Re: time signature with note in denominator

2006-04-05 Thread Jos Smeets
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:18:09 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Following up on my previous post. I noticed that in the 2.6 > >documentation the following notation is used: > > > >\override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = > >#Text_interface::print > > > >in 2.8 this is: >

Re: time signature with note in denominator

2006-04-05 Thread Jos Smeets
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:39:32 -0500 Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/4/06, "David Feuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 4/3/06, Jos Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I am typesetting a score which has a non-standard time > > > > signature in the orig

wikitex bug?

2006-04-05 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
hi there, I'm experiencing problems with lilypond working with wikitex (or the other way round ;-) ) it seems --no-pdf and --no-ps aren't available anymore, so I deleted this from wikitex.php, but I get the following: WikiTeX: lilypond reported a failure, namely: terminate called after

Re: Control space between notes?

2006-04-05 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
I want to remove the created bar totally... not only the 16. notes... how is that done? Is there a override function to comlpetely remove the bars...? This is what I have done so far: << \repeat unfold 16 c''16 \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t \override Stem #'transparent = ##t \overr

PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Harald Wellmann
After upgrading from Lilypond 2.6.3.1 to 2.8.1, the size of my PDF output files has increased so massively that I'll have to revert to the old version. Some examples: 2.6.3.1 with point-and-click -rw-r--r-- 1 hwe users 700468 2006-04-04 14:23 AufDemFlusse.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 hwe users 2741731 2

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What platform do you use, Windows, Mac or some Linux distribution? I hope you have seen the related emails on the mailing list. For the fonts, check File->Document Properties and click on the Fonts tab to see a list of the fonts. If all fonts are listed as Type 1, then they are not bitmapped,

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread philippe hezaine
Paul Scott wrote: 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 convert-ly gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/jen/paul/music/stfrancis$ convert-ly -e *.ly Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/convert-ly", line 39, in ? import lilylib as ly File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/pyt

Re: Fwd: MusicXML converter: "ImportError: No module named musicxml"

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Gerhard G. Tooorges wrote: Hello Han-Wen, I work on Mac OS X 10.3.9. Lilypond version 2.8.1-1 (vBuild from Fri Mar 31 01:38:24 2006). try the attached patch, -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://ww

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Harald Wellmann
Mats Bengtsson schrieb: What platform do you use, Windows, Mac or some Linux distribution? I'm on Suse Linux 9.2. I hope you have seen the related emails on the mailing list. I've seen some, but none that really solved my problem. That's why I posted my question. Unless you have a specif

Re: wikitex bug?

2006-04-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
John Wiedenhoeft writes: > WikiTeX: lilypond reported a failure, namely: > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' > what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid > > what does that mean? is this a bug? Possibly. You'll have to look at the backtrace. What v

Re: time signature with note in denominator

2006-04-05 Thread eduardo . susan
Hello Jos, this code compiled right in version 2.8.0 (based on the example of Polymetric Notation). SNIPPET tsMarkup =\markup { \number{ \column { "4" { \note #"2" #0.75 } } } } { \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override Staff.Tim

Template for The Stick?

2006-04-05 Thread Vaylor Trucks
I've started learning the Chapman Stick, and I've decided to chart my progress on my blog.  Perfect opporunity for Lilypond to shine (yet again).  I'd like to create a template for printing music for The Stick.  It should have a grand staff (for left and right hand parts) and 2 tab staves - each

Re: time signature with note in denominator

2006-04-05 Thread Jos Smeets
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:51:01 -0300 "eduardo.susan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jos, this code compiled right in version 2.8.0 (based on the > example of Polymetric Notation). > > SNIPPET > tsMarkup =\markup { > \number{ \column { "4" { \note #"2" #0.75 } } > > } > > }

Newbie, Some quick chord questions?

2006-04-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Hello, I'm a new adoptor of LilyPond, everything is going fine except for some minor snags trying to enter chord names at this time. 1) How can I enter a chord name with a designated bass note? (commonly called "slash" chords). For example how would I enter the chord name "Cm7b5/Ab"? Where if

Re: Newbie, Some quick chord questions?

2006-04-05 Thread Geoff Horton
> 1) How can I enter a chord name with a designated bass note? (commonly > called "slash" chords). For example how would I enter the chord name > "Cm7b5/Ab"? Where if I transpose the piece both the "C" AND the "Ab" will > be transposed properly too? c:min/af > 3) Also if I use guitar chord fret

Re: Template for The Stick?

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just use \new TabStaff instead of \context TabStaff to make sure to get a new one. /Mats Vaylor Trucks wrote: I've started learning the Chapman Stick, and I've decided to chart my progress on my blog. Perfect opporunity for Lilypond to shine (yet again). I'd like to create a template for

Re: No pagebreaks within a score?

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A side comment: If you just have a single \book in your .ly file, you can just as well remove it, since LilyPond will silently add a \book around its input if there isn't one. The only reason to use \book is if you want more than a single output PDF file from one and the same input .ly file, since

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Harald Wellmann wrote: I hope you have seen the related emails on the mailing list. I've seen some, but none that really solved my problem. That's why I posted my question. Unless you have a specific link to a thread, a reference to "related emails" does not really help... I should have

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Strange, the struct module is standard in Python (at least in versions 2.3 and 2.4). Could it possibly be that Python is split into several packages for your Linux distribution and that you have only loaded the base package? To verify if it's a problem with your Python installation, run the comman

Re: Control space between notes?

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You didn't follow the second of my original hints. Now that I actually try your code, it turns out that that's enough to solve the original problem. So, just replace your \layout{...} block with \layout { \context { \Score proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) } \context

Re: Control space between notes?

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Maybe I should also have told what's wrong with your code below. First of all, there is a macro \hideNotes, that probably is useful. Secondly, a setting only applies to notes after the the setting, not before. Finally, if you say << \override ... c1 ... >> the override is done in parallel to th

Re: Control space between notes?

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: 2. when i use << >> around 2 different parts, it automaticly puts sets these two parts together with a vertical line. As if they where SATB ... Can this be done otherwise? Now that you already have two other working solutions, you may not be interested anymore, but an

Re: time signature with note in denominator

2006-04-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jos Smeets wrote: On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:18:09 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Following up on my previous post. I noticed that in the 2.6 documentation the following notation is used: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = #Text_interface::print in 2.8 this is:

RE: Re: Template for The Stick?

2006-04-05 Thread Vaylor Trucks
Thanks Mats.  That did the trick.   For anyone else interested, my template for the Chapman Stick is below > Just use \new TabStaff instead of \context TabStaff to make sure to get> a new one.> >    /Mats \version "2.6.0" \header{ title = "" composer = "" meter = ""} % - STICK - sr = \rel

Re: Fwd: MusicXML converter: "ImportError: No module named musicxml"

2006-04-05 Thread Gerhard G. Tooorges
Hi,2006/4/5, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gerhard G. Tooorges wrote:> I work on Mac OS X 10.3.9.> Lilypond version 2.8.1-1 (vBuild from Fri Mar 31 01:38:24 2006).try the attached patch,After having figured out how to use it, I am glad the error disappears: [localhost:Contents/Resources/bin

Odd space

2006-04-05 Thread Stewart Holmes
Hi,   I have a strange space at the top of my score when I compile it, between the start of the music and the title. I'm not sure where this came from, because I don't remember changing anything that should affect this. I attach my file. \version "2.8.0" \include "pianotreble.ly" \include "pi

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread philippe hezaine
And for me, it says: Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29) [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import optparse [1]+ Stopped python Phil Mats Bengtsson wrote: Strange, the struct module

Include date?

2006-04-05 Thread Bart Kummel
Hello list! I'm using Lilypond 2.8.0 on windows XP. For versioning reasons, I would like to automatically include the date the PDF is generated in one of the title fields. I was thinking of a "hack" like this one: #(string-append "subsubtitle LilyPond version " (lilypond-version)) I tried a lot

Re: Include date?

2006-04-05 Thread Toine Schreurs
Try: date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time))) Toine Schreurs > I'm using Lilypond 2.8.0 on windows XP. For versioning reasons, I > would like to automatically include the date the PDF is generated in > one of the title fields. I was thinking of a "hack" like this one: > > #(stri

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Bart Kummel
Hi!I'm also suffering from huge PDF files. Turning off point-and-click does help just a little bit. I saw the source code patch for Ghostscript on lilypond-bug, but unfortunately I'm not able to recompile my own Ghostscript. Is there some patched binary available somewhere? I'm on Windows XP. (Usin

Re: Include date?

2006-04-05 Thread Bart Kummel
Thanks a lot! This simply works. And it's flexible too, since I can manipulate the "%d-%m-%Y" string!Bart KummelOn 4/5/06, Toine Schreurs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try:date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))Toine Schreurs> I'm using Lilypond 2.8.0 on windows XP. For versioning re

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bart Kummel wrote: Hi! I'm also suffering from huge PDF files. Turning off point-and-click does help just a little bit. I saw the source code patch for Ghostscript on lilypond-bug, but unfortunately I'm not able to recompile my own Ghostscript. Is there some patched binary available somewhere

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Strange, the struct module is standard in Python (at least in versions 2.3 and 2.4). Could it possibly be that Python is split into several packages for your Linux distribution and that you have only loaded the base package? To verify if it's a problem with your Python insta

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Strange, the struct module is standard in Python (at least in versions 2.3 and 2.4). Could it possibly be that Python is split into several packages for your Linux distribution and that you have only loaded the base package? To verify if it's a probl

Re: PDF size

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bart Kummel wrote: Ghostscript. Is there some patched binary available somewhere? I'm on Windows XP. (Using lily 2.8.0). For the record: binaries on lilypond.org already include a patched GS. Something is still wrong with these GS binaries, but it's hard to tell what. For some reason, only

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Strange, the struct module is standard in Python (at least in versions 2.3 and 2.4). Could it possibly be that Python is split into several packages for your Linux distribution and that you have only loaded the base package? To ver

PDF file sizes on windows. Feedback wanted

2006-04-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hello, there have reports of exploding file sizes for Lily's PDF output on various flavors of Windows. In order to understand this problem better, I would like people that experience this problem to run the following diagnostic * download http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/cygcheck.exe * download

Re: PDF file sizes on windows. Feedback wanted

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Hello, there have reports of exploding file sizes for Lily's PDF output on various flavors of Windows. In order to understand this problem better, I would like people that experience this problem to run the following diagnostic * download http://lilypond.org/~hanwen

Re: Reduce space between title and top of the page

2006-04-05 Thread Sotaro Sato
I was wondering about that too. At the moment, I use a negative value for it, such as: top-margin = -1\mm Hope this helps, Sotaro Jefferson dos Santos Felix wrote: The problem: I can't reduce the top-margin. The source above produces a incorrect distance between the title and the to

ghost notes

2006-04-05 Thread bernie arai
hi, i'm new to the list, and been trying to learn lilypond on and off (first through noteedit, now directly text-editting) for a little while now. i'm simply floored by the quality of output (i'm coming from using finale in windoze to lilypond in fedora) i'm wondering whether anyone can help me f

Re: Newbie, Some quick chord questions?

2006-04-05 Thread Dave K.
I have similar issues with the Lilypond chord notating system, but they're not going to fix this so you'll have to set your own exceptions. You are right, both the standard and alternative chord naming schemes in Lilypond are just weird. I've never seen any chord names notated like that in any rea

Re: voltaOnThisStaff = false, not hiding staff volta bracket

2006-04-05 Thread Dave K.
Chords should be typeset under them by default, you're right (as well as text markup). Too bad Lilypond doesn't understand that. On 4/3/06, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would ike to print my chord names under the volta alternate ending brackets > not above them. So I

Re: voltaOnThisStaff = false, not hiding staff volta bracket

2006-04-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I got it working properly by using \with instead of \set. I use 2 chord names staffs below, one for the melody chords and another for the rhythm player. The chords are now snuggled under the volta bracket nicely. Here is my code: %{ Master Template For Guitar Melody/Chord Arrangemen

Re: Newbie, Some quick chord questions?

2006-04-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Thanks, I'm actually finding plenty of work-arounds and happy. I did get my chords to appear under the voltas just fine, see my post today on how to do it in another thread. As a former Finale user I find that LilyPond is infinitely more productive once you have built your basic templates. Afte

Re: Reduce space between title and top of the page

2006-04-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
YES!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU annotate-spacing = ##t KICKS BUTT!!! Lets have more of these "annotate-whatever" things aded to the product, please, pretty please. Are there any other annotate-? commands available? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Reduce-spa

Re: ghost notes

2006-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On 5-Apr-06, at 6:06 PM, bernie arai wrote: i'm wondering whether anyone can help me find out if it is possible to create "ghost notes" in drum/percussion notation, where the notehead (whatever type it is) is surrounded by parentheses. i found a post in the archives of this list asking the sam

Re: Odd space

2006-04-05 Thread Graham Percival
On 5-Apr-06, at 1:12 PM, Stewart Holmes wrote: I have a strange space at the top of my score when I compile it, between the start of the music and the title. I'm not sure where this came from, because I don't remember changing anything that should affect this Try adding \paper{annotate-spac

Spacing between adjacent \lyrics?

2006-04-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I have 2 stanzas of lyrics, but would like to reduce the amount of spacing between them, it is excessive. I searched the archive diigently, but the minimumVerticalExtent attribute is having no effect on output. Please see: minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4.0 . 2.4) Here is my code, any ideas? The

Re: convert-ly 2.8.1 and 2.9.1 broken

2006-04-05 Thread philippe hezaine
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Strange, the struct module is standard in Python (at least in versions 2.3 and 2.4). Could it possibly be that Python is split into several packages for your Linux distribution and that you have only loaded the base package? To verify if it's a pro