Re: no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Risto Vääräniemi wrote: Do you remember what was the version you still got the midi file? With 2.10 and 2.11 you must have the \midi block inside a \score block to get the midi. It's always been this way in LilyPond. /Mats ___ lilypond-user m

Re: Roman numeral analysis

2008-06-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jesse Engle wrote: Is it possible to display roman numeral symbols in Lilypond? Of course, just as you can typeset any other text. Or, do you want something more automated that treats them specifically as numbers with some special musical meaning? If you tell more about what you want to use

Re: no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/6/11 ANNETTE GIESBRECHT: > This is the "Welcome_to_LilyPond" file itself. I am not talking about a > file I copied from the Lilypond pdf or manuscript. > Before that, I always got a midi file.But the ps file opens up my media > player -I have the VLC media player and I cannot play that

Roman numeral analysis

2008-06-10 Thread Jesse Engle
Is it possible to display roman numeral symbols in Lilypond? - Jesse ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

accidentals in augmented unisons

2008-06-10 Thread luis jure
hello list, i'm using an example from the learning manual to write a chord with an augmented unison: naturalplusflat = \markup { \natural \flat } \relative c'' { \once \override Accidental #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override Accidental #'text = #natu

Layout for dummies (fixing staves distances in a system)

2008-06-10 Thread Jayaratna
Dear members, I am reading this forum since sometimes, as I am doing my first steps in Lilypond. I am making a score in which I have two systems of eight staves each per page (I managed to do that by setting page size to a3 and shrinking it to a4 on printing it: I guess it's not really proper, b

Re: Documentation

2008-06-10 Thread Jesse Engle
Or, if you're using Windows, you can download GNU tar and bzip2 here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm You would run these commands on the command line (Start>Run...>"cmd"): bzip2 -d filename.tar.bz2 tar -xvf filename.tar - Je

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:24:11 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually, no. Such parts typically contain multi-measure rests, > > which are then stretched... Currently, it looks quite odd that one > > line does not spa

Re: Documentation

2008-06-10 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
- Original Message - From: "C A Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:26 PM Subject: Documentation I have downloaded the tarball file. What program is needed to open it? TIA on unix, type : tar -xvf filename on win, use for example winrar (maybe 7zip will

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Hmm, if you look e.g. at timpani parts for several large works, > > you will frequently encounter one-line movements, because the > > Timpani only play the last three measures or so of a movement... > > Do such Timpani parts really > look like the above line?

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, no. Such parts typically contain multi-measure rests, which are then > stretched... Currently, it looks quite odd that one line does not span the > whole width of the page: Indeed. Maybe we could disable ragged-right when inside a \bo

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: > > > Nevertheless, I > > > hope you'll agree that one-line scores are rare in the Real World > > > (except for exercises, maybe?), > > > > Hmm, if you look e.g. at timpani parts for several large wor

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:04:10 +0200 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 schrieben Sie: > > This should have been announced in NEWS, indeed. Yes, please do. > > Nevertheless, I > > hope you'll agree that one-line scores are rare in the Real World > > (except

Documentation

2008-06-10 Thread C A Lewis
I have downloaded the tarball file. What program is needed to open it? TIA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: FiguredBass extenders for only part of the figure

2008-06-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer: > Am Samstag, 7. Juni 2008 schrieb Carl Sorensen: > > Reinhold Kainhofer kainhofer.com> writes: > > > In Mozarts "Benedictus sit Deus" the figured bass sometimes has > > > figures, where one of th

Re: Constant space between title (header) and 1st system

2008-06-10 Thread madMuze
the following assumes you've checked out http://www.nabble.com/Controlling-vertical-spacing-exactly---mini-HOWTO-to8419399.html and decided against calculating the Y-offset of every staff on every page. my current kludge: \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'Y-extent = #'(0.0 . X.X) where X.X

Re: FiguredBass extenders for only part of the figure

2008-06-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 7. Juni 2008 schrieb Carl Sorensen: > Reinhold Kainhofer kainhofer.com> writes: > > In Mozarts "Benedictus sit Deus" the figured bass sometimes has figures, > > where one of the numbers uses extenders over the whole measure, while the > >

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 schrieben Sie: > 2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Actually, I also noticed that recently Lilypond seems to use > > ragged-right=##t for scores with only one line, while before the default > > was to use r

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/6/10 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I also noticed that recently Lilypond seems to use ragged-right=##t > for scores with only one line, while before the default was to use > ragged-right=##f, so all scores that looked fine before now look terrible, > because they no longe

Re: no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Dear Annette, 2008/6/10 ANNETTE GIESBRECHT : > The last time I used LilyPond, I got ps files that were to open in my media > player, but since I have windows I cannot use them. I cannot see the midi > files. the one that I downloaded was 2.11.48-1. So even though I can see > the sheet music

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi James, > > > While I'm not particularly fond of how wide the spacing in the > > earlier example is, > > I prefer it to the spacing in the later example. So, I'm starting > > to wonder > > about how I can get somwhere in between. > > I fear y

no midi file in the new lilypond for Windows

2008-06-10 Thread ANNETTE GIESBRECHT
The last time I used LilyPond, I got ps files that were to open in my media player, but since I have windows I cannot use them. I cannot see the midi files. the one that I downloaded was 2.11.48-1. So even though I can see the sheet music, I cannot play a midi file since there is no midi fil

Re: change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, While I'm not particularly fond of how wide the spacing in the earlier example is, I prefer it to the spacing in the later example. So, I'm starting to wonder about how I can get somwhere in between. I fear you're comparing apples to oranges: from the sample documents you poste

change default horizontal spacing

2008-06-10 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm wondering about how I can change the default horizontal spacing, at least for dynamics, so that rather than adjust them up/down, lilypond adjusts the measure width.here was my generic input file: \header{ title = "A scale in LilyPond"} \relative {\time 3/4 c\ppp d\pp e\p f\mp g\mf a\f b

Not about the software, but about a person...

2008-06-10 Thread Sara C . Neuman
Hi, Lili, I don't know if this message will reach you. I don't even know if you are the right Lily, but if you are... your email to the van Keurens must be old... you speak of being in your fifties, and we must be in our sixties now!! I also have tried to look for Martha/Louise. I met her at Union

Re: incorrect beams in 16th quintuplet

2008-06-10 Thread luis jure
El Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:09:23 +1000 "Matthew Rowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > 2008/6/9 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This is a bug that has been fixed in git. Please try 2.11.49 when > > it is released. yesterday i wanted to send a big thank you note to all who responded to my questio

Re: How to extract parts

2008-06-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Rael, How we can extract parts from a orchestral score like the scores from mutopia project (I'm trying the Beethoven Romanze op. 50). 1. Create a text file (e.g., "Romanze_cornig_part.ly") in the same folder as the rest of the Romanze, with the code \version "2.11.47" \include "corni

Re: Renaming NR 3

2008-06-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jay Hamilton wrote Saturday, June 07, 2008 2:33 PM Trevor- I wouldn't put concepts and a properties later it's information that's needed in that order of learning to use the program. The ordering of material is certainly important in the Learning Manual, which is designed to be read sequent

Re: How to extract parts

2008-06-10 Thread David Bobroff
Rael Bertarelli Gimenes Toffolo wrote: Hi everyone... How we can extract parts from a orchestral score like the scores from mutopia project (I'm trying the Beethoven Romanze op. 50). I have checked all documentation in the lilypond site... in the mailing-list and I can't believe that it's so har