Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Memering writes: > My problem: > > - I have SuSE 9.3, lilypond 2.4.4. > - Lilypond works, dvi and midi output is fine. > - The integrated production of ps and pdf fails. SUSE ships a broken LilyPond installation. Did you think of Solution: report bug to SUSE? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen

doc help: reminder

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
Recently there's been some discussion about helping with the docs. Great! If you're interested, please see this page: http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding In other words, the only thing you need to do is send an email. I've tried to make it as easy as possible to

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Bo Herlin
Robert Memering wrote: - I have SuSE 9.3, lilypond 2.4.4. - Lilypond works, dvi and midi output is fine. - The integrated production of ps and pdf fails. I get documents with many musical symbols missing and all wrong text fonts. - invoking dvips (and ps2pdf) manually works, but produces very ba

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Memering
Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 06:27 schrieb Tapio Tuovila: > I'd like to second Graham's opinion. Compiling 2.5.2x goes smoothly on > suse 9.3; at least I have noticed no particular problem. And once you > use 2.5.x you need not worry about dvips -sort of things. I have deleted 2.4.4 and built 2.5.27 o

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Well this seems to imply: "forget being able to build a lilypond file from scratch, you must start from a template or all is lost." Infact for the majority of my Lilypond experience I relied on templates for creating scores. What this did was limit my ability to make a score do exactly what I wan

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Robert Memering wrote: I have deleted 2.4.4 and built 2.5.27 on SuSE now, and you are right: compilation went quite smoothly. But it is not much use, because none of my old 2.4.x scores work. I used convert-ly, but I still have several problems. One score doesn't compile, and the other ones have

Re: doc help: reminder

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Thanks I saw. I am still trying to figure out if there are required elements in a lilypond file and if they must occur in a certain place or not. I started writing a file structure section for the docs but am stuck on this. Aaron --- Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently there's

Re: doc help: reminder

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 1:07 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: I am still trying to figure out if there are required elements in a lilypond file You need a score. It can be explicit, \score{ blah blah } or you can use a shortcut { c'4 blah blah } which adds the \score{} part automatically. and if they must o

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 12:47 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: So in the 2.4 series lilypond I was eventually able to create my own template. Still I was never exactly sure why it worked and others I tried didn't... Why can't you use your 2.4 scores in 2.5? You might need to update them with convert-ly, but the

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 10:25 AM, Robert Memering wrote: I have deleted 2.4.4 and built 2.5.27 on SuSE now, and you are right: compilation went quite smoothly. But it is not much use, because none of my old 2.4.x scores work. I used convert-ly, but I still have several problems. One score doesn't compil

Re: doc help: reminder

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Ok I finally got it the shortcut {} was making me crazy. So a first rule is every lilypond file must have a score block. Its correlary is that it can be written out or in a shortcut. Great. Now I will go back to the other thread for other questions so as not to confuse me and anyone else. Thank

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi Graham and list, I did as you said and did a convert-ly on the file. it basically replaced paper with layout and removed the notes block but I see a second set of brackets. -- \version "2.2.0" \header{ title = "Zachrenu" poet = "

RE: Crescendo-Decrescendo

2005-06-04 Thread Fairchild
Mats - With your pointers, I've made significant progress. Three anomalies remain. A) The big aha: text size is controlled with, e.g. \override DynamicTextSpanner #'font-size = # 6 but dotted- and dashed-lines aren't scaled. B) Got the \markup thing working, almost. In \set decrescendoText

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 4:31 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: So am I able to generalize from this that layout replaces paper (you said not and the docs still say that paper is still in?) There is currently a \paper{} and \layout{}. I really don't want to talk about anything that happened before 2.4, because I

Re: lay out

2005-06-04 Thread Aaron Mehl
> I don't know. I don't write music with lyrics. > Let's look at the > docs... Instrument-specific notation -> Vocal music. Why not look a lyrics which is what I did and I got the following: And I couldn't figure out where to put it because I go an x =y situation again. Remember you know where

PNG problem with 2.5.27 on WinXP

2005-06-04 Thread Roman V. Isaev
I installed 2.5.27 on WinXP box and it worked fine but it fails to generate PNG files :( I have python installed and 2.4.2 works okay. When I tried to find out what happens I found that file lilylib.py is missing. I tried to place an old lilylib.py from 2.4.2 there but it did not work. And

how to fix this mess

2005-06-04 Thread Roman V. Isaev
Slur crosses decrescendo mark http://www.soprano-recorder.ru/tmp/question.gif : fis2( _\markup { " " \column { " " \italic \dynamic "p" } } \> g4) _\markup { " " \column { " " \italic \dynamic "pp" } } \! r4 | \bar "|." I used \markup because if I use \p and \pp things get hairy... http://

Re: how to fix this mess

2005-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jun-05, at 10:36 PM, Roman V. Isaev wrote: Slur crosses decrescendo mark What is the proper method to solve this problem? Increase the #'padding property. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ Common-tweaks.html (I normally set it to #1.5 , if that lo

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-04 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Robert Memering kirjoitti: compilation went quite smoothly. at least I'm glad about this. But it is not much use, because none of my old 2.4.x scores work. I used convert-ly, but I still have several problems. One score doesn't compile, and the other ones have one-line-staves instead of five-li

Re: how to fix this mess

2005-06-04 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 06/04, Graham Percival wrote: > On 4-Jun-05, at 10:36 PM, Roman V. Isaev wrote: > >Slur crosses decrescendo mark > >What is the proper method to solve this problem? > Increase the #'padding property. See > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ > Common-tweaks.html >

convert-ly in 2.5.27

2005-06-04 Thread Roman V. Isaev
During conversion it marks files as \version "2.5.25" Is it okay?.. -- Roman V. Isaev http://www.soprano-recorder.ru Moscow, Russia ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-