winnt lilypond-book and guitar chord diagram update

2002-06-20 Thread Patrick Stanistreet
Greetings, Thanks to Jan and Mats for the winnt information. Sorry to everyone using lilypond on winnt, I pretty much live on linux so I only test infrequently on nt. Still it is amazing that it works as well as it does on that platform. I am using 1.5.55 on linux so changing the line drumpitc

Re: mysterious error from ly2dvi

2002-06-20 Thread Ben Crowell
>Please run ly2dvi with the additional flag '--verbose' and >send the resulting output to the mailing list. Here it is. I noticed that the file titledefs.tex had been installed in /usr/share/texmf, whereas my texmf tree is in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf. I copied the lilypond directory over t

Re: mysterious error from ly2dvi

2002-06-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please run ly2dvi with the additional flag '--verbose' and send the resulting output to the mailing list. > Thanks to the folks who attempted to help me compile Lilypond from > source, but I gave up and installed a Mandrake RPM I found at > http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/mandrake/8.1/contrib/RPMS/li

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> i now am using the following code, which prints the dynamics in the > single parts, but not in the score: > > dynamics = \notes { > s4\mf > \skip 4*47 > \repeat volta 2 { > s4\pp > \skip 4*10 > s4\mf > \skip 4*12 >

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Simon Bailey wrote: > > > s4\pp > > I haven't checked your idea through, but this is wrong syntax. Should be > s4-\pp. Both are perfectly legal (don't remember what the documentation says, though) and should provide the same result. /Mats

Re: Making staff go closer

2002-06-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
> Q: > > In PianoStaff context what would be the property to fix in order to = > reduce the spacing between the bottom of the bass staff and top of the = > next treble staff? I am referring to the space between each pair of = > staves and not the inside space withing the Piano bracket. See http:

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Simon Bailey
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 21:39, Rune Zedeler wrote: > Simon Bailey wrote: > > > s4\pp > > I haven't checked your idea through, but this is wrong syntax. Should be > s4-\pp. stupid question: what's the difference? greetings, simon. -- Confucius say, man who live in glass house shower in base

mysterious error from ly2dvi

2002-06-20 Thread Ben Crowell
Thanks to the folks who attempted to help me compile Lilypond from source, but I gave up and installed a Mandrake RPM I found at http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/mandrake/8.1/contrib/RPMS/lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.html . I tried to alert Han Wen Nienhuys that the link to the Mandrake RPM on the Lilypon

Re: Chords and slurs

2002-06-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:49:35 Han-Wen wrote: > actually nested slurs are supported, but slated for removal. Three layers could be necessary. You could easily have a grace note group with a "slur" indicating which note its time value was from, inside an actual slur, inside a phrasing "slur". Gr

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Rune Zedeler
Simon Bailey wrote: > s4\pp I haven't checked your idea through, but this is wrong syntax. Should be s4-\pp. -Rune ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Chords and slurs

2002-06-20 Thread Han-Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ok, since I am dealing with quarter notes this is not a problem: your code > does exactly what I want. But why do you say the construct does not make > sense? In piano music there are a lot of examples like the one above. Can you send me some scans of those, please?

Re: global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Simon Bailey
i really should think before i write... :) i now am using the following code, which prints the dynamics in the single parts, but not in the score: dynamics = \notes { s4\mf \skip 4*47 \repeat volta 2 { s4\pp \skip 4*10 s4\mf

global dynamics

2002-06-20 Thread Simon Bailey
hi people, is my logic totally up the creek, or should this code work? --- global = { \property Staff.TextScript \override #'padding = #2 \property Score.RehearsalMark \override #'padding = #2 \time 3/4 \skip 4*48