Re: error: minimise_least_squares (bug?)

2007-05-09 Thread Graham Percival
Stan Sanderson wrote: O.K., I pared it down to a minimum (AFAIK). I eliminated the middle voice. \version "2.11.23" \include "english.ly" \paper{ ragged-right=##t } << { e''4. e''4 e''8 fs'' g''}\\{ e2 ~ e8 r4.}>> I've added this as another example in http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/

Re: error: minimise_least_squares (bug?)

2007-05-09 Thread Stan Sanderson
On May 9, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: Preprocessing graphical objects... programming error: minimise_least_squares (): Nothing to minimise This means that vertical spacing is triggered before line breaking Previous postings to the list referred to earlier ve

Re: cautionary accidental causes shift of lower accidental

2007-05-09 Thread Graham Percival
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Attached is a snippet from a piano piece I'm engraving. A more minimal example would be nice -- say, two notes in a chord. As you will see, the addition of a cautionary accidental in the upper part of the chord causes the lower (regular) accidental to shift unnecessar

Re: error messages while using \include "italiano.ly"

2007-05-09 Thread Graham Percival
Ledocq-Boccart wrote: using version 2.10 on winXP on OpenOffice.org with macro Ctrl+M from OOoLilyPond I try to write music sheet using french syntax (as do re mi fa ...) I wrote therefore this simple file: \include "italiano.ly" { do re mi fa } You need a "\relative c'{" above your "do re

Re: error: minimise_least_squares (bug?)

2007-05-09 Thread Graham Percival
Stan Sanderson wrote: Preprocessing graphical objects... programming error: minimise_least_squares (): Nothing to minimise This means that vertical spacing is triggered before line breaking Previous postings to the list referred to earlier versions and suggested a bug report... For bug repo

error: minimise_least_squares (bug?)

2007-05-09 Thread Stan Sanderson
The following abbreviated code % Start code sample ** \version "2.11.23" \include "english.ly" \paper{ ragged-right=##t } global = { \key g \major \clef treble } upper = \relative c''' { \repeat volta 2 {

Re: name of chord font?

2007-05-09 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-05-08 um 14:13 schrieb Selyem Zoltán: i'm adding chords as text markup (version 2.10.20), and I would like the chord symbols to look distinct from the other text. I do the same (with "Verdana Bold" though), but I think there is a way to define your own chord names and then you could use

Re: LILYPOND_DATADIR in 2.10 / broken MIDI

2007-05-09 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-05-08 um 11:06 schrieb Graham Percival: fiëé visuëlle wrote: GNU LilyPond 2.10.23 Fehler: LILYPONDPREFIX is obsolete, use LILYPOND_DATADIR """ I thought that would have been fixed? I thought so too, and I can't reproduce this on my system. Could you remove lilypond and remove any s

Re: hiding empty staves

2007-05-09 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2007-05-07 um 03:28 schrieb Bryan Stanbridge: In LP 2.6 I could hide empty staves (also in the first system) with \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } Can't remember if I also needed \set Score . skipBars = ##t In LP 2.10 an empty stave in the first system is only hidden with \ove

cautionary accidental causes shift of lower accidental

2007-05-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, all! Attached is a snippet from a piano piece I'm engraving. As you will see, the addition of a cautionary accidental in the upper part of the chord causes the lower (regular) accidental to shift unnecessarily. I've included this on -list, to document the (i.e., my current) workarou

invisible ledger lines

2007-05-09 Thread David Bobroff
I need to make some ledger lines transparent. I'm using an invisible note from which to hang a lyric syllable. The part itself (not the cues) will need to be available in different clefs. This will result in ledger lines appearing in one clef or the other. I haven't yet found the right phrasing

Re: lyric vertical spacing

2007-05-09 Thread David Bobroff
Wow, yeah, that did it. Thanks! -David Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi, David: > >> I went there per your suggestion and tried tweaking the minimum-y-extent >> but I was unable to make it any better. I eventually tried >> #'extra-offset on the lyrics. This solved half of the problem. I was >> ab

error messages while using \include "italiano.ly"

2007-05-09 Thread Ledocq-Boccart
using version 2.10 on winXP on OpenOffice.org with macro Ctrl+M from OOoLilyPond I try to write music sheet using french syntax (as do re mi fa ...) I wrote therefore this simple file: \include "italiano.ly" { do re mi fa } which returns an error message; Files like \ relative c' { a b c d

Re: more lines of text

2007-05-09 Thread Joseph Haig
On 09/05/07, holger lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is there a way to generate more than one line of songtext below the notes? I have a song, in which parts of the melody are repeated and I want to print two lines of text below one line of notes... Reagrds, I think that this could be what

more lines of text

2007-05-09 Thread holger lange
Hi, Is there a way to generate more than one line of songtext below the notes? I have a song, in which parts of the melody are repeated and I want to print two lines of text below one line of notes... Reagrds, Holger ___ lilypond-user mailing list l

Re: lyric vertical spacing

2007-05-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, David: I went there per your suggestion and tried tweaking the minimum-y- extent but I was unable to make it any better. I eventually tried #'extra-offset on the lyrics. This solved half of the problem. I was able to move them close enough to the staff for my purposes but, of course, it

Re: OOoLilyPond on Windows

2007-05-09 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Tim Reeves wrote: Thanks John, So is there a simple way to change the OOoLilyPond macro to send -dbackend=foo instead of -b foo? You can edit the Macro in OpenOffice.org. Go to "Tools" --> "Macros" --> "Organise Macros" --> "OpenOffice.org Basic" Then select the Module "Subs" from the "OOoLi

Re: lyric vertical spacing

2007-05-09 Thread David Bobroff
I went looking in the mail archive to see if I could find an answer to my question as I had not heard from anybody, only to discover that Mats had responded. For some reason it did not find its way to my in-box. > Which LilyPond version? The vertical spacing handling has changed > significantly >

Re: Varying shape note heads varying by semitone

2007-05-09 Thread Kevin Dalley
I have to admit that I'm stuck here. I see some documentation for gros here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/grob_002dinterface#grob_002dinterface but I don't know where to start. Do you have a suggested URL? "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >