Re: Narrow Word Lyric

2004-06-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 18 June 2004 20.41, Joshua Koo wrote: > Hi, > > is it possilbe for a 2-syllable word in the lyrics to be shown as a single > word if the notes are closed enought. That is a word seperated with -- eg. > Hel -- lo, be shown below the notes as "Hello" instead of Hel-lo if notes > are determi

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-18 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 6/16/04 4:10 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to >> write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. > While this might be true for some parts of the m

Narrow Word Lyric

2004-06-18 Thread Joshua Koo
Hi, is it possilbe for a 2-syllable word in the lyrics to be shown as a single word if the notes are closed enought. That is a word seperated with -- eg. Hel -- lo, be shown below the notes as "Hello" instead of Hel-lo if notes are determinded closed enought. Thanks, Joshua

Re: Pages and line breaks

2004-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Joshua Koo writes: > One thing I realised is thats the score doesnt end at the end of the pages. Page layout has been in development since March. Check-out the development branch, there are packages for several platforms. It's not been heavily used, so expect to find bugs. > It would be great

Pages and line breaks

2004-06-18 Thread Joshua Koo
One thing I realised is thats the score doesnt end at the end of the pages. It would be great if I do something like this \fit-pages 4 Almost all scores I see starts from the start of the page to the bottom of the pages where it ends. Will defining where the page break work better? Or do

\thinspace in Lyrics

2004-06-18 Thread TS Sunhede Fulk
Is there anyway to use Latex commands like \thinspace in Lyrics? ``' looks ugly without \thinspace. Thanks! tssfulk ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

2004-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > generated by a certain piece of code are to be expected, as in: > > \version "2.2.2" > guitarPart = \notes { > \key d \major > d1 > \key a \major > a1 > } > \score { > \notes { > << > \new Staff { > %% COMPILES OK > \clef bass >

What properties should I set?

2004-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Another example: it is well-known that in a Staff context I can set the > midiInstrument property, but I can not find it out from the > internals-documentation. I look at dynamic_performer, I found it, and found > it also in Tunable-context-properties. But how can I figu

What properties should I set?

2004-06-18 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hello, advanced LilyPond users could help me. I'm writing a "tweaking wizard" for the LilyPond plugin for jEdit. That means that the user can choose a context and the plugin will tell him the context properties that make sense. My question is: for example in the ChordNames context. In the doc I f

Re: User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

2004-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Magnus Lewis-Smith writes: > Nearly there. If I use the 'display' command I get > > Now processing `file.ly' > Parsing... > message: expect errors > > file.ly:232:66: error: syntax error, unexpected SCM_T: > #(display "message: expect errors\n" (current-error-port) >

Re: User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

2004-06-18 Thread Magnus Lewis-Smith
--- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Lewis-Smith writes: > > > Is it possible to write messages to the terminal during the compilation of > a > > .ly file? (not the compilation of lilypond itself!) > > How about this ;-) > > #(display "message: expect errors\n" (cu

Re: cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
You are right, "||:" does it! Thomas > I suppose you forgot to attach something, but it sounds like \bar > "||:" is what you're looking for. (there seems to be a bug though, the > bar line is not printed when in the middle of a line) > > Erik ___ l

(Fwd) Re: cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Sorry, I missed to paste my example. Here it comes: \version "2.2.2" % Ex 1 \score { \notes { \relative c'{ \key fis \major eis^\markup fis gis ais \bar "||" \break \key f \major bes c d e }} \paper {} } % Ex 2 \score { \notes { \relati

Re: cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 18 June 2004 13.05, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > > On Friday 18 June 2004 09.16, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > > Thank you! > I have tried \bar "||", but it does not work with repeats as you will > see in the example below. > The first score is without repeats and is o.k.. > With repeats \ba

Re: User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

2004-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Magnus Lewis-Smith writes: > Is it possible to write messages to the terminal during the compilation of a > .ly file? (not the compilation of lilypond itself!) How about this ;-) \version "2.2.2" guitarPart = \notes { \key d \major d1 \key a \major a1 } \score { \notes { <<

Re: cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> On Friday 18 June 2004 09.16, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > when changing the key lilypond (2.2.2, cygwin) prints a single > > barline before the cautionary accidentals at the end of the line. > > Isn't a double barline standard? I looked at several examples in > > printed sco

Re: Time

2004-06-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 17 June 2004 04.09, Joshua Koo wrote: > Wow, Amazing! Well I didnt expect you would really type up and time > yourself. I was just waiting to get some approimate estimates. Well, I just did it for fun.. I never actually benchmarked my typesetting, I also wanted to see how much time it

Re: cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 18 June 2004 09.16, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: > Hello list, > > when changing the key lilypond (2.2.2, cygwin) prints a single > barline before the cautionary accidentals at the end of the line. > Isn't a double barline standard? > I looked at several examples in printed scores and always

User-defined messages in .ly compilation output?

2004-06-18 Thread Magnus Lewis-Smith
Is it possible to write messages to the terminal during the compilation of a .ly file? (not the compilation of lilypond itself!) For example, perhaps I would like to be able to indicate that the warnings generated by a certain piece of code are to be expected, as in: \version "2.2.2" guitarPart

cautionary accidental: double barline?

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hello list, when changing the key lilypond (2.2.2, cygwin) prints a single barline before the cautionary accidentals at the end of the line. Isn't a double barline standard? I looked at several examples in printed scores and always found a double barline. Thank you, Thomas ___

\thinspace in Lyrics

2004-06-18 Thread TS Sunhede Fulk
Is there anyway to use Latex commands like \thinspace in Lyrics? ``' looks ugly without \thinspace. Thanks! tssfulk ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user