Re: utf-8

2006-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that Xemacs differs from ordinary Gnu Emacs when it comes to internationalization support (at least on Windows). I found the following information in the FAQ for Xemacs: Q1.3.1: What is the status of internation

Golpe & Slap

2006-10-29 Thread Kamal
How can a golpe or a slap notation be achieved in lilypond? golpe.png Description: PNG image slap.png Description: PNG image ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: More than one word to a note

2006-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00496.html for example. /Mats Andrew Black - lists wrote: Hi I want to set more than one word to a note . So for example I might have Semibreve| minim minim c1 | c2 c2 Glory be t

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have seen the section on "Writing music in parallel" in the manual. Regarding the division between people who think melodically versus harmonically, I've always thought that it depends mostly on what instrument you play. If you play the piano or some other instrument where it's easy to

More than one word to a note

2006-10-29 Thread Andrew Black - lists
Hi I want to set more than one word to a note . So for example I might have Semibreve| minim minim c1 | c2 c2 Glory be to the father and to the Cheers ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello Trevor, I thank you for your contribution ; of course here we need a detailed scientific study and we can't write a general, narrow-minded theory of music history. However, the american "chord-based thinking" you focus on could be an excellent way to approach English/American music writing

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Trevor Bača
Warning: off-topic :-) I think that Valentin's comment here is particularly interesting: -You've got to think very _VERY_ horizontally, and not vertically like in Sibelius or Finale. This has been the major difficulty to me. But if you think about it, you'll realize that it helps you indeed by

Re: No Midi w/ crescendo

2006-10-29 Thread philippe hezaine
Mats Bengtsson wrote: This is a well-known bug in the MIDI output. The problem is that you never specified any absolute dynamics (like \p or \mf or \ff or ...) before the crescendo, so LilyPond has no idea on what dynamics to start the crescendo. For some silly reason, it then doesn't start at

question about midi2ly (mac osx)

2006-10-29 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hello, I would be very grateful if some one could give me some pointers on using midi2ly; I keep getting an error message in terminal. Here is what I do: The first command I enter is: /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/midi2ly That seems to work okay and I get a list of inst

Re: No Midi w/ crescendo

2006-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is a well-known bug in the MIDI output. The problem is that you never specified any absolute dynamics (like \p or \mf or \ff or ...) before the crescendo, so LilyPond has no idea on what dynamics to start the crescendo. For some silly reason, it then doesn't start at the default dynamics le

Re: No Midi w/ crescendo

2006-10-29 Thread Kamal
I have also tried several players & all of them are not outputting sound when there's (de)crescendos. So I guess this is a bug from lilypond? On 10/29/06, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kamal wrote: > I am using lilypond 2.8.6 > > If I use the following code snippet: > a\< b c d\! >

Re: No Midi w/ crescendo

2006-10-29 Thread John Mandereau
Kamal wrote: > I am using lilypond 2.8.6 > > If I use the following code snippet: > a\< b c d\! > > then a silent passage will be produced in the midi output although the > documentation says that unterminated crescendos will produce that. > > Can can this be overcome? > As far as I have exper

Re: question about midi2ly (mac osx)

2006-10-29 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app.html#Notes-for-the-MacOS-X-app On 10/29/06, Peter O'Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I would be very grateful if some one could give me some pointers onusing midi2ly; I keep getting an error message in termin

Re: (De)crescendo warning

2006-10-29 Thread John Mandereau
Ian Hulin wrote: > I’m getting a warning saying lily can’t find the start of a > (de)crescendo, although it seems happy with crescendo passages > immediately before and after. As far as I can tell the syntax for the > \< … \! block looks OK in all cases. > [snip] > %{ > This crescendo pas