Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Have you tried using > > \once \override Stem.length-fraction = #(magstep -n) Yes. > Unfortunately the amount of shortening is not consistent across all > notes for a particular value of n. Exactly. This makes it quite inconvenient for applying a simple optical correction. Werner ___

Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 08/04/13 14:31, Werner LEMBERG wrote: what must I write to shorten an unbeamed stem by, say, one unit? A naive approach would be \once \override Stem.length #(- ly:stem::calc-length 1) which doesn't work of course... David Nalesnik wrote a very versatile function that makes such things v

Re: shortening a stem

2013-04-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > what must I write to shorten an unbeamed stem by, say, one unit? > > A naive approach would be > > > > \once \override Stem.length #(- ly:stem::calc-length 1) > > > > which doesn't work of course... > > David Nalesnik wrote a very versatile function that makes such > things very easy. You ca

Re: Refer to a staff relatively, not by name

2013-04-07 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Harm, thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't quite do what I need, and I don't really understand it. But fortunately it gives quite a good clue how to ask more concretely. It seems that functions/properties like ly:context-id ly:context-name provide information on the current co

Re: tracking lilypond builds with git

2013-04-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/7 Phil Holmes : > - Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" >> yeah, i do that too (had 20+ builds at one point of time). > > A quick count shows I've got about 77 builds on my Windows box... Whoah! You've beaten me, sir! ;) Janek ___ l

Re: tracking lilypond builds with git

2013-04-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "David Kastrup" Cc: "Phil Holmes" ; "LilyPond Users" Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 8:47 PM Subject: Re: tracking lilypond builds with git yeah, i do that too (had 20+ builds at one point of time). A quick count shows I've got about 77

Re: tracking lilypond builds with git

2013-04-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/4/7 Phil Holmes : > - Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" >> However, i'd be very interested in seeing a solution for this (i.e. >> how to efficiently store lily executables in a repository). > > Not convinced it's worth doing. The point of a repository is the ability to > t

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread pls
On 07.04.2013, at 19:29, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 04/07/2013 06:51 PM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: >> I realy like git too..Once i tried to make my own git server on my private >> web-server so when i finish the work i can send the customer his pdf folder >> link..but..that didnt work becou

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 04/07/2013 06:51 PM, Stjepan Horvat wrote: > I realy like git too..Once i tried to make my own git server on my private > web-server so when i finish the work i can send the customer his pdf folder > link..but..that didnt work becouse you cant see actual files on git web > server..like you can o

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread Stjepan Horvat
Hej thank you for all your anwsers.. I realy like git too..Once i tried to make my own git server on my private web-server so when i finish the work i can send the customer his pdf folder link..but..that didnt work becouse you cant see actual files on git web server..like you can on github.. > It

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/7 Mark Knoop > man gedit: > > SYNOPSIS >gedit [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+LINE[:COLUMN]] > > which suggests you will need > > editor = gedit > command = "{file}" +{line}:{start} > > but I've not tested this. > yes, it works ___ lilypond-user

Re: tracking lilypond builds with git

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > Not convinced it's worth doing. The point of a repository is the > ability to track change. Well, the ability to save storage place is also nice. And you can still do git bisect... > If that's of no value (and it isn't with binaries) then you might as > well just have

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/4/7 Mark Knoop > https://github.com/markk/textedit-ly > nice! it works with gvim how can I set it for Gedit? I've tried removing --remote in the options, but it's not enough thanks Federico ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Knoop
At 10:40 on 07 Apr 2013, Orm Finnendahl wrote: >Am Sonntag, den 07. April 2013 um 09:43:30 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David >Kastrup: >> >> I think I also saw some recipe for getting evince to work with >> point&click when doing a web search, but it involved meddling with >> the gconf configuration of ei

Re: tracking lilypond builds with git (was: lilypond source and musicsheet database)

2013-04-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Janek Warchoł" To: "David Kastrup" Cc: "LilyPond Users" Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 4:11 PM Subject: tracking lilypond builds with git (was: lilypond source and musicsheet database) Hi, 2013/4/7 David Kastrup : Janek Warchoł writes: 2013/4/7 David

tracking lilypond builds with git (was: lilypond source and music sheet database)

2013-04-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/4/7 David Kastrup : > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> 2013/4/7 David Kastrup : >>> Packing actual executables could possibly also work with reasonable >>> overhead. >>> >>> There would be an advantage to a repository storing _complete_ compiled >>> versions of LilyPond: it would make "git bis

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Shane Brandes
I have used Okular for quite some time, at least 2 years now, as the necessary point click plugin for Frescobaldi with Lilypond. It works fine on Ubuntu 12.10 and has since the last long term version. regards, Shane On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Orm Finnendahl writes:

call for italian users: translation of "feathered beams" and other terms

2013-04-07 Thread Federico Bruni
A request for italian users who have a good knowledge of music notation terminology. How would you translate "feathered beam"? http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/beams#feathered-beams I couldn't find any information on Internet nor in an italian book "Manuale di scrittura mus

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 04/07/2013 09:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Have you tried with LilyPond PDFs? I think they tend to compress on the > object level which _might_ work reasonably with some of git's packing > techniques. No. I did take a look inside them before writing my previous email -- they certainly have m

Re: Tie between voices

2013-04-07 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 7 avr. 2013, at 14:45, Christian wrote: > How can I make a tie go from the half note d in the lower part to the > quarter d in the upper part? > > > rightOne = \relative c'' { > b4 a | > } > > rightTwo = \relative c' { > 2 b | > } > > You can remove the tie engraver from the voice c

Tie between voices

2013-04-07 Thread Christian
How can I make a tie go from the half note d in the lower part to the quarter d in the upper part? rightOne = \relative c'' { b4 a | } rightTwo = \relative c' { 2 b | } ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > 2013/4/7 David Kastrup : >> Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: >> >>> On 04/06/2013 10:50 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: The things is, use git for tracking source files, not pdfs. If you put \version statements in all your .ly files, you can always recreate a pdf

Re: Music paper sizes

2013-04-07 Thread Reedmace Star
On 07.04.2013 10:35, Andrew Bernard wrote: I measure my Henle Verlag books of Bach to be 235 x 309mm (+/- 1mm) [9.25 x 12.17 inches]. I rather like this size, but I cannot find it referred to as a standard paper size anywhere at all. Do my learned colleagues here know what size it is, or is it a

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/7 David Kastrup : > Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > >> On 04/06/2013 10:50 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: >>> The things is, use git for tracking source files, not pdfs. If you >>> put \version statements in all your .ly files, you can always recreate >>> a pdf with appropriate LilyPond versio

Re: Tie direction within a chord

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
Christian writes: > I would like to adjust the tie direction within a chord. > How can I do that, I have tried the following. > > <\tieUp ais,~ \tieDown fis'~>2 2 | > > This doesn't work. \relative c'' { 2 2 } While you could work with \single\tieUp ~ and similar in newer versions of 2.

Re: Music paper sizes

2013-04-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
Possibly answering my own question, Metric Royal is 237 x 312, and if I measure better Henle is 234 x 309. It's standard in printing to use 3mm trim, so Metric Royal trimmed is the exact size. Can anybody familiar with the music publishing/printing industry confirm? Thanks! Andrew On 7/04/

Tie direction within a chord

2013-04-07 Thread Christian
I would like to adjust the tie direction within a chord. How can I do that, I have tried the following. <\tieUp ais,~ \tieDown fis'~>2 2 | This doesn't work. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
Orm Finnendahl writes: > Am Sonntag, den 07. April 2013 um 09:43:30 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David > Kastrup: >> >> I think I also saw some recipe for getting evince to work with >> point&click when doing a web search, but it involved meddling with the >> gconf configuration of either evince or GNOME

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Sonntag, den 07. April 2013 um 09:43:30 Uhr (+0200) schrieb David Kastrup: > > I think I also saw some recipe for getting evince to work with > point&click when doing a web search, but it involved meddling with the > gconf configuration of either evince or GNOME's URI handlers. That could be a

Music paper sizes

2013-04-07 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings List, I measure my Henle Verlag books of Bach to be 235 x 309mm (+/- 1mm) [9.25 x 12.17 inches]. I rather like this size, but I cannot find it referred to as a standard paper size anywhere at all. Do my learned colleagues here know what size it is, or is it a trim down of a larger s

Re: xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
Orm Finnendahl writes: > Hi, > > are there any recommendations for a stand-alone lilypond > point-and-click capable pdf viewer for current ubuntu distros? xdf > seems to be deprecated (see discussion: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195). > > Are there any emacs-cooperat

xpdf broken on ubuntu

2013-04-07 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, are there any recommendations for a stand-alone lilypond point-and-click capable pdf viewer for current ubuntu distros? xdf seems to be deprecated (see discussion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195). Are there any emacs-cooperative alternatives (without having to ins

Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

2013-04-07 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 04/06/2013 10:50 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> The things is, use git for tracking source files, not pdfs. If you >> put \version statements in all your .ly files, you can always recreate >> a pdf with appropriate LilyPond version. >> >> Actually, it might mak