German Text Characters

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Phillips
How can I get umlaut a, e and o (and double-s) into the German text of a Bach cantata? I believe there is a way by using \markup and \char #n, but haven't discoved how. It didn't work when I tried it using the Manual. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: /parenthesize in drummode?

2006-05-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-May-06, at 11:52 AM, bernie arai wrote: On 5/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use < \parenthesize NOTE >4 even for single notes. i'll be happy to write a little addition to the documentation about this (drummode and "ghost notes") and send it to lily

Even and odd page-margins

2006-05-22 Thread Gianluca D.
Hi everybody! I'd like to ask if anyone knows a way to set different margins for odd and even pages with Lilypond. I've tried to find some information from the manual of boh 2.8 and 2.9 version, but I couldn't find anything. I wouldn't like to use lilypond-book to achieve my goal, because I think

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Seeing as I've made enough of a fuss about other things ... I've seen somebody else ask about modern "tram-line" caesurae, and I want things like a free-format gli

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes That leaves 45 EUR - £30. I think I can stump that up ... Are you saying you are only interested in the fall (plus the caesura) since the glisses can be done with invisible notes? I'm not sure th

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Seeing as I've made enough of a fuss about other things ... I've seen somebody else ask about modern "tram-line" caesurae, and I want things like a free-format gliss ... What sort of price a

Re: Feature request - jazz / bigband notation and caesurae

2006-05-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes 4) not sure what it's called, but it looks like a right parenthesis hanging from the note head, usually seen for trombones and

Re: avoid-slur for ties

2006-05-22 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Mats, Thanks for Your answer, but for me it is not exhaustive enough: > Isn't it that if you specify the avoid-slur property of the Tie > object, then slurs will avoid ties (not that ties will avoid scripts > as you seem to think)? Maybe I'm understanding it not quite correctly

Re: set Hairpin length as percentage of "normal"?

2006-05-22 Thread Colin Wilding
Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: > > Given the new code required for that, are there any new ways to get > Hairpins to stop before the next note (even if it's not right after a > barline) or have (e.g.) a whole note with a half-note-duration > Hairpin (e.g., covering beats 1 and 2, or even

Re: Formatting Stanza Numbers

2006-05-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition to what I just said, you can of course modify the font of the stanza number, by setting properties on the StanzaNumber layout object, for example \override StanzaNumber #'font-shape = #'italic Similarly, you can set the extra-offset property to move it around relative to the lyrics.

Re: Formatting Stanza Numbers

2006-05-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
According to the documentation, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Stanza_005fnumber_005fengraver.html#Stanza_005fnumber_005fengraver you can specify a markup as the argument. However, when I look at the implementation, it seems that it's only possible to specify a

Formatting Stanza Numbers

2006-05-22 Thread zrlaszlo
Hi, I would like to ask all of you, if there is a possibility to format Stanza Numbers using \markup commands (e. g. entering special characters, altering font-name, font-size, etc.), and altering their position relative to the lyrics (X or Y). If yes, which is the way to do it? Please, help! -- V

Re: Guitar Slides & Quarter flats & sharps

2006-05-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kamal wrote: 1- Is there a notation for guitar slides (dashes connecting notes) in lilypond? Look for "Glissando" in the manual. To get a dashed line, use \override Glissando #'dash-fraction = #0.2 c2\glissando c, 2- Is there a notation for quarter sharps (sharps with one vertical

Re: /parenthesize in drummode?

2006-05-22 Thread bernie arai
On 5/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use < \parenthesize NOTE >4 even for single notes. Graham, something for the docs? beautiful, thanks so much for clarifying things. i'll be happy to write a little addition to the documentation about this (drummode and

Re: ../buildscripts/pfx2ttf.fontforge: line 5 (lilypond-2.8.3)

2006-05-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I solved the problem by explicitly pointing to the version of the Century Schoolbook font in the Ghostscript directory: ./configure --with-ncsb-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/ /Mats linux23dragon wrote: Hello I'm not yet sure if this is a lilypond-2.8.3, or a system dependency issue.

Re: Problem setting ottavation text

2006-05-22 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Peter! Peter Clarke schrieb: Greetings all, I would like to change the ottavation text (on the octave up/down bracket) from the rather verbose default "8va bassa" to just "8". The manual says I can do this with \set Staff.ottavation = #"8" but this gives me the following error when parsin

Problem setting ottavation text

2006-05-22 Thread Peter Clarke
Greetings all, I would like to change the ottavation text (on the octave up/down bracket) from the rather verbose default "8va bassa" to just "8". The manual says I can do this with \set Staff.ottavation = #"8" but this gives me the following error when parsing: /usr/share/lilypond/2.8.0/scm/li

An IRC Channel on Freenode

2006-05-22 Thread Simon Plante
Hi For those who want to chat with other Lilypond users, either for help, or for general chatting, you can go on channel: #lilypond server: irc.freenode.net port: 6667 using your IRC client (Xchat, mIRC (please use Free Software ;-), Gaim, and the others). I'll try to add a Java applet in th

Re: convert-ly detailed steps for use by a non programmer.

2006-05-22 Thread Stephen
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:08 PM First of all, download and install the latest stable version (2.8.3-1), where convert-ly seems to work without having to install extra programs. Then, to update a file: 1. Start a command prompt (Start menu -> Pro

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-22 Thread Colin Wilding
Silly me, I have just realised that you started both threads! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Guitar+Chords-t1540476.html#a4505196 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-22 Thread Colin Wilding
I see you didn't get a reply to this, Nick. Are you still having problems? There is a related discussion in the thread 'Beginners first attempt' (sadly lacking an apostrophe) here: http://www.nabble.com/Beginners+first+attempt-t1575027.html#a4354656 If you haven't worked anything out then pick

Re: MIDI2ly problem

2006-05-22 Thread Karl Hammar
> Karl Hammar wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > >> > >>yes, but why on earth are people still using lilypond 2.6.x ? > >> > >> > >> > >For me: simply because 2.9.3 generated postscript files does not work > >with my printer (Minolta/Qms PagePro 9100). > > > > > Why not print the PDF

../buildscripts/pfx2ttf.fontforge: line 5 (lilypond-2.8.3)

2006-05-22 Thread linux23dragon
Hello I'm not yet sure if this is a lilypond-2.8.3, or a system dependency issue. I just keep on getting the same build error, even after applying the txt0Au64mQ5b.txt "diff" by Karl Hammar. Here is the following packages I have installed (Sorry about this long list). Perl-5.8.8 bison-2.1 fl

Re: /parenthesize in drummode?

2006-05-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
bernie arai schreef: On 5/19/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \context DrumVoice = "1" \with { \consists "Parenthesis_engraver" } { s1 *2 } this syntax at least doesn't generate any errors from lilypond, but still doesn't result in a pdf with any parenthesized notes for

Re: (Win XP/ LP 2.8.3-1) double-click on .ly breaks paths?

2006-05-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
A. Deubelbeiss schreef: Below is the log from a failed run with LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1. This is interesting. A lot of messages don't actually make it to the logfile. Darn. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notat

Re: /parenthesize in drummode?

2006-05-22 Thread bernie arai
On 5/19/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \context DrumVoice = "1" \with { \consists "Parenthesis_engraver" } { s1 *2 } this syntax at least doesn't generate any errors from lilypond, but still doesn't result in a pdf with any parenthesized notes for me. the output looks

Guitar Slides & Quarter flats & sharps

2006-05-22 Thread Kamal
1- Is there a notation for guitar slides (dashes connecting notes) in lilypond? 2- Is there a notation for quarter sharps (sharps with one vertical line) & quarter flats (slashed flats)? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lis