Helping with the documentation

2006-04-13 Thread Graham Percival
Hi all, I'm getting a bit overwhelmed working on the documentation, so I'm asking for help. I've posted a list of tasks to the -devel mailist. Some of them require very little previous knowledge of LilyPond, and are actually a great way to learn. You can read them here: http://lists.gnu.or

Re: Lily is writing the PDF to the /bin ignoring the --output option tag

2006-04-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
The work-around to this is to always run lilypond from a full path name to the EXE (installation bin full path), after changing the current directory to the folder where you want all outputs to go (typically your song folder). The "--output=" option appears to not work for all the various file ty

Lily is writing the PDF to the /bin ignoring the --output option tag

2006-04-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I am running lilypond on winXP from a DOS prompt, I enter the following commands specifying that the output file is to go to a specific folder named by "--output=". After execution the .PS file does go to that folder fine however the .PDF file goes to the current directory, which unfortunately is

Re: Single Straight Eighths?

2006-04-13 Thread S L Raymond
My current solution, which only works in a 3/4 jazz waltz, is to place a 4:3 bracket above either half or all the measure, whichever is appropriate. So for example, if the phrase is 888 8~88 (the ~ is a tie) and the last two eights are to be played straight, I place a |4:3-| over the

Re: Still Have convert-ly Questions/Problems.

2006-04-13 Thread Ted Stanion
I tried this and it works for in a DOS command prompt. It failed the same way in my bash shell - it seems to want to use the python installed for Cygwin. Still, this is a better solution to what I was doing. Thanks, Ted ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Single Straight Eighths?

2006-04-13 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
As a jazz musician I like the designation "no swing" or "straight 8ths" with a dashed line to scope it, as offered by another poster to this thread. The notes themselves should be left alone. I'd put it below the staff in a small font but a little higher than where dynamics are usually found.

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
Have you read the tutorial? A good place to start is here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/ Looking over the tutorial may help you fill those empty documents, or at least help you get an idea as to what to do with them. As another general piece of advice, "reply all" is better than "r

Upgrading LilyPond on Windows XP

2006-04-13 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, my current version of LilyPond is 2.8.1-1. I've found a new minor upgrade. When I tried to install it, the installer said it found previous version of LilyPond and said a had had to uninstall it first. Why is it bothering me with it and just doesn't ask: "Previous version of LilyPond f

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
...it would also be useful to know what the problem seems to be. Josiah On 4/13/06, josiah boothby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be much easier to help you if we knew what operating system > (Windows, OSX, or what Linux or BSD) you've tried to install Lilypond > in. It would also help if

Re: Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread josiah boothby
It would be much easier to help you if we knew what operating system (Windows, OSX, or what Linux or BSD) you've tried to install Lilypond in. It would also help if we knew what installer you used. Josiah On 4/13/06, K. Vellinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mr/Mrs, > > Something went wrong w

Re: Slur collision

2006-04-13 Thread David Feuer
I get somewhat different output actually, but with the same collision problem. My best solution so far is to change the tie to a slur. Probably if you do this you should tweak whatever slur property determines how far the slur is from the notes, so it'll look more like a tie. \version "2.8.0" \r

Re: backend and format - difference?

2006-04-13 Thread David Feuer
On 4/13/06, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > what is the difference between backend and format (-b and -f switches). > I see confusion. This is not the clearest part of the interface. Each backend knows how to convert LilyPond's internal engraving representations (called ste

Re: Installing 2.8 after many other releases

2006-04-13 Thread Luise Marion Frenkel
Hello, Lilypond now works very well, both 2.8.1 and 2.4.1, since I had not to delete any lilypond-snapshot to install the 2.8.1. I just had to uninstall once more and install again as Cameron Horsburgh suggested. Below are just some answers to Pedro Kröger. Thank you all so much. Luise On Th

Uninstall

2006-04-13 Thread K . Vellinga
Dear Mr/Mrs, Something went wrong with the installation of Lilypond. How can I uninstall and remove the programm from my computer? Thanks. K. vellinga ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lily

Re: Ghostscript patches and packaging

2006-04-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Quentin Spencer writes: > I'm an occasional user of lilypond, and new to this list. I'm also the > maintainer of a few packages in Fedora Extras, and I'm considering > submitting lilypond for inclusion there. That's grand. > currently in Fedora, and amazingly, my PDFs are now back down to their

RE: System at bottom page on score[]

2006-04-13 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Cheers, that's just what I needed. Regards, Ralph -Original Message- From: Laura Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 April 2006 12:25 To: Ralph Little Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: System at bottom page on score[] > "RL" == Ralph Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

backend and format - difference?

2006-04-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Hello, what is the difference between backend and format (-b and -f switches). I see confusion. Thanks, Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: System at bottom page on score

2006-04-13 Thread Laura Conrad
> "RL" == Ralph Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RL> I'm trying to print a score using 2.8 (on Windows XP). RL> Because there is a header and multiple pages, the first system is forced RL> to the bottom of the first page. RL> The rest are fine and are at the top of subsequent

Re: Old-style F clef?

2006-04-13 Thread Sotaro Sato
Just use \markup {\override #'(font-name . "Petrucjt") \lower #number {d} } and \override Staff.Clef #'font-size = #number Sotaro eduardo.susan wrote: > Hi, I'm also interested in using this kind of clef in Lilypond. There is a > TTF music font that already has this glyph. It's a modif

Slur collision

2006-04-13 Thread Tomasz Bojczuk
Hi How to remove slur collision with notes in this example ?? << {d8 [g d a']} \\ {e!2~} >> << {d8 [g d a']} \\ {e2} >> I've just recomended Lilypond for important peoples :-), so please help me. Regards Tomasz <> ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

System at bottom page on score

2006-04-13 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, I'm trying to print a score using 2.8 (on Windows XP). Because there is a header and multiple pages, the first system is forced to the bottom of the first page. The rest are fine and are at the top of subsequent pages. Anybody know why? Cheers in advance, Ralph Short Example: ===