From Lilypond ly to Finale

2006-04-04 Thread Ben Fisher
I was impressed with Lilypond's cool and fast syntax. I wrote some songs in it, but now unfortunately I need to export those songs back to Finale. (My music professor doesn't like Lilypond...) I've seen that Lilypond has great support for importing other file formats, but had a hard time finding a

Error "can't find absolute argv0"

2006-02-14 Thread Ben Fisher
"can't find absolute argv0" Installing 2.6.5.1 worked perfectly on my Dell WinXP about a week ago. Loading everything worked fine, and using Lilypond from the command-line and double-clicking files worked fine. However, on my win xp laptop, Lilypond won't work from the command line. If I try to run

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-14 Thread Ben Fisher
Thanks for the suggestions.   Skipping corrected music looks like the most helpful option. It is a cool and useful idea to skip music. (altough the way to do seems a little awkward.)   -Ben ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Ben Fisher
Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up.   Instead of running lilypond.exe several times, is there a way to start lilypond so

Re: Lilypond error for 3 eighth notes

2006-02-11 Thread Ben Fisher
Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I was expecting c'4. c'8 d'[ e']. I tend to agree Nahum, that this is not expected. I'm not an expert on these matters but generally expect to see 8th notes only grouped together when there is an even number. I'm not sure what the psychological advantages are to

Lilypond error for 3 eighth notes

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Fisher
It looks like Lilypond is giving the wrong output here:   { \time 3/4 c'4. c'8 d' e' }   The three eighth notes are grouped together. I have no idea why this should happen, because they aren't triplets. If the time signature were 6/8 then it might make sense, but otherwise I can't imagine why.   I