Re: Install of 2.6.4 on FreeBSD

2005-11-23 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I wish I could help you. Have you tried asking this on the bug list? Gordon Gilbert wrote: Hi! My install of 2.6.4 has stopped with the following output: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/distfiles/lilypond-2.6.4/python' /bin/sh /usr/ports/distfiles/lilypond-2.6.4/stepmake/stepmake/..

Re: D.C. al Coda?

2005-11-23 Thread S L Raymond
I'm running Ubuntu Breezy and for some reason, even after apt-get update, 2.2 is the latest version it will fetch. On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 20:50 -0800, Graham Percival wrote: > On 23-Nov-05, at 3:48 PM, S L Raymond wrote: > > > Running LP 2.2.6... > > > > I've thoroughly scoured the documentation,

Re: D.C. al Coda?

2005-11-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-Nov-05, at 3:48 PM, S L Raymond wrote: Running LP 2.2.6... I've thoroughly scoured the documentation, examples, templates, etc., and I can't find a solid answer: I recommend upgrading to 2.6, and looking in the 2.6 or 2.7 manuals. They include such an example in "text marks", I belie

Re: Curly '

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 24/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [problem: cut & pasting TeX's apostrophe yields quoteright code point] > > I'm not sure if it is something we can fix on the (La)TeX side of > things. The TeX fonts don't contain an apostrophe (quotesingle) symbol > at all. I'm not famili

Re: Install of 2.6.4 on FreeBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi! My install of 2.6.4 has stopped with the following output: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/distfiles/lilypond-2.6.4/python' /bin/sh /usr/ports/distfiles/lilypond-2.6.4/stepmake/stepmake/../bin/install-sh -c -d /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.6.4/python /bin/sh /usr/ports/distfiles/l

Re: Curly '

2005-11-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[problem: cut & pasting TeX's apostrophe yields quoteright code point] Graham Percival wrote: That curly quote symbol was copied, using the copy function, from section 7.1.5 of the PDF version of the User Manual where I note other instances of the same sort. Had I typed the string I wouldn't h

Re: \harmonic on note outside chord.

2005-11-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Is there a reason not to allow \harmonic on a note that is not part of a chord? Or is this a bug? Also, the same question goes for stringnumbers, "c\1" does not work but "" does! try doing \displayMusic on both and -. As you can see, in the latter case, the

D.C. al Coda?

2005-11-23 Thread S L Raymond
Running LP 2.2.6... I've thoroughly scoured the documentation, examples, templates, etc., and I can't find a solid answer: What's the conventional method of adding a D.C. al Coda? Specifically, I want to know... 1. If the coda is taken at a bar line, should the symbol be positioned above the bar

Re: \harmonic on note outside chord.

2005-11-23 Thread Jonatan Liljedahl
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:29:51 -0200 Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason not to allow \harmonic on a note that is not part of > a chord? Or is this a bug? Also, the same question goes for stringnumbers, "c\1" does not work but "" does! /Jonatan-=( http://kymatica.c

Curly ' (was: Controlling stave separation)

2005-11-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-Nov-05, at 11:59 AM, Art Hixson wrote: That curly quote symbol was copied, using the copy function, from section 7.1.5 of the PDF version of the User Manual where I note other instances of the same sort. Had I typed the string I wouldn't have had the problem as I don't have that charact

Re: Controlling stave separation

2005-11-23 Thread Art Hixson
Thanks Thies, That curly quote symbol was copied, using the copy function, from section 7.1.5 of the PDF version of the User Manual where I note other instances of the same sort. Had I typed the string I wouldn't have had the problem as I don't have that character on my keyboard. But, it's han

Extra staff in score with lyrics

2005-11-23 Thread liang seng
Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.17 to do a score with solo voice and strings. Here is a small extract from the voice line (lyric.ly) : \version "2.7.17" lyric = \relative << \context Staff \context Voice = "melody" { f'2 << \context Voice = other { \voiceOne \tiny g c f,4 } \context Voice=melody

RE: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Fairchild
Simon - Thanks for the instructive commentary. This thread is a keeper. Just rummaged a bit on your blog, looking for the lily source -- didn't find it. As a treble clef euphoniumist, I'd like to transpose on letter size for my own entertainment. - Bruce -Origi

\harmonic on note outside chord.

2005-11-23 Thread Jonatan Liljedahl
Is there a reason not to allow \harmonic on a note that is not part of a chord? Or is this a bug? /Jonatan-=( http://kymatica.com )=- ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Simon Bailey
On 11/23/05, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can tell you a secret: I didn't look in the documentation at all, I looked > directly in scm/define-grobs.scm. However, I think it's a plain bug that > the documentation for this property isn't included properly, and have > sent a related e

Re: timesig staff, autoskip?

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only purpose of the \skip command is to keep the context alive throughout the piece. Otherwise, it would disappear after the first note. /Mats Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: In test/time-signature-staff.ly, is it possible to have the TimeSig staff automatically skip the neccessary time instead

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Simon Bailey wrote: i didn't redefine this function, because i didn't know that rehearsalmarks were categorically shifted to the right at the beginning of a line. it is not stated in the documentation that this property is set to #shift-right-at-line-begin by default. I can tell you a sec

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Simon Bailey
hi, On 11/23/05, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can see, the result will be exactly the same if you remove > the \book! this is true -- i did it out of habit... sorry for the confusion. regards, sb -- Do not meddle in the affairs of trombonists, for they are subtle and

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Simon Bailey
hi mats, bruce, On 11/23/05, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the horizontal position, why did you not directly redefine the > function that handles the placement av rehearsal marks after line > breaks? The default function has the following definition (from > scm/output-lib.scm): >

Re: \stopStaff

2005-11-23 Thread Sean Reed
hi han-wen and mats, thanks for the replies. i thought it might be a bug. it is otherwise a great feature. very helpful for modern scores. looking forward to 2.7.19. best, sean Sean Reed Hamburg, Germany Web: www.seanreed.de On 23.11.2005, at 14:0

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This should be added to Tips and Tricks. It also is a useful example for \book and \repeat As far as I can see, the result will be exactly the same if you remove the \book! /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://l

Re: \stopStaff

2005-11-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sean Reed wrote: hi, since i hadn't seen a reply to this yet, maybe i formulated the question unclearly. \stopStaff doesn't seem to work for me at the very beginning of a piece. everywhere else later in the piece it seems to work fine. when used at the beginning of the piece, only the li

timesig staff, autoskip?

2005-11-23 Thread Jonatan Liljedahl
In test/time-signature-staff.ly, is it possible to have the TimeSig staff automatically skip the neccessary time instead of having to do like this? \new TimeSig { \skip 4 * 9 } /Jonatan-=( http://kymatica.com )=- ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: \stopStaff

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not send it to bug-lilypond (which is what I do now)? I tried some obvious things like explicitly doing \new Staff to be sure that the context is created when the command is issued, but it didn't help. /Mats Sean Reed wrote: hi, since i hadn't seen a reply to this yet, maybe i formulate

RE: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Fairchild
Title: Message Simon -   In Version 2.4.6 the invocation line needs to be:   \override Score.RehearsalMark #'before-line-breaking-callback = #mark-callback   Impressive detective work.  Please add commentary about the documentation trail you followed to discover your result.  Maybe include

Re: tweaking properties after line break

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't have an answer to the rehearsal marks question, and I'm interested in asking the LilyPond gurus a generalization of your question: Are there currently any implementation plans for idiomatic Lily input syntax to explicitly align marks and markup explicitly with nonmusical characters such

Re: RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
For the horizontal position, why did you not directly redefine the function that handles the placement av rehearsal marks after line breaks? The default function has the following definition (from scm/output-lib.scm): (define-public (shift-right-at-line-begin g) "Shift an item to the right, but

Re: Weirdo with midifiles

2005-11-23 Thread anders stenberg
Hi! Thanks to Linda Cantoni! Did try and got the midi to work with som fiddling with changing context Voice to context Staff but lost some things in the visual apartment as the "mensuralstrichte" dissapeared all together. Restored the file to what it was in the beginning. Added a new Scor

\stopStaff

2005-11-23 Thread Sean Reed
hi, since i hadn't seen a reply to this yet, maybe i formulated the question unclearly. \stopStaff doesn't seem to work for me at the very beginning of a piece. everywhere else later in the piece it seems to work fine. when used at the beginning of the piece, only the lines of very first

Re: Weirdo with midifiles

2005-11-23 Thread anders stenberg
anders stenberg wrote: Hi! Thanks to Linda Cantoni! Did try and got the midi to work with som fiddling with changing context Voice to context Staff but lost some things in the visual apartment as the "mensuralstrichte" dissapeared all together. Restored the file to what it was in the

Re: Controlling stave separation

2005-11-23 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Art! I tried \override Stem #’length = #0 but I get an unbound variable error. There's a little fault in syntax as you have to use an ' instead of ’ (\override Stem #'length = #0) Regards Thies ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: Trouble with lyric alignment

2005-11-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Basically the same question is answered for example in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00268.html in the mailing list archives. /Mats onix wrote: I am a little bit confused about why my lyrics are not printing under the first note in this piece. For some reason, t

RehearsalMark hack

2005-11-23 Thread Simon Bailey
after delving deeply into the lilypond backend documentation (especially the scheme functions list) i managed to get my hack working in three lines: #- SNIP LILY CODE HERE - #(define (mark-callback grob)   (if (= (ly:item-break-dir grob) 1)   (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'extra-offset '