Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Frédéric Chiasson wrote: Hi! For the compiling time, I am surprised that sometimes it takes almost a minute to compile only 3 pages of music for alto, double bass and piano! The fastest is 30 seconds. I am using LilyPond 2.11.11 on a MacBook Intel Core Duo with 512 Mb. There have been bug

ps redundancy

2007-01-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm looking at the ps output of Lilypond ('cause I'm writing a completely unrelated program that also outputs ps) and see this: /set-ps-scale-to-lily-scale { lily-output-units output-scale mul lily-output-units output-scale mul scale } bind def Couldn't you say /set-ps-scale-to-

Time for compiling with 2.11.12

2007-01-17 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I tried to compile with the new development version. It takes 44 seconds for 4 pages of music for alto, double bass and piano. But there is two things to notice : 1- I am using JEdit with LilyPondTool, might add some seconds. 2- I ask for a MIDI file, which is the longest process of the piece

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! For the compiling time, I am surprised that sometimes it takes almost a minute to compile only 3 pages of music for alto, double bass and piano! The fastest is 30 seconds. I am using LilyPond 2.11.11 on a MacBook Intel Core Duo with 512 Mb. For the interface, the best thing for a text entry

Re: Controlling vertical spacing exactly - mini HOWTO

2007-01-17 Thread Maximilian Albert
Hi Trevor, hi everyone, > The following might be of interest to folks using proportional > notation. If there's any general interest (of if Graham wants it to be > so) then I'll retype the following as an addition to 11.3.4 > "Controlling spacing of individual systems". Awesome!! This is exactly

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Andrzej Kopec escreveu: > I also have a usability question. I'm using lilypond-2.10.11 (linux > executable) on intel centrino 1.4MHz with 256MB of RAM, and I cannot > render 10 page chamber piece of music due to lack of memory. after > 15 min I stop "Layout outputting to 'xxx.ps'" and I found outp

Again: rest on wrong side

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Goretzki
Dear Han Wen, under http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=240 I found Your comment to the bug report with rest on wrong side. Your comment: The voice containing the rests should have stems/stemdown set, otherwise lily will mess up with collisions, whether they contain rests or notes.

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Graham Percival
Andrzej Kopec wrote: I also have a usability question. I'm using lilypond-2.10.11 (linux executable) on intel centrino 1.4MHz with 256MB of RAM, and I cannot render 10 page chamber piece of music due to lack of memory. after 15 min I stop "Layout outputting to 'xxx.ps'" and I found outputted 4

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, Andrzej: your experiences with large lilypond projects [...] and your hardware? I recently typeset my 42-page chamber opera score (in Lilypond 2.9). If I recall correctly, it took between 1 and 2 minutes to generate the full score (on an Apple MacBook with 2GHz Intel Core Duo). Hope

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor
First of all, here's an alternative version of your code that hopefully is somewhat closer to what you want. Mats, this also says clashing notecolumns in the first note (and merges them to one position) (with 2.10.11) ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Andrzej Kopec
Hi, I also have a usability question. I'm using lilypond-2.10.11 (linux executable) on intel centrino 1.4MHz with 256MB of RAM, and I cannot render 10 page chamber piece of music due to lack of memory. after 15 min I stop "Layout outputting to 'xxx.ps'" and I found outputted 4 pages of 10. If I

Controlling vertical spacing exactly - mini HOWTO

2007-01-17 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, The following might be of interest to folks using proportional notation. If there's any general interest (of if Graham wants it to be so) then I'll retype the following as an addition to 11.3.4 "Controlling spacing of individual systems". Proportional notation gives near-complete control of

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You have received a large number of answers already, but I'm not sure how many of your original questions have really been answered. First of all, here's an alternative version of your code that hopefully is somewhat closer to what you want. #(set-global-staff-size 17) % \version "2.10.7"

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jonathan Henkelman wrote: Upro gmail.com> writes: I admit that not finding the function for a simple line brake was not very smart of me. I have studied the online-manual thouroughly, but it's not easy to find solutions there, and I haven't found them for the descripbed problems. Tr

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor wrote: The scan that was provided shows two of the stem-up notes aligned. I suppose that that could be an engraving error from the scanned piece. It's a polyphonic Bach violin peace: they are separate voices, not chords, they figure melodies (despite there are notes b

RE: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > > The scan that was provided shows > > two of the stem-up notes aligned. I suppose that that could be an > > engraving error from the scanned piece. > > It's a polyphonic Bach violin peace: they are separate > voices, not chords, they figure melodies (despite there

Re: usability question - how to search manual

2007-01-17 Thread Tim Reeves
>> I admit that not finding the function for a simple line brake was not very >> smart of me. I have studied the online-manual thouroughly, but it's not easy >> to find solutions there, and I haven't found them for the descripbed >> problems. >Try the PDF version as it is really easy to search.

Re: Trouble with voices: unwanted clef & time

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
These things happen as soon as you include some command that can only be done within a Staff or Voice context, before your own first \new Staff/Voice. In this case, it's the \autoBeamOff command that causes the problem. Just move it inside the \new Staff{...}. If you want the setting to apply to a

Re: ties between voices

2007-01-17 Thread Steve D
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:15:24AM +0200, Joe Neeman wrote: > We've had a few questions about ties between voices (especially ties from > polyphony to chords). It seems that you can get this behaviour simply by > moving the Tie_engraver form the Voice context to the Staff context. Note > that the T

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor
> The scan that was provided shows > two of the stem-up notes aligned. I suppose that that could be an engraving > error from the scanned piece. It's a polyphonic Bach violin peace: they are separate voices, not chords, they figure melodies (despite there are notes between in the first noise)

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
Rutger Hofman cs.vu.nl> writes: > > But the whole point of this \voiceFive thingy is that none of the four > notes in the first quarter should line up, and especially not the three > notes with stem upwards. > > Rutger > I'm not sure I agree with this conclusion. The scan that was provided

Re: Can you put dynamic marks in the lyrics?

2007-01-17 Thread Graham Percival
Sietse Brouwer wrote: A bunch of keywords, to help future people with this issue find this thread: dynamic marks in lyrics, stanza, number, stanzanumber, font, fetaDynamic, override, set, tweak, hack, forte, mezzoforte, piano, f, mf, p. Instead of keywords in the email archive, why not submit

Re: Can you put dynamic marks in the lyrics?

2007-01-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Dear all, I'm sorry for responding so late. I've tried both Bertalan's and Eduardo's suggestions -- they work -- and here comes the summary of what I've learned. If you want to indicate the dynamics (forte, mezzoforte, piano, etc.) of a verse, then it is possible to set this mark in the "\set st

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Rutger Hofman
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Bert wrote: Yes! And it *works* ! Rutger voiceFive = #(context-spec-music (make-voice-props-set 4) 'Voice) << { \voiceOne g''4 ~ \stemDown g32[ f( es d c b a b64 )g] } \\ { \voiceThree b4} \\ { \voiceFive d,} \\ { \voiceTwo g,}\\>> Bert I trie

RE: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Bert wrote: > >>> > >> Yes! And it *works* ! > >> > >> Rutger > >> > >> > > > > > voiceFive = #(context-spec-music (make-voice-props-set 4) 'Voice) > > << { \voiceOne g''4 ~ \stemDown g32[ f( es d c b a b64 )g] } > \\ { \voiceThree b4} \\ { \voiceFive d,} \\ { \voiceTwo g,}\\>>

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Upro escreveu: > Hello! > > I have been using Lilypond some years ago, without needs for too good > formattzig, but now I decided to try to make an edition for a major > publisher with lilypond. Interesting! Which one? > (etc) If it's really important, you could consider reserving a cut of wh

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Upro gmail.com> writes: > I admit that not finding the function for a simple line brake was not very > smart of me. I have studied the online-manual thouroughly, but it's not easy > to find solutions there, and I haven't found them for the descripbed > problems. Try the PDF version as it is real

Re: Trouble with voices: unwanted clef & time

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Henkelman
Rutger hotmail.com> writes: > Is there anyone who could give me some help me with the file below? > For some reason, Lilypond creates an unwanted clef and time signature > (without a staff) above my setting of two voices on one staff. What did I do > wrong? Try moving the \autoBeamOff to inside

subdivideBeams behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Alard de Boer
Hello list, Using subdivideBeams with manual beaming, as explained in 6.5.6 in the manual, works fine. However, using it with automatic beaming with the LilyPond code below, results in the attached output, which has two problems: 1) The last beam of the first measure is subdivided; a workaround

Trouble with voices: unwanted clef & time

2007-01-17 Thread Rutger
Dear all, Is there anyone who could give me some help me with the file below? For some reason, Lilypond creates an unwanted clef and time signature (without a staff) above my setting of two voices on one staff. What did I do wrong? Also, would you have any clue why the fermatas in the lower part

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Bertalan Fodor
If you look at the definition of voice you will see: voiceOne = #(context-spec-music (make-voice-props-set 0) 'Voice) voiceTwo = #(context-spec-music (make-voice-props-set 1) 'Voice) voiceThree =#(context-spec-music (make-voice-props-set 2) 'Voice) voiceFour = #(context-spec-music (make-voic