Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>> A. LilyPond actually _does_ support the Latin1 character set, as Latin1 >> and Unicode coincide on the first 256 codepoints. > > I don't quite see that. If I put an e-acute (a byte of decimal value > #233) in a LilyPond file, it is skipped -- it does not appear in the PDF > output. I have to

Re: no pdf file generated (windows version 2.7.8)

2005-09-04 Thread Katrien de Vos
I am using windowsXP and lilypond-windows.exe (when I use lilypond.exe no log-file is produced). I renamed gswin32.exe to gs.exe and tried again. It still doesn't work. Then I changed my batchfile: gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4 -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > A. LilyPond actually _does_ support the Latin1 character set, as > > Latin1 and Unicode coincide on the first 256 codepoints. > > I don't quite see that. If I put an e-acute (a byte of decimal > value #233) in a LilyPond file, it is skipped -- it does not appear > in the PDF output. I have

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1? (Was: Wrong characters with jEdit)

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unicode only provides a way of specifying character codes for a wide variety of symbols in the interior of a text file. But without font files containing the order of 64K symbols, the current fragmented font-file situation will continue to limit what can easily be output

Re: no pdf file generated (windows version 2.7.8)

2005-09-04 Thread Katrien de Vos
I was wondering why windows could not recognize the *.exe file. In de environmental variables I had included PATHEXT .py;.pyc. This was necessary for python to recognize convert-ly.py. I removed this and now lilypond produces the pdf-file! Now my remaining problem is Point-and-Click. Jaap

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: I just type-set a piece using version 2.7.7 and this piece also had some ties in it. In this example I thought the new behavior was a bit odd as I have two ties in a row but they are longer note values and should they not appear at the same level? I noticed that the chan

[OT] NoteWorthy Composer to LilyPond converter

2005-09-04 Thread Hans de Rijck
Hi all, I've spent the greater part of my holiday completely rewriting the program that converts NoteWorthy Composer files to LilyPond. It's now completely written in C++ and adding a separate MusicXML frontend should be relatively easy. But that has to wait for a next holiday (if there is any int

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/4/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>I just type-set a piece using version 2.7.7 and this piece also > >>had some ties in it. In this example I thought the new behavior was > >>a bit odd as I have two ties in a row but they are longer note > >>valu

Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-04 Thread Hans de Rijck
Hi, I get an errormessage that I don't understand, the last lines of lilypond --verbose are: 819][822][825][828][831][834][837][840][843][846][849][852][855][858][861][8 64][ 867][870][873][876][879][882][885][888][891][894][897][900][903][906][909][9 12][ 915][918][921][924][927][930][933][936][

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-04 Thread Hans Aberg
The best way is to try to find an editor supporting UTF-8. (On Mac OS X, I am using Xcode, which comes with the developer package.) Unicode supports musical symbols, and that could later be used to give a program like Lilypond a much better input syntax. (A Unicode font that supports some o

Re: Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-04 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 04 September 2005 17.21, Hans de Rijck wrote: > Hi, > > I get an errormessage that I don't understand, the last lines of > lilypond --verbose are: > > 819][822][825][828][831][834][837][840][843][846][849][852][855][858][861][ >8 64][ > 867][870][873][876][879][882][885][888][891][894][89

Re: Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-04 Thread Hans de Rijck
Done. h. - Original Message - From: "Erik Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "Hans de Rijck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Cryptical errormessage > On Sunday 04 September 2005 17.21, Hans de Rijck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I get an errormessage

Scores with inkpen

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Hello: A question: Is there some functionality in Lilypond that enables a score with fonts like the Sibelius inkpen font? Whenever I play live, many times it's in a venue that has dim lights and reading the regular notehead is difficult, but the inkpen font is thicker and has better visibility f

Re: Scores with inkpen

2005-09-04 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
also is it possible to use other music fonts? Albeit Feta is probably the best looking one around, fonts like November, Susato, Jazz, are nice too. Some noteworthy additions to the Feta can be cluster noteheads and "laissez vibrer" (notes with ties heads Best Regards, Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-compos

RE: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-04 Thread Fairchild
jEdit says it supports and converts among ISO-8859-1,2,4,5,7,9,13,15 KOI8-R US-ASCII UTF8, 8Y,16,16BE,16LE windows-1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257 and others The ones I've used work OK. The jEdit help file gives an explanation of defaults for various environments.

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > A tie, regardless of being short or long, must not be placed > > completely between two staff lines if the notes are also between > > the same two lines. > > It depends. I think it should, but only in crowded situations. Yes. > The number of TCCs is binom(M, #ties). A chord spanning a singl

tie-configuration question

2005-09-04 Thread Henrik Frisk
In a post a few weeks back I asked about the tie-configuration in mulitiple voices. Nobody responded, so either it ws a really dumb question - in which case I don't mind being told - or nobody understood what I meant... In either case, here's a snippet that doesn't change the tie behaviour. I've tr

\markup question

2005-09-04 Thread Tim Sawyer
Hi, I'm using \markup{ \small { \note #3 #0 #1 \note #3 #0 #1 = \note #3 #0 #1 \note #4 #0 #1 }} to produce a swing notation header in my music. I'd like to add a dot after the first note on the right hand side, making the note lengths add up properly. (Two quavers = dotted quaver, semiquave

Re: Cryptical errormessage

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hans de Rijck wrote: The assertion message isn't very meaningful too, its logical the result is 'false', otherwise the assertion wouldn't have failed. It would be more helpful to print what the assertion was. Any ideas how to find the meaning of the above or how to debug this? Yes, run LilyPon

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: Pregenerated tables included as part of the distribution (where the large combinatorial spaces have already been searched ahead of time)? Then do single lookups against the "known good table of optimal tie configurations" during interpretation? I think that would be problem

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: IIRC, I've sent an algorithm to the list a few years ago whether ties should go up or down, depending on the vertical structure of a chord. Maybe you can dig it out, and perhaps it helps in providing some constraints. IIRC, it was the algorithm that was present before I re

Re: Scores with inkpen

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mehmet Okonsar wrote: also is it possible to use other music fonts? Albeit Feta is probably the best looking one around, fonts like November, Susato, Jazz, are nice too. Some noteworthy additions to the Feta can be cluster noteheads and "laissez vibrer" (notes with ties heads You can install th

Re: tie-configuration question

2005-09-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Henrik Frisk wrote: I think the recent discussions on LilyPond's new tie behaviour has shown one thing: To a large degree it is up to musical style and personal preference - which makes the tie-configuration command so important (to me anyways). 2.~ \override TieColumn #'tie-config

Ancient Time Signatures.

2005-09-04 Thread Trent J
Hi All.. Just a quick question with ancient time signatures. Looking a works by Frescobaldi and Monteverdi they use the old proportional time scheme. They use a mixture of ancient clefs and numbers .. e.g.  O3 but there is no time signature setting for this so I guess this needs to be created with

Strange Midi Output

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Hello: I seem to be getting strange midi output from lilypond. After including another \score section, for the purpose of getting midi output: ... \score { \Notes \midi { \tempo 4 = 108 } } After all the output from lilypond, when I play the generated midi file, all I get i

Re: Strange Midi Output

2005-09-04 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
I opened your midi file and there were 4 pages of rest measures then the attached gif. Without knowing more it doesn't seem that strange except for the number of rests. On the other hand I have no idea what your input was. Jay Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote: Hello: I seem to be getting strange

Hi about the midi output

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
Nice of you to answer, I attach a png of the file, to show you how it looks like. Yeah the gif you send is exactly how it sounds. I can't figure it out... Daniel Tonda C. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: New slur/tie behaviour

2005-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > IIRC, I've sent an algorithm to the list a few years ago whether > > ties should go up or down, depending on the vertical structure of > > a chord. Maybe you can dig it out, and perhaps it helps in > > providing some constraints. > > IIRC, it was the algorithm that was present before I rewrot

Re: tie-configuration question

2005-09-04 Thread Henrik Frisk
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.~ \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration = > > #'((0 . -1) (2 . 1)) > > I don't understand the problem: if I change the 2 to 4, the tie moves > up (2.7.8 cvs). > Well it doesn't in 2.7.7, and since I can't use 2.7.8 because of

Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

2005-09-04 Thread stk
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > You are mixing up Unicode with one of its possible representations, > UTF-8. A Unicode character is a number between 0x0 and 0x10; > UTF-8 represents such code points as multi-byte sequences of varying > length, where the range 0x00-0x7F is identic