Re: Problem installing lilypond 2.6.1

2005-08-03 Thread Luis G . López
Hi! :-) Thank you so much for your reply!!! I quickly went to lilypond.org, but I got 404 error when trying to download the package: http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/autopackage/lilypond-2.6.2.x86.package Luis. On 8/3/05, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to > http://lis

Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

2005-08-03 Thread Bec and John Silva
Hi, Thanks guys for your excellent responses! One final question on the issue - is it possible to wrap the time signature in parenthesis instead of brackets? I was trying by altering the font sizes so the parenthesis was large enough to cover both columns, but it was getting messy very fas

Re: 2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread dax2
I sent an answer directly to Graham Percival, sorry, here it is. Han Wen asked me to send full source (which I did but not on the list, anyone can see it here: http://www.d-axel.dk/pub/music/TOOBIGSNIPPET/ TOOBIGSNIPPET? I couldn't think of another name:-) On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:20:52 -0700 Gr

Re: 2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dax2 wrote: Please don't use too much time on this if this stack trace does not say something very clear. It dawns on me that maybe I should try a more straight version. I do not use a patched glibc coming with Gentoo, I use a straight one from the Glibc-dev-team and I have excluded localizatio

Re: 2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dax2 wrote: Is this interesting for the bug list? Are there any hints or help for 2.6.2? I look forward to a stable 2.6.2. For the time being I still have a working 2.4.5 and a 2.5.23 testing. Gentoo fontforge-20050624 mftrace-1.1.2 ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8 ---***--- This is output from l

Re: 2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread Graham Percival
On 3-Aug-05, at 2:41 PM, dax2 wrote: Is this interesting for the bug list? Certainly, but we need an input snippet. Chop-28-1-L262.ly:560:27: warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns \times 2/3 {d16\rest \z g8[ } \times 2/3 {s8 a16]} I recommend tha

Re: 2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread dax2
Please don't use too much time on this if this stack trace does not say something very clear. It dawns on me that maybe I should try a more straight version. I do not use a patched glibc coming with Gentoo, I use a straight one from the Glibc-dev-team and I have excluded localization so that she

2.6.2 Aborting after Element count 1640

2005-08-03 Thread dax2
Is this interesting for the bug list? Are there any hints or help for 2.6.2? I look forward to a stable 2.6.2. For the time being I still have a working 2.4.5 and a 2.5.23 testing. Gentoo fontforge-20050624 mftrace-1.1.2 ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8 ---***--- This is output from lilypond --verb

Re: Repeat brackets and chordmode

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Angel Candelaria wrote: Hi. I'm a new lilypond user, so please excuse me if this question is too basic or elemental. I'm writing a chord chart using \chordmode but am having trouble with some repeats because the chord names appear above the numbered ending brackets. How can I make lilypond writ

Re: Problem installing lilypond 2.6.1

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
According to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-lilypond/2005-08/msg0.html this problem shold be solved in version 2.6.2 which now is available for download at www.lilypond.org. /Mats Luis G. López wrote: Hi! I had installed 2.4.2 some time ago; it was very hard for me (and for you

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: Forgot to say that the easy workaround for you is to use the English settings in LilyPond. Just do export LANG=en_US in the shell where you use lilypond-book and lilypond. Yes, thanks a lot. Or I use the wired "--psfonts=". Now it's the right time to say a big "thank yo

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Forgot to say that the easy workaround for you is to use the English settings in LilyPond. Just do export LANG=en_US in the shell where you use lilypond-book and lilypond. /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: It seems that there's something wrong with the handling of translations of the printouts lil

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that there's something wrong with the handling of translations of the printouts lilypond-book. I actually do get exactly the same weird result as you when I set the environment variable LANG to "de_DE" for German or "sv_SE" for Swedish. I send a copy to the bug-lilypond mailing list. Tes

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: I don't know what you did when you applied the patch, but the resulting program is certainly broken if it starts printing out usage text when you call it with ordinary arguments. I did nothing magic :) Well, after uninstall lilypond and re-install lilypond 2.6.2 and I go

Re: Yet another vertical spacing question

2005-08-03 Thread Trevor Baca
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-06/msg00210.html > > > > /Mats > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Ah, > > but this is a bug, really. Only the staves should be kept on the first > system, but not the lyrics lines and chord names. Here's the executiv

Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

2005-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bec and John Silva wrote: Hi Mats, Thanks for that, I'm almost there. A problem I'm having is that when I use: \mark \markup { \hspace #-3.0 \lower #0.0 { \number \teeny { \bracket \column { "6" "4" } } } } The pseudo-time signature is very far above the staff, and using \lower lowers the e

Re: Repeating words

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I meant the first paragraph, not the first sentence. :-) If you do mywords = \lyricmode{ These are the words } then the rest of your code should work well. /Mats andrew Black wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Read the first sentence of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lil

Re: [Fwd: Command line option -e]

2005-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Since nobody has come up with an answer or comment, I forward the issue to bug-lilypond. /Mats 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 us

Re: Repeating words

2005-08-03 Thread andrew Black
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Read the first sentence of http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Entering-lyrics.html#Entering-lyrics Mats Can you explain this. I don't follow the answer. Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Generating a score for screen display

2005-08-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Pete Yandell wrote: I'm writing a music tuition type app for Mac OS X, and Lilypond is top of my list of potential tools for generating scores for display on the screen. Lilypond seems a good choice because it can spit out nice looking scores in PDF, and can also spit out some basic MIDI.

RE: lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-08-03 Thread Georg Dummer
Your are right. This was never intended to be a general solution. I only realised that some others have the same problems with lilypond-book and maybe they can benefit from this. Of course anyone as to adapt this hack to his needs. But without this workaround lilypond-book (2.6.1) is rather useles

[Fwd: Command line option -e]

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since nobody has come up with an answer or comment, I forward the issue to bug-lilypond. /Mats Original Message Subject: Command line option -e Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:58:15 +0200 From: John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LilyPond users list Hi, I use LilyPond 2.6.1 o

Re: lilypond-book 2.6.1 and --psfonts

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't know what you did when you applied the patch, but the resulting program is certainly broken if it starts printing out usage text when you call it with ordinary arguments. /Mats Martin Brodbeck wrote: Hello, after installing successfully lilypond-2.6.1 (thanks, Daniel) I run into an

RE: microtonal notation

2005-08-03 Thread Bodo
Dear Han, I've looked at the documents at plainsound.de, in particular at http://www.plainsound.de/research/notation.pdf. This seems quite complicated but seems well thought-out at first glance. > Unfortunately, noone has come up with a sensible idea for > linking both concepts, and I'm not fam

Re: Problem (or not?) with creating a MIDI File

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
When I process your .ly file here, I get a wasser.midi that is 799 bytes long and plays perfectly well. I used the latest version from CVS which includes a few changes compared to 2.7.3, but I couldn't find anything in the ChangeLog that directly looks related to MIDI output. However, I know there

Re: AW: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bodo wrote: As an alternative, find out how to enter the desired arrow symbol in your text editor (one solution is to lookup the Unicode representation for different kinds of arrows at http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html) Then, you can simply enter the symbol as a text script. /Mat

Re: lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry to be picky, but I can't see that this solution would be generally useful. As can be seen in a related discussion in bug-lilypond, I think we are beginning to realize what the actual problems are and how they can be solved in lilypond-book. /Mats Georg Dummer wrote: According to the hi

Problem (or not?) with creating a MIDI File

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Hello, I want to create a midi file from wasser.ly. But the resulting midi file is too (?) small (319 bytes). I'm not sure if there is something wrong with lilypond, or if I don't know how to create a MIDI file correctly with lilypond or if the midi file is all right and I just can't play it.

AW: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-08-03 Thread Bodo
> As an alternative, find out how to enter the desired arrow > symbol in your text editor (one solution is to lookup the > Unicode representation for different kinds of arrows at > http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html) > Then, you can simply enter the symbol as a text script. > > /Mats

Re: Generating a score for screen display

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
2. Can I generate a score as a single horizontal line rather than as multiple lines and pages? Try to set raggedright=##t in the \layout{...} block. Then you have to figure out how to get the corresponding page size. By the way, have you seen http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/20

Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

2005-08-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bec and John Silva wrote: Hi Mats, Thanks for that, I'm almost there. A problem I'm having is that when I use: \mark \markup { \hspace #-3.0 \lower #0.0 { \number \teeny { \bracket \column { "6" "4" } } } } The pseudo-time signature is very far above the staff, and using \lower lowers the

RE: lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-08-03 Thread Georg Dummer
According to the hint of Mats (possible extra space after the last bar) I changed my workaround: \usepackage{ifthen} \newcommand{\preLilyPondExample}{\raggedleft} \newcommand{\betweenLilyPondSystem}[1]{% \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{2}}% {\\[0.5cm] \raggedright}%

Flipping text in a \markup

2005-08-03 Thread Sven Axelsson
I am using Lilypond for classical bagpipe music (piobaireachd). To write this correctly I need a markup consisting of a a single letter rotated 180 degrees around it's center (i.e. put upside down). This can be done using \postscript markup, but I don't know how myself. Can anyone give me a hand? T