Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

2012-08-03 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 20.51 +0100, Graham Percival ha scritto: > I was particularly thinking of the download links and links to > docs (on both the Downloads page and the Development page). That > needs to do build number -> python -> texinfo macros -> html. But > at least it's fully deb

Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

2012-08-01 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 18.08 +0100, Graham Percival ha scritto: > Hmm. I can't answer this directly, but I'll pass along my > considerations: > > - if you try to compile GUB on debian unstable (or any other > recent distro), you will likely encounter odd compile failures. > These are

Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

2012-08-01 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 19.26 +0200, David Kastrup ha scritto: > Build numbers are not all that relevant for _us_ as far as I can tell. > They distinguish different versions compiled from the _same_ canonical > source (so they don't belong into our VERSION file at any rate). > Changes may be

Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

2012-08-01 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 15.52 +0100, Graham Percival ha scritto: > Regardless of the question of having a tuple of four values, it > would be nice to support build numbers, i.e. 2.15.43-2: > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=977 > > This definitely requires work in both lil

Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

2012-08-01 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 15.21 +0200, David Kastrup ha scritto: > Graham Percival writes: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:37:58PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >> If it is non-operative, it should be either made operative or removed. > >> There is no point dragging it along as purely dead wei

lilypond.org is mute

2010-06-10 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Jan, A French lilyponder reported one hour ago on the French list that lilypond.org sends empty contents for HTML pages, both the home page and a few known good URLs; note that I tested also some obviously wrong URLs and they all returned 404 errors. It seems that there is some permissions or

Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

2010-02-09 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 09 février 2010 à 07:07 -0800, Jiri Zurek (Prague) a écrit : > The scaled durations do not offer a solution, just a workaround. Lilypond > still attempts to "count" the beats, aligning vertically beat after beat. > What I would like to achieve is to force Lilypond not to count beats at al

Re: Lilypond as MediaWiki extension does not print in Extension:Collection

2010-01-28 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 28 janvier 2010 à 15:48 +0100, Oscar van Dillen a écrit : > " You can install and use this extension in your wiki, but it is currently > not available in Wikipedia. Many people would love to use this extension > in Wikipedia and other large-footprint wikis that they have no control > o

Re: Lilypond as MediaWiki extension does not print in Extension:Collection

2010-01-28 Thread John Mandereau
2010/1/27 Oscar van Dillen : > on my website I found that Lilypond as MediaWiki extension does not print > music notation, just code, to the pdf in Extension:Collection > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection > Lilypond does work fine when using "printable version" such as can be seen

Re: [2.13.11-1] lilypond-book: duplicate filename but different contents of orginal file

2010-01-24 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 24 janvier 2010 à 18:36 +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk a écrit : > Well, i believe this mean that i use the same music fragment in several > different places. > > If so, i believe that these warnings do not mean that i'm getting any > troubles with that piece(s). > > If so... Sorry for the

Re: lilypond-book question

2010-01-10 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 07 janvier 2010 à 10:47 +0100, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : > > What do all (pdf)(La)TeX users on this list think about making > > lilypond-book implcitly set latex-program option to 'pdflatex' if the > > format is 'latex' and --pdf option is set? > > > This definitely makes sense. Since I

Re: lilypond-book question

2010-01-06 Thread John Mandereau
James, sorry for having missed this email, but it surely has a missing header that prevented my mail client to show it in the same thread as other messages. Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 10:53 +0100, James Bailey a écrit : > I realise the problems: > The correct command should be lilypond-book --lat

Re: lilypond-book question

2010-01-06 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 10:35 +0100, James Bailey a écrit : > Firstly, lilypond complains that it doesn't understand this extension. > lilypond-book: error: cannot determine format for: lily-book- > sample.pdftex This is normal: according to "4.5 Filename extensions" at http://lilypond.org/doc

Re: lilypond-book question

2010-01-06 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 06 janvier 2010 à 23:04 +0100, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : > Quoting James Bailey : > > pdflatex always complains if I don't have it there > > That's weird! The graphicx package should automatically detect if you > are using pdflatex or latex and choose the appropriate driver. Agreed.

Re: convert-ly can't cope with accented filename

2010-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 08:03 +1100, Nick Payne a écrit : > Try to run convert-ly on a file with an accented name and I get the > following: > > > convert-ly --edit "/home/nick/lilypond/Bésard_preludio.ly" > convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.13.10 > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "/us

Re: No Work!

2009-12-17 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 à 18:56 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : > I don't buy the generalized Unix notion that "doing things the hard > way is a virtue." Where do you get this notion from? Note that the most popular operating systems except Microsoft ones are Unix-based. It's not doing thin

Re: No Work!

2009-12-16 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 20:20 -0600, Tim McNamara a écrit : > Wouldn't it be simplest to set the Reply-To header to the list? Then > all replies go to the list by default. No. For good reasons about this, see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Best, John signature.asc Descri

Re: No Work!

2009-12-15 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 12:39 +0100, Federico Bruni a écrit : > [OT] > I recently realized that a good practice is not using Cc, unless you > have to reply to a person who is not subscribed to the mailing list. > The problem is that not all email clients are able to handle the reply > well. >

Re: Wanted: documentation editor

2009-11-20 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 14:56 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > 1) cd Documentation; make doc > 2) go cook dinner or read slashdot or catch up on emails or > whatever > 3) if it fails, complain on -devel. If it succeedes, then commit > the changes you want to test. > 4) touch Documenta

Re: lilypond-book on osx 10.4

2009-10-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 19:34 +0100, James E. Bailey a écrit : > downgrading to python 2.4.6 solved the problem and lilypond-book works > perfectly now. Whom do I talk to to have this updated in the > distributed binary? Or is this not a feasible option because 10.5 and > 10.6 don't have thi

Re: website so close, and yet so far

2009-10-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 29 octobre 2009 à 11:04 +0100, Valentin Villenave a écrit : > Wow, is this normal: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/ > > This link points to the non-officially-published website's homepage??? IMO it's too early to replace the old documentation index with the new website,

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-21 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 21 août 2009 à 21:53 +0100, Graham Percival a écrit : > Ah, I was unclear. It checks for texi2html (oops, I meant to say > that above!), but not the version number. Does it really on your system?! Please test and/or check before claiming this. > Most people have 1.78, > whereas w

Re: GDP and (Learning Manual and Notation Reference)

2009-08-21 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 21 août 2009 à 08:54 +0100, Graham Percival a écrit : > LM 5 is being moved into the AU, What's the rationale for this? I must have missed in some discussion on the lists, but I couldn't find it in Git commit message as I might have expected. Cheers, John signature.asc Description

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-21 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 21 août 2009 à 08:49 +0100, Graham Percival a écrit : > You're using texinfo < 1.8.2. Yes, it would be nice if the > configure script checked for the doc-building programs (this > request is already on the tracker)... It does, but this check is not enforced, only a warning is printed

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-18 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 16:20 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold a écrit : > You do a great job summarizing the minor versions of the development > versions, but there is nothing in news-gmane-lilypond.devel about stable > minor changes. The only changes in stable releases so far have been bugfixes (tha

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-17 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 14:34 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:48:53AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or > > anything which tells the differences between minor releases. > > The git log messages. And

Re: proposal for doc+web sources

2009-07-18 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 18 juillet 2009 à 04:46 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > There was a request to add the version numbers to pdf files, i.e. > lilypond-2.13.4.pdf > lilypond-notation-2.13.4.pdf > > If this is easily done in the makefiles, then I think it might be > a good idea -- but if it's tricky

Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

2009-07-10 Thread John Mandereau
2009/7/11 Tim McNamara : > I think there'd be more contributors if > contributing was a simple process (and not so Linux-centric): installing git > and all its myriad dependencies, learning texinfo, etc.  I simply don't have > time for all that.  I'm happy to write text, revise text, proof-read etc

Re: Dutch download page (was: lilypond 2.13 download)

2009-07-09 Thread John Mandereau
2009/7/7 Graham Percival : > It involves the build system, just like the site in English. > odd python files, etc. I admit that these scripts are little or not documented. > How will it be different from the doc translations?  It's all > texinfo files.  In fact, these texinfo files don't have

Re: Dutch download page (was: lilypond 2.13 download)

2009-07-06 Thread John Mandereau
Hi guys, Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 09:37 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > This is also true of the site built from git, so it's not a > webserver issue. There has never been any file named nl/install/index.html in the web site source tree, and "make" does not generate any file named install/in

Re: new website: draft 2.5, resolved

2009-06-25 Thread John Mandereau
Le jeudi 25 juin 2009 à 03:50 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > Good points about -devel and bug-. IMO if we don't advertize > info-lilypond, we should junk that list. :) I guess the email medium is preferred, or at least more used, by some people than RSS, and this puts very little overhead on

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread John Mandereau
James E. Bailey a écrit : Am 25.03.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Graham Percival: Nothing; they come from exactly the same source. The version in the AU is going to die soon, where "soon" means "within 4 months". So then why the difference? I should think a one line command to get the source is eas

Re: odd configure error

2009-03-25 Thread John Mandereau
James E. Bailey a écrit : I'm having a configure error, and I don't know how to solve it. I get this: ERROR: Please install required programs: /Users/lilydev/bin/fontforge >= 20050624 (installed: .fontforge 20080927) What does 'which fontforge' and '`which fontforge` --version' say? Could yo

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-01 Thread John Mandereau
Jonathan Kulp a écrit : Francisco Vila wrote: Cross fingers, today is the premiere of Valentin's "the LilyPond Opera" in Montpellier. Success! The name is "Affaire étrangère"; how would you translate it, Valentin? :-) All right! Can't wait to hear how it goes. Good luck! IIRC it should

Re: scheme - notes as variables

2009-01-29 Thread John Mandereau
Hello Rob, Rob Canning wrote: i was trying to do it using scheme just because i thought learning to do this kind of thing in scheme would help me with other aspects of lilypond in general - perl looks neat though "the swiss army chainsaw of languages" i heard it refered to as :)- Using simple

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2009-01-12 Thread John Mandereau
Stefan Thomas a écrit : Dear John, I tried now Your key-diatonic tranposition, but, in the below quoted snippet, it doesn't work. I get the error message: programming error: moving backwards in time Hello Stefan, I can reproduce this error and I get strange output (staves with only the staff

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread John Mandereau
Valentin Villenave a écrit : I'm running a 64-bits distro on a Pentium i7 with 6GB of Ram. (I had 3GB, but my opera wouldn't compile at less than 4). I have 4GB, and with a little swapping I can build it. If it needs to swap things, that doesn't surprise me. I think RAM is the key. It is f

Re: Long compilation times

2009-01-11 Thread John Mandereau
Cameron Horsburgh a écrit : I'm running a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1.25 Gig of Ram. The machine is aging, but it should be up to this challenge. I've noticed scores compile much quicker on much lower specced machines, so I'm suspecting something peculiar to my installation, but I don't know where to look.

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-05 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 20:05 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : > Anybody have complaints about using "_idoc"? That's fine. > I don't need to check the translations, right? No... > As long as the english > docstrings appear we're good, right? Yes, unless you take over Translations mei

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 17:02 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : > I don't understand the significance of the change from _i to _idoc (which I > would recommend instead of _doc). What is the difference between the > "lilypond gettext domain" and the "lilypond-doc gettext domain". The differe

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 09:33 +0100, Thomas Fehr a écrit : > I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where > short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk > could help. Does anyone know how to do that? I'm not sure a ramdisk will increase

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:23 +, Anthony W. Youngman a écrit : > WARNING! > > I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be > careful. I have used noatime for years without noticeable inconsistency with Git and CVS. Cheers, John

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 11:19 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > No; references is the correct place. If people skip over the > references to previous docs, then it's their own fault. We simply > /cannot/ add links to everything in all places in the docs; the > best we can do is have a cons

Re: Harmonic question

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 14:50 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : > I've now added a ref to Harmonics in References for for fretted strings in > NR 2.4.1. I guess you mean 328df0d0d386fb553062680fd3c5be6d47548218 "Docs: NR 2.4 Fretted: Add ref to Harmonics" (tagged as 2.12.1-1)? > Do you thi

Re: First Frog Task

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Carl, Le vendredi 02 janvier 2009 à 20:16 -0700, Carl D. Sorensen a écrit : > I've attached a file README-contrib.txt, which is an attempt at what one of > you described as "Frogging for Dummies". It gives at least a brief > introduction to the key issues that I remember as obstacles when I got

Re: Problem with site and documentation

2009-01-02 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 02 janvier 2009 à 21:15 +, Alberto Simões a écrit : > Erm, it is working now. I sure I tried it various times (firefox3). I cross fingers for you :-) > Could somebody else correct the issue meanwhile, or am I getting mad? We can't correct the error you may have encountered if yo

Re: Problem with site and documentation

2009-01-02 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 02 janvier 2009 à 20:34 +, Alberto Simões a écrit : > But when following the link to documentation > http://lilypond.org/web/documentation > it fails. What is your browser and which failure do you get exactly? What's the error message ? I can't reproduce any failure with this URL

[Fwd: Re: problem with hidden notes]

2008-12-30 Thread John Mandereau
[private reply forwarded to list] --- Begin Message --- At 10:10 p.m. 30/12/2008, you wrote: Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:44 +0100, kristof a écrit : > as a suggestion for improvement of the manual: i must say that > 'Educational use' is not the first place where i would go looking for > so

Re: problem with hidden notes

2008-12-30 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:44 +0100, kristof a écrit : > as a suggestion for improvement of the manual: i must say that > 'Educational use' is not the first place where i would go looking for > something like this.. There must be a better name for this section, or subsections it contain coul

Re: Dutch LilyPond user forum/mailing list?

2008-12-30 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Wilbert, Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 21:13 +0100, Wilbert Berendsen a écrit : > every now and then somebody asks me: is there a Dutch user forum for LilyPond > users? As far as I know there isn't. > Maybe someone knows, or has a suggestion how to setup one. > > (Antwoorden mag ook in het Ne

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 12:33 +0100, Tao Cumplido a écrit : > As far as I understand it it works independent from a key signature so > it doesn't matter if the key is in C or not. > > The function says taht you transpose a pattern in a given key for X > steps, so in your example you transpose a

Re: Harmonic question

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 22:53 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : > Yes. The warning under Harmonics in 2.3.1 in the Notation Reference says: > > "Note: Harmonics must be defined inside a chord construct even if there is > only a single note." Should we add copy this warning into "Common notati

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function (John Mandereau)

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
I -> III } % mixing lydian and mixolydian modes milydian = #`( (0 . 0) (1 . 0) (2 . 0) (3 . ,SHARP) (4 . 0) (5 . 0) (6 . ,FLAT)) melodie = \relative c' { \times 2/3 { cis8 d e } f2 } \new Staff { \time 3/4 \melodie \modeTranspose cis d g \milydian d \lydian \mel

Re: Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-29 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 à 15:44 +0100, Hans Aberg a écrit : > Is this synced with the work by Graham Breed, who has worked on > microtonal extensions? - See the developers list. I assume you refer to "Mictrotonal support" thread, which is kind-of a follow-up of "Diatonic notation system" (traf

Diatonic/modal transposition function

2008-12-28 Thread John Mandereau
een lydian and mixolydian milydian = #`( (0 . 0) (1 . 0) (2 . 0) (3 . ,SHARP) (4 . 0) (5 . 0) (6 . ,FLAT)) melodie = \relative c' { \times 2/3 { cis8 d e } f2 } \new Staff { \time 3/4 \melodie \modeTranspose g \milydian #-3 d' \lydian \melodie % IV -> I \mo

Re: no download

2008-12-28 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 17:36 +, Ignacio a écrit : > Hello, > I am trying to download versio 2.12 for MacOS Intel, but the link cannot > find the server. This is fixed now -- not by me, thanks to the webmaster. Best, John ___ lilypond-user

Re: Convert-ly in 2.12

2008-12-28 Thread John Mandereau
med for 2.11.66. This will be fixed in release 2.12.1. Thanks for the report -- John Mandereau ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilypond v12 download links

2008-12-28 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 09:33 +0100, Francisco Vila a écrit : > 2008/12/28 Bill Mooney : > > Greetings, > > The links on the LP site for downloading the latest version seem to be > > incorrect... ?!? > > Can anyone clarify / correct this? > > I reported this to the -devel list yesterday. Us

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th

2008-12-22 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 15:14 +0100, James E. Bailey a écrit : > Am 22.12.2008 um 14:04 schrieb John Mandereau: > > Indeed: there is currently no thing in all LilyPond documentation that > > introduces Scheme programming for non-programmers. > And there shouldn't be,

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th

2008-12-22 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 10:56 +0100, James E. Bailey a écrit : > Am 22.12.2008 um 03:52 schrieb Graham Percival: > Oh, I've read the Learning Manual cover to cover (well, it may have > been changed since then, it was some months ago), and I don't > understand Scheme. Indeed: there is curre

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th

2008-12-21 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008 à 09:47 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:26:16PM +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > He wants it diatonic, so it's not that easy. \transpose c' g {a b c} > > would produce {e fis g} instead of {e f g}. > > Oops, I forgot my first-year theo

Re: passage à lilypond depuis pmx

2008-11-22 Thread John Mandereau
uvé > n'était encore disponible. Il y a manifestement eu une période pendant > laquelle > la conversion était possible, mais je ne trouve pas les anciens outils > mentionnés. > > Si vous avez quelques éléments de solution, je vous serez très reconnaissant. > Merci d'avance

RE: pdf file

2008-11-14 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/11/14 16:40 -0500, Slattery, Tim - BLS wrote: > > It's useful if you want both PDF and any other output format > > besides PostScript. Ah sorry, I meant any *printed* output format besides PostScript. > So if I have language in my *.ly file specifying MIDI output and I want > a PDF too

Re: pdf file

2008-11-14 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/11/14 16:10 -0500, Tim Slattery wrote: > "Francisco Vila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Output is PDF by default. > > Then what does the flag do? It's useful if you want both PDF and any other output format besides PostScript. Cheers, John _

Re: how lilypond-book deals with multiple LP releases on disk

2008-11-11 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008 22:08 -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > I'm finally trying lilypond-book (on Windows XP), > coming up against some frustrations. For some reason, > the documentation has left me confused, but I > think I'm figuring stuff out anyway. Problem is, I > currently have both LilyPond 2.10.33 AND Lily

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-28 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/10/26 01:41 +0200, Robin Bannister wrote: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > How about "Overview" instead of "Index"? > > A better choice! > And I counter with "Documentation Home". > > But a second word is overkill. I'd like "Up to" proposed by Francisco, and "documentation home" i

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-10-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 04 octobre 2008 à 22:18 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > Am Samstag, 4. Oktober 2008 schrieb Robin Bannister: > > Without the prefix the title is then just e.g. "Learning Manual", which > > corresponds to what you see in the documentation overview. > > Yes, but that was the only str

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

2008-10-04 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/10/03 18:42 -0700, sdfgsdhdshd wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote: > > One tricky aspect is that the GUILE evaluator is fundamentally broken: > > it rewrites Scheme expressions for memoization in thread-unsafe ways > > all over the place. > > > > For Lily itself, I think it will also be ver

Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

2008-10-03 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/10/03 11:14 -0700, sdfgsdhdshd wrote: > Anthony Boyd-2 wrote: > >> -djob-count=[number of cores] > > > > I don't think that job count changes things when you process a single > > input file though. If you specify multiple input files to process > > then lilypond will fork off into differen

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-30 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/30 14:04 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Well done:) I still prefer Patrick's style and wish it were the > default. +1 John ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-21 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/17, Reinhold Jainhofer wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 21:50:36 Patrick McCarty wrote: > > I agree that the language selection should be included in the footer, > > but I'm not sure how the buildscript will have to be modified. I'm not sure how to move the lanugage menu into the fo

Re: another emacs osx question

2008-09-21 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 00:21 +0200, James E. Bailey a écrit : > This was actually a late reply to the first time I posted this question (in > august). It was solved about a month later. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00301.html Oops, sorry for the confusion, I

Re: another emacs osx question

2008-09-21 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/18 13:33 +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > Now that emacs can actually run lilypond, I have another problem, I > can't run a command on the master file: it doesn't escape the spaces > in filenames or folder names. Is there any way I can change this? I don't understand; haven't this pr

Re: emacs-mode

2008-09-15 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/12 10:15 +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > Well, now that lilypond can compile a file in emacs, I've been looking > around, getting myself acquainted with the various options. > Apparently, the 2tex option calls lilypond as lilypond -b tex > filename.ly The version of lilypond that I

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-13 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 17:32 -0600, Andrew Hawryluk a écrit : > > Andrew, feel free to suggest a new color for the footer :-) > > > > Cheers, > > John > > You could change the footer from #e8ffe8 to #e7efe3 and the border > from #c0ffc0 to #ccd3cc. Thanks, I applied these changes. > I

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-13 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/13 01:36 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > #rgb is the official CSS color shortcut for #rrggbb, see > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#color-units Ah, I'll be less ignorant when I go to bed tonight, as we say in French :-) > And yet, a font specification sneaked into the .css f

Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

2008-09-12 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 10 septembre 2008 à 11:49 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : > Am Samstag, 6. September 2008 schrieb Andrew Hawryluk: > > Here's my initial design submission for the docs - it's just a gentle > > modification of the CSS file: Cool! I applied it, and made some changes, see http://git

Re: emacs question

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/10 16:53 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > I'd rather fix the bug completely before speaking up, but this thread is > > inflating a lot: in elisp/lilypond-mode.el line 647 (in function > > LilyPond-command-expand), file should be quoted and escaped. > > Ahm, no line 647 is fine (ju

Re: emacs question [FIXED]

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/10 16:41 +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > 6) I think somewhere, the quotes are being stripped. Probably, but escaping the spaces instead of quoting the whole file name also works with (ba)sh, and shell-quote-argument Emacs function does it well (see below). > On other platforms using em

Re: LSR cannot be found.

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/10 14:32 +, Josef SCHLUESSEL wrote: > Neither SAFARI nor FIREFOX can find lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ > (Maybe half a year ago there was absolutely no problem with LSR.) > What can I do? Wait until LSR is up again (in two weeks or later). Search the list archives for more information. John

Re: emacs question

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/10 15:11 +0200, James E. Bailey wrote: > I just wish someone with a little elisp help could point me toward the > part of whichever file determines how the file is processed in emacs > so I could learn enough to be able to add " " to it. I'd rather fix the bug completely before spea

Re: convert-ly broken on Mac OS X "Tiger"?

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/09 21:31 -0700, Kurt Kroon wrote: > I'm getting an error when I try to update a file to v.2.11.57 on Mac OS X > "Tiger", running on a G4 PowerBook. (The file works fine in v.2.10.33, > though I need to do some more tweaks to fix some minor layout issues.) > Has anyone else encountered t

Re: --evaluate command line option

2008-09-10 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/10 10:32 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > The first thing I can find is dated Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:36:08 -0700, > where you replied: "This has been discussed on either this mailing > list or the -devel list, I think between 6 and 12 months ago, but I > forget what the answer was." > > Then

Re: different tempi

2008-09-09 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/09 19:57 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Well, as one of my teachers at school used to say: "Believing means not > knowing..." Attached is a simple lilypond file, which does exactly what you > want (modulo the 5/4 in the Vla staff, since that measure actually contains > 6/4 ;-) ).

Re: different tempi

2008-09-09 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/09 12:45 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Currently, I believe that my problem can't be solved with the current > > means of lilypond, and some extra coding is necessary. > > What about using InnerStaffGroup(s)? Indeed (but I'm very puzzled the order of \consi

Re: lilypond-latex

2008-09-02 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/09/01 18:19 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > /usr/bin/python --version > > You'll see 2.3.5. > > ... or at least, Kieren would see 2.3.5, because of the error > > involving "set". I get it too, and have to edit lilypond-book > > manually whenever I get a new lilypond. > > Okay, manually

Re: indexing

2008-08-27 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/08/26 22:13 +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > No one is working on the LM at the moment, Yes I am: I've finished the work on makefiles I had planned, so I'm going back to proofreading the Learning Manual (I'm at Chap. 4 "Tweaking output). > Are you able to obtain these source files from Sav

Re: (ot) Computer-assisted musical instrument tutoring: thesis complete

2008-08-25 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/08/23 09:30 -0700, Kurt Kroon wrote: > On 2008/08/23 12:13 AM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My thesis defense went very well, I've finished all > > corrections, and have submitted all the paperwork. Congratulations! Are you going on with a PhD? > > I'll be fixing

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/18 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:42:38 +0200 > "John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why not doing both? > > Because it's impossible to do both at the same time. It takes > time and energy to ans

Re: Absolute vs. relative pitches

2008-08-17 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/14 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I wouldn't mind adding a section to LM 3 about absolute mode, with >> usage cases and whatnot. But I still really think that everything >> else in the docs should be \relative. > > Great! We are agreed, then :) I have even suggest to discuss it la

Re: Second review of NR 2.7 Chords

2008-08-17 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/16 Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In selected snippets, chord-name-exceptions.ly and > chord-name-major7.ly aren't displayed properly (no title, lacking > %begin verbatim so the texidoc and version are visible) since there > are snippets with these names present in input/regression; the

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-16 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/13 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >It's a waste because, 7 days from now, there will be precisely > half a dozen people who are updating the documentation. There's > at least 50 people who can answer simple questions here. To be > efficient, those six people should spend their time u

Re: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU

2008-08-16 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/11 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My point is that lilypond-user reading users won't get used to it. Many of > them are newcomers and beginners. They don't usually follow the > conversations on the list. > > Perhaps it's because of my software developer experience, but

Re: Absolute vs. relative pitches

2008-08-13 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/13 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is a neat technique if the notes lie largely > in the same octave, but \transpose is not introduced > in the Learning Manual, so it can't be used there > without adding a fairly detailed section explaining > it first. > > Perhaps it could be ment

Re: Comments on Learning Manual 3 -- Fundamental concepts

2008-08-12 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/11 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:54:44 +0200 > "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, this is a Johnism (I don't know why he keeps asking us to >> remove parentheses). > > Parentheses are discouraged in highly formal writing, but they add

Re: Comments on Learning Manual 3 -- Fundamental concepts

2008-08-12 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/10 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Absolutely. When the LM was written the appropriate sections in the > NR did not exist, or at least the headings were expected to change. > Now the headings have stabilised (more or less) the refs can be added. > > Could you please make a new patch,

Comments on Learning Manual 3 -- Fundamental concepts

2008-08-09 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Trevor, I proofread chapter 3 of the Learning Manual up to 3.1.4 'Modifying context properties'. This is globally great work, I wish I could read such docs instead of spending hours in trial-and-error and reading Mats' explanations on -user, when I started with LilyPond 4 years ago :-). I rea

Re: Lilypond under Leopard (and ccache)

2008-07-21 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/07/20 10:36 +0100, Alberto Simões wrote: > About compiling it from source: I made it. > > The problem was the use of ccache. I am not sure why, but lilypond build > system does not like it. So, if you are using ccache, it might be a good > idea to disable it. Which problem did ccache ca

Re: convert-ly...

2008-07-08 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/08/08 15:52 -0500, Stan Sanderson wrote: > > On 2008/07/08 09:42 -0500, Stan Sanderson wrote: > >> ...is not my friend. > >> > >> Mac OS 10.4.11, PPC, Lilypond 2.11.51 > >> > Additional info- > > I installed 2.11.51 (ppc version) on my Intel iMac running 10.5.4. > Convert-ly works on the

Re: convert-ly...

2008-07-08 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/07/08 09:42 -0500, Stan Sanderson wrote: > ...is not my friend. > > Mac OS 10.4.11, PPC, Lilypond 2.11.51 > > convert-ly fails with the following messsage > > @rule ((0, 1, 9), _ ('\\header { key = concat + with + > > operator }')) This is strange: does this unexpected linebreak a

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