Re: moving ledger lines over

2005-02-18 Thread Carl Bolstad
> On 12-Feb-05, at 4:38 PM, Carl Bolstad wrote: > > I've been using (and loving!) LilyPond for about six months, and now I > > need to make a tweak that I just can't figure out. I have moved a note > > over a little bit, but I can't move the ledger line for it to match. > > Try using the force-hsh

Re: Instrument alignment in page head (v2.4.2)

2005-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Feb-05, at 3:34 AM, Thies Albrecht wrote: I wonder if anybody ever got aware of the fact, that the instrument name in the page head isn't exactly centered. Depending on odd or even page it is put a little to the right or left. I don't know whether it's a bug or not, but let's send this to t

first small LilyPond score

2005-02-18 Thread Steve D
I finished my first small score today (a four-page piano piece). LilyPond is a great program. This has been an interesting and challenging learning experience. The last two bars of the piece took almost as long as the entire rest of the work, but I finally figured out one way to solve the probl

Re: 2.5.9 not on Fink

2005-02-18 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Feb-05, at 2:06 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I'm confused. what's this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-01/msg00249.html about thhen? It's an experimental package source that should only be used by experienced unix people. It's not available in fink stable or fink unstab

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > OK. How is this different from > > > > \lyricmode { \markup { C \majSymbol \super { 7 9 } } > > > > except for the \lyricmode and \markup ? > > (For starters, wouldn't you have to specify another font, since chords > and lyrics fonts are different?) that's my poi

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> that's my point: you want some simple changes to font selection, but > it seems to me that you are asking for syntactic sugar, but I can't > figure out which syntactic sugar you want. Well, look at the Finale Jazzcord font set I linked to. Is it possible to get all those symbols as easily as any

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> OK. How is this different from > > \lyricmode { \markup { C \majSymbol \super { 7 9 } } > > except for the \lyricmode and \markup ? (For starters, wouldn't you have to specify another font, since chords and lyrics fonts are different?) Well, I guess the point I was trying to make was that t

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> Isn't there a contradiction between the claim that Jazz is not a > classical form of art, and some assertive statement about "the only > appropriate way things should be done" No contradiction. I wasn't suggesting that there's only ONE way to do it, I was saying that since there ISN'T only one

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread darius
> > I'd have to say I'd be wary of anyone who has a degree in jazz from a > conservatory. Jazz is not a classical art form; conservatories are for > teaching classical forms of music, and no decent jazz musician has > ever received his/her education from such a place. (I could say > something abou

email list rules and guidelines, attachments?

2005-02-18 Thread Steve D
Regarding lilypond-user, are there guidelines for posting, whether attachments are allowed, what kind of attachments are allowed, etc.? In searching the archives I found that PNG images were at one time discouraged (during the first quarter of 2004). If PNG or GIF images are now allowed (to ill

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > will typeset it for you in style x, y, or z", you instead say, "I want > a C, with the MAJ symbol as a superscript/subscript, with numbers > going up like this" etc. OK. How is this different from \lyricmode { \markup { C \majSymbol \super { 7 9 } } except for the \

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> It's because they're actual content. Consider printing a part with > your style of chord naming, and then having to give the same part to > someone used to ignatzek, with Danish notenames. With a neat > representation like the pitches that would be replacing > > \set chordNameFunction = #real-

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> Regarding your offer/request, I can only estimate how much work it > would be if you can send me chart, similar to the one in > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart > > with your desired layout. If you insist on a text-only approach, I can > c

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > There is hope for you here. You might wish to contribute to Han-Wen's > > offer in the long thread at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-02/msg00174.html > > While I can wait for the jazz articulations, I do feel strongly enough > about this to

lilypond-book problem

2005-02-18 Thread Anne Defaweux
Hello, I've installed version 2.0.3 (I could not get de most recent one to work at all). This version succeeds in building ps and pdf partition.. however, I have a problem with the lilypond-book option. When I use the lilypond command, it seems to work nicely (as you can see from output 1) Howev

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> There is hope for you here. You might wish to contribute to Han-Wen's > offer in the long thread at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-02/msg00174.html While I can wait for the jazz articulations, I do feel strongly enough about this to actually pay money for a chord system

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread wintryblue
> You're spot on that the authors come from a classical background, but > "getting things right" unfortunately doesn't exist. The current chord > name system as well as the chord-comping notation was recommended to > us by a Jazz-piano graduate from (I believe) Berlin conservatory. She > may still

Re: another triplets question

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Did you set this previously? It says group the tuplets in quarter (1 / 4) note groups which is smaller than the grouping you are indicating. The correct one for a 4 quarter note (one whole note) grouping would be: \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-m

Re: another triplets question

2005-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The math is very simple, you want to squeeze in 3 half notes to have the same duration as 2 normal half notes, so each of them has to be 2/3 times as long as normal. The tupletSpannerDuration property, on the other hand, is something completely different. Normally, when you use \times 2/3 {...}, yo

Re: Grace notes, ties, optimum notation

2005-02-18 Thread Yuval Harel
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:04:08 +0100, Maurizio Tomasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am not sure, but perhaps this could be useful to you: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-11/msg00465.html Hi, I was glad to see this example, because there are quite a few places where I needed t

Re: another triplets question

2005-02-18 Thread Chip
Paul Scott wrote: Chip wrote: Now that the previous triplets question is answered and working properly howabout this one - I have 4/4 time, 3 triplet 1/2 notes in one measure. I can get the 3 notes in the measure, but the triplet indicator is the # 3 under each individual note, and no bar. \ti

Instrument alignment in page head (v2.4.2)

2005-02-18 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi everybody! I wonder if anybody ever got aware of the fact, that the instrument name in the page head isn't exactly centered. Depending on odd or even page it is put a little to the right or left. You can verify this, when compiling the following code and comparing page head of p.2-3: \head

Re: 2.5.9 not on Fink

2005-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > However, the web site _should_ say 2.5.0, not 2.5.9. I've fixed this. > > Kieren, you may find the experimental CVS to be of interest, and bug > reports > about it would be great, but for production use definitely stay with I'm confused. what's this http://lists.g

"repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Now, I am aware that the authors of Lilypond come from a very > traditional music background, and probably have very little experience > with modern forms of music. (The antiquated chord symbol chart is > probably better proof of this than anything.*) Unlike others I don

Re: "repeat" slashes and the nature of lilypond

2005-02-18 Thread Graham King
As a mere new user, I'm not qualified to comment on most of your points, but there are two I'd like to pick up on: On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 07:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lilypond makes many assumptions about musical symbols, and notation in > general, that are very rigidly tied to classical conce

Re: another triplets question

2005-02-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Paul Scott wrote: Chip wrote: Now that the previous triplets question is answered and working properly howabout this one - I have 4/4 time, 3 triplet 1/2 notes in one measure. I can get the 3 notes in the measure, but the triplet indicator is the # 3 under each individual note, and no bar. \t