Re: Adjusting length of final line

amp; "\startStaff" - that was exactly what I'd been looking for. Many thanks both for the supportive community, and the incredibly impressive documentation! Dave On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 22:32, Dave Shield wrote: > > I've been trying to adjust the width of the final line o

Adjusting length of final line

ng something obvious, but nothing I've tried so far seems to work. Where am I going wrong? Thanks Dave = example = \version "2.22.1" scale = \relative c' { c d e f g a b c } halfscale = \relative c' { c d e f } \score { \new Sta

Need help with usage of breve

expected result (repeated notes, barline in wrong place): [image: lilypad-test-2.png] Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Dave

Re: Suppressing engraving of string numbers on all voices simultaneously

This is perfect, thanks! It's all working. Arguably this is not a super-common use case, but it is illustrative of how these features work / are associated. Perhaps it should be added to the snippets? -Dave On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 7:30 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Dave Trombley

Suppressing engraving of string numbers on all voices simultaneously

l voices? It would be super if there was a way to temporarily turns this back on with \override, but even just disabling it would be an improvement... -Dave

Re: trying to define microtonal note names and accidentals

ffsets, in this particular case, seemed like a more "objective" way to indicate the pitches. But of course this is a matter of taste and preference. - Dave On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:23 AM Hans Åberg wrote: > > > On 21 Oct 2020, at 12:43, Stefan Thomas > wrote: > &g

Re: Scheme expressions on lilypond command line (-e)

hat was written using Python in the first place), and it's good for the brain to get stretched into a different paradigm. - Dave On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:26 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-19 7:51 pm, Dave Seidel wrote: > > More succinct: > > > > #(begin > >

Re: Scheme expressions on lilypond command line (-e)

More succinct: #(begin (use-modules (guile-user)) (if (not(defined? 'part)) (define partName "") (define partName (string-append "S" (number->string part))) ) ) though the warning still prints, but that's not a big deal for me. On Mon, Oct 19, 20

Re: Scheme expressions on lilypond command line (-e)

PDF for the full score and a separate PDF for each part (where the instruments are designated as S1 through S6). I guess I could probably do it all in a single invocation, but I haven't gotten that far yet -- only been using Lilypond for about a week now. - Dave On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 a

Re: Scheme expressions on lilypond command line (-e)

Thanks Jean! I need to read more carefully! On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:45 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 19/10/2020 à 23:14, Dave Seidel a écrit : > > Hi all, > > I am trying to define a variable on the command line that I can use within > the .ly file. I've tried b

Scheme expressions on lilypond command line (-e)

ne partName (string-append "S" part)) ) In either case, I get the error GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here # (if (= part 0) Unbound variable: part I guess I'm either defining the variable incorrectly, or dereferencing it incorrectly within the script. Can someone help? Thanks, Dave

Re: newbie: help with Scheme functions

Thanks, Aaron. On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 4:46 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2020-10-18 1:38 pm, Dave Seidel wrote: > > Very cool, thanks! I'm curious -- could aBook and aBookPart have been > > written as a lambda, or is it cleaner to use a void function? > > (Re-adding the

Re: newbie: help with Scheme functions

Having articulated the question, I figured out that apparently one can't return a \bookpart from a Scheme function, but it's ok to return a \score, so I am restructuring my code. On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 10:28 AM Dave Seidel wrote: > Hi, > > I have a multi-section piece, wit

newbie: help with Scheme functions

t;> \layout { } \midi { } } } #}) And I am trying to invoke it using \scoreSection #"Part 1" but I keep getting the error messages like this: Parsing... hexany_permutations.ly:127:1: error: bad expression type \scoreSection #"Part 1" What am I doing wrong? I'm a Lilypond and Scheme newbie (but a programmer by trade). - Dave

Help with HEJI fonts

h these fonts so that Lilypond will load them, such as copying them to some specific disk location? Proviso: I am a Lilypond and Scheme newbie (though no newbie to either music or programming). Thanks, Dave

Lilypond custom chords & Scheme

notes that are below the twelfth fret of a guitar, regardless of the octave of the pitch given. I have had some success, but it basically relies on calling ly:music-transpose twice, which seems a bit inefficient, so I'll not post that yet. If I work out an efficient way of doing, would people be prepared to critique it for me if I posted it? Best regards, Dave

Multi Measure Rest with a following leading cue note

\once \omit Score.TimeSignature \time 4/4 c1 | } -- Dave Higgins -- Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations? Worry no more... Do as I say, not as I do. Do me a favour and don't tell me about it. I don

LSR 782 Time signature with alternate in parantheses

#:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number (#:line ( (#:center-column (up down)) #:vcenter "(" (#:center-column (upp downp)) #:vcenter ")" ) -- Dave Higgins -- Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belon

Forcing the rehearsal mark to the bar

Is there a way to force the rehearsal mark to be under the tie (or slur)? \override did not work either. I'm hoping I'm just misreading the documentation. \version "2.19.83" \fixed c''' { \set Staff.RehearsalMark.outside-staff-priority = #1 a1 ~ | \

Re: One-note spanners

Try something like this: \version "2.18.2" \language"english" \relative{ \time 2/4 c2*15/16 \f \< s2*1/16 \! } On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 13:44, Ethan Meltzer wrote: > LilyPond doesn't seem to like using a spanner over one note. Writing a > one-note spanner like this leads to an error: > > \versio

What are the major changes from 2.18.2 to 2.19.80

In my previous question, I saw a change in \afterGrace. What other new and interesting changes are there? -- Dave -- I marvel at the strength of human weakness. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

MultiMeasureRest with CueVoice Pickups

relative c' { \compressFullBarRests R1*2 \bar "" \cadenzaOn << { s4 } \new CueVoice { c4 } >> \cadenzaOff \bar "|" | } -- Dave -- I marvel at the strength of human weakness. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

\new Dynamics spacing

spacing each silence as the size of a note head. How would I change that spacing? -- Dave -- How many weeks are there in a light year? <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Notehead Position

rk like R1*2 (by putting the 2 in position over the rest)? (rhetorical) Yes, I have a solution for this too, but again, sloppy. -- Dave <>___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Footnotes

On 10/29/2017 5:41 PM, Dave Hartley wrote: I'm currently typesetting some music for our school choir, SATB with a piano part and a small percussion part. I *tried* to get some additional directions to the performers inserted as footnotes, but I don't seem to be able to get the fo

Footnotes

I'm currently typesetting some music for our school choir, SATB with a piano part and a small percussion part. I *tried* to get some additional directions to the performers inserted as footnotes, but I don't seem to be able to get the footnotes in *\markup attached to notes* working at all. MWE: %

Appreciation

Hi everyone Just wanted to pass on my sincere thanks to everyone on this list who contributes their knowledge to the wider community. I am currently re-scoring a musical that we are doing at the school I teach at to make the music more readable page turns more convenient (and correct typos in the

Box around mark

I'd like to draw a box around this: \mark \markup { \bold { \huge "A" \super "1" } } But if I add in \box, e.g.: \mark \markup \box { \bold { \huge "A" \super "1" } } I get a box around the A and a box around the 1. On the graphics documentation page, other than manually defining a box, is there

Re: Problem with Long Tempo

On 2 February 2017 at 12:22, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I think it's a bug. > Hence I opened > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5047/ > There you might get an idea for a workaround: > use \mark \instead of \tempo or replace spacers with

Problem with Long Tempo

ew Dynamics into the score. It just seems weird that adding in an extra voice destroys the effect of \markLengthOn. Any ideas? Dave -- Stop the Madness. Boycott Word attachments. <http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Replace articulation with glyph

see where you could change something like dashPlus = \sharp, but I couldn't find a way to do that in the file. -- Dave Littleton, Colorado -- Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination

Re: Ledger Lines and Tremolos

That doesn't appear to move the tremolo in any direction. Tried (5 . 5). On 05/12/2016 11:30 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Dave Higgins wrote Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:53 PM > > >> I've noticed that with high notes that are tremolo'd (or short repeat), >&

Re: Ledger Lines and Tremolos

And make them lighter. On 05/12/2016 10:53 AM, Dave Higgins wrote: > I've noticed that with high notes that are tremolo'd (or short repeat), > the tremolo covers the ledger lines. > > For example: a''''1:32 would give 4 ledger lines but it's hard

Ledger Lines and Tremolos

I've noticed that with high notes that are tremolo'd (or short repeat), the tremolo covers the ledger lines. For example: a1:32 would give 4 ledger lines but it's hard to tell that there are 4 ledger lines because the tremolo covers it. What's the syntax to lower the tremolo? -- Life being w

Lilypond statistics

Is there any way to generate statistics for a file? Things like, let say, a concordance or the number of a's b's or bes's, or repeated markup's? (I know I can do stuff like this with grep, but that's very singular.) -- Dave Higgins Littleton, Colorado dave.higg...

Re: help needed with project notation strategy

On 02/20/2016 09:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Dave Phillips writes: Greetings, I wrote a piece for piano that I want to notate with LilyPond. The piece has some difficult aspects regarding which I need some advice or just confirmation that my strategy is sound (or not). The piece is long

help needed with project notation strategy

ng sucks anyway sound-wise, I hadn't purchased Pianoteq then. I also plan to re-record the piece with that software. https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/piano-zero Thanks in advance for any advice and/or suggestions for an improved working met

Stretching Text

Is there a way to stretch text over some measures (other than manually)? For example: poco a poco crescendo to: poco a poco crescendo I've looked up spanning and padding and other things, but can't seem to find any thing to the above example. -- ___

Hiding MultiMeasureRest Number

At the end of a piece, one section has a long number of rests, i.e. R1*42. Is there a way to hide the number or create a long rest without actually being multi-measure? -- Dave Higgins -- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. ___ lil

baseMoment and beatStructure

oment 1/8) \set Timing.beatStructure = #'(3 3 3) bes,16 ( c d ees f g a bes c d ees e f g a bes f d ) } I've tried many, many combinations and have never found one that accomplishes what I'd like. Maybe I'm using the wrong constructs? -- Dave Higgins Secure64 Software Corpor

A file's information or statistics

Is there a way to display various stats of a piece, e.g. number of notes or other such information? -- Dave Higgins Littleton, Colorado dave.higg...@dkds.us See my photos at https://www.dkds.us/gallery3 -- http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=60ac8b65-d115-42b7-9363-f2dff0c863cf -- I want to

Re: http://lilypond.org hs ?

webdev.nl <http://abc11.webdev.nl> > (82.94.241.173): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=48.6 ms > > --- lilypond.org <http://lilypond.org> ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 48.344/48.647/48.903/

Re: Polymetric Time Signature

enter "=" (#:column (upp downp))) On 03/04/2015 05:25 PM, Dave Higgins wrote: I'm looking for an example of a time signature in the format of 3/4 = 6/8. I can find the compound meter, e.g. 1/2 + 2/4, but not with the = sign. -- Dave Higgins -- Cre

Polymetric Time Signature

I'm looking for an example of a time signature in the format of 3/4 = 6/8. I can find the compound meter, e.g. 1/2 + 2/4, but not with the = sign. -- Dave Higgins -- http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=60ac8b65-d115-42b7-9363-f2dff0c863cf -- Creditor, n.: A man who has a b

A measure with R1 and text

Text over a multi-measure rest is centered. Is there a more elegant solution to not center it then the one below? << { R1 } \\ { s4^\markup \left-align "text" } >>. -- Dave Higgins -- Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really

Per Page Feta Font Size

#(set-global-staff-size 20) Is there a way to set this per page? Page 1-2 fit at staff-size 25, but page 3 only fits with staff-size 21. This may be how it is. I'm not sure if the \magnifyStaff works in this manner, nor am I sure that fontSize works either. --

Columns

o see. -- Dave Higgins Littleton, Colorado dave.higg...@dkds.us See my photos at https://www.dkds.us/gallery3 -- http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=60ac8b65-d115-42b7-9363-f2dff0c863cf -- Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then,

Re:Contemporary Music Notation

On 10/12/2014 11:35 AM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:52:50 -0500 From: David Nalesnik To: Piaras Hoban Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Contemporary Music Notation Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 a

Re: Problem with Staff Grouping

re, as the layout description below indicates. I'm not saying the staff feature is broken, just my staff lines in the score are in the wrong places. On 05/12/2014 11:06 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Dave Higgins" > To: > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2

Re: Problem with Staff Grouping

Without the includes. Sorry. On 05/12/2014 09:41 AM, Dave Higgins wrote: Revisiting with a compilable example... I'm transcribing a piece that has multiple parts and in those multiple parts, I have multiple staves. After compiling, the staff layout becomes: part1:staff1 part2:staff1

Problem with Staff Grouping

Revisiting with a compilable example... I'm transcribing a piece that has multiple parts and in those multiple parts, I have multiple staves. After compiling, the staff layout becomes: part1:staff1 part2:staff1 part1:staff2 part2:staff2 Obviously for the score, I'd like: part1:staff1 part1:staf

Re: Problem with Staff Grouping

Clarification: part1 = Violin 1 part2 = Violin 2 On 04/18/2014 10:31 AM, Dave Higgins wrote: > I'm transcribing a piece that has multiple parts and in those multiple > parts, I have multiple staves. > > After compiling, the staff layout becomes: > part1:staff1 > part

Problem with Staff Grouping

I'm transcribing a piece that has multiple parts and in those multiple parts, I have multiple staves. After compiling, the staff layout becomes: part1:staff1 part2:staff1 part1:staff2 part2:staff2 Obviously for the score, I'd like: part1:staff1 part1:staff2 part2:staff1 part2:staff2 I'm sure I j

Re: insert whitespace to fill line

Thanks for the suggestions, but still no luck. I've tried both settings for ragged-right; neither work. setting ragged-right=##f makes the systems stretch to fill the whole line; I do not like the way that this looks for, for example, a two-bar item. (setting it to true gives the behaviour indicat

insert whitespace to fill line

I'm trying to make music-snippet images using lilypond, but I'd like each snippet to always have trailing "whitespace" so that each of these images is of the same width. Ultimately, these images will be embedded in an emacs-org file (I am aware of lilypond-book). I'm following the suggestions f

Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released

Greetings, Just adding my noise to the praise chorus. There's lots to like in other LP editors but Frescobaldi is my current favorite. I'm completing my article on LilyPond for the Linux User/Developer magazine, Frescobaldi's all over it. :) I uninstalled the repo version 2.0.0 for Ubuntu 12

Re: some original LP scores

On 09/16/2013 10:18 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: Hi, a somewhat late answer... Hi Janek, Thanks for your comments and suggestions, I agree with your judgements. Umeko needs a complete code rewrite, the Sonatina somewhat less. The trios are the most ambitious things I've done in LP, I've a lot

Re:some original LP scores

Btw, I've used vim for some editing jobs Frescobaldi doesn't do so well. Hard to beat it for things like %s/foo/foobar/g good to see you around, dave, looking forward to reading your article! It's good to be around. :) I'll post a note here when the article is published

some original LP scores

Greetings, Some time ago I wrote to this list with some questions which were answered promptly by various members here. Thanks to their assistance I got re-started with LilyPond, and I've been busy using it via the Frescobaldi program. I've revised some pieces and added some new things here

Re: question about multiple parts

Hi Urs, hi Mike, On 08/21/2013 08:25 AM, Urs Liska wrote: And don't forget the closing angled brackets that may have been swallowed by email. Which indeed were annihilated by email. Thanks for the reminder. :) Mike, thanks for clear example, I'll try it this afternoon. Best, dp _

question about multiple parts

contribution. Best regards, Dave Phillips ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

On 9 January 2013 16:03, Janek Warchoł wrote: > What i meant is: i would feel sorry if i couldn't use LilyPond's new, > unique, custom-designed professional font to engrave polish national > anthem or any other polish song because someone decided that polish > language is not important enough to b

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

The price depends on the details of the project; mainly the number of family styles, the character set, and the delivery schedule. Designing a single style latin-1 font in 2 weeks is relatively expensive ($3,000 minimum) versus a 10 style family with latin 1-2-3-4 in 2 months ($10,000 min) ___

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

ages would be useful > also. Assuming 4 styles (reg bold italic bold-italic) for that character set, I'd estimate $40,000 is a minimum. -- Cheers Dave ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

Impallari's Libre Baskerville, perhaps? www.impallari.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Fermata over repeat

his case will appear in the middle of measure. I understand how to get it at the end of a measure but not over a bar in the that occurs in the measure. Thanks, Dave ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 92, Issue 64

Greetings, Not sure how relevant this discussion is to the LP mailing list though. Okay. Thanks for reading Louigi's message, but it's a little out of context, you'd have to read his former messages to get the full sense. I have to praise LP as the one piece of music-related OSS that is

Re: Lilypond for FL Studio

Greetings, An interesting take on an experience similar to Johnny Ferguson's : http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2591#p11388 Best, dp ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lil

Lilypond on iPhone

starting from scratch in compiling it. Thanks! Dave. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Lilypond & MIDI output of drums

Hi All, When I output to MIDI, it seems that notes on my DrumStaff do not go to channel ten--in the MIDI file, they are assigned a basic GM piano sound. Is there a way to explicitly assign MIDI channel 10 to DrumStaff? Thanks, Dave ___ lilypond-user

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jan ! Sorry for this delayed reply, I've been a bit overwhelmed here. Too much work, too much family stuff going on, too much of everything except spare time. If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles

my articles and astroturfng LWN

ttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7657 "LilyPond, Part 1" http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7719 "LilyPond, Part 2" http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8928 "LilyPond Helper Applications" Best regards, Dave Phillips

re: midi keyboard input

M Watts wrote: > Unfortunately, the link to Hans Lub's site (author of midi-input mode) > from linux-sound.org is dead http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/software/ A moment with Google and we find this updated URL: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/ I searched for "hans lub midi".

Re: Harmonics w/ Regular Notes

arking is under a note the note must be an octave higher, > and never lower for this instrument. > > The use of flageolets for harmonics is best restricted to open strings > rather than artificial harmonics. Regards, daveA > > >> >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:00:01PM -0500

Re: Harmonics w/ Regular Notes

ough and will allow me to finish this score and should be clear enough for most performers. Thanks, David Bellows > Cheers, > - Graham > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:00:01PM -0500, Dave Bellows wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm using Lilypond 2.11.65 to c

Harmonics w/ Regular Notes

Hello everyone, I'm using Lilypond 2.11.65 to create a score for guitar. Here's the basic snippet I'm working with: {a4 d b} \\ {f4 g r} I need the top line to be artificial harmonics but the lower line to be regular noteheads. If I write: {\override Staff.NoteHead #'style = #'harmonic-mixed

Re: Can't generate PDF file in Windows

Dave Trowbridge davetrowbridge.com> writes: When I try it in a command window, this is what I get: C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin>lilypond --pdf bwv1007_prelude_clarinet.ly GNU LilyPond 2.10.33 programming error: cannot find absolute argv0 continuing, cross fingers ERROR: In pro

Can't generate PDF file in Windows

When I select "Generate PDF" in the right-click menu in Windows explorer, no PDF file is generated, and the log file reads as follows: # -*-compilation-*- Changing working directory to `C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin' Processing `C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/bwv1007_prelude_clarinet.ly' Pa

Re:The importance of a graphical interface.

Valentin Villenave wrote: I've tried denemo ; it's a bit rude but definitely useable to. I'm afraid they are'nt developing it anymore, and it's really a pity since it was the ONLY lilypond-oriented graphical editor. Denemo (http://denemo.sourceforge.net/) is still alive. A small but dedicated

OOoLP fails with same error

Hi Samuel, Apparently there's something deeply wrong with my setup. I'm now using OOo 2.0.4, LilyPond 2.8.6, and I receive the identical error as before: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what():basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid I'm inclined to believe

OOoLilyPond problem

but when I click on the LilyPond button I receive this cryptic error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what():basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid The error appears to be related to C++. Any suggestions towards a so

Re: Displaying scores

Chuckk wrote: I am using evince to view Lilypond's pdf output, and in fairly simple things (output by Rosegarden), and I'm seeing note stems of different thicknesses. If I zoom in, they are still different thicknesses, and some of the stems don't exactly line up against the noteheads. Is there

Re:LilyPond related blogs?

Greetings: "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> I was wondering whether some LilyPond users were blogging Nicolas> about their use of LilyPond. I've written a bit about LilyPond in some of my articles for the Linux Journal: http://www.lin

Re: a metronome mark question

tion. It's quite inelegant, but it at least demonstrates that, as Paul Scott said, all the pieces are there. Best regards, Dave Phillips % metmark.ly % simple example of % swing rhythm equivalency \version "2.8.4" \layout { ragged-right = ##t } metMarkTriplet = \mark \marku

Re: LP printing problems

Paul Scott wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I'm not aware of any recent spacing changes. Could you produce a very short example which shows this behavior with the two different versions? See the LP notice at the bottom of this page: http://www.linux-sound.org/dlp-

a metronome mark question

Greetings: I've written a part in even eight notes, but I want to indicate in the metronome marking that the rhythm of the even eighths should be played with a swing rhythm, i.e. an eighth-note triplet with a quarter note followed by an eighth. In a score the rhythm would be {\times 2/3 {c'4

Re: LP printing problems

Paul Scott wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: Since you seem to know about the global settings: The default text font spacing for my 2.8.4 LP is twice as wide as it used to be (this is on a home-built LP under Linux, Debian Etch). What happened ? I'm not aware of any recent spacing ch

Re: LP printing problems

Paul Scott wrote: #(set-global-staff-size 21) at the top of each .ly file, where "21" is a global font size which can be fractional. Very cool, thanks for the tip. Since you seem to know about the global settings: The default text font spacing for my 2.8.4 LP is twice as wide as it used to

Re: LP printing problems

Anthony Youngman wrote: I'm guessing you're in America. What size is your output pdf? A4? If it is and you tell the printer to print unscaled, then you're losing the bottom 2/3" of the page. First way round that is to tell acrobat to "scale page to fit printer". Second way is to look at the rel

LP printing problems

Greetings: I've written some music for flute, guitar, and harp, it's on-line at http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/gfhtrio4/gfhtrio4.html. The score is naturally three staves (the harpist is a novice, her part fits in a single clef), and the printout is lovely. Alas, the printout is a

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Dave Phillips writes: With this system I compiled and installed LilyPond 2.8.4, with no problems during the build. The binary appears to be working Any reason for not using the GUB binaries? Only that I have no idea what's a GUB binary. :) Best

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Greetings: Okay, here's the low-down : Demudi 1.3, Debian Etch GCC 4.0.4 Guile 1.8 Python 2.4 With this system I compiled and installed LilyPond 2.8.4, with no problems during the build. The binary appears to be working correctly, no error reports from Guile. I'm working on a ne

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Greetings: As reported, the Python errors are gone, but the build still fails here: Processing `/home/dlphilp/lilypond-2.8.4/ly/generate-documentation.ly' Parsing...[/home/dlphilp/lilypond-2.8.4/out/share/lilypond/current/ly/init.ly[/home/dlphilp/lilypond-2.8.4/out/share/lilypond/current/ly/dec

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Mats Bengtsson wrote: See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2006-06/msg00061.html Thanks, Mats, that's taken care of the Python errors. I've run 'make clean' and am now recompiling. I'll report again after the build succeeds or fails. Best, dp

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Mats Bengtsson wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: I have exactly the same code at that point. Perhaps I should try it with Guile 1.7 ? I have compiled and installed 2.8.x without problems using Guile 1.6.7, so upgrading shouldn't be necessary. FWIW, I'm also receiving errors regard

Re: compile problem with 2.8.4

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jan, thanks for the reply. error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here # (use-modules (scm display-lily))invalid module name for use-syntax ((srfi srfi-39)) Can anyone tell me what's going on ? Guile is version

compile problem with 2.8.4

Greetings: I recently upgraded my Debian Etch system (Demudi 1.3) and discovered that my home-built LP 2.8.1 failed with a report concerning Guile. I decided to compile 2.8.4 and got the same report near the end of the build : Parsing...[/home/dlphilp/lilypond-2.8.4/out/share/lilypond/curren

Re: is measure spacing off in 2.8.1?

I see the same thing: { 1 1 1 1 } This looks weird. On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously: > > I've been using 2.8.1 for a while now, and it really seems to me that > > the spacing of measures is non-optimal. > > I've noticed the same thing. It looks like an acci

Re: Getting cost estimate for sponsored enhancement

That's not really what's meant by "free" in this case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software On 4/18/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, knowing that I'll just print to CutePDF (which is free) and make a PDF.

Re: Getting cost estimate for sponsored enhancement

> Can I send it in Microsoft Word format Given that these are free software programmers who use Linux and buy into the GNU philosophy, I don't think they would take too kindly to receiving a proprietary file format they almost certainly despise... ___

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