Re: svg output in windows

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-09-11, Nate Lally wrote: > Can anyone verify that svg output is supported on the windows binary? > It doesn't show up in the help cruft and using the command line switch > -bsvg or -fsvg doesn't do anything at all. > I tried on both stable and devel branches. Yes, it should work okay with

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff "subclass" context?

2009-09-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Dan, it looks like "\Voice" starts you off with a copy of the previously defined Voice settings. If "\Voice" is absent, you start from scratch. The context settings are saved by name. If you do not change the name, the modified settings replace the previous settings of the \Voice cont

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Torsten Anders
Dear Robin, Thank you very very much!! The notation is perfect now, I really owe you something :) I assume the designer of this accidental font inserted the space before each sign on purpose: with a larger distance the signs are more easy to read. I just checked: in the existing scores printed w

Re: help with jedit

2009-09-11 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Go to File > Reload with encoding > UTF-8 It should be automatic, but sometimes it is not. Freeman Gilmore wrote: When I open jedit I get an I/O Error and a lot of boxes in the window. encoding "UTF-8" another line says "UTF-8, Cp1252" I guess I need lots of help with setup? Thanks, fg _

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Torsten Anders wrote: I really owe you something :) Well, it's Mark Polesky we both owe. Without him, all small-time Schemers like me would still be believing the very plausible explanation in (the 2.12) NR 5.3.4 of why \tweak cannot be used to modify accidentals. Cheers, Robin

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Robin Bannister wrote Friday, September 11, 2009 6:15 PM Torsten Anders wrote: I really owe you something :) Well, it's Mark Polesky we both owe. Without him, all small-time Schemers like me would still be believing the very plausible explanation in (the 2.12) NR 5.3.4 of why \twea

looking for script to color noteheads on handbell music

2009-09-11 Thread Stephen Corey
Hello lilypond gurus, It looks like I'm going to be starting a handbell choir with a number of people of varying skills. At times in the past I would create an .ly file for 1 or 2 people who had difficulty and manually color the noteheads for their bells. Now with all new people, I'd like to

Re: looking for script to color noteheads on handbell music

2009-09-11 Thread René Brandenburger
hi, have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Pitches#Coloring-notes-depending-on-their-pitch this worked perfectly for me (lilypond 2.12.2) regards rene brandenburger Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 18:17 + schrieb Stephen Corey: > Hello lilypond gurus, > > It

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Trevor Daniels wrote: it seems like you're suggesting NR 5.3.4 is not correct. I was talking about the 2.12 NR. I understood its unqualified "cannot" to be the well-meaning advice: - don't waste your time trying. So I didn't. But Mark questioned this in July, and you updated the

Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

2009-09-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Robin, you wrote Friday, September 11, 2009 8:32 PM Trevor Daniels wrote: it seems like you're suggesting NR 5.3.4 is not correct. I was talking about the 2.12 NR. I understood its unqualified "cannot" to be the well-meaning advice: - don't waste your time trying.So I didn't. But

Re: \voiceOne style in a new context

2009-09-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/9/9 Kieren MacMillan : > How can I call this function inside the \context definition? You can't: music isn't allowed inside a context definition. > Or is there a better/easier way to make "UpperVoice" be a \oneVoice? There's the only way, which involves adding all the overrides manually; i

Re: svg output in windows

2009-09-11 Thread Gerard McConnell
On my windows machine typing lilypond -dbackend=svg myFileName.ly in the DOS command window does produce an SVG file, but the noteheads, clefs, and barlines are missing. All I get are staves, beams, and text. Gerard - Original Message - From: "Patrick McCarty" To: "Nate Lally" Cc:

text in horizontal space between staves

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick Schmidt
Dear all, I'm trying to engrave some text in a horizontal space in between two staves. I didn't manage to center the text vertically between the two staves (see attached png). I didn't find a snippet for this in the docs. Here's the code I used: \version "2.13.3" { c'1 \mark \markup { \musicg

Re: svg output in windows

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Gerard McConnell wrote: > On my windows machine typing > lilypond -dbackend=svg myFileName.ly > in the DOS command window does produce an SVG file, but the noteheads, > clefs, and barlines are missing. > All I get are staves, beams, and text. Ah, okay. The SVG ou

Re: shortcut for creating new Staff "subclass" context?

2009-09-11 Thread Dan Eble
On 2009-09-11, at 06:44 , Kieren MacMillan wrote: Now my question is... does the order of the lines matter at all? I'm assuming they do — e.g., if you don't change the \name until after changing some \override, there'll be confusion — but does anyone know for certain what the precedence mu

Re: Contemporary music documentation

2009-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:08:02PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2009/9/4 Carl Sorensen : > > > setInstrumentName = > > #(define-music-function (parser location instrument-name) (string?) > >  #{ > >    \set Staff.instrumentName = $instrument-name > >  #}) > > I'm not in favour of this type of sub

Re: mugshots for web page? [WAS: The LilyPond Report, again!]

2009-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:45:54PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 07-09-2009 om 14:43 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Graham > Percival: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:50:44AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > However, I don't particularly want my photo on the lilypond > > website.

Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:07:37PM +0200, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > > I added export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin to .bash_profile and > created the directories portslocation and dports manually. Then > I entered export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin and got the same > error messages as above. > > Maybe t

Re: problems building documentation without compiling LilyPond

2009-09-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:24:25PM +0200, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > OK, in the meantime I de- and reinstalled MacPorts (MacPorts > base version 1.8.0 installed). I installed bison (sudo port > install bison). bison --version still returns 1.28 whereas > bison1 --version returns 1.875. How can I prom

Re: looking for script to color noteheads on handbell music

2009-09-11 Thread Jay Anderson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:26 AM, René Brandenburger wrote: > hi, > > have a look at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Pitches#Coloring-notes-depending-on-their-pitch > Don't forget to modify the pitch-equals? function to check for octave also (since it sounds like that

Marching sheetmusic

2009-09-11 Thread Jeroen Heijmans
Hi, I'm trying to create sheetmusic to be used in a marching folio. The papersize is A6. I'm using the following template: ---BEGIN TEMPLATE--- \paper { between-system-padding = 0\cm between-system-space = 0\cm ragged-last-bottom = ##f ragged-bottom = ##f top-margin =