Re: a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> today's no special anniversary, but i'd like to publicly thank David >> Kastrup for all the work he's been doing on LilyPond for the last >> years. Many of his patches are relatively small cleanups and code >> simplifications in the areas i have no experience with, so it's hard >> to appreciat

Re: a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread MING TSANG
Message: 7 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:51:50 +0200 From: Janek Warcho? To: David Kastrup , LilyPond Users     Subject: a thank you :) Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, today's no special anniversary, but i'd like to publicly thank David Kastrup for all the work

Re: a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread Chris Crossen
On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi, > > today's no special anniversary, but i'd like to publicly thank David > Kastrup for all the work he's been doing on LilyPond for the last > years. Many of his patches are relatively small cleanups and code > simplifications in the area

Re: a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread Karol Majewski
Yeah... just imagine where would be LilyPond without David we would probably still use 2.12 ;) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread James Worlton
On Aug 17, 2014 4:52 PM, "Janek Warchoł" wrote: > > Hi, > > today's no special anniversary, but i'd like to publicly thank David > Kastrup for all the work he's been doing on LilyPond for the last > years. Many of his patches are relatively small cleanups and code > simplifications in the areas i

a thank you :)

2014-08-17 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, today's no special anniversary, but i'd like to publicly thank David Kastrup for all the work he's been doing on LilyPond for the last years. Many of his patches are relatively small cleanups and code simplifications in the areas i have no experience with, so it's hard to appreciate them when

texinfo manual?

2014-08-17 Thread Steven Arntson
I've installed the newest stable version of Lilypond on my system, updating from the moldy version in the Ubuntu repo. It works great! One thing I'm missing now is the manual in texinfo format (I think). I use Emacs to enter my lilypond docs, and I used to have a bunch of manuals that I could open

Re: Convert semitones to pitch?

2014-08-17 Thread Paul Morris
mark damerell wrote > pitch-semitones converts a pitch to semitones. Please does the inverse > function exist? Hi Mark, As I understand it, what is called a "pitch" in LilyPond consists of three values: an octave, a note name/position within that octave (ABCDEFG), and an alteration (sharp, flat,

Re: Convert semitones to pitch?

2014-08-17 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Le samedi 16 août 2014, 23:16:15 rm damerell a écrit : > pitch-semitones converts a pitch to semitones. Please does the inverse > function exist? > Don't know exactly what you need. Perhaps you think at something like that : (The function takes c' as reference note, and shows all altered notes wi

Re: Hide the system start bar before a single context?

2014-08-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Trevor, 2014-08-17 19:56 GMT+02:00 Trevor Bača : > But I really do appreciate seeing your thinking in these snippets; it's > definitely helping me work through possibilities. > Well I know sometimes my codes are a little weird but this is how I work : if I have a job to finish I'll do my bes

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >>> 2. In the future, perhaps leave out the utterly useless word “utterly” >>> from your otherwise helpful answers; it’ll go a long way to keeping >>> the spirit of the list above the dirt. An equally effective — and much >>> more positive — answer would hav

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, >> 2. In the future, perhaps leave out the utterly useless word “utterly” >> from your otherwise helpful answers; it’ll go a long way to keeping >> the spirit of the list above the dirt. An equally effective — and much >> more positive — answer would have been “And remove the unnecessary

Re: Hide the system start bar before a single context?

2014-08-17 Thread Trevor Bača
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Trevor, > > 2014-08-17 0:42 GMT+02:00 Trevor Bača : > > > >> I'm looking to remove the system start *bar* (rather than the start brace >> or bracket). >> > > Oups, wrong snippet, did not check w

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David K, > >> And remove the utterly pointless >> >> \context { >>\Global >>\grobdescriptions #all-grob-descriptions >> } > > 1. Interesting! This is what I was specifically told to do by Mike > S. Was it necessary in an earlier version, but not now? It i

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Nora Widdecke
Hi David and Kieren, now it works like a charm! Thank you both! Nora ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David K, > And remove the utterly pointless > > \context { >\Global >\grobdescriptions #all-grob-descriptions > } 1. Interesting! This is what I was specifically told to do by Mike S. Was it necessary in an earlier version, but not now? 2. In the future, perhaps leave out the utte

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread David Kastrup
David Nalesnik writes: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nora Widdecke wrote: > >> Hi Kieren, >> >> unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I tried both in 2.18.2 and 2.19.11. > The reason this doesn't work is that \allowGrobCallback hasn't been called. > Add the following to your layout blo

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David and Nora, > The reason this doesn't work is that \allowGrobCallback hasn't been called. > Add the following to your layout block: > > \context { > \Score > \allowGrobCallback font-interface.font-size > } I’m so sorry I forgot that. Thanks, David! All the best, Kieren. __

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nora Widdecke wrote: > Hi Kieren, > > unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I tried both in 2.18.2 and 2.19.11. > > This is what I did (with the function definitions above, of course): > > \score { > > << > > \new Voice = "Melody" \relative c'{ > > c4 d

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Nora Widdecke
Hi Kieren, unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I tried both in 2.18.2 and 2.19.11. This is what I did (with the function definitions above, of course): \score { << \new Voice = "Melody" \relative c'{ c4 d e f } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Melody" { c d e f } >> \layout { \context { \Gl

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nora, > Where did you find it that fast? I sponsored this very function from Mike Solomon a few years ago. =) I really think it — or something essentially identical — should be in the base distro. All the best, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Nora Widdecke
Hi Kieren, thank you! I'll try (and play with) that at once. Where did you find it that fast? Nora On 17.08.2014 17:29, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Nora, how do I assign an absolute value to LyricText.font-size? allowGrobCallback = #(define-scheme-function (parser location syms) (symbol-li

Re: Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nora, > how do I assign an absolute value to LyricText.font-size? allowGrobCallback = #(define-scheme-function (parser location syms) (symbol-list?) (let ((interface (car syms)) (sym (cadr syms))) #{ \with { \consists #(lambda (context) `(

Same font size for lyrics and markup

2014-08-17 Thread Nora Widdecke
Hi, I have a score of a song with one line of lyrics and the remaining stanzas as markup below. Now I'd like the font size of the lyrics to be the same as the font size of the markup text. I tried using \override LyricText.font-size = #someNumber but that applies someNumber as a factor, not

Note names inside dots

2014-08-17 Thread Steven Harris
Hi all I hope this is the right place to get some advice Can you put note names inside the dots of chord diagrams ? Not fingerings, Note names ? Thank you in advance Steven___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Hide the system start bar before a single context?

2014-08-17 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Trevor, 2014-08-17 0:42 GMT+02:00 Trevor Bača : > I'm looking to remove the system start *bar* (rather than the start brace > or bracket). > Oups, wrong snippet, did not check well enough.. I thought of another one. How about something like : \version "2.19.11" addStartBar = \markup { \h