Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-16 Thread Ray
Gianluca D. libero.it> writes: > Yes, you can put the \break instruction into the notes, but you should put > it just after a barline, or, which is the same, between two measures- > otherwise, lilypond will ignore your command. > Actually, it is still possible that Lilypond will ignore you

Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Ray
g (vocal melody and guitar chords w/ finger diagrams, as one might buy in the store) would be awesome. If anyone has one or wants to make a template that would greatly help those of us amateur songwriters who want to just get our creations on paper. Best regards, Ray --- http://www.ka

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Ray
larger contexts it's hard to know exactly how to use them when something goes wrong. As always, any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! http://www.kaisora.com -- fine art and photographs by Ray Bartlett ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-05 Thread Ray
First off, I think Lilypond is amazing and I had very few problems installing it or using it, despite a relatively limited musical knowledge. I'm an amateur songwriter with no ambitions of ever going pro but wanted to print out my music as a gift for my mom at Christmas. We're talking very simple

Re: Ghostscript/GSview problems

2005-09-19 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Worth noting: I had the problem with 2.6.3 stable, so I downloaded the most recent experimental, and had the same problem. That's when I went looking for other versions of gsview. When I say native windows, I mean using the pango library, not using cygwin. rayOn 9/19/05, Ray Brohinsky &l

Ghostscript/GSview problems

2005-09-19 Thread Ray Brohinsky
all it's current updates. ray GSview 4.6 2004-01-11 Unknown in Comments section at line 7:   %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Bold Unknown in Comments section at line 8:   %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma Unknown in Comments section at line 9:   %%D

running convert-ly under win32 native

2005-08-27 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Heyla! It's been a long time, but I'm back to trying to use lilypond again. A lot of things have changed, my old pieces not being among them. This is because I can't figure out how to run convert-ly on them. This is the windows-native version of lilypond, auto-installed. I have looked in the manua

Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

2005-07-20 Thread Ray McKinney
It pays to be a lurker every now and then! I'm glad it's working for you. On 7/20/05, Trevor Baca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is a perfect solution for me since I'm not relying on >point-and-click (at least not yet, anywa

Re: chord/tie/voicing help

2004-01-22 Thread Ray McKinney
ere how my finished (well, almost finished - I think I'll tinker with that slur a bit) 2 measures look. I've attached a small PNG file and here is part of the code (with english.ly and no relative): << {eflat''8([ d'' c'' bflat

chord/tie/voicing help

2004-01-21 Thread Ray McKinney
dots in stems-down position. Is there an easy way to shift the dots up I'm missing, or do I need to just manually move their position? I'm not necessarily asking for someone to give me the code to do this, but I am seeking guidance or reassurance that I'm on the ri

Re: 2.1.7-3!!

2004-01-21 Thread Ray McKinney
, too! Thank you Matthias (and other maintainers/packagers)! Ray --- Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As of this afternoon, I'm running 2.1.10 on OS 10.2.8, using Fink with > the local branch enabled. It is relatively easy to do. > > Stan > >

Re: 2.1.7-3!!

2004-01-16 Thread Ray McKinney
from my email. I'm surprised to see my condensed SATB example so well-received. I didn't expect much since it's only my second engraving project! Thanks :) Ray (version 2.0.1 via Fink and Mac OS X 10.2.8) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yaho

SATB 2-staff template and request for suggestions

2004-01-09 Thread Ray McKinney
;m certainly open to suggestions on ways I can improve this template, which I modified from the satb example with 4 staves and 4 sets of lyrics in the example templates. I've attached a small PNG graphic to show a portion of the output. Thanks to everyone for such a knowledgable community, R

Removing a MIDI track

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
es anybody have any suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? Thanks, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped ___ Lilypond-user mai

a bit of a question...

2003-10-25 Thread Ray Brohinsky
I've got a bit of a question, which I'm going to ask at the risk of looking very stupid. (I feel that way, so it isn't much of a risk anyway.) I have a piece which I wrote, an arrangement of four Christmas carols. I wrote it using Music Time Deluxe, and when I had it worked pretty well out started

re: downloading, installing, using Cygwin in MS Windows XP Professional

2003-10-15 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Lots of questions, yes! But none of them are fatal, so take heart! Karen Barrett wrote: > There are so many questions, & probably some I'm not aware of, so if you > know how to do the above, please let me know. I would very much like to > download the Brahms piano concerto #1 in Dm Op 15 --

Manual correction?

2003-09-26 Thread Ray Brohinsky
In the section on "An orchestral part" in the reference manual, hornNotes is called in the code with \notes \transpose c' f \hornNotes and referenced in the text as follows: "The code \transpose f c' indicates that the argument, being \hornNotes, should be transposed by a fifth downwards: sound

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I didn't give any thought to it. What do you precisely need? How should be printed in ChordNames ? Han-Wen (chord agnostic) Believe me, I was a chord agnostic for years. At least as far as theory and voice leading are concerned. Guitars have a nice way of saving one

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Ahh. Thanks. Although that didn't answer my question, because I didn't ask it very well. c:3.6 is, hands down, the way to do it. I was following the process in the manual, though, so I was defining the chorus (as chorus, how original) and using it in the score block as \chorus in both the Voice

inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
I hope I haven't missed list discussion of this in the recent past. I'm afraid Alaska has been frustrating me a bit, but that's another story. I'm trying to set a keyboard part for music I have to play tomorrow night (isn't it always that way?). For voice leading, I really need an Aminor chord

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
>That would be "Insert/Graphic/From File" but you knew that. Yeah. If "insert/graphic/from file" would accept SVG than I'd be cruisin'. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
From: Edward Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.pstoedit.net Interesting program! Doesn't help today, but I'm pretty sure that I'll be using it in the future. Thanks! ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/ma

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
>How about using GIMP to capture the images and create any efficient >image file you want to insert into your OpenOffice document? I'm using GIMP for some things, but I want to avoid using pixmaps as much as possible, and I want to be able to edit the pasted-in image afterwards without keeping ex

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Thanks! We can move this discussion over to lilypond-devel. -Original Message- From: Guido Amoruso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:59 PM To: Ray Peck Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Su

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
? -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:22 PM To: Ray Peck Cc: 'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Isn't "

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>> Isn't "Denemo" a GUI front end for Lilypond? > >Yes, but it is not "the" GUI. Denemo development has been stagnant for >a year or so now. If you need a GUI, you can try RoseGarden >(rosegarden.sf.net) or Noteedit >(http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html) Thanks. Prob

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Can someone who builds under Cygwin please contact me directly? I don't want to spam the whole list with build issues, especially since building under Cygwin seems to be frowned upon. These are the only warnings from configure: checking kpathsea/kpathsea.h usability... no checking kpathsea/kpaths

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre -exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>Some people on the list have managed >to do it in Cygwin, but most of the developers prefer Linux. Ah. Thanks. I run Linux at home, but don't have such a machine at work, where I do much of my home work while waiting for ant to build my Java project and Xalan to process my XSLT and hacking in

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Cool: I got working PDF output. Now: I grepped /usr/doc/lilypond-1.6.5-1/ for "sodipodi" and "SVG" and found nothing. How do I generate SVG output so that I can try it in OO, and where is the code that generates it, so I know what to go hack to fix things?

RE: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
venture begins! -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:41 AM To: Ray Peck Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-exi sting Cygwin? Just run the cygwin installer, selec

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
>Maybe you want to read: > >http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html I first read that over 10 years ago, thanks. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-existing Cygwin?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
So. . . how do I install on Windoze while not smashing my pre-existing Cygwin installation? ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>If you want, I can send you a .sodipodi file. Sure, that would be swell. It would be most useful if you could send a real musical example from Lilypond, plus a very simple drawing example (e.g., a couple lines, a circle, a few characters of text). I'll compare the XML to what I find in OO and s

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>Oh, wait, you could import the music as bitmaps, but that's probably >not what you meant, right? Yeah. That would be An Abomination. ;-) > 3. It is very likely that contributions to the project I'm > working on will come from people to whom OpenOffice or Word > will be a challenge; TeX is out

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>ie, a procedure that can't be automated, nor checked, and with no >chance of recovery when (not if) the word processor fails. The >horror... Not at all. OpenOffice's native format is XML. If everything went to hell, I can always get the data out with XSLT or parse it info Jdom and do whatever

Installing Lilypond on Windoze when you already have Cygwin

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
I just tried installing Lilypond on Windoze and find that it installs Cygwin. I already have Cygwin on my machine, and don't want to screw it up. How should I proceed? ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listi

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
>EPS should be fine. Why do you feel that's overkill? I've used EPS in the past, but always found it to be slow and buggy. Perhaps this is no longer true? I also am hoping for a simple workflow more along the lines of copy and paste than "render and import". I also would like to have a single s

Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-03 Thread Ray Peck
Hi! I'm writing a document on music theory and New Standard Tuning (Robert Fripp's fifths-based guitar tuning). The first version of this was done with Word and Visio (hiss!); the new version is in OpenOffice. I'm adding notation to the new version of the doc (the first version only had fretboa