Re: NoteHead direction

2007-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If I understand your question correctly, there's no need for any property setting at all. Just make a chord in one of the voices: /Mats Quoting Kamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What is the NoteHead property (or any other object property) which would make the following code snippet display overla

Re: Adjusting space between lines

2007-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See the section on "Vocal music" (the main section, not any of the subsections). /Mats Quoting Stephen Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In the annotated version of my sheet music I see that the spacing between measure lines is dictated by the variables 'next', 'space' and 'padding'. My problem ri

Re: Absolute Beginners

2007-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have noticed that Graham, our main document editor, has already incorporated a number of ideas from the earlier version of your beginners guide, into the latest version of the official Tutorial. /Mats Quoting Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chapter 1 of the guide, and a first version

Re: NoteHead direction

2007-03-11 Thread Kamal
Thank you. Putting the notes in a chord form worked fine. So this becomes a side question: What is the property to change the notehead direction? On 3/11/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I understand your question correctly, there's no need for any property setting at all. Just

Re: Measures are not the right size for lyrics

2007-03-11 Thread Fred Leason
Stephen: If you use " \new ChoirStaff <<" instead of GrandStaff, the lyrics do not seem to collide with the bars because the bars do not extend between clefs. It seems completely readable to me. I used 2.11.19. By the way, I've never seen Makefile used like this before. To engrave you

how to set staff size in safe mode

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Stauff
How can I set the staff size in safe mode? I've only been able to find two ways in the documentation: set-global-staff-size and layout-set-staff-size, and neither one works in safe mode. I get this error: 3.ly:8:12: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here \layout {

Re: how to set staff size in safe mode

2007-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
This seems like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. For example, #(set-global-staff-size 16) {c' d' e' f'} works without problems in version 2.8 but fails with the error message Unbound variable: $defaultpaper in version 2.11.20. /Mats Quoting Ed Stauff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How can I

Re: Skips in lyricsto

2007-03-11 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes: > If you still end up using \skip, the duration of each \skip > shouldn't matter at all, so you could just as well use > \skip 4 or whatever. That's what I do, usually in the context of a voice having different lyrics from the other voices only for a fraction of

Bug in lilypond-book-preamble (was RE: -b eps option (was RE: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1))

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Harouff
I narrowed the problem down to lilypond-book-preamble.ly lilypond -dbackend eps lilypond-book-preamble.ly GNU LilyPond 2.11.20 ERROR: In procedure symbol->string ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting symbol): #t I haven't made any changes, but here is the contents of lilypond-book-

Re: how to set staff size in safe mode

2007-03-11 Thread David Feuer
On 3/11/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This seems like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. For example, #(set-global-staff-size 16) I don't understand why a few things (staff size and beaming behavior come to mind) need to be set using Scheme setter functions. Why can't we j

Re: Center-aligning objects in Scheme

2007-03-11 Thread Maximilian Albert
Hi Vivian, > I posted a message to this list a few days ago about automatically > center-aligning some text under a Hairpin object (for example "molto" or > "poco" ) but haven't received any responses. Whilst I've found how to > combine markups using combine-at-edge I can't find how to center-alig

Re: Center-aligning objects in Scheme

2007-03-11 Thread Trevor Bača
On 3/11/07, Maximilian Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Vivian, > I posted a message to this list a few days ago about automatically > center-aligning some text under a Hairpin object (for example "molto" or > "poco" ) but haven't received any responses. Whilst I've found how to > combine ma

Not a lilypond-book-preamble.ly bug (was RE: -b eps option (was RE: OOolilypond and openoffice 2.1))

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Harouff
It helps if you include the "=" in the -dbackend=eps option. You can see from my previous message that I read the documentation correctly. We all make mistakes. :-) Is it possible to include more helpful error messages for the command line options, when somebody gets a chance? It appears that I

Re: how to set staff size in safe mode

2007-03-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
David Feuer wrote: On 3/11/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This seems like a bug, so I forward it to bug-lilypond. For example, #(set-global-staff-size 16) I don't understand why a few things (staff size and beaming behavior come to mind) need to be set using Scheme setter functi