Re: Win98 SE?

2008-01-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2006-03/msg00301.html However, you may still want to give it a try. If you're lucky it works just fine. /Mats Norman Drucker wrote: I'm a newbie to things Gnu and would like to know whether trying to install and use Lilypond on my Win98 SE

Re: Lilypond: Newsgroup?

2008-01-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Huh, http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/last=/force_load=t Stefan Slapeta wrote: I can't see it making a huge difference. If you're interested, I believe that gmane supplies NNTP. I only spent 30 seconds looking at their site, so I'm not totally certain though.

Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
LilyPond is not a program like the ones you are used to: you do not have to use your mouse to create a score, but *only* your keyboard! There are no buttons to click on, no menus, nothing. First create a text file with some special code in it; then LilyPond will read it and convert it into a beaut

pitchedTrill with a chord?

2008-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everybody, just a small question that occured to me (as the new bugmeister, I don't want to fill a feature request without discussing it first :) In the following snippet, the trill can be interpreted as a chord-trill; however, the pitchedTrill indication prints only one note: \relative c'

new LilyPond based project

2008-01-11 Thread BopLand . org
This is an announcement about new LilyPond based project. http://bopland.org The BopLand.org project is FREE knowledge database for improvising musician. The database contains hundreds of beautiful melodic patterns played by outstanding jazz musicians like Bill Evans, Clifford Brown, Gerry Mulliga

Re: new LilyPond based project

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Scott
BopLand.org wrote: This is an announcement about new LilyPond based project. http://bopland.org The BopLand.org project is FREE knowledge database for improvising musician. The database contains hundreds of beautiful melodic patterns played by outstanding jazz musicians like Bill Evans, Cliffo

Re: opening Lilypond

2008-01-11 Thread Tim Reeves
Valentin said: (If you really want to learn how to use LilyPond, you might need a more convenient editor than the notepad; for example, try jEdit ( www.jedit.org -- download the "development version"), with its special LilyPondTool plugin that is very handy (you have to download it in the "plugin

manual staff switch

2008-01-11 Thread Ole Schmidt
dear all, I have a score like the excerpt below and want to switch the last note of the second staff (staffClassicalGuitarII) to the first staff. Is it possible to use \change Staff = command in such a construction? And if yes what would be the right syntax? Unfortunatly I do not under

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 11 janv. 08 à 22:31, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : I am using lilypond-book (with LaTeX) to collect several different lilypond files into one nice document - with title page, table of contents, and an introduction. However, the music never comes out properly on the page. Using lilypond o

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:45:45PM +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > You may get rid off LaTeX and use LilyPond only, for instance with the Can you also use Lily to produce graphics (ps, eps, pdf, ...) of the music and then \include them in Latex ? Perhaps this is not elegant. -- Thanks ___

Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I am using lilypond-book (with LaTeX) to collect several different lilypond files into one nice document - with title page, table of contents, and an introduction. However, the music never comes out properly on the page. Using lilypond on a single file, the music is nicely laid out, appropriate sp

composition title on every page except the first

2008-01-11 Thread Felipe Vogel
Hello, I am new to LilyPond (AWESOME program, by the way!) and I have some questions about headers. I want to have the title of a composition appear at the top of every page (in a small font). I found this message that explains how to do this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-0

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/11, Alasdair McAndrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks - your code may do the job! Will it work with version 2.10.33? I > guess what would be nice would be for a page of lilypond to be "pasted" onto > a blank LaTeX page by lilypond-book, but as you say LaTeX does the page > filling. Unfortun

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Can you also use Lily to produce graphics (ps, eps, pdf, ...) of the > music and then \include them in Latex ? In essence, this is what lilypond-book does when operating on a LaTeX document; it determines the LaTeX line wi

Re: Lilypond-book and LaTeX; a few issues

2008-01-11 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Thanks - your code may do the job! Will it work with version 2.10.33? I guess what would be nice would be for a page of lilypond to be "pasted" onto a blank LaTeX page by lilypond-book, but as you say LaTeX does the page filling. -Alasdair On Jan 12, 2008 8:45 AM, Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: manual staff switch

2008-01-11 Thread milarepa7
Hello, Maybe there's another way to do but I would edit the "GitarreZwei.ly" like that : % staffClassicalGuitar = {c'4 c' c' c'} staffClassicalGuitarII = {g'4 g' g' \change Staff ="one" g'} \score { \new StaffGroup { \set StaffGr

lilypond-book and searchable pdf:s

2008-01-11 Thread Erik Ronström
Hi! This is not a question, rather I would like to just present some things I've come across the last days. Maybe this is old knowledge to you, and in that case, please ignore this mail. Still, I was not able to find these my conclusions in the archives, so hopefully it may be of some use for some

Re: special characters in markup

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Scott
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/11, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: That's a good answer which I can use This is not really needed anymore, as LilyPond can support all UTF-8 characters natively. I was actually thinking about normal characters like '"' which have another syntacti