Shift & rests

2008-01-06 Thread Luc
% Isn't a pitched rest supposed to shift to the right or - vice versa - a chord relative to the rest? \version "2.11.37" \paper { ragged-right =##t } << { < d' g' > } \\ { \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2. b \rest } << { \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2. < d' g' > } \\ { r }

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 05.01.2008 (22:49), Graham Percival wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:50:01 -0500 > Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a professional composer. > > I use Lilypond (nearly) every day. > > I don't actively (i.e., visibly) contribute to Lilypond code or > > documentation... and m

Re: Halving the duration of every note

2008-01-06 Thread Stefan Slapeta
...is it also possible to achieve this without changing the appearance? Means: printing notes that have a different duration than they look like (something that \times does, just without brackets and numbers). thanks! stefan Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Alasdair: This means halving the dura

xandros

2008-01-06 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Lilypond-users, I wanted to install Lilypond on Xandros, but without success. Does anyone know how to do this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "help ur program is broken. where are teh buttons 2 click on" ahahahaha :) (irrepressible hysterical laugh) Still, if I might add a comment here, the quality we need the most is *not* a high LilyPond skill-level, but simply patience, enthusiasm, an

Re: Rests in Percussion Notation

2008-01-06 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, Reilly-3 wrote: > Can I manipulate whole and half measures rests in various 1-line staves? > > Half rest should be below line > Whole rests should rest on line not levitate above line I'm now writing a small score, which contains percussion (cymbals) and I was searching for RhythmicStaff stu

RE: Halving the duration of every note

2008-01-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
You can use \times and suppress the tuplet number with \override TupletNumber #'transparent = ##t or your can change the duration of a note by appending a number or fraction: eg a4*2/3 but both will affect the barring. See section 1.2.1 in the R11 documentation for details. Trevor D >

Re: Halving the duration of every note

2008-01-06 Thread Ole Schmidt
how about \compressMusic (see Polymetric Notation in the manual)? ole Am 06.01.2008 um 13:27 schrieb Trevor Daniels: You can use \times and suppress the tuplet number with \override TupletNumber #'transparent = ##t or your can change the duration of a note by appending a number or fraction

Re: Filling the page

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Wilbert, On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Try: \paper { ragged-last-bottom = ##f } Uitstekend! Dank u. Jeremiah ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Rests in Percussion Notation

2008-01-06 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi again, Risto Vääräniemi wrote: > Is there a way to change the R1 glyph from "rests.0o" to > e.g. "rests.0" for that staff? I got the R1 rests to hang below the line by setting \override RhythmicStaff.MultiMeasureRest #'extra-offset = #'(0.0 . -1.0) Not so elegant solution, though. -Risto

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ehem... unless with "currently" you mean "at this very moment", we do have > one, although too pressed for time at this very moment (lasting until the > middle of the month) to be as active as desirable. But *zero*? No. (S! You're ruining Graham's

Re: xandros

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Stefan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Lilypond-users, > I wanted to install Lilypond on Xandros, but without success. > Does anyone know how to do this? AFAIK it should work like on any other linux distribution: -download the linux-x86 installer on http://lilypond.org/web/install/

Re: Rests in Percussion Notation

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way to change the R1 glyph from "rests.0o" to e.g. "rests.0" for > that staff? Why don't you try: \override MultiMeasureRest #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \override MultiMeasureRest #'text = \marku

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Graham and fellow Lilyponders: I have been following the discussion of Graham's planned departure from the Lilypond team and other recent discussions on the extent to document code in style sheets and tweaks. I began using Lilypond in the summer of 2007, after rejecting demo versions of the ma

Debugger; draft mode

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
I am ignorant of what is possible or available in Lilypond. I am currently running 2.11.36 on a Mac PPC running OS 10.3.9. I write my code either directly into a Lilypond file or into TextEdit and then cut and paste. (1) I am working on a symphony (22 staves) which takes more than 20 minutes

Changing vertical extent on-the-fly?

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi all, I recently asked a similar question on the list, now noticing again that I'd like to have this feature. A minimal example: \version "2.11.37" \score { \relative c' { << \new Staff { c4 d e f | f e d c \break | \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-8 . 4) % does

Re: Debugger; draft mode

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am ignorant of what is possible or available in Lilypond. > (1) I am working on a symphony (22 staves) which takes more than 20 > minutes to compile and the time increases rapidly as I add more music > to the score. I have developed a work around for "proo

Re: Halving the duration of every note

2008-01-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, how about \compressMusic (see Polymetric Notation in the manual)? That's definitely my preferred method. Best, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (09:51), Reilly wrote: > No offense to everyone who has worked on the documentation for Lilypond, but > the documentation is the weakest component of the package. The index often > lacks entries for my questions. The entries more often than not, do not > address my problems. The c

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully, the GDP will be able to remedy some of this. As one of the > rewriters of the Notation Reference (in fact the *only*, AKA "Mr Zero"), I > can subscribe to some of the criticism. I don't know about the index -- I > hardly ever use it, perhaps

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, Okay, the guilt and peer pressure has finally overwhelmed my better judgement! ;-) If I had an advanced lilypond user offer to help, I wouldn't ask them to work on the texinfo files directly (unless they particularly wanted to). I just want somebody who can review the material i

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (17:15), Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'd love to be able to write > > \rehearsalmarks{alphabetic} or \setlenght{betweensystemspace}{2em} if > > someone writes a package that includes it. > > What, you mean something like: > http://lsr.d

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/6, Eyolf Østrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If someone cares to do it, that is... To be completely fair, it has already been done for a lot of very common tweaks (e.g. \stemUp etc.) I don't find the \overrides very hard to understand; it's one of the very first thing I knew how to achieve in Li

cross staff beaming

2008-01-06 Thread Jay Hamilton
I looked at the lsr for cross staff beaming and it doesn't look like what I'm after. Piano staff and a run of notes from gis through middle c to e changing staff at e below middle c but slanted not flat beams and I don't want to change the distance between the staves so reading the code from the

Re: Debugger; draft mode

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Valentin, On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: Would it be possible to add a \draft mode to Lilypond which would ignore markups, text, dynamics, and formatting and just do the music (4 bars to a line or something), so I can do a quick read-through of the score? This is g

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Greetings all: On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: Hopefully, the GDP will be able to remedy some of this. As one of the rewriters of the Notation Reference (in fact the *only*, AKA "Mr Zero"), I can subscribe to some of the criticism. I don't know about the index -- I har

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Eyolf, On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: example, the problem is not so much knowing what it means -- that can be looked up quite easily -- but to know (a) what kind of variations does a user expect? does size matter? angle? are different symbols or styles in use, and are

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (14:21), Reilly wrote: > Eyolf, > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand the purpose of Graham's example question. It's easy: the purpose of ALL of Graham's examples is that THIS TAKES RESOURCES and no matter how good the idea is, someone

Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-06 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 4 janv. 08 à 00:15, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit : Are you thinking about turning your framework into a general lilypond-for-books package (with some documentation on how to use ;-) ) so that we "ordinary" lilypond users can also benefit from it? A book titling stylesheet has been publishe

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:19:13 +0100 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/6, Eyolf __strem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Ehem... unless with "currently" you mean "at this very moment", we > > do have one, although too pressed for time at this very moment > > (lasting until the middl

Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:50:38 +0100 Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 4 janv. 08 __ 00:15, Reinhold Kainhofer a __crit : > > > Are you thinking about turning your framework into a general > > lilypond-for-books package (with some documentation on how to > > use ;-) ) so > > that we "

Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-06 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 6 janv. 08 à 21:56, Graham Percival a écrit : On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:50:38 +0100 Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le 4 janv. 08 __ 00:15, Reinhold Kainhofer a __crit : Are you thinking about turning your framework into a general lilypond-for-books package (with some documentation

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 06.01.2008 (12:52), Graham Percival wrote: > It's been about a month since an update from you. Ten days, to be exact :) > Besides, did you _really_ want to be the only person working on > the content? Of course not! I just reacted to the "zero" part. eyolf -- Who dat who say "who dat" wh

Re: Leaving: "I can't help"

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:08:26 +0100 Eyolf __strem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06.01.2008 (12:52), Graham Percival wrote: > > > It's been about a month since an update from you. > > Ten days, to be exact :) ... since an updated .itely file since you? (to be honest, I was guessing. As soon as

Re: Instrumental Group Names in Score

2008-01-06 Thread Reilly
Hi Kieren, On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: I have easily spent 10 times the amount of time studying Lilypond and understand only 1/10th of what I can do in LaTeX. This may be because LaTeX includes *significantly* more (and more complex) macros which sit on top of (Pl

Re: Instrumental Group Names in Score

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:05:29 -0500 Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's where I get baffled. (A priori) I don't know that these > settings exist and when I search on vertical spacing (within a > system) in the documentation, I am not directed to these settings. I > certainly do understand why

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:15:34 +0100 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plus, it includes the whole LilyPond Documentation as well, and > searching for keywords is definitely much easier with this tool than > with the very limited index -- AFAIK only Graham has ever used it ;) No bloo

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:51:13 -0500 Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > package. The index often lacks entries for my questions. This is, fortunately, the easiest thing to fix. In the docs, index entries are made in the relevant section. So for example, in the "Ambitus" section, we might have som

Re: Volunteering with LilyPond

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:21:15 -0500 Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eyolf, > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > example, the problem is not so much knowing what it means -- that > > can be > > looked up quite easily It *can be*. But *I'm* not going to bother. Why

Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-06 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Le 6 janv. 08 à 21:56, Graham Percival a écrit : > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:50:38 +0100 > > > > Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Le 4 janv. 08 __ 00:15, Reinhold Kainhofer a __crit : > >>> Are you thinking about turning your framework

Re: Creating a book of music

2008-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/7, Thomas Spuhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am pretty new to Lilypond and wanted to experiment with this sample, but no > success. Hi Thomas, here's a small how-to: -Download the file I'm sending with this mail (It's just the LSR file, you could have copy/pasted it as well) -Create a new

Re: Polyphonic problem...

2008-01-06 Thread milarepa7
Ok, I tried with the 2.10 version (the only other lilypond version I have) and it works fine, maybe it's close to the 540 issue... Regards -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Polyphonic-problem...-tp14615208p14616301.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archiv

Orchestral score

2008-01-06 Thread Jeremiah Reilly
I am stumped. I have a score with 22 staves, one system to a page. I want Lilypond to layout the score so that the the score "fills" the page. It would be very nice if the first staff and last staff on each page lined up when laid side by side. In other words, I want Lilypond to stretch the i

Volunteering with LilyPond 2nd posting

2008-01-06 Thread Graham Percival
The previous discussion got a bit off-topic, so to make this easier to see I'm posting it again. I've updated the list of open jobs and posted it online: http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/lilyjobs.html Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lily