chord name size

2006-10-20 Thread David Bobroff
I would like to alter the size of printed chord names. How do I do that? I'm sure there is some sort of font size alteration to the Chord_name_engnraver or somesuch. Help? -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.g

\transpose within a Scheme function?

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
I'm trying to figure out how to include a Lilypond \transpose function within a Scheme function. I'm not even sure if it makes sense to do that, but I haven't thought of a better way. Here's an example of what I'm trying to do: overtones = #(define-music-function (parser location numbers fu

how to have barlines in only one instrument, except ending barline

2006-10-20 Thread jim altieri
Hello, I'm almost done with this score. I'd like to have the vocal line without any barlines, except for the ending barline. So, I can't remove the bar_engraver, otherwise I don't get the ending barline. How do I do that? thanks, jim altieri \version "2.8.7" \paper { #(set-paper-size "

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Tonda Castillo
I've tried the OOoLilypond and after a change in openoffice version or a change in lilypond it somehow puts the version of the lilypond back to 2.6. I changed it back, and checked the path for the macro and it worked. Daniel T. Gordon Gilbert wrote: Samuel Hartmann wrote: Hi Gordon, Gordo

Ok, I thought voices work but now trouble with beams

2006-10-20 Thread Kirill
Hello. Mats, the voices code now works (those who were not following, see gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/25233), but now I want to make sure the beams work fine as well. Here is an example to illustrate what goes wrong: 1) This is the original Sibelius excerpt: http://sidosoft.ru/01sib.png 2) I p

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi Gordon, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I tried going with 2.8.7, and installed the macro just as instructed, and it still crashed OO. Any ideas? Please check what files you find in "~/.ooolilypond-tmp" and post it here. If lilypond was called by OOoLilyPond you should find files like this: OO

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Martial
Hello I tried going with 2.8.7, and installed the macro just as instructed, and it still crashed OO. Any ideas? I use 2.9.25, and OoLilypond is fine after this hanging ! Associate a keyboard shortcut with the macro - Create a new writer document - Select from the Menu: "Tools" --> "Customiz

Re: Bravo and extra stanzas question

2006-10-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Mike Blackstock wrote: Yes, I'm setting aside some time to upgrade. I haven't done so yet cause well, 2.4 was the only version I could get to work on this particular platform I'm using and even then it took a lot of effort. My problems began some time after we upgraded to Centos 4, a variant of

Re: error in manual?

2006-10-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The example score printed in the manual is produced by exactly the same code (just click on the figure to see the corresponding .ly file, so the manual itself proves that the example works as it stands. You must have done something else wrong. Did you use LilyPond version 2.8.x? I just tried the

Re: Stack overflow problem

2006-10-20 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please always tell what LilyPond version you use. Here it may also be relevant to know what operating system you have. I've included a copy of your email to the bug-lilypond mailing list, since I'm certain that the main hackers are interested in this issue. /Mats Valentin Villenave wrote:

Re: parenthesize

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
Julian Peterson wrote: I seem to be unable to parenthesize notes using the method explained in the manual. Even this simple example fails: {c d \parenthesize e f g} Am I misunderstanding that the output of the above should include a parenthesized e ? I'm not sure why, but \parenthesize

Re: parenthesize

2006-10-20 Thread Marcus Macauley
Whoops. I didn't see that Rick had already responded. Marcus ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Samuel Hartmann wrote: Hi Gordon, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I tried going with 2.8.7, and installed the macro just as instructed, and it still crashed OO. Any ideas? Please check what files you find in "~/.ooolilypond-tmp" and post it here. If lilypond was called by OOoLilyPond you should f

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Gordon Gilbert
Samuel Hartmann wrote: Hi Gordon, Gordon Gilbert wrote: I tried going with 2.8.7, and installed the macro just as instructed, and it still crashed OO. Any ideas? Please check what files you find in "~/.ooolilypond-tmp" and post it here. If lilypond was called by OOoLilyPond you should f

Stack overflow problem

2006-10-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
I just forgot to add (about the Stack Overflow thing) : I'm running Lilypond 2.9.24 (but I had the same problem with 2.8 and 2.9.21) on a Slackware-based system. Thank you for your cooperation ; I still think it's the best music editing software in the world by the way :) _

Re: Bravo and extra stanzas question

2006-10-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mike Blackstock schreef: Geoff Horton wrote: As Simon said, 2.4 is obsolete (very) and I strongly suspect the suggestions I'm about to give won't work. I would update if at all possible. Then, in addition to what's in the manual, you can try what I show here: http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilypond

Re: Stack overflow problem

2006-10-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Valentin Villenave schreef: Hello, I'm a French composer and I'm planing to use lilypond for a rather ambitious project, so I need to know if it's reliable enough to process huge orchestral scores. Since I did'nt find anything big enough on mutopia, I've downloaded a midi file on the midi clas

chord name size

2006-10-20 Thread David Bobroff
(Sending again as the first try didn't seem to make it to the list.) I would like to alter the size of printed chord names. How do I do that? I'm sure there is some sort of font size alteration to the Chord_name_engnraver or somesuch. Help? -David __

slurs at breaks are wrongly influenced by rehearsal marks

2006-10-20 Thread Toine Schreurs
The last part of a broken slur (at a line break) is wrong if at the same time a long rehearsalmark is printed. The slurdirection is reversed, and the slur is drawn at the right side of the note, instead of the left side. The slur is extended to the full length of the rehearsal mark. snippet:

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Samuel Hartmann
Hi Gordon, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Further to my last message, I managed to reconstruct the macro, then tried the same thing with one of my .ly files. First, I put in too much, and a dialogue came up with "failed file". Which was interesting, so I tried again (the macro was still good) with ju

Re: Bravo and extra stanzas question

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Blackstock
Mats Bengtsson wrote: The newer versions of LilyPond are completely decoupled from TeX and TeX fonts. Try the installation package of 2.8.7 available under "Downloads" at www.lilypond.org. I would be surprised if it didn't work out of the box. /Mats Well I'll be... worked like a charm

Re: \transpose within a Scheme function?

2006-10-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Marcus Macauley schreef: I'm trying to figure out how to include a Lilypond \transpose function within a Scheme function. I'm not even sure if it makes sense to do try (ly:music-transpose ) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design --

Re: chord name size

2006-10-20 Thread David Bobroff
David Bobroff wrote: I would like to alter the size of printed chord names. How do I do that? I'm sure there is some sort of font size alteration to the Chord_name_engnraver or somesuch. Help? -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: chord name size

2006-10-20 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
I prefer to set something like this in a \layout context, but you can also do it where you declare your ChordNames staff or even in the middle of the score amongst your notes (size exaggerated here): \layout { \context { \ChordNames \override ChordName #'font-size = #10.5 } } Dav

Re: how to have barlines in only one instrument, except ending barline

2006-10-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Jim: I'd like to have the vocal line without any barlines, except for the ending barline. \override Staff.Barline #'transparent = ##t then just before the last barline \revert Staff.Barline #'transparent Hope this helps! Kieren. ___ lilypon

Ok, I thought voices work but now trouble with beams

2006-10-20 Thread Kirill
Hello. Mats, the voices code now works (those who were not following, see gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/25233), but now I want to make sure the beams work fine as well. Here is an example to illustrate what goes wrong: 1) This is the original Sibelius excerpt: http://sidosoft.ru/01sib.png 2) I p

Re: how to have barlines in only one instrument, except ending barline

2006-10-20 Thread jim altieri
Thanks for the help, Kieren! Just for the archives' sake, it's Staff.BarLine, rather than Staff.Barline. -jim Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi, Jim: I'd like to have the vocal line without any barlines, except for the ending barline. \override Staff.Barline #'transparent = ##t then just before t

Re: OOoLilyPond macro installation and use

2006-10-20 Thread Martial
Hello > I tried going with 2.8.7, and installed the macro just as instructed, > and it still crashed OO. Any ideas? I use 2.9.25, and OoLilypond is fine after this hanging ! Associate a keyboard shortcut with the macro - Create a new writer document - Select from the Menu: "Tools" --> "Custom

RE: how to have barlines in only one instrument, except ending barline

2006-10-20 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jim You can make barlines transparent or not by including the following at appropriate points in melody: \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t % hide following barlines \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##f % show following barlines The inserts I've shown in melody below

Re: Ok, I thought voices work but now trouble with beams

2006-10-20 Thread Kirill
Double-post, please delete one of them. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: question about fontsize lyrics

2006-10-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Lieke van der Meer schreef: Thank you Mats, I succeeded, but there seems to be a strange error when creating a PDF file. The text 'heeft' turns into something like hee@, check with: this should be fixed in release 2.9.26 -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~h