Re: mac osx point and click editor

2006-05-01 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Sean, By following Carrick's instructions, you've told the Finder what to do with .ly files (not with "files created by LilyPond"). Now repeat his instructions with a .pdf file and as many other file formats that you desire. Best, Robert Sean Reed wrote: Hi Carrick, That's the first thing

Re: [OT] More mail problems!

2006-03-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Are these in the order you received them? Gilles wrote: Now I get postings in 2, 3, 4, 5 and up to 6 copies! The duplication happens on "lists.gnu.org" as shown here below [In the following excerpts, the same mail id (1FDfSF-0006PI-0B) has produced 6 different messages]: --- Copy 1 ---

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
fiëé, David, and Nicholas, Thanks for the pointers! Okay, so some enterprising person has a niche they can fill if they choose! For our purposes, I think we'll choose the low-tech, uncomplicated, and free solution of typing in the tune by hand and then transposing. It's not a complicated pie

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Ray wrote: I have another question now, which hopefully will have an easier answer. Currently, my melody and lyrics match up nicely and I'm producing a MIDI file. However, the PDF has unoptimal line breaks and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix that: Hi Ray, Have you tried: http://www.lil

scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Lilypond folks, I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks! Robert _

Re: the accent symbol

2005-08-01 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Bruce, Thanks for the reply. To everyone, I am thoroughly shocked to discover that the term referred to was "moreable" which seems to be completely made up. It is used by certain programmers to indicate a field for data entry that can be "opened" for more information. So the field may conta

OT: the accent symbol

2005-07-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Well this is really a trivia question not a music question; please don't be offended by the waste of bandwidth as I don't really know where else to find expert typographers! The question is: Is there another name for the "greater than" symbol (besides "accent" as used in lilypond)? Someone o

hello list?

2005-05-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I hate to post this because I'm afraid that it will be a part of the deluge of e-mail when the list server kicks back in, but are the mailing lists needing a little kick or have they suddenly gone silent since Saturday? ___ lilypond-user mailing list

cautionary accidentals out of place with kghostview

2005-05-14 Thread Robert T Wyatt
MacOS 10.3.9 Normally I use lilypond from the Terminal.app command line so I use Preview to view the PDFs. Today I was using a KDE xterm so I used kghostview to view the PDF. Turns out that cautionary accidentals are shifted to the right when viewed this way. The parentheses are in the correct

volta bracket doesn't close when under chords

2005-05-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
ut.ly Mats Bengtsson wrote: > ... take a look at the example called > volta-chord-names.ly in the Tips and Tricks document > for version 2.5. The explanations in the example are > somewhat misleading (I will correct it) since it mentions > adding an engraver, but the example itself is rel

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Mats, This combination did fix my problem. Thank you! Slight correction. I had to go to minimum-length = #6 to force the one between measures 10/11 to show up. It had been at the line wrap before. minimum-length = #6 How should a gliss behave at the end-beginning of a line

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mats, This combination did fix my problem. Thank you! Below is the working implementation. Mats Bengtsson wrote: The problem is probably that LilyPond chooses a line breaking with fairly tight note spacing, so the resulting glissando symbol is too short to show up. I tried to set \override Glissand

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
rgrtw/lilypond/stillinger/DalmatianStrut.pdf (just remove the filename to see the directory listing) Thanks again Mats! Mats Bengtsson wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: 2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9 1) First, a possible bug: My glissando in the first measure dissappeared (but t

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
adding an engraver, but the example itself is relevant. /Mats Robert T Wyatt wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: 2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9 > 4) I wish to move the volta braces above the chords. Is this still the only known solution to this question? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: 2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9 > 4) I wish to move the volta braces above the chords. Is this still the only known solution to this question? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-09/msg00297.html ___ lilypond-user mail

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: 2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9 1) First, a possible bug: My glissando in the first measure dissappeared (but the gliss between measures 11/12 is present). I think it happened when I implemented the voltas (please correct my pluralization if I have it wrong

Re: glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
At 5:47 PM +0200 5/11/05, Mats Bengtsson wrote: 3) I need to move a lot of my chords left an eighth note. That is, the correct pattern is largely 3/8, 5/8. I'm still trying to figure out how to implement this well (do I need to use--a plethora of--silent rests?--shudder at the thought). Also, I

Re: mordent with a slash

2005-05-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
ple in LilyPond, where a native english speaking hacker might have used some other naming. Actually, in Swedish, we usually use "prall" and "mordent" with the same meaning as in LilyPond and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same in Dutch. /Mats Robert T Wyatt wrote: If on

Re: dynamics [was: Fwd: still wrong fonts]

2005-05-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Sean Reed wrote: hi graham, robert, i had this as well. han-wen made the suggestion you'll find below which remedied it, although i believe it's intended to be a temporary work-around. Begin forwarded message: From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25. April 2005 21:25:07 MESZ cd $HOM

dynamics

2005-05-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I don't know if it is me or a bug but dynamic marks are not pretty italic fonts, rather they are big ugly fonts: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Dynamics.html If I'm the only one with this problem, I'll post my own example of output for help. __

mordent with a slash

2005-05-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
If one played b c b as a triplet, then this is what I would call an inverted mordent and I would use a mordent with a slash through it. Can I make this happen (2.5.23)? I did find a reference that a prall is the same as an inverted mordent. http://www.answers.com/mordent The prall symbol in lilyp

glissando/volta bug? and volta/fine

2005-05-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
2.5.23 MacOS 10.3.9 Hi! I have some questions relating to the file enclosed below. 1) First, a possible bug: My glissando in the first measure dissappeared (but the gliss between measures 11/12 is present). I think it happened when I implemented the voltas (please correct my pluralization if I ha

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Jennifer! That's it! Thanks very much, Robert At 10:25 PM +0100 5/5/05, Jennifer Clark wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: (It yields Co7 instead of Co/, if you know what I mean.) Any ideas? How about:- c:m7.5- Jennifer ___ lilypond-user mailing list lil

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: > (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html Well, no, that is not quite what I want I'm afraid. Yes, the 13th example is a half-diminished chord, and yes I

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
> (now, about that half-diminished \chord notation...) Found it! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Chord-name-chart.html#Chord-name-chart ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-diminis

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
By jove, I think I've got it now! You are beautiful people! You have no idea how happy this composer will be to see his song so beautifully engraved! I've included it below and am open to suggestions for improvement on the lilypond entry part. Really! Thank you, Robert (now, about that half-dim

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want to s

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Okay, first of all a huge thank you to Han-Wen and everyone else that makes lilypond work! This is pretty awesome to be able to do this so easily. Now, I have a few questions: 1) Is the default papersize A4? How do I change it to US letter (the pdf says the paper size isn't right and do I want t

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Graham, Thanks! I tried this and it works also! (More than one way to do it!) --Robert Graham Percival wrote: On 4-May-05, at 9:57 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? You used << and >> , that means "do these things

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
6 c16 b16 a16 | bes8. f16~ f8 d16 bes16~ bes16 bes16 d16 f16 bes16 a16 g16 f16 | g8. e16~ e8 cis16 a16~ a16 a16 cis16 e16 a16 g16 f16 e16| d16 cis16 d16 e16 f16 e16 f16 g16 a16 g16 a16 b16 cis16 a16 b16 cis16 | } >> /Mats Robert T Wyatt wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi all, A couple of easy

Re: beginner problems

2005-05-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi all, A couple of easy beginner questions for you: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? Why does my bar check on my chords fail? << \key f \major \time 4/4 \chords { d:m | } \relative { d'8. a16~ a8 f16 d16~ d16 d16 f16 a16

beginner problems

2005-05-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi all, A couple of easy beginner questions for you: I'm using 2.4.5 on MacOS 10.3.9. Why is there a second staff? Why does my bar check on my chords fail? << \key f \major \time 4/4 \chords { d:m | } \relative { d'8. a16~ a8 f16 d16~ d16 d16 f16 a16 d16 c16 b16 a16 | } >> Thanks very much, Rober

Re: installation OSX 10.3.

2005-04-18 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mats Bengtsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestion, I'll check them and I will update the tutorial. Just one thing: are you sure that you saved your "test.ly" file (or whatever name) on the desktop as suggested in 7d part of the tutorial? I just want to be sure of what happ

Re: installation OSX 10.3.

2005-04-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
At 2:07 AM +0200 4/18/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: check out the following tutorial for more information http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-02/txtmVnW1IShBT.txt (minor corrections on this one, sorry...) Nice! There could be some updates though: In lieu of step one (which is the sim

Re: installation OSX 10.3.

2005-04-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
At 2:07 AM +0200 4/18/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: check out the following tutorial for more information http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-02/txtmVnW1IShBT.txt Nice! There could be some updates though: In lieu of step one (which is the simplest way to do it), one could use fink t

Re: installation OSX 10.3.

2005-04-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
At 1:03 AM +0200 4/16/05, Alan Fabian wrote: This is Alan. Clarence Barlow told me I should check out lilypond and so I do. I downloaded the fink stuff and installed it. All I have on my HD is now a directory called "sw" with endless directories. On the website there is said one should enable th

Re: Still frustrated with chords

2005-04-12 Thread Robert T Wyatt
At 9:27 AM -0400 4/12/05, somebody wrote: Dm/sus/b5 and Fm(maj7) > I don't what sus without a modifier means (I have studied some theory but obviously not enough). Pretty sure he means suspended 4th (that would be my assumption when reading it). > f:maj7.3- actually works (even if it seems b