Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > The cheaper option is to write the people that recorded the CD and ask > them for music. If you give them enough money, they might consider the > request. Yes... that's probably the cheapest way in terms of both time and money. But that said, there exists software which

Re: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Sep-05, at 5:48 PM, Fairchild wrote: Yes. \bar "|." is in the code. Tried several different places, all ignored. Ah, I see. Well, this is a perfect example of why you should always make a minimal example -- it's easier to see what the problem is. :) Please construct a minimal examp

Re: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Sep-05, at 3:08 PM, Fairchild wrote: Maybe this snippet/example would be worthy of enshrinement somewhere in the docs, if only there is a way to get a thin-thick bar line under the fermata at the end of the first line. Suggestions? thin-tick barline? You mean like \bar "|." ? - Gra

RE: How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Fairchild
Yes. \bar "|." is in the code. Tried several different places, all ignored. -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:44 PM To: Fairchild Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to override bar line? On 24-Sep-05, at 3:

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Rogers wrote: (Unless you have the money to pay several people several years' wages each, to develop suitable technology and write software for it - but I assume if you had that kind of money you'd already have done so. Plus you'd be waiting years for those songs.) :-) The cheaper o

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread David Rogers
On Sep 24, 2005, at 00:37, Peter Mogensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any software available in the music industry to generate notation and chords and that can be printed in sheet music form ... That is a *very* *very* _*very*_ difficult task to program - if not impossible. Th

How to override bar line?

2005-09-24 Thread Fairchild
Title: Message Maybe this snippet/example would be worthy of enshrinement somewhere in the docs, if only there is a way to get a thin-thick bar line under the fermata at the end of the first line. Suggestions?   - Bruce %%   \version "2.4.6"  \layout

Re: Wrong type argument in position 1 error

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kevin Nowaczyk wrote: List, Is there a supported way to automatically notate hammer-ons and pull-offs in tablature? Not that I know of. I'd be delighted to do this as a sponsored feature, though. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

Re: lilypond-book/(La)TeX knowledge required

2005-09-24 Thread Laura Conrad
> "RvS" == Ruud van Silfhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RvS> I'm (again) working on a version of a hymne book I have been working on RvS> before. I is written lilypond and LaTeX. RvS> Before I have worked on a version for the people in church, now I have RvS> to make a spec

lilypond-book/(La)TeX knowledge required

2005-09-24 Thread Ruud van Silfhout
Hi TeXnicians?, I'm (again) working on a version of a hymne book I have been working on before. I is written lilypond and LaTeX. Before I have worked on a version for the people in church, now I have to make a special version for the church choir. I have a TeX variable containing the number of

Re: Wrong type argument in position 1 error

2005-09-24 Thread Kevin Nowaczyk
List, Is there a supported way to automatically notate hammer-ons and pull-offs in tablature? Or do I just need to float "h" and "p" characters above ties manually? Kevin --- Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Nowaczyk wrote: > > Here is the minimum code to reproduce an error I

Re: Accidental placement above/below note

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 23 September 2005 23.34, Daniel Johnson wrote: > Ruud van Silfhout wrote: > > As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question > > concening the attached piece of music. > > The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural > > normally placed before the

Re: How to pause a staff with some horizontal whitespage?

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
Peter Mogensen wrote: > Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >>Read the NEWS in the documentation for version 2.6. > > > > Unless I'm mistaken \stopStaff \startStaff doesn't stop output of notes. > Only the staff-lines. > > To use this, it would require to insert skip-notes in all staffs/voices. > I would

Re: SUSE 9.3 and fontforge

2005-09-24 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Suzanne Blatt kirjoitti: Hello, I'm trying to build Lilypond 2.5 as the one that came with SUSE 9.3 doesn't work. My problem is fontforge. The 'old' fontforge that came with SUSE has been uninstalled, I found and downloaded the 'new' fontforge from the web but I cannot seem to get the compi

Re: Font regression woes

2005-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jukka Akkanen wrote: This doesn't appear to be a Mac OS 10.3 vs 10.4 issue because both exhibit the same behavior. What I see happening with LilyPond 2.7.9 is, fondu generates following four files from '/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman': TimesNewRoman.ttf TimesNewRomanBold.ttf TimesNewRoman

Re: Notation

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Mogensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Sir/madam, > > I am an entry level keyboard player (Not professional). I hope you can help > me to answer my question. > > Instead of sitting and listening several time to learn and play a music from > CD's of own choice, is there any software available in t