Re: scheme in \layout to produce relative dimensions

2006-05-30 Thread Graham Percival
On 16-May-06, at 2:37 PM, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: \paper { left-margin = 15\mm right-margin = 15\mm #(define line-width (- paper-width (* 30 mm))) } #(define line-width (- paper-width left-margin right-margin)) Leaving aside the bug about

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 80

2006-05-30 Thread James Wilkinson
Message: 8 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:46:56 -0400 From: James Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: subdivided beams partially successful I'm working on a piece that has a long run of triplet 16th notes. In the original they are printed in groups of six which are subdivided into subgroups of thr

Re: Little slurs at finger changes?

2006-05-30 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Graham, You wrote: > On 29-May-06, at 5:37 AM, Roland Goretzki wrote: > >In earlier versions it was possible to take little slurs over finger > >changes instead of "-", with writing { "$\frown$" } in markup texts. > > This is a LaTeX construct, and (as you found out) lilypond 2.

Re: Producing postscript for custom paper size (9x12" manuscript paper)?

2006-05-30 Thread John Hawkinson
Panteck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 30 May 2006 at 12:15:25 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I've been busy with work and > haven't had time to read the list lately :) Well, I think I mentioned on lilypond-devel that I would finall have time to work

Re: Producing postscript for custom paper size (9x12" manuscript paper)?

2006-05-30 Thread Panteck
Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I've been busy with work and haven't had time to read the list lately :) I haven't fully tested this, but on Windows XP with Lilypond 2.9, just changing paper.scm to include the following line works for me: ("archA" . (cons (* 9.0 in) (* 12.0 in))) arch

Re: including eps file

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Orm Finnendahl wrote: Am 30. Mai 2006, 11:52 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: One thing I noticed is that you set the bounding box to include lots of whitespace, which probably explains why it fills the whole page and shifts the music off the page. I don't think so. The bounding b

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
zrlaszlo wrote: 1. The best workaround so far is editing the titling-init.ly as follows. Find: \fill-line { \fromproperty #'header:poet { \large \bold \fromproperty #'header:instrument } \fromproperty #'header:composer } and replace with: \fill-line {

Re: Questions about my piece

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you forget to attach the example? /Mats Rick Hogg wrote: Hello, I'm working on a piece, "Pulcinella" by Eugene Bozza, for any of you saxophonists out there, and I have an unmetered cadenza in the sax part that starts with a sustained dotted quarter note while the piano plays a run of

Questions about my piece

2006-05-30 Thread Rick Hogg
Hello,I'm working on a piece, "Pulcinella" by Eugene Bozza, for any of you saxophonists out there, and I have an unmetered cadenza in the sax part that starts with a sustained dotted quarter note while the piano plays a run of 32nd notes that then continues in the saxophone line.  I need to matc

Re: Direction of repeat tie

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Matthijs Frankena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please read the documentation for ties. (hint: predefined commands) > >- Graham ... If you try this, you'll see that \repeatTie (which is the issue) seems to be immune to the normal tie-formatting and tweaks. If not, I could have used it for

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Matthijs Frankena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 22:54 29-5-2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you add a \bar "||:", you will get the desired double bar line before the line break and start repeat after the line break. /Mats Thanks Mats, this is exactly what was needed. I have not been able t

Re: Direction of repeat tie

2006-05-30 Thread Matthijs Frankena
> Please read the documentation for ties.  (hint: predefined commands) > >- Graham %% Code snippet begins: \score{ \relative c'' { \tieDotted c ~ c e f f e  d c \bar "||:" \break \repeat "volta" 2 { c\mark \markup { Repeat } b a c e c d e( } \alternative {

Re: Lilypond 2.9.3 and 2.9.5 Windows - Error In procedure -:

2006-05-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trent Johnston schreef: | | | what's this code ? Here it is. Nicolas Sceaux passed it on to me. To help the the layout of a large score and to use the two-pass system to stretch staves. Can you take this issue up with Nicolas? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~

Re: Mixed questions

2006-05-30 Thread Matthijs Frankena
At 22:54 29-5-2006, Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you add a \bar "||:", you will get the desired double bar line before the line break and start repeat after the line break.   /Mats Thanks Mats, this is exactly what was needed. I have not been able to find this in the manual, though. Anything I overl

Re: including eps file

2006-05-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 30. Mai 2006, 11:52 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > > One thing I noticed is that you set the bounding box to include lots of > whitespace, which probably explains why it fills the whole page > and shifts the music off the page. I don't think so. The bounding box is a4 landscape wide (8

Re: including eps file

2006-05-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Orm Finnendahl schreef: `gs -q -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sPAPERSIZE="a3" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="k_g01.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "k_g01.ps"' failed (256) error: failed files: "/home/orm/work/kompositionen/violine/lilypond/k_g01.ly" Compilation exited

Re: including eps file

2006-05-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Orm Finnendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am 30. Mai 2006, 02:45 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: Are you sure that this is a bonafide EPS file? I'm not sure as the file got generated by a selfmade lisp program, but it gets opened and displayed by ghostview, Illustrator, Finale and gim

Re: including eps file

2006-05-30 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 30. Mai 2006, 02:45 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > > Strange, I can't really get anything to appear. Did you scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page? In the code example only the eps gets displayed without the staff system (which probably is shifted off the page). > Are you