Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2014 11:01, schrieb Anthony: Well, I've put in a fair bit of time and effort over the years. The problem, as always, is finding time to play, and also remembering what worked last time :-) Many moons ago, I proofread the entire main manual about three times! I've dug into the code and

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Youngman" To: "Kieren MacMillan" ; Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 1:45 AM Subject: Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic) Oh - and sorry Phil, "page-count = 1" didn't work. Although ii

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Anthony
On 22/03/2014 07:50, Simon Albrecht wrote: Am 22.03.2014 02:45, schrieb Anthony Youngman: And I don't tend to dig deep into all the "esoteric" settings - there are so many of them that I don't understand, that I tend to shy away from them. I shouldn't, but I'd rather just use standard bells an

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2014 02:45, schrieb Anthony Youngman: And I don't tend to dig deep into all the "esoteric" settings - there are so many of them that I don't understand, that I tend to shy away from them. I shouldn't, but I'd rather just use standard bells and whistles - when I need to use all sorts of

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Wol, >> \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f > m not met that. > > My first reaction though, is why would what appears to be a line-break > setting affect the number of pages? Sorry — should have been \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.page-break-perm

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-21 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 19/03/14 18:13, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> there is no setting that says "force everything onto one page, beauty be >> damned" > > Does > > \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f > > not work for you? > > Cheers, Kieren. m not met that. My first reactio

RE: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> there is no setting that says "force everything onto one page, beauty be > damned" Does \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-permission = ##f not work for you? Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mai

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-19 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "Anthony" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:34 PM Subject: Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic) On 17/03/2014 10:40, Robert Schmaus wrote: But there's another thing that surprises me in this discussion: I alway

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony
On 17/03/2014 10:40, Robert Schmaus wrote: But there's another thing that surprises me in this discussion: I always thought that Lilypond is mainly being used and intended for "classical" (exact) music. I think it's always been intended to produce "beautiful music for any usage requirement". Th

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking into the problem some months ago and > found a email correspondence between David kastrup and others about > the removal of the "accepts" technique. I have never seen that it was > later replaced by this new command. There is no new command.

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking into the problem some months ago and found a email correspondence between David kastrup and others about the removal of the "accepts" technique. I have never seen that it was later replaced by this new command. My apologies! Also for sending an accidental reply ju

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > - > Von meinem Fliewatüüt gesendet. [full-quote without content elided] I think Jazz musicians really should get off the habit of only writing - when it would be so much easier to get their meaning if they were just a bit more verbose. -- David Kastrup __

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
- Von meinem Fliewatüüt gesendet. > On 17 Mar 2014, at 11:57, David Kastrup wrote: > > Robert Schmaus writes: > >> So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to >> this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz >> music is improvised music, and I don't

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Schmaus writes: > So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to > this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz > music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has > problems "improvising" here as well. Everyone has different > pre

Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Schmaus
So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has problems "improvising" here as well. Everyone has different preferences, sure, but problems rea