Re: Unexpected character change on Vista

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/26 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> A simple solution: record the screen portion of where the message >> appear >> with your camcorder. > > Afraid I don't have one of those... CamStudio, anyone? :-) Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: Unexpected character change on Vista

2008-10-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The next step is: in utf-8, is the "N" always corresponding to the > "49" above? > Or in some countries, do they really enter just "N" to get the > I-with-dot-below? > NO => lilypond bug > YES => A font page or category or whatever has to be supplied to >lilypond in the input file. Is i

Re: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Nick, there is a 'baseline-skip property of TextScript, briefly described here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/text_002dinterface Also, in your example, \tiny and \italic don't need their own curly braces since you're already using them for \column --- all th

guitar score - LH fingering, string number placement problems

2008-10-26 Thread Tom Cloyd
Please see code below. My requested placement of LH fingering and string number to the LEFT of the relevant note is being respected on in chord constructs. Also, outside of chords, I'm not getting requested string number indications at all. In a polyphonic score like this, the result is utter

Re: guitar score - LH fingering, string number placement problems

2008-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tom The \set fingeringOrientations command is a chord-only command. It does not work for notes outside chords. So you need to place < > brackets round the single notes too. I recently rewrote a section in the Learning Manual to clarify this. See Fingering in Section 4.4.2 Within-staff objects.

RE: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Nick Payne
Mark Thanks. Using #'baseline-skip = #2 gave the spacing I was looking for. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Mark Polesky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 17:34 > To: lilypond-user; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Control vertical spacing in markup > > Nick, >

Re: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/26 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ^\markup {\tiny {\italic {\column { "right hand the same" "simile la main > droit" BTW: Hm... If I may, this is not French :-) a French would say "comme la main droite" (note the final e, since "main" is a feminine noun in French) Cheers, Valent

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl D. Sorensen wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:14 PM On 10/25/08 2:30 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:06 PM 2008/10/25 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Carl But how do you revert entries like this: ((end * * 6 8) . #f) ;; sw

Re: urgent: people for a fair-copy needed

2008-10-26 Thread Dominic Neumann
I could help, too. But I also wouldn´t do it for such a low price if it wasn´t published under such a license Valentin mentioned. If it was to be published as a book where they earn money with, there should be more money to get ... Dominic 2008/10/25 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008

RE: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Nick Payne
Yes, I forgot the final e for droite. But "simile la main droite" appears on a couple of scores I have published by Eschig, and they *are* a French music publisher. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Valentin Villenave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:58 > To: N

Re: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/26 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, I forgot the final e for droite. But "simile la main droite" appears on > a couple of scores I have published by Eschig, and they *are* a French music > publisher. Then it's a mix between Italian and French :) (by the way, French publishers are kn

2.11.61 or 2.11.62

2008-10-26 Thread Mario Moles
Dear friends, with 2.11.61 he is all ok with 2.11.62 not. I do not understand because. Suggestions? thanks -- oiram/bin/selom % This LilyPond file was generated by Rosegarden 1.6.1 \version "2.11.57" \include "italiano.ly" % point and click debugging is enabled snu = { \set stringNumberOrientatio

Re: 2.11.61 or 2.11.62

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/26 Mario Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Suggestions? Comment the line 62: % s1*0^\markup { \large \bigger \bigger { \hspace #-3.0 } } Then it works. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/

Re: 2.11.61 or 2.11.62

2008-10-26 Thread Eluze
here it compiles after applying convert-ly hth -Eluze -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/2.11.61-or-2.11.62-tp20172387p20172627.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: 2.11.61 or 2.11.62

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/26 Eluze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > here it compiles after applying convert-ly Oh, yes! Of course!! Mario: \bigger no longer exists: use \larger instead. Cheers, Valentin ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Show both copyright AND footer

2008-10-26 Thread Johannes Liedbergius
Hello everyone, I would like to have a footer on every page AND a copyright on the first page. However, when I add the footer with "\oddFooterMarkup" inside "\book" the copyrigt disappears (as well as the tagline on the last page). The footer-function inside \header does not seem to work at

Re: guitar score - LH fingering, string number placement problems

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi Tom, String numbers must also be placed inside chord constructs. See my warning here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Common-notation-for-fretted-strings#Common-notation-for-fretted-strings :) Also, normally in a three-voice texture like this, the bass voice is

Lyrics provoke "Moment is not increasing" complaint

2008-10-26 Thread Roman Stawski
I want to have one group of parallel staves following another sequentially. The constitution of the two groups is quite different. (In the real piece I'm using \removeEmptyStaffContext to hide the first group when I finish with it.) A cut-down example is: - - - -[START] \version "2.11.60" \layout

Re: 2.11.61 or 2.11.62

2008-10-26 Thread Mario Moles
Il domenica 26 ottobre 2008 12:52:19 hai scritto: > 2008/10/26 Mario Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Suggestions? > > Comment the line 62: > > % s1*0^\markup { \large \bigger \bigger { \hspace #-3.0 } } > > Then it works. > > Cheers, > Valentin Now is ok! Tanks -- oiram/bin/selom

Re: slashed noteheads

2008-10-26 Thread Bailey James E.
Yes, see section 1.1.4 of the Notation reference on NoteHeads. Am 25.10.2008 um 19:03 schrieb Stefan Thomas: Dear lilypond-users, is it possible to get slashed note-heads? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: slashed noteheads

2008-10-26 Thread Bailey James E.
Where are you having difficulty? Am 25.10.2008 um 20:03 schrieb Stefan Thomas: Dear Bayley, sorry, I expressed it not quite clearly. I thought of a stroked out (hope this is the right expression in english) notehead. 2008/10/25 Bailey James E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, see section 1.1.4 of t

Windows V2.11.62 Kit reports itself as V2.11.61

2008-10-26 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi all, The last kit for Windows I installed for 2.11.62 says it's 2.11.61 when I do >lilypond from a command window, It also behaves as 2.11.61 if I include a \version "2.11.62" in source. But a compliation still barfs if I include something that has become obsolescent with 2.11.62 like \big

Re: guitar score - LH fingering, string number placement problems

2008-10-26 Thread Tom Cloyd
Jon, Trevor, Thanks so much! Now I understand. The documentation plainly wasn't right, and I couldn't make sense of it in relation to my results. Jon, thanks for the tips on the voice labeling. I'd seen you do that, and wondered why. Makes sense now. This eve I'll dive back into it. Lots of wo

Re: guitar score - LH fingering, string number placement problems

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Tom Cloyd wrote: Jon, Trevor, Thanks so much! Now I understand. The documentation plainly wasn't right, and I couldn't make sense of it in relation to my results. The docs weren't right? Can you point to the part that's wrong? If there's something wrong we want to fix it. I think the part

Re: urgent: people for a fair-copy needed

2008-10-26 Thread Francisco Vila
I have not too much spare time to spend, but in the conditions that Valentin said, I'd be willing to help a bit too. If one of us starts setting up some templates, others could start coding staves provided that the variable names will match the appropiate ones in the templates. PS Only LilyPond al

Re: urgent: people for a fair-copy needed

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Count me in under the same conditions as everyone else. Jon Francisco Vila wrote: I have not too much spare time to spend, but in the conditions that Valentin said, I'd be willing to help a bit too. If one of us starts setting up some templates, others could start coding staves provided that th

Re: urgent: people for a fair-copy needed

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
BTW, is the full score posted online somewhere? Jon Francisco Vila wrote: I have not too much spare time to spend, but in the conditions that Valentin said, I'd be willing to help a bit too. If one of us starts setting up some templates, others could start coding staves provided that the variab

Re: Cross staff notation

2008-10-26 Thread Helge Kruse
Jonathan, thanks for reply. Do you also know a kind of function, where I can pass the note(s) that should be notated in the upper system as a parameter? The function should - save current stem direction - change the staff to upper - write the passed note(s) - change the staff to lower - restore

Let's make TextSpanners easier to use!

2008-10-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, as Graham recently noted, TextSpanners are currently painful to use: { \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left #'text = "rit." b1\startTextSpan e'\stopTextSpan } We really should provide our users with a shortcut: a single command, less powerful, less flexible but

RE: Control vertical spacing in markup

2008-10-26 Thread Nick Payne
> -Original Message- > From: Valentin Villenave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2008/10/26 Nick Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, I forgot the final e for droite. But "simile la main droite" > appears on > > a couple of scores I have published by Eschig, and they *are* a > French music > >

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-10-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 10/26/08 4:00 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:14 PM >> On 10/25/08 2:30 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Neil wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:06 PM 2008/10/25 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PR

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-10-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Carl D. Sorensen Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:30 PM On 10/26/08 4:00 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:14 PM On 10/25/08 2:30 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:06 PM 2008/

Re: Beat grouping and reverting

2008-10-26 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 10/26/08 4:44 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl D. Sorensen Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:30 PM >> On 10/26/08 4:00 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Carl D. Sorensen wrote Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:14 PM On 10/25/08 2:30 PM, "Trevor Daniels"

Transposing help.

2008-10-26 Thread Seth Merkley
I've recently been trying to transpose a piece of music I got from mutopia here: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645 http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645 I don't know how to write lilypond files, but I did read a little bit on the basics and I do under

Escaping text in title and composer?

2008-10-26 Thread Myron Marston
I have a web application (http://fractalcomposer.com) that uses lilypond to generate the notation for user's compositions. The user enters a title and their name when they submit the piece to the library at the website, and these fields are put directly in the .ly file as the title and composer of

Re: Transposing help.

2008-10-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > If someone could download the music and help me out here I would greatly > appreciate it. It is mentioned, on the Mutopia page for that piece that this score uses LilyPond v2.6.4. Did you compile it with the right version? In fact, I guess that you have a much more recent version installe

Re: Escaping text in title and composer?

2008-10-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > [...] I can easily change " to \" > in the text, but perhaps there are other characters that will cause lilypond > to fail. As a first step, I'd suggest to filter out (or escape) anything that your program cannot handle. Languages usually used for web development provide libraries for regul

Re: Transposing help.

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Seth" == Seth Merkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Seth> I've recently been trying to transpose a piece of music I got Seth> from mutopia here: Seth> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645 Seth> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645 I To transpose th

Re: Transposing help.

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Hi Seth, I downloaded the archive and tried what I think you want to do. You want the whole thing transposed to F minor, right? Ok, first I ran "convert-ly" on all of the files to update the syntax to version 2.11.62 of Lilypond. You may or may not really need to do this. If the files com