Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: > On this page > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course > it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow > media.  What's the criteria?  It fits in 800x600 just fine and these day

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:16 PM, chip wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > -- > - > > |    Contact   | | >    News |  

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Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Tim McNamara wrote: On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so much that it's hard to find the information one i

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Nick Hasser wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > Yo. > > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > There is also an OpenBSD port, which probably should be included on the > Unix list. It is currently at 2.10.33, though. I'm not inc

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 04:33:52PM -0700, chip wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > Hmm... are you trying to say that you prefer two-column pages to > one-column pages? I agree that the two-column pages work quite > well, so perhaps we should make all (or almost all) pages use > this.

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:15:39PM -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: > On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of > /batch/ system. I've never been overly fond of that first sentence; could you suggest a replacement? Cheers, - Graham

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On the Crash Course page you've made me double my understanding of /batch/ system. When we used it years ago we meant as opposed to interactive. You submitted your batch job with job control and all the jobs got ran in batches with all the other jobs that were ready when the operator got arou

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Graham (et al), Much of the site certainly doesn't work for hand held devices. Hmm, that's a problem. Are there any particularly bad pages, or just overall bad? Any suggestions to fix it? At the very least, we should have a media="handheld" stylesheet, in order to host mobile devices

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:09:06PM -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: > On this page > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course > it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for > narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick Horgan
On this page http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_6.html#Crash-course it mentions that help is wanted because an example is too wide for narrow media. What's the criteria? It fits in 800x600 just fine and these day web-developers say that 1024x768 is the new 800x600. Much

Adjusting initial LH barline

2009-06-28 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I'm trying to update Arbeau's Pavane at Mutopia.org. I've got it almost ready, except for two things. The drum part in the original is on a separate staff above the system containing words and tunes. There is *no* connecting line between the main syste

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. I disagree and find that most web pages have too much stuff crammed into them, usually so much that it's hard to find the information one is looking for. I

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51:04AM -0700, chip wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip wrote: I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the Downloads page. Does this mean "not enough cont

Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

2009-06-28 Thread -Eluze
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > >> There already is an example in the manual showing the use of *. >> I think that is probably sufficient. > Yes, but it uses a for ... in ... do syntax that only works in BASH, > there is a similar syntax in batch processing for windows: for %x in (*.ly) DO convert-

lsr item 391: Lyrics above the staff they are assigned to

2009-06-28 Thread James E. Bailey
In the process of answering someone's question, I stumbled across this. It works, but shouldn't alignAboveContext be used to do this instead? I can prepare a minimal snippet and even post it to the lsr. http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=391 James E. Bailey __

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51:04AM -0700, chip wrote: > Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip wrote: > I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on > the > Downloads page. > > Does this mean "not enough content on the page

Re: titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:58:22AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Tom Cloyd wrote: >> "More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” >> in Notation Reference." >> >> That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot >> find it anywhere else. Argh, thi

Re: titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:58:22AM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > Tom Cloyd wrote: >> "More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” >> in Notation Reference." >> >> That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot >> find it anywhere else. > > It's s

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:06:40PM -0500, Trevor Bača wrote: > > Could we change to >   #!/usr/bin/env python > to avoid problems with the script calling old versions of Python on a system > that might have newer versions coinstalled?) That's been a bloody request for the past two years. Fortuna

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Nick Hasser
Graham Percival wrote: > Yo. > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > There is also an OpenBSD port, which probably should be included on the Unix list. It is currently at 2.10.33, though. Nick ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip wrote: - Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment I'm not planning on changing the sections. If you think something's missing, let me know. I think there is obviously far too much white space, also

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Trevor Bača wrote: > Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the > *center* of the parent notehead? Here's something interesting from Michael Lauer from a month ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00573.html - Mark

Re: Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Trevor Bača
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Trevor Bača wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the *center* of the > parent notehead? I engineered a solution to exactly this question in a > thread from September 2006 between me and Markus Schneider ... > >http://lists.gnu

Has centered-on-parent gone away?

2009-06-28 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Does anyone remember how to align markup relative to the *center* of the parent notehead? I engineered a solution to exactly this question in a thread from September 2006 between me and Markus Schneider ... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-09/msg00088.html ... and, in

Re: Looking for Time signature tweak

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/6/27 Reinhold Kainhofer : > Since I haven't found anything in the documentation and in the LSR, I created > a sample snippet and posted it to the LSR: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=609 > > Can this snippet be added to the documentation about time signatures > (currently, the only

Re: piece title on every page but first - how?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Polesky
Tom Cloyd wrote: > Greetings. I've been playing with various ways to get every page > of my score to have the title of my piece, somewhere on the top > of the page. I do NOT want it duplicated on page one, and I > don't want to use the header's instrument field - that would > cause first page dupl

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2009-06-28 um 12:33 schrieb Graham Percival: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:20:44PM +0200, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Oh, I just realized you're using a table for the menu. Please don't use layout tables on new websites any more! Should I provide you with a CSS so that you can use a UL instead? Non

Re: titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Tom Cloyd wrote: Following on my previous email, in the learning manual section 2.5.3 appears this text: "More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” in Notation Reference." That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot find it anywhere else

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:20:44PM +0200, fiëé visuëlle wrote: > Oh, I just realized you're using a table for the menu. > Please don't use layout tables on new websites any more! > Should I provide you with a CSS so that you can use a UL instead? Nonsense. We use with a CSS. Please look a

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2009-06-28 um 10:14 schrieb Patrick McCarty: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip wrote: - Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment I'm not planning on changing the sections. If you think something's missing, let me know. I think there is obviously far too much

titling documentation - additional problem

2009-06-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Following on my previous email, in the learning manual section 2.5.3 appears this text: "More information on titling can be found in Section “Creating titles” in Notation Reference." That section appears not to exist. It's not in the index and I cannot find it anywhere else. Tom => I shou

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:55:34PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > - no, I don't think that "Advertizing" is a good name. > Suggestions are desired. This chapter (or "tab") is aimed at > people who don't know if they want to use lilypond or not. > We stick enticements (and some warnings) in

piece title on every page but first - how?

2009-06-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Greetings. I've been playing with various ways to get every page of my score to have the title of my piece, somewhere on the top of the page. I do NOT want it duplicated on page one, and I don't want to use the header's instrument field - that would cause first page duplication and I do want th

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same >> on the Downloads page. > > Does this mean "not enough content on the page", or "the margins, > padding, etc. are too tall/wide"? If it's the latter, at what > resolution are you viewing the site (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.)?

Re: Looking for Time signature tweak - Thanks to David, Kieren and Reinhold

2009-06-28 Thread Villum Sejersen
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Reinhold, This is essentially what \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit does, except that with the single-digit style the number is automatically extracted from the time signature... Wow... never seen that in the docs before!? Very cool. T

pianoStaff with TimeSig, centered dynamics and centered pedal

2009-06-28 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I want to create a pianoStaff with TimeSig, centered dynamics and centered pedal. My problem is: I would like to have the TimeSignature on the same vertical position as the dynamis. How can I achieve it? Here is the snippet: \version "2.12.1." \layout { % Definiert den Konte

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip wrote: >> >> - Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment >>  I'm not planning on changing the sections.  If you think >>  something's missing, let me know. >> > > I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the > D

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-06-28 Thread chip
Graham Percival wrote: Yo. http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html - no, I don't think that "Advertizing" is a good name. Suggestions are desired. This chapter (or "tab") is aimed at people who don't know if they want to use lilypond or not. We stick enticements (an