Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

On 27/05/18 11:50, Robert Schmaus wrote: > The analogy is probably not perfect because investing time in Scheme > would benefit my overall Lilypond abilities, I guess. Learning different ways to think is ALWAYS valuable. Scheme requires a different mindset from most languages, so learning it WILL

Re: Grace Notes size

At 08:42 27/05/2018 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote: For reference, what you are seeing is a line endings issue. Windows' Notepad has always been famously and notoriously bad in this regard, as it only supports the carriage-return/line-feed (CRLF) combination for delimiting lines. [...] Most modern tex

Re: Grace Notes size

2018-05-27 17:42 GMT+02:00 Aaron Hill : > On 2018-05-27 06:10, foxfanfare wrote: >> >> Thomas Morley-2 wrote >>> >>> Is this significant different from what you see? >> >> Unfortunately, yes! >> >> > > > For reference, what you are see

Re: Grace Notes size

On 2018-05-27 06:10, foxfanfare wrote: Thomas Morley-2 wrote Is this significant different from what you see? Unfortunately, yes! For reference, what you are seeing is a line endings issue. Windows' Notepad has always been fam

Re: Grace Notes size

2018-05-27 15:10 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : >> Thomas Morley-2 wrote > As editor I'm using jEdit > > A screenshot of the relevant entry in music-functions.scm accessed via > jEdit: > https://i.imgur.com/yM6oA6y.png > > Is this significant different from what you see? > > Cheers, > Harm > > > Unfortun

Re: Grace Notes size

> Thomas Morley-2 wrote As editor I'm using jEdit A screenshot of the relevant entry in music-functions.scm accessed via jEdit: https://i.imgur.com/yM6oA6y.png Is this significant different from what you see? Cheers, Harm Unfortunately, yes!

Re: \path and \postscript in staff

2018-05-26 9:38 GMT+02:00 Helge Kruse : > Am 25.05.2018 um 13:13 schrieb Thomas Morley: >> Hi, >> >> you'll need a spanner from note to note, Glissando is your best bet, I'd say. >> I once made the attached code. > > Wow! That solves the problem. This fancy glissando can be fine tuned for > each in

Re: Scheme learning

> On 27 May 2018, at 14:13, Helge Kruse wrote: > > Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard: >> I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of >> Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of >> computer science. This is the famous Wizar

Re: Grace Notes size

2018-05-27 13:58 GMT+02:00 foxfanfare : > Thomas Morley-2 wrote >> The defaults for graces are defined in music-functions.scm, look for >> `general-grace-settings'. > > I just wonder, how do you read easily this kind of file? Because the default > output in Windows Bloc Notes isn't very practical.

Re: Lilypond is not generating a pdf file

Peter Horan wrote > I have previously used Lilypond on an older machine using Vista. > > This machine is new, running Windows 10. > > After installation, dropping test.ly onto the Lilypond short cut creates a > test.log file but no pdf file as expected. It looks as though Lilypond is > silently

Re: Scheme learning

Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of > Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of > computer science. This is the famous Wizard book, from the cover picture. > My hardback copy sits o

Re: Grace Notes size

Thank you both for your help! I noticed I can include the new values in the layout context which is absolutely great for what I tried to achieve: \layout { \context { \Voice $(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Stem 'length-fraction 0.8) $(add-grace-property 'Voice 'Flag 'font-size -

Scheme learning

Hi Robert, I've started a new thread on the topic under discussion of the difficulty of learning Scheme. This comes up frequently. Putting my programmer hat on, it's a common experience for programmers brought up in C family languages to be baffled and daunted by Scheme and Lisp family languages.

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Robert Schmaus writes: > Am 27.05.18 um 12:09 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Robert Schmaus writes: > >>> Ok, thanks again for the references. I think for now, I simply stay >>> within the "out of the box" Lilypond limits. I'd have to invest >>> hours of learning Scheme - that's not an option for the

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Am 27.05.18 um 12:09 schrieb David Kastrup: Robert Schmaus writes: Thanks Aaron, it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally helpful at gett

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Am 27.05.2018 um 12:47 schrieb Robert Schmaus: Hi Urs, that looks very good! I was desperately looking for something like this most of yesterday ... Thank you, I'm sure this will help me a lot. Great to hear. Then please support the project by taking notes (and report back to me) of anythi

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Hi Urs, that looks very good! I was desperately looking for something like this most of yesterday ... Thank you, I'm sure this will help me a lot. Best, Robert Am 27.05.18 um 11:53 schrieb Urs Liska: Hi Robert, you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de It is *far* from complete

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Robert Schmaus writes: > Thanks Aaron, > > it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. > > In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" > available. You'd think that they would put something up that's > acutally helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that bo

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

On 27/05/18 10:49, Robert Schmaus wrote: > From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one with > Scheme-problems. > Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise > anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get > into it, too. >

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Hi Robert, you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de It is *far* from complete and significantly less authoritative than the other resources, but it is explicitly written with LilyPond in mind and with efforts to overcome exactly these understanding obstacles (I wrote that when my

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Thanks Aaron, it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid. In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that book. And maybe that even was their

Lilypond is not generating a pdf file

I have previously used Lilypond on an older machine using Vista. This machine is new, running Windows 10. After installation, dropping test.ly onto the Lilypond short cut creates a test.log file but no pdf file as expected. It looks as though Lilypond is silently quitting before drawing everyt

Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

Hi David, thanks for your reply! Real simple would be repeattype = "volta" ... \repeat \repeattype 2 { ... } ... That *is* simple ... if someone else apart from you would have suggested that this works at all, I probably wouldn't have believed it. Try define-void-function (even without