Re: Column line spacing with individual markup-lines, via a scheme function

2010-09-22 Thread aliteralmind
One more question: Can a \column be configured to give each \line a proper-and-potentially-different line height, dynamically, based on their fontsizes? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-

Re: best practices

2010-09-22 Thread aliteralmind
For what it's worth, my misunderstanding--beyond the "um"--had nothing to do with abbreviations. It was only in expecting to see the words "best practices" in the documentation, as it was the original post's subject. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread aliteralmind
Ok. I give I give. I have been studying the documentation intensely and thought there was something I missed. I already read it. It was a genuine question and I was surprised by the response. Devs don't want to be pin pricked, and newbies don't want to be fearful. I appreciate and am amazed

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread aliteralmind
Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: > > Where exactly are they, please? > > Um. Learning Manual 5. Entitled "Working on LilyPond projects". I read the learning manual. I didn't find the words "best practices" in it, and thought there was something else I was missing. I don't appreciate the

Re: best practices

2010-09-19 Thread aliteralmind
Graham Percival gmail.com> > We *have* a set of "best practices". They're LM 5 Working on > LilyPond projects. I wrote them two years ago, and AFAIK nobody > has ever read them. Where exactly are they, please? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Too difficult to find how-to-create-a-snippet docs

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
I am interested in making my first snippet for my own personal html documentation. Maybe eventually the LSR. It took me a half-hour of deliberate searching, in the documentation, including the LSR, and in this forum, to finally come across the liliypond-book section in the Program Usage docum

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
URL above is broken onto two lines, so doesn't work. Here it is again: http://tinyurl.com/2ata7aq ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: advanced \tag -ing

2010-09-18 Thread aliteralmind
> Let's say I have 4 different tags: one, two, three and > four. [...] I do need to combine them (4 scores with tags: one and three, one and four, two and three, two and four) How about this? - music = { \tag #'onethree \tag #'one { ... } \tag #'onethree \tag #'three { ... } }

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-21 Thread aliteralmind
I have been using TextPad for probably a decade now. I love it. Not updated often, but a wonderful program just as it is. Great user-community too. Good luck! - aliteralmind --- Hear aliteralmind Sing. Sing aliteralmind, Sing. http://singing.jeffyepstein.com MY BOYS!!! (man I love saying

Re: MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Parsing... warning: no music found in score warning: no music found in score Processing time: 1 seconds YES To the developer who wrote this: Cinnamon Rolls. My place. Seven o-clock. -- View this message in context:

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Actually, no. It was to uninstall the LATEST version of LilyPond (just re-installing it). aliteralmind wrote: > > Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. > > Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest > version, from previously-latest version). Just

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest version, from previously-latest version). Just to delete files??? Intolerably slow. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Very-very-slow-Lilypond-uninstall-on-Windows-tp2

MY error, but wish the log was clearer.

2009-09-29 Thread aliteralmind
I'm using LilyPond for the first time in months. Feels god. I was about to ask why-the-heck is my LY code being analyzed (I get an appropriate message when I purposefully put in a syntax error), but when I fix the error, no PDF is generated. It just stops. I realized, after halfway-composing

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread aliteralmind
Valentin Villenave wrote: > > You have to know that we just have been spending about 18 months > reorganizing the docs, and we did put a lot of thoughts (and > arguments) into this process, to say the least. > > I would have thought that the first place to look at would be the manual: > Musica

Re: Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-04 Thread aliteralmind
The mind boggles %-| For about three weeks now, I have been reading LY documentation, forum posts, snippets, and examples, yet I never came across this. There is SO much information to absorb. I'm feeling more and more like the documentation could be organized better. This is exactly what I ne

Forcing markup to be IN the staff

2009-03-03 Thread aliteralmind
I have repetitive notes: c8 c c c c c c c c c c c | This type of repetition is found throughout my piece. I'm trying to hide the second-through-fourth beats of notes, and have a "..." in its place, IN the staff. No matter how much I \raise the markup, it never enters the staff. How can I f

Re: Questions before starting big piece. Pushing myself...

2009-03-03 Thread aliteralmind
I'm discovering important stuff in the documentation, too. Like the sections on managing large projects, and managing projects with variables and such. There is so much documentation to sift through! Thank you for the tips. :' ) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Question

Questions before starting big piece. Pushing myself...

2009-02-28 Thread aliteralmind
For the first time, I'm stretching myself beyond just melodies. I have some old six-plus part acapella arrangements that I handwrote, and want to put into LilyPond. I'm scared. Let's just say that off the bat. :' ) I'm going to start fooling around now, but I have some questions so I design t

Re: How to control ordering of staves?

2009-02-22 Thread aliteralmind
So very helpful, once again, John. Thank you. (By the way, are you related to a Heather Kulp in SE Pennsylvania? I went to high school with a Heather Kulp.) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-control-ordering-of-staves--tp22142941p22146169.html Sent from the Gnu - Lil

How to control ordering of staves?

2009-02-21 Thread aliteralmind
Here's an image of what I keep getting: http://jeffyepstein.com/tmp/staves_bad.gif I'm trying to get the "clap" staff above the "voice" staff. Can someone please help me understand how to control the ordering of staves? (I only want the clap staff to appear for the first measure.) This is what

Re: Newbie question: Brief alternative lyrics-and-notes during repeat

2009-02-14 Thread aliteralmind
This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you Jon. Your example code taught me big time. Thanks for the help. I haven't tried the following yet, but I think I also understand now, how to make this work both with or without a second verse of lyrics. A combination of two versus, and two VOICES, w

Newbie question: Brief alternative lyrics-and-notes during repeat

2009-02-13 Thread aliteralmind
How do you create lyrics for some brief alternative notes existing in repeated sections (when there are not enough notes to justify duplicating the section)? Here is a demonstration picture of what I am trying to do: http://jeffyepstein.com/tmp/alternative_lyrics.gif The red is what I can't figu