Re: using the devel version

2004-03-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If possible, I recommend to directly to a more recent development version like 2.1.36 or wait a few weeks for the next stable version, 2.2. Regarding your question, please see the FAQ list: http://lilypond.org/web/about/faq.html /Mats chip wrote: I am using freebsd and have been using lilypond-2

Re: Guitar String Numbers

2004-03-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
No! First of all, \center-align only works within a single markup and makes sure that if you have several lines in your markup, these will be aligned to each other. This works for some reason, with one line in the markup: cs'4^\markup{\center-align <\italic \bold "8va - - - - - "> } I stay corre

Re: Guitar String Numbers

2004-03-31 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 22:15, Richard Schoeller wrote: > The box code does expand the size of the enclosed object. Depending > on alignment and placement within the markup, this can move the > contents of the box a little. However, the size only changes by the > thickness of the lines. I had t

Beam damping

2004-03-31 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [ Mac OS X 10.3.3 via Fink; Lilypond 2.1.35-1 ] > > Hello! > > Just wondering about Beam damping. The default setting allows beams > that are *far* too steep for my tastes: > > > [I don't have a copy of Ross or any comparable text -- would they would > approve of a

Re: Guitar String Numbers

2004-03-31 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 07:58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >>No! First of all, \center-align only works within a single markup > >> and makes sure that if you have several lines in your markup, > >> these will be aligned to each other. > > > > This works for some reason, with one line in the markup:

relative mode in the case of tritones

2004-03-31 Thread Ben Crowell
Hi All, I have a question about how tritones are treated in relative octave mode. The manual says that by default each interval is made to be a fourth or less. What happens in the case of a tritone? Is an augmented fourth treated differently than a diminished fifth, or is it enharmonic? AFAICT rig

Difficulties to start

2004-03-31 Thread Hans Peter Beer
Hi All, I am a very newbie in using linux (suse 9.0). I wanted to print shiny scores with lilypond 1.8.1 from the Suse-distribution. I typed a test-file and tried to run ly2dvi -p test.ly, but the machine replied : Traceback (most recent call last); File "usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 194, in? import

Re: relative mode in the case of tritones

2004-03-31 Thread David Bobroff
At 07:45 PM 3/31/2004 -0600, you wrote: >Hi All, > >I have a question about how tritones are treated in relative octave mode. >The manual says that by default each interval is made to be a fourth or >less. What happens in the case of a tritone? Is an augmented fourth >treated differently than a dim