Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> >>> Let me try to rephrase things: the more functionality is moved into >>> the Scheme layers, the less people you can find who are capable of >>> working on it. >> >> For me, the c

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> Let me try to rephrase things: the more functionality is moved into >> the Scheme layers, the less people you can find who are capable of >> working on it. > > For me, the complexity of LilyPond itself outplay

Re: Piano centred dynamics and justification (a cautionary tale)

2012-06-04 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2012-06-04 14:18, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On 4 juin 2012, at 01:47, Hilary Snaden wrote: [Supposed bug report snipped.] My guess (long shot) would be that if you're using a Dynamics context, > there may be extra space in the context that is pushing it to the end > of the line whereas

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: >>> It is much more straightforward to add >>> \alias "Staff" >>> to the definition of the TimeSig context.  Then any overrides for Staff >>> issued within TimeSig will not get handed upstairs. >>> >>> This should probably be added to the LSR snippet: while it does not in >>

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/4 David Kastrup : > David Kastrup writes: > >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> 2012/6/2 diekunstderfuge : Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the compound time signature seen in the image here: http://old.nabble.com/file/p33950720/custom_time_signature.png As you

Problem doing Scheme tutorial

2012-06-04 Thread Philip Thomas
Dear fellow-users, After failing to write what I thought should be a fairly simple define-music-function, I thought, this is it: Learn something about Scheme in a more structured way, old chap! One can only go on for so long relying on the (invariably kind and expert, and mostly very patient) advi

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Barnes writes: > From: Tim Roberts >> In what way does Qt represent an "extension strategy"? > > Using C++ to extend Lily. C++ is not useful for extending LilyPond. It is its skeleton substance, but is not user serviceable. Qt would not change that. > With the benefit that there are rea

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Jeff Barnes
> From: Tim Roberts > > Jeff Barnes wrote: >> While I'm sensitive to David's request to end the discussion for > now, there are some misconceptions about Qt that need addressing. > > That's not entirely clear.  I don't think starting from here is fair, Tim. You didn't quote enough context. >

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Tim Roberts
Jeff Barnes wrote: > While I'm sensitive to David's request to end the discussion for now, there > are some misconceptions about Qt that need addressing. That's not entirely clear. The discussion was originally about the choice of Scheme as an extension language. Qt is clearly not an answer to

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Thomas Morley writes: > >> 2012/6/2 diekunstderfuge : >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm trying to achieve the compound time signature seen in the image here: >>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p33950720/custom_time_signature.png >>> >>> As you can see, it's meant to represent 3 bar

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread Eluze
Am 04.06.2012 12:11, schrieb ornello: Hello *, is there a way to make a visible note silent? It should be displayed when creating PDF, but not played when creating MIDI output. Or do I have to replace these notes by silences in my LY file for generating the MIDI file? I know the \killCues comm

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Jeff Barnes
> From: Tim McNamara > > On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Jeff Barnes wrote: >>> From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling >>> >>> On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support > for things we desperately need: reflection, automatic m

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Jeff Barnes wrote: >> From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling >> >> On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >>> One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support for >>> things we desperately need: reflection, automatic memory management >>> and callbacks. >>

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-06-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > Your screenshot shows "Page 236 of 770", never mind the page number on > the actual page itself. For the record, I *always* refer to the page number visible on the page when printed, since that's the only one that uniquely identifies the same page in both electronic and printed vers

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Barnes writes: >> From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling >> >>On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >>> One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support for >>> things we desperately need: reflection, automatic memory management >>> and callbacks. >> >>How about D? > > Also, c

Re: Appreciation / Financial support

2012-06-04 Thread Jeff Barnes
> From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling > >On 30/05/12 02:12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> One of the problems of LilyPond is that C++ had very poor support for >> things we desperately need: reflection, automatic memory management >> and callbacks. > >How about D? Also, consider Qt. It has all of the abo

Re: how to underline or italic a single word in lyric?

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >> Kieren said it was on page 225 but I just looked and that page in > the pdf is about guitar fret diagrams. > > The attached screenshot shows page 225 of the 2.14 PDF doc currently > on the site — it clearly contains the snippet in question. Your screenshot

Re: Piano centred dynamics and justification

2012-06-04 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 4 juin 2012, at 01:47, Hilary Snaden wrote: > I've just rewritten a piano score to use piano-centred dynamics, and it has > had the unfortunate side-effect of de-justifying the last system, similar to > setting ragged-last = ##t. > > Is this a known bug (I've searched already!) and is there

Piano centred dynamics and justification

2012-06-04 Thread Hilary Snaden
I've just rewritten a piano score to use piano-centred dynamics, and it has had the unfortunate side-effect of de-justifying the last system, similar to setting ragged-last = ##t. Is this a known bug (I've searched already!) and is there a workaround? (Explicitly setting ragged-last = ##f make

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "ornello" To: Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Make visible note silent Hello David, dak-3 wrote: You can have one tag for the note, and one tag for a silent replacement, and then remove one in the midi version, and one in the printed v

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread ornello
Hello David, dak-3 wrote: > > You can have one tag for the note, and one tag for a silent replacement, > and then remove one in the midi version, and one in the printed version. > I see. But this forces me write everything twice. Isn't there an easier solution to set the volume = 0 for a note

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
ornello writes: > Hello Hwaen, > > thanks for your hint. But I think tags are not exactly what I am looking for > because they do not make notes silent but completely remove them from the > score. This may work for notes without duration (e.g. trills or grace notes) > but not for notes with durat

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread ornello
Hello Hwaen, thanks for your hint. But I think tags are not exactly what I am looking for because they do not make notes silent but completely remove them from the score. This may work for notes without duration (e.g. trills or grace notes) but not for notes with duration to keep the music synchr

Re: Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
On 6/4/12, ornello wrote: > > Hello *, > > is there a way to make a visible note silent? It should be displayed when > creating PDF, but not played when creating MIDI output. Or do I have to > replace these notes by silences in my LY file for generating the MIDI file? > I know the \killCues comman

Make visible note silent

2012-06-04 Thread ornello
Hello *, is there a way to make a visible note silent? It should be displayed when creating PDF, but not played when creating MIDI output. Or do I have to replace these notes by silences in my LY file for generating the MIDI file? I know the \killCues command for cue notes, but how do I remove no

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:29 AM, diekunstderfuge wrote: > I'm still using 2.12.3 because that is what the Lilypond download site lists > as the latest stable version for Windows. Where can I find 2.14.2, and how > could I install it while keeping 2.12.3 in case I need to fall back to the > earlier

Re: custom compound time signature

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2012/6/2 diekunstderfuge : >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to achieve the compound time signature seen in the image here: >> http://old.nabble.com/file/p33950720/custom_time_signature.png >> >> As you can see, it's meant to represent 3 bars of 2/4 grouped together as >> one