Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-03 Thread Tapio Tuovila
I would be very grateful for any help. I don't know any Black Magic. You might have tried this already, but I'd give 2.5.x a try. Hey, the worst that can happen is that it fails, right? You could try the redhat rpm, but I'd go straight to the source tarball. Follow the instructions in th

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Jun-05, at 5:27 PM, Robert Memering wrote: Ok, it's just a matter of (mis-)configuration, then? Maybe, but I'm so tired of wasting my time searching archives, trying hundreds of promising "solutions" and still getting no results. Why do the Windows and Mac people always get "standalone inst

Re: Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Jun-05, at 5:18 PM, andrea valle wrote: Thanks, chmod worked (what does it mean?). It changes the permissions. I have no idea what it's supposed to mean. :) To see help for any commands in the terminal (or "unix shell"), type "man COMMAND". For example, "man chmod". Asking for th

Re: Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Jun-05, at 3:08 PM, andrea valle wrote: I obtain: -bash: /sw/bin/lilypond.sh: Permission denied You probably need to do chmod a+x /sw/bin/lilypond.sh If that doesn't work, then do ls -l /sw/bin/lilypond.sh and report the results. Cheers, - Graham

lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-03 Thread Robert Memering
Well, I finally post a message here and I am ready to take all the "didn't you search the archive" and "didn't you read the documentation" replies. Perhaps I am really stupid. But: I am frustrated. [you may skip the whining now and see below for the actual problem] I am definitely not a newbie,

Re: arbitrary papersize

2005-06-03 Thread andrea valle
Thanks, I was in fact seeing those pages of the manual. I was thinking that Page layout was dedicated to layout inside a given page. You have an a4 and you can do what you want *inside* it. I want an arbitrary page: so, let's say, can I use a paper of 1.13x3.88 cm (so that I can use pixel to

Re: Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread andrea valle
Thanks, chmod worked (what does it mean?). If I run: lilypond.sh --png /Users/apple/Desktop/test.ly I obtain ... Converting to `test.pdf'... Converting to PNG... `lilypond-ps2png --resolution=90 --papersize="a6" "test.ps"' failed (32256) error: failed files: "/Users/apple/Desktop/test.ly" Lily

Re: arbitrary papersize

2005-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 2-Jun-05, at 4:09 PM, andrea valle wrote: Hi to all and sorry if it's obvious, but I wasn't able to find an answer in the docs . Section 10.1.3, "Page layout" ? The section right after "paper size"? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page- layout.html Opt

Re: Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread andrea valle
Hi, I am not succeeding in using lilypond.app (2.5.26) from commanline (macosx 10.3.8). It's probably somenting obvious I don't know of command line usage. So please pardon me. I put the lilypond.sh in /sw/bin and then run the line apples-Computer:~ apple$ lilypond.sh /Users/apple/Desktop/te

Re: Tuplet Beams

2005-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The tupletSpannerDuration property only determines how the triplet numbers and/or brackets are printed but does not affect the beaming. See the section on "Setting automatic beam behavior" to learn how to change the beaming pattern. /Mats Fairchild wrote: This code creates one beam per bar.

Re: Stopped notes (guitar)

2005-06-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Jun-05, at 7:45 AM, Maurizio Monge wrote: Hello, in the 2.5.27 documentation there is an empty section about "Stopped notes (guitar)". Is there currently a way to realize stopped notes or should i use \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross \revert NoteHead #'style Sorry, I forgot to

Ant: Re: dvips fonts problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Warkentin
Hi! > Could you please provide a small example file that > illustrate the > problem. My .lytex file looks like that: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{a4 wide, dsfont} \usepackage{play} \usepackage[german]{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath}

Ant: Re: Maths code in header / voice names

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Warkentin
Hi! > You cannot use lilypond-book together with Miktex, > since > MikTeX doesn't know about the lilypond specific > fonts and other > additions. Well, after copying the Lilypond 2.4.3. directory in the lilypond directory of my MiKTeX, I had no problems with that. At least I think that none of my

Re: Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jun 3, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: The new installer for Mac OS is great and I have it working from the terminal just fine, but one question to the Brain Trust here, how does one use Lilypond-book or convert-ly, and all of the other goodies? I have installed the lilypond.sh

Usage of new installer for Mac OS

2005-06-03 Thread Walter Hofmeister
The new installer for Mac OS is great and I have it working from the terminal just fine, but one question to the Brain Trust here, how does one use Lilypond-book or convert-ly, and all of the other goodies? I have installed the lilypond.sh script into sw/bin/ and when I want to run lilypond I type

Re: part combiner

2005-06-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - It appears that parts will not be combined when a crescendo or diminuendo is active. It should be possible to have an a due part with dynamics. they will, but the cresc and dim should be on _both_ parts. Woul

Tuplet Beams

2005-06-03 Thread Fairchild
Title: Tuplet Beams This code creates one beam per bar. %% \version "2.4.3"         \score {     \relative c'' { \time 3/4 \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) \times 2/3 { c8 c c  c c c  c c c } \times 2/3 { c8 c c  c c c  c c c

Re: part combiner

2005-06-03 Thread kristof
"Han-Wen Nienhuys" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> - It appears that parts will not be combined when a crescendo or >> diminuendo >> is active. It should be possible to have an a due part with dynamics. > > they will, but the cresc and dim should be on _both_ parts. > Would it make sense to

Re: lay out

2005-06-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 02 June 2005 05:56 pm, Erik Ronström wrote: > | I see what you are saying but I still say a clearly defined > | and enforced structure would make the entry into lilypond > | much and mean much easier to the newbie. > > I agree completely! IMHO, this is the single most annoying thing ab

Stopped notes (guitar)

2005-06-03 Thread Maurizio Monge
Hello, in the 2.5.27 documentation there is an empty section about "Stopped notes (guitar)". Is there currently a way to realize stopped notes or should i use \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross \revert NoteHead #'style Thanks a lot Maurizio _

Re: Maths code in header / voice names

2005-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You cannot use lilypond-book together with Miktex, since MikTeX doesn't know about the lilypond specific fonts and other additions. However, you can use the teTeX distribution that's included in Cygwin. If you just rerun the cygwin installation program and make sure that the packages tetex-base an

Re: part combiner

2005-06-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - It appears that parts will not be combined when a crescendo or diminuendo is active. It should be possible to have an a due part with dynamics. they will, but the cresc and dim should be on _both_ parts. I would like to rewrite the part-combiner, but I have a few q

Re: dvips fonts problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Could you please provide a small example file that illustrate the problem. Regarding your second question, it depends on what platform you use and what TeX distribution. At least in the xdvi included in the teTeX 3.0 distribution, all the postscript features are shown correctly, whereas older ver

Re: Crescendo-Decrescendo

2005-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Fairchild wrote: 5) No way found to change default italic font, within \markup or with \override. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Font-select ion.html#Font-selection === I tried many ways. Didn't find anything effective. If you are trying to change

Re: part combiner

2005-06-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please always tell what LilyPond version you are using. Also, if you want to report bugs or request features, please use the bug-lilypond mailing list instead. /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lilyponders. I am currently orchestrating a piece of music using lilypond for the notation. I am

dvips fonts problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Warkentin
Hi! When I apply the command dvips -Ppdf -u+ec+mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map on the output of lilypond-book 2.4.3 and latex some of my symbols get changed (e.g. the symbol for rational numbers becomes an ordinary Q). Is there a way to avoid this? And, by the way, why is it necessary to use dvips and

Re: using footnotes on lyrics with lilypond-book

2005-06-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "HN" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HN> it's doable to add footnote support to the output engine, however, I HN> haven't planned anything, so I consider this a sponsored feature. I did a little bit of searching for a Unicode character that would be a superscript one

part combiner

2005-06-03 Thread kristof
Hi lilyponders. I am currently orchestrating a piece of music using lilypond for the notation. I am using the part-combiner to combine the wind instruments, but I find it to be unusable for the folowing reasons: - There are to many changes from solo, a due, etc. In one bar I have even 8 changes

Re: using footnotes on lyrics with lilypond-book

2005-06-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: At Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:55:00 +0200, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It should be noted that this solution will not work in LilyPond version 2.5 or later. I won't look at lilypond 2.5 until it becomes 2.6 ;) but I hope that footnotes (and maybe other TeX cons