Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:19:01AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > I think we should just add a discussion about common errors in LM > > 5.2 (also, make sure you include the highly cryptic error message > > when you forget a } ). > > I just wonder whether this cryptic error message can be improv

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I think we should just add a discussion about common errors in LM > 5.2 (also, make sure you include the highly cryptic error message > when you forget a } ). I just wonder whether this cryptic error message can be improved, for example, by adding a note for the user to check the existence of t

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:55:14AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > There is a section in the Learning Manual, section 5.2 When things don't > work, which I intend to extend to include help about common errors, > obscure error messages or mysterious happenings, like music running off > the edge of

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham, Mats I agree the warning about incomplete bars is hard to find - I tried and couldn't until I searched git, and I wrote it! There is a section in the Learning Manual, section 5.2 When things don't work, which I intend to extend to include help about common errors, obscure error mess

RE: spanner question

2009-07-01 Thread Nick Payne
Here's the function I use for indicating harmonics: %=== == harmonics = #(define-music-function (parser location text osp shorten adjBreak adjEnd) (string? number? pair? number? number?) #{ % osp can

Re: slurs across voices

2009-07-01 Thread Carl Glick
thank you, that solved the problem On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Mark Polesky wrote: > >> Carl Glick wrote: >> >> >>> I am a beginner, and I am having some trouble with >>> slurring across voices. I want to slur >>> ... >>> but whenever I try, it either ignores it or won

Re: slurs across voices

2009-07-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mark Polesky wrote: Carl Glick wrote: I am a beginner, and I am having some trouble with slurring across voices. I want to slur ... but whenever I try, it either ignores it or won't engrave. How can I solve this? You need to explicitly instantiate voices Yes! and give them names. N

Re: slurs across voices

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl Glick wrote: > I am a beginner, and I am having some trouble with > slurring across voices. I want to slur > ... > but whenever I try, it either ignores it or won't > engrave. How can I solve this? You need to explicitly instantiate voices and give them names. Read this: http://lilypond.org/

slurs across voices

2009-07-01 Thread Carl Glick
I am a beginner, and I am having some trouble with slurring across voices. I want to slur << {d16( f d f d f d g d g d g) g( c, g' c, f c) bf'4.} \\% this note {bf,8 bf8. bf16 bf4. a f'16 bf, f' bf, ef bf} >> 4.

ANN: Frescobaldi 0.7.12

2009-07-01 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, A new release of Frescobaldi is available, 0.7.12, with bug fixes and improvements: * It is now possible to run LilyPond on remote documents and documents that have not been saved yet. In such cases Frescobaldi internally saves the LilyPond file to a local temporary directory. Point

Re: Open slur

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Polesky
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > A hidden note, with tweaked slur positions. What about a laissez vibrer tie? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-rhythms#index-laissez-vibrer - Mark ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Francisco Vila
I think that is a difference between general FAQs and common problems with the code. FAQs can have many levels according to the type of user, and can also be specific to chapters such as the philosophy, general usage, or each section in the NR. Ideally the FAQs should tend to be minimal, that's tru

Re: new website: draft 3

2009-07-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: I intend on really testing my claim that a FAQ merely demonstrates problems in the docs. I intend on having very good docs (including the website as "docs"), so that means the FAQ should be minimal. Why not view the FAQ as part of the docs? Nobody will read the full d

still: Sibelius conversion - sib2ly (from NtEd author)

2009-07-01 Thread Joerg Anders
Hi! In March there was a thread: Johan Vromans wrote: NtEd has problems importing the MIDI. It seems to insist on putting the 4 voices on a single staff. Joerg Anders wrote: I'm about to implement a new algoritm which partly works but will be published not until May. This will have an app

Re: Open slur

2009-07-01 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
A hidden note, with tweaked slur positions. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Open slur

2009-07-01 Thread Robert
I have searched the documentation, but could not find a solution for creating an open ended slur at the end of a repeat. The open ended slur to indicate that it ties back to the slur at the beginning: Open ended slur To tie back to: Any suggestions? Thanks, Robert <><>_