Re: lilypond "preprocessor"?

2023-12-10 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 08:46 -0500, Michael Werner wrote: > And then I would have anotherFile.ly containing something like: > > \include "song.ly" > > \book { > \myHeaders > \score { > \theMusic > } > } Thanks for the suggestion Michael. I like that idea, but it doesn't help with the p

Re: ly:set-option png backend broken?

2023-12-10 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 13:13 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 17:24:46 (+), Stefano Antonelli wrote: > > Is there any way to produce png output without --png in the > > command? > > Postprocess with: > > $ convert a.pdf a.png > $ gm convert a.pdf a.png > > ie, convert is

Re: lilypond "preprocessor"?

2023-12-10 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 10:56 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > It would be better for ly2video not to modify the input file. Technically, it modifies a copy of the input file. The scraping is clunky and I don't like it though it seems necessary. The idea, I suppose, is to make it easy for the user

Re: ly:set-option png backend broken?

2023-12-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Dec 2023 at 17:24:46 (+), Stefano Antonelli wrote: > On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 09:30 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > There is simply not "png" backend. The three available backends are > > "ps" (generates PostScript, and PDF or PNG by conversion through > > Ghostscript), "svg" (generate

Re: ly:set-option png backend broken?

2023-12-10 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 09:30 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > There is simply not "png" backend. The three available backends are > "ps" (generates PostScript, and PDF or PNG by conversion through > Ghostscript), "svg" (generates SVG only), and, in more recent > versions, "cairo" (generates PostScrip

LilyPond 2.25.11

2023-12-10 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.11. This is termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for testing new features and recent bug fixes. However, if you require stability, we recommend using version 2.24.3, the current stable release. Please refer to the Install

Re: lilypond "preprocessor"?

2023-12-10 Thread Michael Werner
Hi Stef, On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 11:07 PM Stefano Antonelli < santone...@algosolutions.com> wrote: > Any other options for getting the header block from an included file? > I don't know if this'll be directly usable in your use case, but I do something like this with most of the music I engrave.

Re: Lilypond on Linux/Fedora 39 error after system update.

2023-12-10 Thread Laurie Savage
Thanks, it worked. Here are the last three lines of the compilation! Converting to `Blue_Trane-2lines.pdf'... Success: compilation successfully completed Compilation finished at Sun Dec 10 22:53:43 Laurie Savage https://www.queensofthewest.com/ The Latest Queens of The West clips https://www.yo

Re: lilypond "preprocessor"?

2023-12-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> I know I can run lilypond on song.ly and it will implicitly wrap it in > a \score block, but is that contained in an intermediate file somewhere > I can get access to? No, there is no such file. The implicit wrapping happens at the level of LilyPond's data structures, it's not a textual macro e

Re: Lilypond on Linux/Fedora 39 error after system update.

2023-12-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Never mind, I can reproduce it after updating my own system. Filed as  [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253842](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253842) For now, please try `sudo dnf install ghostscript-10.01.2` signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messa

Re: Lilypond on Linux/Fedora 39 error after system update.

2023-12-10 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 14:09 +1100, Laurie Savage wrote: > Hi, > > I was editing a lead sheet for my combo and it compiled fine. I > closed Frescobaldi, accepted Fedora's nags to update and went to > bed. I opened Frescobaldi this morning and get this error message > on any file I try to compile. >

Re: Lilypond on Linux/Fedora 39 error after system update.

2023-12-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
There must be some other error message before this one that is causing it. Please include it as well. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ly:set-option png backend broken?

2023-12-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
The option is working as [documented](https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/usage/advanced-command_002dline-options-for-lilypond.html) (although the failure mode could be better). There is simply not "png" backend. The three available backends are "ps" (generates PostScript, and PDF or P

Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.

2023-12-10 Thread Paul Hodges
Here's my (rather tedious) suggestion for a workaround: so that the alternative starts with a note, not a rest, provide a note and hide it, then patch the rest in using another voice; the lyrics need a skip to avoid the dummy note.  It works (see below). Paul % \v