Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-07-03 Thread Graham Percival
Kieren MacMillan wrote: So, where am I needed? I can start on some AllAbouts, or whatever. Just say the word! In a few days the technical backend should be ready, but start looking at the "tricks and tips" examples. Some of them are broken, others may have been made obsolete by recent featur

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-07-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello, all! I propose using the rendered "Examples" section of the documentation (now empty) to post a series of AllAbouts, prepared by users, each being an in-depth example of a narrow set of features [...] Well, my "little project" is now finally over -- well, at least the *premiere* is ov

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-29 Thread Graham Percival
Charles Cave wrote: I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion and I am willing to contribute some examples. Great! We're still working out some technical issues, but rest assured that I'll let you know when it's ready. I am really struggling to learn enough about Lilypond to create a simple c

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not look at all the full examples available at mutopia (http://www.mutopiaproject.org/) ? The general principles of setting up files for a score plus instrumental parts is described in an example in the Tutorial. /Mats Charles Cave wrote: Graham, I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion a

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-28 Thread Charles Cave
Graham, I think this is a FANTASTIC suggestion and I am willing to contribute some examples. I am really struggling to learn enough about Lilypond to create a simple cello + piano accompaniment score. The resulting output would be the cello part, and the piano part. The Lilypond has a lot of de

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 6:21 AM To: Fairchild Cc: 'Sebastiano Vigna'; 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: Re: AllAbout Examples See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-09/msg00373.html and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg002

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-26 Thread Fairchild
;'^\markup { "abc" \char #65 } } > >didn't. > >- Bruce > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Fairchild >Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:26 PM >To: 'Sebastiano Vi

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
nal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fairchild Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:26 PM To: 'Sebastiano Vigna' Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: RE: AllAbout Examples I believe the "port" problem was caused by using \char

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-26 Thread Fairchild
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fairchild Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:26 PM To: 'Sebastiano Vigna' Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: RE: AllAbout Examples I believe the "port" problem was caused by using \char in a \markup.

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Fairchild
I believe the "port" problem was caused by using \char in a \markup. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Sebastiano Vigna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:21 PM To: Fairchild Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: RE: Al

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Fairchild
But see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/ -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 4:06 PM To: Graham Percival Cc: Fairchild; 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: Re: AllAbout Examples Quoting Graham Perciv

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 17:05 -0500, Fairchild wrote: > Back to LSR posting. > > Since my AllAbout was not acceptable, tried a smaller thing thought to be > version insensitive. LSR didn't like the \version "2.4.6" line, so deleted The current version is 2.8.4, now it's also state in the "Contribu

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Fairchild
Back to LSR posting. Since my AllAbout was not acceptable, tried a smaller thing thought to be version insensitive. LSR didn't like the \version "2.4.6" line, so deleted it. LSR demanded \version "2.8.4" then complained cryptically about a port problem. Submitted a trivial file; LSR flips out o

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:37:08 -0500 "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... that haven't made the cut for Tips and Tricks or Regression Tests. Actually, currently LSR is a mish-mash of lots of small things. I think it includes some examples fro

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Fairchild
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:42 PM To: Fairchild Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: Re: AllAbout Examples On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:38:43 -0500 "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems that LSR won't accept 2.4.6. I've made

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > What about `ly-convert'? > > If we're changing the name, what about "ly-update" ? This is fine with me, as long as it starts with `ly-'. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypo

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:37:34 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you haven't heard about convert-ly, look it up in the manual. > > BTW, I'm not happy about the name `convert-ly', for various reasons. > What about `ly-convert'? If we're changing the name, what about "ly-

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If you haven't heard about convert-ly, look it up in the manual. BTW, I'm not happy about the name `convert-ly', for various reasons. What about `ly-convert'? Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-25 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... error: Incorrect lilypond version: 2.4.6 (2.7.38, 2.9.9) error: Consider updating the input with the convert-ly script warning: deprecated function called: ly:set-point-and-click ERROR: Unbound variable: def-music-function ... which must be because th

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:37:08 -0500 "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The LSR entries seem to be short things They're mostly short, but it can have long things as well. > that haven't made the cut for > Tips and Tricks or Regression Tests. Actually, currently LSR is a mish-mash of lots of

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:38:43 -0500 "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems that LSR won't accept 2.4.6. I've made enquiries about LSR (I think it's still on 2.6), but we cannot accept anything into the docs if it requires 2.4. I remember that you had some problems with 2.6; do they still

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Fairchild
ailinglist Subject: Re: AllAbout Examples On 6/24/06, Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham - > > AllAbout examples usually will be much larger than the LSR entries and > too big for the manual. Think about an AllAbout that displays all > font sets, one to demonstrat

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/24/06, Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graham - AllAbout examples usually will be much larger than the LSR entries and too big for the manual. Think about an AllAbout that displays all font sets, one to demonstrate vertical layout options for a multipage score, one showing lots of way

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Fairchild
: Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:37 AM To: 'Graham Percival' Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: RE: AllAbout Examples AllAboutAlternateScaling.ly is attached, a work in progress but maybe useful enough to post as is. I'll try uploading to LSR. _

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-24 Thread Fairchild
7;ll try uploading to LSR. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:48 AM To: Fairchild Cc: 'Kieren MacMillan'; 'lilypond-user Mailinglist' Subject: Re: AllAbout Examples On Thu, 22 Jun 2006

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:34:43 -0500 "Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, based in my own experience and many postings on > lilypond-user@gnu.org, I perceive a need for information that falls > between content of tutorial and reference documentation -- more > detailed than the tutorial

RE: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-23 Thread Anthony Youngman
I've started writing something on noteheads. This seems to be where it would fit in perfectly. (I probably ought to add stems and rests to it, but that can wait :-) I do feel something like this would be useful. As you say, we currently have the User Manual (great for getting started) and the Prog

Re: AllAbout Examples

2006-06-22 Thread Shamus
> However, based in my own experience and many postings on > lilypond-user@gnu.org, I perceive a need for information that falls between > content of tutorial and reference documentation -- more detailed than the > tutorial material and less cryptic than the internals reference. I completely agree