Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Christian Ebert
* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Tuesday, November 01, 2005: > Raphael Manfredi wrote: >> Where does lilypond get its font list from, so that I can try others? > > the easiest is to put a .ttf .pfb or .pfa in ~/.fonts. If it shows up > on the output of > > fc-list > > you can use it in lily. Well

Fontconfig error

2005-11-01 Thread Will Oram
I need to use lilypond-book so I reinstalled the 2.6.3 Terminal version on 10.4.2 from fink, in addition to regular use of the .app. I seem to be having font problems not present in the executable, because when I call lilypond --verbose .ly, I get spamguy:~/projects/ spamguy$ lilypo

extra bar

2005-11-01 Thread Arthur Dyck
Can anyone tell me why I have an extra bar before the double bar?  I don't want it. \version "2.6.0" global = { \key g \major \set score.timing = ##f \set Staff.autoBeaming = ##f } \layout { raggedright = ##t } \header {    title = ""  

Re: Fun with \include "english.ly"

2005-11-01 Thread Graham Percival
On 30-Oct-05, at 1:00 PM, Thomas J. Dillman wrote: After some experimentation. I've discovered that the problem was doing the include inside a {} block. english.ly defines a variable, which, it seems, can't be done inside a block. I didn't see anything on this in the tutorial or manual. Did

Re: \book usage

2005-11-01 Thread Graham Percival
On 1-Nov-05, at 4:19 PM, Gilles wrote: AFAIK, named music expressions *have to* be defined at toplevel, not within a \book or \score block. Yes. statement from all_.inc.ly to all.ly, before \book. You will certainly have to rename expressions to avoid redefinitions, e.g. you'll have to rep

Re: problem or bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Edward Neeman
> example.ly and example.pdf for your reference. > In the 2nd bar, why is the appoggiatura slur not > attached to the note heads > of both the appoggiatura and the main note? Instead, > as shown, the slur is > at the end of the stem. The appogiatura slur placement is probably a bug, but it is e

Re: text font problems with 2.6.4 for windows?

2005-11-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mats Bengtsson writes: > On the other hand, I just tried John Mandereau's hints: I have prepared 2.6.4-3 packages with python compiled for console and incorporating John's hints (apart from downloading python manually :-). For PATH, PYTHONPATH and PATHEXT to be set automagically, you may have to

installation issue

2005-11-01 Thread Arthur Dyck
I have just installed the package of 2.7.12 on Mandrake 10.1.  When I attempt to invoke lilypond from my terminal window I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ lilypond Amen1.ly GNU LilyPond 2.7.12 ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.s

Re: \book usage

2005-11-01 Thread Gilles
> > AFAIK, named music expressions *have to* be defined at toplevel, not > within a \book or \score block. So, a simple thing to do may be moving > every > > \include "_.inc.ly" > > statement from all_.inc.ly to all.ly, before \book. You will > certainly have to rename expressions to avoid rede

Re: \book usage

2005-11-01 Thread John Mandereau
Gilles wrote: > "all_allegro.ly" includes "all_allegro.inc.ly" and contains a \score. > "all_allegro.inc.ly" defines a StaffGroup and includes all the parts > for this movement, e.g. "recorder_allegro.inc.ly" which defines the > a variable ("recorderNotes") containing the note sequence. > [And simi

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Raphael Manfredi wrote: Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users: :Raphael Manfredi wrote: :> And here is a PNG of the lilypond output on my system, in case you :> cannot reproduce it. : :There was a problem with fontchanges in the middle of text strings, :which I fix

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users: :Raphael Manfredi wrote: :> And here is a PNG of the lilypond output on my system, in case you :> cannot reproduce it. : :There was a problem with fontchanges in the middle of text strings, :which I fixed in 2.7.8. : :However, I

Doc translation

2005-11-01 Thread John Mandereau
Hi On the wiki http://wikihost.org/wikis/lilypond/programm/gebo.prg?name=discus , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I just mailed Jan N. about starting a Wiki for the translation > of the entire manual into Dutch. > He mailed me back, that this already existes, kinda... > All I found, was a very dif

Re: Problem with title fonts

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel Hernandez
Thanks, with the last ec-fonts-mftraced debian package it works fine. On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, D Josiah Boothby wrote: yes, that's a common problem. try downloading the newest ec-fonts-mftraced package from the lilypond page: http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/ josiah On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Daniel

Re: technique for mixing / matching tunes

2005-11-01 Thread Jason Addison
Exactly, so the root of the poblem is that this doesn't work: book { parta = { ... } partb = { ... } score { parta partb header{ ... } } } or, slightly more general case: book { parta = { something1 } partb = { something2 } score { parta partb header{ ... } } parta = { something3 } partb = { s

problem or bug?

2005-11-01 Thread liang seng
To whom it may concern, Hi, I have some problems here with Lilypond 2.6.3. I've attached both example.ly and example.pdf for your reference. In the 2nd bar, why is the appoggiatura slur not attached to the note heads of both the appoggiatura and the main note? Instead, as shown, the slur is at

emacs: "error in post-command-hook: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil)"

2005-11-01 Thread Robert J. Cristel
I'm using tei-emacs, lilypond 2.6.4, on win98se. Copied lilypond_init.el into .emacs Copied lilypond emacs-mode files to site-lisp\lilypond directory. This seemed to work as here is load-path: load-path's value is ("c:/PROGRAM FILES/TEI EMACS/EMACS-21.3/emacs-21.3/leim" "c:/PROGRAM FILES

Re: Fun with \include "english.ly"

2005-11-01 Thread Thomas J. Dillman
After some experimentation. I've discovered that the problem was doing the include inside a {} block. english.ly defines a variable, which, it seems, can't be done inside a block. I didn't see anything on this in the tutorial or manual. Did I miss something obvious? Mats Bengtsson wrote:

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Raphael Manfredi writes: > Here it is. The character I'm printing is "u`" in case there is > a problem with the encoding via mail. The UTF-8 encoding is correct. > \override TextScript #'font-name = "cmr10" This may be a bug, the cmr font does not have the u` character, possibly the metr

Re: technique for mixing / matching tunes

2005-11-01 Thread Gilles
> What is the recommended technique for defining tunes in separate files > so that they can be used to generate pdf with only that tune, or pdf > wth several consecutive tunes? For example (what I'm try and failing > with--I thing because I use variables outside of score but inside of > book): >

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Raphael Manfredi wrote: And here is a PNG of the lilypond output on my system, in case you cannot reproduce it. There was a problem with fontchanges in the middle of text strings, which I fixed in 2.7.8. However, I recommend you to use another font, which includes the accented characters a

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
And here is a PNG of the lilypond output on my system, in case you cannot reproduce it. Raphael bug5.png Description: PNG image ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-11-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users: :Raphael Manfredi writes: : :> Something is wrong. : :Please attach a minimal, but full example of your .ly file. Here it is. The character I'm printing is "u`" in case there is a problem with the encoding via mail. The UTF-8

Re: Problem with title fonts

2005-11-01 Thread D Josiah Boothby
yes, that's a common problem. try downloading the newest ec-fonts-mftraced package from the lilypond page: http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/ josiah On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Daniel Hernandez wrote: Hello group, I'm a novice Lilypond user. I'm working with lilypond 2.4.5 in debian. I intalled lil

Re: strange beam behavior

2005-11-01 Thread Edward Neeman
Hi Scott, Even though it is a cadenza, the beams still work in 4/4. If you count it out, you will realise that the beams are split in the natural place for 4/4 time. To override this, please read the Manual beams section in the manual Cheers, Edward Neeman --- Scott Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Problem with title fonts

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel Hernandez
Hello group, I'm a novice Lilypond user. I'm working with lilypond 2.4.5 in debian. I intalled lilypond with apt-get. Now I'm compiling some lilypond codes, for example from the lilypond page and not all works fine. The midi an the scores are ok, but the font of title is not. I see the output from

technique for mixing / matching tunes

2005-11-01 Thread Jason Addison
What is the recommended technique for defining tunes in separate files so that they can be used to generate pdf with only that tune, or pdf wth several consecutive tunes? For example (what I'm try and failing with--I thing because I use variables outside of score but inside of book): tune_a.ly:

\book usage

2005-11-01 Thread Gilles
Hello. To generate a piece with multiple movements, I'm used to the following document layout, which compiles fine: %--- all.ly --- \version "2.6.0" \paper { raggedbottom = ##f raggedlastbottom = ##t } \header { \include "header.inc.ly" } \include "all_allegro.ly" \include "all_siciliana

strange beam behavior

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Russell
Hello Lilypond folks,I'm a (relatively) novice Lilypond user. I'm working on some non-measured (cadenza-like) material and have encountered a strange situation.The five sixteenth notes of the 2nd figure in Line 3 ... c8 ( [ \setTextCresc d16\< c b c ) e\staccato ] ... should all be beamed together.

Re: problems with special characters on 2.6

2005-11-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
On Friday 28 October 2005 19:26, Ralf und Martina Wimmer wrote: > I run LilyPond 2.6 on Windows 2000. > > By using the characters from the keyboard for the german umlaut (ä, ö, > ü) or french accent (é, è) there are no printed signs in the pdf-output > and the following character is also ignored.

Re: Grace Notes + Lyrics

2005-11-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The easiest is simply to put an empty syllable in the lyrics, \version "2.6.0" \score{ << \relative c''{g4 \grace bes8 a a r4 f8 g} \addlyrics {Land: _ Er -- de, und die } >> } but maybe it's more idiomatic typesetting to use a acciaccatura instead (I'm not sure what the standard typesetting pr

Grace Notes + Lyrics

2005-11-01 Thread Will Oram
You'll have to forgive me if I ask a question answered in the manual or archives. I have no lyrics experience in music *or* lilypond, so this is new dabbling for me. I swear I searched and experimented before I wrote this message. I wish to have one measure as so in lily 2.6.3: (I'm writing