Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Adrian Peakman
OS: W2k Pro SP4 I installed cygwin using the instructions on the lilypond website, but the lilypond examples don't produce PDF files Can anyone help? Thanks, Adrian > Thanks, Mats, for your speedy reply. > > It's that Latex appears to be having indigestion on Lilypond's output. > The fi

Re: [Józsa Márton] RE: Beams == Melismata?

2003-09-18 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, the lyric alignment code was contributed by Glen Prideaux, > who since disappeared off the face of the earth. This probably means that someone else should step forward and maintain and/or replace the lyric alignment code, right? Anyway, it

Re: Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that LaTeX can process the file without problems, so for some strange reason, ly2dvi isn't able to call latex correctly. Could you please run ly2dvi -p --debug example-1.ly and send a copy of the output. /Mats Adrian Peakman wrote: OS: W2k Pro SP4 I installed cygwin using the instruct

Re: cross-barline AND cross-linebreak beams

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Upgrade to version 1.8.1 or newer and read the manual, http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Beaming.html especially about the property allowBeamBreak It's a good habit to always specify what LilyPond version you use when sending a question to the mailing list. Mats [

Re: Problems installing lilypond

2003-09-18 Thread Adrian Peakman
Mats, this is bizarre:- That appeared to work (see output). So I ran ly2dvi -p example-1.ly and it worked! The only change I've made to the computer since yesterday was install IE 6 SP1 and associated security patches (Was using IE 5.0). Thanks for your help. Best wishes, Adrian $ ly2dvi

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did you know there is now a Debian branch called "experimental" that > might be perfect for this? No, I didn't. Where can I find info about it? > 1.9.6 didn't solve my emacs problem but there may be another reason. that's too bad. Check my another email

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
* Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have cleaned up my .emacs and looked at all the documentation I can > find.and after installing Pedro's 1.9.6 debs I get the following when > loading an ly file into emacs > > Loading lilypond-mode (source)... > File mode specification error: (invalid-

Bug in 1.8 ?

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In both 1.7.23 under Mandrake and in 1.8 on XP a portion of documentation > (which processed fine under 1.6) fails. > > The following fragment is a cell in a table showing various clefs. > The error message I get is from LaTeX: > > ! Und

Re: Lines of music

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK. > > You can use "Integrating HTML and music" with lilypond-book: you get both > eps and png images. The length of the png image is slightly > different from that you specify with the option linewidth. > > Anyway, it is not clear if the option eps is supported in "I

Beaming and barlines

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hello, > > I have the following music: > \score { > \notes { > \time 3/4 > ... > a'4 b' c''8 \bar ":|:" d''8 > ... > } > } > > How can I avoid that the c and d are beamed together? > I could of course use > \property Voice.aut

Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.7

2003-09-18 Thread Pedro Kroger
Debian Sid packages of Lilypond 1.9.7 are available from my website: http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ They're also apt-gettable adding the following line to sources.list: deb http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./ And running the commands: apt-get update apt-get install lilypond (or apt

"free notation" with lilypond ?

2003-09-18 Thread Samuel Hornus
Hi, I am currently rewriting (with LaTeX) the "book" by Pierre-Yves Hasselin about the "Understanding and realization of ancient "chording" (I don't know the english word)" The version I have was written on a typewriter, with music notations drawn by hand. my version is pretty old (late '70 I w

Re: emacs lilypond-mode still not working with Pedro's 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Loading lilypond-mode (source)... File mode specification error: (invalid-read-syntax "#") After reinstalling 1.8.1 from Debian unstable emacs works correctly. Which version of Debian are you running? "full" unstable or "mixed" un

Re: "free notation" with lilypond ?

2003-09-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To fool LilyPond into thinking that a note has another duration than what's actually printed, you could say c4*2 (a quarter note that lasts for half a bar) or e2*1/2 (a half note with a quarter note duration). You may also want to look at the possibilities to select other note heads, see the exampl

Re: Debian (Sid) packages for Lilypond 1.9.6

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Pedro Kroger wrote: * Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did you know there is now a Debian branch called "experimental" that might be perfect for this? No, I didn't. Where can I find info about it? I saw it discussed on Debian User list. I have deleted most messages. You could sear

Re: Stanza numbers

2003-09-18 Thread Rob V
Apparently, I was wrong about the spacing of the stanza numbers. Today, I noticed that setting the break-align-symbol property to first-note or next-note always aligned the first verse stanza number to the right. The second verse could be centered by using the other property that was not used

Can you help with this

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Im using windows xp, im going to join mailing list now, any help would be great thanks here is the error I keep getting   warning can't find file: 'test'   ly2dvi: warning: no LilyPond output for 'test' Running latex... Running dvips...ly2dvi: error: 'dvips' failed ly2dvi: error: The error

parenthesized grace note

2003-09-18 Thread plutek
anyone have a method for putting parentheses around a grace note (other than building the whole thing with \markup)? specifically, i wish to have a parenthesized small notehead beside the main note of a trill, to indicate the trill note. yes, i have seen the discussion about placing an accidental

Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Sorry about that I just figured it out, my notepad was saving it like test.lt.TXT I just re associated it and its working thanks William ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Webfingers writes: > Sorry about that I just figured it out, my notepad was saving it > like test.lt.TXT Ah. That may be a problem if we advise to use notepad. Maybe we should add a note about that in the document? Thanks for pointing this out. > I just re associated it and its working thanks

RE: Sorry I figured it out

2003-09-18 Thread Jozsa Marton
With notepad (and some other Win apps) quotation marks can be used to save new file with an extension other than TXT: "song.ly" ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
I hope I haven't missed list discussion of this in the recent past. I'm afraid Alaska has been frustrating me a bit, but that's another story. I'm trying to set a keyboard part for music I have to play tomorrow night (isn't it always that way?). For voice leading, I really need an Aminor chord

inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I hope I haven't missed list discussion of this in the recent past. I'm > afraid Alaska has been frustrating me a bit, but that's another story. > > I'm trying to set a keyboard part for music I have to play tomorrow > night (isn't it always that way?). For voice lead

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Ahh. Thanks. Although that didn't answer my question, because I didn't ask it very well. c:3.6 is, hands down, the way to do it. I was following the process in the manual, though, so I was defining the chorus (as chorus, how original) and using it in the score block as \chorus in both the Voice

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahh. Thanks. Although that didn't answer my question, because I didn't > ask it very well. > > c:3.6 is, hands down, the way to do it. I was following the process in > the manual, though, so I was defining the chorus (as chorus, how > original) and using it in the sc

Re: inversions in lilypond 1.8.2

2003-09-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I didn't give any thought to it. What do you precisely need? How should be printed in ChordNames ? Han-Wen (chord agnostic) Believe me, I was a chord agnostic for years. At least as far as theory and voice leading are concerned. Guitars have a nice way of saving one

Newbie question

2003-09-18 Thread Ricardo Kirkner
Hi!   I am really new to lilypond. I wanted to try it out, because I am trying to become independent on any music notation program. I thought maybe MusicXML could help me out, but it was too verbose to be of any practical use when transcribing music manually. Therefore I got lilypond. But no

Re: slightly OT question about midi rendering

2003-09-18 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Dimanche, sep 14, 2003, at 22:28 America/New_York, Graham Percival wrote: I don't know if this works in OSX or not, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't; have you tried timidity++? That's what I use to check my scores on Linux. Timidity++ is perfect, Graham. Thanks for hooking me up.

Re: Newbie question

2003-09-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:41:53 -0300 Ricardo Kirkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1- How do you tell lilypond to typeset all brackets of equal lenghts > (or at least not each bracket out of two on a different lenght). I don't know what you mean by this. Could you give an example? > 2- How do you p

Associating

2003-09-18 Thread Webfingers
Associating an text editor for lilypond .ly extention in Windows XPhere's what I did, on windows xp1. I went to My Computer - Tools - Folder options2. In Folder Options I clicked  the File Types tab3. Then I clicked the New button it then opens a  create new file extention box4. next type in