Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 12-Jun-05, at 11:57 AM, dpeach wrote: What I think would go a long way to helping understand some of the concepts is to take a full score of various types of music and severely documenting the .ly file. That way someone can read the .ly file of the music and get the snippets in context. You

Re: set tieWaitForNote

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
What OS and package type are you using? I just tried it on 2.5.30 compiled on OSX, and I get all the ties. Cheers, - Graham On 14-Jun-05, at 9:52 AM, Sacha Standen wrote:     I'm having problems on version 2.4.3 and on version 2.5.29 with the command: \set tieWaitForNote. I've tried various

Re: lilypond-book problem 2.5.30

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
Sorry, I don't have a clue. Try a new binary package, and if it still happens, send an email to bug-lilypond. - Graham On 13-Jun-05, at 11:19 PM, Libero Mureddu wrote: Thanks, but still I obtain the same error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/LilyPond.app/C

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Yes both of those do work. I generally have tried to adjust the 'size' using various numbers until I get the result I want. So Yes letter Yes set size to 20 or less and it should do the trick. Jay dpeach wrote: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"?

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jun-05, at 5:03 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Youse guys are good! I did that, and it corrected a whole bunch of bad code from my previous efforts. Now I have two questions: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? How? And, in Read the manual! o

Re: Special characters problem

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jun-05, at 9:51 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote: However any 'special characters' called in the 2.4.5 score don't seem to get rendered with 2.5.29. For example, in my header I have: Lilypond no longer uses latex, so the latex special chars don't work. Instead, insert them directly (cut and

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread dpeach
Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? I have a score with this in it: #(set-default-paper-size "letter") I assume that does it. I am working from another hymn that I have hacked up. And, in one hymn, the staff systems are quite far apart, taking two

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi Stan! Youse guys are good! I did that, and it corrected a whole bunch of bad code from my previous efforts. Now I have two questions: Is it possible to adjust the default paper-size to "letter" instead of "A4"? How? And, in one hymn, the staff systems are quite far apart, taking two pa

RE: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-14 Thread Fairchild
Title: Message   Should this work with Windows XP? -Original Message-From: Bertalan Fodor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:31 PMTo: FairchildCc: lilypond-user@gnu.orgSubject: Re: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98There is a windows installer:h

Re: scale degree numbers

2005-06-14 Thread Kris Shaffer
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. On 6/14/05, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you use version 2.2, the answer is to use LaTeX commands, for > example > c1^"$\\hat{5}$" > In version 2.5 and later, the answer will be something else. > > /Mats > > Kris Shaffer wrote: > > I

Re: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
There is a windows installer: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jedit/jedit42install.exe Bert I get stuck on your first word: "install". After download and unzip, then what? Is there an installation executable? ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

RE: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-14 Thread Fairchild
Bert - I get stuck on your first word: "install". After download and unzip, then what? Is there an installation executable? - Bruce -Original Message- From: Bertalan Fodor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:12 AM To: Fairchild Cc: lilypond-u

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi Mats, I tried convert-ly on one of my files, and still couldn't get lilypond to compile. Just so I know, is it: convert-ly [oldfilename.ly] [newfilename.ly] or convert-ly filename.ly (thus revising the text file)? Because this is what I tried, and kept getting errors I couldn't make out

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
That did it! Thank you. I chose method 2 from the above, but will keep this email saved for future reference. But I made a typo, sorry. So correctly: % :encoding=UTF-8: (This method of setting buffer properties is documented in jEdit's help. Bert ___

Re: Placing turn between notes

2005-06-14 Thread dax2
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:24:36 +0200 Mats wrote: > Why not read all emails in the thread? Nicolaus Sceaux sent a > working example for version 2.5 and Jeff Covey explained in a > followup how that should be modified to work in version 2.4. Oh dear, I can't even claim that the threading of my mailer

accidentals and ties

2005-06-14 Thread Robert Edward Edge
does anybody out there know how to force an accidental to be printed on the second of a pair of tied notes? (accidental style 'forget does not do this, neither do cautionary or explicit accidentals) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

set tieWaitForNote

2005-06-14 Thread Sacha Standen
    I'm having problems on version 2.4.3 and on version 2.5.29 with the command: \set tieWaitForNote. I've tried various syntax and have tried entering the example given in the manual (5.1.12), but the final note of the arpeggio is always the only one to be tied. This is the text for the exam

Special characters problem

2005-06-14 Thread Jamie Bullock
Hi, I have just started using lilypond 2.5.29 in order to take advantage of some of the newer features. Having used convert-ly to import a recent score from 2.4.5 (I don't think it did very much), most things seem to work OK. However any 'special characters' called in the 2.4.5 score don't seem t

Re: scale degree numbers

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you use version 2.2, the answer is to use LaTeX commands, for example c1^"$\\hat{5}$" In version 2.5 and later, the answer will be something else. /Mats Kris Shaffer wrote: I'm trying to markup notes with scale degree symbols (i.e. an Arabic numeral with a carat directly above it). I

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread dpeach
Bertalan Fodor wrote: To change it globally: Utilities>Global Options>General, Default character encoding To change for the current file: method 1: write a line in the file: % :encoding=UTF-8% method 2: double click on the right side of the status bar (where you can read the current encoding), a

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
To change it globally: Utilities>Global Options>General, Default character encoding To change for the current file: method 1: write a line in the file: % :encoding=UTF-8% method 2: double click on the right side of the status bar (where you can read the current encoding), and set character encodin

Re: Markup in stanza

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that you have found some bugs. According to the program reference, the stanza property can be set to a markup, but there are two problems here. 1. The following gives a syntax error: \version 2.5.30 << \context Voice = mel \relative c'' { r4 r4 c4 c4 } \lyricsto mel \new Lyrics \lyricmo

Re: Placing turn between notes

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not read all emails in the thread? Nicolaus Sceaux sent a working example for version 2.5 and Jeff Covey explained in a followup how that should be modified to work in version 2.4. /Mats dax2 wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:23:59 +0200 Mats wrote: Fairchild wrote: I believe the ^#". .

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The normal answer would have been to ask you to run convert-ly on your file. However, as far as I understand, this utility is missing in the native distributions for the moment, so instead you have to read the NEWS file: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html especial

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You mentioned convert-ly yourself in an earlier email. That should fix your existing files. Of course, you have to learn what has changed to be able to write new scores. A good starting point is the NEWS file on the documentation page for 2.5.xx. /Mats Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! Aha! That d

Re: Placing turn between notes

2005-06-14 Thread dax2
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:23:59 +0200 Mats wrote: > Fairchild wrote: > > I believe the ^#". . ." also can now be simply ^". . ."; similarly with -#". > > . ." and _#". . .". > > Yes and no! Before version 1.8, ^#"..." was equivalent to ^"...", > whereas ^#(...) was the old syntax for text markup, i

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread dpeach
You need a text editor that handles the UTF-8 encoding of characters, and you must save your file in this encoding. Then you'll get your characters. I too am having the same problem. I am using jedit, which is wonderful, but completely new to me. How do I force it to the UTF-8 encoding. I ha

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi! Aha! That did it! (I thought I had done the gmake install already.) Now I have to figure out how to get my present files to configure. I'm having trouble with the syntax, which I don't really understand, but simply have used templates that worked. Maybe I need to find a couple of temp

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jun-05, at 3:32 AM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I have just installed, under the very able guidance of Graham Percival, version 2.5.29 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. Now, when I try to run it, the program won't launch, nor will it convert-ly. What am I missing here? I'm thinking it might be that

Re: lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
You need a text editor that handles the UTF-8 encoding of characters, and you must save your file in this encoding. Then you'll get your characters. Bert > > Downloaded the "new" native lilypond 2.5.29-2 and have been trying it > out but I'm still resorting to my "old" 2.4.2 in Cygwin for serio

lyricsfont problem in lilypond 2.5.29 for windows

2005-06-14 Thread anders stenberg
Hello! Downloaded the "new" native lilypond 2.5.29-2 and have been trying it out but I'm still resorting to my "old" 2.4.2 in Cygwin for serious editing. One problem I have run into in my try outs is with the fonts for lyrics. As a speaker of nordic tongues i.e. Swedish and Finnish I have

Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi all! I have just installed, under the very able guidance of Graham Percival, version 2.5.29 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system. Now, when I try to run it, the program won't launch, nor will it convert-ly. What am I missing here? I'm thinking it might be that the program was installed (at Graham's

Re: ossia and adding a label

2005-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You don't provide a full example, so I don't really know how long the intro is before you start the ostinato, but my guess is that it may be a good idea to add a \break before it, so the ostinato starts on a new score line. In that case, you can simply set Staff.instr = "ostinato" to get an label

Re: LilyPond 2.4.2 for Windows 98

2005-06-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Install jedit (www.jedit.org), start it, go to Plugins > Plugin Manager>, and select |LilyTool| from the tab. That will install everything that is necessary. This way you get the 0.2.7 version (the same you can download from the lily4jedit site). But there is a newer development version on the