Re: Mac compiling and executing

2011-04-03 Thread James Samir Ismail
Thanks so much Carl - I got it to run! -James On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > James, > > It looks to me like you don't have your path set up right. > > You should not be in the ~/bin directory to run lilypond. > > Eliminate the links ~/bin/lilypond and ~/bin/maqam.ly. >

Re: compiling small PDFs

2011-04-03 Thread flup2
Hello, I had to do something like that, to create kind of a card game. Here is the \paper block I used for that : %% \paper { paper-width = 85\mm % largeur de la page paper-height = 54\mm % hauteur de la page (taille du papier) top-margin = 10\mm % distance entre le haut de l

again, full score layout problem

2011-04-03 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Again for the full score pagination. A professor first tried to read a4 version, and he must use a magnifying glass. I then compiled the a3 version (the link below, containing all score/parts/code/midi files. He said that it's actually not the problem of paper size, since many large scores are p

Re: no natural sign when clef changes

2011-04-03 Thread Keith OHara
David Kastrup gnu.org> writes: > I think the solution would be to replace the presumably existing list of > "currently altered accidentals" not by an empty list but rather by a > list where every such accidental is replaced with a non-existing "dirty" > accidental. That sounds right. I'll add

irregular semi French score, how to accomplish?

2011-04-03 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello, I had my mother look at my full score of the overture, and then compared with some other published scores. She found that my French score leaves many blank spaces at the bottom of some pages, while other scores always use blank staves to fill in. For example, the following Webern piece:

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as shown in this image? >The closest I can get is: > >a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} > >However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seems to >alwa

compiling small PDFs

2011-04-03 Thread Sebastian Valenzuela
I need to make small pdfs or images (on paper around A6 size, or a 4cm square) with a single measure directly in the middle. I just need these these little images so that i can put them in one panel of a GUI i'm building for a program. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thank you, -Sebastian

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread Nick Payne
On 04/04/11 09:31, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as shown in this image? The closest I can get is: a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seems to always try to displa

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as > shown in this image? > The closest I can get is: > > a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} > > However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seem

Re: Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Javier Ruiz-Alma wrote: > Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as > shown in this image? > The closest I can get is: > > a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} > > However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seem

Trill notation with fingering

2011-04-03 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
Any ideas as to how best to approximate the trill plus fingering notiation as shown in this image? The closest I can get is: a2.\trill^markup{\finger "3 2"} However, this doesn't show the cap over the digits, plus lilypond seems to always try to display the "tr" symbol at the very top, no matte

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Paul, A good scan through the manuals would be the best place to start in order to figure out how to place a second verse in there. My quick thought (I've never actually done this before) would be to have the second verse in its own section as follows: texttwo = \lyricmode { Here are s

Re: lilypond-book "too many open files"

2011-04-03 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 08:08:11AM -0500, Victor Eijkhout wrote: > > In which version > > does this happen, 2.12 or 2.13? > > Using 2.12.3. Then increasing your file descriptor limits (as a workaround) is the weapon of choice. The fd leaks are probably fixed in 2.13. (I can re-check this by bu

Re: Add text to rehearsal mark

2011-04-03 Thread Ed Gordijn
Hi, I decided to split the problem in pieces, starting with the allignment. I have two options. The first option (IIa in the script) is how I would do this as I would do this writing a score, setting an override to adjust the allignment. This works fine but I don't know how I could calculate

Re: Can't embed font for chord changes

2011-04-03 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 3 April 2011 18:59, Patrick Karl wrote: > > I am unable to compile the following file: > > […] > Do you use Mac OS X? There is a reported problem with Mac OSX 10.6.7 and the last security update, concerning fonts. See http://www.tidbits.com/article/12078 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lily

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Hi again, I did a bit of tweaking for you. Hope you don't mind, but it produces a nicer-looking piece of sheet music. As I said in my last email, I'm not familiar with the piece, so only you can judge the correctness of my suggestions, but I did the following: added a quarter-rest instead of a

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
You may find the error is in bar 24. I changed the d8 to a d16 as follows: a,8 b8. d16 d4 e4 d4~ And everything wraps correctly -- although I'm not familiar with the tune, it at least *looks* correct. I've had this same problem over and over -- not checking bars and getting one little note-valu

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
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Can't embed font for chord changes

2011-04-03 Thread Patrick Karl
I am unable to compile the following file: > \version "2.12.3" > > melody = \relative c' { s4 fis4 fis8 e4. } > > harmonies = \chordmode { a1:7 } > > \score { ><< > \new ChordNames { > \set chordChanges = ##t >

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Werner LEMBERG" To: Cc: ; ; Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 4:14 PM Subject: Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef Looks like a bug to me. See attachment. Definitely a bug... Werner In fact, http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?

Re: Last line doesn't wrap

2011-04-03 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/2/11 7:22 PM, "Paul Nocero" wrote: >> I'm not top posting. > > This is my first use of LilyPond and it seems to work well, except for the > problem noted here. I'm creating a simple song with words and guitar chords, > and the final line does not appear to wrap, but runs off the bottom of

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-04-03 09:14 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Looks like a bug to me. See attachment. Definitely a bug... Werner In fact, it's logged as issue http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=877 cheers, Colin -- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Looks like a bug to me. See attachment. Definitely a bug... Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Arlin" To: Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 5:16 PM Subject: position of the little '8' in bass clef The bass recorder reads bass clef, but it sounds an octave higher than written, so the clef needs a little '8' over it. In Lilypond this is \clef "F^8"

Re: position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread James Worlton
On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Arlin wrote: The bass recorder reads bass clef, but it sounds an octave higher than written, so the clef needs a little '8' over it. In Lilypond this is \clef "F^8" But the little '8' is printed way above the clef. Is there a way to lower the '8' to right

position of the little '8' in bass clef

2011-04-03 Thread Arlin
The bass recorder reads bass clef, but it sounds an octave higher than written, so the clef needs a little '8' over it. In Lilypond this is \clef "F^8" But the little '8' is printed way above the clef. Is there a way to lower the '8' to right above the clef? Thanks for any help. -- View this

Re: Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?

2011-04-03 Thread Arlin
Laser vs. inkjet: Laser printers are more expensive to buy but less expensive to use. Laser printers make cleaner text, and inkjet printers do better graphics. (Lilypond symbols are treated as text.) Laser output is more water-resistant then inkjet. Laser toner cartridges are expensive but la

Re: [PATCH] New feature: A-A. Backend

2011-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > In a long distant past, it was decided that ASCII messaging was the > future, and that therefore we had to have ASCII-art backend too. I am > glad we halted this experiment soon. Un-frigging-believable. Looks even more impressive in 9-char

Re: Fwd: Dividing ties and adjusting ties in an arpeggiated chord

2011-04-03 Thread bruys .
Holy Moley, madMuze, You're right, I'm feeling rather queasy right now. It's going to take some patience to get to the bottom of this. Your suggestion of separating the notes into separate voices and then combining them might be the way to go (it seems to be the only way to go, if I going to use th

Re: [PATCH] New feature: A-A. Backend

2011-04-03 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Valentin Villenave > wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Graham's recent 2.14 announcement, as well as Mike's wonderful work on >> the Emoticon_engraver (see >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00860.html >> ) made me re

Re: no natural sign when clef changes

2011-04-03 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara writes: > Bernhard Ott gmx.net> writes: >> >> IMHO there should be a natural sign showing the f' after the >> clef-change: am I wrong? >> >> music = \relative c' { >> c8 d e fis >> c d e f >> c8 d e fis >> \clef "alto" c d e f >> } > > This is a bug, listed at