lilypond-book

2005-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Philpott
Hallo, I'm trying to set a songbook using lilypond-book, or rather lilypond-book-snapshot. (Lilypond-Snapshot 2.4.2 on Debian Sarge) and am having a few problems with the output: 1. Because the songbook is also for children, all songs are set to 23pt, which just appear as a mess on the output (

Re: Simple OS X Lily previewer in the works

2005-03-22 Thread David Rogers
Joshua Koo wrote: >btw, jEdit does support (mac) native look and feel. fyi, you can >change the l&f under global options>appearance. Just because it can draw its window borders in lighter grey with stripes, and antialias the menu names, doesn't make it "mac native look & feel". Just as, if I pain

Re: no output

2005-03-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Mar-05, at 11:56 AM, Ville Hiilivirta wrote: I'm using Lilypond 2.4.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.8. I'm trying to get the hang of this but don't seem to get any output. I created the test file test.ly containing { c'4 e' g' } on my desktop and tried running lilypond in the terminal. This is what hap

Re: Simple OS X Lily previewer in the works

2005-03-22 Thread Joshua Koo
Okay, sorry I misunderstood thinking you meant starting a new project using jedit. btw, jEdit does support (mac) native look and feel. fyi, you can change the l&f under global options>appearance. Joshua -Original Message- From: Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joshua Koo" <[EMAI

Re: help

2005-03-22 Thread Jan Kohnert
Lawrence Wicks schrieb: > I'm trying to download lilypond, but the sites I try all have n/a beside > lilypond. What site can I access from Ontario Canada? Thanks From your Mailheaders I assume your are using Windows. You will have to download cygwin, follow the instructions given on the LilyPond

Re: Rests

2005-03-22 Thread Jan Kohnert
Roman Käppeler schrieb: > Hi, > > sorry, I am bit confused with displaying rests. > > How can I center rests (R1) in the middle of a bar? > How can I display repeated Rests with the typical symbol, R1*4 creates 1 > rest per bar!? AFAIK you will have to use r1 instead of R1 to display the rests. Th

no output

2005-03-22 Thread Ville Hiilivirta
Hi! I'm using Lilypond 2.4.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.8. I'm trying to get the hang of this but don't seem to get any output. I created the test file test.ly containing { c'4 e' g' } on my desktop and tried running lilypond in the terminal. This is what happened: Tietokone-Ville-Hiilivirta:~/Desktop vi

Re: Adobe Fonts in Lilypond

2005-03-22 Thread Rob V
I'm not exactly sure if I understand your question, but here's how I accessed Adobe Helvetica in my lilypond file.  I added: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override VocalName #'font-name = #"phvr" \override LyricText #'font-name = #"phvro" } } These were found in my tfm/adobe/helvetic folder.

help

2005-03-22 Thread Lawrence Wicks
I'm trying to download lilypond, but the sites I try all have n/a beside lilypond. What site can I access from Ontario Canada? Thanks ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Rests

2005-03-22 Thread Roman Käppeler
Hi, sorry, I am bit confused with displaying rests. How can I center rests (R1) in the middle of a bar? How can I display repeated Rests with the typical symbol, R1*4 creates 1 rest per bar!? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: RE: My opinion

2005-03-22 Thread Tim Fechtner
I referenced me at the following test at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2004-11/msg00043.html "At the moment, most post-3.0 issues that we see are related to interaction with other software. * Right now, there are a bunch of programs that try to export (and even: import) .ly fil

Re: How to do notes + lyrics in sequence

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 14:33 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > It does compile here using version 2.2! Ah, I checked and, though it produced some error messages, it worked fine. I've been using it for some time more now and it's going very well. Thanks for your help! best regards, -- Mat

Re: Simple OS X Lily previewer in the works

2005-03-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
"Joshua Koo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > There's already a project for lilypond editing in jEdit, called > LilyTool. Its in java so I believe its compatible with Mac OS > too. And it covers most of the features you mentioned, so havnt you > tried it yet? I'm already using an editor that

Re: split notes over barlines

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Iber
wow, that was quick, and just what I was looking for. Thanks Christ, Michael Christ van Willegen schrieb: Hi Michael, list, Is there a way to have note durations splitted over barlines? E.g. if I have c4 c4 c2. in a 4/4 measure to automatically obtain c4 c4 c2~c4? Yes, there is... I went to

Re: split notes over barlines

2005-03-22 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi Michael, list, > Is there a way to have note durations splitted over barlines? E.g. if I > have c4 c4 c2. in a 4/4 measure to automatically obtain c4 c4 c2~c4? Yes, there is... I went to www.lilypond.org, and clicked 'Documentation'. I went to the documentation of version 2.4 (I assume you us

split notes over barlines

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Iber
Hello, I am very new to lilypond, so please excuse, if my question is not very appropriate. I searched the archive but could not find an answer to my questions, which is: Is there a way to have note durations splitted over barlines? E.g. if I have c4 c4 c2. in a 4/4 measure to automatically obta

Re: Score with separate title page

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Scott
Jack Harris wrote: I'm using Lilypond 2.4.2 on WinXP. I would like to add a separate title page and a page of notes in front of my score, so that, when printed, the score starts on page three. I see that this could be done using Lilypond-book, but I would think that the printed output might b

Re: Score with separate title page

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you follow the instructions in the manual, you will get exactly the same vectorized fonts in the output from lilypond-book as from lilypond, so that's definitely not an issue. Don't forget to rerun the Cygwin installation program, setup.exe, and install the two packages tetex-base and tetex-extr

Score with separate title page

2005-03-22 Thread Jack Harris
I'm using Lilypond 2.4.2 on WinXP.  I would like to add a separate title page and a page of notes in front of my score, so that, when printed, the score starts on page three.  I see that this could be done using Lilypond-book, but I would think that the printed output might be degraded due t

Re: strange console output

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would recommend to keep questions specific for the latest development versions on the lilypond-devel list or on bug-lilypond if you think it's a bug. It seems that these verbose debug printouts were turned a number of weeks ago and that nobody cared to turn them off again, see http://savannah.gnu

Re: How to do notes + lyrics in sequence

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It does compile here using version 2.2! Regarding your next email with the upgrade problems, please read at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Commenting-input-files.html#Commenting-input-files especially the link on the last line about 'convert-ly'. /Mats Matthew T

strange console output

2005-03-22 Thread David Bobroff
I'm getting some really extra verbose output with 2.5.16. It seem to occur when I use \partcombine. I was getting screenfull after screenful of this output. I tried: # lilypond foo > foo.log ..and then got console output more like what I would expect. In this case it mentioned some barcheck fa

Re: How to do notes + lyrics in sequence

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:53 +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > try it with 2.4.5 and see if that helps. Oh dear: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lilypond test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.4.5 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... test.ly:10:14: error: unknown escaped string: `\notes': parta = \notes \relati

Re: How to do notes + lyrics in sequence

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Thanks to both of you for the advice. Things are beginning to make a bit more sense now :-). Unfortunately, the suggestion of: \score { << \new Staff { \context Voice = "parta" \parta \context Voice = "partb" \partb } \new Lyrics << \lyricsto "parta

Re: Bigger Output for Vision-Impaired Users

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 23:07 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > For more information on the Debian packages, search the mailing list > archives (both lilypond-user, > lilypond-devel and info-lilypond may have relevant information). The problem was that it was for i386 and I have a PowerPC. I

Re: How to do notes + lyrics in sequence

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I have to admit I had to do some trial and error to get this right. Of course, the easiest solution is what Michiel proposed, namely to concatenate all the music into a single Voice context and all text into a single Lyrics context: \score { << \context Voice = "allparts" {\parta \partb }

Re: metric modulation

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The default tempo indications are typeset using something like ^\markup { "(" \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"16" #1 "=" \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"16" #1" "sempre)" } /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to type some tempo indicatio

Re: override

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Now I realize that my previous answer wasn't completely correct, since you had defined your own macro for this articulation. Since you used \markup, the layout object is indeed called TextScript and nothing else. The extra-offset property specifies how you want to move the object relative to its no

Re: Réf. : Re: multiple markups

2005-03-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote: It could be that way, but I have to move it vertically... and the thing is that when you use s64, you have to pout it in all the staves, and make a maesure with no fixed measure length... Why? You could easily fake LilyPond into beleiving that the previous note is short

Réf. : Re: multiple markups

2005-03-22 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
It could be that way, but I have to move it vertically... and the thing is that when you use s64, you have to pout it in all the staves, and make a maesure with no fixed measure length... Thanks for helping !

Re: multiple markups

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Scott
Jean-marc LEGRAND wrote: Hi list ! I'm using lily2.4 on XP. I have to put a rcomma AND a fingering on the same note. I'de like to have the fingering just on top of the note, but the rcomma just on the right, so at a different level. I make : \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(2.2 . -2)

override

2005-03-22 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Hi list. On XP lily2.4.2, I use to define : tr = \markup {\musicglyph #"scripts-rcomma"} and make : \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(2.1 . -1.7) a8^\tr, for example, which puts a comma just after the note (ancoent way to indicate a trill in baroque music). the thing is that

multiple markups

2005-03-22 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Hi list ! I'm using lily2.4 on XP. I have to put a rcomma AND a fingering on the same note. I'de like to have the fingering just on top of the note, but the rcomma just on the right, so at a different level. I make : \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(2.2 . -2) c8.^2 ^\tr. The 2