Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06.28, Richard Schoeller wrote: > I'd like to weigh in on this one. > > My experience is totally contrary to the way this discussion has gone. > The actual entry and correction of the music is a trivial small part of > the time I spend working with Lilypond. I spend m

modern-cautionary

2006-02-15 Thread Art Hixson
I'm not getting a cautionary naturalization on the lower A - and it sure would be nice to have! In other instances where the notes are in the same octave it works fine. #(set-accidental-style 'modern-cautionary) f''4 g''8 aes''8 a'4 d''4 Running XP and version 2.6.4-5 Arthur -- No virus

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Darius Blasband
Hello Richard, As a different data point you can compare to to explain the kind of performance (or lack thereof) you get: I produce a 70 pages conductor's score in less than half an hour (and this is a *very* conservative estimate) on a two years old PC. True, it has 2GB of memory, but other t

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF. Sounds very strange. However, if ps->pdf conversion does take forever, then you can always use the --ps switch to lilypond (which s

Re: modern-cautionary

2006-02-15 Thread Frédéric Bron
Works fine with 2.6.5 on Windows. Fred > I'm not getting a cautionary naturalization on the lower A - and it > sure would be nice to have! In other instances where the notes are in > the same octave it works fine. > > #(set-accidental-style 'modern-cautionary) > f''4 g''8 aes''8 a'4 d''4 > > R

Re: modern-cautionary

2006-02-15 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Art! At least for WinXP v2.7.33-3 it works fine using \score { \new Staff { #(set-accidental-style 'modern-cautionary) f''4 g''8 aes''8 a'4 d''4 } } If there is no other reason to neglect I would recommend to update. Kind regards, Thies Albrecht ___

Re: white text on black background

2006-02-15 Thread Marius Amado Alves
While waiting for a knowledgeable reply on this list, which never came, I managed to find a solution. The helpful volunteers who answer questions on this mailing list are happy that you managed to find a solution. It took a fair amount of experimenting to get it right, principally given the

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF. Sounds very strange. However, if ps->pdf conversion does take forever, then you can always use the --ps

volta brackets not 'closing'

2006-02-15 Thread Stuart Lowe
Folks, In the first part of a tune I'm doing, I want to have a repeat volta (2) with 2 alternatives. Like: \repeat volta 2 { \grg f4. _\markup { transition } ( f4. ) \hdblg g4. ( g4. ) \dblA A4. ( A4. ) f8 e8 f8 \dbld d4 e8 \break \grg f4. ( f4. ) \hdblg g4. ( g4. ) e8 A8 e8 A8 f

Re: symphonic, continuos movements, percussion, midi

2006-02-15 Thread alexandre reche e silva
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > > Quoting alexandre reche e silva yahoo.com.br>: > > > I still need help because of a strange side effect: using /mark to > > "titling" adds a empty staff at the top of the others?!?! (This is really > > embarrassing. Imagine. An uninvited blank top staff...

Re: white text on black background

2006-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... All that the manual (version 2.6.6) says about \filled-box is: \filled-box xext (pair of numbers) yext (pair of numbers) blot (number) Draw a box with rounded corners of dimensions xext and yext. I suggest completing this as follows. \fill

impossible layout

2006-02-15 Thread David Bobroff
I'm getting some odd results. I'm setting a medium sized score (arrangement of "Mars" from "The Planets" for large brass ensemble). When processing the score at some font sizes I get impossible output. Impossible in that LilyPond tries to put a system break on a page. The result is that I see jus

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I produce a 70 pages conductor's score in less than half an hour (and this is a *very* conservative estimate) on a two years old PC. True, it has 2GB of memory, but other than that, it is to be considered a fairly old beast by today's standards. ... And it takes forever on my 700Mhz PII! So,

Re: volta brackets not 'closing'

2006-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Stuart Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Folks, In the first part of a tune I'm doing, I want to have a repeat volta (2) with 2 alternatives. Like: \repeat volta 2 { \grg f4. _\markup { transition } ( f4. ) \hdblg g4. ( g4. ) \dblA A4. ( A4. ) f8 e8 f8 \dbld d4 e8 \break \grg f4. ( f4.

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > >> BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the > >> biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF. > > > > Sounds very strange. However, if ps->pdf conversion does take forev

Re: white text on black background

2006-02-15 Thread Graham Percival
On 15-Feb-06, at 11:36 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: \filled-box xext (pair of numbers) yext (pair of numbers) blot (number) Draw a box with rounded corners of dimensions xext and yext. I'd rather propose to say something like: \filled-box xext

Re: impossible layout

2006-02-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Bobroff wrote: I'm getting some odd results. I'm setting a medium sized score (arrangement of "Mars" from "The Planets" for large brass ensemble). When processing the score at some font sizes I get impossible output. Impossible in that LilyPond tries to put a system break on a page. The r

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Schoeller
Josiah, You got to this response before I could. If the problem is swap thrashing, then having 8x the memory to handle a score that is 3x the pages should be plenty. I had already disabled point-and-click. It helped. The idea of using the PS output for proofing and going to PDF only when I hav

Re: Fonts for Dynamics messed up during printing?

2006-02-15 Thread Edwin Vane
Yeah, I found an earlier post to this group linked through the web talking about Preview not handling embedded fonts very well. I resorted to using Aacrobat and it seems to work fine. On a side note, I could only get the error to manifest when printed on certain printers. It's quite possible view