Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > I think some intimidation could be present, but how to do it different? > > Not answering? > > Or (back to the draw-dashed-line) demonstrating how to do it with: > drawing a small line > some padding > drawing a small line with appropriate offset > some padding > drawing a

Space containing text between two bars

2012-10-26 Thread Nick Payne
How can I achieve an output that looks like the attached example, where the final bar of the piece is separated from the preceding bars by some text? Is there an LSR snippet that has this sort of layout? Nick <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-use

Re: Staff spacing for Z beam

2012-10-26 Thread Keith OHara
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:42:27 -0700, Helge Kruse wrote: 2012/10/26 Keith OHara Making space locally is probably the better option. You need to find something that does not overlay the staves (that is, not the Stems) and tell LilyPond to give that thing more space Further I have at least t

Re: last time around for remove bar numbers won't upgrade.

2012-10-26 Thread Jay Hamilton
Wow, I can even understand this, now. Thanks Jay On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Morley < thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Jay, > > 2012/10/26 Jay Hamilton : > > David- > > When I tried to use the solutions suggested nothing happened, no log > report > > nada. That's what I

Re: What is the oldest convert-ly available?

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/27 Thomas Morley : > 2012/10/27 Mike Blackstock : >> There are a few things on Mutopia I would like to upgrade, one of which is >> version 1.7 >> >> I visited http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/ and the earliest >> version there is 2.8.8, from 2006. I'm guessing that it will

Re: What is the oldest convert-ly available?

2012-10-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-27 01:39, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/10/27 Mike Blackstock : There are a few things on Mutopia I would like to upgrade, one of which is version 1.7 I visited http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/ and the earliest version there is 2.8.8, from 2006. I'm guessing that it wil

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/27 David Nalesnik : > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > >>> Also: rather than simply translating the dashed-line stencil command, >>> it might be nice to ensure that you can't get that ugly dot at the end >>> of the line or having it end with a space.when you haven'

Re: What is the oldest convert-ly available?

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/27 Mike Blackstock : > There are a few things on Mutopia I would like to upgrade, one of which is > version 1.7 > > I visited http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/ and the earliest > version there is 2.8.8, from 2006. I'm guessing that it will convert > versions back to somewhe

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: >> Also: rather than simply translating the dashed-line stencil command, >> it might be nice to ensure that you can't get that ugly dot at the end >> of the line or having it end with a space.when you haven't guessed the >> right on/off combin

Re: why does print-all-headers print the meta-data multiple times?

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/27 Nils Gey : > Hello list, > > Below is a very short lilypond snippet. > Why is the title printed for each score again if print-all-headers = ##t ? > > This is not a question how to work around. I know I can deactivate the > print-all-header or write an extra header into score with title

Re: Cross-staff slur with irregular shape

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Rivers
Thank you David. I especially appreciate the example code. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Cross-staff-slur-with-irregular-shape-tp135374p135383.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ li

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/26 David Nalesnik : > Harm, > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Thomas Morley > wrote: > > [...] > >> Hi David (N), >> >> I think the draw-dashed-line-command is worth putting into the source. >> If you agree, I will turn it into a patch the next days. > > Unbelievable. You must have sen

why does print-all-headers print the meta-data multiple times?

2012-10-26 Thread Nils Gey
Hello list, Below is a very short lilypond snippet. Why is the title printed for each score again if print-all-headers = ##t ? This is not a question how to work around. I know I can deactivate the print-all-header or write an extra header into score with title = "" or ##f. The question is why

Re: last time around for remove bar numbers won't upgrade.

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Jay, 2012/10/26 Jay Hamilton : > David- > When I tried to use the solutions suggested nothing happened, no log report > nada. That's what I mean by ground to a halt. Therefore I can't tell you > what happened because I have no information. As for what I meant by I > expected putting \remove

Re: Cross-staff slur with irregular shape

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Michael, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Michael Rivers wrote: > I'm notating "Quatre Poèmes" by Guy Ropartz > > http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b3/IMSLP24553-PMLP55389-Ropartz_-_4_Po__mes__voice_and_piano_.pdf > > and I would like cross-staff slurs shaped like the ones on th

Re: last time around for remove bar numbers won't upgrade.

2012-10-26 Thread Eluze
reducing your example to a minimal part and changing the context where to remove things I came to this code: melody = \relative { \repeat unfold 100 c } \score { \new Staff \melody } \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Time_signature_engraver" \remove "Bar_engraver" \remove

What is the oldest convert-ly available?

2012-10-26 Thread Mike Blackstock
There are a few things on Mutopia I would like to upgrade, one of which is version 1.7 I visited http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/ and the earliest version there is 2.8.8, from 2006. I'm guessing that it will convert versions back to somewhere around version 2.0. Is that about ri

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/26 David Nalesnik : > Hi James, > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, james wrote: > >> >> My main issue is that when I don't understand how to do something, while >> there might be a way to do it that I could understand, because the "power >> users" are the ones that more often than not

last time around for remove bar numbers won't upgrade.

2012-10-26 Thread Jay Hamilton
David- When I tried to use the solutions suggested nothing happened, no log report nada. That's what I mean by ground to a halt. Therefore I can't tell you what happened because I have no information. As for what I meant by I expected putting \remove "Bar_number_engraver" with \remove "Bar_engra

Cross-staff slur with irregular shape

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Rivers
I'm notating "Quatre Poèmes" by Guy Ropartz http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b3/IMSLP24553-PMLP55389-Ropartz_-_4_Po__mes__voice_and_piano_.pdf and I would like cross-staff slurs shaped like the ones on the third system of the first page of the edition linked to above. (The slur b

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Harm, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: [...] > Hi David (N), > > I think the draw-dashed-line-command is worth putting into the source. > If you agree, I will turn it into a patch the next days. Unbelievable. You must have sent this when I was writing the same thing in th

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Kevin, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote: > Dear David and Harm, > > Thank you both for the (super)quick responses - they both work perfectly! > I'm glad to hear this! @Harm-- Do you think that a command like this would be worthwhile in the code base? If so, we could

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/10/26 David Nalesnik : > David, > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> David Nalesnik writes: >> >>> However, there are often questions that can't be answered in any way >>> but to delve into Scheme. As recently, for example, when a question >>> was posed about using \

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
David, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Nalesnik writes: > >> However, there are often questions that can't be answered in any way >> but to delve into Scheme. As recently, for example, when a question >> was posed about using \draw-line to make a dashed line instea

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik writes: > However, there are often questions that can't be answered in any way > but to delve into Scheme. As recently, for example, when a question > was posed about using \draw-line to make a dashed line instead of a > solid one. AFAIK, there's no simple way to do it which you

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi James, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, james wrote: > > My main issue is that when I don't understand how to do something, while > there might be a way to do it that I could understand, because the "power > users" are the ones that more often than not respond, I'm left with an answer > th

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

2012-10-26 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear David and Harm, Thank you both for the (super)quick responses - they both work perfectly! Kevin >> I'm not aware of a markup command which draws dashed lines, and it >> appears that \draw-line is tied to a solid line. Its possible, >> however, to adapt the definition of \draw-line (found i

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I re-read the learning manual when a major stable version is > released, just to become familiar with any major changes. I know how > to search the notation reference for the contexts or engravers I > might want to modify, and what modifications I can make to them, > because these kinds of chang

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread james
On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:11 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > james writes: > >> On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> … >>> What you are witnessing on the user list is the >>> emergence of "power users", a class of users narrowing the gap between >>> users and core developers. Yes, the

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
james writes: > On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> … >> What you are witnessing on the user list is the >> emergence of "power users", a class of users narrowing the gap between >> users and core developers. Yes, they juggle with complex material. But >> that does not mean t

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread james
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > … > What you are witnessing on the user list is the > emergence of "power users", a class of users narrowing the gap between > users and core developers. Yes, they juggle with complex material. But > that does not mean that things have actual

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
Jay, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Jay Hamilton wrote: > Janek- > I'm not going to do that [upgrade to 2.16]. Here's a few reasons why. > I've been using lilypond since some kind of 1 version. Some of the > stable versions have been baby steps and easy to accommodate and understand. > M

Re: Staff spacing for Z beam

2012-10-26 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Keith OHara" To: Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 6:08 AM Subject: Re: Staff spacing for Z beam Helge Kruse gmx.net> writes: I want to write cross staff beams like you can see in the attached example. \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacin

Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

2012-10-26 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/10/25 David Kastrup : > Jay Hamilton writes: > >> Janek- >> I'm not going to do that. Here's a few reasons why. > > Well, obviously I am rather partial here, but I quite disagree with your > assessment here. What you are witnessing on the user list is the > emergence of "power users", a clas