Re: lilypond does not work...

2005-08-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Ruedas writes: > That's what I also got Gee, you must have encountered the same problem. > The bottomline is that you should first check that you have all required > software in sufficiently recent versions. No, the bottomline is that bugs should be reported. Autopackage should resolve

Re: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad writes: > JN> I just ran a test that confirmed this happens if you use guile 1.6.4. > > Great, that must be my problem too. > > >> I don't know what to do ? > > JN> If you can, upgrade guile packages to 1.6.7. > > I don't seem to be able to do that. Dpkg seems to think

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I don't think you understood Han-Wen's answer. Everything will work fine if you do \override MultiMeasureRestText #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 2.0) or (preferably) \override MultiMeasureRestText #'padding = #2.0 As you can read in section 8.2.1, texts attached to multi measure rests are handled by Mul

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

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Looks like a silly packaging error. Just edit the converted .ly file and replace "2.7.7" with "2.7.6" in the \version statement. /Mats David Fedoruk wrote: 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 Upd

extra verses below

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, I remember that a while ago there was a thread on this but I can't seem to find it. I need to place the extra lyrics below the notation as blocks of text (not under the notation but way below as text). I am not even sure where to look this up in the docs. Is it text markup? Thanks Aaron

lilypond does not accept local path

2005-08-22 Thread lilypond
Hi, I've installed lilypond 2.6.0-1 on Cygwin and it works well, but I cannot give the file name without its absolute path otherwise lilypond tells that the file cannot be found. For example I have to give the following command: lilypond /cygdrive/c/SHEET/test.ly I'd like to give: lilypon

Re: \markup text defs between \score blocks

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
How about redefining the function that prints the page footer and include something like \fromproperty #'header:footnotes. Then you could do \score{ some music \header{ ... footnotes = ... } } The default definition can be found in the function oddFooterMarkup in the file .../ly/tit

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

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just as Graham, I cannot repeat your problem. I tried both version 2.7.6 and 2.6.3. As always, I recommend the stable version 2.6.x for any serious typesetting, unless you need one of the new features in 2.7.x. /Mats Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: I'm having a problem that I can't se

Re: text in staff

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want to move something vertically, it's almost always better to use the padding property instead of extra-offset. The reason is that if you set padding, then LilyPond will realize that you have moved something and migh for example add some extra spacing between the staves to avoid that your

Re: Centred Piano Dynamics

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
As far as I understand, this copy/paste problem is only a problem if you use the PDF version of the manual. The HTML version should work better (especially if you click on the music example to see the full input but make sure not to copy the trash at the top of the file that's only needed to give

Re: conversion batchfile or commandscript

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 12:53 AM, Katrien de Vos wrote Graham, Thank you for your reaction. I have looked into README.txt but I haven't found a clue. At least I do not recognize the script file - supposing it has the word CONVERT in it -. Please keep lilypond issues on the mailist, so that other p

Re: Problem with finding fonts in lilypond

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Version 2.4.2 is probably more recent than 2.5.2 (the latter is a "unstable" development version that shouldn't have made its way into any packaging system). /Mats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I ran into this same problem with Gentoo Linux and version 2.5.2. So I installed version 2.4.2

Re: lilypond-book mysteries

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00419.html /Mats David Bobroff wrote: I'm anticipating a possible need for lilypond-book. I've been experimenting with a short file to see how everything interacts so I can get a feel for how it works. I've run into some unexpec

Re: MIDI settings

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I guess that major problem is that you cannot even specify a \p or \< within \chordmode {...}. Otherwise, it's easy to modify the definition of the ChordNames context to take the dynamics into account in the MIDI output. One possibility is to include your dynamics in a separate identifier: mydyn

Re: Centred Piano Dynamics

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In addition to all previous answers, you may also want to take a look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-08/msg00130.html for a (in my opinion) much simpler alternative. /Mats Will Oram wrote: Does the template for centred dynamics in a piano staff found in the 2.6 manua

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

2005-08-22 Thread Henrik Frisk
I noticed the same thing. Just change the \version statement and you are good to go. Henrik Frisk > > Looks like a silly packaging error. Just edit the converted .ly file > and replace "2.7.7" with "2.7.6" in the \version statement. > > /Mats > > David Fedoruk wrote: > > Hello all: > > >

Re: extra verses below

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This is a new feature in the latest development versions, 2.7.x. Apart from the brief documentation in "8.1.7 Overview of text markup commands", I think the best documentation is actually in the example called markup-word-wrap.ly in the Regression Test document for version 2.7. /Mats Aaron Me

Re: lilypond does not accept local path

2005-08-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I don't know if that's a bug, but that works like that. If you use the command line, you can always type: lilypond $PWD/test.ly $PWD will mean your current directory wherever you are. Bert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, I've installed lilypond 2.6.0-1 on Cygwin >and it works well, but I cannot

Re: conversion batchfile or commandscript

2005-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: On 22-Aug-05, at 12:53 AM, Katrien de Vos wrote Graham, Thank you for your reaction. I have looked into README.txt but I haven't found a clue. At least I do not recognize the script file - supposing it has the word CONVERT in it -. Please keep lilypond issues on th

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread Henrik Frisk
If you have the OSX version installed, you can create a symlink to lilypond.sh in /usr/local/bin and use it just as the commandline tool would work on Linux or with the Fink version of LilyPond. Do ln -s /usr/local/bin/lilypond.sh /usr/local/bin/lilypond and open a new terminal window. /Henri

Re: lilypond does not accept local path

2005-08-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > I don't know if that's a bug, but that works like that. Yes, that's a bug, and should be investigated and fixed. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi again, I got the markup of text below the staff to work, but the hebrew is backwards, ouch. Is there a specific command I must type to get the text to bidi correctly? Thanks Aaron If an example is needed I can send a png, I am not sure how large attachments the list permits so I am leaving i

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-22 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: HEADSUP: autopackage and guile < 1.6.7

2005-08-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "JN" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [tmp]# dpkg -l guile-1.6 >> ii guile-1.6 1.6.7-1The GNU extension language and Scheme interp JN> But this is only the package called guile. For the other packages JN> (runtime libraries, eg), try J

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

2005-08-22 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-22 um 09:17 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Looks like a silly packaging error. Just edit the converted .ly file and replace "2.7.7" with "2.7.6" in the \version statement. No, no - I'm sure it's an effect of Guido's time machine - some LilyPond Python script used "from __future__ import

Re: text in staff

2005-08-22 Thread lfanele
thanks everybody, the #'extra-offset command worked fine for me. stephen Am 22.08.2005 um 09:50 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: If you want to move something vertically, it's almost always better to use the padding property instead of extra-offset. The reason is that if you set padding, then LilyPond

Re: conversion batchfile or commandscript

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I just tried http://lilypond.org/mingw/lilypond-tools-2.6.0.zip and have some comments: - convert-ly crashes with Applying conversion: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.12, 2.5.13, Traceback (most recent call last): File "convert-ly.py", line 213, in ? File "convert-ly.py", line 207, in main

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi again, I got the markup of text below the staff to work, but the hebrew is backwards, ouch. Is there a specific command I must type to get the text to bidi correctly? Hi, the text layout is handled by Pango, so I guess it's a matter of passing the right options to Pango

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2005-08-22 um 01:18 schrieb Erik Sandberg: In the attached example, the acciaccatura in the lower voice doubles the repeat end bar and goes behind that wrong bar. It is a known bug. The workaro

Re: circle around noteheads?

2005-08-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I think if you override the NoteHead print-function to \override Voice.NoteHead #'print-function = #Text_interface::print and use \override Voice.NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:circle #:musicglyph "noteheads.s2")) perhaps along with some #:raise or #:translate or extra-offset, you can achieve thi

circle around noteheads?

2005-08-22 Thread lfanele
hello lilypond-users, is there a way to draw a circle around a note-head? so far i tried it: - with balloon help, but I didn't like the looks of it (btw: is there a way to set the size of the balloon?) - manually with \markup{ \circle " "} and extra-offset, which is quite time-consuming any

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
> the text layout is handled by Pango, so I guess it's > a matter of passing > the right options to Pango. I can look into it as a > sponsored feature, > if you like. yes how much would it cost? Aarn but actually for each word the letters are in the correct order but the words themselves go le

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Hans de Rijck
Kris and Mats, thanks for your answers, I think I understand now. Mats, is there a list somewhere of objects that can be overridden? In the manual some (but I'm sure not all) are mentioned but only in examples. It certainly would be helpfull to have such a list (eg. Staff.TimeSignature, Score.ski

Re: circle around noteheads?

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Take a look at the example called boxed-stencil.ly in the Tips and Tricks document. There is a function called make-stencil-circler that you can use the same way as make-stencil-boxer. If you can't figure out the exact \override command you need, you can find it at the end of this email, but I re

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

2005-08-22 Thread David Fedoruk
> No, no - I'm sure it's an effect of Guido's time machine - some > LilyPond Python script used "from __future__ import __version__"! > ;-D > I had a feeling something like that might have been at work but I've always been so bad at temporal mechanics that I was loath to even suggest it. ;)

Re: extra verses below

2005-08-22 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-22 um 11:32 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: This is a new feature in the latest development versions, 2.7.x. Apart from the brief documentation in "8.1.7 Overview of text markup commands", I think the best documentation is actually in the example called markup-word-wrap.ly in the Regression T

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-22 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2005-08-22 um 14:51 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Thank you, but it doesn't help. I added dummy grace notes at every place in the upper voice where I use one in the lower - no change. You didn't change it in all parts. When I added a dummy grace note also to the chords, it seems to work bett

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read "9.2 The \override command" in the manual with all subsections to learn how to find the relevant information. /Mats Hans de Rijck wrote: Kris and Mats, thanks for your answers, I think I understand now. Mats, is there a list somewhere of objects that can be overridden? In the manual s

Two markup problems

2005-08-22 Thread Georg Dummer
I have two problems with markup commands: First: \markup{ \caps Bla } (working in version 2.4.6) does not produce capitalised letters in version >2.6.0 Second: \markup{ \char #65 } (also in versions >2.6.0). gives the following error: Layout output to `MeineEngenGrenzen.ps'...ERROR: In procedure

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread Hans Aberg
On 21 Aug 2005, at 14:47, Rutger Hofman wrote: 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

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Hans de Rijck
Mats, I've read that. It describes how it works, but not on what objects. >From examples all over the manual one can extract some objects (Staff, Stem, Voice) and some properties (skipBars, MetronomeMark, Stem etc) but there is no list of all these. At least, I can't find one. It would be handy t

Re: \markup text defs between \score blocks

2005-08-22 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about redefining the function that prints the page footer > and include something like \fromproperty #'header:footnotes. > Then you could do > \score{ >some music >\header{ > ... > footnotes = ... >} > } > > The default definit

auto-beaming question

2005-08-22 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Hello, I'm typesetting a piece with a lot of rhythms like: es16.[ es32 d16. c32] and I'd like beaming to be automatically set as in the above exemple, without using []. I've tried many things like: #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4 ) or \set beatLength = #(ly:make-mo

tie rewrite

2005-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
hi, results for the Tie rewrite are at http://localhost/lilypond/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

Re: Output other than PDF

2005-08-22 Thread David Fedoruk
Hello: I'd like to suggest to all the Mac OS X users here that if they do not already know the basics of a UNIX shell like what you find when you open Terminal, that you take some time to find a tutorial on the web and follow it through. When you have done a few of the tutorials you will find usi

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

2005-08-22 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Alas that did not solve the problem in 2.7.4 but it did solve it for 2.6.x so at least I've got a good copy now. Thanks all. Jay BTW there does seem to be disagreement on the list, I am under the impression that Han-Wen thinks 2.7x are usable and therefore should be used (and sometimes have to

Re: tie rewrite

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 19.46, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > hi, > > results for the Tie rewrite are at > > http://localhost/lilypond/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html .. which of course should be: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html Looks great! -- E

Re: acciaccatura messes repeat

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 14.04, fiëé visuëlle wrote: > >> In the attached example, the acciaccatura in the lower voice doubles > >> the repeat end bar and goes behind that wrong bar. > > > > It is a known bug. The workaround is to add dummy grace notes in   > > all parts, > > like > > << > > { \rep

Re: tie rewrite

2005-08-22 Thread Luise Marion Frenkel
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > results for the Tie rewrite are at > > http://localhost/lilypond/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html Sorry, but that should be: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html __

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

2005-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: Alas that did not solve the problem in 2.7.4 but it did solve it for 2.6.x so at least I've got a good copy now. Thanks all. Jay BTW there does seem to be disagreement on the list, I am under the impression that Han-Wen thinks 2.7x are usable and therefor

editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, Is there a way to not have to reparse a file each time I want to view changes? Something where only the newest changes are parsed or the pdf is updated in almost realtime? I am using vim. Thanks Aaron Start your day

RE: 2.4 doc links broke?

2005-08-22 Thread Fairchild
Website. OK today. -Original Message- From: John Mandereau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:21 PM To: Fairchild Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: 2.4 doc links broke? Fairchild wrote: > I can't open the regression tests or tips and tricks for v2.4?? My

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

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 21.24, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: > Alas that did not solve the problem in 2.7.4 but it did solve it for > 2.6.x so at least I've got a good copy now. > Thanks all. > Jay > BTW there does seem to be disagreement on the list, I am under the > impression that Han

Re: editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 22 August 2005 23.47, Aaron Mehl wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to not have to reparse a file each time > I want to view changes? > > Something where only the newest changes are parsed or > the pdf is updated in almost realtime? > > I am using vim. If you're using 2.7, there is a co

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

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 19 August 2005 17.50, 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 immediatel

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Kris Shaffer
One more question on this issue: The commands \fatText and \emptyText have no effect on either s1*0^\markup {whatever} R1*4 or R1*4^\markup {whatever} How can I automatically apply the width of the markup string to the width of the multi-rest bar? Kris Shaffer On

Re: conversion batchfile or commandscript

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 5:28 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: - There are no installation instructions at all. Do you expect an average Windows user to know what to do with a ZIP file with a number of .exe? Judging from the spread of trojans and viruses in the windows world, I'd say yes. ;-) Cheers, -

Re: auto-beaming question

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 12:31 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote: es16.[ es32 d16. c32] and I'd like beaming to be automatically set as in the above exemple, without using []. I've tried many things like: #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4 ) If you haven't already, try reading section

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 6:15 PM, Kris Shaffer wrote: One more question on this issue: The commands \fatText and \emptyText have no effect on either s1*0^\markup {whatever} R1*4 or R1*4^\markup {whatever} How can I automatically apply the width of the markup string to the w

Re: offset not working

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 10:07 AM, Hans de Rijck wrote: I've read that. It describes how it works, but not on what objects. From examples all over the manual one can extract some objects (Staff, Stem, Voice) and some properties (skipBars, MetronomeMark, Stem etc) but there is no list of all these. At

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

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
On 22-Aug-05, at 3:06 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 21.24, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: But then Mats/Graham and others keep on recommending staying with 'stable' which won't have the 'needed' features. I'd love a clarification on this one. It depends on what y

Re: editor-lilypond quick parse

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi again, The problem is that I am not entering new music but correcting existing notation, so that there are already 50 measures written and I just corrected measure 4. but maybe it will help, I will give it a try I guess if I just pretend that there is no music after measure 5 whats the differ

Re: Two markup problems

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Percival
Georg -- the thing to do is to send these to the bug- mailist, as I've done. These two commands don't work. The first has no effect; the second produces an error message as described below. \markup{ \caps Bla } \markup{ \char #65 } Cheers, - Graham On 22-Aug-05, at 8:47 AM, Georg Dummer wrote

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread stk
Aaron Mehl wrote: > but actually for each word the letters are in the > correct order but the words themselves go left to > right instead of right to left. With automatic text reversal, I would expect \markup { ONE TWO THREE } to produce ENO OWT EERHT But, with a pair of quot

Re: auto-beaming question

2005-08-22 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Graham Percival wrote: If you haven't already, try reading section 8.6.2 from the documentation for 2.7. The docs have been (hopefully) clarified, and it will all apply to 2.6 as well. Done. The documentation seems clear to me, but there's something I don't understand. Here is a short exam

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

2005-08-22 Thread stk
Erik Sandberg wrote: > It requires some Scheme hacking though, and you need to know about the > internal representation of Music Expressions. It's probably doable in > less than 20 lines of code, including colour codes. Where does there exist a systematic explanation of the details of -- LilyPond

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aaron Mehl wrote: > > > but actually for each word the letters are in the > > correct order but the words themselves go left to > > right instead of right to left. > > With automatic text reversal, I would expect > \markup { ONE TWO THREE } > to produce

Re: auto-beaming question

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Neeman
\version "2.6.3" \score { \new Staff { \relative c'{ \key g \major \clef violin \time 2/4 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4 ) c16. c32 c8 c4 %Bar 1 c8 c16. c32 c4 %Bar 2 }}} The result can be seen here: http://pocentek.perso.cegetel.net/test-overri