Fwd: Re: [Acma-l] Sibelius & ProTools . . . Woes?

2012-08-02 Thread PMA
FYI -- Original Message Subject: Re: [Acma-l] Sibelius & ProTools . . . Woes? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:07:28 +0930 From: Robert Pawel Wolf To: Kevin Austin CC: electroacoust...@concordia.ca, cec-confere...@googlegroups.com, ACMA Try Lilypond Music Engraving software. I

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread David Kastrup
David Rogers writes: > From the responses so far, it appears that I might as well have asked > for a unicorn, so I'll be quiet now. :) I don't consider that a fair characterization. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread David Rogers
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:30:19 +0200 Gilles wrote: > > The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music > > commands that affect the MIDI output and so on): > > \segno > > \fine > > \tocoda > > \coda > > \dacapo > > \dalsegno > > Using the functions described here : > http://lsr.ds

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/2 and...@andis59.se : > On 2012-08-02 20:24, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Ah, "version 2.14.2". In a current version, you could just write > > > I thought that version 2.14.2 was the current version!? > That is what it says on the web site. Stable version 2.14.2 _is_ the current stable vers

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread David Kastrup
"and...@andis59.se" writes: > On 2012-08-02 20:24, David Kastrup wrote: >> Ah, "version 2.14.2". In a current version, you could just write > > I thought that version 2.14.2 was the current version!? > That is what it says on the web site. Stable version Yes, that's the one we left in the stabl

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 20:24, David Kastrup wrote: Ah, "version 2.14.2". In a current version, you could just write I thought that version 2.14.2 was the current version!? That is what it says on the web site. Stable version // Anders -- English isn't my first language. So any error or strangeness is

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread David Kastrup
"and...@andis59.se" writes: > On 2012-08-02 18:46, Thomas Morley wrote: >> fN = >> #(define-music-function (parser location fretp) (string?) >>(let ((m (make-music 'TextScriptEvent 'text fretp))) >> (set! (ly:music-property m 'tweaks) >> (acons 'staff-padding 4 (ly:music-pro

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread David Kastrup
Lucas Gonze writes: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, m...@apollinemike.com > wrote: >> It is very difficult. It's better to use a front-end editor that >> shows some sorta mock-up of the score and that only compiles the >> nice LilyPond version from time to time (if this exists). Getting >> a

Re: LilyPond developer&user meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-02 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Rodolfo Zitellini" To: "David Kastrup" ; ; Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:02 PM Subject: Re: LilyPond developer&user meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:03 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Rodolfo Zitellini writes: I think I co

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 18:46, Thomas Morley wrote: fN = #(define-music-function (parser location fretp) (string?) (let ((m (make-music 'TextScriptEvent 'text fretp))) (set! (ly:music-property m 'tweaks) (acons 'staff-padding 4 (ly:music-property m 'tweaks))) m)) Hello Thoma

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 06:22:49PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > On 2 août 2012, at 18:18, Lucas Gonze wrote: > > > Is it architecturally possible to make a significant amount of > > overhead go away? Are incremental compiles plausible? > > It is very difficult. It's better to use a fron

Re: Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/2 and...@andis59.se : > I have made a small function that allows me to put out the fret number (of a > guitar) below a note. My problem is that the text is positioned below the > note at a specific distance. Which means that if the note is high on the > staff the text will be high and if the

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > It is very difficult. It's better to use a front-end editor that shows some > sorta mock-up of the score and that only compiles the nice LilyPond version > from time to time (if this exists). Getting an actual LilyPond score > req

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 2 août 2012, at 18:18, Lucas Gonze wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling > wrote: >> More generally than that, I think the reason to discuss is to _discover_ the >> areas where you can cooperate. There are obvious areas of interaction -- >> e.g. enabling Lilypond ou

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > More generally than that, I think the reason to discuss is to _discover_ the > areas where you can cooperate. There are obvious areas of interaction -- > e.g. enabling Lilypond output for MuseScore and ensuring that it gets > update

Re: LilyPond developer&user meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 20/07/12 21:40, David Kastrup wrote: A number of core LilyPond contributors have agreed to come. Apart from myself, Graham, Mike, possibly John, Valentin (?), Janek, Marc, Thomas Morley will be present. Depending on their travel dates, I will try to arrange workshops and discussion groups for

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Rodolfo Zitellini
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Nils wrote: >> What else could we do to "work together"? (be it with musescore, >> denemo, laborejo, elysium, etc) >> - Graham > > For my part: nothing. Laborejo is created for Lilypond, not just a notation > tool with an exporter. I can adapt to any Lilypond chan

Re: LilyPond developer&user meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-02 Thread Rodolfo Zitellini
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:03 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Rodolfo Zitellini writes: > >> Hi All! >> is the meeting open to all users? > > Yes. We need to keep track of the head count and have to cater for > accommodation/food accordingly, but that does not seem like much of a > problem right now.

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/08/12 16:04, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Even if no actual development overlap takes place, there are still other potential areas of cooperation -- infrastructure, project management, fundraising, organizing events and demonstrations -- to make it worthwhile. Just to give some backgrou

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 17:33, and...@andis59.se wrote: On 2012-08-02 17:18, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/8/2 and...@andis59.se : I'm using the scheme function \addFingering to add string numbers to a music part. You could call the function below in \melody (I named it \xy. You may want to change this uni

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 17:34, and...@andis59.se wrote: On 2012-08-02 17:08, -Eluze wrote: I think you have to use another font, e.g. \override StringNumber #'font-name = "Garamond bold" and override the size to your needs: \override StringNumber #'font-size = #-1 hth Eluze I can't get this to w

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 17:08, -Eluze wrote: I think you have to use another font, e.g. \override StringNumber #'font-name = "Garamond bold" and override the size to your needs: \override StringNumber #'font-size = #-1 hth Eluze I can't get this to work! Where should I put the overrides? // A

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
On 2012-08-02 17:18, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/8/2 and...@andis59.se : I'm using the scheme function \addFingering to add string numbers to a music part. You could call the function below in \melody (I named it \xy. You may want to change this uninspired term.) :) xy = \override StringNumber #

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/8/2 and...@andis59.se : > I'm using the scheme function \addFingering to add string numbers to a music > part. > Since my music is supposed to be played on a Pedal Steel Guitar I need some > special string numbers. > > On the Pedal Steel Guitar there are 10 string (may be more or less, but thi

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Nils
> What else could we do to "work together"? (be it with musescore, > denemo, laborejo, elysium, etc) > - Graham For my part: nothing. Laborejo is created for Lilypond, not just a notation tool with an exporter. I can adapt to any Lilypond changes very fast and Laborejo users, in the future beca

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/08/12 15:26, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: It may also be worth it to contact Avid. As crazy as this sounds, they may actually appreciate LilyPond stepping in and saying "Hey, we have a great piece of software that we're proud of that will spare you a lot of headaches in terms of support

Re: Strange output of \addFingering

2012-08-02 Thread -Eluze
and...@andis59.se wrote: > > I'm using the scheme function \addFingering to add string numbers to a > music part. > Since my music is supposed to be played on a Pedal Steel Guitar I need > some special string numbers. > > On the Pedal Steel Guitar there are 10 string (may be more or less, but

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/08/12 15:14, Graham Percival wrote: Well, they have the email address of our development mailing list. ... and presumably you have theirs. Why not be the ones to initiate the discussion? I've heard this "work together more" idea a few times, but I have no clue what that would entail.

Positioning text below notes at the same height

2012-08-02 Thread and...@andis59.se
I have made a small function that allows me to put out the fret number (of a guitar) below a note. My problem is that the text is positioned below the note at a specific distance. Which means that if the note is high on the staff the text will be high and if the note is low on the staff it will

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 2 août 2012, at 16:02, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 02/08/12 14:49, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> If you guys can get a Google Grant for your LilyPond non-profit in the >> Netherlands, now would be a fantastic time to run ads on Google getting >> Sibelius users to check out LilyPond

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 2 août 2012, at 16:14, Graham Percival wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:02:34PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >> On 02/08/12 14:49, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >>> If you guys can get a Google Grant for your LilyPond non-profit >>> in the Netherlands, now would be a fantastic time

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:02:34PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 02/08/12 14:49, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >If you guys can get a Google Grant for your LilyPond non-profit > >in the Netherlands, now would be a fantastic time to run ads on > >Google getting Sibelius users to check

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/08/12 14:49, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: If you guys can get a Google Grant for your LilyPond non-profit in the Netherlands, now would be a fantastic time to run ads on Google getting Sibelius users to check out LilyPond. It's sad that it takes an event like this to generate interest in

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 2 août 2012, at 15:40, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > Hello all, > > Not about Lilypond, but certainly relevant -- it looks like the parent > company of Sibelius Software has pulled out the rug from under the music > software: > http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/08/at-sibelius-so

Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
Hello all, Not about Lilypond, but certainly relevant -- it looks like the parent company of Sibelius Software has pulled out the rug from under the music software: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/08/at-sibelius-software-the-last-staff-turn-out-the-lights.html It's a timely reminde

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread Gilles
The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands that affect the MIDI output and so on): \segno \fine \tocoda \coda \dacapo \dalsegno Using the functions described here : http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=542 i think you will be able quickly to achieve your goal withou

Re: Enc2ly: converter from Encore to Lilypond (GPLv3+)

2012-08-02 Thread Helge Kruse
2012/8/1 Phil Holmes : > - Original Message - From: "Helge Kruse" >>> >>> See https://github.com/hanwen/enc2ly/blob/master/enc2ly.go >>> >> >> Results in: 404 This is not the web page you are looking for. >> >> Helge > > > But it's not too hard to correct: > > https://github.com/hanwen/go-

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread ArnoldTheresius
David Kastrup wrote: > > Nils writes: > >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:00:40 -0700 >> David Rogers wrote: >> >>> The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands >>> that affect the MIDI output and so on): >>> >>> \segno >>> \fine >>> \tocoda >>> \coda >>> \dacapo >>> \dals

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread David Kastrup
Nils writes: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:00:40 -0700 > David Rogers wrote: > >> The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands >> that affect the MIDI output and so on): >> >> \segno >> \fine >> \tocoda >> \coda >> \dacapo >> \dalsegno > > Disclaimer: I am not a Lilypond de

Re: Brazen feature request

2012-08-02 Thread Nils
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:00:40 -0700 David Rogers wrote: > The request is for six commands (NOT markups, but actual music commands > that affect the MIDI output and so on): > > \segno > \fine > \tocoda > \coda > \dacapo > \dalsegno Disclaimer: I am not a Lilypond developer. But I guess the answer