Re: Custom font commands (for header fields)

2008-01-23 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Hi, On Jan 14, 2008 3:09 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Please use the default definitions as a starting point, see the file > .../ly/titling-init.ly in your installation directory. I'm sorry to bother you once more... I had a look at the file you suggested. The bookTitleMarkup syntax looks underst

Re: Custom font commands (for header fields)

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have read the section on Custom titles in the manual, which shows how to do these changes within your own .ly file (or separate .ily file to include), preferably using code copied from titling-init.ly as a starting point. Maybe, the detailed you missed was to include the setting in a

Re: How to put one system only per page?

2008-01-23 Thread matth
Maybe you should try the \pageBreak command hope this help Matth ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Vertical text alignment in VoltaBracket - Bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/22, Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear All, > > The volta bracket text seems to be aligned vertically based on the > topmost part of the text. In the attached image, the first bracket has > just "short" characters and the other some "taller" characters. > Therefore, their base line

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/22, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe > it's a European thing? (or a poor translation from the > appropriate terms in Dutch or French or something?) Please do not *always* assume that because something is weird, it mus

Re: Changing header font name

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that nobody has answered your question. I hope you have read the section on Font selection, which among others shows the answer to your second question (using #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree ... ). For your first question on how to change the fonts for only the header fields but n

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/22, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you sure? The following works well > \paper{ > first-page-number = -2 > } > and prints page number -1 on the second page, for example. This is a nice feature, by the way; shouldn't we explicitly document it in "page formatting" or something?

Re: Custom font commands (for header fields)

2008-01-23 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
Thanks Mats, On Jan 23, 2008 10:28 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I hope you have read the section on Custom titles in the manual, which shows > how to do these changes within your own .ly file (or separate .ily file > to include), I have now. :-) I could kick myself on the butt for not noticing suc

Re: composition title on every page except the first

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
What you describe is exactly what LilyPond does by default, except that it typesets the instrument field instead of the title field, centered at the page header of all pages but the first one. This means that you can use the default definition which can be found in .../ly/titling-init.ly and jus

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:44:27 +0100 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/22, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > \paper{ > > first-page-number = -2 > > } > > This is a nice feature, by the way; shouldn't we explicitly document > it in "page formatting" or something? S

Re: How to put one system only per page?

2008-01-23 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Matthieu Jacquot wrote: > > Maybe you should try the \pageBreak command > I know this one. But i'm looking for an automatic way. Since my first post, i increased the bottom margin, the result is OK when the systems have all the same height... which is not always the case for me. -- View this

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/22, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Are you sure? The following works well \paper{ first-page-number = -2 } and prints page number -1 on the second page, for example. This is a nice feature, by the way; shouldn't we explicitly document it in "p

Re: command line problem

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you haven't already figured out, the command to use is cd "f:\music scores" (Just type cd f:\m and then press TAB, and Windows will automatically fill in the full line) Then you can run the command xml2ly symphony1.xml and even lilypond symphony1.ly /Mats hhpmusic wrote: Hi, Some days ago,

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/23, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe an attractive alternative could be to be able to get the output of > several > \book{...} blocks into a single PDF file, but still keep the separate > page numbering, > as well as the ragged-last-bottom and so on, in each \book. AFAIK he simp

Re: first-page-number set to negative number

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Neil Thornock wrote: I do remember trying this before, though, and wanting to get rid of the negative numbers, so that the page numbers will start on page number 1 (not -2 or whatever). But I can't find how to do that. I'm using oddHeader and evenHeader markup for the page numbers at this

Re: How to put one system only per page?

2008-01-23 Thread matth
Ok, sorry, have you tried \paper { system-count = #1 } ? 2008/1/23, sdfgsdhdshd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Matthieu Jacquot wrote: > > > > Maybe you should try the \pageBreak command > > > > I know this one. But i'm looking for an automatic way. > > Since my first post, i increased

Re: How to put one system only per page?

2008-01-23 Thread sdfgsdhdshd
Matthieu Jacquot wrote: > > Ok, sorry, have you tried > > \paper { >system-count = #1 > } > > ? > Results: -- a .ly with several scores: no visible effect. -- a .ly with one score only of 6 systems: the first system is as usual (= OK), everything else is put in a second system o

test

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
test only ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

LilyPond Search plugin for Firefox and IE7

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hi everybody, this is an idea I've had a couple of weeks ago: this little plugin allows you to search for keywords in the LSR (and hopefully some day in the Documentation as well). http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=lilypond Just click on the link, and enjoy :) The nice thing about su

RE: LilyPond Search plugin for Firefox and IE7

2008-01-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Valentin This seems to be based on the Sherlock standard, which AFAIK is not supported by IE. I know nothing about writing plug-ins, but I think it would need to be based on the OpenSearch standard to work with both IE and Firefox. As I use IE I can't try it, but it sounds good... Trevor

Turn

2008-01-23 Thread Renato
Hi all I am trying to copy the famous Nocturne N. 2 Op. 9 by Chopin, but am getting crazy to make this figure: http://xrl.us/beqd4 3d bar: the turn upon the c8 note. I've been trying all possible configurations of code like this: \once \override TextScript #'script-priority = #-100 c8^\turn^\mar

Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

2008-01-23 Thread Renato
> is there a lilypond language definition available for Notepad++ 4.7, which > supports user language definitions? Hello, I also use Notepad++, just use the TeX language definition. To use it as default when opening a new file go to Configuration->Configure Styles, search for TeX and add ly as

Re: Turn

2008-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The trick is to include them all in one and the same \markup command, using \column or \center to stack them on top of each other. Also, you will have to use the \music-glyph markup command to access the turn. See section "Overview of text markup commands" for the details. /Mats Renato wrote:

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-23 Thread Trevor Bača
On Jan 23, 2008 2:39 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe > > it's a European thing? (or a poor translation from the > > appropriate terms in Dutch or French or s

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-23 Thread Ralph Little
Perhaps the quarter/half thing is a confusion of terms? If you look at flats and sharps as semi- or half-tones then a half of one of those could be reasonably termed quarter-tones. I've not seen a "quarter flat" but I have seen the term "quarter tone" Ralph

Re: LilyPond Search plugin for Firefox and IE7

2008-01-23 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/23, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This seems to be based on the Sherlock standard, which > AFAIK is not supported by IE. I know nothing about > writing plug-ins, but I think it would need to be based > on the OpenSearch standard to work with both IE and > Firefox. As I use IE I ca

Re: grace notes at the same time with "normal" notes

2008-01-23 Thread Stefan Thomas
Tanks, this will help me to find a convincing solution! Mats Bengtsson schrieb am 22.01.2008: > > >Stefan Thomas wrote: >> Dear Lilyponduser, >> I wanted to ask, if it is possible, to start the first grace-note >in >> the below quoted example at the same time as the "normal" fis? >Slightly tricky

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:23 -0600 "Trevor Ba__a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 2:39 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe > > > it's a Eu

Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

2008-01-23 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:34:30 -0500 "Palmer, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed an issue regarding the "See also" on the TODO list: > > - all the commands like @seealso use a @subsubheading, but they > appear as the same size as the @unnumberedsubsubsec headings (as > you would exp

changing music font

2008-01-23 Thread Tim Reeves
I know how to change the text font, but is it possible to change the music font from Feta to something else (for example, a font that Sibelius uses that I have on my computer)? If so, how? Thanks, Tim Reeves___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: Altering font

2008-01-23 Thread Thies Albrecht
Hi Wilbert, hi everybody! First of all thanks for the quick answer. Wilbert Berendsen schrieb: From what I understand the *pfa files are generated files, and depending on desired font size, a symbol is taken from one *pfa or another. If I'm correct, to alter a symbol the best way is to alter

Re: changing music font

2008-01-23 Thread fiëé visuëlle
Am 2008-01-23 um 20:23 schrieb Tim Reeves: I know how to change the text font, but is it possible to change the music font from Feta to something else (for example, a font that Sibelius uses that I have on my computer)? If so, how? That's a FAQ, please search the archive or the docs. Sho

Re: changing music font

2008-01-23 Thread Tim Reeves
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2008-01-23 um 20:23 schrieb Tim Reeves: > I know how to change the text font, but is it possible to change > the music font from Feta to something else (for example, a font > that Sibelius uses that I have on my computer)? > If so, how? That's a FAQ, please se

Re: Minim and Quaver simultaneously

2008-01-23 Thread Trevor Bača
On Jan 22, 2008 10:27 AM, Martin Seng Hin Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greeting Lilypond Users. > Please, do let me know how to code the first note in the attached image? > (A minim which stemmed down and up for a quaver, same time) I can't > think of a method. Hi Martin, #'merge-different

RE: Minim and Quaver simultaneously

2008-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
> Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:27:12 +0800 > From: Martin Seng Hin Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Minim and Quaver simultaneously > To: Lilypond Forum > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Greeting Lilypond Users. > Please, do let me

Line breaking within ligature brackets

2008-01-23 Thread Greg Swinford
Hi all! This is my first post and I'd just like to say thanks to the developers for such a brilliant program. I'm transcribing some mensural music into modern notation and trying to use ligature brackets to indicate the position of ligatures in the original. I'm having to use horizontal (analysis

Open brackets for colouration

2008-01-23 Thread Greg Swinford
I was wondering whether it was somehow possible to get open brackets (i.e. just a right angle at the start and end of the bracket with no line in between, like this: ┌ ┐) for notating colouration in mensural music. I've been playing around with the dashed line settings for horizontal (analysis) b

Re: Minim and Quaver simultaneously

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Seng Hin Yew
Trevor Bača wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 10:27 AM, Martin Seng Hin Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greeting Lilypond Users. Please, do let me know how to code the first note in the attached image? (A minim which stemmed down and up for a quaver, same time) I can't think of a method. Hi Mart