Re: Figured Bass Improvements

2005-02-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Trent J. writes: > I've been following the developments for a while in hope > Is it ever going to be improved? > Any comments / hints of further development appreciated. If you need something to be fixed in a Free Software such as LilyPond, there are several options. The good thing is that if

Re: different behavior of "\remove Time_signature_engraver" in Lilypond-Book

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The problem is that lilypond-book adds another \layout section before your code and how should LilyPond know which one of them to use? There are two simple solutions: - Move your \layout{...} before the music: \begin{lilypond} \layout { ... } \relative c' { ... } \end{lilypond} - Add \score{...

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages tetex-base and tetex-extra. /Mats Walter Hofmeister wrote: Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be able to get this to work on 2.1.x: ce

Re: How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from popping up?

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Now, this is a LilyPond question, so I left out the other mailing lists. First of all, why do you call LilyPond using a DOS command? - If you actually run the command from a DOS prompt, I definitely recommend you to use the Cygwin prompt instead, where you use the command 'lilypond' to just pro

Re: text problem

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I think you can find the answer in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00393.html (with followups) even though you might not realize it directly. For a more direct answer, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-01/msg00141.html /Mats Charles Gran wrote: I

Re: I found an answer, but got "option --png not recognized" Error

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To follow up on my previous answer, lily-wins is a very primitive program that doesn't pass any command line options to lilypond. Actually, it's turns out it's fairly simple to call lilypond directly (still I don't really realize why you want to do it) using the following DOS command: C:/cygwin/bin

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Mats Bengtsson kirjoitti: You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages tetex-base and tetex-extra. /Mats Walter Hofmeister wrote: Can anyone tell me how to achieve numbers in circles? I used to be able to ge

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 2/7/05 5:51 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't say what platform you use. If you run the Cygwin version > in Windows, it might help to rerun setup.exe and add the packages > tetex-base and tetex-extra. > > /Mats > > Walter Hofmeister wrote: >> Can anyone tell me h

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is one of the font files that should be generated automatically as soon as you need it, if you have a normal installation of teTeX. Occasionally, it helps to do run the command "tex testfont" and input the following: Name of the font to test = ecrm0500 Now type a test command (\help for help):

LilyPond error

2005-02-07 Thread Mardi Girard
Hello I'm having trouble getting test.ly to work. My test.log file says   lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.5Running lilypond-bin...Now processing `test.ly'Parsing...   /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Besitzer/Eigene Dateien/My Music/test.ly:3:0: error: syntax error, unexpected '{':   {  

Re: LilyPond error

2005-02-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Apparently, you have installed version 2.2.5, but used a version of the file test.ly that is written for a newer version, 2.4.3. My best suggestion is to upgrade to version 2.4.x. The alternative is to keep your current version and read the Tutorial which is included in the documentation for your c

Re: opus/composer alignment

2005-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes thanks. I have added the bug to the database. It will not be fixed in the 2.4 series, but as Daniel pointed out it is fixed in 2.5. You can pass -f ps to lilypond, this will make the output slightly different; the composer wi

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 5-Feb-05, at 9:40 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: As I've said before, please tell me exactly what section(s) should changed, and exactly what should be changed or added. Table of Contents * GNU LilyPond \u2014 The m

Re: Vertical spacing isn't working...

2005-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 18-Jan-05, at 5:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got it. I'm trying to increase the space between systems on a page, and minimumVerticalExtent is for staves in a system ... (it is possible though, that it is impossible

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:08 pm, Graham Percival wrote: > On 5-Feb-05, at 9:40 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > >> As I've said before, please tell me exactly what section(s) should > >> changed, and exactly > >> what should be changed or added. > > > > Table of Contents > > > > * GNU Lily

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Feb-05, at 7:12 AM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: I'm on Mac OS X. I'm using Fink and there appears to be no tetex-extra. Here is a list of the packages that are available: You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right? From the fink package? Try this: \version "2.4.2" \layout{raggedright=##t} { ces^\

Re: Increasing space between notes?

2005-02-07 Thread Graham King
Thanks Graham, \once \override Staff.Hairpin #'minimum-length = #10 worked nicely. It was indeed covered in the 2.4 manual (section 5.7.13). My kludge is unnecessary, and should be eschewed by all. -- Graham :) On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 05:47, Graham Percival wrote: > On 6-Feb-05, at 5:00 AM, Graha

Having a lot of text under one note

2005-02-07 Thread eva & Morten Borchorst
Hi all on the list. This is my first posting to this list, so pls forgive me if I'm asking silly questions. We are aiming at getting some modern churchmusic to print, and have come to stop by a problem concerning one bar. According to the manuscript the bar consists of a whole note with a lot o

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 2/7/05 5:14 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7-Feb-05, at 7:12 AM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: >> I'm on Mac OS X. I'm using Fink and there appears to be no >> tetex-extra. >> Here is a list of the packages that are available: > > You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right?

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 2/7/05 6:18 PM, "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:15 pm, Walter Hofmeister wrote: >> ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"} > > It's hard to keep up. This works for 2.4.2: > > \version "2.4.2" > \score { \new Staff { > a' > b' > ces'^\markup {

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:15 pm, Walter Hofmeister wrote: > ces^\markup {"\\textcircled{\\tiny 1}"} It's hard to keep up. This works for 2.4.2: \version "2.4.2" \score { \new Staff { a' b' ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\textcircled{\\small{1}}}\\dots"} ces'^\markup {"$\\!\\!$\\textbf{\\te

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Feb-05, at 4:15 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote: On 2/7/05 5:14 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have lily 2.4.2 installed, right? From the fink package? It did not work. I got the circle above the note but it was empty. Since there is a newer package available than the on

notation for pitch bends and drops

2005-02-07 Thread wintryblue
In lilypond, is there the ability to get symbols that are common in jazz notation such as drops, falls, doits, bends, squeezes, turns, and shakes? For examples: http://bands.army.mil/masterclass/tusafb/dec2000/jazz.htm In the articulations section of the lily manual I only see classical music no