Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: > There's a more important problem (to me) that appeared in 2.9.23, so > I'm not updating until somebody fixes or finds a good workaround for > the lilypond-book staff alignment problem. Mine's stopped working, then? (I haven't checked.) Oh, well; it was an u

Windows Lilypond 2.11.1

2006-12-07 Thread Trent Johnston
Hi Everyone, The latest Lilypond 2.11.1 on my work laptop and home computer is extremely slow.. to the point of going in what seems to be an infinite loop. I've monitored the process with task manager and noticed that Lilypond (gauging from the memory usage of this version and the previous vers

Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
Arvid Grøtting wrote: Laura Conrad laymusic.org> writes: There's a more important problem (to me) that appeared in 2.9.23, so I'm not updating until somebody fixes or finds a good workaround for the lilypond-book staff alignment problem. Mine's stopped working, then? (I haven't checked.) O

Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: > Lilypond now produces binary eps files. See > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=157 I get errors from lilypond-book now, possibly because I haven't updated the included files, but the BoundingBox is in the text-format header. The ugly sed t

Church music

2006-12-07 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
Hi ! Could you send a png of your score, please ? I don't really understand the precise question ? As I'm french, could you explain what episems are ? Regards JMarc ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: tie attached on left side

2006-12-07 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Arvid" == Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arvid> Graham Percival gmail.com> writes: >> Lilypond now produces binary eps files. See >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=157 Arvid> I get errors from lilypond-book now, possibly because I Arvid

Re: which language for programming

2006-12-07 Thread Jean-marc LEGRAND
For the frenchies who'd like to learn python, I must say that Gérard Swinnen's "Apprendre à programmer avec Python", is really amazing (I understand everything ). I found it on developpez.com. Regards ! Jmarc ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Andreas v. Heydwolff
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, and if it is possible to customize gedit (sintax highlighting and statement recognition adn completation). bye confrey kate with colored syntax (downloadabl

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2006/12/6, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It seems that you don't use LilyPondTool. If you used it, you would have a full-text search of LilyPond doc. See the screenshot at http://www.organum.hu/87.0.html As a matter of fact, I do use LilypondTool. But I just did'nt remember the doc was

Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Notice in the following example (which will run as-is) that I am explicitely removing the string number engraver. Yet, alas, the string numbers remain on the staff portion. How can I globally remove the string numbers from the standard notation staff, and still reuse the same music on the Fretbo

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, my problems mostly come from the fact I don't always know the right English word for what I'm looking for... I hope you have seen the Music glossary, included in the LilyPond documentation. -a little box with a simple "search" button woul

Re: Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you follow the link to "StringNumber" at the bottom of the page on "String number indications" in the manual, you will find out that "StringNumber objects are created by: New_fingering_engraver" and if you keep clicking to find out in which context this engraver lives by default, you'll find

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
2006/12/7, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There is a search function, at the bottom of www.lilypond.org, even though one of the problems with it is that it often lists links to old versions of the manual first. Hmmm... I have indeed _never_ noticed it, and thank you very very much for hav

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Andreas v. Heydwolff
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, and if it is possible to customize gedit (sintax highlighting and statement recognition adn completation). bye confrey kate with colored syntax (downloadabl

Re: Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > If you follow the link to "StringNumber" at the bottom of the page on > "String number indications" in the manual, you will find out that > "StringNumber objects are created by: New_fingering_engraver" > and if you keep clicking to find out in which context this en

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I also hope you have found the index of the manual (it seems that many people miss it (partly since it's called "LilyPond index" for silly technical reasons). Well I guess I was part of those people until now... My bad. Are you talking about htt

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Hi everyone, On the same subject, I would like to propose an improvement for the Lilypond editor on Mac OS (mine is 10.4). It would be really nice if we could point and click on an error message and the code creating the error would be highlighted. Or, an easier thing to program, a line and chara

OS X question about Apple's Preview

2006-12-07 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, Not a direct Lily question, but useful nonetheless: Any OS X folks know how to tell Apple's Preview application -- from the commandline -- to close foo.pdf (but leave other pdfs open, ie, without actually killing the Preview process)? -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread John Mandereau
Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Quoting Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Well, my problems mostly come from the fact I don't always know the > > right English word for what I'm looking for... > > I hope you have seen the Music glossary, included in the LilyPond > documentation. Frédéric Chi

Lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread César Penagos
I run lilypond under windows Xp, and actually I´m using a very naice editor (notepad II) It works excellent, whit all the features needed for lilypond. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilyp

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread John Mandereau
[CCing back to the list...] Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan wrote: > Le 5 déc. 06 à 23:29, John Mandereau a écrit : > > It's easy to start a new wiki, a new documentation, a new whatever, > > but > > it's much harder to develop it on a long timescale. > > > > Before reinventing the wheel, [...] > > I

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Just curious: what's wrong with jEdit? Thomas > Hi everyone, > > On the same subject, I would like to propose an improvement for the Lilypond > editor on Mac OS (mine is 10.4). It would be really nice if we could point > and click on an error message and the code creating the error would be > high

Re: OS X question about Apple's Preview

2006-12-07 Thread Trevor Bača
On 12/7/06, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Not a direct Lily question, but useful nonetheless: Any OS X folks know how to tell Apple's Preview application -- from the commandline -- to close foo.pdf (but leave other pdfs open, ie, without actually killing the Preview process)? Chr

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread John Mandereau
Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2006/12/5, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Before reinventing the wheel, we should first look for what already > > exists (or has existed). > > I don't think Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan is pretending to reinvent the > wheel (and neither am I, by the way). Ther

Re: OS X question about Apple's Preview

2006-12-07 Thread Arjan Bos
On 7 dec 2006, at 21:33, Trevor Bača wrote: Hi, Not a direct Lily question, but useful nonetheless: Any OS X folks know how to tell Apple's Preview application -- from the commandline -- to close foo.pdf (but leave other pdfs open, ie, without actually killing the Preview process)? The most

Re: OS X question about Apple's Preview

2006-12-07 Thread Arjan Bos
On 7 dec 2006, at 22:11, Trevor Bača wrote: On 12/7/06, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christian was kind enough to provide a pointer an article that leads here. 1. go to http://vocaro.com/trevor/software/applescript/ (the maintainer of the page is some other Trevor, not me) 2. sc

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Geoff Horton
On 12/7/06, Thomas Scharkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious: what's wrong with jEdit? Thomas Editors are one of those things that really depend on personal taste. It may just be that I've been using emacs for too long, but jEdit drove me nuts. Others have their favorite way of doing

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
John Mandereau wrote: Graham has a plan to centralize snippets (I mean you could find almost all code snippets in one place), but I don't know the current state of this. Exactly the same as it was last August. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-08/msg00146.html That said,

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Often one can gain productivity by fitting his way of work to the editor :-) Bert So what's wrong with jEdit? Nothing, if it fits the way you work. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Geoff Horton
Often one can gain productivity by fitting his way of work to the editor :-) Bert Sometimes, yes. Often ... I don't know about that, and I'm not really a fan of the idea. Tools exist for me; I don't exist for tools. I don't mean to discourage anyone from trying jEdit. I did. I prefer something

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Frédéric Chiasson
Well, I never tried jEdit on Mac. But I tried it on PC and the LilypondTool didn't work out and I had so many problems that I discarded it after a week. Maybe I should give it a second shot. It migth work better on Mac OS. Thanks for the comments, Frédéric 2006/12/7, Bertalan Fodor <[EMAIL PR

Re: Globally removing string number engraver

2006-12-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks Mats, Adding this to the \layout block removes the string numbers: \context { \Voice \remove New_fingering_engraver } "String_number_engraver" is apparently part of TabStaff. Apparently it was easy for so

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Should you have any problems I'm here to help ;-) Remember to look at http://lilypondtool.organum.hu Bert Frédéric Chiasson írta: Well, I never tried jEdit on Mac. But I tried it on PC and the LilypondTool didn't work out and I had so many problems that I discarded it after a week. Maybe I

Re: Wikis

2006-12-07 Thread Kevin Dalley
The nice thing about a wiki is that I can spend 15 minutes improving the one area which I now understand after spending an hour researching. Then, next month, I'll spend another 15 minutes. Pages which are often references tend to get better quickly. I probably won't spend 5 hours writing lilypo

Re: Wikis [was: Re: Tutorial]

2006-12-07 Thread John Mandereau
Graham Percival wrote: > John Mandereau wrote: > > Putting the footer links again only require one-line fix in a build > > script and a small setup in a wiki. If the developers agree, > > I don't. I'll play the evil totalitarian guy here. > > Writing good documentation is hard. I know that bett

Re: Wikis

2006-12-07 Thread Graham Percival
Kevin Dalley wrote: The nice thing about a wiki is that I can spend 15 minutes improving the one area which I now understand after spending an hour researching. The same applies to the main docs! Spend 10 minutes making a good small lilypond example, spend five minutes writing two or three se

Re: lilypond and editors

2006-12-07 Thread Tapio Tuovila
Frédéric Chiasson kirjoitti: Well, I never tried jEdit on Mac. But I tried it on PC and the LilypondTool didn't work out and I had so many problems that I discarded it after a week. On the other hand, I have used jEdit with LilypondTool on PC (SuSE and Ubuntu linux) for over two years on almost

Re: Wikis

2006-12-07 Thread Kevin Dalley
Yes, and no. I could spend 15 minutes, and mail it off to Graham, but I probably won't. The official document seems much more serious, and deserves much more thought than 15 minutes, therefore I may never do it. Nevertheless, I may give it a try. Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > K