reduce vertical spacing between stanzas?

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Polesky
How can I reduce vertical spacing between stanzas? - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: \numericTimeSignature !

2008-12-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/12/3 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've just discovered the new (sort of) command \numericTimeSignature and wanted to thank whoever implemented this. Graham made it for 2.11.43-2 Thanks Graham! Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com __

Re: \partial problem?

2008-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As has been pointed out in previous answers, one solution is to make a separate \score block for each movement (this is probably the most common way to typeset several moments). However, if the movements go attacca and should be typeset like that, you can use \partial commands to handle all your p

Re: vertical spacing question

2008-12-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 déc. 08 à 21:25, james a écrit : I'm having some difficulty. So far, in a score that compiles fine without \bookpart, I only get bus errors when I try to use \bookpart. I've tried having just one \score in the \bookpart, I've tried having all of them in \bookparts. The example from elu

Re: Separate page numbering in separate book parts?

2008-12-04 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 déc. 08 à 12:52, Graham Percival a écrit : On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:58:48AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: With the new book parts feature, is it possible to restart the page numbering for each book part. Surprisingly, \paper{ first-page-number = #1 } doesn't do this! Indeed, first-p

Re: vertical spacing question

2008-12-04 Thread james
Am 03.12.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2008/12/3 james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm sorry, \bookpart is new to me, and I don't find it when I search for it in the one big page option. Where can I learn more about this? It's hot off the press. :) Here are some links from the 2.11.65 doc

Re: breakbefore help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Am 04.12.2008 um 18:24 schrieb -Eluze: james bailey-2 wrote: I wanted to have a title page before the music begins. I assumed I'd does this about what you're looking for? Sadly, no. My title page consisted of just markups organised on the page. I just decided to scrap the pre-designe

Re: breakbefore help

2008-12-04 Thread -Eluze
james bailey-2 wrote: > > I wanted to have a title page before the music begins. I assumed I'd > does this about what you're looking for? \version "2.11.65" \paper { ragged-bottom = ##t ragged-last-bottom = ##t } \book { \header { title =

Re: combine dynamics of 2 voices

2008-12-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Gilles Sadowski wrote Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:34 PM Hi. I would like to print on the same staff two parts of wind instruments (flutes, clarinettes...) but if I use << { \partI } \\ { \partII } >> or \partcombine { \partI } { \partII }, the dynamics are not merged when they are the sam

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Johan Vromans wrote: While at the subject... To change the default fonts for a document, the advised code is: \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman" "Nimbus Sans" "Luxi Mono"

breakbefore help

2008-12-04 Thread james
I wanted to have a title page before the music begins. I assumed I'd set up my title page, have breakbefore=##t in my \header, and have my title page on the first page, the header information on the second page. I see that is not the case. Whent does breakbefore work? The documentation ment

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
After much searching, I found it. Fontbook installs user-installed fonts to a directory that isn't indexed by fontconfig ~/Library/ Fonts. After I realised that, I knew to tell fontbook to install my fonts system-wide, apparently, osx doesn't use ~/.fonts/ which fontconfig does index. ___

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Well, to be completely explicit, it lists the fonts that lilypond > installs by name, and then the directories for the system fonts. This is not correct. It lists all fonts which have been registered by fontconfig (plus the OTF and PFB fonts from lilypond). > I just don't know what name to cal

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Oops, I looked more closely at the list, and it does name all the system fonts. I just don't see palatino in the list. Am 04.12.2008 um 12:01 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Did you read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/ Fonts#Fonts-explained In particular, it explains how

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Well, to be completely explicit, it lists the fonts that lilypond installs by name, and then the directories for the system fonts. I just don't know what name to call the system fonts by. I've tried the file name and the name that shows up in fontbook, but nothing so far works. Am 04.12.200

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
I did. I have the list of all the fonts. Well, I have the directories that the available fonts are in. If that actually listed font names accepted, it would be perfect! Is there another option to do this? Am 04.12.2008 um 12:01 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Did you read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.

Re: combine dynamics of 2 voices

2008-12-04 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I would like to print on the same staff two parts of wind instruments > (flutes, clarinettes...) but if I use << { \partI } \\ { \partII } >> or > \partcombine { \partI } { \partII }, the dynamics are not merged when > they are the same. I get the same crescendo et decrescendo above an

combine dynamics of 2 voices

2008-12-04 Thread Frédéric Bron
I would like to print on the same staff two parts of wind instruments (flutes, clarinettes...) but if I use << { \partI } \\ { \partII } >> or \partcombine { \partI } { \partII }, the dynamics are not merged when they are the same. I get the same crescendo et decrescendo above and below the sta

Re: Separate page numbering in separate book parts?

2008-12-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:58:48AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > With the new book parts feature, is it possible to restart the page > numbering for each book part. Surprisingly, \paper{ first-page-number = #1 } doesn't do this! I agree, this would be nice. Cheers, - Graham __

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Am 04.12.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Neil Puttock: Hi James, 2008/12/3 james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm not understanding how font switching in a \markup block works. I thought that I could just do \markup \override #'(fontname . #'Courier) {test} and it would work, but it doesn't. Is there some o

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you read http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Fonts#Fonts-explained In particular, it explains how to obtain a list over all fonts on your system that are available to LilyPond. /Mats james wrote: Am 04.12.2008 um 06:41 schrieb Jan van Dijk: Op Thursday 04 Dece

Separate page numbering in separate book parts?

2008-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hi, With the new book parts feature, is it possible to restart the page numbering for each book part. In that case, it would be an ideal solution if you want to typeset a number of orchestral parts, where all the resulting parts are output into the same PDF file, but with individual page numbe

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread Johan Vromans
"Neil Puttock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Fonts#Single-entry-fonts While at the subject... To change the default fonts for a document, the advised code is: \paper { myStaffSize = #20 #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tr

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Am 04.12.2008 um 06:41 schrieb Jan van Dijk: Op Thursday 04 December 2008 00:47:52 schreef james: I'm not understanding how font switching in a \markup block works. I thought that I could just do \markup \override #'(fontname . #'Courier) {test} and it would work, but it doesn't. Is there some

lost pw for snippet repository

2008-12-04 Thread -Eluze
where can i reset or recover my password for the login to the snippet repository "lsr.dsi.unimi.it" tiafyh! Eluze -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/lost-pw-for-snippet-repository-tp20830492p20830492.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Cannot find differences between traditional and computer versions

2008-12-04 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
I wondered: Why do you only use the finale examples for comparison? Well, I think because Finale is one of the most popular and at the same time worst softwares. With Sibelius for example (the one I know better) there would have been less trivial differences. Bert

Re: Lilypond-book vertical margins

2008-12-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Which LilyPond version do you use? Several related problems have been fixed in the latest 2.11.x releases. Regards /Mats Marcos di Silva wrote: Dear all, My eps files generated by lilypond-book have wrong superior margin. The metronome marks and some bar numbers are cut. How do I adjust ve

Re: \numericTimeSignature !

2008-12-04 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/12/3 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've just discovered the new (sort of) command \numericTimeSignature and > wanted to thank whoever implemented this. Graham made it for 2.11.43-2 -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) http://www.paconet.org

Re: font switching help

2008-12-04 Thread james
Am 04.12.2008 um 06:41 schrieb Jan van Dijk: Op Thursday 04 December 2008 00:47:52 schreef james: I'm not understanding how font switching in a \markup block works. I thought that I could just do \markup \override #'(fontname . #'Courier) {test} and it would work, but it doesn't. Is there some