I'm Off :)

2006-10-23 Thread Ralph Little
Hi to all at Lilypond, My family and I are off to Canada (from the UK) to live in the next few weeks, so I'm going to be off the air until I get sorted out over there with an internet connection. When I'm sorted, I plan to finish off the Braille support - I'll have a fair bit more time over t

Fwd: Re: cross staff beams only in PianoStaff ?

2006-10-23 Thread Mehmet Okonsar
.. for the sake of the archives.. thanks Mats -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: cross staff beams only in PianoStaff ? Date: Sunday 22 October 2006 19:09 From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mehmet, I guess you forgot to include a copy to the mailin

Re: Polyphonic Tablature

2006-10-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson escreveu: Daniel Tonda wrote: Just revised the code I proposed and you're right. I wasn't aware that by using << >> one could remove the \simultaneous. Less typing indeed. Right! \simultaneous{...} is completely equivalent to <<...>> Actually, the following is exactly equivalen

I know this question was asked about a thousand times....

2006-10-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
...but since I consider myself as a newbie here, I hope you won't mind :) Here am I : I've (almost) written a whole opera under Sibelius 3, and I've been trying for ages to switch to Libre software, I mean our favorite Lilypond forever... The music I'm writing from now on is entirely genuine Lil

Re: Polyphonic Tablature

2006-10-23 Thread Nigel Tao
Thanks to everyone for their help. In the end, I just went with the simplest thing, since my piece is pretty short, and copy 'n' paste is so easy. In case anyone's interested (Aussies in particular might get a kick out of this one), I posted a CC-SA licensed score and recording at http://blogs.g

Re: I know this question was asked about a thousand times....

2006-10-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Valentin Villenave escreveu: ...but since I consider myself as a newbie here, I hope you won't mind :) Here am I : I've (almost) written a whole opera under Sibelius 3, and I've been trying for ages to switch to Libre software, I mean our favorite Lilypond forever... The music I'm writing from

utf-8

2006-10-23 Thread dubcek
For about a year now. I have been using Lilypond. I was very happy with it, very very happy. Until the day that I tried to write a French title in which there was a letter with an accent. Ever since, no matter what I have done, I have failed to produce a pdf file that displayed the character prop

Re: utf-8

2006-10-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Open the file in Emacs, press CTRL-x Return f and enter: utf-8 You should see a "-u" at the bottom left corner of the window. Then, the next time you save the file, it should be in UTF-8. This didn't work for me the first time I tried it, since I had an old .emacs file that changed some of the de

Re: utf-8

2006-10-23 Thread Frédéric Bron
I use with success the windows version of lily combined with vim (:set encoding=utf-8). No issue with French text. Can you send your extract and I will make it work. Then I am sure you will be able to find a proper editor. Fred dubcek a écrit : For about a year now. I have been using Lilypond

Re: utf-8

2006-10-23 Thread Martial
Save your Lilypond script in utf-8 with notepad (in windowsXP) your music.ly save as code utf-8 run Lilypond and :) <> ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: utf-8

2006-10-23 Thread Kress, Stephen
Title: RE: utf-8 As an extension to Mats' response (doing C-x RET f RET utf-8 RET to set the file's encoding), you may also want to use (M-X ucs-insert RET unicode-hex-code RET) to enter specific characters by their hex codes (see www.unicode.org/charts/ for all the UNICODE code point charts

Lyrics collide with barlines

2006-10-23 Thread Catalin Francu
Hi, I have typeset over 100 pages of music with Lilypond 2.8.6 last month and there's only one thing that I could not figure out how to do. Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. See for example: http://catalin.francu.com/Music/colinde/ (some Romanian carols). Look at la_vitleem

Re: Hiding ledger Lines

2006-10-23 Thread Trevor Bača
What about \override NoteHead #'no-ledgers = ##t ? On 10/21/06, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try \override LedgerLineSpanner #'transparent = ##t (or possibly \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'transparent = ##t I haven't tried it myself). /Mats Quoting Mehmet Okonsar <[EMA

Repositioning \tempo, and one other question

2006-10-23 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
Like the subject says, is there any way to reposition the \tempo mark? I'd love to be able to move it a bit to the left. Also, my instrument names seem to not be displayed propperly in my score. The names are declared as follows: Soprano = \relative c'' { \set Staff.instrumentName = #"S

Re: Lyrics collide with barlines

2006-10-23 Thread Marcus Macauley
Catalin Francu wrote: Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. ... Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of space between barlines and text". Hi Catalin, This doesn't quite address your question/gripe, but for what it's worth, if a piece of regular

Re: Repositioning \tempo, and one other question

2006-10-23 Thread Marcus Macauley
OnionRingOfDoom wrote: Like the subject says, is there any way to reposition the \tempo mark? I'd love to be able to move it a bit to the left. First, here's the fish: \once \override Score.MetronomeMark #'X-offset = #-2 right before your first tempo mark to move it 2 spaces to the left. T

Guitar Tablature problems and Hammer on and Pull Offs

2006-10-23 Thread Andy Denley
hi there, http://www.nabble.com/file/3817/12bar.pdf 12bar.pdf I have a few questions about tablature and putting hammer ons and pull offs. I am using version 2.8.7 under Windows environment. And yes I am a newbie at this and I cant seem to find anything in the docs to this. Firstly when I put

Re: Guitar Tablature problems and Hammer on and Pull Offs

2006-10-23 Thread Nigel Tao
Firstly when I put in some code for tablature and I want an Open E (6th string) it puts the tab on the 12th fret on the 6th string. It does this with all of my tab, its seems I cant get it to use open strings or under the 12th fret. Classical guitar is actually written one octave higher than it