Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/6/17, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For those interested, the build commands are now: $ lilypond-book --output=out/ --process="lilypond --backend=eps \ --formats=pdf -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs-load-fonts" --psfonts slave-songs.tex $ (cd out; pdflatex slave-songs.tex; pdflatex slave-s

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:08:36 -0300, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lilypond does an excellent job on these songs, and only few manual > > tweaks were necessary. Some tweaks may be the result of my lack of > > understanding of Lilypond internals. The whole book contains 136 > >

Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:06:50 +0200, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to be picky, but I still haven't seen the most standard of all > standard methods mentioned in this thread: > \once \override TextScript #'padding = #1.5 c''^\markup{...} Works fine for me, thank you. Marcus

Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry to be picky, but I still haven't seen the most standard of all standard methods mentioned in this thread: \once \override TextScript #'padding = #1.5 c''^\markup{...} /Mats Quoting Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mats, Why not use the method described in the manual? See secti

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:07:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arvid Grøtting) wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, > > "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> And a typographic nit: the margins seem rather on the small side. > >

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-13 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, > "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And a typographic nit: the margins seem rather on the small side. >> Have you done the page layout yourself? I recommend copying margins >> from reknowned public

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/6/12, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > All type-setting of the original 1867 text is finished and in very > > good shape. Future improvements will be done in other areas, like a > > new preface,

Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, Why not use the method described in the manual? See section "Moving objects". I assumed (oops?!) that Marcus had thought of that, and was looking for other methods. Of course, for the sake of completeness (in the list archive), I should have included the "standard" method(s) --

Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use the method described in the manual? See section "Moving objects". /Mats Quoting Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Marcus, There must be a better way to do this, though. Not sure about "better", but here are a couple options: \version "2.11.23" theMusic = { c'

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/6/12, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: All type-setting of the original 1867 text is finished and in very good shape. Future improvements will be done in other areas, like a new preface, illustrations, MIDI files, etc. This pre-release, although quite usable in its own right, is part

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/6/12, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I am happy to give you a sneak preview to my ambitious music notation project based on Lilypond 2.10, a digital edition of the 1867 song book: very cool Lilypond does an excellent job on these songs, and only few manual tweaks were necessa

Re: \raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Marcus, There must be a better way to do this, though. Not sure about "better", but here are a couple options: \version "2.11.23" theMusic = { c''^\markup { \italic "Variation second." } c''^\markup { \translate #(cons 0 1) { \hspace #0 \italic "Variation second." } }

\raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

2007-06-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:42:54 +0200, "Dominic Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > in song No. 27 the markup text "Variation second." is placed too low, > so it´s directly printed onto the notes. Thanks. My work around apparently stopped working. The problem is that this does not wor

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-12 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 15:09, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > I am happy to give you a sneak preview to my ambitious music notation > project based on Lilypond 2.10, a digital edition of the 1867 song book: > > The Slave Songs of the United States > Edited by: William Francis Allen, Charles Pick

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-12 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi, in song No. 27 the markup text "Variation second." is placed too low, so it´s directly printed onto the notes. And why are there bar numbers on some systems and on others not. For example, in song 39 only system two and four are printed WITH bar numbers, the others not. In other songs (e.g.

Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I am happy to give you a sneak preview to my ambitious music notation project based on Lilypond 2.10, a digital edition of the 1867 song book: The Slave Songs of the United States Edited by: William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison All type-setting of the original