Re: color every note-head by its note-name

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kenneth Lee wrote: Hi, i would like to color the note-head by its note-name on the whole score. For example, to color every C with red and every D with yellow, for example. i have tried \applyoutput but it only work on the note that follows immediately. This means i need to \applyoutput on ever

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Brett Duncan
Many thanks to those who responded. It turns out that I had a case of brainfade - I had put the shell script that came with Lilypond where it could be triggered by LilyTool in jEdit, but not in a directory that was in $PATH. Hence a call to lilypond from the command line did nothing. FWIW, e

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Brett Duncan wrote: Many thanks to those who responded. It turns out that I had a case of brainfade - I had put the shell script that came with Lilypond where it could be triggered by LilyTool in jEdit, but not in a directory that was in $PATH. Hence a call to lilypond from the command line d

Re: lilypond does not generate tex file

2005-08-21 Thread John Mandereau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed lilypond 2.6.0-1 on cygwin, but > it does not generate the tex and dvi files. LilyPond 2.6 (and later) no more uses TeX for output, it directly outputs PostScript. > The pdf file works well, but I cannot open the ps file! Why do you need to open the ps? Is

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Normally you can quote spaces as "\ "like in /User/me/My\ Documents The file completion, single or double quotes all produce the same result, like: $ /usr/local/bin/lilypond foo\ bar.ly GNU LilyPond 2.7.4 warning: can't find file: `foo' warning: can't find file: `bar.ly

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-21 um 10:49 schrieb Brett Duncan: Many thanks to those who responded. FWIW, even though I'm now able to call Lilypond from the command line and specify PNG output, I think that enabling the GUI version on Mac to let the user select the output format could be a useful addition. I

Re: custom page sizes?

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Aug-05, at 4:06 PM, Matevz Jekovec wrote: Is there a way to use custom page sizes for Lily output (like 10x20 cm?). linewidth and textheight properties only define the borders of the Lily's output, but if paper is not there, it gets cut then. See the doc page on "page formatting"; spe

Re: Centred Piano Dynamics

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 20-Aug-05, at 8:03 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Try typing the code in often the copy paste is not satisfactory but typing the material in often works. Specifically, the apostrophes ' get screwed up by tex. Even though they're in a @verbatim environment. :( Solutions are

Re: Spaces in system names [WAS] Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread dax2
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:08:22 +0200 Han-Wen wrote: > > I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from > the command line. It currently says > ># run the program >python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ >"$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $*

Re: custom page sizes?

2005-08-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor
You'll also need to set Ghostscript to use a custom page size. If you run lilypond --verbose, you can see what gs command lilypond use. Then, you can use -dDEVICEPOINTWIDTH or something similar (see Use.htm in your Ghostscript distribution) Bert ___

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Hans Aberg
On 21 Aug 2005, at 11:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $* but if you p

Re: Spaces in system names [WAS] Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
dax2 wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:08:22 +0200 Han-Wen wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $*

Re: Editors (was: Output other than PDF)

2005-08-21 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-21 um 14:26 schrieb Brett Duncan: Did you try LilyPad? It has a better editor than "LilyPond GUI" itself, even if it still lacks a lot, including this and a lot of other preferences. (But JEdit, whose LilyPond mode is more mighty, is just too slow and buggy on MacOS X). http:/

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: ># run the program >python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ >"$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/" $* > > but if you put "$*" it doesn't work for multiple arguments What about "$@". Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPo

Re: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-21 Thread Laura Conrad
> "JN" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JN> Antoine Marin writes: >> I just installed lilypond 2.6.3 for any x86 with autopackage >> (everything was OK during the install process) on a laptop with FC3 >> and I get this : >> (# . #> display-application ()>)

text in staff

2005-08-21 Thread lfanele
hi everybody, getting quite fluent in lilypond by now. it's even more fun using it, if you get to know the app better. one thing i'm still struggling with: how to put text in the staff? the picture below has been done with photoshop (not the most elegant way :) ) i tried the \markup command

Re: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Laura Conrad wrote: [tmp]# guile --version Guile 1.6.4 which one are you running? Try which guile -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: color every note-head by its note-name

2005-08-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Kenneth Lee wrote: > Hi, > > i would like to color the note-head by its note-name > on the whole score. For example, to color every C with > red and every D with yellow, for example. You could write an editing filter with sed that would do that and that way you could avoid typing backslashes. It'

Re: text in staff

2005-08-21 Thread Doug Asherman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everybody, > getting quite fluent in lilypond by now. it's even more fun using it, > if you get to know the app better. > > one thing i'm still struggling with: how to put text in the staff? > the picture below has been done with photoshop (not the most elegant > wa

Re: text in staff

2005-08-21 Thread Kris Shaffer
The markup command is the correct way to do it, but instead of \lower, use the "extra-offset" property. For example, \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -10) c4^"markup" will create a quarter note C, place the word "markup" above the staff, and the extra-offse

offset not working

2005-08-21 Thread Hans de Rijck
Hi group, I've tried all afternoon to get a text moved a little higher. I tried '\once \override' with extra-offset and padding in at least five different syntaxes but nothing works. I also tried a separate \mark \markup for the text but with no effect. I get no errors or warnings from LilyPond, t

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
I'm currently using jEdit wtithe Mac OS X Panther, and while I regret that the preferences pannel has nto been enabled, this isn't a major problem. Using the llilytool plugin I can write my code and compile it from within jEdit. The output is a pdf file but most mac users have several applications

Re: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-21 Thread Laura Conrad
> "HN" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HN> Laura Conrad wrote: >> [tmp]# guile --version >> Guile 1.6.4 HN> which one are you running? Try HN> which guile /usr/bin/guile "whereis guile" doesn't show any other. And I did play with update_alternatives,

triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-21 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
I'm having a problem that I can't see to fix. Here's the file. The problem is pdf output at measure 36 third staff. The triplet or something has made the staff spacing huge. Since it's the only place that this is happening and there is nothing that I can see in the file that makes it this way

\markup text defs between \score blocks

2005-08-21 Thread David Bobroff
I'm working on a project with a friend. So far I've set up a template for him where all that is necessary is that he enter the lyrics in one block, the musical information in another block and then all he has to do is add another predefined \score block in another file and he's done. Except for on

Re: offset not working

2005-08-21 Thread Kris Shaffer
I ran into this problem a couple weeks ago. You can't move text assigned to a multirest (or any single full-bar rest produced by "R"). Here's the fix: \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 2.0) %you can use padding here, instead if you like s1*0^\markup {No.1 Lent et doulour

Re: custom page sizes?

2005-08-21 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Yes, but setting vsize and hsize again, don't change the paper size - they work exactly as linewidth or textheight options. If I try to view the page with kpdf or gv, I get A4 page size with cut-off score. Maybe a bug? I'm sure that kpdf is able to change the page size if it's written in the file (

acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-21 Thread fiëé visuëlle
\version "2.6.3" %#(ly:set-option (quote no-point-and-click)) \header{ title = "Karev Yom" % poet = "T: " composer = "Unbekannt" % instrument = "2 voc + git" source = "" maintainer = "Henning Hraban Ramm" maintainerWeb = "http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/"; lastupdated = "2005-08-21" } glob

Re: offset not working

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Kris Shaffer wrote: I ran into this problem a couple weeks ago. You can't move text assigned to a multirest (or any single full-bar rest produced by "R"). huh? bugreport please? The grob is MultiMeasureRest{Text,Number} depending on whether you have to move the text or the number. -- H

Re: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Laura Conrad wrote: "HN" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HN> Laura Conrad wrote: >> [tmp]# guile --version >> Guile 1.6.4 HN> which one are you running? Try HN> which guile /usr/bin/guile "whereis guile" doesn't show any other. And I did play with up

Re: triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Aug-05, at 10:57 AM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: The problem is pdf output at measure 36 third staff. The triplet or something has made the staff spacing huge. Since it's the only place that this is happening and there is nothing that I can see in the file that makes it thi

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-21 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 21 August 2005 20.30, fiëé visuëlle wrote: > Ahoi! > > In the attached example, the acciaccatura in the lower voice doubles   > the repeat end bar and goes behind that wrog bar. > I tested with LilyPond 2.6.3 and 2.7.4 on MacOS X, same result. > Must I change something, or is it a bug? I

Re: \markup text defs between \score blocks

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Aug-05, at 10:38 AM, David Bobroff wrote: What I have not worked out is how to define something like this, which doesn't work: footnotes = { \markup {footnote 1} \markup {footnote 2{ } Is there a way around this? Have I missed something in the docs? There is no suppor

Re: lilypond does not work...

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Ruedas
On Saturday 20 August 2005 18:32, Antoine Marin wrote: > I just installed lilypond 2.6.3 for any x86 with autopackage > (everything was OK > during the install process) on a laptop with FC3 and I get this : > > lilypond > GNU LilyPond 2.6.3 > ERROR: In procedure hash-fold: > ERROR: Wrong type argu

Re: Centred Piano Dynamics

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Aug-05, at 9:59 AM, Will Oram wrote: Hmmm, that's a shame. Typing it by hand at least works, to some extent. Now there's this error: Processing `/Users/spamguy/pianotest.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... programming error: Couldn't find type continuing, cross fingers Engraver_group_e

Re: triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-21 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Graham (all) I edited it down to 6 measures and the 'problem' didn't appear and it doesn't happen with any other triplets in the piece (and there are many). So- next step? Jay Graham Percival wrote: On 21-Aug-05, at 10:57 AM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: The problem is pdf output

RE: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Fairchild
Does Win XP have similar capabilities? - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fedoruk Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:15 PM To: Mailinglist Subject: Re: Output other than PDF I'm currently using jEdit wtithe

Re: triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-Aug-05, at 5:26 PM, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Graham (all) I edited it down to 6 measures and the 'problem' didn't appear and it doesn't happen with any other triplets in the piece (and there are many). Well, try un-editing it a bit so that you have more than six measures

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread Rutger Hofman
Hans Aberg wrote: On 21 Aug 2005, at 11:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I think /usr/local/bin/lilypond is the shell script to invoke it from the command line. It currently says # run the program python "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py" \ "$INSTALLDIR/LilyPond.ap

Re: Problem with finding fonts in lilypond

2005-08-21 Thread Tazz
The main problem in Gentoo is that the packages are installed in a temporary directory and moved afterward if the installation was completed with success. With other words, the installer of lilypond has not the right paths but the temporary paths when it is run. When extracting the tgz myself and r

Re: Centred Piano Dynamics

2005-08-21 Thread Will Oram
Hmmm, that's a shame. Typing it by hand at least works, to some extent. Now there's this error: Processing `/Users/spamguy/pianotest.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... programming error: Couldn't find type continuing, cross fingers Engraver_group_engraver At this point 2.7.6 halts silently an

Re: offset not working

2005-08-21 Thread Kris Shaffer
Since the manual (section 8.2.1, page 173) mentions the need to use s1*0^\markup {whatever } R1*4 instead of R1*4^\markup to control markup alignment on a multirest, I figured it was not an unknown bug. But it sounds like something I should submit, though, so I'll

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
Rutgers, I see what you're trying to do. (and silly me for not seeing this before to!) You are trying to type the contents of lilypond.sh into the command line. You have failed because its meant to be run as a single command. $INSTALL in that script is a variable which is set to /Applications wh

Problem with update syntax in Mac OS X --- converts to 2.7.7 instead of 2.7.6

2005-08-21 Thread David Fedoruk
Hello all: I downloaded the latest development version of lilypond for Mac OS X (2.7.6-1 (vBuild from 19-08-2005 22:05). When I run Update Syntax from the GUI in O S X, it converts to the wrong version. To test this I took the Welcome document which opens the application and contains a short test

Re: triplet problem in multi-staff score 2.7 and 2.6 versions

2005-08-21 Thread stk
I hate to make a simple-minded suggestion, but the triplet in question \times 2/3{a c e} is written differently from all your other triplets. If you put a space after the 2/3 and an 8 after the a, does the problem persist? \times 2/3 {a8 c e} Conceivably, the \times operator blows a