Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread James Harkins
At Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:47 -0400, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > On 14 March 2012 03:01, Keith OHara wrote: > > > Off topic, LilyPond now places the dots equally-spaced from the > > noteheads, in that particular example. > > > >

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-14 Thread Father Gordon Gilbert
Thanks, Wilbert, I had figured it was something like that, but I am too far from geeky to be able to implement something that complicated. I certainly do make use of it, though! I have another problem now, however. When I upgraded Lily to the latest (2.15.33) and began to use Fresco again to wo

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: > I'm not sure how I would go about implementing the suggested > workaround for my application.  I run into the problem primarily when > transcribing individual choral parts for my section.  It's nice in the > midi output if cues from other pa

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Wilbert Berendsen writes: > >> Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 >> Janek Warchoł schreef: >> >>> Very cool! >>> May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? >> >> What is a nice magnifier size and scale depends on

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 21:07, Michael Ellis wrote: Thanks very much for digging into it. I confirmed that LilyPondTool's player doesn't have the problem on OS X. QMidi also seems ok. It's kind of wild that there are no reports when I search for "QuickTime midi instrument change delay" etc. Guess most

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 19:16, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i in

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Hans Aikema wrote: > On 14-3-2012 18:37, Hans Aikema wrote: >> >> On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema >>>  wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/14/12 1:28 PM, "Keith OHara" wrote: >On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:13 -0700, Neil Puttock >wrote: > >> What happens if I want the old behaviour? Do I have to move the >> Dot_column_engraver back to the Staff context and forgo the >> improvements in more complicated situations? > >Yes. >But,

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Keith OHara
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:13 -0700, Neil Puttock wrote: What happens if I want the old behaviour? Do I have to move the Dot_column_engraver back to the Staff context and forgo the improvements in more complicated situations? Yes. But, somebody made a suggestion on the original enhancement re

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 18:37, Hans Aikema wrote: On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: Is this a known problem? I don't see any prior reports onli

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Stjepan Horvat writes: > Hello, > > I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score > because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i > maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score > (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i include my

Re: separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread David Bobroff
On 3/14/2012 6:16 PM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i

separating design from pure score

2012-03-14 Thread Stjepan Horvat
Hello, I'm working on a project and i want to separate the design from score because i want to have a clear score so that in the future when i maybe want to change the design i dont have to change the score (something like html and CSS :) ). So when i include my score into my design file variables

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 18:01, Michael Ellis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema wrote: On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: Is this a known problem? I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at leas

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Hans Aikema wrote: > On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis >>  wrote: >>> >>> Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and >>> I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was

Re: Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2

2012-03-14 Thread Patrick Karl
> > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:21:28 - > From: "Peter Gentry" > To: > Subject: Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2 > Message-ID: <95B3725ABDE2433BB4E51D0C33B05BE2@PeterVista> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have found that page-turn-breaking does not

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Shane Brandes
Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use a font that has old style figures? Shane On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > Hi Ben, > > the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but > they are expecting strings to process. > So if you redefine the markup-c

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Aikema
On 14-3-2012 14:30, Michael Ellis wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: Is this a known problem? I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I was doing some fairly complicated things. I took time to reduc

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Neil Puttock
On 14 March 2012 03:01, Keith OHara wrote: > Off topic, LilyPond now places the dots equally-spaced from the > noteheads, in that particular example. > > Previously, LilyPond put them all in one column because that was > easier to program

Re: Point-and-click on Frescobaldi?

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:13:05 -0500 Father Gordon Gilbert schreef: > Yes, changing a note and recompiling did the trick, thanks! I had > done a convert-ly and recompiled, and I suppose that's why it pointed > down to where the changes were listed. Indeed changes a convert-ly run the whole docume

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Wilbert Berendsen writes: > Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 > Janek Warchoł schreef: > >> Very cool! >> May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? > > What is a nice magnifier size and scale depends on the screen size. xdpyinfo [...] screen #0: dimensions:128

Blank pages within a score Version 2.14.2

2012-03-14 Thread Peter Gentry
I have found that page-turn-breaking does not do all that I need. When there are many movements not all the page turns are "convenient". When using "two-sided" there are times when I would like to insert a blank page between movements to reduce page turns to a minimum. So far all attempts to ins

Re: midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Ellis wrote: > Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and > I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I > was doing some fairly complicated things.  I took time to reduce it to > a minimal example today. It's

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
vic hug writes: > while beeing a newbie at both Sibelius and Lilypond, and already > embracing the magical freedom superiority of the latest, i recently > had to make a transcript from a manuscript, and for that i used > Sibelius, because i needed to produce sibelius files. This way i could > ent

midiInstrument changes play one note too late.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Ellis
Is this a known problem?  I don't see any prior reports online and I've been seeing it since at least 2.12 but assumed it was because I was doing some fairly complicated things. I took time to reduce it to a minimal example today. It's still present in 2.15.33 as shown by the example below. FWIW,

Re: articulate.ly with "rall" not working?

2012-03-14 Thread Malte Meyn
On 13.03.2012 03:52, Peter Chubb wrote: >> "Thomas" == Thomas Morley writes: > > Thomas> \version "2.14.2" \include "articulate.ly" > > Thomas> \score { \unfoldRepeats \articulate << \relative c' { c8-. d-. > Thomas> e-. f-. g-.-"rall" f-. e-. d-. c-. d-. e-. f-. g-. > Thomas> f-.

Beam Length Query

2012-03-14 Thread grammerfest
Hi all, I think it's a tribute to the lilypond documentation that in 2/3 years of Lilypond usage this is my first time feeling the need to post a question here. I'm trying to find a way in which to extend a beam horizontally so that it spans the full duration of a note. I suppose that in an id

Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread Keith OHara
James Harkins gmail.com> writes: > the-year-s-over-and-done> > > I digress a bit in the text, but the point is the 3/8 bar. > In Finale, I'm quite sure you would have to spend(waste) time > adjusting the horizontal position of one or

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:18:47 +0100 Wilbert Berendsen schreef: > > - no more integrated file browser (the "documents" frame isn't half > > as useful) > > A filebrowser would certainly be nice. Currently I just use Ctrl+O :) > and also the Sessions menu. Replying to self: Frescobaldi 1.2 had no

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0100 Janek Warchoł schreef: > Very cool! > May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? What is a nice magnifier size and scale depends on the screen size. I use Frescobaldi on an Asus EEEPC with 1024*600 :) So I think one must just go once

Re: Add more space between arbitrary groups of notes

2012-03-14 Thread James
Hello, On 14 March 2012 08:07, Svetlana wrote: > Hello all, > > I have three wishes that I can't accomplish: > 1) I'd like be able to add more space between notes where s1 doesn't help. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00379.html This might help. I cannot help yo

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > And did you notice the magnifying glass? Ctrl+Click in the Music View! Very cool! May i suggest making it's default settings 600 px wide and 350% zoom? cheers, Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing

Beam Length Query

2012-03-14 Thread Piaras Hoban
Hi all, I think it's a tribute to the lilypond documentation that it's a rare instance when I can't find the answer to my questions there; however, this is one of those rare instances :) I'm trying to find a way in which to extend a beam horizontally so that it spans the full duration of

Add more space between arbitrary groups of notes

2012-03-14 Thread Svetlana
Hello all, I make scores where two lyrics lines share the same notes but have different note groupings. Here is an example. \version "2.14.2" melody = \relative c'' { \cadenzaOn \phrasingSlurUp \slurDown g2 (a4 \(bes!) a2\) a8 ([g] f4) g1 (\(g4. f8 e4 d\) d8 \([e] f4\) e2 \(f g1\) d4 \(

Re: articulate.ly with "rall" not working?

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Chubb writes: > Looks like there's been a semantic change in Lilypond. > > It used to be you could >\set tempoWholesPerMinute = 60 > or similar anywhere in the Lilypond input and the result would be a > tempo change at that point. It looks as if now there's a different > event, Tempo

Re:Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

2012-03-14 Thread vic hug
Hello, while beeing a newbie at both Sibelius and Lilypond, and already embracing the magical freedom superiority of the latest, i recently had to make a transcript from a manuscript, and for that i used Sibelius, because i needed to produce sibelius files. This way i could enter the text by ty

Re: difficulty filling the whole page

2012-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Jean-Alexis Montignies writes: > Sorry for the late reply I'm really over-busy these times. > The documentation is usually well written but I find myself browsing > many pages before finding something, even if it's something I know it > exists and I already used. > > For instance for sizes. May b

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, Thanks go to Valentin for taking the time for a consise first review :-) Here are some answers to questions and additions. Also note that F2 is only one year old and should be developed further, I think it has a very solid code foundation right now with Python and Qt4. :) Op Tue, 13 Mar

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread James
Hello, 2012/3/14 Janek Warchoł : > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: >> Please let me know the things you miss most! Note that F2 is only >> (roughly) one year old and really written from scratch, the first commit >> is of Nov 11, 2012. I intend to keep developing and addi

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > Please let me know the things you miss most! Note that F2 is only > (roughly) one year old and really written from scratch, the first commit > is of Nov 11, 2012. I intend to keep developing and adding new > features. I think the current

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/14 Valentin Villenave : > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: >> I think this is a matter of default settings and easily adjustable. > > It probably is (not sure about the PDF background, though); Attached. :-) -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.cs

Re: [Frescobaldi] Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.4

2012-03-14 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: > I think this is a matter of default settings and easily adjustable. It probably is (not sure about the PDF background, though); I was just testifying about the "first-look" appearance, with default colors. > Ctrl+H or Edit-> Replace Indee

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Ben, the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but they are expecting strings to process. So if you redefine the markup-command: --snip-- #(define-markup-command (oldStyleNum layout props str) (string-or-symbol?) "Old-style numerals" (if (symbol? str)(set! str