Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for > headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't > figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table > of contents that Lilypond cr

Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 5:38 PM, "Nick Payne" wrote: > I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for > headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't > figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table > of contents that Lilypond cr

table of contents page numbers are all question marks

2009-04-25 Thread Chip
In using the sample code from NR 3.2.4 Table Of Contents I get all my page numbers as question marks. Even the example shows all the page numbers are page 1. There is no info on how to get the page numbers to increment, or how to manually insert the page numbers. (I did search the archives and

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 3:38 PM, "-Eluze" wrote: > > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved >> under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. >> >> The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by Dynamic_engraver, >> New_dynamic

Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Nick, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for > headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't > figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table > of contents

Changing font of "Table of Contents"

2009-04-25 Thread Nick Payne
I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I haven't figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the table of contents that Lilypond creates. Each tocItem has the font I want by using \ove

RE: Fingering font size on grace notes

2009-04-25 Thread Nick Payne
This reduction seems about right to me, comparing the sizes on the normal and grace notes: \version "2.12.2" gfsn = { \once \override Fingering #'font-size = #-8 \once \override StringNumber #'font-size = #-8 \once \override Fingering #'padding = #0.2 \once \over

RE: Bug on markups migrating from 2.10 to 2.12

2009-04-25 Thread Nick Payne
For guitar scores you might like these as well. Very similar functions for harmonics and string number indications over multiple notes. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Kulp [mailto:jonlancek...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 21:47 > To: Nick Payne > Cc: 'Allan Spagn

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread -Eluze
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > You use the Internals Reference. You find the object you want engraved > under 3.1 All layout objects: 3.1.111 TextSpanner. > > The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by Dynamic_engraver, > New_dynamic_engraver, and Text_spanner_engraver. > > So then you

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 2:36 PM, "Pekka Siponen" wrote: > Indeed it (suffix position) is a personal preference, and not correct > most likely. I find that there is no standard for chord names, they have > been around only for a short time historically, and mostly everything is > based on personal preferenc

Re: crankiness

2009-04-25 Thread Gerard McConnell
Having worked on the docs for 4 years and approximately three thousand hours, you really don't need to convince me. Just convince others -- and perhaps yourself -- that it's worth getting involved. My work at this point is a meta-contributor: I contribute (teach) people how to contribute to lily

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Pekka Siponen
Indeed it (suffix position) is a personal preference, and not correct most likely. I find that there is no standard for chord names, they have been around only for a short time historically, and mostly everything is based on personal preferences.. as are all traditions when you go back far enou

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Looks great, Marc! *Very* nicely done. On 4/25/09 4:06 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Hello tablature users*, > > > 3) some more tunings are defined: >guitar-seven-string-tuning >guitar-drop-d-tuning >bass-four-string-tuning >bass-drop-d-tuning >bass-five-string-tuning >ba

Re: New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 12:52 PM, "Pekka Siponen" wrote: > Here are some thoughts about the default chords in LilyPond: > > 1. The suffixes should not be scaled (see attachment). The weight of the > smaller character gets too light if it is simply scaled down from the > original font. Thanks for making a

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 1:31 PM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly > facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the > docs, the LSR editor must be mindful of the fact that editing such > examples in LSR may have no effect, since

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/25 Neil Puttock : > Perhaps the point I was trying to make got lost in my slightly > facetious reply: if we're talking about LSR snippets which are in the > docs, the LSR editor must be mindful of the fact that editing such > examples in LSR may have no effect, since they can be shadowed by

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/25 Graham Percival : > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:56AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: >> >> > 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp : >> >> Graham Percival wrote: >> >> >> >>> 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; >> >>> this i

New fonts for chords

2009-04-25 Thread Pekka Siponen
Here are some thoughts about the default chords in LilyPond: 1. The suffixes should not be scaled (see attachment). The weight of the smaller character gets too light if it is simply scaled down from the original font. 2. The suffix should be top-aligned with the preceding characted. 3. The sharp

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:56AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > > > 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp : > >> Graham Percival wrote: > >> > >>> 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; > >>> this isn't your fault) > >>> > >>> 2.  F

Re: crankiness

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0100, Gerard McConnell wrote: > "The current person responsible for LSR also happens to be the most > active patch-reviewer. Do you *really* want me to ask him to stop > working on patches (i.e. new features, bug fixes, etc) and waste > his time playing web-2.0

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/25/09 9:37 AM, "Neil Puttock" wrote: > 2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp : >> Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; >>> this isn't your fault) >>> >>> 2.  Find the "tags" section for each snippet. >>> >>> 3.  Click on the drop-down menus,

crankiness

2009-04-25 Thread Gerard McConnell
I've been looking at the Re: date in footer thread; I can understand how the experts get annoyed. They're doing lots of volunteer work to develop what is a really beautiful (but horrendously difficult to learn) program, and figure that the rest of us should be doing our bit to sort out the doc

Re: Error in tweak parameter doesn't generate error message

2009-04-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I eventually noticed that I had accidentally typed >> >> -\tweak #'extra-ofset >> >> instead of >> >> -\tweak #'extra-offset >> >> but this did not generate any warning. Looks like this is a general >> thing with \tweak, as I tried changing \tweak #'color to \tweak >> #'colon and got no warning

Re: date in footer?

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/23 Jonathan Kulp : > Graham Percival wrote: > >> 1.  Log in to LSR as an editor.  (I remember the discussion now; >> this isn't your fault) >> >> 2.  Find the "tags" section for each snippet. >> >> 3.  Click on the drop-down menus, and select the relevant tags. >> >> 4.  There is no #4. > >

Re: TextSpanner at Score level?

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/22 Carl Sorensen : > The IR tells you that TextSpanners are created by Dynamic_engraver, > New_dynamic_engraver, and Text_spanner_engraver. Hmm, it just goes to show that you can't always rely on what the IR says: only the Text_spanner_engraver creates them. :) I'll remove the bogus entri

Re: Error in tweak parameter doesn't generate error message

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/23 Nick Payne : > I was trying to move a TextSpanner with \tweak and couldn't figure out why > it wouldn't move. I eventually noticed that I had accidentally typed > > -\tweak #'extra-ofset > > instead of > > -\tweak #'extra-offset > > but this did not generate any warning. Looks like this i

Re: Fingering font size on grace notes

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/4/21 Nick Payne : > Fingering indications on grace notes doesn't shrink to be proportional to > the reduced size of the grace note, and the full size indication looks > excessively large alongside the note. It's easy enough to override - using > \override Fingering #'font-size = #-8 seems abou

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Marc Hohl
Jonathan Kulp schrieb: Jonathan Kulp wrote: octave. I think there were only two examples in tablature.ly that didn't use the "treble_8" clef for guitar. All the other clefs (including the "bass_8" for bass guitar) were correct. Sorry I meant to say in "tablature-test1.ly" Jon Yes, you are r

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: octave. I think there were only two examples in tablature.ly that didn't use the "treble_8" clef for guitar. All the other clefs (including the "bass_8" for bass guitar) were correct. Sorry I meant to say in "tablature-test1.ly" Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathanku

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Marc Hohl wrote: Hello tablature users*, after some days of struggling with lilypond's internals, I have created a file tablature.ly Wow, I am very happy about this! I'm gonna test it for sure. Thanks Marc and Carl! @David could you make some progress with the be

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:31:14PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:13 AM > >> Eh?!?! You want to tell people to put articulation and dynamic >> marks after the duration, before they've been told how to do >> articulations and dynamics? Remember t

Re: Rotating TextSpanner

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Nick, With that as a model I was able to generalize it to a music function Nice! +1. That's a very cool piece of code! Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gn

Re: Bug on markups migrating from 2.10 to 2.12

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Nick Payne wrote: I have attached the barre and half barre functions I use that work with 2.12, and your test.ly modified to use them. Nick Those are nice barre indicators, Nick. Thanks. :) Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com ___ li

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:13 AM On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:41:26AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: Graham Percival wrote: If you have an idea for a gener

Re: Rotating TextSpanner

2009-04-25 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, With that as a model I was able to generalize it to a music function Nice! Even better would be to take the music as a parameter, compute the correct rightY (using the relative position of the endpoints of the first and last stem) and automagically adjust -- that, however, is be

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:06:07PM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: > after some days of struggling with lilypond's internals, I have created > a file tablature.ly Fantastic work! This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping would happen. Not from a tab-specific viewpoint, but from a general "getting

Re: tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Marc Hohl wrote: Hello tablature users*, after some days of struggling with lilypond's internals, I have created a file tablature.ly Wow, I am very happy about this! I'm gonna test it for sure. Thanks Marc and Carl! @David could you make some progress with the bends and stuff? Kind regar

tablature.ly

2009-04-25 Thread Marc Hohl
Hello tablature users*, after some days of struggling with lilypond's internals, I have created a file tablature.ly which supports: 1) two commands to switch between the display style: \tabNumbersOnly shows only the mubers, \tabFullNotation shows up everything (as it is the default in \Ta

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Simon Bailey
trevor, graham, On 25 Apr 2009, at 10:41, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM Hmm. I was initially thinking of 3.1.2, but that subsection (actually, the entire section) is really talking about *macroscopic* style. I mean, it refers back to the definition

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:41:26AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: >>> Graham Percival wrote: If you have an idea for a general clarification that the syntax is "pitch

Re: music expression explanation

2009-04-25 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Friday, April 24, 2009 4:42 PM On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: Graham Percival wrote: If you have an idea for a general clarification that the syntax is "pitch duration other", then I'm all for it. If it's a simple "you need to put the '