Re: Polymetric notation and percent repeats

2008-11-19 Thread Francesco Casadei
>Hi Francesco, [snip] >A slightly different hack, using scaled durations should work: > >\repeat percent 2 { d1*7/4 \bar "|" d2.*7/3 } > >Regards, >Neil This works, but scaling makes the two measures the same length (7/4), as in the case when \skip is used. In the output the two measures before th

Re: Staff alignement

2008-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Stefano, to keep two staffs nearer I've used the command-lines Suggestions? Search the 2.11.63 docs for "minimum-Y-extent". HTH! Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Figured bass

2008-11-19 Thread northofscotland
I am not a keyboard player but transcribe recorder music with the bc accompaniment from time to time. One of the objectives is to give myself a midi bass accompaniment. Is there a (reasonably) simple way of converting the figured bass either directly to midi (which I think is not the case) or to

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-19 Thread Tim Slattery
"Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Vista fix for LilyPond releases for and after 2.11.42 is to uncheck the >"Automatically adjust .." box, delete ~/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2 and run >LilyPond again to rebuild the cache. The "Automatically adjust ..." box >can then be checked again an

vim syntax coloring curiousity

2008-11-19 Thread coralline algae
greetings I use vim in a terminal for editing, very occasionally something else like abiword I noticed recently and probably in the past that certain lilypond files were not opening with the syntax coloring. I am including a sample file here that demonstrates the behavior. If the comment lines

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim Slattery wrote: "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Vista fix for LilyPond releases for and after 2.11.42 is to uncheck the "Automatically adjust .." box, delete ~/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2 and run LilyPond again to rebuild the cache. The "Automatically adjust ..." box can then b

Re: Figured bass

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Cloyd
North, I'm a guitar player, and so am also a bit out of my element here, but my ancestors came from Scotland, so maybe I can still speak about this, to you, with some success :). My own understanding is that figured bass (for which, I'll bet, there are different traditions, as there are with fre

Re: Dashed/dotted barlines

2008-11-19 Thread Stefan Waler
Thanks a lot! Do I get it right that this is mentioned nowhere in the internals reference?? Stefan Nick Payne wrote: To change an individual bar: \bar "dashed" or \bar ":" To change the default barline appearance: \set Timing.defaultBarType = "dashed" or \set Timing.defaultBarType = "

problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread John Sellers
I am in Silicon Valley. I've never met and talked to another lilypond user face to face. It is lonely out here. I've used lilypond off and on for a few years AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REALLY LEARN IT WELL! There are five reasons 1) lack of context 2) lack of context 3) lack of context 4)

Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

2008-11-19 Thread Tim Slattery
"Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I couldn't find either of these files anywhere on my machine. I >> unchecked the DST box and ran the program a couple of times. No, >> change. >The leading dot in the name makes these system or hidden files. That's how Unix works, not Windows. Files

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread Federico Grau
I've found the lilypond documentation to be quite good (after having been using it now for about a year). It starts with an introduction, has a friendly gentle tutorial, followed up by a detailed reference. If you're not able to use it, maybe start with a simple project. As you become more comfo

Re: vim syntax coloring curiousity

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Hulme
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:28:26AM -0800, coralline algae wrote: > I use vim in a terminal for editing, very occasionally something else > like abiword > I noticed recently and probably in the past that certain lilypond files were > not opening with the syntax coloring. I'm using Vim 7.2 here. I t

Empty fret diagrams

2008-11-19 Thread seppo silaste
Is there any way to create empty fret diagrams with a specified number of frets? I would like to create empty music sheets for composing (am writing a book on jazz-blues rhythm). Sitting by the computer and writing it directly to lilypond is too restricting. regards: Seppo __

Top aligned fret diagrams

2008-11-19 Thread seppo silaste
How do I get all fret diagrams to the same height (ie. the top of all the diagrams on the same height). No they go up and down with the notes they are attached to, which I find ugly. regards: Seppo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: Empty fret diagrams

2008-11-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/19/08 12:03 PM, "seppo silaste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to create empty fret diagrams with a specified number > of frets? I would like to create empty music sheets for composing (am > writing a book on jazz-blues rhythm). Sitting by the computer and > writing it dire

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/19/08 1:54 AM, "John Sellers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in Silicon Valley. I've never met and talked to another lilypond > user face to face. It is lonely out here. > > I've used lilypond off and on for a few years AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE > TO REALLY LEARN IT WELL! I think th

Re: programming error: when \break used before \grace or after \afterGrace in combination with proportional notation

2008-11-19 Thread Trevor Bača
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM, V!ctor Adán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > After trying for hours to figure out why my LilyPond score was generating > programming error messages on compilation, I finally found the culprit and > was able to come up with a pair of minimal examples gene

RE: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread Ed Ardzinski
I don't know how applicable this is since everyone is different, but my tack was to start small, then work up. I can't honestly say that I'm expert or even very good at using LP, but it is allowing me to score out my ideas and create some decent sounding demos of my songs. I started scoring o

Re: Staff alignement

2008-11-19 Thread stefanozanobini
thanks. I've given a look, but I need a strange collision between two staffs and the minimum X estend doesn't permit that. Yesterday I've tried again the manual alignment of staffs and I've understood that in alignment-offset I must specify every staff (and not only the staff, where I put the comm

Re: Top aligned fret diagrams

2008-11-19 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 11/19/08 12:06 PM, "seppo silaste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get all fret diagrams to the same height (ie. the top of all > the diagrams on the same height). No they go up and down with the notes > they are attached to, which I find ugly. > Use the FretBoards context, instead of

rotation with unwanted shift to the right

2008-11-19 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
Dear all, When I rotate text that is right under a note, it is also shifted to the right. In the example below, I want the numbers exactly between the note on the top stave and on the bottom stave. When there is only a "0", it is ok. When there are three digits, there is a small shift. When th

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2008-11-19 Thread Ari Torhamo
ke, 2008-11-19 kello 00:54 -0800, John Sellers kirjoitti: [...] > I've used lilypond off and on for a few years AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE > TO REALLY LEARN IT WELL! > > There are five reasons > > 1) lack of context > 2) lack of context > 3) lack of context > 4) lack of context > 5) lack of cont

Re: Giving back: LHML template

2008-11-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:28:16PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > The template is loosely based on the SATB template from the docs, ... > How can I thank you better than by giving back the results? Could you add this to LSR? That way more users will see it, and it can be easily added to the docs.

Re: rotation with unwanted shift to the right

2008-11-19 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Peter, 2008/11/19 Peter Van Kranenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would be grateful if somebody could tell me how to rotate long strings > without shifting them to the right. Try this: \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT By the way, you don't need to remove the Default_bar_line_en

Re: rotation with unwanted shift to the right

2008-11-19 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Peter, 2008/11/19 Peter Van Kranenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I would be grateful if somebody could tell me how to rotate long strings without shifting them to the right. Try this: \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT That works great. Thanks a lot! By t

Re: programming error: when \break used before \grace or after \afterGrace in combination with proportional notation

2008-11-19 Thread V!ctor Adán
Hello Trevor, Thanks for your reply and for testing the examples. I've been trying to find an alternative to using grace notes, but unfortunately, I have not found one. I cannot simply strip-out graces in line breaks in my case because they play a very important role in the score and I have litera

LyricExtender extends too far in some verses

2008-11-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
One of my songs has four verses of text for most of the song, but for the last part there's only one line of text. My problem is that the LyricExtenders are sticking way too far out at the end of the three verses that do not keep going. This looks similar to issue 331 but as far as I can tell

Re: LyricExtender extends too far in some verses

2008-11-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: One of my songs has four verses of text for most of the song, but for the last part there's only one line of text. My problem is that the LyricExtenders are sticking way too far out at the end of the three verses that do not keep going. This looks similar to issue 331 but

Re: LyricExtender extends too far in some verses

2008-11-19 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Jonathan Kulp wrote: Incidentally I see that one of the regression tests produces the same error message that I get when I'm running my complete file: "warning: programming error: Spanner `LyricExtender' is not fully contained in parent spanner. Ignoring orphaned part" I guess the questi

(SOLVED)Re: installation on ToutouLinux 03.01.4

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Ledocq
Hi Mats, lilypond-2.10.33 runs now on Toutou3.1.4 ! The whole installation story can be found on (ToutouLinux forum) http://lateste33.free.fr/ToutouLinux/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=381&st=0&sk=t&sd=a Many thanks Cheers Charlie ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Re: LyricExtender extends too far in some verses

2008-11-19 Thread Risto Vääräniemi
2008/11/20 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I devised an ugly hack to make the LyricExtenders stop at the right place by > adding an invisible syllable of text. Ex: I've usually used: verseTwo = \lyricmode { tar -- es. __ "" } Lilypond complaints about empty elements, though: programming