Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

2006-01-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 14-Jan-06, at 1:40 AM, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: so the tweaks are dumped to bookfoo-scorebar-pagelayout.ly Also I thought this morning when I woke up that there should be a user definable function fo

force distance between bars for chord only staff

2006-01-15 Thread freddy
Hi, I'm trying use 2.6.x to produce jazz staff without the melody staff. My problem is I would like to get 4 measure per line with the same distance between bars. It looks lilypond affects different distances on each measure depending on the number of chords per measure, and finaly the staff

Suddenly lyrics aren't with the right notes

2006-01-15 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Below is excerpt from a triple choir piece. I took it out trying to find what I've done wrong to have the lyricmode skip some notes but I don't see my error. winxp the word 'meek' is attached properly but then the next notes are without words so strong and dis- graced are attached late. I'm no

scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Lilypond folks, I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks! Robert _

RE: alternate time sigs

2006-01-15 Thread Fairchild
David - See #9 at http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/lichtmann/files/studies/russianetudes.pdf - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bobroff Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:45 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subj

Re: Music function arguments

2006-01-15 Thread Trevor Bača
On 1/14/06, Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor - > > Interesting thread. Lily seems to be transitioning from development to > productization with bug reports drifting from "it doesn't work" to "maybe > foo would be better." Congraduations (sic). > > Thanks. > > - Bruce

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Ray wrote: I have another question now, which hopefully will have an easier answer. Currently, my melody and lyrics match up nicely and I'm producing a MIDI file. However, the PDF has unoptimal line breaks and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix that: Hi Ray, Have you tried: http://www.lil

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have another question now, which hopefully will have an easier answer. Currently, my melody and lyrics match up nicely and I'm producing a MIDI file. However, the PDF has unoptimal line breaks and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix that: I hope you have

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread David Rogers
On 15-Jan-2006, at 8:45 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi Lilypond folks, I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guidance is appreciated. OK

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread Nicholas Bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15 Jan 2006, at 4:45 pm, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Hi Lilypond folks, I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing t

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2006-01-15 um 19:46 schrieb David Rogers: I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guidance is appreciated. OK, so you want to transpose t

Re: Lyric Bugs??

2006-01-15 Thread Trent Johnston
I've attached a proper example showing this problem. The .ps/.pdf file produce there shows dots and other artifacts mixed with the lyrics.   I've tried both Windows and Linux versions of 2.7.27 both outputs display this problem.   Any help appreciated.   Trent Good Afternnon again,  

Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

2006-01-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: Also I thought this morning when I woke up that there should be a user definable function for making the tweak file names, so that the user could put the generated files in some particular directory for instance. (pagelayout-tweak-filename book-id score-id) => a pathname s

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Ray
> Yes, I've poured through the documentation, but it's very opaque and there's not much explanation of line breaks. For example, the section link kindly posted earlier tells me that yes, indeed, line breaks are possible...but I've not a clue about where to place the \break...in the notes? In

RE: Three Questions

2006-01-15 Thread Nahum Wengrov
To: 'Mats Bengtsson' Cc: 'Lilypond Mailing List' Subject: RE: Three Questions >>>Read Section "8.3.2 Hiding staves" and don't forget about the >>>remove-first option. Lyrics work this way by default. The example doesn't show me how and where to use the following line: \override Score.Remove

again: PDF size

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Nobody answered to my mail from Wednesday (Jan 11), so maybe I am the only one who has this problem? I wrote: -- I have noticed that the size of the pdfs produced by lily 2.7.27 on (windows xp) is much bigger than in previous versions. I have tested the same file unchanged with 2.7.18 Win

Lyric Bugs??

2006-01-15 Thread Trent Johnston
Good Afternnon again,   I'm currently playing around with lyrics trying to get them stay within the barline. I am doing this because sometimes a word or syllable will end up hanging outside the right hand side of a score (still under a note but because the length of the syllable it can someti

Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Ray
First, a huge thank you to the people who took the time to respond to my earlier post a few weeks ago. I am still working through some issues but got a better sense of how the "score" section works thanks to your generous help. I have another question now, which hopefully will have an easier answ

Re: Suddenly lyrics aren't with the right notes

2006-01-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 15 January 2006 13.34, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote: > Below is excerpt from a triple choir piece. I took it out trying to > find what I've done wrong to have the lyricmode skip some notes but I > don't see my error. > winxp > the word 'meek' is attached properly but then the ne

Re: Still learning Lilypond's ropes

2006-01-15 Thread Gianluca D.
Alle 00:08, lunedì 16 gennaio 2006, Ray ha scritto: > Do I insert the "\break" into the notes (not shown)? Yes, you can put the \break instruction into the notes, but you should put it just after a barline, or, which is the same, between two measures- otherwise, lilypond will ignore your comm

Re: Suddenly lyrics aren't with the right notes

2006-01-15 Thread Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence
Shouldn't there be some kind of heads up from the program when something doesn't make sense like this? It tells me all the time that I don't make sense about other bits and pieces why not this? Jay Erik Sandberg wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2006 13.34, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:

A big Thank You

2006-01-15 Thread Nahum Wengrov
I'd like to thank everyone in this list who gave me suggestions, and especially Matts Bengtsson )I hope I spell your name correctly). I've been able to solve all three of my problems, According to your suggestions. Hopefully the Piratical Ballad, also known as "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of Rum,"

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

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Besides the several editors commonly used by LilyPond people mentioned on this list there are several nice shareware editors which really are text editors like EditPad. "Several" nice text editors for Windows? Can you name some of the others

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

2006-01-15 Thread stk
Paul Scott wrote: > Besides the several editors commonly used by LilyPond people mentioned > on this list there are several nice shareware editors which really are > text editors like EditPad. "Several" nice text editors for Windows? Can you name some of the others? Thanks. -- Tom __

Re: scanning music and transposing

2006-01-15 Thread David Rogers
On 15-Jan-2006, at 12:06 PM, fiëé visuëlle wrote: Am 2006-01-15 um 19:46 schrieb David Rogers: I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guid