Re: Running midi2ly.py

2005-11-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
george writes: > I'm using lilypond-2.7.12-1 > on Windows XP Version 2.6.4-5 is the first package for windows that has a midi2ly that's known to work. > > Mats Bengtsson wrote: > >> You will get much more useful help from the mailing list if you >> tell which LilyPond version you use and on whi

Re: lyrics format

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want a syllable (in your case "a sequence of words combine into a syllable") left aligned under a note instead of centered, you can insert a \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT just before the syllable. Of course, if you want to do it often, you probably want to define a

Re:Running midi2ly.py

2005-11-10 Thread Martial
With window for the moment use version 2.6.4 for midi2ly and version 2.12.7 for output a good midi file with lilypond -- Martial ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Polyphony and multiple voice contexts

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Markian Hlynka wrote: ... I've only been working with lilypond for a week! But, a number of my questions on vocal scores have gone unanswered. This seems to indicate to me that the manual need some revision, as a lot of people do seem to be doing vocal work! I'd be happy to help with the man

Re: Polyphony and multiple voice contexts

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please read in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Explicitly-instantiating-voices.html#Explicitly-instantiating-voices on exactly what the <<{...} \\ {...} >> feature does. Note that the LilyPond concept of Voice contexts is intended to correspond exactly to the musi

Re: making sense of templates in manual

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Markian Hlynka wrote: Ok, I'm looking at templates in the manual, 3.2.2, and 3.2.3. rather than reprint, you can see it here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Piano-templates.html#Piano-templates The first one (3.2.2) makes perfect sense to me: it has \scor

Re: polyphonic music with tablature

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The <<{...} \\ {...} >> feature is limited to only handle ordinary music voices, please read in "6.6.2 Explicitly instantiating voices" to understand exactly what it does. I guess the simplest solution is to do something like upperVoice = { \time 4/4 \key c \major f'4\1 c'8\2 ... } lowerVoic

Re: \score, \midi, etc.

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would recommend to move your \time command into (at least) one of the Staff contexts. Then you can do \score{ \context ChoirStaff << \context Staff = bari << \time 4/4 \clef bass ... >> ... >> } Note that the syntax for the \score{...} block is \score{ } and th

Re: Finding note coordinates in output

2005-11-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Chris Snyder wrote: Is there a way to find out what the coordinates are of notes in scores generated by Lilypond? For instance, is there a way to get the data needed to generate an image map to go with a PNG file and allow notes to be clicked on? Thanks in advance. Yes, that is possible. Gett

Re: Question about generating sakura-sakura.ly

2005-11-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bob Koon wrote: It seems that the program will access msgothic.ttc when there is some non-ascii character. Any idea to fix it? Because in fact I am a chinese user and hope that the lilypond support the Chinese lyrics. You have to get hold of a Chinese .TTF or .OTF file, and select that, using

Re: 2 conversion problems 2.4.6->2.6.3

2005-11-10 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 10 Nov 2005 06:47:34 GMT, Raphael Manfredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.lilypond.users::For Linux: "gucharmap"Yes, but since lilypond does not understand the Unicode escape syntax (e.g. \u2014 for EM DASH) produced by gucharmap, this is rather useless.The

Re: 4-voice, 3-staff score with 2 lines of lyrics

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Popular question today! See my answer to basically the same question in http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg18614.html /Mats CSÉCSY László wrote: Hi Lilypond people, I have been trying this stuff to render well since days, digging deeper and deeper into the docs, but with

Re: 2 conversion problems 2.4.6->2.6.3

2005-11-10 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > There should be a way for lilypond to accept Unicode escape sequences. > > > There is, albeit a bit verbose: > > #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x2014)) > Thanks; I was looking for this in the manual but couldn't find it. Is it there? Also, do you know why the space after the colo

Re: polyphonic music with tablature

2005-11-10 Thread Art
Thanks Matt, That solution works perfectly. Art ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: The frust is growing up ... Was: Re: giving up frustrated ... :-(

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Sorry for taking so long. First of all, I can tell you that the latest autopackage installer, version 2.6.4.3 from the Downloads page at lilypond.org works excellently on Debian stable. If you want to compile it yourself, you can use standard versions of all tools, except that you need to downloa

Re: New and bug-free 2.6.4-4 for Windows

2005-11-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Mats Bengtsson writes: ... but now lilypond.exe doesn't seem to do anything useful. How odd. I can't imaging changing anything except for fixing argv0 My fault, I had a .ly file that only produced a .midi output and kept looking for .ps and .pdf. I

New to the list, question about lilypond-book

2005-11-10 Thread Vaylor Trucks
First of all, let me say that I am super impressed with LilyPond. Up to this point I have been scrimping by with a patchwork of Finale Notepad, Cakewalk, and hand-drawn ugliness. Discovering LilyPond has been a real treat. I hope this is an easy one. I searched the archives but didn't see a

Re: New to the list, question about lilypond-book

2005-11-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Vaylor Trucks wrote: First of all, let me say that I am super impressed with LilyPond. Up to this point I have been scrimping by with a patchwork of Finale Notepad, Cakewalk, and hand-drawn ugliness. Discovering LilyPond has been a real treat. thanks! So, is there something I can change in

Re: [OT] was: Re: lilypond fonts and inkscape

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11.09, Sean Reed wrote: > btw: > > this program (inkscape) looks excitingly promising as an alternative > to illustrator, but unfortunately opening .ps files appears to still > only be a working function on linux and not yet on osx! I've been playing with inkscape too

Re: New to the list, question about lilypond-book

2005-11-10 Thread Vaylor Trucks
I'm very sorry if this is covered in the manual or somewhere online, but can someone explain to me how to implement the patch? Vaylor From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try applying the patch attached. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen __

Problems Running lilypond First Time

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Carroll
I'm trying to run for the first time on a SuSE 9.0 Linux installation with 2.6.8: (process:23846): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (process:23846): CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed ** ERROR