Re: padding before note with accidental at beginning of standard measures

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> Unfortunately, although it now *looks* correct, I get the error > programming error: unknown prefatory spacing > continuing, cross fingers > once per affected Staff-measure in the Score. > > Is there a better method than the one I'm using? > If not, is this error something I can just ig

Re: padding before note with accidental at beginning of standard measures

2006-04-11 Thread David Feuer
On 4/11/06, Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, although it now *looks* correct, I get the error > > programming error: unknown prefatory spacing > > continuing, cross fingers > > once per affected Staff-measure in the Score. > > > > Is there a better method than th

Re: padding before note with accidental at beginning of standard measures

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> Programming error messages should indicate bugs in LilyPond, no? I've never worked with the code, but my impression from using LilyPond is that "programming error" messages are not exactly bugs, but more in the lines of complaints that Lily has been asked to do something too complicated to figur

Re: padding before note with accidental at beginning of standard measures

2006-04-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Feuer writes: > Programming error messages should indicate bugs in LilyPond, no? Right. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ___ lily

Re: padding before note with accidental at beginning of standard measures

2006-04-11 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all -- Jan replied: Programming error messages should indicate bugs in LilyPond, no? Right. Then I'd better get this right... When I use \once \override Score.BarLine #'space-alist = #'((first-note extra-space . 1.5)) I get programming error: No spacing entry from BarLin

Problems Running convert-ly

2006-04-11 Thread Ted Stanion
I had been using LilyPond 2.6.4-1 under cygwin. I decided to switch to 2.8.1 under Windows XP. I am trying to run convert.ly in a cygwin bash shell. I started by adding /LilyPond/usr/bin to my PATH. When I try to run convert-ly.py, however, I am getting the following messages: Traceback (most rece

Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-11 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I've read thoroughly LilyPond's Users Manual and I don't understand what's the difference between \set and \override commands. Can someone explain me this? Thank you. Tomas Valusek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http:/

Re: Old-style F clef?

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To see a list of all symbols available in the LilyPond font, check appendix C.4 of the manual. As you can see, this kind of clef isn't available in LilyPond for the moment. (The old-style clefs available in LilyPond are much older than the one you want :-) ) /Mats Geoff Horton wrote: Can Lily

Re: can't find voice (to attach \lyricsto)

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: I think you need to specify a \staff around the music parts, then specify the \lyrics below the closing bracket of each staff. That shouldn't be necessary, since LilyPond implicitly creates a Staff context to be able to host a Voice context, if you don't do it e

Re: Note grace at the begining of a piano piece

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This bug and a workaround, is described in the section on grace notes in the manual. /Mats Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, one more attempt - after sending an attachement, I found a bug in it I'm able to fix, so here it is again :-))) Tomas Valusek napsal(a): Oops, an attachement was forgot

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
\set: set the value of a context property \override: set the value of a layout object property The followup question is obvious, but I leave it to you to think about it and see if you get any further. /Mats Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, I've read thoroughly LilyPond's Users Manual and I don'

Re: lilypond-book: where are my noteheads?

2006-04-11 Thread bernie arai
On 4/10/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It turns out that Bernie's problems appear since he has a too old version > of ghostscript installed (to verify what version you have, run the > command 'gs --version'). Clearly, GNU Ghostscript version 7.07 is too old. > Version 8.15 should h

A few layout questions

2006-04-11 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
I want to write an H instead of B with the function \setEasyHeads, but cant figure out how.   If I want to write some text above the staff... c'^hey and then writes c'^yo the c with the "yo" is not horisontal with the other words due to the "y" ... how do i manipulate it to be on a straigh

Drum march questions

2006-04-11 Thread Jannik Jeppesen
I want to whrite a few drum march and rhythm exercises, but cant make them look perfect... Here is a little march, with alot of things that can be done more nicely.   can anyone set this one up in a more beautifulll manner? So the bars in under each other, the volta brakets is not ended with

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
> The followup question is obvious, but I leave it to you to think about it > and see if you get any further. I've been wondering for some time if the distinction is a helpful one, but I suspect changing it now would involve too much internal tinkering, not to mention breaking of old scores. Geof

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Geoff Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The followup question is obvious, but I leave it to you to think about it and see if you get any further. I've been wondering for some time if the distinction is a helpful one, but I suspect changing it now would involve too much internal tinkering, no

trick/tip: hairpin length control

2006-04-11 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, all -- Just in case you haven't stumbled across this one, I seem to have found a nice way of controlling the end of hairpins without instantiating extra voices... [Haven't found any negative side- effects yet, but if you can see one, please warn me!] For example, David Sanders wrote

Re: A few layout questions

2006-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I only have an answer to your last question, from the top of my head: Quoting Jannik Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... how do I qreate the first bar to only 1/8 note... s2 s4 s8 c8 ... but, can it be done othervise, so it is not so big the first bar? Read the section on Partial measures in th

Re: trick/tip: hairpin length control

2006-04-11 Thread Geoff Horton
This is a great tip! Thanks for sharing it. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: trick/tip: hairpin length control

2006-04-11 Thread Graham Percival
On 11-Apr-06, at 2:13 PM, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: Just in case you haven't stumbled across this one, I seem to have found a nice way of controlling the end of hairpins without instantiating extra voices... [Haven't found any negative side-effects yet, but if you can see one, please wa

Re: Drum march questions

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Jannik Jeppesen wrote: > I want to whrite a few drum march and rhythm exercises, but cant make > them look perfect... > Here is a little march, with alot of things that can be done more nicely. > > can anyone set this one up in a more beautifulll manner? So the bars in > under each other, the vol

Re: Set vs. Override - I'm confused

2006-04-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> \set: set the value of a context property > \override: set the value of a layout object property I've always wondered why it isn't possible to unify them... Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Debian questions

2006-04-11 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi I'd like to get into lilypond again (been away since 1.something). I'm on a debian/stable box here, so I found that the version in stable is 2.2.6, and I see that the current stable version is 2.8. My questions are: 1) Besides running a mixed system and going unstable, what are my options

Re: Debian questions

2006-04-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "AAJ" == Atte André Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AAJ> 1) Besides running a mixed system and going unstable, what are my AAJ> options for getting 2.8 running under stable? I think it should work if you just install from the installer. (Go to the download page, download the 2.8.

4 voices on 3 staves?

2006-04-11 Thread jango
I was trying to do it on my own, but I got lost :) I need to get two voices on the first stave and then 2 additional staves with one voice on each. Can anyone give me an actual code that would perform this task? Thank you a lot. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/4-voices-on

Single Straight Eighths?

2006-04-11 Thread S L Raymond
In a Jazz chart with mostly swung eighth notes, what is the preferred nomenclature for a single straight 8th note? IMO, the markup "straight" is a bit crowded for just one or two notes. I've considered using a sixteenth-dotted eighth figure, supposing that a performer would interpret the "ahe

Re: Single Straight Eighths?

2006-04-11 Thread Atte André Jensen
S L Raymond wrote: IMO, the markup "straight" is a bit crowded for just one or two notes. I've considered using a sixteenth-dotted eighth figure, supposing that a performer would interpret the "ahead of the beat" implication. I'd write "straight". Another option would be a duol... -- peace,

Re: Debian questions

2006-04-11 Thread Atte André Jensen
Laura Conrad wrote: I think it should work if you just install from the installer. (Go to the download page, download the 2.8.1 installer for Linux, and run it as a shell script.) I'm running that way on both Sid and Ubuntu. That was easy! Odd but asy. Thanks. -- peace, love & harmony Atte