Lyrics and Clefs in Cues for Horns

2005-03-19 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hello all, I'm typesetting horn parts to an oratorio. (Pre-question: is there a mode where the key signature is not shown, but all accidentals are printed? This seems to be the common way to write horn parts, but I don't see how to do it in Lilypond except to manipulate the key signatures mysel

Re: Setup.exe

2004-10-24 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Dennis O'Toole wrote: >Sorry for the direct email, but I can't find setup >help anywhere. > >In running setup.exe, it requires that I select a >download site, but I don't recognize any of the ones >listed. Arbitrary selections fail. > > I generally get good results from kernel.org or nasa.gov.

Re: possible [lilypond] mail subject field ?

2004-09-06 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Dave Phillips wrote: > 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

Re: Where are the Bash help files

2004-08-31 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
C. Burton wrote: > I need to see the Help files for program Bash.exe .What I have been > able to find is OK so far, but I need all of the information. From > the starting point, opening the dos window and typing bash --help does > display a screen of information. But it does not give me tenough

Re: wishlist

2004-01-30 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > J. Daniel Ashton wrote: >> I'm sure these have come up before, but I ran into them again yesterday >> and wanted to make sure they're in someone's official "consider >> implementing" list. >> 1. an easy way to get a

wishlist

2004-01-30 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hi y'all, I'm sure these have come up before, but I ran into them again yesterday and wanted to make sure they're in someone's official "consider implementing" list. 1. an easy way to get a nicely engraved "rit." marking 2. ditto for things like "subito pp" 3. ditto for "cresc." without trailing

Re: confused about transposing

2004-01-29 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
I pondered this in my sleep last night, and this is the rule I came up with: When transposing keys (not instruments), say \transpose from to When transposing instrument parts, say \transpose to from Example 1: I have a masterpiece in D. I think it's a little too low, so I want to t

Re: confused about transposing

2004-01-28 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
chip wrote: > I have a chart I have transcribed for tenor sax. Now I would like to > transpose it to trombone, bass clef. I read the little bit in the manual > about transposing on page 87 but am confused by the pics - the sample > code shows > \transpose c g' > \transpose c f' I was fighting this

Re: How to get Guile 1.6.4-9.RPM

2004-01-28 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Anfinn A. Kolberg wrote: > Can you give me any clue to how I can get guile-1.6.4-8.rpm for RedHat ? RPMFind.net http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=guile&submit=Search+... -- Daniel Ashton PGP key available http://Daniel.AshtonFam.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Baerenreiter-Sarabande broken in 2.1.15

2004-01-26 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hello friends, I just installed 2.1.15 on RedHat Linux v9, along with the updated guile 1.6.4-8 and the new geometry package for LaTeX. While looking through the examples I noticed that the Baerenreiter-Sarabande example is broken. In several measures the beams are missing. This is true for th

Re: Short codae and ragged-right alignment

2003-10-12 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
José Luis Cruz wrote: > change > > \translator {\ScoreContext \remove "Time_signature_engraver"} > - > to > > \translator {\StaffContext \remove "Time_signature_engraver"} > - Excellent! Thank you very much. -- Daniel Ashton PGP key avail

Re: Short codae and ragged-right alignment

2003-10-12 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
J. Daniel Ashton wrote: > And if so, how do I get rid of the time signature? To continue this line of thought: In my raggedright "coda", the time signature is still 4/4, but no time signature should appear at the left of the staff because the musician doesn't need to know that

Re: Short codae and ragged-right alignment

2003-10-12 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
J. Daniel Ashton wrote: > In 2.0.1, is this still the best solution? And if so, how do I get rid of the time signature? -- Daniel Ashton PGP key available http://Daniel.AshtonFam.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ChamberMusicWeekend.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 9445

Re: Short codae and ragged-right alignment

2003-10-12 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Amelie Zapf writes: >> I have a short coda (2 bars). Before the coda, obviously I have to >> create a linebreak. Now the line containing the coda is unnaturally >> stretched, as it gets aligned flush left and right. >> Is there a way to align this line (and only this line) ragged-right? >> I'm u

Re: Landscape from Lilypond 2.0.1 on Cygwin

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Diosnel Herrnsdorf wrote: > Can't you open your file in your reader, rotate it, and save it in the new > position? Not optimal, but doable, I guess. Doable, except that I'm not familiar with any PDF reader under Windows, Cygwin or Linux that will save the file as having been rotated. Jumping from

Re: Docs suggestion

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I know that Han-Wen and Jan struggle hard to > remove not only bugs but all kind of limitations and problems that > pop up on the mailing lists, Yes - Kudos, mad props and every other form of thanks and congratulations to them for the wonders they continue to work w

Re: Landscape from Lilypond 2.0.1 on Cygwin

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Don't blame LilyPond in this case, Agreed > blame your version of ghostscript (which is used internally in > ps2pdf). I can confirm that the orientation > is correct when I use GNU Ghostscript 6.52 but upside down when I use > GNU Ghostscript 7.05. If you want to investig

Docs suggestion

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
I'd like to see a new section in the fine manual: How-Tos. In specific, I'm looking for something like "How to adjust the 'margins' on output (see linewidth, place it _after_ the \include paper16.ly)." Or "How to move the lyrics closer to the notes." Or "How to make the lyrics line up with the f

Re: Landscape from Lilypond 2.0.1 on Cygwin

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Bertalan Fodor wrote: > For me it seems that the lyrics engraver is not good at typography. I > was informed that it was contributed by someone who has disappeared > since he worked on it. So it's working, but not really good. Hi Bert, I found your earlier messages on this topic before I wrote m

Re: Landscape from Lilypond 2.0.1 on Cygwin

2003-10-07 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hello Mats - I always appreciate your answers. Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Unfortunately, LilyPond itself doesn't realize what is should do with > the line width if you have set orientation="landscape", so you have to > do it manually: > \include "paper16.ly" > \paper{ > orientation = "landscape"

Landscape from Lilypond 2.0.1 on Cygwin

2003-10-06 Thread J. Daniel Ashton
Hello friends, I'm going through the usual head-banging trying to get landscape output. Off-topic: Could we modify ps2pdf invocation or something to die more gracefully with Adobe Acrobat Reader has the PDF file open? I set orientation = "landscape" in the paper{} block. I get landscape output