Re: Tutorial

2003-07-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
During the years, we have seen a few emails from people who intend to translate the manual into different languages, but I don't known of anyone who has finished the task. One problem is that Lilypond still is continously developed, so the translator has to update the text fairly often. So, for the

Re: Tutorial

2003-07-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Michael Smith wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I have spent many hours reviewing the documentation and music samples. I think this is an awesome and powerful program. I have review Maestro and Finale. While these are end-user programs, I enjoy having the ability to "code" the music. However, I hav

frontends

2003-07-28 Thread Andrea Valle
Dear all, I'd like to use Lilypond for algorithmic composition. The task could be to develop a program (maybe in Python) to write the lilypond file. But in instrumental composition there's always the necessity to re-adjust the result of the algorithmic process in order to have it (more) "playable"

Other fonts than computer modern/feta nummer

2003-07-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would like to use in the header and elsewhere fonts different from > Computer Modern. > I don't know anything about TeX. How can I do it? > > I tried to change the feta-nummer font for multi-measure rests (feta-nummer > is wonderful, but right now I'm making bass gu

Re: Other fonts than computer modern/feta nummer

2003-07-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In the header, you can change the fonts using standard LaTeX commands but if you want to do some more elaborate changes to the layout I recommend to use lilypond-book instead of ly2dvi. The Computer Modern font family includes a number of different fonts, so if you just want a sans serif font, you

Re: Examples in keys other than C major?

2003-07-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
John Hagerson wrote: #define NEWBIE on Thank you for the results on the template page http://lilypond.org/stable/input/template/out-www/template.html However, all of these examples are in the key of C. Could someone please point me to some examples in keys other than C? You can find lots

Re: frontends

2003-07-28 Thread Michal Seta
Have you looked at CommonMusic? http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/ It's built on lisp (it can also run in guile) and it has a large set of classes and functions for algo composition. Perhaps there is a possibility of writing a layer that will output to Lilypond. There is CommonMusicNotat