Re: point and click PDF

2008-11-15 Thread strk
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:08:47PM -0800, Eluze wrote: > > > strk-2 wrote: > > > > I've been told about the point & click > > feature so I had a try. > > Evince wasn't so helpful in telling me what > > was going wrong so I tried xpdf, as suggested > > by the manual. > > > > > you can use it f

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 14.11.2008 (16:20), Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > On 11/14/08 2:27 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree -- are you sure the top line isn't from Finale or > > something? It looks incredibly bad. WTF is up with the gap > > between the sixteenth and eighth in the second bar fr

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:32:59AM +0100, Eyolf Østrem wrote: > > That said, I sometimes think the lilypond defaults are a bit to the heavy > side. Especially the final barlines come to mind. As a future feature, it > wouldn't be a bad idea with an alternative set of lighter settings which > coul

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Patrick McCarty wrote Friday, November 14, 2008 10:11 PM On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick McCarty wrote Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:34 PM Is the large cache file being rebuilt mistakenly (on some Windows systems)? Yes; that is the probl

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jonathan Kulp wrote Friday, November 14, 2008 7:49 PM Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/14 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have only upgraded a couple of times, and it was in response to this thread, just to test it out. It's possible that I upgraded one more time before that. I always u

RE: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Nick Payne
My Vista machine was built and Lilypond installed while daylight saving was active (still is active here in the Australian summer). Apart from an update to the font cache that seems to have happened a few days ago as a result of including an em dash in a score, my font cache doesn't update every

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is not the default output of LilyPond. > > I agree -- are you sure the top line isn't from Finale or > something? It looks incredibly bad. WTF is up with the gap > between the sixteenth and eighth in the second bar from the end?! > LilyPond w

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
"Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I set that exact line in LilyPond 2.11.64. I needed to do some manual > beaming to get the same beaming as in the top line. Interesting. When I try: \relative c' { \time 6/8 r4 a8 d e f | e d4 ~ d4. | r4 r16 g,16 e'8 g e16 d | c8. (

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Trevor Daniels wrote: Yes. Could you check the creation date of the large cache file, and if that date is within your daylight saving period try deleting the entire lilypond font cache, ie delete the .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 directory so the font cache is rebuilt from scratch. Maybe a long sho

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Trevor Daniels wrote: This suggests that the cache is believed to be invalid because the cache timestamp doesn't match the directory create-time. Thought to be due to incorrect correction for daylight-saving time. My cache was created on 21 March 2008, just over a week before the UK moved into

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/15 Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think I found an explanation. My score sample was typeset with > > #(set-global-staff-size 14) > > I'd expected the line thickness to scale accordingly, but apparently > this is not the case (4.2.1, Setting the staff size): > > Each font is tuned

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Jon, 2008/11/15 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Trevor Daniels wrote: >> >> >> Yes. Could you check the creation date of the large cache file, >> and if that date is within your daylight saving period try >> deleting the entire lilypond font cache, ie delete the >> .lilypond-fonts.cache-2

Combine rests from two voices

2008-11-15 Thread Erik Ronström
Hi! I am writing a single staff with two voices, using \voiceOne and \voiceTwo. Is it possible to have rests common to both voices to be combined into "single voice rests"? Of course I could do like << \newVoice = "one" { \voiceOne a4 b c d } \newVoice = "two" { \voiceTwo a4 b c d } >> r2

Re: Combine rests from two voices

2008-11-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/15 Erik Ronström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > I am writing a single staff with two voices, using \voiceOne and \voiceTwo. > Is it possible to have rests common to both voices to be combined into > "single voice rests"? One thing you can do is to use spacing rests in one voice and \oneV

Re: Combine rests from two voices

2008-11-15 Thread David Stocker
You could use: b2 /rest b4 /rest in both voices. It would work but you'd get a collision error warning in the console output. Another approach would be to use: b2 /rest b4 /rest in one voice and then use: s2 s4 in the other. regards, Dave Erik Ronström wrote: Hi! I am writing a singl

chords and set Staff.midiInstrument

2008-11-15 Thread coralline algae
greetings, I searched the archives and someone posted the same question without reply. fake book type lead sheet with chords. the melody can be modified to use any instrument but the chords seem to only use a piano sound. I would like to change the midi instrument if possible I have tried set S

Re: Combine rests from two voices

2008-11-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 schrieb Erik Ronström: > Hi! > > I am writing a single staff with two voices, using \voiceOne and \voiceTwo. > Is it possible to have rests common to both voices to be combined into > "single voice rests"? http://lsr.dsi.

Re: chords and set Staff.midiInstrument

2008-11-15 Thread Johan Vromans
"coralline algae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried set Staff.midiInstrument Chords are usually set in a ChordNames staff. If so, did you try set ChordNames.midiInstrument ? -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org htt

[SOLVED] Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
(SOLVED for me, at least. See below...) Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Jon, What happens if you untick `Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes'? I haven't had any problems even though my cache was created in April, but forcing a rebuild results in the same delay you're experiencing ev

Re: [SOLVED] Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/11/15 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This did it, Neil! I unchecked the daylight savings box and reinstalled > Lilypond after wiping out the old cache (not sure if these steps were > necessary but I wanted to start out fresh), and after the first run, the > cache was NOT rebuilt again.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Francisco Vila wrote: 2008/11/15 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does Valentin have another one? :-) Updated in http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=FAQ but still waiting to confirm this. This page should not convert itself into the poor's bugtracker, so if this gets more clear p

Re: Lighter appearance

2008-11-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/15/08 4:32 AM, "Johan Vromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I set that exact line in LilyPond 2.11.64. I needed to do some manual >> beaming to get the same beaming as in the top line. > > Interesting. When I try: > > \relative c'

Lilypond Tool on Mac 10.4.3

2008-11-15 Thread Craig Bakalian
Hi, Has anyone out there downloaded the LilypondTool jEdit and have got it to work? I am just so cautious these days with java on Mac OS 10. I used to program heavily in java, but have not in 7 years. So, I am not even up to date on the different names for the run time. Like, Java r

GREAT THANKS!

2008-11-15 Thread 胡海鹏 Hu Haipeng
Hello, I'm very greatful now! Thank you for the very very great invention of LilyPond! I attended a piano competition last evening, and gained the second prize. There was a talent show, in which I sung a song I composed in 2004 as a homework of song writing class. It had no accomp. at first, b

Re: GREAT THANKS!

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Congratulations! Well done! Jon ?? Hu Haipeng wrote: Hello, I'm very greatful now! Thank you for the very very great invention of LilyPond! I attended a piano competition last evening, and gained the second prize. There was a talent show, in which I sung a song I composed in 2004 as a

Re: [SOLVED] Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Puttock
2008/11/15 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What I have not tried is re-checking the automatic daylight-savings > adjustment box to see if it reverts to the old behavior of always rebuilding > the fontconfig cache. If you'd like me to do this for the sake of testing, > I will. If my experien

re: chords and midiInstrument

2008-11-15 Thread coralline algae
thank you Johan that works nicely. set ChordNames.midiInstrument by way of explanation - with piano for the chords it almost drowns out the melody line in midi playback ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m

confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
I have a piece written for Eb Alto Sax and would like to transpose it to Bass Clef Trombone. I've read a bunch of posts in the archives and am now more confused than ever. It should be relatively easy, as the bass clef bone should be able to read the notes as written, but just change the key si

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
For transposing from E-flat to concert pitch, see the docs on transposition, here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page#Transpose To change it to bass clef, just use a command \clef "bass" The easiest way to put put music into a different clef/register is to sto

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: For transposing from E-flat to concert pitch, see the docs on transposition, here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page#Transpose To change it to bass clef, just use a command \clef "bass" The easiest way to put put music into a different

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that is all there is to it. I changed the clef to Bass and in doing so the notes change position on the staff. I want to have the notes remain in the same positions on the staff in bass clef as they are in treble clef. Only the key signature should cha

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Just connect one more dot and you're there... notes = { \key c \major c d e f } %% sax part \relative c'' { \notes } %% trombone part -- add the "\clef" command %% and change it to \relative c' instead of relative c'' \transpose c es, { \relative c' { \clef "bass" \notes } } Jon chip w

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
Thanks for your patience and help Jonathan, I'm trying your example but keep getting errors thrown up at me during compile. I've included my piece for you to look at. I've placed the \transpose line in several different sections and can't get it to work. Regards, Chip =

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
chip wrote: Thanks for your patience and help Jonathan, I'm trying your example but keep getting errors thrown up at me during compile. I've included my piece for you to look at. I've placed the \transpose line in several different sections and can't get it to work. Regards, Chip I should ha

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:04:47PM -0700, chip wrote: > caused by this code - > > ... lots of stuff in the copy/pasted section below ... > \bar "|." > } > \score { >

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
I have read the bloody manuals, all of them. I finally found the part I need in the part I skipped over because it didn't apply to my work - 3.4 An Orchestral Part. I found the code I needed to see by clicking on the picture of the score fragment, then I saw that the \transpose was in front of

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread Graham Percival
Ah, I see the problem. You were looking at the 2.10 docs, which are approximately a thousand hours older than the 2.11 docs. As you might expect from 1,000 hours of work, the 2.11 docs are much easier to read. - Graham On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:38:07PM -0700, chip wrote: >I have read the b

Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

2008-11-15 Thread chip
So even though I am using 2.10.33 (latest stable I believe) I should be looking at the 2.11 docs? -- Chip Graham Percival wrote: Ah, I see the problem. You were looking at the 2.10 docs, which are approximately a thousand hours older than the 2.11 docs. As you might expect from 1,000 hours of

guitar tablature and fingering

2008-11-15 Thread coralline algae
Although I have used lilypond for awhile for scores, I am just learning to use the tabulature. The sample score I am inserting is working for the most part but I would like to suppress the fingering on the note staff if possible. Also my eyes need some assist hence the large staff size thanks