Weird error message

2007-01-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I removed some %{ and %} and tried to compile the whole piece I made, but I received this weird message as an error : /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/lilypond/current/ly/init.ly:37:1: ERREUR : GUILE a signal'e une erreur pour l'expression d'ebutant ici # (if (or (p

Time for compiling with 2.11.12

2007-01-17 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I tried to compile with the new development version. It takes 44 seconds for 4 pages of music for alto, double bass and piano. But there is two things to notice : 1- I am using JEdit with LilyPondTool, might add some seconds. 2- I ask for a MIDI file, which is the longest process of the piece

Re: Usability Question

2007-01-17 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! For the compiling time, I am surprised that sometimes it takes almost a minute to compile only 3 pages of music for alto, double bass and piano! The fastest is 30 seconds. I am using LilyPond 2.11.11 on a MacBook Intel Core Duo with 512 Mb. For the interface, the best thing for a text entry

Re: Beamed eighth notes and tuplets as tempo indication

2007-01-14 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Yes, exactly! Even if the amount of code necessary to do that is kind of scary. Thanks! Frédéric 2007/1/14, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You mean something like http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=204 ? /Mats Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > Hi, > > I would like t

Re: Chordal polyphony - suggestion

2007-01-14 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
- Basic Polyphony, in the User's manual) } Maybe not "ethical" but the result is perfect! Cheers, Frédéric Chiasson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Beamed eighth notes and tuplets as tempo indication

2007-01-14 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to write beamed eighth notes and tuplets as tempo indications. I would like to write the following : ←(tuplet) = (3 beamed eighth notes) → Also, is it possible to write articulations with the notes? Thanks, Frédéric __

Re: make ties between notes from different voices

2007-01-09 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
on "2.11.9" \layout { raggedright = ##t indent = 0 } global = { \clef treble \time 3/4 } top = \relative c'' { \stemDown fis4~ \stemUp fis e fis } bot = \relative c'' { 4~ 2. } \score { \new Staff { \global r2 << \top \\ \bot >> } } 2007/1/9, Frédéri

Re: make ties between notes from different voices

2007-01-09 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
That is what I did since I couldn't tie the first "fis" with the second when I was putting the first "fis" in the same voice as the "a" and "c" underneath. But is there a way to make the first fis look as if it was in the same chord? Thanks for your help, Frédéric ___

Multi-page SVG file

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I just worked with Graham to be able to use my score in SVG in Inkscape. A one-page LilyPond score in SVG works well with Inkscape, but a multi-page score in SVG does not. Does anyone know enough about SVG and/or Inkscape to tell me how can I manipulate a multi-page score in SVG with Inkscape

make ties between notes from different voices

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I'd like to know how to put ties between a chord from a single voice separating to the same notes but in two differents voice contexts in polyphony. With this example, the ties does not appear, without any warning though. Frédéric P.S. I also tried 4~, but the ties still don't appear. ___

Re: Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
I tried : mkdir ~/.fonts mkdir /.fonts But both don't make the fonts appear in Inkscape. In Gimp though, the symbols appear. Any other ideas? Frédéric (Mac OS X.4.8) 2007/1/8, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > Hello! > > I tried to

Reading Lilypond SVG files with Inkscape on Mac

2007-01-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hello! I tried to open a SVG file from LilyPond in Inkscape. Since there was no ~/.fonts directory to copy the OTF fonts into, I copied them in those two directories : /Library/Fonts /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/fonts But it didn't work, did I miss something? Frédéric

SVG file as an output

2007-01-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi again, i'm trying to get a SVG file as an output so I can modify it with Inkscape. For this, I am typing : lilypond --format=svg but it doesn't work. What is the right option for this? Thanks again, Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Arrows in markup text

2007-01-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi, Using : LilyPond 2.11.9 on Mac OS X.4.8 I would like to put a markup text as : (left arrow) (quarter note) = (dotted quarter note) (right arrow), for making Carter-like "rythmic modulations". I don't know how to put arrows. Putting the arrow from the Mac text character set doesn't work. I l

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-06 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
My point when I started this topic was not to change the whole definition of the \times function. In fact, I think the function works quite well as it is. I was mostly talking about improving the "interface" - i.e. the words and the syntax we use to call the functions - to make it more intuitive,

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2007-01-05 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
When I started this topic, the point was to suggest a more intuitive syntax, which is closer to the musicians' language and the output on the score. That is why I proposed \tuplet (closer to musicians's language) and "3:2" (closer to the output of the score). In my opinion, I though this function

Off-Topic: Orchestration Aid

2006-12-30 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
re? I really don't know. Maybe you could develop this! Regards, Frédéric Chiasson 2006/12/30, Mehmet Okonsar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone in the list knows some helper software for instrumentation topics, instruments ranges, fingerboard positions on strings etc.. Please forgiv

Re: Setting staff size?

2006-12-30 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Weird, it is supposed to reduce the font size (it works in my files). But I know that for a single staff, you must use two commands to reduce the note font and the spaces between the staff lines : fontSize = #-3 \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3) Hope that will help, Frédéric

The markup functions don't work with changed fonts

2006-12-27 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hello, Using : LilyPond 2.11.4, Mac OS X 10.4.8 I think I have found a bug. When using changed fonts with the function make-pango-font-tree, the functions \italic and \bold don't work anymore. What do you think? Frédéric The input code : \version "2.11.4" \paper{ #(define fonts (make-pan

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-22 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Might it be possible to use \tuplet 3:2 {x x x} for the usual operation, and if we want to have many tuplets of the same kind, to use \tuplet 3:2 { {x x x} {y y y} {z z z} } Might resolve the clarity problems. Frédéric 2006/12/22, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No parenthesises

2006-12-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hello, I tried for the first time to use parenthesises on notes but it doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong? \version "2.11.3" \relative c'{ \parenthesize b1 } Frédéric ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Yes, that makes sense. Frédéric 2006/12/21, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > But to avoid repeating \tuplet functions for long passages with the > same tuplets, we could admit that kind of syntax : > > \tuplet 3:2 {c8 d e f g a b c d

Re: boxed extra rehersal mark

2006-12-20 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
You can use : \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters to put boxes around letters Frédéric 2006/12/20, Neuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Excuse me, I am almost newbie... I have a quick small question here: How do you mark a extra "boxed" rehersal mark such as "A1" ? My script goes

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-20 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Good! Frédéric 2006/12/20, Kress, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ok. Based on what everyone has been saying and seeming to come to an agreement on, here's the details of the changes that we are proposing be made. 1. \times is replaced by \tuplet since tuplet makes more musical sense and con

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-20 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
« Although I like the idea of accepting both \tuplet 3:2 and \tuplet 2/3, I don't like the notion of having \tuplet and \times. I suppose we could keep \times as an old command and remove it from the manual to avoid confusion... but that seems silly. Either eliminate \times, or don't bother intr

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-19 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Might be an idea, but why should we keep two functions making the same function? Does it cost that much on functionality to use two differents syntax in the same function? Frédéric 2006/12/19, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jonathan Henkelman escreveu: > Erik Sandberg gmail.com> writ

Fwd: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-19 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frédéric Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 déc. 2006 17:45 Subject: Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, I prefer to keep the punctuation ":" and "/" to avoid confusion. Frédéric

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-19 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
I tried the function and I don't see any incoherence using \tuplet instead of \times in this situation. Maybe I don't understand the point well. For me, I wouldn't mid at all to replace entirely the \times function by a \tuplet function, giving both options of using a fraction (2/3) or the engrav

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-19 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Maybe, but it is more that it is "7:8" that would be engraved, and not "7/8". So it is alright to separate both options. 2006/12/19, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Werner LEMBERG escreveu: > >>> I suppose you could add the command \times 3:2 {a b c} to do exactly >>>

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-18 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Yeah, that would be a good solution satisfying everyone. Frédéric 2006/12/18, Kress, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You could compromise and use "2/3" to indicate current fractional time the way it works now, but support using "3:2" to be more "musically intuitive". I.e., the separator denotes

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-18 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
To answer Carl, yes! To put 2 notes instead of 3, I would put "2:3", which means "2 instead of 3" or "2 for 3". As David Rogers said, it fits what is printed, or what would be printed if the whole ratio was there. Also, is there a reason why the function wasn't named simply \tuplet ? Frédéric

Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

2006-12-18 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
unctions in LilyPond by composers and musicians who are NOT programmers to make the LilyPond language more intuitive, so the learning curve would be less steep. That would be a great thing to do for an eventual LilyPond 3.0. And I would be willing to give some of my free time for that! Regards, Frédé

Re: How to use ^markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-16 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
code ))) ? Fred 2006/12/16, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Friday 15 December 2006 22:07, Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > Then, well, who can help me?? > > Frédéric > > 2006/12/15, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm certainly not any expert in Scheme codi

Re: How to use ^markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-15 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
on the list and for the benefit of others who experience similar problems. /Mats Quoting Frédéric Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, at last I understood how to do it? > > One problem left, I copied the code displayed for "\once \override > TextScript #'extra-

Fwd: How to use ^markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-15 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 déc. 2006 15:31 Subject: Re: How to use ^markup in a scheme function? To: Frédéric Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm certainly not any expert in Scheme coding for LilyPond. Please always ke

How to use ^\markup in a scheme function?

2006-12-15 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi, I tried to program a function to put a slash at a given offset on a note, but the line with the ^\markup doesn't work. Here is the code : Slash = #(define-music-function (parser location xy note) (pair? ly:music?) #{ \once \override TextScript #'extra-of

Make-pango-font-tree doesn't work with set-global-staff size

2006-12-14 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi! I would like to know what is going wrong with this code. I tried to change the fonts but it doesn't work. But if I remove the set-global-staff-size function, the fonts changed as I wanted. Is this a bug or there is something with the make-pango-font-tree that I don't know? I'm working on Mac

Re: markup height measured from staff?

2006-12-09 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi, Is it also possible to make a \markup at a specified distance frome the notehead? I have asked this question already but nobody seemed able to answer me. Frédéric 2006/12/9, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Use the staff-padding property to specify the distance from the staff. However

Re: Put a slash on acciaccatura beamed eighth notes

2006-12-09 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
tem (over the notehead), which can mean "slap tongue" in modern saxophone writing. Also, if you know the file where the slash is put with stroke-style = "grace", please tell me so I can try to to put code for beamed notes with my basic programming skills. Thanks, Frédéric

Fwd: Put a slash on acciaccatura beamed eighth notes

2006-12-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Sorry for not answering to everyone -- Forwarded message -- From: Frédéric Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 8 déc. 2006 15:21 Subject: Re: Put a slash on acciaccatura beamed eighth notes To: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good, let's try it then. So in

Put a slash on acciaccatura beamed eighth notes

2006-12-08 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
e-music 'BeamEvent 'span-direction -1))) (make-music 'EventChord 'elements (list (make-music 'NoteEvent 'duration (ly:make-duration 3 0 1 1) 'pitch (ly:make-pitch -1 1 0)) (make-music 'BeamEvent 'span-direction 1)

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Well, I never tried jEdit on Mac. But I tried it on PC and the LilypondTool didn't work out and I had so many problems that I discarded it after a week. Maybe I should give it a second shot. It migth work better on Mac OS. Thanks for the comments, Frédéric 2006/12/7, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PR

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
character counter in the editor would be great, since the error messages give the line number where the bug is. It would be a great improvement. By the way, is there any editor having LilyPond tool other than jEdit? Thanks, Frédéric Chiasson 2006/12/7, Andreas v. Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: lily doc in french ?

2006-11-21 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
John Mandereau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has already started a french translation of the tutorial, which appears automatically if the site detects your computer uses french. You can contact him using the french user forum : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frédéric Chiasson 2006/11/21, Mats Bengtsson <[EM

Re: Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-15 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
TextScript? Fred2006/11/15, Joseph Wakeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frédéric Chiasson wrote:> I just saw a message about the tagline "Engraved by Lilypond" and I was> wondering if it is legal to sell our own partitions of our own> compositions engraved with Lilypond? Is the

Selling music engraved by Lilypond

2006-11-15 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi,I just saw a message about the tagline "Engraved by Lilypond" and I was wondering if it is legal to sell our own partitions of our own compositions engraved with Lilypond? Is there any limitation you put against a «commercial» use (for now, it is really «on the side» but still...)

Re: acciaccatura slash on beamed eighth notes

2006-11-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
is to add a> slash>     as a text script and then move it around to the desired position.>>/Mats>> Frédéric Chiasson wrote: > > Hello,> >> > I am trying to transcribe one of my own compositions on Lilypond> > 2.9.28. I need to have sla

acciaccatura slash on beamed eighth notes

2006-11-06 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
anned examples if you need. Thanks for your answers,Frédéric Chiasson ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user