Re: Bug with octave check

2006-03-30 Thread Graham Percival
On 30-Mar-06, at 3:45 PM, Geoff Horton wrote: The resulting error message tells me: warning: octave check failed; expected c, found: c, I know what it means, but it's very easy to misconstrue (especially if the piece had been more complicated). Would it be possible (and helpful) to add quotati

Bug with octave check

2006-03-30 Thread Geoff Horton
I was doing an octave check for "c" when the actual pitch in the output was "c,". The resulting error message tells me: warning: octave check failed; expected c, found: c, I know what it means, but it's very easy to misconstrue (especially if the piece had been more complicated). Would it be poss

Re: Lilypond on Mac OSX Terminal

2006-03-30 Thread Graham Percival
On 29-Mar-06, at 7:10 PM, David Rogers wrote: In your .profile somewhere, add this line: export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin Thanks, I've added this to the manual. - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Arjen, Am 30. März 2006, 22:18 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Arjan Bos: > This sounds like a good idea. I did not look at that part of the > code, but is that functionality cross-platform compatible? Does it > work on Solaris, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows? I don't know. It depends on "xpdf" and

Re: Lyrics extender problem

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This must be an obscure bug, unless I am missing something obvious. An even shorter illustration of the bug is: \version "2.8.0" sopMusic = \relative c'' { c4 c c8( b) c4 } sopWords = \lyricmode { hi hi hi __ hi } \score { << \new Lyrics = sopI { s1 } \new Staff = women { \new

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Arjan Bos
(cc-ed to the list, so leaving your reply intact) On 30 mrt 2006, at 15:03, Orm Finnendahl wrote: Hi Arjan, thanks for the hints. I had a closer look at lilypond-mode.el and as far as I can see it can't possibly work. The syntax table seems to get erased in a post-command hook which mig

Re: Default bar numbering collision

2006-03-30 Thread Graham Percival
On 30-Mar-06, at 3:13 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The answer can, more or less, be found in the manual, at the bottom of the page in the section on Bar Numbers. If you are unfamiliar, to the details of to set such a property, look at the chapter on Changing Defaults, especially Common Tweaks.

Re: Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Helder Gomes da Silva wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux. So, I downloaded the Lilypond installer to > my machine. > > My home directory is /home/hgsilva > I have a folder ~/bin to install the custom software that I do not > install using debian packages. > > I decided to

Linux installer 2.8.0

2006-03-30 Thread Helder Gomes da Silva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I am using Debian GNU/Linux. So, I downloaded the Lilypond installer to my machine. My home directory is /home/hgsilva I have a folder ~/bin to install the custom software that I do not install using debian packages. I decided to ru

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Arjan, thanks for the hints. I had a closer look at lilypond-mode.el and as far as I can see it can't possibly work. The syntax table seems to get erased in a post-command hook which might be related to a non-functioning context determination. I guess that's the price you pay for mixing syntaxe

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Guy Durrieu
Orm Finnendahl a écrit : > > Is there *anybody* who got the cursor movements or autocompletion > working with gnu emacs? I can't imagine nobody is using it. > On my system (Sun sparc, Solaris 10, emacs 21-3-1), cursor movements work within a ly buffer: - After placing the cursor on a left parent

Re: how to use a postscript font in a .ly file?

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Have you looked at the examples called "font-family-override.ly" and "font-name.ly" in the Regression Tests document? The former describes how to find out the name of the font to use. You probably want to send the printouts to a file to be able to browse through them with some text editor, so star

Re: Default bar numbering collision

2006-03-30 Thread larsggu
I'm using the latest version (2.8.0). I tried the search on Nabble but i'll try the keywords you suggested, thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Default-bar-numbering-collision-t1367702.html#a3668210 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 30. März 2006, 05:57 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Geoff Horton: > > In addition doesn't auto-complete but rather indents the current > > line... > > I'm pretty sure this is the intended behavior. (if (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version) (define-key LilyPond-mode-map [iso-left-tab]

Re: Default bar numbering collision

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please always tell what LilyPond version you use, to be sure to get a relevant answer. The answer can, more or less, be found in the manual, at the bottom of the page in the section on Bar Numbers. If you are unfamiliar, to the details of to set such a property, look at the chapter on Changing D

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Orm Finnendahl wrote: > Hi, > > before delving into the depths of it: Has anybody got the > lilypond-mode.el working in terms of autocompletion and cursor > movement under gnu emacs? > > I tried with emacs21 and emacs-gtk (Version 22) without > success. Syntax highlighting seems to work, but pres

RE: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread arjan.bos
-- Orm wrote: > Hi, > > before delving into the depths of it: Has anybody got the > lilypond-mode.el working in terms of autocompletion and cursor > movement under gnu emacs? > I tried with emacs21 and emacs-gtk (Version 22) without > success. Syntax highlighting seems to work, but pressing M-C-p

Re: lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Geoff Horton
> In addition doesn't auto-complete but rather indents the current > line... I'm pretty sure this is the intended behavior. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Default bar numbering collision

2006-03-30 Thread larsggu
Hi, as a recent lilypond convert i've been looking at (and learning from) some music from mutopia.org. I've noticed that than when using the StaffGroup context the StaffGroup symbol will overlap with the bar number at the beginning of each line. Can anyone help me construct a tweak that moves the

Re: how to use a postscript font in a .ly file?

2006-03-30 Thread eduardo . susan
Hi, I still would appreciate to see an answer\suggestion for this. Eduardo > Hello friends, > > I'm wondering how can I use a PostScript font in a text markup for my score. > Here are my settings: Windows ME, Lilypond 2.7.39, the installed font: > Isabella (c:\psfonts\iz__.PFB). > I s

Re: Moving dynamics

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Which version of the manual have you been looking in? In the section on Dynamics in the manual, you can find a working example (at least in the manual for version 2.8). /Mats Stewart Holmes wrote: Am I supposed to do something like this to move my dynamics down on the page? This thing has me

Moving dynamics

2006-03-30 Thread Stewart Holmes
Am I supposed to do something like this to move my dynamics down on the page? This thing has me beat.   \layout{ \context {  \Staff \set DynamicLineSpanner #'staff-padding = #-5 }}   Cheers, Stewart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: More than one book?

2006-03-30 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
is there a way to name them specifically from inside the file? somthing like piano = {...} cello = {...} alto = {...} \book{ \filename "complete_score" << \new Staff \alto \new Staff \cello \new Staff \piano >> } \book{

lilypond-mode.el

2006-03-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, before delving into the depths of it: Has anybody got the lilypond-mode.el working in terms of autocompletion and cursor movement under gnu emacs? I tried with emacs21 and emacs-gtk (Version 22) without success. Syntax highlighting seems to work, but pressing M-C-p or M-C-n gets me to the beg

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Do the angle bracket delimiters still work in \column which is the point of all this? No! The current syntax is described in the manual. I don't see what the point should be. The manual describes the syntax as args (list of markups). Where is "list of markup" defined?

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Do the angle bracket delimiters still work in \column which is the point of all this? No! The current syntax is described in the manual. I don't see what the point should be. /Mats ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lis

Re: Extra-long word durations

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Wilding
You can use durations like 1*2 for lengths greater than a minim. For example: \version "2.8.0" \score {  <<     \new Staff { a'1 b'2 c'' d''1 e''1 }     \new Lyrics \lyricmode { one1*2 two1 three }     >> } Colin -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:35:12 -0500

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 07.11, Paul Scott wrote: \version "2.8.0" This doesn't work: { c''1^\markup{ "B \flat" } } These work: { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } [EMAIL PROTECTED] { c''1^\markup{ \line{ B \flat } } } I needed something to work in \column. I first tried th

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Not unless you define your own macro: bflat = \markup { B \flat } {c''^\markup\center-align{Clarinett in \bflat } } /Mats Paul Scott wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you put something within double quotes, LilyPond will treat it as a single character string. In my opinion, this makes per

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you put something within double quotes, LilyPond will treat it as a single character string. In my opinion, this makes perfect sense. How else would you for example be able to print the text "\flat" in you needed it? Ok. Then is there any way shorter than \line{ ... } to

Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 30 March 2006 07.11, Paul Scott wrote: > \version "2.8.0" > > This doesn't work: > > { c''1^\markup{ "B \flat" } } > > These work: > > { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } } > > { c''1^\markup{ \line{ B \flat } } } > > I needed something to work in \column. I first tried the quotes which > didn't