lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-07-27 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Hello, I want to create a little booklet with some songs included. For some reason, the paper size should be A4 (which will be resized later). I include the ly-file(s) this way: \lilypondfile[staffsize=18]{wasser.ly} The funny thing is: after calling lilypond-book, the resulting lily-.eps file l

Re: lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Jul-05, at 11:57 PM, Martin Brodbeck wrote: The funny thing is: after calling lilypond-book, the resulting lily-.eps file looks perfect. But with the resulting page (see ugly.jpg in attachment) is something wrong. Known issue; please search the lilypond-user and bug-lilypond mailist arc

Re: lilypond-book and DIN A4 ?!?

2005-07-27 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Graham Percival schrieb: Known issue; please search the lilypond-user and bug-lilypond mailist archives for discussion and workarounds. (it was probably discussed on lilypond-devel as well) After a third watch at lilypond-user I found a workaround: "\newcommand{\betweenLilyPondSystem}[1]{\lineb

Re: need plain PS (not PDF) output

2005-07-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 22 July 2005 15.57, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > First of all, WOW on the downloadable-installable-executable Mac OS X > (and others) version 2.6 -- I can now start telling a LOT more of my > colleagues that they should move to Lilypond... =) > > I need straight PS

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-27 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 25 July 2005 17.47, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ES> \addlyrics (2.0) is converted to \oldaddlyrics, which is > ES> strongly deprecated, and pretty unsupported. It is known that > ES> it sometimes doesn't work. > > This seems

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> On Monday 25 July 2005 17.47, Laura Conrad wrote: >> > "ES" == Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> \addlyrics (2.0) is converted to \oldaddlyrics, which is ES> strongly deprecated, and pretty unsupported. It

RE: text markup extra space in {}

2005-07-27 Thread Fairchild
Sorry. Bad click. - Bruce -Original Message- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:23 PM To: Fairchild Subject: Re: text markup extra space in {} hi, please use the mailing list. Fairchild wrote: > Is there a non-printin

RE: text markup extra space in {}

2005-07-27 Thread Fairchild
Been experimenting. Can't discern the rule set. % \version "2.4.6" {{c''c''_\markup {\center-align < % each grouping shifts left 1/2 to 1 character. " XXX YYY ZZZ "% line 1 " XXX YYY ZZZ " % line 2 " XXX YYY ZZZ" % line 3 "XXX YY

What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Hello- I've been reading the manual (2.6.1) I've looked at examples But if all I want is the simple single line score, a pdf and midi output what is the least I need to add? It looks like I have to add lines and lines of stuff just to add the midi out. Maybe, I hope, I'm wrong? Thanks. Jay --

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Jul-05, at 3:00 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I've been reading the manual (2.6.1) I've looked at examples But if all I want is the simple single line score, a pdf and midi output what is the least I need to add? It looks like I have to add lines and lines of stuff just to a

how to engrave arrow over notehead?

2005-07-27 Thread Bodo
Hi, Thanks for this awesome program. I'm new to this, so excuse me if this is obvious, but extensive search of the docs and mailing list has not yet come up with anything, so: I'm trying to engrave little up- or downwards pointing arrows over noteheads. The reason for this is to indicate tones on

COMMENT LIMITER UNE PARTITION A UNE NOMBRE ENTIER DE PAGES ?

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen
En englais: A well-placed /break or /pageBreak may do it. I use: betweensystempadding = -1\mm bottommargin = 6\mm or perhaps (peut-etre) linewidth = 164\mm to control where page breaks will be placed. Ne rien, Stephen ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: convert-ly problem

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Jul-05, at 7:59 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: ES> Yes, this is a known problem which we have discussed earlier. Which "we" is that? I really think I'd remember a discussion of convert-ly not converting lyrics any more if it had happened on either lilypond-user or lilypond-devel. I think

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
When I copy and paste from the first template example and then copy and paste my chosen notes I get error: syntax error, unexpected STRING \new Staff \melody When I delete those parts I get A lovely pdf file no error messages and no midi even though I now have at the end \score { \

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Jul-05, at 6:23 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: When I copy and paste from the first template example and then copy and paste my chosen notes I get error: syntax error, unexpected STRING \new Staff \melody Please copy the entire example. When I delete those part

(OT) vim, osx, text encoding (was: magic diacritic markup?)

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Jul-05, at 3:47 PM, Trevor Baca wrote: Yes, you're right. The trick is set encoding=utf-8 All fine under OS X with :digraphs Ok, I hate being a newbie, but I'm lost. OSX 10.3.9, vim (as it comes with OSX, not the fink version), Terminal. I've got set encoding=utf-8 in my ~/.vim

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Scott
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: When I copy and paste from the first template example and then copy and paste my chosen notes I get error: syntax error, unexpected STRING \new Staff \melody When I delete those parts I get A lovely pdf file no error messages and no midi even

Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

2005-07-27 Thread Bec and John
Hi Jim,I just tried the "Notes only" template and got an error that I commonly get when I copy and paste from the Lilypond manual - it doesn't like the " ’ " character that is in the manual. I have to manually delete them and reinsert " ' ". Then it typesets fine. Below is the "Notes only" template

time signature above staff

2005-07-27 Thread Bec and John
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible with Lilypond to put the time signature above the staff? Thanks. - John ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: (OT) vim, osx, text encoding (was: magic diacritic markup?)

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 27-Jul-05, at 7:54 PM, Trevor Baca wrote: I thought I'd take this offline since the rest of the list at least appears to have a pretty good handle on diacritics. We might as well keep on it on the list; there may be somebody like me who spends an hour searching mailing lists looking for a

Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

2005-07-27 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:36 AM Subject: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 32, Issue 52 Also can we have notes (ex. a quarter or a eight note ..) as a denominator. Like 3 / {here a quarter note} all put above the staff? Message: 9 Date

Re: How to remove the time signature without removing the barlines

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-Jul-05, at 6:18 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote: The reason I use it from time to time (maybe I'm a guru, but the problem is definitely not a guru problem) is that if you move the barline engraver from the score context to the staff context, you need it to get any bars at all. OK, then perhaps i

Re: LilyPond uses sans-serif font after 2.6 upgrade

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 26-Jul-05, at 12:12 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: What is FONTCONFIG_FILE set to ? "echo $FONTCONFIG_FILE" should give you the value. Usually, I invoke LilyPond from inside Vim; this is a bit of a hack, though, and sometimes not all of t