[OT] Extreme delays in delivery...

2006-02-24 Thread Gilles
Hello. [I'm sorry to bother the list with mail management problems; in case there is a better place, please let me know.] Earlier today, I already mentioned there were big delays, and in fact I've now received the posting (with subject "Auto-beam override") which I thought was lost. Here is an ex

Another thing for 10.1.2

2006-02-24 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Gauvain Pocentek wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > >>On 21-Feb-06, at 11:50 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote: >> >> >>>#(set-global-staff-size 18) doesn't work at all. Is this a bug, or is >>>there something I missed? >> >>This command should go at the top level -- ie in front of your \book >>command. >

Auto-beam override (Replay?)

2006-02-24 Thread Gilles
Hello. It seems that the message, although now archived at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-02/msg00357.html wasn't delivered to the ML recipients (at least I never got a copy)! Should I re-post it? For a couple of weeks, I've been experiencing *huge* delays in delivery from

Re: aligning markup with many notes

2006-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I really recommend that you learn to use \lyricsto, which is much more flexible than \addlyrics. If you read in the section called "More stanzas" in the manual, you can find an example of exactly your situation. If you insist on using your current text markup hack, the trick is to increase the pr

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:32 pm, Steve D wrote: > Manual for 2.7 series, section 6.1.2, Pitches > > Suggestion (may or may not be appropriate)-- > It might help beginners, at the point in this section where sharps and > flats are discussed, to mention and/or illustrate that when a pitch is

Lilypond, Pango, TeX and kerning metrics

2006-02-24 Thread Joshua Goforth
I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.4, Using the latest binary (2.7.36) I want to use Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro (OTF) for all of my lyrics. I know the several methods for choosing fonts, and they work, but the kerning is not right. (looks decent, but not great) My understanding is that this is an issue

Re: want blank music for concert/theatre organ printed landscape

2006-02-24 Thread D Josiah Boothby
If you go to the Lilypond Snippet Repository (LSR), do a search for blank manuscript paper (staff paper, something like that). There is an expample there of how to do most of the tings you are asking about, and I think you've figured out everything else (namely, how to make a landscape page).

Re: Global staff size with \book

2006-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Feb-06, at 11:50 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote: #(set-global-staff-size 18) doesn't work at all. Is this a bug, or is there something I missed? This command should go at the top level -- ie in front of your \book command. Cheers, - Graham _

Left aligned InstrumentNames (2.7.35)

2006-02-24 Thread Andrzej Kopec
How to produce left aligned instrument names in the (almost) newest lily? I have done it this way (so far): \new Staff \with { instrument = \markup { \override #'(line-width . 14) \fill-line { \vcenter "Fagotto" " "} } } ... \new Staff \with { instrument = \markup {\override #'(line-wid

Lilypond, Pango, TeX, and metrics

2006-02-24 Thread Joshua Goforth
I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.4, Using the latest binary (2.7.35) I want to use Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro (OTF) for all of my lyrics. I know the several methods for choosing fonts, and they work, but the kerning is not right. (looks good, but not great) My understanding is that this is Pango's fa

guitar

2006-02-24 Thread Mario Moles
Hello to all! They are a chitarrista Italian classic and use Lilypond in order to rewrite musics to me that sound! But I have a problem with the ditegiatura of the right hand: To di Anulare comes confused from Lilypond with the note a that in English it is said exactly a. Some idea? Thanks in ad

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Henrik Frisk wrote: [lilypond svg] I would really appreciate it if the fonts where included in the output. As I have not been successful in getting the fonts to load in They are. The problem is that most SVG renderers (including Inkscape and Firefox) don't handle the tag, which means that

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-24 Thread Henrik Frisk
> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > > unlikely, as we're not putting the SVG fonts inside the svg output anyway. > > We are not? Why is that, I'm sure we did before. SVG files without > fonts will be useless for use on the web, as we cannot hope that all > clients have feta installed? > I would

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-24 Thread stk
Thank you for opting for the "wordy" explanation. I've never played a transposing instrument, so the explanation would be directed towards people like me. The concrete statement "an A is notated as a C" tells me quickly and unmistakably what the instrument _does_. >> Consider a part written for

Re: Using lyrics

2006-02-24 Thread stk
> I've also made one more change: a very new language feature allows > \new Foo = "bar" > instead of > \context Foo = "bar" > for the first time you're instantiating a Foo. Thank you! Syntax is important for readability, and \new Foo = "bar" is _much_ clearer. -- Tom ___

Mixing Text and Music

2006-02-24 Thread Carrick Patterson
Title: Mixing Text and Music I am trying to do a book of cello exercises. Text and music alternate. There can be anything from a line of text to several paragraphs, followed by anything from one staff to a whole page of music. I have studied the manual and am at a complete loss as to how to proc

I know there is an error but I don't understand the message to find the error.

2006-02-24 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Below is the error message and the file it refers to. I've changed everything I can think of to get it to compile but I don't know why there is a problem either with line 36 or with the one expression beginning with #. Jay # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/Documents and

Manual tie configuration, continued

2006-02-24 Thread Steve D
Manual Tie Configuration-- In a previous email I asked about how to use LilyPond's new manual tie configuration for a particular pair of tied chords, in a piano piece I'm notating, which only share one common pitch and a different number of notes per chord (2 notes in first chord, 3 notes in secon

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-24 Thread Pedro Kröger
Henrik Frisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take the PS output from lilypond and run it through the convert > utility from the imagemagick package to create an EPS (convert > output.ps output.eps) import the EPS into Scribus and save as > SVG. This SVG opens in Scribus (obviously :)), Inkscape and

Re: lilypond and inkscape (again)

2006-02-24 Thread Henrik Frisk
> > > Take the PS output from lilypond and run it through the convert > > utility from the imagemagick package to create an EPS (convert > > output.ps output.eps) import the EPS into Scribus and save as > > SVG. This SVG opens in Scribus (obviously :)), Inkscape and Adobe > > Illustrator as it i

Re: Global staff size with \book

2006-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
First of all, remove the \book{, since having a single \book{...} block in a .ly file is equivalent to not having one at all (unless you use the file in lilypond-book). Secondly, move the #(set-global-staff-size 18) command outside of \score{...}. /Mats Gauvain Pocentek wrote: Hi list,

2006/03/21, Lede, Belgium: Introduction to Lilypond

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Van den Borre
Hi all, *** PLEASE FORWARD THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO ANYONE POTENTIALLY INTERESTED *** WHAT: introduction to Lilypond music notation software for beginners; meeting for advanced Lilypond users WHEN: tuesday 2006/03/21, 9.30am -> 12.30 am WHERE: Academie Lede http://gamwlede.xuni.be, Lede, Belgium

Re: Distance of Lyrics to staff with markup

2006-02-24 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > The other thing was the distance of voiceOne to the Staff. It is still too > much (see attached). Is there a way to make voiceOne ignore the ^\markups? Or > another way to let voiceOne be printed just as close to the Staff as in the > other Staffs? > I don't understand. Please inclu

Using lyrics [solved]

2006-02-24 Thread Bryan Stanbridge
Thanks for all the help with using lyrics. I must have read the manual too quickly and missed the necessity for instatiating a Lyrics context. It's working well for me now. Cheers, Bryan... ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:

Re: Global staff size with \book

2006-02-24 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Graham Percival wrote: > > On 21-Feb-06, at 11:50 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote: > >> #(set-global-staff-size 18) doesn't work at all. Is this a bug, or is >> there something I missed? > > This command should go at the top level -- ie in front of your \book > command. Thanks! Cheers, Gauvain

Re: Note for manual

2006-02-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg wrote: Han-Wen, the intended semantics of neutral-direction are a bit unclear to me. I have two guesses: 1. If melody spanner can't decide which direction to use, use neutral-direction instead. This seems to be the intended semantics, from looking at melody-spanner.cc, but it doe

Manual tie configuration

2006-02-24 Thread Steve D
Regarding the new manual tie configuration, can anyone help with the following: { ~ \once \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration = #'( ) } Only one note of the first chord , the upper A, is tied to the following chord Normally, either pairs of numbers specifying the vertical po

Auto-beam override

2006-02-24 Thread Gilles
Hello. The attached pdf was produced from the following snippet: %- \version "2.6.0" \score { \relative c'' { \time 4/4 << { b8 d b c16 d g,8 g'16 f g f g32( f e d) | d8 c16 b d8 e32( d c b) c8 b16 a c8 d32( c b a) | } { b8[ d] b c16 d g,8 g'16 f g[ f g32( f e d)] |

Re: Note for the manual

2006-02-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Feb-06, at 4:40 PM, Steve D wrote: understand. It might be helpful, especially for beginners, to state that "\octave a'" and other \octave checks produce no visible output in the score, but that it is instead strictly a method to verify I've reworded some of this section with this in m

want blank music for concert/theatre organ printed landscape

2006-02-24 Thread dluttinen
Hi,   Has anyone created a template for printing blank paper for concert/theatre pipe organ?   Ideally three systems per page, but two might be more reasonable since I need room to enter registrations. I want to reduce symphonic music to concert/theatre organ and would like to have the music paper

aligning markup with many notes

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Dewey
Hello, I'm trying to make lyrics for the bass/tenor lines that follow different notes than the soprano/alto lines in the chorus. Anyway, I couldn't seem to figure out how to do this with addlyrics, properly, given the time I had, so I tried text markup, using a separate markup for each note

Re: stanzas outside the music

2006-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Philpott
Having often to set songs with perhaps extra verses, I've found that the most comfortable way of implementing lots of text is by combining lilypond-book and latex to produce the desired effect, especially if there's no necessity of fitting the lyrics to the music itself. Jeffrey Here's an e

Note for manual

2006-02-24 Thread Steve D
Manual for 2.7 series, section 6.1.2, Pitches Suggestion (may or may not be appropriate)-- It might help beginners, at the point in this section where sharps and flats are discussed, to mention and/or illustrate that when a pitch is followed by both an octave specification and a sharp/flat indicat