Re: SOLVED: going backwards in time

2008-09-05 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Joe, Yes, it looks like GUILE has required GNU MP arbitrary precision arithmetic library since 2006: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensuse/oss-factory/x86_64/guile-devel-1.8.5-17.x86_64.html Best regards, Adam On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2

Re: SOLVED: going backwards in time

2008-09-05 Thread Adam James Wilson
#x27;long long' for the > rational class. We could start using GUILE's rationals, but it will > complicate memory management, so I think it's not worth the trouble. > > Anyone for a patch? > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Adam James Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: going backwards in time

2008-09-04 Thread Adam James Wilson
It looks like I'm going down a road of rhythmic complexity that breaks Lilypond rendering in the absence of arbitrary precision arithmetic. Han-Wen: would it be possible for me to sponsor a move to arbitrary precision arithmetic? As you say, GUILE does support this option, and it would be possibl

Re: SOLVED: going backwards in time

2007-11-30 Thread Adam James Wilson
07, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 6:28 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2007/11/29, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I see -- so even with my arithmetic error (which started as a tiny >

Re: SOLVED: going backwards in time

2007-11-29 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Han-Wen, I see -- so even with my arithmetic error (which started as a tiny offset of 9/6319), we should expect Lily to render the score. I can see that if fractional relations get complex enough to require more precision than 32-bit values, there could be a problem. Is a possible solution to

SOLVED: going backwards in time

2007-11-28 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Trevor, As you suspected, there WAS indeed a math error -- I checked things over yet again and found I'd entered a time signature as 4356/6319 instead of 4365/6319. (I'm doing some things algorithmically and some intuitively, hence the entering of some data by hand). I feel considerably relie

Re: hang --"going backwards in time; " "insane spring distance requested"

2007-11-27 Thread Adam James Wilson
It is nice to see everyone is so interested in my "strange" fractions -- it is great that these are possible in lilypond. However, I'm still not sure what is breaking my code. Possibilities are: 1. I'm making some syntactical mistake. 2. I made a math error someplace. 3. There's a real bug. Unf

Re: hang --"going backwards in time; " "insane spring distance requested"

2007-11-27 Thread Adam James Wilson
rent tempo -- hence the strange timesigs on the staff containing this part. But I still don't understand Valentin -- you're telling me you can't tap out rhythms in 2667/25276 time? :) Best, Adam On 11/27/07, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/11/26, A

hang --"going backwards in time;" "insane spring distance requested"

2007-11-26 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi all, I'm using some complicated time signatures, like 3599/11748 followed by 2667/25276 followed by 177/568, etc. (I have a good reason for this). They render nicely for nearly ten pages or so of music, and then suddenly adding an additional "strange" time signature causes two programming erro

Re: ReheasalMark in Staff context is broken - offer for sponsorship of fix

2007-10-22 Thread Adam James Wilson
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try my fix, to move the Break_align_engraver to the Staff context? > \layout { > > \context { >\Staff >\consists "Mark_engraver" >\consists "Break_align_engraver" > } >

SOLUTION: Re: scheme function to align time-sig above nearest RehearsalMark?

2007-10-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
There is a much easier way to do this thant I originally imagined. I enclosed the function that I came up with and a snippet to demonstrate. When you compile, note that the only problem is that the alignment behavior of the ReheasalMarks is undesirable, due to the ReheasalMark being moved to the

Re: ReheasalMark in Staff context is broken - sponsorship of fix?

2007-10-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
ext, but I have no idea if such an operation > will work well also for multi-stave scores or if something else will break. > > /Mats > > Adam James Wilson wrote: > > There is a problem when moving the RehearsalMark to the Staff > > context. In the case where the Rehea

ReheasalMark in Staff context is broken - can someone verify this snippet is a bug?

2007-10-18 Thread Adam James Wilson
There is a problem when moving the RehearsalMark to the Staff context. In the case where the RehearsalMark remains in the Score context (comment out the layout block below), the first RehearsalMark aligns to a Clef and the rest align to staff-bars. This is the correct behavior. But if you move

scheme function to align time-sig above nearest RehearsalMark?

2007-10-14 Thread Adam James Wilson
Here's a question for folks used to modifying lilypond with scheme - In my score there is a RehearsalMark above every barline in every staff. I want to be able to center each TimeSignature above its associated RehearsalMark. I'm using TimeSignature X and Y offsets to do this now manually; for ma

can't set RehearsalMark break-align-symbols

2007-10-14 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi all, I know this issue has come up before; just wondering if there is a workaround that doesn't involve tweaking each object that is aligned unsuitably . . . I have moved ReheasalMark to the Staff context. I want each RehearsalMark never to align to a clef but always to a staff-bar. The defa

problem modifying articulation mark

2007-09-25 Thread Adam James Wilson
I want to make the \accent articulation bold, and change its font size, while still being able to attach it to a note using "^" and "_". I gather from the documentation that the function below should do. However, only the font-size change seems to display any effect. I can even specify nonesense

Re: ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-23 Thread Adam James Wilson
\clef percussion \time 3/4 R2. \bar "|" g'2. ~ \bar "|" g'2. \bar "|"

Re: ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-23 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Ole, I think this is what you wanted; I attached the lilypond code (ole.ly) and a .png of the output (ole.png). Let me know if this is what you were going for. If it is this case that you wanted 7/8 to actually appear in the time of 3/4, as it does in the handwritten sample, you can do this

Re: ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-23 Thread Adam James Wilson
5 Quarter Notes for both the > bassclarinet and percussion" > Is it possible to make it more (human) readible on the base of your > snippet ( to have meter changes in the lower system of your snippet)? > > best, > ole > > > > Am 20.09.2007 um 23:48 schrieb Adam James

lilypond consistent crash

2007-09-23 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi folks, I'm pretty frustrrated at the moment - wondering if anyone has exeperienced a similar problem. I unfortunately don't have a small snippet to describe the problem, because it seems to arise from volume/complexity. . . Here's what I'm doing: I'm using a global "invisible" voice at 3/8 i

Re: ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-20 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Valentin, I added snippet to LSR under the title: "How to compress full-measure rests (e.g. "R4") in a compressMusic block in a poly-tempo situation." Let me know it passes muster. Best, Adam On 9/20/07, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/9/

Re: ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
wrote: > > 2007/9/20, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I answered my own question: it turns out if I set the \time of the > > offending staff to ["global" voice \time * crosspulse ratio] - in this > > case 3/8 * 4/9, or 1/6, the full measure rests

ANSWER, Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
\repeat unfold 9 { R4. \bar "|" } } } >> >> } >> } Best, Adam On 9/18/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks: > > Here'

Re: problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
, not 3 as I mistakenly wrote originally. Thanks, Adam On 9/18/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks: > > Here's a snippet with two staves: one with four bars of 3/8 and > another with 3 bars of 3/8 in the same time as the first four bars. > > I

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 58, Issue 71

2007-09-18 Thread Adam James Wilson
it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of lilypond-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. \breathe X-offset (Trevor Daniels) >2. help with stopStaff (Neil Thornock) >3. Re:help with stopStaff (Neil Thornock) > 4. Re:partial SpanBar possib

problem with full-measure rests in differently time-scaled staves

2007-09-18 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi folks: Here's a snippet with two staves: one with four bars of 3/8 and another with 3 bars of 3/8 in the same time as the first four bars. I used compressMusic to line them up, and I'm using a global "breaking" voice (imagine this pattern continuing for page and pages). The problem is, the fu

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-17 Thread Adam James Wilson
Wow Joe, thanks! This kicks ass! I can now remove all the whiteout blocks I've inserted throughout my score! Best, Adam On 9/17/07, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:44:22 Adam James Wilson wrote: > > I have a StaffGroup that contains four stave

Re: how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-11 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi all, Thanks everyone for being such active participants in this community - as a new user of Lilypond I'm finding it a great experience, both as a tool in and of itself and as an interaction between programmers/users/documenters/etc. I'm just looking at this thread for the first time after sen

Re: how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-10 Thread Adam James Wilson
dam On 9/10/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nevermind - I've answered my own question - here it is, for those interested: > > r16[ g16 \times 2/3 {r16 e'8] } > > Best, > Adam > > On 9/10/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-10 Thread Adam James Wilson
Nevermind - I've answered my own question - here it is, for those interested: r16[ g16 \times 2/3 {r16 e'8] } Best, Adam On 9/10/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems you can beam together tuplets followed by non-tuplets (v. 2.11): > > \times 2

how to beam non-tuplets with tuplets?

2007-09-10 Thread Adam James Wilson
It seems you can beam together tuplets followed by non-tuplets (v. 2.11): \times 2/3 {c'16[ c'8 } c'16 c'16] But beaming together non-tuplets followed by tuplets fails with an "unexpected ']'" error: c'16[ c'16 \times 2/3 {c'16 c'8 } ] Any known methods/hacks to get the second beaming example t

Re: how to "damp" TupletBracket slope?

2007-09-10 Thread Adam James Wilson
Thanks again Kieren and Trevor! Maybe you can help me with a separate issue involving beaming tuplets to non-tuplets (I'll also publish this to the list under an appropriate heading): It seems you can beam together tuplets followed by non-tuplets: \times 2/3 {c'16[ c'8 } c'16 c'16] But beaming

how to "damp" TupletBracket slope?

2007-09-10 Thread Adam James Wilson
I'd like to be able to "damp" TupletBrackets the way you can damp Beams to force horizontal TupletBrackets. I can't seem to find a similar method in the docs (I'm using 2.11.32). It seems that there was a "delta-y" argument for bracket slope in a much much older version of Lily . . . Is there a

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Adam James Wilson
; If Han-Wen or one of the senior devs can think of an idiomatic way to > implement such a feature, I'd be happy to sponsor ... would probably > make Adam's rather complicated multimetric stuff look even sharper ... > > > Trevor. > > > > On 9/6/07, Adam James Wilson

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-06 Thread Adam James Wilson
Thanks Trevor and Kieren, I had thought about InnerStaffGroups as well, but for maximum flexibility of turning on or off parts of the SpanBar, each inner staff would have to belong to more than one InnerStaffGroup, and I'm guessing that that is not possible. I'll try the whitebox trick! Thanks a

Re: partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Adam James Wilson
BTW - v. 2.11.32 On 9/4/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a StaffGroup that contains four staves. Most of the time, I > want a SpanBar to pass through all four staves. However, there are > some points at which I'd like the SpanBar to connect onl

partial SpanBar possible?

2007-09-04 Thread Adam James Wilson
I have a StaffGroup that contains four staves. Most of the time, I want a SpanBar to pass through all four staves. However, there are some points at which I'd like the SpanBar to connect only the bottom three staves, or the middle two staves. Changing StaffGroup.SpanBar #'transparent = ##t wipes

Re: Forbid_line_break_engraver

2007-08-20 Thread Adam James Wilson
NOT buggy after all. Best regards, Adam On 8/19/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies for so many postings on this issue - > > It turns out you can get proportional notation for two staves in > different tempos WITHIN pages, but not ACROSS pages. > &

Forbid_line_break_engraver

2007-08-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
My apologies for so many postings on this issue - It turns out you can get proportional notation for two staves in different tempos WITHIN pages, but not ACROSS pages. Lilypond seems to be fine with page breaking through a note duration, but NOT fine with breaking through a note duration if the n

Re: page breaks within measures

2007-08-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
otation of music in multiple simultaneous tempi; most of my music takes this form, and this is the first time I've been able to accurately typeset events so that they appear in space as they do in time! Lilypond rocks. Best, Adam On 8/19/07, Adam James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: page breaks within measures

2007-08-19 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi Mats, Thanks for filing the bug on my pagebreaking issue. Is there a way to get the 2.10.25 release in which you mentioned the breaking works as expected? I couldn't find it on lilypond.org. I'm using mac, powerpc. Also, do you know anything about the upper limit (508 cm) I seem to have enc

Re: more about page breaks in measures

2007-08-17 Thread Adam James Wilson
} } \new Voice \with { \consists Default_bar_line_engraver } { \repeat unfold 6 \skip 4 \bar "" \break \repeat unfold 6 \skip 4 \bar ""

page width upper limit

2007-08-17 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi everyone, It seems that even with custom paper the upper limit for paper width is 200 inches (508cm), at least in \version "2.11.29." Does anyone know how to fix it so that the width has no maximum? Best, Adam ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypo

Re: more about page breaks in measures

2007-08-17 Thread Adam James Wilson
I attached a .ly file and a .png to demonstrate the breaking problem. The example should break at the end of the second measure in the top staff - instead, only the "inivisible" voices seem to break and wrap around, becoming visible as they do so. Best, Adam On 8/17/07, Adam James Wils

more about page breaks in measures

2007-08-17 Thread Adam James Wilson
Here's the rest of this thread, in reverse order - I accidentally replied to Mats instead of the list. === The principle you describe should indeed work. However, when I tried a small example, I discovered that there's some strange bug involved and I have just sent a bug report. It

page breaks within measures

2007-08-16 Thread Adam James Wilson
Hi, I'm a first time poster - I've been trying to use Lilypond for proportionally notating multi-tempo music. I'm writing a score that has two or more voices in different tempi simultaneously. To solve this, I make a huge measure. For example, the first staff will contain a minute of quarter no