Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Chip wrote: The most recent attempt to load the web page docs - http:// lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page - throws up this error message - Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an inva

Re: Ossia in String Quartet

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
You need to name the Staff that ViolineEins is on. ViolineEins = \new Staff = ViolineEins \new Voice \relative c' {music} El 25.02.2009, a las 23:28, grisu_76 escribió: Dear James, my score is set up in the following way (see below): the first is a file called "piece.ly", there I write th

Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Well, the basic (i.e., for people who understand emacs) instructions are in the Application Usage, under Text Editor Support. El 26.02.2009, a las 02:44, Ralph Palmer escribió: Hi - I'm an intermediate lilyponder and a novice penguinista. I have Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) mounted on an ol

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
The most recent attempt to load the web page docs - http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page - throws up this error message - Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. The page

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
Chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:37:22PM -0700, Chip wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page Doesn't load correctly, sometimes not at all. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/LilyPond-index#LilyPond-index

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:37:22PM -0700, Chip wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page Doesn't load correctly, sometimes not at all. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/LilyPond-index#LilyPond-index also does no

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:37:22PM -0700, Chip wrote: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page > > Doesn't load correctly, sometimes not at all. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/LilyPond-index#LilyPond-index > > also does not load correctly.

Re: NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page Doesn't load correctly, sometimes not at all. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/LilyPond-index#LilyPond-index also does not load correctly. -- Chip They loaded o.k. for me just now. Ar

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: Jonathan Kulp wrote: Chip wrote: In 6/8 time, as mentioned in the subject so no inferring necessary, I want triplet quarter notes, 3 quarters over 2 counts, per bar. A total of 6 quarter notes, triplets, in two bars. What is wrong with coding it the way I have it? In 6/8 time

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Chip wrote: In 6/8 time, as mentioned in the subject so no inferring necessary, I want triplet quarter notes, 3 quarters over 2 counts, per bar. A total of 6 quarter notes, triplets, in two bars. What is wrong with coding it the way I have it? In 6/8 time if you have t

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Chip wrote: In 6/8 time, as mentioned in the subject so no inferring necessary, I want triplet quarter notes, 3 quarters over 2 counts, per bar. A total of 6 quarter notes, triplets, in two bars. What is wrong with coding it the way I have it? In 6/8 time if you have three quarters they fit

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
In 6/8 time, as mentioned in the subject so no inferring necessary, I want triplet quarter notes, 3 quarters over 2 counts, per bar. A total of 6 quarter notes, triplets, in two bars. What is wrong with coding it the way I have it? -- Chip Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Chip, In the following c

NR one big page is messed up

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page Doesn't load correctly, sometimes not at all. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/LilyPond-index#LilyPond-index also does not load correctly. -- Chip ___ lilyp

Re: "Orphaned pages"

2009-02-25 Thread Neil Thornock
> Is there some reason that you don't use > \paper { > ragged-last-bottom = ##f > } > ? Yes... I've found that often the final page in such a score gets cheated in the number of systems assigned to it. So I may have 5 systems on all my other pages and only 3 on the last page. That's what I reme

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Kees van den Doel
Thanks that works except I'm in 2/4, but I can disable the stem easily. Kees - Original Message - From: Robin Bannister Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:26 pm Subject: Re: Writing text in a measure To: Kees van den Doel , Gilles Sadowski Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Kees van den Doel

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
In 6/8 time, as mentioned in the subject so no inferring necessary, I want triplet quarter notes, 3 quarters over 2 counts, per bar. A total of 6 quarter notes, triplets, in two bars. What is wrong with coding it the way I have it? -- Chip Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Chip, In the following c

Re: 6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Chip, In the following code the triplets do not work properly 1. If you are going to post code, post everything needed to make it compile correctly — in this case, you omitted the time signature (6/8, I'm inferring) and the \include "english.ly". there are two measures of quarter not

6/8 time triplets problem

2009-02-25 Thread Chip
In the following code the triplets do not work properly - there are two measures of quarter note triplets followed by a dotted half note - they all end up in one measure together. === { \partial 8*1 e8-. e4 d8 c4 d8 e4 e8-. r r e e4 d8 c4 d8 e4 e8 r r fs g4 fs8 g4 e8

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-25 Thread David Stocker
Thanks Shamus, this is great. Incidentally, if you store a copy of "pop-chords.ly" in your lilypond's usr/share/lilypond/current/ly folder (or somewhere else in LilyPond's path) you can call it using \include just like the language-settings files (i.e. without having to put a copy of it in you

Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread David Stocker
Forgot to mention, the Emacs I installed from the repos was the GTK flavor of Emacs 22. Not sure whether it makes a difference. As far as Emacs vs. gEdit or something else, Emacs is a little more 'programmerish', with keystrokes that take some getting used to (c-x c-s instead of ctr-s for save

Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread David Stocker
Hi Ralph, The lilypond-mode worked 'out of the box' for me when after opening a .ly file with emacs or saving whatever file I was working on with a .ly extension. At least this was true on Ubuntu 8.04 and Emacs 22 from the Ubuntu repositories. Did you install Emacs from the repositories? If yo

LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread Ralph Palmer
Hi - I'm an intermediate lilyponder and a novice penguinista. I have Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) mounted on an older laptop. I successfully removed the LilyPond version that came with the Ubuntu package, and installed 2.12 (although I thought the documentation would come with the installation pack

Re: Color of notes depending on accidentals

2009-02-25 Thread Kees van den Doel
In the learning material under "advanced tweaks with Scheme" it shows how to do that. Kees - Original Message - From: M Watts Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:03 pm Subject: Re: Color of notes depending on accidentals To: cuco Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > cuco wrote: > > Is there is

Re: Color of notes depending on accidentals

2009-02-25 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Is there is a way to authomatically color notes that are e.g. sharp? This function colories in red all "sharped" notes : %%% #(define (is-sharped? note) (let ((p (ly:music-property note 'pitch))) (and (ly:pitch? p) (equal? (ly:pitch-alteration p) SHARP colo

Re: tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 2/25/09 4:29 PM, "Glen Hein" wrote: > > > Ah ha!! The trick to getting the images to discard the whitespace > is to set the tagline to "" in the header. I fixed the rendering on my test > page. My next hurdle is to get scores with multiple output pages to work. > > One thing I had to do

Naming output files

2009-02-25 Thread aabb
I'm using multiple \book{} blocks to create multiple output files from the same source (to create versions transposed in different keys). By default the second and subsequent books are named by adding suffix "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. to the file name. For example, with source file "song.ly" I woul

Re: tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Glen Hein
Ah ha!! The trick to getting the images to discard the whitespace is to set the tagline to "" in the header. I fixed the rendering on my test page. My next hurdle is to get scores with multiple output pages to work. One thing I had to do was tweak the code that came from MediaWiki. It concerns th

Re: tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Glen Hein
I figured out one thing so far. For a lilypond fragment, an extra space between the last note and the end-tag causes the extra whitespace to be removed. Take a look at: http://www.arizonacoppersoft.com/wiki/index.php/Lilypond_Examples Now, I need to figure out how to do the same to images create

Re: Ossia in String Quartet

2009-02-25 Thread grisu_76
Dear James, my score is set up in the following way (see below): the first is a file called "piece.ly", there I write the piece; if I compile the file "score.ly" (see below), the ossia stands below the cello-line, not above the violin1. regards, Christian %%file "piece.

Re: Color of notes depending on accidentals

2009-02-25 Thread M Watts
cuco wrote: Is there is a way to authomatically color notes that are e.g. sharp? You'd need a function that says: If note name ends in "is", do \override NoteHead #'color = #red, but I don't actually know to do this :eek: ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Kees van den Doel wrote. on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug? It seems to me that LSR 258 is demonstrating only whiteout. It is not demonstrating how to deal with the concomitant horizontal layout problems, because it cheats here: - uses ragged-right = ##f (with only on

Re: "Orphaned pages"

2009-02-25 Thread Joe Neeman
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:01 -0700, Neil Thornock wrote: > I always include a dummy score after my main score, something as simple as: > > \score { \mypiecehere } > \pageBreak > {c1} > > It forces the spacing routine to spread systems evenly across all pages. > Good luck! Is there some reason tha

re:Frescobaldi 0.7.6 released

2009-02-25 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Wilbert, many thanks for Your fine Lilypond-editor Frescobaldi! It looks fine and is a very convenient tool to work with lilypond. I'm only missing a feature, that can change pitches enharmonically, e.g. convert a cis to des. Is it possible to write a plugin for this? ___

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-25 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Chris, thanks very much for Your help! I successfully installed Frescobaldi! 2009/2/24, Chris Snyder : > Stefan Thomas wrote: >> I tried to install Frescobaldi from source. >> But I get the following error message: >> The C++ compiler "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" is not able to compile a >>

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Kees van den Doel
> > I need something like > > > > music .. |s-\markup {"Play loud random notes, then burn your > instrument (30s) "}| more notes... > > This seems to work for me (see attached files). If I run your test2.ly on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug? Kees c.pdf Description:

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Shamus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grammostola Rosea wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Hi, How do I make ch

Re: dynamics below lyrics ?

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
El 25.02.2009, a las 17:43, David Stocker escribió: Neil Thornock wrote: Well, first off, lyrics in vocal music always go above the staff. Did you mean to say that /dynamics/ in vocal music should go above the staff? I imagine so, but in a staff where there are lyrics above and below t

Re: Ossia in String Quartet

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
El 25.02.2009, a las 19:01, grisu_76 escribió: Hello to all! I have got a problem with the addition of an ossia in a string quartet; I work with the file structure explained in the snippets manual (p. 230 f). All works out very well - all parts are printed out properly, but if I want t

Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

2009-02-25 Thread Shamus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> >>> Tim McNamara wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Hi, > > How do I make chords with t

lilypond 2.12

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Blackstock
kudos on the new release - it's awesome. Mike ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

WikiLily

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Blackstock
No, it's not dead. We closed our office in a hurry - my employer 'flew the coup' as they say. I expect to have WikiLily back up and running before summer. Been studying the mediawiki hooks stuff and all that and working on a javascript gui for beginners - they can deposit notes right on the staff a

Re: partial measure with independent time signatures

2009-02-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The reason for your problems is that the command \partial 8 is equivalent to \set Score.measurePosition = #(ly:make-moment -1 8) which does the setting on the Score level. The solution is to make the corresponding setting in the "Timing" context (which is just an alias for the context where the

Ossia in String Quartet

2009-02-25 Thread grisu_76
Hello to all! I have got a problem with the addition of an ossia in a string quartet; I work with the file structure explained in the snippets manual (p.230 f). All works out very well - all parts are printed out properly, but if I want to add an ossia in the viola-part in the score.ly, the exam

partial measure with independent time signatures

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
Hello all, Why isn't the \partial working in the code below? I get: /Users/pvk/tmp/polymeter.ly:20:3: warning: barcheck failed at: -1/8 d8 | d4 f8 a /Users/pvk/tmp/polymeter.ly:25:4: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/4 a,4 | d4. e8 f4 g If I include only one of the staves, everything is ok.

Re: Editorial Annotation

2009-02-25 Thread grisu_76
Hi James, thanks for reply, you're right, without the center-align, it works; - as for I am a newbee, I copied these lines form the notation reference manual (I adapted the esample form the parenthesised dynamics). regards, christian James E. Bailey-3 wrote: > > > El 24.02.2009, a las 1

Re: dynamics below lyrics ?

2009-02-25 Thread David Stocker
Neil Thornock wrote: Well, first off, lyrics in vocal music always go above the staff. Did you mean to say that /dynamics/ in vocal music should go above the staff? Dave ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/ma

Re: dynamics below lyrics ?

2009-02-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
By default, the dynamics is handled as part of the corresponding Staff. One solution is to use the "Dynamics" context type defined in the template for "Piano centered dynamics" at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Piano-templates#Piano-templates (just copy the fu

Re: dynamics below lyrics ?

2009-02-25 Thread Neil Thornock
Well, first off, lyrics in vocal music always go above the staff. But to do what you want, if I understand correctly, you must create a new context just for dynamics to put below the lyrics. The piano-centered dynamics might help. However, I recently did something similar by attaching all dynami

Re: "Orphaned pages"

2009-02-25 Thread Neil Thornock
I always include a dummy score after my main score, something as simple as: \score { \mypiecehere } \pageBreak {c1} It forces the spacing routine to spread systems evenly across all pages. Good luck! On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Bobroff wrote: > Håvar Skaugen wrote: >> >> Hello >> >>

Re: tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, no you haven't goofed up the code. I have the same problems. I worked with some tricks combining the different melodies in one score, but couldn't solve the problem. Help would be welcome. Hajo ... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:14 PM, wrote: > t

Re: "Orphaned pages"

2009-02-25 Thread David Bobroff
Håvar Skaugen wrote: Hello Thanks for developing lilypond. I have begun to typeset all my music with lilypond and I'm very content with the results. However, there's one feature I'm missing: Is it possible to make lilypond avoid orphaned pages; pages that have only one staff or system. Thes

dynamics below lyrics ?

2009-02-25 Thread François Labadens
I would have to put the dynamics below the lyrics... How can I do that ? Automatically, the order is: Dynamics, then Lyrics... ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Editorial Annotation

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
El 24.02.2009, a las 16:17, grisu_76 escribió: Hello everyone! I am searching for a possibility to put a trill-sign as an editorial annotation within parentheses, i.e. (tr) I used the following expression: roundTr = \markup {\center-align \concat { \bold { ( } \musicglyph #"scripts.trill" \

Color of notes depending on accidentals

2009-02-25 Thread cuco
Is there is a way to authomatically color notes that are e.g. sharp? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Color-of-notes-depending-on-accidentals-tp22199560p22199560.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

programming error: cannot align on self: empty element

2009-02-25 Thread melkiy
Hello. I write choir scores with 4 voices on 3 staffs. Under the staffs i write lyrics but not all the time: sometimes the lyrics is the same for two staffs, and i want to leave the words between 2 staffs. That is i want the lyrics to be under the 1st staff and not to be under the 2nd one somewhe

"Orphaned pages"

2009-02-25 Thread Håvar Skaugen
Hello Thanks for developing lilypond. I have begun to typeset all my music with lilypond and I'm very content with the results. However, there's one feature I'm missing: Is it possible to make lilypond avoid orphaned pages; pages that have only one staff or system. These orphaned pages of

Editorial Annotation

2009-02-25 Thread grisu_76
Hello everyone! I am searching for a possibility to put a trill-sign as an editorial annotation within parentheses, i.e. (tr) I used the following expression: roundTr = \markup {\center-align \concat { \bold { ( } \musicglyph #"scripts.trill" \bold { ) } } } but when I'm using it in the code a

tweaking lilypond and mediawiki

2009-02-25 Thread Glen Hein
Hello, I got LilyPond working in a mediawiki page using the lilypond mediawiki extension. Although, I had to tweak the extension code and I may have goofed something up. All of time images being rendered from the and elements have a lot of whitespace. I'm using that lilypond is rendering to an

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Snyder
Till wrote: > Wow, this looks great, I tried also to compile some time ago but was not > willing to install all the compiling stuff for kde, since I have gnome. But > some kde4 libraries I can afford. Did you include all the correct > dependences? I will try it in the near future. > Thanks > Fun bt

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
El 25.02.2009, a las 14:56, Gilles Sadowski escribió: This seems to work for me (see attached files). But don't you need an \instrumentSwitch command near the end? I never used this command. How is it related to what the first poster asked? well, after playing random notes for 30 seconds

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
>> This seems to work for me (see attached files). > > But don't you need an \instrumentSwitch command near the end? I never used this command. How is it related to what the first poster asked? Best, Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread M Watts
Kees van den Doel wrote: I'm trying to write text in an otherwise empty measure (some special performance instructions). not above it or below, but in it. How can I do that? There is a snippet doing something like that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 but when I apply it my text overwr

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Bannister
Gilles Sadowski wrote: This seems to work for me (see attached files). But don't you need an \instrumentSwitch command near the end? Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-u

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I need something like > > music .. |s-\markup {"Play loud random notes, then burn your instrument (30s) > "}| more notes... This seems to work for me (see attached files). Best, Gilles \version "2.10.10" mm = \relative c'' { a4 b c d | s4-\markup {"Play loud random notes, then burn

Re: \score inside define-markup-command

2009-02-25 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Nicolas, many thanks for that hint! Using make-score was the point. But also very nice you showed me how to deal with layout settings in such a "scheme score". Michael ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: Writing text in a measure

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
El 25.02.2009, a las 05:18, Kees van den Doel escribió: I'm trying to write text in an otherwise empty measure (some special performance instructions). not above it or below, but in it. How can I do that? There is a snippet doing something like that http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258

Re: Stanza number before each line of a verse?

2009-02-25 Thread James E. Bailey
Last time I asked, this is what mats said: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00255.html El 25.02.2009, a las 05:24, Tom escribió: I want to put the Stanza number before every line of verse in a longer hymn, but cannot get the hint here to work: http://www.geoffhorton

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-25 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:06:20AM -0800, Till wrote: > Fun btw that lilypond is still considered to be "TeX"... I reported this as a bug to Debian a few years back, but the maintainer didn't seem overly interested in reclassifying. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335828 --

Re: problem with installing frescobaldi

2009-02-25 Thread Till
Chris Snyder-5 wrote: > > Alternatively, I've been working on setting up an Ubuntu PPA (personal > package archive) that contains Frescobaldi. While I have been told that > Frescobaldi will likely be included in Ubuntu Jaunty, I'm planning to > always have the most recent version available in t