Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-07 Thread Roman Käppeler
Graham Percival wrote: >> At the moment this does not suffice for me. The manual just gives >> the basics, but to get the result from this basics is still very, >> very difficult! To write the notes is very, very easy, but to put >> different staves together or something else still drives me gr

Re: More pictures to manual

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Have you looked at the Tips and Tricks document and the Regression Test document in the on-line documentation? They provide exactly what you ask for. Also, all(?) these examples plus more are also available in the LilyPond Snippet Repository, see that link at http://www.lilypond.org/web/documenta

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Also, to get a nice overview of the changes from version 2.2 to 2.4, please read the NEWS file for version 2.4: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html Also, it may be worth to look at the printouts from convert-ly -s /Mats Mats Bengtsson wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2005

Re: lilypond-book problem

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jamie Bullock wrote: I get the following error: ! LaTeX Error: The font size command \normalsize is not defined: there is probably something wrong with the class file. Any help would be appreciated. This looks like a problem with your LaTeX installation and is not rela

Re: Poor error reporting

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Does the program run to the end or does it crash in the middle? I don't think there have been many changes in the printouts from LilyPond, but if you have happened to trigger a bug that gives a segmentation fault, then it may happen that you don't get any useful information. If you want more help

Re: making 2.5.27 (or should I say not making?)

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The lilypond-user mailing list is mainly intended for general usage questions and questions related to the stable versions. Please use lilypond-devel for issues related to the latest development versions. Of course, now that 2.5.xx is just about to become the next stable version, it might make sen

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want parameterized macros in your scores, I would recommend to use Scheme functions. You can find several examples in the mailing list archives and in the documentation. /Mats Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 00.17, Fairchild wrote: This code is effective:

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: more problems with 2.5.27 :)]

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I wouldn't consider this a specific LilyPond issue. You will have exactly the same problem if you write a text document or whatever that requires some special characters. Especially, since people use different editors and different operating systems, such a FAQ would have to be extremely long to c

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-07 Thread Robert Memering
Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2005 21:09 schrieb Graham Percival: > Well, yes. We can't figure out what went wrong without an > input file. Nevermind, I figured it out myself. You were right, I was actually doing something fancy. It was a bar-number trick that I took from one of the example files: \overri

Another lilypond-book problem

2005-06-07 Thread Georg Dummer
Hi all, I think I have the same problem as described by Laura Conrad (28 May; 3 June) on the lilypond.devel-list. Up to now no one answered this question. So I want to post it to this list: In my *.lytex file I played around with: \lilypondfile[quote,noindent,linewidth=170\mm]{Messe/GottMeinGott.

Re: lilypond 2.4.4 package on suse 9.3: dvips problem

2005-06-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Jun-05, at 2:13 AM, Robert Memering wrote: As for the one-line-staff bug: Any news? Did you reproduce it? I reproduced it in 2.5.27, but I didn't want to track it down at that time. I tried it again today (using 2.5.28), prepared to track it down, but it didn't occur. The template co

Re: Poor error reporting

2005-06-07 Thread Sven Axelsson
> From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Poor error reporting > > Does the program run to the end or does it crash in the middle? > I don't think there have been many changes in the printouts from > LilyPond, but if you have happened to trigger a bug that gives a > segmenta

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jun-05, at 11:08 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote: 1. A real separation of content and formatting. This means that a lilypond file would have no formatting in it at all. A seperate style sheet would be the place for this. The advantage is that if you have style tweaks for multiple docs only one

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Mehl wrote: continued from preious email that yahoo sent accidently before I finished :( If a structural wish list was allowed however here is what I would want. 1. A real separation of content and formatting. This means that a lilypond file would have no formatting in it at

Re: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Mehl wrote: Ok I am now getting both unconfused and confused. But both paper and layout deal with layout. Up to version 2.2, page layout and score layout was all lumped together into \paper{...}. Now, there's more structure to it. The intuitive notion is that \paper{...} only deals wi

Re: Poor error reporting

2005-06-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please send bug reports like these to bug-lilypond (I've included a cc: there for this one). /Mats Sven Axelsson wrote: From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Poor error reporting Does the program run to the end or does it crash in the middle? I don't think there have b

Separation of content and lay out [WAS]: lay out

2005-06-07 Thread dax2
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:46:27 +0200 Mats wrote: > > I would claim that this idea clearly has influenced the design > of LilyPond from the first version. You can set parameters to > determine the layout in the \layout{...} block. > However, there will always be special cases where the automatic > l

help with 2.4.5 in Debian

2005-06-07 Thread Sterling Sympatico
Hi, I tried to install 2.4.6 in Debian using Ferenc Wagner's sources from http://tac.ki.iif.hu/. After having the default ec-fonts-mftraced crash and downloading the nerwer version (.deb), I got an install. However, all attempts to run lilypond on the simplest file resulted in a segmentation fau

tied chords problem

2005-06-07 Thread VSD
Hi, it seems that the current Lilypond version (2.5.28) yet don't handles properly the ties in chords with small intervals between notes. e.g, in: 4 ~ there's a heavy tie collision. The output I get for this example is shown at: http://personales.ya.com/v_s_d/tied_chords.png this subje

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-06-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 06 June 2005 20.02, Fairchild wrote: >> Eric, et. al. - >> >> Thanks for the response, even though it hasn't led anywhere. >> >> Let's try the question a couple of other ways. >> >> Can Scheme code be used within a \score block? >> >> Can a var

Re: Argument transfer?

2005-06-07 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to see a real example where a pre processor is a win over > using LilyPond's built-in extensibility capabilities, which many seem > to underestimate. To be more precise about how extensible LilyPond is, I'll show an example of a file I'm w

Re: help with 2.4.5 in Debian

2005-06-07 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I have not used Ferenc's packages, but have been using the 2.4.5 that is in Debian Sid (I'm a little mystified as to why it didn't make it into the Sarge release) without problems. Correction: the only problem that I had was that when I originally tried the Sid packages, the ec-fonts-mftraced

jedit and dvi

2005-06-07 Thread Art Hixson
Sorry to bring this up again as there were quite a few posts a while ago. However, I couldn't seem to make much sense of them. I'm experimenting with Jedit in XP and an unable to get the JDVI function to find the music fonts, although the PostScript viewer works fine. I assume that I need to

Re: Newer version for FreeBSD

2005-06-07 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Hi all! I have been using Lilypond now for about 9 months, and have printed out a number of different scores for various purposes. The program works great!! I've had relatively little difficulty tweaking the files to produce what I want. But being a non-geek, I am very much dependent on th

Re: Newer version for FreeBSD

2005-06-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 7-Jun-05, at 6:42 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: So. I've been watching ports for some time now, hoping that Lilypond would be upgraded there. I have tried writing to the maintainer listed there as well. To no avail. Is there anybody out there running FreeBSD 5.3 or thereabouts who could ta