Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Hi, I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth, like I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use c:5 or c:five and display C5 in the chord name staff. Is there a way for this? ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 13-08-2009 om 00:03 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: > Well, we don't _know_ that google ignores meta keywords. Reading SEO papers it is pretty much obvious that - it is hard to fool google, it tries to index the page the user "sees" it: ie, , and repetition

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:14:25AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op woensdag 12-08-2009 om 17:59 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham > Percival: > > > It's not that; Jan thought you were objecting to having: > > LilyPond is Free Software and part of the GNU project. > > on the home page. >

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Patrick Schmidt
I tend to the gradient even though I think that the gradient menu bar doesn't fit into the current draft as it was meant to be part of an alternate draft. The bar is too huge and too brown. But as Graham said: colors and sizes can be changed. patrick Original-Nachricht > Datum

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:03 AM Well, we don't _know_ that google ignores meta keywords. If it doesn't, then what about putting I believe it does, as they were so misused. @divClass{hide} free software free sheet music free open pdf kyon-kun denwa free music notatio

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Graham Percival wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:14:25AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Op woensdag 12-08-2009 om 17:59 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham Percival: It's not that; Jan thought you were objecting to having: LilyPond is Free Software and part of the GNU project. o

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. Which is easier to see? Gradient. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Also, as smart as search engines may be, I am not sure that there is stemming that would correlate [free] (the query word) with [freedom] (whats on the page, in the submenu). Yes, Google does stemming. However, first tries exact matches. ___ l

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op donderdag 13-08-2009 om 00:03 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Graham > Percival: > Yes, that will surely work. Let's add michael jackson sex porn pr0n, > we'll make a million! Smart!;-) Oh, come on! Lilypond users are smarte

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Hajo Dezelski
t;> James E. Bailey wrote: >>> Surely the calculations can be performed outside of lilypond, >>> and then simply input into lilypond for a score, right? Or am I >>> missing something? >> >> Sure, but scheme can greatly facilitate things. I should clarify >

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Alexander Kobel
Graham Percival wrote: These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. Which is easier to see? Gradients. I especially like the different gradient for the lily on the left, to denote that this is a link of it's own. I think a different solid background color in the other approac

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
2009/8/13 Graham Percival : > I'm not certain if the question was clear, so let's do this again > and put it to a vote. > > These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. > Which is easier to see? >  http://lilypond.org/~graham/solid.png >  http://lilypond.org/~graham/gradients.png >

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Thank you much, I could not find in the doc about this possibility. Carl Sorensen wrote: On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" wrote: Hi, I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth, like I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use c:5 or

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth, > like > I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use > c:5 or c:five c:5 won't work; c:5 gives a C major triad. I don't know how hard it would

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> It's not that; Jan thought you were objecting to having: >>   LilyPond is Free Software and part of the GNU project. >> on the home page. >> >> Frankly, I'm still not conviced that's a good thing to add, so > > We need "free" (ie: gratis

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: > I'm not certain if the question was clear, so let's do this again > and put it to a vote. > > These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. > Which is easier to see? > http://lilypond.org/~graham/solid.png > http://lilypond.org/~graham/gradients.png >

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
Would you consider turning it into a snippet for the LSR, and labeling it with the docs tag? Thanks, Carl On 8/13/09 7:43 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" wrote: > Thank you much, I could not find in the doc about this possibility. > > Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> >> >> On 8/13/09 1:13

Re: Defining new chord modifier

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
Would you consider turning it into a snippet for the LSR, and labeling it with the docs tag? Also, it should have the chords tag, so it will show up in the chords section. Thanks, Carl On 8/13/09 7:43 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" wrote: > Thank you much, I could not find in the doc a

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 13-08-2009 om 11:05 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen Nienhuys: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Jan > Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > >> It's not that; Jan thought you were objecting to having: > >> LilyPond is Free Software and part of the GNU project. > >> on the home page. > >> >

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-13 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear Carl, thank you for your reply! Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:13:45 -0600 > Von: Carl Sorensen > An: Patrick Schmidt , "lilypond-user@gnu.org" > > Betreff: Re: polyphony in tablature > > > > On 8/10/09 2:25 PM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: > > > > Whe

Re: polyphony in tablature

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 10:12 AM, "Patrick Schmidt" wrote: > Dear Carl, > > thank you for your reply! You're welcome. >> >> I think you've found a good enhancement request -- make << \\ >> apply to >> tabVoice if it's in a tabStaff context. >> > > What do I have to do to make an enhancement request? (

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Reeves
> > > > I'm not certain if the question was clear, so let's do this again > > and put it to a vote. > > > > These two images have the same top-level menu item selected. > > Which is easier to see? > > Â http://lilypond.org/~graham/solid.png > > Â http://lilypond.org/~graham/gradients.png > > Â Â (

Re: hash/backslash confusion

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 8/13/09 10:37 AM, "Mark Polesky" wrote: > Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> Hope this helps. It was instructional to me to write it. > > Wow, thanks - that was a lot of info. I'm still trying to wrap my > brain around it. But in the meantime, I've noticed something else > confusing, and I'm wond

huge file with Japanese characters

2009-08-13 Thread Michel Villeneuve
When I compile this file (just four notes and a few japanese characters) I obtain a 2.2 Mio pdf file. I'm not talking about the 15.8 Mio ps file. Am I right saying it's a strange behavior? If I want to include lots of japanese text in a score do I have to enter specific command or to buy new Maxt

Re: huge file with Japanese characters

2009-08-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> When I compile this file (just four notes and a few japanese > characters) I obtain a 2.2 Mio pdf file. I'm not talking about the > 15.8 Mio ps file. > > Am I right saying it's a strange behavior? This is a bug in gs. If the Japanese font contains embedded bitmaps, they are not subsetted (as

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op donderdag 13-08-2009 om 11:05 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen > Nienhuys: > > I side with the general recommendation that Google gives, which is to > > focus on building a good website, and trusting that the resulting > >

Re: website menus: gradient vs. solid

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Snyder
> I'm probably not helping much by saying so, but I prefer the solid - > it just looks cleaner, and while the gradient version stands out more > that might be just due to the darker color, and finally, I don't think > it's *necessary* for it to stand out so much - it's right at the top, > bold and

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-13 Thread David Fedoruk
Regarding those questions I didn't know how to word in an understandable way; my reasons for just simply letting them sit unasked is that in my experience, it means I've missed something along the way to the problem. So just hanging tough and letting the problem sit while I go on with soe other po

Strumming rhythm for chord progression

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Henning
Hi there, first post ever. I'm trying to "engrave" a strumming pattern for a simple chord progression. I can see how a works for major chords but I'm struggling with sus4 chords. Here is what I have: \version "2.12.2" \header { title = " \"Creep\" by Radiohead" } << \new ChordNames { \chord

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:54:15PM -0700, David Fedoruk wrote: > Also, remember that my time zone is GMT -8, so I am one of the last > people on this list to see anything posted. Same here, being in Burnaby. > If I had to say one thing that is wrong with documentation is that the > people doing t

Re: problems with learning lilypond

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Polesky
David Fedoruk wrote: > So just hanging tough and letting the problem sit while I go on with > some other portion of my project usually results in either finding the > answer to my problem along the way as I proceed, or finding a way to > ask the question. > > There are the times when just going b

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > I side with the general recommendation that Google gives, which is to > focus on building a good website, and trusting that the resulting > search ranking reflect reasonable metrics on quality. There are > specific guidelines on > > http://www.google.com/support/webmast

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:02:51PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > But this should only happen after we have the new site done and > > ideally translated into one or two languages. So let's get back > > to work and leave this bikeshed behind. > > Why wait? The value of lin

markup help

2009-08-13 Thread James E. Bailey
Reading the documentation, I don't understand why this doesn't work: \version "2.12.2" \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.zero" \musicglyph #"scripts.one" \musicglyph #"scripts.two" \musicglyph #"scripts.three" \musicglyph #"scripts.four" \musicglyph #"scripts.five" \musicglyph

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: > And even if some of our users *are* the webmasters, it doesn't > make sense for them to add a big annoucement about lilypond at > thie moment, does it? > > Besides, asking our users to advertize our site will *also* be > easier when we have a new site. I mean, it gives a

Re: markup help

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Polesky
James E. Bailey wrote: > Reading the documentation, I don't understand why this doesn't work: > \version "2.12.2" > > \markup { >\musicglyph #"scripts.zero" >\musicglyph #"scripts.one" >... > } The glyph names for the numbers don't begin with "scripts.". Do this instead: \markup {

Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

2009-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:46:00PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > > Besides, asking our users to advertize our site will *also* be > > easier when we have a new site. I mean, it gives a good excuse to > > motivate people, right? > > Oh, maybe I misread your earlier comme