Re: 'Slanted' fractions

2006-07-04 Thread Stewart Holmes
Aha, thanks... just what I was looking for. - Original Message - From: "Erik Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Stewart Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:28 PM Subject: Re: 'Slanted' fractions On Monday 03 July 2006 16:48, Stewart Holmes wrote: I'm tryi

figured bass : font size

2006-07-04 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Hi list ! Using Xp with Lilypond 2.8.3 And here I go again with the figured bass stuff ! Actually, I think lily can be perfect with this, so I'de like to know how to use it properly... I have got this output : (Embedded image moved to file: pic22795.jpg) you can see that if the figures ha

Re: Volta brackets wont show after /stopStaff /startStaff

2006-07-04 Thread Markus Schneider
> fixed in cvs. Thanks a lot for your help! Markus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Left AND Right aligning RehearsalMarks.

2006-07-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Bryan: What I cannot figure out after hours of tinkering and tweaking and [...] If you haven't solved this yet, feel free to send me a complete example (with \version string, \score block, etc.) off-list, and I'll see what I can do to help. Cheers, Kieren. ___

MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

2006-07-04 Thread Anthony Youngman
I want to change the default value of expand-limit rather than override it within my "voice" part that I put all the notes in. I could put it there without much difficulty but the way I lay my parts out it feels wrong for it to go there. Is there any way I can change its value within the Score or

Coloring of note heads of multiple voices in the same staff

2006-07-04 Thread Markus Schneider
Hello list, I tried an approach to have different colored note heads to keep track of a brass section. The score consists of three voices (trumpet in Bb, alto sax in Eb and trombone in C) and a merged staff (all voices in C). Is there a possibility to maintain the different colors also in the mer

Re: MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

2006-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
Anthony Youngman wrote: Is there any way I can change its value within the Score or Staff context, and have it take effect at Voice level? I did try \set MultiMeasureRest.expand-limit = 1 Look at \set in the index! This will direct you to 9.2.3. The VERY FIRST EXAMPLE of \set involves chang

Re: Coloring of note heads of multiple voices in the same staff

2006-07-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Markus: Is there a possibility to maintain the different colors also in the merged staff? Not the way you'd like it... =( If the merged staff is coded as \new Staff << \trpmusic \\ \tbmusic \\ \altomusic >> you'll get three separate (but correctly coloured!) Voices, rather than th

Re: Converting 2.4 to 2.8

2006-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
Fairchild wrote: Please acknowledge receipt - expect files are to large for the list. I got them. _\markup { \postscript #"0.17 setline-width -0.1 7.3 moveto 0 4.0 rlineto stroke"} causes pdf failure with message `gs -q -dNOSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4 -sPAPERSIZE#"letter"

Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

2006-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
Fairchild wrote: Finding a way to execute convert-ly took several hours of stumbling around. Haven't succeeded from jEdit. Expected to find an .exe file. A way that works is to invoke with a DOS shell from the directory that contains convert-ly.py and python.exe (and/or python2.4.exe?). Docume

Re: New user + notation queries

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! I took a look in your file and the Finale's PDF. Now I understand what you mean. I think the best work around for now is to follow Mats advice and make a different version for sound (midi) purposes. Eduardo - Original Message - From: "Joseph Wakeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Suggested Example

2006-07-04 Thread joelinux
I suggest an example of "Three Blind Mice" with Style / Tempo indication in the the header, a /box "Intro" of muliple bar rests, then a repeated /box "A " section which moves to a \box "B " sectionwith a 1st , 2nd & 3rd Ending where the 1st and 2nd ending are actually the same, and the 3rd endin

Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

2006-07-04 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The attached pdf shows the 2.4 default font set and cmr10. Doesn't seem to > be any ecmr10, at least not with \override TextScript #'font-name = > #"ecmr10" > > - Bruce ... Please don't toppost or cc me, I'm on the list. A quick look through your pdf

Lily Documentation

2006-07-04 Thread joelinux
I'm sorry, but I accidentally deleted the original message where you asked for suggestions for improving documentation. My feeling is that the documentation is very jumpy and scattered on any given topic. For example I have been using the index, or at least this index: http://lilypond.org/doc/

Problem Adding Lyrics to Poly

2006-07-04 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
Im having problems adding lyrics to poly voices it dosent place any error http://www.ezequielsierra.com/1.txt Regards, ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lily Documentation

2006-07-04 Thread Graham Percival
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which I now see is for 2.8 even though I was running 2.6. So just off the bat, maybe there should be a pointer (link) to the various versions of the documentation. Because it's only now that I 1st realize the documentation wasn't actually intended for me. What, like

RE: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

2006-07-04 Thread Fairchild
** Karl - ** Thanks for the response. See ** below. ** - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Hammar Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:03 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4 [EMAIL

Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Fairchild wrote: ** Karl - ** Thanks for the response. See ** below. ** - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Hammar Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:03 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Coexisting 2

Re: Problem Adding Lyrics to Poly

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What is the problem? I just tried your file with the latest stable version, 2.8.5, and it seems to print the lyrics. I hope you know that versions 2.9.x are development versions that typically have more bugs than the stable versions 2.8.x. So, for any serious typesetting, I strongly suggest to sti

Re: Coexisting 2.8 with 2.4

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Fairchild wrote: Graham - Some convert-ly experience, on the file just submitted to LSR as "File Information". 2.4.6 to 2.8.5. Finding a way to execute convert-ly took several hours of stumbling around. Haven't succeeded from jEdit. Expected to find an .exe file. A way that works is to invo

Re: UTF-encoding error

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Hard to say without seeing the file. What file encoding did you use when you saved the file? /Mats Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: I'm using Lilypond 2.8.3 on an Apple G3. When I try to open a file in Lilypond for processing it gives me the error message: Unexpected error: (UnicodeDecodeErro

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Check the rhythm of the different staves. It seems that your StaffRiffs doesn't have the 2/4 bar that's in the other staves. That's why LilyPond doesn't manage to break the last score line. /Mats Shamus wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Well, you have to do the same trick for all kinds of con

Re: Left AND Right aligning RehearsalMarks.

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
When you include an example of your .ly code, please always make sure that you include a full example that anyone else can run directly through LilyPond. It's very hard to guess exactly how you used your variables \regrainmelody and \versonemelody, not to mention that it takes time. Bryan Murdau

Library of scheme functions?

2006-07-04 Thread Dewdman42
I am just getting into lilypond. i am wondering if there are any collections of scheme functions out there that people have developed and shared for use within Lilypond? I have no specific thing I'm looking for. I just see that scheme functions can be written and wondering what kinds of smart t

Re: Python scripts on WindowsXP, was: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Dewdman42 wrote: Trent, When I first installed 2.9.9 I had this problem a lot too. I found that if I ran the script as follows from the windows command line: python C:\my_full_path\musicxml2ly.py [options] That it worked fine. The trick was using the full path name of the python script.

Re: Library of scheme functions?

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Look in the latest version of the manual for 2.9.x and in the Regression tests and Tips and Tricks documents. Another good source is the emails from Nicolaus Sceaux, search the mailing list archives. /Mats Dewdman42 wrote: I am just getting into lilypond. i am wondering if there are any coll

Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Dewdman42
Mats.. sorry to sound like complete nonsense to you. I didn't mean literally that I "Had" to run in the lilypond director. i mean to say that I only ran it from there. However the full path of the python script was required to avoid errors. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.

Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Dewdman42 wrote: Mats.. sorry to sound like complete nonsense to you. I didn't mean literally that I "Had" to run in the lilypond director. i mean to say that I only ran it from there. However the full path of the python script was required to avoid errors. Of course, otherwise python wo

Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Dewdman42
well, when running from the same directory as lilypond..why does python need a complete path when the script is right there in the same directory? What you're saying is that python does not look in the current directory...that it can rather only accept explicit full pathnames for script names..wh

Chords with ()

2006-07-04 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
Does anyone know how to put the chords inside () like, (A) (Em) Regards ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Dewdman42 wrote: well, when running from the same directory as lilypond..why does python need a complete path when the script is right there in the same directory? What you're saying is that python does not look in the current directory...that it can rather only accept explicit full pathnames

Re: Problem Adding Lyrics to Poly

2006-07-04 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
In the second staff there is the lyrics Siem pre el la bio mi the sila "el" should be under the 8th note that is between the 4th notes get it? http://www.ezequielsierra.com/1.txt On Jul 4, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: What is the problem? I just tried your file with the late

Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

2006-07-04 Thread Dewdman42
oh really? I will check into that. If not BAT scripts, then perhaps WSH or VBScript will do the trick more nicely..I'll look into it eventually, for now I'm just typing the whole path name. I imagine the main problem with the BAT approach is coming up with a truly generic solution. Making on

Lilypond store?

2006-07-04 Thread Stewart Holmes
Okay... this may seem like a strange place for this, but it's seem the best place to put it in order to get attention/opinions.   What I'm proposing is some kind of a collaboration between Lilypond users to submit their scores to an online score (the scores being engraved from public domain

Re: Chords with ()

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hi! Check this message for an answer: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00708.html - Original Message - From: "Ezequiel Sierra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Chords with () > Does anyone know how to put the chords

Re: Problem Adding Lyrics to Poly

2006-07-04 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Hello! Replace this line: << \new Voice = "staffCinco" { \voiceOne { bes'4. bes8 4 } } { \voiceTwo f4 f } \oneVoice >> With this: << { \voiceOne { bes'4. bes8 4 } } { \voiceTwo f4 f } >> \oneVoice Erase this line: \set associatedVoice = staffCinco *** A Good Tip: Checke this site

midi2ly

2006-07-04 Thread Philip
I'm have become familiar with the basics of this software, and am exploring some more advanced features. One particular interest to me was converting MIDI files to .LY format. I'm running the latest vershon of LilyPond on Mac OS X v. 10.4.7 on an Intel processor. I am also a Linux dabbler, so it

Re: MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

2006-07-04 Thread Thibaut Chevalier
First, I think you are doing a wonderful job with the manual since it is so big and complete.I am wondering, seeing all the simple "howto" questions you answer giving a link in the documentation, if I would not be useful to simply gather on a page all those "howto" questions and the related links w

Re: Chords with ()

2006-07-04 Thread Ezequiel Sierra
How can i set it to all the chords? not just one? On Jul 4, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Eduardo Vieira wrote: Hi! Check this message for an answer: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00708.html - Original Message - From: "Ezequiel Sierra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent:

Re: Ossia fragments in 2.8.2

2006-07-04 Thread Shamus
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Check the rhythm of the different staves. It seems that > your StaffRiffs doesn't have the 2/4 bar that's in the > other staves. That's why LilyPond doesn't manage to > break the last score line. D'oh! How did I miss that? Thanks for the help! :-) However, with the staff