Re: Vertical spacing

2007-12-03 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op zondag 2 december 2007, schreef Garrett Fitzgerald: > Evening, all. I have 4 staffs (solo and chorus) that fit nicely on one > page. I just added chord names, and blew it up so that only 3 staffs > would fit on the first page. How do I move the chord names closer to > the staff so that there's a

Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Albert Frantz
Hello, I'm trying to create an extremely simple one-measure example, but the measure is extended across the page. Can someone please help me to limit the length to something reasonable? I've searched through the archives and have tried the suggestions for setting paper size and line / measure wi

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Albert Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, Hello, > I'm trying to create an extremely simple one-measure example, but the measure > is > extended across the page. Can someone please help me to limit the length to > something reasonable? You need to set to "true" (letter "t") the ra

Re: font errors but still output

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > when did this start? was .34 ok? Yes. I remember having had the same problem this summer, with maybe .26 or .27. At this time, this seemed to be related to the way I entered some lyrics (whenever there was a LF in the source file, the program ou

problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Stefan Thomas
Hi together, I have a problem with auto beams in the 12/16 bar. I want beam the 16th in groups of three notes, but it doesn't work in the below quoted file: \relative c { \clef bass \time 12/16 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) 3 16 'Score) c16 b c d c d g, a b c d e } What's the mis

Re: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Graham Percival
Please read the doc section "setting automatic beaming". This code does exactly what you ask; it ends a beam after the 3rd sixteenth note. Cheers, - Graham Stefan Thomas wrote: Hi together, I have a problem with auto beams in the 12/16 bar. I want beam the 16th in groups of three notes, but i

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Albert Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Valentin (and others), > > One more question: How can I save just that little example as a bitmap > file (preferably TIFF), without the whole page and without the footer? oh, yes. just add \header { tagline = "" } below the \paper block to remove

RE: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
> Stefan Thomas wrote on 03 December 2007 09:35 > > Hi together, > I have a problem with auto beams in the 12/16 bar. > I want beam the 16th in groups of three notes, > but it doesn't work in > the below quoted file: > > \relative c > { > \clef bass > \time 12/16 > #(override-auto-beam-setting

MIDI to sheet music?

2007-12-03 Thread clara
i read that you can convert MIDI to sheet music using lilypond here: http://paulm.com/inchoate/2005/07/how_to_find_and_create_your_own_she.html but since i am new to lilypond, i am really confused. does lilypond have a built-in MIDI converter? or do i have to download another program to convert to

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: No need to use lilypond-book (I have never used it). It requires knowledge about the LaTeX format, which is waaay more complicated than HTML. Wrong! lilypond-book supports not only LaTeX but also HTML, so if the images are intended to be included on a web page, li

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No need to use lilypond-book (I have never used it). It requires > > knowledge about the LaTeX format, which is waaay more complicated than > > HTML. > > > Wrong! lilypond-book supports not only LaTeX but also HTML, so if > the images are intended

explicitly stating the output filename

2007-12-03 Thread James E. Bailey
While I'm fine just renaming my files after they are created or passing the output filename in my command-line options (I'm on 2.11.35-2 Mac OSX), I was just wondering if there's a way to explictly set the filename in my lilypond file. Something akin to the point-and-click option. Thanks

Re: MIDI to sheet music?

2007-12-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
clara wrote: i read that you can convert MIDI to sheet music using lilypond here: http://paulm.com/inchoate/2005/07/how_to_find_and_create_your_own_she.html but since i am new to lilypond, i am really confused. does lilypond have a built-in MIDI converter? or do i have to download another prog

Re: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Dec 2007, at 11:23, Trevor Daniels wrote: \relative c { \clef bass \time 12/16 #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) 3 16 'Score) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) 6 16 'Score) #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) 9 16 'Score) c16 b c d c d g, a b c d e } H

Re: MIDI to sheet music?

2007-12-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I have to warn you that this utility is fairly primitive > and might have problems to get all rhythms right, especially if your > MIDI file wasn't produced by some other notation program. I get reasonable (= useful) results when using Rosegard

RE: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hans Aberg wrote on 03 December 2007 14:16 > > On 3 Dec 2007, at 11:23, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > \relative c > > { > > \clef bass > > \time 12/16 > > #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) > 3 16 'Score) > > #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 16) > 6 16 'Score) > > #(override-a

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: By the way, is it me or the whole Appendix D is currently unaccessible on the main web docs? (which is why I'm CCing Graham this answer, didn't feel like starting a new thread). Which version? When I try it here, I can reach both http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Docu

Re: Setting width for one-measure example

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Which version? When I try it here, I can reach both > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Templates#Templates > and > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/GNU-Free-Documentation-License#GNU-Free-Documentat

Re: explicitly stating the output filename

2007-12-03 Thread Stan Sanderson
(forgot to cc to the list) On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stan Sanderson wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:34 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: While I'm fine just renaming my files after they are created or passing the output filename in my command-line options (I'm on 2.11.35-2 Mac OSX), I was just won

Re: explicitly stating the output filename

2007-12-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stan, Am Monday, 3. December 2007 schrieb Stan Sanderson: > On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stan Sanderson wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:34 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: > >> While I'm fine just renaming my files after they are created or > >> passing t

Re: font errors but still output

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Reeves
Looks like the same font for Valentin and I , just Open Type vs. True Type. It was no problem in 2.11.34 (or any previous version) and I did not recently install that font. However - good news! - I rebooted my machine for some other reason, and I have not now had a problem since. (At least I t

Re: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Hans Aberg
On 3 Dec 2007, at 16:58, Trevor Daniels wrote: Maybe not much help if you have many of these, You are right: this is a problem. The meter 12/16 is just one possible description of it. If one accepts that, there will be always quadruplet patterns on the 3s in the decomposition 12 = 3+2+2+3+

Re: explicitly stating the output filename

2007-12-03 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:50 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: Am 03.12.2007 um 16:45 schrieb Stan Sanderson: On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:34 AM, James E. Bailey wrote: While I'm fine just renaming my files after they are created or passing the output filename in my command-line options (I'm on 2.11.35-2

Re: font errors but still output

2007-12-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/12/3, Tim Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Looks like the same font for Valentin and I , just Open Type vs. True Type. > > It was no problem in 2.11.34 (or any previous version) and I did not recently > install that font. > > However - good news! - I rebooted my machine for some other reason,

Re: Help on changing staff sizes

2007-12-03 Thread Till Rettig
thanks for this, it took me my time to figure out into which context to put it... Lilypond is not really userfriendly in many things... But well, there are some issues with that: The horizontal spacing doesn't get changed, like the space between a thick and a hair barline. Is there now chance to

Re: Smaller PDF, shrinking away largeness

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Lilypond 2.4.6 on cygwin produces a 26 KB pdf. Thomas > This has been added as > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=519 > > but we really need more information. The gap between 1.9.8 and 2.10 > is huge, so no further action will be taken unless somebody narrows > down the versio

Re: Smaller PDF, shrinking away largeness

2007-12-03 Thread Graham Percival
What we need is this: - create a single example which you can run in different lilypond versions. - check the PDF size in different lilypond versions. - when you have found the release that increases the size dramatically, send an email to the bug mailist. At the very least, we need to know which

RE: problem with 12/16 beaming

2007-12-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hans Aberg wrote on 03 December 2007 18:34 > > On 3 Dec 2007, at 16:58, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > Maybe not much help if you have many of these, > > You are right: this is a problem. The meter 12/16 > is just one > possible description of it. If one accepts that, > there will be always >

\epsfile args

2007-12-03 Thread thorne
Hi, I have successfully embedded an .eps file in lilypond output, but i am sizing it more or less by eyeball because i don't know what the units are for second (size) argument. The manual (2.10) just says: , | \epsfile axis (number) size (number) file-name (string) | Inline an EPS image.

Re: \epsfile args

2007-12-03 Thread Michael David Crawford
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the units are Adobe Postscript points. There are 72 of them per inch. (Traditional printer points don't fit evenly in an inch; Adobe rounded them.) thorne wrote: Hi, I have successfully embedded an .eps file in lilypond output, but i am sizing i