Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:54:02PM +0100, Ian Hulin wrote: >> Graham Percival wrote: >>> Apparently, nobody knows what Denemo is. (or else nobody can be >>> arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description) >> >> (From www.denemo.org) >> >> Denemo is a music notat

Harmonica tablature notation

2009-10-24 Thread bradford powell
Hello-- I have been trying to write something to produce tablature-like notation for the harmonica. Googling revealed a post from several years ago which involved preprocessing a lilypond file. Not only out-of-date with regard to lilypond syntax, but I also prefer something that would act from wit

Re: Codas / Trios

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes I'm surprised ... after a bit of work it got me where I needed to be! Thanks very much. I'm still not totally happy, in that because I separate layout and notes, I now need to insert dummy bars all over the place, but at least it looks like I want.

Re: \fatText - 2.13.6

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <11cc7c4f0910241809o5470e174g979b503fc2415...@mail.gmail.com>, Andrew Hawryluk writes The command was renamed for version 2.12: \fatText -> \textLengthOn \emptyText -> \textLengthOff The "on/off" naming is more consistent with other commands. You may also want to checkout http://li

Re: \fatText - 2.13.6

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
The command was renamed for version 2.12: \fatText -> \textLengthOn \emptyText -> \textLengthOff The "on/off" naming is more consistent with other commands. You may also want to checkout http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html for other commands that were changed at the same

\fatText - 2.13.6

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
I've just tried to use this, and it's failed with "unrecognised escaped string" (or whatever the error is). Is this defined in some file I've got to include, or what's wrong? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk ___ li

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:54:02PM +0100, Ian Hulin wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> Apparently, nobody knows what Denemo is. (or else nobody can be >> arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description) > > (From www.denemo.org) > > Denemo is a music notation program for Linux and Windows t

Re: problem with microtones and ties

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Sorry, it was the wrong attachment. Here is the right one! 2009/10/25 Stefan Thomas > Dear community, > how can I avoid, that the accidentals are printed after the tie and the > barline in the below quoted example? > \include "stefansMikrotoene.ly" > { cih1 ~ cih } > > stefansMikrotoene.ly Des

problem with microtones and ties

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, how can I avoid, that the accidentals are printed after the tie and the barline in the below quoted example? \include "stefansMikrotoene.ly" { cih1 ~ cih } stefansMikrotoene.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ lilypond-user mailing l

Re: Skipping notes with a hyphenated word

2009-10-24 Thread Trevor Daniels
-Eluze wrote Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:38 PM Father Horton wrote: I'm trying to set two verses. Verse 1 has an extra note, and it's no problem to get rid of it in verse 2 with \skip. The problem is that the word in verse 2 is actually a hyphenated word, so a hyphen of some sort _must_

Re: Skipping notes with a hyphenated word

2009-10-24 Thread -Eluze
Father Horton wrote: > > > I'm trying to set two verses. Verse 1 has an extra note, and it's no > problem > to get rid of it in verse 2 with \skip. The problem is that the word in > verse 2 is actually a hyphenated word, so a hyphen of some sort _must_ > appear. > > Using \skip won't work beca

Skipping notes with a hyphenated word

2009-10-24 Thread Father Horton
Minimal example: \version "2.12.0" lyricsOne = \lyricmode { la -- la -- la } lyricsTwo = \lyricmode { la \skip 4 la } %lyricsThree = lyricmode { me -- " " me } muzik = \relative c' { c2\( c4\) c } \score { \context Staff << \context Voice = melody { \muzik } \context Lyrics = one \lyr

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Kim Shrier
On Oct 24, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: Kim Shrier wrote: I am trying to place a right comma just to the right and a little above a note. This alternative may do the spacing better: c4 \once \override BreathingSign #'Y-offset = #0 \breathe Cheers, Robin After playing w

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Kim Shrier
That was what I was looking for, thanks. Kim On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: Kim Shrier wrote: there is something I need #'outside-staff-priority ##f Cheers, Robin -- Kim Shrier - principal, Shrier and Deihl - mailto:k...@westryn.net Remote Unix Network Admin, Securi

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Kim Shrier
Thank you, that worked. Kim On Oct 24, 2009, at 1:59 AM, -Eluze wrote: Kim Shrier-2 wrote: I am trying to place some text next to a note head and I can't make it work. I am trying to place a right comma just to the right and a little above a note. I have tried many variations on this:

Re: Codas / Trios

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Anthony W. Youngman writes In message <87k4ylfdzl@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup writes "Anthony W. Youngman" writes: I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, but I can't find it in the manuals, snippets, or searching the lists :-( I'm trying to do what is very typical for my sort

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:20:59AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > >> I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. > > Well, since you reject the majority of what is sent to you, it probably > discourages people from trying t

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Graham Percival wrote: I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. Well, since you reject the majority of what is sent to you, it probably discourages people from trying to contribute. ___ lilyp

FW: Tuplet spanner length bug in v.2.13?

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Sabey
Reporting back to say that Kieren's suggestion has solved this problem of mine. From: richardsa...@hotmail.co.uk To: kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca Subject: RE: Tuplet spanner length bug in v.2.13? Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:25:17 + Hi Kieren, Thank you. That does indeed help. I will h

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, -Introduction->Alternative input Apparently, nobody knows what Denemo is. (or else nobody can be arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description) I don't know what Denemo is, and (to be honest) don't really care. -Introduction->Alternative input Apparently, nobod

website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-24 Thread Graham Percival
I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. For the past month, I've spent approximately 2 hours a day (not counting Sunday) working on the Grand Unified Builder. As you might expect from anything that cross-compiles a project like lilypond on 8 platforms, GUB is large and com

Re: Tuplet spanner length bug in v.2.13?

2009-10-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Richard, It seems to me that \set tupletSpannerDuration fails to affect tuplets that are in a << \\ >> construct. Only if you don't code it right... ;) music = { << % This fails to create the right tuplet-spanners. \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 8)% in

Tuplet spanner length bug in v.2.13?

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Sabey
It seems to me that \set tupletSpannerDuration fails to affect tuplets that are in a << \\ >> construct. I am using Lilypond version 2.13.6. Has Lilypond changed in this regard since version 2.12? The documentation on the web site suggests that it has not. There follow two similar Lilypond fil

Re: PNG output croping bottom of page?

2009-10-24 Thread Alberto Simões
Argh... Alberto Simões wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am running lilypond and noticed that when outputing PDF I get the > bottom of the page cropped: When I output PNG I get the bottom of the page cropped :) > > For an example: > http://musica-liturgica.net/viewfull.pl/78 > > But the PDF file

Re: failed parts file

2009-10-24 Thread James E. Bailey
On 24.10.2009, at 01:06, Carl Glick wrote: I can't get my file to compile. The error message says error: syntax error, unexpected STRING (ly:parser-error parser (_ " expected error, but none found" I have tried putting the notes for the parts in separate

Re: Codas / Trios

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <87k4ylfdzl@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup writes "Anthony W. Youngman" writes: I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, but I can't find it in the manuals, snippets, or searching the lists :-( I'm trying to do what is very typical for my sort of music (band parts). Namely, end the li

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kim Shrier wrote: I am trying to place a right comma just to the right and a little above a note. This alternative may do the spacing better: c4 \once \override BreathingSign #'Y-offset = #0 \breathe Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Bannister
Kim Shrier wrote: there is something I need #'outside-staff-priority ##f Cheers, Robin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: placing text next to a note head

2009-10-24 Thread -Eluze
Kim Shrier-2 wrote: > > I am trying to place some text next to a note head and I can't > make it work. I am trying to place a right comma just to the > right and a little above a note. I have tried many variations > on this: > > found a solution in in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=

Re: Codas / Trios

2009-10-24 Thread David Kastrup
"Anthony W. Youngman" writes: > I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, but I can't find it in the manuals, > snippets, or searching the lists :-( > > I'm trying to do what is very typical for my sort of music (band > parts). Namely, end the line with a double bar (often with a segno or > coda sign). Th