Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Eyolf Ostrem
I finally sat down and read through the beginners' guide, and I like it! Good work. Two minor comments: On Tue 26 December 2006 01:57, Manuel wrote: > You change the clef changing the term "treble" to > > > alto > tenor > bass etc. Perhaps you should include "G_8" too - it's certainly the clef I

Re: combined tenuto + accent

2006-12-26 Thread yota moteuchi
Thank you for you concern. I thought this request lost in the limbs, I'm glad to see I was wrong ^^ I'm looking forward to hearing news 'til then merry Christmas dudes On 12/24/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the report, entered as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/is

Re: osx intel broken?

2006-12-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača escreveu: > On 12/25/06, Sean Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> after unpacking the archives, they appear to be PPC programs that >> >> won't run on my new iMac. I know I've used this software on this >> >> computer before I re-installed it, so am I missing something? Or >> >> is

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
Geoff, I took away plainchant. Should I mention other things, like proportional notation or whatever? David, I did just that and changed the sentence. Eyolf, I included a reference to "chiavettes" with "G_8". You change the clef changing the term "treble" to Would "word" be better than

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Geoff Horton
Geoff, I took away plainchant. Should I mention other things, like proportional notation or whatever? I don't know--I've never used proportional notation (at least not knowingly). comes the c that is a fourth above the g instead of a fifth below, an so forth. "and so forth" (yet another one

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
Am 26/12/2006 um 15:14 schrieb Geoff Horton: comes the c that is a fourth above the g instead of a fifth below, an so forth. "and so forth" (yet another one that spellcheck won't find) I anded the an to an and. You set the clef naming the one you want: in the preceeding example, we wrote

Re: lilypond-book in two-column mode?

2006-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: I tried to change the first line to \documentclass[a4paper,twocolumn,landscape]{article} and couldn't notice any problems. If you use dvips and ps2pdf, I hope you remember to add the flag dvips -t landscape Thanks for the tip Mats, added to git. Cheers, - Graham __

Re: \parallelMusic and PianoStaff, again

2006-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
Palmer, Ralph wrote: I modified the snippet to make it a little more readable in the score. Would this be a candidate for the LSR? If so, I'll go ahead and submit it. Is there any standard format? I've added this to the manual. It may still be useful to have in LSR, though. Cheers, - Graha

Re: stupid substitution

2006-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Mats is right. But just for the record: music functions with no argument still have their use, for instance: displayBarNum = #(define-music-function (parser location) () (if (eq? #t (ly:get-option display-bar-numbers)) #{ \once \override Score.BarNumber #'break-vi

Re: osx intel broken?

2006-12-26 Thread Sean Reed
after unpacking the archives, they appear to be PPC programs that won't run on my new iMac. I know I've used this software on this The frontend of the intel version claims to be ppc, but the actual processing is done in native intel code. It works fine here. however, the macIntel 2.11.x v

Re: osx intel broken?

2006-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
Sean Reed wrote: Using 2.11.5, lilypond stops at the "Preprocessing graphical objects..." and outputs no .ps/.pdf when compiling this expression: {d'4 cis' d' cis'(} Thanks! http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=198 - Graham ___ lilyp

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Joe Neeman
Why don't you put your tutorial on the wiki[1]? This way people can make small changes without all the back-and-forth on the mailing list. Also, you get automatic version control and it allows you to easily divide your tutorial into multiple sections. [1] http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org ___

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
I have now incorporated (I hope) all the latest corrections and suggestions. However, I thought that the ability to write simple melodies should include the possibility of anacrusis, so I wrote a little more at the end of the text. About wiki, I don't think so. Especially as a newbie, I res

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Joe Neeman
On 12/26/06, Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: About wiki, I don't think so. Especially as a newbie, I respect the existing working structure of the LilyPond project. I'm not sure I understand your objection. The wiki exists exactly for this sort of thing. I assume that there are people in

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
Am 26/12/2006 um 18:41 schrieb Joe Neeman: Our documentation guru is also our bug meister Who is he? the interference of any of the developers. But that's part of my point. I write "do this for that purpose", then somebody else suggests a change, and so forth. But will it really work

Re: midi2ly doesn't respect the --key

2006-12-26 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> I'm not surprised; MIDI files only specifies the pitch number, not the Graham> actual note (i.e. bes and ais are both note 58). midi2ly is not Graham> intelligent enough to pick notes out of the same key. Then w

Re: midi2ly doesn't respect the --key

2006-12-26 Thread Graham Percival
Laura Conrad wrote: "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> I'm not surprised; MIDI files only specifies the pitch number, not the Graham> actual note (i.e. bes and ais are both note 58). midi2ly is not Graham> intelligent enough to pick notes out of the sa

Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
Graham, I see that you are in charge of documentation. I suggest that the little "Absolute Beginners' " help we have been tossing around for the last couple of days be included in the documentation. What is your opinion? Manuel ___ lilypond-user

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread kevin
Wikis are good at this type of thing. Give it a try and see what it looks like in a week. There will be a lot of quick changes, with should change a good description to a better one. "Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 12/26/06, Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About wiki

Re: Absolute Beginners

2006-12-26 Thread Manuel
Kevin, Probably because I don't really know or understand the wiki thing (not yet at least), I don't feel comfortable with it. I have just asked Graham for his opinion about including the "Absolute Beginners" help in the LilyPond's documentation. Let's see what he thinks. Manuel Am 26

command line lilypond, midi to stdout

2006-12-26 Thread Bob Harris
Howdy, I'm wondering if there is a way to have command-line lilypond produce midi on stdout. My typical use is to feed a .ly file into lilypond to create a .midi output, then take thatinto garage band (a mac program which I would describe as a midi recorder and track editor). Unfortunately lilyp

midi2ly key and rests

2006-12-26 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, #include "German.ly" ;-) I have a MIDI file, that with all patches one semitone too high. It sounds in Cis . I have converted it with midi2ly to Lilypond format and transposed each voice with \transpose to C so I can play it much better. But this gives Ces instead of H and Fes instea