Re: bug status (was Re: how to set staff size in safe mode)

2007-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
Ed Stauff wrote: Regarding the bug where you can't set staff size in safe mode, Graham Percival wrote: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=334 Cool! What's the best way for me to track the status of this bug? That is, find out whether it's being worked on, when I might expect

bug status (was Re: how to set staff size in safe mode)

2007-03-14 Thread Ed Stauff
Regarding the bug where you can't set staff size in safe mode, Graham Percival wrote: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=334 Cool! What's the best way for me to track the status of this bug? That is, find out whether it's being worked on, when I might expect it to appear in a

Re: how to set staff size in safe mode

2007-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=334 Cheers, - Graham Mats Bengtsson wrote: This seems like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. For example, #(set-global-staff-size 16) {c' d' e' f'} works without problems in version 2.8 but fails with the error message

Re: tweaks on chordnames

2007-03-14 Thread José Luis Cruz
Yes, I realize. But when I worked on debian used Sid also ;) I like to use the last features. And I think we've found a bug. I think I should send it to bug-lilypond list I hope you realize the the 2.11.x series are experimental development versions and that the latest stable, 2.10.x is the rec

Re: tweaks on chordnames

2007-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I happened to have an installation of LilyPond 2.11.10 available here and there this trick works well. I hope you realize the the 2.11.x series are experimental development versions and that the latest stable, 2.10.x is the recommend version for any serious typesetting. /Mats José Luis Cruz wr

Re: New Templete.

2007-03-14 Thread Cesar Penagos
En Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:34:42 -0600, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On 3/14/07, Cesar Penagos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saludos! Lilypond Team: I have two questions: 1. It is possible that you include a new template of a complete SATB+Piano score in the Tutorials?.(I mean ever

Re: changing noteheads shape vs keeping same rythm

2007-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read the section on "Scaling durations". /Mats Latomus wrote: Hello, I'm new on Lilypond. Just a question : is it possible to change noteheads shapes without changing durations eg printing {c2} where the actual duration is {c2.}? Could you tell me in what chapter I could find relevant inf

changing noteheads shape vs keeping same rythm

2007-03-14 Thread Latomus
Hello, I'm new on Lilypond. Just a question : is it possible to change noteheads shapes without changing durations eg printing {c2} where the actual duration is {c2.}? Could you tell me in what chapter I could find relevant information on that? Thanks a lot Pierre Masson _

Re: LILYPOND_DATADIR in 2.10

2007-03-14 Thread Graham Percival
Arjan Bos wrote: On 28 feb 2007, at 4:19, Graham Percival wrote: Dan Eble wrote: The NEWS for 2.11 says that "The environment variable LILYPONDPREFIX has been renamed to LILYPOND_DATADIR." If that is new for 2.11, why are versions of 2.10 complaining about it? This is on Mac OS X 10.3 (Po

Re: New Templete.

2007-03-14 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Or use the Document Wizard of LilyPondTool. Better approach than templates. Bert Fred Leason írta: There are templates in the LSR. Is this suitable for your specific request? It does not include piano score. Perhaps you would like to contribute your work so far and create a new Snippet. ht

Re: more on polyphonic tablature - sharing notes

2007-03-14 Thread Art Sulger
No one? seems like a common scoring problem for lutists or anyone writing polyphonic tab. Anyway - can someone give me advice on if this can be set in TabVoices: merge-differently-headed (boolean); the docs say,     "Merge note heads in collisions, even if they have different note heads. The sm

Re: New Templete.

2007-03-14 Thread Fred Leason
There are templates in the LSR. Is this suitable for your specific request? It does not include piano score. Perhaps you would like to contribute your work so far and create a new Snippet. https://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/form.php?type=snippet;id=181;rld=m_snippet I agree that templates in the doc

Re: Problems with lyrics of a gregorian chant piece

2007-03-14 Thread Fred Leason
David, If the first line is aligned OK, but you don't like the way the second line is compressed, you can fix that easily by adding: \layout { ragged-right = ##f ragged-last = ##f } at the end of \score between the >> and the final } This will

Re: different noteheads on one single voice chord, with mixed dots

2007-03-14 Thread José Luis Cruz
Very thanks much, Mats. Your solution fits nicely I already had 4 warnings for using mixed voices. Warns me for adding noteheads with incompatible stems, noteheads and rests on stems... that sort of things, so one more warning doesn't hurt. Your sintax is interesting <> Never had though of...

Re: Adjusting space between lines

2007-03-14 Thread Stephen Torri
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 10:35 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > See the section on "Vocal music" (the main section, not any of the > subsections). > >/Mats > This is what I saw from the Vocal music section. Original I did not have the ChoirStaff or Staff in my file. Changing the values of 'minim

Re: New Templete.

2007-03-14 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/14/07, Cesar Penagos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saludos! Lilypond Team: I have two questions: 1. It is possible that you include a new template of a complete SATB+Piano score in the Tutorials?.(I mean every voice in a separated staff with respective lyrics) I think this will be very useful

New Templete.

2007-03-14 Thread Cesar Penagos
Saludos! Lilypond Team: I have two questions: 1. It is possible that you include a new template of a complete SATB+Piano score in the Tutorials?.(I mean every voice in a separated staff with respective lyrics) I think this will be very usefully for all the beginners like me. For some reaso

RE: response character

2007-03-14 Thread Kress, Stephen
As has already been mentioned numerous times, any UNICODE character can be easily used in a ly file. Simply place such a character in any context where LP expects a string (to keep things clean, I usually try to put the special characters in quotes as in \markup {"?"}). As has also been menti

Re: different noteheads on one single voice chord, with mixed dots

2007-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you can stand a few warning messages from LilyPond, you can typeset this using a number of simultaneous notes in the same Voice context: \stemUp 4 <> /Mats José Luis Cruz wrote: hi, You know that the same music can be written in several ways, some more elegant and clearer than others.

different noteheads on one single voice chord, with mixed dots

2007-03-14 Thread José Luis Cruz
hi, You know that the same music can be written in several ways, some more elegant and clearer than others. I have a measure writtien for guitar. Now I write it using 2 voices for the top part, and one for the bottom. Since I discovered I can mix noteheads I can do the top part using 1 voice on

Re: response character

2007-03-14 Thread David Gippner
The response lyrics are supposed to begin with a special text symbol that is a capital 'R' that has a slash through it. Does anyone know of a lilypond or LaTeX symbol that does this? There is such a possibility with a LaTeX Macro in opusgre (for this, you must have installed and compiled opu

Re: Problems with lyrics of a gregorian chant piece

2007-03-14 Thread Geoff Horton
I've got some problems with the lyrics of an gregorian chant piece. The text doesn't fit under the notes correctly. What have I done wrong or what can I do to correct it? According to this: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Ligatures#Ligatures "lyrics do not correctly ali

tweaks on chordnames

2007-03-14 Thread José Luis Cruz
For several reasons I want to be able to write some text on the chord line, substituting a chordname if needed. Some of the reasons, among others: using the percent sign to indicate a repeated chord; having two chords, one below the other, so one would be the basis and the other the alternative,

Re: How to write a segno and coda code together?

2007-03-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
New version of my answer that doesn't give a syntax error: \mark \markup{ \center-align { \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" }} /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you mean "centered on a bar line", then you could try something like \mark \markup{ \center-align \musicglyph #

Re: What is a system?

2007-03-14 Thread Robert Memering
Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 12:05 schrieb David Bobroff: > You almost had your answer with "one line of music." In the case of a > single staff instrument it is one line of music. For something like > piano music it is one line of the grand staff. Likewise, for a > conductor's score it is one lin

Re: What is a system?

2007-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
Arjan Bos wrote: > Dear list, > > For a few years now I've been working around this issue, but it finally > caught on to me. It might be my lack of understanding of musical > english, but: > What is a System in for example between-system-padding? > > Is it one line of music? Is it one score? is i

What is a system?

2007-03-14 Thread Arjan Bos
Dear list, For a few years now I've been working around this issue, but it finally caught on to me. It might be my lack of understanding of musical english, but: What is a System in for example between-system-padding? Is it one line of music? Is it one score? is it a set of bars? Is it ev

Problems with lyrics of a gregorian chant piece

2007-03-14 Thread David Gippner
Hello folks, I've got some problems with the lyrics of an gregorian chant piece. The text doesn't fit under the notes correctly. What have I done wrong or what can I do to correct it? The piece follows here: \version "2.11.20" \include "gregorian-init.ly" \include "deutsch.ly" \score { << \new

Re: Font Troubles (Windows - 2.11.20)

2007-03-14 Thread Geoff Horton
1) inside a \lyricsto section of words, I can't seem to get digits to appear in the output. I'm trying to use the lyrics context to typeset roman numerals for chord indications under the system. Have you tried quoting the numbers: "23"? Geoff ___ li

Font Troubles (Windows - 2.11.20)

2007-03-14 Thread J L
Hi, I seem to be getting two types of problems with fonts not working: 1) inside a \lyricsto section of words, I can't seem to get digits to appear in the output. I'm trying to use the lyrics context to typeset roman numerals for chord indications under the system. 2) trying to display the c