Non-intrusive installation of stable 2.8.5

2006-07-27 Thread Donald Axel
I had to install some decent recent Lilypond-version and downloaded lilypond-2.8.5-1.linux.sh Looking into the shell-script I found === Options --prefix PREFIX install into PREFIX/lilypond/ (default: $prefix) --batch no interaction --tarball extract tar file

Re: Tying only one note of a chord?

2006-07-27 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello, Trevor! I didn't notice much difference with the thickness using your technique. But, anyway, you can tweak the thickness, too. Now for the question as to whether it is possible to tie only one note fo chord, this snippet compiles with warning, but shows it is possible: %%% BEGIN %%%

Re: Tying only one note of a chord?

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Lewis-Smith
From: " Trevor Ba?a " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tying only one note of a chord? To: lilypond-user Hi, Is it possible to tie only one note of a chord? This snippet using the tie-configuration property of the TieColumn is basically what I'm looking for, except that the tie prints three times,

Re: new user....

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Markus Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: global = { \hideNotes \repeat unfold 5 { s1 | s1 | s1 | s1 | \break } } which of course can be shortened to global = \repeat unfold 5 { s1*4 | \break } /Mats ___ lilypond-user

Re: Creating PNG output of music snippets is always the size of a page

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As long as it's a single line score, try the --preview option. /Mats Quoting Charles Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When I run lilypond with the --png command line switch, the generated PNG file is the size of the printed page. How can I make this image small enough so the image is cropped? I

LilyPondTool MacOSX help

2006-07-27 Thread Sean Reed
Hi Bertalan,I used LilyPondTool exclusively for all my scores with enormous satisfaction until April of 2005 on Mac OSX.I recently updated the tool, but it no longer works. Things appear to have changed.Maybe you could help me out a bit.I've downloaded the plugin in jEdit4.2 and all of the associat

RE: Slide, or "glissando" with no start point

2006-07-27 Thread Palmer, Ralph
Thanks, Wol - It took a few tries, but it came out okay. I got fooled by the fact that at *1/10, nothing showed up. Also, unHideNotes \glissando produces a syntax error. Here's what I ended up with: \hideNotes g''2*3/10 \glissando \unHideNotes c'''2*7/10 Thanks again, Ralph -Original Mes

Re: a metronome mark question

2006-07-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Markus: so I used Kieren's example as a starting point... I put my result in the LSR (Rhythm marks / play style indication): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 Have fun! Very cool, thank you. :) After looking at Kieren's example I cobbled together the following solution. It's quite

Re: neo-mensural time signatures

2006-07-27 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am 27. Juli 2006, 16:57 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > See the first example in the section on Polymetric notation for > information on how to modify the time signature with whatever > text markup. Thanks a lot. Do you know, what the Text markup would be to get the neomensural signs print

Re: neo-mensural time signatures

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See the first example in the section on Polymetric notation for information on how to modify the time signature with whatever text markup. I'm not an expert in neomensural notation, but as far as I can understand, the time signature concepts used in that music are so different from modern time si

Re: Getting glyphs.

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
^\segno should work fine as long as it's inserted after a note in the input file. Since you didn't show any complete example of how it appears in the file, it's hard to say what the particular problem is here and if it's a bug in the NoteEdit output. Are you sure that the LilyPond output from Not

Odd placement of the "Opus" string

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Culver
I'm typesetting an orchestral work with 2.8.0 that has two movements, and so I am using a \book holding two \scores. In the header to \book, I assigned a value to "opus". However, this opus number is being typeset down alongside the title to the first movement, instead of up top with the work title

Re: Organization of vocal scores

2006-07-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Benedict" == Benedict Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benedict> My issue is that when I'm looking at the score to make Benedict> corrections or tweaks, I mentally reference things Benedict> based off the words. Lilypond, however, bases it off Benedict> the notes, and

Re: A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks, this highlighter is making my work easier too and increased my understanding of how lp language works. One question : Do you know how to use convert-ly under windows ? Is this a separate program I cannot find or it is a command to

Re: layout across multiple scores

2006-07-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Jon Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How can I specify a layout block that applies to all scores in a book? I wrote a program to generate musical examples, and each snippet is to go on its own staff. So my program writes them in separate scores like this, each with its own layout block: ==b

Re: Glissandi between specific notes in a chord?

2006-07-27 Thread Trevor Bača
On 7/27/06, Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Trevor: > Is there a way to gliss instead downwards from d' to c'? You mean other than using 1. #'extra-offset plus #'rotation; or 2. hidden \voiceTwo notes? Sorry -- I don't know of another way. Good luck! RIght. Heading

Re: a metronome mark question

2006-07-27 Thread Markus Schneider
Hi all, so I used Kieren's example as a starting point... I put my result in the LSR (Rhythm marks / play style indication): http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 Have fun! Markus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists

Re: Glissandi between specific notes in a chord?

2006-07-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Trevor: Is there a way to gliss instead downwards from d' to c'? You mean other than using 1. #'extra-offset plus #'rotation; or 2. hidden \voiceTwo notes? Sorry -- I don't know of another way. Good luck! KMac. ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: Re:A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows (Thibaut Chevalier)

2006-07-27 Thread Bart Kummel
Hi Anders,I think you should tell conText to use Unicode. This can be done via the menu "Options" > "Environment options..." > "Editor". Under "Default settings for a new document" set "File format" to "Unicode". Existing files can be converted with "Tools" > "Convert Text To..." > "Unicode". Good

Re: Re:A new freeware LilyPond editor for Windows (Thibaut Chevalier)

2006-07-27 Thread anders stenberg
Hi! Did download & install the conText editor & Your highlights & difine the user-keys sugested. I like the editor (have been working on jEdit which is slow sometimes) . One problem: as a native swedish speaker i need the skands ie. å,ä,ö. which work when runing Lilypond in conText if you en

Getting glyphs.

2006-07-27 Thread Doug Laidlaw
I have Lilypond installed under Mandriva 2006 from the RPMs available for the distro. I can create Segno or Coda signs with Noteedit, but Lilypond seems to be unable to handle them. An export from Noteedit to Lilypond inserts the following code for a segno "^\segno". Lilypond complains about