Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Walter Hofmeister wrote: I have noticed that over the last year there have been repeated requests for how to do certain things (height of alternative ending and getting chords to appear at the correct height). Perhaps much of this could be solved by having an organized document that is included

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ben Crowell writes: > In principle, I agree with Joe about users pitching in and > helping. However, IMO that's not really possible Helping is easier than you might imagine and it usually is quite rewarding. It only costs some time and some determination. See what you can figure out yourself, a

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-23 Thread Ben Crowell
TS Sunhede Fulk wrote: >PS. I love Lilypond, So do I! >but the manual is really awful. You really need to write it with a user/reader who >has no programming experience in mind. Joe Neeman wrote: >I agree, but you can help [snip] >I think part of the problem is that the people most likely to wri

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-18 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 6/16/04 4:10 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to >> write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. > While this might be true for some parts of the m

Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to > write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. Thank you for your constructive comment! I never knew what or how to write, but thanks to this crystal clear instruction

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Neeman
PS. I love Lilypond, but the manual is really awful. You really need to write it with a user/reader who has no programming experience in mind. I agree, but you can help - the files are in Documentation/user/*.itely. Once my exams tomorrow and saturday are over, I promise to finish that index st

Re: Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The original problem you mention (that preLilyPondExample didn't work) is a bug in version 2.2.0-2.2.2 and will be fixed in 2.2.3. In the mean time, you can find several examples of workarounds in the mailing list archives, for example http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-06/msg0007

Problems with lilypond-book after upgrade

2004-06-16 Thread TS Sunhede Fulk
Hey everyone, This is a two part problem -- the problem before the upgrade and the problem after the upgrade. I just upgraded Lilypond from 2.2.0 to 2.3.4 via Fink. I wanted to see if that would fix a problem that I was having with Lilypond-book. I am creating a songbook with many songs (I use