Re: cluster using vertical line

2005-05-05 Thread Qian Li
Thanks, Mats, but I wish it were super thick and right on the edge of the noteheads. Qian On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Have you seen the example called arpeggio-bracket.ly in the Regression Tests > document. Maybe that layout will work for you? > ___

Non-PDF Special Ignored

2005-05-05 Thread S L Raymond
I am trying to prepare a text with pdflatex which incorporates a lilypond file. I'm working in cygwin. Lilypond-book runs fine, but when I run pdflatex on the final .tex file, I get a lot of "non-PDF special ignored" messages during the process. The resulting PDF looks fine except for the fa

Re: multi-part piece: output for separate parts

2005-05-05 Thread Bernard Hurley
See section 2.19 of the user manual /Bernard benoit farley wrote: > Hello, > > I have a piece of music for 4 harps, and I would like to know how to > produce outputs > for each separate part: one output set of files (pdf, ps, etc.) for > Harp 1, > another set for Harp2, etc. ___

Re: Partial measures

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 05 May 2005 23.11, Georges Roux wrote: > How grace notes can take part at start of the music? > > I know that partial command does not take into account grace notes at start > > \grace a8\glissando \partial 4 c8-4 c8 \bar "||" %1 > > Have some problem with it, how can I do that? > Thank

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Jennifer! That's it! Thanks very much, Robert At 10:25 PM +0100 5/5/05, Jennifer Clark wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: (It yields Co7 instead of Co/, if you know what I mean.) Any ideas? How about:- c:m7.5- Jennifer ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Jennifer Clark
Robert T Wyatt wrote: (It yields Co7 instead of Co/, if you know what I mean.) Any ideas? How about:- c:m7.5- Jennifer ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Partial measures

2005-05-05 Thread Georges Roux
How grace notes can take part at start of the music? I know that partial command does not take into account grace notes at start \grace a8\glissando \partial 4 c8-4 c8 \bar "||" %1 Have some problem with it, how can I do that? Thanks Georges \version "2.5.21" \header { title = "Maria" sub

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: > (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html Well, no, that is not quite what I want I'm afraid. Yes, the 13th example is a half-diminished chord, and yes I want the de

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Spacing around tempo marker

2005-05-05 Thread Randy Darden
My tempo marker is being placed too close to the staff lines - it interferes with some of the stems on the beginning notes. Is there any way to control the amount of space below the tempo marker? rjd ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The

Lily Pond Win2000 problem

2005-05-05 Thread Barry Spieler
Hi-- I tried to install Lily Pond today on my PC running Windows 2000 Professional. It seemed to run ok, but when i double clicked on the test file rest.ly, I got a little command prompt box that gave an error message as follows: /usr/bin/bash: Line 1: kpsexpand: command not found Any ideas wh

multi-part piece: output for separate parts

2005-05-05 Thread benoit farley
Hello,   I have a piece of music for 4 harps, and I would like to know how to produce outputs for each separate part: one output set of files (pdf, ps, etc.) for Harp 1, another set for Harp2, etc.  I could do it by commenting out all but one part, but each time, I had to make sure to rename

combining \addlyrics and polyphony (lilypond 2.4.5)

2005-05-05 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Hi, I just started playing with Lilypond today (version 2.4.5, on Debian/x86), and was following nicely along the tutorial. However, I ran into a snag when I tried to combine both lyrics and polyphony... once I specified polyphony with the "\\" operator as described in the tutorial, \addlyrics gav

Installations woes

2005-05-05 Thread Art Hixson
This is a WinXP installation. I reinstalled on top of the first install and got the same error. Then I went to the /fonts directory but, unfortunately, I don't know how to deal with the packages. GNU LilyPond 2.4.3 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... error: can't find `ecrm10

Improve TabStaff readability : solid white box under fret number

2005-05-05 Thread SPORN David
Hello, When using TabStaff, fret numbers are written over a line staff. It's still readable, but I think the result would be better if the line staff could be locally erased (and in the magazine, tablatures are displayed this way) The most obvious way to me would be to draw a solid white box (

RE: Default font

2005-05-05 Thread Rob Vlasaty
Fairchild, I'm not sure exactly what your question is, but if you want to use the cmr10 font, or another font in your markup, just add: \override #'(font-name . "cmr10") to your markup statement. Or if you are trying to use the cmr10 in your postscript, maybe you need to use cmr10.pfb instead

hideNotes unHideNotes with repeat

2005-05-05 Thread Ted S. Sunhede Fulk
Hello everyone, I tried to use the hideNotes unHideNotes and *1/2 trick to have a tie and a slur attack to the 2nd alternative of a repeat. However, the output dropped the beams (it was an 8th note and two 16th notes). I was using Lilypond 2.4.3 for Windows XP (my iBook with 2.4.5 was at home -

More on lyrics alignment and the repeat option (repeat percent)

2005-05-05 Thread Luis Guillermo Agudelo
Dear lilypond users, I noticed that in the discussion log, there is quite a lot already about lyrics and alignment but I quite didn't see the problem I am having now. I believe it is a bug. When using repeat percent, the lyrics do not get aligned with the "//"(repeat) sign according to the numb

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-diminis

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-dim

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Check how to specify the duration of a chord at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Combining-notes-into-chords.html#Combining-notes-into-chords /Mats Robert T Wyatt wrote: Thank you Mats! This worked perfectly. --rtw Now a follow-up question, the answer to which will

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want to s

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want t

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Graham, Thanks! I tried this and it works also! (More than one way to do it!) --Robert Graham Percival wrote: On 4-May-05, at 9:57 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? You used << and >> , that means "do these things at the same time". In particu

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Thank you Mats! This worked perfectly. --rtw Now a follow-up question, the answer to which will probably get me through the remainder of this straightforward piece: This works just fine (yes, there are more chords than music so far, but that will change): << \chords { d1:m | bes1 | a1:7 | d2:m

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since it's possible to have different key signatures on different staves in a score (for example if you have transposing instruments), you have to specify the key signature in every Staff context. You want one line of chords and one staff with key signature and music, so just include the key signat

Re: font problem

2005-05-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you build the ec-fonts-mftraced yourself? I would guess so, since you have problems both with the feta fonts in LilyPond and the ec-font used for the title. In that case, it must be something wrong with your mftrace (or some of the programs it uses). If you want to verify that a certain font fi

Re: \markup adjustments

2005-05-05 Thread dax2
Hi, I recently got the solution from Mats Bengtsson. We should search the list before sending too many questions. It is easier to search if you are very careful with the subject, like "adjusting \tempo position" (my suggestions, anyway). Solution (I have my tempo in the piano right

Re: font problem

2005-05-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/14591/ > Notice the ugly clef and the title. > > I used the 1.0.12 version of ec-fonts-mftraced. Living on > Debian Woody has its quirks concerning updmap, but I did > my best. Any hints where the

Re: \markup adjustments

2005-05-05 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-May-05, at 5:57 AM, David Bobroff wrote: I have a small orchestral score. I have a global section which contains things like rehearsal letters, repeats and tempo markings. There is only a single tempo marking at the beginning. How can I adjust its position in individual parts? Adjusting th