Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-11-30 Thread stk
Hello, > It may help your understanding to know > that \tweak itself is implemented as a music function taking 3 arguments. > The syntax of \tweak is > \tweak symbol value music_expression OK, thank you, that's very clear. That fact, for any given keyword, would tell a user immediately whether

Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In my understanding, the difference between \override and \tweak is that with \override, you can only specify the "time" at which the setting should be active, i.e. if you have several notes or whatever that appear simultaneous within the same context, then you can not affect them individually, j

Re: custom keys and song repeats

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Korcan Kayrak wrote: Hi, I've been dealing with Lilypond for a couple of days and I loved it, perfect output and 100% control on the music.. I've questions that I could not find a solution in help documentations; * Can I customize the key? In Turkish Classical Music there are

Re: which language for programming

2006-11-30 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I would like to also note, that you can use Python as well in jEdit (using the Jython plugin), so if you learn Python and not Java, you can still write sophisticated macros for LilyPondTool :-) Bert ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.

Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It may help your understanding to know that \tweak itself is implemented as a music function taking 3 arguments. The syntax of \tweak is \tweak symbol value music_expression OK, thank you, that's very clear. That fact, for any given keywor

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Right! This first example of the tutorial is somewhat idealized to hide unnecessary complications. I hope you haven't got stuck there but rather kept reading and experimenting with the program. (If you really want to know exactly what the LilyPond looks like, that produced that particular example

Re: Multiple sections in ChoirStaff

2006-11-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:48:24PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote: > Cameron, do you still have that list? Sorry, I keep on losing it. > Could you post the URL? > The url is http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh/DocUpdate.html If you want I'm happy to update this for the 2.10 release. However I c

Re: accordion symb.

2006-11-30 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Marcel! I hope that's what you're looking for... accBasson = ^\markup \combine \musicglyph #"accordion.accDiscant" \raise #0.5 \musicglyph #"accordion.accDot" \score { \relative c'' { \time 4/4 \key c \major \clef treble c \once \override TextS

Re: accordion symb.

2006-11-30 Thread Marcel van Campenhout
Thies Albrecht gmx.de> writes: > > Hi Marcel! > > I hope that's what you're looking for... > > accBasson = ^\markup \combine > \musicglyph #"accordion.accDiscant" > \raise #0.5 \musicglyph #"accordion.accDot" > > \score { > \relative c'' { >\time

Re: accordion symb.

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In situations where you only want to move this vertically, I would recommend to override the padding property instead: \override TextScript #'padding = #3 since then LilyPond will take the new position into account when calculating the spacing between the score lines and similarly. /Mats Thies

Wikibook in French

2006-11-30 Thread Christophe DANG NGOC CHAN
Dear all, Just a few words to tell you I wrote a wikibook in French http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_%C3%A0_LilyPond nothing extraordinary, juste the basic facts (in fact, I discovered one of the best ways to learn how to use a software was to write a manual...). There are probably some

paper sizes

2006-11-30 Thread James Bailey
I was reading the archives on how to define a custom page size, and I'm a little confused as to whether the issue was resolved, meaning, I've read the archives, and tried the suggestions there, but still cannot output my page size. I've added to the file "paper.scm" the line ("octavo" .

paper?

2006-11-30 Thread James Bailey
I'm sorry, I misinterpreted my output. What I get is the proper paper size, but rotated. The music is portrait and cropped where the paper is, but the paper is landscape. So close. What am I missing? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: PhrasingSlur-Slur conflict

2006-11-30 Thread Sean Reed
Hi Graham, Thanks for the reply. I've put together what I think is a relatively straightforward, step- by-step presentation of the problem I'm having. Hope it helps. I added the second bar of eights because the effect is more noticeable in a narrower bar. Best, Sean *** \v

Re: paper sizes

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
James E. Bailey-2 wrote: > > I was reading the archives on how to define a custom page size, and > I'm a little confused as to whether the issue was resolved, meaning, > I've read the archives, and tried the suggestions there, but still > cannot output my page size. > > I've added to the

Re: paper sizes

2006-11-30 Thread James E. Bailey
Alas, I am on macintosh. Intel iMac, OSX 10.4 On Thursday, November 30, 2006, at 08:55AM, "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >James E. Bailey-2 wrote: >> >> I was reading the archives on how to define a custom page size, and >> I'm a little confused as to whether the is

Re: Wikibook in French

2006-11-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
Thank you very much Christophe. I haven't seen yet any mention concerning your Wiki on the Lilypond French list ; so if you haven't do so, maybe you should consider posting there as well... It seems to be quite a good introduction to Lilypond, IMHO much more beginner-friendly than the "official"

convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Ok... I must be missing something very simple, but I've been beating a dead horse for the past few weeks trying to get convert-ly and other utilities to run on Windows XP. >From te command prompt I change directory to "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin" which is where lilyponfd is installed, but

Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-11-30 Thread stk
Hello, > . . . one problem is that this [giving the syntax of each keyword] would > still just tell a small part of the full syntax. I think it would give a big part of the full syntax, even if not the whole picture. It would enable a user to know (1) what type of "arguments" have to follow

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) Bert ___

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bertalan Fodor-2 wrote: > > Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) > Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: > - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin > - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) > > B

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bertalan Fodor-2 wrote: > > Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) > Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: > - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin > - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) > > B

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Hi Rick, Actually the file is convert-ly.py - it's a python script. I use abc2ly, another python script. Try just "cd C:\Program > Files\LilyPond" or cd into whatever folder the music file is in and try the command there. After some initial struggles, I found that both work with abc2ly. You

lilypond and editors

2006-11-30 Thread confrey
Hi everybody, I know some text editors have a support for lilypond; I'd like to know what's a fine editor for lilypond, and if it is possible to customize gedit (sintax highlighting and statement recognition adn completation). bye confrey -- confrey Linux Regis

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Just as I thought - you are trying too hard! I'm not a programmer either. What on earth is all that "import" stuff? If you have the music in a desktop folder and cd to that folder you won't have to bother with any of that. Just type convert-ly and the file name. Cheers! Bonnie Rick Hansen

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bonnie Rogers wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > Actually the file is convert-ly.py - it's a python script. > > I use abc2ly, another python script. Try just "cd C:\Program > > Files\LilyPond" or cd into whatever folder the music file is in and > try the command there. After some initial struggles,

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Bonnie Rogers wrote: > > Just as I thought - you are trying too hard! I'm not a programmer > either. What on earth is all that "import" stuff? If you have the > music in a desktop folder and cd to that folder you won't have to bother > with any of that. Just type convert-ly and the file

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Bonnie Rogers
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: All the import stuff is coming back to me, I only typed exactly what you typed, except I have to type "python" in front of it because my convert-ly file has no file extension on the file name. So if I just type convert-ly Windows does not know its a python file so

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-30 Thread Manuel
I don't know the technical terminus for this in English: the first staff of a new piece begins more to the right than the following ones. How do I get the first staff to be like all the others? Manuel ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 48, Issue 81

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Reeves
Rick, Like you I'm a musician and not a programmer, also running Win XP, with Lilypond 2.10. I found the LilyPondTool for jEdit makes things quite simple. You really should give it a try. I haven't figured out all the tricks yet but at least I'm off to a start! Thanks for the tip on LP 2.11. I n

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-30 Thread Manuel
So, "indent" is the word. Am 01/12/2006 um 00:36 schrieb Geoff Horton: \layout { indent = 0.0\cm } I added this and it worked in itself, but now the bar number engraver, wich I had removed, is back again. Manuel ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: Scheme question on strict substitution

2006-11-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson escreveu: >> OK, thank you, that's very clear. That fact, for any given keyword, >> would tell a user immediately whether (s)he could just write a macro or >> would be forced to define a function for some expression involving the >> keyword. >> >> Is the information >>(1) numbe

Re: convert-ly, musicxml2ly, etc. problems

2006-11-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bertalan Fodor escreveu: > Install the 2.10.0-1 version of LilyPond (and not the bad, 2.10.0-2) > Then you will be able to run convert-ly by: > - running 'python convert-ly' from C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin > - or by clicking the convert-ly button in LilyPondTool (if you use that) I think a

Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 48, Issue 81

2006-11-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Tim Reeves escreveu: > BTW, I noticed (because I'm a horn player!) that Han-Wen Nienhuys input > quite a bit of horn music. Han-Wen, are you a horn player? yup. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://w

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-30 Thread Geoff Horton
Add this to the end of your \score block: \layout { indent = 0.0\cm } If you already have a layout block, just add that to it. Geoff ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Tutorial

2006-11-30 Thread Geoff Horton
I added this and it worked in itself, but now the bar number engraver, wich I had removed, is back again. You can have multiple things in the \layout block, like this: \layout { indent = 0.0\cm \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } __

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-11-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There's a section on "Editor support" in the manual, did you read that? Also, you could try to search the mailing list archives to get even more hints. /Mats confrey wrote: Hi everybody, I know some text editors have a support for lilypond; I'd like to know what's a fine editor for lilypond