Re: problem with bartype in staffcontext

2005-01-05 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 13:24 3-1-05, you wrote: It's much easier to help if you send the .ly file, not only the resulting output. but of course. The piano piece I was typesetting has become a work for two piano's instead of one. The excerpt below essentially has the same problem as I had before but now spread over t

a problem with timing_engraver & barlines

2004-12-31 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi list, I'm typesetting a polymetrical piece for 2 pianos, in which Piano 1 has a different timesignature than Piano 2. I need to make a score in where one pianopart below the other. This works very well by changing the timing_engraver from the Score context to the PianoStaff context, there's o

Re: jedit LilyTool issues

2004-12-25 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Erik, I had the same problem, but solved it as follows: in jEdit go to Plugins > Plugin Options > select Sidekick change that slidable thingy under the line 'after last keystroke, wait (seconds):' to 3 seconds, and that other slidable thingy to 1.5 seconds. If the 'immidiately complete if possi

problem with bartype in staffcontext

2004-12-24 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi group, I'm typesetting a piece for piano, in which the righthand has most of the time a different timesignature than the lefthand. This works great by chaning the timing_engraver from the score_context to the staff_context, but the problem is this: the default bartype is dotted, but when the

Re: who uses lilypond

2004-12-04 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
I use Lily mainly for typesetting my own compositions & making examples in essays (using lilypond-book) for my conservatoire (I'm a student). ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: clef after bar

2004-08-05 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
the settings are different at line ends, line starts and in the middle of the line. If you just want to do the setting once using \once in a score, you can save some lines by using the trick in input/regression/ambitus.ly. /Mats Erik Sandberg wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22.28, Thorkil Wol

Re: clef after bar

2004-07-29 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Woohoo! The problem's solved, thanks Erik! Thorkil At 13:19 28-7-04, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22.28, Thorkil Wolvendans wrote: > Hi everyone! > > At a certain point in a composition, I try to make a new clef appear after > the barline instead of before, without a positiv

clef after bar

2004-07-27 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi everyone! At a certain point in a composition, I try to make a new clef appear after the barline instead of before, without a positive result. Is it possible in Lily to achieve this? I searched the docs, but couldn't find an answer. Thanks! Thorkil lily222/cygwin

Re: problem with scordatura

2004-07-26 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Graham! At 07:44 26-7-04, you wrote: So far I've faked it by writing "viola tunes C to B" and the like, but you _can_ do it better than that. In the recent devel version, you can now include scores in markup. See input/test/markup-score.ly Yes, I noticed that -- it looks neat! But since I ne

problem with scordatura

2004-07-22 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
hi group! I checked the docs as well as the archives, but couldn't find an answer to the following question: is it possible to make a scordatura? I did find how to make a keysignature-scordatura, and tried to manipulate the code in order to make it work with notes instead of keysignatures, but w

Problem with \f at the beginning of a score [updated again]

2004-07-05 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
(this must start to look like spam! I'm sorry: THIS is the correct file -- I'm too tired I guess! ) (to compile the score, please use this file, since the previous email doesn't contain the \f symbol which causes problems...stupid me!) Hi everyone! I'm staring at my source-file for 2 hours now,

Problem with \f at the beginning of a score [updated]

2004-07-05 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
(to compile the score, please use this file, since the previous email doesn't contain the \f symbol which causes problems...stupid me!) Hi everyone! I'm staring at my source-file for 2 hours now, and can't find the result to the problem: the forte symbol refuses to appear at the beginning of the

Problem with \f at the beginning of a score

2004-07-05 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi everyone! I'm staring at my source-file for 2 hours now, and can't find the result to the problem: the forte symbol refuses to appear at the beginning of the score. For some odd reason, the symbol shows up at the next bar, when I want it to show up in the first. Now, this only happens in the

Re: Trouble with notes in LaTeX

2004-06-11 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 15:27 11-6-04, you wrote: Thorkil Wolvendans wrote: >> Thanks for the link. Strangely the email doesn't appear to be there >> in my archive. Oh well! >> I have to admit that I'm a fairly LaTeX novice, and I haven't got a >> clue how to incorporate t

Re: Trouble with notes in LaTeX

2004-06-11 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
ciate any help (I need this for an exam). Regards, Thorkil At 07:23 11-6-04, you wrote: On 10-Jun-04, at 6:24 PM, Thorkil Wolvendans wrote: My question is: is it possible to show the sixteenth and quarter note in LaTeX? (I suppose I should use the feta-font somehow) This should point you in the righ

Trouble with notes in LaTeX

2004-06-10 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi group! In Latex I'm writing performing instructions. At a certain point I write: (...) ought to be played at tempo [sixteenth note here] = 368 ([quater note here] = 92). My question is: is it possible to show the sixteenth and quarter note in LaTeX? (I suppose I should use the feta-font someh

Re: Lilypond-book No Noteheads

2004-06-06 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Mr. Fulk, I think I have an idea what you may have done wrong. This is what you write: lilypond-book --output=out\ filename.tex cd out latex filename dvips -Ppdf -u +filename filename ps2pdf filename.ps In the fourth line, you shouldn't write dvips -Ppdf -u +filename filename but

Re: using & in title

2004-05-28 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Jean-Marc, The problem you face here, is due to the fact that lily doesn't print the text, but let's LaTeX do the printing. The '&' symbol is a reserved symbol, which means that it has a special function in LaTex. To get the '&' symbol printed one has to place a \ right before the '&' symbol.

Re: triplet question

2004-05-25 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Ed & everyone! At 19:17 24-5-04, you wrote: I haven't ever seen, or heard of, triplets going over a bar line (except when I got Lilypond to do it on my school assignment by mistake). I attached an example from the book "Music Notation in the 20th Century" by Kurt Stone. It gives a nice example

Re: slight problem with Quatre Mains

2004-05-12 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
How stupid of me! I corrected it and everything works as it should. Thank you very much, Michael. Regards, Thorkil At 04:46 12-5-04, you wrote: Thorkil Wolvendans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi group! > > Lily allows us to engrave music for two pianos, correct? I believe I &

slight problem with Quatre Mains

2004-05-11 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi group! Lily allows us to engrave music for two pianos, correct? I believe I did everything correct to make lily print two piano staves, but instead of showing 2 piano staves, it only shows piano staff 2. I must have made a silly mistake, but I can't find it. Could someone be so kind as to lo

Re: bugreport

2004-04-15 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi Steve, At 19:58 15-4-04, you wrote: I'm attempting to load Lilypond on Windows 98. When trying to download and process the test.ly file, I received several error messages from windows, then finally the pdf viewer said the file couldn't be opened because it didn't exist. Any ideas? I know

Re: 2.1 documentation

2004-03-28 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 19:28 27-3-04, you wrote: Section 3.2 - typo in example before Predefined commands? Documentation indicates s suffix is used for sharp in English. Documentation indicates es or as suffix is used for flat in Dutch. Example has es' and as' shown as flats for E and A (above middle C). I would have

Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer

2004-03-22 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi list! I was just wondering: what would happen if you publish a work at Mutopia of which you think is in the public domain, but there are copyright's you've missed (for instance editor copyright's which haven't expired yet). Does anyone have an idea what would happen? Would you be summoned to

re: ugly slur

2004-02-12 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi there! I'm not very experienced with this command but I'll give it a try: If I understand this command correctly, it'll tell Lily how far away from the notehead or stem the slur will start or end. For instance, if this is the command: \property Voice.Slur \set #'attachment-offset = #' ((1 . 0)

Problem with conversion: bug?

2003-10-04 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
t;paper16.ly" \paper { papersize = "a4" } %\version "1.8.2" %date 02/10/03 \include "nederlands.ly" \header { title = "Hana-Bi" % subtitle = " " % subsubtitle = " " % dedication = " " composer = "Thorkil Wolvendan

Re: Style sheets

2003-09-30 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
" subtitle = " " subsubtitle = " " dedication = " " composer = "Thorkil Wolvendans" opus = "Opus X" copyright = "Copyright (c) 200X Thorkil Wolvendans" tagline = " " source = "Urtext" enteredby =

Dashed barlines

2003-09-23 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi there! I'm currently working on a piece which uses dashed barlines (like normal barlines, but dashed...okay, this sounds stupid...). I couldn't find support for dashed barlines. Is there some way to hack it? Regards, Thorkil ___ Lilypond-user mail

Re: Quarter-tones

2003-09-17 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 02:49 18-9-03 +0200, you wrote: See 1.9 CVS: * Quarter tones are now supported. They are entered by suffixing `ih' for a half-sharp and `eh' for a half-flat. Hence, the following is an ascending list of pitches: ceses ceseh ces ceh c cih cis cisih cisis That's great! Th

Re: Quarter-tones

2003-09-17 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 12:57 17-9-03 +0200, you wrote: The point isn't what symbols to use (designing them isn't so difficult), but how to represent them internally. If we change that, we will break a lot Scheme and C++ code. That is is inevitable, but I'd rather get it right for once and for all. I think what you sug

Re: Quarter-tones

2003-09-17 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 00:11 17-9-03 +0200, you wrote: My real problem is: where does it end? We can add quarter tone accidentals by doubling the alteration field, we now have 0 = natural, 1 = sharp 2 = double sharp. We could do 0 = natural 1 = 1/2 sharp 2 = sharp 3 = 3

Quarter-tones

2003-09-16 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi everyone! I checked the Lily-documentation but couldn't find anything about it: quater-tones. Is it possible to make a 'Tartini one quarter sharp' or a backward flat (as described in Kurt Stone's 'Music notation in the 20th century', page 68-69, paragraph 3)? If it isn't possible, is or could

Re: Clef^15

2003-09-13 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 12:24 13-9-03 +0200, you wrote: Heikki recently posted a patch (to -devel, I think) to get a proper "G^15" clef. Hmm... I use Lily with Cygwin... can you tell me if it's possible to use that patch with cygwin, and if so, how to get and install that patch? Regards, Thorkil _

Re: Clef^15

2003-09-13 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
(in fact, if you only want a small number of physical copies of this, you could solve #1 by writing "15va" by hand! :) That's an idea...but it's in for a contest, so it has to look very neatly (and there's no software neatlier than LilyPond! :D) Hmm... well I'll have a thought about what I'm goi

Re: Clef^15

2003-09-13 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
At 13:02 12-9-03 -0700, you wrote: You can certainly make a "15va" spanner. Do you want an actual clef (which I've never seen before), or just a "two octaves higher" section in your music? Yes, I want to make an actual clef. I believe I saw it in a composition somewhere (I think an etude by Crame

Clef^15

2003-09-12 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi everyone, I try to do the following in LilyPond 1.8.1: \clef "treble^15" but this seems to be an unknown clef type. Is there someway to fake it? Thanks! Thorkil ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: Two Problems

2003-09-04 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Thanks Graham! The tips worked! One general comment -- since you're in 3/4 time, Lilypond should automatically beam in quarters. There's no need to do [a8 b] [c d] everywhere. That might improve the readability of your scores. :) Well, at first I didn't use the brackets, but for some reason Li

Hurray!

2003-09-04 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hi, I just wanted to say that I installed Lilypond 1.8.1-12 for Windows, and that it works... deliciously! Cheers, Thorkil ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Two Problems

2003-08-31 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
r { title = "Valse Mélancolique" subtitle = "Nº 1" composer = "Thorkil Wolvendans" } upper = \notes\relative c'' { \key bes \minor %measure 1-16 bes'2( c8 des | c2 bes4 | a2.~ | )a | bes2( c8 des | c2 be

pdf can't be made..?

2003-08-27 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
Hello everyone! I just installed Lilypond 1.8 (cygwin edition), and tested 'Petite Ouverture a Danser' with it (example file on the website). Now, it seems to work allright, but it doesn't make a pdf file. Could it have something to do with Latex? When installing from the cygwin setup program, I

Re: Problem with running Lilypond(?)2

2003-08-15 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
installing.html /Mats Thorkil Wolvendans wrote: Hi there! Yesterday I posted a problem I have with Lilypond when I try to compile a lilypond-file to a pdf-file. Someone asked me to post the list with errors togheter with the test-file, so here it is. The problem is this: at the Lilypond-we

Problem with running Lilypond(?)

2003-08-14 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
at they'll say about the quality of Lilypond! Once again, I hope I did something silly and I hope you can help me out. With kind regards, Thorkil Wolvendans Oh wait...before I forget, I use: Windows 98 Second Edition Lilypond 1.6.11 and all these things that were necessary to run Lilypond

Problem with running Lilypond(?)2

2003-08-14 Thread Thorkil Wolvendans
ng: can't find file: `linewidth' warning: can't find file: `-H' warning: can't find file: `unit' warning: can't find file: `test' warning: no LilyPond output found for `test' Running LaTeX... Running dvips... error: dvips: command exited with value 256 Traceback