Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics

2003-03-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jeff" == Jeff Ousley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> This did not produce any quotes at all. Any other Jeff> ideas? You have to enclose the "word" in double quotes, and then escape the quote with a backslash: "\"God" is "King\"" Don't ask me why. -- Laura (mailto:[EMA

Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics

2003-03-03 Thread Kev
> Thanks for the suggestions. In my lyrics I tried: > > ``God8 is8 king'' > > This did not produce any quotes at all. Any other > ideas? IIRC, anything other than certain punctuation and the letters is not interpreted as a lyric unless it's inside double quotes. Perhaps: "``God"8 is8 "king

Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Ousley
All, Thanks for the suggestions. In my lyrics I tried: ``God8 is8 king'' This did not produce any quotes at all. Any other ideas? thanks! -jeff --- Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:03:35 -0800 (PST) > Jeff Ousley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I incl

Re: caesura

2003-03-03 Thread Paul Scott
Graham Percival wrote: As for the caesura, I think the proper solution is to add the character to the font, and use it with BreathMark (syntax: \breathe). From what I gather, the symbol is not complicated, so it should be easy. As long as it can intersect the top one or two lines of the staff.

Re: lilypond-book margins solved

2003-03-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
This did not appear on the list after several hours. Sorry if it's a repeat. I tested this. I am ecstatic. \usepackage[tmargin=0.5in,lmargin=0.5in,rmargin=0.75in,bmargin=0.75in]{geometry} This cuts the margins but leaves an allowance on the right, where you need it, for a4 paper printing. T

Re: MusicXML

2003-03-03 Thread Guido Amoruso
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:15, Thomas Willhalm wrote: > As long as > mudela mainly superseeds MusicXML, an external program is fine IMO. > If musicxml2ly is finished, it would be nice to have it distributed > with lilypond, of course. However, I expect this to happen if support > for musicxml2ly is g

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Thomas Willhalm wrote: > Warren Stickney wrote: > > > I wish to name lyric lines for multi-verse vocal music as 1. 2. 3. etc., > > and am using the following simple command sequence: > > > > \score{ > > \notes < > > > > \addlyrics > > \

Re: How to remove first score indentation?

2003-03-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 03 March 2003 11:37 am, you wrote: > I see that the first line/score is indented in all output I get. > This is also so in the examples I find, like the beautiful Städchen. > However, I have never seen it so in the music notes I find elsewhere, > like my daughters' notes. > > Why is it s

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Thomas Willhalm
Laura Conrad wrote: >> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> it says: > Thomas> stz (markup (list or string)): > Thomas>Abbreviated form for a stanza, see also Stanza > property. Thomas> Probably, one should fix the docu. > > This is ju

How to remove first score indentation?

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haugsand
I see that the first line/score is indented in all output I get. This is also so in the examples I find, like the beautiful Städchen. However, I have never seen it so in the music notes I find elsewhere, like my daughters' notes. Why is it so, and how can I get rid of it? -- Jon Haugsand Dept

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> This coincides with my experience: stanza for the Thomas> beginning of the vers, stz for the remaining Thomas> lines. However, in Thomas> http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/

Re: Errors building 1.7.13 - SUSE

2003-03-03 Thread Hans Forbrich
That's fixed it. (For others with this problem, 1.875a is the alpha version at GNU.) Many thanks /Hans Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > Environment: SUSE 8.0 kernel, + GCC 2.95.3, Python 2.2.2, Bison 1.875, > > bison-1.875 is foe; use 1.875a or newer (or <= 1.35). > > Jan.

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Thomas Willhalm
Laura Conrad wrote: >> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> According to the docs, this should be the abbreviated form of > Thomas>\property LyricsVoice . stanza = "1." > Thomas> However, my experience shows that they are different. >

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This seems to be a bug! I tried an example without \addlyrics, where the duration of the syllables was specified explicitly and in that case I still get the stanza even if the lyrics start with a \skip. However, when using \addlyrics I don't manage to get any stanza printed. /Mats Thomas Willha

Re: Not sure to well understand Lily's error message

2003-03-03 Thread Alexandre Beneteau
Mats Bengtsson wrote: "Programming error" means that you have hit some bug in the program. When you send a question to the mailing list, always specify what version of Lilypond you are using. Oh, yes excuse me, I've forgotten to mention the version : 1.7.13... This may be a known problem that has a

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> According to the docs, this should be the abbreviated form of Thomas>\property LyricsVoice . stanza = "1." Thomas> However, my experience shows that they are different. No, the .stz form specifies t

fix for redirecting lilypond output

2003-03-03 Thread clive CATTERALL
Here is the fix for redirecting lilypond output to a file for Cygwin users where the bash shell does not keep a history of screen output. Clive Catterall baroque flutes made using traditional methods and materials http://www.flutes.fsbusiness.co.uk - Original Messa

Re: MusicXML

2003-03-03 Thread Thomas Willhalm
Joshua Haberman wrote: >> As for the "lilypond >> developers" opinion: I've personally spent a lot of time writing >> convertors (etf2ly, pmx2ly, musedata2ly, etc.) only to find out that >> noone uses them. > > Would you use a compiler that required you to first run your source file > through an

Re: Lyric verse naming

2003-03-03 Thread Thomas Willhalm
Warren Stickney wrote: > I wish to name lyric lines for multi-verse vocal music as 1. 2. 3. etc., > and am using the following simple command sequence: > > \score{ > \notes < > > \addlyrics > \context Staff="1" > { > \voicedefault

Re: Not sure to well understand Lily's error message

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
"Programming error" means that you have hit some bug in the program. When you send a question to the mailing list, always specify what version of Lilypond you are using. This may be a known problem that has already been solved, but if you use a recent version of Lilypond, you may want to send a ful

Not sure to well understand Lily's error message

2003-03-03 Thread Alexandre Beneteau
Hello, I get this warning in a score I'm typesetting : Calculating line breaks... programming error: Multi_measure_rest::get_rods (): I am not spanned! (Continuing; cross thumbs) As Lily says 'programming error', I assume, I've made a mistake while typesetting and this error concern measure c

Re: FAQ?

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For specific questions related to Lilypond+Cygwin, see http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html and the link under Troubleshooting (which unfortunately seems to be fairly outdated). Another important source of information is the searchable mailing list archive for li

Re: Joining stems in two voices

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The trick is to let the two lines of music belong to the same Voice context when you want the stems joined and to different Voice contexts when you want them separate. Then, you could say something like: VoiceFour = \notes \relative c' { r2 a2 | d,4 d a'2 | \translator Voice = three r2 a | d, d a

Re: ly2dvi vs. lilypond-book output

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See the previous answer to the list about the size of the margins. The default font size (actually the height of each stave) is 20pt in ly2dvi and 16pt in lilypond-book. Just say \begin[20pt]{lilypond} in your document or use the --default-music-fontsize=20pt option to lilypond-book. You can also r

Re: lilypond-book margins yet again

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The default in ly2dvi is to use 1cm margins both to the left and the right, which is much smaller than the default margins for ordinary documents in LaTeX. If you want the same, just say \usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry} somewhere before \begin{document}. I don't see what's so complicated about thi

FAQ?

2003-03-03 Thread clive CATTERALL
Please could you tell me where to look for an FAQ. I have some questions about running lilypond under Cygwin, bit I'd like to RTFAQ first. Thanks Clive Catterall ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: fonts final touch problem

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Fulko van Westrenen wrote: Hello Lilypond experts, Step by step I get where I want to be. At the moment I have two items I cannot get right. The first one is that I want to get rid of the TimeSignature, I want it to be empty. How can I do that? Read the following sections in the Reference Manual

Re: Hanging tie with cue notes

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I looked in the ref manual for every permutation of "visib" and "transpar". The closest I found was transparent stems. Can you help me see how to get from there to invisible notes? One of my fundamental mental stumbling blocks is how to get them to not clash with the R1*6. You've already rece

Re: Spreading staffGroups across page

2003-03-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you read the section on "page Layout" in the Reference Manual, you will find that \paper{ ... interscorelinefill = 1 } does the trick of automatically spreading the white space between the lines of the score. Hans' answer could be used in addition, if you want to make sure to minimize the mi

Re: Errors building 1.7.13 - SUSE

2003-03-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hans Forbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Environment: SUSE 8.0 kernel, + GCC 2.95.3, Python 2.2.2, Bison 1.875, bison-1.875 is foe; use 1.875a or newer (or <= 1.35). Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | ht