Re: midi elapsed time markers

2009-12-08 Thread James Bailey
On 07.12.2009, at 16:35, Peter Dingley wrote: I was searching for a way to print out midi elapsed time in my score to be able to easily start the midi file at the location I am currently working on. At the moment I write these in by hand but they change as I make changes to the music in other

Re: midi elapsed time markers

2009-12-08 Thread James Bailey
On 07.12.2009, at 16:35, Peter Dingley wrote: I was searching for a way to print out midi elapsed time in my score to be able to easily start the midi file at the location I am currently working on. At the moment I write these in by hand but they change as I make changes to the music in other

Re: why recommend \relative to take a "c"?

2009-12-15 Thread James Bailey
On 15.12.2009, at 10:00, Mark Polesky wrote: In NR 1.1.1 "Writing pitches" -- Relative octave entry, "it is recommended that [startpitch] be an octave of c." Why? Most of the time it won't even be the "startpitch". Perhaps "referencepitch" is more accurate, but what's wrong with "\relative fi

Re: Catching up on bugs

2009-12-20 Thread James Bailey
In checking the regressions, I've come across some issues. And, sorry for posting these all in one go, but I've just been saving them up until one day I could post a massive email and have the bug tracker explode with new regression issues. Regressions: page-label.ly: line 35: \mark \marku

Re: Catching up on bugs

2009-12-25 Thread James Bailey
On 24.12.2009, at 23:57, Joe Neeman wrote: profile-property-access.ly errors and fails when I try to compile it. Additionally, the properties shown in the output are all 0 You need to configure with --disable-optimising in order for property access profiling to work. Okay, since I can't com

tabFullNotation and ottava

2009-12-26 Thread James Bailey
Are the ottava symbols an intentional omission from tabFullNotation? I couldn't find any documentation on the function. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

tabFullNotation and ottava

2009-12-26 Thread James Bailey
Are the ottava symbols an intentional omission from tabFullNotation? I couldn't find any documentation on the function. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: tabFullNotation and ottava

2009-12-26 Thread James Bailey
On 26.12.2009, at 13:38, Trevor Daniels wrote: Trevor Daniels wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 12:24 PM James Bailey wrote Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:51 AM Are the ottava symbols an intentional omission from tabFullNotation? I couldn't find any documentation on the function. N

Re: 2.13.10 pre-release testing

2010-01-01 Thread James Bailey
looks alright here on osx 10.4, intel On 31.12.2009, at 09:15, Graham Percival wrote: Yet more architectural changes to GUB, so I thought it'd be worth hearing if it works. lilypad should be included automatically now. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Cheers, - Graham __

input/regression/tuplet-text-*.ly wrong version

2010-01-01 Thread James Bailey
The regression tests for input/regression/tuplet-text*.ly have a version statement of 2.12.3, although they don't compile with 2.12.3, and these tests were not included in 2.12.3. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: input/regression/tuplet-text-*.ly wrong version

2010-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On 02.01.2010, at 00:20, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:27:48PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: The regression tests for input/regression/tuplet-text*.ly have a version statement of 2.12.3, although they don't compile with 2.12.3, and these tests were not included in 2

Re: the name "lily-git"

2010-01-16 Thread James Bailey
On 16.01.2010, at 18:04, Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: A while back I proposed the name "lilypatch" for what is now "lily-git". I didn't hear any response so I suppose that most of you prefer the current name. I thought I'd mention it once more

Re: Disagree with recent DOC change

2010-02-08 Thread James Bailey
On 08.02.2010, at 14:02, David Kastrup wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:02 AM, David Kastrup wrote: I don't think that this is useful advice since binaries often are incompatible with Scheme/Lilypond trees of other versions, and since many regressions are not in

Pre-release testing

2010-02-12 Thread James Bailey
So, when I'm not doing lilypond things, I test stuff. I'm a game tester. One thing I find very helpful is to have a short list of things to check for when doing these kinds of quick version test. I haven't really worked very hard on it, but here's kinda the things I do so far when looking

Re: Pre-release testing

2010-02-12 Thread James Bailey
On 12.02.2010, at 20:37, James Bailey wrote: … lilypond-book --latex-program=pdflatex --pdf -o out pdflatex-lily- book-sample.lytex should have been: lilypond-book --pdf -o out pdflatex-lily-book-sample.lytex …old file version… ___ lilypond

dead link

2010-02-21 Thread James Bailey
In the 2.13 docs, AU 4.2 Text editor support. The last link, Alternate editors goes to a 404 not found.___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

OSX 10.5+

2010-02-22 Thread James Bailey
As I understand it, the critical problems previously had with lilypond on 10.5 (and now 10.6) have been resolved. And since the issue was just raised on the -user list. Would it be useful now to simply have the PPC/Intel binaries (labeled as such)? _

Re: OSX 10.5+

2010-02-22 Thread James Bailey
On 23.02.2010, at 02:18, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:31:37PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: As I understand it, the critical problems previously had with lilypond on 10.5 (and now 10.6) have been resolved. And since the issue was just raised on the -user list. Would it be

Re: OSX 10.5+

2010-02-22 Thread James Bailey
On 23.02.2010, at 02:18, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:31:37PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: As I understand it, the critical problems previously had with lilypond on 10.5 (and now 10.6) have been resolved. And since the issue was just raised on the -user list. Would it be

Re: OSX 10.5+

2010-02-23 Thread James Bailey
On 23.02.2010, at 21:57, Patrick McCarty wrote: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=tree;h=refs/ heads/web;hb=web I would rather spend my LilyPond time on other issues, or else I would fix it myself. I don't know how to fix this, or any other issues, otherwise I would d

Re: OSX 10.5+

2010-02-23 Thread James Bailey
On 24.02.2010, at 00:25, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:05 PM, James Bailey wrote: On 23.02.2010, at 21:57, Patrick McCarty wrote: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=tree;h=refs/ heads/web;hb=web I would rather spend my LilyPond time on other issues

Re: OSX 10.5+

2010-02-23 Thread James Bailey
On 24.02.2010, at 02:10, Patrick McCarty wrote: On 2010-02-24, James Bailey wrote: For the 2.12 file: 197-215 Could be removed 238 MacOS X (G3, G4, G5 Macs) Could be changed to Mac OS X PPC For the 2.13 one: 165 -184 could be removed 209 MacOS X (G3, G4, G5 Macs) Could be

Re: Testing needed for 2.13.15

2010-03-05 Thread James Bailey
On 05.03.2010, at 16:27, James Lowe wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM, James Lowe wrote: In fact cli doesn't work for me on Mac OS - in a terminal I just get the switch list displayed for lilypond when I run ANY command in Terminal, but I also got this in 2

Re: Testing needed for 2.13.15

2010-03-05 Thread James Bailey
On 05.03.2010, at 16:27, James Lowe wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM, James Lowe wrote: In fact cli doesn't work for me on Mac OS - in a terminal I just get the switch list displayed for lilypond when I run ANY command in Terminal, but I also got this in 2

mac osx terminal instructions

2010-03-06 Thread James Bailey
Currently, the instructions on getting LilyPond up and running in a terminal on mac osx have the user create a script which calls the lilypond application, and then add the location of the script to the $PATH. Is there any advantage of this over just having the user add the location of the

Re: Testing needed for 2.13.15

2010-03-07 Thread James Bailey
On 07.03.2010, at 15:27, James Lowe wrote: For those who read this and use Mac OS (and care) using the default guest account will work if you don't turn on Parental controls/ allow all apps to work - even if you put Lilypond.app or Terminal in your prefs for guest, I couldn't get permissions

Re: mac osx terminal instructions

2010-03-09 Thread James Bailey
On 09.03.2010, at 11:59, James Lowe wrote: however I noticed that when I did an echo $PATH to see if what I had done was working, I noticed that I had a path to Macports. Now I KNOW that I wouldn't have added that, so I wondered as the installer is just a zip file where we drag and drop the

Re: Unicode cuteness

2010-03-16 Thread James Bailey
On 16.03.2010, at 18:02, David Kastrup wrote: Mark Polesky writes: Carl Sorensen wrote: I'm OK with that, but I still have the concern of documenting it. What do we need to do to make sure that the documentation works properly? I don't think it's worth it. There are too many documentati

Re: PATCH: accessors for note-column's dot-column, accidentals

2010-04-04 Thread James Bailey
While probably not directly related, would something like this affect a bug I haven't gotten around to adding to the tracker? See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-03/msg00508.html and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-12/msg00507.html On 04.04.2010, at 11:4

documentation size

2010-04-25 Thread James Bailey
I realize that downloading and reading the documentation offline is not for everyone, but is there a way to make a documentation for download that isn't so large? Looking at it, the size increased more than 30 MB between 2.13.1 and 2.13.2. I don't know usually work with the unstable docs, b

Re: Aligning single systems?

2010-05-08 Thread James Bailey
On 07.05.2010, at 21:53, David Kastrup wrote: "Boris Shingarov" writes: Hi David, for theoretical work it often is necessary to write several short systems in one line, interspersed with text. This is exactly what we are doing. I don't manage to have a) new systems continue aligned to t

Re: Updated CG 7 Issues -- new policies for Bug Squad

2010-06-03 Thread James Bailey
On 03.06.2010, at 22:00, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 6/3/10 1:52 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: Hi Bug Squad and others, I've updated CG 7 Issues: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/issues Looks very good to me. I do have one question -- do we ever want to push original

Re: [PATCH]: Fix issue 678

2010-06-05 Thread James Bailey
On 27.05.2010, at 19:58, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 5/27/10 11:53 AM, "James Lowe" wrote: Hello Carl Sorensen wrote: Here's a patch, from Hraban as modified by Neil, that allows printing minor chords with lower-case names, instead of with a "m" suffix. Please review: http://codereview.

Re: Updated CG 7 Issues, draft 2

2010-06-05 Thread James Bailey
On 05.06.2010, at 11:48, Graham Percival wrote: Hi Bug Squad and others, I've updated CG 7 Issues: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/contributor/issues.html Note that this URL goes to kainhofer; the official online docs won't be updated until 2.13.24, and it's too early for that.

Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

2010-09-08 Thread James Bailey
So, I was reading through the changes to vocal music, and I had an epiphany. The current solution for lyrics independent of notes is predicated on the idea that the lyrics should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode just tells lilypond that the entry will be text rather than notes, why no

Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

2010-09-08 Thread James Bailey
So, I was reading through the changes to vocal music, and I had an epiphany. The current solution for lyrics independent of notes is predicated on the idea that the lyrics should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode just tells lilypond that the entry will be text rather than notes, why no

Re: Regtest comparison - 13.33 versus 13.32

2010-09-12 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 12, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > As far as I can tell, no regressions. The only major change is in > metronome-marking-break-align.ly where the mark is now quite a bit further to > the right. However, it doesn't look bad and so could well be a tweak to > http://code.google.c

Re: Wrong architecture on OSX

2010-09-21 Thread James Bailey
On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 9/21/10 4:51 PM, "Dénes Harmath" wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> when trying to build LilyPond on OSX 10.6.4, I get the following error: >> >> /Users/thsoft/Development/lilypond/scripts/build/out/help2man >> out/lilypond-invoke-editor > out/lil

NR 2.1 suggestions

2010-10-20 Thread James Bailey
These are just some things that I noticed. 2.1.1 Entering Lyrics. Lyrics are entered in a special input mode, which can be introduced by the keyword \lyricmode, or by using \addlyrics or \lyricsto. In this mode… Which mode? This has bugged me for a while, and since changes are being ma

Re: accidental-unbroken-tie-spacing.ly

2010-12-10 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 10, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > I've downloaded and installed LilyBuntu and I've got the source with git, so > I'm looking for a simple regtest to improve, to practice. > > I've come across accidental-unbroken-tie-spacing.ly > > To me, there are a number of errors. Apart fro

regression test checking

2010-12-19 Thread James Bailey
What does the description for context-die-staff.ly mean? \version "2.12.0" \header { texidoc = "a staff should die if there is reference to it." } \layout { ragged-right = ##t line-width = 2.5 \cm indent = 0.0 } { << \new Staff = "q" \new Voice ="V" c1 >> %% no \break, BreakEvent ca

lily-git question

2010-12-20 Thread James Bailey
In the instructions for lily-git for other operating systems, the last step is to "Go read the lilybuntu instructions, starting from the “get source” step." I didn't find this step. I realize the lilybuntu section is currently being re-worked, which is why I think it's probably a good time to men

Re: lily-git question

2010-12-20 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 20, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:01:07PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: >> In the instructions for lily-git for other operating systems, > > I'm seriously considering deleting those entirely. At least, > *something* needs

Re: Hardcoded LP version in *2ly scripts?

2010-12-22 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 23, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > > PS virtually nobody runs "make install", and I certainly wouldn't > expect a new contributor to do this. The only people running > "make install" should be linux package creators, and extremely > advanced users who are both very familiar wi

Re: google code "owner"

2010-12-27 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 27, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: >> Got it. One thing that has always peeved me is the default sort order of >> oldest first. Would there be objections if I tried to change this to newest >> first? It seems to be pos

what's up with optimal-page-breaking-hstretch.ly

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
Compiling this with 2.12.3 and 2.13.45 yields (to my eye) rather different results. I personally cannot tell if the systems are horizontally stretched or not. They appear to be centered. Or should this illustrate that only the systems on the first page are vertically stretched? Regardless, in 2.

Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

2011-01-03 Thread James Bailey
On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi, > > didn't find it in the tracker so i report: > optical spacing doesn't work as expected in the following situation: > > \version "2.13.43" > \new Score { > \repeat unfold 12 { c''16 [ d'' b' c'' ] \noBreak } > } > > All 16ths are

Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

2011-01-17 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 1/13/11 2:16 PM, "Janek Warchoł" > wrote: >> >> The distances are not equal. Optical corrections are made there. >> > OK, you got me interested so I spent some time I didn't have on this. I > must be a LilyPond addict. > > It appears th

Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

2011-01-19 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: >> 2011/1/19 Mike Solomon : >>> It may be worth it to add this to the issue tracker and get this fixed in >>> one of the first 2.14 bug fixes (if not 2.14 itself) - thoughts? >> >