Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: > Robert Memering wrote: >> But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} >> (e.g. for "Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. >> This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music >> with text that looks like poor MS Word o

Re: lilypond-user Digest problems with special characters on 2.6

2005-10-29 Thread Martial
Re: problems with special characters on 2.6 Use an text editor who encode the characters in uft-8 : Scite: http://www.scintilla.org Notepad2 : http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ -- Martial ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: Re: I still can't use Chinese Title and Lyrics

2005-10-29 Thread 布滋道
I am very appreciate that lilypond can support TTC file.     John Wiedenhoeft wrote:> 布滋道 wrote:> >>*It's bother me for a long time.**The error log (xiao-haizi-guai-guai.log) is shown below.**But, I do have the font "SimSun" in c:\windows\fonts.*>>*What Can I do?*SimSun is a TrueType coll

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Christian Ebert wrote: * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for "Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music with text that looks like

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Christian Ebert wrote: Pango on MacOS X is quite restricted and I don't think giving up the TeX backend completely is the right way to go. It might be easier on other machines but I am not convinced yet that the text output doesn't suffer. As an elucidation: you should use fonts which are di

Re: Re: I still can't use Chinese Title and Lyrics

2005-10-29 Thread 布滋道
I found a tool named ttsdk possibily comes from MS. I had seperated SimSun.ttc into SimSun.ttf and NSimSun.ttf. Each word of lyrics in xiao-haizi-guai-guai.pdf become two vertical line.   John Wiedenhoeft wrote:> 布滋道 wrote:> >>*It's bother me for a long time.**The error log (xiao-haizi-guai

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, October 29, 2005: > Christian Ebert wrote: >> * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: >>> Robert Memering wrote: >>> But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for "Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurt

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Christian Ebert on Saturday, October 29, 2005: > * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, October 29, 2005: >> Christian Ebert wrote: >>> Besides, at least on MacOS 10.3.9, including other fonts isn't >>> trivial at all; at least I couldn't get it to work, and when I >>> asked here nobody answered that he

Re: Automatic line breaking in Lilypond

2005-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It may be that you explicitly have to tell LilyPond that both the linebreaking "music" and the real music should be in the same stave: \new Staff <<\repeat unfold 7 { s1 \noBreak s1 \noBreak s1 \noBreak s1 \break } the real music /Mats Quoting Alex Decker <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: doubling of time signature in 2.6.3 ?

2005-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Read the last lines of the section on Grace notes in the manual. /Mats Quoting "Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello- I've fiddled with this for an hour and copied it first directly from the manual (typed it in) then took and copied some from something I made work an

Lines between note heads?

2005-10-29 Thread Edwin Vane
Here's another LilyPond contortion question: Is it possible to make LilyPond draw lines between note heads? I have in mind a kind of short-hand notation to let musicians fill in the space between two notes as they see fit... Also, is it possible to get transparent backgrounds for the pdf output?

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-10-29 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users: :Raphael Manfredi writes: :> So, what's the way to type pure ASCII accentuated letters in lilypond? : :That's not supported. You'll have to find/write a recoding program :that translates into utf-8, if that's what you really wan

Re: Lines between note heads?

2005-10-29 Thread Edwin Vane
The glissandi were exactly what I was after. I wish I had thought about looking that up... Is it possible to contort glissandi to span two arbitrary notes instead of two adjacent ones? - Forwarded message from Edward Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am not sure precisely what you are after

Re: Lines between note heads?

2005-10-29 Thread Edward Neeman
--- Edwin Vane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The glissandi were exactly what I was after. I wish > I had thought about > looking that up... Is it possible to contort > glissandi to span two > arbitrary notes instead of two adjacent ones? I doubt it's possible directly, but it should be pretty ea

Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

2005-10-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Raphael Manfredi writes: > Something is wrong. Please attach a minimal, but full example of your .ly file. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ___