Re: BIG problem

2005-10-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
P B wrote: I have the following file that simply will NOT compile. I've done it on two separate machines and re-installed LilyPond twice; it keeps crashing. Any particular idea why? It has something to do with your use of \autochange, you're probably using the wrong name for the staves. I'v

word completion help

2005-10-10 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, I am having problems getting vim word completion to lilypond files. I hit ctrl+N and get very few choices to complete. I have checked the file lilypond-words.vim and it is full of choices. Just to check what is going on I renamed lilypond-words and lilypond-words.vim to other names. Th

Re: BIG problem

2005-10-10 Thread Michiel Lange
The crashes went away (tried with 2.6)  when I changed \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } to \layout { %% \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } In other words, I removed the RemoveEmptyStaffContext. Tried to remove the \context part, but that resulted in an error At

2.6.3 on debian

2005-10-10 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I just installed 2.6.3 from source on Debian Sarge/Sid. I didn't have any problems, though I did not try to make the documentation. I am interested in making a debian package, but am a little intimidated by that whole process. Hints are needed and encouragement is welcome :) Josiah _

BIG problem

2005-10-10 Thread P B
I have the following file that simply will NOT compile. I've done it on two separate machines and re-installed LilyPond twice; it keeps crashing. Any particular idea why? Thanks Paul \version "2.7.12" \include "english.ly" \header { dedication = "À M. Léon MacSwiney" title = "Chanson Tr

FiguredBass - Thank You.

2005-10-10 Thread Trent J
Hello All, I'd like to thank Han-Wen for his work in implementing the new figured bass scheme in Lilypond. There was a lot of hard work put into this which has resulted in an easy way in which figuredbass numbers and extender lines can be added and formatted. I would encourage anyone who uses start

Re: Repeats and rehearsal mark in drummode music

2005-10-10 Thread Peter Mogensen
Abbey Lincoln-GLMA001 wrote: > I just started using LilyPond to notate drumset music. It's working > very well for me so far. But I can't figure out how to do two things: > > 1. Put a rehearsal mark at the beginning of the first bar ("[A]"), and In my expericene it's best to put rehearsalmark

Re: Stupid question regarding absolute pitch designations

2005-10-10 Thread Hans Forbrich
On October 9, 2005 01:58 pm, P B wrote: > Why is middle C (C3) given the absolute pitch designation This is a topic for ongoing argument in virtually every music related newsgroup and distribution list to which I subscribe. Basically - pick a system and go ... because you'll offend someone, som

Re: Stupid question regarding absolute pitch designations

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 09/10/05, P B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is middle C (C3) given the absolute pitch designationc'?Would it not make more sense to use just plain oldcas middle C?Middle C is usually called C4 if numerical octave indicators are used (the Acoustical Society of America System) It can be ca

Re: Scheme error - what am I doing wrong?

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 09/10/05, Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Why not redefine the Staff context once and for all and get rid of> all the Scheme functions?I was just supposing that in longer examples the OP doesn't want to remove time signatures and bars (what w

Re: Scheme error - what am I doing wrong?

2005-10-10 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not redefine the Staff context once and for all and get rid of > all the Scheme functions? I was just supposing that in longer examples the OP doesn't want to remove time signatures and bars (what would be the point of his original function otherwis

Tie between voices

2005-10-10 Thread Alex Melhuish
Hello, I hope you can help me. I'm trying to typeset a piano score - Gershwin actually :). I've come across a bar where the first chord slurs into the next, which LilyPond handles fine. This second chord then ties to another identical chord. However, the top note of this chord breaks off into a s

Stupid question regarding absolute pitch designations

2005-10-10 Thread P B
Why is middle C (C3) given the absolute pitch designation c' ? Would it not make more sense to use just plain old c as middle C? What would it take to alter this in the code, if I wanted to do so for my own version? Paul ___ lilypond-user mail

Completing the Lilypond puzzle

2005-10-10 Thread lars prins
Lilypond can do everything and lilypond is for everybody. Yet, I don't seem to be part of this equation somehow. I am getting very frustrated to get Lilypond to do the simplest thing, to create a PDF file with 4 pages of empty piano sheet music that I can use to jot notes on. That shouldn't be to

Repeats and rehearsal mark in drummode music

2005-10-10 Thread Abbey Lincoln-GLMA001
I just started using LilyPond to notate drumset music.  It's workingvery well for me so far.  But I can't figure out how to do two things:    1. Put a rehearsal mark at the beginning of the first bar ("[A]"), and 2. Put the bars between repeat symbols ("|:" and ":|")   Here some representati

Re: Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Killeen
ah indeed it doesn't ! thanks Neil The problem is that you have declared a Staff context within a Voice context, which doesn't make sense. Just do \score{ << \context Voice = sop { \sopNotes } \lyricsto "sop" \new Lyrics \sopLyric >> } or \score{ << \new Staff { \context Voice

Re: page break hack

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 10/10/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sven Axelsson wrote:> Now I am trying to find the correct properties to tweak to ge the> inserted score from the original code to take up zero vertical space,> but I haven't gotten it right yet. Any hints? have a look at the new spacing featu

Re: Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The problem is that you have declared a Staff context within a Voice context, which doesn't make sense. Just do \score{ << \context Voice = sop { \sopNotes } \lyricsto "sop" \new Lyrics \sopLyric >> } or \score{ << \new Staff { \context Voice = sop { \sopNotes } } \lyrics

Re: page break hack

2005-10-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sven Axelsson wrote: Now I am trying to find the correct properties to tweak to ge the inserted score from the original code to take up zero vertical space, but I haven't gotten it right yet. Any hints? have a look at the new spacing features in 2.7.12 - input/regression/page-spacing.ly ; you

Re: Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Killeen
Mats, Han thanks for your replies. SInce I imagine I will need add some point to deal with the more complex \lyricsto command, do you have an idea about the second problem where it doesn't recognize the declared Voice ? thanks Neil Neil Killeen wrote: The manual does show how to use a p

Re: Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Secondly, you at least have to tell LilyPond that the score contains two things in parallel, namely the music and the lyrics. That's done with the <<...>>. Finally, for some silly reason, you need to have curly braces around the "argument" of \addlyrics. I'll send a bug repo

page break hack

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
\version "2.7.11"Having taken a look at Nicholas Sceaux's terrific opera scores, I found his pageBreakHack function. This function inserts an empty score with \header {breakbefore = ##t} into the music, forcing a pagebreak at that point. It looks like this: pageBreakHack = #(def-music-function (par

Re: Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I already knew that \addlyrics had very limited applicability, but it seems that it's even more limited to only handle simple examples than you might expect. Still, the following version of your first attempt does work: \version "2.6.3" sopLyric = \lyricmode { One Two Three } << \context Voi

Re: Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 10/10/05, andrew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part).I have tried   *4but this gives "unexpected *".Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests (eg R1*4). No, but it is only applicable for durations. To repeat a music _expression_, use\repe

Re: Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Hello, you can use : \repeat unfold 4 in order to repeat the chord 4 times. * is applicable to R or s. Gauvain andrew Black a écrit : I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part). I have tried *4 but this gives "unexpected *". Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests

Re: Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
andrew Black wrote: I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part). I have tried *4 but this gives "unexpected *". Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests (eg R1*4). No, but it is only applicable to durations, i.e. you can say 1*4 just as well as c4*4, however it's not wha

Re: Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 10 October 2005 09.47, andrew Black wrote: > I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part). > I have tried >*4 > but this gives "unexpected *". > > Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests (eg R1*4). Please read the manual. *4 only modifies a duration. You can write

Re: [Fwd: Command line option -e] -- setting paper type from command line.

2005-10-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Michael Haynie wrote: Do I understand correctly that I can no longer set the paper type from the command line? I don't currently see how to manage it. This is a significant problem for me, since my scores get input into several formats. I had relied on the command line arguments to set things l

Using addlyrics with a variable

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Killeen
Hello I am exploring lilypond for the first time. In evaluating its suitability for my purposes, I am making a little test piece to explore layouts. I am having trouble with lyric setting. I would like to use a pre-defined variable with the \addlyrics command (I can't find the answer in the

Repeating a chord

2005-10-10 Thread andrew Black
I want to create repeated chords (in a piano part). I have tried *4 but this gives "unexpected *". Is the * notation only applicable to full bar rests (eg R1*4). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list