belongs earlier in the introduction to the hopeful newcomer. -- David Kastrup _

Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

2009-09-14 Thread David Kastrup
s ilk, pretty much everything looks like a function call without warping. And that's almost all. A functional programming style without global variables and states, like ((lambda (f n) (f f n)) (lambda(f n) (if (< n 1) 1 (* n (f f (- n 1) 5) is not something you'll find in Lilypond.

Re: Switching to Waf instead of SCons?

2009-09-15 Thread David Kastrup
e all. > > Nice try, but *I* was the one who proposed it, *I* was the one to > organize it, *I* was/am the one who claims to always be concerned > with managing projects well. What's more, there weren't people > who (seriously) offered to help and

Re: dutch translation error

2009-09-25 Thread David Kastrup
Martin Tarenskeen writes: > Hi, > > Has someone fixed this little typo in the dutch translation yet: > > "kan wellicht geen goede waardestreephelling kunnen vinden" > > should be > > "kan wellicht geen goede waardestreephelling vinden"

Re: Progress indicator

2009-09-26 Thread David Kastrup
t > actually seems to be...) An editor will not interpret control characters. One solution is to check whether output is sent to a tty and only then use progress indicators. Or at least overprinting. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
1. >> >> (I've always felt this way, too.) > > Then let's drop the IMHO unfounded limitation of not breaking at beams > crossing a barline. Is there a way to slightly penalize it rather than prohibiting it completely or being completely unconcerned? -- David Kastrup

Re: weird German error

2009-09-29 Thread David Kastrup
ld appear that \code takes an argument, so the usual usage would be \code{...}. In the absence of explicit braces, the next token is digested. This gets turned into \code{\"}Uber die Nicht-... effectively, and the \" finds nothing to apply to. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: weird German error

2009-09-30 Thread David Kastrup
Patrick McCarty writes: > On 2009-09-29, Patrick McCarty wrote: >> On 2009-09-29, Graham Percival wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:26:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> > > Graham Percival writes: >> > > >> > > > l.2850 \entry

Accordion register symbols

2009-10-17 Thread David Kastrup
} g^\markup { \Stdbass #21 } a^\markup { \Stdbass #110 } b^\markup { \Stdbass #1101 } } } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Accordion register symbols

2009-10-17 Thread David Kastrup
from http://www.accordions.com/index/art/stradella.shtml>. I am not sure it is a good idea to count the contralto with the tenor voice (making the master be #1121). But it is four lines (so four digits seems appropriate), and the contralto does not seem

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread David Kastrup
eyness. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Need interface/data structure design advice

2009-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
ly sounding the chord banks as well through mechanical couplers). So the same mechanisms for tweaking, dot layout specification, register naming, midi impact, and use should apply. What kind of data structure can I use such that one can tweak with a reasonable interface? -- David Kastrup

Re: Need interface/data structure design advice

2009-10-27 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 10/26/09 1:41 PM, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> >> I am working on accordion register symbol typesetting right now. Up to >> now, there are some font elements in the font, and some basic hackish >> stuff in the snippets. >

Re: Need interface/data structure design advice

2009-10-27 Thread David Kastrup
di stuff needs to be separate from the typesetting stuff: in a given work for accordion orchestra, one will use the same kind of symbol everywhere, but possibly associate different corresponding sound sets with different voices. So basically this means "don't worry about sound in 1st itera

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-28 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > Isn't the problem that beams create melismata in vocal music, and you > don't want to have a line break in the middle of a melisma? Baroque melisme can go on for lines. Do we have a way to discourage breaks but not completely disallow them? -

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