Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
If you look at the MWE example I provided to illustrate what I believe is misleading information about a ‘FATAL’ error, then it has plain text which it ignores, claims a fatal error and proceeds to make a perfectly good PDF. Based on this it means one can have blocks of text as comments or docum

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, Unaware of such issue. Can you let me know what mail client you are using so I can test, so as to avoid this? Andrew On 17 April 2016 at 12:29, David Wright wrote: > Please can you quote in a way that's visible in text clients, > not just HTML ones. __

Re: Tuplet number direction

2016-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 15 Apr 2016 at 10:23:55 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > "Phil Holmes" writes: > > - Original Message - > > From: "David Kastrup" > > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:04 AM > >> Simon Albrecht writes: > >>> On 15.04.2016 00:51, Thomas Morley wrote: > (1) The TupletNumbers are a

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread David Wright
Please can you quote in a way that's visible in text clients, not just HTML ones. On Sat 16 Apr 2016 at 20:42:45 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I have not used any language of complaint, merely observation and puzzlement. > It was also not I that mentioned it is a regular source of confusion. O

Re: Tuplet number direction

2016-04-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-16 16:30 GMT+02:00 Trevor Daniels : > > Thomas Morley wrote Friday, April 15, 2016 11:25 PM > >> Agreed. I never considered to disallow tuplets over line-break. >> Gould has nothing to say about it? (I still don't own the book...) > > She has a complete chapter devoted to tuplets. She talk

Re: lyric on a rest | parenthesis

2016-04-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-16 21:40 GMT+02:00 mj : > Hi Thomas, (Harm?) Both alias... > > Thanks for the alternatives! :-) You're welcome, Harm > > MJ > > > On 04/14/2016 10:36 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: >> >> 2016-04-14 12:02 GMT+02:00 mj : >> >>> I am surprised to see that this: > > \parenthesize { c

Re: lyric on a rest | parenthesis

2016-04-16 Thread mj
Hi Thomas, (Harm?) Thanks for the alternatives! :-) MJ On 04/14/2016 10:36 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2016-04-14 12:02 GMT+02:00 mj : I am surprised to see that this: \parenthesize { c8 c } does not work to get two notes between two parenthesis? What's the logic behind that? Well, the m

Re: shorten trill spanner line

2016-04-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-16 21:30 GMT+02:00 matpen3@gmail : > Hi David , > > Many thanks. I tried but I’m a newbie and it’s not so clear… > I typed again and recompiled with ‘update syntax’ but I receive the same > error. > > The code was on a 2.11.13 version. > > > Matteo Have a look at: http://lilypond.org/doc

Re: shorten trill spanner line

2016-04-16 Thread matpen3@gmail
Hi David , Many thanks. I tried but I’m a newbie and it’s not so clear… I typed again and recompiled with ‘update syntax’ but I receive the same error. The code was on a 2.11.13 version. Matteo > Il giorno 16 apr 2016, alle ore 21:13, David Kastrup ha > scritto: > > "matpen3@gmail" writ

Re: shorten trill spanner line

2016-04-16 Thread David Kastrup
"matpen3@gmail" writes: > Hi all, > > I’m trying to shorten the line of consecutive trills to keep them on the same > line. > I found a very old thread with a solution: > > \once \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'right #’padding = #10 > > but the syntax seems obsolete and I get an error.

shorten trill spanner line

2016-04-16 Thread matpen3@gmail
Hi all, I’m trying to shorten the line of consecutive trills to keep them on the same line. I found a very old thread with a solution: \once \override TrillSpanner #'bound-details #'right #’padding = #10 but the syntax seems obsolete and I get an error. Could you help me? Many thanks Matteo

Re: Tuplet number direction

2016-04-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Thomas Morley wrote Friday, April 15, 2016 11:25 PM > Agreed. I never considered to disallow tuplets over line-break. > Gould has nothing to say about it? (I still don't own the book...) She has a complete chapter devoted to tuplets. She talks of tuplets across barlines (can be sub-divided with

odd behaviour of \partCombine with \tag

2016-04-16 Thread Joseph Chrestien
Hello all, I think I might have found some kind of bug with \partCombine, hoping this is not useless noise. I did find a workaround, so it's no big problem, but maybe somebody can shed light on what is wrong. I'm using a \tag marker in a voice context, because I want the MIDI output to behav

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Noeck
Hi, Am 16.04.2016 um 12:52 schrieb Urs Liska: > There should be *some* sort of order of severity, like "warning", > "serious error", "fatal error". Yes. And the wording not only concerns the error itself. But also the rest of the message. If I compile: \version "2.19.80" { a } I get a perfectly

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.04.2016 um 12:42 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > I have not used any language of complaint, merely observation and > puzzlement. It was also not I that mentioned it is a regular source of > confusion. Others do seem to think so. It is probably the first time this *specific* issue has been report

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
I have not used any language of complaint, merely observation and puzzlement. It was also not I that mentioned it is a regular source of confusion. Others do seem to think so. As to being the first, I may possibly be the first to write a lilypond compile server where I need to understand clearly

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Noeck
The wording 'fatal error' is perhaps a bit strong if a pdf is still produced. But I always liked it (especially as a beginner) that LilyPond tries hard to keep on going and produces output if it can, despite (partially) severe input errors on the user side. >From my experience, the return code ind

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard writes: > So gentlemen, since this is a regular source of confusion, You are the first to have complained. > and it certainly has had me glued up for many days wondering what is > wrong with my code, should this not be raised as a defect, or at the > very least the adjetctive ‘fa

Re: Lilypond error behaviour

2016-04-16 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 12:14 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: > So gentlemen, since this is a regular source of confusion, and it > certainly has had me glued up for many days wondering what is wrong > with my code, should this not be raised as a defect, or at the very > least the adjetctive ‘fatal’ rem