Re: moving things

2010-10-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 17/10/10 12:43, Bill Mooney wrote: Greetings, A question on usage... I have been having difficulty in coming to grips with the commands to move musical elements, markups, etc from their default positions. Have a look at the \tweak command: e.g. r2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(x . y)^\markup {

moving things

2010-10-16 Thread Bill Mooney
Greetings, A question on usage... I have been having difficulty in coming to grips with the commands to move musical elements, markups, etc from their default positions. The accompanying example shows what I've been trying to do and the way I managed it. Advice is sought and comments on whether

Re: Re:orchestral template, please comment

2010-10-16 Thread Keith E OHara
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:15:21 -0700, Keith E OHara wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:20:48 -0700, wrote: All, How about the other proposed changes? Do they help to give new users a starting point for the types of scores you write? Do they steer new users away from issues and traps? 2) Change

Re: Repeating the same clef

2010-10-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "LilyPond User Group" Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Repeating the same clef On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Think this is worth a snippet? Also possibly a mention in the NR?

Re: alternative notation for tuplets (idea)?

2010-10-16 Thread James Lowe
Bernado (et al) You can read lots (lots!) here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/26600 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/14847/focus=14853 James On 16/10/2010 00:48, Bernardo Barros wrote: sorry for that. what was the rationale? 2010/10/15 Gra

Re: Repeating the same clef

2010-10-16 Thread James Lowe
Hello On 15/10/2010 21:55, Gerard McConnell wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong. Actually, we are about to push a Contributor Guide Document patch saying that 'Staff' and 'Staves' are the two preferred terms to use within the doc for consistency. Regards James PS. Although personally

Re: Repeating the same clef

2010-10-16 Thread James Lowe
On 15/10/2010 21:55, Gerard McConnell wrote: ... a staff. (stave? :-) ). James That's a funny one; obviously plural is always staves, I think staff is preferable for single. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Heaven forfend! I may be shot down in my ignorance =8 ) Actually, we are

Re: Repeating the same clef

2010-10-16 Thread Richard Sabey
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:30:59 +0100 > From: Wols Lists > > On 15/10/10 22:18, Phil Holmes wrote: > > I made the comment since there had been a discussion about this > > terminology on .devel. > > > > BTW - staffs is a perfectly good plural of staff. Stave is a > > perfectly good singular