Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-05 Thread Aaron
And the winner is!! See the attached pdf. thanks Joseph and Ferenc and matts!! Wow I was wondering why I got no hebrew just one mispelling and all is set. Thanks Now I can get down to learning lilypond!!! Thanks Aaron On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 20:32, Joseph Zitt wrote: > Aaron wrote: > > I created

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Joseph Zitt
Aaron wrote: I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: here is the file and here is the output: -snip- \version "1.6.10" % Thanks, Han-Wen! % Do you still have problems with the titles? \header { title = "Title" % langua

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I am confused then where my lyrics should go. It does not matter. You can define lyr = \lyrics { tra la la } and later use \lyr instead of typing \lyrics { tra la la }. But you have to \apply the transformation function sooner or later to some music

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function text > >> in scm/tex.scm? Or rather, substitute it somehow? I do not > >> know which scope it is invoked in... > > > > No. scm/tex.scm does not report the width of the text. > > That is exactly the point

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Aaron
Thanks, I think I am confused then where my lyrics should go. --- A.) \context Lyrics \apply #(text-augment "\\R{" "}") \lyrics { tra la la } - or --- B. )lyr = \lyrics { > א > %\property LyricsVoic

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interpreting music...warning: can't find ascii character: 224 > warning: can't find ascii character: 224 I guess this is normal. Is it? Did it work like this previously? > Calculating column positions... programming error: No > StaffSpacing wishes found (Con

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Hmm. What is the way to munge the text AFTER Lily's >> >> positioning work? >> > >> > what you probably would want is to set the extent of the >> > object >> >> Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Hmm. What is the way to munge the text AFTER Lily's > >> positioning work? > > > > what you probably would want is to set the extent of the > > object > > Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function text > in scm/tex.scm? Or rather, substitute it someho

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: > here is the file and here is the output: > -snip- > \version "1.6.10" % Thanks, Han-Wen! > > % Do you still have problems with the titles? > \

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check out the GUILE 1.6 manual, under SRFI, SRFI-13 Ahh, nice libraries, thanks. >> Hmm, the documentation seems *MUCH* more comprehensible >> than last time I checked (half a year or so). > > That's strange - the doco for the stable version hasn't

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Aaron
I created the file with one alef so that I can see what I am doing: here is the file and here is the output: -snip- \version "1.6.10" % Thanks, Han-Wen! % Do you still have problems with the titles? \header { title = "Title" % languague = "hebre

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> % Do you still have problems with the titles? --Yes Exactly what? >> Tamm, -- I put the hebrew here without \\R etc. Right. >> \context Lyrics < \lyr \apply #(text-augment "A" "B") \lyr > >> % Here you probably want to use "\\R{" and "

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > % Does Scheme really not include this function? > #(define (string-reverse str) > (list->string (reverse (string->list str Check out the GUILE 1.6 manual, under SRFI, SRFI-13 > Hmm, the documentation seems *MUCH* more comprehensible than > last time I checked (ha

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Thanks for the effort, I am sorry I seem so dumb at times, It is my lack of latex tex and lilypond knowledge. I am as you can tell trying to do something before I know how, sort of like leaping before I look. So thanks again, I will read and try it again. Aaron On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 02:43, Ferenc W

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried the $$ etc. but have no idea what file to add it > to and in what format. \\$$ ?? How did you try them, then? :) Simply tack them to the beginning of end of a syllabe. Because the preprocessor you use does not care about quotes, you can not simply add

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi again I am sorry no -- and no __ I wrote spaceing by mistake.:( Aaron On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 00:02, Amelie Zapf wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > > I tried your versions and the spacing is still off. > > Bear in mind, I didn't say it wouldn't be. The fix I did was getting the -- > and __ to appear. >

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I tried the $$ etc. but have no idea what file to add it to and in what format. \\$$ ?? Thanks Aaron On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:56, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Amelie Zapf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Also notice in the exampe that the lyrics in the first > >> measure are not aligned righ

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Amelie Zapf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also notice in the exampe that the lyrics in the first >> measure are not aligned right. > > I see that the first syllable is too far to the right and > there is no space between the first two syllables? With the present approach, you can not simply add

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Ferenc, Aaron, all, > > Most elegant, but more time-consuming to do. > > But has the potential to do other useful things (eg. > underlining) without messing up the alignment. If you > promise that what you insert does not change the width of > the text (much). It may even be useful for the pr

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, > I have been using your script and it really works. good. > I have one question, when I want to add -- or ___ between lyrics they > don't show up in the final ps or pdf (see attached) notice to notes with > no lyrics that is because in the song there are a few places with a few > note

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Amelie Zapf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. scheme hacking to make it possible to input hebrew and >> have lilypond insert the hebrew stuff. > > Most elegant, but more time-consuming to do. But has the potential to do other useful things (eg. underlining) without messing up the alignment. If y

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-03 Thread Aaron
Hi all and Amelie, I have been using your script and it really works. I have one question, when I want to add -- or ___ between lyrics they don't show up in the final ps or pdf (see attached) notice to notes with no lyrics that is because in the song there are a few places with a few notes per on

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Joseph, > Amelie Zapf wrote: > > This is an ex -- am -- ple of how ly -- rics should be enter -- ed. > > Should -- n't it be "en -- tered" ? You're en -- tire -- ly right. ;-) Amy ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.or

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If it's not integrated in the Lilypond system, then it will not be > > maintained by the development team, and should therefore not be > > integrated in the tarball. > > okay. Good point. However, what I'm missing on the Lilypond page are links to > helper applicati

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, > Hi all what is sly??? > and where can I get it??? sly enables you to enter the parts side-by-side, measure-by-measure. Much better for error tracking. David Raleigh Arnold developed it, it is to be found on his website. All the best, Amy _

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, > and wow but I am not sure if the lyrics files should just be the hebrew > text or should it be the complete lyrics section??? Just plain text. and, using the example Ferenc got to work: \score { \addlyrics \notes { \clef "bass" \key d \major \time 3/4 d

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 20:22, Amelie Zapf wrote: > Hi Aaron, all, > The following script should do the job: > > Cheers, Amy Thanks and wow but I am not sure if the lyrics files should just be the hebrew text or should it be the complete lyrics section??? A question about the lyrics should I put me

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Han-Wen, all, > Even when it is only a one-liner, it has to be documented, it must > comply to GNU coding standards, our coding standards (which forbid > Perl and sed), be generally useful, and regularly QA'd. If that is so, the Perl script I sent to the list (I wonder why it hasn't arrived o

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, all, The following script should do the job: Cheers, Amy #!/usr/bin/perl # revertlyrics.pl v0.1 # Script to print right-to-left languages backwards # in Lilypond # (c) Amelie Zapf 2003 # Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 #

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew > > lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then insert this all into the lyrics > > section of an already created lilypond file. > > the "quick and dirty" fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this coul

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi Han-Wen, all, [CC-ing to ML again] > > > the "quick and dirty" fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this could be > > > bundled with lilypond? > > > > No. Things that are bundled with LilyPond must meet my requirements > > for coding quality. Quick & dirty is not

Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Aaron, all, > 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew > lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then insert this all into the lyrics > section of an already created lilypond file. the "quick and dirty" fix. Easy to do. Maybe something like this could be bundled with l

lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I need to know which way to proceed and who can help me. right now I would need to manually add \\R to every syllable of lyrics I type. ugh Question which is more sensible: 1. A shell/perl/whaterver script to search a txt file with the hebrew lyrics and add the hebrew encoding then inser