Re: wrong type argument

2009-08-11 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Alexander, I have to thank You for Your help. After, after I've put > \override Accidental #'avoid-slur = #'inside > in the parts parts, You've recomended, the strange error message has disappeared, I don't know why. The transposing error has nothing to do with microtonality. The score shows

Re: French accents

2009-08-11 Thread Damian leGassick
to do café = c a f option-e e être = option-i e t r e d hth On 4 Aug 2009, at 04:25, Graham Norton wrote: Dear All, iMac TeXShop MACROS give another way of inserting non-standard characters into LilyPond lyrics without using unicodes explicitly (my version of TeXShop will not allow me

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:04:32AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > On the page http://lilypond.org/~graham/Contact.html, > definitely we should give the links for subscribing to the > mailing lists: They were there already, but not particularly obviously. Improved. > I'd also add the links to the

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 07:12:21PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: > The Spanish forum is a Yahoo! group. > > Group page http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/lilypond-es/ Thanks, added. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org h

Re: website: why do you use lilypond?

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:14:51PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/8/1 Valentin Villenave : > > There's also > > http://www.lilypondforum.de/ (German) > > http://groups.google.com/group/lilypond-brasil (Portuguese) > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr (French) > > ...

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:37:06AM -0700, Matthieu Jacquot wrote: > If you need one more publisher to fill the empty space in the production > page, you could add my http://theshadylanepublishing.com website , it is > very very small so I don't know if it will be fine. Thanks, added! I used the

new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
Hi folks. http://lilypond.org/~graham/ Most of the people who have been working on the website, including me, are fed up with it. I'm ready to shovel this out the door just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mind to be introducing a major change to our users' experience, but h

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/10/09 2:25 PM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: > Where did I go wrong? You forgot that tabStaff needs tabVoice, and both of your constructs used Voice contexts, instead of tabVoice contexts. The first, << ... \\ ... >>, implicitly creates Voice contexts. The second explicitly creates Voice c

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
I've finally gotten around to looking at the new web site, and I have to say I'm very impressed. Great work! A couple of comments about the site: On Text-input.html, the pop music example is missing a hyphen and an extender line in the first measure (though perhaps this was intentional to simplif

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Snyder
I should've read your email before I sent my previous message... Graham Percival wrote: > Most of the people who have been working on the website, including > me, are fed up with it. I'm ready to shovel this out the door > just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mind > to be i

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 11. August 2009 16:55:52 schrieb Chris Snyder: > > Make sure you check out the alternate CSS style #2. This has > > fancy gradient-shaded menu bars, which could be a great hit. It's > > /much/ easier to see which item you have selected.

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Nitpick: I don't think "mailist" is a word. I prefer "mailing list" (it's what you'll find in dictionaries, wikipedia, etc). If you like the shorter form, I'd prefer "mail list" or "mail-list", or perhaps "maillist" (but less so). http://lilypond.org/~graham/Contact.html - Mark __

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Jonathan Kulp-2 wrote: > > > This snippet should help you out: > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=167 > > Interesting. And how to remove clef and meter? And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? Thanks Piero. - Piero Faustini Main Software used: - LyX 1

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: > And how to remove clef and meter? \layout{ \context { \Staff \remove Clef_engraver \remove Time_signature_engraver } } > And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? \layout{ \context { \Staff \override StaffSymbol #'transpa

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Graham Percival-3 wrote: > > > hey, that's life in open-source projects! If you feel at all > enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping. > > > Graham, I would like to help but definitely not now (and I don't know how: I'm a zero in css, html, programming etc.) Just a pai

adding footnote calls

2009-08-11 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I would like to write comments on a score, and specifically, I would like to add something like a circled 1, a circled 2, or a small letter, etc. in various places, so that later I can write: (1) this note ... (2) this group of notes differs from ... I am looking for something like an h

staves with example notes, ancient and modern

2009-08-11 Thread Denis . Roegel
Hi, I would like to reproduce the first two staves of the section "Note values" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation, with the label on the left. That is, I am trying to make Modern ... staff ... notation (possibly with the note names) White notation ... staff

\cadenzaOn question

2009-08-11 Thread James E. Bailey
Because of a question on the german forum, I thought I'd ask here. Is the music in a cadenza supposed to take up no time? Consider the following: \version "2.12.1" \relative c'{ \time 2/4 \set Score.skipBars = ##t c4 d << { R2^"G.P." } \new Staff { \cadenzaOn e4 f e d

Re: staves with example notes, ancient and modern

2009-08-11 Thread James E. Bailey
On 11.08.2009, at 20:49, denis.roe...@loria.fr wrote: Hi, I would like to reproduce the first two staves of the section "Note values" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation, with the label on the left. That is, I am trying to make Modern ... staff ... notation

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: > > > MonAmiPierrot wrote: > >> And how to remove clef and meter? > > \layout{ > \context { > \Staff > \remove Clef_engraver > \remove Time_signature_engraver > } > } > >> And how to remove just the staff pentagram, but keeping barlines? > > \layout{ >

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: > Anyway there's still too much white space up and down (respectively, the > equivalent of 1-2 and 3-4 inter-stafflines space) so that the example > doesn't fit. > I don't want to manipulate the outuput of all my examples: I want it to be > done already by lilypond: is there

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Mark Polesky wrote: > > > But I guess you're on Windows. Anyone else? > > Is it that evident? :( - Piero Faustini Main Software used: - LyX 1.6.2 on WinXP sp3; EndNote & JabRef - MikTex - LaTeX class: Koma book - Lilypond 2.12 for example excerpts - BibLaTeX for bibliographies --

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
MonAmiPierrot wrote: > > But I guess you're on Windows. Anyone else? > Is it that evident? :( It's in your e-mail signature. - Mark ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/8/11 MonAmiPierrot : > - the b/w image behind the lilypond is just too flat and boring. I would put > something much more elaborated, maybe with text. Otherwise, I would switch > to as it was before, just with the shaded green/white example, which is just > perfect. I'm on it. -- Francisco

Re:new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I have a few minor comments about the new website: 1. On the examples page, under the "Jesu, Meine Freude", it says (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). 2. On the examples page, under Modern Music, one of the f's is shifted down for some reason in the

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > I don't think "mailist" is a word. I prefer "mailing list" (it's > what you'll find in dictionaries, wikipedia, etc). If you like the > shorter form, I'd prefer "mail list" or "mail-list", or perhaps > "maillist" (but less so). http://

Re: beaming in 6/8

2009-08-11 Thread Imre Polik
It's been quite some time I've checked this, but now it seems to work. This bug was related to beaming in 6/8 measures. Thanks all for fixing it. Now I can release BWV 910 to Mutopia. And one more thing: the new Lilypondtool is awesome. Point-and-click is what I was waiting for. Not to mention twe

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > Hi folks. > http://lilypond.org/~graham/ > > Most of the people who have been working on the website, including > me, are fed up with it.  I'm ready to shovel this out the door > just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mi

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Graham > Percival wrote: > > - I think the freedom propaganda should be moved elsewhere. I think > we are primarily trying to compete on quality of output. I think the > political background can b

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread David Fedoruk
The documentation for Lilypond has one problem; it is, as the program is itself, under development. It is screamingly frustrating for us non-programmer users. However, that said, it is changing because it is not nearly finished, it is required to print many different kinds of music. The Learning

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:18:16PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > 1. On the examples page, under the "Jesu, Meine Freude", it says > (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). Thanks, fixed. > 2. On the examples page, under Modern Music, one of the f's is shifted >

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:37:19PM -0700, David Fedoruk wrote: > The documentation for Lilypond has one problem; it is, as the program is > itself, under development. It is screamingly frustrating for us > non-programmer > users. Yes, but nothing forces people to upgrade. The documentation for

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:49:41AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > Hi folks. > http://lilypond.org/~graham/ > > Make sure you check out the alternate CSS style #2. This has > fancy gradient-shaded menu bars, which could be a great hit. It's > /much/ easier to see which item you have selected. I

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:18:05AM -0400, Chris Snyder wrote: > On Text-input.html, the pop music example is missing a hyphen and an > extender line in the first measure (though perhaps this was intentional > to simplify things?) I'd rather avoid those. Of course, I'd also like to get different l

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Graham Percival wrote: > From: Graham Percival > Subject: Re: new website, draft 7 > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, "Jonathan Kulp" > Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 3:44 AM > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:18:16PM > -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > >

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Polesky
David Fedoruk wrote: > ... I agree with everything you've said. I used to hate LilyPond; now I'm a developer... I've experienced some pull-your-hair-out aggravating confusions, but I've stuck with it. Yes, it's a work- in-progress. Yes, it comes with no warranty. But it can be rewarding to be a p

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:18:16PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > > 1. On the examples page, under the "Jesu, Meine Freude", it says > > (click for longer excerpt) when it should say (click to enlarge). > > Thanks, fixed. > > > 2. On

new website non-git help

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:38:34PM +0100, Gerard McConnell wrote: > I have to say I'm very grateful for the work that's been > done on Lilypond, so I'd certainly like to help in some > way. Without getting into git or programming, how could I help? Popular question; here's a few things! 1) The

Re: setting notes alone

2009-08-11 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/11/09 1:49 PM, "MonAmiPierrot" wrote: > then I entered the "\clef bass" and used only the note "a," to produce a > perfectly middle-positioned rhythmical examples, then I tried to put the > output in the LaTeX environment of my dissertation. Is there a reason why you can't use lilypond-

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:26:37PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > I've fixed it and pushed. Thanks! > I also had to modify the makefile in the examples dir--explanation in the > commit message. Ah, I see. I set it up so that I could run "make generate-examples" from the main dir. It doesn't mat

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:32:33AM -0700, MonAmiPierrot wrote: > > - the top note in the download page should be bigger, blood red, blinking > and should grab the user by the face and oblige him to read it. It's just > too important. And it should not say "please", but just "If you do not know > w

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:26:37PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > > I've fixed it and pushed. > > Thanks! > > > I also had to modify the makefile in the examples dir--explanation in the > > commit message. > > Ah, I see. I set it up so tha

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > - The colors in the secondary menu bar don't make sense to me. The > colors in the top bar are used to indicate which item is selected. > it's > impossible to tell at first glance which submenu item you have chosen. This would be

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:41:06PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > When I looked at my commit in gitk I didn't see the whole commit message. Did > you see it? I did that one-line message, then went down a couple of lines and > used # comment lines to further explain the Makefile change. *head smack*

Re: new website, draft 7

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Kulp
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:41:06PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote: > > When I looked at my commit in gitk I didn't see the whole commit message. > Did > > you see it? I did that one-line message, then went down a couple of lines > and > > used

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:55:52AM -0400, Chris Snyder wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > hey, that's life in open-source projects! If you feel at all > > enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping. > > I'd like to help, though I realize it's quite late in the game for me to > g

Re: new website non-git help

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > > http://lilypond.org/~graham/Features.html > (I've made the links clearer) > > - are we missing any worthwhile info?  (like those bulleted lists >  of features?) Could we add a link in the first paragraph to the (upcoming) essay? Perhaps o

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 11-08-2009 om 22:12 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen Nienhuys: > - GNU and (new) website can be trimmed from the title. We do not want to trim GNU. Remember the long thread on devel, where even contributors did not realise we are GNU, or ever heard of it? > - I think the freedom