Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread -Eluze
Trevor Daniels wrote: > > If > the path to the file contains spaces you'll need to surround the > full path > with double quotes. > i just found that triple double quotes are needed: convert-ly.py -e """my file.ly""" this works for me in windows vista maybe it should be added in the docs:

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:36:05PM +0200, John Mandereau wrote: > Le jeudi 25 juin 2009 à 03:50 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > > Good points about -devel and bug-. IMO if we don't advertize > > info-lilypond, we should junk that list. :) > > I guess the email medium is preferred, or at least

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:46:04AM -0500, David R. Linn wrote: > >> Good points about -devel and bug-. IMO if we don't advertize > >> info-lilypond, we should junk that list. :) > > Or for the people who happily use email and do *not* use RSS, > we could continue to make announcements by the wor

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Jay Hamilton
Carl- Really clear instructions and finally I got it to work. whew! Thank you. Jay On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > > > On 6/25/09 2:37 PM, "Jay Hamilton" wrote: > > > A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have copy and > pasted > > both Mats sugges

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:11:29PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op donderdag 25-06-2009 om 03:50 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham > Percival: > > > ok, panic resolved: > > Oh, you are using a good bit of content literally from the old > site, right? Would there be a way to be easy on th

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:56:21PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > All though I don't think 'contact' is a good header for the mailinglist > and stuff. Contact does me think about an person of companies address to > contact with. > > 'support' or 'community support' maybe? The absolutely-gua

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 2:37 PM, "Jay Hamilton" wrote: > A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have copy and pasted > both Mats suggestions and now Simon's . > Mats has never worked. Yes the version info is in the file. No it did not > work. > Simon's suggestion, I renamed the file wit

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Trevor Daniels wrote: Jay If you enter the name into Run the name of the program is "convert-ly.py". Are you missing the ".py"? But both convert-ly and convert-ly.py should work in a Command Prompt window. At least they do here (Windows Vista). This is better than Run as the window stays open

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jay If you enter the name into Run the name of the program is "convert-ly.py". Are you missing the ".py"? But both convert-ly and convert-ly.py should work in a Command Prompt window. At least they do here (Windows Vista). This is better than Run as the window stays open so you can read t

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
as per mats suggestion, change directory to where your .ly file is located e.g. On my machine just typing "convert-ly" and hit enter brings up usage instructions. If that does not work for you, try specifying everything explicitely "c:\program files\lilypond\usr\bin\convert-ly.py" -e mytemplate.l

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-25 Thread Jay Hamilton
A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have copy and pasted both Mats suggestions and now Simon's . Mats has never worked. Yes the version info is in the file. No it did not work. Simon's suggestion, I renamed the file without the space and in fact after that copy/pasted his

combine 2 orchestral voices

2009-06-25 Thread grisu_76
Hello to all! I've got a problem which does not work properly with \partcombine as for the following reasons: Guess an orchestral score with 2 Oboe voices (or Horns, Trumpets, Flutes etc. - all the same); 1.) they should be combined into a single staff 2.) the dynamics of the single voice

Re: new website: draft 2.1, panic over "community"

2009-06-25 Thread Tim McNamara
"Introduction" and "About" seem like they overlap to me. Can they be combined? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 79, Issue 104

2009-06-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Lilypond - Keep up with tradition - Engrave like the masters > > LilyPond -- Masterful Music Engraving > > LilyPond -- Your personal master engraver Mhmm, I prefer something more neutral. The GNU way is the understatement... Werner ___ lil

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 79, Issue 104

2009-06-25 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 6/25/09 8:37 AM, "Hajo Dezelski" wrote: >> Possibly we should also think of >> - a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" >> is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." >> possibly something vaguely like: > ... >> Jan. > > > Lilypond - Keep

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 25 juin 2009 à 03:50 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > Good points about -devel and bug-. IMO if we don't advertize > info-lilypond, we should junk that list. :) I guess the email medium is preferred, or at least more used, by some people than RSS, and this puts very little overhead on

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread David R. Linn
>> Good points about -devel and bug-. IMO if we don't advertize >> info-lilypond, we should junk that list. :) >> ... I'm not arguing that we /shouldn't/ get rid of info. The >> current webpage supports RSS, so if we dump the news items into >> RSS, then people could get their instant notificati

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 79, Issue 104

2009-06-25 Thread Hajo Dezelski
> Possibly we should also think of > - a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" > is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." > possibly something vaguely like: ... > Jan. Lilypond - Keep up with tradition - Engrave like the masters Hajo --- ...

Re: Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 15:02, Valentin Villenave wrote: A while back, I had made a vectorized logo (the flower was not great, and I had added a character on top of it). But is anyone wants to start from the svg source, here it is: http://valentin.villenave.info/lilypond/sketchbook/lilypond.svg I t

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Well, if translators used some translator tools like http://www.omegat.org/ they would automatically recognize already translated texts. Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op donderdag 25-06-2009 om 03:50 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: ok, panic resolved: Oh, you are using a

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 25-06-2009 om 03:50 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > ok, panic resolved: Oh, you are using a good bit of content literally from the old site, right? Would there be a way to be easy on the translators by keeping some kind of @comment tag where the original text came f

Re: Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/25 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Here's the flower snipped from double-lily, can we use that? That's more or less what I use as a favicon for lilynet.net :) A while back, I had made a vectorized logo (the flower was not great, and I had added a character on top of it). But is anyone wants to start

Re: Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 25-06-2009 om 03:26 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > Patrick: if you want to find (or create) a small lilypond icon to > use instead of "home", that'd be great. If you want to increase > the size of the top bar to accommodate such an icon, that's fine > with me. Here

Re: Unicode chars in scheme?

2009-06-25 Thread Tao Cumplido
> Nice work! Here's one way to simplify it. > - Mark > > (define super-ref > (list > (cons #\A "Ø") > )) > > (define (char->special x) > (assoc-ref super-ref x)) > > (define (super-string str) > (let ((new "")) > (string-for-each > (lambda (x) (set! new (string-append new (

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-25 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/6/25 Mats Bengtsson : > I cannot really recall having seen "About" as a main link on any other > product web page > (it's rather used in Help menus of different programs if you want to check > what version you > have installed). So, it's probably not so obvious for most readers what to > expec

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 14:04, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I like the suggestion LilyPond - Free music notation Thanks. Though I though though of it as "Free music notation!" also implying that music notation ought to be freed (since other music notation isn't free) :-). But it is just an input - u

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> How about: > LilyPond - You're free to compose. > LilyPond - Notation unleashed. I like the suggestion LilyPond - Free music notation Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Graham Percival wrote: ok, panic resolved: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html Nice. All though I don't think 'contact' is a good header for the mailinglist and stuff. Contact does me think about an person of companies address to contact with. 'support' or 'c

new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
ok, panic resolved: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:20:40AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Yes, 5 or six maximum, I think. What if you prioritize and see > what falls off? Mao. I forgot the most important rule of design: perfection i

Re: Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0200, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > one of the points I miss is a constant visual reminder of the place > where I am. So why dont you put the Lily as an icon on the left side > of the menu-bar at the top. This could also be used as a replacement > for the home button.

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Polesky
interesting... this is one of only 5 screenshots for GIMP. Nice picture. http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/windows_crop.jpg - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Website: Icon as Reminder and Link

2009-06-25 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, one of the points I miss is a constant visual reminder of the place where I am. So why dont you put the Lily as an icon on the left side of the menu-bar at the top. This could also be used as a replacement for the home button. Flowing Text - I would work with a maximum constant text width,

Re: Problem with header/copyright in new 2.12 version

2009-06-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Much better is to change directory to the folder where the file is placed: cd Documents and Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton and run convert-ly -e template.ly This has always worked for me on Windows, even when I have had spaces in the directory path. /Mats Simon Dahlbacka wrote: On Thu

Re: new website: draft 2.1, panic over "community"

2009-06-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 25-06-2009 om 01:53 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > I'm stuck. > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > The "community" was buried in About->community, which was too hard > to find. However, when I promote it to a top-level chapter, that

Re: Problem with header/copyright in new 2.12 version

2009-06-25 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Jay Hamilton wrote: > Unfortunately, I have never been able to get convert-ly to work. It's > mostly my computer ignorance. My files don't seem to be in simple places > and I never get the parameters correct. > so I have the file in C:\Documents and Settings\Fryb

Re: new website: draft 2.1, panic over "community"

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Some tips: - Have a banner above the menu, that links to the Home. - The About need not to be in the menu, just link it from the Documentation. - The Development should not have its own menu, could be part of Community Graham Percival wrote: I'm stuck. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/li

new website: draft 2.1, panic over "community"

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
I'm stuck. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html The "community" was buried in About->community, which was too hard to find. However, when I promote it to a top-level chapter, that gives us seven chapters. This feels like too much. And more to the point, I need to reduc

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:17:06AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: I think I miss a tab 'support' or something with a quick link to mailinglists/forums/IRC. Especially the mailinglist is a important resource which should be easily found by ne

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
The video demo could add: "Don't worry, you can see here that is not so difficult". When I started, I was encouraged by the demos provided by LilypondTool website: http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/demo.html Yes, that was one of the main purposes of them. Actually for the crash course, we could

Re: new website: initial comments

2009-06-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:17:06AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: I think I miss a tab 'support' or something with a quick link to mailinglists/forums/IRC. Especially the mailinglist is a important resource which should be easily found by newbies imo. Hmm.

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
The first version only has stable links, but the box looked a bit too small. Also, other open-source projects proudly display their development version numbers... even though we don't want innocent users trying out devel versions (we prefer corrupted users for that :), I think it's still nice to h

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
- Why include the unstable version on the homepage? - I would organize it as "Latest version: 2.12.3" in the head block of the download box, and just have a "Download" and a "Download manuals" as the links. (Actually while LilyPond has documentation, people like manuals more, and thanks to GDP,

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Polesky
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Possibly we should also think of >- a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" > is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." > possibly something vaguely like: > beautiful scores, share the experience. > "f

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Tim McNamara wrote: As a recent newbie, please allow me to offer a little feedback on this: the crash course is overwhelming. IMHO the newbie crashes into the bottom the the abrupt and nearly vertical learning curve presented there. I tried it back in the 2.10 days and didn't come back to t

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:31, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - some attractive pictures. we tried with monet's lilies, and while appropriate, ... This link gave about 125000 pictures: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Nymphaea&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq= This link has some nice pic

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:31:31AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op woensdag 24-06-2009 om 14:15 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham > Percival: > > > Here you go: > > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > This is just Great. > > I feel simple improvements could

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:31, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - a better slogan? it seems to me that "Sibelius 6 - Perfect scores" is more attractive than "music notation for everyone." possibly something vaguely like: beautiful scores, share the experience. "for everyone" seems tha

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 25 Jun 2009, at 01:30, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I think it'd be nice to see a link to the crash course on the Documentation page as well, inside the "Introduction" box. Maybe even a parenthetical (brand new users should see the "crash course" as well) or something along those lines. One mi

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Aberg
On 24 Jun 2009, at 23:15, Graham Percival wrote: Here you go: http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html I think the LilyPond logo should be to the left, tne reason being that one reads LTR. Big sites do that, for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/ http://edition.cnn.com

Re: new website: second draft

2009-06-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op woensdag 24-06-2009 om 14:15 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > Here you go: > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html This is just Great. I feel simple improvements could be - add margins, esp horizontal ones - even less colours, stick to one? basic