Re: jazz notation

2004-02-11 Thread Joerg Anders
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, David Rogers wrote: > So, to Joerg - I think "Swing 8ths" and "Straight 8ths" is clear and > easy. > Thank you all! Perhaps I can implement this into the LilyPond exporting NoteEdit replay mechanism. Some jazz musicians said they were unable to play series of triplets. This

Re: jazz notation

2004-02-11 Thread David Rogers
Sorry for the unintended private message - my "reply" function didn't work right for this list. So, to Joerg - I think "Swing 8ths" and "Straight 8ths" is clear and easy. David ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mail

Re: jazz notation

2004-02-11 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, David: To make everything easy to understand, maybe it's better to say: Swing 8ths ... Straight 8ths ... Because not everyone will understand if you write "Jazz". Excellent point -- especially considering there are "jazz" styles which do not incorporate "swung 8ths". Regards, Kieren. _

Re: jazz notation

2004-02-11 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Joerg: If this does not belong to this list, please excuse and anwer me peronally. Could please anybody help with jazz music notation ? Man, we all have that same question! =) If this is the case: What if one of the pairs shall really be 2 eights? Is there an "unjazz" sign or so ? "straig

jazz notation

2004-02-11 Thread Joerg Anders
Hi all! If this does not belong to this list, please excuse and anwer me peronally. Could please anybody help with jazz music notation ? I have heared there is a small sign "jazz" and from this moment on all jazz --|\|\--|\|\--|\|\--|\|\- --|-\---|-

padding problems

2004-02-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Either padding for TextScript and MultiMeasureRestNumber is still broken > in 2.1.20 or I still don't have a workaround. > > Thanks for any help or for an explanation of how staff-padding will help. I have erroneously removed the extent of the staff for padding. This

Re: vanishing slur ? note with two stems ?

2004-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse my ignorance: I am still at the very beginning with Lilypond. Perhaps someone can help with these two questions: 1. How can you produce a note with two stems, one running up and the other running down obviuosly?. \stemBoth does not seem to do the job. I h

re: vanishing slur ? note with two stems ?

2004-02-11 Thread navarro
Please excuse my ignorance: I am still at the very beginning with Lilypond. Perhaps someone can help with these two questions: 1. How can you produce a note with two stems, one running up and the other running down obviuosly?. \stemBoth does not seem to do the job. I have looked through the man

Problem with MIDI generation with 2.1.18

2004-02-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi ! > > I upgraded to cygwin 2.1.18 yesterday, and experienced two problems: > > - \autochange does not seem to work as well as it used to be. > I guess I did something wrong. Here is my PianoStaff: > > solo = \context PianoStaff = solo << > \property

Re: dvipdfm results in no note stems

2004-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think you have described the problem and the solution quite well already. Dvipdfm will not work on any LilyPond generated file since it doesn't understand the embedded postscript code used for slurs, and several other objects in the output. You can and should use ps2pdf (or Acrobat Distiller if y

Re: Syntax Highlighting / lilypond.words.vim

2004-02-11 Thread Lyle Raymond
>> I apparently need to find lilypond.words.vim for the >> operation to be complete. Where can I get it? >It should be distributed with LilyPond. You don't say which >package you installed so we can't help more; recent Debian >packages put it into /usr/share/doc/lilypond. Tell at least >a versi