Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/9/12 6:09 PM, "David Nalesnik" wrote: > >Hi, > >On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Carl Sorensen > wrote: > >On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, "Choan Gálvez" wrote: > >> >>Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical >>alignments: letters with ascendant strokes look nice, letters with >>d

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
Thank you, David. I must preface my remarks by saying that I'm no expert in lute tablature, and by repeating that my immediate needs are met by what I now know how to ask LilyPond to do for me. But I think a typical example of what one might ideally achieve is at http://tony.c.pagesperso-or

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, "Choan Gálvez" wrote: > > > > >Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical > >alignments: letters with ascendant strokes look nice, letters with > >descendant strokes are aligned by its bottom, le

RE: pngtopnm missing?

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Crossen
That's what I tried first. It works, but the .PNG files don't look anywhere near as good as the PDFs. I was trying to get a good-looking .PNG file with the -danti-alias-factor=2 parameter. From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 0:46 To: Chris Crossen; lily

[ANN] Schumann - Album for the Young. Version 1. (in French or German)

2012-05-09 Thread Phil Hézaine
Hi all, This publication comes in 2 forms: a version with FINGERING a version without FINGERING so the pianists, whichever they are students or professors, will use it at their convenience, at least let's hope so. You should also be noted that this publication is currently availab

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Urs, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi David, > > now I tested your new function. > OK, I didn't test more than the sources you provided, but I think they > give all the necessary combinations. > > So my conclusion is: This is awesome! > > I won't ever live without this

Re: Installing LilyPond fonts for use in programs under Windows 7

2012-05-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/9/12 3:23 AM, "Philip Thomas" wrote: >> wrote: > >>> And by the way, what is the relationship between Feta and Emmentaler? > >Han-Wen >Nienhuys replied: > >>feta was the original Type1 font. Since Type1 fonts can only hold 256 >>entries, we had several of >them. Later we unified them into

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, "Choan Gálvez" wrote: > >Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical >alignments: letters with ascendant strokes look nice, letters with >descendant strokes are aligned by its bottom, letters without ascendants >or descendants leave a gap between its bottom

Re: is shapeSlur broken?

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, now I tested your new function. OK, I didn't test more than the sources you provided, but I think they give all the necessary combinations. So my conclusion is: This is awesome! I won't ever live without this (as long as LilyPond is concerned) anymore - as long as it won't get brok

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks all for the generous feedback. But the very simple solution that Jonas Olson posted quite early solved the issue. "for dir in [0-9]*/;" was is exactly what I needed. Best Urs Am 09.05.2012 16:31, schrieb Christopher Webster:

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
- *From*: David Kastrup *Subject*: Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions *Date*: Wed, 09 May 2012 16:01:54 +0200 *User-agent*: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
On 2012-05-09 16:01, Choan Gálvez wrote: . . . Many thanks for the advice and the link. In the meantime, I searched this list's archives more carefully and found a solution which works perfectly. Posted by Neil Puttock on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:40:16 +0100 and archived at http://lists.gnu.org

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
This may or may not do exactly what you want: find [0-9]* -name '*.ly' -print | while read f; do cd `dirname $f` lilypond `basename $f` done On 5/9/12 9:39 AM, Christopher Webster wrote: > /How can I sequentially cd to all subdirectories that start with a number?/ -- Dossy Shiobara

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Christopher Webster writes: > A variant of Alex's suggestion (below): > > find . -type d -name "[0-9]*" -print | while read dir > do >     ( >         cd $dir; >         for f in *.ly >         do >             lilypond $f >         done >     ) > done find is looking _recursively_, arbitrarily

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 5/9/12 09:34 , Christopher Webster wrote: From: Choan Gálvez Subject: Re: Adjustment to tablature output Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 01:23:26 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 On 5/8/12 10:48 , Christopher Webster wrote: Is th

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
A variant of Alex's suggestion (below): find . -type d -name "[0-9]*" -print | while read dir do ( cd $dir; for f in *.ly do lilypond $f done ) done I've typed this directly in my mail client without testing it, so it's to be expected that som

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Joanne, On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, joannesmith wrote: > > Hello to all. > We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We > have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, > written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
He doesn't even have to copy&paste sources. Just save it to an appropriate place and name and include it. Hope the OP is still with us ;-) Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Francisco Vila schrieb: 2012/5/8 Colin Hall : > On Tue, May 08,

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/5/8 Colin Hall : > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:27:11AM -0700, joannesmith wrote: >> A friend suggested lilypond. I appreciate all that lilypond >> can do, but I find that it is taking a painful amount of time > > You might prefer: > > http://musescore.org/ > > and I have heard good reports

Re: (somewhat OT:) lilypond calling bash script questions

2012-05-09 Thread Álex R . Mosteo
Urs Liska wrote: > Please excuse if I post a linux question here, but I'd prefer not to > have to find a dedicated forum and subscribe there first ... > > I have a project with more than two dozens of lilypond scores. For > several reasons I have them in individual files which I can't \include >

Re: Installing LilyPond fonts for use in programs under Windows 7

2012-05-09 Thread Philip Thomas
> wrote: >> And by the way, what is the relationship between Feta and Emmentaler? Han-Wen Nienhuys replied: >feta was the original Type1 font. Since Type1 fonts can only hold 256 >entries, we had several of them. Later we unified them into >Emmentaler ("a big cheese") which has all the glyph

Re: Installing LilyPond fonts for use in programs under

2012-05-09 Thread Philip Thomas
>philip.tho...@bluewin.ch writes: >> Is it possible to install the Feta/Emmentaler font(s?) in Windows 7 so that characters become >> available in applications running under Windows? Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >The easiest way to do that is probably by installing Denemo > >http://www.denem

Re: pngtopnm missing?

2012-05-09 Thread Phil Holmes
I don't know why this happens, but you can cure it simply by replacing all the other options you're using with -fpng: lilypond -fpng test.ly -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Chris Crossen To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:30 AM Subject: pngto

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Johan Vromans
joannesmith writes: > The easy ones only take me about 20 minutes or so, however the hard ones can > take more than 3 hours and some I have just given up on for now. Multiply > that by about 450 songs and it is really intimidating to me. > > So my question ... maybe there is another program that

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
From:Choan Gálvez Subject: Re: Adjustment to tablature output Date:Wed, 09 May 2012 01:23:26 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 On 5/8/12 10:48 , Christopher Webster wrote: Is there a recommended way of