Re: A few suggestions for Documentation 7.3 "Vocal music"

2007-06-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/6/18, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The lack of a patch is very unfortunate, especially in something this long. I'm not comfortable blindly replacing the entire doc section with this new one, but it's very difficult to see exactly what is being changed. Could we at least split up t

Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Neeman
On Monday 09 April 2007 20:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > [ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ] > > Hello, all! > > In recent versions of Lilypond, I find that the first element of > every measure is generally too close to the preceding barline for my > taste -- i.e., there isn't enough left-paddin

Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-06-18 Thread Adam Good
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: I'll attach a PNG of the new output on an example that was provided by Kieren elsewhere in this thread. Joe Joe would you mind to post your code for this fix? Looks better indeed. thanks adam __

Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Neeman
On Monday 18 June 2007 20:12, Adam Good wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: > > I'll attach a PNG of the new output on an example that was provided > > by Kieren > > elsewhere in this thread. > > > > Joe > > > > Joe would you mind to post your code for this fix? Looks better i

opening Ly-files

2007-06-18 Thread Hombergh Henri van den GTZ VN
Dear Colleagues, I have started to download Ly-files from the Mutopia website only recently. I have obviously installed Lilypond. Most of the time if I try to open a Ly-file, only a small txt-fiel is made with the text: # -*-compilation-*-Changing working directory to `D:/music pdf files/L v Beeth

Re: opening Ly-files

2007-06-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I'm afraid that you will have to learn some basics about LilyPond to be able to do something useful at all with the program. Then, you will be able to quickly realize that none of these files will produce any output, since they don't contain any (explicit or implicit) \score{...} block. The file

Re: opening Ly-files

2007-06-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/6/18, Hombergh Henri van den GTZ VN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have attached these 4 files, because it does not work with any of them. This is not surprising: if you look into these files, you'll see that they only contain an identifier: instrumentName = {music...} These are the individual i

centering numbers in time signature

2007-06-18 Thread Adam Good
Hey all, In the example below I want a time signature of 32/4 to show but I'm having a hard time getting the "4" to be centered under the "32" thanks! Adam % % create 32/4 tsMarkup =\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \number { \column { "32" "4" } } } \relative a' { \

[layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Dear all, I'm having trouble with tweaking the layout of non-musical notation. Dozens of try/retry sequences didn't get LilyPond to do the job. First, I point you at this unexpected feature : %%% begin %%% %%% The following code outputs and at %%% different horizontal sh

Re: centering numbers in time signature

2007-06-18 Thread Tao Cumplido
hey Adam, just add a \center-align in the \column block. regards, Tao % % create 32/4 tsMarkup =\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \number { \column { \center-align { "32" "4" } } } } \relative a' { \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \ove

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Tao Cumplido
hi, I had the same problem recently and also tried to tweak in the header directly. But what you actually have to do is, to create your own header. In the manual it's explained in chapter '10.2.2. Custom Titles'. You'll have to define the bookTitleMarkup variable in the \paper block to make the h

Re: second voice note has no flags

2007-06-18 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Tao Cumplido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Use this in the second voice instead: a2 s8. a16 The 's' will produce an invisible rest. In suppose that in your code lilypond wrote a dotted eigth beamed to a sixteenth and then hid the eigth and the beam, so that the sixteenth looked like a quarter n

[layout tweaks] 2. \justify, hyphenation, shift

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Dear all, I'm setting vocal scores with, say, russian lyrics. I'd like to remind (outside of the score) the text, and to propose a translation These paragraphs should be justified, and could possibly appear on two columns. So I use \justify to compute the gaps between words. The gaps are sometime

[layout tweaks] 3. ragged last system right #true

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
\version "2.11.26" Dear all, In the \paper block, we can use : ragged-bottomto stretch down all pages ragged-last-bottom to stretch down last page ragged-rightto stretch right all systems Is there a way to stretch all systems right BUT the very last one ? I didn't find any t

Re: [layout tweaks] 3. ragged last system right #true

2007-06-18 Thread Rune Zedeler
Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: ragged-bottomto stretch down all pages ragged-last-bottom to stretch down last page ragged-rightto stretch right all systems Is there a way to stretch all systems right BUT the very last one ? ragged-last (It's in section 11.5.4 of th

Re: Decorated scores

2007-06-18 Thread Helge Kruse
Arjen, for some ornaments this sounds great. Even if this a bit offtopic, I dont have a program to convert a bitmap graphic (TIFF, JPG,...) to EPS. Does anbody knows any program that runs with Windows XP? /Helge - Original Message - From: "Arjen Bax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent:

Re: Decorated scores

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Arjen, for some ornaments this sounds great. Even if this a bit offtopic, I dont have a program to convert a bitmap graphic (TIFF, JPG,...) to EPS. Does anbody knows any program that runs with Windows XP? /Helge OpenOffice.org Draw will do the job ; in a new drawing : Insert/image... File/E

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
hi, I had the same problem recently and also tried to tweak in the header directly. But what you actually have to do is, to create your own header. In the manual it's explained in chapter '10.2.2. Custom Titles'. You'll have to define the bookTitleMarkup variable in the \paper block to make th

Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/6/17, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For those interested, the build commands are now: $ lilypond-book --output=out/ --process="lilypond --backend=eps \ --formats=pdf -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs-load-fonts" --psfonts slave-songs.tex $ (cd out; pdflatex slave-songs.tex; pdflatex slave-s

Re: [Fwd: Misplaced lyrics]

2007-06-18 Thread Joseph Haig
Mats, Graham, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. My first attempt at creating a minimal example didn't work because it turns out that the bug is a little more complicated than I first thought. Having said that, I think that the extra information I found should help pinpoint the bug eas

Re: Decorated scores

2007-06-18 Thread Martial
I dont have a program to convert a bitmap graphic (TIFF, JPG,...) to EPS. Does anbody knows any program that runs with Windows XP? Gimp ! simplified Install http://www.aljacom.com/~gimp/download.html version 2.3.14 (write and read eps) at the bottom of the page ___

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Tao Cumplido
If I get your problem correctly you want something like this: || |Index Title| | Subtitle | || Please confirm because I am not entirely sure if that's what y

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty
Hi Tao, Thank you for your interest. Actually, I want this: fixed| center <--->v | | | Index Title | | Sub-title | |

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Tao Cumplido
I see. This could complicate things a little. First of all you will need the following in your code: %% \paper { bookTitleMarkup = \markup { \column { \fill-line { \fromproperty #'header:index %index in the left edge \fr

Re: [Fwd: Misplaced lyrics]

2007-06-18 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks, added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=378 Cheers, - Graham Joseph Haig wrote: Mats, Graham, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. My first attempt at creating a minimal example didn't work because it turns out that the bug is a little more complicated than

Re: [layout tweaks] 1. fill-line

2007-06-18 Thread Rune Zedeler
Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote: . I want to get and centered on the page, while is placed on the left of . . I could not place at a _fixed_ position from the _variable_ position of 's first character. \version "2.10.1" \header { thetitle = "This is the title" index = "3.14159"

Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Joe Neeman escreveu: On Monday 09 April 2007 20:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote: [ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ] Hello, all! In recent versions of Lilypond, I find that the first element of every measure is generally too close to the preceding barline for my taste -- i.e., there isn't enough

Re: Mac OS X libguile.17.dylib Trace/BPT Trap error when adding a second voice to piano score

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Fedoruk escreveu: Hello: I am attempting to transcribe a Scarlatti Sonata which I will cross check with the facsimile edition -- when I get to see it. However, in bringing in a second voice to the right hand I get this error: dyld: Symbol not found: Referenced from: /Applications/LilyPon

Re: SVG previews

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Keenan Pepper escreveu: On 6/8/07, Keenan Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want Lilypond to produce an SVG file (for uploading to Wikipedia), but I don't want it to be a whole page. I thought "lilypond -b svg --preview" would do the trick, but apparently those options are incompatible: Does

Re: SVG previews

2007-06-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/6/18, Keenan Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Just upload the png" is not an acceptable solution. I can eliminate the font dependency by performing "Object to Path" in Inkscape, so I guess I just have to crop it manually in Inkscape as well. Still, I shouldn't getting Scheme syntax errors from

Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-06-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Awesome that you've been able to get your fingers dirty in the spacing > engine. Yeah. Go on, Joe! > You've breached into one of the last domains of the "Han-Wen only" > code. Probably only the grace-timing code in the iterators is left > as the last outhold of sole Han-Wenness in Lily. BT

lyrics font size

2007-06-18 Thread vwf
Hello, I try to set the font-size of lyrics, but this seems less straight forward than I expected. So far, the notehead size changes with the text-size. How can I set the size of the staves and the lyrics independently? This is what I made: #(set-global-staff-size 15) \score { << \new