Re: midi don't ties...

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
Alexandre Reche e Silva wrote: > PS: I'm an old newbie in Lily and would like to know > whether is a kind of template to orchestral music > (woods, brasses, percussions, strings)? I have some templates for scores for marching band. (which have many of the same properties as orchestral scores.) The

Slur adjusting

2005-09-20 Thread Anna Choma
Hello, I write a piece of Wagner, where there is many many slurs. To make them look better (without collision with staff lines, accidentals, other slurs and ties, to make them stick to notes) I use such predefinitions: \override Slur #'extra-offset... \override Slur #'height-limit... \override Sl

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

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
> > 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 any 2.6 or 2.7 packages for Debian. > > So, if I understand correctly, at the moment the only way to get 2.6 o

Vertical spacing tweaks.

2005-09-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Fairchild wrote: Not from me, but there have been many postings from individuals struggling with page layout vertical springs. Suggest you ask the user list, with a short description of the feature. (Or maybe "anti-feature" :-) ) I could implement the following: - add a property line-b

templates (WAS Re: midi don't ties...)

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
you might try the lilypond snippet repository: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ josiah On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:30 +0200, Peter Mogensen wrote: > Alexandre Reche e Silva wrote: > > PS: I'm an old newbie in Lily and would like to know > > whether is a kind of template to orchestral music > > (woods, brass

Re: midi don't ties...

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Alexandre Reche e Silva wrote: 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? Which LilyPond version? I tried a si

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
D Josiah Boothby wrote: > you might try the lilypond snippet repository: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ Thanks... I was wondering. Since there's many ways to do things in Lilypond, there's also many ways to do them wrong. Are there some kind of review process when I add to the repository? Peter ___

Re: midi don't ties...

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Peter Mogensen wrote: Alexandre Reche e Silva wrote: PS: I'm an old newbie in Lily and would like to know whether is a kind of template to orchestral music (woods, brasses, percussions, strings)? I have some templates for scores for marching band. (which have many of the same properties as

Re: Slur adjusting

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The slur support has been reimplemented in version 2.6 and further improved in the latest development versions, 2.7.9 or later. Before you invest too much time on tweaking the output of version 2.4, you may want to try a newer version. Note also that you cannot expect the tweaks you do for version

Re: Missing file - " piece.ly"

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What do you expect the file to contain? Where did you find a reference to it? /Mats alanvw wrote: 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 Data

Re: Error in FC4

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not search the mailing list archives? If you search in the archives for bug-lilypond for "fedora libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.so", you should find some relevant information. /Mats Timothy W. Duncan wrote: Hello, I just installed Lilypond on Fedora Core 4. Ran the test.ly file and got t

Harp Pedals - "programming error" message

2005-09-20 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
When I insert such a long markup: -- _\markup { \large \bold {C} \natural \bold {D} \flat \bold {E} \sharp \bold {F} \flat \bold {G} \natural \bold {A} \flat \bold {B} \sharp} -- I got the following message (but the score compiles fine

Re: lilypond and Tablatures

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you know that you can click on every example in the on-line documentation, to see the corresponding LilyPond code. For example, the second example in Section "7.5.2 Tablatures basic" seems very similar to what you want to do, right? I modified your example a bit and included only the musi

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

2005-09-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 19 September 2005 21.53, Roland Goretzki wrote: > 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 Kroe

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
Peter Mogensen wrote: > Thanks... I was wondering. Since there's many ways to do things in > Lilypond, there's also many ways to do them wrong. > Are there some kind of review process when I add to the repository? Anyway... He're an example (I think there's no copyright problems with this one): h

Viewing Postscript Files in Windows..

2005-09-20 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi All,   A quick update on viewing postscript files in windows... especially gsview...   Thanks to the response by Peter Mongensen I was able to view the postscript file he created... this was created with   Linux.Debian Sarge+DeMuDiLilypond 2.4.5tetex-bin  2.0.2-30gs 8.01

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
Trent Johnston wrote: > It's been on the list for a while... the windows native version produces a > postscript file that can't be viewed for some reason... > > The postscript files produced with the linux version of Lilypond can be > viewed... > > Obviously it's bug with Lilypond and not with th

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Trent Johnston
Thanks for that Peter... It's been on the list for a while... the windows native version produces a postscript file that can't be viewed for some reason... The postscript files produced with the linux version of Lilypond can be viewed... Obviously it's bug with Lilypond and not with the windows

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Peter, The postscript file you have with your ly file on the website.. was that produced with a linux or "windows native" or "windows cgwin" version of lilypond?? This is quite off topic to what you originally sent the email for... but windows users have had trouble opening postscript files u

Re: Viewing Postscript Files in Windows..

2005-09-20 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 13.38, Trent Johnston wrote: > Hi All, > > A quick update on viewing postscript files in windows... especially > gsview... > > Thanks to the response by Peter Mongensen I was able to view the postscript > file he created... this was created with > > Linux. > Debian Sarg

RE: Vertical spacing tweaks.

2005-09-20 Thread Fairchild
Han-Wen - What I proposed is to implement individual line spacing control with\breakSpace #n to force n staff spaces between lines, and \pageBreakSpace #n to force n staff spaces at the bottom of a page. Spacing following normal breaks or those forced with \break or \pageBreak would be calculated

Re: Vertical spacing tweaks.

2005-09-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Fairchild wrote: Han-Wen - What I proposed is to implement individual line spacing control with\breakSpace #n to force n staff spaces between lines, and \pageBreakSpace #n to force n staff spaces at the bottom of a page. Spacing following normal breaks or those forced with \break or \pageBreak

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
Peter Mogensen wrote: > > As I said, it's not perfect. When I look at the source, I can think of > the following problem/hacks: > > * Ties are not continued into second endings oh ... one thing more... * How do I force page-breaks between each \score in a \book ?

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Great that you want to contribute! Some comments: - Citing the introductory text of the LSR: "LSR is a place where people can contribute there creative ideas ...these ideas are represented by snippets of Lilypond sources—small examples, short and to the point, that show a particular featur

Re: templates

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It's described in the manual for version 2.6 and in several emails in the mailing list archives. /Mats Peter Mogensen wrote: Peter Mogensen wrote: As I said, it's not perfect. When I look at the source, I can think of the following problem/hacks: * Ties are not continued into second endin

Re: Viewing Postscript Files in Windows..

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you read earlier emails on this thread, you will notice that it doesn't help to upgrade to ghostscript >=8.15 in Windows. Also, for files produced by LilyPond 2.6 or newer, it doesn't help if it was produced in Linux or Windows, I get the same error message from GSView anyway. /Mats Erik

pdf pickle

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi all, I have a lily file that with png output I ended up with two documents. however the pdf ouput gives me a multipage pdf which I don't want how do I force the ps2pdf output to be two documents? thanks Aaron __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Y

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

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin Nowaczyk
I've cut out a lot of the extra stuff from my file. I'm guessing nobody looked at it. I tried to do some more examination and found that 2 things need to be present to get the error. The \time 2/4 statement has to be present AND more than 2 measures in the nextguitar section need to be present.

metric modulation problem

2005-09-20 Thread libero . mureddu3
(Sorry if this message was already sent, I had problems with the mail) 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

alignment of text in TextSpanner

2005-09-20 Thread libero . mureddu3
Hi, I'm modifying the "line-arrows.ly" example of the regression test in order to create some indications in a cello piece. I've modified the edge-text property in that way: \relative c'' { \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("s.p." . "ord.") \override TextSpanner #'bound-padding = #1.0 \

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

2005-09-20 Thread Fairchild
Kevin - I looked at it. Your truncated file compiles without error in version 2.4.6. The output looks strange, attached. - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Nowaczyk Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12

Re: pdf pickle

2005-09-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The only method I know of to get two output PDF files from one and the same .ly file is to include two \book{...} blocks in the .ly file. Each \book{...} will result in one separate output file. Example \version "2.6.0" \book{ % The score of the first output file \score{ \relative c'{c d e f |

Autopackage for bash

2005-09-20 Thread Chen Ming Tien
In July, I tried installing Lilypond 2.6.0, but the autopackage did not work. I am running GNU bash 1.14.7(1) under Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.14. I recently tried again with 2.7.4 and got the same error messages: === ./lilyp

subject headers (WAS Re: templates)

2005-09-20 Thread D Josiah Boothby
As a small note, and a little off topic, more users will benefit more from these discussions if the subject tag indicates what is being discussed. Josiah On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:37 +0200, Peter Mogensen wrote: > Trent Johnston wrote: > > It's been on the list for a while... the windows native v

Re: Autopackage for bash

2005-09-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Chen Ming Tien writes: > In July, I tried installing Lilypond 2.6.0, but the autopackage did not > work. I am running GNU bash 1.14.7(1) under Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.14. > As far as I know, [[ ]] is ksh syntax, not bash syntax. This feature was added to bash-2.02, in 1998. Please upgrade your ba

Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

2005-09-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec writes: > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/22512. Well, the > > "script" calls "lilypond filename". > > Maybe it should call $(which lilypond) filename. > > > Why doesn't it happen already at the installation time then? > > Because I

Ties in second endings

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Mogensen
Mats Bengtsson wrote: * Ties are not continued into second endings >>> >>> The standard trick is to add a tie from an invisible note. You can >>> find several examples in the mailing list archives. >> >> I did that. >> But this is also one of the examples where the "hack" doesn't play well >>

Partcombine music

2005-09-20 Thread Anna Choma
Hello, I write an orchestra piece and have some problem with partcombine formatting. 1) I need to have some control over partcombine setting. It's done automaticcaly (sometimes stems and slurs are written in two oposite directions and there are two voices, sometimes the two voices are linked into

Re: Slur adjusting

2005-09-20 Thread Anna Choma
Thank you very much. I've just installed version 2.6.3 and many slurs look a little better. But still they need some predefinitions, so I didn't remove commands \override. They work still. Best regards, Anna Choma Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The slur support has been reimplemented in version 2.6 and

Grid Printing

2005-09-20 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
May be it can be useful to have the option of printing a grid, ideally in light gray with a spacing of 1 staff-space, to deal with paddings and extra-offset's in a preliminary print-out. That is to minimize the guesswork when shifting object.. How that can be done? Best Regards, Mehmet Okonsar, pia