Re: More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Scott
Benjamin Esham wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to typeset music that has three one-measure repeats in a row-- i.e., the measure before them is to be played a total of four times. Is there a way to get this using LilyPond? I couldn't find anything in the m

More than one measure repeat in a row

2005-07-20 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to typeset music that has three one-measure repeats in a row-- i.e., the measure before them is to be played a total of four times. Is there a way to get this using LilyPond? I couldn't find anything in the manual or the mailing lis

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: hi, 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. Would it be easy enough to extend that to alternating offset settings for odd

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
hi, 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. Alternative: you can try \paper { linewidth = ..shorter length.. } Bryan Stanbridge wrote: Gree

Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Bryan Stanbridge
Greetings, I'm using 2.4.5-1 on FC3 (the CCRMA package). I've noticed that the horizontal alignment of an entire line seems to be done completely independantly of the short instrument names. It seems as though the musical line stretches from margin to margin and the instrument names get shov

Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

2005-07-20 Thread Ray McKinney
It pays to be a lurker every now and then! I'm glad it's working for you. On 7/20/05, Trevor Baca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is a perfect solution for me since I'm not relying on >point-and-click (at least not yet, anyway!). > >Thanks, Ray. > >Trevor. _

LilyPond 2.6.1 for DOS-based Windows

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
The 2.6.1 release fixes a couple of minor bugs. More importantly, this version should now work on all flavours of Microsoft Windows, also 95 (?) 98 and ME. Install from http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/mingw/setup.exe Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - Th

FW: Figured Bass Above Bass line

2005-07-20 Thread Fairchild
-Original Message- From: Fairchild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:44 AM To: 'Laura Conrad' Subject: RE: Figured Bass Above Bass line Now, the links at the top of lilypond.org are "Home, Introduction, About, Download, Documentation, and Development." Might

list moderation help wanted

2005-07-20 Thread drl
Hello, I'm David Linn and I am the list manager for the Lilypond mailing lists. Those who have been on these lists for some time are probably aware that, several months ago, the volume of spam on the lists became unacceptable and then suddenly dropped to virtually nothing. Many people correctly g

Command line option -e

2005-07-20 Thread John Mandereau
Hi, I use LilyPond 2.6.1 on Fedora Core 4 and I'd like to use the -e command line option, which makes lilypond evaluate a Scheme expression. I'd like examples of this option usage are given in the documentation, because I didn't manage to use it. In fact I'd like to set paper size or other options

Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

2005-07-20 Thread Trevor Baca
Han-Wen wrote: > > So I suppose the work-around is simply to have Lily bypass the call to > > gs altogether and always use Apple's "open" utility to create the pdf, > > at least for this large file ... but two questions: > > That surprises me; Apple's PS to PDF convertor consistently crashes on >

Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

2005-07-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Baca wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to introduce myself and then ask a question. My name's Trevor Baca and I'm a composer working in Austin, Texas. I just started using LilyPond for the very first time at the beginning of July, and I'm already completelly blown away. I model notation algori

Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

2005-07-20 Thread Trevor Baca
On 7/13/05, Trevor Baca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/13/05, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. If it's not possible (or worth taking the time to tinker with gs) > > > could someone offer me a pointer on what file I can edit to have Lily > > > stop calling gs? > > >

lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-07-20 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Hello, after installing successfully lilypond-2.6.1 (thanks, Daniel) I run into another problem. Running "lilypond-book --output=out file.tex" a second time results in an error message, that the file should have been overwritten, because it already exists. I was able to solve the problem by a

Re: 3/4 time oddity

2005-07-20 Thread Steve D
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:10:11AM -0600, Steve D wrote: > > Using LilyPond 2.6.1, does anyone else notice an oddity with: > > \time 3/4 --- --- What a horrible question I asked, with no indication of operating environment, PDF application version numbers, with imprecise phrases like "odd lookin

Re: TeX and DVI output from 2.6 native Windows install

2005-07-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: One of the things I thought was particularly interesting about Lilypond was its interface with LaTeX. I was thinking about using the DOC format to write some prefaces to works I'm editing. Unfortunately, I'm barely able to work in LaTeX at this point but I think it has grea

Re: Lilypond 2.6.1 on Gentoo: libstdc++

2005-07-20 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Martin Brodbeck schrieb: Hi again, > I took another look at your error message. I think that if you scroll > further up in your error messages, you'll find that there was a > non-fatal error in processing a .ly file; this causes problems for > texi2dvi later. Also, have you explicitly dis