Re: [OT] gmail: not able to paste code

2015-09-11 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
jEdit is available for Windows Unix/Linux Mac OS X VMS So, Windows is not a hindrance to use jEdit. jEdit needs Java, also available for all platforms. Actual version is jEdit 5.2. I actually do not use jEdit, I stopped it about 20 years ago as the future development was doubtful. I use Linu

Fwd: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Urs Liska
I assume this was intended for the list. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Martin Tarenskeen Gesendet: 11. September 2015 23:09:32 MESZ An: Urs Liska Betreff: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages > But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, and it should > not

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Kim Shrier
I’m 60 and I program for a living. I have been using lilypond almost from the time it first came out. I mainly use it for typesetting medieval and renaissance music, sometimes from original notation or for re-typsetting poorly typeset editions. I have contributed some minor enhancements and bug f

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Brett Duncan
I'm a 48 year old school teacher (Mathematics and Computing). I'm also the pianist in a jazz ensemble, which is what keeps me using Lilypond - re-scoring pieces for which we have mainly hand-written scores (some of them atrociously scribbled down). I used to mainly use jEdit/LilyPondTool, but

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Colin Campbell
On 2015-09-11 06:17 PM, Tim Reeves wrote: So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks! ;) It has been said that the way to avoid becoming an old dog is to keep learning new tricks

Re: [OT] gmail: not able to paste code

2015-09-11 Thread Nick Payne
On 12/09/2015 07:59, Thomas Morley wrote: 2015-09-11 23:36 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : Hi all, right now I'm not able to copy/paste code from jEdit into a mail. I'm using gmail on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit (the host) $ uname -a Linux kasten 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:42:59 UTC 20

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread William Marchant
I am 84. Wrote my first programme in 1965. Didn't keep it up because I wasn't fast enough to earn money at it. Did some Pascal programming later. Interesting utilities, now all out of date. Started using Lilypond and Frescobaldi about nine months ago on ubuntu. I make music sheets for

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Webster
So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks! ;) OK, I'm 77. I use Lilypond only to engrave fiddle tunes for my own use. Be well, Jonathan ___

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Tim Reeves
> Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:22:45 +0200 > From: Urs Liska > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages > Message-ID: <55f33815.40...@openlilylib.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > > > Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bell

Re: [OT] gmail: not able to paste code

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-09-11 23:59 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > 2015-09-11 23:36 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : >> Hi all, >> >> right now I'm not able to copy/paste code from jEdit into a mail. >> >> I'm using gmail on Ubuntu 14.04 > > 64-bit (the host) > $ uname -a > Linux kasten 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Au

Re: [OT] gmail: not able to paste code

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-09-11 23:36 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley : > Hi all, > > right now I'm not able to copy/paste code from jEdit into a mail. > > I'm using gmail on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit (the host) $ uname -a Linux kasten 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:42:59 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux he

[OT] gmail: not able to paste code

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi all, right now I'm not able to copy/paste code from jEdit into a mail. I'm using gmail on Ubuntu 14.04 Can somebody confirm? Or ever heard of? Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m a 68 year-old retired GP. I took up guitar aged 15, playing folk and rock stuff by ear, although I had learned piano long enough in primary school to know what a staff looked like, and I played in folk clubs and bands until medicine took over. After a long career break(!), I took up guitar

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bellows: > Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers > collected and analyzed etc. I didn't intend to drop that poll idea. But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, and it should not be just buried in the mailing list arch

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Bockett Hunter
I'm 72. I started using Lilypond because it's free, and easy to use for a quick-and-dirty job. I've continued to use it for its ability to set Renaissance music: scholarly appendages to notes, incipits, Petrucci style breves and longs, indefinite length terminal longs... It's a lot better than w

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:12:41PM +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: > Le 10/09/2015 15:00, Peter Bjuhr a écrit : > > > > > >On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: > >>>This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users > >>>and developers? > >>Remind me in two weeks and I'll

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread David Bellows
Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers collected and analyzed etc. Me: 46-year-old composer. I use Lilypond for all my scores. I've used off and on for 10 years(?) but every day for the past 3 years. I started using it because it was free, produced excellent scores, and ha

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 10/09/2015 15:00, Peter Bjuhr a écrit : On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and developers? Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... I send in this reminder not because I'm especially inte

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Urs Liska
Seems I have to chime in instead of preparing a merely statistical poll ... 42, pianist, musicologist (with half a decade's worth intermezzo of electronic music. Unfortunately that was just before my Lilypond/programming time, I already had some ideas to try generating LilyPond input from PureData

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Shane Brandes
41, organist, composer frequently for the church, sometimes commissioned works for special occasions and sometimes for self amusement. I use LilyPond to set the above, and sometimes to typeset stuff that has survived the ravages of time poorly causing the desire to have a cleaner score to work fro

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
PMA wrote Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:21 PM > PMA wrote: >> Martin Tarenskeen wrote: >>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >>> and developers? > > Better answer -- My age is 75. At 74 I thought I might be the oldest user/developer, but it seems I'm not. I

vertical kerning problem

2015-09-11 Thread Mike Solomon
Hey all, I have a nasty vertical kerning issue where the mezzo forte above the tenor’s “off” is sandwiched between the lyrics “Oz.” and “to” in the alto. Does anyone know how to force the dynamics (and therefore the tenor staff) below the lyrics in this case? Cheers, MS PastedGraphic-2.pdf

Re: mixed \time

2015-09-11 Thread BB
Indeed my starting point was http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#polymetric-notation> <%3CURL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#polymetric-notation%3E> In reality I did not mix \time, but changed the code for the question.

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

2015-09-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/09/15 19:59, Tim Reeves wrote: > Age: 49 > Amateur hornist. > Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises, > fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on > development. > I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've been using LP > fo

Re: Denemo

2015-09-11 Thread Richard Shann
On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 14:45 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:10:21 +0100 > Richard Shann wrote: > > > The distros only give very out-of-date versions, there is a link on the > > denemo.org website to modern ones: > > Just a nitpick: This gives me 1.2.2 while 1.2.4 has been ou