Re: who uses lilypond

2004-12-03 Thread Jack O';Quin
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Who uses lilypond? I use it mainly to make charts of jazz standards for a band I'm in. Lately, I've been helping a friend write an electric bass guitar method book. We're using lilypond book for our working draft. I have no idea what the eventual publisher w

Re: problems building lilypond-2.4.1

2004-11-05 Thread Jack O';Quin
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Any suggestions how to get around this... > > Upgrade FontForge, it is a bug in fontforge. The only version I see in Debian is fontforge-0.0.20041012-1. The fontforge_0.0.20040703-2.wf.1_i386.deb in the woody deb direc

problems building lilypond-2.4.1

2004-11-05 Thread Jack O';Quin
Any suggestions how to get around this... mftrace --encoding feta-din10.enc -I ./out/ --pfa --simplify feta-din10 sh: potrace: command not found mftrace 1.0.34 Font `feta-din10'... Using encoding file: `./out/feta-din10.enc' Running Metafont... Tracing bitmaps... [33][102][109][112][114][115][122]

Re: 2.4.0 Debian package?

2004-11-01 Thread Jack O';Quin
"James Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installed 2.4.0 with Woody Where is a 2.4.0 woody package available? I see 2.2.6-2 in sid and 2.1.0 in sarge. -- joq ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: point-and-click

2004-10-26 Thread Jack O';Quin
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried running the emacsclient command manually from the > command line? Try first with just > emacsclient somefile > which should open the the file in the running emacs. Type > CTRL-X # to end the emacslient session (this is not necessary > whe

Re: lilypond-book

2004-10-12 Thread Jack O';Quin
David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometimes you may want to use $\\math$ symbols in the lilypond > portion of the file. Two bytes may be better than one, like > $$ or ;; or $;. daveA Good point. I recently discovered that LaTeX defines the \flat, \sharp, and \natural symbols

Suggestions for macro tools to generate .ly files

2004-10-11 Thread Jack O';Quin
I'm helping a friend write an electric bass method book. In an effort to reach as many players as possible, we decided to print each exercise in both bass clef and tablature. Lilypond and lilypond-book work great for this. After experimenting, we came up with dozens of snippets like the example

How do I use English note names with lilypond-book?

2004-09-26 Thread Jack O';Quin
I currently have lilypond-2.1.0-2 from Debian testing. I'd like to use English note names (like `gs' and `af' for G-sharp and A-flat) in a book I'm starting work on. It works to add this... \begin{lilypond} \include "english.ly" ... \end{lilypond} But, the \include needs to be repe

Re: Spacing Problem

2004-09-21 Thread Jack O';Quin
"Michael Lakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, fixed note spacing base on note duration would not be good. I > thought of that as a fix for this problem, which would look better > than what's currently produced. > > > Notes in a measure probably should have the same spacing if they're > th