alignment: gjpqy chars in markup

2005-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
What's the best way to get two markup strings (once containing a gjpqy, the other without such characters) to align? In the example below, the "bag" is typeset higher than "foo", because the "g" requires space under the line. The extra space seems to correspond to 0.4 staffspaces, so I _could_

Re: Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Aug-05, at 5:51 PM, Thomas Ruedas wrote: One of the things I have tried to find out concerns the notation of alternating stem orientation if one voice is distributed on both staffs of a piano score. I didn't find an example for my problem in the example collection or on Mutopia, so I'd

Newbie Q about stems and chords

2005-08-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hi, after finally having succeeded in compiling v.2.4.6 from the sources on my box, I have eagerly started playing with Lilypond, and I am quite impressed. One of the things I have tried to find out concerns the notation of alternating stem orientation if one voice is distributed on both staffs

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 01:47, Graham Percival wrote: You have a setup, different from the one I am used to. On the Bison list, people are recommended trying out the latest beta, so one gets to know that it works. Beta, or pre-alpha? 2.7 is currently in pre-alpha stage; expect it to be quite

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Aug-05, at 4:32 PM, Hans Aberg wrote: You have a setup, different from the one I am used to. On the Bison list, people are recommended trying out the latest beta, so one gets to know that it works. Beta, or pre-alpha? 2.7 is currently in pre-alpha stage; expect it to be quite unstable

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 14 Aug 2005, at 01:09, Graham Percival wrote: In LilyPond 2.7.3-1 for Mac OS X, when I make a key change using \key, I get a cancellation of the old alterations, but the new ones only appears first on the next line. Is this a bug, or should I enter some command to get the new key alterat

Re: Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Aug-05, at 9:03 AM, Hans Aberg wrote: In LilyPond 2.7.3-1 for Mac OS X, when I make a key change using \key, I get a cancellation of the old alterations, but the new ones only appears first on the next line. Is this a bug, or should I enter some command to get the new key alterations di

Re: mixed meter

2005-08-13 Thread Doug Asherman
Kris Shaffer wrote: > I need to typeset a passage from Strauss' Don Quixote in 2/4 + 3/4 > meter. As a temporary solution, I set the passage in 5/4, with dotted In the documentation, do a search under "Tips and Tricks" for compound-time -- this should do what you want. ___

Re: mixed meter

2005-08-13 Thread Kris Shaffer
Nevermind, upon closer examination, I found it in the manual. Section 8.4.1, in case anyone else is looking for it. On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:52:40 -0400, Kris Shaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to typeset a passage from Strauss' Don Quixote in 2/4 + 3/4 meter. As a temporary soluti

Re: mixed meter

2005-08-13 Thread Hans Aberg
On 13 Aug 2005, at 19:52, Kris Shaffer wrote: I need to typeset a passage from Strauss' Don Quixote in 2/4 + 3/4 meter. As a temporary solution, I set the passage in 5/4, with dotted barlines after the second beat. However, for the final version, I need the original notation of 2/4 + 3/4

mixed meter

2005-08-13 Thread Kris Shaffer
I need to typeset a passage from Strauss' Don Quixote in 2/4 + 3/4 meter. As a temporary solution, I set the passage in 5/4, with dotted barlines after the second beat. However, for the final version, I need the original notation of 2/4 + 3/4. I can't find the solution in the manual or o

Getting key change alterations printed

2005-08-13 Thread Hans Aberg
In LilyPond 2.7.3-1 for Mac OS X, when I make a key change using \key, I get a cancellation of the old alterations, but the new ones only appears first on the next line. Is this a bug, or should I enter some command to get the new key alterations displayed immediately? Hans Aberg

Re: Markup in TextSpanner edge-text

2005-08-13 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm trying: > > \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'( \markup "rit" . "") > \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'( (markup "rit") . "") > \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'( (make-simple-markup "rit") . "") > > But none of them works: all

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2005-08-13 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for replying myself again, but I figured out that I don't need > to guess the length of the parameter list with the lambda, I just can > use: > > \once \override Voice.NoteHead #'glyph-name-procedure = #(lambda > p "1" ) > > This p (whic

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2005-08-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Sorry for replying myself again, but I figured out that I don't need to guess the length of the parameter list with the lambda, I just can use: \once \override Voice.NoteHead #'glyph-name-procedure = #(lambda p "1" ) This p (which is essentially a list) will get all the parameters that a

Scrollkeeper-update warning

2005-08-13 Thread dax2
Don't read this if you are in a hurry:-) LilyPond 2.6.3 compiles from source on my (slightly modified) Gentoo-2005.0 and it runs like a breeze. However, LilyPond documentation "make web" takes extremely long time (12 hrs or more) on my systen (128MB small RAM but with TWM it is fa