Re: Still \char # problem..

2005-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People using SToccata.TTF or other non-unicode symbol fonts would find it helpful to be able to specify the character they want using \char #137 for example. Beyond that, \char is an existing feature; if its behaviour were consistent with LilyPond's switch to utf-8, then

new apps?

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi I just installed the latest dev of lilypond and with tab complete I notice some programs I hadn't seen before. lilypond lilypond-invoke-editor lilypond-2.7.10 lilypond-invoke-editor-2.7.10 lilypond-bin-2.7.10 lilypond-invoke-editor-bin

Mysterious octave shift

2005-09-19 Thread Rene Tschirley
Dear lilypond experts, I'm very sorry to bother you, but even after carefully reading the documentation and some of the list's archives, I still have no clue. During my very first steps using lilypond for my personal collection of songs, I found some odd behaviour. I'm using embedded lilypond

Re: Mysterious octave shift

2005-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you read the following? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Octave-entry.html#Octave-entry It's certainly a feature! /Mats Rene Tschirley wrote: Dear lilypond experts, I'm very sorry to bother you, but even after carefully reading the documentation and some

graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, I am trying to add lilypond output into scribus, my first choice would have been scribus, but scribus doesn't like lilypond svgs? My next choice is png but scribus complains they are to low resolution. so: 1. could someone else try an svg from lilypond and see if it works for them in scr

Ghostscript/GSview problems

2005-09-19 Thread Ray Brohinsky
It's probably me. I've looked in the archives and haven't found any mention of this problem, but when I compile the sample text given when you first run lilypond (that single scale of quarternotes), I can view the resulting pdf file using adobe acrobat without problems. But when I use GS View to

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 September 2005 16.21, Aaron Mehl wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to add lilypond output into scribus, my > first choice would have been scribus, but scribus > doesn't like lilypond svgs? I don't fully understand what you want, but if it's just that you need to import lilypond's outp

Re: calculating durations

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew M. Munz
Erik, Thanks for the suggestions. I will take a look at midi2ly.py. Since the source format has features that I do not believe are found in midi, there would likely be data loss in the case where I convert to midi first. - Matt On Sep 16, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

Re: calculating durations

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew M. Munz
Erik & Han-Wen, I'm not sure that either example does precisely what I need. The algorithm I want should convert c3 into c2. and c7 into c1 tied to c2. in the next bar. The source format describes notes in terms of absolute durations, and not in terms of traditional notation. For som

Missing file - " piece.ly"

2005-09-19 Thread alanvw
Could someone tell me how or where I can access "piece.ly" file. Thank you, Alan Albury-Ward -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005 ___ li

2 quick questions from a music teacher

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Thibeault
Hello and thanks for such a fantastic program. I am a music teacher with experience with programs like Sibelius. I am just learning Lilypond in hopes of using it with the students I teach at the School of the Arts in San Francisco. I really enjoy Lilypond. I do have two quick questions that

lilypond and Tablatures

2005-09-19 Thread laurent ducos
Hi i'm a french user of lilypond (my english is bad, sorry). I would like that the partition is presented in this manner Partition with two voice (i arrived there) an below the tablature of the \Melodie voice (in spite of my research in documentation I do not arrive there ) Thanks to help me -

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Shaffer
You can use lilypond --png -dresolution=110 to get a 110DPI png image (Lilypond manual, section 5.2). Just adjust the resolution value accordingly. -- Kris Shaffer graduate student in music theory, Yale University co-editor-in-chief for music theory, AmSteg.org www.shaffermusic.com

metric modulation problem

2005-09-19 Thread libero . mureddu3
Hi, I am trying to put a metric modulation mark, but I cannot find a way to achieve it: so far I have: {a1 \mark \markup { \tiny \note #"8" #1 "=" \tiny \note #"8" #1 } a1} but I would like to have the bracket and the number of a tuplet above the first eight symbol, to show that the previous eigh

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Daniel Johnson
Aaron Mehl wrote: 1. could someone else try an svg from lilypond and see if it works for them in scribus? If not this might be a bug. 2. is there a way to pass resolution parameters to the backend that is making the png files? Two things I recently found out about SVG: 1. Since every imple

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
That's it thanks Aaron --- Kris Shaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use > > lilypond --png -dresolution=110 > > to get a 110DPI png image (Lilypond manual, section > 5.2). Just adjust the > resolution value accordingly. > > -- > Kris Shaffer > graduate student in music theor

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
Well I was hoping to get an svg that would import, then I could use it also in xml and xhtml etc. but inkscape does open the svg output. The scribus developers said that they tested my svg file and it was the problem. however I didn't check one without lyrics maybe that is the issue. Aaron ---

version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-19 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi at all, during the last month's I wasn't able to work with lilypond. Now I think it would be better to update or new install 2.6.x or higher. But at lilypond.org I cannot see how to do so. :-( In the past it was Pedro Kroegers website, which contained the version I could install on my machine

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-19 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Unless you're interested in installing from source, which shouldn't be a problem if you're using the ghostscript packages from Sid, by far the easiest thing you can do is install with autopackage. It works, quite nicely. You can install it to your home directory. Unfortunately, there are not yet

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Aaron Mehl wrote: The scribus developers said that they tested my svg file and it was the problem. can you be more specific? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Daniel Johnson wrote: 2. There is no SVG standard for multi-page documents, so multi-page Actually, there is, but it's in the working draft of SVG 1.2. Inkscape doesn't support 1.1 fully last time we looked, so they haven't started on doing SVG 1.2 yet. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: graphics gripe

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
Yes I can now that I read erik's email, The lilypond file in scribus looked like a few files mashed together, which I understand now is because the svg doesn't support mutiple pages. they ran it through a parser and got errors, which I assume had to do with the multiple page issue. I tried howev

"Wrong type argument in position 1" error and other questions

2005-09-19 Thread Kevin Nowaczyk
I've been checking out lilypond for a few days and really like what it can do. I've come upon a strange error that I can not figure out. Line 95 is commented out. By removing the comment I get the following when running lilypond --pdf ./black_hole.ly Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculati

midi don't ties...

2005-09-19 Thread Alexandre Reche e Silva
Peace & Health in Jesus Christ I've noticed that the ties between same notes do not generate the equivalent sound in the midi file, e.g., two quarters notes tied sounds as two quarters indeed (and not as one half note). Why? Shalon, a r s PS: I'm an old newbie in Lily and would like to know whet

Re: Ghostscript/GSview problems

2005-09-19 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Worth noting: I had the problem with 2.6.3 stable, so I downloaded the most recent experimental, and had the same problem. That's when I went looking for other versions of gsview. When I say native windows, I mean using the pango library, not using cygwin. rayOn 9/19/05, Ray Brohinsky <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Ghostscript/GSview problems

2005-09-19 Thread Trent J
Had the same problem here... I sent an email to lilypond-devel about this so did Mats Bengtsson. I think this is a gsview problem not a lilypond problem as the .ps file is readable in another PS viewer program... a commercial one.. can't remember it's exact name but the program was unable to watch

Re: version 2.6.x for debian (unstable or sarge)?

2005-09-19 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Josiah, Thanks for Your help! :) > Unless you're interested in installing from source, which shouldn't be a > problem if you're using the ghostscript packages from Sid, by far the > easiest thing you can do is install with autopackage. It works, quite > nicely. You can install i

Error in FC4

2005-09-19 Thread Timothy W. Duncan
Hello, I just installed Lilypond on Fedora Core 4. Ran the test.ly file and got the following error message: GNU LilyPond 2.6.3 /usr/share/guile/1.6/srfi/srfi-13.scm:159:1: In procedure dynamic-link in expression (load-extension "libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1" "scm_init_srfi_13"): /usr/share/guil