Re: basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/7/10 Mark Polesky : > Also, get rid of the spacer rest -- it only makes it worse. You > might need to readjust line-width, too, but I don't know what > your needs are. If adjusting line-width isn't an option, packed spacing might help: \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'packed-spacing = ##t

Re: basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Mark Polesky wrote: > That is very odd to my eye. It looks like a \cadenzaOn bug, but > I've learned to be very hesitant in calling something a bug. I'll > look into it. Not a bug. You need to insert \bar "" at appropriate places. See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Dis

Re: basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread James E. Bailey
On 10.07.2009, at 16:19, Peter Buhr wrote: May I make a small suggestion (and it may already be done). Someplace in the LilyPond manual, there needs to be a list of all the grob names and what they do. I find I spend a lot of time linearly searching the manual hoping I'll come across the ri

Re: basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Peter Buhr wrote: > 1. The low E in the scale is too close to the treble clef. The C > ledger-line touches the clef. I tried to move the scale to the > right by inserting "s1" at the start; however, no change > occurred in the output. I don't understand why there is no > change. If I put a

basic questions

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Buhr
Below is a open guitar-scale without tempo. I have 2 problems. And I have tried to do due-diligence before posting to see if the information is available in either the LSR or LilyPond Notation Reference, but I found nothing using my search parameters. 1. The low E in the scale is too close to the

[slightly OT] Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:35:21PM -0700, Hans Forbrich wrote: > I personally think many people go about the evaluation totally backwards. > They first ask 'how easy is it to get started'. Well, that seems to be symptomatic for most software today, even in professional software development dep

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:41:18 +0200, Erik a dit : > Is there at all any list of links to lilypond-related software anywhere? There > are lots of lilypond related things Out There, which new users should be > aware of (such as editors with special lilypond modes, helper scripts, other > music so

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23.58, Paul Scott wrote: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in > >Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even > >transpose and relativise parts. > > I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where

Re: lyqi (was: Basic questions about LilyPond.)

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in >> Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even >> transpose and relativise parts. > > I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't > know where to find it in the manual. Is it

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the manual. Is it there? I did find it with Googl

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Hans Forbrich
I personally think many people go about the evaluation totally backwards. They first ask 'how easy is it to get started'. Unfortunately once the honeymoon is over, then it's time to get serious and accomplish some real tasks. Every 'easy to use' package I've seen quickly grinds to a halt.

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Aaron
Wait a second, truthfully all the applications are pretty much notation programs, not composition programs. Lilypond is music engraving with all the bells and whistles minus the graphical interface. It takes some getting used to and could be a bit difficult for a novice to use if the notation is

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
"Michael Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. Welcome. > I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not > even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to > read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Kieren Richard MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 3. If I adopt any music notation program, it will be used >> on a laptop computer, with its lack of a separate numeric >> keypad. > > Again, "text editor" says it all. > >> In general, how configurable is LilyPond for different >> methods of

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Michael! because I have hard disk space problems and this is a very active list Don't forget the archives (searchable!) and digest mode... =) Finale: User interface seems awkward and difficult, not sufficiently keyboard-based. Oh, I got pretty good with the keyboard (even did a fair bit

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread David Bobroff
At 11:58 PM 4/7/2004 +1000, you wrote: > In general, each of the programs I named above seems to have problems for >me, at least insofar as I have gleaned information about how they work (since I >do not have copies of any of them, and have tried only demo versions of older >versions of Finale

Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Edwards
Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'll have to join, then submit this message again.) I'm conside