Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Well, at least my personal source of knowledge and wisdom says so: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX > > "LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛx/ or /ˈleɪtɛk/) is a document markup > language and document preparation system" This is a good description > click on "document preparation system": it redir

Re: noteheads gone when printing - font wrong

2008-10-05 Thread Elizabeth Emerson
thanks, i'll try re-installing my hp driver i'm wondering whether the latest osx update did something odd to the community-contributed hp1020 driver (hp doesn't support this particular printer on osx, god knows why...) d On Sunday, October 05, 2008, at 11:03PM, "Dominic Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTE

Measurement units for Stem Length (and in general)

2008-10-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
I've started doing some simple exercises to acquaint myself with the Lilypond syntax. In the following snippet I try to change the second notehead to an x and make the stem connect properly: \version "2.11.61" \relative c' { \time 4/4 c \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:te

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Patrick Horgan
James E. Bailey wrote: I can see now how the church of emacs was codified. Ah, he refers to how backwards, emacs is scam e, or an electronic scam! I learn more by the hour! Patrick ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008 schrieb Kurt Kroon: > On 2008/10/04 7:11 PM, "Robin Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > >> What do you think? > > > > Well, I'm honoured. > > And you are very quick off the mark. > > In fact, y

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008 schrieb Patrick McCarty: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Robin Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > >> Can you clarify what you mean by the latest styling hiding this feature? > > > > Well, at

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Patrick Horgan
I think that I've learned the most from the online conversations between Graham and Valentin, and as a tribute to them, would like to give what to some may seem an overly obvious interpretation of the undercurrents in their communications. Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27

Re: embedded-ps stencil confusion

2008-10-05 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/10/5 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was just about to propose the following alternative solution, > which only uses features that are actually described in the > manual (more or less well hidden, though). However, then I > noticed that it didn't give exactly the same output. First of

Re: embedded-ps stencil confusion

2008-10-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I was just about to propose the following alternative solution, which only uses features that are actually described in the manual (more or less well hidden, though). However, then I noticed that it didn't give exactly the same output. First of all, it gives squares that are centered below the ste

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/10/5 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: >> In other words, does >> #(set-default-paper-size ...) >> set any variables other than paper-width and paper-height? ie is >> there a pape

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

2008-10-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM, sdfgsdhdshd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> this option is mainly for lilypond-book use: it halves the time to >> build the lilypond documentation on my dual core notebook. >> > > This option is not used for musical scores? This option speeds up rendering many scores

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-10-05 um 17:46 schrieb Valentin Villenave: "LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛx/ or /ˈleɪtɛk/) is a document markup language and document preparation system" click on "document preparation system": it redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor That being said, if you do not regard

Re: scheme music function going backwards in time (or"better mp dolce") [solved]

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:57:08 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:29 PM > > >I have an announcement to make: I'm an idiot. > > No need to announce it ;) But if you are so are most > of us. Ack! You figured out my secret reaso

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:22:30 -0700 Patrick McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Graham, > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:58:12AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > > > > #(set-default-paper-size ...) > > set any variables other than paper-width and paper-height? > > The variables are defined in th

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008 schrieb David Séverin: > Le Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:21:07 +0200, > > Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Yes, it does. internal-set-paper-size sets the symbol 'papersizename in > > the default paper module to the

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread David Séverin
Le Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:21:07 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Yes, it does. internal-set-paper-size sets the symbol 'papersizename in the > default paper module to the name. You can easily extract it in scheme: > > #(let* ((paper (ly:output-def-scope (eval '$defaultpape

Re: noteheads gone when printing - font wrong

2008-10-05 Thread Damian leGassick
i tried a different printer - works fine any idea why an hp laserjet 1020 suddenly decides not to play ball? cheers d On 5 Oct 2008, at 19:11, Damian leGassick wrote: this is weird it was working fine just the other day - it's as if acrobat/preview loses the lily fonts at printing. i'

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008 schrieb Graham Percival: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:57:52 +0100 > > "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/10/5 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Two more updates to margins-a4-letter.ly: > > > - if you spe

noteheads gone when printing - font wrong

2008-10-05 Thread Damian leGassick
this is weird it was working fine just the other day - it's as if acrobat/preview loses the lily fonts at printing. i've cleaned the system and application font-caches (with linotype font explorer) what's odd is that even embedded in omnigraffle or pages, i get no music printed. it al

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Graham, On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:58:12AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > > In other words, does > #(set-default-paper-size ...) > set any variables other than paper-width and paper-height? ie is > there a paper-size variable? I couldn't see any in the definition > of set-default-paper-size

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:57:52 +0100 "Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/5 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Two more updates to margins-a4-letter.ly: > > - if you specify #(set-default-paper-size "letter"), it doesn't > > work. You need to do it with #(ly:set-option...) >

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:57:52PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: > > One thing I've just noticed: despite what it says in 4.1.1 `Paper > size', set-default-paper size doesn't work inside \paper { }. I will fix this. Thanks, Patrick ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/10/5 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Two more updates to margins-a4-letter.ly: > - if you specify #(set-default-paper-size "letter"), it doesn't > work. You need to do it with #(ly:set-option...) > instructions are in the file. This is easily fixed, though there's a slight complicat

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/5 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do you honestly consider LaTeX to be a "word processor"? Well, at least my personal source of knowledge and wisdom says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX "LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛx/ or /ˈleɪtɛk/) is a document markup language and document pre

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/3 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Also consider whether you should use "system" instead of "line". > > Well, in this particular case the use of "line" was implied by "line > break". I could cha

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 "Text" : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/3 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Also consider whether you should use "system" instead of "line". > > Well, in this particular case the use of "line" was implied by "line > break". I could cha

Re: updated margins-a4-letter.ly

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:01:53 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > Here's a slightly updated version of my "produce the same score on > > A4 and letter paper". Should be easier to understand. > > > Thanks:) It crossed the line from extremely cool to eleg