Re: help needed with project notation strategy

2016-02-20 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2016-02-20 Thread Dave Phillips
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

Re:Contemporary Music Notation

2014-10-12 Thread Dave Phillips
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: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.0.11 released

2013-10-16 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2013-09-16 Thread Dave Phillips
On 09/16/2013 10:18 AM, Janek WarchoĊ‚ 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

2013-09-08 Thread Dave Phillips
On 09/08/2013 12:00 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org aka luis jure wrote: i can't say i read your score with the attention it deserves, but the first thing i noticed is that starting on m. 52 the rests in the middle voice seem to be missing (it's the lower part in m. 73). it also called my att

some original LP scores

2013-09-08 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Phillips
contribution. Best regards, Dave Phillips ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Phillips
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

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Phillips
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 Yeah, that'

my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Phillips
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:The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-10-11 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-10-05 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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?

2006-08-06 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-27 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-07-25 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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

2006-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
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 1.6.8. I

compile problem with 2.8.4

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Phillips
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: a new LilyPond music page

2006-02-02 Thread Dave Phillips
Graham Percival wrote: Chapter 4, "putting it all together". You may also want to read that chapter in 2.7; it was recently updated with a lot of info. In general, you may wish to read the manual for 2.7; most of the info applies to 2.6 as well. Many thanks to Graham and Mats ! I'll perus

a new LilyPond music page

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: I've set up a site that contains some of my recent LP projects : http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/ Feel free to comment & criticize as desired. Btw, I used LP version 2.6.3 from Demudi 1.3.0rc1. I'm still finessing the pieces there. Some problems to resolve : Ho

possible [lilypond] mail subject field ?

2004-09-06 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi guys: Not to complain too bitterly, but I'm subscribed to more than two dozen mail-lists, all of which include list identifiers, all except LilyPond. Could you *please* add it to your mail service ?? My LP mail is scattered through literally hundreds of messages per day, it would be so much

Re: LilyPond supported in jEdit 4.2 final

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Bert: Very cool, I just checked it out this morning. I may not have much time for it right now, but I hope to work more with it soon. Beautiful work... Best, dp Bertalan Fodor wrote: Dear LilyPond users, jEdit 4.2 final has come out. The syntax coloring for LilyPond is now integrated, and

Re: Finale for Linux?

2004-08-26 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: In a few words: Nothing is happening in that direction (Finale to Linux). Whatever anyone thinks is happening can be easily checked with a quick message to Coda. I just received a brief message from Joerg Anders confirming that he is discontinuing his own development of NoteEdit, but

Re: copyright field working ?

2004-08-18 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Jan: Thank you ! Best, dp Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Dave Phillips writes: Greetings: I'm working on the Denemo sources to add more fields to the Set Header item. I've successfully added the Copyright field, but its data doesn't show up in the displayed LP score. According t

copyright field working ?

2004-08-18 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: I'm working on the Denemo sources to add more fields to the Set Header item. I've successfully added the Copyright field, but its data doesn't show up in the displayed LP score. According to LP's docs it should show up in the footer to the first page. So, is it working or not ? (LP

Re: Using Lilypond

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Phillips
J L wrote: Can someone tell me how to call the scripts? I know that there is stuff in the documentation about doing so, but a physical example would be better (such as how to basically get it to open a file and generate an output file with the changes). I would in particular like to know how to

On using midi2ly

2004-07-01 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Some suggestions for the docs on midi2ly: 1) The utility will work as advertised *if* you use Type 1 MIDI files. Type 0 files put all data into a single track, so unless you're rendering monophonic music you probably want to be using Type 1 files. 2) Multiple tracks in a

Re: Greetings and a question

2004-07-01 Thread Dave Phillips
e/1.6/srfi/srfi-1.scm:624:24: Stack overflow lilypond: error: LilyPond failed on input file BachCelloPrelude (exit status 2) lilypond: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a trace. I hope that helps. Going for the CVS abc2ly now... Best, dp Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Dave

Re: Greetings and a question

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Phillips
the LP mode in vi. Back to the hack... Best, dp Ferenc Wagner wrote: Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My question now is whether this list is appropriate for questions regarding Denemo. Welcome! Some questions may be on topic here, while for the rest you can try Denem

Greetings and a question

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Phillips
some errors I'd like to resolve and I've uncovered at least one fatal bug. I'm just not sure who gets the report... Anyway, LilyPond is great Linux software, my congratulations to all the developers for this excellent work. Best regards, Dave Phillips