Re: unable to run

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Ledocq
Hallo Wim, Op welke operating system werd Lilypond geinstallerd? Het lijkt Windows te zijn. In dat geval hoeft het nit cygwin te gebruiken. Je kan rechstreeks de 'windows installer' versie van Lilypond downloaden en nadien installeren (dat installert zich prima!). Charlie w...@actiefoto a écri

Re: Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-10 Thread M Watts
Check the LilyPond Snippet Repository for chord name exceptions. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=459 It's basically a matter of pruning down the available information into a manageable example that does what you want. ___ lilypond-user mailing

NR 4.3.6 Explicit Breaks

2009-02-10 Thread Chip
"When |line-break-permission| is overridden to false, Lily will insert line breaks at explicit |\break| commands and nowhere else." I can't get this to work as quoted from the NR. Lily still breaks lines where it wants to. My problem is this: I have many short snippets of music - horn (trumpe

Hello! and question about jazz chords

2009-02-10 Thread Tim McNamara
Hi- My name is Tim and I am a new LilyPond user. Sounds like an AA meeting introduction, sorry! I live in St. Paul MN and started using LP about 10 days ago. Thus far I have been using LP to create jazz lead sheets and- once past the initial learning curve- I've able to set a half dozen

Re: sample from snippets library doesn't seem to work correctly?

2009-02-10 Thread Chip
Thanks Mats, Maybe that section of the LSR should be re-titled to "Demonstrating most headers" ;) Regards, -- Chip Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-titles#Creating-titles: "If you define the |\header| inside the |\score| block,

Re: String number in a \markup

2009-02-10 Thread David Stocker
Thanks to all for your helpful hints and links. Most appreciated. Best, Dave Mats Bengtsson wrote: David Stocker wrote: How can I manipulate the space between lines in a \column? I'd like to reduce the space between the two lines in the below example by about 25%. I didn't see this reference

Re: String number in a \markup

2009-02-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Stocker wrote: How can I manipulate the space between lines in a \column? I'd like to reduce the space between the two lines in the below example by about 25%. I didn't see this referenced anywhere in the section on Text in the Notation Reference. Why not look at the documentation of the

Parsing lilypond into python

2009-02-10 Thread Akira Bergman
I am interested in using Lilypond files with Python and Csound. How can I parse Lilypond files into Python? Is there a way of interfacing the internal parsing mechanism (Scheme?) of Lilypond to Python? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: sample from snippets library doesn't seem to work correctly?

2009-02-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-titles#Creating-titles: "If you define the |\header| inside the |\score| block, then normally only the |piece| and |opus| headers will be printed." If you read on in that section of the manual, you will also learn how to

Re: suggestion: add fingering position "above-string" in FretBoards

2009-02-10 Thread -Eluze
wow - i tried it out and if i had not wrenched my wrist a week ago walking over icy hills i would have done it now trying to play your way - i would be glad if you could send me a foto of a hand with the guitar neck playing this chord! another possibility is to play xxo231 which enables a quick c

sample from snippets library doesn't seem to work correctly?

2009-02-10 Thread Chip
In the LSR is "Demonstrating all headers" (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets-big-page#Titles). The example code shows more headers than the example graphic. And when I copy/paste the sections from the code into jedit I am missing many of the headers. All of the headers f

RE: String number in a \markup

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Payne
You can use \lower #value. eg \markup { \column { "line 1" \lower #1 "line 2" } } Play around with the value to get the desired spacing. Nick > -Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.

Re: suggestion: add fingering position "above-string" in FretBoards

2009-02-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/10/09 10:17 AM, "-Eluze" wrote: > > btw i'm surprised how Lilypond plays d-major (xxo123) > It's how I play D, and since I'm the author, I'm the expert! Actually, I've looked in multiple locations, and they're split about 50-50 between 123 and 132. If you use "classical" hand positio

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread Tao Cumplido
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:17 -0500 > Von: David Raleigh Arnold > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least) > Quick recognition is the whole purpose of chord names of this type. True. > C/e is much better than C/E, fo

Re: unable to run

2009-02-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
From your log file, it seems that you have installed Cygwin, but not LilyPond. Nowadays, there's no reason to install Cygwin, to use LilyPond. Instead, use the Windows installation package available at www.lilypond.org -> Downloads. Once you have done the installation, don't forget to read the Tut

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.): In sheet music convention there is no difference whatever between Cdim and Cdim7. Many people like you and I like to include the 7 to be unambiguous, but nothing can be done about Cdim except to write it as Cm(b5) if the triad is desired. Though its usage is hardly widespr

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 09 February 2009, Tao Cumplido wrote: > Yes, that's true. > > Actually I prefer myself to write D#°7 for full diminished chords. > For some people it seems illogical though that D#ø should automatically represent a seventh-chord and D#° shouldn't. > > I just wanted to point out that th

unable to run

2009-02-10 Thread w...@actiefoto
beste ik heb alle stappen zo goed mogelijk opgevolgd. de "de window Package View verschijnt. Selecteer LilyPond, te vinden in de Publishing sectie." krijg ik niet te zien. enige suggestie? vriendelijke groet Wim Leo www.actiefoto.be www.willemdeleeuw.com www.huwelijksfotografie.org setup.l

Re: suggestion: add fingering position "above-string" in FretBoards

2009-02-10 Thread -Eluze
i'm pretty sure i have seen this before, but i couldn't remember where my idea was something like your first proposal, maybe with lowercase letters x and o for mute and open! this results in c => *x32o1o* d => *xxo132* btw i'm surprised how Lilypond plays d-major (xxo123) thanks! Eluze --

re: fedora font-name="xx"

2009-02-10 Thread corallina
Thanks Trevor for the reply. I did find the command to list the available fonts in /usr/share/fonts But the listed names are not what one needs to specify in font-name="xyz" On fedora one needs to inspect the xml files in /etc/fonts/fonts.d The Sazanami Mincho font is thinner and to my eye more

Re: suggestion: add fingering position "above-string" in FretBoards

2009-02-10 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/9/09 3:53 PM, "-Eluze" wrote: > > > could this be considered? > it would not conflict with muted or open strings and imo it is at least as > readable as below-string or in-dot! > thanks! > Eluze Certainly this could be done. It has not been done in the past, because I've never seen a

Re: String number in a \markup

2009-02-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, How can I manipulate the space between lines in a \column? I'd like to reduce the space between the two lines in the below example by about 25%. I didn't see this referenced anywhere in the section on Text in the Notation Reference. 1. Go to the TextScript (i.e., markup) referenc

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2009-02-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Gilles Sadowski writes: > You could use different "\tag"s (e.g. "midi" and "score"). [...] Yes, that is the approach I currently have (except that in this particular case I copied the data instead of defining a variable). All my scores are based on the dynamic LHML templates that I have been tr

Re: String number in a \markup

2009-02-10 Thread David Stocker
How can I manipulate the space between lines in a \column? I'd like to reduce the space between the two lines in the below example by about 25%. I didn't see this referenced anywhere in the section on Text in the Notation Reference. Thanks, Dave David Stocker wrote: Thanks. To elaborate, a

Re: Colliding rests warning

2009-02-10 Thread David Stocker
I can attest to this. I frequently typeset guitar music that has three voices and for the inner voice, using \voiceThree or \voiceFour, I have to specify the vertical position of rests by using g8. \rest or b4 \rest, etc. If I don't, then rests for the inner voices are placed above voiceOne (if

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2009-02-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I have a score with 3 voices, A, B, and C. > Voices B and C have a lot in common. For about half of the score the B > parts is identical to the C part. > > By specifying rests in voice B where it is identical to voice C, and > using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext, LilyPond can eliminate printing

Re: chord symbols as plain text

2009-02-10 Thread M Watts
Tao Cumplido wrote: Hi, in the past I used to create chord symbols as plain text by just placing a Lyrics context above the staff used with an own font. I don't like the way LP handles chordsymbols right now, nor do I like the font it uses. The only thing I was missing in my way was the possib

Re: RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2009-02-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Perhaps the easiest way is to have two \score blocks, one for the printed output and one for the midi output. They can use the same music variables, so little extra typing would be required. Trevor - Original Message - From: "Johan Vromans" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:40

Re: Colliding rests warning

2009-02-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Nick Payne wrote: I couldn't find anything in the documentation. This comment in the rest collision source code might be relevant. TODO: look at horizontal-shift to determine ordering between rests for more than two voices. So maybe you just have to ignore it? Or do something like this

RemoveEmptyStaffContext

2009-02-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I have a score with 3 voices, A, B, and C. Voices B and C have a lot in common. For about half of the score the B parts is identical to the C part. By specifying rests in voice B where it is identical to voice C, and using \RemoveEmptyStaffContext, LilyPond can eliminate printing of voice B.

Re: fedora fc8 and japanese fonts

2009-02-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick The fonts available to LilyPond can't be listed generically as these are determined by the fonts available on individual systems. They are discovered and set up the first time LilyPond is executed. The ones available to LilyPond on your system can be listed in font.out by entering the f