Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-06 Thread stk
Hans Forbrich wrote: > I see value in the discussion, but also a serious distraction for the > primary developers. Is it worth taking this offline? Graham Percival wrote: > You want to have an offline private email discussion group? Count me > in! :) "Offline" ? If this means turning off my

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 17

2006-01-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> My input *is* informative and is based on years of professional > experience and expertise. Linda, we believe you. > I would also state that development efforts are helped tremendously > if a specialist in user interface design evaluates development every > step of the way. The most successfu

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
S. L. Raymond writes: > Any Debian/Ubuntu gurus care to tell me what steps to take to manually > upgrade? You can install a 2.6 autpackage, or replace breezy with dapper in /etc/apt/sources.list and see what happens. IWBN to have a success report on that. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PRO

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Riccardo Cohen
A question about that : is it possible to make a program that links with lilypond ? , in that case, it it quite easy for me to make a GUI with an editor, a "build" button and a pdf launcher (on mac&win&linux with wxWidgets). I do not like to launch external programs, but if there is no lilypond l

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Scott
Riccardo Cohen wrote: A question about that : is it possible to make a program that links with lilypond ? , in that case, it it quite easy for me to make a GUI with an editor, a "build" button and a pdf launcher (on mac&win&linux with wxWidgets). I do not like to launch external programs, but

Positioning of tremolo marks

2006-01-06 Thread liang seng
Hi, I'm using the Win98 version of Lilypond 2.7.27. I have some questions regarding the tweaking of tremolo marks. 1. How do I move the vertical position of the tremolo mark? Specifically, I would like to move the mark a little closer to the beam. I think it is controlled by StemTremolo and the

Re: Your query about diagram of a .ly file

2006-01-06 Thread Bertalan Fodor
If you use templates you really should make them as templates for jEdit-LilyPondTool's Document Setup Wizard template. This feature is quite well documented I think. That way you can have your templates automatically set up for time/key etc. Then, you can contribute your templates to LilyPondTo

Re: A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ray! And a happy new year to you too! I found a similar problem with understanding when and how tweaking properties can be used, so I know what you mean. I've got no excuse: the manual even tells you what to look up, how and in which order, but

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jan 2006, at 9:31 pm, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Keep in mind that every 10 minutes we save you on doing system administration, typically takes us 8 hours of debugging, fiddling with cross-compilers and testing. Add to that that Windows by far

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-01-06 um 09:43 schrieb Riccardo Cohen: A question about that : is it possible to make a program that links with lilypond ? , in that case, it it quite easy for me to make a GUI with an editor, a "build" button and a pdf launcher (on mac&win&linux with wxWidgets). I do not like to l

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-06 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > > And . . . also . . . : Blank spaces at the > > beginning or end of double-quoted strings are trimmed. > > That's true. To get spaces between non-space \markup items you can write > things like > > \markup { "foo" \hspace #10 "bar" } > Yes, I knew about the "\hspace" command,

Re: User Experience Engineering

2006-01-06 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Jan 2006, at 10:57 am, fiëé visuëlle wrote: There's already LilyPad for MacOS X (http://edbaskerville.com/software/lilypad/), LilyPond's own simple GUI (at least on MacOS X) and jEdit's LilyPond mode (http://lily4jedit.sourceforge.net/). An

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Hi, LilyPond 2.6 is available on the backports repository. Add this line in your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse There's a non-solved-but-known-bug on the lily package. You need to install tetex-bin to avoid

Re: LilyPond localization

2006-01-06 Thread Pedro Kröger
Alexander Pankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've translated lilypond tutorial into Russian, how can I commit it? I think the best bet is to send and gziped patch Pedro ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: Positioning of tremolo marks

2006-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jan-06, at 1:34 AM, liang seng wrote: 2. Is it possible to make the tremolo marks slanted, as in the example in the manual? By clicking on an example in the manual, you should see the lilypond code used to generate it. Cheers, - Graham __

Re: A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 4-Jan-06, at 8:54 PM, Ray wrote: Furthermore, when any kind of bug appeared it was almost impossible to sleuth out...as there is almost no documentation (that I could find, anyway) dealing with the syntax or _general_ form of a .ly document. I don't see this as a failing per se, but perh

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Lambros Lambrou
Hi, I'm also using Ubuntu Breezy, but I'm using the x86_64 version, which tends to make things trickier to install (for example, I had considerable difficulty getting the autopackages to work). I don't recommend replacing "breezy" with "dapper", as Jan suggested. That is very much a "develo

LilyPond localization

2006-01-06 Thread Alexander Pankov
Hello! I've translated lilypond tutorial into Russian, how can I commit it? I've tried to send email, but no answer. Best regards, A. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: linewidth

2006-01-06 Thread gacl (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi, Thank you so much. This is how it looks now: \version "2.6.4" \book { \header { title = "Scales" } \score { \layout { raggedlast = ##t } { \set stringNumberOrientations = #'(down) \clef "G_8" \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'() 4 d4 4 f4 g4 4 b4 c'4 4 e'4 f'4 4 a'4 g'4 4 e'4 \brea

Re: A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-06 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Graham Percival: > On 4-Jan-06, at 8:54 PM, Ray wrote: > > Furthermore, when any kind of bug appeared it was almost impossible > > to sleuth out...as there is almost no documentation (that I could > > find, anyway) dealing with the syntax or _general_ form of a .ly > > document. > > Did you

Re: A simple diagram of a .ly file?

2006-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On 6-Jan-06, at 6:53 PM, Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Graham Percival: Did you read "chapter 4: putting it all together"? Section 4.2 is specifically aimed at solving this issue... this is an honest question, not a rhetorical one. If section 4.2 wasn't understandable, I should work on that. I

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread S L Raymond
after adding that line, I get the following error when running synaptic: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-backports/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such fi

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread D Josiah Boothby
There are two things that this reminds me of. Did you include the entire line, including the "deb" at the beginning? Did you run apt-get update (or the synaptic equivalent)? Josiah On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, S L Raymond wrote: after adding that line, I get the following error when running synaptic:

Re: Ubuntu Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
It seems that the repository I mentionned doesn't exist... Sorry about that. I guess you already had a look at Lambros Lambrou's message, and got working deb lines. Gauvain S L Raymond wrote: >after adding that line, I get the following error when running synaptic: > >W: Couldn't stat source pa