Re: Backend EPS issue

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Cameron Horsburgh wrote: This reminds me of an issue I currently have. I was always able to print LilyPond scores from my work machine (Windows XP) until I installed CutePDF and Ghostscript. Since then I seem to have had similar issues with missing noteheads and so forth. Do you have these ins

Re: Error from lilypond: hyphen not finished yet

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
First of all, I hope you used convert-ly to update the file to be combatible with your current LilyPond version (did you say which version you used?). Still, you should be aware that LilyPond is a program that evolves quickly and that even though convert-ly can handle most of the changes automatic

Re: Lilypond for Mac OS 7.6?

2006-10-11 Thread Claus Rogge
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you could install linux > onto your old powerbook, it would work. How about NetBSD? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

eps again

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
I seem to have the same problem as already reported here: (Windows XP, Lilypond 2.9.22) lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts epstest.ly produces an eps-file, which I can view with gsview, and a pdf. I did insert the eps into a odt file, shows as a rectangle (this is no

Re:Lilypond-2.8.7: Compile failure

2006-10-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:30:17 +0200From: Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: Lilypond-2.8.7: Compile failureTo: lilypond-user@gnu.orgMessage-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiOn Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:

Re: Error from lilypond: hyphen not finished yet

2006-10-11 Thread Karl Hammar
> I'm a newby at lilypond and while trying to use it on O Magnum > Mysterium, got the following error many times: > programming error: hyphen not finished yet > continuing, cross fingers > Can anyone give me a pointer to where to start?   The final output > actually looks ok, but has this: > > \

Re: Lilypond-2.8.7: Compile failure

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Many thanks for your reply. I configured with guile-1.6.8 and makeinfo-4.7. Then, I installed texinfo-4.8 (i.e. makeinfo-4.8) but make still gives the same error. It seems that there's a problem with Guile 1.6.8, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006

Re: Backend EPS issue

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Yes I have both CutePDF and GS installed on XP. However I did change my environment PATH variable to search for lily bin first, the gs next: here is my system PATH variable: C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\lib;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Syste

Question_about CapsAndNames andDelimitersAndEscapes for-lilypond-items

2006-10-11 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
One of the things that has taken me the longest time to get my head around in LP, and where I have made most mistakes with typos that I haven't understood why they don't work, is the various combinations of CamelCase, scheme-type-hyphenated-names, camelCaseWithLowercaseFirstLetter, and the vari

Re: eps again

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Just for info, I was using Microsoft Word Win XP, and yes they just show up as rectangles in the application. But at least the rectangles are of the proper size. But when I print the MSWord doc to the printer (or print a PDF) the results are beautiful, no issues, no error messages from Word or A

Possible to change the three-quarters-flat symbol?

2006-10-11 Thread Alexander Ness
Hello, I am a composition student in New York. I recently discovered LilyPond, and am excited by its flexibility, clarity of design, and high output quality. Is there a way to change the three-quarters-flat symbol, and---more generally---to designate symbols for other microtonal accidentals (arr

Slightly OT: Music Publishers Association style guide

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
For anyone interested I thought I'd post this link from the MPA web site, it's their std notation style guide: http://www.mpa.org/music_notation/standard_practice.pdf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Slightly-OT%3A-Music-Publishers-Association-style-guide-tf2424739.html#

Re: Possible to change the three-quarters-flat symbol?

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you just have the desired symbol available in some font or can compose it by combining existing symbols in some way, it is fairly straightforward to redefine the way an accidental is typeset. If you want it fully automated so that LilyPond itself replaces every three-quarters-flat symbol with s

Re: Using Lilypond

2006-10-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:04 Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Joe Wilson schreef: > > Lilypond is amazing! I am a music educator who used to be frustrated > > with the time spent with commonly used commercial notation software. I > > find Lilypond to be so amazingly fast and easy to use for reproduci

I would like to buy this enhancement (highly motivated buyer)

2006-10-11 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I've been using LP for a while now and waiting for the time when I think I could finance a very useful enhancement. Now I have something that I would like to sponsor, and I think it would be a very worthwhile enhancement, especially for musicologists. Please tell me if there already is a way to

no bar numbers

2006-10-11 Thread Ole Hesprich
Hi @ all! Has anyone the same experience with LilyPond 2.9.22? I tried the following example: \version "2.9.22" \include "gregorian-init.ly" \include "deutsch.ly" #(set-global-staff-size 18) \relative c' {a1 a a a\break a a a a\break a a a a} As a result I get an output without any barnumber

OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-11 Thread Samuel Hartmann
The new release of OOoLilyPond can be downloaded now (http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net). The main change is that is does not call a bash script anymore. So on Windows OOoLilyPond can be used with the MinGW-Version of lilypond without the need for installing cygwin. Here is the ChangeLog:

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-11 Thread David Bobroff
Samuel Hartmann wrote: The new release of OOoLilyPond can be downloaded now (http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net). I've grabbed v0.3 and the install instructions are not consistent with what I'm seeing. When I get to the part where it says: - Select "OpenOffice.org Macros/user/OOoLilyPond/O

Re: 2.9.22 eps backend on Windows

2006-10-11 Thread Brett Duncan
Bertalan Fodor wrote: Hello I'm trying to use the eps backend (also by lilypond-book) and it doesn't work. I get the following error Please Help! I'm very frustrated. Bert Interpreting music... [1] Preprocessing graphical objects... Writing proba1-systems.tex... Writing proba1-systems.texi

Re: 2.9.22 eps backend on Windows

2006-10-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bertalan Fodor schreef: Hello I'm trying to use the eps backend (also by lilypond-book) and it doesn't work. I get the following error Please Help! I'm very frustrated. you have to use -dinclude-eps-fonts, otherwise GS will try to load fonts on its own, which usually fails. -- Han-Wen

Re: never mind Re: The file changes; lilypond doesn't notice

2006-10-11 Thread Marcus Macauley
Mats Bengtsson wrote: If you can isolate the problem, please send a bug report, a segmentation fault is always a serious bug! OK, I posted a bug report to bug-lilypond. (The problem, in short, was that \addquote couldn't handle a \new Voice. The documentation mentions this limitation, but sa

Newbie Question about cadenzas

2006-10-11 Thread Silouan
I've just started learning Lilypond and am very excited about the possibilities! What I am trying to do is to typeset music that we use in our church services (Greek Orthodox). The entire service is a cadenza! Everything (so far) is working well, except that I can't seem to find how to insert a

Re: Newbie Question about cadenzas

2006-10-11 Thread Silouan
Thank you thank you thank you thank you! I had assumed (I know--bad idea) that the whichBar was associated with the removal of the time signature. Shows what I know! It looks great! Thanks again! Silouan Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: > > Your example prints the bar lines if you simply co

OOoLP fails with same error

2006-10-11 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Samuel, Apparently there's something deeply wrong with my setup. I'm now using OOo 2.0.4, LilyPond 2.8.6, and I receive the identical error as before: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what():basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid I'm inclined to believe

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-11 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi David, David Bobroff wrote: I've grabbed v0.3 and the install instructions are not consistent with what I'm seeing. When I get to the part where it says: - Select "OpenOffice.org Macros/user/OOoLilyPond/OOoLilyPondMusic" as Functions Category that path is not there. I get: OpenOf

Connected arpeggios up-down

2006-10-11 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
I guess there is no way to get connected arpeggios up or down.. \arpeggioUp and ..Down seems to work only on non-connected ones..? Wouldn't it be nice? -- Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer-conductor www.okonsar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypon

Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Samuel Hartmann wrote: * on Linux, ~/.ooolilypond-tmp is used for temporary files Why not use a directory in /tmp/ for temporary files? I'm probably not the only one who has $HOME on a network file system with limited quota. Of course, I could add a soft link from .ooolilypond-tmp to /tmp

Re: no bar numbers

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This change happened already in version 2.9.3 or so. If you want the bar numbers back, add something like \layout{ \context{ \Score \consists Bar_number_engraver } } somewhere below \include "gregorian-init.ly" /Mats Ole Hesprich wrote: Hi @ all! Has anyone the same experience with

Re: Connected arpeggios up-down

2006-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
By default, the macros \arpeggioUp and -Down only modify what happens in the current Voice context, whereas connected arpeggios are handled at the Staff level. Just add the following lines at the top of your file to redefine the macros to do the change at the Staff level: arpeggioUp = \sequent