Re: XP how or in what does one invoke?

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Scott
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: So, Han-Wen and Mats have directed me to XP and 2.6 convert tools however when I read the documentation it starts with "invoked by" Now on my linux machine I know (I think) how to invoke something however in Windows I haven't a clue. Start/Run Type cmd,

XP how or in what does one invoke?

2005-06-27 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
So, Han-Wen and Mats have directed me to XP and 2.6 convert tools however when I read the documentation it starts with "invoked by" Now on my linux machine I know (I think) how to invoke something however in Windows I haven't a clue. Jay -- Jay Hamilton Sound and Silence POB 14162 Seattle, Wa.

2.6 autopackage on Debian sid!!

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Scott
I just found out about 2.6 autopackaged and have installed it on my Debian sid system. My first test worked great! I found the various 2.6 executables. 1. I cannot find any menu entries (KDE) from the install. 2. I found the man and info pages. Is there an HTML (lilypond-doc) manual availa

Re: printpagenumber in 2.5.31

2005-06-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 27 June 2005 08:10 am, Laura Conrad wrote: > There's a LaTeX recipe for getting that; it's documented with > fancyhdr (maybe also memoir). So lilypond-book users can do it. You > just say: > > \usepackage{lastpage} > > and then \pageref{LastPage} gives you the number of the last

2.6 fonts questions

2005-06-27 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Using the autopackage version of lily 2.6 on Debian sarge, I was playing around with font selection, and was getting almost nowhere. The documentation on the website says the following: > By setting the object properties described below, you can select a font from the > preconfigured font fami

alignment of instrument names

2005-06-27 Thread libero . mureddu3
Hi, By default, in a score, lily left align instrument names. How is it possible to right-align the names? Or to center-align them? I would like to have, as staff group name, "Horns", and I, III and II, IV right aligned as staff names. Thanks in advance for any help. Libero ___

Re: converting abc to lily?

2005-06-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Mats- Alas, with all the recommendations to use the latest version especially with the better/easier .exe for windows I never did get the Cygwin version to work and deleted it almost immediately. So I guess the question becomes will the easier .exe for 2.

Re: key signature crowding first notes of bar

2005-06-27 Thread VSD
try playing with the values inside KeySignature #'space-alist, e.g: % \version "2.6.0" \score { \context Staff { \key cis \major \override Staff.KeySignature #'space-alist = #'((time-signature extra-space . 1.25) (staff-bar extra-space . 1.1) (r

Re: converting abc to lily?

2005-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jay" == Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> Mats- Alas, with all the recommendations to use the latest version Jay> especially with the better/easier .exe for windows I never did get the Jay> Cygwin version to work and deleted it almost immediately.

Lilypond 2.6: problems with lilypond-pdfpc-helper

2005-06-27 Thread rachel_lists
I've installed 2.6 using the autopackage on Ubuntu Linux. There's problems with lilypond-pdfpc-helper. This links to lilypond-pdfpc-helper-2.6.0, which attempts to run lilypond-pdfpc-helper-bin-2.6.0. lilypond-pdfpc-helper-bin-2.6.0 doesn't exist, so no point-and-click... looks an interesting re

Re: spaces in paths in lily4jedit

2005-06-27 Thread VSD
it works. thanks :) On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:30:53 +0200, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, this is a bug, but there is a workaround. Create a Macro with the content: runCommandInConsole(view, "LilyPond", "\""+jEdit.getProperty("options.lilytool.lilypond-executable")+"\" \""+b

Re: converting abc to lily?

2005-06-27 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Mats- Alas, with all the recommendations to use the latest version especially with the better/easier .exe for windows I never did get the Cygwin version to work and deleted it almost immediately. So I guess the question becomes will the easier .exe for 2.6x contain abc2ly and midi2ly? Hope s

Re: spaces in paths in lily4jedit

2005-06-27 Thread Bertalan Fodor
No, this is a bug, but there is a workaround. Create a Macro with the content: runCommandInConsole(view, "LilyPond", "\""+jEdit.getProperty("options.lilytool.lilypond-executable")+"\" \""+buffer.getPath()+"\""); Assign a shortcut for it, and that would work. Bert "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\

spaces in paths in lily4jedit

2005-06-27 Thread VSD
I get console errors when invoking lilypond from lily4jedit 0.8.3 if the ly file name has spaces in its path. I think that's because lily4jedit invokes: "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond" C:\My Documents\music\myfile.ly warning: can't find file: `C:My' warning: can't find file:

Re: printpagenumber in 2.5.31

2005-06-27 Thread VSD
Hi, Graham, find attached the new patch for "titling-init.ly". I'm not very used to the gnu tools, is it usable? Pity it didn't arrived in time for version 2.6.0... :´( The changes: - "printpagenumber" should work again. if ##f, no page number is printed at all. if ##t the page numbers ar

Re: printpagenumber in 2.5.31

2005-06-27 Thread VSD
- "printpagenumber" should work again. if ##f, no page number is printed at all. if ##t the pagenumbers are printed starting from "pagenumber", and the first page ("1" by default or "pagenumber"if set) is printed or not according to the value of "printfirstpagenumber". If there's no more prob

key signature crowding first notes of bar

2005-06-27 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi, I am sure there is an \override for this but how does one pad the space between a key signature and the first notes in the bar? Is it an \override or a padding command? Thanks, I am looking right now but see nothing yet. Sterling ___ lilypond-us

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-27 Thread François Pinard
[Graham Percival] > [...] if somebody posts in another language, it's almost certainly > because they don't feel that they can communicate in English. Requiring English out of stubbornness is just not acceptable, of course. Some people have to be reminded, once in a while, that we are living on a

Re: printpagenumber in 2.5.31

2005-06-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "DRA" == David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DRA> Not at all, but "Page n of nn" would be nice. Other music programs DRA> have that. daveA There's a LaTeX recipe for getting that; it's documented with fancyhdr (maybe also memoir). So lilypond-book users can do it.

Re: Programming error

2005-06-27 Thread Gilles
> Maybe, the information at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-05/msg00207.html > can provide some help. > I installed the "ec-fonts-mftraced_1.0.12-1_all.deb" provided on the Lilypond site. No improvement. Could it be an architecture-related problem? Gilles ___

Re: Special endings (long)

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As has already been pointed out, it's not a very good idea to use version 2.5.11 for any serious typesetting. Actually, the next stable version, 2.6.0, is supposed to be released during this week and it should be available in a package that will work on virtually any Linux version. Back to your p

Re: Programming error

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Maybe, the information at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-05/msg00207.html can provide some help. /Mats Gilles wrote: Hello. It's much easier to provide hints on what could be wrong if you send the output of lilypond --verbose clarinet.ly You'll find it attached.

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Werner LEMBERG writes: I second that. It was always fun to see some Dutch mails from Han-Wen or Jan which have been sent to list by accident :-) hmm, kweenie. willen we anderstalige draden, wat vinjij, hw? vantasmogories. Kunnen we ka

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Werner LEMBERG writes: I second that. It was always fun to see some Dutch mails from Han-Wen or Jan which have been sent to list by accident :-) hmm, kweenie. willen we anderstalige draden, wat vinjij, hw? vantasmogories. Kunnen we kappen met het geouwehoer? -

Re: Programming error

2005-06-27 Thread Gilles
Hello. > It's much easier to provide hints on what could be wrong if you > send the output of > lilypond --verbose clarinet.ly You'll find it attached. > to the mailing list. Also, I hope you have searched the mailing > list archives (don't forget the archive for bug-lilypond), I wouldn't > be s

Re: Extending beamed stems

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Henrik Frisk wrote: Your suggested solution seems to be the way to do it. I tried it quickly, but the NoteColumn #'force-hshift didn't do anything. Now, that may be because I am not using the 2.5 yet and i didn't start looking in the manual for a way to achieve this in 2.4. I will upgrade an

Re: converting abc to lily?

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that the developers are still working to sort out these issues. As long as you use the installation of version 2.4 using Cygwin, all these programs are available and working and can be called from the Cygwin command prompt. /Mats Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Mats- that's v

Re: Programming error

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's much easier to provide hints on what could be wrong if you send the output of lilypond --verbose clarinet.ly to the mailing list. Also, I hope you have searched the mailing list archives (don't forget the archive for bug-lilypond), I wouldn't be surprised if the issue has already appeared bef

Re: adding staves to a piano part...

2005-06-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sterling Sympatico wrote: Hi, Me again. I am enjoying the learning curve here and your help is making it a lot of fun. I have finished a piano accompaniment for a vocal ensemble. I have set up the file as such: \pianoRH notes (some second voice added) \pianoLH notes (some second voice a

Re: Languages other than English on the mailing list

2005-06-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Werner LEMBERG writes: > I second that. It was always fun to see some Dutch mails from Han-Wen > or Jan which have been sent to list by accident :-) hmm, kweenie. willen we anderstalige draden, wat vinjij, hw? -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http