Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-05-08 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Apr 2020 at 18:00:20 (+), Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 4/7/20, 10:49 AM, "cgilmore" wrote: > > I was curious what everyone's setup is like for writing Lilypond, > > specifically, for any non-Frescobaldi users. We all know Frescobaldi is > > great and probably the most ideal environment

Re: Off-topic: BeOS and Haiku (was Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment)

2020-05-08 Thread Kevin Cole
I lack the talent to help but continue to hope for Haiku on a Raspberry Pi...

Re: Off-topic: BeOS and Haiku (was Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment)

2020-05-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 5/8/20, Aaron Hill wrote: > I have to commend the Haiku team for having the > dedication to preserve what they could from the BeOS world. Well, yes and no. They managed to maintain binary compatibility for an impressively long time, but the need for newer GCC versions and 64-bit arch means tha

Off-topic: BeOS and Haiku (was Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment)

2020-05-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-05-07 10:09 pm, Eby Mani wrote: Lack of lilypond for Haiku is preventing me from switching. On Thursday, 9 April, 2020, 12:38:48 am IST, Valentin Villenave wrote: The other desktop environment I happily use is Haiku (haiku-s.org); LilyPond is again not available (but could conceivabl

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-08 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 4/7/20, Karlin High wrote: > DDR-SDRAM sure beats having to say > "double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory." Here I was, thinking that these memory cards were all from East-Germany… :-) As for OP’s request, it depends whether I’m on tty or graphical interface. In tty mode, e

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Randy Josleyn
Here's something I cooked up that works for me, though I'm not an avid user: * vis text editor * abduco + dvtm for arranging terminal windows and attach/detach * entr for watching files [2] * redo for building PDFs [1] * mupdf * —and dwm on Arch Linux for tiling all my windows Probably not the mo

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Cam
Well mostly I was attracted to Lilypond because it supports generation of MIDI files from text input, unlike most other programs which are GUI based. For my purposes it's perfect. From within my Python program I execute Lilypond to "compile" the source into MIDI and engraving, then I fetch the

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Karlin High
On 4/7/2020 5:28 PM, cgilmore wrote: Yes, Karlin High is correct. DX = Developer eXperience Sorry for the poor communication on my part. Yay! Do I get a prize? (joking.) Nothing wrong with a good acronym. DDR-SDRAM sure beats having to say "double data rate synchronous dynamic random access

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread cgilmore
Yes, Karlin High is correct. DX = Developer eXperience Sorry for the poor communication on my part. -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread cgilmore
That "Automatic Preview Update" I'm seeing in pictures of the Preferences window looks enticing. Are there other features of TeXShop that turned you on to it? Yes, I'd definitely be into checking out how you're using it in a _ly.tex file. Thank you! And so sorry for the lame acronym usage. Not en

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread cgilmore
That's so interesting. Is there something about the functionality of how Lilypond creates MIDI that makes it ideal for this situation? -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread cgilmore
Yes, I'm so sorry. I don't know why I put that. I despise acronyms usually. DX = Developer eXperience I guess it's taken from the idea of UX, User eXperience. -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
cgilmore wrote > What's your DX? My DX is a 1985 Yamaha DX7, but I hardly use it anymore. As far as LilyPond is concerned, I'm mostly using Frescobaldi as a DX (Direct Exchange, i.e. replacement?) for jEdit and emacs. I'm not a military guy at all (neither physically nor mentally), but I spent mo

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Cam
Well, since you ask: I use Lilypond for generating MIDI backing tracks for use by a blues/rockabilly band. The plot is to use Lilypond, which I call from inside an application written in Python, to create little snippets of MIDI - typically one or two bars but occasionally as many as eight - wh

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/7/20, 10:49 AM, "cgilmore" wrote: Greetings, all! I was curious what everyone's setup is like for writing Lilypond, specifically, for any non-Frescobaldi users. We all know Frescobaldi is great and probably the most ideal environment for Lilypond, but I'm personal

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-04-07 9:49 am, cgilmore wrote: I was curious what everyone's setup is like for writing Lilypond, specifically, for any non-Frescobaldi users. We all know Frescobaldi is great and probably the most ideal environment for Lilypond, but I'm personally curious what other people are using and h

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-04-07 10:49 am, Karlin High wrote: On 4/7/2020 12:47 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-04-07 10:42 am, Robert Blackstone wrote: PS.I don’t understand your question: "What's your DX?” I have no idea what a DX is? Probably "diagnosis" [1]. [1]: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Karlin High
On 4/7/2020 12:47 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-04-07 10:42 am, Robert Blackstone wrote: PS.I don’t understand your question: "What's your DX?” I have no idea what a DX is? Probably "diagnosis" [1]. [1]: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Dx -- Aaron Hill Or, if "UX" is "us

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-04-07 10:42 am, Robert Blackstone wrote: PS.I don’t understand your question: "What's your DX?” I have no idea what a DX is? Probably "diagnosis" [1]. [1]: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Dx -- Aaron Hill

Re: Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi, I’m also a Mac User and for LilyPond I use TeXShop with LilyPond engines. For me it works perfectly. Up till now I’ve only used Frescobaldi as a means to “LilyPondize” my old Finale scores by exporting them as .xml and importing these in Frescobaldi, process them, copy the resulting score a

Your Bespoke Lilypond Environment

2020-04-07 Thread cgilmore
Greetings, all! I was curious what everyone's setup is like for writing Lilypond, specifically, for any non-Frescobaldi users. We all know Frescobaldi is great and probably the most ideal environment for Lilypond, but I'm personally curious what other people are using and how they're using it—most